1 (EPAP) Draft Meeting NOTES SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 MEETING ATTENDANCE: Merrie Agag (APANO/Jade District) Kem Marks (Division Midway Alliance, Powellhurst Gilbert neighbor, East Portland Land Use and Transportation Committee, + EPAP Powell-Division Transit and Development Project Representative) Alice Blatt (Wilkes Community Group) Annette Mattson (Portland General Electric + Zenger Farm) Lori Boisen (Division Midway Association, Powellhurst-Gilbert Neighborhood Association and EPAP Economic Development Subcommittee) Brenda McSweeney (Glenfair Neighborhood Association, East Portland Neighbors, and EPAP Multnomah County Commission of Children & Families Council Representative) Tom Badrick (Parkrose Heights Neighborhood Association) Robert Medenos (Glenfair resident) Rob Cato (Zenger Farm) John Mulvey (Foster United + EPAP Housing) Abigail Cermak (City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services Brownfield Program + EPAP Brownfields) Galina Nekrasova (Association of Slavic USA + East Portland Parks Coalition + EPAP Civic Engagement Subcommittee) Jim Chasse (Powellhurst Gilbert Neighborhood Association + EPAPbike) Gennie Nguyen (Rockwood Community Development Corporation) Frieda Christopher (David Douglas School District + EPAP Housing Subcommittee Co- Chair + Civic Engagement Subcommittee + Education Subcommittee + Gateway Education/Ec Dev Center Representative) Fiona Puig
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(EPAP)
Draft Meeting NOTES SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
MEETING ATTENDANCE:
Merrie Agag (APANO/Jade District) Kem Marks (Division Midway Alliance, Powellhurst Gilbert neighbor, East Portland Land Use and Transportation Committee, + EPAP Powell-Division Transit and Development Project Representative)
Alice Blatt (Wilkes Community Group) Annette Mattson (Portland General Electric + Zenger Farm)
Lori Boisen (Division Midway Association, Powellhurst-Gilbert Neighborhood Association and EPAP Economic Development Subcommittee)
Brenda McSweeney (Glenfair Neighborhood Association, East Portland Neighbors, and EPAP Multnomah County Commission of Children & Families Council Representative)
Tom Badrick (Parkrose Heights Neighborhood Association)
Robert Medenos (Glenfair resident)
Rob Cato (Zenger Farm) John Mulvey (Foster United + EPAP Housing)
Abigail Cermak (City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services Brownfield Program + EPAP Brownfields)
Galina Nekrasova (Association of Slavic USA + East Portland Parks Coalition + EPAP Civic Engagement Subcommittee)
Jim Chasse (Powellhurst Gilbert Neighborhood Association + EPAPbike)
Gennie Nguyen (Rockwood Community Development Corporation)
Frieda Christopher (David Douglas School District + EPAP Housing Subcommittee Co-Chair + Civic Engagement Subcommittee + Education Subcommittee + Gateway Education/Ec Dev Center Representative)
Fiona Puig
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Doug Cook (Argay Neighborhood Association + EPAP Housing)
Jackie Putnam (Hazelwood Neighborhood)
Marc Czornij (Portland Resident) Linda Robinson (EPAP Gateway Green + Parks Representative and City of Portland Parks Board + East Portland Parks Coalition)
Jean DeMaster (Human Solutions and EPAP Housing Co-Chair + Economic Development + EPAP Representative on Minority Housing + Multnomah County Consolidated Plan+ Gateway Education Economic Development Center)
Jasmine Rucker (Neighborhood)
Bob Earnest (Hazelwood Neighborhood Association)
Nick Sauvie (ROSE CDC and EPAP Housing, Economic Development + Operations Committees + Representative on Neighborhood Economic Development Leadership Group + Metropolitan Alliance for Workforce Equity)
Travis Fannchi (Powellhurst-Gilbert Resident) Chris Scarzello (City of Portland Bureau of Planning & Sustainability and EPAP Technical Advisory Committee Chair)
Ron Glanville (Russellville Neighborhood Association)
Keith Scholz (OPAL)
Jenny Glass (Rosewood Initiative and EPAP Economic Development Subcommittee)
Korey Schultz (Resident)
Chris Gordon (State Representative Reardon)
Jefferson Smith (Community Radio 1130 AM)
David Hampsten (Hazelwood Neighborhood Assoc.+ East Portland Land Use and Transportation and EPAP Bike + Economic Development + Structures + Housing + City of Portland Transportation Budget Advisory Committee Representative)
Teresa Keishi Soto (Organizing People Activating Leaders: OPAL and East Portland Land Use and Transportation)
Jo Ann Hardesty (NAACP, City Club of Portland East, and EPAP Grants Review Committee)
Todd Struble (APANO/Jade District + EPAP Economic Development Subcommittee)
Arlene Kimura (Hazelwood Neighborhood Association + East Portland Parks Coalition + East Portland Land Use and Transportation and EPAP Co-Chair + Operations + EPAP Rep: Parks, Pedestrian Advisory Committee)
Reverend Reneé Ward (East Portland Forum)
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Matt Koch (Glenfair neighborhood) LeFoster Williams (OneLife Portland)
Kathy Krisinski (Ocean Child) Christopher Williams (OneLife Portland)
Jim Labbe (Portland Audubon) lore wintergreen (EPAP Advocate)
Paul Leistner (City of Portland Office of Neighborhood Involvement)
Dolores Wood (Powellhurst-Gilbert Neighborhood Association - Green)
Joyce Ley (Wilkes Community Group) Bobbi Yambasu (Elders in Action)
I. Welcome:
A. Jeremy O’Leary facilitated the meeting: 1. Recognition of food gathered by Kory Schultz
2. Recognition of tonight’s Host Teresa Keishi Soto
F. Housing – Frieda Christopher, Jean DeMaster, and John Mulvey 1. See August and September notes on pages 48 - 63.
G. Operations – Arlene Kimura and Jeremy O’Leary
1. See 2014 – 15 Operations Strategic Priorities Updates on page 64. 2. See EPAP Fiscal Year 2015 – 16 Strategic Priorities on pages 65 -
67. a. ACTION: Adopted by full consensus.
3. Nomination for Arlene Kimura for EPAP Co-Chair renewal. a. ACTION: Adopted by full consensus to retain Arlene as EPAP Co-
chair for 2-year term.
H. East Portland Land Use and Transportation – Linda Bauer 1. This month they discussed the Comprehensive Plan. 2. EPLUTC adopted by full consensus to join the “For Every Kid” Safe
Routes to School Coalition. 3. See Safe Routes to School “For Every Kid” handouts on pages 68 –
70.
III. Dinámica – lore wintergreen
A. Hokey Pokey B. Discussion in dyads about what people want to see as EPAP Civic
Engagement Grant projects. C. Report back offered opportunity to better define ethnic and racial
language and cultural specific project criteria.
V. “Opportunity and Innovation: Improving City Government Implement of
East Portland Action Plan” July 31, 2015 Exploration – Paul Leistner, Office of Neighborhood Involvement, City of Portland
A. See proposal at: http://eastportlandactionplan.org/sites/default/files/2015.07.31%20Opportunity%20and%20Innovation%20Improving%20City%20Government%20EPAP%20Report.pdf
B. Called out the City-based staff responsibility to manage implementation.
VI. “East Portland Action Plan Involuntary Displacement Prevention Recommendations for East Portland” – Frieda Christopher, Jean DeMaster, Kem Marks, Julio Maldonado, Nick Sauvie, and lore wintergreen
A. See English document on pages71 - 74. B. See all 8 languages at: http://eastportlandactionplan.org/ C. EPAP Civic Engagement, Economic Development, and Housing
Subcommittees worked for 5 – 9 months on recommendations; cross review each committee’s proposals; brought a combined proposal to over 200 additional diverse community members (90% people of color and New Portlanders); made additions based upon input from the public meeting; and bring this forward for general EPAP consideration.
D. ACTION: Recommendations were adopted by full consensus. VII. Representative Updates:
A. Emergency Preparedness – Jeremy O’Leary
1. The New Yorker “The Really Big One” northwest earthquake article: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one
2. See “PREP Check lists: GO and STAY KITS: http://www.preporegon.org/PDFs/PREP-Checklists-GO-and-STAY-Kits.pdf
3. See “Family Emergency Supplies Calendar”: http://www.preporegon.org/PDFs/Family-Emergency-Supplies-Calendar.pdf
B. New Representative Nominations: 1. Jeremy O’Leary as EPAP representative on the City of Portland
“Natural Hazard Mitigation Program” committee a. ACTION: Unanimously approved as the EPAP Representative to this committee.
2. Nick Sauvie as EPAP Representative to “Anti-Displacement PDX” b. ACTION: Unanimously approved as the EPAP Representative to
this issue. c. Next month EPAP will consider a proposal to join “Anti-
Displacement PDX”.
3. Linda Bauer as EPAP Representative to City of Portland Tree Code/Title 11 Oversight Committee a. Linda shared comments on the Title 11 Tree Code Interim
Administrative Rule. b. See comments on pages: 75 – 77.
c. ACTION: Unanimously approved as the EPAP Representative to this committee.
VII. Announcements
A. 82nd Ave. Community Forum – John Mulvey announced Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, APANO, and State Senator Dembro event on Saturday, October 10th at the JAM on Division and 82nd.
B. NAACP Fundraiser – Jo Ann Hardesty announced the fundraiser with the Black Panther sand Revolutionary Guard on October 8th at 7PM for $10.
C. Planning Initiatives: Employment Zones – Light industrial and job placement. There is an Oregon Department of Transportation Plan with involvement from Portland Community College and the Mayor.
D. Orientation – Bob Earnest. One person attended.
Next EPAP general meeting:
Next Meeting: 4th Wednesday of the month: October 28, 2015
6:30 – 8:30 PM David Douglas School District Office, Board Room
1500 SE 130th Ave. (at SE market between Division and Stark)
Dinner, Childcare, and Spanish language interpretation provided
If you want to be on the next agenda or need additional language interpretation, contact:
503.823.4035 or [email protected]. East Portland Neighborhood Office 1017 NE 117th Ave.
Portland, OR 97220 Website: www.eastportlandactionplan.org
Subcommittee Name: Bicycle (EPAPbike) EPAP Action item(s) being addressed: T.3 Increase safety and accessibility of bicycling in East Portland CB.1.4 Organize walking or biking tours throughout the neighborhood Subcommittee Goal (succinctly stated): To provide direction and support to the EPAP on bike related issues & actions, and to make biking safer & more fun in East Portland. Email Contact: [email protected] Website: EPAPbike.org or eastportlandactionplan.org/bike Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/EastPortlandBC/ Subcommittee Meeting Dates: July 28th, August 1st, & August 25th 2015 July 28th 2015 active partners (15): Jim Chasse, Chair; David Hampsten; Timo Forsberg, PBOT: Liz Mahon, PBOT; Walt Lersch, Scribe; Linda Robinson; + 9 community riders. The July 28th 2015 rolling meeting was called to order at 6:00 PM by Timo Forsberg at the East Portland Community Center, 740 SE 106th Ave, as part of a Portland By Cycle community bicycle ride, a 6.5-mile loop on the 100s, HOP, 130s, and 4-M greenways. Jim Chasse joined the meeting in progress at EPNO, 1017 NE 117th, at 6:30 pm. Decisions made or issues addressed on July 28th:
Linda Robinson discussed the Gateway urban renewal area at a stop at NE 103rd & Davis, and the difficulty in getting investment in the area.
Bicycle facilities discussions:
100s Greenway: Liz Mahon of PBOT (Gaelic/Irish name, pronounced
Megh-an or as Mae-han), the 130s project manager, says that the 100s & 150s greenways are funded for 2016-18, and will be assign project numbers soon.
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HOP Greenway: The HOP greenway (NE Holliday, Oregon, & Pacific, Gateway TC to 132nd) was discussed. Liz Mahon of PBOT says that the HOP is a high-priority for future City funding. Aside from paving two short gravel sections with 16-foot asphalt streets, some sort of signals need to be implemented at NE 102nd and at NE 122nd.
130s Greenway: Liz Mahon also discussed the 130s greenway, which is 60% designed. The crossing at NE 128th & Glisan will feature a two-way cycle track on the north side of the street, with a flashing-beacon crossing at the east end. PBOT is negotiating with TriMet to move the crossing structure at Burnside or to purchase extra right-of-way on the north side of E. Burnside to widen the sidewalk. Because the David Douglas schools use yellow buses along 130th, the bike crossings at SE 130th & Stark and at SE 130th & Division will both feature "Copenhagen-style" bike crossings, rather than two-way cycle tracks. SE 130th from Stark to Division will have continuous 6-foot bike lanes on both sides, with parking removed on the east side of the street.
4M: The 4-M was also discussed as an old county bike route that is in a
gradual process of being upgraded by the City.
EPAPbike Promotion – Walt Learch and David Hampsten polled participants as to how they received word of the rides. Most learned of it through the PBOT Portland By Cycle or Smart Trips email blasts, but several cited the EPAPbike facebook page, or from other sites, including neighborhood sites, that were fed from the EPAPbike facebook page, or from the EPAP facebook page. Facebook Page – (http://www.facebook.com/groups/EastPortlandBC/)
August 1st 2015 active partners (xx): Jim Chasse, Chair; David Hampsten; Walt Lersch, Scribe; + xx community riders. EPAPbike members special rolling meeting on Saturday August 1st 2015 with ODOT, to discuss bicycle facilities for outer Powell Blvd, 10 AM at Ed Benedict Park, SE Powell & 104th. Decisions made or issues addressed on August 1st:
1. EPAPbike members special rolling meeting on Saturday August 1st 2015 with ODOT, to discuss bicycle facilities for outer Powell Blvd. 2.
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August 25th 2015 active partners (xx): Jim Chasse, Chair; David Hampsten; Walt Lersch, Scribe; + xx community riders. The August 25th 2015 rolling meeting was called to order at 6:00 PM by Timo Forsberg at the Glendoveer Walking Trail parking lot at NE 148th Ave and Halsey St, as part of a Portland By Cycle community bicycle ride, a 6.25-mile loop on the 150s greenway, Gresham's 172nd greenway, and the I-84 MUP. Jim Chasse joined the meeting in progress at 6:30 pm. Decisions made or issues addressed on August 25th:
1. Bicycle facilities discussed: 2.
Request for input or action from the EPAP: No input or action at this time, this report is for information purposes only. The July 28th meeting was adjourned at 8:15 PM. EPAP General Meeting Announcements:
1. Art Along the I-205 Path on Saturday October 24th, 10:00 AM, starting from Ed Benedict Park (SE Bush Street & 104th)
2. Visit and sign up for our Facebook page at:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/EastPortlandBC/
The next regularly scheduled EPAPbike meeting is set for
EAST PORTLAND ACTION PLAN Subcommittee Monthly Report
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subcommittee Name: Bicycle (EPAPbike) EPAP Action item(s) being addressed: T.3 Increase safety and accessibility of bicycling in East Portland CB.1.4 Organize walking or biking tours throughout the neighborhood Subcommittee Goal (succinctly stated): To provide direction and support to the EPAP on bike related issues & actions, and to make biking safer & more fun in East Portland. Email Contact: [email protected] Facebook: Facebook.com/groups/EastPortlandBC Subcommittee Meeting Dates: August 25th 2015 August’s active partners (2 on committee + 18 others):
David Hampsten, scribe; Timo Forsberg, PBOT. The meeting was called to order at 5:45 PM by Timo Forsberg at the Glendoveer parking lot at NE 148th Ave & Halsey.
