NTSA

I was at City Council on July 8th, just to listen...

Two members of another Neighborhood Association (Marrion) came to City Council to stress their request for a sidewalk along NE 104th from Mill Plain North.  This is a very busy area, with a Wal- Mart right next door.  For 10 years they have been requesting updates and planning on a sidewalk.

The City's answer:  That the Marrion NA should work with the NTSA on getting into a approval process to be funded.  I agree with that part.

The City manager then went on to say that the NTSA gets $100,000 per year from the City to work with.  Seems generous right,   however with just over 60 Neighborhood associations wanting to lobby for this money, it leaves many of us in disbelief that our projects will ever get funded.

I truly believe the City needs to find ways to increase this to a minimum of $1,000,000 per year as we (Amy Asivido and myself) were told over 10 years ago at City Council by the then City Manager.  If you read my "why" this is back to square one, the NTSA was not getting $1,000,000 per year from the City......

How do we find this money to support the Neighborhoods?

- Try to get the City to negotiate with the County for more revenue from Property Tax?  When was the last time the City tried to negotiate that?