News You Can Use Video: Featuring the Audubon-Downriver Neighborhood

Neighborhood Updates

Neighborhood Beautification Project : This year, neighborhood councils have access to additional funding that can be used toward volunteer-led clean-up events. Funding covers costs for disposal and supplies, like garbage bags, paint rollers, etc. More information and the application can be found here. (Up to $1,000 per neighborhood total can be spread across multiple projects.) 

Neighborhood Calendar: Check the calendar and your neighborhood council’s webpage for upcoming meetings and events.

Many neighborhood councils sponsor or assist with farmers markets, movie nights, concerts and other special events. To include your neighborhood event in our Neighborhood Updates, please email your staff liaison and Annie. 

Spokane Neighborhood Summit Call for Presenters

The Spokane Neighborhood Summit is back and workshop presenters are needed! This will be a fun day of connection and learning for neighborhood leaders. If you have are interested in presenting at the Summit on Saturday, Nov. 2, see the 2024 Call for Workshop Proposals handout.

Send A Goat Event ONS recently spent a day as goat wranglers at Fairchild Air Force Base supporting Wishing Star Foundation’s Send A Friend A Goat annual fundraiser. This fun-filled day brought smiles to everyone’s faces, raised the morale of our local airmen, and raised more than $700. Lemon, our “kid” for the day, possibly even found their forever home. 

City Updates

Getting around and warmer weather means construction and pothole season. 

• Report potholes at myspokane311.org, through our mobile app My Spokane 311, or by calling 3-1-1 (509.755.2489). 
• Street sweeping continues throughout summer.
• Stay up to date on construction projects in your neighborhood. 

• 2024 Summer concerts at Riverfront Park’s Pavilion are on sale. 
• Golf courses are open! Reserve a tee time.
• Splash pads start opening up in May.
• Check out the City’s Parks and Recreation Department’s Spring and Summer Activity Guide! 

Boards & Commissions

Give back to the Spokane community by joining a volunteer board, commission, or committee! The City is accepting applications for boards and commissions. Complete the application form and to submit it the Mayor’s office at mayor@spokanecity.org. Prefer to print and mail your application? No problem. You may submit the application by mail or in-person to MySpokane Customer Service, City Hall 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd., Spokane, WA 99201.

Upcoming Community Assembly (CA) Meetings

• Community Assembly (CA): Meets the first Thursday of the month at 5:30 p.m., in-person at The Hive, Events A, 2904 E. Sprague Ave.
• CA Admin Committee: Meets the fourth Tuesday of the month at 4:30 p.m., hybrid (in-person at Spokane Central Library, Conference Room A, 906 W. Main Ave. or Zoom).
• CA Budget Committee: In observance of Memorial Day, the May meeting will be held on the fifth Monday of the month at 7 p.m., hybrid (in-person at West Central Community Center, Don Kelly Room, 1603 N Belt St. or Zoom). 
• CA Building Stronger Neighborhoods (BSN) Committee: Meets on the third Saturday of the month at 9:00 a.m. hybrid (Northeast Community Center, 4001 N. Cook St., Founder’s Room or Zoom).
• CA Communications (Comms) Committee: Meets the second Monday of the month at 5:30 p.m. at the Central Library, 906 W. Main Ave., Conference Room B, third floor. 
• CA Community Development Committee: Does not have a regular meeting date and time, so please check the calendar for meeting information. 
• CA Land Use Committee: Meets the fourth Thursday of the month at 5:30 p.m. hybrid (in-person West Central Community Center, Mason Room, 1603 N Belt St., or Zoom). 
• CA Liaison Committee: Meets the second Tuesday of the month at 2 p.m., hybrid (in-person South Hill Library, 3424 S. Perry St. or Zoom).
• CA Pedestrian, Traffic and Transportation (PeTT) Committee: Meets the fourth Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m. virtually on Zoom. 
• CA Safety Committee: Meets in-person on the last Wednesday of the month at 6 p.m. at the Hive, 2904 E. Sprague Ave.

Meet the Staff



Office of Neighborhood Services Director: 

Patrick Striker or 509.625.6263 

• Staff representative to Neighborhood Safety committee.
• ONS Liaison to: Comstock, Manito-Cannon Hill, and Nevada-Heights. 

Community Engagement Programs Manager:

Pollyanne Birge or 509.625.6147

• ONS Liaison to: Audubon-Downriver, Five Mile Prairie, Peaceful Valley, Riverside, and North Indian Trail. 

Community Programs Coordinators:

Annie Deasy or 509.625.6343

• Traffic Calming program, staff representative to Communications, Community Development (CA/CD), Liaison, and Pedestrian, Traffic and Transportation (PeTT) committees.
• ONS liaison to: Chief Garry Park, East Central, Lincoln Heights, Logan, Rockwood, Southgate, and West Hills.

Amber Groe or 509.625.6156

• Neighborhood Clean-up program, staff representative to Land Use, Building Stronger Neighborhoods (BSN) and City Council/Neighborhood Town Halls.
• ONS liaison to: Bemiss, Cliff-Cannon, Hillyard, Latah-Hangman, Minnehaha, Shiloh Hills, West Central, and Whitman. 

Gabby Ryan or 509.625.6858

• Community Engagement Grant program, staff representative to Admin, Budget and Community Assembly/City Council committees.
• ONS liaison to: Balboa-South Indian Trail, Browne’s Addition, Emerson-Garfield, Grandview-Thorpe, North Hill, and Northwest.

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