Decisions made or issues addressed:
1) 150s or Bust Ride This month’s meeting was a "Portland by Bicycle" bike ride sponsored by PBOT in conjunction and supported by EPAPBike. The event was a leisurely ride through Northeast and Southeast Portland in the general area of the funded 150s greenway, through the Wilkes, Hazelwood, Glenfair, & Centennial neighborhoods. Although the ride was basically along the soon to be ‘designed’ 150s North/South bicycle route, other local places of interest were pointed out along with brief histories, including the I-84 bike path, Summerplace PUD, and the historic 1978 UA 173 DC-8 crash site at NE 157th between Burnside and Glisan. A total of about twenty neighbors and friends participated in the ride. A good time was had by all.
2) The meeting was adjourned at 8:00 PM. EPAP General Meeting Announcements:
Visit and sign up for our Facebook page at: Facebook.com/groups/EastPortlandBC.
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The next regular EPAPbike meeting is scheduled for Tuesday Sept 22nd at 6:30 PM at Muchas Gracias, 1307 NE 102nd Ave, Suite K. Portland by Bicycle Program: The next EPAPbike ride, "Art along the I-205 Path," is on Saturday October 24th at 10 AM from Ed Benedict Park, SE 104th & Powell/Bush.
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July 21, 2014 Civic Engagement Sub-committee Meeting
Purpose: To organize cultural + language specific civic engagement workshops, share curriculum, advocate for ongoing funding, and advise on East Portland cultural + language specific issues and projects.
Meeting began at 6:35 pm Attendees: Donita Frye, Claudia Carrillo, Galina Nekrasova, Frieda Christopher, Lore Wintergreen, Anna Hilbruner, Abdul Hadi, Lum Thang, Francis Khampi, Tonisha Toler, Patricia Rojas, and Jim Gaudino.
Elena Warner and Jessica Dover provided interpretation.
Lore Wintergreen had each person introduce themselves and say if they like hot or cold weather. Next meeting assignments: Facilitator: Tonisha Toler Notes: Donita Frye Food: Patricia Rojas The June notes were reviewed: Approved as written. Lore announced the general EPAP meeting is tomorrow Wed, July 22nd and will be held at David Douglas High School cafeteria on SE 135th. We will need someone to report on the meeting. Hadi volunteered to make the report for Rwayda Hassan, as she was unable to attend tonight’s meeting. Community Health Worker (CHW) Advocacy: Patricia Rojas led the discussion. She stated we needed to determine “What is our 'ask' and who do we approach”. One idea was to approach funders for an 'ask', which could include approaching State, County, and City officials. They are all vested in this issue. She said the county is adding 16 CHWs to the health clinics, so we might want to ask for adding community-based CHWs. There are several community organizations that are providing CHW and an 'ask' would be to provide support for existing community-based initiatives. It was recommended we
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approach Deborah Kafoury at the County and Oregon Health Authority at the State level to get information on how to advocate with the State for community-based CHW expansion.
Patricia also suggested contacting Oregon Workers Research, Education, and Consortium (OWREC) which works on policy. EPAP might want to be at the table at the conference they will be having. Lore said we already had been invited. Donita thought this was a good approach and is aligned with what NAYA is doing. She will bring some of her CHW to our meeting to help build capacity.
There is currently a funded AHEAD program working on reducing health disparities in the Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood; Nick Sauvie and Lori Boisen are part of this discussion and Lori is there on behalf of EPAP. Linda Castillo and Patricia Rojas also have seats at the table. Oregon Public Health Institute is managing the grant.
Patricia said in summary the main point is policy advocacy and building funding. Frieda asked if there was someone at the City to ask, but it was said Portland as a City does not have an avenue to request funding for health, that is considered the work of the State and County.
Jim thinks it would be good to have the Community Based Organizations (CBO) have the CHW reach out into the community and not just in the clinic. Donita said it might be good to build out story to explain why it is so important to East Portland (EP). Lore said EPAP could identify how CHWs impact so many related action items and areas. Galina says we need many words that are more actions. We would want the new CHW to be more impactful in the community. Galina said she is listening, but not understanding exactly what we are talking about especially the 16 workers. She wants to know more about their work and how we can help them and what kind of help they need. She had several questions relating to specifics and wanted to know who is doing the work. Patricia said she doesn’t know the workers, but that the County has already hired 16 workers to work in the health clinics. She just feels our support needs to be targeted. Donita suggested that we invite a CHW from the East Portland health clinic to come speak on what they do. Patricia said clinic-based CHWs don’t look at their work through a culturally specific lens.
The discussion continued. Frieda said we might want to have, for example the Russian network, apply for an EPAP grant to help fund the training. The applicant could partner with other agencies that could provide assistance in the training.
Patricia recapped that we could advocate for additional training and also to advocate for additional funding for paying those who are trained and currently volunteering for the program. ACTION to be taken for the next meeting:
• Donita will draft a “white paper” to tell the story; • Patricia will identify the next steps for the 2 tracks;
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• Jim will look at Multnomah County health mapping and bring back information. Jim said County Health Departments have different parts. They have the clinics, but they also provide data on health. It would be good to get information on the health of East Portland;
• Lore said she will contact Julio to bring a CHW from the Mid County Health Clinic to our next meeting;
• Claudia will share what she does through the culturally specific CHW lens. It was decided Claudia will do the dinamica next meeting and she will lead by acting as a CHW and we as the Latino community. She will cover sugar and fat as part of a topic she covers when reaching out in the community. Claudia shared about recent activity visiting farms that she did as a CHW. They are planning another event that she will share.
Dinamica: Lore conducted a short dinamica of movement, given that we are behind schedule.
Involuntary Displacement retreat: Lore reported Operations came up with 2 dates August 22nd or 29th for the retreat. It will probably be on the 29th and possibly at Gethsemane Lutheran Church on 117th & Market. She asked if anyone saw any issues with EPAP having the meeting at the church. No one objected. Lore said she is looking to see if she can get Metro Councilor Sam Chase, City Commissioner Saltzman, and County Chair Deborah Kafoury to speak on why it is important to take action on the displacement issue in East Portland within the next 5 – 10 years. The 3 subcommittees will breakout and cover their recommended tools in the breakout sessions. The Civic Engagement Subcommittee will share the introduction on commitment to civic engagement process and the one tool we proposed: continuation of the EPAP Civic Engagement Grants Program. We also need to be prepared to discuss what was not chosen. Lore needs to know who will work on the presentation and present at the meeting. Lore is planning to work with the Community Engagement Liaison (CEL) program since they will do interpretation and do outreach from the community. There was a discussion of other locations and items for the retreat. ACTION: Patricia said she would volunteer. Lore will reach out via email for those that are not here.
Announcements: Frieda asked for input about what should be included when the David Douglas School District puts on workshops on education with culturally specific groups. There were several suggestions. Repeated several times was the need to be welcoming and respectful.
Galina announced the Slavic Festival, on July 25th from 10am to 11pm. It is free to all.
Tonisha announced Thurs, July 23rd, orientation meeting at EPNO for artists writing a grant to the Arts Council. She explained what type of grants could be applied to.
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Next meeting: Tuesday, August 18th at 6:30pm at EPNO Office. Meeting was adjourned 8:40 pm
El 21 de julio de 2015 La reunión del Subcomité de Participación cívica
Propósito: Organizar talleres de participación cívica multiculturales y/o en lenguas específicas, compartir currículo, abogar por financiación continuada y dar consejos acerca de asuntos y proyectos multiculturales y/o en lenguas específicas en el Este de Portland
Se inició la sesión a las 6:35pm Asistentes: Donita Frye, Claudia Carrillo, Galina Nekrasova, Frieda Christopher, Lore Wintergreen, Anna Hilbruner, Abdul Hadi, Lum Thang, Francis Khampi, Tonisha Toler, Patricia Rojas y Jim Gaudino.
Elena Warner y Jessica Dover proveyeron la interpretación.
Lore Wintergreen hizo que cada persona se presentara y que indicara si prefiere el clima caliente o frío. Tareas para la próxima reunión: Facilitadora: Tonisha Toler Actas: Donita Frye Comida: Patricia Rojas
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Repaso de las actas del mes de junio: Aprobadas sin cambio. Lore anunció que la reunión general del EPAP va a ocurrir mañana, miércoles el 22 de julio y será celebrada en la cafetería de David Douglas High School, ubicada en la avenida SE 135th. Necesitamos que alguien dé el reporte durante la reunión. Hadi se ofreció para reportar de parte de Rwayda Hassan, que no pudo asistir la reunión de hoy. El apoyo de los Trabajadores comunitarios de salud (CHW, por sus siglas en inglés): Patricia Rojas guió la conversación. Ella declaró que necesitábamos determinar "¿qué exactamente es nuestro pedimento y de quién lo vamos a hacer?" Una idea era consultar con financiadores sobre el pedimento, lo que podría incluir acercarnos a funcionarios estatales, municipales y del condado porque todos tienen interés en este asunto. Ella señaló que el condado está agregando a 16 CHW a las clínicas de salud, así que tal vez vamos a querer pedir que agreguen a CHW basados en la comunidad. Hay varias organizaciones comunitarias que ya proporcionan a CHW y nuestro pedimento podría ser que se proporcione apoyo a las iniciativas basadas en la comunidad actuales. Se recomendó que nos acercáramos a Deborah Kafoury al nivel del condado y la Autoridad de salud de Oregon al nivel estatal para conseguir información sobre cómo realizar el apoyo ante el estado para que se expanda la cantidad de CHW basados en la comunidad. Patricia también sugirió que nos pusiéramos en contacto con el Consorcio de investigación y educación de los Trabajadores comunitarios de salud, lo que trabaja en la política. Es posible que el EPAP va a querer ser incluido en la conferencia que el Consorcio va a dar. Lore dijo que ya nos invitaron. Donita opinaba que ése era un buen enfoque que es alineado con la labor actual de la NAYA. Ella va a invitar a algunos de sus CHW a nuestra reunión para ayudar a aumentar la capacidad.
Actualmente hay un programa financiado que se llama AHEAD y que trabaja en reducir las disparidades de salud en el vecindario de Powellhurst-Gilbert. Nick Sauvie y Lori Boisen participan en esta conversación y Lori asiste de parte del EPAP. Linda Castillo y Patricia Rojas también participan en el grupo. El Instituto de la salud pública de Oregon gestiona la subvención.
Patricia resumió que el punto principal es el apoyar la política y aumentar la financiación. Frieda preguntó si había alguien en la ciudad de lo que podríamos pedir la financiación, pero se aclaró que dado en hecho de que Portland es una ciudad no tiene medios para pedir la financiación para la salud, siendo ese trabajo la responsabilidad del estado y del condado. Jim piensa que sería bueno pedir que las Organizaciones basadas en la comunidad (CBO, por sus siglas en inglés) pidan que los CHW se conecten con la comunidad y no solamente con las clínicas. Donita dijo que tal vez sería una buena idea expandir la narración de nuestra historia para explicar por qué es tan importante para el este de Portland (EP, por sus siglas en inglés). Lore dijo que el EPAP puede identificar la forma en la que los CHW impactan tantas áreas y puntos de acción. Galina dijo que necesitamos
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más palabras que sean acciones. Quisiéramos que los nuevos CHW tengan más impacto sobre la comunidad. Galina dijo que está escuchando sin entender lo que estamos diciendo exactamente, en especial en cuanto a los 16 trabajadores. Ella quiere saber más de su trabajo y de cómo podemos ayudarles y de qué tipo de ayuda necesiten. Ella tenía varias preguntas relacionadas con los detalles y quería saber quién realiza el trabajo. Patricia dijo que no conoce a los trabajadores pero que el condado ya ha contratado a los 16 trabajadores a que trabajen en las clínicas de salud. Ella se siente simplemente que nuestro apoyo necesita enfoque. Donita sugirió que invitáramos a un CHW de la clínica de salud del este de Portland para que venga y hable sobre lo que hace. Patricia dijo que los CHW basados en las clínicas no toman en cuenta la cultura al realizar de su trabajo. Se continuó la conversación. Frieda dijo que tal vez sería bueno que la Red de rusohablantes, por ejemplo, solicite una beca del EPAP para recibir ayuda en financiar sus talleres. El solicitante podría colaborar con otras agencias que podrían dar ayuda durante los talleres. Patricia dio un resumen, diciendo que podríamos apoyar que haya más capacitaciones así como más financiación para poder pagar a los que ya estén capacitados y que actualmente son voluntarios en el programa. ACCIONES para ser realizadas para la próxima reunión:
• Donita va a escribir la primera versión de un "papel blanco" para contar la historia; • Patricia va a identificar los próximos pasos para las 2 vías; • Jim va a estudiar el mapeo de salud del condado de Multnomah y traer
información. Jim dijo que los Departamentos de salud de los condados tienen partes diferentes. Tienen clínicas, pero también dan datos sobre la salud. Sería bueno conseguir información sobre la salud de los residentes del este de Portland;
• Lore dijo que se va a poner en contacto con Julio, pidiéndole que invite a un CHW de la Clínica de salud Mid-County a la próxima reunión;
• Claudia va a hablar sobre lo que hace como una CHW con un enfoque en la cultura.
• Se decidió que Claudia va a guiar la dinámica durante la próxima reunión y que va a jugar el papel de una CHW mientras nosotros jugamos el papel de la comunidad latina. Va a dar una presentación sobre los azucares y las grasas como una parte de un tema que ella cubre al conectarse con la comunidad. Claudia habló de una actividad reciente cuando visitó una granja como una CHW. Está en curso la planificación de un otro evento, de lo que ella nos va a avisar.
Dinámica: Lore realizó una dinámica sobre el movimiento que fue muy breve porque estábamos demorados.
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El retiro sobre el desplazamiento involuntario: Lore nos informó que el Comité de operaciones ofreció dos fechas para el retiro, el 22 o el 29 de agosto. A lo mejor ocurrirá el 29, posiblemente en la Iglesia luterana Gethsemane en la 117th con la Market. Ella preguntó si alguien tenía algún conflicto con que el EPAP tenga su reunión en la iglesia. Nadie se opuso. Lore dijo que está investigando para ver si el Consejero de Metro, Sam Chase, el Comisionado municipal Saltzman y la Presidente del condado, Deborah Kafoury, pueden hablar sobre por qué es tan importante tomar acción sobre el problema del desplazamiento en el este de Portland dentro de los próximos 5-10 años. Los 3 subcomités van a tener sesiones separadas y hablar de sus herramientas recomendadas. El Subcomité de Participación cívica va a compartir su presentación sobre el compromiso con el proceso de la participación cívica, así como sobre la única herramienta que propusimos: continuar el programa de las becas de la Participación cívica del EPAP. También necesitamos estar preparados para hablar de lo que no escogimos. Lore necesita saber quién va a trabajar en la presentación y quién la va a dar durante la reunión. Lore piensa trabajar con el program de los Intermediarios de la participación comunitaria (CEL, por sus siglas en inglés) porque ellos van a hacer la interpretación y hacer conexiones con la comunidad. Se habló de otros sitios posibles y asuntos para el retiro. ACCIÓN: Patricia se ofreció como voluntaria. Lore va a conectarse por correo electrónico con los que no asistieron esta noche.
Anuncios: Frieda pidió comentarios sobre lo que se debe incluir cuando el Distrito escolar de David Douglas realice talleres sobre la educación con grupos de culturas específicas. Hubieron varias sugerencias. Se repitió varias veces que necesitamos ser acogedores y respetuosos.
Galina anunció el Festival eslavo, el 25 de julio entre 10:00am-11:00pm. La entrada es gratuita para todos.
