Hudson Vintage Neighborhood Alliance

Minutes from meeting 7-31-2001

In attendance: Lee Wyland, Karen Neset, Councilman Mr. Scot O’Malley, Jerry Washburn, Cheri Rosenberger, Anita (Vine str. Floral) Wells, with the uncompromising hospitality of Jean and Wayne Haut - Thank you once again!!

A brief time was spent on Treasury report - all seems well with between $700 and $800 hundred dollars in the account.

A brief recap of last years Block Party and a discussion of what went well and what changes might take place

· ice cream lost money but it was agreed that it could be done better and along with pop are fun for the guests.

The contractors list was passed around for members to check and members were asked to make any additions as they feel are warranted

Karen brought up zoning issues

- Addition to St. Pat’s was passed through the City Planning committee

- The white home on 3^rd and Vine was Ok’ed for a professional office

permit (2 years or permanent was not known)

Councilman Scot O’Malley gave an update on goings on at city council

- We discussed the increasing number of nuisance homes, (late parties, noise, possible drug usage, etc.) and what we as residence can do about them. The root problems is getting the landlords to clean up their property and monitor it properly.

- One of the ways to do this is to report all nuisance instances to the police so they have a record of every call at that address.

- One of the things that Scot has found out is that the landlord’s can assessed for every police call made to a residence. The nuisance ordinance might be one of the strongest ways we have to force the landlords to clean up and control there property better.

- We also discussed what can be done about the junk cars, appliances etc. Scot filled us in on the city ordinances relating to these issues. In general if appliances, piles of trash, cars, especially unlicensed cars, are left for over 2 weeks, if you ask the city can address the issue with the owner and have it cleaned up.

- Comment(One of the things we noticed during our discussion is that we as neighbors try to be nice to a fault. We need to address more issues before they get out of hand)

- We also discussed how to control speed within the city. The city council has been looking at many solutions, one of them that Scot mentioned was adding a new style of speed bump in strategic areas. Speed in the city is a serious issue with many children at risk.

- Scot then asked the opinion of those assembled on the issue of fireworks in the city. The consensus was that both the sale and display of fire works should be limited to the 4^th of July and/or the day that the city shoots off their fireworks, and New Years Eve.

New Business centered on the upcoming, Second Annual, HVNA Block Party, Saturday, September 15^th.

- The Brat Stand brought in $436

- The Garage Sale brought in approximately $150

- This years Block Party would be done in conjunction with the 25^th

- Anniversary celebration of the Vine Street florist shop

Several new ideas were put forward:

- family or children picture taken by Vine Str. Floral with an autumn setting

- Polaroid's could be free and they could be made into cards for a small fee

- -kids parade down 6^th street with bicycles etc.

- -we are looking for more ideas for crafts for varying ages of kids

- -ice cream was discussed

- Should we have Chuck get ice cream again;

- should we ask the gentleman with the ice cream cart to bring his cart to the party;

- should we ask Knokes’ to supply ice cream answer to be considered

- We decided to talk with Knoke's first

We also discussed that at the block party our goal is provide a fun afternoon at little or no cost to those attending so things like Ice Cream would be sold at or below cost or free if we can. All of the kids activities, crafts, face painting, the band and anything else possible should be free.

The next Block Party business was to try to set up what preparations needed to be done and who would have responsibility for each

- Create flyers to pass out door-to-door announcing the Block Party

- Cheri will create flyers

- Wayne and Jean volunteered to pass out the flyers

- talk to 6^th street residents and explain when the party is and what they should expect

o Lee and Karen were going to take care of that P.R.

- Lee will organize tables and chairs

- We are still looking for people to sign up for:

- handing out name tags at the party

- help with ideas, set up and running of children’s activities

- getting flyers into windows of downtown business

- setting up a Block Party announcement in the Chamber of Commerce Newsletter

- help with ideas, set up and running children’s games (Wayne will Chair this group but more volunteers are needed to help)

Other Business:

- Cheri is looking for other homes to grace the new addition of the

HVNA calendar

- Should we plan a rain date or back up plan in case of rain??

NEXT MEETING - there will be Block Party planning meetings next on 8-14, again at Haut’s, then again on 8-28 at Lee and Laurie’s. BOTH

MEETINGS WILL BEGIN AT 7:00 PM

The next regular quarterly HVNA meeting will be October, 23^rd

9:15 - Meeting was adjourned