bike cleveland - 2014 annual meeting

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2014 Annual Meeting


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Agenda2:10pm WelcomeChris Alvarado, Bike Cleveland Board President

2:15pm 2013 Review and Looking Forward Jacob VanSickle,Executive Director

-Special Presentation Jenita McGowan Chief ofSustainability, City of Cleveland

2:35pm 2014 Board of DirectorsMyron Bennett, BoardGovernance Chair

-Confirmation of 2014 Board Slate

- Board Officer Confirmaiton

2:45pm Volunteer RecognitionJacob VanSickle

2: 55pm Committee IntroductionsMarvin Ranaldson, Outreachand Volunteer Coordinator

3pm ClosingJacob VanSickle

3pm-5pm Karaoke and Social


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Welcome


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2013 Year in Review


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Where it all beganBike Cleveland Summit September 2011


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Membership

378Individual/Household/Student

17Businesses/Organizations

(representing over 800 employees)


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Advocacy


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Bike Share Cleveland

Study finds Bike Sharing appropriate for CLE

Opportunities:

Emerging bicycle culture Candidate funding partners

Positive feedback from community & Stakeholders

Challenges:

Securing funding Developing organizational capacity Improving bicycle infrastructure Sponsorship / ad regulations

Addressing car culture


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Bronze Bicycle Friendly CommunityCleveland

Lakewood

Cleveland Heights

Bronze Bicycle Friendly Business NEOs First


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Events and Programming1700 people participated in over a dozen Bike Cleveland events


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Random Acts of Brightness


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1300 Greater Clevelanders logged over 696,000 milesthissummer in the National Bike Challenge burning 14,530,000caloriesand keeping 311,000 poundsof C02 out of the

atmosphere


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In the newsBike Cleveland was interviewed or mentioned over 40 times by the local or national media


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2013 Year in ReviewBronze Bicycle Friendly Community designation earned by Cleveland, Lakewood, and

Cleveland Heights from League of American Bicyclists.

Launched Ride Together: Greater Clevelands first ever bicycle focused media campaign

Biking in Cleveland Guide (authors Julia Kuo and Justin Glanville), available online and soon

at 2014 biking events.

Rust Belt Battle of the Bikes1,300 Clevelanders competed in National Bike Challenge. We

logged 696,000 miles in just five months, saving over 311,000 pounds of carbon dioxide.

700+ peoplebiked to work through 7 bike-to-work day events, with the Cleveland Bike

Rack.

Bike Lane Installationon Detroit Ave, Edgehill Rd, and Superior Ave., total 30% increase.

Commitment for bike lanes on W. 41st and W. 44th in Cleveland.

In partnership with City of Cleveland and YMCA, classified City streets to prioritize bike

facilities.


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2013 Year in Review

Community conversation & advocacy for bike lanes on Madison Avenue, Triskett Avenue,

Denison Avenue, Pearl Road, East 72nd Street and Lakeshore Blvd.

Cleveland neighborhood outreach through Bike Fix-a-thons and bike light giveaway events.

Fixed 55 bikes and distributed 70 lights to un-lit people on bikes.

Countywide complete streets policy and design guidelines to facilitate a countywide

approach for better bicycling, in partnership with Cuyahoga County.

Completed bike share task force feasibility studyand implementation plan for moving the

idea forward with RTA and the City of Cleveland.

I Bike. I Vote.educated voters on candidates commitment to bicycle facilities and safety.

5 more BikeBox Parking Corrals, unique-to-Cleveland, on-street covered bike parking

structures, with LAND Studio.

First ever bicycle friendly businessdesignation in Northeast Ohio given to Squire Sanders

by the League of American Bicyclists.


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2014


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Better Enforcement


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Better Engagement


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Central BikesProgram to bring partnerships, programming, advocacy, and empowermentto Clevelands Central neighborhood


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Safe Routes to School


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Regional Collaboration

Bike Cleveland Chapter Program: Developing structure tocoordinate and grow advocacy efforts among all group across

the region.

Goal: To build a unified region-strong advocacy voice.

Bike Cleveland sub-committee developed with local groups to

discuss


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Better Bikeways


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100 Mile Bike Lane Campaign


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Bikeway Implementation PlanJenita McGowan, Chief of Sustainability

City of Cleveland


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Complete and Green Streets

Complete and Green Streets Ordinance in effect in January 2012o A streets network to serve all transportation modes, all ages, all abilities

Complete and Green Streets Typology completed in 2013 Sustainable Cleveland 2019 and Climate Action Plan


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Existing Bicycle Infrastructure

47.5 Miles of Bikeway in Cleveland

3.71 Sharrows 10.33 Lanes 34.6 Trails


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Connect EveryNeighborhoodto a Bikeway Network

Geographic Equity

Connecting people to places Feasible for City to implement and maintain Align with Capital Improvement Plan Fill in the gaps for streets not in the CIP


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2014-2015 Additions

Adds 44.8 miles to Bikeway Network.

47.5 Miles of Bikeway


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2016-2017 Additions

2016-2017: Adds 25.64 Miles of Bikeway

2014-2015: 44.8 miles of Bikeway



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Additional Connections

82.5 Miles that complete the network not in the CIP

These streets can be re-striped similar to Detroit Ave.depending on pavement condition. Implementation will beprioritized based on making key network connections.

2016-2017: Adds 25.64 Miles of Bikeway

2014-2015: 44.8 miles of Bikeway



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Bikeway Implementation Plan

118 miles of bikeway by 2017

Additional 82.5 miles identified as priority network connections12 miles of trails planned by other agencies


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Next Steps

What do you think? Bikeway infrastructure will follow the

Complete and Green Street typology

including signed routes, sharrows, bike lanes,protected bike lanes, bicycle blvds, etc.

Community meetings will be held to presentstriping and/or construction plans as streetsapproach reconstruction/repaving/re-striping


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2014 Board Member ConfirmationMyron Bennett, Board Governance Chair


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Chris Alvarado (2015) Jeffrey Sugalski (2016)

Michael Fleming (2015) Julia Schnell (2016)

Barb Clint (2015) Ben Newman (2016)

Myron Bennett (2015) Matthew Bruckner (2016)

John McGovern (2015) Shelli Snyder (2016)

Angie Schmitt (2015) Mitch Thompson (2016)

Marie Kittredge (2015) Mary Ellen Carney (2016)

Steven Lovelace (2015)

2014 Board Member Slate


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Proposed Board Officers

Chris Alvarado:President

Jeffrey Sugalski:Vice President

Julia Schnell:Secretary

Barb Clint:Treasurer


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Volunteer Recognition


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Committee Introductions


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Closing

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