A group of residents has been meeting with the Olympia City Parking Services Department and the Washington State Department of Enterprise Services to bring about improvements in residential parking. Following are minutes of the last meeting held on September 20, 2024. The major changes you will see are: Here are the full notes from theContinue reading “Changes to Residential Parking”
Category Archives: Neighbors Helping Neighbors
Traffic Safety Solutions on Capitol Way/Boulevard are Coming!
Treacy Duerfeldt and Gerald Apple, SCNA board members We are very pleased with the joint effort by Olympia City Council members and staff, and the leadership of the South Capitol, Wildwood and Governor Stevens neighborhood associations to develop short- and long-term solutions to speeding and traffic safety issues on Capitol Way/Boulevard. I (Treacy) had aContinue reading “Traffic Safety Solutions on Capitol Way/Boulevard are Coming!”
Harvest Your Extra Fruit For The Food Bank
Thurston County Food Bank (TCFB) is interested in partnering with South Capitol Neighborhood to harvest fruit in your neighborhood that may otherwise get left behind. TCFB’s Gleaning Program has been in operation since 2009 and has gone through many changes. What remains the same is our passion for preventing food waste and providing fresh food to TCFB clients.Continue reading “Harvest Your Extra Fruit For The Food Bank”
Comment on Capitol Way at June 11 City Council Meeting
The neighborhood traffic and safety committee is gearing up to provide comments to the June 11 Olympia City Council meeting and needs volunteers to speak for up to 2 minutes about safety improvement ideas. Anyone can make public comments and volunteers will be provided with talking points from our traffic and safety committee. We alreadyContinue reading “Comment on Capitol Way at June 11 City Council Meeting”
Changes Coming to Local Parking
Four years ago in the summer of 2019 parking issues in SCN had become challenging and somewhat, requiring a novel approach to identify and address the problems. Representatives from SCN, the City of Olympia, and Washington State DES employees used a facilitated, interest-based, consensus-building approach to resolving the parking issues impacting all three entities. EachContinue reading “Changes Coming to Local Parking”
Why I joined the SCNA board
Treacy Duerfeldt, At Large Board Member I moved into the South Capitol neighborhood in 2019, renting a home right on Capitol Way South. As a semi-retired financial guy, I want to understand where I live and what’s going on, especially after the Covid period. Last May, I was invited to attend a South Capitol NeighborhoodContinue reading “Why I joined the SCNA board”
Help Improve Our Sidewalks
Everyone in the south capitol neighborhood uses sidewalks and knows that there is a lot of room for improvement in their condition. You probably have a few favorite examples of damaged or even missing sidewalks in the neighborhood. But what can we do to fix these problems so that no one is injured or prevented from justContinue reading “Help Improve Our Sidewalks”
We want you…
to serve on the South Capitol Neighborhood Association Board with us! Very soon, we will be saying adios to three members of our neighborhood association board – Addie Spencer, Howard Goldberg and Shannon (Sam) Shula. Addie is our treasurer, Sam is a past-president, and she and Howard are at-large members. So, at our annual meeting, we’llContinue reading “We want you…”
Neighborhood matching grants
Every year, the City of Olympia budgets money to support neighborhood matching grants. These are given to Recognized Neighborhood Associations (RNAs) to fund small projects. To be an RNA, we must complete a form each year that lists the members of our members, number of members of our association, previous year’s meeting dates and numberContinue reading “Neighborhood matching grants”
A big shout out to our new members!
I did a blog post earlier this week about membership in the South Capitol Neighborhood Association and in it, I included a link to a page on our website where you can join up. An email with the link then went out to our listserv (email distribution list) and many of you responded. As ourContinue reading “A big shout out to our new members!”
South Capitol Neighborhood Association 