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DESCRIPTION:Dear friends,\n\nPlease help us reinstate a valuable City program of 
 distributing unclaimed bicycles to youth in need by voicing your support at 
 City Council on Tuesday, July 9th, 4:30pm, or by contacting Council members 
 ahead of time.\n\nFor years unclaimed bicycles were given by the Santa Cruz 
 Police Department to the Bike Church, which in turn distributed them to 
 various nonprofits like Barrios Unidos, Project Bike Trip, and Green Ways 
 to School. The broken and severely dysfunctional bikes were salvaged by the 
 Bike Church, which makes used parts available cheap-to-free to the 
 community, giving some away through our free-to-youth and adult work-trade 
 programs.\n\nOver the last year, the City has given unclaimed bikes instead 
 to a for-profit business called the Bike Dojo, which has not invited other 
 groups to participate, and which has sold many bikes which are supposed to 
 go out for free to youth. Despite admitting these problems, the City has 
 not taken any action to remedy the situation.\n\nPlease ask the City 
 Council to immediately reinstate the distribution of unclaimed bicycles to 
 youth for free through the Bike Church or another qualified nonprofit 
 agency, as required by the Municipal Code (SCMC 2.24.120). The Bike Church 
 is also calling for distributions open to all interested nonprofits in the 
 City, as they were under the Bike Church's management, and for all years 
 prior.\n\nFor a more detailed account of the story you can see our blog 
 entry:\n\nhttp://bikechurch.santacruzhub.org/blog.html\n\nTo contact your 
 Council Members, come to Oral Communications on Tuesday, July 9th at 
 4:30pm, or contact the Council on your own:\n\nHilary Bryant: 
 hbryant@cityofsantacruz.com, 420-5026\nLynn Robinson: 
 lrobinson@cityofsantacruz.com, 420-5020\nPamela Comstock: 
 pcomstock@cityofsantacruz.com, 420-5020\nDon Lane: 
 dlane@cityofsantacruz.com,  420-5022\nCynthia Mathews: 
 cmathews@cityofsantacruz.com, 420-5020\nMicah Posner: 
 mposner@cityofsantacruz.com, 420-5028\nDavid Terrazas: 
 dterrazas@cityofsantacruz.com, 420-5020\n\nThanks for your support,\n\nThe 
 Bike Church Collective\n\n\nSAMPLE LETTER TO COUNCIL:\n\nDear Council 
 Members,\n\nThanks to the City for its years-long program of distributing 
 unclaimed bicycles to youth in need through the help of the Bike Church. 
 These distributions helped hundreds of youth gain access to bicycles, and I 
 hope they are reinstated without delay.\n\nI also want to express my 
 support for the Bike Church, which offers a great service by teaching 
 people how to fix bikes for themselves, as well as recycling tons of usable 
 parts which otherwise would go to the landfill. The Bike Church is the kind 
 of positive community resource that the City should be proud to have. They 
 have also proven to be the most effective managers of the youth bicycle 
 distributions, coordinating with numerous other organizations to get bikes 
 to youth, while salvaging usable parts from the junk no one else wants. 
 Please reinstate the Bike Church as managers of the 
 program.\n\nThanks,\n\n*******\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/07/07/18739482.php
SUMMARY:Help Restore City Youth Bicycle Distributions
LOCATION:City Council meeting\n809 Center Street.\nSanta Cruz, CA 95060 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/07/07/18739482.php
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