“it’s
a great place to live…”
Action Items:
1)
Treasurer to
purchase Quicken Basic software.
2)
Treasurer to pay
$500 to FOML for meeting room use for all 2007.
Minutes:
The meeting was called to order by Chair, Ron Rada at 6:32PM in the
Manchester Library. Ron welcomed the 28
people (including 20 current members) in attendance. We originally planned to have Commissioner Angel
speak on the process for review and changes to the Manchester Plan which is
anticipated to occur this year. At the
last minute, Commissioner Angel had input from the DCD suggesting that she
should wait until next month when they have their plans better solidified. As a result, we asked Ron Robinson to give us
a brief summary of a non-partisan effort which he has volunteered for which is
proposing a change to election campaign funding.
Guest Speakers comments:
The project Ron Robinson spoke on is
called “Washington Public Campaigns” The
group was founded in 2003 with the mission to organize support for public
funding of political campaigns in
Community Group announcements:
Crime Prevention and Public Safety Group: Bud Larsen reported that
he will be looking forward to our meeting with Jan Angel to present a number of
questions he has on the
Business meeting:
Review and approval of past meeting’s minutes: Minutes of the 11/28/06 meeting were approved as written.
Correspondence: No significant correspondence has been received recently.
Reports:
Treasurer: In the absence of Treasurer Trudeau, it was reported that our balance is now $1037.05. A motion was made and approved to authorize the purchase of Quicken Basic for our recording of our treasury actions in the amount of $29.99 plus tax.
Sewers Sub-Committee: Ron Rada reported that the only step required for the completion of LID#8 is a final road repaving. It was noted that eight additional properties were added to LID#8 which were on the boundary of LID#9, which will decrease the cost of #8, but unfortunately this changes the boundaries of #9. Some additional signatures will be required to allow LID#9 to proceed.
A
question was asked on the extent of LID#9.
Ron said that the LID will go along the water down to
MCC Action Groups:
***Downtown Design: Carole Leininger invited those who are interested in developing design standards for the commercial zone to attend the group’s meetings on Saturday mornings. For further info, contact Carole.
***Historic Village Character: There was no report during the meeting, but after adjournment, Bob Turk announced that the group had last met on 12/9 and he was appointed chairman.
***Partnerships with other Agencies: No report.
***Recreational Venues: Helen Robinson reported that her
recent efforts have been focused on developing potential safe walking
trails. She mentioned that
***Village Commons: This group is looking for a new chairman. It was noted that Norm McLaughlin of the Kitsap Consolidated Housing Authority will be speaking to the Friends of the Library (FOML) meeting on 1/24. McLaughlin will discuss the construction of senior housing units and how this can be combined with other community needs for building space.
Old Business:
Ron Robinson presented the nomination forms for “Manchester Citizen of the Year” which was introduced in November. Forms are available on our web-site and nominations for this year must be submitted by January 31st. Nominations will be coordinated by the Executive Board and presented to the membership for final selection.
Ron Rada
reported that he still has no response from the
Mattie Walters is still being trained on accessing data on County building permit actions and will have reports at future meetings.
New Business:
The FOML has approved a $500 fee to cover MCC use of the Library meeting room for all MCC related meetings this year. Debbie Trudeau will submit a check in that amount to FOML.
Due to a conflict in use of the meeting room, the MCC Executive Board will meet on 2/5, 3/5, and 4/2 instead of the normal first Thursday of the month.
Topics from the floor:
Arlene Rebelowski stated that the Greeter Service is going to all 98366 new neighbors. We are just about out of the printed information sheets and $61 worth of printing will be required. A motion to provide the funds required for the new printing was approved. Arlene also mentioned that she would like to add any pertinent dates to the web-site calendar. If you have anything to add, contact Arlene via the web-site.
Jim Stritzel reminded everyone that the hearing on the stop work order on his property is being held on 2/8 at 9:30AM in the Commissioners’ chambers for those who might want to attend.
Mark Rebelowski said that he has learned that the demolition of the former Manchester Foods building will occur within about three weeks.
A remark was made about the County’s selective enforcement of elements of the Manchester Plan. This led to frustrations aired by others with concerns; there were no conclusions drawn or actions recommended.
There being no other discussion from the floor, Chairman Rada adjourned the meeting at 7:38 PM.
Our next meeting will be Tuesday February 27th
at 6:30-8:30PM. The location has yet to
be selected, but will possibly be the Commissioners chamber. This will be one of our annual “Town
Meetings”. The DCD will use this as a
kick-off meeting for the Manchester Plan revision development. This will be follow a similar process to the
original plan development where community members will be brought together to provide
recommendations to the County staff. Our
DCD representative will be Scott Deener.
We’re told that they have a target for conclusion of the community input
process of Sept. ’07.
Ron Rada and
John Winslow will jointly develop an agenda for our next meeting for distribution with the
reminder, several days before the meeting.
If you have any additional items for the agenda, contact John Winslow
prior to February 13th.
Respectfully
submitted,
John
Winslow, Member-at-Large;