Emerson Garfield

Community Assembly 2013 Report/2014 Goals

January 3, 2014 Emerson Garfield

The Spokesman-Review just published a bite-sized overview of the Community Assembly’s accomplishments over the past year and its goals for 2014. It’s a good chance to see what these volunteer representatives have been doing for their respective neighborhoods when it comes to public safety, land use, pedestrian and traffic improvements, and raising neighborhood awareness. The story also features a graphic that illustrates how the Community Assembly/neighborhood council process works alongside direct citizen engagement to ensure that our individual voices are…

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Status on Traffic-Calming Applications

January 2, 2014 Emerson Garfield

First post of 2014, and we’ve got both good and bad news on previous traffic-calming applications made by the Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council. Let’s start with the good, taken straight from the e-mail we just received from the city: The Emerson Garfield Traffic Calming Application from 2012 for infill sidewalks on the East Side of Adams from Mansfield to Alleyway and on Madison between Mansfield and Alleyway have been chosen by the City Council to be implemented. The project is being…

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Neighborhood Training: Succession Planning (Jan 6)

December 28, 2013 Emerson Garfield

The Office of Neighborhood Services will be holding another event in its successful and informative Neighborhood Training series. This one is on succession planning: that is, how the current group of neighborhood council officers will be replaced by the newly elected group of officers following this year’s voting process (which most councils typically hold in January). Incidentally, Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council holds its annual elections in April. The succession planning workshop will take place on Monday, January 6 from 6 to 7:30pm…

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Traffic-Calming Orientation Tonight (Dec 16)

December 16, 2013 Emerson Garfield

Apologies for the short notice (our neighborhood council is still waiting on being paired with a Web intern to help us post in a more timely fashion), but there’s a traffic-calming orientation tonight, December 16, from 5:30-7pm at City Hall [map]. Traffic calming is a frequent topic at neighborhood council meetings across Spokane. This 90-minute session will bring you up to speed on how you can slow down traffic in your neighborhood. You’ll learn how a stretch of road might…

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Give a Tree for Christmas

December 12, 2013 Emerson Garfield

Pressure of holiday shopping got you down? The City of Spokane Urban Forestry program has a unique gift idea for any of your hard-to-please family members or eco-minded friends: a tree! For $350, Spokane Urban Forestry’s Team Lorax will plant a tree in a Spokane city park in honor of any person, family, group or business of your choosing. It’s cheaper than a statue and has the potential to grow as large as a monument. Plus it helps improve air quality —…

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