Inter-Neighborhood Council

Making Better Neighborhoods

Minutes of Meeting of October 26, 2004

REPRESENTATIVES PRESENT

Pat Carstensen	Cross County	Cathy Abernathy	Hope Valley NA
John Dagenhart	Trinity Park	Valerie Huber	Nancy Rhodes / Cole Mill
Bill Anderson	Duke Park	Larry Williams	Police Patrol
Randy Pckle	Forest Hills	Bobbe Deason	Morehead Hill
Larry Revelle	Durham Human Relations	Mike Woodard	Watts Hospital – Hillandale NA

Administration and Announcements

President Bill Anderson opened the meeting. Members introduced.

Yard Waste – One problem is inconsistent information (can’t use the green bins but they are still being emptied, people don’t know they can get rid of hurricane debris for free, not being told that sticks need to be tied). There is incomplete accounting since some people have more trees than yard to compost the leaves, there are thousands of people who haven’t bought stickers and cost of cleaning up illegal dumping can be more than brought in from fees. Two solutions that may be more cost-effective for some neighborhoods are engaging TROSA to bring their leave-gobbling truck and use the Club Boulevard solid waste center. We will ask Al Davis to write something for newsletter and come to next INC meeting.

Amendment One – It gives a way to make public contribution to economic development projects in between bonds and Certificates of Participation. There is mandate for public participation in the decision, and a state organization has to say the proposal is financially sound. Bonds passed have not necessarily been well managed. Finally is a choice between whether you think this mechanism will be a license for local governments to do dumb things or a good way to bring in good jobs.

Newsletter – We could do a newsletter and distribution like last year, which would cost about $1000. We do have some time-sensitive material on the UDO. If we were going to spend some publicity money, the sense was to:

§ Improve the website so we can put reports and documents up on it

§ Create a 1-page brochure that we can print off a few of when we need some.

§ Start having issue-based reports or briefings, where we might send out a 2-page executive summary but have the full report just available on the website.

November / December Meetings – Pat will check whether the church meeting hall is available November 30 (a fifth Tuesday).

Information / Committee Reports / Business

§ Hero Awards were wonderful.

§ Having neighborhoods decide when to hold Halloween has worked OK in some neighborhoods, but some neighborhoods don’t have organization to decide and some neighborhoods could be divided by the decision.

§ City is going to be serious about merit-based pay, so get an e-mail out on people who have been helpful or less than helpful.

Elections – The Nominating Committee twisted arms and produced the following slate so far.

President: Bill Anderson President-Elect: Mike Woodard

Past President: Cheryl Sweeney Treasurer: Randy Pickle

Secretary: Pat Carstensen Newsletter: ??

At-Large: Jaqueline Oleck and ??

The meeting was adjourned.