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August 2023 Board Meeting

Attendance: Wade Robbins, Brian LaVoie, Marc Padin, Daniel Dyla, John Knight III, Steve Vigneau, Brian McPherson, Brandon Stanko (virtual), Kim Dyla, Katie Kirtek, Andrew Freckelton, and John Garland.

Minutes by John Garland and edited by Dan Dyla

Meeting held Tuesday August 9th 2023

Finances

Just over $39,000 in account with all outstanding balances paid

Motion to approve $100 per trail day per month without prior authorization for volunteers passed unanimously

Trail Updates

Addison Oaks

A trail modification to remove bumps from the last downhill is completed. In the future they may be brought back with a bypass route.

Waiting on approval for trail days. Connector to Bald Mountain North still awaiting state approval.

Bald Mountain

Bald Mountain is still pursuing a WIP grant from the state for funding to be used in the South Unit. Bald Mountain is requesting CRAMBA assist with a boardwalk over a low area once a Paint Creek connector to Bald Mountain South unit is done. Property managers want to replace the Conklin connector by reopening a previous connector near the old sledding hill due to protected rattlesnake population. New connector may provide better access to the south unit.

Bloomer

Bloomer Park is currently closed to vehicle traffic through mid October. CRAMBA has submitted a trail report including current assessment and proposed development to the trail system, including MTB purpose built features and some new single track. We are waiting on approval from the director of Rochester Hills Parks. The International Velodrome at Bloomer Park is slated to be removed in the next two years, and CRAMBA will be working on a proposal for a pump track or skills park. This is preliminary, and other proposals will be submitted to Rochester Hills.

Stony Creek

Aaron Barla stepped down as trail coordinator and the board thanks him for his time and service. Looking for a new trail coordinator.

Trail day to focus on trimming back overgrowth planned for August 19th 2023 from 9AM to noon.

Membership

Membership numbers steady year over year. Slight increase from last year, but decrease from the previous year

Website Traffic (30 days)

Visits: 681 (+9.5% M/M)

Unique Visitors: 632 (+9% M/M)

Page Views: 1891 (+6.5% M/M)

Events

Stony Creek Trail trim day - 8/19/23 @ West Branch/Grom loop from 9 AM - Noon.

Beaver Dash Bash - 9/23/2023 @ Oakdale Trails from 8 AM - 2:30 PM.  https://www.crank4acause.org/beaver-dash

Shelden Mountain Bike Fest - 9/30/23 @ Stony Creek West Branch parking lot from 3:00 PM -9:00 PM.  https://www.metroparks.com/sheldenmtbfest/

Massive Fall Out 2023 - 10/1/23 @ Addison Oaks Trail’s Edge pavilion at 10:00 AM  https://www.bikereg.com/massive-fallout-23

Other

Waiting on shirts purchased for board, trail coordinators, and volunteers. Still need to get quotes for koozies or other swag items.

Construction at Yates is supposed to wrap up by the end of August.

There is a road construction project on Orion Rd at Stoney Creek Rd. A roundabout will replace that intersection with Conklin Rd having a “T” intersection with Orion Rd. north of the roundabout. The construction should be finished in November. Both of these projects impact riders commuting between CRAMBA trails. CRAMBA encourages all riders to follow local rules, be safe, wear a helmet, use blinking lights, and avoid construction zones.

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July 2023 Board Meeting

7/13/23 Board meeting. 7PM at KLM

Attendance: Wade Robbins, Jen Chapman, Marc Padin, John Garland (minutes by)

No votes due to 4 of 9 members at meeting.

Shelden Trails Fest updates

Looking for support for group rides and clinic leaders. Kevin Gorman suggested.

MFO23

Tasks assigned.

John G will: Set up Bike Reg, Signup Genius, send mailing list email, social media posts, ask trail coordinators to communicate to land managers, notify bike patrol, request SAG (select cycle worx), provide GPX files.

Wade will update any insurance needs.

Dan will update anything on Website.

Jen and Mike will update on KLM support and on-site repair person

The following tasks need volunteers:

*Aid station at Paint Creek and Kern/Clarkston

*membership/waivers/donations on-site at AO. Jen can possibly cover this if KLM tent and Cramba tent are next to each other.

*Get sponsorship or raffle items from any other shop or business.

