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BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Regular Meeting

Wednesday, September 17, 2003
6:15 p.m.
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place (Polk Street), Room 408

AGENDA

1. Election of Officers of the Bicycle Advisory Committee (Action Item)

2. Review of By-Laws (Discussion Item)

    Explanatory documentation consists of a copy of the existing Bicycle Advisory Committee by-laws

3. Public Comment: (Discussion Item)

    The public may address the Committee on any matter within the jurisdiction of the Committee. This should not relate to any item on this agenda since the Committee will take public comment after it discusses and/or before voting on each agenda item. The Committee requests that each person limit themselves to three minutes.

4. Department of Parking and Traffic Staff Presentation - Overview of the Bicycle Program

    (Discussion Item)

5. Adjournment

DISABILITY ACCESS:

Room 408 of City Hall is wheelchair accessible. The closest accessible BART Station is Civic Center, three blocks from City Hall. Accessible MUNI lines serving this location are: #47 Van Ness, and the #71 Haight/Noriega and the F Line to Market and Van Ness and the Metro stations at Van Ness and Market and at Civic Center. For more information about MUNI accessible services, call 923-6142. There is accessible parking in the vicinity of City Hall at Civic Center Plaza and adjacent to Davies Hall and the War Memorial Complex.

Large print copies of the agenda, sign language interpreters, or assistive listening systems can be made available by contacting the DPT staff liaison, Lorraine R. Fuqua, at 415-554-9808.. In order to assist the City's efforts to accommodate persons with severe allergies, environmental illnesses, multiple chemical sensitivity, or related disabilities, attendees at public meetings are reminded that other attendees may be sensitive to various chemical based products. Please help the City accommodate these individuals.

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE SUNSHINE ORDINANCE

Government's duty is to serve the public, reaching its decisions in full view of the public. Commissions, boards, councils and other agencies of the City and County exist to conduct the people's business. The Sunshine Ordinance assures that deliberations are conducted before the people and that City operations are open to the people's review. For information on your rights under the Sunshine Ordinance (Chapter 67 of the San Francisco Administrative Code) or to report a violation of the ordinance, contact Donna Hall; by mail to Sunshine Ordinance Task Force, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 244, San Francisco CA 94102 by phone at (415) 554-7724, by fax at (415) 554-7854 or by email at Donna.Hall@sfgov.org Citizens may obtain a free copy of the Sunshine Ordinance by contacting Ms. Hall or by printing Chapter 67 of the San Francisco Administrative Code on the Internet, at http://www.sfgov.org/sunshine.htm Persons from the public may inspect documents referred to on the agenda by contacting our staff liaison, Frank Markowitz at 252-4696.

LOBBYIST ORDINANCE

Individuals and entities that influence or attempt to influence local legislative or administrative action may be required by the San Francisco Campaign and Governmental Conduct Code, Section 2.100, to register and report lobbying activity. For more information about the Lobbyist Ordinance, please contact the Ethics Commission at 30 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 3900, San Francisco, CA 94102, telephone 415-581-2300, fax 415-581-2317, or visit their Web site at www.sfgov.org/ethics/.

BY-LAWS
of the Bicycle Advisory Committee of San Francisco

Article I.

The establishment, name, membership, powers, and duties of the Bicycle Advisory Committee are established in Chapter 5 of the San Francisco Administrative Code, Article XIV, Sections 5.130 through 5.132, created by Ordinance No. 365-90.,

Article II. Officers

Section 1. The officers of the Bicycle Advisory Committee shall be a Chairperson, a Secretary, and a Corresponding Secretary. Their duties shall be as follows:

Chairperson: To preside over committee meetings; to compile the monthly meeting agenda; to represent the Bicycle Advisory Committee's actions to appropriate agencies, or to designate representative(s).

Vice-chairperson: In the absence of the Chairperson, to preside over committee meetings and conduct the other duties of the Chairperson, or additional duties as may be assigned by the Bicycle Advisory Committee.

Secretary: To oversee the record keeping of the Committee. Corresponding Secretary: To oversee the corresponence of the Committee.

Section 2. As specified in the enabling ordinance, Section 5.131 (c), the Bicycle Advisory Committee members shall elect officers at the initial meting, and yearly thereafter, or as needed as vacancies occur.

Article III. Meetings

Section 1. The Bicycle Advisory Committee shall annually hold at least ten monthly meetings, with the date and time to be determined and announced at the previous meeting

Section 2. A quorum requires the presence of a majority of the members of the Bicycle Advisory Committee.

Section 3. Bicycle Advisory Committee members will automatically forfeit and vacate their seats if absent from three

consecutive meetings, or four meetings in a twelve month period. The Bicycle Advisory Committee may reinstate any member vacated herein by a majority vote.

Article IV. Committees

Section 1. Standing Committees: Standing committees are permanent committees, that have a regular meeting time, and meet on an ongoing basis. To change them requires a change of the by-laws. Each standing committee must have three members of the Bicycle Advisory Committee; two members form a quorum. The Chair will reuqest that Bicycle Advisory Committee members volunteer for the committees. If there are not enough volunteers for each committee, the Chair will appoint memebers to fill them out. The chair will also ask one member to convene the first meeting of a committee. At that meetings, the committee will elect a chairperson for the year.

Funding Committee. This committee will consider all recommendations for funding, including TDA funding, Transportation Authority funding, and any other funding that may become available. In addition, the committee will moniter the implementation of these funds and make recommendations, when necessary, or actions that can be taken to improve implementation.

Policy Planning, Legislation and Development Committee. This committee will be responsible for the review of the bicycle section fo the City's Transportation Element to the Master Plan; the development of a bicycle policy plan that will set priorities and provide guidelines for all bicycle improvements including, but not limited to routes, commuter issues and secure parking; the development of legislation that is needed to implement that plan; and to keep track of all new development projects, from individual buildings to large developments, and make recommendations for assuring safe bicycle access and storage within them. From time to time, it may be necessary for an individual development project to be referred to a special task force.

Education: This committee will be responsible for the development of an education program that will outreach to and provide for the education of the public, for the safe sharing of the public roadways.

Section 2. Special Task Forces shall be established by the Bicycle Advisory Committee when it deems them necessary to carry out its

mandate. A Task Force only requires one member of the Bicycle Advisory Committee.

Article V. Parliament Authority

The rules contained within the current edition of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised shall govern the Bicycle Advisory Committee in all cases to which they are applicable and in which they are not inconsistent with these bylaws, the San Francisco Administrative Code, and any special rules of order the Committee may adopts.

Article VI. Amendment of Bylaws

These bylaws may be amended at any regular meeting of the Bicycle Advisory Committee by a two-thirds vote, provided that the amendment has been submitted in writing at the previous regular meeting.

Bicycle Advisory Committee Bylaws were adopted unanimously at the regular meeting of the Bicycle Advisory Committee held on February 28, 1991. The Bylaws were amended as they appear here by unanimous vote on July 23, 1998.

Nick Carr, Chairperson