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Re: [TheThinkTank] Managing Cash
by Wilbur Ince 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

After reading Dave's excellent account of their exploits, I realize what links their experience with ours. You need dedicated talented righteous volunteers to tackle and conquer these projects! Thanks Dave and the many others that have come before us so that we can stand on their shoulders and see farther than we ever have before! Wilbur

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Re: [TheThinkTank] Managing Funds
by Wilbur Ince 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Here in Saint Paul the Sibley Bike Depot uses QuickBooks for managing our finances. We have used this program for 7 years now, and it's a great tool. We use it as a register, and run all sales through the it to collect and report sales taxes. We keep our checking account balance there, and can generate spending reports. For cash control, we do a nightly deposit and send a small till home with the volunteers for the next day business. We keep NO money in the shop after hours, it only took a few break ins to realize that. Once thieves realize that you keep money in the till, you will get visitors! We have just a few designated cash handlers that take care of cash and recording sales. We have more than one person reviewing our finances, and rotate our treasurer position every few years. No sense tempting anyone with embezzlement. We have a checking account, and a credit card account, and a card machine. We are now investing in a cell-phone card machine for our sales at remote locations - mostly student sales at colleges. This has been a great market for us. We partner with the campus organizations, and create a bike club. We work with the college to collect abandoned bikes, and we have sales to incoming students. It's a true reuse and recycling project! Our shop has grown dramatically over the last few years, and the financial controls we put in place have been a life-saver for us! Wilbur Ince Sibley Bike Depot

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Fwd: FW: ACTION ALERT! Bike Path on Expo Line!
by bike talk 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

If you're not on the LACBC email list, and you live in L.A., you should email Aurisha(a)la-bike.org to get on it. If you don't live in L.A., sorry about this...disregard, unless you plan to visit. This is an important issue if you want to make a bike path from downtown to Santa Monica. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 20:21:39 -0400 From: aurisha(a)la-bike.org To: nickrichert(a)hotmail.com Subject: ACTION ALERT! Bike Path on Expo Line! [image: Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition] EXPO LIGHT RAIL ACTION ALERT! TAKE ACTION TODAY! BACKGROUND: A new light rail line, called the Expo Line, will eventually extend from downtown to Santa Monica. The project is divided into two phases. Phase I is under construction and will end at Robertson & Venice in Culver City. Phase II will extend the line from there to Santa Monica. Phase II is still in planning phase and a draft environmental impact report was released last week. One of items that have been promised for the Expo Line is a bikeway adjacent to the train line. This would create a continuous bikeway from Santa Monica to downtown if it were built! Recently, the Expo Construction Authority (Expo) decided NOT to include the bikeway in the environmental review for Expo Phase 2, to avoid the burden of doing a federal environmental impact statement. Thus, there is no central authority coordinating engineering and construction of the bikeway. Now, there are serious uncertainties about how, when or if an Expo Bikeway will ever be built! As cyclists, we need to demand that the bike path be built simultaneously with the rail line! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TAKE ACTION NOW! 1) Comment on DEIR! Comments are due March 13th! Comment online: http://www.buildexpo.org/phase2_overview.php<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102496988882&e=001fyCGmEddhsmkqYX295qvmPdIsPwkChJ…> E-mail: phase2(a)exporail.net 2) E-mail key decisionmakers! See contact info below ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KEY POINTS TO MAKE: · The bikeway must be built simultaneously with the Expo Line. If it is not included in the environmental review, we need a commitment and a plan from Expo on engineering and construction will happen. · If the Expo Bikeway is not built at the same time as the rail line, costs will increase dramatically and construction difficulties will arise if Expo does not provide space for the bike path. · The goal of the Expo Line is to reduce auto use. The bikeway is a critical component for achieving this. It can deliver transit users to stations without car trips and provides a much-needed crosstown commuter bikeway. · Expo will be starting preliminary engineering soon. The bikeway must be included in this. · The Expo Bikeway is a wonderful opportunity to expand our network of safe bike routes for a growing community of cyclists. Send comments via e-mail to ALL people below: Jan Perry Jan.Perry(a)lacity.org Expo Board Chair and LA City Council Member, 9th District Herb Wesson,Jr. councilmember.wesson(a)lacity.org Expo Board Vice-Chair and LA City Council Member, 10th District Pam O'Connor pam.oconnor(a)smgov.net Expo and Metro Board Member, Santa Monica City Council Member Zev Yaroslavsky zev(a)bos.lacounty.gov Expo and Metro Board Member, LA County Supervisor, Third District Scott Malsin scott.malsin(a)culvercity.orgExpo Board Member, Mayor, Culver City Bernard Parks councilmember.parks(a)lacity.org Expo Board Member, LA City Council Member, 8th district Mark Ridley-Thomas seconddistrict(a)bos.lacounty.gov Expo Board Member, L.A. County Supervisor, Second District Forward email<http://ui.constantcontact.com/sa/fwtf.jsp?m=1101346331824&ea=nickrichert@ho…> [image: Safe Unsubscribe]<http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?v=001_D6q8SmIH1rsbFWGoTNs9MJiDTciL…> This email was sent to nickrichert(a)hotmail.com by aurisha(a)la-bike.org. Update Profile/Email Address<http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?v=001_D6q8SmIH1rsbFWGoTNs9MJiDTciL…>| Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe<http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?v=001_D6q8SmIH1rsbFWGoTNs9MJiDTciL…>™ | Privacy Policy <http://ui.constantcontact.com/roving/CCPrivacyPolicy.jsp>. Email Marketing <http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp?cc=news01> by <http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp?cc=news01> Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition | 634 S. Spring Street | Suite 821 | Los Angeles | CA | 90014 ------------------------------ What can you do with the new Windows Live? Find out<http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/default.aspx> -- please let me know if you want to be taken off this list. Hear Bike Talk! on kpfk: http://www.kpfk.org/programs/170-bike-talk.html or see what's new with us at biketalk.us

