October 16, 2012 Minutes

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1. Introductions and gen eral discussion

6:30 pm

Introductions were made and discussion was opened up about general news in the neighborhood.

Zach

Michaud

2. Crime Report

6:35 pm

Officer Chris Gilbert informed us of a hit and run accident that occurred last night, Monday, October 15 at the intersection of 60th & Glisan Street. A tan pickup truck hit and ran over a young woman, 20 years old. She was taken to Emanuel Hospital with non-life threatening inju ries and she was admitted overnight for treatment of her injuries. They were able to locate the vehicle and impound it but are still looking for the driver.

Officer

Chris

Gilbert

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3. Crime Report

6:40 pm

Katherine Anderson talked about police alerts and how you can sign up to receive these at:

www.portlandonline.com/police/pbnotify.cfm?action=UpdateSubscriber

Crime statistics are finally going down – 1% down

Moonrose Doherty asked about the walk signal at NE 58th & Glisan. It is out of sync to the point where the pedestrians are crossing at the same time as cars are exiting from the freeway and turning onto Glisan. Katherine said to contact Matt Wickstrom at the Bureau of Planning dept.

Katherine

Anderson

4. Approval of August and September minutes

6:45 pm

Zach led discussion of approval of August and September minutes. He will email copies of the emails received prior to the August Emergency meeting for inclusion with those minutes.

Jacob moved to approve the minutes, Moonrose seconded. Unani mously approved.

Zach

Michaud

5. Communications Re quest for funding

6:50 pm

Candice Jordan emailed the Board members earlier in the week asking the board if she could get a check to cover printing of the newsletter. She has procured an Ad from Jackson’s Shell/Store that will cover it but Jackson’s won’t write the check for the ad until they see the copy of the ad. The amount Candice requested is $540.00. Jacob made a motion to support North Tabor News by writing the check. Zach seconded.

Opened for discussion. There was much discussion surrounding the ad. Several people felt that since Jackson’s was not a “good neighbor” we should not even accept their ad.

One person asked “What if we write a check to cover this ad and Jack son’s sees the ad and doesn’t like it so they don’t pay?”

One person felt that Jackson’s was buying North Tabor off by paying for a large ad in the newsletter.

Some people feel that we need ads like this to pay for the newsletter. It was also discussed that we need more volunteers to help in the deliv ery, etc. to help make it less expensive to produce the paper. One person said it sounded like a financial need so it should be ap proved.

After discussion, the motion was put to a vote. Two board members were for the motion, two against. The motion did not pass.

Zach

Michaud

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6. Roles of Board Mem bers

7:15 pm

Zach led a discussion about the roles of the Board members, the term of office (one year) and description of our current committees. Moonrose spoke of her role as Secretary, chair of the Sustainability Committee and her various projects that she has worked on for the past two years such as Friends of Trees, the Banner project, the Health & Safety Fair, the annual Cleanup.

Gail spoke about her role as Treasurer and projects she has worked on for the past two years including the Banner project, writing a Financial Procedures manual for North Tabor and the upcoming Mural project and SE Uplift Grant project.

Zach spoke of his role as Chair, writing Agendas, leading meetings, at tending SEUL meetings, Providence Good Neighbor meetings and re writing the bylaws

Zach

Michaud

7. Description of roles of Board Members

7:40 pm

Ashe read her cheat sheets on each Board position. She also spoke of the workshops and training sessions that SEUL holds for board mem bers to attend.

Ashe

Urban

8. Call for new members

7:45 pm

Zach called for a show of hands of people interested in being on the North Tabor Board. Those who raised their hands were: Melissa Bockwinkel (new)

Nicole Davenport (new)

Cathy Riddell (new)

Frank Spillers (new)

Moonrose Doherty (current member)

Zach Michaud (current member)

Gail Morris (current member)

Diane Wells moved to approve all board members by slate. Nancy Kiyakawa seconded. Show of hands, all members approved.

Zach

Michaud

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9. General Discussion

7:50 pm

Nicole had a question about street repairs to NE Everett Street between 57th & 58th. That portion of the street has no sidewalks and is not com pletely paved, only the middle section which makes bicycling difficult especially in the dark. She was advised to contact Matt Wickstrom from the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability. It was suggested that we invite Matt to come to one of the next meetings to answer questions about this and the 50’s Bikeway project also.

Question was raised about two board members who were absent from tonight’s meeting and if they could be voted in as board members if they want to be on the board. They can be voted in along with any other new members at the next meeting, a General meeting in November, to be announced.

Zach

Michaud

10. Meeting adjourned

8:00 pm

No further discussion, so meeting was adjourned.

Zach

Michaud