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-cost/no cost... how much help do you need? the difference we need to make is between our co-operative-style shop vs. the relative slavery of bike mechanics in a traditional, full-service shop | -cost/no cost... how much help do you need? the difference we need to make is between our co-operative-style shop vs. the relative slavery of bike mechanics in a traditional, full-service shop | ||
-Neil: maintain our position at Heritage Days, it took us two years to get back in and the exposure is well worth the trouble. | -Neil: maintain our position at Heritage Days, it took us two years to get back in and the exposure is well worth the trouble. | ||
-Bike Lanes, there was backlash from the | -Bike Lanes, there was backlash from the community leagues, & admin councelors, the backlash includes critisism about their userbase, or that they're unsafe. However, the complaints were getting are not from all community members. Long-term change, into the 21st century, may include a lack of a car-parking in front of your home | ||
-Can we prove that bikes reduce auto-traffic | -Can we prove that bikes reduce auto-traffic congestion? (and relieve its attendent problems.) | ||
-The summer student... would be hired to build bikes/ | -The summer student... would be hired to build bikes/ | ||
Alex wants to spend more time building bikes, lets have more bikes available to be ridden away from the shop, for a more affordable & attractive rate than new. Also, emphasiiz the notion of recycling which our practice promotes. | Alex wants to spend more time building bikes, lets have more bikes available to be ridden away from the shop, for a more affordable & attractive rate than new. Also, emphasiiz the notion of recycling which our practice promotes. | ||
-Paul: John Collier's course has been popular!!! Can we do this more regularly? Not under John, but perhaps our summer student can. Anna: Shadow-instructors. | |||
-Get Alex on more of an instructive level; get him there, and have the new volunteers take care of the more rudimentary jobs. | |||
[[ED Report (Month) (Year)|Executive Director's Report]] | |||
===BikeWorks Report === | |||
Micah: Bikeworks TOR | |||
vote: Who (public/volunteers/exec board...) creates policy? | |||
Board has final say & must ratify all decisions. | |||
[http://edmontonbikes.ca/w/images/8/8f/BikeWorks_Coordinator_January_2012_report.pdf BikeWorks Report] | [http://edmontonbikes.ca/w/images/8/8f/BikeWorks_Coordinator_January_2012_report.pdf BikeWorks Report] | ||