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Networking and Parts
by Rigel Christian 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

Hi, Me and some of the mechanics at our co-op (www.bikekitchen.org) were talking about advocacy, the proliferation of bike collectives, and of course as bike geeks tend to do, parts. I know some collectives have more parts or material resources of a certain type than they can handle, and others have less. Are there already parts-sharing agreements between co-ops in other areas of the world? If another co-op from 50+ miles away called you up asking if you had, for example, some suntour indexed 7-speed barcons, how would you handle that? It's just a thought experiment, but I'm curious to find out how other groups already share, or if there are ideas on how to more efficiently share the parts donations that come in, so as to maximize the allocation of available resources. Cheers.

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Re: [TheThinkTank] carbon bike credits
by jamesbleds0e＠yahoo.com 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

Grey, Thanks for your response, I too have attempted to contact various cap and trade outfits with no response from any of them. You have had more luck. I do not trust the big boys to ever or in time for us to make faster or more dramatic changes to the car based transportation system get us money for using bicycles. The idea I am proposing is a regional, self administered, self funded and self actualized program. I do not want to wait for government or bureaucracy to sanction or fund our various cycle-centric organizations This is a program to collectively do it our selves. Your program is exactly the level that this system will benefit. Community bike shops like the Bike Kitchen earn funds through their wrenching and sales activities. Organizations such as bicycle coalitions and other traditional grant funded non-profits need a ready source of income. The promise side of this will help to identify and unite cyclist in addition to giving validity to our offset claims. Having a box on your web site by June of this year will allow you to sell the carbon credits you have received from local bicycle riders who have enrolled in your promise bike program. We can do this now. go to /promisebike.wetpaint.com This Wiki is for the development of the promise bike carbon credit exchange system.

