BOARD MEETING MINUTES

FFBC BOARD MEETING
LOCATION: Fremont Adult Education School, Room N6, 4700 Calaveras Ave, Fremont, CA 94538
DATE: May 12, 2015

Attendance

Luis Facha

President
Louis Friedenberg Vice President

Bob Miller

Secretary
Chris Menicou Race Team Representative
Julia Walker Treasurer
Trish Conklin Director-at-Large

Call to Order
Meeting called to order by Luis at 6:32 PM.

Meeting Minutes
Luis asked if there were any questions or changes needed on the previous month's minutes – none were brought up. They were approved.

Race Team Report – Chris Menicou
More good news on the race team activities. Over the last four weeks the team has gotten six 1st place finishes, nine top 3 finishes, and 23 top 10 finishes. Two of the woman on the team are NorCal/Nevada Spring Champions:
            Louisa Sempere is #1
            Catie Melnarik  is #2
Other team highlights:

  • There are now 75 paid team members on the roster which includes 18 ladies and 16 juniors
  • Ongoing reminder on Tuesday and Thursday night training

Chris reviewed the following team results and provided the complete results later by email. This is for the last four weeks.

  Race Team Report for April 2015:

1. Team Fremont Race Updates  - Top Ten Rider Results:

Note: Reporting Six First Place Finishes since the March Team update!

RED KITE OMNIUM EVENT #6 - RED KITE CRITERIUM (MAY)
LIVERMORE, CA   MAY 10, 2015

M55 Cat. 3/4 - Tim O’Hara 7th
M Elite Cat. 4 – Conan Wen 4th

BERKELEY HILLS ROAD RACE
RICHMOND, CA   MAY 9, 2015

W Elite Cat. 3 – Cynthia Wang 7th
M55 Cat. 4 – West Kurihara – 4th

Calaveras Time Trial 
Sunol, CA   May 3, 2015

M Elite 4 - Daniel Karpelevitch 7th

Mike's Bikes 42nd Cat’s Hill Classic
Los Gatos, CA   May 2, 2015

M Junior 15-18 Cat. 4/5 – Conan Wen 1st, Daniel Karpelevitch 9th

Golden State Race Series
Rancho Cordova, CA   May 2, 2015 - May 3, 2015

Criterium:
W Elite Cat. 4 – Luisa Sempere 1st
M Elite Cat. 3 – Dillon Chang 2nd
Circuit Race:
W Junior 9-12 – Rebecca Melnarik 1st
W Cat. 4 – Luisa Sempere 1st, Catie Melnarik 4th
M Elite Cat. 3 – Dillon Chang 1st

CALAVERAS TIME TRIAL 
SUNOL, CA   MAY 3, 2015

M Elite Cat. 4 - Daniel Karpelevitch 7th

Wente Vineyards Classic Road Race
Livermore, CA   Apr 26, 2015

M Elite Cat. 4 - Michael Leung 8th
M Junior 15-16 – Brian Nguyen 9th
M Junior 17-18 – Daniel Karpelevitch 7th, Truman Leung 9th
W Elite Cat. 3 – Cynthia Wang 6th

RED KITE OMNIUM EVENT #4 - RED KITE CRITERIUM (APRIL)
Livermore, CA  Apr 19, 2015

M Elite Cat. 4 – Dillon Chang 1st, Conan Wen 3rd

Sea Otter Classic Circuit Race
Monterey, CA   Apr 17, 2015

W Elite Cat. 4 -  Louisa Sempere 5th

2.  NCNCA Women's Series, Spring Results

  1. Louisa Sempere 1st
  2. Catie Melnarik 2nd

3.  Training and Event Update

  1. The team supported the Primavera Rios Lovell rest stop on April 26th.
  2. Team Fremont’s - Calaveras Road Time Trial on May 3, 2015
    1. 141 Riders Made The Event Start-List!
    2. Fastest rider of the event was Justin Rossi from Reno, NV at a time of 21:08 (10 miles)
    3. All went smoothly and successfully
  3. Tuesday Night Training (TNT):  Meet at 6:15 PM at the Club Sport Fremont parking lot for a local ride and hill climbing workout.
  4. Thursday Night Training (TNT): Meet at 6:15 PM on Eureka off Stevenson in Fremont for 4-corner Criterium workouts.

4.  Team Target Events:

  1. ICCC Dash for Cash, May 30th
  2. Steve Dunlap Memorial Time Trial, June 13th
  3. Burlingame Criterium, June 28th
  4. Red Kite Omnium Event #12 – Criterium, August 9th
  5. The race calendar can be found at - http://ncnca.org/

5. Team Membership

  1. There are 75 Race Team Members for the 2015 season roster.. -- 18 are Ladies and 16 are Juniors
  2. The Fremont Freewheeler Race Team website is at: http://fremontraceteam.org/

Director-at-Large – Trish Conklin
Two cases are going out in the next month, so reserve the bike cases early if you need them.
As usual Trish was well prepared and brought:

  • Cinnamon Graham Crackers
  • Vanilla Wafers
  • Jellie Fruits
  • Drinks
  • Ginger Chews

Treasury Report – Julia Walker
Primavera expenses and income seems to be settling out. Initial news is that the event net-ed a little less than last year, but close. The difference seems to be due to the additional food truck costs and the additional costs of food to replace the home made breads and cookies.

General Discussion - Luis Facha
Old Business:
Thermo Fisher – Luis, Julia and Bob have agreed they are available to help the ThermoFisher group, as advisors. Bob will follow up with Andrew Setikas letting him know of our support level. As was mentioned before we are willing to rent out some equipment (canopies, coolers, etc.) to ThermoFisher and to provide guidance on the event.
New Business:
June 2 is the meeting of the donation committee. A few possibilities were mentioned: U-Locks for people at Abode, supporting a trip to the Nationals for our attending race team members.
Announcement of a bike blessing in Niles on July 11th.

Board Meeting Adjourned
7:13 PM: Meeting adjourned.

 

FFBC GENERAL MEETING

Meeting opened at 7:30 PM.
Asked if there were any changes or corrections to the previous month’s minutes. No issues. Minutes accepted.

Membership report – Becky Denevan
There are now 492 (vs last month: 463) members and 371 (vs last month: 346) memberships.
We did the drawing for the April Member signups. The drawing was for two sets of tickets on the Sunol Train. The new members names were put in a hat and the names drawn. The winners were:
Gigi Benkowski – wins two tickets
Alan Cookson – wins two tickets
Since there were no other members present it was decided that we would adjourn the meeting.

Meeting adjourned
Approx 7:45 PM

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