Salem Bicycle Club
Board Meeting Minutes
December 10, 2025
Call to Order – Present: Dan Shryock, Jacob Lippert, Colin Benson, Steve Budde, Jim Miller, Robin Robbins, Terry Robbins, Tim Newman, Ken Freeman, Juan Lopez, Mike Jaffee, Debbie Miller, Julie Glass
Minutes- November minutes were approved unanimously with the exception of re-phrasing “alternate rides if needed” to “alternate routes if necessary” or similar.
Treasurer’s Report- Robin Robbins will be leaving as Treasurer and moving to membership at the next meeting. For the time being, Tim Newman will take over duties of Treasurer. Robin reports our Operating account has $10, 960.01 and our CD has $15,278.99 for a total balance of $26, 239.00.
Safe Routes to School Update – Jacob Lippert reports that though Beth Schmidt is no longer with Safe Routes to School, Jacob is taking over the Bicycle Education program and they are not changing the current trajectory. They have purchased their own trailer and have 10 bikes and 25 more coming for that trailer. They also have 200 helmets. By the end of the school year, they want to have their entire fleet which includes a second trailer and 35 more bikes. Mike Jaffee joined the meeting and let us know that our initial grant was critical to get them rolling and really helped convince other organizations to join in. They got a $25,000 grant from the rotary as well as $10,000 from Cycle Oregon. They are looking to apply for other grants including working with Marion County.
Their Bike Voucher Program, which supplies used bikes to students in need, continues with the help of Northwest Hub and Salem Bicycle Club. Last year they were able to get 7 students bicycles who couldn’t otherwise have gotten them. They hope to expand it further with continued support from Northwest Hub as well as SBC. They are looking into hosting some repair stands where volunteers can learn more about bicycle repair while helping to repair bikes for students. They may be able to get some innovative grants to benefit the bike voucher program in this way.
Membership Update- Julie Glass will be leaving the board and Robin Robbins will take on membership duties. Membership is steady at 258 active members. They had a goal of earning $5500 from membership last year and it exceeded that goal with $5635 earned.
Rides Committee Report-Rides are scheduled through February 15th. The option for on-line registration is starting and there will be training for ride leaders on that available. They are working on a ride coordinator procedure and cancellation policy and want to work towards shorter parallel ride options to join longer rides. They are also again looking into outside event rides including 3 days of Scenic Bikeways rides out of Sisters at the end of June planned by Debbie Miller, Karen Freeman, Debbie Hoffmeister, and Christine Speak.
Spokes Update- Colin Benson reports a 44% open rate. There has been discussion about selling more things via Spokes both free for members and paid. This can be extended to the website as well. Mary Schmidgall has an article she is updating for January Spokes about Safe Routes to School and Debbie is interviewing the Scotts Cycle family about their multi-generational history supporting the Monster Cookie event which could be included in the February Spokes. She also suggested an article about the 50-year history of the Monster Cookie for the March Spokes.
Monster Cookie Marketing- Dan Shryock works with Travel Salem and a goal of Travel Salem is to put heads in beds. So, we discussed how to expand the Monster Cookie into the weekend, such as hosting a ride on Saturday as well as continuing the Saturday pre-registration check in that was so successful last year. Dan is soliciting ideas for that. A Monster Cookie press release will be circulated starting January 1. Dan will work with bike clubs throughout the area to get the MC date on their calendars. Travel Oregon can develop Socia Media for us that we can add to our Facebook and Instagram pages. He is hoping to make any outside event rides sanctioned rides for club miles that to be reciprocal. He will look at sharing information with Statesman Journal and Salem Reporter.
Merchandise- Tim Newman brought forward a hat proposal with 72 pieces allowing a price break of $20.54 each. This was approved unanimously. He will see if they can be delivered in time for the Annual Awards Banquet.
Tim also brought forward a sock’s proposal with a cost of $8.25 with special purple 50th Anniversary colors at a cost of $8.25 per pair. Tim will make sure the color matches the jersey
The Monster Cookie Jersey and shorts/bibs design was displayed with a cost of $49 for more than 50 pieces of the jersey . Matching bibs/shorts with advertising on the back were shown.
Annual Awards Banquet- We have 52 raffle prizes at this point with two new sponsors including the Willamette Valley Pie Company and Fall Line Sports in Silverton.
The board unanimously approved increasing the gift card for the top 3 volunteers to $75 per person.
Next Meeting- Annual Awards Banquet
January 11th 5-8PM
Marco Polo Restaurant