Rock Alley Action Team
Meeting Minutes: Thursday, August 11th, 2011
Attendance: 7
Purpose: Connect West Oakland, South Oakland, and the Business District with the Eliza Furnace Trail and 2nd Ave.
1. Dave Panasiuk took us on a walk down the actual site for the trail
- a. Visited the tunnel (…from behind the fence)
- b. Saw foundations of the old tenement housing
- c. Discussed history of the site
2. Updates
- a. Elly Fisher was able to talk to Jason Kambitsis from City Planning about setting up a meeting during the day.
- b. We will be visiting Mt Washington Community Development Corporation to discuss how they created their trail at Emerald View Park. This will also be a visit during the day.
- c. If anyone is interested in attending the meetings during the day, please email Samuel K Su at ssu@opdc.org with your availability. We will send out an email as soon as we get a set date and time.
3. Website information
- a. The site is up (http://rockalley.org)!
- b. Phil Garrow will be working on the site for our group and he is looking for some concepts for design. We touched on a few topics for the website, and we are still open to more related topics.
- c. 2 proposed paths for the trail: a direct route (possibly steps) and a bike path.
- d. History of the area
- e. A volunteer page
- f. Funding information
- g. What we have done as a group
- h. Please submit any information or related topics to http://rockalley.org/uncategorized/hello-world/#comments and Phil will be able to add it to the website
4. Next Meeting
- a. Thursday, August 25th from 6-7:30PM (bi-weekly meetings) at Community Human Services’ community space