June 21, 2011 Minutes – North Tabor Neighborhood Association

North Tabor Neighborhood Meeting Agenda and Minutes

June 21st, 2011 – 6:30-8:30pm

Seven Virtues Cafe

Present – Voting Board Members

Moonrose Doherty – Secretary & Co-Chair of Sustainability Committee

Ajai Huja – Treasurer / Southeast Up-Lift (SEUL Rep)

Zach Michaud – Chair & Member of Providence Good Neighbor Agreement Committee

Gail Morris – Board Member-at-Large

Present – Others

Candice Jordan – Editor and Publisher of North Tabor News & Member of By-Laws Committee

Robert Jordan – North Tabor Resident

Officer Gary Mohnugian – Portland Police Department Officer

Not Present – Board Members (& resigning Board Members)

Nicholas Barbour – Board Member-at-Large (resigned 6/21/11)

Alison Gavine – Chair of Land Use Committee (resigned 6/21/11)

Jessica Stevens – Board Member-at-Large & Member of Land Use Committee

Jacob Wollner – Vice Chair & Co-Chair of Sustainability Committee

Not Present – Neighborhood Committees

Judy Kennedy – North Tabor Neighborhood Resident & Member of Providence Good Neighbor Agreement Committee Martha Westgate – Member of Providence Good Neighbor Agreement Committee

Agenda Item	Time	Discussion	Action	Who?	When?
1. Introductions	10	The NTNA meeting began at 6:30pm. All NTNA board members and others present in troduced themselves.	NA.	NA.	NA.

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Agenda Item	Time	Discussion	Action	Who?	When?
2. Friends of Trees Neighborhood Coordinator Up date	20	Moonrose Doherty, the North Tabor Neighbor hood Coordinator for Friends of Trees gave a verbal report updating everyone on the progress and plans for outreach and some changes to the upcoming planting season. Moonrose will put an article out in the North Tabor News that will remind the neighborhood that although our current Spring was the wet test in 100 years the young trees still needed to be watered, weeded, and mulched to survive. Online registration is open and people have ordered trees already, indicating that work has already begun for the coordinator (Moonrose) who expressed the desire for help from the neighborhood this year.	Status Up-date and fulfill Friends of Trees Neighbor hood Coordinator duties.	Moonrose Do herty	2011- 2012 planting season.
3. Board Member Update	15	It was noted that two board members have resigned by e-mail who were not in attendance at this 6/21/11 meeting: Alison Gavine and Ni cholas Barbour. The current board now con sists of six members: Moonrose Doherty, Ajai Huja, Zach Michaud, Gail Morris, Jessica Ste vens, and Jacob Wollner.	NA.	NA.	NA.
4. Approve NTNA May 2011 Minutes	5	Gail Morris made a motion that the May 2011 NTNA Minutes as drafted and circulated be approved.	Ajai Huja seconded the mo tion. Motion passed unanim ously.	NA.	NA.
5. Neighborhood Crime and Safety	15	Officer Gary Mohnugian of the Portland Police Department gave a monthly crime and safety report and pointed out many key tips for North Tabor residents to prevent crime and the chances of car/vehicle burglaries. He noted that property crime has been on the rise re cently and early morning hours and theft from yards or unlocked sheds/garages are common.	Status Up-date.	NA.	NA.

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Agenda Item	Time	Discussion	Action	Who?	When?
6. Block Party project	15	Ajai suggested a block party style community involvement event, which would ideally be ad vertised in the SE Examiner since the next North Tabor News issue will not be in time. Ajai would like to head this project and volunteered to set it up.	Organize block party com munity involvement event for North Tabor.	Ajai Huja.	By dead lines.
7. Moonrose and the grant.	20	Moonrose reported that she would like to apply for a grant focusing on sustainability and asked for brainstorm ideas from everyone present. Multiple community building ideas were bounced around including banners featuring walking people, kids, bicyclists, and dogs that could be hung off the phone poles along Glisan and a community corner or kiosk area. Moonrose will get feed back from Tim at SEUL and move ahead with application for the grant.	Apply for a grant using a sus tainability idea.	Moonrose Do herty	By the deadline.
8. NTNA Land Use Committee	20	With the resignation of Alison Gavine it was noted that the board no longer has a Land Use Chair. Moonrose reported that she will attend the SEUL Landuse Retreat on 6/25/11.	Attend Landuse Retreat.	Moonrose Do herty	6/25/11

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Agenda Item	Time	Discussion	Action	Who?	When?
9. Secretarial Update.	20	A motion to rotate the duty of taking minutes alphabetically among the board members was passed at the last meeting, but since members have resigned Moonrose took minutes again for this June meeting. On the issue of storage of the Minutes Moon rose purchased a thumb drive for minutes and sign-in sheet storage. She will give the drive to Ajai when sign-in sheets need to be stored on it. NTNA funds were approved last meeting to be used to purchase the thumb drive for sto rage of NTNA Minutes so Moonrose will get reimbursed with the receipt. Ajai Huja will hand deliver the sign-in sheets from every NTNA meeting to SEUL after scan ning them.	Moonrose Doherty will ad dress the rotation of minutes at the next meeting (July). Ajai Huja will hand deliver the sign-in sheets from every NTNA meeting to SEUL.	Moonrose Do herty Ajai Huja.	July 2011 As of May 17, 2011.
10. By-laws	10	Zach proposed approving the North Tabor By laws as drafted and circulated by approved. A brief discussion of changes happened, Zach proposed the motion.	Moonrose Doherty seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously. .	NA.	NA.
11. Mt. Tabor Concert Series	5	Candice Jordan reminded everyone that the Mt. Tabor concert series that North Tabor Neighborhood Association generously donated to will be taking place in July and passed out stacks of the brochures that could be handed out or left at local businesses to get the word out.	Status update.	NA.	NA.

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