Edgemoor Neighborhood Association
Monthly Board Meeting
October 1, 2009
Minutes
The meeting
was called to order at 7:11pm on Thursday, October 1st by ENA
President Brad Rose. Lauri Grove
recorded the minutes. A quorum was
present.
Minutes from the
September minutes were approved with a name correction.
Reports of Officers
President's Report:
Brad
announced that the Fairhaven Highlands DEIS had been released and would be
subject for discussion later in the evening.
MNAC Report:
Brad reported that today was the deadline
for neighborhoods to turn in any request for the city granted funds making it
too late for ENA to plan to do so this year.
Money that was not used by neighborhoods would be reallocated to those
neighborhoods that need more.
Kat Dearborn attended the meeting to talk
about MAP Your Neighborhood. ENA hasn't
been too involved lately but never-the-less it would be a good idea to continue
to get neighbors together to prepare for emergencies and to get together
emergency packs. Contact Kat with
questions (#778-8600)
The MNAC group reviewed neighborhood
comprehensive plan proposals for amendments and zoning changes. One of interest, the South Hill request to
add policy for the preservation of trees and views, was approved and
recommended to the planning commission.
It was also agreed that the proposal to re-configure the north
neighborhood boundaries was a good idea.
The property across from the 'Welcome to Bellingham sign’ requesting a
zoning change from industrial to multi-family mixed use was not approved or
recommended to the planning commission.
Treasurer's Report:
No income or disbursements, the balances
remained $3817.43. Diane did get the ENA
expense report to Linda Stewart as requested.
Committees
Communication Report:
Sandie updated the website. She removed outdated information and added a
real estate section to which she received a couple responses – no
complaints. She did get a request to
reinstate the message board forum as a place for people to rate or recommend
servicemen. Sandie also brought a past
flier for us to look over the design and begin considering print for a future
mail out. It was agreed that we should
get something out in January that would include mention of the March 2010
Annual Meeting.
Representatives Reports
AOBN:
No report.
CSN:
The coalition met to talk about the letter
concerning the property and trail behind the Eclipse Bookstore.
No one had stepped forward to organize the
candidate forum and the ballots would be mailed out mid-month. Guest, Catherine Chambers (Ward 6 City
Council candidate) offered information about a couple select forums that would
be held in October; a Council on Aging Forum at the Senior Center and a Human
Service Forum at the Ferry Terminal.
RD NOW:
Joe waved his report at this time to speak
later when the DEIS would be up for discussion.
Business:
Appoint
new MNAC Representative. John Erickson agreed to replace Brad. Larry Horowitz would remain on board as the
alternate representative. Since John would now be attending MNAC meetings he asked
Martin Nickerson to replace him as AOBN representative. Martin agreed.
Motion
was made to appoint John Erickson as the ENA representative to the MNAC.
Motion was seconded and passed
unanimously.
Motion
was made to send AOBN a $25.00 payment for 2009 annual membership dues.
The motion was seconded and passed.
Fairhaven Highlands DEIS. The second half of the meeting was turned over to a
general discussion of the Fairhaven Highlands DEIS that had recently been
release to the public. Brad offered that copies of the 530 page document could
be found at the library, on the City's website or for purchase in the Planning
Dept. The public hearing would be held
on October 20th in the County Council Chambers and written comments
would be accepted through November 12th. The verbal and written
comments would share equal weight in the final decision. This would be the only time the public could
take a stand. Comments were restricted
to 3 minutes per person but individuals preferring not to speak were encouraged
to sign off their time to speakers. The general discussion continued about the
DEIS document contents and process.
Brad, as well as other residents in attendance, considered 530 pages a
bit much to absorb in the couple weeks allowed before the hearing. His request to write a letter to Tim Stewart
delaying the hearing until Nov. 4th was approved. If that request was refused, a second chance
for the public to speak out would be held at Fairhaven Middle School by
Responsible Development on November 4th. In addition, recommendations were made to
contact the FDIC asking them to enforce their rules regarding the Horizon Bank
investment in the development.
Motion
was made to approve a letter written by Brad, on behalf of ENA, asking Tim
Stewart to consider moving the public hearing to November 4th.
Motion was seconded and passed.
Closing
The meeting was adjourned at
9:04pm
The next Edgemoor
Neighborhood Monthly Board Meeting would be held on November 6th
from 7-9pm at the Fairhaven Park Pavilion.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Respectfully Submitted,
Lauri Grove
Minutes are subject to approval