Overlook Neighborhood Update (Jan. 31, 2021) – Overlook Neighborhood Association

Volunteer To Help With The Views Newsletter

Are you interested in volunteering to support the Overlook Neighborhood Association? We are currently looking for a volunteer to help with The Views, our quarterly neighborhood newsletter that we distribute. Tasks might include researching a topic to write a story on, proof reading, or helping with the physical creation and distribution of the newsletter. Please contact overlookna@gmail.com if you are interested.

Toll Advisory Board Meets – Feb. 3

The Equity and Mobility Advisory Committee will be holding a public virtual meeting on February 3rd. Committee members are a key link between the project and communities around the Portland metro area, including Southwest Washington. They help solicit feedback and participation from youth, older adults, Black, Indigenous, people of color, and multi-racial people, people who may speak a language other than English, and people living with a disability. You can find the agenda here, and join via Zoom from 3:30-6pm.

TriMet Fares Waved To Honor Rosa Parks – Feb. 4

TriMet will hold the first Rosa Parks Transit Equity Day on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. C-TRAN and Portland Streetcar will join TriMet in not collecting fares that day as we honor the late civil rights pioneer. Rosa Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama and advanced the civil rights movement on Dec. 1, 1955, when she refused to give up a seat on a bus to a white person. The TriMet Board of Directors passed an ordinance that TriMet will continue not collecting fares on Rosa Parks’ birthday for years to come.

TriMet Virtual Open House – Feb. 10

Join TriMet at a virtual open house on Wednesday, Feb. 10. A panel of our service planners will present proposed adjustments to bus routes for fall 2021 and spring 2022, and then answer questions from those attending. The virtual open house will be held via Webex and simulcast live on TriMet’s Facebook page beginning at 5 p.m. Visit trimet.org/plan to learn how to join the event.

OKNA Board Meeting This Tuesday

This Tuesday the OKNA board will be meeting from 6:30-7:30pm. The agenda is below. Click here for the full agenda doc with instructions to join.