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Learn about Metro's new grant program

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HazelwoodParks writes "Citywide Parks Team Meeting Thursday, October 18, 2007 7:00 - 8:30 pm

Portland Building Forest Park Conference Room (13th Floor) 1120 SW 5th Ave, Portland

NOTE NEW MEETING LOCATION. It is important that you arrive between 6:45 and 7:10 pm. Because the doors automatically lock at 6 pm, a Park employee must be at the 5th Ave entrance to let participants in. Once she leaves to join the meeting (at 7:10 pm), only city employees with keys will be able to enter the building.

Topic: Metro's mew Nature in Neighborhood Capital Grant Program

Mary Rose Navarro (formerly with Portland Parks and Recreation) will tell us about Metro's new grant program -- the Nature in Neighborhoods Capital Grant Program. Mary Rose was hired by Metro Regional Parks and Greenspaces to administer this grant program, part of the natural areas bond measure passed by voters in November 2006.

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The primary focus of the grant program is to provide funding for "re-naturing" or "re-greening" the more densely developed sections of the metropolitan region. The grant program also targets areas that are park deficient and have significant low-income and/or minority populations.

Projects submitted for funding under this grant program MUST be on publicly-owned land and they MUST have a "capital" component. Mary Rose will explain what that means. She will also explain the application process, which requires applicants to start by submitting a Letter of Interest. We will also have someone from Portland Parks and Recreation to talk about potential partnerships on land they own.

In November, Eileen Argentina and Lisa Turpel will share information about software that permits citizen's to report and track park maintenance needs on-line. The software is currently used by the park department in San Francisco, which has an opportunity to help implement the program in two or three additional cities.

The Portland Citywide Parks Team is an ad hoc citizens group, formed in February 2005. Monthly meetings provide a forum for information-sharing and an exchange of ideas -- and for respectful discourse on park issues and policies. There are also opportunities to network with others who are working and volunteering to make Portland's parks even better than they are today. It's citizen-initiated, citizen-led, citizen-owned, and intended for all Portlanders who care about getting things done in and for parks in Portland.

The Citywide Parks Team meetings are open to anyone. The group doesn't have designated members or a formal committee structure. Interested individuals are encouraged to drop in whenever they can. It's a self-selected, ever-changing group that meets monthly, from 7:00 to 8:30 pm on the third Thursday, in the Forest Park Conference Room at the Portland Building. Attendance has ranges from 5 to 40+ people, depending on the topic.

Sign up for the group's e-mail listserve by sending a blank email message to: Team4PortlandParks-subscribe@yahoogroups.com."

Posted: Thursday October 11, @09:00PM

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