MWBA Board Meeting Minutes: November 14, 2019
Original PDF version of November 14, 2019 MWBA Board Meeting Minutes.
MWBA AD-HOC BOARD MEETING
MINUTES: NOVEMBER 14, 2019
BOARD PRESENT: Shamane Morejon, Andrew Hunter, Alex Fore, David Cho, Jon Buckell, Colin Frazer, Bart Bombay, and (remotely) Jason Chiodo
NON-BOARD PRESENT: None
ABSENT: None
Meeting commenced at 7:10pm, and adjourned at 9:30pm
Topics
- Reviewed preparations for November Workday at Strawberry Peak Trail.
- Waterman report is almost done.
- December trail work day discussed, resulting in:
- Motion to do it on Dec 8th by Bart
- Seconded by Shamane
- Approved unanimously
- Location depends on weather and PAL level
- Motion to do it on Dec 8th by Bart
■ Likely will be brushing of Ken Burton
- December social event
- Shamane will lead planning for this. Likely Dec 15th.
- Details TBD
- 2020 Strategic Plan
○ 2020 Events
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- Monthly trailwork days – affirmed
- Pancake Breakfast – Spring 2020 (May?)
● Likely at a new easier to reach location, TBD (Gould? Loma Alta?)
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- Trail Stewardship Summit – tentatively April 2020
● committee is already formed, and will lead the planning
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- Womxns Dig Day – perhaps March 2020, details TBD
● To take the place of a regular monthly workday
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- Membership drive
- Maybe adding a fall membership drive? Maybe a campout? ■
- Maybe more sponsorship recruitment
- Membership drive
○ Memberships and IMBA
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- No changes to current relationship with IMBA
○ Waterman Trail 4 funding
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- To discuss more in subsequent meeting
- Bylaws updates – to be discussed more later…
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- President, VP, Treasurer, Secretary: term limits?
- One or more board positions elected by members?
- Updates for modern communication technologies?
- ○Board transition/evolution
- Board members each discussed own perspectives about continued participation
- Discussed about how to recruit new board members (e.g., recruiting from committees), and in general how to communicate to members about this.
- Discussion to be continued.
- The association between Chris’s shuttle business and MWBA is to be stopped. MWBA branded signage is to be removed from both the shuttle vehicles and web site.
- Strategy for trailwork liaisons/leaders growth
■ Deferred to subsequent meeting