Notes from 8/28 meeting

Tuesday we had a meeting at our home to get an update on how preparations for the block party are going.

The next two Tuesday's we will also have meetings. This coming Tuesday will be at Cherie and Rusty's home at 1416 3rd street. 7:00pm.

The minutes will be reviewed on Tuesday but in general we discussed the preparations.

Wayne presented that the kids activities are coming along fine, many of the activities and prizes have been purchased. We are hoping for some donations for door prizes.

Wayne also verified that the band will be there.

Knokes will help us out with the Ice Cream this year.

Anita from Vine Street Florist discussed her plans for the event and her 25th anniversary.

Sunday Karen and Lee will walk 6th street talking to people about the block party so they are aware and work through any concerns they may have.

Cheri made a wonderful presentation of the things she has been working on for the kids activities, calendars, pins, pogs, parade hats, and more.

We started putting together a list of names and what they may do during the event.

If you would like to help out in any way, please send me a note if you have not already talked to Wayne or someone else.

After Tuesday's meeting I will send out a note with who is assigned to what that day.

So, next Tuesday, 7:00pm at Cherie and Rusty's home, 1416 3rd. If you need to contact them call (715) 386-7270 or you can call or e-mail me if you would like something brought up at the meeting or volunteer for something.

In other business, we spent some time discussing the issue of rundown property's and landlords as well as zoning, building permits and speed.

We discussed how to increase our influence as a group before city council.

When I registered our web address www.hvna.net I had tried to register www.hvna.org. You may want to visit their web site, they are also a neighborhood organization doing many of the same things we have in our charter.

At our next quarterly meeting in October, as well as reviewing the results of the block party I expect we will be spending some time discussing strengthening our position with city council and ways we as an organization can help deal with more of the issues that we see in the neighborhood as well as how to support our city council members that are working for change.

We have been successful already with issues like the keeping homes from becoming commercial property, making proposals to city council for the use of the jailhouse on 4th street and others. Now we have other issues we are discussing like land lords and speed that need to be addressed. We have discussed how we as residence can deal with the situations, now we need to determine what we as the HVNA can do about the issues.

As it says in our charter "To encourage the preservation and enhancement of the character and integrity of Hudson's historical residential neighborhoods."

Hope to see you all on Tuesday for the block party meeting.