Street Painting June 1 2013

On the June 1st, dozens of neighbors gathered at NE Rodney and NE Tillamook to create Eliot’s first intersection painting. The twelve-hour effort, running from six o’clock in the morning to six o’clock in the afternoon, was the culmination of months of designing, signature gathering, and other planning efforts. This month, we finally put paint to pavement, transferring our vibrant graphic to the street. We hope that it brightens the path for pedestrians and bicyclists throughout the year!

Our project took place as part of Portland’s 2013 Village Building Convergence, an annual 10-day “placemaking” festival during which communities all over the city come together to make street paintings, gardens, community kiosks, tile mosaics, and other creative improvements of public spaces. Funding was provided by the Portland Trailblazers through the Eliot Neighborhood Association, and many local businesses turned out to supply our volunteers with coffee, sandwiches, tamales, fruit, and other goodies! Our neighbor Sheperd Grei, a.k.a. “D.J. Waater,” kept us grooving through the day.

If you haven’t stumbled upon it already, we encourage you to come see the painting for yourself. The central floral design represents growth and beauty in our community, which is located just north of the Rose Quarter. In the southern quadrant of the painting, musical notes remind us of our neighborhood’s vibrant jazz culture. The western quadrant will feature handprints of all those who come together to work on the painting. The northern quadrant represents the community gardens that have sprung up along our streets, as well as those we cultivate in our own yards. Finally, the eastern quadrant depicts the gears of the bicycles that flow through this intersection, which is the convergence of two greenways.

The graphic will wear out over the course of the year as cars and rain run over it. Next year, we plan to re-paint our intersection- using this design, or, if inspiration strikes, a completely new one! If you would like to be involved, it is never too early to get your name on our email list: just send a note to eliot.potluck@gmail.com.

See our street painting:

Willamette Week article with time lapse video by Sara Sneath.
Flickr photos
More Flickr photos

A big thanks to our partners and sponsors! 

• Portland Trail Blazers
• Eliot Neighborhood Association
• City Repair
• D.J. Waater
• Bridges Café
• Gold Rush Coffee Bar
• Pine State Biscuits
• Organics To You
• New Seasons Market
• All of our volunteers!!!

The best way to get to this room is to enter at Stanton & Gantenbein and go left, up the stairs and then right down a hallway

Meeting time: 6:30-8:00

Location: Emanuel Hospital Room 1035

6:30 Call to order and approval of minutes from previous meetings (if quorum present)

6:40 Discussion of Project by Ben Kaiser at Freemont and Williams (SE Corner)

7:10 Comprehensive Plan discussion and how we want to be involved

7:40 Bakery Block Building: plan here

7:50 Public comment/Updates on other topics

When: Friday, June 28th, 11am – 4pm
Where: PCC Cascade Campus, Gymnasium
705 N Killingsworth Ave, Portland

See the New Seasons Williams Job Fair flyer for more information.

Room change- Room 4255 – this room is above the atrium on the right.  501 N Graham- go in, up the elevator to the fourth floor and across the sky-bridge.  (Same as last month)

1. Welcome and Introductions

2. (Kristin) Read & Approve Last Month’s minutes

3. Changes to agenda?  Police report?

4. (Portland Parks) Dawson Park Update

5. (Tillman, Lamar) MLK Dream Run

6. (Nancy) Intersection Repair recap

7. (Angela/Nancy) Beautification committee update

8. (Allan) Newsletter- call for articles & advertisements

9. Summer Meeting Schedule and search for a new chair.

10. Committee Updates, NECN & other announcements and Public Comment

Big Crowd at Dawson Park Concert 2012

Summer is almost upon us and that means another great season of entertainment at Dawson Park! This year, we raised enough money to host 4 concerts and one movie night. These events are free and a great way to spend an evening out in the neighborhood. Concerts start at 6:30pm.  The movie night starts with free entertainment and popcorn at 6:30 followed by the movie starting at dusk. Our fantastic lineup is as follows:

• Wednesday, July 10 Portland Development Commission presents Devin Phillips – New Orleans Sax Sensation
• Wednesday, July 17 Legacy Emanuel Medical Center presents Curtis Salgado – Triumphant, Joyful Blues
• Wednesday, July 24 Atomic Gumbo – Louisiana Roots Music
• Wednesday, July 31 La Rhonda Steele - Blues & Funk Diva
• Friday, August 23rd movie night “The Princess Bride”

Bring your family and friends, a blanket or low camping chairs, a picnic, and your leashed dog. There will be an art activity for the kids and food vendors on site. Dawson Park is located on N. Stanton St. and N. Williams Ave.

Portland Parks now has an easy way for folks to make individual online donations to the concerts. If you’d like to help contribute by making a donation, please go to http://www.give2parks.org/concerts and select “Dawson Park (Eliot)” to give.

