July 14-09 Sustainability meeting at Cafe Con Leche

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