MINUTES FOR SABIN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION BOARD MEETING,
Monday, 8 February 2010, Cooking Class, Whole Foods, 7 - 9 pm.
INTRODUCTIONS, WELCOME TO GUESTS.
AGENDA, additions, corrections.
JANUARY MINUTES, changes and corrections. Jeff moves to accept. Unanimous.
TREASURER’S REPORT, Chika Saeki.
BALANCE AS OF January 11, 2009, $4204.59
Income:
Donation, Kenneth and Jane Gravel $25.00
________________________________________________________________Total: $25.00
Expenses:
Print Results $207.00
__________________________________________________________________Total: $207.00
BALANCE as of February 8, 2010 $4022.59
Jeff moves to accept. Unanimous.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
ADMINISTRATION, Rachel Studer. Elise Scolnick is appointed SCA representative to Last Thursday meeting with Sam Adams and Amanda Fritz which is concurrent with this Board meeting.
BYLAW REVISIONS, Jeff Strang. The Committee met 25 January to clear up details on the revision. There is a question how the community can learn about the 1/25/10 revisions. Decision: they will be at the library and published on the website.
CLEANUP.Austin Peterson reports for Jerry Channel of a recent meeting about the cleanup, which is tentatively set for 15 May. A new contract with the city will be negotiated soon, but the old rules pertain for now, except that vouchers for yard waste are no longer available. Most neighborhoods are asking people not to discard yard waste at this time. Bill asks if there could be some provision for yard waste at a cost. Austin says it is costly and a “trade off.” David says half the volume last year was yard waste. There seems to be a consensus that retaining yard waste in the cleanup is a good idea. Wood waste may or may not be possible. The association pays for hauling but other expenses are covered by voucher.
Rachel asks if the door to door service will be continued. Austin says it’s surprising that the door to door service never brought donations. Austin says some hinting to that effect is in order.
Proposed budget for cleanup:
$100 for food and drinks for volunteers;
$50 for gloves and incidentals;
$100 for the second Annual Clean-up Grant to Marantha Church for sponsoring the clean-up for all these years;
$100 to the Sabin School Art Program to design the Clean-up Poster;
$100 for poster printing/copying and possible handout copies.
Rachel asks that the budget be presented at the next Board meeting so that we can formally adopt it.
David reminds the Board that NECN sends postcards announcing all the neighborhood cleanups, reducing our need for advertising.
Rachel asks about T-shirts. They are not in the budget, so perhaps there are some leftover. David says people tend to save them to wear from year to year.
COMMUNICATIONS, Clay Veka.
Rachel announces that the Communications Director position is removed as Board officer in revised bylaws. That person will be the head of the Communications Committee under the bylaws to be approved at the next general meeting.
Clay solicits feedback on the newsletter. People express great appreciation. Clay asks if people see better newsletters to please show them to her.
The Sabin website has been improved. Clay and Naomi will continue to work on it.
Administrator of the member list is discussed.
COMMUNITY SAFETY COMMITTEE, Barbara Conable.
Barbara shared an email Austin had written her, “...I thought maybe we could do an insert in the March newsletter and on the back we could have a coupons section where we would solicit the businesses to pay to put coupons....” The Board discussed the possibility of an insert or also of making safety the subject of the next general meeting, or both. A decision about the subject of the general meeting is delayed until next month. In the meantime, Austin will compile information for a safety insert to present to the Board in March with the thought of publishing in April.
Barbara reported that there are now five people interested in training for a foot patrol.
There will be a meeting of NET at Barbara’s house on Wednesday 10 February. So far ten people are committed to coming.
SCSC continues to partner with the PTA of the Sabin school on matters of safety.
ENVIRONMENT, Trent Thelen.
Trent is giving up this committee to further his considerable work with LUTC. Rachel will be interim chair.
The following invitation from David Sweet is discussed. “I'm writing to invite you and your family to the first volunteer opportunity for the Sabin Community Orchard - our fruit tree planting on Saturday, Feb. 13, 10:00 am to noon....”
Friends of Trees. Sabin Neighborhood Coordinator is Lisa Johnston Smith, 503-314-4557. Sabin tree planting is March 13.
EVENTS COMMITTEE, Liberty Wilson.
Barbara Conable explains the new NECN Event Application form. In order for events to be covered by NECN insurance, they must be posted NECN and approved with this form no later than four weeks before the event.
The Board chooses the date Monday 10 May for the general meeting, to promote cleanup.
Saturday 8 May will be the Neighborhood Encounter that Jeff proposed to visit common spaces in Sabin.
Liberty announced outreach events:
Whole Foods tabling, 18 April;
On-foot outreach 1 May to be combined with Jeff delivery of newsletters.
HISTORIAN, Bill Youngren, will have a report next time about Betty Walker turning over documents to Bill and Rachel and dictating memories of Sabin.
LAND USE & TRANSPORTATION, David Sweet. See full report at the end of the Minutes.
Helen Sherman expressed concern about driver visibility at 13th and Fremont. David Sweet promised to look into it.
NE COALITION, David Sweet. David reminded the Board about the NECN project Solarize Northeast, which offers weatherization and solar panels at a great reduction in price due to bulk buying.
David encourages members to attend upcoming meetings concerning Urban Renewal areas.
NEW BUSINESS
The Board heard a Sabin resident in his complaints concerning some Sabin businesses.
ADJOURN 9 pm
Sabin Community Association, Land Use and Transportation Committee
Meeting Notes February 8, 2010; 3739 NE 16th Ave.
Present: Jeff Strang, Trent Thelan, David Sweet, Clay Veka, Ric Alexander, Austin Peterson, Kirke Wolfe
Fremont crossing at 13th/14th: Clay and Kirke have made contact with all the businesses here, but have not yet been able to reach all the owners to get their approval for a crosswalk/bike corral. They expect to have the rest soon. Ralph at Café Destino has a definite preference for the mid-block/13th Ave alignment, as his customers like to pull in at 14th and run in for coffee. The next step will be for David to recontact Mark Lear at PBOT who has agreed to assign a traffic engineer to draw up plans.
Green Street Project: Trent reports that BES is conducting the physical survey of the site. Ivy Dunlop with BES is working to process our grant. When we have the money, we can hire a civil engineer to do the drawings we will need for permits. When the drawings are 30% complete, wee can begin the permit application process. David and Trent will attend a City brown bag presentation on the new public works permit application system.
NECN: David encouraged people to attend the meetings sponsored by NECN on the future of Urban Renewal in NE Portland. The NECN LUTC has proposed to the Board that they take positions endorsing the Portland Bicycle Plan 2030, and opposing the Columbia River Crossing as it is currently proposed. David expects the Board will follow those recommendations.
Metro Regional Transportation Plan: A new 45-day comment period starts March 22 for the revised RTP. Austin volunteers to review the plan and report to the committee for any recommended action.
Transportation Safety Summit February 16: Clay and Austin will attend, although Clay will be wearing her PBOT hat, so Austin will represent the interests of the SCA. We reviewed our current concerns for Austin’s benefit.
Portland Plan: The deadline for taking the online survey has been extended to March 31. You can find it at http://www.portlandonline.com/portlandplan/index.cfm?c=49008. The fact-finding phase is drawing to a close. The background reports are available at public libraries and the NECN office as well as online and are definitely worth a look, http://www.portlandonline.com/portlandplan/index.cfm?c=51427. David will invite Debbie Bischoff, the Northeast District Planner to make a presentation on the plan at our March meeting.
Respectfully submitted,
David Sweet