*CRAMBA 50/50 volunteer (different than shop raffles)

*Set-Up (coffee, food, waivers)

*Post-ride party food

*Clean-up

Finance

$40,230 in account

Swag: need vote of approval. TC and Board members plus some extra “CRAMBA volunteer” shirts. Need sizes if approved.

Koozies, water bottles, stickers.

John G can order shirts and koozies from WolfDog Printing.

Trail updates

Stony Creek: looking to add skills area and have professional build. (Not volunteer)

Bloomer: lead TC may be leaving. Meeting with park, renewal of MOU and meeting for development of trails.

BMS waiting for requested WIP that could allocate $550k for new trails. Kevin Gorman working on this.

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May 2023 Board Meeting

Attendance: Dan Dyla, Brian LaVoie, Ed Olsen, Jen Chapman, Wade Robbins, Michael Roman

Minutes by Dan Dyla

Meeting held Wednesday May 17th 2023

Bald Mountain

  • Money from COVID-era trail improvement programs will not be allocated to Bald Mountain as previously discussed

Friendship Park

  • Official opening day attendance of around 60 people. Attendees had a good time and people enjoyed the trail

  • Considering changing trail direction on alternating days

Trail Building Tools

  • Motion to buy an electric chainsaw passed unanimously

CRPT Trail Coordinator

  • Jeremy to meet with Jacob Isaacson to discuss trail coordinator responsibilities

Chapter Meeting

  • Date: June 14th

  • Location: Stony Creek

Events

  • Chose Feb 3rd 2024 for Ay CRAMBA with Feb 17th as a backup date. Plans to be finalized in Basecamp

  • Discussed Chris Westerlund’s comment on Facebook asking why MFO and Shelden Trail Fest are not on the same day. Decided events conflict too much with each other. Many people spend the whole day at each event and having them on the same day would prevent that. Conversely, many people can’t spend the whole day at either event and that would mean they can’t attend both. Finally, the route may not include Stony this year.

Website Updates

  • New website ready to go live

  • Currently missing library files page

  • Decided to send the draft website to the trail coordinators so they could check the accuracy of their trail pages

  • Decided to include non-cramba events and group rides for anyone that reaches out and asks to be included on the website. This includes non-mountainbiking cycling groups if they want to be included such as gravel rides. Some of these groups have made donations to CRAMBA in the past and many CRAMBA members are in these groups.

Social Media

  • Discussed Kurt G’s Strava post in which he raised concerns about the official Strava group having many non-CRAMBA members. We discussed options, but decided policing who can and cannot be in the group is something we’re not going to do at this time.

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April 2023 Board Meeting

Attendance: Dan Dyla, Marc Padin, Michael Roman, Wade Robbins, Jen Chapman, John Knight, John Garland

Minutes by John Garland edited by Dan Dyla

Friendship park

Friendship park is voted in as a CRAMBA trail with Mark Todd as TC. Decision was unanimous.

Clinton River Park Trail

Jacob Isaacson has expressed interest in being the trail coordinator for the Clinton River Park Trail

Meeting day

Brian LaVoie raised a motion in absentia to move the meeting day for board meetings from Thursday to Wednesday moving forward. The only objection was a possible conflict with the CRAMBA Wednesday Stony ride. The group agreed to find out if the ride is still happening before making a decision.

Website

Dan Dyla made a recommendation to use Squarespace as our website vendor. He showed a mockup of what a future site could look like in Squarespace. Cost was discussed briefly and a decision was made to vote on Basecamp later when cost was known.

Trail Coordinators

Clean up TC agreements and have them resign updated.

Finances

CRAMBA has $35879 in the bank.

$1326 spent on bike patrol/IMBA.

Received $2500 from IMBA for quarterly memberships

General Motors has made a $600 donation

$4400 paid for insurance

CRAMBA Merch

Discussed several merch options including shirts and beer coozies.

Shelden Trail Festival

Date set for September 30. There will be group rides, a photographer in the pines, and alcohol and shirts available for sale.

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March 2023 Board Meeting

Attendance: Dan Dyla, Brian LaVoie, Ed Olsen, Michael Roman, Brandon Stanko, John Garland, john D Knight III

Meeting minutes by John Garland edited by Dan Dyla

Massive Fall Out

  • September 30 chosen as a tentative date

  • Looking at getting a liquor license for MFO

Newsletter

Swag

  • Discussed current stock of swag as well as printing new swag including stickers, water bottles, and possible swag for trail volunteers.

