Athens Bicycle Club Meeting Notes
March 28, 2006

Present: Peter Kotses, Dave Messina, Meredith Erlewine, Kelly Shaw, Aaron Burk, Kaleb McCutcheon, Paul Schulz, Mac Stricklen

Tour of the Hocking
Pete will be handling some of the refreshments for the tour.

Letter to City of Athens
Club members decided to write a letter to the city (addressed to Mayor Ric Abel) that will hit on the following points:
• The club support the city’s wishes to take ownership of Strouds Run State Park
• We will offer an intention to continue to work on trails as we have done in the past, but not offer to spend specific amounts of time on specific trails
• We will mention our past record of volunteer hours as an example of what might be expected in the future
• The letter will mention that the club sees this as an opportunity to expand volunteer hours and encourage more volunteerism (due to the park’s proximity to town compared to other past club trailbuilding projects)
• The letter will mention how many hours have been volunteered recently at Strouds Run

Club members also brought up the following points, which we decided not to put in the letter because we decided to keep it short and only focused on support of the city ownership concept:
• With increase in trails, there is an opportunity for hosting mountain bike events at the park, which could bring economic benefits both in tourism dollars and an opportunity for the city to charge usage/permit fees
• Opportunity to have bike clubs at local schools
• Wish to have bridge created from Della Drive to the Dow Lake Dam

Club members then worked together to draft a letter, which Peter will submit to the mayor and cc David Reiser of the Strouds Run Task Force.