Madrone Wall Update & Public Meeting - 12/1/11

[elaine]

Yup, it's been awhile. No need to rub your eyes. You're not having a hallucination. This update isn't enough to make you need to sit down, either.

 

Our snail mailing went out last week, and it specifically contained two bits of info:

1) The 30% DRAFT engineering plan is completed by Scott Nettleton ( same PE that is designing the new Sellwood Bridge). Both Clackamas County and the Oregon National Guard 1249 Engineering Battalion / Innovative Readiness Training Program out of Salem needed this piece done.

 

2) There is a public meeting this Thursday December 1st at the Carver School ( Hwy 224 and Grand St - 16077 SE Hwy 224, Damascus 97089) from 6pm-8pm in regards to the newly developed Fire Management Plan. You can hear from the County and share your thoughts on their Fire Mgmt. Plan specifically for the Madrone Wall. Clackamas County received a grant for planning and implementing a Fire Mgmt Plan, so no funding to implement / maintain this plan would come out of the small amount that is already budgeted for construction and improvements out at the Madrone ( $65K I believe).

 

As for the perpetual question about, "When is it going to open" is a good question to ask the County if you attend this next meeting. Keith and I decided against doing another trail building party / clean up because we felt that the County needs to give us ( all of us climbers / future users) some sort of time-line or anticipated date of when construction will begin ( Oregon National Guard will likely do this and wants to), and thus will give us an idea of when access will finally be restored.

 

Thanks for reading!

Kellie Rice

President, Madrone Wall Preservation Committee

[kevbone]

Thanks Kellie for all your hard work on this project.

[elaine]

Holy crap, Kevbone! You're actually part of the Elite Sprayforce Team now, and no longer a Spray Master?! I'm bowing before you!!!

[Seamstress]

I drives me crazy to see folks willing to do the work and foot dragging on allowing it to happen. The County should be moving ahead with urgency before all the willing help gets tired of waiting, finds other projects to do, etc.......

[elaine]

Seamstress,

 

FYI for you and for others about the "foot dragging." The Oregon Nat Guard 1249 Battalion just recently returned from the Middle East. They were deployed for some time. The ONG wants the work, and it will take coordination with Clackamas County and the ONG schedule to begin working out at the site. It will also take some funds which are not really available to complete the entire project. The ONG could be deployed again at any time to rebuild roads in war-torn & devastated areas.

 

No one knows more about the foot dragging and snails pace of park creation out at the site than Keith Daellenbach, one of the founders of the MWPC and our Secretary / Treasurer.