EPIC Special Board Meeting Minutes 06 - 15

EPIC Special Board Meeting, June 15, 2017

6:30 pm at Perkins Restaurant on Franklin Avenue
 Minutes

The meeting was held on short but legal notice to make it possible to complete the CPP 2016 report in as timely a manner as possible and to discuss important business that has come up since the last board meeting, some of which needs to be discussed soon and/or before July before July. As usual we met at Perkins on Franklin Avenue, our place of choice since we still have no office. We began our discussion at 7:00 PM.

Present: Mary, Rosie, Carol, Linda L., Laura

Absent: Linda V. whom we could not, reach by any contact information; Cassie who had A previous commitment; Jenny had to be out of town; and Tom was ?

CPP 2016 report

We started reading and discussing the CPP report. Essentially it is mostly identical to the 2016 Annual Report for the neighborhood passed out to attendees of the recent EPIC annual meeting, which we have read before and had for a couple of months. It is a shortened version that includes the CPP checklist. The profit/loss statement is the one found in the April report. Page 2 is the only really new page. The board agreed by consensus to approve the CPP report. Reading through it evoked a few stylistic and spelling edits. We reread the material as “proofreaders” and made editorial recommendations. The content was approved as presented so the report could be submitted.

The Greater Metro Housing fee of $2,500.

We discussed the fact that the membership and board have continued to approve this long-standing EPIC program to assist homeowners of East Phillips rehab and maintain the housing stock of family homes even up to an owner-occupied 4-Plex, even through a change in the administrative agency a few years ago. We have potential loans pending and it was agreed that we should try to maintain this program. We were made aware of the $2,500 fee to manage the loan process and record-keeping. We decided to ask them for an invoice detailing the fees purpose and what it actually pays for and whether it's an annual commitment.

Hiawatha campus (Roof Depot site) Project:

Not everyone had received a change of emails about the grant EPIC received from the MN state legislature. There was some announcement from Council Member Cano, that also indicated a meeting about the funds. Representative Clark corrected some of the information by clarifying that the funds go directly to EPIC as fiscal agent and that EPIC had submitted considerable documentation to make the award even possible at all. Apparently no other organization in East Phillips had a strong enough history to qualify for the grant. There is a beginning discussion of what the “East Phillips Urban Institute” might actually become. There was some discussion about EPIC’s participation in the planning/advisory group currently meeting with city officials about the roof depot site. The leadership structure and participation structure seems ambiguous and there were points made about forming bylaws for the group and about fiscal management fees and how to go about hiring a staff person and defined roles for such a person.

Clearly, the board wants to have an active role in whatever the Multicultural Urban Institute becomes. Apparently Karen Clark hopes to hold a meeting to explain the purpose of the legislation she was able to get passed thanks to Carol Pass putting together a series of documents on short notice.

We adjourned at 8:30 PM. 

Submitted by Linda Leonard, Secretary

EPIC Community Meeting Minutes 06 - 08

06-08-2017, 6:30 – 8:50

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: Jenny Bjorgo, Rosie Cruz, Laura Dale, Mary Gonsior, Linda Leonard, Carol Pass, Tom Harris, Linda Vermillion, Cassandra Holmes, .

Board Members Present: Carol Pass, Linda Leonard, Laura Dale, Tom Harris , Cassandra Holmes, Rosie Cruz, Linda Vermillion, Mary Gonsior

Board Members Not Present: Jenny Bjorgo,

Members: Brad Pass, Michael Green, Lance Lamont, Carol Hill George Kennedy Margaret Kirkpatrick Sophia Hernandez  (ernandezHH intern Little Earth); Child Care center owner and employee, Karen Townsend, Rep. Karen Clark, Tiimothy Blighton, Carol Hill-Kennedy, George Kennedy, Michael Green, Maria Gali, Carlos Contreras (Child Care center owner and employee)

Guests: Shirley Heyer, Tim and Skylor; Mahamed Cali, Brett Nyman, Tanya McCaleb, 

6:30     Social Time/ Greetings and Introductions

Meeting called to order at 6:45 pm

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6:45                 Approval of Proposed June 8th Agenda:. Laura and Cassie to approve agenda;  motion approved

Approval of General Membership Draft Minutes from May 11th 13^th

Rosie and Laura with the motion to approve minutes.  Motion passed.

