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The Seattle Board of Park Commissioners will hold its next meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 11, in Hasselberg Hall at the Jefferson Community Center, 3801 Beacon Ave. S.
The agenda includes:
Parks and Green Spaces Levy
Parks staff will brief the Board on the progress and status of the projects in the 2008 voter-approved $146 million Parks and Green Spaces Levy. It will include an update on the letters of interest for the first round of the Levy Opportunity Fund, which invites applications for funding for community-generated projects. For more information on the levy, please see http://www.seattle.gov/parks/levy/.
Planning and Development Division update.
Parks staff will provide the Board with an update on Parks and Recreation’s overall capital improvement program and the projects funded by sources other than the Parks and Green Spaces Levy.
The Board of Park Commissioners is a seven-member citizen board created by the City Charter. Three members are appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the City Council; three members are appointed by the City Council; and one member is appointed by the Park Board. The Board meets the second and fourth Thursday of each month to advise the Parks and Recreation Superintendent, the Mayor, and the City Council on parks and recreation matters. For more information, please contact Sandy Brooks at 206-684-5066 or sandy.brooks@seattle.gov.
Pinehurst resident Gretchen Musgrove invites you to Refresh Your Fitness With a Twist! Nia classes get you moving to great music while conditioning your body and relaxing your mind. Give it a try. First class is free!
Sat & Sun at 11:30 am at The Dance Space in Greenwood. Get the details at http://blissfulfitness.blogspot.com/
Here’s the current proposed agenda for the March North District Council meeting.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 7pm
Lake City Library conference room
12501 28th Ave. NE
PROPOSED AGENDA:
7:00 –- Welcome and introductions—Phil Shack
7:05 –- Seattle Councilmember Sally Bagshaw (Bagshaw is Chair of the Parks and Seattle Center Committee, as well as Vice Chair of the Public Safety and Education Committee)
7:40 — Historic preservation—Karen Gordon, Department of Neighborhoods, Historic Preservation Officer
8:00 –- Neighborhood Projects Fund (NSF/CRF)—coming up with a clear and efficient way to prioritize the project ideas in April—Phil Shack
8:20 — Community group roundtable
8:40 –- Inclusion and leadership: continuing with our 3 project ideas: coffee chats; other meeting formats and venues; and community gardens–All
9:00 — Adjourn
The April meeting will be a bit different. It is Wednesday, April 7, 5:30 to 6:30pm at the Lake City Community Center, just north of the library. At this meeting, we will rank our NPF project ideas. Food and drinks will be provided. It has been moved forward to allow people to attend a 6:30-8:00pm public meeting with City Parks Superintendent Tim Gallagher at the community center. Gallagher wants to hear your ideas about improving the Lake City Community Center.
When Link light rail opens in Northgate in approximately 2020, many changes will be made to existing bus service. Buses that duplicate the route of the light rail will likely be eliminated, merged with other routes, or will become local service only (no downtown service by bus). Routes which may be impacted in some way include routes 41, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77, 79, 304, 303, 316, and 355.
Obviously this is the point of the light rail. It will be faster, cheaper to operate, and able to carry a lot more people. It will also be guaranteed to be there for years to come so we can plan development around it. Zoning increases for Northgate are already being planned (http://www.cityofseattle.net/DPD/Planning/Northgate_Revitalization/NorthgateAreaRezoneProposalEIS/default.asp). But what about the large portions of Pinehurst and Lake City that are miles away from a station? We need to make sure we all have good connections to the future light rail as well as the new development in Northgate.
Transit planners will begin public discussions about revisions to bus service about a year and a half before the Northgate light rail station opens and all of us will have opportunities to comment on changes at that time. For those interested in more significant investments such as the possibility of a streetcar or electric trolley bus, conversations and advocacy that begin today insure a higher possibility of having that investment in place by the time light rail arrives in Northgate.
To that end, a Facebook group has formed to start that discussion. Learn more: http://www.facebook.com/pages/People-for-a-Northgate-to-Lake-City-Streetcar/331398498800
I received an email on this teacher opening recently. The co-op is in the Lake City Christian Church at the corner of 125th and 20th NE. The deadline for the application is March 5th and information on how to apply is at the bottom of the post.
Meadowbrook 3-5s Cooperative Preschool is looking for a nurturing, motivated and creative teacher to join our community and teach our 3 to 5 year age class. This fun class will meet onMondays from 12:30-3 and Tuesday – Thursday from 9:15-11:45.
