Notes & Reminders
Pet owners
Please remember to clean up after your pets when you play at Roosevelt, especially in the enclosed HeadStart playground. Your efforts will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Materials & volunteers needed to build a temporary neighborhood kiosk
Janelle has offered to work with two or three neighbors to build a kiosk to place on her fence (next to the old garage). This will serve as an important neighborhood news exchange until our formal kiosk is built sometime down the road. Materials needed:
Plexiglass
shingles to cover a 4x4 foot roof
concrete piers
Leave a message with Melinda@neneighborhood.org and I'll pass it on to Janelle. Thanks!
July 2006

Meetings   Walkability   Place-Making Workshops   Mission Creek Reserve   NENA Board

A message from NENA's President, Peter Guttchen:
To NENA members and other interested folks,
Here's the latest on what's up on what's going down in your great neighborhood....
 
We wrapped up our place-making workshops on June 24th with hope, excitement, and a pile of creative, visionary, practical and whimsical ideas for transforming the intersection of SF and Bethel streets into a beautiful, safe and vibrant neighborhood crossroads.
 
Check out our working vision and some of the ideas generated at the workshops can be found in the attached document which will be posted on our website soon. Also attached are the workshop surveyresults, which were conducted at the end of each workshop to find out what people were learning at the workshops, what surprised them, and the kinds of questions participating in the workshops raised for them - it makes very interesting reading.
 
It's now time to take our ideas and turn them into real-world changes and we need your help. Please join us at our next Board meeting slated for Wednesday, July 19 at 7pm in my backyard at 1310 Central St. NE. At this meeting, we'll set our next steps for place-making and begin planning our Fall celebration.
 
NENA Board Meetings
NENA Board members and interested neighbors met on Wednesday, July 19, from 7 to 9 p.m. in Peter's backyard to nail down our next steps for the place-making project and begin planning our Fall Block Party to celebrate the changes that are transforming our neighborhood hub. More details coming soon!
Walkability IssuesSafe Routes to School page - coming soon! 
Reeves Middle School Connector to East Bay
Our landscape architect has submitted a Trail Design. This trail will allow students and neighbors to more easily reach Reeves Middle School and will become part of the trail network planned for Priest Point Park. NENA and our partners, the East Bay Drive Neighborhood Association  and Woodland Trail Greenway Association, leveraging grant funds from Thurston County STEPs, will work with the City and Olympia School District to build this trail while Reeves is closed for remodeling.
San Francisco Sidewalk
Work began on July 10! Details are provided in this SF Sidewalk flyer prepared by the City. Major construction should be completed by August 18!
Roosevelt Traffic Survey  Survey Results-Word    Survey Results-PDF
We received 35 responses to the Roosevelt Traffic Survey--thanks to all of you who took the time to let us know what you've seen at the Bethel/San Francisco entrance and how we might improve traffic flow and student safety. Take a look at our draft letter to the Olympia School District and others, which highlights the observed problems and proposed solutions.
Miller Ave. Sidewalk
Send questions or comments about NENA to any of our board members.
President, Treasurer, Scribe*
 
Vice President, Webmaster*
 
Brains, Muscles, Tenacity*
Mark Axtell
    Mary Donaldson

*We need you! If you're passionate about issues affecting our neighborhood & want to use your talents to make our neighborhood a better place, please consider joining the board!
This is our top-priority project for 2006 - making it safe for students to get to school and all of us to get to Friendly Grove Park! Construction is scheduled to begin late this summer, and should be complete by the end of September or early October. The sidewalk will be 6 feet wide and will run from Fir Street to Friendly Grove Road. It will be set back from the street by a  6- to 10-foot separation. Some sections will have a storm water ditch between the sidewalk and the edge of the travel lane. For more information, visit the City's Web site.
Thank you to all of the neighbors and friends who shared their innovative ideas and insights at our Place-Making Workshops! We've prioritized our goals and will be devising a plan of action at our July 19 NENA Board meeting (please join us!). Stay tuned for news about our Fall Potluck, where we will begin the transformation.
A huge THANK YOU to Kathleen and Chariti from the Olympia Village Improvement Project for their commitment and skill in helping us wrangle our diverse ideas into a tangible plan of action. We're looking forward to bringing these ideas to fruition and assisting VIP as they formalize the intersection improvement idea for other neighborhoods in Olympia.
Neighborhood residents and Olympia City Councilmember Karen Messmer recently toured the Mission Creek Reserve. More details about the interim use work plan will be available soon.

 updated 02/06/2009

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