We will also have election of Board members.  Anyone who has lived in Bellingham for a year and is a resident of Birchwood Neighborhood or owns a business in the Neighborhood is eligible to run for a Board position.  A Board member’s term of office is three years.  The Board meets once a month.  Please contact Becky Schlotterback, rebecca.schlotterback@comcast.net  if you are interested or have questions.

Rebecca Schlotterback, BNA Treasurer, 2611 Lafayette, Bellingham, WA 98225.  

Stephen Trinkaus, owner of Terra Organica at the Public Market on Cornwall Ave., has generously offered match your donations for the portable toilet. 

Thank you all for your support!

KulshanCLT wants everyone to have accurate information and wants anyone who is interested to become involved in future discussions and meetings that KulshanCLT will be hosting. Meeting dates will be announced through the Birchwood Neighborhood Association website and by other means. 

As you will understand, many Birchwood residents, but not all residents, had a chance to participate in the prior KulshanCLT’s meetings with neighborhood residents in 2009 and 2010, which included the informal KulshanCLT meetings in fall 2009, the City of Bellingham Hearing Examiner process in early 2010, and regular Birchwood Neighborhood Association meetings when Paul Schissler provided updates from KulshanCLT.

Site planning with neighborhood involvement will begin in 2011, with informal meetings where everyone will be invited to participate. In the meantime, for anyone who has questions, KulshanCLT staff would like to hear and answer those questions. Also, KulshanCLT staff would like to hear all concerns, suggestions or ideas that anyone would like to share.

KulshanCLT staff will be willing to meet with neighborhood residents and others, if that would be helpful. Please call or email to set up a time to meet with KulshanCLT staff or to learn more about the development.  KulshanCLT can be reached at (360) 671-5600 and at 215 W. Holly St., Suite H-20 in downtown Bellingham. Also, feel free to contact project manager Paul Schissler at PaulSchissler@KulshanCLT.org and (360) 671-5600 extension 102, or Executive Director Dean Fearing at DeanFearing@KulshanCLT.org and extension 106.

More information is also available at the Birchwood Neighborhood Association website at http://www.birchwoodneighborhood.org/  and at the City of Bellingham’s website at www.cob.org by searching on the word Kulshan.

KulshanCLT asks that you please help dispel rumors and circulate accurate information about KulshanCLT by encouraging anyone with questions to contact KulshanCLT (contact info above.)  On behalf of the members, staff and board of KulshanCLT, thank you for helping to make a great neighborhood, Birchwood, an even better neighborhood by participating in civil society.

Details: Call Howard Orlean, EPA superfund project manager, at (206) 553-2851, or JeanneO'Dell, community involvement coordinator, at (206) 553-6919.More on the cleanup: Go online to go.usa.gov/ltk and scroll down to Little Squalicum Creek.

PARK USE LIMITED

Beginning the first week of August, the main trail through Little Squalicum Park will be closed to the public during the Environmental Protection Agency's cleanup of polluted Little Squalicum Creek. That trail starts at Bellingham Technical College and ends at Little Squalicum Beach.

Another side trail will be closed for parts of the cleanup. Beach access will be affected as well.A detour route will be marked and warning signs will be posted during the cleanup, which is expected to last about six weeks.

The park will not be closed during the cleanup, as EPA indicated in a postcard sent out about an Aug. 5 open house to discuss the cleanup.  Details: 778-7000.

Read more: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2010/07/23/1537797/epa-plans-to-start-cleanup-of.html#ixzz0uWkpNXGj

Random Sample Survey Results: http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=6Wfjr1ZtWrc0mkQz2oSZNTBdP3mUkDgJvyXosksir2s_3d

Volunteer Survey Results: http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=JgGue_2bi9T6iMEH9fNsNG3YDG2n4CsD8AhGWJg8La5vk_3d

If you would like to take the Birchwood Neighborhood survey, click on the link below:

Volunteer Survey Link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=mU7YZ807kTJtCnDV9MLmpg_3d_3d .

http://www.cob.org/documents/planning/growth/2009%20NPA/n1-plan-staff-version.pdf 

A group of Birchwood and Columbia residents that formed to work on safety issues in Little Squalicum Park will discuss the actions they have taken so far, and the responses, including the Port’s decisions to increase patrols and add signs regulating use of the area. The audience will view a large map showing the jurisdictional mix, and hear how that has perpetuated problems. The city planning department’s report on possible annexation of the area is expected to be finished and also available for discussion. An additional issue is the past contamination of the creek and plans for cleaning it up.

The session will be held at Bellingham Technical College (BTC), Haskell Center, room 108 A and B. The vice president for administrative services at BTC, Debra Jones, will also attend, Parking is available in the visitor lot off Nome Street and in the staff lot off Lindberg Avenue. Haskell Center is located along Lindberg Avenue, between Buildings H and F.

For more information, contact Edie Norton at 360-527-9101

The meeting is being held to inform residents of the proposal and to invite comments and questions before the application for land use permits.

If you have any questions regarding the meeting, please contact Fuller Building Design at 360-393-3131 or download the Notice PDF file.