Meeting Minutes, September 7, 2016

Preservation Station, Bonnie Anderson, presiding   Start time 6:30 PM

 Board Member Attendance:

Term ending August 2018		Term ending August 2017
Anderson, Bonnie	x	Leverick, Pam
Boyd, Joe		Carson, Ann	x
Ben Sturge		Grassel, Kathy	x
Gonzalez, Moisés/ Thornton, Karla	x	Tom Pantano/Marie Collinson
Grant, Steve		Fink, Zoey
Spittler, Lee	x	Trefethen, Salley

Minutes of the July meeting were read and approved. The block party and board elections were held in lieu of the August meeting.

Karla Thornton’s request to join Moisés Gonzalez to share a board seat was approved; Susan Vogle was approved to fill Karla’s seat. Susan has lived on the 200 block of Walter since 1994 and is active in neighborhood cleanup and animal rescue. 

A motion was made and seconded to re-elect the board’s president, vice-president, treasurer, and secretary.  The motion passed.

Crime Report—Retired Officer Seibel reported an increase in auto burglaries: up to 8 from 2 or 3 last month. Moisés reported that his garage was burglarized on a Sunday afternoon. Tiffany reported a mailbox theft in which her debit card was stolen and charged to $2,000. There was also a public altercation on Central. Scott said there is a new bid that will move police to 12-hour shifts, which should result in more community policing.

Block Party and Election—The block party took in $186. Everyone on the ballot was reelected. A good time was had by all.

Single Family Homes update

• Construction of two single family homes, one on Edith and one on Lead, is well underway.
• Terry Brown’s plan for four units on High is progressing but still in permitting stages.
• Ann Carson will go to a hearing about the dilapidated house across from Holy Cow.
• Owner Adolph Romero wants to sell the vacant commercial structure on Coal across from the locksmith.
• Plans to turn the long-empty Pop ‘n’ Taco into a bank branch have been abandoned.

Lead/Coal Update—KOB-TV did a live story about traffic before the meeting. Ann Carson was interviewed.  

Stoplight request—Bonnie reported that the City Council postponed the neighborhood’s request for stoplights to its meeting on Sept 19. Bonnie plans to go and requests others from the board to attend as a show of strength. Yosef, resident at Edith and Coal, has been documenting incidents of excess speeding on the one-ways. He said he has recorded 250 accidents in three years. The average speed during rush hour is 53 mph; after rush hour from 11 to 2, the highest speed was 93 mph. And nearly every night between 1 and 3 a.m., two motorcycles race from Broadway up Coal.

Miscellaneous—Ron H. of First Presbyterian Church announced a Sept. 23 free talk by author Glennon Melton Doyle and another event on Nov. 11, a concert on the church’s organ, purported to be the largest in the world.

Meeting adjourned at 7:30. Next meeting is Wed., Oct. 5, 2016.