EPIC Community Meeting Minutes
July 9th, 2020, 6:30 – 8:50
East Phillips Park Cultural & Community Center, 2307 17th Ave S.
EPIC web address: eastphillips-epic.com
Email: epic.ssantiago@gmail.com
Office: 2433 Bloomington Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55404
Phone: (612) -280-8418
Board Roster: Rosie Cruz, Laura Dale, Mary Gonsior, Cassandra Holmes, Shontal Lajeunesse, Abah Mohamed, Carol Pass, Steve Sandberg, Sarah Santiago.
Board Members Present: Cassie Holmes, Laura Dale, Carol Pass, Sarah Santiago, Steve Sandberg
Board Members Not Present: Mary Gonsior (E), Rosie Cruz (E), Shontal Lajeunesse (U), Abah Mohamed (U)
Members: Michael Green, Linda Leonard
Guests: Shirley Heyer
6:30 Social Time
6:45 Greetings and Introductions
6:50 Approve tonight’s agenda CP, LD, amended, approved
Approve minutes from June community meeting, LD, CP, approved
6:55 Announcements
· Next Board Meeting will be: Thursday, August 6th at 7pm at the EPIC office (2433 Bloomington Avenue) or via Zoom TBD
o Board Meetings are open to the public
· Next Community Meeting will be: Thursday, August 13th at 6:30 at East Phillips Park or via Zoom TBD
· Next Executive Committee meeting is Thursday July 16th from 7-8pm at the EPIC office or via Zoom TBD
o Executive Committee meetings are the third Thursday of every month
o Executive Committee meetings are open to the public
· EPIC has a housing program! 0% interest! Fix up your home or buy a new home in East Phillips – Check your email for the brochure or go to: mncee.org/eastphillips
· If you smell a foul odor around Smith foundry or Bituminous Roadways call 311 to report
o Write down your incident number
· Every Saturday until August 1 from 4-6pm at 2618 16th Ave S a group of neighbors will be holding community discussions on different topics that may include processing the changes around safety and policing in our city; learning about models for keeping each other safe that other communities are using etc. Check out www.thebonnydoon.org for more information/updates
6:53 Speed bumps – we were told by the city that there is a moratorium on speed bumps – but Powderhorn is getting new speed bumps, and the city is supposedly paying for them
o This might be the time for East Phillips – ideas on this?
o Verify that the speed bumps in Powderhorn are free
o What city policies are in place? Has the moratorium on speed bumps ended?
§ Depending on the answers from the city:
· Make a policy for our neighborhood
o Past EPIC policy - if the block can come up with half of the money EPIC will try to fund the remainder
· Inform our neighborhood and move forward
o Idea of contacting the city about curving streets like done in other parts of the city so cars cannot flow through
7:08 Neighbors have taken over 18th Ave between Lake and 29th Ave
o Neighbors are saying that MPD video surveillance that is not being monitored
§ Kali Pliego wrote that the camera is functional and records
§ It is not constantly monitored, but can be used in investigations
7:20 Update on Roof Depot site
o CEAC (Community Environmental Advisory Commission) meeting
§ CEAC is trying to go to bat for us
§ In 2015 they had opposed the city taking over the Roof Depot site because it endangers East Phillips resident’s health further and contradicts the Southside Green Zone
§ Cam Gordon sat in on the CEAC meeting
7:48 Hi-Lake and Minnehaha mall re-development plans
o City is planning with the top people about how to redevelop Hi-Lake without including neighborhood
o Whole Hi-Lake was burnt out
o Invite Wellington to board meeting as well as Bergemann as well as Longfellow, Corcoran and Seward
8:24 Adjourn
