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Got Girls? There’s a Girl Scout troop that meets at the Neighborhood House (Paul Allen Room) every Tuesday from 4 - 5:30pm. Girls go on field trips, make new friends, play games, win prizes and get a snack. Contact Denise Brown at 206-407-6758 for more information (including ages).

The Voice Resident Advisory Committee meets monthly to discuss The Voice newspaper. If you read The Voice, you’re already a VRAC member!

The next meeting of the VRAC will be at 2 p.m. June 3 at the Epstein building, 905 Spruce St. We’ll meet in the first-floor conference room; an accessible entrance is located on the east side of the building. Please ring the buzzer for entry.

For more information, please contact the Voice Editor, Tyler Roush, at (206) 461-8430, ext. 227.

Join your neighbors in the Central Park at 10am on Saturday, June 13 for our next Community Clean Up. Coffee, doughnuts, bags and those fun little trash-grabber things are all provided. Bring gloves if you have them - we tend to run a bit short on those. Help keep the neighborhood looking good!

(If you have a student in need of community service hours, this is a great way to meet that requirement!)

Don’t miss the Spring into Summer resource fair on Friday. Come find out all the local ways to keep your kids busy when school is out!

To all those homeowners who have become accustomed to arriving late to the HOA Board meeting, please be advised that the new board intends to start the meeting (this Tuesday evening) promptly at 7pm. Time to be fashionably early!

The Seattle City Council’s Transportation Committee will hold a public hearing next week on Council’s proposed changes to the Restricted Parking Zone program.

When: Wednesday, May 27th at 5:30 p.m.
Where: City Hall, 600 4th Avenue in City Council Chambers, 2nd floor
What: The committee will take public comment on their proposed amendments to the Residential Parking Zone program. The Council’s amendments would:

1. Manage parking demand by limiting permit sales to 4 per household with the exception for adult family homes, assisted living facilities, domestic violence shelters, and permitted congregate residences
2. Modify the business pilot to explicitly limit it to the seven Central Link Light Rail Stations and not allow its expansion to other RPZs; to establish a trigger point beyond which permits for non-residents would cease to be issued in order to keep parking demand from exceeding available on-street parking spaces in residential areas; and to set a time frame for evaluating and deciding whether or not to continue the pilot
3. Change the threshold for establishing an RPZ to 35% non-resident vehicles to favor parking for residents while still allowing for an increase in visitor parking
4. Not approve the Executive’s limit on major institution support for RPZ permits costs for affected households; instead leave in place determination of level of major institution support for RPZ permits to negotiations as part of the master plan update process
5. Modify the Executive’s proposal to include additional public involvement approaches
6. Add a requirement for a public hearing prior to decisions on RPZs by the Seattle Department of Transportation Director; and clarify that appeals process applies to establishing, modifying, or dissolving an RPZ
7. Create a new Resolution stating Council’s intent to have the Seattle Department of Transportation report back to City Council on January 1, 2011 on how the changes to the RPZ program have affected neighborhoods and what additional tools are available to manage RPZ permits

For more information in this legislation, please go to: http://www.seattle.gov/council/Drago/rpzpermits.htm.

Come to the Neighborhood House Community Room on Monday, June 1, at 6:30pm, to learn about important transportation changes coming to the Rainier Valley. Sound Transit and Seattle Department of Transportation staff will discuss:

• Link Light Rail – Grand Opening
• Link Light Rail Safety
• ORCA smart card / Fares
• Neighborhood Parking

All community members are welcome! Join us and have your questions answered. Interpretation will be provided in Vietnamese, Chinese, Cambodian, Somali, Amharic, Tigrinya and Oromo. Refreshments will be served.

For more information, please contact Naomi Chang (Rainier Vista) at 206-722-4010 ext. 2, or Keith Hall (Sound Transit) at 206-398-5468.

With the return of nice weather, we’re also seeing the return of the ice cream vans/trucks. Please remember (and remind your kids) that getting ice cream and candy wrappers into the trash cans is part of the process of eating the ice cream, and part of being members of our community. Thanks!

Parents, families and children of New Rainier Vista: Come to the Neighborhood House’s New Rainier Vista Center on Friday, May 29th, 4-6pm to find out about community summer programs, camps and events for kids. Learn why its important to keep kids busy during the summer!

Hosted by Rainier Vista neighborhood Youth Service Providers,

Understanding changes in your aging parents is important to help them connect with the most suitable resources. What is normal aging and what might be part of an illness? How can you detect depression or substance abuse? What services are available and how much do they cost? This workshop will provide critical knowledge for planning ahead and working with your parents to make informed decisions.

Monday, June 8
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Southeast Seattle Senior Center, 4655 South Holly Street, Seattle

Advance registration encouraged. $10/person; scholarships available.

Contact Ruth Egger at ruthe@seniorservices.org or Adam Halpern at (206) 861-8784 or familylife@jfsseattle.org.