Edgemoor Neighborhood Association
Annual Membership Meeting
April 2, 2009
Minutes
The Annual Membership Meeting
of the Edgemoor Neighborhood Association was called to order by Brad Rose, ENA
President, at approximately 7:15 p.m. The meeting was held at Lairmont
Manor. Lauri Grove recorded the minutes.
A quorum was present.
Guest
Brad elected to begin the evening by
turning the floor over to our informative guest speaker, Linda Anderson from
Puget Sound Energy. Linda spoke to the
group about various ways to retrofit our homes for energy efficiency and the
availability of money saving rebates.
From energy star-qualified water heaters, to energy efficient
showerheads to insulation to compact fluorescent lights you will find a list of
energy rebates and promotions for your home by visiting the Puget Sound Energy
website at www.PSE.com. Linda also talked about PSE’s voluntary Green
Power Program which makes it easy for consumers to support renewable energy
projects in the Pacific Northwest. A few
extra dollars a month allows PSE electric customers to purchase clean renewable
energy and reduce reliance on fossil fuels. That led into a general discussion
about the benefit and availability of solar power and panels. Larry questioned energy audits as a way to
find out if and where a house is ‘leaking’ energy and Linda responded that PSE
does charge $95.00 for this service.
Puget Sound Energy’s website is very informative for anyone interested
in more details.
Election
Since
Brad agreed to continue to serve as president, a motion was made by Lylene
Johnson to re-elect Brad Rose as ENA President for another term. The motion was passed. Lylene Johnson offered to share the
secretarial position with Lauri Grove. A
motion was made to elect Lylene and re-elect Lauri Grove as ENA Co-Secretaries
for another term. The motion was passed.
A motion was made by John Erickson to elect Martin Nickerson as ENA
Growth and Land Use Chair. The motion was passed. Brad asked for a volunteer to
take over Pam Went’s position as MNAC Alternate Representative. He suggested
this alternate could eventually take over his position as MNAC Representative
at term end. A motion was made and
passed to accept Larry Horowitz’s offer to replace Pam in interim as the ENA
alternate MNAC representative. (When Brad’s term ends we will need to appoint a
permanent replacement.) We still need volunteers to fill board positions for
Neighborhood Safety and for Hospitality.
Thank you and welcome to the new
members of the ENA Board.
The minutes from the March
meeting were approved with a change in wording in the President’s Report -
Roeder House was changed to Roeder Administration Building.
Reports of
Officers
President’s
Report: Brad reported that the
South Neighborhood/ENA Small and Simple Grant was approved and since few were
approved that was encouragement to do it well.
Mary Mullen from South Neighborhood would lead the organization of the
project. Edgemoor Neighborhood would be
expected to contribute man-hours so we do need volunteers to step up. Brad mentioned there would be a design
charrette in April to work on developing a site plan for the project. He would
post the date. Brad continued his report stating that the Urban Infill Toolkit
was available for review on the city's website.
He said there were concerns voiced about pending changes to zoning codes
and also that this type of Infill housing might be misused - opening the door
for rental property. Brad would post
details and meeting dates. In addition,
there were a couple city planning notices.
One request was for moorage of a mobile dry dock vessel to the existing
pier in Fairhaven. That dry dock vessel would not be a
permanent structure requiring any piling or anchorage. The
proposed use of this vessel could bring 80 to 160 jobs into the area. Finally Brad touched on the meeting planned
for the Chuckanut Village Marsh Restoration Project. It seems word got out
before the proposed project was fleshed out and ready for public notice. A meeting was planned for Tuesday, April 7th
at Fairhaven Park Pavilion and a second planned for Thursday, April 23 in the
Commons at Fairhaven Middle School.
MNAC Report: At the March meeting, Marla Gese (Pioneer
Human Services) announced a re-entry housing project for offenders returning to
Whatcom Co. that would be located on Holly Street. There were some stipulations to qualify for
housing – no sex offenders, arson convictions or violent offenders would be
allowed. Brad went on to report that Tim Stewart talked about the Infill
Toolkit and Brad offered that Nicole Oliver (Communication Coordinator) would
be willing to come to an ENA meeting regarding the toolkit. The meeting ended with a round table
discussion about specifics happening in the various neighborhoods.
Treasurer’s
Report: Diane reported one
disbursement to Lauri Grove for a new coffeepot.
Income –
$0
Disbursement
- $32.53
Balance
- $4030.43
Committee
Reports
Chuckanut
Mountain Park District: Bob
Gibb informed the group that due to the economic recession and pending budget
cuts Larabee Park was one of several state parks now on the list for possible
closure. A park district with funds to
help might have been nice… He also
reported that there was a Bill in Legislature to outlaw park districts in
several areas.
Neighborhood
Plan Update: Martin mentioned a change in area boundaries
extending Old Edgemoor to the south. He
would work on it and report back.
Representative
Reports
AOBN: A
representative from Barbo’s furniture discussed business status in Bellingham
and offered that the refurbishing and service industry had not suffered too
much. AOBN continued to search for focus
and come up with topics for future discussions.
CSN: The GIS software was now
available and Sandie volunteered to become the Edgemoor ‘designated expert’.
RDNOW: Joe Yaver reported on the status of the EIS for Fairhaven
Highlands. It is not ready yet and they
are waiting for material from the applicant’s attorney. Joe expressed irritation that the lawyer’s
filter the findings and RD is on record opposing this process.
Business,
Issues and Concerns
Larry
Horowitz reported a change in the
classification of some of the wetlands on the Chuckanut Ridge site. Several of
the wetlands were rerated to Category 1 and that new classification would
increase the minimum required buffers. Larry announced this was an important
victory and speculated that it would be unlikely vesting would hold up.
Closing
Meeting
was adjourned at 9:15
The next
meeting scheduled will be the Edgemoor Board
Meeting to be held from 7-9 p.m. on May 7th at
Fairhaven Park Pavilion. All residents are welcome to attend.
Respectfully Submitted,
Lauri Grove
Minutes
are subject to approval.