THPRD News: Board of Directors

The newest members of the Tualatin Hills Park and Recreation District Board of Directors were sworn in at the July 23 board meeting.

Felicita is being honored for her advocacy work on behalf of Latina women and girls in Oregon. She created a community event program called Latinx Social Hour focusing on social justice issues including transgender justice and building relationships with diverse neighborhoods and communities.

Board members have called upon district staff to participate in county-wide coordinated discussions that are expected to begin this year. In the meantime, the Board directed staff to develop the next fiscal year budget with funding that benefits affordable housing development.

THPRD hopes to make it easier for parents and guardians to attend district board meetings and participate in civic discussions.

Todd Duwe, a Beaverton resident, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District.

Holly Thompson has submitted a letter of resignation from the Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District Board of Directors. The board will accept the resignation at their Aug. 7 meeting.

THPRD is now taking applications for the Audit Committee's citizen postition. Applications for this position are due on Friday, May 25.

THPRD Board appoints Wendy Kroger as a fifth member.

The current board will make a decision and announce the appointee at their regularly scheduled meeting on March 12.

THPRD is now accepting applications for a vacant position on its five-member elected board of directors. The application deadline is Feb. 7. Board members plan to announce their appointee on March 12.

Jerry Jones Jr. has resigned from the THPRD Board of Directors. The board will invite applicants from within THPRD’s service boundaries to serve the remainder of his term, which ends June 30, 2021.

THPRD has been honored with the Edwards Center’s Employment Award for more than three decades of providing job opportunities to adults with developmental disabilities.The accolade was presented in Portland as part of the Edwards Center’s 11th annual awareness-building and fundraising luncheon.

Fewer than 2% of park and recreation agencies nationally are CAPRA accredited. THPRD's successful accreditation is a big deal, says Jerry Jones, president of the district's Board of Directors.

THPRD has successfully become just the fourth Oregon agency -- and one of just 155 nationwide -- to earn accreditation from the Commission for Accreditation of Park and Recreation Agencies (CAPRA).

Mountain View Champions Park, a 21.5-acre site in Aloha featuring Oregon’s first athletic field for people of all abilities, will open to the public on Oct. 2. Join THPRD at a grand opening celebration on Oct. 14 from 3 to 6 pm.

At its June 13th meeting, THPRD’s Board of Directors unanimously approved the proposed master plan concept for a new neighborhood park to be constructed in Aloha in 2019.

John Griffiths of THPRD's Board of Directors recently presented Oregon State Representative Sheri Malstrom with a framed photo montage of Washington County’s first registered home, THPRD's historic Fanno Farmhouse.

Congratulations to the City of Beaverton for its part in helping the Rose Festival complete the first-ever Rose Festival Half Marathon in Beaverton on Sunday, May 28.

THPRD's Board of Directors have approved “Mountain View Champions Park” as the name of a new 21.5-acre community park in Aloha now in the final stages of construction.

THPRD's Board of Directors will have two new members starting July 1. On May 16, voters in the district elected Felicita Monteblanco and Holly Thompson to the board; Jerry Jones was re-elected.

Six candidates for three open positions on the THPRD Board of Directors participated in a public forum at the Elsie Stuhr Center. The candidates summarized why they are running and the priorities they would pursue if elected.

THPRD’s board of directors reached general agreement on a permanent name for a new 21.5-acre park in Aloha that will open to the public later this year. If adopted by the board in May, the park will be named “Mountain View Champions Park.”

The public is invited to a forum on April 29 at Elsie Stuhr Center featuring all candidates for open positions on the THPRD Board of Directors. The election is May 16.

Earlier this month, about 30 community members participated in three design workshops with THPRD and WH Pacific, the landscape architect that will soon prepare a master plan for a new park in Aloha. The workshops are another element of THPRD’s reimagined approach to park planning
 

Staff at the Babette Horenstein Tennis Center will host a public event on Sunday, Dec. 11, (1-4 pm) that will celebrate the center’s namesake and the game she loved.

THPRD is inviting residents to propose names for the 21.5-acre community park in Aloha, adjacent to Mt. View Middle School, that is scheduled to open in 2017. The deadline for submissions is Jan. 15, 2017.

The Portland Winterhawks have approached THPRD with a public/private partnership proposal that would entail building an ice rink facility at THPRD’s HMT Recreation Complex in Beaverton. Discussions are ongoing, but no decisions have been made.

Moving aggressively to take advantage of opportunities in the financial markets, THPRD has reduced the fiscal impact of the 2008 bond measure. Through favorable bond sales and refinancings, the district has reduced taxpayer liability by $31 million.
 

THPRD is changing the name of its Tennis Center to honor longtime board member/tennis advocate Babette Horenstein.

THPRD has scheduled a public meeting for the evening of July 14 to discuss a proposal that would rename its Tennis Center after longtime contributor Babette Horenstein.

A $114.1 million budget for the 2016-17 fiscal year was approved by the Budget Committee and is expected to be adopted by the board of directors on June 20.

The City of Beaverton’s Visioning Advisory Committee (VAC) has honored THPRD with a “Vision Champion” award based on the park district’s 2015 activities in support of the Beaverton Community Vision.

THPRD's Board of Directors have reappointed five community volunteers to the Parks Bond Citizen Oversight Committee. Selected for new two-year terms were Wink Brooks, Anthony Mills, Kevin O’Donnell, Stephen Pearson and Jack Platten.

Larry Pelatt, President of THPRD's Board of Directors, weighs in on the value of five new functional plans developed during the recent comprehensive plan update.