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4th Annual Neighborhood Collaborative Graffiti Cleanups.
ANNOUNCING: 4th Annual Neighborhood-Business Area Collaborative Graffiti Cleanups
The City of Portland Graffiti Abatement program will sponsor eight Saturday morning graffiti cleanups between March and October 2009. Interested neighborhoods/business associations should contact Graffiti Abatement Coordinator as soon as possible to be considered as a cleanup site.
Beginning in March, the cleanups will be held one Saturday each month from 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. and will be a combined effort by City-contracted graffiti removal crews, and a minimum of 10 volunteers from the community. Be a part of the solution!
Prior to the cleanup date, residents/businesses will be asked to survey their area and compile a list of sites that have been vandalized by graffiti and then to submit the list to Graffiti Abatement Coordinator at least a week ahead of the event.
The contractor-crews will focus on paint-out or power-wash removals from private properties (provided we have signed owner-permission prior to the event). Volunteers will remove graffiti from properties “in the right-of-way”, including utility poles, dumpsters, newspaper boxes, and other sites that are not routinely cleaned by agencies or owners. Previous years collaborative events have resulted in more than 1000 sites cleaned in a “season”.
Supplies will be provided by the Graffiti Abatement Program.
Volunteers must sign a volunteer agreement and application form, available at the Graffiti Program webpage: http://www.portlandonline.com/oni/index.cfm?c=32420
Tentative dates for the 8 cleanups are:
MARCH 14 – Creston-Kenilworth
APRIL 11 –
MAY 9 –
JUNE13 –
JULY11 –
AUGUST 8 –
SEPTEMBER 12 –
OCTOBER 17 –
At this time, one date is filled for 2009 Collaborative Cleanups. You may obtain graffiti volunteer forms and other information by emailing or calling:
Marcia Dennis online at mdennis@ci.portland.or.us or by phone at 503-823-5860
Neighborhood/Community City Legislative Agenda Gathering, Jan. 6th,
Neighborhood, business, and other community-based organizations play
an integral part in assuring community and neighborhood livability. I
continue to be committed to working with Portland neighborhoods,
businesses, and community organizations to provide services and
information to assist in empowering residents to identify and support
issues that benefit Portland. One way we can support each others
efforts is to explore joint legislative objectives and work together
in Salem to achieve positive results.
I am inviting you to participate in a meeting, co-sponsored by the
City’s Offices of Neighborhood Involvement and Government Relations,
designed to provide you with information for the upcoming 2009
Legislative Session. The meeting is scheduled for January 6, 2008
from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in City Council Chambers.
This agenda has been designed to assure active participation from each
of you and will include interactive polling to identify and prioritize
your issues before we adjourn.
AGENDA
• Welcome/Introductions (Dan Bates, Director, Office of
Government Relations)
• Overview of issues facing the Oregon Legislature (Dan Bates)
• Collaboration with neighborhood, business, and other
community-based organizations
(Mayor-Elect Adams)
• Prioritize City of Portland Legislative Agenda Items
(Facilitated by ONI Staff)
• Discussion: Issues critical to neighborhood & community
organizations (Mayor-Elect Adams/Commissioner Elect Fritz)
• Next Steps (Mayor-Elect Adams)
I want to continue our important legislative work together by
coordinating a follow-up meeting in February with Portland
legislators. I believe having a dialogue with legislators regarding
issues you have prioritized during this meeting will further enhance
our mutual commitment to having a livable community.
Below are links for the City of Portland’s draft 2009 Legislative Agenda
for your reference.
2009 Agenda – Priorities + Initiatives
2009 Agenda – Policies and Issues
This draft legislative agenda was presented to
City Council during a November worksession and is still not completed.
If you are interested in also reviewing a summary of the 2007 City of
Portland Legislative Report summarizing the 2007 Legislative Session,
you can click on here to access the report from this web page.
To help ensure equal access to City programs, services and activities,
the City of Portland will reasonably modify policies/procedures and
provide auxiliary aids/services to persons with disabilities. Call
503-823-4519, TTY 503-823-6868 seven days in advance to request
assistance for any accessibility accommodations and/or language
interpretation.
Please RSVP to the Office of Neighborhood Involvement at
http://www.portlandonline.com/oni/index.cfm?c=49202&. For more
information, contact the Office of Neighborhood Involvement at
503-823-4519.
I am looking forward to seeing you at this meeting and thank you for
the hard work you do for Portland!
Best regards,
Sam
Do you have something to say?
The King Neighborhood Association will be developing a policy to provide members of the community a way to contribute to our blog. Do you have input you would like to share? . . events to publicize? Do you want to help develop this policy? Post a comment or contact us at info@kingneighborhood.org. As always, we are looking for your submissions to our community calendar which is on the main page at: http://kingneighborhood.org.
King Neighborhood Association December Meeting Agenda
Revised 11/30/08
King Neighborhood Association Board Meeting
King Neighborhood Facility, MLK Room
4815 NE 7th Ave
December 10, 2008 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Introductions and review agenda
Approve minutes from 11/12/08