GOVERNOR’S ADVISORY BOARD MEETING ON

MOTORCYCLE SAFETY

QUARTERLY MEETING

Teleconferenced

February 22, 2008, 1:00p.m.

DPS Training Division

2101 Snyder

Carson City, NV 89701

Las Vegas NHP TMC Bldg.

4615 W. Sunset Road

Las Vegas, NV 89118

ATTENDEES

Buzz Hunt - Chairman

Todd Hartline – Board Member

Roger Fox – Board Member

Geri Kodey – Board Member

John Breslow – Board Member

Ken Kiphart – Program Administrator

Bev Sherman – Program Assistant

Chuck Abbott – Chief, Traffic Safety

Richard Tapia – Carson City Harley Davidson

Maya Keller – Carson City Harley Davidson

CALL TO ORDER

The meeting was called to order by the Chairman at 1:20 p.m.

WELCOME

Chairman Buzz Hunt welcomed the board members and various members of the public in attendance.

APPROVAL OF AGENDA

The Chairman requested approval of the agenda. Board member Geri Kodey moved that the agenda by accepted and Todd Hartline seconded the motion. The motion was carried.

APPROVAL OF PREVIOUS MEETING MINUTES

The Chairman requested approval of the minutes from the previous meeting. Board member John Breslow moved that the minutes be accepted and Roger Fox seconded the motion. The motion was carried.

REPORT BY PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR (Ken Kiphart)

The Administrator shared the program events that have taken place since the last board meeting in September.

He attended two more meetings in Washington D.C. with the Federal Highway Administration. This brings our total meetings to four. Thus far, we’ve created a brochure that has been distributed to all state’s DOT organizations. The focus of the brochure is to bring to the forefront road hazards, designs and maintenance as it impacts motorcyclists.

We also developed common signage for road signs to specifically warn riders of an upcoming road event that may cause issues common to motorcycles. The signs will appear in the Manual for Uniform Traffic Control Devices. However, since this manual is a federal publication, it requires extensive review and comment. The administrator doesn’t expect to see the manual revised until 2009.

The national motorcycle safety conference is to be held in Billings, Montana in August 2008. Ken traveled to Billings for a hotel and convention facility tour and held and SMSA Executive Committee meeting for conference planning.

Nevada Rider expects to see three new ranges open in northern Nevada; one at Western Nevada College, one at Truckee Meadows Community College and one potentially at Carson City Harley Davidson. We are prepared to provide equipment to WNC, since they notified us in 2005 of their plan. However, TMCC just notified us this past summer. We weren’t prepared for the use of more funds to provide equipment. We work on a biennium budget so this will require additional planning.

Our recruiting posters appear to have been successful. This year, we received 15 interest cards from the south and 43 from the northern Nevada area. This allowed us to schedule a full RCP for Las Vegas and possibly a double class for the north in April, 2008.

We conducted our southern Nevada Instructor PDW on February 9th and 10th. Approximately 30 instructors participated. Items covered were coaching styles, knowledge of the skills test and how to facilitate. We then wrapped up the event with and ERC update.

On February 10, 2008, we conducted an RCP in Las Vegas for seven days. On day one, we had a no-show, reducing the candidates to eleven. During the next three days, three candidates self eliminated. On day 5, two candidates failed the riding and written tests, thus reducing our candidates to five. The remaining five, however, dug their heels in and spent a great deal of time preparing and practicing. All were successfully graduated.

The Program is approved to buy 20 more motorcycles this fiscal year. When we submitted the purchase order to the awarded dealer, we discovered that American Honda no longer manufactured Nighthawks for 2008. Our enterprising dealer searched nationwide and discovered 20 Nighthawks in the Chicago area. We expect delivery in the next couple of months.

We are also approved to replace our 37’ mobile classroom this fiscal year. As you may remember, our current trailer barely made it back from Elko at the end of our 2007 training season.

We have submitted the necessary paperwork to State Purchasing for our new mobile classroom, but do not expect to take delivery until after the 2008 training season has begun. We were faced with canceling classes through June, or spending additional money on the current trailer for repairs necessary to start the season. Canceling classes doesn’t satisfy our mission so we have decided to spend the additional funds.

Our motorcycle awareness campaign will mirror what was done last year. We will use radio spots, billboards and mobile billboards during the Laughlin River Run, Bike Fest (Las Vegas) and Street Vibrations.

We have an instructor meeting scheduled on March 7th with WNC to let the instructors choose their classes for 2008. Additionally, we have hired a temporary employee to help once again with phone registration which starts March 17th.

The administrator then had a discussion with board members concerning the latest statistics on motorcycle fatalities.

OLD BUSINESS

Motorcycle Awareness

Our campaign for 2008, as stated above will be quite similar to last year. We are, however, adding a mobile billboard to our motorist awareness campaign for Street Vibrations. This mobile billboard will be able to cover areas of high motorcyclist activity (Genoa, Lake Tahoe, Hwy 395 between Carson City and Gardnerville) that we haven’t been able to access in the past due to lack of standing billboards available along those routes.

2010 Funding update

The administrator explained that we have received the federal funding for this year and each year we will need to reapply for renewed funding for the next federal fiscal year.

Chuck Abbott, Chief of Traffic Safety mentioned that there are some interesting ideas proposed from Mary Peters of the National DOT regarding grant funds. She is adamant regarding helmet use for motorcyclists and there is a good possibility that those federal funds will also be earmarked for use by states to encourage helmet use.

NEW BUSINESS

Motivation, Inc.

The administrator has been in touch with Larry Loyd of Motivation, Inc. and it appears this project is at a complete stop. The backer for this range has opted out entirely and the item can be moved off the agenda.

Carson City Harley-Davidson Range

The board members discussed the proposal from Carson City Harley Davison for their new motorcycle training range in Carson City. It was agreed by all board members that the proposal was very well written and they had no questions. Richard Tapia from Carson City Harley Davidson spoke briefly concerning the range paving and timeline to having the Riders Edge range up and running.

The Administrator will inspect the range site after the final work is completed and send the application and photographs to MSF for their approval before the range can be used for training.

Chairman Hunt called for a motion to approve this proposal. Board member Geri Kodey moved to approve the Carson City Harley Davidson range site. The motion was seconded by Todd Hartline and unanimously approved by the board members.

Alcohol Focus Group

Nevada Rider is holding an informal meeting on February 27, 2008 with various members of the public to discuss the continued use of alcohol among motorcyclists. The fatality and crash statistics on impaired riders are not improving and we are, therefore, interested in getting feedback from the public, including the riders themselves, hoping to gain new insights and ideas on how to reach this group of riders.

This is our first attempt with such a forum and we are enthused with the possibilities.

Board member Roger Fox asked that we send out information on the outcome of this meeting to the members. The Program Assistant will follow up with notes from the meeting.

PUBLIC TESTIMONY

None

NEXT MEETING – SET DATE

The next regular meeting date was set for Monday, May 19th, 2008. Time and location to be determined at a later date.

ADJOURN

Board Member Todd Hartline moved to adjourn the meeting. The motion was seconded by John Breslow. The meeting was adjourned at 1:52 pm.