January 21, 2014 Minutes – North Tabor Neighborhood Association

North Tabor Neighborhood Open Meeting Minutes

January 21, 2014 – 6:30pm-8:30pm

Northstar – 5600 NE Glisan St., Portland, Oregon

Present – Voting Board Members

Terry Dublinski Co-chair Land Use Committee and Transportation Committee

Krystofer Milton Board Treasurer

Gail Morris Board Secretary

Beth Sanders Acting Chair, Co-chair Land Use and Transportation Committee

Not Present – Board Members

Moonrose Doherty

Present – Others

David Anderson Business owner, An Sen, 4424 NE Glisan

Dana Savoie North Tabor resident

John Savoie North Tabor resident

Val Walker Pastor of Community of Christ Church, 4837 NE Couch

Agenda Item	Time	Discussion	Action	Who?	When?
1.	6:30 pm	Meeting brought to order by Beth. Introductions and sign-ins		Beth
2. Approval of Minutes	6:35 pm	Krystofer moved to approve the December 2013 minutes. Terry sec onded. No discussion. Vote was unanimous.		Terry
3. Meeting Format	6:40 pm	Beth discussed possible formats for meetings, including ensuring that a timekeeper keeps the meeting progressing on time, that action items are identified after each item and that when building an agenda a “background” and “objective” are identified to more fully describe what will be discussed/decided. Terry said he visited the Montavilla Neighborhood Bd. meeting and one of the things they do is organize the meetings to where the agenda is more oriented to general commu nity members vs. a board. Terry moved that NT make it standard pro cedure to list Action Items, have a timekeeper and build each agenda with a “background” and “objective” section. Krystofer seconded. No discussion. Vote was unanimous. Discussion that we will set aside a few minutes at the end of the meeting to list these items for future refer ence.	Gail will put Action items at end of minutes (See item 13) with any time frame dis cussed	Beth Terry Gail

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Agenda Item	Time	Discussion	Action	Who?	When?
4. Open Group	6:45	Terry spoke of Montavilla’s Open Group that could be developed and used by NTNA along with the North Tabor News Facebook page. Dana Savoie volunteered to take on the Open Group project. Terry moved to start Open Group. Cary seconded. Vote was 2 for, 1 dissenting vote. It was suggested to call it something like North Tabor Open Group. Dana suggested leaving the word “Association“ out of the name.	Research/start Open Group page	Terry Dana
5. North Tabor News checking account	7:00	Krystofer said there is still money left in the North Tabor News account that was intended for advertising. Should we hold it or return it? Beth recommended that Krystofer put this on the February agenda and at tempt to contact the people who gave money in the interim to let them know that the board is in the process of making a determination about what will happen. Terry moved to look into advertisers’ money. Krys seconded. No discussion. Vote was unanimous.	Krystofer to put on February agenda, contact advertisers when possible	Krystofer Beth
6. Board Retreat	7:05 pm	Beth will speak to Ashe Urban from SE Uplift to see if next Monday, Jan. 27th is available for our Board Retreat at SE Uplift. 6:30 pm. Beth will email everyone when she finds out.	Expect email from Beth or Ashe	Beth
7. Providence GNA and Transportation Work group	7:10 pm	Cary reported on the Providence Transportation Workgroup meeting that was held on January 8. Cary, Terry and Gail also attended the meeting from North Tabor. There were 3 or 4 representatives from Lau relhurst and a Director of Security from Providence. After some discus sion, it was decided that the TWG should focus on single-vehicle occu pancy (SVO) issues as the number one problem for traffic issues around Providence. The next Providence meeting is Wed. February 5 in the Prov. Conf. Room. The next night (February 6) the TWG will meet at 7:00 at Emilie House.		Cary
8. Land Use update	7:20 pm	Beth gave report from their Land Use and Transportation meeting. There is a possible grant to apply for that that the subcommittee is ex ploring to improve streets and add sidewalks for NE Oregon Street from 61st– 64th Avenue. There are improvements slated by PBOT (Portland Bureau of Transpor tation) with some federal funding in the 60th Ave. MAX stop area Discussion about the Burnside Crash Corridor Terry moved to start the Burnside Safety Modernization Committee. Gail seconded. No discussion. Vote was unanimous. Terry requested to put aside 45 minutes at the next meeting for PBOT to give a presenta tion.		Beth Terry

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Agenda Item	Time	Discussion	Action	Who?	When?
9. New Business on Gli san	7:45 pm	David Anderson introduced himself as one of the owners of An Sen, a new clinic in the formerly vacant building at NE 44th & Glisan. They will hopefully secure several different practioners from Naturopaths to Acu puncturists, Massage therapists, etc. He will get back to us with their plans for events that will engage the neighborhood.		David Anderson
10. New Board members	8:00 pm	Terry nominated John and Dana as new Board members. Cary sec onded. There as no discussion and the vote was unanimous.
11. Comprehensive Site plan letter.	8:05 pm	Beth brought a copy of the letter she hopes to submit to the city about the Portland Comprehensive Plan with suggestions from the Land Use committee relating to North Tabor. A few changes were suggested. Gail moved to send the letter with changes to John Cole with the City of Portland. Terry seconded. No discussion. Vote was unanimous.	Beth will make changes and send to John Cole	Beth
12. Next month’s meeting	8:25 pm	Next meeting February 18 at NorthStar. Krystofer will chair.
13. Action Items	8:27 pm	1.Send Comprehensive Plan letter to John Cole with City of Port land 2.North Tabor News checking account 3.Contact Stakeholders of the Burnside High Crash Corridor 4.Presentation for the Providence meeting 5.Board Retreat		Beth Krystofer Terry Terry Beth	Asap Asap asap
14. Adjourn	8:30 pm	Meeting adjourned

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