Tonisha anunció que el jueves el 23 de julio habrá una reunión de orientación en la EPNO para artistas que quieran solicitar una subvención a través del Consejo de las artes. Explicó cuáles tipos de subvenciones están disponibles para solicitar.
La próxima reunión: El martes el 18 de agosto a las 6:30pm en la oficina EPNO. Se levantó la sesión as las 8:40pm.
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August 18, 2015 Civic Engagement Sub-committee Meeting
Purpose: To organize cultural + language specific civic engagement
workshops, share curriculum, advocate for ongoing funding, and advise on East Portland cultural + language specific issues and projects.
lore wintergreen acted as facilitator, as Tonisha was stuck in traffic. Frieda Christopher took notes, as Donita Fry was unable to attend. Patricia Rojas brought the food from Anoish Deli. Attendees: Claudia Carrillo, Christina Abad, Shabina Shariff, Nathan Jones, Izzy Armenta, Leo Qin, lore wintergreen, Julio Maldonado, Susan Palmer, Antonio Ramirez, Patricia Rojas, Teresa Rios-Campus, Frieda Christopher, Linda Castillo and Anna Hilbruner.
Each person introduced themselves and shared what their own most important health issue is. September 15, 2015 Meeting tasks: Facilitator: Patricia Rojas Note Taker: Frieda Christopher Food: Julio Maldonado September 23rd General EPAP Reporter: Julio Maldonado Review of July 2015 Notes: The July notes were approved as printed. Update: lore reported on the meeting with Multnomah Commissioner McKeel. Commissioner McKeel expressed support for having the County continue with translations of school- based health clinic brochures. EPAP introduced the new Civic Engagement strategy to expand the Community Health Worker program.
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Clinic-centered Community Health Worker (CHW) job description and practice. Susan explained the addition of new CHWs. Two will be added to Mid- County Clinic, which will bring their numbers to three. The CHW are often given their referrals from the doctors. Julio explained some of the projects he is working on as CHW. For example, he explained the Healthy Food program with Zenger Farms. They do cooking classes, exercise classes, etc. Everything is around health. Mid County Clinic is the only clinic that serves initial health screenings for refugees. At other sites, they tailor their programs to the clients of the area. Frieda asked where the classes were held for Mid-County and Susan said they are held at the clinic. There was a discussion of the populations that were being served and the difficulty of getting interpreters. Susan said they have a public side with CHW that work on other issues such as HIV, etc. Anna asked if they work on environmental home health. Susan said they have environmental issues called Healthy Homes, which is a separate department from the CHW.
How is a CHW triggered to work with someone especially if they don’t speak English. Julio said the CHW only jump in if there is a need. He said, for example, if they are losing their housing a CHW would step-in to help. Julio says he tries to help people navigate the health and resource systems.
Nathan asked how the clinic identifies the 1st language need. Susan said they have information on each participant/client because of the initial screening, so they usually know the language by the time they make a CHW referral. Teresa said that since CHWs build a relationship with the community, often she is sought out by community members directly. Nathan asked how it is handled when you reach out. Community-centered Community Health Worker job description and practice workshop experience: Claudia was the presenter and shared a little of her history. She presented about fats and sugars. A lot of people don’t know how much sugar is in a glass a soda pop -- 9 tablespoons (TBSP) of sugar. A container of yogurt has 8 TBSP of sugar; small carton of milk has 6 TBSP. Sometimes we break a diet on week end and a small sweet will have 8 TBSP of sugar plus we might have whole milk that will have the sugar and more fat. Claudia used props to show the amount of sugar and she showed how much fat is in a McDonald hamburger meal. Often we don’t realize how much sugar and fat we are consuming. With extra fat and sugar you feel lethargic. It is important to eat healthy and include vegetables and grains. Julio said most CHW use visuals and more informal conversations so they can get across.
As a CHW Claudia finds where to get healthy food at a low cost and she shares this information with the community. Antonio asked how people get in contact with Claudia. She said she works at Parkrose and provides her presentations
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there. He asked if he could contact Claudia to speak on the subject. Teresa said they have both paid and volunteer CHWs and it would be best if all could be paid. There was a discussion on expanding the programs and paying Community-based CHW volunteers. lore asked if Claudia has been able to influence a change in school meals. Claudia said that the children eat healthy at school, but not at home. Preparation for August 29th Involuntary Displacement Prevention Recommendations Meeting: lore explained that involuntary displacement is already happening in East Portland. She gave background since we had new people: 4 EPAP Subcommittees have taken the past year researching tools to prevent involuntary displacement. lore explained that the first stage of displacement is disinvestment, which has already occurred. Most affordable housing in East Portland (EP) is privately owned and is more at risk of being redevelopment for higher income people. Rent is increasing at higher rates in EP. These are 2nd and 3rd stages of displacement. The Civic Engagement Subcommittee looked at health equity. The tools they looked at related to health such as community gardens, etc. They felt those tools are extremely important and valuable for livability, but that they were likely to increase involuntary displacement.
Civic Engagement choose to recommend 2 tools - 1) a respectful and inclusive public engagement process is needed when implementing any of the tools, and 2) continued funding of the EPAP Civic Engagement Grant program to build the capacity of underrepresented language and cultural-specific community members.
lore explained the flyer and the 7 languages in which it is translated. The recommended tools document is also being translated. We need to have people come to the August 29th event and give us feedback on the recommendations. EPAP needs everyone to help get the word out about the August 29th event. lore explained how EPAP is working with Community Engagement Liaisons, who will recruit members of the various communities. Lore shared the retreat agenda.
Patricia is the only Civic Engagement Subcommittee member who is presenting so far (the other Subcommittees have 3 or more people). Lore discussed what source documents the committee looked at. Frieda mentioned there needs to be at least one other person to take notes. Lore suggested that the Civic Engagement presentation use popular education to convey the information at the retreat. This will make it more interactive, such as using radio plays, games, play lets. Julio and Teresa agreed to help Patricia present it most effectively. lore will help find a note taker. This group will have 30 minutes to present and will release people for lunch.
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lore encouraged everyone to recruit people to come to the August 29th Involuntary Displacement Prevention meeting. Linda said that she could recruit a few people. 2016 Civic Engagement Grant Applications: The applications were released today and are due on October 1, 2015. lore asks that we forward the application to others. There is currently $48,000 to be distributed. Anna asked is there is information on what projects have been chosen in the past. lore said they listed by year are on the website. Announcements: Frieda announced David Douglas School District will be focusing on family engagement this coming year-it was prioritized by the School Board.
Shabina said Livable Lents is doing a Megan listening in Lents this Saturday. Frieda asked who funds Livable Lents and Nathan said they are volunteers and other groups have helped them get interns, etc.
Lore announced the East Harmony Colored Pencils event at Portland Community Center on August 22nd. Meeting was adjourned at 8:37pm
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18 de agosto de 2015
La reunión del Subcomité de Participación cívica Propósito: Organizar talleres de participación cívica multiculturales y/o en
lenguas específicas, compartir currículo, abogar por financiación continuada y dar consejos acerca de asuntos y proyectos multiculturales y/o en lenguas específicas en el Este de Portland
lore wintergreen fue la facilitadora porque Tonisha estaba atorada en el tránsito. Frieda Christopher apuntó las actas porque Donita Fry no podía asistir. Patricia Rojas trajo la comida de Anoish Deli. Asistentes: Claudia Carrillo, Christina Abad, Shabina Shariff, Nathan Jones, Izzy Armenta, Leo Qin, lore wintergreen, Julio Maldonado, Susan Palmer, Antonio Ramirez, Patricia Rojas, Teresa Rios-Campus, Frieda Christopher, Linda Castillo y Anna Hilbruner.
Cada persona se presentó y compartió cuál era el asunto de salud que era el más importante para esa persona. Tareas para la reunión del 15 de septiembre: Facilitadora: Patricia Rojas Actas: Frieda Christopher Comida: Julio Maldonado Dar el informe durante la reunión del EPAP general el 23 de septiembre: Julio Maldonado Revisar las actas del mes de julio de 2015: Las actas de julio fueron aprobadas sin cambio. Actualización: lore reportó sobre la reunión con la Comisionada McKeel del condado de Multnomah. La Comisionada McKeel manifestó su apoyo a que el condado continuara a traducir los folletos sobre las clínicas de salud basadas en las escuelas. El EPAP presentó la nueva estrategia del Subcomité de
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Participación cívica para aumentar el programa de los Trabajadores comunitarios de salud. Describir el trabajo y las prácticas de los Trabajadores comunitarios de salud (CHW, por sus siglas en inglés) dentro de las clínicas. Susan explicó que se agregaron a nuevos CHW. Dos serán agregados a la Clínica Mid-County, lo que resulta que serán tres en esa clínica. Los CHW a menudo reciben sus referencias desde los médicos. Julió dio una explicación sobre algunos de sus proyectos en los cuales ha trabajado como un CHW. Por ejemplo, explicó sobre el programa de Comida Sana con la granja Zenger Farms. Ofrecen clases de cocina, clases de ejercicio, etc. Todo tiene que ver con la salud. La Clínica Mid-County is la única que proporciona exámenes y estudios iniciales para refugiados. Los otros sitios ajustan sus programas a medida conforme a los clientes del área. Frieda preguntó dónde se realizan las clases para Mid-County y Susan respondió que se realizan en la misma clínica. Se habló de cuáles poblaciones son atendidas y la dificultad con conseguir intérpretes. Susan dijo que tienen un sitio público con los CHW que trabajan en otros asuntos, tales como el VIH, etc. Anna preguntó si trabajan en la salud ambiental en casa. Susan dijo que tienen un programa ambiental que se llama Hogares Saludables (Healthy Homes), que es por separado del programa CHW. ¿Cómo se indica que se necesita que un CHW trabaje con alguien, especialmente si la persona no habla inglés? Julio dijo que los CHW solamente participan si hay la necesidad. Dijo que, por ejemplo, si la persona está a punto de perder su vivienda, un CHW intervendría para ayudar. Julio dijo que él trata de ayudar a la gente a navegar los sistemas de salud y de recursos.
Nathan preguntó cómo la clínica identifica cuál idioma es el principal del paciente. Susan dijo que tienen información sobre cada participante/cliente debido al examen inicial, así que normalmente ya se sabe la lengua de la persona cuando se haga una referencia a un CHW. Teresa dijo que debido a que los CHW crean una relación con la comunidad, a menudo los miembros comunitarios van buscándola directamente. Nathan preguntó cómo se gestionan esas conexiones. Describir del trabajo de los Trabajadores comunitarios de salud con un enfoque en la comunidad y experimentar un taller de práctica: Claudia dio una presentación y contó un poco de su historia. Presentó información sobre las grasas y los azúcares. Mucha gente no sabe cuánto azúcar contiene un vaso de refresco -- 9 cucharadas (cdas.) de azúcar. Un envase de yogur contiene 8 cdas. de azúcar. Un cartón pequeño de leche contiene 6 cdas. A veces nos saltamos de nuestro régimen durante los fines de semana o comemos un pequeño dulce que contiene 8 cdas. de azúcar además de, tal vez, la leche entera, la que contiene azúcar y más grasa. Claudia usó utilerías para demostrar la cantidad de
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azúcar y demostró cuánta grasa contiene un combo de hamburguesa de McDonald's. A menudo no nos damos cuenta de cuánto azúcar y grasa realmente consumimos. Con la grasa y azúcar adicional uno se siente letárgico. Es importante comer saludable e incluir verduras y granos. Julio dijo que la mayoría de los CHW usa recursos visuales durante conversaciones más informales para alcanzar a la gente. Como una CHW, Claudia encuentra dónde se puede conseguir comida sana a bajo costo y comparte esta información con la comunidad. Antonio preguntó cómo la gente puede ponerse en contacto con Claudia. Dijo que trabaja en Parkrose y da sus presentaciones allí. Él preguntó si podía contactarle a Claudia para que hablara sobre el tema. Teresa dijo hay CHW remunerados y de voluntariado y que sería mejor si todos fueran remunerados. Se habló de expandir los programas y pagar a los CHW basados en la comunidad de voluntariado. lore preguntó si Claudia había logrado influir a que se cambie la comida en las escuelas. Claudia dijo que los niños comen bien en escuela pero no en casa. Preparar para la Reunión de recomendaciones para prevenir el desplazamiento involuntario que ocurrirá el 29 de agosto: lore explicó que el desplazamiento involuntario ya está en curso en el este de Portland. Dio los antecedentes ya que había nuevos participantes: Cuatro Subcomités del EPAP han trabajado durante el año pasado en investigar herramientas para prevenir el desplazamiento involuntario. lore explicó que la primera etapa del desplazamiento es la desinversión y que ya ha ocurrido. La mayoría de las viviendas asequibles en el este de Portland (EP, por sus siglas en inglés) tienen dueños particulares y corren más riesgo de que sean desarrolladas de nuevo para que sean destinadas a personas con ingresos más altos. Los alquileres van aumentando a un ritmo más rápido en el EP. Los dos últimos son la segunda y tercera etapas del desplazamiento. El Subcomité de Participación cívica estudió la equidad en la salud. Las herramientas que estudiaron tenían que ver con la salud, como jardines comunitarios, etc. Opinó el Subcomité que esas herramientas son extremamente importantes y valiosas para mejorar la calidad de la vida, pero también son probables a aumentar el desplazamiento involuntario. El Subcomité de Participación cívica optó por recomendar dos herramientas - 1) es necesario realizar un proceso de participación pública que sea respetuoso y que incluya a todos al implementar cualquier de las herramientas, y 2) continuar la financiación del programa de las Subvenciones de Participación cívica del EPAP para incrementar la capacidad de los miembros de la comunidad infrarepresentados y con culturas y lenguas específicas.
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lore explicó sobre el volante y las siete lenguas en las cuales fue traducido. La traducción del documento de las herramientas recomendadas también está en curso. Necesitamos que la gente venga al evento del 29 se agosto y que nos dé comentarios sobre las recomendaciones. El EPAP necesita que todo el mundo haga correr la voz sobre el evento del 29 de agosto. lore explicó cómo el EPAP está trabajando con los Intermediarios de participación comunitarios, los que van a reclutar a miembros de las varias comunidades. lore enseñó la agenda del evento del retiro.
Patricia es la única miembro del Subcomité de participación cívica que va a dar una presentación hasta las fecha (los otros Subcomités cuentan con tres presentadores o más). lore habló de cuáles documentos de fuente estudió el Subcomité. Frieda mencionó que hay que contar con al menos una persona más para hacer apuntes. lore sugirió que la presentación de Participación cívica utilizara la educación popular para expresar la información durante el evento. Esto va a hacer que la presentación sea más interactiva con obras en la radio, juegos y obras cortas de teatro. Julio y Teresa concordó con ayudar a Patricia a dar la presentación de forma más eficaz. lore va a ayudar a encontrar a alguien para hacer apuntes. Este grupo va a tener 30 minutos para dar su presentación y luego habrá un descanso para que la gente pueda almorzar.
lore les animó a todos a que recluten a asistentes para la Reunión sobre la prevención del desplazamiento involuntario el día 29 de agosto. Linda dijo que podría reclutar a varias personas. Las solicitudes para las Subvenciones de Participación cívica del año 2016: Se emitieron las solicitudes hoy y la fecha límite para entregarlas es el 1 de octubre de 2015. lore pide que enviemos las solicitud a otras personas. Actualmente hay $48,000 disponibles para la distribución. Anna preguntó si hay información sobre cuáles proyectos han sido escogidos en el pasado. lore dijo que son alistados según el año en el sitio web. Anuncios: Frieda anunció que el Distrito escolar de David Douglas se va a enfocar en la participación familiar este año - el tema fue establecido como una prioridad por la Mesa directiva escolar.
