June 13, 2017
Cully Association of Neighbors General Membership Meeting, Grace Presbyterian Church 6025 NE Prescott,
Portland, Oregon
Board Members in Attendance: Laura Young, Mac McKinlay, Oscar Moreno Gilson, Alma Velázquez, Rich Gunderson, David Sweet, Jake Antles and Julie Granger.
Welcome and Introductions: Members were welcomed and board introduced themselves.
Additional Agenda Items: No March Board Meeting Minutes to be approved.
Approval of Agenda: David Sweet moved to accept the agenda as amended, second by Dennis Karas. Motion carried.
Celebrate our Community Volunteers: Laura Young thanked the Board and all the CAN member volunteers, including those who come to our meetings. Special recognition was given to: Dennis Karas and others for their work for Oak Leaf Mobile Home Park; Bruce Nelson and Starr Hogeboom and the Tree Committee for their work to inventory trees and planting trees in Cully; Eldon Haines for collecting trash each Monday on the triangle at the base of NE 42nd and Holman/Portland Highway; Those in the community for their support of the Normandy Apartment Complex; Movies in the Park; all those who worked on the cully clean up and to Jessica Jazdzewski in particular; those that worked on the CAN mini grants; Alma Velázquez and Greg Sotir and the Cully Air Action Team; Marilee Dea for her efforts to minimize oil and coal trains traveling through Cully; and to CNN representative Marilee Dea and Travis Niemann.
Dessert treats for the celebration came from establishments in Cully: Beeswing, Miss Z, Bison, and Ira’s. A community member asked about a crime report as there has been no one from the police department at our meeting in a long while. The police have changed their way of interacting with neighbors. There is a monthly meeting where people can bring their comments and questions. CAN was one of the few neighborhood association meeting they attended but they no longer have the staff to come to individual meeting. It was asked that we Eblast when those meetings are schedule. There is one tomorrow night at 7 pm at the CNN office on NE 87th between Prescott and Sandy.
Announcements
Trinity Lutheran Church came to thank the community for their response in helping Trinity Lutheran clean up from the tagging they received the morning of the Cully Cleanup. On Saturday July 8th, 11 am to 3 pm they will host CULLY STAND TOGETHER: The multicultural Cully community comes together to show its strength. There will be food, performances and fun for kids.
Food Bank – will take garden produce NE Emergency Food Program 4800 72nd and NE Wygant welcomes donations of garden produce. Always accepting of clothing too. Tues, Thurs and Sat 9 am – noon for donation drop off.
5855 NE Prescott: once police receive the search warrant from the court, the lot will be cleaned up and a fence will be installed.
Jeff Merkley is looking for kayaking/canoe enthusiasts to gather in the Willamette – event to be announced.
Yard Tree Giveaway : If you are interested in obtaining a big tree, not the little ones typically located along the street, registration will happen in July. Contact Bruce Nelson if you are interested.
Cully Farmers Market has opened – Thursdays from 4 pm to 8 pm through September; live music, pie back off, zucchini car race, hot food, affordability programs. Contact Jessica at the market info booth for more information.
Movies in the Park at Khunamokwst will be on Wednesday August 23rd. Pre movie entertainment begins at 6:30, movie, original Ghostbusters, will start at dusk. Movie will have subtitles in Spanish.
Rigler School’s annual carnival was super successful, thanks for the mini grant. Kindergarten sign up ends tomorrow. Brother of the younger man who died at the transit center was the brother of one of Rigler’s teachers. Can tie a ribbon on the fence at the community garden at Rigler. The school is doing well with most of the teachers returning next year: two are retiring and two, who commute from Hillsboro are not returning.
Neighbors for Clean Air and Dr. Linda George of PSU are coordinating the four ambient metals air monitors being installed in Cully. A blue Smoke filtering device is to be installed at Porter Yett. Full information on it can be found at: http://www.cullycleanair.org/2017/03/14/porter-yett-to-introduce-new-filtering-device/
For anyone interested in joining/ working with CAAT, the Cully Air Action Team, contact gsotir@cullycleanair.org or 310 467 8053.
