East
District Council
Seattle
Public Library – Capitol Hill Branch
425
Harvard Avenue
May 13, 2013
Members Attending:
Andrew Taylor
Alice Lanczos, Madison Park Community
Council
Anita Bowers, Montlake Community Club
Elaine King, Montlake Community Club
Janis Maloney, Madison Park Business
Association
John Akamatsu, Capitol Hill Community
Council
Guests:
Bob Derry, First Hill Streetcar Project
Victoria Beach, East Precinct Advisory
Committee
Mel Burchett, Sustainable Capitol Hill
Gina Biber, The Capitol Hill Times
Don Blakeney, Capitol Hill Chamber
Mike Archambault, Central Seattle
Greenways
Erin Abu-Rish, Capitol Hill Community
Council
Tammy Lothy, resident
Jeff Heft, resident
Tonya Crehan, resident
Valerie Bloem, resident
Alex Brennan, Capitol Hill Housing
Michael Wells, Capitol Hill Chamber of
Commerce
Rob Crehan, resident
Staff: Karen Ko, Neighborhood District Coordinator
The
meeting was called to order by Andrew Taylor at 5:50pm.
The
minutes from the April 8th East District Council meeting were
approved.
Bob Derry gave an update on the 1st Hill Street Car.
The project started at Seattle Community College and has now reached Yesler and
Jackson. They are considering accommodating bicycles. You can sign up for
updates and they are on Facebook and Twitter.
Captain Ron Wilson, East District Community Police gave an update on
recent crimes since the last meeting, particularly in and around Cal Anderson
Park. They are increasing patrols in the park in response to complaints of drug
paraphernalia in the play area. Corbi
Christenson, Park Ranger Supervisor stated that there are 5 to ten rangers for
all of Seattle Parks.
Matthew York, East Precinct Police Liaison Attorney provided a
follow up regarding issues raised at the last meeting. Some of the issues
covered were:
Noise;
there is a 65 decibel limit, chronic nuisance concerns, and limited coverage of
police force, residential and business zoning conflicts.
He also shared they are instituting night life
meetings with bar owners.
Karen Ko spoke about the Bridging the Gap (BTG), Large Fund
and the Neighborhood Parks and Street Fund.
Applicants for both funds will be coming back to the EDC for review and
ranking. The BTG Levy Oversight Committee will make final decisions for that
pot of money. After the District Council submits its final ranking of
Neighborhood Parks and Street Fund projects, staff review and send these on to
the City Council in the fall as part of Parks’ or SDOT’s budgets for final
approval. East District Council will
invite the total 6 applicants to the July Meeting.
Alice Lanczos proposed a motion to adopt Karen’s suggested criteria
when evaluating projects presented. Motion was seconded, but did not pass. Andrew
Taylor moved to allocate up to 20 minutes in discussion of each set of
applicants. The motion was seconded and approved.
Janice Maloney and Andrew
Taylor gave a City Neighborhood Council Report. The group will be hosting a Mayoral Candidate Forum in
June.
Neighborhood Round Robin:
Capitol Hill Chamber: Considering building a tool library.
Planning
an event called BOOM, when the red wall that has been surrounding the Light
Rail construction site comes down.
On
Saturday June 1st there will be a ‘clean sweep’ at Cal Anderson
Park. This is annual neighborhood clean
up. Last year close to 200 neighbors
showed up. This year, they are hoping
for more!
On
June 11th they are hosting a forum regarding the large amount of
development and how it will impact their neighborhood.
Madison Park: Surveyed all
their sidewalks for issues that property owners are responsible for. Sent
letters to each resident noting it was a voluntary compliance.
Jim Erickson shared that KOMO wanted to know the response to Metro
Route Changes.
Andrew Taylor passed out the EDC Bylaws and proposed we review them
for membership criteria and other ideas.
Meeting
was adjourned at 7:40pm.
Respectfully
submitted,
Anita
Bowers, Secretary
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