Minutes of Maplewood Neighborhood Association MeetingMay 12, 2008 Number of people in at

Summer Picnic

Here you will find information on our Annual Summer Picnic. You can email the Summer Picnic committee by clicking on the link at the bottom of the "contact us" column at the left.

2007 Picnic

Posted June 22, 2007

Current Bylaws

These are the most recent bylaws as amended March 2008. Please select either Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format to download.Bylaw PDF download here.

Newsletter

The Maplewood newsletter that's submitted to SWNI (Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc.) for publication in their newspaper, arranged by month. SWNI newspaper archives can be found here.

Transportation

Transportation information goes here.

Safety

Thanks to Michael Boyer, our Southwest Crime Prevention Program Coordinator, we have regularly updated crime stats, event info, and items of special interest available online, all the time!

Land Use

Teardowns and McMansions—Ordinances and Zoning changes in US Cities

Minutes The minutes of both Board and Membership meetings, arranged by month, can be found here.

May 12th 2008

Friends of April Hill Park
April Hill Park Planting Party

February 23, 2008 9:00 to 12-noon. Come for an hour, come for two, what-ever you can spare—Just come!

* Planting native trees and shrubs in the new fenced area
* Get to know your neighbors while learning about our native plants
* Volunteers needed for planting
* Curious ??? Drop by
* Families welcome

Officers
Chair
Alexander Ben-Israel
chair@maplewoodna.com

Co-Chair
Paul Privitera

Secretary
Joan Frazer

Treasurer
Chris Byrne

Outreach Coordinator
Micki Carrier

Standing Committees
Land Use
Chris Mays

Safety
Leanne Hartman

Transportation
Vern Krist

Parks
Diane Mays

Ad-hoc Committees
April Hill Park

What2CanDo

Summer Picnic

What's A Neighborhood Association?
Neighborhood Associations are the basic building block of democracy in the City of Portland. Participants actively work to increase the vibrancy, livability, sustainability, and democracy of their neighborhood. Neighborhood Associations belong to everyone!

The Portland Tribune recently ran an article, City’s sewage saga, about the Garden Home pressurized sewer line. It is a tale of exploding sewer lines, environmental contamination, last minute pipe material substitutions, trips to Reno for city employees paid for by pipe manufacturers, and an unnecessary “cost savings” boondoggle which, years later, still hasn’t saved the city any money.

The city did not need to build this system, nor do they have to repair nor replace it now. They have always had the option to send the flow via a gravity fed line to a Washington County treatment plant, as has been done in prior decades. The city built this failed pressure system to pump sewage uphill to their already at-capacity Columbia River treatment plant. Originally, the plan called for using steel pipe, but in order to shave off 0.9% from their $18,000,000 project, they substituted plastic pipe instead.

At the October SW Trails meeting, we talked about using a forum on the SWNI site to trade ideas on bike routes through SW Portland. We were invited to take a SW Trails Map and mark it up with our comments. An effort is being made to solicit input from all of the neighborhoods about bike routes. I didn't see that anyone else had posted to this site relative to this topic, so I'm taking the liberty of initiating a discussion here. What follows are my comments on routes through Maplewood and SW Portland in general.

Connie S. Johnson writes:

Some good news at last regarding Station 18! Please read John Klum's message below:

The Council Resolution was processed last Wednesday so we can proceed with the Station 18 relocation project. The only request from Council was from Commissioner Saltzman for the SAC to have a discussion regarding the possibility of a "Dome" station.

Stephen Keller will be the new project manager for the City. His email is skeller@ci.portland.or.us. He will be setting up the future SAC meetings and will let you know what the duties of the SAC during the design phase of the project will be.