Building community and maintaining a great neighborhood to live in.

General Meeting of the North Rose Hill Neighborhood Association

 

Place: North Rose Hill fire Station

Date: January 18, 2010

Call to Order: 7:00

Board members present at meeting: Margaret Carnegie, Sharon Clark, Mike Stults, Patti Sutter, Kaylee Nilan, Dave Boyer, Bud Gessel, Arthur Best, Milt Olson and Linda Jones.

Neighbors present: 13    what got you to the meeting?  Kiosk Sign 0 Yard sign 2   Neighbor 0

E-mail reminder 9   City of Kirkland Website 1   First time?  1 Welcome Packet 0

Announcements:  Mary-Alyce Burleigh plans to lead a 124th Ave. N.E. clean-up for Saturday, January 30th.  Meet at the fire station 9:00 a.m., details will be sent out closer to the date.  Dress for the weather.  (It could be cancelled if the weather is really bad.)     Bring water bottle of water to keep Hydrated.

Washington State Depts. Ecology, public hearing to be held Tuesday February 9 at City Hall.

Science Café is held on the second Monday of the Month, 7:00 p.m. at Wild Rover Restaurant.

Park funding cutbacks means removal of garbage cans, port o’ potties, doggie bags, and maintenance cutback.

Karen Tennyson will be representing our neighborhood along with other members of other neighborhoods and count homeless people living in our city.  January 28/29 2:00 to 5:00 a.m.

Due to city budget problems, the neighborhood funding was drastically cut.  We will be looking for picnic sponsors.  If you know of a business, or someone who might be interested in helping, let us know.  Or we could ask neighbors to sponsor a certain item, such as a cake or some hotdogs.  If you’re interested in being a sponsor or connecting us with someone who might be, you can let a Board member know tonight or let us know later.  Any other ideas/thoughts are always welcomed.  

 Neighbors of the Year Awards:

Teen Neighbor of the Year is Kayla Blyton for face painting at 2009 Neighborhood Picnic.

Neighbor of the Year: Dave and Kathy Boyer for all the work on the Picnic, planning, organizing, and working tirelessly the day of the event.

 List or annual achievements:

·         Welcome packet updating by Carole Olson

·         Board support letter of Pea Patch at LWTC

·         2009 Neighborhood Grant work by Mike Stults

·         Slater Ave. Street lights installed & curb bulbs @ 100th St. with NRH Grant funding

·         May 124th Clean-up led by MaryAlyce Burleigh

·         Woodlands Park Tot Lot rehabilitation, led by Dave & Kathy Boyer

·         4th of July Parade Entry, with unicyclists led by Kaylee Nilan

·         Maintenance of Slater & 100th median planted area, by JonErik Johnson,

·         July picnic, led by Dave and Cathy Boyer, with added children’s games and food drive. 

·         Forbes Lake Monitoring, by Bud Gesell, John Schurman, Kevin Miller, 

·         Slater safety problem issue, due to construction, resolved thanks to Karen Whittle. 

·         Twain Elementary yard maintenance, led by Kaylee Nilan and Jeff Trager.

·         Woodlands Park Playground maintenance led by Kevin Miller. 

·         Replacement of Neighborhood sign in Woodland Park

·         New NRH Meeting signs purchased. 

·         New volunteers to post meeting signs. 

·         Shade trees planted in Woodlands Park, from removal of trees for new Transit Center.

·         Neighborhood Electronic Newsletter created & maintained by Patti Sutter. 

·         City-wide food drive participation, with drop-offs arranged at Fire Station & Twain Elementary.

·         Creation & maintenance of NRH website by Milt Olson. 

 

Newly elected City Council Members:

Mayor: Joan McBride introduced herself; she has been on the council for 12 years.  She acknowledged a long standing, active North Rose Hill resident, Ray Hansen’s passing and said the City Council acknowledged and dedicated the first council meeting to him. 

Council concerns:

1.      Budget, with the deficit and economic climate the city has a hard job ahead.

2.     City Managers Search, January 26 7:00 City Hall Recruiter coming up from California for an open meeting asking community for their input.  What are the skill sets needed to be city manager, what concerns community has to find the right candidate.

