RESCHEDULED: Legislative Advocacy 101 panel: Get Ready for the 2014 State Legislative Session

Tuesday, January 14, 2013, 6-8 pm

Portland Building, 2^nd floor, Auditorium;  1120 SW 5th Ave., Portland

Panelists:

• Rep. Lew Frederick (HD 43)
• Rep. Jessica Vega Pederson (HD 47)
• Abby Tibbs, District Director for Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (Oregon’s 1^st Congressional District)
• Ty Schwoeffermann, Urban League

This “Advocacy 101” event will preview the 2014 legislative session and provide community members with tips on how to be an effective advocate for your community or neighborhood during this upcoming legislative session beginning in February. A panel of State legislators will share their tips as well as take questions about how the community can make an impact on public policy during the 2014 state legislative session.

Information you will gain from the panel:

• How to work effectively with legislators and their staff
• Strategies for mobilizing your base of membership or coalitions to maximize advocacy impact
• Lobbying do’s and don’ts

The event was rescheduled due to the City Hall electrical power outage on the previously scheduled date of Tues. Dec. 10^th.

Questions about specific legislative items? How to reach the Mayor and City Commissioners

If you have questions about specific legislative issues please contact City Council offices using this link, which has contact information for City Council offices (see photos of Mayor and Commissioners on right side of page): http://www.portlandoregon.gov

Co-Sponsored by:

City of Portland, Office of Mayor Hales, Office of Neighborhood Involvement and Office of Government Relations

Wednesday, December 11^th, 6:30 pm, at 4815 NE 7^th Avenue.

6:30     Welcome. Announcements, agenda, meeting minutes.

6:40     Jamie Partridge: supporting public school teachers in the PPS district.

6:50     Architects without Borders presentation on King School grounds redesign.

7:15     Update on neighbors’ organizing on livability concerns at 12^th/Alberta.

7:25     Andrew Neerman: should KNA express support for a streetcar on MLK Boulevard?

7:35     Alan Silver: should KNA express support for the Portland Prison Divestment Campaign?

7:50     Reports back from NECN committee reps.

8:05     Nominations of Andrew Neerman and Eileen Kennedy to the Board, and addressing open committee seats.

Maranatha Church is hosting a wonderful concert this Saturday at noon, as a benefit event for the NE Backpack Lunch Program, a community part of King Neighborhood Association’s King Backpack Program (fiscally sponsored by NECN). Please join us!

The Northeast Backpack Lunch Program, which provides weekend meals for more than 150 needy children at Woodlawn, Scott and King schools, seeks turkeys and hams to donate to the families of these children for the holidays. The Northeast Backpack Lunch Program, in its 5th year, puts two lunches in the backpacks of children at risk of hunger every week of the year to ensure they will have something to eat on Saturdays and Sundays.

During December, the group wants to add to the gift. If you are interested in donating a turkey or ham, or would like to make a cash contribution, please contact Fremont United Methodist Church, the sponsoring organization. The church’s telephone number is 503-284-4647.

The Northeast Backpack Lunch Program is partners with the King Neighborhood Association’s King Backpack Program, which serves students at King Elementary with weekend lunches; The NE Program seeks to provide turkeys and hams to all King Elementary students who are served by either backpack lunch program.  King Backpack Program is fiscally sponsored by the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods.