The Downtown Neighborhood Association

Neighborhood Leadership stuff from the City

I was the sole representative of the DNA at the Neighborhood Leaders training a couple of weeks ago. Neighborhoods says they're going to hold a training about once every six months from now on.

I got this big ol' binder full of useful stuff (I think they're going to make all this available online at some point) and a giant poster of an aerial shot of downtown, our collective home. I think Will should be the lucky recipient of this--I'll bring it to the next SC meeting.

Each Friday afternoon, Neighborhoods posts "Neighborhood Leaders Packets" at http://www.eugene-or.gov/naleaders which are full of stuff either from other neighborhoods or relevant to anyone involved in neighborhoods. So there's the link.

It might be a good idea if we made sure Neighborhoods had all of our contact info, strictly for their own non-public internal use, so that when emails go out we're all in the loop. (The load is about 2-3 emails per week.) We should also update our default page on the City website so that it says something besides describing the boundaries of downtown and giving Will's contact info. In particular, there doesn't seem to be a link to our snazzy website.

Laurel Hill has a link on their website to the new City Neighborhoods survey. We can't let Laurel Hill show us up!!! Here's the link:
http://www.eugene-or.gov/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=777&am...
Can we post it more prominently on the website?

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Permalink Reply by Mary Leighton on August 22, 2009 at 9:00am

Thanks, Liz.

Last week Network Charter School submitted a proposal to the City to lease-to-own 858 Pearl, the one building we have so far found downtown that we can afford to upgrade to school code. We want to buy it before too long, but cannot afford both to upgrade and to buy in the same year--and we have to move soon to get out of the way of West Broadway development. The site is perfect--imagine our colorful kids playing in the East Park Block instead of the sidewalk or the parking lot, and at least for the near future, sharing the pavement with the police walking to the nearest cuppa coffee, nipping mischief in the bud by their mere proximity. We are looking for co-tenants to share the upper floors and have already recruited a couple--not youth oriented groups, just good neighbors who need to be downtown and can afford only below-market rates. It's a lovely, day-lit space. I'd be glad to explain our audacious hopes to any other members and to solicit their support for this move.
Mary

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