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March 16th, 2022, 7-8:30pm (PST)
Members in attendance: Lin Woodrich, Amie Anderson-Forbis , Sarah Warren, Charlie Sterling, Zach Mulholland, Jeremy AAsum, Ethan Clevenger, Tai Pruce-Zimmerman
Absent: Travis Johannes, Suzanne O’Shea and Ed Farren
Guest: Tresa Hackford
7:03: Meeting called to order by Lin.
7:03: Public Comment: No public comments.
7:06: Meeting minutes put forth by Sarah to be approved – February
1st: Amie
2nd: Charlie
Meeting minutes approved by Board
7:06: Hours update – Amie shared screen showing the summary sheet by board member grouping. Please reach out to Amie if wanting to go over volunteer hours over phone.
7:09: New Business – Lin
Approval of tree matching grant – helping reimburse Friends of Trees for all the work and Bethel volunteer with Truck for watering trees for tree recipients project.
– 3/26 – Mangan Park tree planting – 9-12
– 4/10: Highway 99 tree planting – 9-12
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7:16: Airport letter – Zach. Airport noise a concern for some residents – Letter to address issues and for requesting limiting large flights over area during certain times of the day/night.
Additionally Train noise- City is planning to put in train signaling upgrades to reduce horn blaring.
7:22: Bethel Visioning update – Lin shared screen so Board could see spreadsheet to go over tier one goals. Different goals set for each committee. Neighborhood plan – concerns about middle housing and its impact to residents. Need plan to move forward. Earlier conversation with Councilor Evans to Lin – might try reaching out to Paul Conte who has worked on neighborhood refinement rather than a “Plan” for development ideas.
Zach working with city staff (regarding capacity building) to put in place a survey – to be done in person. Trying to get around 1,000 responses from Bethel community as to what people would like and get people involved with committees to increase volunteer numbers.
– Lin – Need to put a survey in place – looked at River Road’s survey example.
– Setting up committee to do survey. Lin will send out Zoom invite to Board for those who wish to be involved.
– Jeremy – Survey’s to be in person?
– Lin – Correct – surveys to be in person but also online.
-Lin – 6-8 councilors are leaning towards moving Bethel forward in planning.
7:42: Old Business
Charter update- Lin – Bylaws do not have to match charter – not a conflict. Screen shared charter so Board could go over updates for charter.
8:12 – Committee Reports:
– 8:13 – Finance – Suzanne(absent) – Lin – no report sent out to discuss by Board- tabled for next meeting.
8:14 – Events– Lin – Zone park events planned:
5/28: Petersen Barn
6/4: State Street Park
6/18: Bethel Community Park
7/2: Grasshopper Meadows Park
7/23: Gilbert Park
Additionally, on 4/23 ABC will have booth at Petersen Barn Registration Celebration (9am-1pm) survey work. Will work to have survey ready.
– 8:16 – Public Safety – Ed (absent)- no report to provide – tabled for next meeting. Lin – Ready NW Eugene next meeting LRAPA discussions about air quality and fire prevention for April/May.
8:16 – Beautification – Travis (absent). Charlie provided updates on working with Arts Council to get locations for murals within Bethel – Looking for 5-10 possibilities.
Zach – also looking at Golden Gardens ponds and ways to embed turtle protections within site development plans.
8:29: Transportation – Zach – Looking for ways to increase bike paths.
8:30 – Business – Zach – Looking at ways in which a map of vacant lots can be collated for zoning to determine space inventory within Bethel.
Lin – met with group to go over walk-ability for Bethel area (Matt Tate of Downtown Strategies) signage.
– 8:35 – Motion to adjourn made by: Lin
Approved by board.
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