Moreland BUG

Phuong and Anna are helping to organise a sustainable transport rally outside the Melbourne Town Hall this coming Tuesday 16th Dec, to welcome the new Lord Mayor to his first Council meeting and let him know that we don’t support his plan to allow cars back into Swanston St. The council meeting starts at 5:30, so the rally will begin at 5pm to make sure Mr Doyle and his fellow councillors get an ear-and-eye-full of us before they head into the meeting.

During the council meeting, some councillors are planning to put forward a motion to have a range of options canvassed for Swanston St - one of which would be reopening it to cars, while others would focus on making it a bike, pedestrian and tram friendly route. It will be important for council to know that there is a loud and proud bike community that wants sustainable transport to be front and centre in the City of Melbourne, which is the purpose of the rally.

The media will be there and Jeremy Rawlins, whose wife Carolyn was killed on Swanston St earlier this year, will address the rally. Tomorrow Anna will send through a flyer (to the BUG list) that you can email round to your networks; in the meantime, just pop the date into your diary and let Anna know if you’d like to help out - we’ll need a few people on the day to act as marshalls, making sure that the rally doesn’t venture onto the tram tracks, as well as some people to hand out flyers along major cycling routes in the lead up to Tuesday.

Hi everyone!

The final Moreland Bicycle User Group (MBUG) meeting for 2008 is on this Thursday (27th November) from 7:30pm-9-30pm.

Please note the venue has been changed to the Edinburgh Castle Hotel (681 Sydney Rd, Brunswick - cnr of Albion St and Sydney Rd). We’ve booked their small room out the back.

The current agenda items are:

• Guest: Christine Campbell, Member for Pascoe Vale (top of the agenda)
• Council elections
• Locking down meeting dates & locations for next year’s meetings
• Ride calendar for 2009
• O’Hea St update
• Council election candidate survey
• CPF Award nomination
• Accidents and first aid
• Other business

If you can’t find us, give me a call on 0415 235 990.

Come celebrate our wonderful 2008 achievements and plan for more exciting things in 2009!

Phuong Le
MBUG Secretary

Here is the presentation (2.9 Mb PDF file) that Anna gave at last week’s AGM on what the BUG has accomplished over the last year.

The BUG’s Annual General Meeting was held last Thursday night (23 October 2008).

Here are the 2008 AGM minutes and the 2007-2008 financial report for the Moreland BUG.

This month’s Moreland BUG meeting is at 7:30pm at Caffe Mingo (600 Sydney Rd, Brunswick) on Thursday, October 23.

The agenda is:

1. Council consultation on various issues (with Kylie Huard)
   • Proposed changes to bus stops at Anstey Station and the potential impact on the pram ramp and bike path
   • Proposed alignments for changes to the Merri Creek bike path at the velodrome, north of CERES, and ideas for Sumner Park, Fitzroy North
   • The grab rail on the southern side of the Moreland Station crossing
2. OHeas St update
3. The Moreland Station redevelopment
4. Local government elections
5. The Moreland BUG Annual General Meeting
6. A presentation on what the BUG has done this year
7. Drinks afterwards at the Edinburgh Castle (cnr Albion St and Sydney Rd)

Hope to see you there!

The 2008 Annual General Meeting of the Moreland Bicycle User is to be held this month:

Date: Thursday 23 October
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Caffe Mingo, 600 Sydney Rd, Brunswick (followed by drinks afterwards at the Edinburgh Castle Hotel, cnr Albion St and Sydney Rd)

Agenda

Under the constitution, the ordinary business of the Annual General Meeting shall be to:

1. Confirm the minutes of the previous (2007) Annual General Meeting
2. Presentation of financial statements by the Committee, detailing the transactions of the Group in the preceding financial year
3. Elect the next Committee of Management
4. Receive and consider the statement submitted by the Group in accordance with section 30(3) of the Association Incorporation Act (1981), covering details such as income and expenditure in its last financial year and assets and liabilities at the end of its last financial year
5. Enact any other business for which required notice has been given in writing to the Secretary
6. Set membership fees for the following year
7. Appoint an auditor of the financial records for the ensuing year

The overall agenda for the night will be:

1. AGM
2. Presentation
3. Drinks at the pub!

Elections

Assuming more than one nomination per position, there will be an election for the committee positions, which are:

1. Convenor
2. Deputy Convenor
3. Secretary
4. Treasurer
5. Three (3) Ordinary Members

I would strongly encourage you to consider helping the BUG by being on the committee. It requires only a small amount of time but has a significant impact on the effectiveness of the group.

Nominations of candidates for election as officers of the Group or as ordinary members of the Committee must be:

1. Made in writing, signed by two members of the Group and accompanied by the written consent of the candidate (which may be endorsed on the form of nomination); and
2. Delivered to me (the BUG Secretary) by Thursday 16 October at 7:30pm. I will accept the nominations in the following formats:
   • Fax: 03 8610 2174
   • Paper: sent to 87 Rae St, North Fitzroy, 3068
   • A scan of the nomination form: sent to gcross@fastmail.fm

Other business

If you have any other business that you want raised at the AGM, please provide notice to me, in writing, by Monday 13 October.

Please note that we require a quorum of ten (10) members at the AGM, so please come!

If you have any questions about the AGM or committee election, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Graeme Cross
Moreland BUG secretary and public officer

The Moreland Bicycle User Group monthly meeting is on this Thursday night.

Date: Thursday September 25

Time: 7:30pm

Location: Back function room at Caffe Mingo, 600 Sydney Rd, Brunswick (just south of the Stewart St intersection)

Draft agenda:

1. Planning for National Ride to Work Day (Wednesday October 15)
2. Ride report(s)
3. Report on the forum at Christine Campbell’s office
4. Update on Oheas Rd and the give way dilemma
5. Council update on cycling issues
6. Preparing for the BUG’s Annual General Meeting (Thursday October 23)
7. Any other business

Hope to see you there!
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The next Moreland BUG meeting is Thursday 28 August, 2008 at 7.30pm at the Pascoe Vale RSL, 40 Cumberland Rd, Pascoe Vale.

We meet in the meeting room at the back of the RSL which you can enter through the gate in O’Hea St.

Food and drink is available and can be consumed in the meeting room.

The meeting agenda is:

1. Welcome and introduction
2. Brunswick Structure Plan
3. Clearways, Sydney Rd & MITS - what is the BUG’s preferred option for Sydney Rd?
4. Ride to Work Day
5. Council Report
6. Rides report
7. Treasurer’s report
8. Other business

If you have been lurking on the list and haven’t been to a meeting yet, you are welcome to come along. Everyone is very friendly and the meetings are usually very productive and interesting.

Tomorrow night we’ll be having an extra-short meeting at Caffe Mingo, 600 Sydney Rd Brunswick from 7:30pm; at 8:30 on the dot we’ll be crossing the road to the Edinburgh Castle Hotel for a celebratory drink or two in honour of our budget campaign win! Love to see you there, and please feel free to invite others along to share in the celebratory spirit.

Kylie Huard, Council’s new Strategic Transport Planner, will be joining us for the meeting to say hello and to outline Council’s plans for a TravelSmart/LAAP grant application.

The agenda for tomorrow night’s meeting:

1. Budget campaign
2. Moreland Station Redevelopment
3. Moreland’s TravelSmart/LAAP applications - Guest: Kylie Huard, Strategic Transport Planner at Moreland
4. Clearways/Sydney Rd campaign
5. Where to from here (a Bicycle Advisory Group perhaps?)

Don’t forget the BUG meeting tonight…