Location: COS Citizen Service Center
Attendance: 25 people
Social time started at 6:00pm
Vice President, Janine Hegeman opened the meeting at 6:30pm
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January
February
March
April
Charlie Czarniecki
Al Brody / Charlie Czarniecki
Charlie Czar
Bill Gast
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May
June
July
August
Sara Hill
Sharon Boyd / Dale Campbell (Lee-1 Mystery Ride)
Rich Hostak (Lee-1 Mystery Ride)
Skip Fleming
September Janine Hegeman
October ?
November
December
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Allen Beauchamp
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Elected Officers – Charlie Czar, Janine Hegeman, Sharon Boyd & Sara Hill
Social – Bill Gast
Advocacy – Al Brody
BVBF – Aaron Rosenthal, Rich Hostak & CeCe Beauchamp
Community Outreach – Allen Beauchamp
Membership – Sara Hill
Ride Planning – Jean Zeh, John Pamperin
Web Site – Bob Smith, Dan Martin, Randy Susman
Bent Fork Editors – Sharon Boyd & Dale Campbell
Immediate Past President - Dave VanDerWege
At Large (’15) – Lee Murphy, Chris Conboy & Ginny Barber
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Membership – Sara Hill
Currently, we have 379 Members
Bent Fork Chronicles Newsletter – Dale Campbell
The Bent Fork August/September Edition was published a few days late. Sharon & Dale were on a
Llama Trek camping at 11,500 feet. The Bent Fork contains good travelogues, hotlinks of fantastic bicycling tours, coming November elections and the August 6 th New Belgium Tour event. The next Bent
Fork newsletter will be published the beginning of OCT.
2015 Special Rides & Activities – Jean Zeh
CSCC needs ride leaders for the following:
 Ride & Movie Night on AUG 29th – Rich Hostak’s home; start at 30 th & Colorado.
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Progressive Dinner (we need segmented leaders) on OCT 25th
Sunday Social Ride Leaders for October & November
Special Rides and Events:
 Mystery Ride – Lee Murphy is leading a-20 mile 4 th Annual Mystery Ride a week from Saturday.
Start at 8:32am and ride in the northwest area. A cue sheet will be provided.
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Out of Town Bike Trips
2015 Special Rides (Balloon Glow, Labor Day Balloon Ride Lift Off w/Breakfast)
SnowJets Tuesday/Thursday Mountain Bike Rides
Bike Safety 123+ on AUG 22nd – Dave VanDerWege [$10 cost for materials] 10:00am to
3:00pm
Tour ‘d Turkey
Octoberfest (start in Castle Rock) on OCT 3 – Kerry Hefta Ride Leader
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Festival of Lights Parade
Holiday Party
Frozen H2O Bottle Ride
Chick-fil-A Ride for Heroes – Janine Hegeman
CSCC need volunteer course marshals for the Chick-fil-A Ride for Heroes on Saturday, September 12th.
Note, the snacks we are eating/enjoying tonight are from Chick-fil-A. Janine has a sign-up sheet; we need approximately 30 volunteers (course marshals). 1 to 3 hour shifts. There are three (3) routes this year; a new extended 43-mile, 3,300 feet of elevation ride course. The ride map is on the website.
Following the ride is a free “Patriot’s” community festival at Mountain Shadows Park. There will be music, fun events and more. CeCe is requesting volunteers to sit with her at the CSCC table at the Chickfil-A Patriot’s Festival.
On-going: the Chick-fil-A Fitness Club with training rides every Saturday at 7:45am, Chick-fil-A at Garden of the Gods Road and I-25.
Tonight’s new chicken wrap and snacks are courtesy of Chick-fil-A.
Great News!!! Al Brody is all better! This summer, Al participated at his 20 th year of riding RAGBRAI
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National Bike Challenge (NBC) – Janine Hegeman
 144 team members; June had 137 members
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Miles increased in the month of July
Be sure to classify your bicycle riding as recreation or transportation
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Colorado Springs Cycling Club 2014 is number 11 team in the country
16 th place nationally current for August
Remember to enter your miles.
Officer Elections per CSCC ByLaws – Janine Hegeman
All 4 CSCC officer positions are open; President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer
We selected a Nominations Committee of three members to nominate candidates.
Jean Zeh is stepping down from Ride Committee Chair
Refer to newsletter for information about the Duties and Responsibilities of the Officers.
The election will be on-line; watch for informative emails.
BVBF – Janine Hegeman
The club is in negotiations to turn over BVBF to the Buena Vista Rotary Club. The club will provide mentoring and volunteering.
BVBF will no longer be the flagship money-maker for the club.
BVBF Finances Update (close to final numbers):
Income $38,952
Expenses $31,000+
Profit $7,900+
Donations: Kids on Bikes
Additional discussions regarding donations will be held at the next Board of Directors meeting.
BVBF dollars have been paying for our meeting room, snacks, storage unit, special ride events, Annual
Picnic, Progressive Dinner Ride, and Holiday Party.
