Lindenwood Park Neighborhood Association
Saturday, February 12, 2022
10am – 11.30am – Machacek Library
Present: Pat Acquisto, Lisa Roggeman, Milton Murry, Greg Roggeman, Tim Nowell, Emily Rogier, Lindsay Alsop, Doug Dick
Apologies: Carol Hofer, Adam Rustige, Emily Yale, Gabe Gassner
Absent: Joe Vaccaro, Karen Clifford
The Minutes from the Board Meeting held on January 12, 2022, were approved. Motion made by Tim and 2nd by Lindsay.
Neighborhood Meeting: to be held at Watson Terrace Christian Church, March 7, at 7.30pm
- Possible guest speaker: Spire – Karen is working on getting someone.
- LPNA Business.
- Elected Officials & Karen Clifford.
- LASM & Machacek Library.
- Police Liaison Officer.
Alderman’s Report
- Nothing to report.
Permits
- Lindenwood Place: Is approved. Ready to go after the hearing. It is a private club, inexpensive to join, has various rooms ie. gym, games, art studio. Will grade one side of the property for approximately 5 parking spaces. Has a renter in the parsonage.
- Raineri Development: Hearing is set for April. They are pressing Joe to approve it, but he won’t until Raineri has met with LPNA.
Committee Reports
Events:
- Tweetup: February’s Tweetup will be held by Zoom due to increasing Covid cases, on February 22nd from 6pm-8pm. It will be a burger party. People will be encouraged to support a local restaurant and get their favorite burger.
- LinFest: Had first committee meeting. Jenna Tanner will be editing our existing letters. Once letter is ready, we hope to have them mailed out first week in March. Looking for a printing option, and going forward, a business relationship for a printing option. Flea market at LinFest will be under discussion.
- Lindenwood Live!: Food trucks – Rockwell and Southside Wine will be at all 4 concerts. STL Kettle Corn and NY Tom’s have confirmed. All previous vendors have been contacted, but Greg will contact some new ones if he doesn’t hear back from them. Looking at having 5 savory and 4 dessert trucks. Tim will send lists of bands to Lindenwood Live committee. Looking at Garden Party ($1,000 – 4-pce band recommended by Walt Winters), Fanfare and will contact the Blues Society. Will submit permit and the $500 deposit. Still looking for a band for LinFest.
- Trivia: Will happen this year.
Beautification:
- Aaron’s Trash pick up’s/Forest ReLeaf: Aaron is working with Forest ReLeaf to identify all the trees in the park and document them. Lisa found $20 at the last trash pickup and Aaron used it to purchase 2 pickup tools. He also requested a cigarette receptacle to be purchased and placed at the bus stop at Jamieson and Pernod. This received board approval for up to $125. Motion made by Greg, seconded by Tim. Aaron will purchase it, install it and monitor it. Receipt to be given to Lindsay for reimbursement.
- Park: Budget includes construction costs of the building and new playground equipment. No pickleball was included. Pat has emailed Kim to ask for the cost to resurface tennis courts and hockey rink and convert 1 tennis court to 2 pickleball courts – not had a reply as yet.
- Community Garden: When weather changes, getting ready to plant. No space for extra plots. Looking for bed space at Southwest Baptist but can’t find a contact person. Lisa will contact the church to find out who is heading up the gardens. Have replaced some boards on a few beds. Hoping to be able to donate some excess produce to the Activity Center again this year.
- Wabash Garden: Would like to put down some mulch at the end of March. Milton to let the board know when they are ready to call for volunteers. Tim has emailed MODOT re having a gate installed. Karen may have a contact there.
- Green Team: Tim and Milt will cut the triangle at the first event and thereafter Shane Elliott will cut the grass going forward. Planning to put weed killer along the fence line. April 16th is the first trash pickup. Adam and Tim will move our sign.
- Ivanhoe Planters: Nothing to report.
Communications
- Greg will wait to speak to Darran about payment until the new membership committee and treasurer is set up – re Venmo and PayPal. We will include Carol in the first Membership committee meeting.
- Need to update PHP on the website to get it running faster.
Block Captain’s
- Signs will be randomly placed when the weather warms up advertising for new block captains.
- Next meeting is in April on Zoom.
- No block captain’s social but will have a volunteer’s social in June.
Membership:
- Lindsay will hand over all membership details and cash box to Lisa. Lisa will sit with Lindsay at the next neighborhood meeting.
Treasurer:
- Carol will move the account to Royal Banks. Will get with Lindsay to review the process and discuss software.
Safety:
- Still working on QR code and postcards. All 3 neighborhoods are committed to the project.
- Greenlight Dispensary gave $1,000 donation for the #9pmRoutine.
- Milt suggested we should nominate ourselves for “What’s Right with St. Louis”.
Old Business
- Pat contacted prospective new Board members: Sean Rapp – may be starting new job but still interested, Shaun McLain – doesn’t have time but willing to volunteer and donate his legal time, Aaron Dohogne – would consider at the end of the year but interested, Jenna Tanner – would love to and will be at our next board meeting (yay!).
Streets & Properties & NIS Report:
- Streets & Properties committee: is on hiatus until further notice because Karen handles all the issues.
New Business
- Elections of Board Members: Board of Directors will serve term for 2 years. Officers to be re-elected half every odd year and half every even year. April 2022 Board Meeting will be Treasurer and VP. April 2023 will be President and Secretary. Doug will run with nominations and elections at the March meeting.
- Neighborhood Presidents: Benton Park President wants to meet with all neighborhood presidents to demand better service from the police department.
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 11.35am.
Respectfully submitted,
Lisa Roggeman