Those in attendance: C. Leininger, R. Rada, D. Trudeau, J. Winslow
Excused Absences: R. Robinson, MC Edwards, C. Thompson
Action
Items:
1)
Debby to price
accounting software.
2)
John to send MCC
membership a reminder about volunteering for the clean-up on 10/7.
3)
Carole to get a
copy of the
4)
Keep looking for
individual to monitor development projects.
5)
Ron Rada to
continue to pursue action on letter requesting gravity-feed sewer line
alongside #9.
6)
John will
determine who needs to sign and send out letter to Commissioners on two-story
mixed use development in
7)
John to query
current Board members on willingness to remain on the Board.
The meeting was called to order by Vice Chair, Ron Rada at 6:40PM. Minutes of the previous meeting were approved as written.
Treasurer’s report: Debby reported the treasury balance is $717.05. There were no new bills to be paid. The audit has been successfully completed and
one suggestion was to acquire and use accounting software such as Quicken. Debby agreed to price such software for
approval by the membership.
No significant new mail had arrived since our
last meeting.
Related Organizations’ status/issues:
*Crime Prevention/Safety group: Ron reported that the road speed data
(included in past MCC meeting minutes) will be helpful in the future for the
safety group’s efforts.
*MCA:
Carole said that there was concern about the number of volunteers expected for
Saturday’s MCA/MCC road-side clean-up.
John offered to send another note to the MCC membership.
*Historical Society: No new news.
*
Sub-committee status/issues:
*Sewers sub-committee: LID #8 is about 3 weeks from completion and
LID#9 is ten signatures short of the required number for approval.
*Revitalize Village Center: There
was no official report but Carole was concerned about the lack of a Manchester
Design standard for downtown. It was
agreed that Carole would procure a copy of the Kingston Design Standard which
could be used as a starting point for a Manchester Standard.
*
*Partnership with agencies: Debby mentioned that we are still looking for someone to fill the
critical role of monitoring the progress on significant building projects. This will require someone who is willing to
visit the County’s offices to gather data.
*Recreational Venues:
No report.
*Village Commons: John said that he has been in contact with Bill Shaw who is dealing
with a family health issue and has thus been unavailable for meetings. John also mentioned that the Kitsap Housing
Authority has expressed keen interest in pursuing a multi-use (senior
housing/community center) building in the
Old Business:
Follow-up items from previous meeting:
In a review of action items from the past meeting, the following was reported:
Ron Rada said he had contacted Debbie Austin on the status of our letter requesting action on a parallel gravity feed sewer alongside LID#9, but she claimed to not be aware of the letter. Ron will continue to pursue.
Carole distributed the latest results of the survey at the 9/26 MCC meeting. Actions resulting from the survey will be discussed at our next MCC meeting.
Other old business:
John will determine whether Ron Robinson is in town yet, and if not, Ron Rada will sign the letters to the Commissioners about the “Two story mixed use development” which is included in the Plan language (and discussed at the 9/26 MCC meeting).
It was agreed that for the time being, we will continue to follow the guidelines for new project selection, discussed at the 9/7 Exec. Bd. Meeting.
New Business:
It was agreed that the focus at our
next MCC meeting needs to be heavily placed on activity by the five groups
assigned to develop recommended changes to the Manchester Plan.
We reviewed progress on our six
annual goals with some action moving ahead on most.
John mentioned that we need to make
sure we have a full candidate list prepared by our nominating committee
(currently Robinson & Rebelowski) and ready for announcement at our October
24th meeting. John will send
a note to all current board members to verify their interest in continuing to
serve.
There being no further business, Vice Chairman Rada adjourned the meeting at 7:23 PM.
Our next regular meeting will be Tuesday October 24th
at 6:30-8:30PM in the Manchester Library and the next Executive Board meeting
will be Thursday November 2nd at 6:30PM in the Library.
Respectfully
submitted,
John
Winslow, Secretary-Manchester Community Council