Brooklyn Neighborhood

Help us Solarize SE Portland!

Last year’s Solarize Portland effort resulted in 120 homeowners working together to build a 350kW clean energy powerplant  (equal to taking 650 cars off the road!) right here on the roofs of SE Portland homes.

Southeast Uplift and Imagine Energy are partnering to offer Solarize SE, Phase II.  Solarize is a community education and solar installation program designed to help southeast Portland homeowners overcome the barriers to going solar at home, including who to hire, how much to budget and where to start.  With Solarize Southeast, interested neighbors will join forces to conquer the process as a team, and realize cost savings with bulk purchasing power.

Free workshops are being held in March and April throughout southeast Portland.  These events will provide information needed to make a sound decision about solar electricity, and inform participants about how the Solarize project works.

Neighbors are invited to participate in this exciting project.  If you would like to install solar electricity on your home please visit www.solarizeSEportland.org for information about upcoming workshops and to find out how to sign up.  We are also looking for people who are interested in spreading the word about this throughout the community.  The more people we get signed up the more cost savings this project can accomplish!  If you are interested in helping to organize your community to solarize please contact Tim O’Neal, Neighborhood Sustainability Coordinator for SE Uplift, at 503.232.0010 x313, or email tim@southeastuplift.org.

Please Attend the Portland Parks and Recreation Budget Hearing!  We need as many people at this meeting as possible to show support for the Brooklyn Park Summer Program which is in danger of the being cut.

When: Wednesday March 3, 6:30-8:00 PM.

Where: Mt. Scott Community Center Click here

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For over thirty years, Craig Montag has acted as coordinator, “camp counselor”, stickball coach, quizmaster, and all-around great guy to dozens of Brooklyn neighborhood kids all summer at Brooklyn Park.  That’s right.  OVER 30 YEARS!

Portland Parks Recreation is making BIG CUTS to the summer programs and Brooklyn Park is one of them.  In the past, Brooklyn residents have always “stepped up to the plate.” If we as a neighborhood, do not act now, we will lose this program.

PLEASE DO WHATEVER YOU CAN TO HELP US SAVE THIS INVALUABLE PROGRAM!

Here’s what you can do!
Email, write or call Nick Fish’s office and tell him what this program means to this community and to our kids.
This may be our only chance, so act now.
Commissioner Nick Fish
1221 SW 4th Avenue, Suite 240 Portland, OR 97204
Email: nick@ci.portland.or.us
Phone: Office Front Desk: 503-823-3589
Office Fax: 503-823-3596

Parks Budget hearing at Mt. Scott Community Center this coming Wednesday, March 3 at 6 – 8:30 pm if anyone would like to go and lobby for Brooklyn’s Program.

WE CAN SAVE THIS PROGRAM WITH YOUR HELP, BUT WE NEED IT NOW!

The Brooklyn and Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Associations wish to share the good news that a commitment to the pursuing a Quiet Zone is clearly spelled out in TriMet’s Conceptual Design Report. See the report at:

Portland-Milwaulkie Light Rail Conceptual Design Report – index to the full report

View the Conceptual Design Report

Clinton Street, Rhine Street and Holgate Boulevard station areas

System Elements and Preliminary Engineering Recommendations

- see page 8 and 9, Quiet Zone

Feel free to attend a Light Rail Open House to learn more about plans for your neighborhood, and to thank TriMet and City stakeholders for taking our concerns to heart. The meeting notices are in the calendar to the left of this post.

Thanks to the Hosford Abernethy Neighborhood Association for this update.

Meeting Time: Wednesday February 10, 6:30 PM

Location: Thelma Skelton Loaves and Fishes Center, 3925 SE Milwaukie Boulevard.

Who We Are: The Brooklyn Action Corps is a neighborhood organization whose purpose is to better the community by working together toward the solution of its social, physical, and economic problems. The Board is active in all that affects the greater good of the Neighborhood.  All members of the community are invited to join the BAC and serve as a volunteer board member. Board membership requires a commitment of 2 to 3 hours per month.  Please come to the board meeting if you’re interested in the neighborhood association or want to join the board.

Please come to the Brooklyn and HAND Neighborhoods Light Rail Stations Discussion Group
Location: Thelma Skelton Loaves and Fishes Center at 3911 SE Milwaukie at Center Street.
Description: Planning and preliminary engineering for the Portland to Milwaukie light rail line is underway. The project may result in significant investment and redevelopment around the stations in the Hosford-Abernethy and Brooklyn neighborhoods. Now is a great time for neighbors to discuss their visions for these station areas with city planners and other agency representatives.
Date/Time: Wednesday, February 3, 6:00 to 7:30 PM

From Southeast Uplift-The Coalition of Southeast Portland Neighborhood Associations

Please join Southeast Uplift for a Southeast Sustainability Network discussion about the role of neighborhood sustainability committees in this effort on Tuesday, January 26, from 6:30-8:30 at 3534 SE Main Street. [Read more →]

The Brooklyn Action Corps is pleased to start the new year with a new community initiative to chart a course for the future Clinton and Rhine MAX light rail stations. 

The first meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, January 6th from 7 pm until 8:30 pm at the Thelma Skelton Loaves and Fishes Center at 3911 SE Milwaukie Avenue.  Area residents, employees, and business owners are welcome to attend. [Read more →]

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