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Moss Bay Neighborhood Association Report, November, 2001 |
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Applications for the 2002 Neighborhood Matching Grants are due at the end of October. These grants, provided by the City of Kirkland, allow each neighborhood to apply for up to $3,500 for neighborhood projects. The purpose of the grants, according to Kari Page, Neighborhood Services Coordinator, is to use City funding in a way that helps "promote quality of life in Kirkland’s neighborhoods." Established in 1996 to help support the neighborhood associations program set up by the city, the grants originally were $2,500 and increased to $3,500 in 1999. In turn for the money, the people of the neighborhood have to spend a certain amount of their time, which is calculated at $14 per hour, working on the projects that equals the amount of money requested, hence the title ‘Neighborhood Matching Grants." What is typically asked for, explained Page, is money for mail-outs, picnics, kiosks, parade floats, sandwich boards (used to inform people of up-coming meetings), neighborhood web sites and leadership training. The projects can be anything that justifiably improves the neighborhood so long as the level of neighborhood participation is there and logistical issues have been accounted for. Few requests have been turned down and those were mainly for logistical reasons. At our last Moss Bay Neighborhood meeting we discussed what neighborhood projects we would like to include in our grant request. The annual summer picnic and flyers to promote it and other meetings were the easy ones at the top of the list. We are also requesting money to send one person to the Leadership Training Institute. It is looking like we will get a neighborhood sign next year (separate from the grant program) and therefore we asking for money for a neighborhood kiosk to go along with it. North Rose Hill Neighborhood has said they will lend us the drawings of their kiosk to get our design going. As always, we will need money to maintain our (award winning in our opinion!) web site. We are also thinking about putting together some kind of neighborhood emergency preparedness packets. Another item, that is not new to our request list, but is new for us to implement, is money for neighborhood welcome packets. In the past we have not had the volunteers needed to do this project and it has sat on the back burner. Next year, however, thanks to Marsha Alberti, Ellen McMahon and Ruth Ann Saunders, who have graciously volunteered to put this project together, we will have neighborhood welcome packets to give to our new neighbors! Next Meeting We have a great meeting planned for December! We have scheduled Jeff Blake, Kirkland Fire Chief, to come and give a presentation on what we as individuals and as a neighborhood can do to prepare in case of an emergency. Community Resource Officer, Janelle McMillian, from the police department will also be there to answer any questions from the police side of things. Our meetings are now the first Thursdays of even months. The next meeting will be, Thursday, December 6th, 7 to 8:45pm in the Kirkland Library meeting room. If you can’t make it to the meeting, our web site, www.mossbay.org , has all of our news and information. If you would like to be on our active e-mail list please e-mail Don Winters, our web master, at winters58@hotmail.com. For any other inquires please e-mail either neighborhood co-chair; John Alberti at quietlyjr@aol.com or Laura Lee Pritt at lauraleepritt@hotmail.com. Index of Courier Articles | Moss Bay Home
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