FFBC GENERAL MEETING MINUTES

Location:  Fremont Adult Education School, Room N6, 4700 Calaveras Ave, Fremont, CA 94538

Date:  Jan 12, 2016

Attendance:

Luis Facha	President
Louis Friedenberg	Vice President
Bob Miller	Secretary
Chris Menicou	Race Team Representative
Julia Walker	Treasurer
Trish Conklin	Director-at-Large
Dave Fishbaugh	Ride Coordinator

Call to Order:

Meeting called to order at 7:45 PM. Previous meeting minutes were approved.

Membership – Becky Denevan

There were 216 early renewals, who were candidates for the early membership prizes.

Now in 2016, there are 279 members and 214 memberships.

There was a drawing for the early renewal member prizes ($25 gift cards from local biking & coffee establishments) and they are:

• Hung Dang                  REI
• Sandra King                PEET’s
• Jon Utley                     Centripedal
• Alan Cookson             Crank2
• Steve Lawrence           Bicycle Garage

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Since there were no other members present we decided to adjourn the meeting. The following notes are included from the Board Meeting Minutes for general publication. Meeting was adjourned at 8PM.

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Race Team Report – Chris Menicou:

Chris noted that although racing season hasn’t started there have been a few pre-season races. There were three First places in Early Bird Road Races. There were also two First places in CycloCross.

The member level is at 48 at this point. Three juniors and two others from last year’s team went to some Pro teams and a Sacramento team. There will be a second round of signups in February.

Saturday workouts have started at more than 60 miles and 4500 ft of climbing.

The Team Target events have also been decided – they are listed below.

Chris reviewed the following team information and provided this complete list later by email. This is for the last eight weeks.

Race Team Report for November-December 2015:

• Team Fremont Race Updates  – Top Ten Rider Results

CCCX CYCLOCROSS #7
12/19/15 – Marina

MASTERS 35+ B MEN – Damon Campbell – 1st
MASTERS 35+ C MEN – Brian Gokey – 1st

2016 SAN BRUNO MOUNTAIN HILL CLIMB
BRISBANE, CA – JAN 1, 2016

Junior Under 18yrs  – Daniel Karpelevitch – 3rd

CCCX CYCLOCROSS #8
01/08/16 – Ft. Ord

MASTERS 35+ C MEN – Brian Gokey – 1st

• Training and Event Update

• Tuesday Night Training (TNT):  Meet at 6:15 PM at Genmark Automation (Warren and 46723 Lakeview) for a local ride and hill climbing workout.

• Wednesday Night Training (WNT) Meet at 6:15 PM on Eureka & Stevenson (parking lot) in Fremont for training and mentoring on the basics of racing.

• Thursday Night Training (TNT): Meet at 6:15 PM on Eureka & Stevenson (parking lot) in Fremont for 4-corner Criterium workouts.

• Winter training rides are now taking place on Saturdays per the FFBC ride calendar. Riders are grouped by ability.

• Team Target Events for 2016

• Team Target Events proposed for Road Racing in 2016:
• Coppertown Circuit Race – Feb. 14th
• Red Kite Criterium – March 3rd
• Turlock Lake Road Race – April 9th
• Memorial Day Criterium, Morgan Hill – May 30th
• Dash 4 Cash, Dublin – June 4th
• Red Kite Bump Circuit Race – July 24th
• Dunnigan Hills Road Race – August 13th
• Giro di San Francisco Criterium – September 5th
• The race calendar can be found at – http://ncnca.org/

• Team Membership

• There are 48 Race Team Members for the 2016 season roster so far. A second round of sign-ups opens in February.

• The Fremont Freewheeler Race Team website is at: http://fremontraceteam.org/

Ride Coordinator – Dave Fishbaugh:

Jan 31st is the ride leader recognition party.

Director-at-Large – Trish Conklin:

Nothing new to report. All bike boxes have been returned.

Trish made a puff pastry with raspberry, brie and bacon as well as a twice cooked potato with thyme, chives and parmigiana cheese for the event. You really shouldn’t miss out.

Treasury Report – Julia Walker:

Account balance is good. First Primavera checks are coming in. The biggest Dec expense was the Holiday Party.

Julia did a survey and got very positive response on the Holiday Party. The negative feedback was: a) When they ran out of food and took too long to replace, b) Wine was expensive. Otherwise everyone enjoyed the event.

General Discussion:

Urban Bike Fitters wanted to do a talk about bike fitting. Board agreed that would work in February. Next we need to decide if the meeting should be at the Urban Fitters bike shop or not.

Bob presented the Minutes website approach. The concept is to host both the General Minutes and the Newsletter on a website (initially on a free WordPress.com site and eventually on the ffbc.org site). That will mean that the website will be accessible by the public.

Donation Process: The Board felt the process was fine the way it was and there were no recommended changes.