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AGM - 01 Mar - 7pm

2012-02-22T05:16:26Z

The Annual General Meeting of the Comox Valley Cycling Coalition will be held at the Filberg Centre Thursday, 01 March, 2012 at 7:00 pm.

Follow this link to download the Agenda for the meeting.

Follow this link to the minutes from AGM 2011.

Please read them before the meeting.

Questions? - Contact President Marg Harris

Comox Rec Centre ## Spin-a-thon ##

2012-02-21T00:18:00Z

24 Hour Spin-a-thon

Mar 10, 3pm - Mar 11, 3pm

All profits will be donated to the Canadian Tire Jumpstart Program to help financially disadvantaged kids ranging in age from 4 to 18 participate in over 60 different forms of physical recreation.

BC Cycling Coalition won support for province-wide proposal

2012-02-10T00:36:41Z

Vancouver School Board backs province-wide cycling education

by Naoibh O'Connor 8 Feb, 2012

The B.C. Cycling Coalition won Vancouver School Board support for a province-wide proposal to teach bicycle safety and education to youth.

Trustees voted unanimously at a school board meeting Tuesday night in favour of a recommendation from the VSB's management co-coordinating committee, which suggested the board endorse, in principle, the coalition's Right to Bike provincial youth cycling education framework.

"What the cycling coalition has been doing is working on trying to develop province-wide curriculum for bike safety," trustee Mike Lombardi, chair of the management co-coordinating committee, told the Courier before the vote.

"It's modelled on a program in England, apparently. It's very successful across the whole country. It teaches kids the basics of cycling_The coalition is in the process of trying to gather support [for its framework] through different agencies to be able to go to government to talk about securing funds to develop the comprehensive cycling education program."

Lombardi said such curriculum would ensure instructors teach to a particular standard.

In its package to the school board, the B.C. Cycling Coalition noted that the province has focused on cycling infrastructure and to a lesser degree promoting cycling awareness, but education is considered a critical component of cycling plans.

"In the Netherlands, universally available cycling and traffic safety education are integral components of their cycling strategy that also includes infrastructure development and motor vehicle speed reduction," the coalition stated. "This complete strategy has resulted in very high levels of cycling with safety rates much better than Canada's."

The coalition's youth cycling education framework involves a lead organization, supported by a board of partners and stakeholders, establishing and coordinating a standard for cycling skills and safety education for the entire province.

A certification program tied to the standard would be licensed to parties interested in delivering certified cycling training and would include everything needed to deliver bicycling skills and safety training anywhere in B.C.

The program would operate on a cost-recovery model.

Lombardi maintains it's a great idea.

"The idea is actually something that a number of us have been talking about for a while. That is, if we're going to be promoting cycling like we are, we need to start [training] very early and have curriculum for that," he said.

"It's a very good idea. It's obviously promoting safety. It's promoting health. It's promoting kids cycling to school. We think it's got a lot of positive features to it_There was tremendous support at the [management coordinating] committee from everybody. Everybody felt it was something that was overdue and that it would be a very positive initiative."

The VSB also voted in favour of presenting a similar resolution to the B.C. School Trustees Association annual general meeting.

Jan 2012 Meeting Minutes

2012-02-04T04:26:18Z

The Minutes from the January meeting are located at this link.

If you would like to see minutes from other meetings take a look in the Files section and look for the file in the document's folder.

Candidate Question and Their Answers 2011

2012-01-24T19:16:49Z

The answers from the candidates in the 2011 election are now located at the following links.

Courtenay

Comox

Happy New Year - Next Meeting

2012-01-18T06:37:25Z

The next meeting of the Comox Valley Cycling Coalition will be held Monday - 23 Jan 2012 (yup ... 2012) at 7pm at the Comox Recreation Centre.

The agenda is still in progress, and will be posted here when it is ready.

If you have any items that you like to add, send an email to Marg Harris (our President).

The agenda is ready and can be found here at this link - AGENDA.

Minutes 17 November 2011

2011-11-26T21:47:19Z

Here is the link to the minutes of the November Genereral Meeting.

Please note that there is no meeting scheduled for December. Also that meeting dates have been moved to the 4th Monday of the month (at 7pm at the Comox Rec Centre, 1855 Noel Ave, Comox). So the next meeting is 23rd of January. See you there!

Minutes 20 October 2011

2011-11-26T21:42:22Z

Here is the link to the Minutes from the October general Meeting

Check out two new temporary sections

2011-11-11T18:05:40Z

Check out the two new sections that are dedicated the Candidate responses from Courtenay and Comox.

The question asked was

"Each year the Comox Valley is experiencing heavier traffic volumes, especially on the main arterial roads. What are your views on how to deal with this problem? "

See Courtenay and Comox

Please comment.