Note of Southwark Cyclists monthly meeting held on Wednesday 10 August. Blackfriars Settlement. 7pm. Present: Carole Crankshaw (London Borough of Southwark), Roger Geffen, Alastair Hanton, Colin Hartridge-Price, Rebecca Lack, Barry Mason (Coordinator), Eleanor Purser, Kit Reynolds, Sue Richards, Cheryl Williams. Apologies: Alastair Hanton. Discussed: 1. After Introductions, the note of the 10 July meeting was agreed. SR was surprised that she was mentioned in the notes but not in the attendance list. BM apologised, mortified. 2. LCC AGM etc. After discussion it was agreed to put 4 draft motions to the LCC AGM on 2 November: 2.1. Taking into account the benefits to all LCC members of active Borough Groups, and the 2004 AGM motion about them, the meeting would like to know what the LCC Management has done in the past year to foster such activity, and what more it feels it can do? 2.2. The one-off 2005 rise in grants to Borough Groups is welcomed, but the meeting would like to know what happened to the special fund promised as a result of another motion to the 2004 AGM. 2.3. The minutes of the 2004 AGM were not made generally available until 5pm on 10 August 2005, only 5 days before the submission deadlines for motions to the 2005 AGM. All future AGM minutes should be published on the LCC website within 2 months of the AGM. 2.4. Whilst recognising the hard work put into organising the AGM by LCC staff and volunteers, the meeting feels that LCC Management needs to table clear work plans and targets for the year ahead at each AGM, starting with 2005. The emphasis should be on looking ahead, and not back. BM would email these to Simon Brammer at LCC before the 15 August deadline and negotiate as necessary. 2.5. Nominations for LCC 2005 awards were then discussed. Agreed suggestions: Best media initiative: Resonance Radio’s Bike Hour Best young people’s project: Cycle Saturation at St John’s School Best Community Cycling initiative: The Dunwich Dynamo Best cycling facility: after much thoughts the meeting gave up and decided to ask Roger Stocker of Southwark for his thoughts. Nomination close on 7 October. Our 14 September meeting would discuss the above again in the light of any e-lists views and further musing. 3. Southwark Cyclists AGM: 12 October BM gave formal notice that the AGM would be help on Wednesday 12 October. It was agreed that this would be an annual stocktake of progress and plans for next year. There would be no October monthly meeting as such. Instead, the Annual Meeting (sic) would have a guest speaker, reports, elections and a social after. AH agreed to chair the elections. BM to see if people are re-standing next year. BM was asked to invite Rose Ades (Cycling Centre of Excellence) or Pat Brown (Central London Partnership) to speak. We’d try for London’s Living Room at City Hall as the venue and repair to Tas in Borough High Street afterwards at 9pm. (Post meeting note: LLR prebooked. We’re in Committee Room 3 at City Hall as Val Shawcross’s guests). 4. Southwark Council’s Draft Cycling Plan: EP thanked those who had contributed to her paper commenting on the draft. It was generally a good plan and improved after our initial comments. There is now an action plan added, with more detail on infrastructure, bike parking, and development control. The plan was good on training and base-lining existing uses etc. We’ve asked for better and even-handed enforcement of traffic rules and generally asked the Council to lead by example in promoting less car-dependence etc. Our comments have gone to Richard Thomas and Roger Stocker. CHP asked about powered 2 wheelers in bike lanes. The meeting agreed to add a note about continuing that ban to our comments. 5. Planning and Campaigns Group: EP agreed to draft a new cycling leaflet for publication by Southwark Council. 6. Cycle Theft: RL handed out police cards on which to record you bike data but a suggestion to load everyone’s data onto the Southwark Cyclists website was not taken forward. The City Police may be doing this. They’ve more resources. 7. Newsletter: SR was thanked for another excellent one. 8. Rides: BM mentioned the fine selection of rides coming up in the next week. He added that the Dunwich Dynamo has been very successful. 550 or so riders. We coached 320 back and the event made a very useful surplus to share with the London School of Cycling. A 20% margin on turnover. 9. Other business. CC, for Southwark Council, tabled a flyer for the Southwark Council Commuter Challenge on 15 September. 8am. Peckham Pulse to Potters Fields. “Race”. The meeting agreed that Southwark Cyclists would support the event but were surprised that we hadn’t been consulted, that our logo was not amongst the 10 others on the leaflet, that the event image was so racing-macho, that the word “race” appeared twice. CC explained that the leaflet had been rushed out and was aimed at businesses. A later would version would be improved. 12. The meeting closed at 8.55pm. BAM 12 August 2005 SCmeet10August2005 1