July 2024

Rhode Island Chapter

New England Mountain Bike Association

July 2024 Meeting Agenda

RINEMBA Meeting: 7:00 p.m. NBX, 922 Boston Neck Rd, Narragansett, RI 02882

Roll Call

Mark, Dennis, Shannon, Wayne, Paul, Jason, Charles

Jason, James, Ron, Michael

Welcome to any newcomers.

Comments/requests/concerns/questions/complaints from newcomers?

Administration

Membership numbers – 266 @ Jun-2024 (down from Feb)

Financial summary – June 2024

Opening balance: $5,145.49

Income: $0.00

Expenses: ($21.98)

Closing balance: $5,123.51

Next meeting – August 6, Location? Time

Tavern on the Hill, 7pm

DEM – Trail maintenance

Explore establishing a trail maintenance MOU.

DEM – Echo Lake

New property DEM has purchased.

Originally planned to develop into a camp site – cost prohibitive.

Interested in developing a professionally built trail network, working with RINEMBA and AMC

Location is not far from Sprague Farm (~ 5 miles)

Need to follow up with DEM to arrange a site visit

Tentative property walk on 8/3

DEM – Wildlife Management Areas 101 – August 21 6:30-7:30pm

Designed so users of those areas can understand these locations better

Free, but registration required.

In person and virtual options

https://dem.ri.gov/events/wildlife-management-areas-101

Rhody Rovers

June 9 fun ride – Pre and post rides completed. Trails in really good shape

Big River – July 21 – 150 rider race

Need volunteers to pre-ride the trails in areas of concern Saturday July 13 9 am. Route is the same as the June fun ride.

Arcadia - August 24 – 75 rider fun ride. They will be clearing trails for the event and are willing to help us with any deadfalls blocking trails.

Joint trail build RINEMBA/Rhody Rovers

Revisit after their next enduro event

Aim for hunting free gap in Spring, collab with NEYC and AMC as well (Mark will share AMC contact info)

RINEMBA 2024 Fun ride planning

Adventure series ride for Woody Hill – July 14, 2024

Any additional help needed? Yes! Need more people

Paul can handle arrows as a contingency

Do another youth cycling fundraiser in Arcadia next year

Beginner Clinic (September 8)

Repeat of May clinic held at Ryan Park, but located in Sprague Farm, Gloster

NEMBA Corporate

BOD Meeting - next meeting is July 15th, 8 PM via zoom!

Quarterly Donation Transfers - will begin transferring money to chapters starting next week for donations received and designated for your chapter 2024 Q2: $195

Quarterly Member Rebate Transfers - will begin transferring money to your chapters starting next week for the membership revenue share due to your chapter (ie 30% of primary and add-on membership revenue) for 2024 Q2: $1328

Lapsed members – 9 people

eMTB working group committee – relaunching to discuss policy and advocacy.

Photo requests – looking for 2 photos showing a diversity of people, events, trail work, riding, scenery, etc.

Quebec NEMBA Friends and Family Weekend - Aug 8-12

Any news from corporate? (Wayne)

Arcadia Bridge Build

Leftover wood from old bridge available for re-purposing. At Alan’s property.

Glocester Land Trust Meeting

Glocester Land Trust approved a motion to move forward on a partnership with RINEMBA to build a professionally designed mountain bike trail in Sprague Farm

We need to contact professional trail builders and create a first steps action plan:

Need $12k for plan, all from our Chapter treasury

Group agreed to use Woody Hill and Burlingame proceeds to build a fund for this.

Pinnacle Trail Builders is who Dennis has been talking to

Mike Leblanc as a backup (of Mike’s Trail fame)

NEMBA trail grant did not come through, went to other chapters

Explore MOU with GLT, bring in Chris D’Ovidio for guidance

Cumberland Town pump track

Construction complete, permit still needs to be closed out before being open to the public. Should be soon.

NEMBA contribution $1000 approved, $300 remaining for concrete base.

Bike stand with Charles, he’s going to install with Willem

Regularly Scheduled Group Rides

Woody Hill – Mondays – Ad hoc start time and location

Arcadia –Tuesdays - Ad hoc start time and location

Woody Hill – 5:30 pm Wednesdays (Remy’s)

Big River – 6 pm Thursdays

Group sizes 10 or more need to split into groups less than 10

Trailforks

Ride area reps

Updates from the riding areas

Insurance

DEM – Snow grooming

Potential opportunity with onsite storage at Glocester Land Trust - Park for next winter

Trek’s snow dog – Trek will store until Oct-2024 – needs to decide if RI NEMBA will take ownership and storage - Park for next Fall.

Explore snow grooming MOU modeled on winter night riding with specific days and locations? - Park for next Fall.

New Business from the board?

Appendix A – Finances

Opening balance:

$5,145.49

Income:

Grey Sales Event

$0.00

Expenses:

Zoom

Squarespace

($17.11)

($4.87)

Closing balance:

$5,123.51

Appendix B – Event Dates

Arcadia trail maintenance: June 22,2024

Send DEM route 1-2 weeks ahead of event date

Woody Hill MBAS: July 14, 2024, rain date July 21, 2024,

Big River: Sep 15, 2024, rain date Sep 29, 2024,

Lincoln Woods: Nov 10, 2024, rain date Nov 17, 2024