Meeting Minutes by Jim Humphrey - Secretary

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These are the minutes of the Northshore NEMBA Chapter meeting held Thursday, April 6th at Bertucci's in North Andover.
 
Attending:
Steve Charrette
Ron Corporon
Ray DeMarquez
Joe Dizazzo
Kirk Goldsworthy
Lee Hollenbeck
Jim Humphrey
Judi Kupa
Frank Lane
Scott Merloni
Art Paradice
Dan Streeter
James Vogh
Fred White
Steve ?
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Election of President and Vice-President
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Frank Lane was nominated by Kirk G, seconded by Ron, and elected President. He will continue as the representative to the quarterly Board of Directors meetings also.
 
Fred White agreed to stand for Vice-President, was seconded by Jim H, and elected.
 
Sandy Bray continues as Wicked Ride coordinator, Ron Corporon as Treasurer, Kirk Goldsworthy as Webmaster, Jim Humphrey as Secretary, and Dan Streeter as Trail Work Coordinator.
 
 
Treasurer's Report
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Ron has done the taxes for 2005. There is about $5000 in the account.
 
Kirk has been reimbursed for the website hosting costs.
 
Ron indicated that last year Northshore paid about $125 for the Bike Patrol in Harold Parker state forest, or about one-fourth of the Bike Patrol's costs, since HP is one of the four parks the Patrol covers. Frank proposed that we pay for the Bike Patrol again this year, the motion passed.
 
Trail Days
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Confirmed trail work days are:
 
April 23rd - Harold Parker 4 corners area
May 21 - Harold Parker - completion of work begun by IMBA trail school held there May 20th
June 3rd - National Trails Day - Essex Greenbelt/Bradley Palmer property
September 17 - Ward Reservation North Andover
 
As of April 12 two other days are tentatively planned. See the latest on the website - http://www.nsnemba.org/TrailWork.htm.
 
There are also trail days planned by Essex Greenbelt - http://www.ecga.org/
 
 
Website/Rides - http://www.nsnemba.org/index.html
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Kirk is working on a photo album for the site.
 
Kirk has started advertising a Thursday night ride on the website and posting it to the nsnemba mailing list. There was some discussion as to whether it should always  be at the same park and how to make sure different people participate as ride leaders. Kirk would like at least a days notice if we want to update ride info on the website. The ride can also be posted to the existing NEMBA Ride Forum.
 
Lee proposed a ride in Wilmington on 12-14 miles of singletrack.  He will post to the Ride Forum.