Shabina dijo que Livable Lents va a realizar un Mega evento de escucha este sábado. Frieda preguntó quién financia Livable Lents y Nathan dijo que son voluntarios y que otros grupos les ha ayudado a conseguir a pasantes, etc.
lore anunció que hay un evento de East Harmony Colored Pencils en el Centro comunitario de Portland el 22 de agosto. Se levantó la sesión a las 8:37pm.
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September 15, 2015
Civic Engagement Sub-committee Meeting Purpose: To organize cultural + language specific civic engagement
workshops, share curriculum, advocate for ongoing funding, and advise on East Portland cultural + language specific issues and projects.
Meeting began at 6:37 pm Attendees: Donita Frye, Frieda Christopher, Lore Wintergreen, Patricia Rojas, Julio Maldonado, and Jim Gaudino. Patricia Rojas welcomed everyone and each made introductions. Next meeting assignments: Facilitator: Donita Frye Notes: Frieda Christopher Food: still need to find a food gatherer Note Review: The August notes were reviewed and approved as written. Involuntary Displacement Prevention Action Tool-Kit - Frieda gave a brief description of the Saturday meeting. Lore explained what Housing Sub-Committee and Economic Development made as changes to their list of tools.
Lore thanked Patricia, Teresa and Julio for the great job they did. Lore explained there was over 200 attendees and 8 different languages being spoken (Arabic, Burmese, Karen, Nepali, Russian, Spanish, Somali, and Zomi). The Latino, African American, and Native American communities were not well represented.
Patricia said if we do a similar event, we should think about other ways to get the information out, maybe in small language-specific groups. It was difficult to have the multiple interpreters for the languages in each group. This process was chosen so that each community could see that the issues are not just in their community. In the future, we might start with smaller groups. Donita brought up that there were several groups working on the topic of involuntary displacement and we need to consolidate and collaborate.
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ACTION: Patricia suggested we put on the next month agenda to discuss how we can support each other and how we can collaborate with other groups
Patricia said the groups supported the tools. She showed the list of comments. People voiced housing issues in the CE. She thought the one thing was how increase community capacity in the advocacy of this work. Lore said that in the Housing and Economic Development workgroups, people brought-up the need for under-represented people of color community involvement, but as the Housing needs expressed during the Civic Engagement workgroup were covered in the Housing workgroup, the enhanced Civic Engagement needs are covered in the Civic Engagement introduction to the tools.
There was a discussion of the lack of support to involve immigrants. There was a discussion about Councilor Sam Chase’s presentation and the lack of other electeds at the review. Julio felt in the future that if electeds are going to speak to such a diverse group that they be advised on the need to slow down for the interpretation. Also, an English main-stream speaker took over the question period. Lore had introduced the Councilor with the information Julio felt was missing in the Councilor’s presentation. Frieda asked about next steps. Lore said she will revise the document based upon the changes adopted in the Economic Development and Housing Subcommittees, and with some structural changes and it will go to September EPAP general meeting as a recommendation. Once adopted by consensus, the intention is to hold a media event to announce the recommendations. Then when EPAP team is speaking with elected, the Involuntary Displacement Recommendations will be shared like the Strategic Priorities have been shared in the past. Patricia led the Dinamica: What do we like about the coming of autumn? Community Health Worker (CHW) Advocacy – Patricia handed out a “Community Health Work Advocacy Next Steps” recommendation. This was very helpful.
She recommends that we pull together a package to support our ‘ask’. This would include a letter. We need to see how we will align with ORCHWA and others. Lore and Frieda shared information about the EPAP annual meeting we just had with Multnomah County Chair Kafoury and the conversation about the EPAP Community Health Worker Strategic Priority.
Julio would like to include in our letter to have the elected endorse the CHW program. There was a discussion of CHW and how they might be used, also if the for-profit health care systems could be a place to add more CHWs. Patricia
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said there is a gap between the supplier of health care and the communities that need services. The CHW model could be the bridge. Patricia said the letter would address the disparity in the health of the communities especially communities of colors. Lore suggested it would be good to do a white paper (why is it called a ‘white paper’?) that allows for detail and a letter can be synthesized from there.
There was a discussion of the CHW Advocacy next steps that Patricia presented. Patricia thought we could approach ORCHWA to see how we could work with them and what we can do to move forward the work that is being done. Instead of us trying to develop information about CHWs, Patricia will ask ORCHWA and ORCHWREC for literature they have already developed so we could use some of it in the package we develop. Lore thought we might ask them if they would like to use East Portland as a pilot area to develop an advocacy approach. Patricia agreed.
ACTION: Patricia and Donita will work together on approaching ORCHWA and ORCHWREC . Civic Engagement Grant Application: Lore reminded us that the grant application is open and due on October 1st. She has already held some meetings with groups interested in applying. Next meeting: Tuesday, October 20th at 6:30pm at EPNO, 1017 NE 117th Ave. Meeting was adjourned 8:30 pm Update due to general EPAP on ‘2014 – 15 Strategic Priorities’ progress of items for which Civic Engagement committed to advocate
Civic Engagement has been successful: “Multnomah County Health: Increase information about health clinics in East Portland. (SN.6.2)” Civic Engagement organized another mailing of Multnomah County’s School-Based Health Center brochures to be sent in 9 languages (adding 3 new languages) to the home of each East Portland student. We sent a letter to the County to institutionalize this process by adding 3 languages and distributing them to every East Portland student every two years on the even year. The Multnomah County Health Department Director said that our timing was perfect and they would keep us informed and we have been in email contact. As we met with Multnomah County elected this year, we thanked them for their support to institutionalize this and explained that adding the 3 languages only cost $700 this year. The meetings seem to have influenced action, as right after meeting with Chair Kafoury, Adam Renon from Multhnomah County
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Commissioner Shiprack’s Office scheduled a meeting with the Health Department staff in charge of the program.
“City Office of Neighborhood Involvement and All Bureaus: Engage ethnic communities in neighborhood activities; provide translation/language services to remove barriers and improve messaging and invitations. (CB.1.2)” EPAP and Civic Engagement have been saying that we want the City to take a percentage of all city budgets to go towards interpretation and translation needs. If we take a percentage that goes into a pot, City staff will be more likely to use it, or EPAP will have access to more funding for these expenses. Fish, Saltzman, Fritz and Novick all agreed to support the EPAP 2014 – 15 Strategic Priorities. Linda Castillo said the percentage idea would also be good for the Diversity Community Leadership (DCL) partner funding. This needs to be moved forward by EPAP’s Office of Neighborhood Involvement Budget Advisory Committee representative and EPAP Operations Committee members when meeting with the Mayor and Commissioners.
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15 de septiembre de 2015
La reunión del Subcomité de Participación cívica Propósito: Organizar talleres de participación cívica multiculturales y/o en
lenguas específicas, compartir currículo, abogar por financiación continuada y dar consejos acerca de asuntos y proyectos multiculturales y/o en lenguas específicas en el Este de Portland
Se comenzó la reunión a las 6:37pm Asistentes: Donita Frye, Frieda Christopher, Lore Wintergreen, Patricia Rojas, Julio Maldonado y Jim Gaudino. Patricia Rojas dio la bienvenida a todos y cada persona se presentó. Tareas para la próxima reunión: Facilitadora: Donita Frye Actas: Frieda Christopher Comida: todavía se necesita designar a alguien para recoger la comida Repaso de las actas: Se repasaron las actas del mes de agosto y fueron aprobadas sin cambio. El grupo de herramientas de acciones para prevenir el desplazamiento involuntario - Frieda dio una descripción breve de la reunión del sábado. Lore explicó cuáles cambios hicieron los Subcomités de Viviendas y de Desarrollo económico a sus listas de herramientas.
Lore agradeció a Patricia, Teresa y Julio por su buen trabajo. Lore explicó que asistieron más de 200 personas hablando más de 8 idiomas diferentes (árabe, birmano, karénico, nepalés, ruso, español, somalí y zomi). Las comunidades latina, afroamericana e indígena no contaban con mucha representación.
Patricia dijo que si volvemos a llevar a cabo un evento similar, deberíamos contemplar otras formas de difundir la información, tal vez en grupos de hablantes de lenguas específicas. Era difícil tener múltiples intérpretes para las lenguas en cada grupo. Este proceso fue elegido para que cada comunidad viera que los problemas existen no solamente en sus comunidades. En el futuro,
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tal vez sería mejor empezar con grupos más pequeños. Donita mencionó que ya hay varios grupos que están trabajando en el tema del desplazamiento involuntario y que necesitamos consolidar y colaborar.
ACCIÓN: Patricia sugirió que agregáramos a la agenda un punto para hablar sobre cómo podemos apoyarnos uno al otro y cómo podemos colaborar con otros grupos. Patricia dijo que los grupos apoyaron las herramientas. Ella mostró la lista de comentarios. Los participantes se expresaron sobre asuntos tratando con las viviendas durante la presentación de Participación cívica. Ella pensaba que una consideración era cómo incrementar la capacidad comunitaria en apoyar este trabajo. Lore dijo que durante las presentaciones de los grupos de trabajo de Viviendas y de Desarrollo económico la gente mencionó que se necesitaba la participación de las personas de color subrepresentadas, pero dado que las necesidades relacionadas con las Viviendas que fueron expresadas durante la sesión de trabajo de Participación cívica fueron cubiertas durante la sesión de trabajo de Viviendas, las necesidades aumentadas de Participación cívica son cubiertas en el prólogo del documento sobre las herramientas. Se habló de la falta de apoyo para hacer que participen los migrantes. Hubo una conversación sobre la presentación del Consejero Sam Chase y la falta de presencia de otros funcionarios elegidos durante el taller. Julio se sentía como si funcionarios elegidos vuelvan a hablar ante un grupo tan diverso en el futuro deberían ser avisados de que necesitan hablar más despacio para permitir que haya la interpretación. También, una persona cuya lengua principal era inglés dominó la sesión de preguntas. Lore había preparado al Consejero con la información que según Julio era ausente durante la presentación.
Frieda pidió los próximos pasos. Lore dijo que va a revisar el documento en base de los cambios adoptados durante las sesiones de los Subcomités de Viviendas y de Desarrollo Económico, y que después de hacer algunos cambios estructurales será el documento presentado durante la reunión general del EPAP como una recomendación. Una vez que sean aprobadas por consenso, la intención es llevar a cabo un evento en los medios de prensa para anunciar las recomendaciones. Luego cuando el equipo del EPAP esté reuniéndose con los funcionarios elegidos, el documento de "Recomendaciones sobre la prevención del desplazamiento involuntario" será compartido de forma similar a las Prioridades estratégicas en el pasado. Patricia guió la Dinámica: ¿Qué es lo que nos gusta sobre la llegada del otoño?
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Apoyo del Programa de los Trabajadores comunitarios de salud (CHW, por sus siglas en inglés) - Patricia repartió una recomendación de "Próximos pasos para apoyar el Programa de los Trabajadores comunitarios de salud". Nos ayudó bastante.
Ella recomienda que agrupemos algunos materiales para apoyar nuestro "pedido". Estos incluiría una carta. Necesitamos demostrar cómo vamos a alinearnos con la ORCHWA y otras organizaciones. Lore y Frieda dieron información sobre la reunión anual del EPAP que apenas tuvimos con el Presidente Kafoury, del Condado de Multnomah, y la conversación sobre la Prioridad estratégica de los Trabajadores comunitarios de salud. A Julio le gustaría pedir en la carta que el funcionario elegido respalde el programa de los CHW. Se habló de los CHW y cómo ellos podrían ser utilizados y también si los sistemas de salud lucrativos podrían agregar a más CHW. Patricia dijo que hay una brecha entre el proveedor de cuidado de salud y las comunidades que necesitan los servicios. El modelo de los CHW podría cerrar esa brecha. Patricia dijo que la carta trataría con la disparidad en la salud entre las comunidades y especialmente entre las comunidades de personas de color. Lore sugirió que sería bueno escribir un papel blanco (¿por qué se llama un "papel blanco"?) que contenga más detalles y que podría ser un punto de comienzo para sintetizar una carta. Se habló del documento sobre los próximos pasos para apoyar al Programa de los CHW que presentó Patricia. Patricia pensaba que podríamos hablar con ORCHWA para ver cómo podríamos trabajar con ellos y qué podríamos hacer para promover el trabajo que ya se hace. En lugar de tratar de desarrollar información sobre los CHW nosotros mismos, Patricia va a pedir información ya desarrollada de ORCHWA y ORCHWREC para que podamos utilizarla en los materiales que vamos a desarrollar. Lore pensaba que podríamos pedirles a que utilicen el Este de Portland como un área piloto para desarrollar un enfoque de apoyo. Patricia estaba de acuerdo.
ACCIÓN: Patricia y Donita van a trabajar juntas para hablar con ORCHWA y ORCHWREC . La solicitud para las subvenciones de Participación cívica: Lore nos recordó que la solicitud para las subvenciones está ya disponible y que la fecha límite para entregarla es el 1 de octubre. Ella ya llevó a cabo unas reuniones con algunos grupos interesados en solicitarlas. Próxima reunión: El martes, 20 de octubre a las 6:30 en la EPNO, 1017 NE 117th Ave. Se levantó la sesión a las 8:30pm
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Actualización para la reunión general del EPAP debida a los avances sobre las Prioridades estratégicas de 2014-15 en las cuales la Participación cívica prometió apoyar La Participación cívica ha tenido éxito en las siguientes Prioridades: "La salud en el Condado de Multnomah: Incrementar la información acerca de las clínicas de salud en el Este de Portland. (SN.6.2)" La Participación cívica organizó una otra entrega por correo postal de los folletos sobre las Clínicas de salud basadas en las escuelas del Condado de Multnomah en 9 lenguas (agregando 3 lenguas nuevas) a los hogares de cada estudiantes del Este de Portland. Enviamos una carta al Condado para institucionalizar este proceso por agregar 3 lenguas más y distribuirlos a cada estudiante del Este de Portland cada dos años en los años pares. La Directora del Departamento de Salud del Condado de Multnomah dijo que nuestra coordinación era perfecta y que nos iba a mantener al tanto y que hemos tenido contacto por correo electrónico. Porque nos reunimos con los funcionarios elegidos del Condado de Multnomah este año, les agradecemos por su apoyo en institucionalizar este programa y explicamos que agregar las 3 lenguas solamente costó $700 este año. Se parece como las reuniones han provocaron acción porque apenas después de la reunión con el Presidente Kafoury, Adam Renon de la Oficina de la Comisionada Shiprack del Condado de Multnomah programó una reunión con el personal a cargo del programa en el Departamento de Salud. "La Oficina de participación de los vecindarios y todos los Departamentos municipales: Obtener la participación de colectividades étnicas en las actividades del vecindario; prestar servicios de traducción para eliminar las barreras lingüísticas; mejorar la difusión de mensajes y de invitaciones. (CB.1.2)”
El EPAP y la Participación cívica hemos indicado que queremos que la Ciudad dirija un porcentaje de todos los presupuestos de la ciudad hacia las necesidades de interpretación y traducción. Si asignamos un porcentaje a un fondo para ese fin, el personal de la Ciudad podría ser más probable a utilizarlo o bien el EPAP podría acceder a más fondos para estos gastos. Los Comisionados Fish, Saltzman, Fritz y Novick todos concordaron con apoyar las Prioridades estratégicas de 2014-15 del EPAP. Linda Castillo dijo que la idea del porcentaje también sería buena para la financiación asociada del programa de Diversidad y el liderazgo cívico (DCL, por sus siglas en inglés). Esto necesita ser promovido por el representante del EPAP ante el Comité de asesoría presupuestaria de la Oficina de participación de los vecindarios así como por los miembros del Comité de operaciones del EPAP al reunirse con el Alcalde y los Comisionados.
