In February, the MMBA will be moving to a new server/website.  Rather than just moving everything to a new server, this will be a rebuild from the ground up.  In the meantime, we will be using a new site for the metrosouth chapter.

Please visit us at metrosouth.wordpress.com

On April 16th, 2008, the Metro South Chapter met at Ashley’s in Westland.  Minutes are below:

MMBA
In attendance
Claudia Bean
Frank Bean
Mike Connolly
Dave Cox
Joe Foy
Chris Frey
Edward Hug
Bill Hermann
Loren Konkus
Jim Lovett
Mike Osterhart
Dave Poirer
Nate Sefal
Marne Smiley
Andy Staub
Daniel Sterling
Jennifer Sterling
Brian Thomas
Jason Weida
Approval of minutes
Trailer: Vote on trailer taken from those in attendance. Passed without any objections,
so it will be bought asap. It can have a sign on it saying, “Trail Work provided by
MMBA Metro South.” Need right away as trail days are coming up fast. Put logo on it,
fill it with tools, roto tiller, Nate can donate mantis and wheelbarrow. It will not just be
used to haul tools, but it will be used at promotional at events, races, and at the annual
meeting, for example, to get our chapter out there with web site on there. It will be
insured. It can be locked at Maybury- secure and out of site. Maybury is centrally located
in the chapter. Sign up for checking it out- on web site.
$ 2200 is estimated cost to purchase. Dave C. will do graphic design.
Trail Reports
Hickory Glen(Commerce)- great shape, open, dry, kiosk is being put in, stunts, leaving
up signage.
Highland- a Toast to Carlos Ramirez, rest in peace.
A lot of trees down right now. A was cleared. Hunters blew up signs with shotguns. We
nee volunteers to help Bob Spleet. Mike O. said he will help to volunteer.
ILRA- Two trail days have been done. One more is scheduled for 4/26 to finish the
bench cutting in the last steep section in the new reroute on Blue. Brian Thomas- new
asst. TC!
Lakeshore Park (Novi)- trail day May 3rd. It will focus on putting in signage. Directional
arrows to go in as well as mile markers. No new trail will be put in, but there is
opportunity in the expert loop for log piles and skinnys. Trail is in good shape. Trees
down- going to be cleared out by trail day, but a few have laminated signs onto them to
say we are going to hold onto for trail stunts. The trail day will be a full day, 9-4 pm;
lunch is supplied! If you participate in the whole trail day will get trail passes for year.
There will be multiple projects. Relay- Aug. 2nd- 3rd year running, no comments from
user groups, no unicycles.
Maybury- Dave and Mike met with land manager- trial for winter was a success! Open
forever! Hooray! Trail is in good shape. Trail day will do posts for kiosks, 5 laminated
signs to go in. There will be some face slapping trimming in Mile 1. Trail day is April
27th, Sunday. DNR work on 8 mile trail head, reroute issue being worked on to come up
backside in that area. Bench cutting area in new section near feature. Bandit log pile will
incorporate the ash trees into it as a feature.
Munson- no report
Milford- still cutting new trail. Sunday, 4/20- Earth Day with a Critical Mass.
Milford Trail Challenge- June, SMAC has us in the newsletter. North map set up may be
good- Dave C will help with that. Downtown and Callahan’s is happy.
Milford Memories- 200, 000 people go to this event. Second weekend in August.
Mountain Kids trailer out there would be good if possible. Huge promotional
opportunity. Milford will be an outdoor destination center in the future. 100 million
dollars grants for tourism.
Downtown development district- Yellow Bike. Bikes to use free to use by general
public. They need BIKES. Central location for locking downtown. Old beach cruisers.
