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Neighborhood Summit this November
Dear Neighborhood Council Leaders, Community Assembly Reps and Alt Reps:
You’re Invited!
Join us on Saturday, November 4, 2023, for the inaugural Spokane Neighborhood Summit. This FREE Summit is a way for Spokane neighbors to gather around community identified priorities, learn together, and grow practices in their neighborhood councils.
Local leaders will present topics relative to the needs of Spokane neighborhoods. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with neighbors and be inspired and motivated by the efforts of our local community.
Again, the Summit is FREE and open to any current or aspiring member of a Spokane neighborhood council. This half day event will be full of educational workshops, networking, and resources to take home.
If you are the type of person who loves to learn about new topics, exchange best practices, meet new people, and wants to gain or share the motivation to get involved in your community; then mark your calendars to attend.
Capacity for the Summit will be capped at 100 participants so be sure to reserve your spot when registration opens in September. There is no maximum number of members who can attend from any given neighborhood council, so be sure to loop in your fellow neighbors.
Please share the attached flier with your neighborhood council members to save the date!
Are You Interested in Presenting?
The Office of Neighborhood Services and the Community Assembly’s Building Stronger Neighborhoods Committee are currently seeking proposals from neighborhood leaders to present workshops on a wide range of topics related to neighborhoods.
Many Hands Made Light Work when Weeding the Traffic Circle
On Saturday, May 27th, 12 neighborhood volunteers came together to weed the traffic circle on Northwest Blvd. It was a great group who come out to help which made the work go quickly. They pulled 1,300 pounds of weeds from the traffic island on NW Blvd. We want to thank everyone who pitched in and encourage everyone to come out and help during next year’s weeding day.
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Thanks for the Great Spring Cleanup
We want to thank all of the volunteers and participants in our 2023 Spring Cleanup. It was another successful event!
The cleanup is held from 9 am to noon on the 3rd Saturday of May. The Faith Bible Church generously allows us to use their property.
This year 150 different residences brought waste to the clean up.
We removed 17.32 tons of refuse, 2.62 tons of green waste and 3.27 tons of recycling metal.
Since our first cleanup in 2009, we have removed over 340 tons of waste from our neighborhood.
We so appreciate all the volunteers from our neighborhood council, the Cop Shop and the Faith Bible Church.
There is one volunteer we want to give a special thanks to. Karl Boldt has been an amazing leader of this project since it’s inception. We so appreciation all his years of hard work and dedication.
He is ready to step down from his leadership role. We’re looking for another great volunteer to lead 2024’s cleanup. Please contact us if you’re interested.
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One last chance for Traffic Calming feedback
Following the recent round of public traffic-calming workshops, the City of Spokane has asked for additional input from citizens via a ThoughtExchange survey.
Whether or not you attended those workshops, we’d encourage you to take the survey and weigh in with your own ideas on potential traffic-calming priorities. To do so, click this link. Please note that link is only valid if you live in District 3 (i.e., Northwest Spokane).
As a group, we at the Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council would ask that you consider one particular trouble spot when entering your responses.
Based on direct and ongoing feedback from residents, our council has determined that Euclid Ave heading west from its intersection with Division is our number-one concern for traffic calming. There have been numerous accidents, injuries and property damage as drivers, and especially street racers, turn off of Division onto Euclid at too high a rate of speed and lose control of their vehicle.
However, a speed mitigation project on Euclid was not included on the slate of projects that the City presented at these workshops. (And, if we’re honest, few of the City’s proposed projects addressed the top concerns that our residents have identified in the past.) Therefore we’d appreciate it if you could advocate for your Euclid Ave neighbors when you’re filling out the survey.
You’ve only got until June 23 to take the survey, so please don’t delay if you’d like to see safer routes for everyone across the city. Here is the link to the survey.
And for some background and context on the City’s traffic-calming initiative, there’s a handy one-minute video below.
The results of the survey will be posted on the City’s traffic-calming website after the survey closes on Friday, June 23.