OAKVILLE CYCLING CLUB 2025 AGM RECAP
Dear Members,
Thank you to all members who attended this year’s Annual General Meeting, held on February 8th, 2025 at The Oakville Conference Center. Also many thanks to those who provided valuable input throughout the meeting to help make our OCC that much better in 2025!
Brief Meeting Recap
- President Dane Morrison Kicked-off the meeting at 9:30am welcoming members in attendance
- Executive presented the AGM deck to members, including
- Recap of 2024 season highlights and stats
- Member survey results
- 2024 Financial Actuals and 2025 budget
- 2025 plans which covered among other items
- Club membership to increase to 550 members with fee set at $95.00 for 2025
- New jersey design for 2025 and plan for the club to subsidize the jersey purchase for members for $30.00
- Introduced concept of ride captains based on speed groups to assist in managing consistency across all rides
- Revised ride speeds with new speed groups divided by 2km/hr increments
- At 10:15 member Scott Pearson took the stage to manage the board election. As there was one nominee per position, the 8 positions were filled by acclamation.
- At 10:20 we took questions/feedback from the members
- Meeting adjourned at 10:33am.
Top Ride Leaders
Thanks again to our ride leaders! Our top ride leaders will be acknowledged this year with a “Super Domestique” Jersey to thank them for their efforts! Our top three ride leaders were:
- Ian Fletcher
- Eddie Bodbyl
- Stephane Duclos
The full list of our top 20 leaders can be found on slide 4 of the attached pdf. We also have special personalized Jerseys for our Top 20 to wear in 2025 (see pg 16). More details to follow.
Thank you to everyone who volunteered as Ride Leaders last year, we appreciate your commitment and without you our rides would not be possible.
Elections
- Dane Morrison – President
- Monique Milewska – Vice President
- Joe Marangi – Treasurer
- Andrew Penny – Secretary
- Spencer Hoyle – Membership Coordinator
- Emily Traynor – Events & Social Coodinator
- Ed Daugaveitis – Route Coordinator
- Bob Pender – Ride Coordinator
We would like to thank our outgoing Vice President – Julianne Trotman – for all of her hard work and dedication to the club
The full list of OCC Executive members can be found at the bottom of this email.
Looking Ahead to 2024
- Membership will be allowed to increase to 550 members for the 2025 season
- Cost of membership will be $95, but will include a $30.00 subsidy toward the purchase of your 2025 Club Jersey.
- Casual club clothing items are still available in our online clothing store.
Social
- We are welcoming a new Event & Social Coordinator to the board this year; welcome Emily Traynor!
- We are looking to continue expanding our Social (club organized) and Special Rides (Rider organized); we are looking to do more one-off special rides organized by ride leaders. If you have an idea for a special ride please reach out to the exec.
- We will be organizing an early season social ride to welcome new members
- Late August/Early September Gran Fondo Style event – With most of the season behind you, why not challenge yourself to ride your first (or one of many) 100/160/200km distance with your friends/own group and join us for a BBQ to celebrate your achievement!
2025 Ride Leader Program
- We will be continuing our mentor program to match experienced Ride leaders with new Ride Leaders. If you are interested or have ever considered becoming a ride leader, please watch for more information to come.
- The “sweep” position will continue to be a “signup” position for all rides, and we will look for ways to recognize those who volunteer for this position in our rides. The sweep position incredibly helpful to ensure no riders get dropped or left behind, especially in larger groups.
- We will continue with the Ride Leader competition for our 2025 season. Rules & details to follow.
- We will be holding a special thank you dinner for our active Ride leaders at the end of the season. Qualification criteria to follow.
EXISTING MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL WILL BEGIN ON SUNDAY, MARCH 2nd, AND WILL BE OPEN FOR 2 WEEKS.
New member signup will open to the public on March 16th.
Our official first ride is planned for Sunday, April 13th, weather permitting.
We look forward to a fantastic 2025 season and to see you all out on the road and at our special events!
Your Oakville Cycling Club Exec