April 11, 2006 14th Ave NW Steering Committee Meeting Notes                      

Location: Ballard ReStore

Attendees: David Smith Peter Locke, Bridget Smith, Mary Lou Olson, Marian Carson, Dawn Hemminger, Rob Brown, Barry Hawley, Greg Waddell, Rebekah Schilperoot, Mike Seely, Brad Hole, Marty Brennan

Hours: 1.5

 

  • Survey South of Market interest. Greg wants to walk with business owners along 14th south of Market to discuss issues/concerns. Meet with Warren Akervick, Barry Hawley.
    • Need to preserve businesses as Ballard becomes a bedroom community
    • Barry will get a list together for business owners to do this walk
    • Plan to do this April 25th  around 4:30/5:00? Greg will send and agenda for this to Barry for distribution to the attendees.
    • Transportation worries of businesses. Large vehicle access opportunity to improve access to 14th for turning onto the street. Use of right away for load/unload of trucks. Maneuvering and parking for employees and deliveries. 1957 Gilman Park was turned from residential to industrial. That’s why cross streets are narrow. Streets are all on clay, so also not very stable.
  • Community Meeting set for April 27th
    • Need to advertise meeting at Adopt-A-Street
    • At the meeting, need to present opportunities and gets response from community in a comfortable environment.
    • Greg and Peter will put together an agenda and send out agenda to tech committee for review
    • 1 week after meeting, Greg will provide an issues paper
    • Early/mid May we should have a vision statement in place
    • Plan to have another community meeting in May
    • Advertise in Ballard News Tribune – Greg to communicate with Rebekah.
  • Adopt-A-Street Cleanup Party April 22nd 10:30am-12:30pm
    • Cookout planned afterwards
    • Rob will see if we can use the open lot on 14th owned by St Al’s (Rob has since secured that location for us)
    • Dawn will talk to Lindy about getting a tent
  • ReStore mural unveiling ceremony May 13th
    • Dawn will get volunteers for 4 half-hour shifts to sit at an information table at the event
    • Need to get handouts (trifold) made for our project – Peter will look into this
  • Ballard District Council Meeting Wednesday April 12th – Dawn to attend and report back
  • Capital Improvements grant – deadline for application has passed
  • Cumulative Reserve Fund – RobB sent in suggestions
  • Need to pursue King County Resources grant
  • Sewer Stenciling project
    • Dawn hasn’t had enough time to organize this and hasn’t found any volunteers to help out. We may need to put this off until the August Night Out event
  • Website: www.14avenw.org
    • Rob to provide write access to the secure area so Debbie can update the contact list
    • Rob will look into Google Palatial Service where you can take a section of a map and identify information on the map. Neighbors could then fill in this map with information areas that need to get addressed.
    • We can also set up an online message board
  • Community Message Board/Kiosk?
    • David Smith from Blowing Sands will be digging up the asphalt in front of Blowing Sands and putting in some plantings. Maybe we could install a community kiosk in this area?
    • Maybe we could put information at Greg’s P-Patch
    • What about the glassed in bulletin board at Safeway?
  • August Night Out Event
    • Try to get block near Market closed off. Should we have a fun run? Treasure hunt? or some other kind of group activity?
  • Seattle Channel
    • Peter met with the folks from Seattle Channel last weekend. Interview should air in May. They’re going to be at the ReStore mural unveiling event too.