Trail Committee Role & Responsibilities Draft

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Tue, 07/13/2010 - 10:44pm

OTBKing

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Trail Committee Role & Responsibilities Draft

see below on duties and responsibilities, and provide comments, concerns, etc.

Trail Nomination:

Responsible Party: Entire Committee

Duties:

-Nominate sections of trail for PMBA work day

-Define draft scope & limits of project

Long Range Planning Team:

Responsible Party: Paul Harris & James Wells

Duties:

-Focus on developing trail projects from 3-6month time frame to 1 year out

-Bring PMBA trail project nomination to FOW STI

-Coordinate with FOW planned STI projects for PMBA input / support

-Coordinate with FPC for approval of PMBA nominated/sponsored* trail projects-

-Coordinate with Trail Committee on trail corridor

-Coordinate for logistical/tool support and needs from logistics team

Short Range Planning Team:

Responsible Party: Chuck Unitowski, Dan Mercer, Dmitri Zorine

Duties:

-Detailed planning for trail days, 1 to 2 months out

-Develop detailed trail layout & trail segment projects

-Coordinate crew leaders, assign tasks, and volunteers to projects

-Work with FOW volunteer coordinator to put FOW volunteers to work

-Coordinate for logistical/tool support prior to work day

-Manage work day work flow, and supervise construction quality

Logistics & Tool Support Team:

Responsible Party: Tom Coyle, Louis Harris, Neil Silverman, David Gray, James Wells

Duties:

-Maintain inventory of PMBA tools, & equipment

-Purchase tools as required, to meet Trail work and other PMBA requirements, as identified by team & planners

-Arrange for material support for trail projects when needed.

-Coordinate support plan with Short Range planners for trail days

-Coordinate food support for volunteers & PMBA members when required

Promotion Team:

Responsible Party: Louis Harris, Neil Silverman, Tom Coyle, James Wells

Duties:

-Post trail work announcement on PMBA Facebook page

-Post Event for Trail Work on PMBA website, 1 month prior to event

Special Project Team:

Responsible Party: Chuck Kirkland, Neil Silverman

Duties:

-Develop plan for special trail projects, as need arises

-Coordinate for special trail project support

-Conduct special trail repair projects

Trail Day Administration:

Responsible Party: Dmitri Zorine & Kevin Groves (FOW)??

Duties:

-Provide work day volunteer orientation

-Coordinate manning of the PMBA registration table

-Maintain Sign-in sheets

-Ensure participants sign waivers

-Track Volunteer Hours

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Wed, 07/14/2010 - 8:52am

DrSaw

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can someone make me an admin of the Facbook PMBA page? Thx!

Wed, 07/14/2010 - 11:17am

Cat

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rotating trail layout responsibilities

Seems like it might be a good idea to rotate the trail layout reponsibilities among interested members of the comittee for various projects. This would allow for all the varying opinions and techniques to be represented. I would like to see the responsibility " Develop detailed trail layout & trail segment projects" currently listed under the short term planning team to either become a responsibility shifted between various members of the committee (aka - one team helps layout the Summit project, but we let a different team layout the next project) or to have the layout be a responsibility handled by the entire committee. While all trails need to accomodate the multiple user groups in the park, there seem to be varying opinions/styles on how to do this among the committee....might be nice to represent all of these opinions/styles as we move forward.

Thu, 07/15/2010 - 12:28pm

TrailHugger

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looking good & planning in advance

These plans look really great. I def want to work with you guys to get projects planned further in advance. Much of it is on our end at FOW in terms of getting all our ducks in a row before a project can move forward, such as getting Fairmount Park approval and having environmental assesments done (e.g. Plant Stewardship Index).

As we move forward we can disseminate some of the preliminary tasks among trail leaders to move the process along. Certainly a lot of the project planning like logistics and the on-the-ground approach to doing the trail work, organizing volunteers, etc. could be divided up beforehand so that whenever the prelimary work is completed the project is basically ready to go (recognizing that unforseen obstacles can sometimes still stall a project no matter how much planning we do).

Mon, 07/26/2010 - 8:23am

dannmer

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Trail Committee Role & Responsibilities Draft

I think we need to find someone who is willing to take pictures of the trail day activities and who can write up and post a description of what was accomplished. I think that there are only a few pictures of the GCC work. We need to better document our accomplishments. I will start taking some more pictures when Chuck and I are working on the trails.

Mon, 07/26/2010 - 9:22am

Lust4singletrack

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Jon was doing this for a long

Jon was doing this for a long time. There are hundreds of pictures out there of previous days/accomplishments. Jon could help find them if needed.

"Trails help humans make sense of a world increasingly dominated by pavement. They allow us to come more closely in touch with our natural surroundings, to soothe our psyches, to challenge our bodies, and to practice ancient skills"

Tom Coyle

Mon, 07/26/2010 - 10:22am

chunter

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One of the longer run goals

One of the longer run goals of the web committee is to have a repository of all the value added things that PMBA does. We have talked about having a "live report" on work day hours donated per year, and also having a central place to go to see project reports and photos, we have the tools to do this now, its just a matter of people volunteering their time to type the stuff up and maintain it.

Lets revisit the needs of the trail committee in terms of exposure for projects and we'll find real estate for this stuff that is front and center.

Chris

Anytime...

Tue, 07/27/2010 - 7:48am

jpearce

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Pictures

Tom's right - I have a lot of older pictures of TM work, but I haven't been out to many recent TM days - mostly because the clinics have taken a bite ouf ot my weekend time. I'll try to make more future TM days, though.

We do these things not because they are easy but because they are hard.

Tue, 07/27/2010 - 8:03am

Cat

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I can try to bring a camara

I can try to bring a camara out as well, but we should mention this at the next meeting to see if we can get another volunteer who would rather take pics than play in the dirt....

Tue, 07/27/2010 - 10:06am

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Sage

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The only pic you need

I think this picture says it all. The caption could read 5 yr old out muscles his father on ridiculously hot day.

Trail building with my son

I had a great time and my son was excited to do it again. Although he might have been more impressed with Dmitri's bike, lol. If I get out to that section of the Wiss today I will try and snap some more pics of the trail. Sage

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Wed, 01/18/2012 - 8:48am

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A great meeting and turn out

A great meeting and turn out last night. I'm was pleased to learn more about the numerous projects we have going on now, as well as all the ones in the works.

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