North End Neighborhood Council Meeting
Monday October 2, 2023
6:00 p.m.
Cookies & Coffee from 5:30 p.m.
****MEETING ROOM LOCATION****
Rotunda at the
University of Puget Sound
Wheelock Student Center
3209 15th St.
Virtual – Via Zoom
Meeting ID: 882 2046 7648
Passcode: 649767
CANDIDATE FORUM!
Election Day is Tuesday November 7 and ballots will be appearing in your mailbox very soon. Come and listen to candidates seeking to represent the North End on the Tacoma City Council and Metropolitan Park District introduce themselves and answer your questions.
1) Call to order, adoption of agenda —
2) Introductions and welcome—
3) Announcements —
Upcoming NENC Board Elections
Report on Historic Cushman Street Fair held on September 23
4) Approval of Minutes
5) Treasurer’s Report
6) Liaison Reports
- Police
- Tacoma Public Utilities
- City Manager’s Office
7) City Council Member Report(s)
8) CANDIDATE FORUM
Tacoma City Council
- District 1 – John Hines
- District 7 – Olgy Diaz and Kristen Wynne
- District 8 – Kristina Walker and Todd Briske
Metropolitan Park District of Tacoma
- District 4 – Andrea Smith
- District 5 – Tony Anderson and Matt Mauer
9) Old Business
10) New Business
11) Adjournment
NOTE: Our next meeting will be Monday, November 6 when we will be inviting our invaluable Liaisons to our next LIAISON ROUNDTABLE.
The Historic Cushman Street Fair was a huge success!
Thank you to everyone who attended this wonderful community event. Despite Mother Nature deciding to show off with a stormy first day of fall, we enjoyed all that the street fair had to offer: welcome speeches by our City Council members, Bliss ice cream, The Balloon Lady, a kids’ art booth, lively music by the Happy Sinners and the PLU Steel Drum Band, a variety of great booths, and TNT Espresso and min-donuts.
We’d like to thank everyone who made this event possible: Council Members John Hines, Sarah Rumbaugh, Olgy Diaz and Deputy Mayor Kristina Walker. Lauren Hoogkamer (PNPP Principal Planner), all of our NENC board members and many other awesome volunteers. A big thank you goes to former mayor Bill Baarsma for his presentation about the fascinating history of the Cushman substation. Also, our terrific Master of Ceremonies, Chris Staudinger from Pretty Gritty Tours, provided the narration for three very interesting tours around the Cushman site.
Stay tuned to learn more about the future plans for the Cushman and Adams substations. The City has hired a consultant firm to reach out to our community in 2024 for ideas about how to repurpose the site. Perhaps one day, it will become a community center surrounded by a beautiful park, complete with a playground, picnic area and even a pickle ball court!
Neighborhood Updates
Proctor Tree Celebration on Green Tacoma Day on Sat., October 14t
• 9:00-12:00 join our neighbors for a tree planting in the Proctor District. Please visit greentacomaday.org
• 2:00-3:00 North End Neighborhood Tree Walk, Oct. 14th Join Sarah Low and the Tacoma Urban Forest Friends (TUFF) on a walk that will begin with a celebration of the Wheelock Library’s majestic Pin Oak tree, located on the corner of N. 26th and N. Adams. From there, we will go on an hour-long walk where we will learn fascinating facts about the “celebritrees” that grace our Tacoma neighborhood. Please register on the calendar section of the website for the Tacoma Tree Foundation. tacomatreefoundation.org
Tacoma Urban Forest Friends (TUFF) Tree Petition At 20%, Tacoma has the lowest tree canopy of any city in the Puget Sound area! Please sign the TUFF petition to urge the City Council of Tacoma to preserve and extend our tree canopy to reach our City’s goal of 30% by 2030.
Proctor Neighborhood Plan Please go online and provide your valuable input about Proctor’s neighborhood issues such as business district vitality, pedestrian safety, parking, neighborhood livability, historical identity and tree canopy/green spaces. cityoftacoma.org/NeighborhoodPlanning
More Trees, Please!
The Tacoma Tree Foundation is busy gearing up for another exciting tree planting season! This great organization “partners with people who want more trees in their neighborhoods as a way of improving quality of life, as well as human and environmental health”. They sponsor a fun variety of tree events including tree planting and plant giveaways, a variety of docent lead neighborhood tree walks and interesting webinars. www.tacomatreefoundation.org
City of Tacoma Tree Coupon Program
$30. Off coupons for a tree purchase are valid at participating local tree retailers during the program season, October- March 3. A coupon can be applied to the purchase of a 5-gallon or larger tree, for up to 3 trees per coupon/property. Go to the City website to learn more. trees@cityoftacoma.org
Your North End City Council Members:
CM John Hines represents citizens in District 1 jhines@cityoftacoma.org
CM Sarah Rumbaugh represents citizens in District 2 srumbaugh@cityoftacoma.org
NENC Board Members Contact: officers@gmail.com
Chair Peter Bennett Vice-Chair Brad Stave Treasurer Jodi Cook Secretary Alex Morganroth
Joe Tieger Tye Minckler Georgette Reuter Tobi Bet
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