Dear Mayor Potter and City City Commission Members:

I want to thank you for all of the work leading up to today's decision.

As pointed out in the proceedings, it is important for all of the stake holders to be involved in the planning process. After the vote, I spoke briefly with Mr. Abel of Stoel-Rives, and his clients from Jantzen Beach Super Center. In addition, John Teutsch and Brad Howton spoke with them at length.

Although I agree with Walter Valenta and others that this process will take more than three months, we can at least begin to work as a team and get some issues resolved and improve communication during this three months.

The HiNoon Board has a "retreat" scheduled this Saturday and we will be discussing ways to include business interests on our board. Currently our by-laws only allow "owners" and have no provision for
"designees" to be board members. This is a problem that we discussed at our general meeting last month.

This coming month, April 12, I will ask the board for a resolution to make a temporary exception to our by-laws to allow "designees" to occupy the two vacant business openings on our board. That should
allow both Jantzen Beach Super Center and Columbia Crossings to join our board. The actual language change must be voted on by the general membership, and we will do so at our next general meeting,
probably in May.

Regardless of the specifics of our process, I am asking both entities to participate in our Association, beginning at our meeting of April 12.

Our meetings are always the second Thursday of the month, at 7 PM, in the former Columbia River Yacht Club House, which is directly across
from Safeway and next to the closed Zupan's.

I would also ask any of you who would like to come and meet with our membership at a general meeting to let me know. We always extend a warm welcome to visitors.

Please let me know if you have any questions. they may also be directed to the "CC" list, which is our board.

Regards, Ed Garren, MA, MFT
Chair, HiNoon