The Woodlawn Neighborhood Association is discussing ways to improve our already wonderful neighborhood. Please review these copious notes from the Strategic Planning Session led by Katy Asher of the Northeast Neighborhood Coalition. Using all this information as a basis, there will be a second Planning Session tomorrow evening – Wednesday April 6th 7 – 9 PM in the Woodlawn Community Resource Center room 202. (1425 NE Dekum St, the west door of the Woodlawn United Methodist Church.) We hope you will come and join us in strategizing for a great neighborhood.

(This planning session is during our normal board meeting time. This month, the board meeting will take place in an abbreviated fashion from 6:30 to 7:00 pm, before the planning session.)

We’re doing something different for our meetings this month: Katy and Shoshana from the NECN will be leading an action planning session to stir up some of the energy in our organization; to look at what we can do to ensure our relevancy and engagement.

This will happen in two parts, the first of which will be Wednesday, March 16th, and the second on Wednesday, April 6th.

On these nights, we’ll do a bare-bones version of our regular association business starting at 6:30pm (half an hour earlier than our usual time) so we can begin the planning session no later than 7:00pm.

As usual, our events are open to the public, and if you live or work in Woodlawn you’re a Woodlawn Neighborhood Association member. If you want to participate, let us know, so we can make sure both you and our organizers know what to expect from this event.

(The WCRC entrance is the west door of the Woodlawn United Methodist Church building at 15th & Dekum.)

This month’s general meeting is Wednesday the 15th. The agenda includes recruiting for the upcoming easter egg hunt and spring cleanup, as well as a land use discussion regarding safety issues relating to the fence at 1426 NE Highland.

The meeting is at the usual place and time, 7:00-8:30pm, Woodlawn Community Resource Center at the west entrance of 1425 NE Dekum St, room 202.

Hello Neighbors,

There will not be a general meeting of the neighborhood association this Wednesday. See you next year!

Attached is the Land Use Review Request from the city Bureau of Transportation. Note the final decision does not come from Transportation, but the Bureau of Development Services.

This will be a topic at tonight’s meeting, along with a brief presentation from Voter Owned Oregon. Sorry for the late notice!

Thursday at 4:30, Eli from Sakura will be meeting folks to discuss possible uses — such as a food cart pod — for the empty lot in the Dekum triangle. That’s May 27th, 4:30pm, at the Breakside Brewery across the street from the lot.

The Woodlawn school serves over four hundred children from our community, ranging in age from pre-kindergarden to 8th grade. At the time a student completes 8th grade there, they will have spent roughly two thirds of their life attending that school. What they achieve there touches not only the students and their parents, but all of us who share this neighborhood.

We’ve just learned that Woodlawn will have a new principal for the 2010-2011 school year. And the selection committee wants to know what to look for in a principal. What qualities do you want to see in the leadership there? What do you want your neighborhood school to be like?

There will be a community input meeting on Wednesday, April 28th from 6-7pm at the school. In addition, the neighborhood association will be writing a letter on behalf of the community with your input. So please leave comments and join in the discussion!