From: ellmyer@macsolve.com
Subject: Kellogg Foundation - Support For Portland Hope Meadows Corporation Will Jeopardize Your Reputation
Date: January 29, 2007 1:08:47 PM PST
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Dear Kellogg Foundation:
Your organization has been identified as having pledged or given financial support to the Portland Hope Meadows Corporation in furtherance of its intention to build public housing in the Portsmouth neighborhood of North Portland. You should be aware of the stories in HAP Watchers, the Oregonian, the St. Johns Sentinel, the Portland Tribune and the St. Johns Review which exposed the tawdry, due process maligning deal which lead to the reprehensible giveaway of now tainted public property. There will be more such articles in the future. 

The reputation of the Kellogg foundation for doing good works will be publicly challenged and repudiated if it does not immediately withdraw its support for the Portland Hope Meadows Corporation's plan to build public housing in the Portsmouth neighborhood of North Portland.

If the Kellogg foundation does not immediately withdraw its funding and support than it will have knowledgeably consented to become a party to the following: 

1. Supporting a non-profit corporation that refuses to publicly identify the names and contact information of its members.

2. Supporting a non-profit corporation that refuses to publicly identify the names and contact information of its funders.

3. Supporting a non-profit corporation that is barely two years old with no track record whose members were unknown to the bare majority (3 of 5) on the Portland city council that voted to blindly give away public land to those that did not even raise to the level of strangers .

4. Supporting a non-profit corporation that participated in and accepted the ill gotten gains of the reprehensible and illegitimate backdoor political deal by which due process was trampled in what amounted to the effective theft of 1.4 million dollars of public property.

5. Supporting a non-profit corporation whose public housing plan required illicit behind-the-scenes political deal making because it could not complete with virtually any other non-public housing proposals that were already on the table or would have been placed on the table for open public discussion and debate. 

6. Supporting a non-profit corporation that supports the long discredited and abhorrent public housing policy of unlimited concentration of public housing clients in any neighborhood of Multnomah county.

7. Supporting a non-profit corporation whose actions show a deliberate willingness to add public housing clients to the Portsmouth neighborhood which has the highest total number and the second highest percentage of public housing clients in all of Multnomah county's 117 neighborhoods demonstrating a flagrant disregard for the social and economic consequences of increasing the number of public housing clients to this already overloaded neighborhood.

8. Supporting a non-profit corporation that has ignored and rejected all the public arguments made by neighborhood leaders, clergy, city council members, a former member of the Portland Planning Commission, current and immediate past Oregon House members representing the Portsmouth neighborhood and many ordinary citizens in opposition to its public housing scheme. See video of city council proceeding here: http://www.portlandonline.com/index.cfm?c=28259 select  Portland City Council 10-25-06 9:30AM , and summary of opposing arguments here: http://www.goodgrowthnw.org/PotterPummels.html , other connected commentaries here: http://www.goodgrowthnw.org .

Each member of the Portland Hope Meadows Corporation has been made aware of the statements above which describe a damning set of circumstances and asked, as individuals, to step forward and make a public statement requesting withdrawal from the Portsmouth project. All have indicated their intention to ignore the arguments. I urge you to contact them and explain that your organization cannot be a party to this enterprise. (Board names and contact information are below signature.)

The campaign to stop the Portland Hope Meadows Corporation, its funders and vendors from proceeding to develop the John Ball School site in the Portsmouth neighborhood will be on the agenda for a major public meeting, which will confront the discredited and abhorrent public policy of unlimited neighborhood concentration of public housing, to be held on February 21. I will be moderating that meeting and will be presenting your position on this matter to the audience and later to HAP Watchers and the press. If you do not want to be a target of the campaign to Stop The Portland Hope Meadows Corporation From Adding To The Overload Of Public Housing Clients In The Portsmouth Neighborhood And North Portland then you must contact me by 11 PM Friday February 9th, with your assurance that you have withdrawn support for this disreputable project.

Thank you.


Richard Ellmyer
Community leader coordinating a local effort to bring the Oregon National Guard to the Sharff Army Reserve Center
Community activist leading the campaign to Stop The Portland Hope Meadows Corporation From Adding To The Overload Of Public Housing Clients In The Portsmouth Neighborhood And North Portland
3-6-9 Resolution author and project champion
Writer/Publisher - HAP Watcher commentary - Published on the Internet and distributed to 13,000 readers interested in public housing policy in Multnomah County.
http://www.goodgrowthnw.org
President, MacSolutions Inc. - A Macintosh computer consulting business providing web hosting for artists and very small businesses. Located in Portsmouth, the neighborhood with the second highest concentration of public housing clients, 18% and rising, within HAP's Multnomah county jurisdiction of 117 neighborhoods.


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(H)2806 NW Fairfax Ter
Portland, OR  97210-2806
(503) 997-6266
Unemployed
 
Kristen Simmons (Board Secretary)
(H)420 NW 11th Ave., #609
Portland, OR  97209
(503) 525-0180
ksimmons@panthersys.com
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5408 NE 88th St # D2
Vancouver, WA 98665
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Leah Y. King
(H)4201 NE 19th Ave.
Portland, OR  97211
(503) 317-8577
leah.king@fnf.com
VP, Lender Sales
Fidelity National Title Company of Oregon
1001 SW Fifth Avenue, #400
Portland, OR 97204
www.fidelityportland.com
503.223.8338 Office
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Kevin McCullough
(B)2050 NE 25th Ave.
Hillsboro, OR  97214
(503) 640-3711
kmac@aeroair.com
President, AeroAir Inc.
Cellular:  503.572.8527
Fax: 503.681.6513
 
Madeleine Rose
(H)600 SE Marion #309
Portland, OR  97202
(503) 234-0699
rosem@windermere.com
Windermere Cronin & Caplan Realty Group, Inc.
733 NW 20th Ave.
Portland, OR 97209
Office Phone: 503-220-1144
Cell/Direct: 503-781-4667
Agent Fax: 503-226-6227

Julie Peterson
(H)831 SW Hume St.
Portland, OR  97219
(503) 977-0161
jpeterson@grouponelending.com
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503.703.9398 
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Suite 120
Portland, OR 97223
503.327.4000
Fax 503.327.4001

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Portland, OR  97239
(503) 224-1047
pamresnik@comcast.net
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