The concert committee would like to thank our sponsors:

• Legacy Emanual Medical Center
• Portland Development Commission
• New Seasons Market
• Widmer Brother Brewing
• Brooks Staffing
• Eliot Neighborhood Association
• FamilyCare Health Plans
• PCC Cascade Campus
• Portland Trail Blazers
• Randall Children’s Hospital
• Wonder Ballroom
• Andeo International Homestays
• Queen of Sheba
• Tavin’s Pub
• Turner Construction Company
• Tutor Doctor

We couldn’t do this without your generosity!

Volunteers of America Cleanup Crew

The 2013 Eliot Neighborhood Association Clean-Up was a success!

An able and capable group of volunteers arrived early, ready to work. They made the day fun while contributing to Eliot’s great livability.

Special thanks to New Seasons, Volunteers of America, NECN, Metro, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, Mike Warwick and his truck, Eddie & Becky of Becky’s Scrap Metal, Roxy of Portland Pensione, Allan Rudwick “the prez,” Clint Lundmark, Legacy, Starbucks, Pizza A Go Go  and Dominos.

We recycled a huge quantity and variety of materials. Some of the items recycled: furniture, televisions, clothing, toys, tools, tires, metal and wood. An impromptu swap meet of sorts sprouted up a number of times during the event!

We removed and disposed of 14,860 pounds of garbage from the neighborhood that day!

We accomplished our mission of reducing Eliot’s carbon footprint while bringing the neighborhood together through sharing.

7:00 Meeting begins

4^th Dimension Clean & Sober Club http://www.4thdimensionsoberclub.org/ —Winston Murray

·         Clean and sober club for young people on Mississippi and Interstate

·         7:00pm-Midnight Sunday- Thursday & 7:00pm-2:30am Friday-Saturday

·         They are here to let us know what is going on, and to let us know they are excited to be offering such a needed presence within Portland’s late night activities

Dangerous Intersection at North Broadway and Flint/Wheeler—Betsy Reese

·         She has been advocating for a change in that intersection since 1999 after watching many traffic collisions with other cars/pedestrians/bicycles

·         That specific intersection is like a wheel hub with many traffic spokes coming off of it

·           Reasons there are so many accidents include: 1) People finding an opening in the four lanes of one way traffic and trying to cross over all four for a turn around. 2) Cars making right hand turns onto Flint with bikes using the bike lane but not being noticed.

·         Two changes: Removal of slip ramp U-turn in street care island plus removal of one vehicle lane on Broadway.  Also signalization, including pedestrian and bike signals.

·         Betsy is asking for a letter from the board in support of these two traffic changes

·         Some ideas thrown out by the board were to get the Blazers and Left Bank more involved in this project and maybe to use some of our beautification money to plant trees.

·         Allan moves we write a letter

·         Annie seconds

·         All in favor none opposed

·         Motion passes

Officer Talk—Justin Winter—our neighborhood police officer

·         Spike in thefts but no other concerns

·         Annie asks about the increased amount of graffiti.

·         It is suggested that she contact Marsha Dennis who is in charge of graffiti abatement

Washington Park—Claudia

·         The Zoo and Portland Parks have decided to meter Washington Park

·         A big question is if we want our parks to start doing metered parking

·         Another issue is that the Zoo and Portland Parks seemed to be purposely underhanded in the method they used to try to get this passed with metro and city council.  They did not brief the specific neighborhoods about their plans but told metro and city council that the neighborhoods agreed with the plan.

·         Nancy motions that we write a letter not necessarily with an opinion about metering but addressing the parks and zoo’s methods of trying to get this passed.

·         Annie seconds

·         2 abstentions

·         None against

·         6 in favor

·         Motion passes

2013 Neighborhood Cleanup was a Success—-Alan Sanchez

Special thanks to:

·         New Seasons

·         Pizza A-Go-Go

·         Dominos Pizza

·         Starbucks

·         Roxy at the Pension

·         VOA-Men’s Residential Center

·         Mike Warwick

·         Legacy Emanuel

·         14,860 lbs of garbage was taken away

·         Huge donation to Goodwill

·         Brought in over $1,000 after we get reimbursement back from NECN

Public Announcements

New Seasons

·Job Fair on June 28^th at PCC in gymnasium (please try to keep this within the neighborhood)

·Late August opening

·Bill McGee is the store manager

National Night Out—Pastor Matt Hennessee

·         National Night out is on August 6^th

·         The idea behind it is to take back our public spaces making them safe for our families

·         Committee meeting at 10am on June 1^st3138 North Vancouver Avenue

·         Pamela Weather (Legacy Emanuel will help support it)

Dawson Park—Lee Pearlman

·         There seems to be some progress to the plans for redoing of Dawson Park

NECN—Benjamin Adrian

·         Meeting Facilitation Training—Monday, June 3^rd at 6:30 (NECN)

·         Neighborhood Emergency Preparedness Meeting—Wednesday June 19^th 6-8pm (NECN)

MLK Dream Run—August 14th

Nancy Zimmermann states that intersection painting is a go!

