LPNA Board Meeting Minutes – 10/12/2022

Posted on Posted onBy Greg Roggeman

Lindenwood Park Neighborhood Association

Board of Director’s Meeting at Epiphany

Wednesday October 12th, 2022, 7pm

 

 

Present: Pat Acquisto, Lisa Roggeman, Milton Murry, Greg Roggeman, Tim Nowell, Adam Rustige, Jenna Stout, Carol Hofer, Joe Vaccaro

Apologies: Doug Dick

Absent: Emily Yale

Correction made to the Minutes from August 13th 2022: Under “New Business”, omit the details referring to Karen Clifford.  The Minutes were then approved.  Motion made to approve by Carol, 2nd by Tim.

 

Neighborhood Meeting: to be held at Watson Terrace Christian Church, December 5th at 7.30pm

  • Spotlight new businesses: Waubonsie Ridge Beef, Circle K, new Snax owner. If not available, try Lindenwood Park Place (Jeff Scally), Menya Rui or Studio Ivanhoe.
  • Holiday Lighting Contest. Pat to contact Rachel Morgan to see if she’s still interested in chairing it.
  • LPNA Business.
  • Elected Officials.
  • LASM & Machacek Library.
  • This is a holiday meeting – all Board members please bring snacks.

 

Board Resignations/Replacements

  • Gabe Gassner and Emily Rogier have resigned.
  • Pat will approach Kaye Campbell and John Harris to see if they would be interested in being Board Members.

 

Alderman’s Report

  • Penn Station Shooting: A worker called her boyfriend to come and sort out an issue. He showed up with a gun and shot up the restaurant. It is on the problem property list.
  • 69xx Sutherland: Wanted to condemn and shut down the property but the judge gave them 30 days to vacate the property. Shots have been fired from the property, but no shells were found.
  • Grow Gear: Will be opening a 2nd location at one of the Bayers’ locations (garage side).
  • Old Snax: Will be an Afghani restaurant. Hearing is in 4 weeks, but it should open in approximately 2 weeks if Joe writes a letter.
  • Dumpsters: New dumpsters are being replaced now.
  • Playground: This is progressing. New surface is installed, and they have added more equipment.
  • Sidewalks: They should start replacing the trip hazards soon. The 50/50 sidewalk list is on hold due to the budget.
  • Trees: Dead trees need to be removed. An outside company has been hired to remove the trees.
  • Trash: They are still picking up all 3 receptacles and not separating trash. Hoping to have recycling outsourced.

 

Committee Reports

 

Events:

  • Meetup: October’s Meetup will be held at LoRusso’s on Wednesday October 26th.
  • LinFest: Huge success. Thanks to Emily R for chairing the committee and for all the sponsorship she secured. Income was $11,160.00. Expenses were approximately $4,752.55.  Profit was $6,407.45. This was a record profit for LinFest. There is a PayPal issue with a t-shirt payment that is pending and an artisan who suspects she was double charged on PayPal – also pending.  Greg will call PayPal to rectify.
  • Volunteer Appreciation: October 8th @ 3pm at the park gazebo. We had 15 attendees who enjoyed food from Mom’s Deli.

 

Beautification:

  • Park: Emily is trying to get new seats for the swings. Would also like to paint them.  Some complaints about metal slides. Need to ensure the mulch is placed under swings as we have paid for it.
  • Building: Need historical experts to advise what can be done to improve the building.
  • Bathrooms: will be updated at some time. Lateral line is clear. Men’s bathroom stinks and needs to be hosed down. Emily to advise Kim.
  • Community Garden: Picked more veggies. Monarchs were spotted in the garden.  Sharon will have a year-end report at the neighborhood meeting.  A couple of beds will be available for next season. Picked up a few equipment pieces from alleys that need a few repairs.  A couple of beds need repairs.
  • Wabash Garden: Planted daffodils and tulips.
  • Green Team: Milt and Sharon did a small trash pickup.  The grass cutter hasn’t given Tim an invoice since May.  Next cleanup will be scheduled in November. The city has weeded the median once. Tim will use a vegetation killer next year. We would like to paint the barrier at the I-44 exit on Jamieson and paint “Lindenwood Park” and add our logo to it.

 

Communications

  • Darren has added a new capture to stop bots. Wendy is working on adding a visible login on the home page that will direct members to their account once they log in. The shop will be updated with the new t-shirts by Darren and Wendy.

 

Membership:

  • We have 220 members in total. Lisa and Greg are working on getting a system in place to ensure all new members and renewals are added to the system and the spreadsheet.
  • Welcome packs: Lisa will email Laurie Klein and ask her to send out an email to block captains to help deliver welcome packs.

 

Safety:

  • Lisa will post about the Clubs on social media. We have sold 38/50.

 

Century Homes:

  • 500+ postcards were mailed out. Received 4 or 5 orders so far, but need 10 or place an order.

 

Block Captain’s:

  • The meeting was poorly attended with only 6 people. May have been some confusion re the new time.

 

Treasurer’s Report:

  • As of September 30th, 2022 we had a cash balance of $7,927.02 in the general account.
  • A motion was made by Tim to move $20,000 from the money market account to a CD at 2% interest rate. This was seconded by Adam. Motion approved.

 

Old Business

  • House Tours: Adam is looking at organizing house tours every other year (opposite to LinFest) in October.
  • Taxes: Adam will continue to research options that taxes could be used in our neighborhood via CIDs, TDD etc.

 

New Business

  • Nothing to report.

 

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 8.48pm.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Lisa Roggeman