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=== President's Report === | === President's Report === | ||
* | *Acknowledgment and thanks to board, volunteers, and staff for getting the AGM organized | ||
*The AGM is an opportunity to elect new and renew current board members. I encourage you to consider applying to be a new board member if you’re interested | |||
*Without our volunteers we would not be able to run our programs, workshops, or community outreach events. Volunteers are key to our organization. Acknowledgement that the board are all volunteers, too | |||
*We changed our name to Bike Edmonton and we continue to build on the concept of an inclusive identity | |||
*With the new provincial government we could see cutbacks to our revenues as we rely on grants and casinos for a good chunk of our funding | |||
*Special mention to one of our current board members Nancy Milakovic who has been on the board for approximately five years. She has indicated that she will be stepping away from the board but will remain a volunteer in our shops. I want to thank her for all her hard work and dedication to the organization as a board member over the years and for serving as the board’s Vice President for four of those years. I am sincerely going to miss her on the board | |||
*We have a mixed model for our board, which means we provide governance for the organization but we also are involved in some of the operational decision making for the organization. With this mixed model, we are focused on trying to optimize A. Our board and B. Our operations. As the current president I think there is a lot of work involved with a mixed model and this is something we will be looking at for the year ahead in terms of how to maximize our staff and board responsibilities to keep Bike Edmonton moving along | |||
*Some of the things we’ve accomplished in the past year include renovations to the north shop with funds budgeted for that. With the renovation we saw major rebuilding and reorganization inside the shop with new racking and repaving the parking lot that was full of potholes. We are currently working on getting our updated signage up. We also had to refortify the bike hangers in our south shop, which involved a lot of work for our volunteers but was important to ensure everyone’s safety while in the shop | |||
*In terms of our programming, we continue to have really good outreach activities. We are still involved in a lot of community events by providing our bike racks to support the biking community in attending these events in having safe places for them to lock up their bikes. In addition, we also do bike pop-ups and tune-ups for bike tune-ups, which provide a service to the community and create exposure for Bike Edmonton | |||
*The Spoke program is one that is really dear to my heart in the sense that it is programming designed for our youth that allows them to work together in a group to get a bike, work on it, and learn about it. But at the same time it gives them the opportunity to learn about their own self-confidence and how to get along with other people. So I really think this program is a valuable as one of our complementary programs and I would love to see us being able to offer more programming like this. But of course that will involve sponsorships and future fundraising | |||
*Back to the Board, we’ve had three committees in the past year taking care of our business. Our Program Review Committee looked at our programming, developed a logic model to guide our organization and an evaluation form to evaluate how our programs are performing. Helen was the Chair of that committee. We had a Revenue Committee, which looked at how we raised our revenues through our grants and other opportunities and they came up with the idea to help raise money through a Bike-Friendly Certification program, which we will look at in the coming year. Our Admin Committee had kind of a busy year in the sense that we had to transition our bookkeeper service as our previous bookkeeper who set up everything had overextended himself with his job and having a new baby, so we did some searching and eventually landed on a new bookkeeper. I had no idea how much work was involved in the process and it was a lot to learn | |||
*Moving on to thinking about the outstanding work we need to focus on in the upcoming year includes Occupational Health & Safety. We have volunteers, members of the public, including children and an assortment of tools and equipment in our two shops and it’s critical that we have something in place that says we’ve looked at those risks, assessed them, and identified the things we need to do to mitigate them and ensure we are meeting the OH&S standards. That is going to require a concerted effort from our volunteers, so if anyone finds that of interest to them we would greatly appreciate the help | |||
*Looking back on the downside of the year, we were running low on operational finances, we are sitting in a good position right now having run a successful casino and having strong bike sales in the Spring, which was important as we kind of got rained out this summer and that definitely impacted the number of folks coming into our shops. | |||
*New signage for Bike Edmonton is looking great; signifies inclusive approach that we want our bike programs to take | |||
=== Executive Director's Report === | === Executive Director's Report === | ||