Trail Signage

  • Discussed adding signage to trailheads with CRAMBA membership information and a QR code for the website

Global Fatbike Day

  • Will need to find a new host for Global Fatbike day

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January 2023 Board Meeting

In Attendance:

  • Wade Robbins

  • Brian LaVoie

  • Mike Roman

  • Brian McPherson

  • Dan Dyla

  • Brandon Stanko

  • Ed Olson

  • John D Knight III

  • John Garland (minutes by John Garland)

Brandon Stanko nominated to and approved to CRAMBA board.

Insurance being quoted (covered to 3/1/23)

Financials: $43,126.18 in account, Basecamp annual license is pending.

Clinton River Park Trails: walk through being done by land managers. We still need a Trail Coordinator for this trail.

Updates needed for newsletter and NSP Mountain Bike Patrol

Agenda items: Ay Cramba February 4, 2023.  12-4pm (back up date is 2/18/23)

Vendors:
KLM will be on hand with Demo fat bikes and other giveaways including Specialized RBX jacket, bibs, and Deep winter gloves.
Main Street Bicycles
Trek
Select Cycle Worx https://selectcycleworx.com/

CRAMBA merch giveaways, 50/50 raffle and more!

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October 2022 Board Meeting

10/13 CRAMBA board meeting

7pm virtual
Attendance: Wade Robbins, Brian LaVoie, Ed Olson, Dan Dyla, Marc Padin, Michael Roman, John Knight, and John Garland (minutes recorded by John Garland)

Finance: 42175 in account with all major expenses paid.
IMBA quarterly received, expenses paid for PO Box, Storage Unit, MFO, and Bike Patrol. 300 from cash box in MFO and 435 from bikereg.

Membership is down, 548 in 2020, 484 in 2021, 364 ytd 2022.

Fall Events: Shelden trails fest was great turn out, weather was good and stony seemed interested in doing it maybe twice a year in 2023.

MFO was successful with about 100 riders and good, cool weather. A few riders completed the long 100 mile route! Feedback: AO food stop was “missed”. Many people offered to volunteer next year.

Board: Marc Padin will stay on as treasurer, John Garland will stay on as secretary, Wade Robbins will stay on as chair, Brian LaVoie will stay on as vice chair.
Members at large: Ed Olson, Michael Roman, John Knight, Daniel Dyla.

Thanks to Brian McPherson who has termed out for his years of service. Thanks to Steven Trecapelli who is stepping down.

We have 3 (maybe 4) openings on the board.
If you’re interested in joining us please email board@cramba.org for more information.

Plans for 2023: Website updates and easier ways to access social media.

Cramba Chapter meeting: Nov 9, 7pm. KLM Rochester.

Discussion of virtual chapter meeting as Poto chapter has had success with this.

AY Cramba – February 4, 2023 (back up 2/18) Michael Roman to lead event coordination.

Meeting adjourned at 7:53

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August 2022 Board Meeting

Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day- oct 1 – howl at moon sub event

AO 2023 – date/venue/format ideas?

Lift access possibilities being explored, how Cramba fits in: Bike patrol , references for trail building companies

58344k in bank
Outstanding checks 18k 528 = 39815k

Membership drive

MFO
Confirm pavilion
Klm involvement mike
Signing teams and other volunteers
100mile completion gets raffle?

Klm race team donation interested in Bald Mountain


Save the Date:

9/10 – Addison Oaks XC Race. Cancelled

9/24 – Lapeer Oakdale Trail Beaver Dash Event
https://www.crank4acause.org/beaver-dash

10/8 – Massive Fall Out. Multi-trail ride starting at Stony Creek Metropark west branch lot featuring 50k, 100k, and 100 mile routes. 8 AM gathering/breakfast, 9 AM group photo/mass start. Evening event TBD for all riders and Cramba members. BikeReg for t-shirts and swag soon.

Bike reg
Signup genius and volunteers needed list
MFO shirts
Gpx

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May 2022 Board Meeting minutes

CRAMBA’s May, 2022 Board Meeting was held on Thursday, May 12, 2022, at 7 PM at River Bends Park, Spring Hill Trailhead.

The Meeting was called to order by Wade Robbins.  Also in attendance Brian McPherson, Marc Padin, Michael Roman, Steven Trecapelli, El Olson, Steve Vigneau, Jeremy Verbeke, Roger Class, Erik Silvassy, Ron Arnot, Kevin Gorman, and John Garland.  Minutes recorded by John Garland.

