Newport Hills Community Club

Ok, now that I have your attention…..the city of Bellevue is offering a $5,000 neighborhood match program for neighborhoods to apply for specific projects in their neighborhoods. The projects must be on city property such as curbs, open space, near city owned items, etc. and may not be on private property or areas owned by other agencies such as a bus stop owned by Metro.

Neighborhoods must submit a formal application and must match the requested $ with up to equivalent hours of donated labor ($12 / 1 hour pp) or financial donations that will pay for the goods or services needed for the neighborhood’s side of the agreement. Also – the neighborhood must commit to maintaining the area ( either by labor or by donations to provide the maintenance ) the city will NOT maintain these projects.

Neighbors,  this is an excellent opportunity - free money (ok, kind of free) for projects around Newport Hills that many of us may look at from a day to day and think “hmm…I would like to fix that up”. Ok…am I the only one that thinks that?

The Newport Hills Community Club is willing to gather your ideas and provide a forum for determining which project(s) are submitted and to do the paperwork as well.  YOUR job is to submit ideas and help us gather volunteers or donation to implement and together we will help determine a maintenance plan.

For more information, and more of the specific requirements to submit a project is the link to the Bellevue City Website for this project:

http://www.bellevuewa.gov/neighborhood_match_program.htm

Please note – SUBMISSION deadline for consideration is March 1st, 2010. Therefore, we ask that all ideas are submitted to the NHCC no later than February 12th, 2010 to compile, prioritize and communicate back to the community prior to submission.

Please submit your ideas to president@newporthillscommunityclub.org

This is an exciting opportunity and an opportunity we should take advantage of to keep contributing to making Newport Hills a great place to live, work and play!!

We look forward to hearing all your great ideas!
Michelle Hilhorst
NHCC President