Minutes of the Center Neighborhood Association Monthly Board Meeting August 17, 2004 7pm
Shogren House
Board Members Present: Barry Bradie, John Rusoff, Theresa Benton, Robert Jordan, Cathy Riddell, Martha Westgate, Don McElmurry, Jon Laufenberg
Other Attendees: Steve Hoyt (SEUL), Judy Kennedy
Introductions
Officer Brendan McGuire
Crime is up a little, the usual summer spike. The City is proceeding w/ civil litigation against the drug house on Willow St as a chronic nuisance.
An Apartment Watch is being organized at Center Commons in the seniors bldg to help with some of the ongoing problems there.
Garbage/recycling foragers – protect yourself against identity theft by shredding papers. But it’s likely that these people are simply looking for bottles/cans for the $.05 deposit. Ask your neighbors to not put returnables out.
Committee Reports
Treasurer
Haven’t yet met w/ Stan to sign over the accounts but this should happen very soon. How many authorized signers do we want on the account? All officers. And we want checks to require 2 signatures. Will we need new checks printed?
Transportation
There still hasn’t been a decision on the Getting Around Portland program. If we are selected, it won’t just be us & Laurelhurst – it’ll be a broader area. Next committee meeting Wed Sep 8th @ Center Commons.
On Wed Aug 25th 7:30 @ Center Commons there will be a meeting to help organize tenants to deal w/ the ongoing security issues. Steve Hoyt and Martha and hopefully Brian will attend.
Land Use & Transportation
The committee is not currently active. Barry is the nominal chair and receives the LU notices from the city.
SEUL LUTC
Barry – this committee takes August off.
New Business
Community Connections Committee
The group decided to focus on a handful of items from their long list of ideas of how to improve connections within the NA and strengthen the organization. These are the top items: – publish an agenda for the monthly meetings ahead of time
– communicate board absences. Notify chair and vice-chair ahead
– publish draft minutes
– committee reports – they should be a way to maintain connections across committees – send out postcard reminders to our mailing list. The main reason this hasn’t been happening is that a rough agenda is needed 2 weeks prior to the meeting.
Voter Pamphlet Statement for Ballot Measure 37 [formerly Initiative I-36] Barry – The SEUL LUTC didn’t meet this month and I don’t know the status of $$ needed to pay for it. But there wasn’t a fundraiser prior to the deadline for submitting the statement, so the Take a Closer Look group probably fronted the money for it.
We discuss how and whether to ensure that our donation is proportionate. Action: Robert moves that we give the $100 already approved to the Take a Closer Look campaign. Cathy 2nd. Motion passes.
Neighborhood Agenda Kickoff
The kickoff meeting is Sep 18th. We kick around ideas and settle on two: – Traffic calming and pedestrian access/safety
– Diversity and outreach through the NA system
Action
Motion to approve minutes from July. Jon moves, Robert 2nd, passes.
Random
David Delk submitted his resignation from the board this month.
Will we have an October board retreat again this year?
Meeting adjourned at 8:30
Next meeting 9/21/2004