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Communications Subcommittee Notes: August 11, 2015 Purpose: To provide communication support (materials and web page
development, and translation/interpretation) to the EPAP. Attendees: Anna Hilbruner via phone, David Hampsten via email, and lore wintergreen
1. David drafted a re-do of the 1st 3 pages of the Abbreviated East Portland Action Plan document.
2. Anna has been posting the EPAP announcement Action Steps on FaceBook.
3. lore has been dealing with Action Plan Updates web-page issues.
4. Lori Boisen added a background photograph to the Involuntary
Displacement Prevention flyer.
5. lore is posting the Involuntary Displacement Prevention flyer, recommendations, and translated materials on the EPAP website front page.
6. Jeremy will address the need for Website improvements in September.
EAST PORTLAND ACTION PLAN www.eastportlandactionplan.org
East Portland Neighborhood Office 1017 NE 117th Ave. Portland, OR 97220 503.823.4035 or [email protected]
East Portland Action Plan Economic Development (EcDev) Subcommittee EPAP Ec Dev Purpose:
To develop a strong business environment which strengthens existing businesses, promotes new businesses, and expands family wage jobs in East Portland.
Notes 8/3/15 Introductions: Todd Strule, David Hampsten, Hongsa Chanthavong, Sue Spencer, Kem Marks, and lore wintergreen. Next Meeting Scheduled + Facilitator/Food/Notes/Reporting: Cede rescheduled to Monday 9/14 from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. (shortened meeting to one hour due to conflict with housing) Notes: Sue, Food Kem, Facilitator, David? Looking for someone Todd? obligated before, but will try to make the general meeting Strategic Priorities Check-in: K. David advocated around comp plan issues and found the plan had passed through BPS and a draft is in front of City Council. Bridget and David went to an open house with Trimet about “East side service-enhancements study” at the Portland Building. Kem meeting with Dana Lucero about bus stops along BRT and other parts of the service enhancement plan. Differentiating between BRT stops and local stops. Need to work with Corky Collier on family-wage employment and connections and crossings at bus-stop areas. EPAP EcDev needs to follow through on this issue. Some progress has been made but that partnership hasn’t grown. Lori mentioned if we worked with them to get bus stops in, then employers should work with us to get those jobs for our community in that area. Employers such as Leatherman and Microchip should help on OJT issues as they are the primary beneficiaries. David: speed cameras are going to go on Division and 122nd might be a new barrier. L. Informed Nick about following up on 122nd. Money that we know is coming into Powell is available. 17 mil into segment 2 from 116th to 138th, City has
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another 3 million to kick in. Sounds like that 17 million is not required that PBOT take over Powell to get that money. M. Mayor met with David Douglas to talk about workforce development projects in the area. GED/ESL classes at Rosewood with Jenny and Sue. Rosewood Initiative: National Night Out Thursday August 6th. Jade: International Night Market and Banner Furniture Store tabs with Metro. Advocating for development that works to serve the community. Division Midway Alliance (DMA): Moved offices! Festival of Nations September 20th at the Division Center. Recruiting vendors and entertainment. Lori taking on EPAP representation at AHEAD - health data grant. Assessment and then the Build grant gets money to do something positive for health equity. EPAP Involuntary Displacement Prevention: David and Kem will present in recommending Involuntary Displacement Tools. David and Lore cut down the TOD paragraphs down to a paragraph! 5 hour meeting, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Nepali, Somali, and Arabic translations available. Community Liaisons recruit and help translate. Still looking for Vietnamese translations. Kem will do TOD, Co-ops Nick CBAs David Developer Exactions Powell-Division Transit and Development Project: Kem met with Radcliffe about BPS’s lack of vision for East Portland. “EP is not ready” for development is BPS’s position and we don’t want to upset EPAP by displacement. Portland Plan for BRT presentation on August 26th at 2:00. We need to get the word out on this, no revisions of renderings, though Radcliffe said he was doing new ones. If we get this too close to the hearing will say we need time to review it. David suggested we need to ask for a greater vision for Division i.e. the bike master plan. “Doing nothing is doing harm” and we will not support that course of action. EPAP wants economic development and something that supports the community and not just “go through” the community. The visioning process is failing to address East of I-205. Portland Development Commission Key Performance Measures (KPM):
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Another month to analyze these KPMs. Nick and Lori asked why these KPMs do not match the PDC 5-year goals. This is for city wide performance measures to see if the city is accomplishing its goals. These are the indicators of money well spent or not. Hongsa and Todd expressed confusion about the metrics and what they mean. The Net Number of Businesses metric doesn’t make any sense. It’s hard to give feedback on whether the metrics are appropriate or not when we don’t understand them. People at the table had no input on the metrics.
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East Portland Action Plan Economic Development (EcDev) Subcommittee September 14, 2015 EPAP Ec Dev Purpose:
To develop a strong business environment which strengthens existing businesses, promotes new businesses, and expands family wage jobs in East Portland.
Present: Lore Wintergreen, Nick Sauvie, Ricardo Lopez, Susan Spencer, David Hampsten and Merrie Chris Agag.
1. The next EPAP meeting will be held on Monday, October 5th. The Facilitator will be Kem Marks, Note taker, Merrie Chris Agag or Todd Struble, Food Gatherer, Ricardo Lopez
2. Reviewed input from the Involuntary Displacement Prevention Action Tool- Kit for East Portland community meeting held on August 29th:
Comments from Involuntary Displacement Housing Sub-Committee
Workshops Need for a variety & more affordable housing
• Community housing? Coop? • Real estate cooperative/investment (REIT) • Family Size vs unit size • Need more family sized units • Need larger apartments • Special needs also need affordable housing • What about homeless - lack of affordable housing & emergency housing • Find more affordable rental housing • Vacant houses should be put to use • Use of vacant properties of affordable housing • Use of vacant properties
Rent stabilization • Rent increase because more people are in the unit than mgmt allows • Rent increases are causing renters to be forced to move • All necessities are increasing too much • Longer notice required before need to move when rent increases • Biggest issue is high cost of rent • Reduce rent/utilities • High rents & security deposits/fees
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Increase in minimum wage • Need to raise minimum wage • Is there a way to help with low wages/high rent issue • No increase in wages but increase in rents
Policy changes/what can we do • Push again for Inclusionary zoning • Are there short term solutions that can be negotiated • Income tax credit or deduction for renters • Do we need to expand and enforce "no net loss" ordinance • How can government control rents • Lower interest rate for building affordable housing
Management/code enforcement & education • Code enforcement for single family home being rented and no garbage
pickup included • Fear of when and what of security deposit is returned. • Landlord refused to accept STR for rent when worker was sick and got no
pay • Deal better with management
Keep homeowners in home • Help to keep homeowners in their home - rising property taxes • Homeowners facing property tax increases • Property taxes too high • Need lower taxes
After reviewing the notes, the committee opted to make one change to the tool-kit: Item D, Commercial Stabilization will be changed to read: “Commercial Stabilization and Commercial Rent Stabilization”. Several comments related to cultural sensitivity and access which is covered under the civic engagement process recommendation.
3. Reviewed 2014 – 2015 Strategic Priorities and updates: C. City Bureau of Planning and Sustainability: Integrate the East Portland Action Plan into the Comprehensive Plan, including zoning and design standard recommendations developed in the ‘122nd Zoning Project’, with application throughout East Portland. (CM1.1) Advocacy is stronger if we go through people that are doing direct advocacy rather than writing e-mails. Dave worked on advocating for TSP changes as part of the comp plan. This is where we can get EPAP comp plan goals actually into the comp plan. Will find out when the TSP project list gets released in January. Comment period is from January 30th and comments are due February 24th to [email protected] & [email protected] .
There was some discussion of the rezoning of land in Argay, especially the Giustina Farm; from agriculture/medium-density residential into multiuse/ general employment (MU/EG).Alexandra Howard of BPS spoke with EcDev about the Powell Division redevelopment project (IPOD). A letter addressing current suggestions on displacement prevention was sent to the ‘Planning and Sustainability Commission ‘from EPAP Housing and Economic Development Subcommittees. Kem Marks met with City of Portland Panning & Sustainability (BPS) staff assigned to the METRO Powell-Division Transit and Development Project. He advocated for more development renderings: use BPS creativity, PDC experience and EPAP insights to partner on new development ideas. New renderings were circulated at the Division Midway ‘Festival of Nations’ and will be discussed at the next open house.
K. Portland Development Commission with TriMet and METRO: Connect East Portland residents to family-wage employment outside of the area by identifying and removing barriers, such as limited transportation options. (EC.4.5 and T.1.2) Metro is looking at displacement and equity, and asked Division Midway Alliance to look at issues and assets for what the area needs in Bus Rapid Transit. The Powell-Division Bus Rapid Transit Project has not established a commitment on sustaining local service. Kem Marks has been actively advocating with METRO staff.
Tri Met organized community input through their East Side Service Enhancement Plan conversations and EPAP members have supported the outcome. Our advocacy included cautioning them not to take away existing popular routes. Last time they cut routes, people were stuck without any way to get to jobs. Tri Met & the City need to work together to develop amenable bus stops & sidewalks.
TriMet board had the authority and raised the employee tax by 1% in progressive increments of 1/10th of 1% over 10 years, and dedicate the funds to new service. EPAP members need to advocate for priority projects sooner than later.
Lori Boisen suggested that advocacy for improved transit to Columbia Corridor be two-way. We need Corky Collier to work with the employers to target supervisory employment for bi-lingual management that can work with underemployed populations that could easily become their best employees.
EPAP advocates share that immigrant/refugee/New Portlander communities are reliable and consistent can be good candidates for industrial jobs despite potential language barriers. What we can do: People count, attend meetings and share information about this situation. The following connectors from EPAP
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agreed to join as a team of presenter with Corky: Jenny, Katie, Lori, Leah, David, and Jean.
David Hampsten said that $8 million has been set aside to bring 122nd up to standard for frequent transit service. The street fee plan included increased service in EPAP, safer crossings at 122, and frequent service for the 71. We will continue advocating for increased service to workers in the Columbia Corridor and to advocate for workforce shuttling.
Katie Larsell, Corky Collier, & David Hampsten gave testimony to the City of Portland Planning & Sustainability Commission on November 4th, 2014, about the geographic relationship of where East Portland residents live, and where they work, and to increase connectivity between East Portland and the Columbia Corridor/Airport Way area.
We have public assurance from City staff; Arlene Kimura, EPAP Transportation Service Plan (TSP) Representative; and David Hampsten, EPAP Representative to the Portland Bureau of Transportation Budget Advisory Committee, that EPAP projects are actively integrated into the TSP. Powell Blvd Safety Project confirmed funding for improvements from 122nd to 136th on Powell Blvd. The State of Oregon committed $17 million and the City of Portland has already, due to EPAP advocacy, committed $3 million! The project is currently in NEPA (environmental assessment) review that is almost complete. Conceptual design is in progress, full-proposed design will take place in 2017 and the project should start in 2018. ODOT, Metro, Portland and others make up a Citizen Advisory Committee who will advise final designs.
L. All Municipalities: Maximize East Portland’s economic benefits from public projects. (EC.1.4, EC.2.3, EC.4.2, CM.1.2, CM.1.3, CM.2.3, and CM.2.7) Nick Sauvie reported that the Community Benefits Plan was negotiated with the Commissioner Fritz’s office and the Park and Recreation Bureau on Gateway and Beech parks. With the Metropolitan Alliance for Workforce Equity (MAWE) we strengthened the Parks Bureau’s original proposal by adding an oversight committee and a goal of 25% of construction worker hours by East Portland residents and 25% of construction contract dollars to East Portland businesses.
Due to EPAP advocacy, Nick and a MAWE member advised Parks ‘Request for Proposal development and were on the application review committee to select the prime contractor who would be responsible to hire 25% of workers from East Portland related to the upcoming construction of Beach & Gateway parks. Human Solution, Oregon Trades Women, and Constructing Hope were given a contract that is both addressing this project and with Human Solution’s guidance, expanding outreach and services in East Portland.
Kem Marks has used this as a model in his advocacy for Community Benefits
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Agreement on the Division-Powell Transit and Development Project.
Ricardo Lopez agreed to contact Portland Public Schools (PPS) to advocate for a Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) for the Marshall High School renovations in East Portland (EP). As part of CBA, PPS is taking 1%, and part is going to work place, and part is going to Technical Assistance. PPS will likely do a Request For Proposals (RFP) to select the workforce partner.
David thinks that the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation will likely contract out a lot of the work scheduled for the East Portland In Motion implementation, because they’re behind on EP projects, and City Agencies don’t want to expand staffing they cannot sustain. Building these 2nd stage projects are tied to the passing of the transportation Street Fee. David recommended advocacy for Community Benefits Agreements with the upcoming East Portland City Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) projects. Lore spoke with PBOT Manager Pearce and sent materials to Pearce, Assistant Director Jones and Director Treat. Nick with inform MAWE of the potential opportunities.
The group agreed to continue to pursue Community Benefit Agreements with PBOT & Parks. M. Portland Development Commission with City Bureau of Planning & Sustainability and METRO: Promote catalyst workforce development projects in East Portland; partner with the Neighborhood Prosperity Initiatives and other urban renewal and economic development efforts. (EC.4.2, EC.4.4, CM.1.2-.3, and CM.2.7) East Portland Jobs Fair was held on May 19 & 20 at Rosewood Initiative. The Jobs Fair was a joint project with all four East Portland NPIs, Jade, Rosewood, and Parkrose & Midway. Mt Hood Community College (MHCC) provides ESL and other services to potential employees. Sue Spencer with MHCC contacted Corky Collier from the Columbia Corridor about the job fair. Jenny met with Corky and Jared from OPAL about improving the Columbia Corridor and the programs at Rosewood. Ricardo Lopez with Human Solutions advocated for jobs in the Columbia Corridor and how to connect employers with job seekers. Our advocates reminded employers to hire supervisors who are bilingual and bicultural to connect with immigrant and employees of color.
Several NPIs are working jointly with MHCC and the Columbia Corridor to create a computer code writing training lab ("hacker lab") at the Rosewood Initiative facility.
Historic Parkrose is co-hosting a job fair at the MHCC Maywood Park campus in March.
Justin Douglas with Portland Development Commission (PDC) put in a one-time request for general funds to support catalyst projects adjacent to NPIs
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Frieda Christopher shared that the Elks property in Gateway is now owned by David Douglas School District (DDSD) and could be leveraged as a location for the Gateway Education/Economic Development Center. Don Grotting, DDSD Superintendant has been in communication with Mayor Hales about the property.
Rosewood Initiative hired Tony Lamb as an Economic Development Director. They are currently incubating three businesses at their location: Rosewood Bike, Marketing Consultant and a coffee shop. N. PDC: Market East Portland as a place to do business. (EC.1.2, EC.1.3, and CM.2.6) NPIs are exploring how to influence PDC Top Stories to highlight East Portland.
It was determined that it isn't the committee's role to actually do the marketing but rather advocate with PDC to do the marketing.
Bridget Bayer met with Mayor Hales’ Policy Director to discuss ongoing support for East Portland projects, NPI funding, development capitol matching, new zoning, existing transportation and land use public projects. The idea is to look at using several tools in East Portland that would allow small investors to get similar benefits as large investors on new schemes, including possible new ways of using System Development Charges (SDCs) and Community Benefit Agreements.
