City of Beaverton: Neighborhood Program and Community Events

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  1. What is a NAC?

    The City of Beaverton currently has 11 recognized Neighborhood Association Committees, or NACs. The City’s Neighborhood Program & Community Events offers support services to the NACs and acts as a liaison between NACs and the City. These services include mailing meeting materials, the Matching Fund program, providing leadership trainings, and collaborating with NACs on public involvement events and activities.

  2. How do I become a member of a NAC?

    Participation in a NAC is open to anyone who lives, works, owns a business, or represents an institution or non-profit organization within the boundaries of the NAC. Membership is not contingent on home ownership.

    NACs do not charge membership fees or dues.

  3. Neighborhood Associations versus Homeowner’s Associations:

    There is often confusion between Homeowners Associations, Block Watch groups, and Neighborhood Associations. Each is valuable, but serves differing purposes. Homeowners Associations, unlike Neighborhood Associations, are formal legal entities created to maintain common areas and enforce private deed restrictions. Many condominiums, town–home developments and some single–family subdivisions have homeowners associations, which are usually formed when the development is built. Membership is mandatory for all property owners within the development, and usually fees are mandatory. Homeowners associations have the legal authority to enact and enforce maintenance and design standards in addition to those established by City ordinances. There is usually a governing board with formal by–laws which hires a property management company to handle maintenance and enforce rules.

  4. Who runs NAC meetings?

    NACs conduct their own meetings, draft their own agendas, and take their own minutes. NACs choose their own meeting dates and generally hold meetings on a monthly, bi-monthly, or quarterly basis. Board members and officers are elected annually.

  5. How do NACs benefit me and my community?

    NACs provide neighbors with the opportunity to meet and discuss a variety of issues important to their neighborhood and the City. Perhaps most importantly, NACs promote ongoing communication and information sharing between neighbors and the NAC as well as between neighbors and the City.

    Additionally, NACs often collaborate with the City to sponsor public involvement events and activities. Some of these activities include an annual Neighborhood Cleanup Day and a Neighborhood Summit (designed to inform citizens about current events and issues that impact their community).

    The City also offers a Matching Fund program to assist NACs with neighborhood improvement projects, citizen involvement events, and other activities.

  6. How can I become more involved in my NAC?

    A NAC member’s involvement can be as minimal as attending meetings, or as much as taking on the responsibility of a board member or officer. Officers include the chair, vice chair, recorder, and treasurer. NAC members participate in various events and volunteer activities throughout the year.

  7. What does the City of Beaverton’s Neighborhood Program do?

    Beaverton is a community of neighborhoods. These neighborhoods are all different, making a "one–size–fits–all" approach to addressing neighborhood issues inappropriate. The Neighborhood Program seeks to provide tools and programs to best address the issues of each neighborhood, while consistently providing quality service to all neighborhoods.

    By creating and sustaining partnerships with City of Beaverton departments, neighborhood organizations, businesses, non–profit organizations, educational institutions, and others, the effort to stabilize and improve neighborhoods will be shared among many and success multiplied.

    Individuals and families have choices when it comes to deciding where to call home. Businesses have options on where to locate. The influences on these choices are numerous; however, perhaps most important among them are financial considerations. The decision of where to live or do business involves a commitment of money and resources. Communities are measured on how solid or risky an investment may be. When it comes to neighborhoods, the perception of whether a neighborhood is improving, stable, or declining guides whether or not a person or family chooses to buy or rent a home there. The City of Beaverton’s Neighborhood Program sets out to stabilize and improve all of Beaverton’s neighborhoods.