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February 2008
Membership & Board
Walkability
Graffiti
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Would you like more trees in our corner of Olympia?
- The City
NeighborWoods Program will
provide 100 trees to plant in our neighborhood on
March 29 as part of a HUGE City-wide effort to beautify
Olympia by planting 1,000 trees in 1 day! If you'd like to
help, please
read on!
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Due to family emergencies, we have had to cancel the board meetings planned for January
and February. Our next NENA board meeting will be on
March 19--we'll
post more details as that date approaches.
If you're interested in specific issues affecting our neighborhood,
would like to help NENA accomplish current goals, or lead NENA in new
directions, please consider
joining us!
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NENA applies for an $8,000
Thurston County Public
Health STEPs grant to
continue work to make
our neighborhood more walkable and beautiful
- In December NENA
submitted a grant
proposal to continue
work on making our
neighborhood more
"active-friendly." In
this work, we
will be promoting fun
and interesting walking
routes in our neck of
the woods by creating wayfinding signs for
key walking routes and a
permanent neighborhood
kiosk (to give the
bulletin board at the
bakery a break!). We
will also continue our work
to research and apply
for grants to fund
projects like the
Roosevelt School parking
lot improvements.
In addition,
we'll be partnering
with the City of Olympia
and the Woodland Trail
Greenway Association to
create GIS maps to
illustrate how it will
look when we've fully
realized our vision of
transforming our
neighborhood into a safe
and beautiful place to
get active and
connected.
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Roosevelt School Parking
Lot Improvements
- We've met again with
staff from the Olympia School
District and Roosevelt's
Principal Domenico
Spatolla-Knoll to refine the
new parking lot design.
NENA will use grant
money from our new
Thurston County
Department of Health
Healthy Steps grant to
have this design
engineered by Parametrix,
and will then make the
design available for
everyone to review.
Once we receive formal
support from OSD, NENA
will pursue grant funds
to get this work DONE
before more tempers
flare and we suffer any
more near-misses as kids
walk to the school
entrance.
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San Francisco Street Sidewalk Project - Phase II - Quince Street to Easy Bay Drive to be completed next year
- A key link in realizing our vision of creating an interconnected web of sidewalks and walking trails in our neighborhood will be complete next year. Last year the City finished construction of Phase I of the SF Street sidewalk project which runs from Garrison Ave. past the SF bakery and up to Quince Street. In 2008, Phase II which will link Quince Street to East Bay Drive will be compete. With this new stretch of sidewalk, folks will be able to walk more easily and more safely to all kinds of exciting destinations including downtown Olympia, the Farmers Market, Priest Point Park, Roosevelt elementary and Reeves Middle Schools, and to and along the glorious new trails that were built this year in Mission Creek Park.
The current project schedule calls for the design to be complete this month, for PSE, Comcast and Qwest to relocate utilities between January and April, and for construction to start sometime in April.
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Given the interest in and the importance of this sidewalk to our neighborhood and the community, NENA asked the City's Transportation Division to develop a web page with up-to-date project information. The City listened to us and has created a comprehensive web resource for this project. A big thank you to
Sheri Zimny and her colleagues
for their responsiveness to our request and for their hard work on this effort. Here are a few links to some of the information the City has posted online to keep us informed:
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SF Sidewalk Phase II - Tree Removal Plan -
NENA requested that the City provide the community with more detailed information about what trees will be affected by this project. This aerial photo and graphic shows the individual trees that will removed and explains why they need to be removed.
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Graffiti
Update
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Our
Graffiti Busters campaign has hit the blogosphere. You can now
go on-line, post your graffiti sightings and photos and view and comment
on what others have posted. Below is a note from our Graffiti
Busters coordinator and NENA board member Valerie Adrian
with directions on how to access our new blog.
Hello
everyone,
In our effort to track down and erase
graffiti from our
neighborhood, we are
asking people to
report it for
removal.
Username: Nena_Oly
Password: adrian
When you are signed
in, click on "New
Weblog Entry" and
enter the addresses
or intersections for
new graffiti. If
you can take a
picture and upload
it to the entry,
that would be
helpful. Please be
as specific as
possible about where
the graffiti is
located, so it can
be easily found by
our clean up crews.
Please email me at
ourcityonahill@yahoo.com
after you have
updated the site -
so I can make sure
it gets reported to
the right folks.
Also, email me there
if you have any
questions about
using the blog.
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updated 07/22/2010
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