14th Ave NW Vision Project – Feb 9th Meeting Notes

 

Dawn Hemminger, Chris Hemminger, Mary Lou Olson, Marian Carson, David Smith, Rob Brown
Time: 6:30-8:00 PM
Location: Dawn Hemminger’s Home

 

Agenda Items:

 

  • Review Actions Items from last meeting (see below)

 

  • Hours worked on project since last meeting:
    Mary Lou: 12 hours (business luncheon prep, administrative work)
    Marian: 1 hour (notifying members of upcoming meeting)
    Rob: 3 hours (website, attending Ballard meeting on car campers, admin)
    Dawn: 4 hours (2hr mailings, ½hr admin, 1 ½hr attending RFP informational meeting)

 

  • Camper Van Parking on 14th Ave NW:
    Report from Rob who attended the Ballard meeting on camper concerns in Ballard. This meeting was held last Wednesday at the Ballard Neighborhood center. There were representatives from businesses, Mars Hill church, SDOT and the police. They focused mainly on campers south of market (3rd Ave to 15th Ave from the water to Market St). Businesses wanted the campers removed, however, they know if parking is restricted they’ll just move some place else. Our committee discussed that it would be nice to have a designated location for campers to park with facilities provided, however, this does not seem to be a plan right now. Maybe Mars Hill could help provide a solution. In the meantime, SDOT has asked individuals to report areas that are of most concern. They will then send out people to survey and post no parking signs (probably the no parking from 2am-5pm signs) that are already in certain spots south of Market on 14th. Rob will coordinate an effort to do a survey on 14th.

  • Status on Request for Proposal (RFP) for Urban Planner:
    The RFP was made public last week. On Feb 3rd, we help an informational meeting for prospective firms. We had 5 firms in attendance (a very good sign!). We have also had verbal interest from a handful of additional firms. All bids are due by Monday Feb 13th at 5PM. Interviews will be held on Feb 17th and we’ll make an announcement on our final selection on Feb 24th.

 

  • Business lunch at Louie’s
    Mary Lou and Rob are organizing this luncheon to provide an opportunity for businesses along 14th Ave NW and the surrounding area to learn more about our project and provide an opportunity to voice their ideas, concerns, enthusiasm, etc. We selected Friday March 9th at 11:30 at Louie’s. Mary Lou will make 50 invitations. Rob and Mary Lou will hand deliver the invites 2 weeks in advance and request RSVP? Rob will coordinate the speakers from this luncheon. Tentative list right now includes Peter, Rob, Sam Starr, Rob Mattson and possibly Thomas Whittemore.

 

  • Storm Sewer Stenciling Project
    Dawn can start coordinating this effort, but may need help along the way. We decided to do this in early May before school gets out. We want to get Ballard High School students, Western Woodland Elementary and St. Alphonse's students involved. If the city doesn’t provide any education, we can get People for Puget Sound to provide education http://www.pugetsound.org. This event should be held during the school day. We may need to spread this over a few days depending on the scope of this project.

 

  • Adopt A Street Event in April (Celebrate Earth Day)
    Mary Lou will coordinate this event. Dawn will help out.
    We need a project name to put on the Adopt A Street Sign. We agreed on East Ballard Community Association, since that is the organization affiliated with our project. We decided to have the clean up day on Earth Day, Saturday April 22nd. We’ll see if he can get a block closed down on 14th so we can have a BBQ in the median after the clean up. Just something simple like hotdogs and veggie dogs, drinks, cookies, chips, etc. We’ll put out flyers in the all of the businesses, hand them out to neighbors, advertise in the Ballard News Tribune, contact the schools, etc. We’ll ask Ballard Market to put something on their big Marquee on 15th and maybe the high school, St. Alphonse’s and Mars Hill could advertise for us too on their signs?

 

  • Capital Improvement Program Project Suggestion Form
    If we want the city to consider us in their budget for 2007-2008, then we will need to submit a project suggestion form by the end of March. We all agreed that we should submit something more informational advising that we have plans to have a project in that timeframe and would like to be considered in the budget, however, we do not have specifics at this time. We will let Peter coordinate this effort if he feels we should submit a request.

 

  • Ballard District Council Monthly Meeting
    We need to make a presence at this monthly meeting which is held on the 2nd Wednesday of every month at the Ballard Library at 5:30PM. We decided to all take turns.  Mike Kelly will attend on March 8th.

 

  • Neighbor Appreciation Day – Feb 11th
    It’s too late to really plan anything, but do take a moment out of your day to thank your neighbors. Thank-you cards are available at the Ballard Neighborhood Center and Library.  More info at this site: http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/neighborhoods/appday/

 

  • Website admin
    Rob will put these meeting notes up on the website. He’s also going to give Dawn an email account for organizing emails.

 

  • August Night Out
    We’ll work on this as the time approaches.

 

Next Meeting: March 9th at Rob Brown’s Home (5912 14th Ave NW) at 6:30 pm

 

 

Action Item List

Dawn:


DONE
1. Forward Deborah Kuznitz email concerning the SUNI project for review to the 14th Ave mailing list
2. Contact Daily Journal of Commerce and Ballard Tribune. Find out how much it will cost to advertise an

3. Send out link to http://14avenw.org website to 14th Ave mailing list

ONGOING
1. Update volunteer hours for matching grant.


TO DO
1 Contact Grace at Ballard High about getting a student on the steering committee
2. Send out contact information of all steering committee members to the steering committee
3. Get list of blockwatch captains in the East Ballard/14th Ave area.
4. Coordinate Sewer stenciling project
5. Work with Mary Lou on Adopt A Street
6. Find someone to attend March 8th Ballard District Council Meeting

Marian:

 

ONGOING:
1. Do telephoning when needed. Just give her plenty of notice
2. Call steering committee meeting members on the Monday before next meeting as a reminder.

 

Mary Lou:

ONGOING
1. Volunteered to be treasurer. Groundswell will be our fiscal sponsor, however, we need someone to be liaison to them and to also raise money independently

 

TO DO
1. Coordinate business lunch at Louie’s (invitations, reservations)
2. Coordinate Adopt A Street along with Dawn

Lindy:
1. Provide Mary Lou with some contacts for raising money

 

Darlene:

DONE
1. Sent information packet to Ballard Tribune for next article about our project

ONGOING
1. Volunteered to be the point person for media. She will be the point of contact for all media/news sources. She will also be involved in creating flyers, advertisements, etc.

 

Rob:

 

ONGOING
1. Keep website up to date

TO DO
1. Coordinate an effort to survey 14th Ave for areas of concern for camper parking and report back to SDOT.

2. Coordinate business lunch with Mary Lou (send Mary Lou a list of businesses to invite, coordinate speakers, help deliver invitations)

Peter:

DONE
1. Get the Request for Proposal for an urban planner written up and reviewed by 14th Ave members. The goal is to get this published by the end of January.

TO DO

1. Coordinate the interview and hiring process for the urban planner
2. Coordinate Capital Improvement Project Suggestion Form Submission

 

Misc/Long Term
LATER 4. Night Out potlucks - 2nd Tuesday in August