LPNA Board Meeting Minutes – 11/18/2023

Posted on Posted onBy Greg Roggeman

Lindenwood Park Neighborhood Association

Board of Director’s Meeting

Saturday November 18th, 2023 at Machacek Library

 

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

Apologies: Brian Kolde, Greg Roggeman, Greg Todd

Welcome to our new Board Members: Sara Davis and Greg Todd.

 

A motion was made to approve the Minutes from October 4th, 2023, by Tim and seconded by Emily.

 

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

  • Guest speakers confirmed: Waubonsie Ridge Beef, Honeymoon Tattoo, Personal Space Fitness.
  • LPNA Business.
  • LASM & Machacek.
  • Elected Officials.
  • Refreshments – Board members to bring cookies. Adam will take care of water (pitcher) and soda.

 

Aldermanic Report:

  • Incumbered & Unincumbered Funds: No movement, still debating the issues. Hoping for some consensus before the winter break.
  • BB33/34 – Short term rental regulations. The mayor has signed it into legislation. Hoping to have it working in 6 months but have a year to perfect it. Permits and Business License will be needed in order to operate.
  • BB126 – Homeless Bill of Rights. Dead int eh water – too weak. Possibly being withdrawn by the sponsor.
  • BB60 – Liquor Bill: Plat & Petition CAN be done but NOT required. The process is to apply for a 90-day permit at Excise, attend conditional use hearing, can renew it after 90 days, attend public hearing. If successful, a conditional use permit can be issued. Owners will need to present all their books to show they’ve followed all the requirements.
  • BB93 – Detention Center Oversight – working on wording.
  • RAMS Money: Possibilities are for infrastructure updates, water issues, investments and hiring more City workforce (better wages).
  • Problem Properties: 69xx Oleatha – junked back yard. 4 warrants for his arrest. Police won’t go to his property to arrest him. Brian has suggested getting the captain involved. Elliot Davis would get involved but wants to speak to the neighbors who are afraid as the owner is known to be vengeful.  69xx Pernod – random illegal dumping.  Sidewalk is badly broken and a hazard – used by a disabled child and blind persons.

 

 

NIS Report (Brian not in attendance)

  • Nothing to report.

 

New Businesses:

  • Series Six: Sent approval letter. Hearing is scheduled.
  • 3442 Watson (Hookah): Split decision with Board. No letter sent yet. Nothing further from potential owner.
  • Royals Liquor: Did not get the signatures needed. Not sure what their plans are going forward.

 

Committee Reports

 

Events:

  • Meetup: Meetup will take place at Trattoria Marcella on Tuesday November 28th, from 6-8pm. Last meetup of the year.
  • Holiday Lighting Contest: Matt Walbaum will chair it again.
  • Events Committee: Meeting will be scheduled for Monday December 11th. Tim to confirm.

 

 

Beautification:

  • Park: Next cleanup will be April 6th. Aaron will purchase a wheelbarrow. Pat will source a whiteboard.
  • Park Building: Nothing to report.
  • Community Garden & Wabash Garden: Milton handed out a report from Sharon detailing work done throughout the year. Copy attached.
  • Green Team: Last event was Nov 4th and was well attended.  Tim will assign areas to people in future to stop people going too far or to wrong areas.  MODOT collected the trash bags. Adam and Tim clean the median on Jamieson. The big hole has been filled with sand.

 

Communications

  • Greg will set up a time to meet with Wendy and Greg T regarding the website and going forward to make improvements and make it easier for people to find info and make sign-up more user-friendly. Contact Greg R if you want to be included in this committee.

 

Membership:

  • 27 Welcome packs are nearly ready to be distributed to new residents for August, September and October.
  • Currently have 248 paid-up members – down from 260 last month. Reminder letters were mailed to 26 members who lapsed in October. The decrease is due to a glitch with the system and not all members who were lapsing were sent reminder emails. Greg called Darran and he fixed it.  This was something to do with the transfer to the new host. Lisa has promoted membership on social media – so far only 1 person responded.

 

Safety:

  • Adam joined Facebook purely to post the weekly crime report from Gus. A meeting will be scheduled in December to discuss updates to the safety section of the website.

 

Century Homes:

  • Sales have been completed for the year. 7 new plaques will be ordered. The address list may be out of date.  Plaques will not be delivered to the owners but there will be a designated location for pick up. Lisa will send Jenna the house sale lists every quarter.

 

Treasurer’s Report:

  • Total deposits = $60. Total deductions = $90.99. September’s closing balance $6,672.94.

 

Old Business

  • BOD Terms: President/Secretary will be re-elected in 2026. VP/Treasurer will be re-elected in 2025. Milton, Tim, Greg R, Emily will be re-elected in 2024. Pat and John will be re-elected in 2025. Greg T and Sara will be re-elected in 2026.
  • Pat made a motion to elect Adam as President as of March 1, 2024. Seconded by Tim.  Motion was unanimous and approved. Adam will work closely with Pat to learn various duties from now until March 1st.
  • Pat made a motion to elect Lisa as Vice President and Jenna as Secretary from January 1st, 2024. Seconded by Emily. Motion was approved. Lisa was surprised!
  • Neighborhood Association Coalition: Pat will remain on this and work on various Board Bills.

 

New Business

  • Strategic Plan: Will be scheduled by Zoom and limited to 40 minutes.
  • Problem Properties Committee: This will be revived. Pat will contact Brian and Walt.
  • 2024 Calendar: All committee chairs to send Pat updated details asap.

 

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 12.12pm.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Lisa Roggeman