Guest Speakers: Terry Aundson, architect and Paul Del Vecchio, Ethos Development. They came to share their planned development, Fernhill Crossing, which will be situated off of NE 42nd between NE Holman and Portland Highway. There will be 19 units: town homes and 2 story apartments, an outdoor gathering area and at least one parking space per unit. There will be a covered loading space. The site will be terraced with parking nearest to Portland Highway. Entrance will be off of NE 42nd. They hope to break ground in 16 to 18 months. Initially the units will be rental at approximated $1925/mo with an investment sale 5 to 7 years out. This is not an affordable housing project.
Discussion on CAN’s 2017-18 Work Plan lead by Jake Antles. A copy of the draft CAN 2017-18 Work Plan was passed out. Members were asked to look at the plan and then in groups of two share their thoughts about the items on the Work Plan in regards to what CAN is doing well, where could CAN improve and is there anything missing.
After a few minutes of sharing Jake asked for some of the ideas that members came up with:
Explore site for a site for a cully neighborhood landmark
Broodmoor golf course – advocate to keep this as open space
Help support large lots and open space
Outreach and communication: recruit speakers for the general meeting to share with us about the greater community, city and state. Members would like elected officials to speak. Use this to also promote the needs of our neighborhood.
Visit to Salem for Cully related issues
Additional languages for our newsletter – Somali, Vietnamese Increase diversity of people who attend this meeting
Involvement in the development at Colwood was inadvertently left off the action plan.
Jake shared that he is willing to lead those interested in further discussion around these issues. A sheet was circulated so interested people could share their contact info. Conversation will occur this summer.
Acceptance of Board Meeting Minutes Taken May 25th, 2017. David Sweet move to approve, second by Rich Gunderson. Motion carried.
Acceptance of General Meeting Minutes Taken May 9, 2017. David Sweet moved to approve, second by Mac McKinlay. Motion carried.
Treasurer’s report and Acceptance: Oscar Moreno Gilson gave report. Income year to date: $11,421.97; expenses $10,577.54. Bank balance: $32,996.96. David Sweet moved to accept the Treasurer’s report, second by Marilee Dea. Motion carried.
Board Reports:
CNN : Hollywood Neighborhood Asso. is considering building a memorial at the Hollywood Transit Center. CNN said they would endorse letter to city supporting that effort. CNN has signed on to the Community and City Response to Hate – Joint Statement composed by Portland United Against Hate eliminating ‘regardless of the threats made by the Trump administration’. They plan to ask Colwood to host CNN meeting in the fall.
Newsletter is printed and should be in the mail shortly.
Schools: Rigler’s annual carnival was a super successful and they were grateful for the mini grant. Kindergarten sign up ends tomorrow. The younger of the two men who died at the transit center was the brother of one of Rigler’s teachers. All are invited to tie a ribbon on the fence at the community garden at Rigler in his remembrance.
Old Business: David Sweet brought the Transportation Systems Development Charge Letter for final review and a vote. The letter acknowledges the work done for the proposed new rates for Transportation SDCs and asks they the City should use the same rate as developed by Parks. This Parks rates really encourage the development of smaller housing units. Jake Antles and/or Laura Young will go to city council to testify in July at the city hearing. Julie Granger moved to approved letter, second by Marilee Dea. Motion carried. Board vote was unanimous.
Alma Velazquez presented again the letter regarding the Cleaner Air Oregon regulation process. This letter states that all sources of pollution must be targeted and rules must be equitably coded and enforced. David Sweet moved that CAN endorse the letter, second by Travis Niemann. Motion carried. Board vote was unanimous.
New Business: Erwin Bergman spoke briefly about the CDA Overhead Approach descent that was presented last month. He will give a presentation at the September meeting with more history about this stating that CAN said not to this in 2008. He asked people to pay attention to the noise levels this summer for that discussion.
Motion to adjourn: Bob Granger moved to adjourn the meeting, second by David Sweet. Motion carried.
Meeting adjourned at 9:02 pm. carried meeting adjourned at 9:02 pm.
Respectfully submitted by Julie Granger