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General Meeting of the North Rose Hill Neighborhood Association

Place: North Rose Hill fire Station

Date: May 21, 2007

Call to Order: 7:00

The meeting was called to order by Margaret Carnegie at 7:00 pm.

Approximately 30 neighbors present at the meeting. There were a few first timers and they were informed that Betty Lou has welcome packets for their use.

• A Thank-you went out to those that volunteered in the March 124^th Ave. NE Clean-up:

Mary-Alyce Burleigh, Jeff Trager, Jim Lauinger, Tom, Jean, Sonnet and Riley Hodgson, Colleen McCarthy, Tony & Mitch Wright, Gretchen Moosebrugger, Milt & Carole Olson, Ken & Carol Nielsen,  and Stults.

• A request for volunteers to be “victims” for the Disaster Training Drills, June 2, 3, posted on the board at the meeting.

• KAN (Kirkland Alliance of Neighborhoods): Letter to City council regarding new construction Impact Fees, posted on the board at the meeting.

• Happenings in Kirkland:
1. Celebrate Kirkland 4^th of July, including parade, picnic, fireworks, flyer posted at meeting
2. Kirkland Uncorked July 13 – 15, flyer posted at meeting
3. Improvement plans of 132^nd Spare Park, posted at meeting
4. Park Place redevelopment, meeting schedules, builder provided info, city process info, posted on the sign in table at meeting.
5. Wednesday Market has started for the season, this years hours are 12:00 to 6:00pm
6. Juanita Beach movies July 21 & Aug. 24, 8:00
7. Carillon Point movies July 21 to Aug. 3
8. Seven Hills Cycling May 28, 6:00 a.m.
9. Washington Wine Highway, Chateau Se. Michelle winery in Woodinville, May 26-27 (wine tasting and restaurants)
10. Londo-Tiberio Short Plat application notice, at 8535 126^th Ave. NE
11. Vista Forbes Townhouse condos, 9531 Slater Ave. NE
12. Houghton Transfer Station projects meeting May 22, 7:00-8:30 at Ben Franklin Elementary (Safety and Mitigation Project)
13. CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) mapping: June pilot assessment, Map your neighborhood training:  Thurs May 24, 7:00 – 9:00 City Hall Peter Kirk Room (Take inventory to know what is around your city as far as people who are trained, people in need, people with equipment needed in a disaster, places to use in a disaster.  Where they are located in each neighborhood)
14. July 14: Woodlands Park wood sealing – volunteers needed.
15. July 21 is the NRH Annual Picnic held at Woodlands Park
16. Notice of Meetings for 10 Private Amendment Requests to determine if City should study Requests as part of the City Comprehensive Plan or Neighborhood Plans, Planning Commission Meeting, Thurs June 28, 7:00, Council Chambers, City Council Meeting July 17, 7:30, city Hall council chambers.

• Michael Fahrenbach the manager at Juanita High School Pool was scheduled to talk but was unable to attend.  He was going to come and ask that Citizens need to use the pool or they may need to close it down, I’m sure more info will follow.

• Roland from DOT came and gave an update on the I-405 construction. Attached are the handouts he provided.  Roland said that his office has been getting calls from citizens complaining that the plants being planted along the freeway are too small.  He explained that they have planted over 45,000 trees, bushes, etc., the attrition rate can be large since once they are planted there is no further maintenance and small plants are cheaper than large ones and require less maintenance.   There is ongoing wetlands mitigation near Forbes Lake and Forbes Creek.

• Michael Murphy from the County talked about Forbes Lake Water Quality.

The County (Michael Murphy and Betsy Adams, Outreach & Education on Lake Stewardship Program) in conjunction with the City of Kirkland (Jenny Gaus) keeps an ongoing monitoring of Forbes Lake.  Bud Gessell , Kevin Miller and Milt Olson regularly take water samples at different depths and different areas of the lake and get them to the City for analysis.  They monitor how the lake responds with precipitation both physical characteristics and chemical.  The water shed is the area of land that drains to a body of water. We as a neighborhood need to be cognizant of what we do in our own yards since NRH is Forbes Lake’s water shed.  A question was asked of Michael Murphy as to the water quality of Forbes Lake and he answered “Yes, I would swim in the lake”.

• Mike Stults, gave the Treasurers report of $1,616.00 in our checking account.
• Karen Tennyson gave a Planning Commission report: Private Amendment Request comes up once every two years where a property owner can submit to change zoning of property, and still needs to go through the city process. These are a few that may be of interest to NRHN
1. Redevelopment of Park Place by Touch Stone Developers the request to add another floor to the development.  It comes before Planning C. on June 28
2. Costco Gas Station to be added to the North End of Costco Property. It comes before Planning C. on June 28
3. 132^nd and N. 85 a request a downsize of RSX 7.2 to 5.0, It comes before Planning C. on June 28

• Woodlands Park Clean-up and staining of the wood pickets will be July 14^th. Volunteers are needed.
• Angela Kugler a NRH neighbor proposed a Neighborhood On-Line Chat Group.  To be used mainly for information referrals, such as Contractor, roofing, painter referrals.  Home-Up grade ideas, Gardening topics, free items that a neighbor has, etc.  She proposed to set it up on Google Groups and she would be the monitor.  It is not meant to be a political forum, but a neighborhood forum.
• Kari Page: Announced the walking maps are available at the city and on the Web page for NRH.  Thanks to Kari Page, Dimitri Ancira, David Godfrey, Betty Lou Crampton, Mike Stults, Esther La Marche, Tina Steele, and Milt Olson. She also asked that we think of how we want to spend the $25,000 Neighborhood Grant this year.

There has been some drug activity in Mark Twain Park especially after school is out in the late afternoon and a younger neighbor witnessed a money transaction for a bag of a white substance.

• Sgt. Brian McNaughten with the Kirkland Police Department came and listened to the concerns.  The concerns had been emailed to the city earlier and he said they had sent some plain clothed officers to walk into the park, but the times they were there, there was no activity.  He assured the meeting that they would keep up a watch at the park.
• There was another concern of a person in our neighborhood that has a record of harassment and such in other cities and states and he is causing trouble with a current neighbor and the neighbor wanted the person watched more closely.  He continued to talk to Sgt. McNaughten after the meeting was adjourned at 9:30