Chapter Meeting: will take place in June at Pontiac Lake with a group ride prior.

Cramba trail challenge is going on currently and registration is still open, register at  https://www.bikereg.com/cramba-trail-challenge

https://www.facebook.com/Cramba-Trail-Challenge-108352268514621

https://www.strava.com/clubs/1041990

Cramba updates: BKXC gave Cramba three sets of grips to raffle off, winners notified via email. 

Cramba paid the membership fees for the active members of the Cramba Bike Patrol.  The Cramba Bike Patrol recently won the Eastern Michigan Region of the National Ski Patrol Oustanding Bike Patrol Award.

Cramba donated $1,250 to Misca in support of youth cycling.

Trails:

Addison Oaks:  Trying to move forward on connector to BMN.

Bloomer Park: The bridge entrance to singletrack (flow flats, “gloomer” on Strava) from the railroad grade is submerged and should be avoided, a temporary entrance is flagged further south and will be signed appropriately soon.

Bald Mountain: North unit connector is complete.  South unit has significant water issues still.

Holdridge:  Working on relations with the DNR for facilities management.

River Bends is done trail building phase 2 of the Farside trail project and will complete more signage, features, and maintenance.  Look for a Grand Opening sometime in July.

Sanborn - Cramba will support this new trail in Port Huron under development. 

Stony Creek – Official Maps have been update, check the Our Trails menu above to access.

Trail days and trail maintenance: will be updated and announced here, and on FB pages.  During the growth time, trail users are encouraged to help with trimming.  Feel free to adopt a section of trail or initiate a trim with buddies, just mind the local park rules on PPE/Equipment etc.  Please log any volunteer hours http://www.cramba.org/get-involved/report-volunteer-hours/ so we can keep track and display to our partners/land managers our volunteer hours.

Event updates:  For a full list of events view save the date below or check in for calendar updates.

Addison Oaks Fall XC race is still set for 9/24.  Timing is being negotiated currently

Howl at the Moon at Stony Creek Metro Park Shelden Trails will have scheduled times for themed rides and sessions. 

Massive Fall Out 2022 will feature 3 route options.  A link for volunteers will be updated shortly. 

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March 2022 Board Meeting Minutes

CRAMBA’s March, 2022 Board Meeting was held on Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 8 PM virtually. The meeting was called to order by Brian Lavoie.  Also in attendance: Wade Robbins, Marc Padin, Chris Westerlund, Michael Roman, Fran DiPietro, John Knight, Kevin Gorman, Steven Trecapelli, and John Garland.  Minutes recorded by John Garland.

Motion passes to be a sponsor for MISCA.

Membership: 69 Renewals this year.

Discussion of a monthly email, Spring membership drive and other updates to our current system.

Trails: Trail day scheduled for 3/19 @ 9:30 AM to work on connector between BMN and AO, meet at Lake George entrance to Bald Mountain North.

Signage available/delivered to some newer trails in Cramba system, displaying the "Ride dirt not mud trails" messaging.

Events: Cramba continued discussions of events and has appointed lead roles to oversee the Massive Fall Out, Addison Oaks Fall Classic XC race, a Cramba Trail Challenge, and a Earth Day commute challenge. More info/details to be published soon. We will also be announcing a membership raffle of a few items! Stay tuned.

If you are interested in helping with an event, please contact us at board@cramba.org

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September 2021 Board Meeting Minutes

CRAMBA’s September2021 Board Meeting was held on Thursday, September 9th 2021 at 7:00pm at the Spring Hill Trailhead at River Bends.

Meeting was called to order by Wade Robbins.  In attendance also Vito Manzella, John Knight, Brian LaVoie, and Marc Padin.  Minutes recorded by Rebecca Padin.

Massive Fall Out – Saturday October 16th

General Membership meeting to be held October 19th – Rivers Bends Pavilion

River Bends Pump track – Park has requested that the proposed location for the pump track be moved to the Ryan Rd. entrance next to the baseball diamonds.  American Ramp Co. to evaluate for feasibility.

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August 2021 Board Meeting Minutes

CRAMBA’s August 2021 Board Meeting was held on Thursday, August 12th 2021 at 7:00pm at the Spring Hill Trailhead at River Bends.

