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