Pamela Weatherspoon—Hill Block community will be restored and planted with grass in the fall hopefully!

7:05 Meeting Starts

Introductions

Officer Talk with Officer Straub

·         Increase in car prowls

Cleanup Program for DEQ—Scott Manzano

·         Near Old Grant Warehouse at Ivy and MLK is a toxic waste site

·         DEQ reviewed this property and deemed it clean

·         EPA felt like there was still lead within the soil

·         DEQ will be doing further testing and they wanted to let us know

Bylaws—-Allan Rudwick

·         Are the amendments we made okay

·         Mike Warwick moves to adopt them

·         All in favor none opposed

Good Neighbor Agreement between Lloyd District, Blazers, Rose Quarter and Eliot

—Angela Kremer and Nancy Zimmermann

·         Determining the best way to accept $ 5,000 form GNA for beautification of the neighborhood.  This is harder that it seems because we are not a declared non-profit and the IRS does not want groups dealing with more than $5,000 in a tax year without declaring it. 

·         Angela and Nancy move to ask NECN(a 501.C3) for fiscal sponsorship with the hope that that will allow Eliot to take the full $5,000 without any tax concerns.

·         One opposed the rest in favor 

·         Motion passes.

Angela and Nancy propose a tree planting project for Eliot as one of the beautification projects.

·         The project would not exceed more than $1300

·         Two opposed the rest of the board in favor.

·         Motion passes

Angela and Nancy propose the intersection mural as one of the beautification projects tentatively scheduled for June 1^st.

·         Project would not exceed $700

·         One opposed the rest of the board in favor

·         Motion passes

Public Comment:

·         Appreciation for Angela and Nancy for working so hard on the GNA

·         Nancy reminds folks that they still have $3000 for other beautification projects

·         Mike Warwick talks about all of the building that is occurring in Eliot Neighborhood

Neighborhood Cleanup Project Reminder—Alan Sanchez

·         Make sure you are reminding your neighbors because we did not have the postcard mailer this year

·         Pizza a-go-go is donating pizza

·         New Seasons donated $300

·         Mike Warwick will donate his truck

Meal on Wheels—David Lomax

·         September 7^th 12:00-6:00 Jambalaya in the Park

·         They make over 300 meals a day for seniors

·         They always appreciate our free use of Dawson Park

·         Asking for event sponsorship

·         Allan moves to sponsor this event with $500

·         All in favor none opposed

·         Motion passes

Tillamook and Rodney Intersection Painting

This year, Eliot Neighbors are participating in Portland’s “Village Building Convergence”. Our project is an intersection painting at the corner of NE Rodney Avenue & NE Tillamook Street. Everyone is invited to join us and pitch in!

Where: NE Rodney Ave. & NE Tillamook St.
When: Saturday, June 1st, 2013, 10am – ?
What: Intersection painting and neighborhood block party, with free food provided by local grocers and eateries!

Our group has created an exuberant design for our painting. The floral center design represents growth and beauty in our community, which is located just north of the Rose Quarter. In the southern quadrant of the painting, musical notes remind us of our neighborhood’s vibrant jazz culture. The western quadrant will feature handprints of all those who come together to work on the painting. The northern quadrant represents the community gardens that have sprung up along our streets, as well as those we cultivate in our own yards. Finally, the eastern quadrant depicts the gears of the bicycles that flow through this intersection, which is the convergence of two greenways.

This community-building project is intended to be an annual event. That means we will re-paint our design – or a completely new one! – next year, and the year after that. So come on out, meet your neighbors, eat some good food, and put your paintbrush to the street!

We are still in great need of folks who can commit to helping out the day of the painting. Our most pressing need is for “volunteer wranglers” who will help direct the people who show up to paint (so that our painting will look beautiful, neat, and at least very nearly like the design that we have drawn). We also need people to

• Staff the food/coffee table
• Help set up the morning of the painting
• Help chalk out the design in the morning
• And more…

For more information, or if you are interested in working with us, please contact Nancy –  nancy.zimmermann@gmail.com, (503) 758-4856.

Meeting of the Board (Public welcome) May13th at Legacy Emanuel Hospital : Room 4255 7-9pm

1. Welcome and Introductions   7:00pm

2. (Kristin) Read & Approve October minutes

3. Changes to agenda?  Police report?

4. (Betsy Reese) Update on N Flint/Broadway/Wheeler intersection

5. (Christopher) Coal Trains in NE Portland

6. (Claudia) Washington Park Parking Discussion

7. (Nancy) Intersection Painting update @ Tillamook & Rodney

8. (Alan) Neighborhood Cleanup Recap

9. (Allan) Summer meeting schedule, speaker brainstorm

10. Other items

• Treasurer’s Report
• Committee Updates
• NECN & other announcements
• Public Comment