SMILE Annual Meeting May 6, 2009 – Minutes
May 6th, 2009 by admin
This is the unofficial summary of the May 6, 2009 SMILE Annual Meeting. It will be replaced by the official minutes after they’re approved and voted in by the SMILE general membership at the June 3, 2009 meeting. Topics included an update from Southeast Uplift, a Board Election, an update on the Lambert Street Pedestrian crossing, a call for Intel employees to volunteer for activities with SMILE and record their hours in the Intel Volunteer matching grants program, a reminder about the Neighborhood Cleanup on Saturday, May 16th at Westmoreland Park and a note about the Llewellyn Carnival coming up on Friday, May 29th at 6:30pm.
Tonight was board elections. These are the people running for your Sellwood-Moreland Improvement League board. You don’t have to be on the board to work with SMILE, though. You can propose anything to us via the Contact tab at the top of the page and you can come and work with any committee for as much or as little time as you’d like. We won’t turn away an offer of an hour or two a month on the land use committee, the sustainability committee, the Sundae in the Park committee, or the Neighborhood Cleanup. It’s fun and we like to get together with our neighbors.
Ruthann Bedenkop and one of her associates from our Neighborhood coalition, Southeast Uplift ( http://southeastuplift.org/ ) came by to discuss the benefits of SMILE’s membership in Southeast Uplift. SMILE is actively looking for a representative to the Southeast Uplift board. If you have 3 to 5 hours of time each month that you could dedicate to representing SMILE at the neighborhood coalitions level, we’d love to have you on board. Send us a note via the contact page at http://sellwood.org/contact and let us know if you can help.
Bradley Heinz and Eric Miller are working on an enhanced pedestrian corridor between Sellwood Park and Westmoreland Park. They’re working with the folks on the big pipe project, who have a fund set aside for mitigation of neighborhood impact.
You can see some details of the Lambert and Milwaukie Intersection plan at Brad Heinz’ website:
http://www.savvyminds.com/LambertGrantApplication.pdf
http://www.savvyminds.com/CrosswalkSketches.pdf
The results of your board election are as follows:
SMILE Officers, 2009-2010 (one year term):
President: Paul Notti
Vice President: Tina Osterink
Secretary: Eric Norberg
Treasurer: Pat Hainley
Board members-at-large (two year term, 2009-2011)
Katie Dunham
Mat Millenbach
Nancy Walsh
Eric Fox
Board members-at-large completing their terms ending in May, 2010
Dana Beck
Teresa Dunbar
Jim Friscia
Mike Pucik
Finally, we had a visit from Leslie Vivien Lyon with Ritchard Lyonhart, LLC. They’re soon to be opening “The Woods”, a performance venue and community space in the 6637 SE Milwaukie location formerly occupied by the Wilhelm Funeral Home. For more details on what she’s looking into, you can see her OLCC application for beer and wine here. It sounds like it’ll be an interesting venue for folk music and other entertainment similar to what the Aladdin has to offer in a smaller venue with seating for 60.