Cool Mac has a booth reserved for Turkeyrama. We hope to have some items(perhaps bookmark or hand fan) and literature to hand out and books to read. That’s about it, unless some of you have other good ideas you’d like to share. Now we could use some help manning the booth. If anyone has time available for a 2 or 3-hour slot on Friday or Saturday, please call or email me or John to let us know what times you could do it. We’d really like to have at least 2 people there at all times, so we could use some extra manpower. And it’d be wonderful to see some of you again! Here’s the list so far:
Friday:

11-2 John

2-5 Patty, Mick, and Billy

5-7 Linda

7-9? (May close at 7)

Saturday:

10-1 Lucy

1-4

4-7

7-9? (May close at 7)
Thanks! See you at Turkeyrama!

Linda Grove

lgrove@onlinenw.com

503-472-9213

John Mead

jmead@cellarridge.com

For those of you who might be interested in Green Building,

the Green Builders Guild of McMinnville will be having a
free event open to anyone interested. Andrew Shepard from Earth Advantage
is coming down from the Portland area to speak about various aspects of
Green Building. For those of you who would like more
information about Andrew and Earth Advantage, visit www.earthadvantage.org to read
more about what the organization does.

Event details:
What: Green Builders Guild Event presenting Andrew Shepard from Earth
Advantage to talk about various aspects of Green Building
Where: Room 201 of the McMinnville Community Center (Second Floor meeting
room)
When: Thursday, June 26th at 6pm
Refreshments will be provided

Hope to see some of you there and feel free to pass along the information to
anyone that you think might be interested in attending!
Thank you-
Wendy Stassens

Cool Mac is preparing for Turkeyrama, July 11 and 12. We have our booth space. Now we are looking for someone to create a sign (or poster or signboard or banner or whatever) made from recycled materials with our Cool Mac logo on it within a sunflower shape.  Or give us your ideas!

Our next Cool Mac meeting is this Saturday, June 21, at 9:30 a.m. at First Baptist’s Fireside Room, corner of Cowls and 1st Street. Please join us!

If you have any questions or suggestions, please comment to this posting…or come to our meeting!

June 10, 2008

McMinnville City Council accepted Resolution No. 2008-20 authorizing ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability) membership and establishing the City of McMinnville as a partner in the Cities for Climate Protection Campaign sponsored by ICLEI.

A dozen or so Cool Mac’ers donning “Keep Mac Cool!” buttons (thanks Lucy!) were there to support this resolution. This is a great step forward. Please join us to keep the energy flowing at the next Cool Mac Meeting on June 21 at 9:30 a.m. at Fireside Room, First Baptist Church on 2nd and Cowls Street.

Yamhill County Planning Commission will hold the following public hearing beginning at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 5. 2008, in Room 32 of the Yamhill County Courthouse, 535 E. Fifth St., McMinnville:

1) DOCKET PAZ-03-08/P-05-08, a request by McMinnville Water and Light Commission for approval of a Comprehensive Plan amendment from Agriculture/Forestry Large Holding to Public; a zone change from EF-80, Exclusive Farm use to PWS, Public Works/Safety zone. An exception to Goal 3 is not required because the parcel is within the urban growth boundary of the City of McMinnville. The applicants have also requested partition in order to create a separate, 2-acre parcel for the proposed electrical distribution substation to serve the City of McMinnville. The request is on a parcel identified as Tax Lot 4409-2100. The proposed 2-acre parcel is approximately 400 feet east of the intersection of Hembree Street and Autumn Ridge Drive. The hearing body’s decision will be based on criteria in Section(s) Sections 801 and 1208.02 of the Yamhill County Zoning Ordinance; Section 904, Limited Use Overlay may also be applied; Comprehensive Plan policies may be applicable; OAR 660-12-0060 Transportation Planning Rule. The partition is subject to the Yamhill County Land Division Ordinance

2) DOCKET PAZ-04-08/P-06-08, a request by McMinnville Water and Light Commission for a Approval of a Comprehensive Plan amendment from Agriculture/Forestry Large Holding to Public; a zone change from EF-80, Exclusive Farm use to PWS, Public Works/Safety zone. An exception to Goal 3 is also required. The applicants have also requested partition in order to create a separate, 2-acre parcel for the proposed electrical distribution substation to serve the City of McMinnville. The request is on a parcel identified as Tax Lot 4430-800 and 4431-100, located at 1960 SW Old Sheridan Rd. The hearing body’s decision will be based on criteria in Section(s) Sections 801 and 1208.02 of the Yamhill County Zoning Ordinance; Section 904, Limited Use Overlay may also be applied; OAR 660-04 related to exceptions; Comprehensive Plan policies may be applicable; OAR 660-12-0060 Transportation Planning Rule. The partition is subject to the Yamhill County Land Division Ordinance.

3) DOCKET Z-01-08, a request by Robert Woods for a zone change from AF-20 Agriculture/Forestry to EF-20 Exclusive Farm use, on a parcel identified as Tax Lot 3225-300, located at 35555 NE Corral Creek Rd. The hearing body’s decision will be based on criteria in Section(s) 402, 403 and 1208.03 of the Yamhill County Zoning Ordinance; the Yamhill County Comprehensive Plan Goals and Policies.

Additional information is available from the County Planning Department at 503-434-7516. Dated May 3, 2008 ,by Michael Brandt, Planning Director.