The SLOG says that Seattle Public Utilities is considering a rebate to customers who missed more than two trash collections. Read more here.
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Grab some pizza and refreshments (soda, beer, wine) and join us for a discussion with Paul Fischburg from the City of Seattle about pedestrian safety and the status of the sidewalk issue for 115th, 117th and 8th in the Northgate area (map included). Families welcome! The recent snow and slush has made this safety issue even more evident. Please come support your neighborhood. Thursday, January 15th click on image to enlarge
Do you want to meet other families with young children in the neighborhood? Meet up for play dates? Join the new Pinehurst Families Google Group here. I try not to complain in this blog. Negativity is rarely productive. However, this morning I am really mad. Our power went out last night at 9:30 pm. It goes out a lot mainly due to the number of large trees in our part of the neighborhood. And, we are used to waiting patiently for power to come back on. What is different about last night is that I decided to call in the outage because we had an idea of where it started and thought it might help City Light to know where to look. Bad thought. I started calling 648-7400 shortly after the outage started. After going through the outage list and confirming that our outage had not been reported, I entered my phone number to indicate an outage at my house. The computer then told me I needed to talk to a real person but that their center was closed and I would need to call 706-0051. I called 706-0051 (and 684-7400 a few times just for kicks) until 11:45 pm when I fell asleep. The 706-0051 line always dropped my calls (by cell and by land line) and 684-7400 went dead when I got to the point where I would make a report. At 3 am I tried 706-0051 again and was directly connected to a real person – at the water line break hotline. I tried again and got the same person again. He did not have any suggestions of other numbers to try. I called 706-0051 and 684-7400 again at 5 am. No answer. And, I confirmed that our outage was still not showing as reported on the web and on the outage phone line. At 6 am I finally got through to real person and one who was taking power (not water) outage reports. He had just had a call about our outage from a neighbor – 5 minutes before me. The power was back on by 9 am. Should it really take 8.5 hours to report a power outage? We are working on a grant application (due January 12th) that would pay for a professional consultant (likely a landscape design firm) to work with our community to develop a more comprehensive design for Jackson Park Trail. The Seattle Department of Neighborhoods Matching Fund program is very generous and would pay much of the cost for the consultant (estimated to cost between $10,000 and $15,000) if we can match what the city pays in volunteer time and contributions. You can read more about Jackson Park Trail here. And, you can read more about the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods Matching Fund program here. We need to raise about $7,500 in volunteer time pledges (at $15/hour) and/or cash contribution pledges. For folks who can volunteer time, here are some of the ways you could help (timeline, hours):
We already have over $2,500 in pledged cash and volunteer time donations. But, to be able to submit the grant, we need $5,000 more in pledges This is from an older post on crime prevention, but here it is again due to popular demand. Unfortunately, graffiti is on the rise again in Northgate. Graffiti must be removed within 24 hours. You can report graffiti on public or private property (the City will contact the property owner to remind them that it must be removed within 24 hours) by calling the City’s Graffiti Report Line at (206) 684-7587 or use the Online Report Form. Make a police report to (206) 625-5011 when graffiti appears on your property. If you see an act of graffiti vandalism in progress, call 911 immediately. There is an article on car prowls in Seattle in today’s Seattle Times. It happens in every neighborhood. Do you have a neighborhood project that you would like to work on? Funding and other resources are available through the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods. See the flier below (click to enlarge) or go here. And, for more information, contact Ed Pottharst (ed.pottharst@seattle.gov) or Allynn Ruth, 684-0301 or allynn.ruth@seattle.gov
I went out to get the paper just before 9 and was surprised to hear a Waste Management truck on New Year’s Day. They were not originally scheduled to run today, but Alan Dawkins was doing his route removing recycling. Thank you, Alan!
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