August 2025

Written By tabitha harkin

Rhode Island Chapter: New England Mountain Bike Association

August 2025 Meeting Agenda
Date/Time: August 5, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
Location: Zoom

1. Roll Call

Jay Shuford, Adam Carroll, Dennis Wilson, Tabitha Wilson, Charles Picard, Wayne Asselin, Cyrus Beasly, Paul Kinz

2. Administration

  • June Meeting Minutes

  • Motioned by Tabitha, seconded by Jay, motion passes

  • Quarterly Updates

    • Dennis wants to go back to monthly updates, needs to talk to Shannon

  • Upcoming Meetings

    1. Next Leadership Meeting: Tuesday, Sept 2, 2025 (Zoom)

    2. Next All Chapter Meeting: Date TBD  October, January meetings- need to find a date

    3. Big River Ride beforehand

    4. Action: Tabitha to check with NEMBA calendar and see about booking with crafted hope

  • Payments/Reimbursements – Status Update

    1. Upcoming: Cyrus and Mike P (Trail School): $139.87 each

    2. Action: Shannon to follow up on checks to send- spring expenses

  • Eventbrite widget:

  • If anyone is interested in working in eventbrite, reach out to us.
    Action: Dennis to get together with Adam about the widget.

  • Chapter elections

    • Need to think about where we are, where we want to be next year. 

    • Election to be at the January meeting (all chapter)

    3. Rhode Island DEM Updates

  • Orange Season

    • Over until September 13 - Create media post

  • Action: Adam- please put out an end to orange season post

  • 2025 Fun Rides

    • DEM License Agreement approved

    • Echo Lake Project

    • $15,000 design contract signed - meeting with DEM to discuss next steps

  • Big River Comprehensive Management Plan

    • Big River management plan- no updates

    • Action: Dennis to reach out to Peter and Allen about comprehensive plan

4. NEMBA Corporate Updates

  • Board Restructure

    • Updates from Wayne:

      1. EC meeting in July. Performance Review of Nicole, 6-7 week process. Board voted her a 8% raise over 3 years

      2. Quebec trip coming up

      3. Email from Nicole, asking for Chapter presidents to come together, group that would meet so many times a year

      4. Wayne would like to continue on for another year at least

      5. Insurance might be moved to January 1, positive response

      6. Next BOD meeting Oct 18

      7. NEMBA Trail design guidelines- looking for feedback on draft

      8. NEMBA discount for Outdoor Pro Link, lots of road gear, check emails

      9. NEMBA has put together a photo library, we can use for promo purposes, smug something- check email. We could share ours as well.

      10. NEMBA benefits, now shown on the website!

  • Safe Trails Initiative

    • On hold due to other priorities

  • NEMBA Quebec Trip 2025

    • August 8–11

6. Events & Rides

  • Big River Fun Ride – September 14

    • Wayne to lead, help from Nick M.

    • Discussion on Park and Ride detour, discussion with rovers, time to work on trails in early September, hope for no rain. Next RR ride 8/24

    • Incredible new bridge out there a coordination between rovers!

    • Pricing for the fun ride discussed

    • Need to know where funds are going for. Last year we donated $2000 to cancer research. Small amount, doesn't help much. $2000 towards trails does make a difference, have a bigger health impact than cancer research

    • Vote: 80% to trail building/20% to local charities- Wayne motioned, Seconded by Charles

    • Plan on budgetary item moving forward

    • Porta Potty is reserved

  • Lincoln Woods Fun Ride – November 9

    • Charles to do permit request 

    • Week leading up to Sunday- anniversary

    • Push one week back to the 16th, if possible

    • Will need to consider the date is locked in with MOU, will need a new MOU, see whats going on  

    • New Parks Regional Manager

    • Jason at DEM wants rough course

7. Member Opportunities

  • Group Rides

    • Weekly rides ongoing

8. Echo Lake Trails

  • 15k from DEM transferring into our account

  • Have a proposal from SInuosity, timeline of late Dec/Jan

  • Met w DEM Friday, talked about funding, parking

  • Potential to partner with muni on grant

  • New webpage on the rinemba.org

  • Coordinate a enduro race at diamond hill as fundraiser?

  • Messaging about what an enduro race is, nuance about racing that we could teach DEM. Could be a 20k event.

  • Dennis and Charles to put together proposal    

10. Ride Area Updates

  • Lincoln Woods- dry but awesome, Willem, Blaze doing work, clearing downed trees

  • Diamond Hill? Jay says it looks the same, some fun stuff on ski hill side. Blown out but fun 

  • Woody Hill- Gnomes taking care of things, new trail to get around the big rock roller by Y bridge 

  • Arcadia- Lots of downed trees, big arcadia cleanup coming up

  • Big River- Bridge! Jim Grimly found a route and cheers to rovers and volunteers

  • Burlingame- Interpretation of Jason to push trails as fire breaks

  • Ryan Park- Good 

11. New Business

  • Pit Bull attack in Arcadia- older gentleman on blood thinners

  • Discussion about if its our place, decided it belongs to DEM enforcement

  • We may want to do a social media post about staying safe on trail

12. Motion to Adjourn

  • Moved by Wayne, Second by Jay


tabitha harkin
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June 2025