Imagine a winter day with people on bikes everywhere….
On Friday, Feb 12th, join CentreBike, the Penn State Sustainability Institute, Active Lions, and your fellow cyclists for International Winter Bike to Work Day!
Meet us at the Old Main steps at 7:45am on Friday, 2/12 — we’ll have hot coffee and take a group photo at 7:55am. Active Lions will be on-hand with free giveaways. Can we beat last year’s attendance of 30 cyclists?
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January 11, 2016
Meeting held at the State College Borough Building
Present:
The meeting was called to order by Anna Nelson at 5:35 pm.
Liability Insurance
Board approval needed to renew the insurance policy through the League of American Cyclists. The cost for 2016 is $189 which covers 26 rides or less per year. There is also optional officers liability insurance at a cost of $550 for $1M in coverage. Jim Serene moved to only renew the basic coverage at $189; Brian Dempsey second; all in favor. Note that waivers will be required to be signed by all ride recipients. Jim offered to design a new waiver form.
Centre Foundation Endowment Fund
Thank you letter will be sent to Blake and Linda Gall for their generous gift of a $50,000 endowment, with an acknowledgement that CentreBike will host a ride/event in their honor. A story and photo will be posted to the website.
Open Streets Initiative
Melissa Bopp with ActiveLions is applying for grant for Open Streets. If received, CentreBike will be a partner, along with Mt Nittany Health System. Note that Melissa’s students are available to intern on projects.
Winter Bike to Work Day
Scheduled for Friday, Feb 12th with a coffee station on Old Main steps. A group photo will be taken just before 8:00am.
Focus for 2016
Reminder: When working on improvement projects, take before and after photos and write a story to share on the website.
There being no further business to come before the meeting, it adjourned at 6:55 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Joan Potter, Secretary
After more than a year of hard work by the staff of Centre Region Council of Governments (COG), along with community input, cyclist support, CentreBike advocacy, and municipal meetings…. the Centre Region Bike Plan was agreed upon and adopted by a vote of the COG General Forum on Tuesday December 15.
This is exciting news for our community!
We want to send a big thank you out to all of the people who made this happen – particulary Trish Meeks, of COG, for her hard work and dedication, and to COG’s Transportation and Land Use Committee, for their support of this effort: Eric Bernier (College Township), Rob Cooper (Penn State University), Theresa Lafer (State College Borough), Jeff Luck, Chair (Patton Township), Todd Kirsten, Vice Chair (Halfmoon Township), Steve Miller (Ferguson Township), Paul Rittenhouse, Sr. (Harris Township).
Take a moment at some point to email, call, or tweet your thanks to your local elected official!
What is the Centre Region Bike Plan?
You can read more about the Centre Region bike plan by checking out the Bike Plan’s Executive Summary. But in a nutshell, it is a long range plan that will guide bicycle infrastructure and programming across all 6 municipalties (plus the Borough and PSU) for years to come.
You can read the summary of the plan, or the full plan, on COG’s website: www.crcog.net/bikes
What Happens Next?
The Centre Region Bike Plan is intended to be a guide for future decision-making around cycle projects and programs. While some projects are already in motion; others are a long way off.
Each municipality will determine which programs and projects they will fund and implement in the foreseeable future. COG will also use the plan to help guide region-wide decisions, and to inform PennDOT about any potential routes or areas that may impact PennDOT work.
CentreBike will also look to the plan to help us focus our efforts. Many of the shorter-term recommendations are proposals that our members can help with, and we’ll keep you informed about opportunities to get involved.