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- Sustainability Subcommittee Meeting Notes
July 14, 2009
5:15 – 6:15 Café Con Leche
Notes by Lizzy
Members present: Alan, Ryan, Angela Dianne, Lizzy, Krista, Sarah
Announcements: NPC meeting this weekend Sun-Tues, housing is still needed for a man and a woman.
BICYCLES
- Updates
- Rev. Williams of King Solomon’s Church and John of Trumbullplex has offered to store bikes (Lizzy)
- Donation letter was drafted, will be sent to list of bike coops this week (Lizzy)
Ideas/To-do
- Work with the religious committee to organize church groups to donate bikes and fix bikes
- Create schedule of bicycle repair trainings with Hub folks and distribute to organizations, churches. Fix 10 bikes and earn a bike. (Lizzy to talk with Joey from the Hub)
- Contact about donations or interest in repairs
- Wheelhouse Bikes (Ryan)
- Clark Park Youth Program (Sarah)
- Southwest Solutions Conference (Craig)
- Suburban bike shops (un-assigned)
- Salvation Army (un-assigned)
- “Flint guy” (Dianne)
- Generally, regional bicycle groups (un-assigned)
- Toledo, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Ann Arbor, Holland, Traverse City, etc
Bicycle Film Festival – opportunity for outreach, donations, repair requests
- THIS WEEKEND July 17-18
- www.bicyclefilmfestival.com
- Make quartersheet flyers (Lizzy) and print (Sarah) for distribution (un-assigned)
- Set up ussfbikes@gmail.com email (Lizzy)
- Advertisement on bicycle film festival website (Lizzy)
WATER
Angela contacted KleanKanteen and another group about water bottle donations. Klean Kanteen seems receptive; donation letter will be sent asking for 1,000
COMMITTEE RE-STRUCTURING
- Appointed two co-chairs for the next 4 months. The co-chairs will be responsible for note taking, agenda making, and being present at the DLOCH meetings to represent Sustainability for the Social Forum.
- Angela and Al volunteered to chair for the next 4 months. All were in favor.
NEXT SUSTAINABILITY MEETING: AUGUST 4TH 5:15 AT CAFÉ CON LECHE