Hello,

This is your monthly announcement for the HAND board meeting on Tuesday Nov 11 at 7PM at St Philip Neri at 16th & Division.  We meet in the building on the NW corner of the parking lot.

It’s feeling very frenetic.  The People’s Depot, which we discussed at the last meeting, continues apace, and we’ll be discussing what we want to see in a Good Neighbor Agreement, as well as deciding whether to send a letter asking our state senator/representative to help us slow things down.  The Oregonian also reported that City Council is considering cutting the city’s Impact Reduction Program fairly significantly.  If they do, it will reduce the city’s ability to attend to their commitments on the Good Neighbor Agreement with the Clinton Triangle shelter site, and will also make it harder for them to help us with any impacts from The People’s Depot should they arise.  Therefore, we’ll be discussing a letter asking our D3 reps not to make those cuts, which could get voted on as early as Wednesday.  The proposed text of the two letters is below.

Finally, we’ll be hearing from our neighborhood’s NET team — these are the volunteers who will help us in the event of a major emergency such as an earthquake.  Two NET members will be telling us a bit about what they do and how to get involved.  It’s a really interesting program many of us know nothing about.

Hope to see you on Tuesday,

Chris