Mechanics Minutes Mar 2005
Meeting Notes March 21, 2005
Present: Cat, B, Julia, Safety Gabe, Spider, ebbe, Adrian, josh,
Agenda:
B's bike class proposal:
He works at rooftop middle school. Class is one day a week, will be done by 4:00, maybe on Tuesday or Thursday. As part of his master's work, he want to see if working on bikes helps kids write gooder. Mostly neighborhood kids-estimate of 6 kids-open to other volunteers with bike and kid skills. Probably Tuesdays or Thursdays-might conflict w/ jon's class on thurs. Do volunteer's need to get fingerprints and tb tests? (some places yes, some no). We give B a key and he does the rest.
Scheduling
Julia will do Saturdays till June. Ebbe will do Tuesdays for the rest of his life (except the week he's gone in may). Brian will strive to be better about coming on Saturdays
Classes Round 2
Next round of classes could start beginning of April-two to three teachers are necessary. Should we pay the teachers? General feeling leans toward yes-- $30 per class. Two ideas about charging for class- pay per class or pay for all 8 at once. Other ideas for one-off classes-wheelbuilding, fix your bike on the road with a mulittool, into to your bike, earn a bike class( or build a single spped mtb), etc. mechanics training class. How about changing the hours of the class-Sundays or Monday nights. Leave it up to the teachers to decide the class...Cat and Brian are interested in teaching. (Liability issues??). Brian is going to teach a wheel building class the first two weeks in April. Resolved: Teachers get paid $15/hr to teach. Class instructors can decided how to work out the dough.
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The Future of the BK
Cat wants to pay someone to write grants-priorities are grants for an administrator (in charge of scheduling, accounting, getting rid of crap and getting more crap). And also for summer programs. Brian says that accounting will take about 1 hr per month, but this might increase once we become non-profit. Action: everyone ask your grantwriting friends-get name and email-cat will make a list and coordinate with Justin.
Priority:
- Summer Programs, approx $10,000.
- Administrator
- Youth Hours/EAB
- Fix-a-bike-a-thons
HP Proposal
There's a hanging project out there to fix bikes for free in Hunter's Point. Previously mary at SFBC coordinated this project, but it has fallen by the wayside. Idea is a fix-a-thon one day a month in HP. Julia proposes idea: one concrete question-is it possible to borrow tools and supplies and volunteers. This could take place in HP. Should we make a fix-a-thon box? All we need is someone out there to do promotion and provide the space- we provide the tools, volunteers, and know-how.
Crucible Grant
Tuesday Youth hours? Or EAB hours? Think about it-but we're spread thin right now, so just think about it.
