Sustainable Crown Hill Minutes
September 30, 2007

Thanks Michael and Danielle for hosting at your home. These minutes will also be posted each month at crownhillneighbors.com.

NEXT MEETING: MARK YOUR CALENDARS
Sunday, Oct. 28
5:00-7:00 pm

Kit and Dennis’ house
Address to follow…

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Walkable Crown Hill’s First Meeting: Bert reported that 11 people attended and will meet again on Sunday, Oct. 21 from 4-6pm. Everyone agreed to bring one additional person to the meeting so that we have sufficient numbers to move forward with a Dept of Neighborhoods small grant that has a January deadline. The group hopes to hire a traffic consultant with the grant money to help us plan. This is a collaborative project involving Sustainable Crown Hill, Crown Hill Neighbors and Crown Hill Business Assn. Giddyup.

DOT Open House: Bert also announced that there will be a DOT Open House…but didn’t catch the date. The contact person is Jennifer (last name?) who is the liaison between DOT and Dept. of Neighborhoods.

Fruit Gleaning: Bert reported on Sustainable Crown Hill’s first baby project to glean fruit from trees and donate the booty to a local food bank. A half dozen of us picked close to 350 lbs of heirloom apples and donated them to Greenwood Food Bank.

Cool and Fun Stuff: Thanks to Kit and Dennis for hosting their Kitchen Party. Great fun. For our next event, people thought that December is too busy, so we are shooting for a Salsa party in January.

Crown Hill Neighbors Assn Needs HELP: Kit and Dennis appealed to the group for help during Molly’s absence to attend to family. Crown Hill Arts Fest is November 10. Kit and Dennis agree to come up with specific tasks and present them to the group.
SCALLOPS: Danielle represented Sustainable Crown Hill at the Sept. 6 SCALLOPS mtg. Not a heck of a lot to report except that SCALLOPS is trying to get their @## together and seems to be floundering a bit. Danielle reported a Eat Local on Thanksgiving campaign and Seattle Climate Action Plan. Carol represented Sustainable Crown Hill at the 2nd SCALLOPS Forum at the Sustainable Ballard Fest this weekend. There was a great turnout, despite the wretched weather. SCALLOPS members made a number of proposals regarding next steps for the fledgling organization. Most people seemed to agree that SCALLOPS needs leadership.

MONEY FOR SIDEWALKS: Looks like the mayor has about 2 mill to spend on, probably, sidewalks in 2008.

15TH AVENUE CORRIDOR: Kit reported that the Dept of Planning is likely to designate 65th to 83rd on 15th NW as a non-P zone and 83rd to 87th as a P zone. Comments still welcome through Dept of Planning.

INTERRA PROJECT: Carol reported on this new-to-Seattle organization whose purpose is to create partnerships with local businesses who agree to provide discounts to the buyer who holds a Community Card. The business would also agree to donate a percentage of the sales to a nonprofit of their choice. The program brings together the civic, nonprofit and business sectors and enables them to leverage the power of the consumer dollar to reverse negative social and environmental trends in communities. The program is rolling out during Green October 2007. Register for your FREE Community Card at http://www.interraproject.org.

OUR VISION STATEMENT
Big thanks to Heidi and Bert for drafting this. We all seemed to agree that it adequately reflects the organization at this juncture but may be amended or revamped as the organization decides what it wants to be when it grows up.

Sustainable Crown Hill supports neighborhod initiatives that simultaneously promote a healthy environment, strong community connections, and a vibrant local economy by creating a framework for sharing, celebrating and inspiring neighbors to act.

THE WORK
Our homework is done. We like each other. The work begins.

As you recall, our three identified areas of focus are STREETS, BARN-BUILDING and FOOD. Here’s what we’re going to do.

STREETS: This work has actually already begun with the Walkable Crown Hill group that met in September. We agreed that this work will proceed from that gathering of people. Bert is the organizer of this group. Next mtg is Sunday, Oct 21 from 4-6pm.

BARN-BUILDING: Thanks to Greg Belding who agreed to take this one on. He will be working with Dennis on cataloguing skills sharing, tool sharing, materials sharing…all KINDS of sharing…on the wiki at Crown Hill Neighbors website. Stay tuned.

FOOD: Thanks to Mark Mendonca who agreed to take food on. After a discussion about the feasibility of a Crown Hill Farmers Market, the group agreed to put that on hold and focus instead on growing our own food and sharing with each other. Stay tuned.

Carol Barber, Minutes Recorder

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