Week of 1/18/2010 through 1/24/2010

* The Skanner newpaper foundation breakfast honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

*  Lunch with Bonny McKnight, Citywide Land Use chair

*  Portland Business Alliance regular meeting

*  Meeting with Monica Goracke, regarding people living outside

*  Meeting with COPPEA union officers, regarding the Wellness program

*  Monthly meeting with Amalia Alarcon de Morris, Office of Neighborhood Involvement

*  Monthly meeting with Joe Zendher, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability

*  ONI Budget Advisory Committee meeting

*  City Council meeting Wednesday morning.  We presented an award to to the Bureau of Technology Servies and Comcast, our community cable partners, from a national organization

*  Meeting to plan commemoration ceremony for first sign placement on Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard

*  Meeting with Elisa Aguilera, Co-Director, Community Alliance of Tenants

*  Meeting with George Vogt, Oregon Historical Society

*  Monthly meeting with Commissioner Leonard

*  Meeting with Human Rights Commission Chair Abdul Majidi

*  Meeting with Water Bureau Administrator David Shaff and Edward Campbell, Director of Resource Protection and Planning, regarding ordinances being proposed in February affecting the Bull Run watershed

*  George Bruender, Concordia Neighborhood Association Land Use chair, regarding role of ONI in current land use issues

*  Budget 201 citizen training workshop

*  Drop-in meetings with Commissioner Saltzman, and Auditor Griffin-Valade

*  MLS briefing with CAO Ken Rust

*  ONI Crime Prevention staff meeting

*  Weekly meeting with Ann Beier, Office of Healthy Working Rivers

*  Labor Management Benefits Committee meeting to brief members on draft Wellness Strategic Plan

*  Meeting with Dick Pederson, Department of Environmental Quality

*  Phone calls with Mayor Weatherby of Fairview, sundry reporters on MLS, and Ibrahim Mubarek

*  Meeting with Bill Allen, Director of Friendly Street, regarding graffiti abatement

*  NARAL Chocolate for Choice event

*  Z Man (Officer Mark Zylawy) Wrestling tournament kick-off

*  Central Northeast Neighbors fundraising event for Haiti

*  I did not make it to the OMSI Space Gala, despite being an Honorary member of the organizing committee and buying a ticket with personal funds.  I was needed in Salem to help my daughter at Willamette University, and her project took longer than expected.

Dinners at home: Monday, Saturday and Sunday