District Leaders wanted: Esp in D1 & D5!

[Winston Lumpkins]

Hi Folks, 

We will be appointing some District leaders at Next Monday's PBPAC meeting (at 7PM on Monday, location TBD).  

While these are technically 'district' leads, it's up to you if you want to cover the whole district or just a neighborhood. Rania opted to cover just Stroudwater, as it's got some particular challenges and is very different from Oakdale, for example.  

Commitment: the bylaws ask that District leads be appointed for 1 year terms the month after our elections in September.  We can make replacement appointments at any point, so don't feel too much pressure to commit to a full year.  We'll check in in September, and if you want to step back at any point, we can always appoint a replacement :).  These district lead roles are intended to be less of a commitment than the co-chair or secretary roles.  

Rania Campbell-Bussiere represents the Stroudwater neighborhood in District 3.  

We don't have candidates for District 1 or District 5 yet.  Here's the District Map.

Luke Bartol has applied for District 2, to represent Parkside specifically and the district as a whole.  

We have interest in D4 from James Cradock.  

The most important thing: how you go about it will be up to you! 

The district leader is basically the go-to contact for issues in the district, a resource, coordinator, etc. You have free reign to start projects in your district or to help others with projects like walk audits, bike audits, community meetings, tabling at neighborhood or school events, etc. You also join the executive committee, which is currently Myles, Clayton, Winston, Rania (district lead for Stroudwater in D3). As a member of the executive committee you'd be part of any emergency decisions we might have to make (to better represent all of Portland in those decisions). You'd also be invited to executive committee meetings, which happen something like quarterly, and are kind of a strategy, workload check in & project brainstorming kind of thing. 

What are you thinking? What would you like to accomplish in this kind of role? What would be your focus area or priorities? Any questions? 

~Winston 

Winston Lumpkins IV (he/him/his)

Past Chair, Portland Bicycle & Pedestrian Advisory Committee
https://www.portlandbikeped.org/

winston....@gmail.com
207-408-1508

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