Greetings and Happy New Year to all – friends and neighbors of Riverview, Highland Park, and South Delridge and looking forward to the upcoming Lunar New Year of the green wood Dragon!
HPAC announces our first gathering of 2024. We are meeting this month in person on Wednesday the 24th at the Southwest Library Branch, the meeting begins at 6:30- and will conclude by 7:45. This is a bit earlier than usual, due to the library open hours. We promise to have some snacks on hand for any coming directly from work. We know that location is a bit far from our parts of West Seattle, but we are trying out some alternative places to meet this year while the HPIC hall goes through rebuilding!
Seattle Public Utilities staff working on the Holden Natural Drainage System project at 17th and SW Holden will update meeting attendees on their work adding a swale and natural drainage to this area, as well as improving traffic safety on SW Holden. Here’s a link to their webpage.
Marcus White, co-chair of the City of Seattle Community Involvement Commission has generously offered to come and talk about the commission and their work. The Community Involvement Commission advises the Mayor, City Council, and the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods on equitable public engagement strategies with a focus on underrepresented communities.
Your HPAC eboard is also working to have representation from the new Cares Team branch of 911 as well as an officer from Seattle Police Department in attendance, schedules permitting.
Looking forward to meeting and seeing folks in person – hope you can make time to attend. Bring your ideas and concerns!
General Announcements:
We encourage all who may not have heard about this opportunity to comment on the Public Art component of the West Duwamish Wet Weather Storage Facility to do so by Jan. 26. Artist Ann Marie Schneider was selected to create the piece. This art will be a part of the fencing that King County will have around the facility to protect the installation, but it will also be a great opportunity to express public hopes and dreams for a cleaner, healthier Duwamish River.
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Will this be streamed and/or recorded? Please consider doing so, so that all members of the community can participate, even those who may be disabled or otherwise unable to attend in person.
Hi SP, we can take notes and post if that helps. We are not set up for recording at this time, but can try to improve this in the future. Ideally doing a hybrid meeting – we just don’t have that tech currently.