WANTED: Co-creators of the best neighborhood possible!

2012-13 WNA Nominations (so far)

Nominate yourself, or a friend, for one of the following positions. You may also nominate to be an "understudy" for any of these positions, and be ready to hit the ground running in 2014. Nominations may be made as late as election night, June 5th. For more information about any of these volunteer opportunities, please email info@woodstockpdx.org.

BOARD POSITIONS
Chair: Becky Luening
Vice Chair: OPEN
Secretary: Elizabeth Ussher Groff
Treasurer: Michael Chacon
Coalition Rep: Moshe Lenske
What’s Up E-News Editor: OPEN (training available)
Web Administrator: KD Henderson

NEIGHBORHOOD AREA REPS (see map):
Area 1 - OPEN
Area 2 - Ann Crowder
Area 3 - Jan Elliott
Area 4 - Virginia Petersen
Area 5 - OPEN

COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Land Use: Terry Griffiths
Friends of the Woodstock Community Center: Lonnie Port
Media: Kenny Heggem
Sustainability: Becky Luening

(Whether or not you are ready to take on a leadership position, all of these committees warmly welcome your participation.) 

Land Use Committee meets Wednesday, May 15

WNA Land Use Committee Meeting
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 7:00 PM
Upstairs at the Woodstock Community Center
5905 SE 43rd Ave., Portland

Tentative Agenda

1. Introductions
2. Vic Remmers of Everett Custom Homes will present a project update on the development of the "gateway" block at the southeast corner of 39th (Cesar Chavez) and Woodstock.*
3. Comprehensive Plan update on timeline (pending information from Matt Wickstrom, SE District Liaison at BPS).
4. Woodstock as Neighborhood Center: Do we already have the capacity for 3,500 households w/in half-mile radius of the neighborhood "core," as per 55.22.e of the Working Draft of the Comp Plan? Michael Cerbone will present his research on the number of households that currently exist, and how many can be accommodated, within a half-mile radius of the Woodstock Village Center.
5. Determine neighborhood representation at City of Portland District Mapping Conversation and Discussion. This is a two-part discussion scheduled for Saturday, June 1 AND Saturday June 22. Both meetings are scheduled to take place at SE Uplift from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
6. Discussion of WNA Land Use Committee's comments on the Comprehensive Plan Working Draft. Terry Griffiths and Michael Cerbone will present draft comments based on past LUC discussions and backed up with feedback obtained from the April 3rd Woodstock Visioning session.
7. Set June meeting date.

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*As most of you have probably already noticed, there are "For Sale" signs on the two historic houses in the Gateway Block facing Woodstock Boulevard. I called Vic Remmers last week to inquire about that. He said that he would prefer to sell those houses to someone with an interest in restoring or remodeling them, since his company "isn't really in the business of remodeling." The current line is that if the houses don't sell w/in 30 days, Everett Homes NW will remodel or restore them themselves. This is notably different from what we were told in December. Remmers will have no more 20-30 minutes on our agenda, but for those who are interested in continuing a conversation with him, they can break out to do that downstairs or in the front entry area.

Terry Griffiths, Land Use Committee Chair

Plant Sale Coming Soon!

Woodstock Neighborhood Association

ANNUAL PLANT SALE 

a benefit for Friends of the

Woodstock Community Center

SATURDAY, MAY 11

9AM TO 3PM

at the 

Woodstock Community Center

5905 SE 43rd Ave., Portland

{the day BEFORE Mother's Day}

FWCC Volunteers: We appreciate you!

I want to take a moment to acknowledge the four volunteers who have been faithfully holding up our end of the Woodstock Community Center's partnership agreement with Portland Parks and Recreation—the agreement that ensures our small neighborhood center is maintained and keeps its doors open for our community's use.

Lonnie Port, Terry Griffiths, Ann Crowder and Elizabeth Groff have carried out our part of this agreement, including fundraising to cover cleaning and maintenance costs, for at least ten years, as the core members of the committee known as Friends of the Woodstock Community Center or simply FWCC. They have established a great working relationship with city staff and figuring out how best to manage the center, and are now looking to recruit new volunteers to the committee to continue and build on that groundwork.

