Sample of Meeting Agenda

Prepared by Keith Gormèzano

AGENDA
Seattle Animal Control Commission

1. Call to order (Chairperson

Gormezano) 7:30 p.m.
2. Roll Call (sign-up sheet) (Secretary Kanouff)
7:31 p.m.
3. Adoption of Agenda (Kanouff)
7:32 p.m.
4. Presentation of Awards to former Commissioners (Gormezano)
7:34 p.m.
5. Report from Division of Animal Control (Dave Hewitt)
7:40 p.m.
a. Statistics Report on Spay and Neuter Clinic
b. Scoop Law enforcement
c. Number of new licenses
d. Number of citations issued
e. Animal noise violation reports from Seattle Police Department
f. Summer Canvass Program
g. Division of Animal Control Budget
h. Save the Animal Fund
i. Productivity Report on individual field Animal Control Officers
j. Other
6. Adoption of Prior Month's Minutes (enclosed with agenda)
8:00 p.m.
7. Report from Commission Officers and action taken on items
8:01 p.m.
a. Chairperson Gormezano
1. Resignation of Doreen King
2. Letter to Ned Dunn (Mayor's Office) on (filling) vacancies
(3 pet owners and 2 non-pet owners)
3. Letter to Seattle Aquarium on proposed capture of cetaceans
4. Seattle Weekly advertisement
5. News releases for 5 new ethnic minority/elderly/West
Seattle,
Central District, Southeast, or Ballard area Commissioners
6. Other
b. Vice-Chair Dr. John Kelly, DVM
8:08 p.m.
1. Carnation Company
2. Other
c. Secretary Kanouff
8:10 p.m.
1. Other
8. OLD BUSINESS
a. Lease law conflict (8' city-wide vs. 4' in parks) (Kanouff)
8:11 p.m.
b. Ordinance Amendments (finish) (Kanouff)
8:13 p.m.
c. Parks sign language and design (9/9 meeting) (Jan
Silver) 8:25 p.m.
d. Responsible Pet Ownership Week (shall we do it again?) (?)
8:27 p.m.
 e. Change in by-laws regarding election of officers (Gormezano)
8:35 p.m.
f. Video production (marketing) report (Kelly)
8:45 p.m.
g. Speaker's Bureau status report (Rosemary
Weise) 8:55 p.m.
h. Flyers for insertion into license renewals (Gormezano)
9:10 p.m.
i. Other
9. NEW BUSINESS
9:14 p.m.
a. Ron Honsinger (closed session) (Gormezano)
b. Collective Bargining Agreement (Gormezano)
10. Announcements
9:28 p.m.
11. Adjournment
9:30 p.m.
(Meeting was actually adjourned at 9:35 p.m.)

Sample First Meeting Invitation Letter

 

October 16, 1999

Dear Neighbor,

I would like to invite you to an organizational meeting for a Putnam Heights Neighborhood
Association at 7 p.m. on Thursday, November 4, 1999, at Manz Elementary School, 1000 East
Fillmore. The purpose of this meeting is to learn more about the structure of neighborhood
associations and to consider taking the first steps to establish one for our area.

A neighborhood association is strictly voluntary. It is designed to create a forum for residents to

foster a sense of community in the area where they live; to communicate more effectively the
needs of our neighborhood to city officials; and to encourage residents to work together to keep
our neighborhood an attractive and safe place to live.

A Putnam Heights Neighborhood Association would include everyone who lives within the area
bounded on the south by Hamilton, on the west by State Street,, the north by Clairemont, and the
east by Rudolph. Any resident or property owner would be eligible to participate and have a
voice in addressing issues that directly affect them.

I hope you will come to meet your neighbors and to learn how, by working together, we can
ensure that Putnam Heights is a neighborhood that is clean, safe, friendly, and a place where all
of us want to live. Please mark October 16 on your calendar and plan to attend.
 
If you have any questions regarding this meeting, please call me at xxx-xxxx or Pat Ivory at the
City Planning Office at 839-4914.
 
Thank you for your time, and I hope to see you at the meeting.

Cordially,