 

6:55     Announcements:

o   Summer Festival, Sunday, June 25, 2017,  Tammy needs volunteers; She can be contacted through the park here or Brad Pass at 612 916-8478. The flyer has more information and contact numbers. The sign in sheet is a place people can indicate they want to volunteer. Tammy will also take names of people who want to perform.

o  Next EPIC Board Meeting, July 8^th 10:00 am-noon, East Phillips Park

o  Next EPIC Community Meeting, July 13^th 6:30 - 8:45, East Phillips Park

 Banyan has breakfast 8:30-10:00 am this Saturday on E 26^th and 13^th Ave S. Parking available.

7:10   Crime Prevention and Safety  Solutions with CPS Brett Nyman.  We will spend some time on this. Bring your

          Concerns. More Speed Bumps? Hire Security?

          East Phillips Safety Patrol–Lance Lamont

Lance has experience and would be happy to include the broader community to beautify the community and pick up garbage including sharps; deter crime; present outreach resources; engage people with dignity and provide light snacks and beverages; Sophia Hernandez talked about crime prevention programming and how it could benefit the community; She mentioned funding and talked about being role models and giving young adults positive programming. A lot happens at night with gunfire and gang activity. The idea is to stipend young adults.

Linda mentioned that the Ambassador program already has vests and handbook of the streets and other resources. Lance suggested ten pm to 2 am. There are certain times of the month at the first and 15^th . Younger people would be during daylight perhaps. Hiawatha to Franklin to Bloomington to Lake Street.

Carol reported the outcome of three years of citizen patrol and reports to the legislature which resulted in over 3 million dollars for the current East Phillips Park Cennter

Cassie asked about training and working with the police doing certification through the city of Minneapolis. Lance has worked with Inspector Sullivan.

Michael Green talked about win/win about youth funding and crime control. He suggested a pilot program and discussion of not requiring the 4:1 match.

Lance asked about having some other people involved as former patrol members.

Cassie asked about contact with each other like phones and walkie/talkies.

Tom spoke about his son who is 14 and the cameras on his business. He has seen a woman assaulted under the bridge in daylight.  He suggested approaching businesses for partnership and financing.

Action: Referred Lance to work out details with the Board.

7:27 We paused for introductions.

7:29 Brett.

Linda asked Brett to explain trespass process. The police have an affidavit you sign and will give a trespass sign; you give the police a trespass notice to serve on the people who are trespassing.  We should call police and tell them someone is there that we don’t want there. The signs have to be posted appropriately. After they have been served they can be served again and arrested. Geographic trespass is complicated and pertained to an area.  

Rosie talked about a neighbor who did verbal trespass and has been threatened by people for that.

Linda talked about how a property owner has to fill out the form and the police will serve the form.

Mary Gonsiour asked about locking the back gate and Brad said the building codes might be a challenge if there are yard gate locks. Brett said whatever we can do for security is great.  Michael asked Brett to bring information about number of calls/responses/no ability to service because the culprit was gone; Brett said goa: gone on arrival.

Brett said video is helpful.

Rosie talked about Salvation Army providing meals and that’s why so many people hang on Lake and Bloomington. The bus stop is scary. Carol spoke about the effect of putting locks on the fence near SA and how it keeps people out and makes tenants safer. She spoke about a neighborhood that put up high fences and locks and it really turned down the crime.

Mary talked about running into a deal taking place as she comes home and the same people are involved very often. She asked how the police respond if we call about obvious dealing.  Brett said there are undercover surveillance teams that do watch SA but they NEED reasonable suspicion to stop someone. Then they can have a reason to stop someone. Resources are allocated for where the calls come from. “ If you don’t call it never happened.”

The child care center can’t do their drills and take kids out amid the prostitutes and dealers.

Cassie talked about making lots of calls from Little Earth and now they have the “data”. Six habitual arrestees that are 25% of the arrests. What you say is put in a machine model to prioritize calls. Key words are important.

Mary asked about data and fundraising. Cassie said they got funding $850,000 through grants. She spoke of changing relationships between the police and Native peoples including training.  Cassie said a missing piece is knowing how the police feel about coming into the Native community.

What is the crime prevention plan? Is a question for Brett.

PPL rep said they had 911 calls explained and how the police resources are distributed and then rerouted.