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Carbon credits generated by riding bicycles
by jamesbleds0e＠yahoo.com 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

Hi All, Just yesterday while attending "Bike Summit " an idea of accessing the carbon credits we bicycle riders constantly accrue solidified. The key is the promise bike. Thanks to Bill Wright of The Arcata Bike Library who reserves the nicer library bikes for patrons who promise not to use a car in town. Bill keeps track of the number of promise bikes and then makes claims to local institutions that provide parking for cars. He is providing a value because the bicycle riders do not require a $43,000 parking space. He sent a bill to the local college for millions payable over thirty years. Here is the adaptation of the Promise Bike to carbon credits. When we ride our bikes the miles traveled represent carbon not burnt by making the same trip in a car. When a cyclist enrolls in the local promise bike program phe (a gender neutral pro-noun replacing the cumbersome he/she) creates carbon credits which are donated to a local cycle-centric organization. That local organization can then sell the credits to concerned but still car driving individuals, or when a person fly in an airplane they can buy promise bike carbon credits. This is the basic idea. I see this as having a huge potential for many aspects of our sheared mission. (The replacement of the automobile as the primary transportation choice for humans in general) 1. A method of capitalizing the riding of a bicycle 2. A method of documenting the use of bicycles 3. A source of funding for cycle-centric organizations 4. An opportunity for persons who are concerned but not able for what ever reason to participate directly in the new economy and sustainable lifestyle options. What I propose is we (the bicycle collective) collaborate on a wiki to forge this program. The tasks I see are: 1. What does a carbon credit certificate look like? 2. How do we establish the promise bike program? Where do you go to sign up? How is the integrity of these certificates substantiated? 3. Establishing a monetary value for our carbon credits. I see this as one more organ in our revolution. We are pillars in this community. Roll on Jim

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last Saturday and our website
by bike talk 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

Hi Everybody, Our new website has our last eight shows up on it. Thanks for downloading at kpfk.org. We had a great time at the Bike Summit last Saturday, and streamed live for the second time in Bike Talk!'s history. the week after next is Women on Bikes again. Listen for it, and if you're a woman, come on down. Be well, talk soon. Nick -- please let me know if you want to be taken off this list. Hear Bike Talk! on kpfk: http://www.kpfk.org/programs/170-bike-talk.html or see what's new with us at biketalk.us

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bike summit youtube vid
by bike talk 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

Hey everyone, here is a video about the bike summit from a press conference yesterday: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Ak2nxNDaw > <http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubrayj02/sets/72157614817188889/> We'll be there live tomorrow (Saturday) morning, if everything goes well. listen at killradio.org or biketalk.us from 10-noon. Thanks! -- please let me know if you want to be taken off this list. Hear Bike Talk! on kpfk: http://www.kpfk.org/programs/170-bike-talk.html or see what's new with us at biketalk.us

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Bike Talk! at Bike Summit
by bike talk 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

We're going to try to stream live from Bike Summit this weekend. Here's the website: http://bikesummitla.wetpaint.com/?t=anon Listen, it should be interesting to see if we get it set up and streaming, at least. -- please let me know if you want to be taken off this list. Hear Bike Talk! on kpfk: http://www.kpfk.org/programs/170-bike-talk.html or see what's new with us at biketalk.us

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Keep a look out for these high profile bikes...
by Jonathan Morrison 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=5683324 Dave Zabriskie: http://yieldtolife.org/ http://www.davezabriskie.com/ Sincerely, Jonathan Morrison Executive Director Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective 2312 S. West Temple Salt Lake City, UT 84115 w: 801-328-2453 c: 801-688-0183 f: 801-466-3856 www.slcbikecollective.org Get Addicted to Crank! http://www.slcbikecollective.org/crank/ The mission of the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective is to promote cycling as an effective and sustainable form of transportation and as a cornerstone of a cleaner, healthier, and safer society. The Bicycle Collective provides refurbished bicycles and educational programs to the community, focusing on children and lower income households.

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