Kirkland Library Meeting Room
Laura Lee Pritt
called the meeting to order. Kari Page, Kirkland's Neighborhood Services
Coordinator, presented the results of the voting on the Neighborhood
Connections Program and the projects that won the voting to receive
funding. The project receiving the most votes was expansion of the
downtown flower pot program by the addition of 20 pots along Park Lane.
No 2 in the voting was the connection of the sidewalk along Lake Washington
Boulevard to the waterfront walkway at the north end of Brink Park.
Money would also be available to fund No 4 in the voting, replacing light
fixtures at Brink Park. These projects will now go forward.
The next topic of
discussion was ideas for our Matching Grant money, $3500 in matching funds to
do work in the neighborhood. Some ideas were floated, such as installing
benches near our neighborhood sign at the corner of 68th St. NE and State St.,
once the new right turn lane at that intersection is installed (probably this
summer).
A discussion took
place concerning designs for our neighborhood logo. Several preliminary
designs were submitted by the designer and we picked elements from several and voted
to approve a new design to be finalized by our next
meeting.
We discussed the
lighted playfields being built at Magnuson Park in Seattle. See the minutes
our January meeting for details. Mark Eliasen proposed and Don
Winters seconded a motion to endorse the Friends of Magnuson Park (www.saveourpark.org),
a group opposed to the scope of the lighting. The motion passed and we
will be notifying that group and the City of Kirkland of our position.
City Councilperson Dave Asher was on hand and mentioned that, at this point,
the project will be built and that mitigation of the effects of the lights
would be the best option to persue.
Laura Lee Pritt
is moving out of the area and will be stepping down as chairperson of the
association. Leslie Keller nominated Mark Masterson for the
position, Glenn Peterson seconded, and Mark was unanimously elected by a
show of hands. Congratulations, Mark! Glenn also commended Laura
Lee for a job well done, another unanimous sentiment. She has served as
chairperson for three years and done an excellent job. Mr. Peterson has
agreed to take on the task of being our liaison with KAN (Kirkland Alliance of
Neighborhoods), and KDL (Kirkland Downtown on the Lake). He will be
contacting Ellen McMahon, our former representative to these groups.
Sue Peterson,
Promotions Chairperson for KDL, was on hand. She wants to improve
communication between our groups and with the general public. We agreed
to distribute info from KDL via our email list and on our web site.
The meeting was
adjourned.
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