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: March 15, 2010

Call to Order: 7:00

 

Board Members Present: Margaret Carnegie, Bud Gessel, Milt Olson, Mike Stults, Patti Sutter, Sharon Clark

 

Jason Filan, the Operations Manager with the City of Kirkland Park Department came to the meeting to talk about the budget cuts.  In cuts in the budget, there has been a removal of 30 to 40% of the Parks trash bins, so there are questions as to how the trash is going to be handled.  Should members of the neighborhood take on the job to remove trash, people need to know before entering the parks that trash is to be handled by the community.

 

Don Schmitz: 128th Street Bench Report. Don and his neighbor will be power washing the benches and putting a new coat of stain and sealer on Benches throughout Rose Hill.. 

 

Kari Page Neighborhood Coordinator, Rod Steitzer Project Engineer spoke about 116th Capitol Improvement Projects.  Between Kirkland and Bellevue, Non Motorized improvements.  Perteet Engineering is working on the project.  July is the first permitting.  September Big package to be ready.  Seeking Grant funding to finish the project.  4.5 million to complete the project.   Seeking 1.6 million of federal funds. 

 

 

Other Announcements

 

At the back table there are brochures to pick up if you like:

                North Rose Hill Walking Maps                         Feet First Maps

Emergency Resource Guides                             “Vial of Life” Containers

“Are you a Carbon Big Foot?”                         Public Parking Guide

Protect Your car from Theft                              Draft Forges Lake Park Plan

Private & Public Capital Projects                     “Green Kirkland” Work Schedule

Need Internet Speed?                                         Smarter Highway Symbols

 

 

Dan Zasloff with Company 3 Degrees, partners with PSE re: “Green Power”.  Renewable Energy in our state

Manure as energy by using dairy digesters.   

 

Mandate: Utilities must produce renewable energy tops out at 15% in 2020, specified by the state.

 Does not include Hydro electric.

 Definition, electricity generated from sourced that replenish themselves naturally with little if any   pollution or negative environmental impacts.

Green Power Program: Environmental Benefits by not burning fossil fuels, decreases green house gas.

Wind Power: Tax revenue to land owners.

Voluntary: above and beyond the mandate

dzasloff@3degreesinc.com

 

Coffee Break

 

Patti Sutter: Water Gardens; Surface Water Management contained on your own property.  Rain Garden Workshops available.  WSU Pierce County Website.  Stewardshippartners.org\ look at City of Kirkland green page and you can find info on Water Gardens. 

 

Tom Jones: BN (Burlington Northern) Corridor came to solicit interest and support of the BN track spaces.  City will have public hearings on this.

Name or our commuter rail system? Sounder  Tacoma/Seattle/Everett 74 miles  how many passengers 9,030 daily ridership 2009, who operates the system? BNSF RR & AMTRAK  Who owns the Track? BNSF RR   How much have we paid for the system 1.1 Billion dollars.  What is the Light rail line to Bellevue and Redmond Called: Eastlink

 

From Cascadia Program (a think tank)  and are funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  Bruce Agnew owns Cascadia Program. 

Abandonment procedure, GNP Railway, would like to install commuter rail on corridor. Renton to Snohomish, projected to have 6,700 passengers a day.   

 

Joint use Cascade Bicycle Club wants the track removed and only trail use of the corridor. 

 

Malinda Bronsdon: Census takers should have a black bag and a lanyard and show drivers license and give supervisors name.  April 1 is Census Day nation wide.  Hope to be finished by July 1. 

1792  was the first year  of  the Census, and it is done every 10 years.  130 million forms.  Used to redraw the legislative districts, reapportion our representation as a result of population growth.  Redistribute federal funds, our taxes coming back to our community.  $1400 comes back to our community per person to help pay for schools and other needs in our community.  Required by law to complete.   American Fact Finder is the results on the web. Census bureau cannot share any of  the information with any other entity, they use the statistics but not personal info.  $17.50 per hour if you need a part time job, available. 

 

Reports:

Patti Sutter: Planning Commission – Annexation, Lake View and Houghton Neighborhood Plans

Mike Stults: Treasurer’s Report $3,009.00

Margaret: KAN meeting

 

Patti Sutter: Other Meetings. City Council: BNSF Coridor, City Council getting organized on this, Council very vocal about Trail and silent about the Rail.  Improvements on 85th undergrounding of the Utilities starting in April, 2010.  Look for slow downs in 85th.

 

Park Lane is having improvements overlayment, raise the street, work on existing trees.  Scheduled to start and  be completed before summer.

 

Meeting adjourned: 9:30