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March Meeting Notes: The board met March 20 and hosted Ashley Joyce of Bend Urban Gardens. We enjoyed Ashley's presentation about how to successfully grow veggies in our challenging Central Oregon conditions and attendees went home with seed packets to get started growing!
To see a draft of the March meeting minutes, including new land use news, visit the MVNA website.
Join us for a Neighborhood Night Out at River's Place! Please join us at River's Place on April 17 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm to chat with your MVNA neighbors, ask our board questions, and learn more about the mission of the MVNA. All MVNA members will get drink discounts, too! Have a neighbor who may not be signed up with MVNA? Bring them along! Click here to RSVP.
New Board Members Needed: The board will have vacancies this spring and we need neighbors to fill these key positions:
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Board Chair - sets the MVNA meeting agendas, runs the meetings, and acts as the point person for all things MVNA. Duties are shared with the Vice Chair as needed.
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Board Vice Chair - duties vary but typically helps manage the NA correspondence and website.
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Land Use - monitors all land use development within the MVNA boundaries, including tracking new STR permits.
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NART representative - attends meetings of the Neighborhood Association Round Table, a monthly meet up with the other NAs in Bend, to discuss hot topics and increase communication amongst the NAs.
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Community Events Coordinator - MVNA is looking to increase our community building work. We hope to recruit a member who will plan and facilitate community events for our neighborhood.
Please complete this application if you are interested in one of these board positions or in finding another role to serve.
Wanted: Your Speed Radar Sign Requests! Every year, the City of Bend provides speed radar signs to our NAs to track speeding and daily traffic volume, as well as remind drivers to slow down. If you have a location request, please fill out this form by April 11. Per the City's guidelines, "the street locations should be more than three blocks long, connect other streets in the neighborhood, and have multiple speeding complaints. Signs can only go where there is an existing speed sign post or space in the shoulder." Thank you!
Help Keep our Night Skies Dark and Celebrate Dark Skies Week: April 15 - 22: The International Dark Skies Association is holding its Dark Skies Week this month, and we can help reduce our nighttime lighting for the benefit of our animal and human neighbors. One of the easiest ways is to update porch lights and outdoor lighting for ones that have a shield to direct light down rather than dispersing it up into the sky. Visit our local Dark Sky group sites to learn more about how to reduce light pollution or to get involved:
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