Public Hearing: Equitable Access to Serives
Posted by Ayleen C in Calendar, Events, Family / Kids, Get Involved!, Health and Wellness, Land Use, ResourcesAll residents of our community deserve equal access to services and opportunities. The trouble is that good jobs, high performing schools, social service agencies, and even grocery stores are not always conveniently located. Census data shows that poverty now extends past the inner Portland neighborhoods to the County’s outer reaches. Yet, basic amenities and services such as parks, sidewalks, health clinics, and social service agencies are still concentrated in Portland’s inner core. Language and other cultural barriers may also stand in the way of people of color and immigrant communities seeking to connect with these vital resources.
Your input will inform how federal dollars are spent on programs addressing equitable access to services for households in Multnomah County. You’re invited to a public hearing on equitable access to services, as part of the process of developing the 2010-2015 Consolidated Plan.
Where: King Elementary School Cafeteria
Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Time: 6:00-8:00 pm
Trimet: Bus lines 6 & 72 (www.trimet.org)
If you can’t attend this hearing, there are four other convenient ways to comment.
1. You can write a letter:
Pat Mobley, Housing & Community Development Commission Chair
421 SW 6th Avenue, Suite 1100
Portland, OR 97204
2. Send an e-mail:
bryan.swisshelm@ci.portland.or.us
3. Leave a voicemail message:
503-823-2396
503-823-6868 TTY
4. Comment Online:
www.portlandonline.com/phb/conplan
Questions?
Please visit the Consolidated Plan website: www.portlandonline.com/phb/conplan for more information on this hearing.
Entries (RSS)
We are not going to draw things like good jobs and nice markets to our neighborhood as long as we are allowing places like RUMPSPANKERS to exist in the center of our community. We will be known as that seedy little triangle off MLK with that private sex club. What happened? They came in as a nice restraunt, then transitioned to a bar…great…but now? Private sex club not welcome as far as I am concerned…
What do you folks think?
I think that until people start harming our neighborhood, I want to stay out of it. They can do whatever they want behind closed door. They are not violent, they are not harming our children, they are just having sexy fun with each other. Maybe they’ll contract VDs, that’s their own fault, but I really don’t even know that it goes that far. In fact, I don’t know much at all what happens there, and I like it that way. The stuff they do stays inside, so it’s not our problem.
I think Rumpspankers is a FAR cry from tainting our neighborhood. We are a great neighborhood with upstanding businesses and this one very private activity can in no way trump the overwhelming positive activity happening here.
I think we should focus our energies on Woodlawn elementary, a school with not enough parental involvement to easily flourish. Hungry kids, not enough volunteerism, not enough tutoring. If those kids grow up supported, fostered, well educated, we can be the neighborhood that focuses on POSITIVE growth instead of getting all up in everyone’s personal business in a negative way.
We’re an outstanding neighborhood in many ways, let’s show it by DOING and SUPPORTING.
I am resident of the Woodlawn neighborhood who is involved with various volunteer activities in town, sit on the board of a local non-profit, donates to a variety charities, eat locally, ride my bike everywhere, etc, etc. Oh..and like most human beings, I have sex and as part of my sexual expression, I’ve participated in the parties that are hosted at Village Ballroom (and have been hosted there for _years_ prior to Rumpspankers taking over the building…I attended the erotic ball in 2005). What we do there is probably far far less wild and crazy than you imagine, but as Janey above mentioned, we keep it to ourselves and are very careful to not bother anyone and the events are strictly adults only. The majority of folks who attend are professionals, are active in various communities, are amazingly compassionate and caring people. I go b/c I consider my sexuality to a beautiful part of myself and these types of events provide a space where I am free to engage in CONSENSUAL AND LEGAL sexual exploration in a society that considers sex to be dirty and shameful and at the same time treats women as sex objects.
Ask yourself, what’s more dangerous to your child: a bunch of consenting adults exploring their sexuality behind closed doors or a cartoon/movie/TV show which teaches girls that they should be submissive and spend their life waiting for prince charming to come rescue them?
What we do behind closed doors is not hurting anyone.