Free Ride Council Meeting Minutes
3.10.2018 || 12:00pm – 2:30pm || Everyday Café
Attendees: Scott, Tom, Tess, Kyle, Dave, Katie, Joel, Hannah
Absent: Jennifer
Agenda
- Summer Hours
a. Starting April 1st
b. Weekly Hours = Monday Volunteer Nights, Wednesday Women & Queer Nights, Thursday Open Shop Nights, Saturday Open Shop Afternoons
c. Hanna is going to host Volunteer Nights starting this Monday to focus on shop rearrange - Shop Rearrange
a. Have cabinets in place and painted
b. Started organizing parts in milk crates, still need about 8 more milk crates
c. Tom is going to cut 55-gallon barrels for tire storage after Hanna draws up designs
d. Construction Junction has $3 bike racks we could use for rims, Scott will grab soon - Tee Shirts
a. New short-sleeved T-shirts have arrived
b. Lime green and army green, unisex and female cuts
c. All staffers should be wearing them during open shops! Staffers grab!
d. Scott spent 20+ hours, the printer spent 20+ hours making these (donation) - Volunteer Portal
a. Scott presented design
b. $800 to develop (discounted)
c. Can use emails that volunteers provide for initial survey/follow-up to their first visit
d. Discussion about unused hours for volunteers / zeroing out hours after a time
i. Unnecessary because there should be plenty of storage space to keep everyone’s hours - Women & Biking Forum
a. Katie has been talking to Jane && Free Ride is Co-sponsoring
b. Ryder, Danielle, Katie + are helping out with the Fix-a-flat workshop & marshalleing the finale ride
c. Scott will print more cards to hand out to participants (non-event specific)
d. Should Free Ride corporate sponsor BikePGH? - Bike & Brew
a. Hanna and Carya had idea to do BYOB and fix up bikes
b. Discussion about street-ready and bicycle safety checklist
c. Maybe Second Friday of the month? - Classes
a. Discussion about classes
b. Aryn, Carya, Ted have expressed interest in teaching – Tom will check in
c. Will start in May so we ca check back in about when/how much
i. Potentially Tuesday nights & pay-what-you-can? - “Overly Helped”
a. Discussion about volunteers/volunteering in the shop space
b. Asking someone if they are being “overly helped” could be easy/PC way to check-in
c. Maybe we could have a “novice station” for those that might need more help?
d. Maybe we could have a volunteer “class” about how to best help someone?
e. Katie will work on poster for volunteer guidelines, will send to Scott - Tag Team Staffers
a. Having two staffers at each open shop
b. 1 greeter, 1 mechanic
c. Will need more staffers to step-up to support this
d. Everyone will ask their people
e. Katie will ask W+Q staffers - Price Tags
a. Ready to go, Scott will print - Volunteer Summer Kick Off Event
a. April 30th (Monday Volunteer Night)
b. Invite all volunteers, 1 part “class” for how to volunteer, 1 part “thank you/morale” for appreciation, 1 part staffer recruitment
c. Maybe we could have swag bags for people