Required Qualifications
- Prior experience teaching preschool age children
- Experience developing and implementing age appropriate curriculum
- Ability and enthusiasm for attending monthly parent meetings
- Excellent communication skills with both children and adults
- Prior experience promoting social skills, emotional growth and anti-bias curriculum
Desired Qualifications
- Degree in Early Childhood Education
- Experience as a preschool teacher with demonstrated ability to explain and delegate classroom responsibilities to teaching assistants.
- Experience working at a cooperative preschool and/or with parents in the classroom.
- A strong commitment to promoting communication between families and the teachers
- Experience working with diverse populations, including but not limited to ESL families.
We offer:
- Enthusiastic parent support
- A competitive salary range that includes attendance at parent, board and other school meetings
- Opportunities for professional growth and support for professional development
- Small class ratio
- A large, open, light setting with a wonderful inventory of supplies and equipment
- A supportive staff including other teachers who share the site as well as the preschool teachers of the North Seattle Community College Cooperative Preschool Community.
Continue reading Preschool Teacher Opening For Fall 2010 at Meadowbrook 3-5s Cooperative Preschool
There aren’t too many details yet but SeattleCrime.com is reporting there was a car fire this morning in Jackson Park at the south end of the golf course near 15th Av Ne and Ne 135th St. The police were called out around 1am and are reporting that it’s an arson.
SeattleCrime.com also mentioned that the Guardian One helicopter was called to North Seattle soon afterwards. It was nearby but closer to Lake City this time.
At about 1:30, SPD called out Guardian One and K-9 units to track a Hispanic male in his mid-30s—wearing brown t-shirt, 5’11, brown hair—who was headed southbound at 125 and 26th NE.
11100 Roosevelt on the 911 map on SeattleCrime.com houses the Alaska-USA Federal Credit Union.
Police were at 15th Ave NE & NE Northgate Way until around 7 pm looking for a bank robber suspect.
Mayor McGinn is holding five Youth & Families Initiative workshops throughout the city to discuss “what we want for our kids and how best to create a healthy, positive and equitable environment for all families in our city.” There is going to be one in our general neighborhood this Monday.
Monday, March 1st
7:00-8:30 PM
Northgate Elementary School
11725 1st Ave NE
There is a invitation / flyer with more information. It’s also available in many languages other than English on their downloads page including Tigrigna, Chinese, Russian, and Spanish to name a few.
From The Website:
The Youth and Families Initiative is a major initiative announced by Mayor Mike McGinn during his inaugural address. The Initiative will help shape the Mayor’s agenda on issues affecting youth and families from a child’s birth to their successful career track. We are committed to eliminating racial disparities in education, child care, children’s health and the criminal justice system. This is not a problem solely within communities of color; it is our problem, and the responsibility for ending this systemic inequity rests with all of us.
The co-chairs of the new Initiative are former Mayor Norm Rice, former deputy mayor Bob Watt and Estela Ortega, Executive Director at El Centro de la Raza.
There is also a form which can be used to submit suggestions directly to the city which is quite cool:
Things are continuing to move along…
Friends of Jackson Park Trail posted a Request for Proposals ad in today’s Daily Journal of Commerce for the design consultant. They have a $15,000 budget in grant funds for the design development and this phase should be completed within a 4 -5 month timeline. The deadline to submit for the ad is March 5th. You can contact Kate Pedersen at: katep3@msn.com for more information.
[EDIT:]
Since you can’t see the actual ad on the Daily Journal of Commerce without a login, I wanted to share it here for anybody who was curious…
Consultant Services
Public Trail Design
Submittal Date: March 5, 2010
Landscape architecture firm needed to help Friends of Jackson Park Trail with development of the trail plan for Jackson Park Golf Course. Services will include development of the trail design, recording feedback from public meetings, preparation of preliminary cost estimate, and coordination with Friends of Jackson Park Trail and Seattle Parks. The contract for work requested is $15,000. Interested parties may request the RFQ document by calling Katheryn Seckel at (206)440-3378.
Pinehurst continues to get coverage with strange headlines. This time from SeattleCrime.com for “Pepper Spray and Booze.”
On February 14th, police were called to the Pinehurst Safeway on NE 123rd and 15th NE after a shoplifter attempted to pepper spray the store manager.
According to a police report, the store manager told officers he saw a woman putting a slipping a bottle of alcohol into her jacket at about 11:21 p.m.
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