Attendance:
Josh, Steve, Sharon, Will
Focus:
Organization
As the group continues to grow and develop it has become clear that official organization is in order.
We started by discussing different needs for the group; various contacts or committees that would be useful. Here are some of the ideas discussed:
-Neighborhood Representatives. These reps would organize on a neighborhood level, working with residents, existing NRP (or other) neighborhood groups, holding meetings if necessary. They would also attend CAU monthly meeting
-Elected official Liaison- This person would communicate with various elected officials and their offices.
-Business Liaison, Business Committee – This person or committee would communicate and organize businesses on the Cedar corridor. Cedar Avenue Business Council (?)
-Cycling Representative/committee – work with neighborhoods and other organizations to determine most effective and SAFE ways to integrate and encourage cycling on the corridor. Work with various projects and initiatives in the area.
-Also some aspects that need to be addressed: Signage, Traffic (police enforcement) Multi Cultural/Diversity, National Night Out
Currently Jeri has been seeing over communication with various neighborhood publications with much success. Watch your neighborhood circular for meeting announcements and articles. Thank you!
We were in agreement that CAU is still too young to incorporate officially as a non-profit. We discussed this topic briefly, and will likely talk more about it in the future.
Also, thanks to Steve, we have an official web domain. www.cedaraveunited.org . Currently this is only a placeholder. Continue to use the BLOG for announcements and updates. In the future this site will become a clearing house for documents and information, included files for print material. We will be able to link with neighborhood orgs, city/county offices and affiliated businesses and organizations. Thank you Steve, this will be a useful resource.
We plan to continue this discussion in the next meeting and to compare and contrast our needs with other similar projects (Lyndale Redesign etc)
We hope to see all of you at the next meeting on Wednesday, April 1st. Bring your ideas and anyone that you think might be interested in participating.
Please feel free to add a comment if I missed something important!
Thanks,
Will
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