Capital Heights Neighborhood Association

CAPITAL HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION

2019 ANNUAL MEETING

DATE: Wednesday, April 10, 2019

START TIME: 6:25 pm

END TIME: 7:43 pm

LOCATION: Ingleside Methodist Church

 

CHNA CURRENT BOARD

President (acting) – Emy Langlois Accountant –  Andy Carlson

Vice-President (acting) – Grant Murphy Fundraising/Events – Open Position

Secretary (acting) – Addie Graffeo Members – Tyler Hicks

 

We would love to add an attorney and CPA to our board

 

2018-2019 BUDGET BREAKDOWN ~ $7,000.00

• Current: $5,
• Residential/Corporate Membership – $2,000 (we expect to get another $1,000)
• Events – up to $1,000.00
• T-shirts/Merchandise/Newsletters – up to $1,500.00
• Beautification – up to $500.00
• Landscaping – up to $3,000.00
• Miscellaneous Items – up to $1000.00 (doggie station bags, secretary of state, water fountain)

 

PAST YEAR (2018)

• Water Fountain – we listened to our neighbors at our last weekend and we got the water fountain. We were awarded a grant of $1,000 and spent $1,500 of our owns funds.

 

CURRENT YEAR (2019)

• Pocket Park

 

• • • Ideas – sun shades/sails, stationary umbrellas, building an arbor and planting vines, water mister
    • Mid City Redevelopment Grant – $1,000
      • A permanent table has been ordered and to replace the spool tables
    • New Message Board and Newsletter Holder
      • We will post the newsletters at the pocket parket.

 

• Updates to Website

• • • Google Calendar Link  is up and running on website

 

• No-Knock Neighborhood

• • • There are constant complaints about door-to-door soliciting
    • This is a simple document that will be signed and filed to make us a no-knock neighborhood
    • People can still knock, but Crime Prevention will intervene if an issue coomes about
  • Mid City Mardi Gras
    • CHNA float
    • We had a lot of fun and hope to do it again next year.

 

• Join Your Neighbors

• • • This was a huge success and we hope to do this again.
    • Thank you to sponsors (Red Stick Spice, Doe’s, Bistro Byronz, Jed’s Poboys, Tiger Deauxnuts, Gov’t Taco, Curbside Burgers, Tim’s Garage)
    • Feedback from Sheets
      • Likes – great neighbors, biking and walkable, dog-friendly, events, and the vibe!
      • Improvements – traffic improvements, more walking paths on side-streets, drainage, more doggy bins (~$600, maybe try to get sponsored by a local veterinarian)
      • Neighborhood Events – we want to try to have more of these events on a quarterly basis
        • Social events
        • Doggy meet and greet – maybe at Ingleside
        • Kid events
          • Block party with all 3 neighborhood churches and CHNA and have blow-up toys
        • Farmers markets
        • Makers Market – Penny will be hosting a Maker’s Market at Bee Nice the day of the neighborhood garage sale
        • CHNA Crawfish Boil – fundraising/membership drive
          • If we can’t get it done this year, we will try for next year
          • $25 for a t-shirt and all you can eat crawfish
      • Other Suggestions
        • Crosswalks at major intersections – we need more public outcry
          • You have to be able to show a particular number of pedestrians within a particular counting period
          • Download the 311 app and request a traffic study at S. Foster and Capital Heights
          • We would need to get our councilman involved
          • DPW is extremely against it

 

• Beautification

• • • Neighborhood Cleanup Day – April 13th from 8:00-12:00 (meet at Ingleside)
      • We will have coffee and donuts
      • We are going to be doing general clean up and adding new plantings at the Jefferson bed
    • Ideas – we could use plants from neighbors’ yards
      • If enough interest, we could put together a beautification committee

 

• Bee Nice Concerts

• • • April 26th, May 24th, June 7th, June 21st, September 13th, September 27th, October 11th
  • Neighborhood Garage Sale – May 11th
    • $10 to join and your home will go on the map
    • Bernard Terrace is going to be hosting a garage sale at the same time
      • Suggested that we do a joint map.  Addie will be in touch with rep for Bernard Terrace

 

• Halloween Committee

• • • We would like to try to block off some of the streets to try to make our streets safe
    • Neighbors on side-streets could come set up on the main stretch
    • To block off the streets, we would have to get feedback and approval from neighbors
    • We will start working on this by August

 

• Christmas Tree Lighting

• • • Presentation at Bee Nice before Christmas tree lighting

 

• Mid City Redevelopments

• • Mid City Fix Up
    • Revitalizing the area between Government and North on Acadian Thruway
  • See Facebook event for more information

 

 

• Grace Mid City – Byron

• • • Spoke about the importance of developing connections and relationships  with our neighbors
    • In lieu of bible study hour before Sunday services, Grace Mid City will start having morning coffee and donuts at Bee Nice on the first Sunday of the month at 9:00 am
    • The first event will be on Easter Sunday at Bee Nice Park at 10:00 am
    • Wellness Clinic
      • The Center for Emotional Healing – licensed professional counselor
      • April 28th, May 25th – there will be an annual emotional healing at 5:00 pm

 

• Crime Prevention District – Tyler Hicks

• • Funding has gone towards extra duty police patrols in the neighborhood
  • Officers have been contributing to crime prevention and are giving traffic violation tickets
  • Committees  – several committees already exist, but need to put together a beautification committee
    • Safety Committee – looking at traffic calming
      • They have brought up neighborhood watch signs or stickers
      • No-Knock signage in the neighborhood
        • We need to find out how many signs that DPW will require us to have
  • The Numbers!
    • Started patrols February 2018
    • Compared to 2017, the calls per service had gone down by half and arrests have doubled
    • Patrol hours have gone up slightly, but instances of crime and calls for service and arrests have plummeted
    • Our trend is very low, even compared to last year
    • We have a healthy surplus from last year, so we’ve created committees to find ways to utilize this surplus
  • Mandated meeting in October for the executive board