Board Meeting Minutes 2012-5-14
DRAFT—-NOT YET APPROVED
Eliot Neighborhood Association Meeting Minutes
7:05 Open Question and Feedback
Inviting neighbors
Accomplishing goals
Attendance (inclusion)
Neighborhood gatherings (concerts in the park or block parties)
Find out the events that are already occurring in the neighborhood (Good in the Hood)
How do you intentionally engage people who are already attending these events?
Have a table
Have a list of ENA accomplishments
List of things we have invested in (Newsletter, park concerts, clean-up)
Sign up people…get their information
Help people get there
Let them know about the issues that affect their neighborhood
Promote the general meetings
Items of action
Angela will make a list of accomplishments to share with people
Create a list of how people can get involved
White Board w/markers so neighbors can share their ideas or concerns
Jim Hlava will table at Good in the Hood
Angela will table at 2nd Wednesday Concert
Would any others like to table at an event?
Earthquake Preparedness—Community Disaster Preparedness
Jacob Nitchals— solidground.necoalition.org and http://www.facebook.com/solidgroundne
Saturday, June 2nd Resilience PDX King School 4906 NE 6th Ave 10:00am to 5:00pm
Connect with other Portlanders to acquire and share knowledge
Event will host a number of workshops on topics such as earthquake proofing your home, preparing a comprehensive household kit and food storage
Suggestions for meeting places or information hubs throughout Eliot?
Dawson Park
Urban Gardens
Irving Park
Matt Dishman Community Center
The Hubs will have info about shelters, food resources, medical resources, tool libraries
Responders most likely will not be able to reach most people for 72hrs
Officer Talk
Officer Gryphon and Officer Ockunzi
Good improvements in Eliot
Concerns would be car prowls, house prowls, Dawson Park
Gang activity has been increasing for the last 3 years and always gets worse in the summer
Loaves and Fishes—Summer in September Jambalaya and BBQ Festival
David Lomax
Loaves and Fishes has been around for 41 years
All volunteer support
Asking for our support by letting them use Dawson Park and a sponsorship
Pauline moves that we sponsor a $500 table
Not enough board members to take a vote. Check with Tamille regarding how much we have saved?
We will check back in on this issue during Junes meeting.
Committee Updates
Neighborhood Cleanup May 19th
Julie Woelfer
8:30am meet at N. Graham between Williams and Vancouver
Put signs up
N. Williams Project
Allan Rudwick
Open House May 11th at 1pm
Meeting Adjourned
Attendance
Board Members: Allan Rudwick, Angela Kremer, Jim Hlava, Joan Ivan, Julie Woelfer, Kristin Yates, Laurie Simpson, Pauline Bradford
Visitors: Katy Asher (NECN), Jake Nitchals, John Boren, David Lomax
