Saturday, November 10, 2018
SORBA Fall Meeting
Meeting called to order at 9:30
-Keven Phelps - Florida rep for SORBA made
introduction
•Pat Patterson - Volusia county representative gave a
big thank you. November 9-10 is now declared
SORBA mountain biking day.
•Brian Hand - acting president of SORBA. Last
minutes approved
• Tom Sauret - Executive Director of SORBA.
- gave brief synopsis of budget. About $160K to run SORBA each year. Not
expecting significant change for next year.
- membership is down slightly.
- working to make some changes to the by-laws. This is yet to TBD.
- main office will be closed due to retirement of Cathy Wood. Sharon Mize will be
the incoming operations manager. Will be using Teri Palmeri’s address as
headquarters for now.
• Welcome new clubs to SORBA:
- Clinch Valley Trail Alliance in Tennessee
- Myrtle Beach SORBA in South Carolina
- We now have 45 chapters throughout the southeast.
• SORBA looks to continue help with trail stewardship and big projects
• SORBA is in process of looking for new supporters. We still have Maxxis, Defeet
and some others. Always looking for new supporters.
• Continue to help with planning and design of trails.
- Would really like to see more FTP grants become available. More to come on
this.
- New Elections held.
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Saturday, November 10, 2018
• Keven Phelps will continue to represent Florida.
• Please see the SORBA website for our new executive leaders.
- Reviewed the new SORBA website. Hopefully becoming easier to use.
• new CIVI site is helpful in keeping track of new and old members.
• Bike patrol is now going to be a SORBA specific item. There will be a new class at
the upcoming Spring summit in Tennessee. This will be in May.
- More discussion of liability insurance.
• $3M aggregate, this will probably increase. This is for ALL clubs as one entity.
• Stressed the importance of MOU’s.
• Clubs must know about workers on the trail at all times.
• Keep documents of names and hours worked.
• Chain saws - not much coverage for this. Make sure users on the properties are
certified and have protective gear. At all times.
- New Business:
• New agreement with IMBA and SORBA coming in May.
• Looking to incorporate NICA into SORBA membership.
- Meeting adjourned
- Spring meeting in Johnson City, TN. May 17-19. See you there.
- No SORBA Orlando meeting held due to no quorum of board.