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MEETING MINUTES Committee Name: Lexington Bicycle Advisory Committee Date, Time and Location of Meeting: May 14, 2009, 7 pm, Rm.111 Town Office Building Members Present: Peggy Enders (Chair), Stew Kennedy, Mike Tabaczynski, John Frey, Jerry Van Hook, Marita Hartshorn, George Gagliardi, Abe Shenker (FoLB Chair), Laurel Carpenter Others Present: Chris Lokem-Kim, Margaret Stebbins, Steve Meinelt, Bob Dangel, and Richard Spencer Members Absent: Richard Canale (Planning Board Liaison), Hank Manz, (Selectmen’s Liaison), Sandra Shaw (Recreation Committee Liaison) Minutes: April 16, 2009 minutes were accepted as corrected. Bike Racks: Marita and Peggy met with Dave Pinsonneault. With the remaining money granted from the state, we plan to buy 6 more racks. Two will be replacements, one for the rack destroyed by the snowplow behind Craft Cleaners, one for the rack at the Old Res to replace the vandalized rack, one large rack at LHS, one 6’ rack behind Michelson’s, one at Bow Street Park, and one at the soccer field at Harrington School. To deal with the overcrowded racks at Cary Library, we plan to put up a sign pointing to more bike parking in the back of the library and to ask the HDC and library to consider changing the orientation of the rack in the front. Shire 5 K Run: Steve Meinelt from the Running Company is working with Shire to organize what he hopes to be an annual event -- a 5K run on Sunday, June 14, starting from the Visitors’ Center at 4:00 p.m. Proceeds from the entry fees will be used to award a significant scholarship to a LHS graduate and to help underwrite Bikeway plowing to keep the path free for runners during the winter. Steve suggested we set up a table at the event to help publicize plowing the bikeway. May Bike Counts : Peggy reported that, for the count on Saturday, May 9, a total of 2709 trips were counted at the Depot on the bike path during the 12-hour counting (i.e., 7 am to 7 pm). 1863 of these trips were bicyclists. On Tuesday,