We are hoping to work with Sound Transit to explore activities to utilize these spaces. Please show your support for this proposal by signing this petition.

Also, please consider contacting ST to show your support for the proposal — Jeff Munnoch Sound Transit Community Outreach <gro.tisnartdnuos|hconnum.ffej#gro.tisnartdnuos|hconnum.ffej>

Proposal
Dear Sound Transit,

The Capitol Hill Community Council as part of a Sustainable Capitol Hill would like Sound Transit to consider a proposal for a Community Events Space.
The space requested is the former US Bank building on the corner of Denny and Broadway.

Specifically, the Capitol Hill Community Council would like to secure the space for our monthly general meetings on Aug. 21, Sep. 18, Oct. 16, Nov. 20, and Dec. 18.
The Council will also be hosting a Sidewalk Chalk Contest on September 20th and would like to secure the space for the event for artist registration and a winners celebration.

We would also like to request that Sound Transit be open to negotiating use of the space on additional dates for community events hosted by the CHCC and other Arts organizations on the hill, with the understanding that for each new event the organization asking for use of the space would submit more detail about the event to Sound Transit.

This use of space we feel will bring together the following Capitol Hill community organizations, residences and local businesses and Art Organizations, together in a visible public location. Access to this location with public events would counter the visual impact of closed business and vacant areas and help establish a positive relationship with Sound Transit and the new light rail station with its impact on the community.

Please consider this a pilot project in using vacant space and a viable resource in connecting to the community and a chance for various community groups to establish a working relationship with Sound Transit.

We look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Capitol Hill Community Council

Committee chairs should begin outreach and recruiting, set a first meeting date and begin organizing work and projects related to their issue.

Core CHCC Committees

• Communications and Technology: Justin Carder
• Arts: Charlette Lefevre
• Development: Dennis Saxman
• Bylaws: Saunatina Sanchez

Want to lead a committee? Bring a proposal to the council at the next meeting.

Please reply to this post if you would like more information about any of the committees or have suggestions/feedback/ideas.

Agenda
Status
Ratify Ongoing Meeting Schedule Proposal
Committee Discussion
Guest Presentation
Outreach Planning
Open Floor

Status- Justin Carder
President’s welcome- goals, committees and status update.
Goals:
Be a voice for the community and information conduit
Support other neighborhood groups. Grow to help the community.
-Good model to follow is tech start-ups.
-Be able to give grants to community.
-Have a balance of projects, big and small. Goal should be to have one big initiative and lots of smaller ones.
-Get people’s attention and get more participation.
Create opportunities for involvement
-Market days
-Bar sit-downs
-Other community events
Reestablish finances… We need money for better resources and to help out the community like giving grants.
We need to reach out to experts in the areas we are working on to get things done.
Need involvement! Need to inspire people to get off the computer.

Finances- Hong Chhuor
We have $2211 in the CHCC Bank of America account.
$30 will be paid to the State of Washington to renew our non-profit status.
Officers can withdraw $100 or less for petty expenses.
People can donate directly to the Council with a check to Capitol Hill Community Council.

Recent Accomplishments- Justin Carder
We had an election! Good participation of officers and voters. One of the races was actually contested.
Good coverage in the Capitol Hill Times.
Capitol Hill Garage Sale was small but hopefully will grow next year.
Art sub-committee met.

Ongoing Meeting Schedule- Justin Carder
Officers recommended Monthly meetings, every third Thursday, beginning at 7pm with possible rotating venues.
Community discussion followed about the rotating venues.
-Why rotating venues?
-It’s a big hill and we should move to represent that.
-Might be hard to keep track of venue.
-We don’t have a permanent home. We need to find a place that works, size-wise, that fits us. A change of venue might be healthy to get to know the hill.
-Why aren’t people happy with SCCC?
-Rooms aren’t inviting, hard to navigate. Parking is difficult.
-Going to a coffee house might encourage more community members to come out, instead of sterile environment. Meetings can be dry and boring.
-A permanent/regular location is good for predictability.
-Rotating can be good to be visible and get people involved that wouldn’t ordinarily come to a meeting. Support local businesses when we meet.
-We presence helps. People can look at website to find location and encourage participation.
-Regular location is good. Coffee house is too loud.
-Mixer afterward might be a better idea than having the meeting in a coffee house.
-Could set location for 6 months to a year then rotate.

Proposal Motioned: Meetings will be held monthly, 3rd Thursday, 7pm start, set venue. SCCC will be location while other locations are looked at.
Vote called, unanimous approval.

Charlette motions for guests to go before Committee Discussion. No second.

Committee Discussion
Everyone can recommend committees.
Officers came up with a preliminary list based on community thoughts:
Arts
Events
Development
Safety
Fundraising
Bylaws
Communications and Technology

Discussion follows
-Arts. Capitol Hill has a vibrant arts community. Lots of ideas from meeting earlier in the month. Promote art walk more, chalk art contests.
-How can we incorporate more people to be involved?
-Community events, taking on 1-2 events a year to boost CHCC image. Getting other Capitol Hill organizations involved is important.
-Cultural overlay, part of the city plan to protect arts. Is committee going to be involved in those events or separate?
-Keeping it ground level. Don’t want duplication, but important Council does its own events. Ties into fundraising.
-These are ambassador opportunities. Officers will only be partly involved in most committees. We need leaders outside of officers.
-Officers have limited time, expanding the board to have more members. Has the council discussed this?
-We’re starting with getting council moving first, then we’ll discuss board issues.
-Need at least one person to lead a committee.
-Strength of council is committees. Brings in a larger scope of involvement of the community.
-Events, may have lots of overlap with other committees. Might be a good idea to make it a focus of different committees.
-Development, committee with the most interest expressed during steering committee. Lots of opportunities for input.
-Need to have some committee meetings before next Council meeting.
-History and Cultural Heritage committee suggested.
-Parts of development issues: neighborhood plan, new construction, traffic and transportation.
-Transit might need to be its own committee.
-This discussion is about getting issues people have with these areas and getting people together to deal with them
-We’re racing ahead, going too fast. It matters how community is formed and that everyone has a voice.

