PO
Box 173
Manchester,
WA 98353-0173
“it’s a great place to live…”
Action
Items:
1)
Debby Trudeau to continue to pursue sewer grant money.
2)
Carol to continue to work with the pro bono attorney on what our
organization status should be to help establish the bank account.
Also, contact Kitsap Foundation again.
3)
Bob Lamb to continue to contact parties interested in participating in
Haida park discussions.
4)
Debby to provide information on her review of RCW 36A for consideration.
5)
Carol needs to contact Bob Lamb to transfer other PO Box key to Ballard.
6)
John to contact Debbie Austin to determine if Jan Angel should be on our
e-mail distribution list.
7)
JB to contact Kitsap County Assoc. Of Realtors to possibly add a link to
our web-site.
8)
Carol to prepare a poster-sized version of our Mission and Purpose for
use at future meetings.
9)
John to contact SKHS to encourage student involvement in the Council.
10)
John to reserve Library meeting room on 4/9 8-4 for retreat.
11)
Ron Robinson to draft an agenda for retreat on 4/9.
12)
Carol to provide Arlene with member application file for web-site.
13)
Dave to provide Arlene with LID#8 info from County for addition to
web-site.
14)
Carol to draft a letter of welcome for new dues paying members.
15)
Discuss addition of other groups and potential fees to our web-site at
next meeting.
16)
Arlene to develop content disclaimer for web-site.
17)
Select an issue for discussion at April meeting.
Those in attendance: JB Bartel, D. Kimble, C. Kowalski, B. Larsen, P. Pacquette, A. Rebelowski, M. Rebelowski, R. Robinson, J. Winslow,
Excused Absences: B. Ballard, R. Rada, D. Trudeau
Minutes:
The meeting was called to order by Vice Chair, Ron Robinson at 7:05PM. Minutes of the previous meeting were approved as written.
Old
Business:
Follow-up
items from previous meeting:
In a review of action items
from the past meeting, the following was reported:
1) Debbie Trudeau reported prior to the meeting that she contacted Rep. Lanz’s assistant Samantha Barrera on 1/24 and has not yet had a response to questions on grants.
2) Arlene and JB both discussed letterhead and showed a sample. This effort should be concluded at our next meeting. It was further discussed that only the President or Secretary should send out any written communication on our letterhead, so it will only be provided to those individuals. Dave also offered potential printing resources if necessary.
3) Carol discussed the bank account issue. She has contact with Davis Wright Tremaine (Todd Smith) on pro bono help in setting up an appropriate non-profit status which should allow us to arrange a banking account. If we establish ourselves as a 501-3c non-profit, the annual costs will be approximately $200. The Allyn Comm. Council is a 501-3c (Jeff Carey is a contact). If we do file with the State as a non-profit, we have up to 27 months in-which to become a 501-3c if we choose to do so. We also should try again with the Kitsap Foundation to be under their wing financially.
4) Carol presented a preliminary master calendar. All were asked to provide other key dates. This lead to a discussion of the content of our “town hall” meetings per the Bylaws. It was concluded that these should primarily be directed at providing feedback to the community from meetings with the Commissioners and an open forum discussion with feedback from the community. The group agreed to not hold a regular MCC meeting in during the month of December due to conflicts with all of the holidays. That change also lead to the need to nominate officers in October, for election in November. This will be added to the log of potential Bylaw changes. Arlene suggested that this could be added to an events section of a back page on the web-site.
5)
Bob Lamb was to organize a meeting with all interested individuals to
discuss future actions on the Haida property.
With Bob not able to attend we did not have all the facts, but it was
mentioned that he had contacted several interested parties.
6)
Ron Rada reported prior to the meeting that he is assembling a Sewers
“FAQ” list for publication on the MCC web-site and will have available in
the very near future. He will have
Rick Gagnon review the information prior to publication.
7)
Debbie was unable to provide information on her review of RCW 36A for
consideration.
8)
Carol Kowalski needs to contact Bob Lamb to transfer other PO Box key to
Ballard.
9)
John contacted Terrie O’Neill-Battuello (Kitsap Co. public info
officer) and she felt that Jan Angel would be eager to keep updated on our
activities, but also offered that she would share critical information with Jan.
The Board agreed that John should verify proper distribution with Jan’s
assistant, Debbie Austin.
10)
John reported that he has contacted the e-mail distribution list on
asking for confirmation that they wish to remain on the list.
Response has been very positive. JB
offered that she could contact the Kitsap County Association of Realtors to see
if they would be interested in adding a link to our web-site on theirs.
11)
John said that he had received feedback from Kevin McDonald of Suquamish
CC that they were happy to be included on our distribution, and they would like
to have our help as they formalize their group.
12)
We re-affirmed that Debbie will be our coordinator on guest speakers.
John offered that he had the details worked out with Dick Hayes who will
speak on 2/22 and Debbie did not need to follow up.
13)
Carol presented a flyer she has prepared for the 2/22 meeting.
She will post flyers at Library and PO publicizing the meeting.
Arlene will also add that to the web-site.
14)
We added the reading of Bylaws Mission Statement and Purpose to agenda of
our regular meetings and included it at 1/25.
Carol offered to provide a printed version for use at future meetings to
minimize the time to read.
15)
John reported that there was no response to the e-mail notice that we are
seeking student members to participate in the Council.
