Please comment on this post if you would like to pledge volunteer hours. I will then send our total combines hours to Chas and the Dept. of Neighborhoods.
This message just in from Chas Redmond:
The West Seattle trails project has put in a large neighborhood matching fund grant to provide funding up front for all 23 wayfinding stations and the associated 150, or so, on-street direction signs (think trail markers). The Department of
Neighborhoods is working with us to prepare the grant for CNC appraisal and voting. They have (DON) also requested that we work with the community councils where these kiosks and street signs would be located to build up the number of pledges for community support to help match the grant.
The Junction will have one of the 23 kiosks, probably to be located in the new Junction Park, but that element is one of the items to be addressed by JuNO and the trails project in the planned charrettes. An appropriate and as-yet-to-be-located number on on-street signs will be in the Junction area also. Seattle DOT and DON and DPD have worked together to create on-street signage which will be owned and maintained by SDOT but which would be paid for and located by this present grant request.
I’m asking Junction Neighborhood Organization to consider the attached letter and community support pledge sheet and if the
community sees fit, to return the letter and pledge sheet to me so I can attach this to the grant application for its final review. The deadline for the grant submittal is April 13, so this is rather short notice I realize.
The letter is an attempt on my part with Feet First’s help to round up the number of hours we need in each community. We would greatly appreciate your support but also understand that this may come prior to your next council meeting and therefore may put the council in a situation where you all feel you would like to support this but can’t without membership concurrence. In that case, would you consider a letter of support written in general terms and just leaving the pledge sheet blank?
I apologize for the short timing on this. We (Feet First and me and DNDA) were caught a bit by surprise when our grant request made it past the first round of DON reviews and so we’ve been scrounging for the past two weeks to find matching hours throughout the Southwest District Council area.
As you’ll see from the letter, the process we’re aiming for will involve several charrettes in each neighborhood area and several more peninsula-wide charrettes. The process would take place this Spring through Fall and will include specific charrettes for the incorporation of local art into each separate kiosk.
Thanks for your and the Junction Neighborhood Organization’s past support and for any consideration you all can bring to this current request.
Chas Redmond
attachments:
1- sample letter of support
2 - DON pledge document


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http://homepage.mac.com/credmond/multimedia.html <-Multimedia Projects
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