June 4th, 2011, 10:00 am
East Phillips Park Cultural & Community Center
2307 17th Ave S.
2307 17th Ave S.
EPIC
web address: eastphillips-epic.com
Office:
2536 18th Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN 55404
Present:
Carol Pass, Chiffon Williams, Jenny Bjorgo, Mary Gonsior, Steve Struthers, Earl
Simms
Guests:
Brad Pass, Ruby Levine
10:00
Introduction:
· Approval of Agenda (approved)
·
Minutes
from EPIC Board Meeting Minutes 4/2/2011
(pending)
10:10 Announcements:
·
Important: Legislative Review
of NRP Funding with south Mpls. Legislators. June 7, Pearl Park, 7:00 to 8:30
pm 414 Diamond Lake Road
·
EPIC General Membership Meeting
Thursday, June 9th, 6:30 pm at the East Phillips Park Center
·
Report on the Park Board’s work
on the tornado damage. Write notes of thanks and also to Council Member Gary Schiff.
·
Elector needed for NCEC
election (toward the end of June)
·
Upcoming Meeting of the
Neighborhood and Community Engagement Commissions (NCEC)
· Wed. June 8, 2011 5-6:00 pm, EPPCCC
·
Enjoy outdoor music and movies
in Minneapolis parks all summer long. Go to www.minneapolisparks.org for more
information.
10:20 Community
Energy Use Strategies: Ruby Levine of Cooperative Energy Futures will
stand in for Timothy DHT to explain possible strategies to teach wise energy
use to immigrants and other Phillips residents. Work on ideas to implement the
motion from our last meeting.
MOTION:
The leadership of EPIC will confer with the leadership of Timothy DHT/"Our
Power through Community Action" about the possibility of writing a
contract with a list of specific deliverables, to be presented for approval to
the membership of EPIC in June. (CP, BP)
Motion passed.
I
conferred….See EPIC Minutes from May 12th
Recommended
action?
CEF - EPIC
collaboration? Should EPIC find small organizations
that can help EPIC get all the work done that we want to do?
- Working with residents on how to improve energy efficiency, providing energy products and services to people who would not be able to afford them otherwise.
- EPIC might provide funding for CEF to go into a building and educate residents.
- Workshops help people learn how to use the products, and understand how to save energy/money
As we move
out of NRP, EPIC should become a model of how neighborhood organizations can
address the diversity issue and can address the geographic uniqueness issue,
can address bringing different ethnic groups together, instead of balkanizing
of them, providing horizontal democratic governance and participation, rather
than vertical.
In this
scenario, CEF gets some money, and is associated with a pretty good
neighborhood with a good reputation; EPIC gets prestige, and achieves our goal
of supporting small organizations that help us build the horizontal connections
we desire.
Motion: LL,
CF (passed) CEF will provide a proposal on Monday for Board comments, and final
presentation to the GMM on Thursday.
10:35 Report on Meeting with Robert Thompson to
determine contracting for services.
A sample "contract for
services" will be distributed to board members by email.
10:50 Housing Task Force meeting. Consider
contracting with Doug Wise or ? to help us research and set up plan for
NRP Phase II . Housing Rehab support, grant writing with CEE, foreclosure work,
etc.
Motion: (LL, CF) passed. Set aside
$5,000 for with housing consultants to put together a plan for NRP phase II.
11:15 Work on Met. Council Facilities and Pollution
Issues. Report on meeting
The Met Council wants to put a
Rail Car paint spraying facility right next to Little Earth housing. They also
want to put another polluting facility right next to Cedar Riverside towers.
While anyone wanting to build a polluting business, they must adhere to intense
and expensive studies to report on the cumulative effect of pollution. We
SHOULD have required that they be prevented from exceeding recommended safe
levels.
Motion: (LL, ES) passed. Obtain a
full copy of the study, and the technical support documents for immediate
review, for the purpose of potential expression of concerns.
11:25
Report on NRP Review and Plan
Progress
CP has been tied up with the
legislature, but hopes to have some time in the next couple weeks to make
progress on the NRP Review and Phase II plan.
Neighborhood
noise and zoning ordinances
Police, Zoning, licensing, housing
inspections, city council, Gary Schiff, Mpls. Health Department
11:
30 Adjournment