Carol suggested that Brett do a training for how to best make 911 calls.

Comments were made about “Night Wolf” and their success in how they treat people. They were helping people and established rapport.

Comments about school buses racing up and down 16^th and 18^th and parking poor places. There should probably be calls and letters sent out to schools and bus companies.

Carol said we should probably demand speed bumps and signage about kids at play and push the city and county for assistance.

Shirley spoke about the speed of water works trucks, school buses, and garbage service….we should all take notes of the license numbers

8:10   Karen Clark, Urban Agriculture Bill

She explained the Special Session and the Governor’s concerns and requirements. The drivers’ licenses for undocumented people is hung up with special session and salary threats from the governor. The governor has 4 major concerns. One of the laws in the education bill is raising tuition and allowing unlicensed teachers in classrooms.

The good news: 1. The Roof depot site neighborhood concerns and the city interaction with Cano resulted in $319,000 with EPIC as fiscal agent.  Brad and Carol went with Karen and documentation to get the funding.  This gives leverage with the city! Dean Dovolis of DJR did the convincing drawings and gave testimony. Tammy Skinaway and a relative of Carol Hill and others testified. Karen and Alondra will help guide the next steps. We’ve been working on this three years.

            2. The crime bill was bad but had funding for trafficking and geographic trespassing. Margurita gave good testimony with Alondra.

Karen will host an open house at the Capitol in about three weeks with Susan Allen and Jeff Hayden.

An environmental impact statement is being heard right now. It goes through the best wild rice district.

8:25    EPIC/KALY Radio Station Programming Partnership for 2017.

He has information from police reports that go out asap and has established a tip line announcement.

He is asking about us recording meetings to translate and broadcast. He offered to include Spanish as well.

“This meeting can go nowhere but we can take it everywhere.”

There were comments about including Spanish translation.

Brad asked about time to introduce Tammy and Jean from the Park  Board to announce the talent show. Mohamed invited Tammy and Lance to come to the radio to broadcast live. The radio will broadcast live from the Summerfest. He wants to be able to edit a lot of the broadcasts so it is professional.

8:32 Tammy said she has a volunteer list sign up for moon walk; parking attendant; set up and take down; etc.

           Talent show is 3 day training program at the park. There is ages 5-8 and ??

            Four vendors; 7 info tables; the Bike Patrol will come with ice cream; canine; firetruck; mounted police.

           She asked Mohamed to try to recruit Somali talent.

8:48   29 Street Improvement Project, What is a Woonerf ? “shared street”

           There is a planning process that everyone is invited to which includes four different language groups. One is Monday June 19.

8:45   Roof Depot Site – Hiawatha Public Works Expansion: Community Input   

          Cassie and Brad and Carol went to a meeting about the Roof Depot and public works informed a                committee and included contractors and employees for a conversation about their ideas about                     plans.  It  seems there is no point in putting anything “green” on the site because of  asbestos and 

          soil contamination and the cost of 2 million dollars to clean up the site. They want a parking ramp             on site.

          Karen was in a state of shock to learn about this meeting of which she wasn’t even informed.                      Cassie  reported They talked about the 319,000 or 150,000 to focus on community special task force.          They will contact Hope community and others but not EPIC and not Little Earth.  People seemed               unhappy.

         Brad was in the back and reported that they seem to want three different community plans  and          Brad would like to see one plan that serves everyone and brings unity so they can’t say the                          community can’t agree”.

        Greg G in charge of public works and Alondra should be called.  The staff apparently                           recommended  that the outer wall mjght be kept. They claimed the building won’t support solar.     The  old building has to come down.

         Karen would like to be included in the next steering committee meeting hopefully and she   offered to  host a meeting.

8:50  Celebrating SummerFest, Sunday, June 25^th, Starts 1:00 pm, EPIC Needs Volunteers to help

8:55   Adjournment

EPIC Board Meeting Minutes 06 - 03

June 3rd, 2017, 10:00 am -12:00

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: Jenny Bjorgo, Rosie Cruz, Laura Dale, Mary Gonsior, Linda Leonard, Carol Pass, Linda Vermillion, Cassandra Holmes, Tom Harris

Board Members Present: Rosie Cruz, Laura Dale, Mary Gonsior, Linda Leonard, Carol Pass,

Board Members Not Present: Jenny Bjorgo, Linda Vermillion, Cassandra Holmes, Tom Harris

EPIC Members: Brad Pass, Michael Green, Shirley Heyer

Guests: Julie Graves, Brendan Kelly

10:00   Introductions:

·       Greetings and Introductions.

