Building community and maintaining a great neighborhood to live in.

Board Meeting of the North Rose Hill Neighborhood Association

Place: North Rose Hill fire Station

Date: May 17, 2010

Call to Order: 7:00

Board Members Present: Margaret Carnegie, Kaylee Nilan, Milt Olson, Mike Stults, Patti Sutter, Linda Jones, Casey Walvoord, Karen Tennyson, and Sharon Clark

What got you to the meeting? Kiosk sign 1, Yard sign 0, Neighbor 1, E-mail reminder 1, City of Kirkland Website 0

First time Guests Paul and Anita Nelson, moved here in February of 2010

Bob Kamuda guest from Parks Board

Announcements:

• Mark Twain Elementary Clean-Up schedule change to August 14
• Federal 990 tax form have been submitted by Mike Stults and accepted.
• Casey Walvoord has set up a Twitter Account for North Rose Hill, NRH_Neighbors

• Kirkland Arts Center grant contest results – Made it to the top 10, so will get some of the Grant Monies that will be distributed.
• Don Schmitz took on a project to improve the City Benches along the streets here on NRH; he pressure washed each bench, scrubbed, sanded and sealed the benches to make them sliver free. Thanks for all your hard work.
• Pancake Breakfast to help end homelessness: May 30^th, PKCC 7:30 – 11:30, $7 donation
• Science Café: 2^nd Monday of the month 7:00 p.m. at Wild Rover Restaurant.
• Thank You to Starbucks for the donation of coffee for our meeting.

You are invited to the Redmond City Council’s public hearing to provide comment on the proposed St. George’s Coptic Orthodox Church annexation. The proposed St. George’s annexation is comprised of two lots located at the northeast corner of NE 100^th Street and 132^nd Avenue NE.

 The hearing will be held at the Redmond Council Chambers as part of the City Council’s meeting on May 18, 2010 at 8 p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible.  The Council may take final action on the proposed annexation that night. If you cannot attend the public hearing but wish to comment on the annexation, then please send your comments in writing before May 18, 2010 to the Office of the City Clerk at PO Box 97010, Redmond, Washington, 98073-9710.

 If the City Council approves the annexation after the public hearing, then the property will be part of the Redmond and will be subject to Redmond’s development regulations exclusively. Until then, Redmond cannot consider an application to develop the property within the proposed annexation area because the property is not yet within the city limits of Redmond. If the annexation is approved and if any development application is made, then there will be notice of the opportunities for public comment on such an application.

 I do appreciate your interest and welcome any further questions you might have. Feel free to contact me.

 Best regards,

Eric McConaghy, Associate Planner
Redmond Planning Department
15670 NE 85th Street, MS 4SPL
PO Box 97010
Redmond, WA 98073-9710
Phone: (425) 556 -2414
Email: emcconaghy@redmond.gov

St. Georges Church Proposal: 132^nd and 100^th, includes two lots. The property in discussion is currently Unincorporated King County. The Church is requesting the City of Redmond to annex their property so that when they go in for building permits they will be following City of Redmond requirements. If we as neighbors have any concerns we should attend City of Redmond Council Meetings, and or write in letters to the council with our comments.

Link to St. George’s Coptic Orthodox Church annexation request

Link to Redmond City Council Action Agenda (meeting result)

At the last Neighborhood meeting there was a presentation regarding the BNSF Corridor from the Rail Advocates,

This meeting we had a presentation from the Eastside Trails Advocates (ETA). Lisa McConnell from ETA gave the presentation: ETA was started by members from Bellevue and Kirkland.

Port of Seattle purchased the Line December 2009, but do not want to maintain the line. The maintenance group maybe, King County, Sound Transit, City of Redmond, PSE, and Cascade Water Alliance

Rail Banking means we have to maintain a trail

Municipal Process (Cities)

Public Process (Voters)

Sound Transit has request a proposal for a partner to operate

City of Kirkland has already started the public process.

If the trail is completed there will be 73 miles of continuous trails North to South.

Kaylee Nilan spoke about the Neighborhood Picnic July 17^th 12:00 to 4:00, Woodlands Park at the Gazebo. With budget cuts there will be one bouncer this year, there will be games and the Infamous Pie Contest.

• We need two BBQ’s donated for the day
• We need people to help cook the Hot Dogs (be there around 11:30 for setup and cooking)
• We need a Game Coordinator
• Need help hanging the banner sign at the park
• If you want to help email Kaylee at Kayleenilan@verizon.net

Mary Alyce Burleigh came and talked about the Parks Clean Up Plan.

• Currently the trash cans have been removed and there will be less maintenance.
• As a neighbor we are going to have to become stewards and pick up trash in the parks, we need human power to keep the parks clean
• Picnic Tables and Benches in Woodlands Park need repair
• Playground needs new sealant installed
• City will provide the materials and we need to supply the Human Power.

June 12^th will be the first work party, Kaylee will post signs that the park is closed for the day. 9:00 a.m. to 12:00

Karen Tennyson: Planning Commission

Clean up of Zoning Code Language

New Area (Annexation) Divisions of Neighborhoods

Costco has decided to not put in the Gas Station

Mike Stults: Treasurers Report

There is $3,925.00 in our account at Union Bank formerly Frontier Bank

Karen Tennyson: KAN Report

May 22 Central Houghton Plant Sale 10 – 2:00

Party in the Park – Bridle Trails Pancake Breakfast and 5k run

June 26^th, Horse Entertainment

City of Kirkland has implemented a $20 tab fee for all cars Licensed in the City starting June 1

May 30^th Pancake Breakfast by the Kirkland Kiwanis to benefit KITH

Patty Sutter reminded us that the Wednesday Market is in full swing again 2:00 to 7:00

Meeting adjourned 8:59