Ballard District Council Monthly Meeting-Mar. 9th

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The Ballard District Council represents the Ballard Neighborhood-one of 13 neighborhood districts formed in 1988 to promote, support, and involve citizen participation at the neighborhood level.

Meetings are held the 2nd Wed of each month, 7-8:30 pm at the Ballard Library (5614 22nd Ave NW).  There is no cost to attend and there is free parking below the library-accessed from NW 56th St.

The public is welcome to come observe the proceedings. Discussions include traffic/pedestrian safety issues, parks, and Ballard community events/successes/challenges.  The Shilshole Liveaboard Assoc. holds a permanent seat on the Council.

Audible Alert System Test a Success!

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Thanks fellow Shilshole boaters!!

We had over 20 vessels participate in the first Audible Alert test held this past Saturday at noon.  Over 20 boats successfully heard one or more horns during the test, with over 10 boats sounding their horns.  This is a great baseline test to see where we go from here.  To help gather more data on the test, we have designed a simple and anonymous survey that we would like all boaters to complete, even if they did not participate in the test. The survey can be found here.

Restroom/Laundry Update

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Hello neighbors…thanks to all that showed up for Tues’ meeting where the Port provided restroom usage stats and concept layout drawings.  There were about 60 marina tenants attending.

Here is their website with the drawings…What’s Ahead for Shilshole Bay Marina?

If you have questions, comments or suggestions, you can send an email to the Shilshole Outreach mail box at Shilshole-Outreach@portseattle.org

What’s Happening with Shilshole Prepares

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Shilshole prepares website has been moved to be part of the Shilshole Blog.

  • The current Shilshole Prepares website was hacked numerous times and we had to completely eliminate the site and the hosting arrfangement.
  • Thanks to Kristen and Phil for re-invigorating the Shilshole Blog site and making it possible to host shilsholeprepares on this site.
  • It can still be reached through www.shilsholeprepares.org although there is no longer any requirement to register or log-in to access information.
  • Anyone can now author articles for the site.

There will be an Audible Alert Protocol test on February 27, 2016 at 12:00. 

  • Purpose: test audible alerting methods in case of an emergency and provide an audible signal to alert boaters to tune in Marine VHF 71, the Shilshole Vessel Mutual Assistance Net (V-MAN).
  • Test duration: less than 10 minutes
  • What will happen: five blasts on a horn will be sent out at 30-second intervals beginning at 12:00 noon and lasting for 3 minutes.
  • Anyone hearing the five-blast signal should
    • Tune to Marine VHF Channel 71 for more information.
    • Send their own five-blast signal on their horn, again at 30-second intervals, so that the audible alert is propagated throughout the marina.
  • Results and comments will be collected and the Audible Alert Protocol will be refined based on the results.