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Wallingford’s Annual Meeting

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Tomorrow (Thursday, May 26) from 6:30 to 8:30 PM the Wallingford Community Council will be holding our annual meeting in the Good Shepherd Center Chapel. Come at 6:30 to meet with many of our fine local organizations and snack on refreshments. As in previous years the organizations will be positioned around the chapel space with literature and the like, kind of like a science fair for neighborhood nonprofits.

The talking starts at 7:00. Local organizations will be invited to speak, and then our featured speaker Mike O’Brien will be discussing the areas he oversees for the Seattle City Council, including the Department of Neighborhoods and Seattle Public Utilities. The Department of Neighborhoods has been taking a disproportionate share of cuts lately and there are questions as to what mission it should have going forward. SPU is handling our fine transfer station rebuild, so Mike is well positioned to see that our neighborhood concerns are met.

8:00 – 8:15: We chat through what the board has been up to in the last year and discuss upcoming issues for the next year, such as finishing the transfer station redesign and the possibility of a merger with the WNO.

8:15 – 8:30: Board candidates for next year get up and introduce themselves, we take questions, and we vote in the new board. If the election is contested then things could run a bit longer, but we’re shooting for an 8:30 wrap up.

 

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Eric

I've lived here since 1998. I spent 13 years at Microsoft as a developer and manager, concurrent with Ballmer's reign. I quit after seeing my third consecutive project cancelled, while my parents needed help, and my wife was getting stressed working at Seattle Public Schools. Since then, I have helped family and community while taking on side projects and volunteer work. I led the renovation of Meridian Playground, helped moderate the South Transfer Station design, helped advance the Green Lake Way road diet, and have guided several transportation and parks projects through neighborhood involvement. I wrote for Wallyhood for a while and was president of the Wallingford Community Council during the great recession, where thankfully, land use was not an issue. I'm an impatient moderate vegetarian who believes in practical win-win solutions.