A DESC Community Advisory Committee meeting set for Tuesday, April 14 at its Bloomside location in Burien will include a public question and answer session and updates on programs and community engagement.
The meeting is set for 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. in the Bloomside Conference Room at 801 SW 150th Street in Burien (map below). The agenda lists welcome and introductions from 3:30 p.m. to 3:35 p.m., followed by a public Q and A from 3:36 p.m. to 3:50 p.m.
Download the full agenda here.
The agenda says program updates will be presented by Project Manager David H. from 3:51 p.m. to 4 p.m., followed by community updates from Neighborhood Engagement Coordinator Brian L. from 4:01 p.m. to 4:10 p.m. A Public Q&A is scheduled from 3:36-3:50 p.m. An open floor for topics for the next meeting is scheduled from 4:11 p.m. to 4:15 p.m., with adjournment to follow.
According to the agenda, DESC will support the committee by recording and distributing meeting minutes, posting meeting times, locations, minutes and agendas on the advisory committee page of DESC’s website, scheduling accessible meeting spaces and distributing agendas and discussion materials before meetings. The agenda also says DESC will facilitate language translation of meeting documents and announcements as needed.
DESC’s Burien community members are Nancy Kick, Carrie Ly, Project Manager of Sea Mar Burien/White Center, Aaron Burkhalter with LEAD, NAVOS Chief Operating Officer Sarah Coleman, Director of Discover Burien Debra George, Latino Civic Alliance Board Chair Nina Martinez and Project Manager of Kent Sea Mar Ricardo del Fierro.
DESC staff members include Executive Director Daniel Malone, Director of Housing Noah Fay, Executive Coordinator Maria Jacinto, Director of Property Development Sondra Nielsen, Housing Development Coordinator Akhil Arun, Construction Coordinator Christopher Ledestich and Community Engagement Coordinator Mateo Chavez.
Questions about the meeting can be directed to Mateo J. Chavez, identified on the agenda as DESC’s Community Engagement Coordinator at mchavez@desc.org.
Public comments and questions?????? How about simply doing what your supposed to be doing with tax dollars and there would never be chatter in your direction.
DESC is nightmare organization – its board of Seattle/King County elites that seem to really care about money. Washington state has far too many questionable leftist rings controlling entitys that are have been failing for years… and the residents are paying for it.
Am I reading this correctly, it is going to be open to business owners and neighbors at this meeting? Does anyone know if there is a way to get a “log” of how many times the BFD/Medics have had to go there since opening the doors and will this give them plenty of time to clean-up the inside and outside of the building??? Oh wait silly me they had this planned long ago in which gave them plenty of “secret” time to get cleaned up and get their answers all on the same page.
You can do a public records request with the address and find out how much of our public safety resources (time and money) are being spent on this. The Blog also has a feature on their front page which lists emergency calls every day. The DESC is known as Bloomside Apts in that report, and frequently appears there.
Who holds a meeting for 45 minutes, 14 of which are for Q and A BEFORE the meeting? It should go on for as long as it takes to answer citizens’ questions, and should occur after the meeting, to answer questions about topics just discussed. It’s interesting these meetings have started only after enough residents complained about the garbage, nefarious activity, theft, disruptions to local neighboring businesses and general chaos it has created in our downtown corridor. DESC is supposed to have a “Good Neighbor” agreement with the neighboring businesses. From what I’ve seen on a daily basis, they have fallen far short of anything resembling a good neighbor. The activities occurring in and around that building are truly mind blowing.
Businesses have had to further fortify their properties due to theft, trespassing, drug deals/use, at their own expense. There are residents with pets that are breeding, there is rotten food, drug use/overdoses, violent altercations, to name a few. When I last inquired, there were no “services” available to residents, so DESC was basically warehousing people, and if residents wanted “help”, it didn’t exist. How does that serve the greater good of our community?
DESC convinced enough of the right people at the time this would be a good fit. It’s not, and that’s painfully obvious. They have no skin in the game. They get tax breaks, and provide no services. It is a money machine for them, and we get to spend our resources cleaning up their mess.
Lsm, Thanks for the info and yes, I do look at the blogs live emergency calls and see Bloomsides, the transit center, transit parking garage get calls to them almost everyday.
I also agree with everything you have commented and have a bad feeling things are going to go back to the way they were a few years ago now that we have who we have on the city council!
I would figure that what ever they say people are still going to think they are lying . That anything bad that has happen or not happen at any of the locations they run must be going on here . That they are completely destroying burien and burien should not have homeless people here we should be a gated community with HOA’s and hire security to patrol the streets to arrest anyone with a dirty shirt on or god forbid a hole in there shirt while shopping at the hardware store .
Just accountability and appropriate plans/measures/securities in place by the organization running it, for the scenarios that may or may not take place during or at a homeless rehabilitation center.
There are other successful models, even within the state. With little research you find can the simple differences, then after you’ll understand why folks are upset and/or frustrated.