·       Approval of Agenda as amended. Approved by Consensus.

·       Approval of Minutes from May 6th, 2017, Approved by Consensus.

10:10   Announcements:

• Rental of the Office Cleaning Day to be announced
• EPIC Community Meeting, June 8^th, Thursday, at East Phillips Park, 6:30 to 8:45
• Summer Festival, Sunday, June 25, 2017

10:30   Recent deaths in East Phillips

Three deaths on June 2^nd. A youth was killed on 17^th Ave, struck by a car. A man and woman living on 18^th Ave died of an overdose.

10:40   Waite House KRSM Radio - Julie Graves and Brendan Kelly


(Julie Graves) After 3 decades of serving in the neighborhood, due to changes in funding, Waite House lost all their K-5 funding for afterschool activities in April. They have figured out some ways to partner with Mpls. Schools and other partners to provide services to youth aged 2-11 (children under five must be accompanied by an adult. ) The program will provide a snack, supervised playground, gardening, arts, cooking, literacy mentoring and dinner on Monday-Thursday, from June 26^th to August 4^th (2:30PM – 6:00PM). EPIC funds that were provided for summer programs will be used to serve EPIC families through these new activities. More East Phillips families and youth will be served through this program than the planned program which had to be cancelled. Additional funds are being sought to provide programming for the school year.

(Brendan Kelly) KRSM, a brand new radio station operating out of the Waite House, has officially launched and has 81 hours per week of programming. This is a low power station and serves a geographic region (South Minneapolis). KRSM is a media justice project, working with a multitude of community partners, featuring multilingual content. Free trainings are available to anyone interested. You can now listen online at www.krsmradio.org, but once funds are raised to install an antenna, you will be able to access at 98.9 FM.

11:10    Election of Officers

Discussion of whether to elect officers when so many directors are not present. EPIC’s bylaws state on page 6, the board shall elect officers at the first board meeting following the annual meeting. Consulted Roberts Rules of Order, and previous month’s minutes.

MOTION: EPIC will elect officers today. LL, MG, Approve (3 in favor, 2 abstain.)

·       For: We have a quorum, existing officers are currently present.  

·       Against:…There are 4 directors absent this month; Absent directors did not contact EPIC to report excused absences.

Officers elected by consensus

President: Carol Pass

Vice President: Laura Dale

Secretary: Linda Leonard

Treasurer: Mary Gonsior

MOTION: Correction to May Minutes (LL, LD) Approved (4 approved, (MG) abstain.)

Correction:

11:40 (Bylaws and Questions)

Because not all EPIC officers were present, we agreed to postpone election of officers.

For July Agenda:

·       Review of June Election, Discussion, Questions

·       Tabled items:

o   Board Functioning discussion

o   Completion of Bylaw process

·       Review bylaws page 6, Section 8, Change?

10:25   Safe Streets Effort – MOTIONS?

10:30   Board Functioning discussion

TABLED by consensus.

10:50    Completion of Bylaw process

TABLED by consensus.
 
Garden Committee Sign-up (March-October)
9AM (usually) on the first Saturday of the month. (Right before the EPIC meeting.)

2017
July (8) - Rosie
August - Laura
September -Mary
October - Linda

2018
March -
April -
May -
June -

12:00  Adjourn

EPIC Community Meeting Minutes 05 - 11

05-11-2017, 6:30 – 8:55 pm.

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: Jenny Bjorgo, Rosie Cruz, Laura Dale, Mary Gonsior, Linda Leonard, Carol Pass, Tom Harris, Linda Vermillion, Cassandra Holmes.

Board Members Present: Laura Dale, Mary Gonsior, Linda Leonard, Carol Pass, Tom Harris, Cassandra Holmes, Linda Vermillion, Rosie Cruz.

Board Members Not Present: Jenny Bjorgo,

Members: Brad Pass, Steve Sandberg, Kathy Strobel , Margaret Kirkpatrick, Alfonso Cruz, Mahamed Cali, Tina Alston, Harvey Winje

Guests: Shirley Heyer, Park Chief Jason Ohotto, Brett Nyman, Adam Arvidson 

6:30     Social Time/ Greetings and Introductions

6:45     Approval of Proposed May 11th Agenda: LD, SS, approved.

