September 1st, 2012, Saturday, 10:00 am
East Phillips Park Cultural & Community Center
2307 17th Avenue S.
2307 17th Avenue S.
EPIC web address: http://www.eastphillips-epic.com/index.html
Office: 2536 18th
Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN 55404
Present (board): Mary
Gonsior, Linda Leonard, Jennie Bjorgo, Earl Simms, Chiffon Williams, Rosie
Cruz, Carol Pass
Members:
Brad Pass
10:00 Introduction:
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Approval of Agenda
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Approval of Minutes from 8/4/12
EPIC Board Meeting
10:10 Announcements/Reports:
·
EPIC Membership Meeting: Thursday, Sept. 13th, 6:30 PM, the East Phillips Park Center,
·
EPIC only funded 5 NNO parties. But East
Phillips had 15 of the 30 parties in all of Phillips.
·
Hi-Lake Apartments: Comments due by noon
on Monday, September 10, 2012. Send to:
Matthew Hendricks, Development
Finance Analyst
Minneapolis Finance & Property Services
Department
105 5th Avenue South,
Suite 200
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401
(612) 673-5236
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PUBLIC HEARING -1:30 p.m. on Tuesday,
September 11, 2012 in Room 317 City Hall. The City Council is expected to
consider the Plans at its meeting on Friday, September 21, 2012.
10:15 Update on Housing Program
Contract- The
Contract for the Program is at
City Hall. We can begin work on a marketing plan next week. We will create a
Brochure listing the programs and start disseminating them as soon as CEE has
the requisite paper work available.
Note Need to know how the $17,000 is moved
into this process. August motion: Board/Community Motion:
Whereas these funds are already in an appropriate Phase I strategy, EPIC will
use this money (from the old CEE contract) to provide Admin
dollars for the new CEE contract. (CP, LL; Passed)
Task Force (Need a few members): Doug Wise will meet with us in the form
of a task force next week to work on a marketing plan. Time to be arranged.
10:30 Update on the Pool – Money for the preliminary concept drawings and schematics is complete. Money came in from EPIC, Ventura Village and Minnesota Swimming. Dean Dovolis will be the architect.
Proposal from USAquatics, Contract signed.
Design Team Membership for EPIC is an
opportunity.
Proposal from USAquatics, Contract signed.
Design Team Membership for EPIC is an
opportunity.
10:40 Assistance
for Somali Outreach- Youth Soccer Budget , EPIC was funding this
through a CURA/NPI Grant from the U of M. We no longer have that grant.
Motion: Youth Soccer Budget- CPP - $1000 for field
rental, balls, etc. Stipend for organizing/Coaching
Look at how to fund this in the future. Add
pieces to this- An academic requirement.
11:00 Hi-Lake
Triangle Apartments- Requested Gary Schiff to press for
balconies, crime control issues and deal with Parking. Help with Notification
of Hi-Lake Businesses.
11:15 Moving
ahead with Phase II NRP and CPP 2:
1) Evaluation
of 2011 almost complete, we need this and the following to receive and use CPP
funds, which we decided to use for Admin for NRP Phase II.
2) CP
will create a Community Participation Program Submission to be worked from by
the Board
and Task Force members.
3) Need
to look at NRP Phase II Non-housing part. This is a very general plan…What
should we
do? And
How? What we envisioned.
Then,
this is our motion from August:
Board Recommended/Community
Adopted
Motion (passed with one abstention): EPIC will budget and spend remaining CPP1, Equity
Funds and CPP-2 funds as follows: passed with one abstention
1. The CPP-1 leftover
funds (about $30,000 as of June 30, 2012) should be rolled forward and
budgeted/spent in 2012-2013 in accordance with the CPP-1 budget as previously
determined by EPIC membership. The intention is to spend these funds according
to CPP-1 requirements (e.g., participation, organizing, and administration). A
new contract with NCR for 2012-2013 will encompass these items.
2. The NRP Equity
Directive Allocation funds ($29,000) should be rolled forward into EPIC’s CPP-2
Priority Participation Plan. The intention is to spend these funds on community
participation, organizing, and administration).
3. The funds
available from CPP-2 funds ($123,000 for 2012-2013) should be
temporarily allocated proportionately to EPIC’s NRP Phase II budget as
previously determined by EPIC membership. The intention is to contract these
funds according to the goals and set aside for neighborhood priority plans,
including strategies of NRP Phase II and new priorities since the Phase II plan
was approved, and to adopt the Community Engagement Process which was completed
for NRP Phase II as part of the process for EPIC’s CPP-2 Priority Participation
Plan:
a. EPIC ‘s first
focus should be on contracting/spending existing Phase II NRP funds.
b. EPIC will engage
in additional community engagement to monitor the needs, priorities and
opportunities before making specific recommendations for possible projects and
contracts for CPP2, recognizing that big changes and needs occur and some will
have been satisfied by EPIC’s NRP
Phase II Plan and that a new Priority Plan is due each year. Effort will be
made to revisit these present recommendations present before EPIC’s 2013 annual
meeting.
11:40 Concerns pending:
Bituminous
Roadways, Smith Foundry , Abbott Hospital– Task Force on Environment needs to
meet. Petition?
12:15 Adjournment