January 23, 2019 Meeting
Summary
-- see also the
November 28, 2018 meeting summary
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Welcome and Introductions. Attendees:
Norah Robinson, King County Parks;
Greg Helland, FOMP President; Michael Hobbs, FOMP Secretary, webmaster;
Natasha Kacoroski, Eastside Audubon (EAS); Sofia
Taylor, regular park visitor
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CIP/Project/Facilities
Updates:
- Birdloop
1200 native plants
planted in 2018.
EAS is developing a
vegetation
management plan,
including
investigating
success with regard
to bird use of
planted area. Focus
for 2019 also
includes maintenance
of the planted
areas. EAS is also
intending to survey
the Willowmoor area,
both before and
after the project is
implemented. Greg
recommended that EAS
might effectively
extend the
previously produced
Tree Plan to include
shrubs, etc., that
EAS is looking to
plant. Michael
suggested that the
Washington Native
Plant Society might
be able to assist
EAS in developing
such a plan. A FOMP
grant might be
available for this.
EAS is also very
concerned about
erosion along the
east edge of the
slough south of the
Dog Area. One or
two approved
accesses leading to
platforms/docks/fishing
platforms along the
slough would be
very, very useful in
mitigating the
erosion.
- Sound Transit
ST is required
to replant more
trees than they will
be cutting down
along the
right-of-way.
Replanting cannot
just be a little
south of the
existing trees; near
the velodrome there
just isnt room to
replace them close
by. (Suggestions
were made to plant
some shrubs, or even
some trellises just
south of the ST
right-of-way).
Norah has been
working with ST on a
planting plan. In
the Historic
District, Norah is
looking to get
larger trees and an
irrigation system to
enhance
survivorship. Norah
is also pushing for
clumps of trees
(conifers near ball
fields to reduce
maintenance), rather
than a curtain of
trees.
- Cut-through
Traffic
Working with Roads
to get traffic
counters to try and
get a real handle on
the traffic
situation,
hour-by-hour,
day-by-day.
Enforcement of the
existing rule about
no-thru-traffic is
also part of the
current mitigation
effort.
- Dudley Carter
Sculpture
Restoration
Signs purchased -
waiting for
installation
- Willowmoor
Floodplain
Restoration Project
Stakeholder
meeting February
26th, 4-6 p.m.,
location TBD.
- Cottage ADA
Entrance
Construction as soon
as permits ready -
Spring?
- Synthetic
Turf Replacement
Fields 1 & 2
(Soccer 5 and 6)
June 15-August 15.
The turf needs to be
replaced about every
10 years. This
time, Cricket and
Unified Lacrosse
lines will be
included.
Dates were chosen
for best weather
conditions.
- Other:
Sofia came to push for a destination amenity in the park
like a sit-down tea/coffee place, possibly in Clise Mansion.
She even through out the idea of a Friends of Clise Manison.
The summer concert schedule makes this problematic, since
the mansion and all of the historic district is off-limits
on concert days. Norah mentioned that the new contracts with
AEG and SES, are now committed to making Clise more
available for non-concert uses. There was general
support for having Clise Mansion be more open to the public.
Our
next meeting will be on Wednesday,
February 27th, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. in the Art Barn
These notes do not constitute an official record of the
meeting. They may have inaccuracies and omissions. If anyone has
any complaints about the content of these notes, they should direct them to
Michael Hobbs at fomp@marymoor.org,
and he will endeavor to correct them. |