It was suggested that John directly contact SKHS to encourage
involvement.
16)
Carol presented our list of MCC accomplishments to-date.
17)
Ron Robinson has agreed to facilitate a “Saturday retreat” for goal
setting. It was concluded that we
would try to schedule such a retreat on Saturday April 9th in the
Library and it would run from 8-4. John
will reserve the room and Ron Robinson will prepare a tentative agenda.
Our sub committee chairs will be included in the retreat.
TREASURER”S
REPORT: Carol reported that
we now have 26 paid members. It was
agreed that Carol would furnish the member application file to Arlene for
inclusion on the web-site. Our
current treasury balance is $532.08.
The only new mail was several
more sewer responses, which will be forwarded to Ron Rada. Dave mentioned that he had received a mailing from the County
on the progress of LID#8. It was
agreed to add this to the web-site as well.
SEWERS
SUB-COMMITTEE REPORT: Ron
Rada provided the following report prior to the meeting: Our next sewers
committee meeting is scheduled for 2/17 at the Library. We will be inviting all
of the people along Colchester who have responded positively to the survey, for
the next proposed LID, to see if any of them will take the lead on working with
the County Public Works Department to initiate LID#9.
We will not ask them to contact the county until we are sure that LID#8
is approved. The County
Commissioners signed the Resolution to form LID#8 at their meeting on 1/31. The next event on the way to final approval will be a meeting
scheduled for 2/28 with the Commissioners to voice opinions from any residents
affected by the LID. After that
meeting, residents in opposition will have 30 days to come up with 40% of the
owners, by land mass, to sign a petition in opposition to the LID.
If there is 40% opposition, the LID dies in place.
If the opposition does not materialize, the LID is approved and the final
engineering and design is stared with a projected date for completion of all
work sometime this fall.
CRIME
PREVENTION SUB-COMMITTEE REPORT:
Bud Larsen presented the Crime Prevention sub-committee report.
The sub-committee has made a significant recent effort at improving the
signage in the Port facilities, at the direction of the County Prosecuting
Attorney, so that the Sheriff can provide enforcement.
Several committee members attended the 2/7 Port meeting and presented
extensive photo documentation on signage at other local port facilities.
Signs typically have lettering at least 2-1/4” high.
Bud said that his efforts were received with a negative response.
Without support from the Port on signage, we will be unable to get the
Prosecutor’s support on enforcement of the Port’s resolutions.
It was concluded that we need to demonstrate the concern on the issue by
greater attendance at Port meetings by the public.
The next Port meeting is scheduled for Monday March 14.
It was also suggested that we should invite a Port Commissioner and
possibly a representative from the State Port Commission to address the duties
and responsibilities of local Port Authorities at a future general meeting.
Bud also reported that the Kitsap Sheriff’s 2005 budget has been
presented. Once again there is no
allocation of financial support for a Manchester area way-station.
Last year there were 227 crime reports filed in our area.
The Crime Prevention group is also working on a plan for safety/crime
prevention activities at the annual Father’s Day Salmon Bake.
Likely activities will include a crime prevention booth, displays of
fire/police equipment, and finger printing for toddlers.
PUBLIC
FACILITES SUB-COMMITTEE REPORT:
Bob Lamb did not attend, and no report provided.
New
Business:
Carol suggested that we ought to send a note of welcome to new dues paying members. It was agreed that this would be a great idea. Carol will draft the letter which will go out under the Chair’s signature.
Arlene discussed the details of the web-page (www.manchesterwa.org). It was agreed that no groups or other significant additions would be made to the web-page with review and approval by either the Chair or Secretary, and normally these would be reviewed at Exec. Board meetings. We discussed the potential addition of other local group’s material to the web-site. Possible inclusions would be the Port, Friends of the Library, Water District, etc. There is a cost associated with operating the site, currently about $125/year and other groups should be willing to bear their fare share of the cost of running the site (we would still have the burden of maintaining the site). It was agreed that this topic should be discussed at the next Exec. Bd. Meeting. Arlene also offered to add a disclaimer statement to the site relative to the content of other groups’ information.
Next we reviewed the content of the next several regular meetings. We concluded that February is all set with Dick Hayes of Kitsap Transit speaking on the foot ferry issue. In April, it was agreed that we don’t need a guest speaker, but should select an issue to discuss with the membership.
The Secretary needs to make a tally of the dues paying members in attendance at each meeting to insure we have a voting quorum per the Bylaws.
John reviewed an email he received from Chip Augello, a local real estate appraiser who voiced concern at building height restrictions in our Manchester Plan. This note will be added to the input log for the Plan review.
John also had an email from Carrilu Thompsen on an addition of 17 homes on Puget Drive and the potential impact on traffic. Carrilu also mentioned the meeting schedule for the WSF fare and frequent rider discussions. We elected not to add any specific information on the web-site on these issues.
There being no further business, Vice Chairman Robinson adjourned the meeting at 9:10PM.
Our next regular meeting will be Tuesday February
22nd at 6:30-8:30PM in the Manchester Library and the next Executive Board
meeting will be Thursday March 10th at 7:00PM at a yet to be
determined location (John Winslow will be in California 3/5-17).
Respectfully
submitted,
John
Winslow, Secretary-Manchester Community Council