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Approved 2/19/20 54 55 Erik Broo: As far as the helmets, Carrboro Elementary has a lot of bike riders there and there could be families that 56 want to but their kids don't have helmets. 57 58 Todd Jones: I have been distributing posters around to the schools. 59 60 Randy Marshall: Check with the school PTAs for the helmets. 61 62 Erik Broo: Post PSA to agencies with the information screens including Orange County. 63 64 Tom Ten Eyck: I'll check with the library, police, sheriff and DMV about materials, for any events or need if you give 65 me a little advance notice, I can get them. 66 67 Amy Cole: Was an email sent out to all the biking clubs? 68 69 Art Menius: Heidi is the contact for all the bicycle groups. 70 71 Erik Broo: I'll take to the Chapel and Carrboro, bikes shops and Chapel Hill, Cybrary and McDougal libraries and the 72 2 outdoor stores in Carrboro. 73 74 Ed Vaughn: I'll take to Wagner Tires. 75 76 Art Menius: The social media and website are pretty much in limbo structurally. The idea originally was that the 77 committee would take care of them. I know we got permission for these to exist but as far as using them, they have 78 hardly been utilized. I don't think it can function well without staff involvement especially the social media. 79 80 Amy Cole: Can planning get interns, with UNC having transportation department /school I would think you would 81 have interested undergraduate students. 82 83 Tom Ten Eyck: I think it's possible and also think someone who is younger and far more functional on Facebook and 84 Instagram would be better suited. My fear is the continuity issue in terms of publishable content, I know you can 85 always find stock something, but in terms of bicycle activity it is more limited to the time of year. I think it makes 86 sense for us to ramp things up with there are events going on but in terms of pushing bicycle safety messaging, 1 87 don't know how consistently it can be done as a subset of the larger.... It might make for sense to say we have a 88 particular message that we want to send out at a particular point in time, several months if not weeks in advance to 89 be able to promote it on the County's social media as opposed to creating another account that is going to get lost in 90 the abyss. 91 92 Amy Cole: If we had basically a place where things can get uploaded and then cleared by staff as publishable and 93 then someone else could be creating content, I'm thinking like the TarWheels when they are on their standard bike 94 routes. If they've got something they can snap a picture of we're got our advocates out there that can take pictures 95 during events and send with a blurb and then all we have to do is say yes, we approve and then go ahead and 96 publish. 97 98 Tom Ten Eyck: I can ask but I think it makes more sense to push out to someone who has a larger audience than 99 where we would be if we were just starting out as this small entity. Where it's at for as long as it has existed, we've 100 made these things and they are good tools but without maintenance and someone who spend a necessary amount of 101 time on it to make it pretty and meaningful then it is going to become another thing for someone unless it's just kind 102 of there. 103 104 Erik Broo: If we tweeted something and then had TarWheels and others retweet it. 105 2