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=== Old Strathcona Farmers Market (Karl - 15 min)=== | === Old Strathcona Farmers Market (Karl - 15 min)=== | ||
* Reinier Lamers contacted the board, interested in helping with Marcel's bike valet this year. | * Reinier Lamers contacted the board, interested in helping with Marcel's bike valet this year. | ||
* Karl met with Rainer and Marcel, and Marcel will coordinate a proposal to OFSM that involves us expanding our presence at the market this summer to provide a viable alternative to driving and aiming to get revenue from it. Service to commence May long weekend. We want to leverage the loss of so-called 'free parking' to expand our presence, but also ensure we can coordinate volunteers to deliver good service on the ground and bring some money in, too. And sign up members! | * Karl met with Rainer and Marcel, and Marcel will coordinate a proposal to OFSM that involves us expanding our presence at the market this summer to provide a viable alternative to driving and aiming to get revenue from it. Service to commence May long weekend. We want to leverage the loss of so-called 'free parking' (it'e becoming paid) to expand our presence, but also ensure we can coordinate volunteers to deliver good service on the ground and bring some money in, too. And sign up members! | ||
*OSFM recently announced they will be expanding to open on Sunday as well as Saturday. | *OSFM recently announced they will be expanding to open on Sunday as well as Saturday. Could we staff that? | ||
* | * Capacity was 20 bikes last year. Karl challenged Reinier and Marcel to increase that to 40-- they're drafting a budget to put to the OSFM. Options: OSFM pays, vs we fund it-- more risky, but we could charge. Reinier's super-thrifty budget was $500, Karl thinks $1k is more reasonable. | ||
* | * Adam doesn't mind spending a little money on it, but given that it's volunteer-run, he doesn't want to be more any more committed than something we can walk away from at any moment. Colin points out that even if they've given us $500, our liability is probably limited to just handing that back. | ||
* If wanting to sign up members, we'd need another Square device for $400-- probably well worth it. | |||
* We probably need some canopies with Bike Edmonton branding to protect volunteers from the elements. | |||
=== Edmonton Folk Music Festival (10 min)=== | === Edmonton Folk Music Festival (10 min)=== | ||