COUNCIL COMMITTEES
About
Committees
Last updated: April 14, 2024
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V-MCC is a Washington organization dedicated to the community of Vashon-Maury Island. Volunteers are essential to keeping the organization running and healthy. There are multiple ways in which you can volunteer. One of the best is to join a committee. If you are interested in other ways to help, please contact info@v-mcc.org
PSE Advisory Committee
The PSE Advisory Committee is being formed.
The members passed this motion on Feb 15, 2024: That V-MCC create an advisory committee to learn more about the Puget Sound Energy tree wire project, the implications of the project for island property owners, and make recommendations for any appropriate action that the V-MCC should take.
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Jenny Bell is the Chair of this new committee.
The committee has public meetings on the First Monday of the month at 6pm by Zoom. Contact Jenny Bell to obtain the Zoom link for the next meeting.
jennybell111@protonmail.com
MINUTES and AGENDAS
Transportation committee
The Transportation Committee has formed to study and recommend solutions to our Island's transportation needs.
We are looking for an Interim chair of the Transportation Committee
Post Office committee
The Post Office Committee was formed to study and recommend solutions to our Island's postal delivery crisis and long-term needs.
The committee is currently without a chair. So the committee won't meet again until someone expresses an interest in chairing the committee. The next meeting will be held as needed. Interested? send an e-mail to info@v-mcc.org
To see the collection of ideas to work on, click here.
Affordable Housing committee
Affordable Housing continues to be a top issue of concern to the Island, for many reasons. It ties into the Post Office problems, homelessness, inability for organizations and businesses to hire and retain staff, and more. So the Council has an Affordable Housing committee to work on these difficult issues, and their many facets. Please attend a meeting, and join if this issue is important to you, too.
The chair of this important committee is Terry Sullivan. The committee meets every fourth Thursday, 6:30pm. To attend a meeting, send a request to info@v-mcc.org
Here are minutes from this committee:
February: no meeting, but an Analysis of Proposed Zoning Changes affecting Affordable Housing
December 12, 2022
November 12, 2022
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Equity, Social Justice and Inclusion
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The Equity, Social Justice and Inclusion Committee is chaired by Kevin Jones, kevinjonvash@gmail.com. The Committee generally meets at 6pm via Zoom on the first and third Wednesdays of each month.
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Here are the committee's recent meeting minutes:​
Communications
Committee
The Communications Committee has been designing and publishing this website, writing about and promoting upcoming meetings in the print, radio, and social media, plus designing and putting up posters in the community, in both English and Spanish (when we can find someone to do the translating for us).
The Communications Committee is composed of two teams: the Website Team and the Outreach Team. The Website team designs and updates the website. The Outreach team promotes our meetings on many different social media platforms, the newspaper, radio, e-mail, community calendars, and posters. There are current openings for someone to help with:
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Facebook
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Other social media platforms
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Other media
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Posters
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This Wix webiste
Diane Emerson is the current chair of the Communications Committee. There is an opening for the Co-chair to handle social media, newspaper, radio, and posters. To attend a website team meeting, to inquire about becoming a member of the Commications Committee, or to see minutes of the meetings, please contact Diane Emerson at dianeEmerson@yahoo.com
Vashon Town Plan Committee
This committee is in the process of being formed. Here is the charter of the committee:
The Vashon Town Plan of 1994 (VTP) was developed by the VMICC Town Plan Committee with assistance from King County and was adopted in 1996 as a subarea plan of the King County Comprehensive Plan. Although the VTP has largely achieved its intent to reinforce Vashon’s traditional rural town character, as well as the 1986 Vashon Community Plan’s goal of maintaining the town’s rural character, the VTP has not been very successful in addressing the community’s desire to provide more affordable housing and to enable people to walk to work.
The purpose of the 2023-4 V-MCC Vashon Town Plan Committee is to work with King County to modify the VTP to enable more affordable housing while maintaining the town’s rural character. These modifications are intended to be adopted as part of King County’s 2024 Comprehensive Plan Update.
Questions? Contact David Vogel at dsvogel.atty@gmail.com
Phone 206-291-7494
Meetings will be called as needed
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Minutes
August 20, 2023
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