BBC President's Message - 2020/2021

Goodbye 2020

Last year, 2020, was a year of many surprises.  We started the year out strong with a well-attended planning meeting to come up with ideas for increasing rider participation on our club rides.  In spite of the meeting being held on what was to become the only snow day in the winter of 2020, over 35 hardy members showed up for the meeting.

Barely 6 weeks later we faced difficult decisions confronting our club due to the arrival of the covid-19 pandemic.  We made the difficult decision to suspend all bike rides effective March 28, 2020 and we realized that we had to cancel our annual Memorial Day Weekend event, Kent County Spring Fling.  Eventually each of our monthly events was cancelled:

Read more: Goobye 2020

2021 Board of Director's Election & Bylaws Update Results

Greetings Baltimore Bicycling Club Voters,

Our first online election is over and the results are in.

The slate of candidates for positions on the Board of Directors was approved overwhelmingly and the amended Bylaws were also approved by a wide margin.

The BBC 2021 Board of Directors will be:

Read more: 2021 Election and Bylaws

2021 Board of Directors:
Request for Nominations and Election

Baltimore Bicycling Club members

This is the time of year when members can consider supporting our club by serving on our Board of Directors.

There will be a couple of openings for the 2021 Board.  If you have any interest in serving on the Board, please send me an email at:  President@BaltoBikeClub.org and let me know your interest. I would appreciate hearing from you.  Please respond by October 15, 2020 if you are interested in serving on the 2021 BBC Board of Directors.

Our club Bylaws state that the club hold an annual election for the Board of Directors.  Normally we hold the election during our end of year meeting, held at Oregon Ridge for the last several years.  This year we will not hold an in-person meeting, but we will still have our election.

The election for the 2021 Board of Directors will be held via email, using election runner (https://electionrunner.com) an online voter interface that will tabulate the results.  All members will be sent a ballot via email.  More details will follow in the coming weeks.

Patrick Lapensee

-- President of the Baltimore Bicycling Club

BBC Extends Membership Expiration Dates Due To Cancelled Group Rides

In mid-July, all BBC members whose membership was active on March 28, 2020, the day the BBC cancelled group rides, have had their membership extended by one year. 

If your membership expired after March 28, your membership was extended by one year from the date of expiration. 

If your membership has not yet expired, it was also extended by one year from the date of expiration.

If your membership was active on March 28 and you do not see this extension when you log into your account, or if you expected that your membership should have been extended but can no longer log into your BBC account, contact the BBC Treasurer at treasurer@baltobikeclub.org.