Planning for a Business Improvement Area and Local Business Update

Also: Vote on Proposed GCC Bylaw Changes

Greenwood Community Council Meeting
Next Tuesday, April 21, 6:30 pm
Greenwood Library – 8016 Greenwood Ave. N

Greenwood is blessed with a strong local business community, but small businesses have been through a lot over the past several years. Chris Maykut works for the Phinney Neighborhood Association as the Small Business Advocate, and is a former Greenwood business owner himself. Chris and others have been working for several years to establish a business improvement association (BIA) that will help local businesses and commercial property owners promote the Phinney/Greenwood business district and help create a good business environment here to keep our businesses healthy.

Chris will provide an overview of the proposed BIA, discuss what challenges local small businesses are facing and answer any questions you have.

Also on the agenda

GCC has been maintained by an organizing committee as we try to get it back on a steady course since activities mostly went dark during the pandemic. The organizing committee proposed some general principles for revising GCC bylaws a year ago, and last month we sent out proposed revisions that we hope to discuss and during the last half hour of Tuesday’s meeting. If the bylaws are amended we would also open nominations for board members to be voted on at the May meeting.

Proposed changes would:

• Make slight edits to purpose statements
• Remove references to annual dues
• Restrict voting to people who’ve added themselves to the email list
• Elect board members who would choose officers among themselves
• Redefine officer roles to fit what actually needs to be done

You can download the current (2010) bylaws, proposed bylaws, and a document that shows the revision marks between the two. If you plan to propose changes or amendments, please let us know – although changes and amendments can also be made at the meeting.