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September 8, 2015
Meeting Minutes
Attendance: Eric Nichols, William Murphy, George McGonigal
And Jason Hecht
Excused: Mark Vesci, Zoran Smiljanic and Caitlin Moss
Absent: Dave Warden and Talyse LaDora Hampton
Staff: Liz Vance, Marty Schreiber and Jody Hallett-Harris
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Meeting called to order at 6:08 p.m. by Eric Nichols
Introduction of members and og guest Marty Schreiber who gave a presentation to the board of both of
his programs: Ithaca Bike Rental Program and Youth Council Program.
The Minutes from July, 2015 were tabled for next month’s meetings as there was not a quorum to vote on
them.
Marty Schreiber is the Coordinator of the new Ithaca Bike Rental Program which was started in June of
this year with the help of a Tompkins County Tourism Grant for the purchasing of 12 adult bikes, 3 kids
bikes and one adult trike. He passed around brochures with the information regarding the program. Since
June, 263 individuals have rented bikes of these 123 were of Tompkins County. Need to target Tompkins
County to get more folks aware of this. Recently they also started selling ice cream from the trike at
Stewart Park and have sold $90 worth of products so far. He has advertising and marketing information
with most of the lodging places in the county as well as Boat Yard Grill and Corks N More and hoping to
work with GreenStar soon. He just hired an Assistant for the program, Sarah Loomis. He is also
currently writing on a 2nd grant for the Tourism and can apply a third time next year, which will be used
to purchase more bikes and a few more trikes. He had 4 YES workers for the summer and they did
marketing, bike maintenance and checks. They learned valuable skills, such as running a business,
marketing and using software. He is currently negotiated with Cass Park to see if they can open a bike
rental over there and that would allow folks to rent on each end of town and to also ride the trail and drop
off at either location. They will be marking at the Ithaca High School now that it is back in session. He is
also doing an after school program with middle school students to teach basic bike repair and
maintenance of bikes and he hopes to have riding groups on the trail. This will be a 6-week program.
Currently riders use the Cayuga Lake Trail and Diamond Head and other adjoining trails, as there are
limits of where they can ride and take the bikes. He worked with the City Attorney’s Office to come up
with a 2-page waiver legal agreement that each renter must sign before taking the bike. He has helmets,
baskets, water and water bottles available to renters. He has had some assistance with other bike
businesses in the area including: Glen Swan, Cayuga Cyclery, Boxi Bikes, the Outdoor Store and Big
Red Bikes.
Marty Schreiber is also the Coordinator of the Youth Council Program. New member packets were
passed around to the board members and he asked that if any board member new a student that would be
interested to please give them out. He has more copies and if more are needed, board members can
contact him for more. He has several events that the program has been doing annually; Ithaca is
Community Service and Kick Butts Day which is in collaboration with Cayuga Medical Center and
GIAC. He is going to focus on more civic areas this year. He tried to focus the teens’ energy; give them
tools; knowledge; to make positive change within the City of Ithaca and Tompkins County. They also
have a training series each year and work with the YES Program for this. They will be working on public
presentations and hope that they will play an active role in the Ithaca Bike Rental Programming and
maybe Safe Routes to School. This is Marty’s third year with Youth Council and he has learned a lot and
enjoys the teens. The program meets once a week and the budget for Youth Council pays his salary and a
few program supplies and snacks for meetings and events. The program also does four presentations to
Common Council and are active with the Mayor. They also worked with the Department of Justice and
attended racial profiling training and came up with a survey and 400 students completed this survey and
the results were presented to the police board, and they were well received by them. They hope to do this
again this year and will be revising the survey. They have a Chair, Co Chair, Secretary and Vibe Watcher
and these are voted on each year and one of the meetings per month is open to the public.
Announcements:
There will be a 5k run on 9/13/15 at 8:45 a.m., and all proceeds for this race will go to the IYB. The
event is the Ithaca 5&10 and you can register online or on Facebook. Anyone interested in volunteering
should contact Liz. They are hoping next year to hold the home front here at the IYB and use the trail to
run so that less volunteers will be needed. There is a free concert on 9/19 at the Stewart Park Large
Pavilion from 4-6:00p.m. The Jeff Love Band and the IYB’s Joe Gibson’s band will be playing. This is
for the 2015 Community Mentor Challenge.
Staff and Program Updates:
There was a request from the Board to give a update of summer programming numbers. RSS did their
normal adult programs and the youth programs increased, for camp inclusion. RSS also does the Iroquois
Program which is an all-day programming with overnights.
Recreation had both full day camps, CIT Program, a variety of lessons, pottery and sailing lessons. The
capacity for the full day summer camps were: 130 at Stewart Park Day Camp and 85 Cass Park Day
Camp. PSMP did a full summer program as well as a trip. Outing did week long survival program and a
1 week adventure program as well as a 4-day camping trip. BBBS did girls week out and a boys week out
with their kids, summer is slower for this program as most mentors are college students who are not here
during the summer months.
Marsha held an ice cream social at the large pavilion and her program kids made ice cream pottery bowls
and asked for $10 and you got to keep the bowl and had it filled with ice cream.
Beverly Stokes is the new YES Youth Program Coordinator and this will open a position within the YES
program for a youth leader.
Next month the following reports for Monitoring/Shadowing:
CDP: Jason Hecht
BBBS: Zoran Smiljanic
RSS: Bill Murphy
Youth Council: Eric Nichols
Ithaca Bike Rental: Jason Hecht
George McGonigal - Common Council – He reported that budget season is upon us and he has voiced his
support for the Ithaca Bike Rental and has given his support of the IYB Budget. He spoke regarding the
worries regarding West Village and he will be meeting with the Mayor and the Police Department to see
if there is anything can be done to assist the kids/families in that area. Project Hope out of Rochester was
brought up and Liz will find the name and number of the person that works with this group.
Dave Warden - Board of Public Works. Not at meeting; no report
Meeting Adjourned: 7:25p.m.
Next meeting:
October 13, 2015 – 6:00 p.m. – Green Room