This blog post was spurred by my discovery that our WCC "Friends" received special recognition this past week when Southeast Uplift featured an article about FWCC's annual plant sale as part of their 2013 Seeds of SE Uplift volunteer appreciation program. The attention and appreciation is very much deserved!

You can help celebrate the work of these star volunteers and support the FWCC by coming out for the May 11th plant sale, 9am to 3pm at the Woodstock Community Center. Be sure to tell your neighbors about it too, and share the announcement via your social networks. The "Friends" and I look forward to seeing you there!

—Becky Luening, WNA Co-chair

Neighborhood Meeting, Wednesday, May 1st!

That's right: We're meeting tomorrow night! 

Meet at the Woodstock Community Center, 5905 SE 43rd Ave, at 7:00 PM

The May meeting agenda includes all the usual neighborhood reports plus:

• last-minute planning for the May 11th plant sale benefitting FWCC
• planning for the June 5th WNA Board Election*
• ideas for WNA participation a Woodstock sidewalk sale event this summer

The Sustainability Committee meeting at 6:00, is dedicated to Tree Team business, as we prepare for our summer Woodstock Tree Inventory.

Interested in continuing conversations or refining ideas floated at the April 3rd Visioning?  Arrive at the Woodstock Community Center by 6:30 for a half-hour of face-to-face social networking. Topics to be determined by whomever shows up....Did someone say Oktoberfest?

*Article VI, Section 4 of WNA's Bylaws spell out the duties of our board member positions. At the June election we will also vote on proposed bylaws changes, clarifying what WNA's general members may vote on. View the proposed changes here.

Land Use Committee Meets Wed., April 17

WNA's Land Use Committee meets this coming Wednesday at 7 PM, on the main level of the Woodstock Community Center, located at 5905 SE 43rd Avenue.

I propose we revisit the Portland Comprehensive Plan topics identified in our past two meetings as being significant for our neighborhood, and prioritize some of those for commenting to the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability. (Comments on the Comp Plan first draft are due May 1, 2013.) Other agenda suggestions are welcome, although we do strive to keep our meetings to not much over an hour. The identified topics are included in the notes from the February and March meetings. (Click on month links to download notes in doc format.)

Some of the issues raised at the April 3rd Woodstock Neighborhood visioning session (click to download notes doc) could have a bearing on how we respond to the Comp Plan Draft. There was definitely a show of support for addressing the issues of "no standards for infill" (housing) and "unpaved roads."

Everett Custom Homes NW Update: Last Wednesday I spoke with Vic Remmers of Everett Custom Homes, the developer of the "Gateway Block" at the southeast corner of SE Woodstock and SE Cesar Chavez. Remmers told me that the closing of the property sale was to take place on Monday, April 15. After closing, the demolition of the house on the southwest corner of that block, along with other work on the property, will begin in earnest. If there is enough interest, we may invite Remmers to our next Land Use Committee meeting in May.

— Terry Griffiths, Chair, WNA Land Use Committee

Clean Out Your Medicine Cabinets!

Crime Prevention, the Portland Police Bureau and the DEA will partner on Saturday April 27, 2013 to provide free disposal of your unused and expired prescription medications. One location will be available for you to anonymously drop off your medications at the Portland Police Bureau’s Southeast Precinct located at 4735 E. Burnside. The drop site will be open from 10:00AM-2:00PM. All medications will be incinerated and will not go into our water supply.
Date: Saturday April 27th, 2013 Time: 10:00AM-2:00PM
Place: Southeast Precinct, Portland Police Bureau 4735 E. Burnside Portland, Oregon
Acceptable items for deposit: Prescription medications and samples, all over the counter medications, vitamins, pet medications, medicated ointments, and liquid medication in leak proof containers.
Items not acceptable for deposit: Thermometers/Sharps/Syringes, IV bags, bloody or infectious waste, hydrogen peroxide, aerosol cans, inhalers, EpiPens. NO SHARPS
For questions, contact Jenni Pullen (formerly Bernheisel) at 503-823-4257 or
jenni.bernheisel@portlandoregon.gov