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Advocating for Mountain Biking in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties
ROMP encourages mountain bikers to take part in trail maintenance and construction, participate in land manager meetings and master plans, ride with respect for the land and other trail users, and have fun! |
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CURRENT BILL STATUS
MEASURE : A.B. No. 2537
AUTHOR(S) : Furutani.
TOPIC : Public works: exemption: volunteers.
HOUSE LOCATION : ASM
TYPE OF BILL :
Active
Non-Urgency
Non-Appropriations
Majority Vote Required
Non-State-Mandated Local Program
Fiscal
Non-Tax Levy
LAST HIST. ACT. DATE: 04/23/2008
LAST HIST. ACTION : Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
COMM. LOCATION : ASM APPROPRIATIONS
HEARING DATE : 05/07/2008
TITLE : An act to amend Section 1720.4 of the Labor Code,
relating to public works.
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BikersandSellers.com is a free to post site for individuals looking to buy, sell or trade new or used cycling goods. Retail stores, Organizations and News sources can also post information on "what they are all about" Need to hire someone in the cycling industry..post job or volunteer ads for free...Check it out..BikersandSellers.com Cycling's Classified Connection
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The House Congressional Resolution on Bicycling (H.Con.Res. 305), introduced in February, calls on the United States Congress to adopt a national bicycling strategy to fully realize the incredible benefits of getting more people bicycling, more safely, more often. There is a "sense of Congress" that complete streets policies are essential to ensure wise use of considerable Federal investment in transportation infrastructure, and that expanded funding for bicycling and walking programs is desirable and appropriate.
As we celebrate National Bike Month in May, cities and organizations throughout the country will be hosting events promoting bicycling as a healthy, fun, and viable form of transportation. This is also a perfect opportunity to contact your Congressional Representatives to thank those that have signed onto the Resolution and urge those that have not to so.
A good showing for the Resolution is essential as this would serve as the first ever comprehensive bicycling policy statement and would serve as an important policy statement guide for the next transportation reauthorization which begins next year (2009).
As part of National Bike Month please take a moment to Contact your Congressional Member to urge them to support HCONRES305.
Thank you.
WRITE YOUR REPRESENTATIVE HERE
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April - May newsletter is out, folks!
(And so is February - March issue...)
Get your ROMP Newsletter here
NOTE: ROMPS's web lackey sincerely apologizes for the slow news updates in the past 8 weeks. He's so busy with school and work, he hasn't even had time to ride his newly upgraded downhill bike.
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Palo Alto Goats
Posted by: mtbrider on Thursday, April 17, 2008 - 08:04 PM PST |
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From the City of Palo Alto-If you visited Open Space last week you probably saw herds of goats grazing
in selective areas. Goats are back in the Pearson-Arastradero Preserve for
the second year in an area just off Arastradero Road. The site has been
carefully selected to reduce nonnative
or exotic weeds on the
preserve and allow the native
plants to thrive.
In Foothills Park, the goats are
being used for the first time to
reduce the fire danger in the park’s
Towle Campground and in two
hillside picnic areas. By allowing the
goats to concentrate in these areas,
they eat a lot of vegetation and
reduce “ladder fuels” or lower
branches on brush and trees that surround these popular areas of the park,
which will ultimately ease the fire danger this summer. The goats accomplish
in hours what would take days for staff to do by hand or with weed whips.
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