About a year ago we focused our efforts on membership growth for a couple reasons: 1) to build a stronger & bigger local cycling community thus 2) creating more capacity to support all the great work the club does.
So, how have we done?
- Added 91 members over the past year, bringing the membership to 256
- Hosted 9 events attended by over 500 people
- Generated over 8,000 media impressions per month for the VVCC
- Added 2 Board members:
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- Tim Miller: leading our Gravel push
- Josh Peterson: teamed up with Lars on the MTB Committee
- Grown all our Committees:
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- Road, Media/Membership, Events - all have 5-7 members actively involved
With this increased capacity, we’ve accomplished quite a bit:
- Bike Patrol: Funded/kicked off “Chime in Bell” program distributing 20k bells in the Verde Valley
- MTB Committee
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- Worked with Red Rock Trail Crew to outline the volunteer Trail work plans
- Drawing out large numbers of volunteers to Trail work days
- Rolling out Caltopo to assist in identifying trail maintenance needs
- New trails in progress: Circle Trail, Red Rock Trails Access Plan and some new things at Mingus all active
- Road Committee:
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- Got Yavapai Co. to add a paved shoulder and rumble strips along parts of Cornville road
- Got Hwy 89A between Cottonwood and Sedona swept
- Partnered with the BAC Committee to add bike lanes & wider shoulders along 89A in parts of Cottonwood and Clarkdale