Meeting was called to order with Brian McPherson.  In attendance also Jeremy Verbeke, Wade Robbins, and Marc Padin.  Minutes recorded by Rebecca Padin.

River Bends:

  • Invoice received from TrailSense for Phase 1 of the Spring Hill trail
    • Next Phase will be approximately $39,000 – approx. $18,000 donation funds remaining
    • Private matching donor has stepped forward, offering to match up to $10,000 to cover the remaining difference
      • Brian moves to meet the proposed donor match
      • Marc seconds, motion passes

General Membership meeting to be held October 19th – Location to be announced

Massive Fall Out – Saturday October 16th

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July 2021 Board Meeting Minutes

CRAMBA’s July 2021 Board Meeting was held on Thursday, July 8th 2021 at 7:00pm at Stony Creek.  The June Board Meeting was cancelled due to scheduling conflicts.

Meeting was called to order with Brian McPherson.  In attendance also Michael Green, Marc Padin, Wade Robbins, Steve Vigneau, and Aaron Barla.  Minutes recorded by Rebecca Padin.

Board Items:

  • CRAMBA has purchased a plate compactor for use for trail building and maintenance.  Currently being stored at River Bends.
  • Discussion regarding planning of Addison race and Massive Fallout

Stony Creek

  • Aaron Barla will be replacing Pete Kresmery as the Trail Coordinator for Stony Creek.  Pete, thank you so much for all your years of service and hard work!

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May 2021 Board Meeting Minutes

CRAMBA’s March 2021 Board Meeting was held on Thursday, May 13th 2021 at 7:20pm at River Bends.

Meeting was called to order with Brian McPherson.  In attendance also Michael Green, Marc Padin, Wade Robbins, John Knight, Michael Benigni, Jeremy Verbeke, and Chris Westerlund.  Minutes recorded by Rebecca Padin.

Board Items:

  • With updated CDC recommendations, group rides will be scheduled to start up again:
    • Tuesdays at River Bends
    • Wednesdays at Stony Creek

River Bends

“Far Side Trail Project”/flow trail

  • Phase 1 completed – dubbed Spring Hill Trail
    • Donor Preview Day – 5/14
    • Opening Day BBQ – 5/23
  • Steampunk Tap Room in Utica hosting a fundraiser on 6/12
    • Sponsors: Griffin Claw, Uncle Peter’s Pasties, and Paramount Electric
  • KLM hosting a raffle, tickets available for purchase at either location, proceeds to go to CRAMBA


Pump track

  • American Ramp Company – 3D design and quote received
    • Pursuit of fundraising opportunities continues, considering sponsorship from businesses, possibly feature their logo on signage near the sites

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April 2021 Board Meeting Minutes

CRAMBA’s April 2021 Board Meeting was held on Thursday, April 8th 2021 at 7:00pm via Zoom.

Meeting was called to order with Brian McPherson.  In attendance also Wade Robbins, John Knight, Pete McCreedy, and Ken Markiewicz.  Minutes recorded by Rebecca Padin.

Board Items:

River Bends

“Far Side Trail Project”/flow trail

  • Construction broke ground on 4/1
  • Fund raising in progress via DonorBox, but enough funding has been received to begin construction.
  • KLM hosting a raffle, tickets available for purchase at either location, proceeds to go to CRAMBA
  • Preview event for donors and official Opening Day event to be held


Pump track

  • American Ramp Company – initial spec received, additional photos being provided to help finalize designs
  • Pursuit of fundraising opportunities and applying for grants continues, considering sponsorship from businesses.

Bald Mountain

  • DNR looking into connecting with the Lake Orion high school trail system (original trails were encroaching on DNR property and were rerouted)
  • DNR pursuing master plan for connector trails – CRAMBA pledges up to $3,000 to the connector trails

Pontiac Lake

  • Grant received from Panasonic to build a changing station, Wade reached out to the PLRA Trail Coordinator regarding construction

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March 2021 Board Meeting Minutes

CRAMBA’s March 2021 Board Meeting was held on Thursday, March 11th 2021 at 7:30pm via Zoom.

Meeting was called to order by Brian McPherson.  In attendance also Michael Green, Marc Padin, Wade Robbins, John Knight, Michael Benigni, and Vito Manzella.  Minutes recorded by Rebecca Padin.

Board Items:

  • “Massive Fall-Alt: Trail Challenge” – apologies to all participants for the delay in providing updates.  The lids for the water bottles were out of stock and we were not notified.  Issue has been remedied, and we hope to have more updates soon.

