Meetings

April Meeting, Minutes and Summary

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First off, congratulations and gratitude for our 2019/2020 Neighborhood Leadership Team!

Chair: Kari Quaas
Vice Chair: Holly James
Secretary: Stephanie Prothero
Treasurer: Russ Kasselman 
Council of Neighborhood Reps:
Robin Rigdon and John Sweeney

Thanks for stepping up to lead our awesome neighborhood! And huge thanks to Kristina Perry for her three years of service as Secretary! And, also big thanks to Joni and MaryVee, and Jeff for being the welcoming committee. Our Steering Committee rocks!

Second, we had a bevy of speakers this evening. Thanks to Officer Baumgartner of the 11th Beat. Thanks to Council Members Scott Bader (official liaison) and Paul Roberts for greater city and regional updates. Thanks to Lori Cummings and Bob Leonard from Everett Parks and Community Services for the discussion of our neighborhood parks, particularly Drew Nielsen. Thanks to Megan Dunn from Everett Districts Nowfor more information about the commission to decide Everett’s future district boundaries. And, huge thanks to Tim Knopf for his rousing history of our park namesake and early neighborhood leader, Drew Nielsen.

I’ve attached some photos of tonight’s meeting and will separately post videos of Parks and Tim’s Who’s Drew?

Thanks for an awesome two years so far! I look forward to building more community in the year to come. ♥️

— Kari

View Meeting Minutes here.

March Meeting Summary, Minutes and Photos

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Download the minutes as a PDF.

Download David’s summary of our zoning thoughts from the March 21st meeting as a PDF.

Really great discussion was had around planning what we want our neighborhood/our city to be. Grateful for all of the comments, points of view and conversation around where we live, its accessibility, affordability, and our future. Thanks to our guests David Stalheim (City of Everett, WA – Govt) and Mike Gaffney (Providence). 

Jeff, Mike from Providence, MaryVee and Joni
David Stalheim addressing the group.
Our new Officer Baumgardner.
Attendees.
More Attendees.
Our Neighborhood with the description of land use currently.

October Meeting Summary, Photos and Minutes

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Thank you to our guest speakers:

  • Police Officer Brandon Hoelzel
  • Pam Kepford, 350.org / Reusable Bag Ordinance – EverettRBO@gmail.com
  • Judy Tuohy, Everett City Council Liaison
  • Eileen Hinckley – Everett Code Enforcement
  • Holly James and Shelley Sutton – NWN Block Watch
  • Kari Quaas – facilitator

Here are the Northwest Neighborhood Meeting Minutes October 18 2018 thanks to our secretary, Kristina Perry.

Google Drive of NW Meeting Minutes

Here are some website links for help for seniors from Eileen Hinckley with Code Enforcement:

And, here is her brief presentation:

Code Enforcement Info

Photos:

September Meeting Summary, Photos and Minutes

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Thanks for Leland Dart from My Everett News for joining us to speak about what it’s like to be a local online/breaking news reporter. His photos really do say 1000 words.

You can find the meeting’s minutes done by our secretary, Kristina, here. Thanks to her!

June Meeting Summary, Presentations and Minutes

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Here’s a quick look at what Bill Sayer and the Cadman team including the below members presented.

  • John Dick, Land Manager
  • Rob Johnson, VP Operations (Concrete)
  • Bill Sayer, VP Land Development
  • Joerg Nixdorf, VP GM

20180621 NWNA Presentation Cadman (Final)

Here’s the slide deck from the presentation about the Snohomish PUD Substation by (NW neighbor) Tom Hovde.

POE__PGS NNA__062118__pdf

Here are our meeting minutes by Kristina Perry.

June minutes

Sorry for our lack of photos. We got a few and promise to share them soon. We hope that the presentations will be useful and we are grateful to our guests!

— Kari Quaas, Chair/Facilitator

April Meeting Summary

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Thank you to our guests, Barbara George from the Everett Museum of History, and Timothy Knopf from Northwest Neighborhood’s Steering Committee who provided a bit of history of our association. Due to popular demand, as Tim continues his research, we’ll try to plug in “Tim’s Time” for future 15 minute installments of Northwest history. We had about 43 members in attendance. Minutes to come later.

We also elected officers – Kari Quaas, Chair; Kristina Perry, Secretary; Russ Kasselman, Treasurer; GeorgaDee MacLeod and Stephanie Prothero, Council of Neighborhood Reps, and John Sweeney as Alternate.

Barb George talking about the Everett Museum of History

And here are Tim’s Terrific Slides (download as PDF):

NW_Everett_NhBhd_Hist_Beginnings 2.

 

Elections Held in April

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Thank you to the following neighbors for continuing in their leadership roles for the next year! Also, we welcome a new volunteer as Council of Neighborhoods Alternate, John Sweeney.

Chair – Kari Quaas

Secretary – Kristina Perry

Treasurer – Russ Kasselman

Council of Neighborhood Representatives

  • GeorgaDee MacLeod
  • Stephanie Prothero
  • John Sweeney (Alternate)

Congratulations and thank you for your dedication to Northwest Neighborhood!

(Vice Chair is still open. Contact the neighborhood at nwneverett@gmail.com if you’re interested.)

March Meeting Summary and Minutes

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March 15, 2018

  • Bob Hillman and Geoff Larsen from Everett Parks gave us an update on the playground at Legion Park and the shrubs at Grand Avenue Park, respectively.
  • Cate Harrington from Take Back Our Neighborhood – Everett, North shared her passion for the Facebook group she founded, and their successes and challenges. We are welcome to join in any of their events. We may have them help us coordinate an alley cleanup tied to our May 19th Neighborhood Cleanup at EvCC.
  • Thanks to all who brought non-perishable food for the EvCC Food Pantry.

Here are the March meeting minutes. Thanks, Kristina, for taking them!