Lindenwood Park Neighborhood Association
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
7pm – 9pm, Timothy Lutheran – Youth Room
Present: Pat Acquisto, Doug Dick, Lindsay Alsop, Lisa Roggeman, Milton Murry, Greg Roggeman, Joe Vaccaro, Tim Nowell, Emily Yale, Gabe Gassner, Karen Clifford
Apologies: Carol Hofer, Emily Rogier
Absent: Adam Rustige
The Minutes from the Board Meeting held on August 14, 2021, were approved. Motion made by Lindsay and 2nd by Greg.
Neighborhood Meeting – this will be in-person at Watson Terrace Christian Church on December 6th, 2021
Guest businesses: Greenlight Dispensary, the mushroom store (VL’s Urban Farm), Chipotle and Afandi.
LPNA Business.
Elected Officials & Karen Clifford.
LASM.
Machacek Library.
Committee Reports
Alderman’s Report
Speed Humps:
- If you want speed humps on your block, you need 51% of people on your block in favor of it. Information is available detailing the pros and cons of speed humps. You have to have 2 speed humps on a block that requests them.
Streets & Properties & NIS Report:
- 693x Sutherland: Some money has been paid by the owner to cover some taxes. Suspect they have done a payment plan because not all money is showing as paid.
- 69xx Pernod: Work is progressing. Outside seems to be complete and they are working inside. Property is looking good.
- 653x Hancock: Got a continuance for the court case. There is a C&D and a summons. Transactions and steady stream of people visiting is ongoing.
- 708x Oleatha: Has a court day scheduled for Dec 16th. Owner is still waiting for the architect to submit plans. Cannot have any work done until the work is approved.
- Lot next to 708x Oleatha: Lot is still for sale.
- Weeds on Jamieson Median: Forestry are behind on their schedule.
- Pickleball: This won’t be done as they said this is part of next year’s budget.
- Snax: Sale fell through. The for-sale sign is back up. The grease pit has been removed. Owner, John McCarthy, said they are working on a 3rd
- Refuse Collection: Dumpsters are not being emptied regularly. Roll out carts seem to be on a schedule. Refuse Department are short staffed.
- House on Scanlan: Owners want to build a new house and keep the small house on the same property. This would make it a 2-house property. This would need to be rezoned.
- Spire Vehicles: They have parked several vehicles on Prather that are causing the road to be narrowed. Neighbors are complaining.
Events:
- Tweetup: October 26th from 6pm-8pm at Edibles & Essentials. This will be promoted via Facebook, Nextdoor, Twitter, our website and Joe’s e-blast. November’s Tweetup will be an outside one somewhere that has outside heaters. Possibilities are Babe’s, Trattoria Marcella.
- Holiday Lighting: Jorie quit chairing the committee. Possible chair could be Jon Porter.
- Lindenwood Live! / LinFest: There was a discussion about combining LinFest with the last Lindenwood Live for next year. Greg has suggested an events committee meeting with the Lindenwood Live and LinFest committees and Tim will organize it. Points raised: volunteers, tents, food trucks, fun run in the morning, LinFest during the day, concert in the evening, artisan trucks around the park (but not all Lindenwood businesses), tents would have to be removed before concert, clean up would be late at night. Emily R is still keen to chair LinFest.
Beautification:
- Park: Kim Hagele has a meeting on October 27th to discuss the Lindenwood Park projects, such as pickleball, the sewer repair, playground, mulch. Emily Y will ask to be included in this meeting. Funds have been approved and the work just needs to be completed. Parks Department is short staffed. There are exposed wires near the building, and they need to be removed or enclosed. Sewer line has been scoped and there is a break in the line. Park clean up will be on November 6th, 9-12pm. Emily Y will get tools from Operation Brightside and will request mulch – a yard less than last clean up. Emily Y will send Greg an email with a write up for the website. Milton dropped off 600’ of hoses in the park building. The water fountain by the tennis courts don’t work and we’d like a hose fitting installed to it with a locking hose bib so that we could use a hose to water the trees and plants.
- Community Garden: Have a new self-propelled lawn mower that was donated by a resident who’s garden we cleaned up. Have 2 x 2-wheeled carts that were picked up from an alley. Gardens did really well and are still producing vegetables. Had a request from Our Lady of Sorrows, Jane Siebel, to consult with them about increasing the size of their garden that produces vegetables for their food pantry. Starting to clean out the beds and mulch. Built another bed for pollinator plants and will add compost.
- Wabash Garden: Weeds are under control. There are a couple of trees that need to be removed. Milt will mark the trees and Karen will ask Forestry to remove them.
- Clean up of Mr. Gustafson’s yard: Volunteers – Thanks to Milton, Sharon, LASM and SLU students who helped to remove the overgrown brush and tall grass. Sidewalk was blocked. Karen has 3 people from a WashU fraternity who will help with grass cutting and leaf removal for the rest of the year. Looking for a garden service for 2022.
- Green Team: Had 6 volunteers and a new person at the September clean up. Shane Elliott has cut the triangle and will continue to have him cut it once more this year and probably next year too. We will pay him $50 each time. MODOT has not cut it once this year. Next highway clean up is scheduled for November 6th. Tim to talk to Aaron about trash pickups.
- Ivanhoe Planters: Need to plant rye, but the flowers are still blooming.
Communications
- Greg will send Tim a list of people who sign up online for Green Team and to Emily Y for Park Clean up.
- There is an option to write a memo on the donate button on the website.
Block Captain’s
- Got 2 new block captains and will continue to try and get more.
- The block captain list has been updated on the website.
Membership Report
- Renewals have been slow.
- If members pay online their membership starts from the year that they pay. If members pay past due payments, we will go back only one year. Any other payments will be considered a donation.
- If members haven’t responded to the renewal emails, they will be removed from the membership list and if they rejoin, they will be classed as new joins.
- Greg looked into LPNA having a Venmo account, but it needs to go to a person and not a business and there is a transaction fee, which is similar to PayPal.
Treasurer’s Report
- This was an expensive quarter with concerts, signs, zoom, gift certificates, Hot Lava.
- Possibly look at sponsors to sponsor our park clean ups.
Safety Committee
- Police Appreciation: we will provide a $10 gift certificate for each police officer in South Patrol (108). 5 from Pietro’s, 20 from Biggies, 3 from Pint Size, 5 from Pizza-a-Go-Go, 1 from Vinnies ($25), 5 from Jimmy John’s 10 from Chick-Fil-A and 14 from Cupcake Cartel. LPNA will buy 46 more gift certificates from the places that donated to make up the difference.
- #9pmRoutine: Lindenwood Park and neighboring neighborhoods going in together and blasting all social media sites to lock doors, lock cars, put outside lights on etc. There will be a QR code with a link to the website reminding people what to do to stay safe. Looking at sending postcards out.
- Need more people to join the Safety Committee – has been added to the membership application.
Century Homes:
- Getting ready to promote the plaques for 2022. Price has increased and looking for a new fabricator.
Old Business
- Apartments on Clifton: Tony Raineri still wants to run with the project and needs to talk to the Board but hasn’t replied to Pat.
New Business
- Lindsay will not be at the November Board meeting.
- Garcia Apartments on Lansdowne – do they want to promote it?
- Gazebo naming – The Strohbeck Gazebo. Pat to get a plaque.
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 9.15pm. Minutes were recorded and transcribed from the recording.
Respectfully submitted,
Lisa Roggeman