River Bends

  •       “Far Side Trail Project”/flow trail
    • Proposal received from TrailSense
    • Fund raising in progress via DonorBox, but enough funding has been received to begin construction.
    • KLM hosting a raffle, tickets available for purchase at either location, proceeds to go to CRAMBA
  •       Pump track
    • American Ramp Company – initial spec received, additional photos being provided to help finalize designs
  • Pursuit of fundraising opportunities continues, considering sponsorship from businesses, possibly feature their logo on signage near the sites

Pontiac Lake

  • Grant received from Panasonic to build a changing station, more details to come regarding construction

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January 2021 Board Meeting Minutes

CRAMBA’s January 2021 Board Meeting was held on Thursday, January 14th 2021 at 7pm via Zoom.  November and December meetings were cancelled due to lack of activity due to COVID-19.

Meeting was called to order with Brian McPherson.  In attendance also Michael Green, Marc Padin, Wade Robbins, John Knight, Michael Benigni, and Vito Manzella.  Minutes recorded by Rebecca Padin.

Board Items:

  • Steve Vigneau has decided to take a step back from the CRAMBA Board and has resigned as Treasurer.  He will continue working on the Stony Creek Shelden Trails Redevelopment on behalf of CRAMBA along with supporting other trail projects. We thank him for his dedication to mountain biking and look forward to continuing to work with him.
  • Marc Padin has volunteered to assume the position of Treasurer, motion passes.

  • Jeremy Verbeke will be moving to a new position within the National Bike Patrol, his position within CRAMA is being filled by Vito Manzella.  Vito has been a bike patroller for several years, and has been a member of the National Ski Patrol for many more.  We look forward to collaborating with Bike Patrol with Vito at the helm.

  • The company that CRAMBA’s insurance was through is no longer providing policies for bike groups at our required level.  Currently in the process of receiving quotes from companies ahead of our March renewal

  • Results from the “Massive Fall-Alt: Trail Challenge” digital event are being reviewed, and information regarding rewards will be made available soon.

River Bends

  •       Quotes received from TrailSense for several new segments of trail.
  •       Long-discussed project of building a pump track at River Bends
    • American Map Company being pursued for design – In addition to personal donations from Wade Robbins and Brian McPherson, motion approved for CRAMBA to allocate up to $3,500 for the cost of the initial spec.
  • Board to pursue fundraising opportunities to evaluate the feasibility of both projects

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September 2020 Board Meeting Minutes

CRAMBA’s September 2020 Board Meeting was held onThursday, September 10th 2020 at 7pm at Stony Creek.

Meeting was called to order with Brian McPherson.  In attendance also Mike Green, Marc Padin, WadeRobbins, Steve Vigneau, Ken Markiewicz, and John Knight.  Minutes recorded by Rebecca Padin.

Board Items:

  • Discussion regarding hosting digital/self-run CRAMBATrail Challenge (ride all the CRAMBA-sponsored trails in a certain duration)
    • Potential for winter/fat-tire event depending on success ofautumn event
  • Stoney Creek - Loop B in progress, impressed withFlowTrack’s work so far
  • Annual elections due to be hosted in October
  • Bald Mountain/Addison Connector – Bald Mountain side dueto be done by the end of the year, discussions still in progress with Addison.

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August 2020 Board Meeting Minutes

CRAMBA’s August 2020 Board Meeting was held on Thursday,August13th 2020 at 7pm at River Bends. The July meeting was cancelled due to COVID-19.

Meeting was called to order with Brian McPherson.  In attendance also Mike Green, Marc Padin, WadeRobbins, Steve Vigneau, Mike Reeves, Ken Markiewicz, and John Knight, KristenBerry, Pete Januszewski, and Josh Seyfarth. Minutes recorded by Rebecca Padin.

Board Items:

  • Several members stopped by to pick up their CRAMBA-branded face/head coverings, which are available for free to all CRAMBA members (paid for by donations and membership fees)
  • Technical Features program has started to see several new features completed, most recently the Tree Bridge feature located in the CK Canal Loop at River Bends
  • Discussion for the feasibility of hosting digital or self-run events (race a specific route between two dates, email your GPS file), "CRAMBA Trail Challenge" (ride all the CRAMBA-sponsored trails in a certain duration)

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