Bike Manawatu Annual General Meeting 2016
Despite the current ‘cost of living challenges’ facing all community events, Bike Manawatu is 100% committed to ensuring the 51st year of the Novice Tour – once again provides a safe, fun, competitive cycle racing event.
We will adopt a high-quality assured approach in implementing the Local Roading Authority’s/Cycling New Zealand’s ‘Safe Traffic Management System’ (STMS) standards which ensure best practices and rider and spectator safety.
If the level of community funding secured is not sufficient to contract in external road management service providers with the ability to stop/go traffic, the Novice Tour will proceed on a ‘local club racing’ model, whereby our team of trained/experienced road marshals will, where necessary, pause racing in order to give way to traffic and ensure rider safety.
Although funding external road management services with the ability to stop/go traffic is ideal, if this is not feasible – we are confident that the event’s ‘Safe Traffic Management System’ (STMS) will provide a competitive, fair, enjoyable and importantly safe racing environment.
Irrespective of which model of traffic management/racing is finalised, as with all CNZ/Bike Manawatu events, normal road rules will apply and a full rider briefing confirming the event rules will be provided to all riders prior to the start of each race.
It’s that time of the year again when we need to start thinking about the AGM. We will be holding this on the 5th of April at a venue to be announced soon. The idea of letting everyone know soon is that we will be making, according to our constitution, the annual accounts for 2015 available before the meeting. The longer lead-in allow enable those people who might be interested in becoming Board members to get a nomination in with plenty of time. There will be at least one, and maybe a couple, of Board positions available. If you are interested, please have a chat with any of the current Board members.
On the same occasion, as is usual practice for us, we have the track prize-giving evening. There are two reasons for this. Firstly it encourages members to turn up so that we have enough people to be quorate (make a binding decision via vote). Secondly, it ensure that those receiving prizes have plenty of people to celebrate their successes.
We will be sending out a request for those who attend to bring a plate of food in a future correspondence. Meanwhile, if you have any ideas, issues, or complaints about how the organisation is being run, don’t hesitate to talk to Christine or one of the Board members.
Thanks, Steve.
