Tuesday, March 31, 2009

From SENA

The Business, Development, Transportation group will meet this Thursday at 6:30 p.m. - at the SENA office.

We will have our usual updates - bike racks, RiverLake Greenway, neighborhood developments - and hopefully a report back to the group from the Board discussion last month.

We may want to initiate some discussion around traffic calming issues also.

Hope to see you all there. -- shirley

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Shirley Yeoman : SENA - Standish-Ericsson Neighborhood Association 612-721-1601
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SENA Mission Statement:
The Standish-Ericsson Neighborhood Association brings neighbors together to build on the strengths of the Standish and Ericsson neighborhoods – stability, diversity and concern for others.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Meeting announcement!!!!

Hello Everybody,

Our next meeting is a week away! This time we hope to continue the discussion of group organization and begin to flesh out our framework. We are in need of people willing to officially volunteer for their community. Please see this link to see what sorts of positions we have considered.

The meeting will be on Wednesday April 1st at the Sibley Park Community Center, at 6:30. Click this line for directions.


Bring your ideas and neighbors. We look forward to seeing you!

-Will

4500 Cedar Ave.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Cedar Avenue United in PRINT

Thanks to Jeri E. for all the great work with neighborhood publications!! Here are her two most recent triumphs..



Close to Home
will be hitting Northrop homes very soon...here's the on-line version.
Enjoy the weather this week, it's pretty fabulous!
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FYI, SENA's latest edition is out with Ann's article


Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Meeting 'minutes' for 3-4-09

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