MOSS BAY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION

Agenda
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• 0:40 - Karissa Smith, the city's Emergency Preparedness Coordinator, told us how we can prepare for emergencies like earthquakes, snowstorms, and power outages.
• 32:00 - Allison Zike from Kirkland's planning department gave a presentation on the NE 85th St Station Area Plan and how you can share your thoughts and ideas with the city.
• 48:57 - Our chair, Brad, walked us through our neighborhood's pedestrian and bicycle safety project ideas for this year's Neighborhood Safety Program. Take our survey to let us know which one you like the best!

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Our second fully virtual meeting!

Agenda

• (3:36) Fire and Emergency Medical Services property tax measure - Fire Chief Joe Sanford and City Manager Kurt Triplett
• (42:30) An update from Google - Ian Goodhew, Head of Gov. & External Relations at Google for the Pacific NW Region
• (57:26) City of Kirkland Update: COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, and budget - Assistant City Manager Jim Lopez and City Manager Kurt Triplett
• (130:44) Kicking off this year's Neighborhood Safety Program project - Brad Haverstein, Moss Bay Board Member
• (135:33) An update on developer activity in Moss Bay - Leslie Keller, Moss Bay Board Member

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Kirkland has posted a video of its June 4th workshop on the NE 85th St Station Area Plan. In the video city staff and consultants explain some ideas for how the city might redevelop the area the area around the BRT station being built at I-405 and NE 8th St, and community members talk about their hopes and desires for the area's future.

Learn more and provide your own feedback by June 16th in the city's online open house.

May was our first ever completely virtual meeting!

Agenda
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• 0:00 (-1:15:53) - Presenters from SRM shared some announcements about how the area near the Google campus will be developed for business and public use.
• 30:02 (-45:52) - An officer from the Kirkland Police Department gave us an update on policing, crime, and homelessness and how these topics have been impacted by COVID-19. 
• 50:03 (-25:51) - Samantha St. John from the Chamber of Commerce talked about how local businesses are faring and what residents can do to support them.
• 1:05:22 (-10:31) - Neighborhood updates and announcements
  • Bea Nahon told us about a new task force working on ideas for using outdoor space to help businesses safely operate.
  • Brad gave us an update on the Moss Bay Neighborhood Safety Program grant.

Officer Elections
May is the month when we do our annual election of officers to the Moss Bay board. Normally we would vote in-person at the meeting. Instead, this year we'll be sending a survey out to our email list later this week which you can use to register your vote. Here are the people running for officer positions:

1. Chair: Brad Haverstein
2. Co Chair: Uzma Butte
3. Treasurer: Leslie Keller
4. Secretary: Aimee Voelz
5. Member at Large position 1: Bea Nahon
6. Member at Large position 2: Don Winters

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​How did the online meeting work for you? Let us know by emailing us at [email protected].

Since we weren't able to meet in March we're bringing some of the content to you online. Thank you to everyone for social distancing! We'll get through this together.

​Big Changes Coming to Our Public Transit
In this two part video series our co-chair Brad talks about big changes coming to our neighborhood's public transit on March 21st.

The first video focuses on what's changing with the 255 and what you need to know to take public transit to downtown after 3/21.

In the second video we learn what's changing with the bus routes from downtown Kirkland to Juanita, Totem Lake, Kenmore, Bothell, Woodinville, Redmond and Bellevue. The end of the video also covers two future projects coming in 2024: RapidRide K Line and Swift BRT.

You can find more info on the King County Metro website.

Join the Moss Bay Board
We're looking for volunteers interested in helping run the Moss Bay Neighborhood Association. In this video our co-chair Brad talks about what it means to be a board member and what kind of work board members do.

Interested? Let us know in the comments or send us an email at [email protected].
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Stay Safe and Let Us Know If This Is Helpful
Are these videos helpful for you? Let us know by emailing us at [email protected]. We're looking into options for live streaming completely virtual meetings in the future and hope to have more to share by our May meeting.

Our January meeting was cancelled due to snow. We're working on bringing you some of the same great presentations in March. See you then!