jack,
90% of advocacy is showing up for a lot of long meetings. It sounds like you're on the right track. Look to things that you can persuade them of. For example, ask that the scope of the committee include laws, and fight for laws that maintain the right of cyclists to use the whole road. If they want to build lanes on a road, insist that they show final drawings showing exactly where the lanes will be before approving them. That way, you'll either stop bad bike lanes or you'll make them better.
Be wary of plans that inist on a specific bike facility on a given road before designs show that it is feasible. That's a strategy some bike-lane-everywhere'ers use. It results in lanes being shoe-horned into where they don't fit.
Finally, always propose alternatives. You will not be respected if you only offer critical comments to the ideas of others.
Last edited by Daily Commute; 09-17-05 at 08:01 AM.