Bridget met with Kate Deane, PDC Neighborhood Economic Development Manager. Bridget agreed to advocate for: Bureau of Planning & Sustainability (BPS) and BRT shared visioning; Gateway Education/Economic Development Center – promoted by the Parkrose, David Douglas, and Reynolds School Districts as well as Mount Hood Community College (MHCC) and in the past, Portland State University. This project will train East Portland residents and link to health care and manufacturing living-wage jobs. If political will is there, development funding can be found with METRO Community Development funds; Meyer Memorial Trust has expressed willingness to consider and develop further partnerships. This project bridges the City’s expressed concerns of development being a forbearer of involuntary displacement.
Sam Adams, former City of Portland Mayor and Executive Director Portland City Club, spoke with EcDev about marketing East Portland.
Lori Boisen asked Justin Douglas to see about featuring East Portland in the PDC Top Stories.
lore heard from program called AHEAD that is looking for a neighborhood to place a reinvestment/ development project. Lori agreed to attend the meeting.
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Upcoming Events: The Division Midway Alliance will be holding the ‘Festival of Nations’ on Sunday, Sept. 20th from 12:00 – 4:00 (Corner of 122nd and Stark). Future Meetings: Todd Struble will report out at the monthly EPAP meeting on Sept. 23rd. Next Meeting: October 5th, 5:00 PM at East Portland Neighborhood Office, 1017 NE 117th Ave. Contact lore for childcare or language interpretation: 503.823.4035 or [email protected]
Purpose: To provide EPAP granting opportunities with direction, review, and selection. In attendance: Roger Anthony, Anna Volkova, Jo Ann Hardesty, Lorelei Young, Travis Fanucchi, and lore wintergreen.
A. Evaluation process and packets for submitted EPAP grants: lore explained that the evaluation review process is different than the grant application process. When doing evaluation reviews, you are to reference ‘Actions to be Taken by the Grantee’ document attached to each evaluation and decide whether the project ‘Met reasonable standards’, ‘Did not meet reasonable standards’, or if you have ‘Questions’.
There are 3 different sets of grants to review, with the original grant application attached to each set: 1. 2013 Civic Engagement Grant: 1 outstanding evaluation due to a
request for a financial audit by a project partner – the audit resolution allowed them to keep the funds spent, but to use the funds in a different manner.
2. 2014 Grants Program (general): 4 grants to review. 3. 2014 Civic Engagement Grant: 4 grants to review.
ACTION: September 20, 2015 is the deadline to return the above grant reviews to lore.
B. Report on Survey results from the 2015 EPAP General Grants and 2016 General Grant application changes notice. We had two submitted survey results submitted with the 2015 EPAP General Grants. Both surveys said that the grant application needed no improvement. One would like the ‘Support Statements’ to be submitted when informed of selection.
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lore shared that we had fewer General Grant submissions than ever before. She reminded the committee that she recommended putting the survey on back of the grant packet and that she projected getting very few survey responses. lore again said that based upon verbal input, there are 4 reasons for limited grant requests: 1) the City requirement for fiscal sponsorship from a registered State and City business and the liability insurance requirement; 2) those who have been turned down in the past felt that the reasoning was harsh and there was no reason to try again; 3) many people realized after getting a grant how much work it takes to successfully complete a project; and 4) the work must be done within the boundaries of East Portland and many organizations have not yet built capacity to serve this area.
lore shared that the East Portland Neighborhood Office is now doing ‘Community Funding’ for lesser amounts of money that are not requiring the fiscal sponsorship and liability insurance. They have had more responses. lore also shared again that 26 years ago she was a not-for-profit Executive Director and refused to write grants worth less than $10,000. So, the $5,000 maximum is both too much and too little.
JoAnn asked if we are reaching enough new people with outreach about the grant opportunities. lore shared that EPAP and direct release partners reach about 3,000 people and encourage that they share the grant opportunity further; the Multnomah County Youth Providers Network circulates the notice; Arlene takes paper copies to events (music in the parks, movies in the parks, and other East Portland events); lore takes copies to all EPAP meetings, took it to the Colored Pencils event this weekend, and will take it to the Renter’s Assembly; and lore does a media release.
Lorelie said that the EPAP grant application and process is much simpler than the ‘Venture Portland’ process.
C. Schedule meeting for EPAP 2016 Civic Engagement Grant Review : lore distributed copies of the ‘2016 Civic Engagement Grant Program’ application. The grant applications are due on October 1, 2015. lore needs a week to make copies and prepare packets.
ACTION: The Grant Review Committee will get scores to lore before a Monday, October 19th at 6:00 PM meeting that Lorelie arranged will be held at Division Midway Alliance, 11721 SE Division St.
EAST PORTLAND ACTION PLAN www.eastportlandactionplan.org
East Portland Neighborhood Office 1017 NE 117th Ave. Portland, OR 97220 503.823.4035 or [email protected]
The Goal of the Housing Subcommittee is: To find common ground in supporting a range of housing types in East Portland as a means to strengthening livable communities, encouraging healthy, complete, and stable neighborhoods, and promoting family wage jobs. A range of housing types is meant to include rental housing and home ownership as well as housing for people at various income levels. The Purpose of the Housing Subcommittee: The purpose of the EPAP Housing Subcommittee is to agree upon productive strategies for housing and to prioritize action items involving housing for East Portland. These strategies and action items might include (but not be limited to): encouraging housing for people in a range of income levels---including affordable housing for low-income people, promoting high quality housing development and construction standards, and encouraging property rehabilitation as well as new construction. The EPAP Housing Subcommittee will work with a lens of preventing displacement and gentrification, protecting tenants’ rights, promoting enhanced housing inspection enforcement, supporting local schools, encouraging job creation and economic development, and strengthening neighborhoods. The EPAP Housing Subcommittee will strive to promote, for all East Portland residents, quality housing by design which in turn promotes stronger educational systems; an increase in living wages jobs, greater economic opportunity, stronger educational systems, enhanced transportation, and healthy neighborhoods throughout East Portland. ===============================================================
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August 10, 2015 Housing Sub-committee Meeting Meeting began at 6:07pm. Attendees – Jean DeMaster, Frieda Christopher, Lore Wintergreen, Nick Sauvie, Michelle DePasse, Chris Scarzello, Anna Hilbruner, John Mulvey, David Hampsten, Isidro Reyes, Susan Madan, and Kayla Murphy. Welcome and Introductions: Jean welcomed everyone and each attendee introduced themselves. Minutes: Minutes for July were approved as printed. John Mulvey: Updated Request for the City Auditor to audit the results of the 30% set aside for affordable housing: John explained this committee and full EPAP approved a draft letter, but the problem was with the approved language not including reference to a response from City Commissioner Saltzman and Assistant Portland Housing Bureau (PHB) Director Javier Mena that was received the same day as the EPAP general meeting. John said he suggested some language changes and Frieda used that language and make some minor changes on the draft. David mentioned possible increase in the set aside. Betty mentioned that Portland Development Commission (PDC) did an audit already and there was a short discussion on this audit. John said he is concerned with the transparency and the fact that PDC selects different years and methodologies. There was a discussion that the audit was using different methodology. It was suggest we add reference to these concerns. ACTION: John will make the edits and Lore will send out the letter. Planning for our workshop on Anti Displacement on 8/29: Frieda shared the draft PowerPoint (PP). It was discussed how we should layout the PP to minimize the words. Frieda, Jean, Betty and John will be presenting. We need to address each Tool: What is it? What will it take to do it? What barriers are to it? Stress the 5-10 year context. We will not put definitions on the slides. There was a discussion of the process and who was invited. Betty asked about “elected” and Lore said they have invited them from city, county and Metro. Lore has also invited City Commissioner Saltzman and the Mayor, Multnomah County Chair Kafoury and Commissioner Shiprack, and Metro Councilor Chase to speak at the introduction phase.
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ACTION: Our 4 Housing presenters will work together to finish the presentation. Frieda will need their input by August 24th. John volunteered to finalize the PP. City wide Anti Displacement Group-Nick Nick explained the Coalition. Jean asked if any of their recommendations were in conflict with us and Nick said no. ACTION: Jean asked if the Housing Subcommittee could join and it was decided that we would join and Nick said he could represent the Subcommittee. It could be taken to the full EPAP in September. Jean asked if Nick could get information to send out in September. Next steps on speech from Vanessa Vissar-new bus stops: We were going to send her information on the location of housing complexes on 148th and 162nd. That has not happened yet. Jean said we were to receive information from Vanessa on how they select stops. It was reported that nothing was received form Vanessa. David said there is an issue that they don’t have access to how many people live in the multi-family housing. ACTION: Jean will get the information on the housing complexes and send it to Vanessa and ask for their criteria. Betty said she provided Home Forward’s information to Tri Met in the past. Michelle said she would check if there was a way to get the information without just driving the streets. Jean will wait to see if Michelle can get the needed information this way before “driving the streets.” Strategic Priorities: EPAP (General Meeting) is requesting an update on what we (the EPAP Subcommittees) have done on the 2014/15 strategic priorities. There was a discussion that our strategies were D, R, and S. Lore brought a copy of the February 2015 Housing Subcommittee Update:
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David said under R we might include our advocacy on Inclusionary Zoning and letter to request an audit. We also will include “A” since we have been advocating for EP to get its fair share of housing dollars. This is to be reported at the EPAP September 23rd general meeting. For 2015/16, the new priorities are set. It was a consensus to add “S” - Create a housing rehabilitation program. Nick said we should include the Community survey that shows the quality of housing in EP dropping. Jean asked how much. There was a discussion on how much to address the issue. It was decided to give ranges. Betty also said it needed non-profits to purchase and rehabilitate multi family housing as well as privately owned single family properties. She aid that any of these might get low interest loans, etc. When we meet with new PHB Director, we will discuss what we do as the EPAP Housing Subcommittee; that East Portland has 25% of people and should get 25% of the PHB dollars; advocate for the development of a rehabilitation program; and address our recommended involuntary displacement prevention tools. We want to have it focused on 60% of MFI. Michelle made the arrangements for the new Director to attend our meeting at the Portland Housing Bureau. ACTION: We thanked Michelle for setting up a meeting with the Interim Director of the Portland Housing Bureau and inviting the new Bureau Director. Opportunity Mapping Response Letter---Jean to draft (draft will be available at the meeting) Jean handed out the draft letter. Michelle said to change name to Kurt Creager. Nick said we should consider taking out “we have more than an equitable share of affordable housing now”. It was decided to take out from “this type of funding…” this might be the only place to put middle income housing. On number 2 take out “”is affordable now”. Add language such as vulnerable or underserved. Also on 4, should state “receives at least 25%”. Add a fifth point to update the Opportunity Mapping regularly so we can address the affordable housing proactively. ACTION: Jean will make changes and send out and ask for others to respond. How can we ensure that East Portland receives its share of the State’s $60 million allocation for affordable housing – We will discuss this next time. ACTION: John will send email to Rep Keny-Guyer to ask how it is being allocated.
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Housing in East Portland – City Club Forum on 8/20: Justin, Betty and Jean are on the panel. Betty said they are going to ask us questions and they can give ideas on what questions. Betty asked that members send ideas. Betty said there was a forum on 8/13 at the PCC campus, which is the downtown City Club. It is not the East Portland forum, but it is about elected representation in East Portland. Follow up on issues from METRO-----Betty Dominguez Betty reported on the METRO Equity committee which she is on. It is still working and just had the 2nd meeting for the work group. They are organizing meetings throughout the Metro area. They have had one in Clackamas. Some of the equity projects passed the budget cuts, but it was difficult. New EPAP Housing Subcommittee Co-Chair after September when Jean retires: Jean will be gone from 90-120 days (beginning 9/30/15) and we will need someone to help as co-chair . ACTION: Nick said he would co-chair during Jean’s absence. Other issues: Lore said EPA is doing a focus in EP and sending information. They are going to do a study. Meeting was adjourned 8:02 pm. The next meeting will be: September 14th, 6pm at EPNO.
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Sub-Committee Name: HOUSING EPAP Action item(s) being addressed: Housing and Development.1 – .6; Commercial and Mixed Use.1 - .2; Economic Development and Workforce Training.4.5; Public Safety.7.1; Housing Assistance and Safety Net Services.1 - .6; Equity.2.1 + 3.2 The Goal of the Housing Sub-Committee is: To find common ground in supporting a range of housing types in East Portland as a means to strengthening livable communities, encouraging healthy, complete, and stable neighborhoods, and promoting family wage jobs. A range of housing types is meant to include rental housing and home ownership as well as housing for people at various income levels. The Purpose of the Housing Sub-Committee: The purpose of the EPAP Housing Subcommittee is to agree upon productive strategies for housing and to prioritize action items involving housing for East Portland. These strategies and action items might include (but not be limited to): encouraging housing for people in a range of income levels---including affordable housing for low-income people, promoting high quality housing development and construction standards, and encouraging property rehabilitation as well as new construction. The EPAP Housing Sub-Committee will work with a lens of preventing displacement and gentrification, protecting tenants’ rights, promoting enhanced housing inspection enforcement, supporting local schools, encouraging job creation and economic development, and strengthening neighborhoods. The EPAP Housing Subcommittee will strive to promote, for all East Portland residents, quality housing by design which in turn promotes stronger educational systems; an increase in living wages jobs, greater economic opportunity, stronger educational systems, enhanced transportation, and healthy neighborhoods throughout East Portland. Housing Sub-Committee Recommendations: 1. The Housing sub-committee supports mixed-use and commercial zoning in commercial
corridors in East Portland. This would promote greater economic development, prosperity, and encourage mixed-income housing development.(CM 1.1)
2. The Housing sub-committee supports single-family housing adjacent to commercial corridors to promote general homeownership, especially minority homeownership, as well as mixed-income and more innovative housing. (CM 1.1)
3. The Housing Sub-committee sees the need for increase in amenities, jobs, infrastructure, and public transportation in East Portland to support housing of people in all income levels and to attract more middle and upper income housing.
4. The Housing Sub-committee would recommend prioritizing voluntary Inclusionary Zoning in middle income neighborhoods as one tool to promote mixed-income neighborhoods throughout Portland and to advocate for the City of Portland, Multnomah County and METRO to develop a pilot project for voluntary Inclusionary Zoning within the City/County.
5. The Housing Sub-committee would recommend advocating ending discrimination based on having a Section 8 Certificate, so low income families would have a greater choice on where they could live. The committee supports changing the law at the state level to remove this discrimination.
6. The Housing Sub-committee, after exhaustive research, recognizes that East Portland does not have significantly more tax-exempt housing properties than any other area of Portland, either in numbers or as a fair-share. East Portland does have significantly more “affordable by accident” housing than other parts of the City, but this has nothing to do with properties being tax-exempt or not.
