The INDEPENDENT, June 19, 2008
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Banks City Council hears the plan for “Movies in the Park Night”
Mayor Teri Branstitre pre-
sented several certificates of
appreciation in recognition of
public service on behalf of the
city council and the citizens of
Banks at the June 10 City
Council meeting.
Dr. Steve Vredenburg, DVM,
was presented with a certificate
for donating an animal waste
mutt mitt dispenser system and
supplies for Greenville City
Park. City Manager Jim Hough
noted that this “service is for
people, but also a service for
pets.”
Dawn Soest was recognized
for donating three large maple
trees to the Banks Arbor Day
Observance. According to
Hough, “these are not twigs;
these are big trees…we went
from one to four trees at Banks
Elementary School.”
Megan Fitzgerald developed
and presented a briefing with
power point presentation on the
Water Utility Audit Program.
Fitzgerald, an intern, is attend-
ing Portland State University.
The data collected will help the
city track leaks, which are cost-
ly. The working program can be
maintained month-to-month by
filling in six data fields. Fitzger-
ald said “…figuring out values
and downsizing information
from larger cities, I really got to
use my math skills.”
Fitzgerald was presented a
certificate of appreciation and a
gift card for her service in draft-
ing a working program which
will help the city audit the water
system.
Brad Stein and Jeremiah
Bradbury, who are also interns
from Portland State University,
presented a draft Emergency
Management Plan to the city.
Stein, a graduate student at
PSU, gave a power point pres-
entation on the goals, process
and outcome, plan, benefits,
and recommendations for a city
the size of Banks.
Stein and Bradbury were
also presented with certificates
of appreciations and gift cards.
Two citizens spoke to the
council: Six-year-old Olivia
Boylan requested the city to fix
the drinking fountain at Log
Cabin Park. Branstitre thanked
her for bringing this to their at-
tention and said the city will
submit a work order. Marion
Steinbach informed council that
potholes along the railroad
tracks on both NW Banks Road
and Sellers Road need some
attention “I walk over it so I can
see the horrible details”. Hough
said he thought that the first
part of the Sellers realignment
project is the tracks, but that he
will contact the county. Stein-
bach added “…not that I mind, I
can always hear when people
are coming up the road.”
Council President Pete Edi-
son, upon review of the Tree
Board Annual Report and Plan,
commended the committee for
their work, saying we have
“come a long way in a short
amount of time.” In September
2007, the Tree Board was
formed with four members; in
October, plans were made for
an annual fall tree planting,
which took place in November
at the Banks Fire Department.
In December, the Tree City
USA application was reviewed
and in February 2008, Banks
received Tree City USA Status;
two additional members were
also appointed to the commit-
tee. In April, Soest donated
three trees and Mike Lyda ex-
cavated the planting holes to
complete the final Arbor Day
event plans; and finally, in May,
the City of Banks Tree Board
developed and submitted a
draft action plan for the year
2008 – 2009.
Hough announced that the
Friends of the Library invites
the council, city staff and citi-
zens to attend the unveiling of
the Banks Library replacement
plaque on Tuesday, July 1 at
7:00 p.m. He also read a thank
you card from the library to the
council.
On the evening of August 5,
the Park Management Commit-
tee is planning participation in
the National Night Out pro-
gram. According to Christy
Greagor of the park committee,
this will be the 25th Anniversary
of the program. Greagor has
requested the Washington
County Sheriff’s Office to at-
tend and provide information
about their services. She also
plans to invite other commit-
tees, the boy scouts and Jim’s
Thriftway. She also announced
that the Park Management
Committee plans to dedicate
the Greenville City Park Play-
ground during this event. This
will be the first time Banks has
participated in the National
Night Out program.
The Park Committee an-
nounced that “Movies in the
Park Night” will be held on the
last Friday of the month in July,
August and September, at the
Greenville City Park gazebo.
Greagor commented that this
event was well attended last
year and brought the communi-
ty together.
Coming up at the July city
council meeting, the Ford Fam-
ily Foundation, Banks Commu-
nity Leadership Class of 2008
will be proposing a main street
beautification project to the city.
The Banks Chamber of Com-
merce will work in conjunction
with the city on the project.
During the round table dis-
cussions, Hough asked the
mayor for guidance on how to
deal with donation requests
that are submitted to the city.
Branstitre’s position is that re-
quests should be submitted to
the city in March – May so they
can be considered by the Bud-
get Committee.
The next city council meet-
ing will be July 9, at 7:30 p.m.
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The Banks elementary and
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with high school percussion
students and marched in the
Junior Rose Festival Parade
on June 4. This was their
first experience marching
and they placed second of
bands under 100 members in
the parade.
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