Southeast Uplift Board of Directors Meeting

Present: Marianne Colgrove, Ardenwald Pete Jacosen, Brentwood Darlington Shirley Nacoste, Center Sara Westerfield, Creston-Kenilworth Kurt Krause, Eastmoreland Michelle Isbell, Foster-Powell Sean McCusker, Hosford-Abernathy Lisa Laurenceau, Montevilla MaryAnn Schwab, Sunnyside Paul Leistner, Mt Tabor Linda Nettekoven, at large Roy Hartley, Richmond Gilly Burlingham, Buckman Ben Cox, South Tabor Goudarz Eghtedari, Laurelhurst Absent: Reid Kells, Sellwood-Moreland Moshe Lenske, Woodstock Staff Present: Tammy Sibley, Fiscal Manager Others Present: Scott Vala, Mt Scott-Arleta

Paul Leistner called the meeting to order.

Lisa Laurenceau read the Declaration of Unity.

Those present introduced themselves.

Seat new directors Ben Cox- South Tabor, Marianne moved, Linda seconded MOVED/APPROVED unanimously

Acceptance of Last Meetings Minutes

Minutes of the March meeting were accepted with the following changes: Name spellings: Mary Ann, Goudarz, Jacobsen and Abernethy MOVED/APPROVED with two abstentions, Goudarz and Ben (were not at the last meeting)

Committee Reports

Communications-Pete

New website will go live April 15th. He raised the idea of a list serve to make communication easier to the board. He asked if the board would agree to be on this list serve. The board agreed.

Tabor Commons- Paul

Oregon Tradeswomen will be on site next week. Tabor Commons will receive free plumbing, electrical, and hvac. They will be taking the underground tanks out as well.

40th Anniversary-Marianne

The committee came up with a concept: SEUL past, present and future. They would like to have salons or forums with guest speakers. We want it to fun and engaging. Marianne asked for ideas about speakers and topic suggestions.

Nominating Committee- Linda

Linda asked if anyone was interested in any of the offices. We will announce the slate in June and vote in July.

Neighborhood Announcements

Buckman-

This Thursday at 6:30pm at the Central Catholic library the mayoral candidates as well as other candidates will be speaking and taking questions.

HAND-

They wrote a grant to work with a planner to do a transportation study in reference to 7 corners and urban design. The clean-up was good. They made more money this year. They will discuss how to make HAND more sustainable at their next meeting.

Brentwood-Darlington-

will work with Mt.Scott-Arleta and Foster-Powell to organize Symphony in the Park in Mt. Scott Park. They also set up an e-mail account for the neighborhood association. They had their elections and have three new officers (were new to the neighborhood association).

Creston-Kenilworth-

They received a grant for a resource fair and grafitti clean up. The organizer of this stepped off the board. They will now combine these events with the clean-up. Sara is organizing the event and asked for ideas and information on how to do so.

Center-

They will a walk and talk at 60th MAX station about the eastside MAX planning project. The clean-up will be May 17th in the corner parking lot of Fred Meyer. Their next meeting will be May 20th where they will discuss changing the name of their neighborhood from Center to Rosemont.

Montavilla-

Three board members resigned last year. They held special elections to fill the spaces. They have two new board members. There will be a Green Project at Vestal Elementary School.

South Tabor-

Elections added a few new members. They will have the first annual neighborhood festival.

Johnson Creek- Ardenwald-

The light rail in se is in the public comment phase. There will be a park and ride in the neighborhood. There will be a new school in the neighborhood. It will be Ardenwald Elementary and it will be bigger and absorb two smaller schools. There will be a summer reading program in July and concerts in August.

Mt. Scott- Arleta-

The clean up was another successful one. Symphony in the Park will be held in Mt. Scott Park on August 23rd. There will be music, food, entertainment and community organizations. Their elections will be held on Wednesday.

Foster-Powell-

Will have elections at the next meeting. There will be a neighborhood garden tour this summer.

East Moreland-

There was a builder’s fair. There were 20+ venders. Attendance wasn’t good as last year.

Richmond-

There will be films in the park this summer.

Laurelhurst-

The clean will be in two weeks. In June the neighborhood will have a garage sale to repair the gate and replace the lights at the entrance of Laurelhurst Park. The lake will have a bio-treatment.

Sunnyside-

Last Saturday was the clean up. They had a shredder truck to dispose of papers. There was the second annual useful goods exchange. There will be sunflowers in bloom on Belmont.

Mt. Tabor-

Clean up is May 10th. There will be a farmstand fundraiser at Tabor Commons. Every two months there will be a community event at that location. Their neighborhood sign at 50th and Hawthorn got hit.

ONI Grant

We discussed the grant and the revisions that were made. The concerns that the board had with the grant were as follows: 1. Concerns with the action plan requiring large contact with the neighborhoods and how we are supposed to document that. 2. We talked about (this year) critiquing the grant, what works and what doesn’t. 3. Performance measures- Where are they and what shall they look like? 4. Resource development- There are no goals and there are questions as to the support that ONI will provide. Clarity between resource and fund development. 5. Interest bearing account- Paragraph not clear. Was it intended to be revised. Approval of ONI grant- Draft agreement with stipulations- Sara moved, Mary Ann seconded MOVED/APPROVED with one apposed (Lisa) and two abstentions (Ben and Pete)

 

SEUL Draft Budget Approval We are $26 dollars in the black. Goudarz asked if we could see last years budget side by side with this year to see the difference. This is a realistic budget. Tammy clarified and answered questions that the board had.

Staff/Board Event We will work, eat and discuss. This will be a great way to build relationships between board members and staff. It will be May 17th at SEUL. Next board meeting will be June 2, 2008

Meeting adjourned at 9:03pm

Minutes respectfully submitted by Michelle IsBell, SEUL Secretary