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September 14, 2015 EPAP Housing Sub-committee Meeting
East Portland Neighborhood Office Meeting Notes
The Goal of the Housing Sub-Committee is: To find common ground in supporting a range of housing types in East Portland as a means to strengthening livable communities, encouraging healthy, complete, and stable neighborhoods, and promoting family wage jobs. A range of housing types is meant to include rental housing and home ownership as well as housing for people at various income levels. The Purpose of the Housing Sub-Committee: The purpose of the EPAP Housing Subcommittee is to agree upon productive strategies for housing and to prioritize action items involving housing for East Portland. These strategies and action items might include (but not be limited to): encouraging housing for people in a range of income levels---including affordable housing for low-income people, promoting high quality housing development and construction standards, and encouraging property rehabilitation as well as new construction. The EPAP Housing Sub-Committee will work with a lens of preventing displacement and gentrification, protecting tenants’ rights, promoting enhanced housing inspection enforcement, supporting local schools, encouraging job creation and economic development, and strengthening neighborhoods. The EPAP Housing Subcommittee will strive to promote, for all East Portland residents, quality housing by design which in turn promotes stronger educational systems; an increase in living wages jobs, greater economic opportunity, stronger educational systems, enhanced transportation, and healthy neighborhoods throughout East Portland. ===============================================================
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Housing Sub-committee Meeting September 14, 2015 Meeting began at 6:07pm. Attendees: Jean DeMaster, Frieda Christopher, Lore Wintergreen, Nick Sauvie, Michelle DePasse, Chris Scarzello, John Mulvey, David Hampsten, Roger Meyer, and JoAnne Herrigel. Guest Presenter: Barbara Bernstein, Executive Director Elders in Action Welcome and Introductions: Jean welcomed everyone and each attendee introduced themselves. Minutes: Minutes for August were approved as printed. Elders in Action: How can we partner with ‘Elders in Action’ Guest Presenter: Barbara Bernstein, Executive Director Barbara explained Elders in Action and they want to learn more and be able to advocate for housing issues with seniors. They want to partner with groups to help with the issue. Joanne explained a project they were working on and want to build on the project with a grant from Meyer Memorial Trust. Their original project was successful in getting advocates. Joanne said they would like to tap into our ongoing meetings. Frieda suggested making sure we coordinate our message when talking with electeds. We don’t want to contradict each other, but make sure we are sending similar messages. They want more feedback from seniors. Michelle suggested gathering data from the calls received by Elders in Action. The data could be powerful. Updated Request for the City Auditor to audit the results of the 30% set aside for affordable housing - John Mulvey: The letter was sent and the auditor will discuss it with staff.
This segued into a discussion of whether we should support the change from 30% to a 50% set aside in Urban Renew Areas (URA). There was a heated discussion of the raising to the 50% instead of 30%. Lore explained that there are members of EPAP that would probably not support this change because of the work they have done with on the URA Committees. One person has already raised objection. It was decided to report that we are looking at the issue and will discuss at our October meeting. ACTION: Michelle will bring the housing report to help with the discussion. Nick will invite: Arlene Kimura, Bob Earnest, and Jackie Putnam. He may reach-out to
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Nick Christianson and Cora Potter, even though they are not involved with the EPAP. Request from Lore: How to apply the input on the Involuntary Displacement Prevention from the August 29th meeting: Lore explained what the Economic Development Sub-committee did and they had one small change. Frieda said the only thing that wasn’t in our tools was related to High Property Taxes that were displacing home owners. It was suggested to add home ownership retention. It was finally decided to add Owner occupied Home ownership retention for low income people as #9 to the list of Housing Subcommittee recommended tools. There was additional discussion on the comments made. Jean said she saw the comments falling into the following groups: (1) need for more apartments with a larger number of bedrooms (larger units); (2) More affordable housing units are needed---all kinds and varieties of affordable housing; (3) renter’s rights and education; (4) responsive management---returning security deposits, returning last month’s rent deposit on a timely basis; and (5) special needs housing—for seniors, people with disabilities, etc. Roger brought up the topic of intergenerational housing.
ACTION: Frieda offered to compile and organize the comments then group them. She provided the following to Lore to be added to the notes:
Comments from Involuntary Displacement Housing Sub-Committee Workshops
Need for a variety & more affordable housing • Community housing? Coop? • Real estate cooperative/investment (REIT) • Family Size vs unit size---more units with more bedrooms are needed • Need more family sized units • Need larger apartments • Special needs also need affordable housing • What about homeless - lack of affordable housing & emergency housing • Find more affordable rental housing • Vacant houses should be put to use • Use of vacant properties of affordable housing • Use of vacant properties • A lot more housing affordable to very low-income people is needed
Rent stabilization • Rent increases are causing renters to be forced to move • All necessities are increasing too much---especially utilities • Longer notice required before need to move when rent increases • Biggest issue is high cost of rent • Reduce rent/utilities
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• High rents & security deposits/fees are a significant problem Increase in minimum wage
• Need to raise minimum wage---then people would have the money to pay the rent
• Is there a way to help with low wages/high rent issue • Problem: No increase in wages but increase in rents
Policy changes/what can we do • Push again for Inclusionary zoning • Are there short term solutions that can be negotiated? • Income tax credit or deduction for renters (like there is for home owners) • Do we need to expand and enforce "no net loss" ordinance • How can government control rents • Lower interest rate for building affordable housing
Management/code enforcement & education • Code enforcement for single family home being rented; code violation for
no garbage pick up • Fear of when the security deposit will be returned; fearful that not all of it
will be returned even if there is no damage • Problem: A Landlord refused to accept a voucher for Short Term Rent
Assistance for the rent when worker was sick and got no pay • Tenants should be treated more respectfully by management
Keep homeowners in home • Help to keep homeowners in their home – help for the problem of rising
property taxes • Homeowners facing property tax increases---just like renters face rent
increases • Property taxes too high • Need lower taxes
Any updates from the city-wide Anti Displacement PDX group: Nick said there was nothing special. We will propose that Nick will be our official representative to the group. It will be on the agenda for EPAP’s September general meeting. Next steps on presentation from Vanessa Vissar: Jean reported she had not received any information on the criteria for setting bus stops.
ACTION: lore will call Vanessa about the criteria. Michelle was going to research the location of housing complexes on 148th and 162nd at Portland Housing Bureau (PHB). She has left messages at Tri-Met. At Roger’s suggestion, Michelle will contact METRO as well.
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David said the housing information can be gotten from GIS with block data if we need to, but it won’t be accurate Advocacy for a housing rehabilitation program-------Strategic Priority 'S'. Jean said that if East Portland could not receive funding because we are not an Opportunity Area, then she thought we need to ask the City to fund a program for East Portland that would provide funds for the rehabilitations of housing which violated the City Housing Cods. David said we should advocate for this funding during the “fall bump.’ in City funding allocations. It was suggested to do a letter to make the funding request. Michelle said to make it small and specific. Jean suggested asking for an East Portland Housing Rehabilitation Fund of $500k---which could include siding and window improvements. The group decided that the property to be rehabilitated must be in East Portland---but outside of an Urban Renewal Area (URA). The housing must serve low income people to qualify. The proposal should include an anti-displacement element. It was decided this would be appropriate. The letter will go to all of the City Commissioners---and the Mayor also. David said to make a “fall bump” appeal and if we are not funded, then we should make a “spring bump” appeal also.
ACTION: John said he will draft a letter. Opportunity Mapping Response Letter---Final DRAFT Jean asked everyone to review the final letter. Michelle had an issue with comparing with N & NE Portland to East Portland in terms of displacement because the issues areas weren’t the same. It was agreed that we delete …”as it has been to N Portland and inner NE Portland in #3”. David suggested to break-up the second paragraph into two. Lore said to put and RE: after the address. Jean suggested that the RE header could be “Equitable Opportunity Mapping “.
ACTION: Jean will make the edits and send to Lore for distribution. Results from our meeting with Kurt Creager, Director, Portland Housing Bureau Jean thanked Michelle for setting up the meeting. She reported the meeting went well. We will send the letter to advocate for the housing rehabilitation program (see above) to Kurt Creager. How can we ensure that East Portland receives its share of the State’s $62 million allocation for affordable housing? John said that so far a transparency bill has not been approved that would help in seeing how the money is distributed. It was suggested that we want to advocate
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to our legislatures to get the monies out quickly. Nick said we might have the regional solutions guy attend our next meeting. Follow up on issues from METRO: 10/2/15: Oregon Regional Housing Forum at Portland State University: Betty was unable to attend tonight’s meeting---but wanted to encourage those invited to the 10/2/15 meeting to attend. (The meeting is invitation only.) Nick, Jean and lore have been invited. Other issues Chris handed out schedule for early implementation steps for Comp Plan.
New EPAP Housing Co-Chair: Nick Sauvie is the New EPAP Housing Subcommittee Co-Chair with Frieda starting on 9/30/15 during Jean’s 3-month absence.
Meeting was adjourned 8:02 pm. The next meeting will be: October 12th, 6pm at EPNO.
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‘S’: EPAP Housing is sending a letter to advocate for $500,000 from the City of Portland Fall BuMP monies to the City Council, Planning and Sustainability Commission, and the Directors of Portland Housing and Planning and Sustainability. ‘R’: EPAP Housing sent an advocacy letter to the City Auditor to request an audit of Urban Renewal Area 30% set-aside funding. ’A’: Set a goal that East Portland (EP) attain parity with other parts of the city in public facilities and capital spending; encourage City Bureaus to prioritize projects in EP. EPAP housing has been actively advocating (verbally and written) for EP to get its fair share of housing dollars. This is to be reported at the EPAP September 23rd general meeting.
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Sub-Committee Name: HOUSING EPAP Action item(s) being addressed: Housing and Development.1 – .6; Commercial and Mixed Use.1 - .2; Economic Development and Workforce Training.4.5; Public Safety.7.1; Housing Assistance and Safety Net Services.1 - .6; Equity.2.1 + 3.2 The Goal of the Housing Sub-Committee is: To find common ground in supporting a range of housing types in East Portland as a means to strengthening livable communities, encouraging healthy, complete, and stable neighborhoods, and promoting family wage jobs. A range of housing types is meant to include rental housing and home ownership as well as housing for people at various income levels. The Purpose of the Housing Sub-Committee: The purpose of the EPAP Housing Subcommittee is to agree upon productive strategies for housing and to prioritize action items involving housing for East Portland. These strategies and action items might include (but not be limited to): encouraging housing for people in a range of income levels---including affordable housing for low-income people, promoting high quality housing development and construction standards, and encouraging property rehabilitation as well as new construction. The EPAP Housing Sub-Committee will work with a lens of preventing displacement and gentrification, protecting tenants’ rights, promoting enhanced housing inspection enforcement, supporting local schools, encouraging job creation and economic development, and strengthening neighborhoods. The EPAP Housing Subcommittee will strive to promote, for all East Portland residents, quality housing by design which in turn promotes stronger educational systems; an increase in living wages jobs, greater economic opportunity, stronger educational systems, enhanced transportation, and healthy neighborhoods throughout East Portland. Housing Sub-Committee Recommendations: 7. The Housing sub-committee supports mixed-use and commercial zoning in commercial
corridors in East Portland. This would promote greater economic development, prosperity, and encourage mixed-income housing development.(CM 1.1)
8. The Housing sub-committee supports single-family housing adjacent to commercial corridors to promote general homeownership, especially minority homeownership, as well as mixed-income and more innovative housing. (CM 1.1)
9. The Housing Sub-committee sees the need for increase in amenities, jobs, infrastructure, and public transportation in East Portland to support housing of people in all income levels and to attract more middle and upper income housing.
10. The Housing Sub-committee would recommend prioritizing voluntary Inclusionary Zoning in middle income neighborhoods as one tool to promote mixed-income neighborhoods throughout Portland and to advocate for the City of Portland, Multnomah County and METRO to develop a pilot project for voluntary Inclusionary Zoning within the City/County.
11. The Housing Sub-committee would recommend advocating ending discrimination based on having a Section 8 Certificate, so low income families would have a greater choice on where they could live. The committee supports changing the law at the state level to remove this discrimination.
12. The Housing Sub-committee, after exhaustive research, recognizes that East Portland does not have significantly more tax-exempt housing properties than any other area of Portland, either in numbers or as a fair-share. East Portland does have significantly more “affordable by accident” housing than other parts of the City, but this has nothing to do with properties being tax-exempt or not.
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OPERATIONS 2014-15 Strategic Priority Update
EPAP Operations Committee members advocated for the complete EPAP 2014-15 Strategic Priorities with group meetings, individual follow-up meetings, and written communications with the following municipal elected: Multnomah County: Chair Kafoury, Commissioner Shiprack, and Commissioner
McKeel City of Portland: Mayor Hales, Commissioner Fish, Commissioner Fritz,
Commissioner Novick, Commissioner Saltzman, and Auditor Hall Caballero
EPAP Operations Committee members advocated for METRO–specific 2014 – 15 Strategic Priorities individually with: METRO: Councilor Chase, Councilor Craddick, and Councilor Stacey EPAP Operations Committee members advocated for specific 2014 – 15
East Portland Action Plan (EPAP) Strategic Priorities Fiscal Year 2015-16
Each Strategic Priority listed is followed by Action Plan strategies or item(s) to which it relates.
A. Set a goal that East Portland attains parity with other parts of the city in public
facilities and capital spending; encourage prioritization of projects in East Portland. (EQ.1.4 and EQ.3.2)
B. Institutionalize geographic mapping of City spending. (EQ.1.1) C. Establish an East Portland percentage as an equitable share of any dedicated
set aside for one-time General Fund Resources for repair and replacement of existing Emergency Preparedness, Transportation, and Parks infrastructure. (T .7.2, T.5.1, P.3.1, P.3.2, P.3.4, P.4.3)
D. Fund EPAP advocacy until the Action Plan is implemented: Advocate position,
projects, and operations. (EQ.1.5, EQ.3.1, CB.1.5, and CB.2.1)
E. Engage ethnic communities in neighborhood activities; provide translation/language services to remove barriers and improve messaging and invitations. (CB.1.2)
F. Advocate for increased funding and technical assistance for organizations that
desire to establish or strengthen their Community Health Worker programs. (EC.4.4 and SN.6.2)
G. Fully fund the ‘East Portland in Motion’ (EPIM) strategy, including the 130’s
and 4M greenway projects. (NA.1.3, T.2.2, T.3.3, T.3.6, T.4.7, T.6.2, T.6.5, and T.7.2)
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H. Fund the ‘Outer Powell Conceptual Design Plan’; advocate to make improvements to Powell Boulevard (US 26) east of I-205 a regional priority. Advocate to add cycle-track or protected bike lanes to the project design. (T.4.1, T.4.2, and T.4.15)
I. Prioritize East Portland pedestrian projects that: increase crossing safety on
major arterial roadways; connect to transit, neighborhood schools, and/or are concurrent with new developments. Annually add 15 additional rapid-flashing beacon pedestrian crossings and 15 intersection signal changes with red-light cameras. (T.1.7, T.2.2, T.2.3, T.2.4, T.2.5, T.5.3, and T.6.2)
J. Foster equity in transportation decisions and services: identify and prioritize
East Portland street improvement projects that keep pace with development and serve high-crash intersections and corridors. (I.2.1, I.3.2, T.4.2, T.4.3, T.4.7, T.4.8, T.4.13, T.4.14, T.4.15, T.6.1, T.6.2, T.7.2, T.7.3, and EQ.1.4)
K. Address zoning and design standard recommendations developed in the
‘122nd Zoning Project’, with application throughout East Portland. (CM1.1) L. Connect East Portland residents to family-wage employment outside of the
area by identifying and removing barriers, such as limited transportation options. (EC.4.5 and T.1.2)
M. Maximize East Portland’s economic benefits from public projects. (EC.1.4,
EC.2.3, EC.4.2, CM.1.2, CM.1.3, CM.2.3, and CM.2.7) N. Promote catalyst workforce development projects in East Portland; partner
with the Neighborhood Prosperity Initiatives and other urban renewal and economic development efforts to market East Portland as a place to do business. (EC.4.2, EC.4.4, CM.1.2-.3, and CM.2.7)
O. Establish policy and practice that balances regional affordable housing supply
and promotes fair share across Portland and increase opportunities for minority home ownership. (EQ.2.1 and SN.2.2)
P. Create a housing rehabilitation program to improve the safety and appearance
of existing housing stock. (HD.2.3)
Q. Advocate for resources to assess, acquire, restore, and develop brownfield sites based on neighborhood priorities. (HD.4.2; HD.6.3, P.2.1, P.4.1, NA.4.1, CM.1.2, CM.1.4, CM.2.7, and I.3)
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R. Implement existing Park master plans: Parklane and Clatsop Butte. (P.2.1, P.2.2, P.2.5, and P.2.7)
S. Connect Lava Dome areas to begin "Forest Park East". (NA.3.3 )
T. Complete planning/design work for Gateway Green park. (P4.4)
Involuntary Displacement Prevention Recommendations for East Portland
Civic Engagement Process To Be Applied
When Implementing All Recommended Tools As the East Portland Involuntary Displacement Prevention Tools are being implemented, it is important that the community stay involved to provide leadership and guidance on how to strategically address these community-identified issues and resource allocations. The following* process will actively engage the community as partners in seeking responsible and equitable outcomes in the work to prevent involuntary displacement in East Portland. 1) Provide a wide range of opportunities for involvement, with targeted access and inclusion in decision-
making for those with the potential to be adversely affected by gentrification/livability improvements. 2) Foster ongoing positive relationships between communities and Municipal Governments by ensuring
accountability for improving community well-being and inclusion, and by ensuring adherence to Community Benefit Agreements that should be instituted to support East Portlanders adversely impacted by gentrification/livability improvements whenever possible.
