October
11th, 2018, 6:30 – 8:50
East Phillips Park Cultural &
Community Center, 2307 17th Ave S.
EPIC web
address: eastphillips-epic.com
Office: 2536
18th Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN 55404
Phone: (612) -280-8418
Board Roster: Rosie Cruz, Laura Dale, Mary Gonsior, Tom Harris, Cassandra Holmes, Linda Leonard, Carol Pass,
Linda Vermillion, Abah Mohamed
Board Members Present: Rosie Cruz, Laura Dale, Mary
Gonsior, Linda Leonard, Carol Pass, Linda Vermillion, Abah Mohamed
Board Members Not Present: Tom Harris, Cassandra Holmes.
Members: Brad Pass,
Alfonso Cruz, Steve Sandberg, Sarah Santiago,Skylar Sellers, Tammy Skinaway
Guests:
Shirley Heyer, Cassandra
Meyer, Ahmed Hirsi
6:30 Social Time/ Greetings and Introductions
6:55 Approval of Proposed Agenda: LL, LV, Approved
Approval of September
13th General Membership Draft Minutes: MG, LD,
Approved
7:00 Announcements:
· Next EPIC Board Meeting, November 3rd at the EPIC office 10 AM Saturday morning.
· EPIC Community Meeting, Thursday, November 8th, 6:30 at the East Phillips Park
- All Phillips Clean Sweep-October 13th, starting at 9 am (flyer)
- Fall Harvest Party- Saturday starting at 4:30 pm on October 20th (flyer)
- Volunteer staff for the Alley newspaper: Steve Sandberg; the paper serves the four “Phillips” neighborhoods.
- Little Earth is having a meeting on Saturday (Oct. 13th) to focus on the missing and murdered indigenous women of the US and Canada, starting around 1 pm.
- Karen Clark is retiring, there will be a big kick-off meal for her right here at EPPCCC on December 6 at 6:30 pm. Contact EPIC if you want to help with this event.
7:30 Cassandra Meyer from MPCA offers a Q and
A on air pollution, polluting industries and permitting
in East Phillips and to give us a status update on permit process for Bituminous
Roadway and Smith Foundry. This is to be
a run-up for a larger meeting in November with MCDA Staff to try to decide what
to do.
There is an investigative and reporting process that
is underway. Bituminous wants to move, so let them know if we find a place
(within 20 miles of current location, or anywhere in Hennepin County.) There is
a listserve available and if you want to be involved, see instructions below.
Meetings will be announced over this listserve. Any S. Mpls project will appear
in this listserve. Next month MPCA will
be answering questions and reports at the Nov. 8th General
Membership Meeting (starts at 6:30 pm.)
Listserve
instructions:
Go to www.pca.state.mn.us/air-south-minneapolis
and enter your email; click “next”. If prompted, click the box titled “Air
permitting in South Minneapolis” (under the “Air” category near the bottom of
the page) and click “submit”. Or, email Cassandra.meyer@state.mn.us
saying you would like to signup for the South Minneapolis GovDelivery email
list.
The MPCA doesn’t have the authority to shut them down
if they are in compliance with the requirements. The city, county or state
could write a law that forces this pollution out of densely populated areas.
A new group, Science for the People, is looking for a
project where they could use their expertise.
8:24 Updating our Finances - EPIC Financial
Future – four financial goals
· EPIC needs to access administrative money to pay bills
soon, i.e. rent, office supplies, Internet access.
· EPIC has traditionally great sponsored programs for
youth. We currently need to replenish those funds.
· EPIC needs to make use of its old money and apply for
new…CPP dollars or we could lose it.
· EPIC always tries to leverage our dollars whenever we
can.
EPIC Admin Funds are almost gone. To replenish them we
are advised to take $25,000 from the Foreclosure Assistance fund into a Plan Modification
moving this money into our new Admin Contract to provide for EPIC’s admin
needs. We need to spend this old allocated, but uncontracted money out of a new
contract.
This is the 2nd vote on this motion:
MOTION:
EPIC chooses to transfer
$25,000 from strategy 1.1.2 Foreclosure Assistance to EPIC’s new NRP Phase II
Plan Admin Contract (#C-43629). LV, MG, Approved.
8:35 Implications from the big meeting on the
Roof Depot site.
The vote at the end of the meeting showed that no residents
were opposed to the city giving EPIC the small parcel of land needed to
implement the urban indoor agriculture project. We are waiting to hear from CM
Cano when the Ways and Means committee will meet to make decisions and
recommendations.
8:45 Take the neighborhood Survey in
preparation for preparing our CPP application for future
EPIC funding. Comment on the Survey.
Discussed making a few changes.
8:55 Adjourn
