HSPI October Meeting |Minutes
Oct 22, 2024 | 7:00 | Meeting location Hope Lutheran Church, 500 Hickory Street
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Executive Members in attendance:
Mark and Karin Manovich, Sarah Dugan, Nick Vanderpool, Galen Wilson, Mark Keller |
Agenda topic: Community reports | Presenter City of Dayton Police
None.
Agenda topic: Community Reports | Presenter Library Level Proposal
Discussion: Jen is the representative from the Dayton Library: Campaign Manager for Issue 34 Levy. It is a 1 million increase levy, which means about 67 cents per week for a property appraised at 100K. This is the first levy in 15 years. The library provides critical services to children, seniors, and others in our community, and this levy will help support increased use of services. If this levy fails, between it and state cuts, the library will need to cut 7 million dollars from their budget. https://votefordml.org is the website to visit for more information.
Agenda topic: Community reports | Presenter Emerson School Representative
Emerson School Rep did not attend. Discussion: Mark M met with Principal Hogue who stated the construction of Phase 1 (the new Lower parking lot for parents off Buckeye Street). Reconfiguration of the Upper parking lot on Hickory, along with the removal of the crumbling retaining wall to the north, will be the next Phase. While that is under construction, the buses will moved to Burns. Until the Lower parking lot is complete, parents will continue student pickup/drop off from Hickory.
Agenda topic: Community reports | Presenter Housing Inspection. Tim Bascom.
Discussion. Tim Bascom discussed actions that he has been taking towards homeowners who have nuisance properties, such as educating them about trash pickup dates, bulk pickup procedures, and policies for disposing of items. Conclusion. Everyone should take their trash cans and put them in places where people cannot access them to cut down on litter and vagrancy.
Agenda topic Community reports | Presenter Community Engagement: Martha
Discussion. Welcome Dayton is doing an Immigrants’ Art Exhibit in Dayton Metro Library, opening on November 9.
Agenda topi:c General Meeting Minutes | Presenter Mark M
Discussion The minutes from last week were accepted.
Agenda topic: President’s reports | Presenter Mark M
Report. The city put out a bid for a water main development on the 100 block of Hickory, Cline St., Nathan Pl., and Adams and Burns. This is in preparation for the development of the next Phase of South Park Flats.
The Murder Mystery was a huge success again this year. Thank you to the 55 volunteers that made everything happen! We sold out again this year.
Mark will be attending the city’s President’s Forum on Monday October, 28th and solicited questions from members to ask city representatives.
On Oct 29, there will be a Land Use meeting with the city about city zoning code changes. There was some discussion about what zoning code changes could mean for the historic neighborhoods like ours.
Jimmie’s Ladder 11 is seeking an extension of their liquor license to 2:30 AM. If anyone has any comments about this, please see Mark Manovich who will pass the comments on to the city.
Agenda topic: Committee Reports| Presenter (see below)
- Marketing & Communications (Willie Morris): None
- Social (Sarah Dugan): Halloween 31st party at Blommel Park with hotdogs and fun before the parade; December 14 will be our holiday party at Kristina Scott’s home.
- Parks (Nick Vanderpool): Nick will be fixing the broken gate at Adams Park in the coming weeks. Work is ongoing at all parks; watering as needed.
- Block Captains (Jayne/Jeanine ): None
- Membership (Amanda Korb): None
- Anti-Crime (Mark Keller): General advice to keep porch lights on and keep car doors locked and garage doors locked because crime can have an uptick around the holidays. Please make sure you call in problems that you see. Security Patrol: There is a sign-up sheet for this effort. We are walking and biking the neighborhood each week, picking up litter and reporting criminal activity. Please sign up! There are tee-shirts!
- Housing/Development (Karin Manovich): If you see a pile of trash near your house, please email Karin at [email protected] so she can call the owner or Tim Bascom and we can help people clear these issues. 250 Park will be demolished once the gas line is deactivated.
- PDI (Karin Manovich): There is a sneak peek at the Historic Boyer Mortuary on October 26 from 2:00-4:00pm. Please join Preservation Dayton Inc.
Agenda topic: Finance (Galen Wilson):
The Treasurer’s report went out with the meeting announcement by email. The playground equipment fund has been officially closed; the remainder was spent on a new trash can for Adams Park. It was installed today. Thank you to all volunteers who worked so hard to raise funds for Blommel Park playground equipment (around $52,000 was raised, along with a number of services received in kind) and also for spending the remainder of money for the trash receptacle! We will come out with a draft 2025 budget for HSPI in January.
Agenda topic: New Business | Karin M.
Nominating Committee Reports (Karin M.) There are candidates willing to run for the HSPI executive team as Membership Secretary (Kristina Scott), First VP (Nick Vanderpool) and Recording Secretary (Tanza Everding).
Agenda topic: Announcements | Presenter Mark M
South Park Cat Care Collective will be guest bartending at Gather (at the Arcade) on November 6. Come relax after voting and the SPCCC will receive some funding from the guest bartending event. The SPCCC have had over 200 cats neutered and spayed in the neighborhood since August of last year!