npGREENWAY

friends of the north portland greenway trail

Meeting Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Meeting Start:  7:00AM

Meeting End: 8:30 AM

Location: Madrona Hill Café

Present,   Lenny Anderson, Mark Pickett, Scott Mizee, Kelly Rodgers, Pam Arden and Francie Royce and Jason Starman.  

1.  Went over list of Metro Economic Stimulus Projects.  Waud Bluff is #2 on the todo list.

2. Summary of meeting between Scott and George(Lasavoy?)  Contracts for design and construction are ready to sign the city is just waiting for the money to arrive.

Action Item:   What are the final costs for this project?  $2.8M current estimate Scott has volunteered to contact George.

3. PSU Architecture Update:  The Studio Update has been submitted.  PSU staff will meet and discuss approval of project.

4. Discussed creation of new map.   The idea came up to try and launch new map with design studio for PSU.  Need more discussion on design of map and how to publicize.  Via Sentinel insert, in local shops?

5. UP Engineering Class Senior Project:  Need to get more information.  This could be a potentially political subject. Scott will talk with the U to see if it will allow a student project on their recently purchased property.

6. RFF Update TPAC meeting:  Urged to get  people to the 2/12  meeting and send in comments by the same day.

Message:  we need to sustain our support so that we remain on the list.

7. Lenny offered the need t o research the changes going on in RiverGate regarding rail improvements.  There could be a possible trad-off with the  St Johns to Basin Ave rail spur for improvements in River Gate. 

8. Quarterly Trails:  Discussed presentation of Lessons learned report @ http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/rectrails/rwt/toc.htm.  A report we should all become familiar with. 

9. Blue Ribbon trails nothing of substance to report.

10. Pam met with Nick Fish.  One of the attendees of the meeting brought  the  subject Parks  and how to get them out  of the way to build trails.  Lenny and other are going to setup a meeting with Fish to tour a section of the trail.  His schedule is open for these types of events on Friday’s.

11. Update on Willamette Cove:  City Council meeting slide show Feb 11.  A resolution to accept $10,000 from metro to do a study.  

12. North Portland Trust Fund:  need to synch with Joe about all our conversations so that we can move forward with a comprehensive plan.  Lots a rumors floating around not a whole lot of facts.

13. Sunday Parkways:  Feb 23 planning meeting Jason will attend others are welcome.  Kenton Firehouse 7-8PM

14. A second call for a full core group meeting to plan our future goals and aggregate all our information into a single document.  Tentative meeting for 3/16 at Kenton firehouse.