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-INTRODUCTIONS-
-people present- Nicole, Chris, Patrick, Lisa M, Willie Mae, Jon Ross, Marilyn Miller, Fiona, Neil, Rachel Summer, Kay Newell, Dave Edwards, Piper Davis, Kuniko Koichi, Martha, Ben Davis, Caleb, Carol

-ANNOUNCEMENTS- as on agenda

- motion to ratify Joel as Communications chair
-22 in favor, 0 opposed, 2 abstentions
- joel elected communications chair

-ITEM: Grand Central baking (piper davis)
- excited to be coming to the neighborhood, Chappel Trucking
- the facility will combine café and 2 divisions
-pastry & food prep production facilities
- good prep hopefully open in October
- retail open by xmas/January
- 2nd story in existing structure, windows all around, parking lot Landscaped, cyclone fence coming down
- piper lives in the neighborhood
- grand central has been involved in the neighborhood over in SE, but they’d like to be in even more involved in this neighborhood. They want us to know what they can do to help us. They want to partner with the school.
- Who do we consider good businesses? What would we like? A: free bread!
they do try and donate rather than waste food.
Neil: how many vehicles coming and going?
A: there will be 3 vans, probably: catering, inter-store
Marylin: concerned about traffic impacts, both for G.C. and Kaiser’s project, particularly with kids out on the sidewalk/ crosswalks
- discussion ensued: Boise/Elliot manages child safety
Melissa: what about parking?
A: there will be parking for customers and employees should represent low impact
Q: re permits & landscape planning
A: they’re in the middle of that process
Clarification: they’re responsible only for the Fremont/Borthwick street fronts
-they’re hoping they can add life to the nighttime if they run a nightshift there
+ potential ad sales
- Lisa Manning suggested an SEI field trip
- Piper says yes-and-our employees may want to volunteer
JOBS: 2 or 3 new production jobs, 6-10 retail jobs, Tend to hire w/ sign on front door
- they’d consider partnering with various neighborhood organizations and schools
Suggestion: nutrition program/adopting a garden for Boise/Elliot
Q: when organics coming back?
A: it’s a matter of prices & logistics. They want to go wholly organic and work with local farmers. This facility will allow them to buy more in quantity and store it
ben @grandcentralbaking.com
piper@grandcentralbaking.com

2- PROPOSED BYLAW CHANGES:
-tonight is a discussion; vote next week
-election of board members
-we’re not in compliance x/ city charter. This change will bring us into Compliance
Dixcussion ensued: consensus is an allowable loophole, lots of neighborhood association folks think this is a silly and anti-democratic but the city lawyers say we have no choice
- move to table this, publicize it and return to vote next meeting.
o 24 in favor
o 0 opposed
o 0 abstain

-BOARD VACANCIES: reasoning behind this to preserve someone in their chair who is doing good work but can’t attend board meetings.
- Melissa asked for clarification of board meeting vs. general meeting
- Chris concerned about the personal call involved in the term “lack of activity”
Discussion ensued: -language: non-performance of duties?
Q: does every position have a job description? Can the language be written for each individual position?
Ruth: elected officials only for one year?
A: yes, but re-electablr at the time
Nicole: do we have a consensus that the language should be written to address duties of a chair?
-Dave Edwards suggested that people that can’t make meetings should produce a written document to contribute to the meeting ( a report on your activities)
Ruth: wants a list of duties for each position
Suggested: Nicole collect further comment, we revisit at board meeting
-CHANGE 1- this change comes out of our desire to do more outreach ( _______ wants to help via NECN to help coordinate w/ anyone on this outreach committee)br> Ruth: she tried reaching the seniors, its hard to do. She had no success
- Kay thinks that when you successfully reach seniors you also reach youth,
- It suddenly emerged that we’re all in agreement about this.
-CHANGE 5- the idea here is to have more floating talent and to be a way of getting involved with out them having to over comott.
- General agreement
- Statues not statues- everyone agreed

-ITEM: Crow bar (Patrick and joel)
- year ago they entered into good neighbor agreement, its time to renew it
Marilyn: was one of the people involved in developing the good neighbor agreement. She hasn’t noticed much negative impact from crow bar, there has been a higher level from the street as a whole, though
Patrick: this was a voluntary process; they had guarntees to their buisnness in the in the agreement and they’ve been satisfied
-things they do: posted sign for quiet on departure; checking the street for impact regularly; tracking people who are 86’d, Wednesday they are having a meeting to try to get more bars on board
Neil: fri and sat night there’s a parking crisis down at shaver and Mississippi. He is also concerned about drinking & driving this summer. A number of neighbors may be writing the BNA and MBA about the parking situation
Martha; what could the BNA do?
Nicole: pursue permit parking
Dan: thinks crow bar has been a good neighbor
Kay: thinks crow bar has driven drugs off the street
-Nicole and Martha both offered thanks for the way they’ve done business

-ITEM- Spring Cleanup (MARYLIN) May 21st
Has everyone signed up who wants to?
Q:what is it and what goes on?
- marylin ran down the program
- 8:30 – 12:45 or 11:15-3:30 shifts for volunteers
- 6 trucks so far
-cloudburst is providing dumpsters and a master recycler
- Kay noted this is a big fundraiser for the BNA; the city pays our dump fees so all the money is ours.

-SAFTEY UPDATE- Dan Bower
-this month: Dawg House dealing with bike theft
- dan thinks they found a bike rack for them
-next meeting April 27th, 7pm right here

-LAND USE UPDATE- Justin Arnhalt
- this month: discussed propsed developments coming up
1- Interstate & Shaver- multi-use
2- 3915 N. Albina- divided bt
3- Kaiser project@ Fremont/Williams/Vancouver, groceries & residential & bike in movie theater
4- SW corner of Fremont & Mississippi, George Lampus & Jim Winkler build 5-7 story, $200-300,000 condos with parking in the groud floor
- sparked a lo of discussion at the Land Use meeting
- talked About meeting again 4/23 to collate ideas from past neighborhood surveys so we can have a short list of neighborhood issues to present to developers.
- then we want to expand discussion and get more people involved
- invited everyone to 4/23 meeting 4pm, possibly at dawg house.

-ANNOUNCEMENT/question- Melissa: if anyine wants to be involved in National Night out you can sign up at the website
Lisa Manning:Sei has been receiving emails from an “organization” called STOP SEI who are photographing kids to expose their wrong doings. Lisa wants anyone w/ concerns to call SEI and talk to them about it.
Martha: desperaye call for street fair volunteers; August 13 or 20
Chris: people should feel
-MEETING ADJOURNED-