April 2015 Board Meeting Agenda

Swantown Inn Bed & Breakfast, 1431 11th Ave SE (corner of Central)
Wednesday, April 15th, 2014, 6:30PM – 7:30PM (this is a packed agenda and may run over)
Monthly Board meeting of the Eastside Neighborhood Association.

Agenda

  • Approval of March Minutes
  • Decision on who is going to be Secretary, or if it will be handled jointly.
  • ENA Generic Business Cards
    • Distribute to Board Members
  • Dog waste stations update
    • Call for volunteers to help on last installation.
  • Neighborhood Match Grant Update
    • RNA (Recogonized Neighborhood Association) updated with City of Olympia by Sherry.
    • Decisions made in May.
    • Take out bounce house as it increases insurance from $101 to $400+?
  • ENA Sign Cleaning
    • Nathan has personally purchased an extension pole for his own use and offers this for cleaning our signs.  Hence we just need cleaning product. “Simple Green” is Nathan’s suggestion. Any better ideas?
  • Annual Garage Sale
    • More signage? Serve dual purpose with Annual Picnic promotion and general meetings.
    • 10 more signs and 15 more stands (as they break) = $182.57
  • CNA – Report from attending CNA meetings.
  • Federal and State Procedures on Highway Noise Abatement
  • Proposal for another security minded ENA General Meeting brought forward by Anna Schlecht
  • Bike Boulevard in Eastiside – Sophie Stimson, Senior Planner, Public Works Transportation
  • Olympia village convergence building – Pat Russmussen
  • Treasurers Report
    • Renewing Long Term CD
  • New business.

Please note you do not need to be a board member to attend. We start promptly at 6:30pm.

March 2015 Board Meeting Minutes

Swantown Inn Bed & Breakfast, 1431 11th Ave SE (corner of Central)
Wednesday, March 18th, 2014, 6:30PM – 7:30PM
Monthly Board meeting of the Eastside Neighborhood Association.
Board Members In Attendance: Nathan Allan, Susan Herring,  Melissa Bluestein, Rita Sammons, Ira Silberlicht, Brian Brannies, Sheena Pietzold, Sherry Cillicut
Board Members Absent:  Ted Braid (had volunteered at Annual meeting but did not show up), Mitch Dennis (we are confirming if he is continuing on as a board member)
Neighbors in Attendance: Roger Horn, Rhonda Davis, Josh Davis

Minutes

  • Welcome new board members
    • Susan Herring, Melissa Bluestein, Rita Sammons, Ira Silberlicht
  • Election of Officers
    • Slate of Officers voted on and passed unanimously.
    • President – Nathan Allan
    • Vice-President – Brian Brannies
    • Treasurer – Sherry Cillicut
    • The position of Secretary was discussed and Sheena and Melissa may end up sharing the duties.  This will be confirmed at the next meeting after they have had a chance to discuss.
  • Adoption of updated By-Laws as discussed at the Annual Meeting.
  • ENA Generic Business Cards
    • Nathan proposed business cards for the ENA with a cost of $20.47 for 500 cards.
    • Susan made a motion to approve 500 business cards at a cost of $20.47, Sherry seconded the motion and the motion passed unanimously.
  • Dog waste stations update
    • Call for volunteers to help on last installation.
    • Ira is hosting one of the last two to be put in. Nathan is going to work with him to make his happen on 7th and Edison.
    • The other has 811 approval and will also be organized by Nathan, with help from the home owner.
  • Traffic Circle Beautification
    • Neighborhood Match Grant applied for (by Brian Brannies on behalf of ENA)
    • $1500 in donated labor and materials
    • $500 has been asked for in the match
  • Annual Summer Picnic Update
    • Neighborhood Match Grant applied for (by Nathan Allan on behalf of ENA)
    • Shelter reserved through Parks Department (we require insurance to cover this)
      • We have a day insurance quote of $201 but Scott at Parks says there is a cheaper option for this. He is yet to fill us in on what this is.
    • $7954 in donated labor, materials, food.
    • $1480 has been asked for in matching grant funds.
  • Annual Garage Sale
    • Rhonda from New Bridge wants to have their Rummage Sale coincide with the Annual Garage Sale. The Rummage sale will have proceeds go to City Gate and their communbity outreach programs.
  • CNA – Report from attending CNA meetings.
    • Report from Tim Minarachi, who is representing the ENA until a board member can attend.
    • There was talk about not fixing sidewalks, complaints about the Okympian’s involuntary insert delivery, other petty concerns. I have one bit of info I will forward later on from a woman who wanted to give a presentation to the ENA of a park or planting program she’s involved with, I just need to retrieve the paper with her info on it. The most interesting thing is subarea planning. Subarea A is the experiment, that’s the associations in the northeast area. They’re going to be working on it for a while longer before it goes online, but you should be advised we are subarea B- which leads me to believe we’re next. Subarea B is simply the current territory of the ENA with the addition of the corridor between Eastside and Plum. All we would have to collaborate with the DNA over would be the area between Eastside and Plum, and we’ve been doing that the last couple of years anyhow. I think it’s a good thing.
  • Treasurers Report
  • Checking account $679.82
  • Savings account $328.90
  • Neighborhood signs $1297.10
  • Legion way trees $151.31
  • Community beautification $505.31
  • Long-term savings $1030.89
  • New business.
  • Brian asked for cleaning supplies and equipment to clean the neighborhood signs up on Boulevard. A motion was made by Brian for $100 from the sign fund to be used to purchase supplies and equipment to clean the signs. It was seconded by Ira and passed unanimously.
  • Roger Horn let us know about a proposed Bike Boulevard that will head down through our neighborhood to downtown. There was concern that the ENA should be in on the conversation for the route. Nathan pointed out that Brittany Yunkers has reached out to the ENA about one segment on the disused part of 9th. It was suggested we reach out to Sophie Stimson in Transportation at the city and become part of the conversation.

    • In the absence of a Secretary, these minutes are submitted by Nathan Allan, President.

     

     

    January 2015 Board Minutes

    Attendance

    • Board Members Present:  Nathan Allan,   Brian Brannies,  Sandia Slaby,  , Katy Beattie
    • Board Members Absent: Kara Randall, Whitney Bowerman, Mitch Dennis, Sheena Pietzold, Sherry Cillicut

    February Annual Meeting

    Time: Wednesday 18th, 6:30pm

    Location: New Bridge? Brian will look into location, asking the churches for use of their location

    Agenda for Annual Meeting:

    • Food Project will be on the agenda
    • Pest control; guest speaker to educate?
    • Bread and Roses; information on new format?
    • ENA vs. NextDoor
    • Change the Bylaws for the Board
    • Dog Poop Bag Stations
    • City of Olympia Matching Grant Program
    • Elections will take place; Board members, Vice President, Secretary

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    Dog Bag Stations

    One more has been installed and there is only one to go. One has been requested up towards Lyons Park, but there is one in the park already.

    City of Olympia Matching Grant Program

    Brian has located two areas that he will pursue a matching grant for. We will also look into obtaining the matching grant for our Annual Summer Picnic.

    CNA Meetings

    Nathan can no longer attend on Mondays, so we need another member to attend so that we can maintain a presence. Brian can go. We would like to have another member who is able to back Brian up with this, in case he can’t attend.

    Annual Calendar:

    • Nathan to create calendar of meetings and events for the 2015 year
    • Flag football event on Thanksgiving morning – Katy and Andrew will set up the day of @ 6:30-8