At the request of President Chuck Davis, Pete Kramer will facilitate the meeting.

Present the minutes from May 4 board meeting, minutes approved

Treasurer Pete Kramer presents the treasurer report
Staring balance $ 6711.53
Ending balance $ $6521.02
Money spent for the law enforcement mailings & 3 ft passing T shirt which was mailed to all members in May who responded to the membership director's email
Pete proposes to hire an accounting firm to set up budget categories and to audit the OBC each year
The board accepted and approved the treasurer's report

Membership chair Susan Walker
Mailed 300 appeals to corporations with no response
The free T shirt was appreciated by members
Susan suggests that we hire or recruit a fund raiser in the future.
Susan resigns as membership director as of the end of this meeting
Membership report accepted

405 report
Shawn Gibson not in attendance
The OBC mailed 560 letters to law enforcement agencies reminding them about the 3 foot passing law and asking them to consider offering their officers bicycle education. Several law enforcement officers have attended bicycle education classes held at OSU by Shawn Gibson.

580 report
Sterlin Hale would like to have a LCI class in Oklahoma.

918 report Tina Birch not in attendance
Richard Hall talked about all the great bicycle events held in Tulsa.
There are more bicycles on the road and more people are commuting by bikes
The Tulsa Tough is a great event and this year there was a program to give away bicycles, recipients had to sign up and take bicycle safety course

Education director report

The Safe Routes to School Program in Oklahoma is moving forward, albeit slowly.  The first round of applications for SAFETEA-LU funding ended in June.  We are now in the evaluation and selection process.  We had 38 applications from 25
municipalities.  The total requested funding was almost $7 million.  Of that amount, almost $170,000 was for non-infrastructure projects, mostly education and encouragement.  We have only $3 million to award this cycle.  The awards will be
announced in November or December.  The next cycle for applications will begin in January.

We have a sub-committee, headed by Pete Kramer, which is looking at educational material that can be used in Oklahoma elementary schools.  The sub-committee includes representatives from the State Department of Education, ODOT, OSU's Seratean Wellness Center, and me.  We have tentatively selected the Texas SuperCyclist curriculum to be used in grades 3-5.  We are currently working to adapt that curriculum (Pete uses the term "sanitize" referring to removing Texas-specific language) for use in Oklahoma.  We are adhering to LAB language wherever appropriate. The use of this curriculum will require a train-the-trainer approach.  The concept we are proposing would require that a group of "field instructors" from Oklahoma would be certified by the Texas people who developed and are using the curriculum.  (This is one of the conditions for our receiving permission to use it.) We are proposing that that group be made up mostly of LCI's.  The LCI's would then train teachers (probably PE teachers) from the schools that want to use the curriculum.  The cost of the training, the classroom materials, and the curriculum would be paid from ODOT's Safe Routes non-infrastructure funds.  When we have completed this project, we will begin work on a curriculum for grades K-2.       

We have recently started distributing a brochure entitled "Safety Tips for Cyclists" which was produced by the Oklahoma Highway Safety Office.  If anyone is interested in distributing these brochures, they can get them from OHSO, or I can
send some to them.

Education is a major part of the Safe Routes concept.  We want children to walk and bicycle to school, but we want to provide the education that will allow them to do so safely.  We will continue to work towards that goal.

Respectfully submitted with apologies for my absence, Don Norvelle OBC Education Chair Oklahoma Safe Routes to School Network Organizer

Pete Kramer presented a proposed budget for 2009 based on what we have spent in 2008 with the addition of LCI & SRTS scholarships, spending money for a lawyer to check our 501C3 and 501C4 status, spending money for an accountant to set
up budget categories and to audit the OBC each year.
Motion to submit the 2008/2009 budget to membership at the annual meeting
Seconded by Richard Hall and approved

Nomination committee headed by Richard Hall to find a Vice President nominee.

Pete's Motion to move Membership, 405, 918, 580, Education &
Legislative board members, from board position to head of committee.
Seconded by Richard Hall and approved by all present.
To be voted on at annual meeting.

It was decided to sell remaining "give em 3"+T shirts for $15 on the website

Scholarship Money for SRTS training & LCI training has been set aside in the budget.
Out of state fee could be covered for Oklahoma residents.
Pete will submit a scholarship application form for the board's approval.
Depending on how many people apply for the scholarship it may only cover  ½ of the $200 fee.
There is to be an LCI course in Edmond in late 2008 or 2009
In 2009 there should be Scholarships for SRTS Texas Supercyclist teacher training

Discussion – Should the OBC send an email to all members that states the new obc list is not part of the OBC.
Remind members that the website www.okbike.org is for official news and information>
Richard Hall will bring the board up to date on this issue.

Reminder: Sign up in 4th quarter and be a member for the following year

Richard Hall gave the PO Box key to Chuck Davis to check more often and forward Mail to Treasurer.

Motion to eliminate the $8 Easy Living Member for 2009
Remove this category of membership on the website & on the paper application
by the first of October. Chuck Davis Moved, seconded by Richard Hall motion approved

New business
Create OBC stickers – reflective and or plain for next meeting
Purchase one box of Street Smarts to be distributed at annual meeting.
Since mileage is an expense able item for the OBC board members,  Pete has created a form on the OBC board list serve for board members who like to be reimbursed.

Chuck Davis presented the following:

PROPOSAL AND MOTION TO AMEND THE BYLAWS OF THE OBC
       Inasmuch as the current management structure of the OBC has proven itself to totally and completely unworkable, as pertains to establishing a functioning coalition that might be even remotely representative of it's members, their respective

desires, concerns and in the overall state wide bicycling community, it is the request of the undersigned members of the OBC that the by laws of the OBC  be revised to reflect the composition of the Board of Directors as herafter set out and the

same be submitted to a vote of the OBC membership at the annual meeting.
       Individual and family members would select an individual from their telephone area code to represent them on the OBC board of directors.
       Bicycle Shop members would likewise select an individual from their member category to represent them on the OBC board of directors
       Bicycle Club members would likewise select an individual from their member category to represent them on the OBC board of directors
Signed by Chuck Davis, OK Velo Sports & OK Velo Sales

No action was taken.

The Annual meeting will be in Stillwater at 2pm  Nov 9, 2008

Motion to adjoin