This year, the annual business meeting will be held via video tele-conference, and a dial-in number will also be available.
A business meeting and election of open board of directors seats will be held.

• Tuesday, October 15 , 2024 at 6:30PM Arizona Time.

Meeting is open to the public, anyone who wishes to attend please contact cazbike@cazbike.org no later than 10/14 to obtain the connection details.

At this time, no guest presentation is scheduled.

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Nominations, or self-nominations for the Board of Directors are still open, and as always we’re looking for volunteers in any capacity.

see 2023 annual meeting minutes.

AGENDA 6:30 – 6:40 pm

• Mingle and open discussion

6:40 – 7:00 PM

• Treasurer’s Report,
  Board Elections, See below. Additional nominations are open

TREASURER’s REPORT

Report for September 2023 to share at Annual Meeting:

To be supplied

BOARD ELECTIONS

Those board members whose seats expire in 2024 will be re-nominated for another 2-year term. In addition, there are three open seats.

Larry Kirch (bio will be supplied) has been nominated for one of the open seats.

• Tom Armstrong, Sierra Vista (2025)
• Ed Beighe, Phoenix (2024)
• — open — (2024)
• Gail Hildebrant, Glendale (2024)
• Bernie Hoenle, Fountain Hills (2024)
• Bob Jenson, Phoenix (2024)
• Michael Kuzel, Scottsdale (2024)
• — open — (2024)
• Eric Post, Tucson (2025)
• Earl Ratledge, Mesa (2025)
• — open — (2024)

BOARD ELECTIONS: new nominations

Larry Kirch:

I am originally from Scottsdale. Spent a few summers in SE Minnesota after high school while attending Mesa Community College. Eventually finished college in Winona, Minnesota at Winona State University. I got my Masters in Urban Planning from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and worked in Florida for 5 years at 2 Regional Planning Councils and 2 Counties around Orlando. I worked in a suburb of Milwaukee and then for 20 years as the Director of Planning and Development for the City of La Crosse, Wisconsin.

In La Crosse we built many miles of bike trails on old RR beds and got La Crosse to Silver designation with the League of American Bicyclists. I moved back to Arizona and worked for the City of Apache Junction. I was the one that proposed to MAG that they fund bicycle and pedestrian plans through the Active Transportation Committee. Apache Junction created an Active Transportation Plan, as did several other cities with those funds. We applied for Bronze designation a few years ago and were unsuccessful. There is not a sustained effort at the city or the city management support for a bike ped committee. While at Apache Junction I advocated for shoulders on Apache Trail to Canyon Lake. To no avail. State Highway, consistent with State Bike Plan, but ADOT would not put shoulders on a state highway, blamed it on the National Forest Service. They could blast rock to widen the road for boaters but not improve the road for cyclists. I also worked with ADOT on the USBR 90 and came up with the route through Apache Junction and wrote letters of support for that.

In retirement, I am back and forth between Scottsdale and Winona, Minnesota. I work as a consultant for a small city of 5,000 people in SE Minnesota called La Crescent. La Crescent was just awarded Bronze by LABA for their 20 years of effort and accomplishments. I got to know Dorian Grilley at the Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota in some work I am doing to connect La Crescent to Houston Minnesota along an old rail corridor known as the Root River Trail. The trail is now 40 miles long but does not extend east to the Mississippi River. It stops 21 miles short.

MEETING MINUTES  #minutes

To be supplied after the meeting.

Meeting adjourned xxxx pm

Respectfully submitted, xxxx