River Bend Neighborhood Meeting Minutes For February 12, 2007
Minutes from February 12, 2007
Salvation Army Building
The meeting was called to order by Carolyn Jenison, President at 7:02 pm.
Those in attendance were: Lynn Wright, Elisabeth McLaury Lewin, Diana Rezac, Mike Pingel, Isabelle Abarr, Barb Orth, Gundel Basart, Jean Bodenstedt, Angela Thorn, Angela Newhouse/Sweet, Roger Thompson, Carolyn Jenison, James Lewin, Chad Vandelune, Steve Addy. NBSD in attendance were Jeff Edwards and Richard Bright. Guests were Monique Winfrey and her daughters, Percy Smith, John Sarcone, and Teri Gillenwater.
A motion was made by Isabelle Abarr and 2nd by Jim Lewin to accept the Agenda. A motion was made by Roger Thompson and 2nd by Jim Lewin to accept the Minutes. Both were passed by the Membership.
John Sarcone (286-3737, jarcon@attorney.co.polk.ia.us)
John has ties to our Neighborhood, because he went to Dowling High School. He remembered young girl who were afraid of the John’s in the area. He said that our neighborhood should not be subjected to the prostitution, drugs, and johns in here. He questioned whether the Moulton Principal has been to our meetings, and felt that we need to work together to handle some of these problems. We need to talk to Corrections (Sally Kramers.) We also need to talk to the Chief District Judge and Jail Judge about the offenders. He was also surprised that Urban Dreams has been so “helpful” with the prostitutes. They go into the office when the police are around, and to make calls to set up appointments for their “work schedule.”
Teri Gillenwater (286-3059 tgillen@attorney.co.polk.ia.us)
Teri is with Restorative Justice, and runs the VORP program. She wanted to encourage more people to get involved with the VORP sessions. Doloros Thomas, Roger Thompson, Jean Bodenstedt, and Henry Bevel have been very involved in the past.
No Treasurers Report
Neighborhood Based Service Delivery
Jeff Edwards
The City is having Police Week in May, and will be celebrating it on May 19. There has been illegal dumping on Goode St and Orchard.
1826 6th is still a problem.
9th & Jefferson, drugs are starting up again.
Jeff will continue to work with us on Map probation.
Richard Bright
He is working on clean-ups in the Bates Park area. 1435 2nd Pl one of the worse that we have had in the area.
1315 8th has been put on notice. It is also in foreclosure.
1620 Arlington has been sold, but is still a nuisance.
1322 4th has been an illegal car repair business since 11/06. The soil has been contaminated from oil during oil changes. The soil will have to be removed.
Houses –
- 812 Washington has been broken into.
- 1303 3rd Pl was an occupied public nuisance. Floyd Loggins owns
- it, and people like Kenny Wiepert and Richard Clough were living
- there. They were kicked out, loggins brought it back to code, and he
- will be renting it out soon.
- 1525 9th habitual violator – He is selling cars from his unlicensed property
- 1242 5th complaint was made that there is no heat at this property. It is a single-family residence that has been broken into many apartments. He asked for a permit to make it a multi-family unit. The Court says NO!
Potluck
Diana Rezac announced that we will be having our 2nd Potluck next Friday @ 6:30 (February 16)
River Bend Board
The Board held a strategy session in January and are making a few changes. We are creating a new Chamber of Commerce. We have started working with the City to discuss our problematic areas.
Announcements
The Home Tour Committee has started working on this years Tour. Barb Orth, a new committee member received a $1000 contribution for the Tour.
Jeanne Johnson and Ta Yu Yang have taken John Davis to Court over one of his properties. They are also working with us to file complaints on some of our Slumlords that own properties in the area.
CHDC
They have a new Executive Director, Karen Jeske
Percy Smith
He is with Helping Hands, and is trying to start a program to help students.
Supper Club
This month, it was held on January 29. The next one will be April 30.
We need to send condolences to Linda Gorz and her family.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:20
Cordially Submitted by Lynn Wright, Secretary
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