From 8/26/05 to 9/25/05: 1 Rape, 1 Aggravated Assault, 2 Burglaries (break into a property), 10 Larceny (theft, can be with a weapon against a person), 3 Vehicle Theft. Lowjack system (transponder) can be installed in cars and can be tracked when stolen. Discussion of UP students, call UP campus security. Increase in drug deals based on a meeting place (call each other, meet me at blank address), caught someone with 120 balloons of heroin (42 grams). Meth labs have significantly decreased but there is an increase in Meth from Mexico. Mayor and Police Chief have been discussing community policing lately, what is your impression? A: what is happening now, officer at neighborhood meeting. Not many officers for the neighborhoods so they try to get paperwork done between calls so they are not available to meet with neighborhood residents. 4 neighborhood police that go to meetings and are able to meet with residents. Telephone report unit, can call in and talk to an officer over the phone to create a report. Should always call in if something is happening so that in the future they can be aware of what is happening. Fraud is increasing because it is easy and hard to prove. DMV used to sell personal info until 2002 and would often find CD’s in criminals houses. Comments that community policing is very effective, it makes people feel empowered and that something would be done about it. Request for info / report on DUI’s for North Portland (for the past few years).

    a. Friday Sept. 30th soccer game, men's West Coast Conference Opener. Around 9:30pm there will be a brief fireworks display.
    b. Will be co-hosting a North Portland
    c. Still working to acquire the 2 properties along the river. Working on the triangle property (zone changes, environmental concerns etc...). Working with the city to be a part of the river renaissance project but because of the cities time table might not work out. Also looking at the McCormick & Baxter site but can not be tied in with the triangle property. Will continue to explore and work with them and their time frame.
    d. Response to request to learn more about the student discipline process. Educate students who live in the neighborhoods on how to be good neighbors. About 30% of students commute (from all of Portland). Students in the University Park neighborhood receive info on how to be good neighbors. Will do what is necessary based on the circumstances (stop party, arrests, minors drinking, detox, work with police, contact landlords etc...). Students are called into the school, investigated and appropriate discipline is decided ranging from community service, fines up to expulsion from the school. Q: about notifying parents. Difficult because of laws, are 18 years of age but if it involves their health and safety then will be notified. Encourage people to call and if it is necessary police will be called.
Q: What responsibilities due to the landlords have (legally)? Can find out who the landlord is and contact them when their are problems with their properties. Harder when they are individuals and not companies, but it can be done and they should be alerted. Communication is very important. Stress that they should contact and talk to neighbors about any parties or events.

Congratulate top 3. 2nd runner up - Ana Tomblin, 1st runner up - Fletcher Trippe, Winner - Mitch Gould. Also presenting Mitch 10 hours of rental of the Kenton Firehouse. Mitch will be working on a modification so that the street sign will have the text “University Park” written out.    

City of Portland has major freight facilities and are impacted by freight movement. Increase in freight for the future. Freight = trains, trucks, ships, airport. Started in Oct. now have a draft plan that people can comment on. 3 big themes - mobility issues, livability (limit negative impacts to neighborhoods and the environment), economy. Action items - what do we need to do? How do we manage freight? Work with different groups (police for truck breaking noise, tie downs on truck loads), looking into quiet zones (regarding rail). For University Park: Lombard Ave. We classify streets (traffic, bikes, pedestrians, truck traffic), have a map. Lombard in St. Johns connects Hwy 30 with the industrial area (Rivergate). The rest of Lombard is designated truck route but those trucks are more for delivery (grocery stores, UPS, restaurants etc...) by the State (ODOT). But if a truck height is a certain height then those trucks travel on Lombard until improvements can be made to other streets. In the future would like to move Hwy 30 bypass up to Columbia Blvd. (instead of Lombard).
Currently: 63% of freight on trucks, double freight by 2030 and trucks will be over 70%. Will address height issues for Columbia to enable trucks to travel on it (pedestrian bridges, rail bridges). City of Portland actually owns Lombard Ave but is a state designated road.
Q: what is the amount of permit exceptions to travel on Lombard? It isn’t a lot but am working on the actual numbers now. Usually very large items and it is unusual. New draft of the plan is coming out next week.
Traffic changes for St. Lewis and Fessenden in St. Johns (changing light, trucks don’t have to stop). Strategy was to focus the trucks into one area. Also looking at signals and planning to make the help route the trucks to where they need to go. Improve signage.
Q: what is the public involvement in the project? Can the public be involved? A: We’ve had 3 open houses throughout the city. Work with specific neighborhoods and associations, advisory groups and various freight companies. Now looking for comments on the draft plan (will be online), can send a letter to the planning commission. Meeting Oct. 25th (1st meeting), 7:00pm at 1900 SW 4th Ave, 2nd floor.

    a. Susan Landauer from Portsmouth. Neighborhood coordinator for Friends of Trees. Planting trees January 28th (Kenton, Portsmouth, Arbor Lodge and Univ. Park). Want to canvas the neighborhood with a form for people who have a space for a tree and who would like to volunteer to plant trees or for food service or phones. Last year planted around 200 trees and served lunch to about 150 people. Also looking for a neighborhood liaison “in-training” with Susan so that we have someone for the future. City has a neighborhood program for the tree neighborhood liaisons. People always ask what kind of a tree can I have? It depends on the location (size and height options), choose trees that are less likely to break sidewalk. Also have yard trees. Emphasis is on street trees (in the right of way) - www.friendsoftrees.org or can call Susan.
    b. Board Member Elections
    can email reports to board members instead of coming to the meetings.
    Will be loosing a couple people (3).
Jim Kuffner moves to approve the current slate. Brian seconds. List people who can vote. Discussion: none.
All in favor - majority. None opposed.

Q: about rentals in neighborhood (increase), what can we do?
over 5 people in a house that are not related cannot live in the same house
OLCC - landlords are fined for underage drinking and often are evicted.