Last updated: 23rd June, 2005

PedNet Board of Directors pictured above, from left: Amahia Mallea (kneeling), Chip Cooper, Leila and Gabriel Gassmann (not Board members!), Allie Gassmann, Kathleen Weinschenk (seated), Walter Gassmann, Greg Ahrens, Chris Walthall, Karl Kruse (at back), Terry Skinner, Ian Thomas. Not pictured: Christy Welliver, Kim March, Tom Brinker, Dean Hargett

1. Inclusion of the PedNet Masterplan in the City of Columbia 2025 Long Range Transportation Plan (2001)
2. Development and adoption by the City of Columbia of the Greenbelt/Trail Network Masterplan which incorporates all PedNet Masterplan trails and establishes a priority for their development (2002)
3. Passage of a permanent 1/8th cent parks sales tax which will be used, in part, to fund the ongoing development of the trail network along with other park aquistion and operations (2002)
4. Passage by the City of a new Standards Design Standards Ordinance that insures excellent facilities for bike/ped/wheelchair users will be included in all new streets construction (2004)
5. Establishment by the City of the Broadway Corridor Plan Steering Committee which has completed a plan to retrofit Broadway, the community's primary east-west corridor, to accomodate bike/ped/wheelchair users (2004)

1. Extensive on-site research of at least 10 of the most bike/ped friendly cities in America and archiving of thousands of photographs and related documents of such cities
2. Development of impactful PowerPoint presentations including archived materials, which have been presented at City Council meetings, Planning and Zoning Commission meetings, Parks and Recreation Commission meetings, neighborhood groups, etc.
3. Development of a very attractive street display system (built and donated by John Rellis) that is staffed by PedNet volunteers at 10-12 public events each year as PedNet recruits new supporters;
4. Recruitment of more than 4,800 individual supporters and about 80 organizational supporters (public bodies, businesses, non-profits), living, working, and operating in Columbia and Boone County
5. Development and constant maintenance of a rich web site (www.pednet.org) that provides citizens with access to information about PedNet as well as about related items of interest, and a monthly email newsletter that updates about 1,800 supporters about PedNet progress and activities of interest
6. Primary organizational support for the establishment and management of the annual Mayor's Challenge: Bike/Walk/Wheel Week, an event promoting active transportation and health that attracted more than 1,700 participants in 2005
7. Development and management of Cycle-Recycle, an annual event which has - over 4 years - collected more than 500 donated bikes from PedNet members, repaired them and donated them to people in need
8. Manufacture and distribution of safety reflector strips to the general public in collaboration with the Columbia Disabilities Commission
9. Collaborative work session with Missouri Department of Transportation staff and PedNet volunteers to repair crosswalk
10. Production of the community's first Alternative Transportation Fair
11. Receipt of a 5-year, $200,000 Active Living by Design grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (one of 25 awarded from an initial field of 966 applicants)
12. Organization of dozens of Walk-to-School Day events and the Passport to Fitness Challenge program in which 1,700 children participated and more than 500 received prizes for achieving the Challenge goals
13. Piloting of the city's first Walking School Bus program at 4 schools
14. Receipt of the Active Living by Design Promotions Award (May, 2005) for achieving more than 70 earned media hits in 2004
15. Invitations (to Director Ian Thomas) to speak at Missouri Foundation for Health's Child Obesity Summit (March, 2005), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences' Conference on Obesity and the Built Environment (June, 2005) and Institute of Medicine's Preventing Child Obesity: Focus on Schools Conference (June, 2005)