Central
Houghton
Neighborhood
Association
Central
Houghton Neighborhood Association
Key
Upcoming Dates:
Saturday
Nov. 10 – Arbor Day
planting and Ivy Pull at
Sunday
Nov 18th -
Hopelink Turkey Trot, 1PM at Marina Park, 5K fun
walk, johno@hope-link.org or www.hope-link.org/takeaction/turkeytrot
Wednesday,
Nov 21 – City
Council meeting, 7:30PM at City Hall
Saturday
Nov 24th
– Tree Lighting, 7PM at
Minutes
from Nov 7, 2007 Meeting:
* Approve
next year’s Neighborhood Matching Grant – Our priorities will remain
mostly the same 1) Houghtdown
2) 4th of July parade 3)Website. We will add more
money for mailings and repair of our kiosk bench
* Start
planning for next year. Specifically, how we can improve participation in the Comp
Plan Neighborhood Plan update in 2008.
* Annual
meeting date – February 6th. This will be a kick off party
for the Neighborhood Plan update to come in 2008. We’ll try to get a City
planner to come and explain the process to us so that we can all be prepared
and make some effective updates to our Neighborhood Plan.
* Annexation
- http://www.ci.kirkland.wa.us/depart/CMO/Annexation_Information.htm please continue to keep yourself informed and make your
opinion known to the City Council. They will be deciding in the next
month whether or not to allow this to go to a vote to the annexation area
residents.
*
* Library
expansion – www.kcls.org/bond/kirkland
for all the details
* Our Carillon
Woods art piece should be going into place sometime early Spring. Lisa McConnell met with the artist John Hoge at the park to discuss the project. To see samples of
his work visit http://www.johnhogesculptor.com/