MMBA kiosk with log all over it.
Proud Lake- New True Friends of Proud Lake; John Heft will work with them. Layout
for area with Todd Scott as Deputy Assistant TC for Proud Lake. Clean up done- ready
to ride! Also Proud Lake is getting help from Mike O.
Tools- Pulaskis and Mcclouds are here at meeting for TC’s to get. Contact Dave P. if
you still need yours.
Kiosk update
Kiosks need to be in by Memorial Day.
What do we have: $650 per trail. Posts will be in at Maybury by trail day. Do we need
to buy wood? We can start by doing pre-fab before we are at the trail. Cycle to Fitness
offered volunteers.
Kiosk emblems- Scott Silvers is taking the lead on that. We have graphic design for
emblems. Build it and later put emblem on. Need to pre cut wood. Lakeshore is the
model. Loren has the specs. To pre cut- a few hours. Loren can host a trail day at
Loren’s house. TC’s can be there and get the wood that day. Commerce is ready.
Maybury is ready. Need to contact Bob Spleet about DNR where they are on the kiosk.
ILRA- needs another trail day to work on the kiosk.
Kiosk volunteer set up- Joe will e-mail.
Freeride committee- BARF at the Farm will be in June- date TBA
Chapter events-
ILRA Demo Day- May 10th-Metro South Booth- sticky for volunteers; Joe will let the
coordinator know.
Ride of Silence- May 21st- 7 pm.
Milford Challenge- June 7th-Bridge may be closed over highway
MMBA TTF Relay- there is a contract- Timing Guys. This year, advanced can do 2
stagger laps if they want. 18 yr one, 37 teams yr 2, no conflict. Rain Route set up with
two track. Lakeview donated hot dogs. Step up sponsorship? 8/2/08
Milford Memories- August.
Maybury race- CPS- August- Timing Guys went over land manager route- one lap time
trial, ten miles, can preregister now. Novi police and firefighters like last year.
25 $ for time trial. Sponsors- sign up. Some vendors- Cycle to Fitness wants to have
their sponsorship on the flyer. In 2007also Cycle to Fitness sponsored race. There is a
need for a CPS Maybury race meeting. Greyhounds did grilling and food last year.
Swag, volunteers, and more: CTF can provide. Marne can send link for sponsorship
levels so MMBA can let shops know what sponsorship opportunities are available.
FAFL- through TC’s and then up to Frank. All trail hours get routed to TC.
Get hours to Frank.
Promotional materials
Tri- fold- was at expo. Next generation will be created soon.
MMBA business cards- Metro South card. Make font bigger.
Web site- Metrosouth still in progress. Meetings, minutes, trail events, volunteer
opportunities will be posted. Coordinated on web site, not duplicate on MMBA but cross
link. SMAC web page search Milford Challenge link was incorrect, but it has since been
corrected.
Financial Report. Maybury was the biggest money maker for chapter of year in 2007.
MMBA 1st Qtr. Treasurers’ report
· Balance from 2007 $14,599.21
· Expenses 1st qtr.
o Banners for Metro South $260.00
o Timing Guys for Maybury race $500.00
o Timing Guys for Lakeshore race $250.00
o Tools for T.C.’s $969.79
o Trail signs for Maybury $135.00
o Tools for Volunteer of the year $112.42
· Total Expenses $2227.21
· Income for 1st qtr.
o Yearly Dividend from Parkside $44.78
o MMBA payout $113.60
o Proceeds from coffee sale @ expo $118.00
· Total Income $276.38
· Balance as of 3-31-08 $12,603.60
CPS- need a co-rep. Talk to Andy Staub if you are interested. Volunteer needed. Can
do a CPS meeting break off Sat. morning.
Other news
Get photos of Kiosk to Marne. FYI- Mike. O, can do photos!
Carlos started at Maybury that we put up a bench for Carlos, Highland Kiosk for Carlos,
maybe. Motion passed.
Next meeting TBA.
Meeting adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Claudia Bean, aka Froggyrider

