Upper Bear Creek Unincorporated Area Council
Serving 22,000 people in north-central King County
between the Sammamish and Snoqualmie Rivers and
north of Redmond and east of Woodinville.
Date: May 23, 2006
Time: 7:30 – 9:00 PM
Location: Woodinville Water District Offices
Board Attendees: Mary Filkins, Geoff Clayton, Nancy Stafford. Jerry Hicks
CountyAttendees: Marissa Algeria, Monica Clarke-KC Parks, Mark Mitchell-KC
Roads, Elaine Cummins-Public Health, Dolly Kosters-
King Co. Councilmember Kathy Lamberts office
Community Attendees: Maxine Keesling, Susie Egan
Geoff Clayton opened the meeting with comments on Music in the Park 2006 and reading the list of performers. Performances are held on Thursday evenings begin at 7:00 beginning June 29 th: These are family events and FREE to the public, ALL ARE WELCOME!
The performance schedule is:
June 29 th - Woodinville Jazz Ensemble - serving the community since 1993
July 6 th - Portage Bay Big Band - Popular tunes of a bygone era
July 3th - The Bill Mattocks Band - Blues, Ballads and Classic Rock
July 20 th - The Rumba Kings - from South of the Border!
July 27 th - "Shades of Red" - Acoustic Rock from Jack Brand & Co
Aug. 3 rd – Randy Oxford Band returns by popular demand to close our season
Monica Clarke of King County Parks spoke about plans for Cottage Lake Park. The YMCA is in permitting process with the county to install the “Odyssey” obstacle/rope course that can be used with supervision after its installation in the fall of 2006.
Monica discussed various levy funding programs, current and future for support of Parks. Geoff stressed that an essential element of King County’s strategy for building support should be reappointing and reinvesting in the ASpYRe Commission (Active Sports and Youth Recreation Commission) to gain the support of the active recreation community and promote the successes of King County Parks public–private partnerships and entrepreneurial parks funding.
Geoff then presented the possibility of a Northshore Parks and Recreation Service Area “ Aquatics Center” on the University of Washington Wellington Golf Course property. This is being considered for purchase by Snohomish Co. with Brightwater mitigation funds. This would add 97 acres for active recreation and habitat protection almost within sight of Brightwater. A regional recreation center could include multiple pool facilities, a skating rink and ball fields, and it would be easily accessible to residents of both counties and centrally located within the Northshore Parks and Recreation Service Area.
Elaine Cummins of King County Health Services gave a power point presentation on “pandemics” which are diseases that spread world very rapidly due to transmission by people or birds. Avian Flu is seen as a potential pandemic rather than an epidemic which only causes spikes in the occurrence of a disease over a short time. For example, King County is presently suffering from an epidemic of obesity. She pointed out that all flu viruses have the same source, birds. The only way to stop spreading H5N1 virus is to quarantine infected people. Because Seattle is a port with strong links to Asia, the Public Health Agency is concentrating on a response plan that will help reduce deaths, maintain services and reduce economic losses in the event of a pandemic. Preparedness is having at least a 10 day supply of food (and water) stored at home. Personal hygiene is very important and new recommendations include learning to sneeze into our elbow rather than covering our mouth with hands and WASHING YOUR HANDS with anti bacterial hand gel, soap/lotion OFTEN. More information at:
http://www.metrokc.gov/health/pandemicflu/index.htm;
Meeting closed at 9:00 both subjects were of interest! Hope to see you at Music in the Park this summer! Next meeting September 26th, same time, same place.