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Jackson Park Trail Design Consultant

Things are continuing to move along…

Friends of Jackson Park Trail posted a Request for Proposals ad in today’s Daily Journal of Commerce for the design consultant. They have a $15,000 budget in grant funds for the design development and this phase should be completed within a 4 -5 month timeline. The deadline to [...]

Pinehurst Community Council Meeting 1/25

The Pinehurst Community Council will he holding its first meeting of the year on January 25th from 7:00PM to 8:30PM at Amante Pizza, 12319 Roosevelt Way NE.

Tentative Agenda:

Quick neighborhood updates

Sidewalk on 115th
Pinehurst Playground shelterhouse renovation
Jackson Park Trail
Northgate stakeholders/rezone
Grant for Eritrean church community meeting space
North Precinct Advisory Council

Planning for Pinehurstfest

Questions: contact the council by email or [...]

Jackson Park Trail – Update from this week’s meeting

From Kate & Katheryn:

Neighbors interested in the Jackson Park Trail held a meeting Tuesday evening, October 27.

The history was discussed, the Golf Course Master Plan was looked at, neighbors interested in selecting the consultant formed a team, as well as neighbors interested in the public outreach role.

The CD that the UW students [...]

Jackson Park Trail Meeting – October 27th

From Kate & Katheryn, Co-Chairs of Friends of Jackson Park Trail:

Hello Jackson Park Trail Steering Committee and Friends:

We have been working with Renee Staton to transfer the leadership role for this fun and exciting project.

We are planning our first meeting to introduce ourselves and get rolling with the next steps:

Consultant Selection and the Public Involvement [...]

New leaders at the helm of Jackson Park Trail design project

Katheryn and Kate

I am excited to announce that two energetic, engaged and generous community members have stepped up to take the lead on Jackson Park Trail.

Thank you to Kate Pedersen & Katheryn R. Seckel for volunteering to facilitate the Jackson Park Trail design project. Kate and Katheryn are in the process of [...]

Jackson Park Trail (drum roll, please!)

Things are moving forward on the Jackson Park Trail design project:

1. We are ready to contract with the City of Seattle on the grant that we were awarded. The grant (along with matching donations and your volunteer time) will pay to hire a design consultant to hold community outreach sessions and develop a design [...]

Jackson Park Trail: Leaders needed for the Steering and Outreach Committees

We are starting to move forward on Jackson Park Trail and need volunteers to help lead the trail design project.

If you would like to be on the steering committee and/or the outreach committee, please e-mail or call (366-9472) me. Responsibilities include:

Selecting, hiring and managing the professional design firm that we will work with [...]

Good news for Jackson Park Trail!

Friends of Jackson Park Trail received notice today that we were awarded a $15,000 Small and Simple Neighborhood Matching Fund grant to design the trail! This was an extremely competitive grant round. Only half of the projects that applied were funded. Thank you to everyone who pledged and donated to the project! [...]

$11,000 for Jackson Park Trail

We are there! Thank you everyone! We have the matching pledges that we need to apply for our grant to design the Jackson Park Trail. We have $11,000 in cash and volunteer hour pledges. And, we already have $2,000 in cash!

I will update everyone once the grant application is formally submitted in February.

Thank you [...]

Update on Jackson Park Trail – We need your pledge!

Unfortunately, we got close to, but did not get all of the formal volunteer pledge forms that we need to apply for our grant. We raised $2,000 in cash and have $3,000 in formal pledges. We still need at least $2,500 in formal pledges. We still plan to apply for the grant and to submit [...]