Tacoma – South End Neighborhood Council

May 20, 2019 General Meeting

Please join us for our next general meeting on Monday, May 20 at 7 p.m. Please click here for the agenda.

Our guest speakers for May include Shirley Shultz with the City of Tacoma Planning Department to discuss the Grand Pacific development and Jennifer Kamerzoll to discuss Zoning. We’ll also have a representative from the City of Tacoma Public Works (Speaker TBA) to discuss Safe Routes & Physical Infrastructure.

As always, the community is invited to share concerns and ideas during public comment.

We will be collecting donations of non-perishable food for Nourish Food Bank.

We will also announce the Winner of the Monthly Photo Contest. Entries for the photo contest will be accepted through 5 p.m. Sunday, May 19. All submissions should be emailed to senco253@gmail.com. Please include photographer name, phone number, email address, location photo was taken, year (recent submissions only unless otherwise requested), and confirmation that we may share your photo whether selected or not. If a portrait is submitted, please ensure you have the subject’s permission beforehand.

Photo Contest Rules: Contest open to residents of South End Tacoma. Photos submitted must be the property of the person who submits it for consideration. Photos submitted may be displayed on SENCO’s website and social media; if used, the photographer will be credited. The winning photo will be selected by the Board. If there are no eligible entries, prizes will be distributed the following month. This is a neighborhood council contest: please use your best judgment about what is appropriate to submit. If you are under 18, please ask your parent to submit your work on your behalf. {Rules subject to change.}

Please share with friends in the South End Neighborhood. See you soon!

SENCO Neighborhood Moment

The South End Neighborhood Council is pleased to announce that our newest Neighborhood Moment is now available. Thank you to our guests, Michael Collier, Board Chair of the Tacoma Refugee Choir, and Alisa O’Hanlon, Vice Chair of Tacoma Community House’s Board of Directors, for talking with us about resources in our community.

Click here to watch the South End Neighborhood Council Neighborhood Moment.

To learn more, please visit https://www.tacomacommunityhouse.org/ and https://www.refugeechoir.org/ .

We’d especially like to thank David Gordon and his great team at TV Tacoma for all their help and for putting this together for Tacoma’s Neighborhood Councils!

“the moment” by NM3792 is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

April 15 2019 General Meeting Agenda

We hope to see you at our April 15, 2019 General Meeting. Please click here for the SENCo April 2019 Regular Meeting Agenda.

As a reminder, we will be collecting food for our community partner, Nourish Food Banks. We will also discuss updates on the Logo Redesign Contest being held in partnership with Lincoln High School. And we will announce the winner of the first monthly SENCO Photo Contest.

If you have any questions, please contact us at senco253@gmail.com. We appreciate your help in sharing this information with other residents and business owners in the South End Neighborhood.

Thank you.

Community Council of Tacoma

Community Council of Tacoma (CCoT) is a coalition of all eight Neighborhood Councils (NCs) in Tacoma: N End, N East, W End, Central, New Tac, Eastside, S End, & S Tac. See here for interactive map.

CCoT meets on the 4th Thursday of each month at 6:30pm via Zoom. As an open meeting, all community members are welcome to attend. Each Neighborhood Council has two votes per board for any motions during meetings (see here for CCoT Standing Rules & see here for CCoT Bylaws).

City of Tacoma (CoT) Standards & Guidelines states the mission of all NCs is to, “…create an environment in which residents are afforded an opportunity to meaningfully discuss City programs and policies that affect the neighborhood, bring neighborhood concerns, priorities, and goals to the attention of the City, and encourage diverse relationships and representative participation where residents feel included and empowered to contribute to improving the livability of their communities.” Per Tacoma Municipal Code 1.45.060, CCoT serves all the NCs, “…as a forum for discussion of issues of broad interest or Citywide impact, and the advocacy of the needs of individual NCs.”

Email CCoT for more information: ccotacoma@gmail.com

Community Connections

The Tacoma South End Neighborhood Council is hosting its first community forum on June 1. If you know of an organization that serves our community and would like to be a part of this event, whether by sending a speaker, tabling at the event, or provider materials, please email us at senco253@gmail.com.

More information may be found here.

Thank you!