Attendees: Roger Henderson, Sam Louke, Kay Nakamoto, Barbara Squires, Eric Squires, Roger Staver, Soren Vestergaard, Fran Warren, Ira Warren
- The mission statement ("The reasonable preservation of 175th as a functional route for existing residents") was approved.
- Ira: Add "members" to the by-laws, members being defined as residents or owners who are impacted by traffic on 175th. Then republish to the working group, and if there are no issues emailed back we will consider the by-laws approved.
- Sam: make changes to one-page problem and recommendation statement and send to Fran for redistribution – see bottom of these Minutes for details of the noted changes
- Community meetings have been set up Monday, October 13, and Thursday, October 23, from 7-9PM at the Blanton fire station. We need to engage the community to encourage them to attend, and we also want to get a bunch of signatures beforehand.
- Fran to make flyers for the two meetings and check TVF&R A/V equipment
- Jed had offered to prepare the physical presentation once we provide contents
- Sam, Kay, Roger H, and Fran and Ira will canvass their streets before Oct.13th for signatures and to encourage meeting attendance.
- Soren will canvass the homeowners and HOAs near him before Oct. 13th.
- We need to collect as many signatures as possible by October 31.
- We will contact and prestaff the following people by October 31:
- Roger H, Fran and Sam: Roy Rogers (who is also the leader of the Joint Transportation Planning Commission) (Fran has already initiated contact – he is unavailable until after October 1)
- Soren and Fran: Dick Schouten (Fran has already initiated contact – he is unavailable until after mid-October)
- Eric: Dyami Valentine (Washington County Transportation Planner)
- Fran: send email to Andy Duyck just to inform him of what we’re doing (ie Roy Rogers & Dick Schouten, etc)
- Ira: Deena Platman (Metro Transportation for Washington County) 503-797-1754,[email protected]
- Soren: Tim O'Brien (Metro land use for Washington County) 503-797-1840,tim.o'[email protected]
- Soren: John Mermin (Metro Transportation for Beaverton) 503-797-1747,[email protected]
- Soren: Gerry Uba (Metro land use for Beaverton) 503-797-1737, [email protected]
- Roger Staver: The Beaverton Planning Commission members individually (Kim Overhage, Mimi Doukas, Greg Kiene, Jennifer Nye, Ric Stephens, Scott Winte and Linda Wilson). They are all volunteers and have regular jobs. The appropriate thing is to contact them through their Beaverton emails and ask if they would be willing to meet for coffee for 10-15 minutes to discuss who we are and what we want. Note: Roger has a long-time background in Real Estate. He is to be the”point” person, but not necessarily the only person from our group to meet with these individuals.
- Fran: Anna Marum (Oregonian writer who covers Aloha)
- Fran: Start dialog with our group on how/if we want to get opportunity with KATU or other TV news media. Someone in our group had mentioned some access to KATU news? Eric suggested using Twitter.
- Need to pre-staff Beaverton transportation planner. Fran research to find out who this person is.
- Fran will get us on the November 5 Beaverton Planning meeting docket (hopefully as a group, so 10 minutes) and prestaff Leigh Crabtree at the same time.
- Need to get materials to Beaverton Planning Commission in advance; probably Nov. 1
- Fran met with Andrea who has organized a Sterling Park Committee with 260 members. Their main issue is the extension of Alvord and designating it as a collector route. This route also goes through a nature park which THPRD is planning and which was donated to THPRD under the requirement that it remain natural. We will stay as two separate organizations with similar messages but stay in touch via Fran and Andrea.
- Eric noted that we should monitor plans to see if Beaverton is planning a traffic light at Alvord and 175th.
- Eric pointed out that Steven Sparks is the Beaverton director who is responsible for the planner, so whenver possible include him in conversations.
- Soren will use the large tax lot map to count the number of houses that have no exit other than 175th, and also those where 175th is the primary but not sole exit. This count will be added to the 1-pager.
- We noted that our main focus really needs to be on Washington County as the main part of 175th is in the county, not in Beaverton. Washington County holds weekly meetings on Tuesdays (usually during the morning) with open time for people to address them at the end, even unannounced (up to 5 minutes). We should be addressing them at every meeting. We need to set up a strategy session to put together a road map on who's going to be there each week and what they're going to say. Note: they also have 1 evening meeting per month, so we can include others of our team at those meetings as well.
- We would like to ask Beaverton to please list or outline those changes in the plan suggested by citizens (as a way for them to demonstrate that they listen to feedback – e.g., for the purpose of demonstrating that they are meeting/not meeting Oregon State Goal #1: Citizen Involvement).
- Eric is in the group to as a homeowner, not for political purposes.
- Fran: Ask Wolds when their frontage was absorbed for 175th – before or after they purchased their property?
- We discussed adding traffic accident data to the 1-pager. Eric advised that this is extremely difficult info to obtain for the general public – except using Washington Co. Sheriff’s WCCA.COM911 detail calls – then take screen shots.
- Remove the first long term bullet ("reduce humps") and replace with "Refocus transportation funding to providing a transportation option west of Cooper Mountain" or words to that effect.
- Split the second long term bullet in two: "Leave the kink..." is the second bullet and "Don't remove homes or make homes closer to 175th" is the third bullet.
- Move the original third long term bullet (fixing the stop sign at kemmer) to the short term area.
- Add some pages for signatures (including physical addresses and optional email addresses) for use in canvassing.
- Eric suggested we put in a short term bullet requesting Beaverton reserve a right of way along their stretch of 175th to allow for a 5-lane road. We tabled this for a future meeting.