3) Recognize that Municipal Governments have a responsibility to plan for the needs of and engage with
disparately under-served, under-resourced, and under-represented communities, and to prioritize policy mandates based on need, so as to achieve greater equity for those most adversely impacted by gentrification/livability improvements.
4) Expand opportunities for meaningful community engagement and require transparent, well designed,
and thoughtful culturally and language specific and relevant representative and responsive public processes throughout address of the recommended tools: from issue identification, analysis, and project scoping through implementation, monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and enforcement.
*These recommendations are a revision of the “Community-Based Anti-Displacement Recommendations” produced by several community organizations and submitted as input to the Portland Comprehensive Plan Update: February 2015. 5) Build community capacity to increase the community’s meaningful participation, innovation, solution-
making and leadership by allocating adequate resources to realistically accomplish this community involvement outcome.
6) Utilize public comment as part of an equity-based community impact assessment to promote thoughtful
consideration of and mitigation for polices that cause negative disparate impacts, irrespective of intent.
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Recommendations to Be Implemented** not in prioritized order
East Portland Action Plan Civic Engagement Grants Fund the East Portland Action Plan Civic Engagement Grants program that allocates monies for language and racially/ethnically specific projects for those who are under-resourced/served and not normally included in decision making. Utilization of this tool has proven to be a best practice for the East Portland Action Plan’s work in this richly multicultural area.
Living Wage Provisions Additional income will position people to afford rent and housing increases. This will raise income for people who are working, but employers could hire fewer people, though this has not held true in the past. This wouldn’t be helpful to those on fixed incomes or those not employed, but it would be beneficial to the majority, especially the working poor. Statistics reflect that East Portland residents are earning lower wages, so it is thought that this will impact many East Portland residents.
Local Hiring This requires developers and contractors to prioritize hiring locally (defined as from East Portland), as well as hiring women and minorities. This is a component of a Community Benefits Agreement (CBA), which EPAP has already considered and endorsed as benefiting East Portland residents ability to make family-wages. David Douglas School District had 26% minority hiring on the Earl Boyles project. Given the projected development in East Portland, this could have a significant impact on family-wage jobs in the area. **When stating “low-income”, we are referencing households living on 60% or lower median income. Minority Contracting East Portland has the city’s highest percentage of the population identified as "minority", so minority contracting should help employ the East Portland minority population in family-wage jobs and thus prevent displacement. There is no assurance that Minority Contractors will in fact benefit East Portland residents, so this needs to be coupled with Local Hiring and Community Benefit Agreements. Commercial Stabilization and Commercial Rent Stabilization This includes many of the tools the Neighborhood Prosperity Initiatives (NPIs) and Main Street projects are using for economic development, including storefront improvements, targeted business assistance, capital improvements, business attraction, and community-controlled commercial development. The use of Commercial Stabilization and Rent Stabilization can prevent displacement of existing businesses in East Portland, as new companies are drawn to the gentrifying area. Community Reinvestment Act Banks and hospitals have to reinvest in communities within 3 to 5 miles of each facility. This program was federally developed to guide banks to make loans and other community investments available to everyone, especially locally. Communities of color and minorities are disproportionately denied loans. We can advocate for this tool to benefit local, women, and minority business stabilization and growth. It can
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prevent displacement by taking advantage of economic development grants, developing partnerships, and by simultaneously improving an area and financing quality low income housing, business incubators, or other community projects. Commercial Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Projects eligible for financial and development incentive support are funded to increase local access to public transport, and often include design and land use features to encourage transit ridership and limit single-vehicle usage. TOD incentives for business retention and growth near current and planned transit centers can promote development and employment. However, TOD was not recommended for housing purposes that receive tax abatement and have a time limited affordability commitment, unless funding not-for-profit development that will sustain affordability.
Owner-Occupied Homeownership Retention for People with Low -Income As house values rise taxes rise, and people living on limited and fixed incomes are not able to afford the taxes. While benefiting at the point of sale, people cannot afford to stay in their often long-term residences and cannot find another home in the area that does not present the same conditions. Rent Stabilization Just as Oregon has property tax increase protection, Rent Stabilization protects tenants in residential multi-family properties from excessive rent increases by mandating reasonable gradual rent increases, while at the same time ensuring the landlords recieve a fair return on their investment. Just Cause Eviction (JCE), Code Enforcement, and Renter Education Just cause eviction controls are laws that protect renters by ensuring that landlords can only evict with proper cause, such as a tenant’s failure to pay rent or destruction of property. While JCE provides such protections for renters, landlords retain full right to evict a tenant for breach of rental contract. Code Enforcement compels landlords to improve unsafe building conditions. Code Enforcement can ensure that multi-family dwellings are owned and managed responsibly. When housing code violations are found and not corrected, the government can impose significant penalties upon landlords. Rights and responsibilities education for renters must be included as an active component of JCE and Code Enforcement, to ensure the systems are reasonably monitored and enacted. Broadening Homeownership and Cooperative Ownership This establishes programs to increase opportunities for low-income households to have the opportunity to purchase a home. It means that some of the barriers to homeowners are removed so that homeownership becomes easier for groups of people who are often unable to purchase homes for themselves. Cooperative Ownership of multi-family developments occurs when a group of people form a collective business corporation to share ownership of a building. Co-op members work together to reach mutual goals based on democratic control and decision-making. Co-op members may or may not be residents of the shared ownership building. Inclusionary Zoning This requires developers to make a percentage of housing units in a new residential development available to low and moderate income households. In return developers receive non-monetary compensation in the form of density bonuses, zoning variances, expedited permits, or similar provisions
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that reduce construction costs or promote the developers goals. This can be done in developments with many single-family units or in multi-family developments.
Housing Acquisition Rehabilitation to Insure Affordability This applies public housing dollars to purchase existing multi-family developments in poor condition and to rehabilitate the facility for use as affordable housing to be managed by a public entity or non-profit that serves low-income populations.
No Net Loss/Affordable Housing Preservation Ordinance No Net Loss is when a City has to maintain a fixed amount of affordable housing through preservation, new construction, or other replacement of lost units. The Affordable Housing Preservation Ordinance is the establishment of a policy to ensure that the amount of housing affordable to low and moderate income persons does not decrease over time.
Community Benefits Agreements (CBA) This is a contract with a governmental agency, real estate developer, or other jurisdiction to provide specific benefits to the local community or neighborhood in exchange certain provisions from that community or neighborhood. On public projects, CBAs can be negotiated with the initiating government agency and can be included in a Request For Proposals (RFP) with contractors. With private developers benefits can be negotiated in a contract established with community groups who then accept (or don't oppose) project adjustments. CBAs have funded workforce training, local hiring, childcare access, affordable housing units, re-location stipends, reinforced access to family-wage jobs, and other public benefits.
Anti-Displacement Impact Analysis Impact Analysis is a tool that requires multi-family and commercial developments to provide a pre-build assessment of the effect such development will have on displacement in the area (usually a one-mile radius).
For more information about the displacement prevention tools, consult the following: ‘Mitigating Displacement Due to Gentrification: Tools for Portland, Oregon’: https://wikis.uit.tufts.edu/confluence/download/attachments/37718593/Thesis_Eunice_Kim_2011_final.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1321809955000; ‘Not In Cully Anti-Displacement Strategies’ report: http://www.pdx.edu/usp/sites/www.pdx.edu.usp/files/A_LivingCully_PrinterFriendly_0.pdf; Policy Links: http://www.policylink.org/equity-tools/equitable-development-toolkit/all-tools; 2013 Gentrification and Displacement Study: http://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/article/454027 .
EAST PORTLAND ACTION PLAN www.eastportlandactionplan.org East Portland Neighborhood Office
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To: Title 11 Oversight Committee From: Jim Labbe, Audubon Society of Portland Re: Comments on interim administrative rule Date: August 12, 2015 In order to more effectively achieve the urban canopy targets sooner, enhance the quality of the urban forest and optimize the benefits trees provide, and to more-fully account for the capital cost of trees as green infrastructure in the City’s capital improvement budgets, we believe City should develop a tree replacement/mitigation policy in this administrative rule based on at least three principles:
• Replacement of City-owned trees and trees in the public right-of-way must meet a higher,
exemplary standard.
• Tree replacement standards should strive to fully compensate for the environmental functions provided by the trees removed in short and long-term. In other words, the environmental function and value of the trees planted should be functionally equivalent to the function and value of the trees removed.
• The City should require planting or fee in-lieu such that trees are planted in locations and with soil conditions where they have the best potential to grow to be large healthy trees in the future.
Base on these principles, we recommend the following: I. Purpose of Administrative Rule The purpose of this administrative rule as outlined on page 3 is very narrow relative to the City-wide tree project purpose and goals. The stated purpose of the Administrative Rule is to “ensure a reasonable, fair, and simple permit system,” “limit permitting costs,” and to be more “efficient” but it is not clear for whom or to what end. In contrast, the purpose of the Citywide Tree Project in establishing a “reasonable, fair, simple” permit system is explicitly and directly linked to helping “meet urban forest management goals and canopy targets” (City Wide Tree Project Report, pg. 46). This more explicit purpose is notably absent from the Administrative Rule. Moreover the purpose of the Administrative Rule does not incorporate by reference the broader purpose of the Title 11 “to enhance the quality of the urban forest and optimize the benefits that trees provide.” Simplicity, efficiency, fairness, and cost reduction are worthy goals but without the broader environmental policy goals of the City Wide Tree project, the administrative rule allows for broad policy changes that undermine the origin intent of the City Wide Tree project. All the above goals should be included in any Administrative Rule. II. Tree Replacement on Private Land in Non-Development Situations Correcting Inequity between Type A and B Permits The administrative rule allows unmitigated tree loss in some Type B permits and creates disparities between permit types. Currently Type A permit applicants are required to mitigate tree removal tree-for-tree. However administrative rule REQUIRES waving of all mitigation requirements when inch-per-inch mitigation is triggered under a Type B permit and the site already meets tree density standards. In these instances a public or private landowner applying for at Type B permit would not even have to replace a tree tree-for-tree. This is unfair to the majority of homeowners who are required to replace smaller and fewer trees at 1-to-1 under a Type A permit. It also misses an opportunity to replant a tree where possible and appropriate. The expectation for Type A and B permits should be the same: required replacement of all trees at least 1-for-1. We agree it is appropriate to allow the City Forester to wave this requirement if in either situation if the site already meets density requirements and there is no place to plant a tree.
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Cap on Single Family Residential Mitigation Fees The Administrative rule calls for a fee-in-lieu of mitigation cap of $1200 on "privately owned property developed with a single family residential dwelling." This appears to means someone with one dwelling and several acres of trees would still only have a $1200 cap per tree. We think this is inadequate to compensate the loss of large tree groves occurring on larger lots that have functional values beyond the functions provided by single trees. Any mitigation cap in non-development situations should only apply to single family homes on fully developed lots. City Forester should retain discretion to establish tree mitigation requirements that fully account for the loss of large healthy trees large undeveloped parcels, even if they include a single-family home. Inclusion of fee in administrative rule It is our understanding $1200 in the fee schedule has been deemed to be equal to the current cost of planting and ensuring the survival of two trees for two years. This cost will surely go up over time. The administrative rule does not account for future cost increases. The specific fee amount should not be in the administrative rule. III. Tree Replacement Requirements for Street Trees in Non-Development Situations The City already allows limits street tree removal to situations where the tree is nuisance, dead or dying, or otherwise a situation when the existing street tree is clearly the wrong tree in the wrong place. Therefore if street tree removal is properly approved it is desirable from a public policy perspective. For these reasons we agree the street tree replacement standard in non-development situations should be 1:1 regardless of the minimum density requirement. This will encourage individuals to remove undesirable street trees and plant street trees better suited to the site and therefore more likely to achieve Urban Forest Management Plan goals. IV. Tree Replacement Requirements for Street and City Trees in Development Situations and City Trees in Non-Development Situations We recommend revising the administrative rule by applying the tree replacement (outside environmental zones) similar to those proposed to the Urban Forestry Commission and the Planning and Sustainability Commission in February 2010. This approach proposed tree replacement ratio range (minimum to maximum) graduated by the size of tree removed that the City Forester could require. Based on this approach, below are potential tree mitigation ratios for City trees in development and non-development situations and street trees in development situations. Table 1 City Tree Replacement Standards in Development & Non-Development Situations Size of City Tree Removed Minimum Replacement Maximum Replacement Nuisance: 3”+ or <3” 1 Tree 1 Tree 3”<12” 1 Tree 3 Trees 12<20” 2 Trees 6 Trees 20<30” 3 Trees 9 Trees 30”+ 4 Trees 1 Tree per 2” diameter All trees planted could count toward meeting on-site density requirements. Diseased, dead, or dying trees would not be exempted and should require 1:1 replacement as is required throughout the rest of the code. Table 2 Street Tree Replacement Standards in Development Situations Size of Street Tree Removed
Minimum Replacement Maximum Replacement
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Nuisance: 3”+ None 1 Tree <3” 1 Tree 1 Tree 3”<12” 1 Tree 2 Trees 12<16” 1 Tree 3 Trees 16<20” 2 Trees 4 Trees 20”+ 3 Trees 1 Tree per 5” diameter All trees planted could count toward meeting on-site density requirements. Diseased, dead, or dying trees would not be exempted and should require 1:1 replacement as is required throughout the rest of the code. V. Soil Volume Requirement for Street Trees in Development Situations Table 2 prescribes lower tree mitigation ratios for Street Trees to account for the more limited opportunities to replant within a right-of-way. However if a given streetscape lacks adequate space to plant more trees the solution should be to create more space for trees to grow large and healthy. Therefore we believe the City should establish a soil volume requirement for street tree replacement in development situations to enable the street trees that are planted to grow larger and healthier within the streetscape. The City of Tigard has developed street tree soil volume standards based on the Casey Trees “Tree Space Design” guide.1
The City of Toronto has a even more ambitious soil volume standard requiring street trees to be planted in a minimum of 15 m3 (529 ft3) of high quality soil per tree if in a shared planter, and a minimum volume of 30 m3 (1,059ft3) of soil per tree if in a single planter.
1 Casey Trees, Tree Space Design, http://caseytrees.org/resources/publications/treespacedesign/