Pause from discussion
Officer Introductions (a little late)
Purpose of the CHCC from the bylaws is read.

Back to discussion
-Need to frame interest before committees form. Why are we meeting? What do people want? Group needs to discuss what council is known for before we direct council.
-We need to get the ball rolling somewhere.
-Safety committee, fuzzy idea. Maybe working with city. Charlette will be contact for now.
-Fundraising committee, Justin will be contact for now.
-Bylaws committee volunteers: Saunatina will be contact, Justin, Charlette, Dennis, Kristin, Tony.
-Communications and Technology will be mainly involved with web presence. Phil, Justin, Saunatina.
-Homeless Committee suggested.
-Homelessness could be a facet of community like youth or seniors… apart of outreach?

If any other ideas about committees come up, email Justin Carder: moc.liamg|redracnitsuj#moc.liamg|redracnitsuj

Guest Presentation
Barbara Luecke, Start Program Manager & Jeff Munnoch, Link Outreach.
-PowerPoint presentation. Overview of impact to Capitol Hill.
http://www.soundtransit.org/x1756.xml
-Buildings will be demolished after the 1st of the year, 2009.
-Station will open in 2016.

Question/Answer took place after presentation. Discussion about the effects the construction will have on the community and artwork proposed for the site.
There is a proposal to use one of the empty spaces on Broadway for community events. Sound Transit has requested more information to be able to grant use of the buildings, but community needs to know it can use the space before having more information. Liability has prevented Sound Transit’s approval of people coming into the spaces.

Open Floor
-There will be a Sustainability Festival at Volunteer Par on July 20th from 11am -4pm.

Meeting Adjourned.

Thursday, June 26th, 7p to 9p
Room 3211 at SCCC, 1701 Broadway

• Status (15 mins)

* President's welcome
* Finances
* Nonprofit status
* Recent accomplishments

• Ratify ongoing meeting schedule proposal (5 mins)

* Monthly, third Thursdays, 7p start, rotating venues

• Committee discussion (20 mins)

* Arts
* Events
* Development
* Safety
* Fundraising
* Bylaws
* Communications & Technology

• Communications technology near-term strategy (20 mins)
• Guest presentation: Sound Transit station art — Barbara Luecke, STart Program Manager & Jeff Munnoch, Link outreach (10 mins)
• Station art Q&A and discussion (20 mins)

* Vote on taking position of support/no support for station art design

• Outreach planning (15 mins)

* Schedule of Broadway farmers' market appearances
* Charlette organizing participation in the 6/28 Dyke March http://www.seattledykemarch.com/
* Pride events

• Open floor (15 mins)

• Arts
• Events
• Development
• Safety
• Fundraising
• Bylaws

What else should we consider? What committees would you like to be part of?

The following items were offered by community members and passers by at the June 1st Broadway Farmer's Market. This is a great start. What other ideas do you have? Help the Council identify priorites, what are your top 2-3 priorities?

*Sound Transit construction
*lock up spray paint
*walkable sidewalks (debris, vegetation, broken concrete)
*surveillance cameras @ Cal Anderson (someone wrote in "Ditto")
*playground in Tashkent Park
*keeping arts & artists on Hill
*lower parking requirements
*public safety
*homelessness
*connections to other neighborhoods & development
*litter
*affordable housing
*an appropriate venue for graffiti art/street art
*expand market (farmer's, I presume)
*put an end to Pike/Pine being a haven for beggars
*neighborhood block parties
*support small & affordable retail spaces
*involvement and coordination with neighborhood businesses

cover letter
application

Surely this issue should be discussed at the 2008 CH Community Council election on June 5th at 6:30p @ upper level CHAC.

Perhaps we can incorporate a fountain element or birdbath.

1. The URL includes CHCC so that should be component
2. Definitely needs to include Capitol Hill
3. Should not include wiki because label is not accurate and could be confusing to non technical audience
4. Ideally would suggest value to Capitol Hill as whole, not just CHCC business
5. Main title and sub-label need to be short enough not to wrap/pass under navigation tabs

I can't really come up with a good way to incorporate all of these factors but I think everything but factor 4 is solved by:
Title: Capitol Hill Community Council
sub-label: a community site

Thoughts? I'd rather not churn on this forever but do want to get some consensus.

I really like Wikidot but I've found a problem with it that might be a deal-breaker for a site intended to be created by and available to our community: heavy use of JavaScript making much of Wikidot unusable by text-mode browsers and thus, unusable by screen reader software. I posted a comment about this on the Wikidot Community Forum.

It's not just the spiffy drop-down menus and AJAX features that are missing without JavaScript — it's impossible to create an account or login to a Wikidot site without it.

See also: W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative, WAVE Accessibility evaluation of chcc.wikidot.com