North End Neighborhood Council Meeting
 
Monday July 7, 2025
6:00 p.m.
Cookies & Cider from 5:30 p.m.

****MEETING ROOM LOCATION****

University of Puget Sound
Presentation Room (#102) in the Welcome Center
(N. 15th St. and N. Alder St)

Virtual – Via Zoom
Meeting ID: 882 2046 7648
Passcode: 649767

What happens to the water after it leaves your property or street? 
Come and hear from the City’s Water Experts about their successes and challenges
in managing the flows of wastewater and stormwater that are invisible to the general public. 

Meeting Agenda:

1) Introductions and welcome—

2) Announcements — 

Porchfest – July 12 – 13   https://www.tacomaporchfest.org/

3) Standard Liaison Reports

-Police – Kristen Braziel

-Tacoma Public Utilities – John Gaines

-Fire Department – Joshua Schlesner

-Tacoma Parks – Alisa OHanlon Regala

-City Manager’s Office – Christina Caan

4) City Council Member Reports – John Hines – Sarah Rumbaugh

5) Storm Water and Wastewater Management and Impacts

City of Tacoma Environmental Services Department

Shauna Hansen, P.E. 

Stormwater Management Program/Permit Coordinator, Science & Engineering Division

Teresa Peterson, P.E.

Principal Engineer – Facilities, Asset Management & Technology Services Division

Members of the Environmental Services Department at the City of Tacoma will be giving a high-level overview of the wastewater system and treatment plants, past/current regulations, and a few examples of innovation that the wastewater utility has participated in to further the industry.  They will also present an overview of the Stormwater Management Program, what services stormwater rates pay for, and several community programs to support cleaner and greener neighborhoods and a thriving Puget Sound.
The NENC is also invited to complete the Stormwater Community Survey and Adopt-a-Storm Drain.

6) Old Business

-Bayside Trails

-Cushman/Adams Redevelopment

-Landmarks nomination for addition of N. Union Ave to the Tacoma Register of Historic Places.

-Nomination for adding the trees growing in the N Union Ave medians to the Heritage Tree Register.

-ONE Tacoma Comprehensive Plan Update

7) New Business

8)  Adjournment 

NOTE: Our next meeting will be Monday, August 4 when we will receive a presentation from Dr Lowell Wyse of the Tacoma Tree Foundation.  Preceding the meeting at 4:30 pm the TTF will be giving a tour of significant trees on the University of Puget Sound campus (details at bottom of agenda).

 At Large and District Council Members:
https://www.cityoftacoma.org/government/city_council
CM John Hines represents citizens District 1    CM Sarah Rumbaugh represents citizens District 2     
Three Council Members represents citizens in At-Large: 
Deputy Mayor Kiara Daniels;  Kristina Walker and Olgy Diaz 
 
North End Neighborhood Council Board
Direct your questions or comments to: officers@gmail.com
Chair – Peter Bennett,  Vice-Chair – Tobi Bet, 

Treasurer – Jodi Cook,  Secretary – Bonnie O’Leary

Joe Tieger, Georgette Reuter, Geoff Corso, Danielle Villegas
 

Tacoma Porchfest 2025, July 12 & 13

This wonderful 2-day community event of live music is happening within our local neighborhoods! It is a free, walkable music festival that takes place on porches. Come meet your neighbors and find your new favorite band. Day One: Sat., July 12 (9:00 am – 7:00pm) south of 6th Avenue and Day Two: Sunday, July 13, (9:00 am – 6:00 pm) north of 6th Avenue.
Tacoma Porchfest is organized by community members in partnership with the Central
Neighborhood Council, North End Neighborhood Council and the 6th Ave. Business District. It is made possible with funding from Tacoma Venues & Events and individual donations from festival attendees. Tacoma Porchfest is a City of Tacoma Sponsored Event. For more information and a map of the locations of the bands, please go to their website tacomaporchfest.org

Help Map Tacoma’s Urban Forest – Volunteer with the GRIT City Tree Count Tree inventories are essential for protecting trees in communities. They provide essential information about trees within the city such as species, location, condition and size. For more information go to their website: www.treehealth.wsu.edu/tacoma

The Tacoma Tree Foundation

To learn about all that this amazing organization is doing and to read informative articles about Tacoma’s urban forest, be sure to look at their newly updated TTF website www.tacomatreefoundation.org
One very interesting event will be happening later this month:
Sat., July 19, 10:30-12:30, “South Tacoma Climate Walk”, Wapato Hills Park, 6231 South Wapato Street

Special Event: “University Of Puget Sound Tree Walk”

August 4th, 4:30-5:30

This beautiful 97-acre campus is home to more than 1,500 trees. Of special note is that UPS was honored with a 2019 Tree Campus Higher Education recognition by the Arbor Day Foundation for its commitment to effective urban forest management. To learn more about the campus’s unique tree collection, on August 4th, you are invited to go on a walk highlighting some of UPS’s most famous trees. This walk, led by a Tacoma Tree Foundation member, will meet at 4:30 under the Giant Sequoia, next to the Student Union Rotunda Building. Here is more information about UPS trees:
https://www.pugetsound.edu/stories/celebration–trees

Following the Tree Walk, Please Join the TTF Presentation at 5:30….
You are invited to join the North End Neighborhood Council in the UPS Wilson Welcome Center for cookies and iced cider. Then at 6:00, Lowell Wyse, executive Director of the Tacoma Tree
Foundation will give us an update on TTF’s upcoming programs and Fall tree planting schedule.