LPNA Board Meeting Minutes – 10/4/2023

Posted on Posted onBy Greg Roggeman

Lindenwood Park Neighborhood Association

Board of Director’s Meeting by Zoom

Wednesday, October 4th, 2023, 7pm

 

Present: Pat Acquisto, Lisa Roggeman, Milton Murry, Greg Roggeman, Tim Nowell, Carol Hofer, Jenna Stout, John Harris, Emily Yale, Bret Narayan

Apologies: Brian Kolde, Adam Rustige

Guests: Greg Todd, Sahar El Hussein

Sahar El Hussein is wanting to open a vape store at 3442 Watson (old chiropractic office).  Will be selling hookah supplies, heads/fruit vape, possibly looking into other tobacco products. Street parking on Marquette and Watson. Will install security and cameras. No gathering – just walk-in sales, online sales and pick up.  Hasn’t yet spoken with neighbors, nor signed a lease agreement. Will not allow loitering outside. Happy to comply with all regulations and requirements.  Intends on doing inside construction.  Will have to get a tobacco license to sell hookah. No flyers on windows, wants to keep the windows and property looking classy.

 

After discussion at the end of the meeting it was decided that the Board needed time to think about this and we would report back to Pat via email on Sunday as to whether or not we would support this venture.

An amendment was made under the Safety heading, to add “Decided not to move forward with the Awarenet program as it is not cost effective at this time.”

A motion was made to approve the Minutes from Aug 19th, 2023 by Emily and seconded by Carol.

 

Aldermanic Report:

  • BB33/34 – Short term rental regulations. Passed out of Committee this week.  Looking at 3rd party’s to enforce regulations.
  • BB126 – Homeless Bill of Rights. Doesn’t have the votes in its current form.
  • BB60 – Liquor Bill: Had 2 Committee hearings but not going anywhere yet. Plat & Petition is still under discussion.
  • Incumbered & Unincumbered Funds: Still waiting on consensus.

 

Neighborhood Meeting: to be held at Watson Terrace Christian Church, December 4th at 7.30pm

  • Possible Guest speakers: Waubonsie Ridge Beef, White Front, Garden Shop, Zoe’s Place, Jessie’s Hair, Tattoo Shop.
  • LPNA Business.
  • LASM & Machacek.
  • Elected Officials.

 

 

NIS Report (Brian not in attendance)

  • Dumping on 7000 Mardel.

 

New Businesses:

  • Tattoo Parlor: Going ahead.
    Tom Marciano: (buys and sells items). Letter sent.  Agreed to all conditions.
  • Series Six: Agreed to all conditions. Already has substantial security, has parking.  Will be selling apparel.  No objections.  Pat will send a letter.

 

Committee Reports

 

Events:

  • Meetup: Meetup will take place at Biggie’s (inside) on Wednesday October25th, from 6-8pm.

 

 

Beautification:

  • Park: Cleanup a success. Lots of mulching completed. The gardens at the tennis courts are gorgeous with lots of bees and butterflies. Kids from DeBourg and GSA attended and cleaned the tennis courts and skating rink. We need to recognize people who watered throughout the summer.
  • Park Building: No response from Kim Haegele. Building repairs should go ahead as there is a contract on it.
  • Community Garden: Still getting Swiss chard, okra, and tomatoes. Need to fix a faucet. Had someone dumping construction materials. Sharon is working on a report.
  • Wabash Garden: Sharon is working on weeding at the Wabash Garden. Will advise if help is needed.
  • Green Team: Next cleanup is 1st Saturday in November. At the last one, Adam and Tim cleaned the median of dirt. Lawn cutting service is working well and will use them next year.

 

Communications

  • The events calendar has been fixed. The wrong widget was installed.  The website is working much faster.  Greg will ask Wendy to check the settings to amend the size of the lettering.

 

Membership:

  • Welcome packs will go out next week.
  • Currently have 260 paid-up members – down 3 from July due to lack of July renewals.

 

Safety:

  • Adam will be posting a report on social media.

 

Century Homes:

  • 750 postcards were purchased and mailed out. Sold 3 so far. The deadline of October 31 will be extended to November 30th. Will do more promotions to advertise it. Also, will be promoted at the Block Captain meeting. The address list needs to be updated.

 

Treasurer’s Report:

  • Statement and Report matches: Total deposits = $1,916.60. Total deductions = $1,962.85. September’s closing balance $6,703.93.

 

Old Business

  • BB60: Several neighborhood associations don’t want the Plat & Petition removed. Will have meeting with restaurant owners and neighborhood associations on Monday.  If consensus is reached will approach committee for special hearing.
  • SLACO Conference: Pat and Adam attended and networked with other associations at the conference. Will be holding a Brass & Sass concert $40. Also having a dinner where Janet Desnoyer (previous LPNA President) will be inducted into their Hall of Fame.  Tickets are $130.

 

New Business

  • Hookah Store: Concerns with cross over between Hucks and Vape store. MO has minimum age limits of 18+ to buy vape products including tobacco. Will take a few days to research Hookah shops and revert with discussion on Sunday.
  • Sara Davis – ex teacher and professor. Has been on other Boards previously. Pat made a motion to have Sara Davis join the Board.  2nd by Greg R.  Motion approved.  Sara will be at our November meeting.
  • Greg Todd – Was invited by Greg R to attend this Board meeting with the intention of joining the Board. Was introduced and expressed a desire to join the Board.
  • Strategic Plan: Scheduled for Monday, October 30th by Zoom – 1 hour!

 

Greg Todd left the meeting.  There was a brief discussion about Greg joining the Board.  Pat made a motion to have Greg join the Board, 2nd by Emily.  Motion approved.  Greg will be at our November meeting.

 

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 8.44pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Lisa Roggeman