Thank you for reading the Comprehensive Bicycling Plan last night and for your recommendations for its improvement.

Attached is a budget request that Don submitted to Terrence Moore, City Manager this week. Don, Chip, gunnar and I created that budget in approximately 15 minutes. I would very much have preferred to submit a budget that was clearly based on a responsible plan. I believe that there will never be a sufficient budget to support all the things that we would like to see done if we don't have a plan.

Please finish reading the Comprehensive Bicycling Plan and give me any comments or recommendations in whatever way is convenient for you. I will work your recommendations and put them into a new version. Our lively discussions last night as we reviewed the plan were wonderful, fun and productive. I wish we could continue such discussions through the whole plan but I recognize we all have other priorities. At least, if I can knead all of your recommendations into one document, we will have a plan that is ours and that we can promote through the channels.

Thanks to Jason Jeffries, Labyrinth has generously provided us a document management system. In the next few days, I'll set it up for us to use. It enables us to check out the plan, make changes to it, track the changes and check it in so we can keep track of change and versions. I will send you another message with your username and password once I get it set up.