Edgemoor
Neighborhood Association
Monthly Business Meeting
Minutes
The
Monthly Business Meeting of Edgemoor Neighborhood Association was called to
order at
Due
to lack of a quorum, the October minutes were unable to be approved. They will be on the agenda for approval at
the next meeting.
Report of
Officers
President, Brien Thane
read a letter we received from the City of Bellingham requesting nominations
for an Edgemoor Representative and alternate to the Mayor’s Neighborhood
Advisory Commission (MNAC). Brad Rose
had already applied and been approved as Edgemoor Representative to MNAC and
Niall Hackett volunteered to apply for the position as alternate. Lauri was asked to contact the MNAC with our
nomination and approval of both representatives.
Treasurer, Lois Miles
presented the budget report and offered we have 3 new members this month. As a point of interest – 2 of the membership
applications came from the door-knob-hangers sent out this summer. She also requested approval to pay $48.00 for
the ENA mailbox for 2006
A detailed budget report was presented
to the secretary to file.
Committee
Reports
Communication Committee Chair, Kathy
Kaiser, had several points to discuss at this meeting. First, we received very little feed-back from
the survey. Brien suggested we encourage
membership input during an ‘Issues and Concerns’ portion of the meeting. This could be a better way to get to know the
interests of the residents. Also, Lois
offered that comments were occasionally added to membership applications sent
to Sandie. Kathy continued with a discussion
of mailing an informational flier to all residents. This would inform, encourage and remind
residents to become active members of ENA 2006.
The communication committee would like the board’s help preparing the
mail-out and suggested using a business meeting to put it together. The board members present agreed this would
be a good use of our time and funds, but due to lack of a quorum were unable to
give final approval. A discussion and
request for approval of the mail-out would be on the agenda for the December
meeting. This discussion lead to the
problem of having a January General Membership Meeting so close to the holidays
especially since membership fees would be due.
Brien used his prerogative as President to move the General Membership
Meeting to February. Kathy ended her
report with news that our sign was stolen and we need a replacement sign to
advertise meetings. Kathy would price
them and try to keep it under $100.00.
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Please note the General Membership Meeting
planned in January was moved to February.
Hospitality Committee - no report.
Growth and
Land Use Committee did not have a report.
Kathy Kaiser did offer a few letters received from the city concerning
land use issues that would be posted on the city site and our ENA site.
Membership Committee
- no report.
Neighborhood Safety Committee – no report.
Neighborhood Plan Update – no
report. Lauri Grove commented that the
Vision of Edgemoor meeting went very well.
Brad and Ralph formatted an interesting, enjoyable and informative
session. Breaking up into smaller groups
and encouraging neighbors to talk with one another brought out many “visions”
for our neighborhood plan.
Representative
Reports
Coalition of Southside Neighborhoods– no report
Association of Bellingham Neighborhoods- The ABN has not met since October 17, so the report for 10/17/05 is still up-to-date.
New
Business
Time to start thinking about
suggestions for a speaker for the February meeting. Please email Brien with suggestions or come
prepared to offer ideas at the December meeting. A suggestion was made to invite a
representative from Nooksak Salmon Enhancement to speak about protecting the
salmon in our rivers and creeks.
We also brainstormed about how to get
more interaction at our meetings. A suggestion
was made to use the format from the Vision of Edgemoor meeting to encourage
people to meet and speak out about their community concerns.
Issues and
Concerns
Joe Yaver talked about a Responsible
Development update planned in November.
He wanted to make sure all residents were informed and invited to the
meeting at Lairmont Manor on November 10th.
Closing
Meeting
was adjourned at 8:45 pm.
The
next meeting scheduled would be an Edgemoor
Neighborhood Association Business Meeting to be held on December 1st at
Fairhaven Park Pavilion. All
Edgemoor residents are welcome to attend.
Respectfully
Submitted,
Lauri
Grove