            Approval of General Membership Draft Minutes from April 13^th , SS, CH, Approved.

6:55     Announcements:

o  Third Garden Meeting of the Year. Gardening will be starting a month earlier this year. Next meeting is Saturday, May 13^th. 9:00 am at the Community Center. Come if you want to garden. Some open plots; there are 33 plots total. See Brad Pass for more information.

o  Little Earth Mother’s Day PowWow on  May 13 (Saturday) from 1-9 pm. Everyone is welcome. Celebration will be held at Cedar Field on 18^th Ave.

o  Barrier Discussion Meeting, May 22^nd, East Phillips Park, 5:30 to 7:00. Let your ideas be known. What to do about the barriers at 25^th Street between Bloomington Ave and 16^th Ave. Calming traffic and reducing crime.

o   Summer Festival, Sunday, June 25, 2017. Planning meeting on Tuesday, April 25^th, at the Park, at 11:30 am. Lunch is served.

o   Woonerf design May 25^th, 10 am – 1 pm. Midway Greenway Coalition office. A steering committee will meet to discuss the design. EPIC participants are sought for participation on this committee. Design will impact cars, pedestrians, and livability based on Dutch concepts. Along 29^th St between Bloomington and 18^th Aves. If you are interested in serving on the steering committee, contact Midtown Greenway Coalition, soren@midtowngreenway.org.

7:05    Introducing EPIC's new board members.

• Cassandra Holmes. Resident of Little Earth, serves on the LERA board, attends college.
• Tom Harris, 16^th Ave S. 30 year EPIC resident, just opened a business about 2 years ago. Personal goals are to help neighbors, and to expand the business. Business works with Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Ghana. Also works with several churches.
• Linda Vermillion. Resident of Little Earth (meet her tomorrow at the Little Earth Mother’s Day Pow Wow.)

7:20   Considering proposed changes to Cedar Field Park: Adam Arvidson. Next to last design will be available for comments until Tuesday, May 16^th at EPPCCC (Survey form at Park.)

Working on a new master plan (1.5 years) for all parks on the south side of town. More recently was able to connect with the community around the Cedar Field park, and do a better job of getting information from the community.

Began with listening sessions; designed two rough concepts and solicited feedback; created a “preferred concept” which was presented today. Has also been posted at EPPCCC and Little Earth for the past couple of weeks. Feedback is still possible, but the next design will go to the Park Board for approval.

The design is exploring non-sand surfaces, and while some of the “crumb rubber” product in the news lately is used mostly in schools, the Park Board does use this product in athletic fields, and both the schools and the Park Board are re-examining this in light of recent reports. In this design, if a rubber surface would be used, there would be a “crumb rubber” product serving as a “bedding material” that would be completely covered by a “new synthetic rubber” surface.

The design also includes a full-court basketball, a small volleyball court, a seating area with a nearby water feature, and a skateboarding sidewalk. Picnic tables are located on the Cedar Ave. side of the park to move them closer to “eyes” on the area and to distance tables from crime potentially occurring on 18^th Ave.

Questions and concerns:

·       Concerns were expressed about the location of picnic tables.

·       Separate play areas for different age children.

·       What about a fence on 18^th Ave?

·       What about lighting and cameras? (The master plan doesn’t usually get into specifics such as lighting, or cameras.)

·       Parking – working with the city/traffic.

·       Work with Crime Prevention officer to address crime concerns in the park.

7:45    Alley Newspaper Future Youth – Kathy Strobel (Chair of Alley News Board of Directors.)

All-volunteer run newspaper. All of the information that is in the news, is contributed by East Phillips residents. Editor, Harvey Winje is retiring in September, and so the paper is seeking a new path forward. The paper is interested in looking at alternate models (cooperative, for example). If you have an interest in seeing the publication continue, call Kathy Strobel at 612-387-7679 or email to editor@alleynews.org.

The mission of the Alley Newspaper is to give voice to neighborhood residents and the paper has been a useful tool for the neighborhood to voice concerns and organize together on many causes in the past. The mission of the newspaper is to give voice to neighborhood residents.

