Progress, Slow, Party

A group of us met with our local Parks and Recreation department to start talking about the agreement document needed for us to build singletrack. We talked about many things, most of which we’ve touched on at some point along this journey.

Parks and Recreation is going to draft the document and send it to us for review. The neighborhood will also have an opportunity to review the document. In addition, the City Attorney must be involved, too. (sigh)

IF the planets align this can all be done in time for the October Parks and Recreation Board meeting. That organization has final approval say. Once they approve it – either in the October meeting or the November meeting – it goes to the City Council.

I’d really, really like to get this approved such that we could get at least the easy loop complete and open before the weather turns. I’m not optimistic. We have hurdles to hurdle and time is not on our side.

But, I’m going to light a candle rather than curse our darkness. One reason being our darkness isn’t really all that dark. On Saturday September 25th beginning at 7:30 PM we (FAST) is hosting a kick-off, approval celebration party. We’re meeting in the party room at Monk’s. Snakebite Productions is sponsoring the (first) keg.

We’d love to have you stop by and see our plans. We’ll have maps to view. The Officers will be on hand to answer questions or just talk trails, riding, and good beer. We’ll have trail building tools there as well. In addition, we’re having some exceptionally good tee shirts made which we’ll have for sale at a very good price.

If you’re in my neck of the woods, please join us for some free beer. We’ll be taking names and info for those willing to volunteer to help dig. We can’t have too many volunteers. I wish I had a “First Dig Date” to give you, but I don’t. We’ll keep working and plugging along.

Lastly, I’m getting excited for the North Dakota trip to ride the Maah Daah Hey trail. Weather permitting I’m departing the weekend after this coming. I’m going to see how much riding I can get done to make sure I’m back by the party on the 25th.

Ride On.