Woodlawn Neighborhood Association General Meeting Agenda
Tuesday, July 1, 2025, at 6:30 pm
Please make every effort to join us In Person at Classic Foods: 817 NE Madrona
Or join the meeting online via Zoom (now with improved audio): https://zoom.us/j/3014662210?pwd=d3VKbXkzVldqYzNWU2RwVm9OUkZyZz09
Meeting ID: 301 466 2210 , Passcode: WNA
Streamed/recorded on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/@woodlawnneighborhoodassoci5818
Welcome and Vision: “In the future, Woodlawn will be a place where people live harmoniously, respectfully, and in support of one another. The neighborhood will be a clean and thriving community… All Woodlawn residents will share and pursue the common values of health, efficiency, beauty, equity, and justice.”
6:30 – 6:45 Social Time
- Introduce any new members
- Social time – talk to your neighbors
6:45 – 7:30 General Business
- Approve June meeting notes.
After the draft of the June minutes was circulated to the board, Anjala noted that we needed to amend the minutes to include nominating Shirley Minor and Anjala to the NECN board. Nancy edited the June minutes to reflect this and also submitted their names to NECN per requested. Melissa makes a motion to approve the amended JUNE minutes. Keith seconds it. All are in favor. Minutes are approved.
- Kimberléa Ruffu of Portland Parks and Recreation attended the meeting and said Parks is seeking volunteers for a monthly park stewardship event in Woodlawn Park—for the last Friday of each month from 8 am to 11 am. Her portfolio is all developed parks on East side of the Willamette River; they are seeking more community engagement. Kimberléa works with Patrick O’Connor, the horticulturalist lead, for Woodlawn Park and they are trying to get a monthly volunteer group to implement assorted planting projects. They provide basic tools and gloves and can also provide plants for plant projects budgets permitting. A better website for all these volunteer events is on the horizon and when implemented, we can link to that as well.
- Reports on other projects—
Donation Drive—see the Treasurer’s report.
Update on Cully Sunday Parkways—Melissa and Nancy volunteered on Sunday, June 29th in the afternoon. Very successful outreach along with the Concordia NA folks.
Dates for Movie Night?—weekend after Labor Day. Thursday September 4th.
Neighborhood Social — July 9th at Retro Game Bar 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Posted on Go Woodlawn today.
City Bike Bus—every second Wednesday going through Woodlawn.
Any other projects?
- Update on Pedalpalooza bike ride (July 19th).
Bikers meet at 10 am at the gazebo in Peninsula Park. Nancy posted on Go Woodlawn for publication tomorrow. We will be advertising this at the Farmers Market. It is also the cover story in this month’s edition of the Concordia News.
- Update and Planning for Neighborhood Night Out/POP, Tuesday August 5th
The event starts at 5:30 pm. We have applied for the permit. Melissa applied for a Costco grant to cover some of the food costs. Melissa and Erin have been reaching out to local businesses as well. Grill can be parked in For Good and Co. gated lot overnight which saves us money. For Good is going to donate all the AV equipment. Tony will be on the grill. Melissa will be running the food. We still need a volunteer for the WNA table. Keith and Erin will coordinate to get the Farmers Market gear as needed. Melissa will reach out the sloshy pop person and see if she can bring stuff and a few other ice cream vendors starting first with Pronto Gelato. John and Nancy will host tours in the community garden for the entire event. Portland Parks is willing to do a booth at the event perhaps featuring Community Garden or Urban Forestry folks. Nancy will reach out to the Backyard Habitat folks re: a booth or having their information available at the event. Request for volunteers will be on social media and the websites.
- Ideas for September Speaker
Elana Pirtle-Guiney will be speaking to the WNA September meeting. We need to advertise this at the WNA table at the Neighborhood Night Out Event.
- Farmers Market is giving away non-folding tables, (2) 6 and (maybe 3) 8 foot. We have said yes to these and will make space for them in our storage room.
- Board meeting structure and potential changes. The first hour would be community-centric and cover non-board business only. Board business would then be for the last half hour.
- Again, how do we recruit membership from apartment complexes in the neighborhood? Anjala noted that at a NECN meeting someone mentioned there are apartment managers who have email list and can then get in touch with tenants. Katy Kuhr and Zach Baggio are willing to reach out to to this demographic. Barbara has reached out to them about this project.
- Time for Neighbor Open Comments
Angela Taylor suggested we might want to have a more “permanent” posting advertising about our WNA meetings on the corner of NE Junior and NE 22nd as there is so much foot traffic every day. She’d be willing to get it laminated and post it.
Dave and his daughter are doing bubble kit sales at the Woodlawn Farmers Market on July 12th and July 19th and can do “outreach” for WNA at those markets. We could also sell our T-shirts there.
Nancy needs someone to empty “her” trash can from July 24 to August 2. Dave will do it again as he does the other can on NE Dekum and NE 15th.
7:30 – 7:50 Board Business
- Treasurer’s Report – Melissa
$3339 in the bank.
Melissa wrote a new fundraising letter.
Melissa signed us up for a Bottle Drop Blue Bag account as the money from that goes directly to WNA. We can ask neighborhood businesses to do this for us too. This could be a potential regular income stream for us.
- Farmers Market Update – Keith
Woodlawn Farmers Market update. Very busy since starting up again this year. People are hanging out and listening to music every Saturday. PZ is doing a great job re: customer relations for the market. The mailer went out to neighborhood folks. PZ said to let Keith know if you want a new yard sign. Erin notes that the market is doing the Full Basket program. This means that if people are on “assistance” programs, they can come to the market and get tokens worth $50 to spend every week. This has brought lots of people into the market, many new faces The Woodlawn, Cully, and Rocky Butte markets are participating in this program which will continue until the money runs out hopefully at least through the middle of July. The market is still offering SNAP match-up as well. A great program! $21,000 currently in bank account with much of this earmarked for specific expenditures this coming year. And the market just received another $2500 for another grant to have opportunity to hire a person on Saturday to help out on the market day—this grant came from NAYA.
- Secretary Report – Nancy
Continuing to put updates and events on Go Woodlawn as needed.
- Outreach and Community Engagement Report – Linde
Linde scheduled a neighborhood social at Retro Game Bar on July 9th 5:00 to 7:00 pm. The event will be in the back patio area. Possibly a second social at Frankies near Café Eleven to promote the new NA bottle shop—aiming for late August for this one.
- NECN/District #2 Report – Anjala
June was the election for at-large members. Shirley Minor was elected as one. Anjala is on the board as one of the co-chairs. July is the election for the officers. Anjala can now run for co-chair. Organization is still (sadly) in a bit of a tempest. Alberta Main Street monies recovered from the “embezzlement” lawsuit has been given to NECN to use for Alberta-related events in the future.
- Land Use and Transportation Report – Anjala
Anjala has contacted Tri-Met twice about their garbage cans being overflowing. People are complaining as if they are our WNA cans. Anjala would like to escalate this via a letter and a street map as to which cans belong to Tri-Met. Anjala will get Linde the exact stop IDs for the two offending cans in our neighborhood.
7:50 – 8:00 Additional agenda items and announcements
