Community members from many neighborhoods in the City congregated last night at the Bitter Lake Community Center for the first of two meetings about Community Center Operations. The room was packed and I’ve already seen a clip on TV this morning. There’s a duplicate meeting tonight at the Jefferson Community Center. Christopher Williams, the Acting…
Category Archives: Community Council
MAYOR’S TOWN HALL NEEDED MORE PARTICIPANTS IN THE AUDIENCE TO MATCH THE CITY’S WORK IN STAGING THE EVENT…
Seattle residents in three zip codes (98133, 98117, and 98177) out here in the Northwest Seattle section of the City were invited to this Mayor’s Town Hall meeting last night. Given the amount of time and attention invested in staging these events, the turnout was a bit disappointing. I’d estimate attendance at around 70 to…
COME TO THE TABLE – YOUR BROADVIEW COMMUNITY COUNCIL TABLE…
Two events in the next few weeks will involve your Community Council in setting up tables, talking to potential new members, greeting current members, and talking about what we are doing for our community. We invite any member to join us at the table and interested blog readers to come and talk to us about…
Medical Marijuana Dispensaries are still waiting for Guidance and so are Law Enforcement Authorities….
The Broadview Community Council’s program last evening was certainly a “hot off the press” event! About 50 individuals were on hand to hear City Attorney Pete Holmes talk about the current situation related to public safety and the growing number of medical marijuana dispensaries located nearby across our City and our County. Our local law…
Medical Marijuana Issues Will Be Addressed at May 17 Broadview Community Council Meeting
Join your neighbors and meet, greet, and hear from the person in our City most qualified to talk with us about this subject: City Attorney Peter Holmes. At a recent meeting of the Seattle Neighborhood Coalition, Pete said that State law doesn’t clearly define the regulatory implications of the new legal medical marijuana outlets. He…
Broadview/Bitter Lake/Haller Lake Neighborhood Plan Moves Along…
The Broadview/Bitter Lake/Haller Lake Neighborhood Plan Update project is moving forward with another meeting Wednesday evening, April 13. Meetings have been going on for about six months now held primarily at the Bitter Lake Community Center. The projected time span for completing the document will require about another 12 months of work on the part…
Neighborhood Improvements in Broadview
MEETINGS DEMONSTRATING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND LONG-SOUGHT IMPROVEMENTS COMING OUR WAY! A big night for our neighborhood! The two most costly neighborhood improvements to be funded through our City government were featured at two locations. Our Broadview Community Council Board members covered both meetings. Several headed for Luther Memorial Church where Seattle Public Utilities project…
Staying in touch outside of Broadview Community!
On behalf of our Broadview Community Council members I attended two meetings this week. One meeting was our Northwest District Council on Wednesday evening at the Greenwood Senior Center and the other was the Seattle Community Council Federation meeting, held at the NOAA headquarters on Lake Union Thursday evening. Both of these organizations are integral…
Broadview Disaster Preparedness
The March 15 Broadview Community Council meeting will present information on how our community can prepare for a disaster such as a major earthquake. We can prepare at the family, block and community level. Speakers will focus on how we can work with the City to create communication hubs that connect residents to each other…
Neighbors Appreciated!
Neighbor Appreciation Day at the Bitter Lake Community Center yesterday featured displays by local groups like GAIN and the new P-Patch, as well as several City departments. People who attended got a chance to learn about things going on in the neigborhood, and chat with friends. Visitors met and talked to several City council…
