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MEETING MINUTES Committee Name: Bicycle Advisory Committee Date, Time and Location of Meeting: January 12, 2006; 7:00 pm; Rm 111, Town Office Building Members Present: Stew Kennedy (chair), Harvey Bingham (scribe), John Frey, Erna Greene, Marita Hartshorn, Mike Tabaczynski, Jerry VanHook, Jim Wichmann Others Present: Rich Spencer (FOB) Members Absent: Abe Shenker Record of Votes taken and issues discussed. Minutes from the December 8, 2005 meeting were available but not reviewed because the copy machine was down. They will be reviewed along with these minutes at the February meeting. It was pointed out that approved minutes must be sent to the Selectmen’s office, Lynne Pease. This will be in addition to sending them to the Town Clerk and the Town Manager. The Town Manager has also requested that he be copied on any letters LBAC sends out. Bike Racks: The bike rack that was at the Walgreens before their reconstruction has not been replaced. The assistant manager has no answer on when and if it will be restored or replaced. As we want to encourage bike racks at business areas, and as there previously was one at Walgreens, it was decided we should send a letter to the store manager requesting restoration of that rack. Marita offered to draft a letter and Stew agreed to send it. No one is aware of the whereabouts of the donated bike rack that was by the tennis courts behind the Waldorf School. It had been stored in the woods during rebuilding of the courts. Marita agreed to ask DPW if they have it and if so request its reinstallation. As was decided at our December meeting, Marita and Stew wrote a letter to the Historical Society recommending replacement of the bike racks behind the Depot building once renovation is complete. John and Stew then met in December with Susan Bennett and Lester Savage at which good agreement was reached on placement of the racks and on crowd control near the door opening toward the Bikeway. There was also agreement that we will be able to share use of a bulletin board on that back wall. John will follow developments at the Depot. Sidewalk Committee: Jerry gave a liaison report on that committee’s activities regarding Safe Routes to Schools and the town sidewalk survey that we helped with. The Safe