Hi there!

 

I agree with Chip that migrating to the city website will help ensure long-term sustainability and maintenance of the site. I really like the Wixsite organization and content, though.

 

As for racks on the riverfront—the new business and economics building will have a ramp from the rail trail level to the building and a rack is planned at the bottom of the ramp.

 

Thanks,

 

Traci

 

From: Drew Gatlin <jgatlin@morgantownwv.gov>
Sent: Monday, October 5, 2020 4:49 PM
To: Bike Board <bikeboard@bikemorgantown.com>
Subject: [Bikeboard] Help! Website + Riverfront Bike Parking - Assessment + Meeting?

 

Hello BikeMorgantown!

 

A few things:

 

First, I need the help of your expert minds! We need to perform a comprehensive assessment of the bike parking along the Morgantown Riverfront. A decent amount of inventorying has already been performed using RackSpotter.com. However, this did not include the following, which we need:

  1. Comments on each of the existing bicycle parking locations
    1. Is it enough?
    2. Is the rack design satisfactory?
    3. It necessary, or is it chronically underutilized?
  1. Identification of areas that lack any current bike parking and need installation of new parking

Please let me know if you would like to be part of this project, and if so, how you would like to be involved. Final expected product would be: a map and/or document ID'ing all existing locations and needed locations with the above information. You could probably do this entirely in RackSpotter, but we don't have easy access to the database to manipulate the presentation of the data.

 

Second, www.bikemorgantown.com is up for renewal. You have a few options:

  1. Ask the city to pay to renew the domain
  2. Abandon the domain and incorporate the content onto the morgantownwv.gov website
  3. Allow the domain to lapse entirely
  4. Request that the city transfer the domain to some separate entity (would need to be a nonprofit, I think)

Some considerations for the website: 

  1. If you wish to have the city pay to renew the domain, you need to articulate why maintaining the website is a "need" - we continue to be in a spending freeze
  1. In 2018, the board drafted a new website for BikeMorgantown but never pulled the trigger: https://bikemorgantown.wixsite.com/home
  1. During that time, they unpublished most existing content from www.bikemorgantown.com
  1. If we kept the existing domain, we would need to map the new content to it.
  1. If transferred to pages within morgantownwv.gov, it's likely that we will need to build several sub-pages.

Third, we have a few people interested in joining the bike board. We should meet. Can someone throw out a day/time as a suggestion? I would prefer by the end of next week.

 

Hope you're all well!

Drew

 

J. Drew Gatlin

Staff Engineer

389 Spruce St., Rm. 24

Morgantown, WV 26505 

Office: (304) 284-7411

Cell: (304) 719-7900

Fax: (304) 284-7409