[Policy] Fw: New volunteer

[Bill Newman]

Jeff has been added to the Policy mailing list.
     --Bill

On 2017-01-29 22:11, Laura Donatelli wrote:
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
>
> I was glad to hear that you are interested in helping out with the 
> policy work of Bike Winnipeg and I hope I get a chance to meet you in 
> person at our next Board meeting.
>
>
> The Policy Committee is currently composed of myself, Ian Walker our 
> board co-chair, Bill Newman our board treasurer, and Gord Friesen who, 
> like you, is not on the board but, most helpfully, works on 
> community/traffic issues with the Winnipeg Police Service.  You will 
> be a welcome addition to our small group.
>
>
> This past year we have been working on a few different position 
> statements, the first three of which can be found on our website at 
> http://bikewinnipeg.ca/position-statements/#sthash.1Myyv4Ix.dpbs, a 
> 4th which has just been approved on Diamond Lanes (it is not yet 
> posted but I have attached it to this email), and a 5th on mandatory 
> bicycle helmets which is now before the board pending approval.
>
>
> Moving forward, we are now working on three more: one on snow clearing 
> of AT routes, one on way marking, and one on legislating a 1 metre 
> safe passing distance.  We tend to take turns taking the lead to 
> research and draft various positions, and then debate our "straw dog" 
> at policy committee meetings, which tend to be held on a weekday 
> evening at one of our houses.  Our next policy committee will be 
> scheduled after I get a draft of the AT statement out to the 
> committee, something that I am very slowly moving toward.  I will 
> probably use a doodle poll to do so.
>
>
> In the meantime, if you have any questions, give me a call at 
> 204-952-6487 or drop me an email.
>
>
> Cheers, Laura Donatelli
>
> Position Statements - Bike Winnipeg 
> <http://bikewinnipeg.ca/position-statements/#sthash.1Myyv4Ix.dpbs>
> bikewinnipeg.ca
> Bike Winnipeg has passed the following position statements and 
> endeavors to integrate them into our actions and recommendations.
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Charles Feaver <Charles at youngretired.ca>
> *Sent:* January 25, 2017 9:19 AM
> *To:* 'Mark Cohoe'; laura at bikewinnipeg.ca
> *Cc:* 'Jeff Buhse'
> *Subject:* New volunteer
>
> I met with Jeff Buhse last night, to follow up on his interest in 
> volunteering.  He has lots of experience in environmental action, and 
> is an experienced city cyclist.  We agreed;
>
> ·He would like to work on policy, so Laura; can you please add him to 
> your policy committee.
>
> ·He works at the U of M and bikes there most days of the year, so he 
> would be willing to help promote better bike routes to UofM, and 
> encourage interested parties at the University to get engaged.  Mark; 
> could you please give him a briefing on the various projects of 
> interest, including RT, the bridge, the Grant park tunnel idea, and 
> point out next steps requiring action.
>
> ·He will come to the next board meeting to meet folks and see more of 
> what is going on.
>
> A great addition to BW.
>
> Charles
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Policy mailing list
> Policy at lists.bikewinnipeg.ca
> http://lists.bikewinnipeg.ca/listinfo.cgi/policy-bikewinnipeg.ca

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.bikewinnipeg.ca/pipermail/policy-bikewinnipeg.ca/attachments/20170207/f8c74601/attachment-0002.htm>