HLCC Board Member Candidates 2024-2025   The HLCC Nominating Committee is excited to nominate the following members for the HLCC Board. For each officer candidate we have a short bio, which you can see by clicking on their names. President:   Kippy Irwin Vice President:  Shawn MacPherson Treasurer:   K ara Drechsler Secretary:  Tanja Wylie Jones​ 1st Trustee (rentals) :  Tricia Williams  2nd Trustee (inside) :  Dave Nurney 3nd Trustee (outside) :   Randy Harkness  

  The school has started their inaugural garden in a pre-planned dedicated space with six raised beds. The third graders have laid in compost. Baldwin is so fortunate to have this addition to an already stunning landscape.

  Cathy Moore spoke to the HLCC community this month.   You can listen to her presentation and the Q&A follow-up with this zoom recording . NOTE:  the recording does have garbled sounding audio which we apologize for.  It is still discernable if you turn it up a bit.  We'll try to fix this for our next recording.

  An SDOT team came to HLCC to present on and answer questions about 2 projects:    1st Ave NE Shared-Use Path NE 130 & NE 125th St. Mobility and Safety Project There was a lively Q&A with the audience for this presentation.  The audience consisted of about 40 people in person and about 10 people on the Zoom Here are the slides that were presented by the SDOT team   Here is the Zoom Recording of the presentation and includes the Q&A

SPD North Precinct Advisory Council    Expanding Communication between the Police and Community  NPAC MONTHLY MEETING MINUTES  February 7, 2024  Recorded by Leon Seaman  Please share this information with your neighbors, neighborhood organizations and businesses  This month’s meeting was conducted on Zoom, Katy Dwyer presiding. She opened the meeting at 7:08pm, welcoming presenters, members, and guests.  • Thanks again to University Masonic Lodge for covering the cost of our Zoom License.   • The meeting will be recorded, and the recording made available for public viewing.  Topics covered:  1. Acting Chief Amy Smith of Seattle’s new CARE Team (Community Assisted Response  and Engagement)  a. Personal background :  1) I’ve been in this role almost a year; have had a 27-year career in non-profit work,  child-welfare, mental health provision, foster care, etc. I lived in Seattle’s central dis trict, but was in the Midwest from 2016 until 2022, so was absent during Seattle’s re cent uphea

HLCC hosted a full audience for a presentation from Seattle Needs Trees at last night's HLCC general meeting. Seattle Needs Trees presented on the issues caused by tree canopy loss in Seattle and how the new Seattle Tree Ordinance will cause further loss of tree canopy.  Did you know that Seattle is in the Top 5 for cities with growing "heat islands"?   Did you know that the new Seattle Tree Ordinance will allow developers to pave 85% of new lots with hardscape (asphalt)? Randy Harkness MC'd the event and reminded the community of a few things: The HLCC Board Nominating Committee is getting under way Food bank donations are always welcome HLCC Dance Nights are going well.  Check our events for the next times. Presenters included Meegan McKiernan, ​​Julia Shettler, Sandy Shettler and June BlueSpruce. There is a recording of the presentation here:  Seattle Needs Trees Zoom Recording The recording allows you to the speaker.  But, here is a separate link to the slides use