Okay, so we (meaning I) haven’t been the best at keeping our dedicated site updated. That will hopefully be changing in the near future.

In the meantime, we’ve had several meeting, the minutes of which will be posted soon.

We had our election process which resulted in all members staying on for another year.

Now, we’re going stir crazy and getting ready for the expo this weekend.

Visit MMBA Annual Expo for more info about the expo.

We’ll be near the entrance and next door to Trails-Edge. We will have hummus and pita, they’ll have espresso. Stop by for a snack or just to hang out and talk.
As always, for more info about volunteer opportunities in the chapter, you can email metrosouth@mmba.org.

Are now available in the library.

Sorry for such late notice but life has been busy lately. We will be having our first Metro South quarterly meeting on Thursday, Feb 22nd @ 6:30 @ the Ground Round in Livonia http://www.livoniagroundround.com/. Please arrive around 6 to order food if you like and we will start promptly at 6:30. In this first meeting we will try to set some more trail days for trails that have not done so. Plus general discussion of how and what we need to focus on to make the Metro South Chapter shine. Looking forward to seeing you all. Come out and see some old friends and make some new ones.

-Joe Foy

Meeting minutes have been posted in the library

MetroNorth/MetroSouth Chapter(s) Meeting is Thursday 01/18/2007 @ 6:30PM
This is the FIRST meeting of 2007!

Meeting will be held at Jimi’s Resturant in Royal Oak again. For those who haven’t been there yet, the address is 714 South Washington, Royal Oak.

Link to Map

We hope to be posting an agenda soon, but this meeting will be a bit different then normal.

Since it’s winter, and the trail activity is pretty lean currently, so I figure that we will cover any items/issues that need to be covered, and move forward with the elections.

Since with the transition of people between chapters, we are not going to have the pre-nomination process as we have in past years. I’m hoping that when it comes time for elections, we will split up into two groups for the two chapters, and then each chapter will hold their nominations and elections. From this point onward, the chapters will have separate meetings and elections.

Please, come out and support your chapter during the transition, and help the new chapters get off to a good start for 2007.

Any questions, email either METROSOUTH@MMBA.ORG or METRONORTH@MMBA.ORG.

1. Approval of Minutes from previous meeting

2. General updates on trails and activities

3. Financial report

4. New MMBA chapters: Metro North and South Elections

a. Nominations

b. Elections

Attention Please. May We Have Your Attention Please. We have an Announcement…

Southeast Chapter and Pontiac Lake Chapter are pleased to announce the realignment of our combined trails. We plan to join the Southeast Chapter with the Pontiac Lake Chapter then split the trails for a more equitable distribution. This will benefit both chapters because, as it turns out, SE is too big to manage and PLRA is too small to have it’s very own chapter.

How will this work? Here’s the plan:

If the plan is approved, we will split the trails geographically between the North Metro area and the South Metro area. Both chapters will be renamed and new elections will take place once the dust settles. This will give members in each area time to decide which chapter they want to belong to. The board will make the final decision how the split will go and will decide the final renaming of each chapter. The names we like are “Metro South” and “Metro North”. We welcome additional descriptive suggestions.

Here is the split:

Metro South: Milford, Hickory Glen, Island Lake, Maybury, Lake
Shore, Proud Lake, River Rouge Park and Munson Park.

Metro North: Pontiac, Highland, Stony, Addison, Orion Oaks, Bald
Mountain and Bloomer.

We want your input. We scheduled a joint chapter meeting where you you will have the opportunity to learn about this process and we will have the opportunity to address any questions you may have.

Please join us at:
Jimi’s, 714 South Washington, Royal Oak
November 16th, 2006 at 6:30 pm

We will hold separate elections at a place and time to be determined by each chapter after the initial joint meeting.

Thank you for your time and we hope you will participate in this process.

Nick Shue, President, Southeast Chapter, MMBA
Jody Delavern, President, Pontiac Lake Chapter, MMBA

SE Chapter Meeting is Thursday 11/16/06 @ 6:30PM
This is meeting #4 of 4 for 2006.

Meeting will be held at Jimi’s Resturant in Royal Oak again. For those who haven’t been there yet, the address is 714 South Washington, Royal Oak.

Link to Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=714+S.+Washington,+royal+oak,+mi&om=1

We will be posting a preliminary agenda in the next week or so, but if you have anything that you’d like to have added to the agenda, please email me at SOUTHEAST@MMBA.ORG.

Maybury Trailday 11/11/06
Link to poll below:
http://www.mmba.org/viewtopic.php?t=52690

Questions feel free to e-mail me sherpaboy@trails-edge.com