LPNA Board Meeting Minutes – 5/13/2023

Posted on Posted onBy Greg Roggeman

Lindenwood Park Neighborhood Association

Board of Director’s Meeting at Machacek Library

Saturday, May 13th, 2023, 10am

 

Present: Pat Acquisto, Lisa Roggeman, Milton Murry, Greg Roggeman, Tim Nowell, Adam Rustige, Jenna Stout, John Harris

Apologies: Emily Yale

Absent: Carol Hofer, Doug Dick, Brian Kolde, Bret Narayan

A motion was made to approve the Minutes from April 19th, 2023 by Tim and seconded by Adam.

 

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

  • Guest speakers: Sonya Gray, Director of Personnel
  • LASM & Machacek Library.
  • LPNA Business.
  • Elected Officials.
  • Doug Dick

 

Alderman’s Report

  • Nothing to report. Bret not in attendance.

 

NIS Report

  • Nothing to report. Brian not in attendance.

 

Committee Reports

 

Events:

  • Meetup: Meetup will take place at Pietro’s on the patio on May 23rd, from 6-8pm. Lisa asked for suggestions of bars/restaurants in the 4th Ward near Lindenwood Park: Heavy Riff, Failoni’s, Michael’s, Felix’s, Tamm Ave. Bar, Golden Hoosier’s Bar were all suggested. We are missing Joe’s e-blast to advertise events.
  • Flea Market: Sold 16 tables so far + 6 for LPNA =22 total. Waiting for a few more applications to come in.  Could use a few more volunteers for Friday evening set up and Saturday afternoon tear down.  Waiting for Rev. Carl to confirm times we can access the building. Items not sold will be taken to the park building for distribution to a charity or two.
  • Lindenwood Live: 7-8 food trucks organized for each concert. Waiting for payment from Southside Wine. Abigail’s will be at 2 concerts. Tim has organized letters to residents on Pernod, barriers, signs etc.  Mark Klose will advertise the concert on KSHE. Pat will do a flyer and send it to Mark to advertise.  The September band will be Kent Erhardt & the Blue Moon Blues band.  Lisa, Greg and Adam will man the LPNA booth. Adam will ask Amy to make a flyer listing all concerts again.
  • Lawn & Garden Contest: Miriam Moynihan will chair it. Greg will ensure the email address is forwarded to her.
  • House Tour: This will not happen this year as there is not enough time to organize it. There were concerns that this will be a major event the same year as LinFest. Will this affect our big sponsors.  It was agreed to continue with LinFest in 2024 and that the House Tour will be scheduled for 2025.  The kickoff for the House Tour will happen at LinFest.
  • Trivia: Battling to find a location. Waiting to hear from Timothy Lutheran, 2nd choice is Epiphany, 3rd choice is Watson Terrace Christian Church.

 

Beautification:

  • Park: Emily emailed Kim re things we’re waiting for, especially water fountains to be turned on. Kim said the comfort stations (bathrooms) are done, next would be swimming pools, then water fountains. Kim would have to check on the status of the building repairs.  Construction plans are complete. Tennis courts and Roller rink won’t happen until late Fall.
  • Park Cleanup: Aaron will be running it as Emily is unable to attend. Corner bed at Prather/Pernod has been planted with 60 native plants with help on a neighbor and volunteers. We will be mulching trees, weeding, trash pickup. Will get mulch from City Forestry.  Pat will get flowers from her nephew who will provide a cost for perennials.  Tools will be borrowed from Brightside.
  • Community Garden: Received a 42” round planter box. The plan is to grow veggies and donate them to a food pantry. Battling to find compost that is needed for the 3rd bin and planters. Pat will ask her nephew about getting compost.  Will need 2-3 cubic yards.  Gardens look great.  All beds are accounted for.
  • Wabash Garden: Irises are nearly done flowering. Have weeded and have 10 bags of weeds that were collected. Have a new volunteer neighbor from Laos who will help with weeding.
  • Green Team: Next trash pickup is on June 3rd.  Have a new lawn company cutting the triangle: Craig Duffy from 1st Alarm Lawn & Home, who will cut the grass every 11-12 days.  $100 for the first cut, $75 per cut thereafter.

 

Communications

  • Newsletter will be going out on May 14th, may do another newsletter for the concert and another one for the neighborhood meeting.
  • org email addresses may be returned as undeliverable. Emails need to be encrypted.  Webmail works fine.  Let Greg know if you are having hassles with emails.
  • Calendar – the link to subscribe to the calendar is in the newsletter. Works on IOS and Android. May ask Wendy/Darran to look at the calendar problem.
  • Paypal issue – Darran has fixed it.

 

Membership:

  • Working on 41 Welcome Packs which will be delivered this month. Waiting for flyer/info from Bret re 4th Ward and new Alderman info.  Brian has been on vacation – waiting for NIS info too. Have enough volunteers to deliver packs.
  • Currently have 245 paid-up members – same as last month. Been a slow month.

 

Safety:

  • Will schedule a meeting to brainstorm new ideas. Milton will look into possible ideas for safety programs. Lisa will forward Gus’s email to Tim, John and Jenna.

 

Block Captain’s:

  • Nothing to report.

 

Century Homes:

  • Will be doing 1 sale per year. New deadline will be October 31st, to be delivered before Christmas. Charges for plaques may change. Looking to showcase a new photo of a house on the website.

 

Old Business

  • T-shirts: Only ordering the tree t-shirts. Must order 12 of any color. Look at new colors: grey/orange/red

 

New Business

  • Mexican Restaurant (old River’s Edge): Already have liquor license – waiting for Alderman letter and LPNA letter. Pat and Bret will meet with them.
  • Claudia’s was sold to former owner of Sophie’s Place.
  • Lisa will organize a new Board Member Orientation for all new Board Members.

 

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 11.50pm.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Lisa Roggeman