Minutes for June 12, 2008

 

Attendees:

Steve Boehlen – president

Shirley Hyer – vice president

Linda Boehlen – sectary

Paul Novotny – treasure

Tina Novotny – board member

Henry Wickman – board member

Emily Ysebaert – board member

Amy Kocha – Alderperson

 

Absence:

Claudia Knepper – excused

Mark Piepenburg – leave of absence

 

 

New Business:

Steve Boehlen announced that Judy White resigned from the board.

 

Steve Boehlen made a motion to forgo a meeting in July, the board carried the motion, and we will meet again in August at the Transit Building. Emily Ysebaert is going to get the agreement that needs to be signed either to Steve Boehlen or will fill it out herself so that everything is in place for the 8/08 meeting.

A Thank you letter needs to be sent to Sandi Van Sistine for letting us use the Art Garage space to have out meetings.

 

Paul Novotny did a great job on the donation letter. He is also going to contact Jim from Pomp’s to see if he will match the donation given to Navarino for 125 Bullfrog tickets. A thank you letter needs to be sent out to TNT Crust for their donation of $500.

 

As part of the donation TNT Crust was interested in having a cross walk on Morrow Street so that it is safer for their employees to cross from the plant to the parking lot. Steve Boehlen brought it to the attention of Alderperson Amy Kocha, and she will bring it to traffic.

 

Steve Boehlen and Paul Novotny will get together and write up the operation grant. Emily Ysebaert requested to see the grant before it is submitted to the city. Steve Boehlen will email it to the board for approval before he passes it in to the city.

 

Steve Boehlen presented and passed out the business card that he created so that if need be the board members can write their information on the cards and hand them out to people in the neighborhood. He had created them and printed them off as no cost to the association. The goal was to see how useful they would be in getting information to people in the Neighborhood.

 

Amy Kocha had a follow up to the fireworks complaint that Emily Ysebaert had brought to her attention at the April 10th meeting. She has a meeting set up with Jim Arts and the fire chief to help reduce the availability of fireworks.

 

Steve Boehlen addressed the issues that have been brought forth regarding the lack of response from the CP’s and the police. He sent an email to Jim Galvin, and has received a voice mail letting him know that he is going to follow up, and set up a meeting with him self and Brad Linsmeyer once he comes back from vacation.

Steve Boehlen is hopeful that with the re-structuring that officer Galvin spoke of at the MNLC meeting, that there will be more communication between the neighborhood and the CP’s. The plan will help the CP’s in each neighborhood have the NRT (Neighborhood Response Team) be there to help handle issues and neutralize problems. That way we as a neighborhood will be able to have the support that we feel we should be getting.

Also at the MNLC meeting officer Galvin did advise that the NA presidents should have the CP’s cell phone numbers and that they should pick up unless they are on vacation if called. Steve Boehlen’s plan is to have officers Galvin, Grygleski and Linsmeyer to a NA meeting to discuss the re-structuring and the issues to see about improving the relationship with the neighborhood.

 

There were two streetlights that were approved and added to the alleyway in between Elm and Cedar Street and one in the alleyway between Cedar and Morrow Street. 

 

We will be having a Mini-grant project meeting on July 24th at 1570 Elm St to discuss the next steps that we need to take to precede with the street signs and the paver pathway. We will talk about Winterfest closer to fall. We will be serving burgers and brats.

We will also be discussing the success of the Bullfrogs night and articles for the next newsletter. 

 

Old Business:

 

Bullfrog Game:

The sale for the Neighborhood Night out with the Bullfrogs is going really well! Right now Navarino is in the lead with 125 thanks to the donation from Pomps. So unless we also get a donation for 125 tickets then it looks like they will be picking someone to throw out the first pitch. Their plan is to issue vouchers when someone sees a kid doing a good deed that can be redeemed for a ticket to the game. That way they are making a connection with that kid, and also getting to meet their parents.

We have donated $96.00 for 24 tickets that Nicolet School and Anne Sullivan school principals will hand out to families that would not other wise have the chance to have a night out like that.

 

Fliers:

Steve Boehlen wanted to remind everyone that when passing out the fliers we are not to put them in mailboxes. The mailman spoke to Linda Boehlen about a lot of fliers were left in mailboxes, and they were picked up and dropped off on the supervisor’s desk. Steve Boehlen will get rubber bands to help with the fliers, so that they can be attached to the door handles and not be left in the mailboxes.

 

AAA Signs:

Emily Ysebaert called and as long as there is a member of AAA among us they can contact AAA and request as many signs as we would want. Shirley Hyer is an AAA member and she will call Todd from AAA and request 60 signs to be passed out too who ever would like one.

 

Gary’s Plaque:

CSI Aaron informed us that Gary’s bike was stolen out of his garage. A Motion was made to see if we can get a bike from the city and have a plaque to thank him for his years of service to the community attached to it. Steve is going to follow up to see what he can find out.

 

Open forum/announcements:

 

Steve Boehlen wanted to let everyone know that in dealing with the kids in our area, the neighbors have banded together and they let the kids know when they are doing something that is not respectful. So far things have been getting better.

Also there will be a 3rd of July block party help at 1570 Elm St and all are invited to join us.

 

Motion was made by Linda Boehlen to end the meeting at 8:17pm and seconded by Tina Novotny.