Latest Meeting With Council Staff - May 15th 2012

Had another meeting with council staff. Essentially..

1) Contractor being sought for the new section of DH. The brief is being sent out to various suggested contractors this week. They are putting an expectation on this section being finished by December.

2) BMORC presented a design for the top section of the DH above Lovers Walk that will be the second build day. This should be in July. There should be some preparatory work done before that to narrow it down to single track that winds down the hill rather than being straight.

3) There have been some issues with two sections of the XC due to proximity to indigineous artifacts. We are looking into an alternate work around with one of them and looking for suitable track offsets elsewhere.

4) There will be the first hands on day on June 16th. This will include some bushcare work (yeah more lantana) in the morning and then dealing with a creek crossing section in the afternoon.

I feel now council is behind the idea of getting proper and interesting bike trail out of this project. At this stage the biggest hurdle of course will be funding, so we need to look further into that