Fauntleroy Community Association
Business Meeting
March 13, 2007

Bruce Butterfield, President called the meeting to order at 7pm at the Fauntleroy School. In attendance were Phil Sweetland, Vlad Oustimovitch, Gary Dawson, Vickie Schmitz-Block and V.P./Secretary Kim Petram.

The minutes from the February meeting were reviewed and approved.

Debrief of Information Meeting Board members reviewed the outcome of the March 1st informational meeting held for the community with Deputy Mayor Tim Ceis. Minutes from the meeting were reviewed and will be posted on the FCA web-site. Advertising and community outreach for the meeting seemed to be adequate. Positive feed back was received regarding the format of the meeting. Tim Ceis promised responses to questions unanswered at the meeting. Thus far, responses have not come in. Bruce Butterfield will follow up with S-DOT and with the mayor’s office. Suggestions to improve the meeting process would be to solicit feed-back from the informational table participants.

Budget for 2007 Phil Sweetland presented data for a 2007 budget. The board was to review the proposal and report back by email to Phil. Martha Callard proposed to move the $50 nature event fund into the general miscellaneous fund. Bruce Butterfield seconded and the motion was passed by the board. Vicki Schmitz-Block moved to pass the budget as proposed with Vlad Oustimovitch seconding. Motion passed by the board.

Future Board Members It was suggested that Ann Dunbar be asked to join the board. Bruce Butterfield will speak with Ann with the board’s approval. Bruce will also call Martin Westerman and Chuck Sawyer regarding their willingness to remain on the board. Martha and Vicki suggested asking contacts they are aware of to consider joining the board and/or attending a few monthly business meeting for evaluation.

Food Fest/Annual Meeting The proposed date is set for Wednesday, May 23rd. Bruce will confirm with David Haggerty that this date is confirmed for hall reservation. It was agreed that the invited participants should be the same as last year. It was unanimously agreed that Lynn Olson be requested to assist with project management of the event. A potential new community group will be the expanded Mosquito Water Taxi proposal supported by Vlad Oustimvitch. Vlad will be the contact for this group.

Southwest District Council Vlad reported on the outcomes of Council member Jan Drago and S-DOT’s presentation to the SWDC at their March meeting. Vlad reported that Jan was positive regarding potential water taxi growth. As well, Senator Poulson has agreed to solicit funding for the newly proposed water taxi site and expanded growth. As well, Vlad reported on the town house development near the Gatewood Baptist Church. The developer bypassed regulation on posted signage/required neighborhood notification by piece-mealing regulatory requirements which allows developers to bypass community notification of building proposals, exemptions to public improvement/mitigation to the sites. Vlad is communicating with the city regarding this issue. This will be a case study of one developer’s bypassing of regulations which now appears to be established practice throughout the Seattle DPD‘s review process.

Treasurer Phil Sweetland sent the proposed monthly report by email to the board.

Ferry Advisory Gary Dawson reported on tariff policy issues. The second Coleman dock citizen advisory meeting will be held this week. Gary will follow up with information from Tim Ceis based on passenger traffic/Southworth traffic to Coleman. The next Ferry Advisory meeting will be at the Hall at Fauntleroy on May 8th.

Neighbors Newsletter Martha Callard reported on information for the next newsletter. This will include articles soliciting new members to the organization, the new sculptures at the remodeled Southwest library, a recap of the community meeting and the upcoming Food Fest. The approximate deadline for articles will be May 5th for delivery by May 17th.

The meeting concluded at 9pm by Bruce Butterfield.