Montavilla Neighborhood Association

MNA General Meeting Minutes 07/11/05

MNA Minutes 07/11/05

Montavilla Community Center
8219 NE Glisan St.
Portland, Oregon

Date: 7/11/05
Secretary: David Linn

Montavilla Neighborhood Association
Meeting Minutes

7:00 PM – Introductions
Words of concern from Chair over list-serve messages – there were comments on the neighborhood list-serve about the service of 9-11 dispatches. The chair expressed the hope that people remain civil and productive in the complaints.

7:05 PM – Brandon McGuire – PPB update on recent crime activity in
neighborhood. Explained how recent citizen complaints had helped close a suspected drug house thought to be distributing methamphetamines. He also explained the low priority of noise and nuisance complaints given the level of property and person crimes.

7:20 PM – Neighborhood Watch Discussion – Co-ordination of watches
w/PPB brought up with the idea of a neighborhood watch along and around Halsey St. Galina Grigoryan explained that a number of watch exist but that they are rarely coordinated due to the desired privacy of the people involved. David Linn expressed a desire to list the known watches so the Association could help get people involved with the existing ones or start there own.

7:23 PM – 9-1-1 Presentation – A full outline of the system was given as
well as explaining their relationship with the police. The main issue seemed to be the eventuality of repeated low-priority calls not being addressed, to some, satisfactory. Another issue seemed to be around new internet phone service being routed through very far-off places. Representatives assured us that federal law and company policy was fixing the problem and calls are only rarely misdirected. Questions were around the low-priority of various complaints and the professionalism of dispatchers. The police said there is little they can do about noise complaints, especially if it is anonymous. The company representatives assured us that dispatchers were regularly monitored for the service.

8:13 PM – Introduction of new SEUL staff liaison - Afifa Ahmed-Shafi

8:20 PM – Discussion on Newsletter – desire to put out a quarterly
newsletter with information about the neighborhood.

8:30 PM – SEUL update from Lisa Laurenceau- SEUL elected a new chairperson

8:35 PM – Treasurer update from David Linn

8:45 PM – Vote to give $100 of clean-up profits to SEUL as donation. No one objected to giving some money to SEUL and $100 thrown out as appropriate.
2nded – 5 for – 0 against – 3 abstain

8:50 PM – Meeting Adjourned