3.     Annexation a huge endeavor for the city and we need to get it right.

Deputy Mayor: Penny Sweet noted she is impressed with NRH, our hard working neighbors and just a great neighborhood.  She said she has lived in Kirkland 25 years, Owns The Grape Choice along with her husband, former City Councilman Larry Springer, current State Representative.  She has been active in our city, involved in the down town, is on the Market neighborhood, Chair for last 2 years. Founder of Celebrate Kirkland, and is proud to be elected to city council and proud of our community.  Penny said to come down to the Grape Choice to chat; she said you are not required to buy wine if you come in.

Doreen Marchione: Has lived in Kirkland for 17 years, Moss Bay Neighborhood, Past Board Member of the Kirkland Performance Center, City Salary commission, Head of Hopelink for 15 years, open to people to contact her and talk.  She has spent most of her life giving back to her community.

Amy Walen: Appreciates the Honor to serve.  She and her Husband are owners of Ford of Kirkland, she and her family live in Houghton. Finance is her forte’ and she is the financial officer at the Dealership.  Amy is a Breast Cancer Survivor, she received her treatment at Evergreen Hospital and she feels they saved her life and after the ordeal, her gratefulness led her to want to give back to the community and council was suggested and became her goal.  She is interested in bringing business and neighborhoods together by creating programs such as adopt a park and work together to maintain our parks.

A question from one attendee: what is happening at Totem Lake?  Council plans to focus on this area.  The original development team ran into financial troubles so project put on hold.  The Mayor is working on a Developers Summit to find the practical steps to go about development of Totem Lake Mall and surrounding area.

Margaret feels the NRH gets neglected by the city and is concerned that the city does not forget about NRH with Annexation coming up, in regards to sidewalks along 124th and other side streets. 

Joanna Palmer Long time Kirkland Resident: Came to the meeting to urge us all to vote for schools. She gave a power point presentation on the amounts and timelines.

·         EPOL (Educational Programs and Operations Levy) is replacement levy. 

·         CPL Capital Projects Levy, Ongoing maintenance.  Is replacement levy.

·         CPL for Technology is a replacement levy.

http://www.lwsd.org/News/Levy-and-Bond-Information/Pages/default.aspx

 

North Rose Hill Officer Elections:

Chair Margaret Carnegie, Vice Chair Arthur Best, Secretary Sharon Clark, Treasurer Mike Stults, Unanimous vote from the room.

Members:

Katy Nilan, Bud Gessel, Patty Sutter, Linda Jones, Milt Olson, Karen Tennyson, Casey Walvoord, Don Schmitz, Unanimous vote form the room.

Reports:

Patti Sutter; city meetings report for planning commission:  This past week was creating the schedule for the 2010 year. On this years agenda is Park Place redevelopment, shoreline management act, and Totem Lake Development.  All Planning commission meetings are open meetings, you also can listen to the meetings online, and you can get an agenda by email, sign up on the Cities Website.   First and Third Thursdays of the month held at city hall.

Mike Stults; Treasurer’s report: Balance $4,062 in our accounts.  $615 will be coming from the city for our work put into the neighborhood for 2009.  Picnic plans start now, approx. $2,000 to put on. With what we have in our account we could pay for the picnic, but we use funds for mailings and signs, clean up of the neighborhood, and more, so we would like to look into fund raising to cover the picnic.  4th of July parade float costs approximately $300 dollars, including the entry fees.   We need to find new ways to raise money. 

Margaret KAN meeting:   Parking is now available at the Antique Mall Lot $1.00 per hour

Metropolitan Market will be hiring 60 employees Job opening January 26th 2010. 

Census workers needed in Kirkland.

Green Kirkland partnership flyers available. 

Kathy Iverson: Kirkland Senior Council is working on putting together a map of neighborhoods where seniors and disabled live or designate a neighbor to help in a disaster, power outages, etc.  

 Meeting Adjourned 8:46p.m.