Monday November 22, 2004

Board Meeting

Meeting called to order at 6:10pm by Fletcher Trippe, vice chair. (Chair absent)

1. Secretary: requests giving chair and Ronna at NPNS a print out of the typed minutes instead of a photocopy of written notes.
2. Tresurer: As of the 25th of October the Albina savings account has $1041.42. Will be submitting paperwork to have new chair and treasurer added     to the account soon.
3. Chair (absent) – Vice Chair: It’s time to renew our corporation fees ($50). Paperwork given to treasurer who will pay the bill from the savings             account and then be reimbursed by ONI.

Committee Chair Reports:
4. Bylaws:
    a. Reviewed updates to Article V and VI.
    b. Debate about Grievance committee being changed to a standing committee from an ad hoc committee. What if there is no chair? If interest arises         during year then we can have an election or will vote a chair in if there is a grievance filed without a current committee chair.
    c. Should grievance chair be part of board? Yes but we need to actively pursue a chair.
5. Communications:
    a. The communications committee met and reviewed the committee goals.
    b. First item is to work on a logo development for the neighborhood (to be used on banners, street signs etc…). Possibly partner with University of         Portland marketing or design students to come up with the design. Some ideas are: trees, bluff, university theme, wildlife (birds, leaves), trains. *         Comment from Paul – would prefer if we put notices in local papers and have a competition for local residents, high school art students or U.P.         students.
    c. Will be working on an annual summer event (ice cream social, fair or picnic).
    d. Will begin to work on a newsletter initially with 2 issues per year. One in the spring before the Friends of Trees planting and one in the fall.
    e. Possibly help the Friends of Peninsula Crossing Trail with a cleanup.
    f. Request for a meeting or event with Astor school when the garden is finished.
6. Environmental – none (committee chair absent)
7. Land Use:
    a. Attended a planning meeting for North Portland neighborhood land use chairs last month. Will continue to attend any upcoming meetings.
    b. URA city council meeting is this week (Weds.).
    c. Concerned about traffic light for the trail by Univ. Portland. Peninsula does not have a voice for how money is spent regarding bluff and URA.
    d. An ad hoc committee of city wide neighborhood members concerned about land use is forming. Potential for more involvement of neighborhood         association members in the decisions about the city.
    e. Comment from Judy – UPNA will be appraised of any developments regarding the trail.
    f. Request for a presentation about Urban Renewal Areas in general with examples of good and bad.
8. Livability/Transportation:
    a. Possible co-chair, Scott Mizee with Fletcher Trippe. Scott could start as a co-chair and perhaps be elected chair next year.
9. Public Safety:
    a. Attended the police/crime meeting last month. December 22 there will be a city council meeting regarding St. John’s trying to develop an impact         center in the neighborhood to help with street drinking. An impact area would only be for St. John’s and it would ban grocery stores from                 carrying 40oz alcoholic beverages. The drinking in St. John’s has gone down 44% but has moved throughout the city.
10. Schools – none (committee chair absent)

Meeting Adjourned 7:08pm

General Meeting

Meeting called to order at 7:10pm by vice chair, Fletcher Trippe.

