Meeting Minutes from 1/19

Welcome to the New Year! We may already be over two weeks into it but I’m still taking care of last year’s business. I hope everyone had a lovely holiday season.

As you can see from the above listing, we’ve really slimmed down the e-mail list to only the interested parties. Now that it’s gotten so small we can…make it grow again! Please let me know if you have interested parties who should be added to the list.

Taking notes from meetings and writing them up is something that I am reevaluating as it is time consuming. Attendance was a bit low in comparison to the October meeting, but it was a holiday month and last year we had meetings in November and January instead of December. I believe there also may have been some general confusion due to my multiple e-mail listings. That has now been remedied. Regardless, here we go:

Meeting minutes from December 16th:

In attendance

Andrea YTP
Brian YTP
Allison YTP
Naomi SHA
Elizabeth Carr SPL
Rick Dupree B&G Club
Ba Cam Ma Gamelin House
Gregory Schaffer ReWA

Topics of discussion:

Next Meeting: February 17th 10-11:30AM, at Providence Elder Place, hosted by Corina Kroll, Corina.Kroll@providence.org

http://www.providence.org/Long_term_Care/Elderplace/default.htm

4515 MLK, the entrance is on the West side of the building

Columbia City Wiki for news and updates from the community: http://columbiacitizens.net/wikli:current

Neighborhood House focus group results: Kate continues to address issues found in the focus group results with the hopes of better targeting areas of need.

Youth Cluster meetings: It was suggested that a new effort be made for the youth providers to have their own regular meetings. Andrea from YTP will take the lead on this project.

Service Providers Listings: Kate has taken command of getting this list updated. She recently sent out the old listing requesting that you update your agency’s information. Gregory suggested that providers may be able to quickly edit a paper version of their program at the next meeting.

Event Information: Please send your event info to Tyler Rouse, tylerrouse@nhwa.org and karenmcdaniel@nhwa.org to have it posed on the Rainier Vista web-site, and/or have it published in the The Voice, the SHA newspaper.

Naomi -SHAWorking with SDOT to improve alley safety due to the high volume of pedestrians, esp. at Dakota/Nevada

Multicultural Group- Please participate in the monthly community cleanup or the homeowner meeting on the 4th Tuesday of the month

Would like to update the resident directory as well as see a new service provider summary booklet

Andrea-YTPA new center manager has started in conjunction with YTP’s move from SHA to the Boys and Girls Club facility

Elizabeth -Columbia City Library
There has been a drop in attendance for their after-school program since the B&G Club opened

Baby story time is each Wednesday at 12:30

There has been an increase in the number of unemployed people using the library. We do have a job and education area.

Rick – B&GC

Hours are from 2:30-8PM

The North part of the building is the RV Teen Center, the South end is the Boys and Girls Club.

The Mayor’s office is working on a program to reduce gun violence involving youth. In conjunction with the Urban League, they will be looking to groups in the S/SE part of the city throughout the spring to build this programming.

The week of February 9th or 17th, the State of the City address will be given at RV B&GC

In January we will host the WNBA Fit clinic, targeting youth or adults, still uncertain

The membership fee is $10 for RV residents, $20 for elsewhere

Gregory-ReWA

ReWA will again facilitate the Washington State Refugee and Immigrant Legislative day on February 10, 2009. We want your organization to participate in this important event. Numerous buses will leave from multiple Seattle locations to travel to Olympia with the goal of raising awareness of the needs of refugee and immigrant communities. Call 721-0243 for more information.

After the meeting, Rick Dupree was kind enough to take us on a tour of the new Boys and Girls Club facility. We congratulate their organization on realizing their dream of a new facility at Rainier Vista.

Please let me know if you have any topics of discussion for February’s meeting.