BBC February Meeting Minutes

BBC Meeting Minutes- February

2/18/2026 on Zoom

Attendance:

–            James Thompson, Erin Haskell, Rich Scaduto, Drew Scott, , Todd Backes, Scott Collins

Topics:

• Prize Winners!
  • Congrats to the following prize drawing winners:
  • BBC Base Building Challenge
    • 60 hours (bike shop gift cards or Kanberra)
      • “Can I pet that dawg” Erin Haskell and Tory Trzyna
    • 90 Hours (new club jersey and Kanberra)
      • “Old Guys from Chautauqua” Brian Kayes and John Lissfelt
    • 120 hours (new club jersey and Kanberra)
      • “IH One” Eric Saenger and Pete Cerny
  • BBC Membership Survey (Kanberra)
    • Rob Hengel and Frank Grillo
• Jersey Store
  • Our new club jersey design with Jakroo is complete, we are working with them on transposing it to all of the different kinds of clothing including shorts, arm warmers, etc.  We anticipate the jersey store being open and ready to order in mid-late March.  We will then get our jersey to our sponsoring bike shops for outreach during the spring and summer seasons.  
• Freedom Run Logistics
  • Freedom Run is up on Bikereg, will be visible and open for registration in the next week.  We made some changes from last year by increasing some of the race distances because it is moved back to a summer race instead of an early spring race.  We will have the Women 1/2/3 starting with the Men’s 1/2/3 and the women’s masters starting with the men’s masters.  We are also increasing the registration cost by $5 because of increasing costs of timing and security. 
• Rider Development clinics
  • We will come up with skills workshops month by month at each club meeting moving forward so we can be flexible with the monthly calendar.  Our first two skills workshops led by Drew Scott will be on our first two Fireball dates of 4/23 and 5/14.  The focus will be on bike handling mechanics such as braking, turning, pacelining.  
  • We will work with Plan2Peak’s Peter Cummings to offer a full structured clinic this year.  The group is leaning towards a traditional full sanctioned clinic which could offer upgrade points for Cat 4’s.  Other ideas include smaller clinics more spread out and let by Peter.  We will explore dates for these
• Culture of mentoring and volunteering
  • The club needs to get back to a culture of volunteering because it takes a lot of work to run this club.  For many years, your membership was conditional on marshalling two times per season because we need marshals to have races.  In the last few years, we started hiring security guards, first for USAC races and then for club races when the overarching pattern was that we would not have sufficient members to marshal street corners and risk having unsafe events or cancelling events..  Security was a seen benefit to make sure our races were safe and we had people at all required intersections, but it increases our costs.  
  • We will continue hiring security for street corners, but we still need members for a number of things, including driving cars at USAC road races, having A racers mentor the B racers, running registration tables, setting up and tearing down our events, and scoring our club races.  In the last few years, we have offered incentives to do these things, including Sunday Series points or cash.  Still though, this has not produced enough help for the scope of what we need, putting too much strain on the few who do help.  
  • We are discussing moving back to a mandatory component of club service.  Members, especially full members, will need to do something to help the club if you want your club racing points to count at the end of the year.  Volunteering positions include but are not limited to: scoring club races, driving a car for USAC road race, helping at start/finish line for USAC races, set up and tear down of races, mentoring a new rider, being an in-race mentor for B club races, and leading a group workout or skills workshop. We would still offer club points or cash as appropriate, but we need people to do the work to make this club run smoothly and be a positive experience of giving back, asking what you can do for the club.