1. Introductions
2. Crime & Safety update from Jason Christiansen
    a. Last Friday a man drowned below the University of Portland. He fell from a dock. Please be careful.
    b. There has been an increase in stolen cars throughout Portland (over 100 cars in the last 7 days). Park cars in garages, be sure to lock them, don’t         warm up your car in the morning and leave the car unattended while running.
    c. North Portland Online website is available. You can communicate with your neighbors and city bureaus plus there is helpful info. It is a 6 month         pilot project so the more people use it, the better. www.portlandonline.com/northportland
    d. Q: Can anything be done about the Carey Blvd. Pedestrian crossing? Cars are not stoping for people. A: Will look into a sting operation.                     Remember, the car has to wait until the pedestrian is all the way across the intersection.
    e. Q: In school zones, is it necessary to slow to 20mph? A: There is an additional sign below the school zone 20mph sign with the specific times. 1.         At all times (24 hours a day) the speed is 20mph. 2. Only when children are present is the speed 20mph. 3. Specific hours are listed for when the         speed is 20mph.
    f. Q: There is a suspicious car on the corner of Cambridge and Amherst. It has been there a while, it is a 4 door and has old mismatched paint.
3. Jim Kuffner (from University of Portland):
    a. Appreciate UPNA members attending the PDC meetings regarding the URA. Thanks.
    b. The soccer season is over. There will be a review by the university of the soccer season to see if there is anything that needs to be improved.
    c. One of the goals from the July meeting was to improve communications with the school. The president would like to have an annual meeting             with the UPNA board.
    d. UP students created rubber band type bracelets to give away that say Live it UP. Please help yourself.
    e. Q: What is the latest on the Zeidel property and UP? A: The planning commission kept the original URA boundary intact and did not include the         Zeidel property. At the city council meeting last week the URA was passed to the 2nd reading with no further public testimony. City council will         vote this week. Regarding the Zeidel property the University is in negotiations with Zeidel to purchase the property. Currently they are still                 working on a price. It will be a long process, the land is currently zoned industrial. The school would put baseball fields, soccer fields, parking,         physical plant buildings etc… on the property in order to make room for more buildings on the bluff. Will continue to discuss this with UPNA.
4. Susan Safford and Ann Summers from the Port of Portland. Update on the Early Action Project:
    a. Presentation regarding the cleanup of Terminal 4.
    b. There will be 2 open houses, Dec. 2nd downtown and Dec. 11th in St. Johns community center.
    c. History: in 2000 the sediments in the river were classified as a superfund site. This is still being investigated. EPA is now responsible for the                 sediment cleanup. DEQ and Oregon state are responsible for stopping the contamination (current and future). DEQ sent letters to property                 owners that they needed to prove that there was no contamination or to work with them to stop the source of contamination. Many of the Port             properties do not have contamination. The parties involved can agree on doing an Early Action which will make the cleanup fatser.
    d. The Terminal 4 Early Action (knew the sediments and uplands were contaminated in 1998/99). Working with DEQ to fix upland issues (a                 pipeline leaked into ground water and then into the river), this issue has already been fixed and the upland areas is almost complete.
    e. At a previous meeting 3 cleanup methods were discussed. Now will present the 4 cleanup alternatives. Currently at the Engineering                             Evaluation/Cost Analysis (EECA) stage. Presented the EECA to the EPA and others. Within the EECA the Port will choose a preferred                     alternative get feedback from the EPA, in May have a public formal review of the document and the final EECA will be finished in August.                 Then the EPA will make a decision at the end of 2005. The design and cleanup phase will last until 2007.
    f. The alternatives take into account how is the terminal used? Most active is slip 3 (soda ash) is brought in by rail and then sent all over the world.         Slip 1 has a couple berths a year for liquid bulk or to a grain facility which is now being operated by the Port while they look for a lessee. Some         area is used by tugs. Choose different methods for different slips because of how they are used (cannot cap slip 3 because of the large vessels).
    g. EPA evaluation criteria:
         i. Effectiveness:
                1. Protection of health and environment
                2. Compliance with laws and regulations
                3. Long and short term effectiveness
         ii. Implementability:
                1. Technically feasible
                2. Availability of services and materials
                3. Administrative feasibility
         iii. Cost:
                1. Capital
                2. Ongoing operations and maintentance
    h. Cleanup Methods:
        Monitored natural recovery
        Capping
        Dredging > Evaluate treatment > disposal methods > landfill or a confined disposal facility
    (Q: can the material be incinerated? A: no, to wide a range of pollutants in the sediment and hard because of the amount of water)
    i. The 4 Cleanup Alternatives:
        A: Monitored Natural Recovery Focus: Wheeler Bay and Part of Slip 2 are monitored natural recovery. Slip 3 dredging. Slip 1 /part of 3 are                     capped.
        B. Capping emphasis: Slip 1, Wheeler Bay and edge of slip 3 are capped. Edges of property are monitored natural recovery. Armored cap is                 used. The cap has to withstand the forces from boats.
        C. Dredging emphasis: Create a confined disposal facility withing slip 1 by creating a berm across the slip and place the sediments in that area.                 Would have to move barge leg and piping towards river and the confided area would be made to “grade” as land. Slip 1 would be very small.
        D. Dredge Slip 1 and Slip 3 and move sediment to a landfill (by truck, rail or barge). There are a lot of transfer and transportation issues with this             option.
    j. The Open Houses: Dec 2nd, 5:30-8:30pm at 121 NW Everett St. Also, Dec 11th, 1-4pm at 8427 N Central St.
    k. Questions:
         i. Thoughts on the Ports preferred alternative? A: The confined disposal facility is the EPA preferred option. The area created will have an                     excess capacity so sediments  from other areas on the river could also be placed there. That is not a cheap option for the Port, would have to                 monitor by adding wells in the berm Unsure right now which is the best option. Looking for feedback.
         ii. Creating a confined disposal facility, wouldn’t there be an overall cost savings by using it to place sediment from other Port properties? A:                 Potentially.
         iii. Will the confined disposal facility option affect the finishing of the terminal 4 cleanup? A: No, material can be added and then capped                         temporarily and then keep adding material from other sites slowly.
         iv. Would the capped confined disposal area be able to be built on? A: yes, eventually it would be asphalted.
5. Old business?
    a. Any updated on the terra firma development on Willamette Lane? Not now.
    b. Q: Does UPNA want to make a stand regarding the path/trail on the bluff? Not enough info yet, it still needs to be discussed with Lenny.
6. New business?
    a. No meeting in December. Next meeting is Jan. 24th.

Meeting Adjourned 8:20pm