7:55     Body Cameras – Park Chief Jason Ohotto. With the Police Dept since 1995. Spent almost all of his time in S. Minneapolis on patrol.

·       Since 1887 there has been a separate distinct police department for the parks.

o   35 licensed officers with over 200 parks across the city.

o   Mission: to make these parks a safe place.

·       9 independently elected park commissioners that are responsible for the parks, and are not part of the city council and don’t answer to the mayor.

·       Responsible to acquire, develop, and maintain parks.

·       2 years ago, all Minneapolis police officers wear body cameras. (Worn in the center of their chest, about 4”x4”.)

·       The MN legislature recently made law changes that impact the data privacy act.

·       5 years ago, there were not any body cameras in Minneapolis.

·       The Park Police Dept. included body cameras in their 2017 budget.

·       Before implementing, there must be a public comment period (ends June 20^th). There is a survey available online. There is a public hearing coming up on June 7^th (at Park Board HQ/Broadway and West River Rd) – usually start at 6:30 pm. Officers are visiting various neighborhood centers and groups.

·       Model policy was distributed (also available online: https://www.minneapolisparks.org/_asset/d84ptm/draft_body_worn_camera_policy.pdf

·       Please read and submit your comments through the online survey (handout distributed.) Left some paper copies of the survey also. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/bodyworn

Questions and Concerns:

1.     Privacy; footage from a body camera could include people in bathing suits, etc.

2.     What do the officers think about this? (Officers have found that in most cases, the recordings from car cameras actually validate the officer’s reporting and are very useful in prosecuting crime.) Another advantage is that every officer will be wearing one of these.

3.     Public record? In general, no. By law, established by the State.

4.     When officer is recording, will they tell you? They may, depending on the situation.

5.     Citizen’s also have the right to record everything that happens in a public space.

6.     Victims of crime may ask the officer to turn off the camera.

Again, please read the Model Policy online (https://www.minneapolisparks.org/_asset/d84ptm/draft_body_worn_camera_policy.pdf) and submit your comments through the online survey (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/bodyworn).

8:25    EPIC Infrastructure…. Traffic, Updates, etc.

a)     What is happening on 24^th and 18^th?

a.     No one is telling us what is happening

b.     Other changes are happening all along 24^th St.

c.     Calling 311 didn’t help

d.     Called Alondra Cano’s office

b)    Cedar Bridge closing (Issues??)

a.     Posted online that this work is expected to go until December.

c)     Discuss the barrier on 25th St. and possible solutions to bring the special meeting on May 22^nd, at 5:30 at East Phillips Park.

d)    Other places needing speed bumps-2500 block (Cedar Field Park), 2800 block of 16^th Ave.

e)     Possible loss of Greenway Bridges, removal from the CLIC budget.  (Possible motion)

a.     CLIC (Capital Long Range Improvement Commission) – advisory only

b.     They are looking at a budget that only addresses the Portland and Cedar bridges.

MOTION: EPIC supports the restoration and preservation of all the greenway bridges of Phillips. MG, LL, Approved.

f)     Green Zone Project Location

a.     East Phillips & Midtown

b.     Ventura Village

c.     Not clear what the project will be but there will be some funds spent in these areas.

d.     EPIC would like to see an indoor urban agriculture project providing healthy food, and local employment

g)    Roof Depot Update

a.     The building will not sustain the trucks and things they want there.

b.     The city will remove the Roof Depot building.

                                               i.     Some EPIC residents have been able to get on the advisory committee, which is run by Greg Goeke (who wrote a grant to get $$ to do a solar array, in a low-income neighborhood.)

8:44     Crime Committee- Identifying Problem Property Owners….Start one? Volunteers? Projects?

Our Crime Prevention Specialist, Brett Nyman (612.673.3482) brett.nyman@minneapolismn.gov

Issues reported on E. 29^th Street and 17^th Avenue

• People shooting up on the street in front of homes
• Dealers park and wait for their drug customers

Meetings that you can attend:

• Banyon Community – monthly breakfast for block clubs (training), 18^th AM, 13^th Ave at E. 26^th St.
• Block club training, coming soon.
• Safety Center at Chicago and Lake or office at 3^rd Precinct

Other ideas?

• Hold a separate monthly crime meeting
• Ventura Village and Midtown Phillips each hold regular separate crime meetings

8:45     Adjourn