Come and chat with Councilmember Conlin at a District Council meeting on Tuesday. (apologies for informal headline: strict character limit!)

What’s a District Council?

The City’s view of neighborhoods interacting with government is, of course, a hierarchical one: neighborhood groups make up a local City sponsored body ( a District Council) which sends representatives to a Citywide body, the City Neighborhood Council (aka CNC). We are member of the East District Council (see map): Janis Maloney (Madison Park Merchants) and I shared the job of representing the East District on the CNC this last year. Paul Stoms (Madison Park) has chaired the East District Council for several years. Meetings also typically include representatives from First Hill, Yesler Terrace, POWHAT and other local areas. It would be good if the Capitol Hill Community Council had a representative!

The City Neighborhood Council recently had elections: Kathy Nyland from the Greater Duwamish District Council is the new chair and Laine Ross of the Downtown District Council is the new vice-chair.

Below is the agenda for Tuesday’s meeting (6:30 PM, Capitol Hill Library). it’ll be a great chance to chat one-on-one with City Council Chair Richard Conlin. (yes, cynics, he is running for City Council again this year). Draft Bylaws attached, for those who care about such things.

 

 

 

 

 

East Neighborhoods District Council

(Madison Park/Yesler Terrace/First Hill/Capitol Hill)

 

Notice & Agenda

 

Date:         Tuesday February 10, 2009

Time:         6:30 to 8:00 PM

Location:   Capitol Hill Library (425 Harvard Avenue East)

Room:         Large Conference Room, Mezzanine Level  

 ·      Introduction, (15 minutes).

·      EDNC welcomes Councilmember Richard Conlin, Seattle City Council President, (30 minutes including Q&A session).

·      Tentative presentation by Department Of Neighborhoods Director, Stella Chao, on the services and programs of the DON, (15 minutes).

·      Continue discussion on the EDNC bylaws revisions, Andrew Taylor, (15 minutes).

·      Select the EDNC recommended representatives to the Neighborhood Matching Funds/Citywide Review Team, (15 minutes).

·      Adjourn. 7:45 PM.        

                                                                     

Executive Board of the East Neighborhoods District Council:

 

-Chairperson, Paul Stoms, (Madison Park).

-Janis Maloney, CNC Representative, (Madison Park). Andrew Taylor, Alternate, (Miller Park).

-Pending, Citywide Review Team Representative.

For more information please call the Capitol Hill Neighborhood Service Center at (206) 684-4574

 

Addendum (2/6/09 noon)

In addition, we are having a brief presentation by the applicants of the “Unpaving Paradise” a Neighborhood Matching Funds project, a fund raising neighborhood effort for the proposed John & Summit park.