Minutes for NRHNA Board Meeting

Place: Fire Station #26
Date: April 16, 2001
Call to Order: 7:30PM

Attendance: 12, including 
Jeff Trager, Mary Alyce Burleigh Betty Lou Crampton, Margaret Carnegie, Kaylee Nilan, Mike Stults, Nancy Stephens, Karen Tennyson, Tom Hodgson, Marc Isaacs, Debbie Turner, Pierre deVries.

Treasures Report:
$969.20 NRHNA Checking
$4700.00 NRHNA Grant acct.
$200 Postage available for mailings

TOPICS DISCUSSED:
SUMMER PICNIC

Picnic Date - Saturday, July 21, noon-4 p.m.

Theme: Our way of giving back to our neighborhood - OLE TYME COUNTRY PICNIC

Pie Baking Contest - Possible award categories to expand to: Best Tasting, Most Attractive, Most Unusual

Picnic Budget - being reviewed from last year.

Music - we hope to bring back a popular group from prior years - JOE KAPLAN BAND 

Donations and Sponsorships will be sought again this year via both letter and personal contact

Fire Station Bouncing Room will be rented again this year if available.

Other activities will include face painting for the kids, volleyball, helium balloons. 

DONATIONS and RAFFLE proceeds will be collected to sponsor a Boys & Girls Club Activity Scholarship Fund to enable more children to participate in activities offered by the club. GOAL = $400.

Food donations will be sought from local businesses.

It was suggested that a leaflet be prepared that we can distribute to our neighbor's homes during the week prior to the picnic to encourage attendance. Last year we had over 400 guests, how many more can we get to participate this year? 

COST to participate: FREE

OTHER BUSINESS:
* The Board voted to purchase a $350 paver with our logo and name engraved to be placed on the walkway to the new Kirkland Meeting Hall at the foot of Central and Market in Kirkland. This is a fundraising activity sponsored by the Kirkland Heritage Society, proceeds being used to renovate the old Christian Science Church, built in 1922, for use as a public meeting hall in downtown Kirkland.
* Safe Walk Routes letter is being reviewed by Board members for submission to the City Council.
* Parks Committee: Jeff Trager and Pierre deVries reported on current neighborhood items under review. 
* Forbes Lake - current consideration to have a boardwalk added around the city owned portion of the lake front by 2003-2004. A baseline water quality study is needed prior to ANY future development.
* Williamson Property - considering primitive trail on dry areas.
* Public Works - Betty Lou Crampton will contact the department to request an updte regarding the installation of a street light at NE 85th and 128th Ave NE.
* Membership Committee - defined it's goal to "Create a plan to increase membership in North Rose Hill Neighborhood Association."
* Mailing List - Pierre deVries has developed Yahoo list servers for NRHNA. One for the Board use only, one for NRHNA email that only Jeff Trager can send. The list server will be connected to our website for neighbors to sign up for.
* KAN - KAN will have a booth at Summerfest and Taste Kirkland festivals. We will post neighborhood information at that booth.


Future Meeting Topics:
* May 21 General Meeting:
* "YOUTH ASSETS" Speaker, 7:30-8:30 pm. 
* 8:30 pm Discuss Community Building - identify neighborhood "Zone" representatives.
* 4th of July Parade - Need volunteers to help build & decorate our float
* Picnic Volunteers - Join in and help to make our Picnic an even bigger success in 2001.
* NE 85th Street Project update announcement.
* July 21 PICNIC AT WOODLANDS PARK from NOON TO 4 P.M.
* September 17 General Meeting
* Trans Lake Washington Project Update
* North Rose Hill Neighborhood CAC update


Meeting adjourned: 9:00 p.m.


Respectfully submitted by,
Nancy Stephens
Secretary
4/23/2001