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SPECIAL HAPPENINGS
FFBC Donations Procedure Introduction Background Procedures Recommendations will be presented and discussed during the first committee meeting and the Committee's recommended donation recipients will be selected by a majority vote of members present during the first committee meeting. Designated donation recommendations will be articulated in the Club newsletter and a vote will be taken during the subsequent general membership meeting. A majority of members present will determine whether to accept or reject the proposed list in its entirety. If the list is accepted, funds will be distributed by the Club Treasurer; if the list is rejected, there will be a brief discussion at the Club meeting and the list will return to the committee for further consideration. No fine tuning of the proposed list will be done during the Club's general meeting unless members at the meeting explicitly agree to do so by a majority of members present. This process will be repeated until a proposed list is accepted by membership. After Thanksgiving Ride in Pacific Grove (driving directions) A limited supply of street maps will be available at the November General Meeting to help you to navigate the Monterey roads. The following directions will help you to get to the ride start point in the most direct route. By W. Kageyama Driving sheet for day-after Thanksgiving ride From Highway 1 in Seaside Food recommendations: Going home, take Lighthouse Ave to Del Monte Ave. Public Meeting for Fremont UPRR Corridor Trail Study, Wed Oct 18, 2006 The City of Fremont is currently conducting a feasibility and preliminary engineering study of the Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) corridor within the city limits of Fremont to evaluate the potential for converting portions of existing and future abandoned railroad corridor into a Class 1 bicycle and pedestrian trail. The Public is invited to attend a public meeting to kick off the Trail Feasibility Study. APPLICANT: City of Fremont DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT: The Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) corridor trail study is between Clarke Drive in the Niles area and south of Warren Avenue to the Fremont/Milpitas City limits, a distance of approximately nine miles. The trail route was identified in the City of Fremont's 2005 Bicycle Master Plan as a priority for implementation and has been identified as a potential trail route since the City of Fremont's 1991 General Plan. The trail has the potential to become part of a citywide trails network to provide alternate transit and recreational facilities to residents of Fremont, as well as visitors to the community. There are also long-term opportunities to connect this trail to regional trail networks such as the Bay Area Ridge Trail, the Bay Trail, the proposed East Bay Greenway trail, and trail alignments along the rail corridor and its potential connection to the City of Milpitas. The City's design team will make a presentation describing the project overview and existing condition of the railroad corridor. The City will describe opportunities and constraints along various segments of the rail corridor including, identify potential trail alignments and its relative location to the downtown, employment centers, schools, transit centers, shopping centers, parks and major residential concentrations. The presentation will include schedule of the study, preliminary goals of the project, policies and standards, planning issues, preliminary findings of the environmental conditions and potential trail access points. The presentation will also discuss how the trail project could be integrated to current and future City projects such as the BART Extension, Paseo Padre Parkway and Grade Separation Project and Gomes-Central Park Trail & Railroad Signal Crossing Project. Participants will have opportunities to provide input regarding potential trail alignments and access issues. Public concerns regarding privacy, noise, crime, vandalism and potential impacts to property values will be discussed as well as concerns of adjacent property owners regarding liability, safety and maintenance. Participants will have the opportunity to provide suggestions in formulating a vision and goals for the project. Contact: Rene Dalton, Associate Transportation Engineer, phone: (510) 494-4535, e-mail: rdalton@ci.fremont.ca.us Health Announcement As you may have heard or read that Whooping Cough is on the rise. It is highly recommended that you get your DTaP vaccination if it has been more than ten years and that would include most all club members. As told to me, you do not want this disease which took them more than three months to recover from. I received my booster today. -W.K. |