Progressive Dinner Ride – Bill Gast
We need volunteer hosts for the 2015 Progressive Dinner Ride on Sunday, October 25th.
The Greenway Fund. – Allison Plute, Fountain Creek Watershed Project Manager, Colorado Springs
Utilities
Below is a link to the Legacy Loop video that Allison was unable to show at the meeting: https://vimeo.com/122146253
She encourages members to stay engaged with our projects through our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/FountainCreekWatershedGreenwayFund
The Legacy Loop and More!
The Fountain Creek Watershed is 927 square miles of land/water and elevation gain; a watershed of extremes.
A question was asked if people could raft in the creek. Allison stated that the quality of the water may be questionable.
There have been changes in the Watershed.
In the past, storm water was treated as a waste product. There was not much concern for non-point pollutants or downstream neighbors.
Note, our bike trails are along the waterways.
They are now using preventative planning; remedial planning and utilize natural processes (no concrete channels).
Greenway: recreational use or environmental protection.
Emerald Circle, Legacy Loop is a 10-mile trail loop. Enjoy Monument Valley Park with no street crossings.
Joins Pickles Peak Greenway Trail to Shook’s Run Trail
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This loop fulfils the vision for a park ring.
Positive activities attract positive people.
Kids on Bikes Popsicle Ride – CeCe
Kids ride bikes 3 miles each way and eat popsicles in the park. Their destination is Popcycle Bridge at northwest end of loop. Currently, they are adding color, taking down the fence, adding benches and repaving the bridge. They are creating a Training Ride Course to practice good bicycling. This is a fun family ride every Sunday from May to October.
Allen Beauchamp promotes this initiative. On August 30 th , they will celebrate the anniversary of
Popcycle Bridge.
2015 GOCO Grant June award $1million.
Funding will pay for connections at Cascade and Weber, new trails north and west, a trailhead at
Fontanero Exit with a parking lot containing 110 spaces/staging area and a beer garden area.
Also, a new Pedestrian Bridge at Fountain Creek, Underpasses, possible water recreation south of
Uintah, Creekside at American the Beautiful Park, Creekside Play areas, Fish Bench at Creekside.
There is a Midland Trail detour map, displaying temporary routing changes.
Banker’s Lunch Loop Trail; an Urban Single Track Project shady 1 to 2 miles of trail.
Shook’s Run proposes to be a 16-18 month process; 150 people attended the first meeting.
Planning website: www.Envisionshooksrun.com
Creek Week provided magnets that Allison shared with the membership.
A week-long watershed-wide litter clean-up is planned. In 2014, 225 people picked up 2.7 tons or 5,400 pounds..
Event: 5pm Gold Camp Brewery ride.
Denver and Pueblo have Riverside Rides.
We need to raise $200K over 2 – 3 years. Donate!
Starlight Spectacular Rest Stop – CeCe Beauchamp
She displayed a volunteer group photo at Bancroft Park Rest Stop (#2) June 20 th
1,500 people participated in the Starlight Spectacular.
Prior to the event, the route received repaving for safety by the city.
Everyone was enjoying themselves, especially the great food. Costumes were fun for volunteers and participants. There are photos on website banner and Bent Fork banner.
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Torie Giffin requests bicyclist volunteers; Pikes Peak Road Runners on September 7 needs 4 to 8 volunteers on bicycles to lead/sweep a marathon at American the Beautiful Park. Contact Torie if you can volunteer. Torie is the POC/email CFASprings@gmail.com
Kerry Hefta is looking for women bicyclists to participate on August 29 to ride the Venus de Miles in
Longmont. (Women Only). Metric Century - 62 miles.
CeCe - 3-day ride Pedal the Plains in Sterling (3 towns) for a little climbing/camping overnight on
September 18-20. The Denver Post Sponsors this ride for the 3 rd year.
Copper Triangle: Skip Fleming, Alan Cavin and Beth & John Ingham participated.
Tour de Cure is September 26 th ; Skip Fleming of Red Riders and Torie Giffin will be riding/raising $200.
CeCe – Colorado Bikes Bus & Beer. Entrepreneurs are involved. For example:
- www.COSBikeState38.com
- Chandler Smith and Scott Olsen are putting together a website; one-stop shop for local communities. Each community can have their own hub. Rides. Resource Center.
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- Bike Podcast with Bike Stories. Share your interesting stories; will be professionally recorded.
- Bike Czar: Ken Gart from Gart Sports. Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper appointed Ken to help improve Colorado as a “bicycling sport” state, build a statewide bike system and promote at the CDOT- level.
The next Board of Directors meeting is on TBD Date at 6:30pm Snacks and 7pm Meeting
The next CSCC meeting is on September 1 at 6:30pm at the Garden of the Gods Citizen Service Center
The meeting adjourned at 8:00pm.
Respectfully submitted by
Sharon R. Boyd, Secretary - Colorado Springs Cycling Club
Sharon_boyd_co@msn.com
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