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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
November 3 Minutes
The November 3rd meeting started out with Maliza reading the minutes from the October meeting.
There was an update from the Garden Commitee. We'd like to have a meeting with the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, with a composting workshop. The Haloween candy giveaway went very well. A lot of kids showed up and enjoyed it, and the whole holiday went off pretty well on the block. The Garden recieved a $500 grant and will need to start a bank account. Gardeners will need to stop by and cut down their annual plants to make room for next year's crop. There was also thoughts about a community compost pile in the garden, or some sort of compost drop-off, along with concerns that such a drop-off might get unwanted regular trash.
As far as our finances, we still have about $1000 in the bank. There will be an audit of out finances by two block residents who are not elected members, which will take place in December. This is according to our regular bylaws and not the result of any weird circumstances.
For old business, we started out thanking Mr. Russell for all his help with Halloween in the garden. He did a great job. We had budgeted $50 for decorations but only spent $25 total. For next year, maybe we could do an easter egg hunt. Gardenning space is a bit limited, and Andrew wants to re-arrange some of the planting boxes to make more room.
Mike is the editor of the newsletter and is looking for submissions. His email is mbroder@mbroder.com .
We are trying to get a count of all the abandoned buildings on the block to see what is the current state of each building. The list so far is 186, 175 and 148 (the vacant lot next to the green house.) We'd like to get the owner of 148 to fix the sidewalk in front of their house, it's a mess especially in the winter. There was also talk about hiring the Project Regeneration people to clean the vacant buildings, but there's question of liabilty and issues with getting the kids to go onto the vacant properties. There was also a thought that once a week might not be enough at certian times when there's a lot of garbage blowing around.
Toya thought that we should contact the owners of the vacant buildings and reccomend they hire Project Regeneration, but also establish a committee of people who can look after the fronts of the vacant buildings - to give those people recognition for all the work they do.
We also haven't seen the police patrol around 186 in a while. We're going to contact Officer Lyons and ask him to re-establish the patrol. Someone reported seeing a bed in 186.
We established a condolence policy, where we would have a certian ammount ($10 for now) automatically budgeted for buying funeral flowers for members of the block who pass away. The measure was passed with a unanimous vote.
There was thought about purchasing a garbage can for outside the garden, as the city garbage can on the corner has vanished. Gil volunteered to look into the missing can. Thanks, Gil!
New Business
There will be some changes in the G train service as the 4th avenue station has a huge rennovation. The G will start running to Church street instead of Smith-9th, but this won't happen for a while.
We'd also like to look into resident parking permits on the block to control parking.
Our next meeting will be December first at 6:30.
There was an update from the Garden Commitee. We'd like to have a meeting with the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, with a composting workshop. The Haloween candy giveaway went very well. A lot of kids showed up and enjoyed it, and the whole holiday went off pretty well on the block. The Garden recieved a $500 grant and will need to start a bank account. Gardeners will need to stop by and cut down their annual plants to make room for next year's crop. There was also thoughts about a community compost pile in the garden, or some sort of compost drop-off, along with concerns that such a drop-off might get unwanted regular trash.
As far as our finances, we still have about $1000 in the bank. There will be an audit of out finances by two block residents who are not elected members, which will take place in December. This is according to our regular bylaws and not the result of any weird circumstances.
For old business, we started out thanking Mr. Russell for all his help with Halloween in the garden. He did a great job. We had budgeted $50 for decorations but only spent $25 total. For next year, maybe we could do an easter egg hunt. Gardenning space is a bit limited, and Andrew wants to re-arrange some of the planting boxes to make more room.
Mike is the editor of the newsletter and is looking for submissions. His email is mbroder@mbroder.com .
We are trying to get a count of all the abandoned buildings on the block to see what is the current state of each building. The list so far is 186, 175 and 148 (the vacant lot next to the green house.) We'd like to get the owner of 148 to fix the sidewalk in front of their house, it's a mess especially in the winter. There was also talk about hiring the Project Regeneration people to clean the vacant buildings, but there's question of liabilty and issues with getting the kids to go onto the vacant properties. There was also a thought that once a week might not be enough at certian times when there's a lot of garbage blowing around.
Toya thought that we should contact the owners of the vacant buildings and reccomend they hire Project Regeneration, but also establish a committee of people who can look after the fronts of the vacant buildings - to give those people recognition for all the work they do.
We also haven't seen the police patrol around 186 in a while. We're going to contact Officer Lyons and ask him to re-establish the patrol. Someone reported seeing a bed in 186.
We established a condolence policy, where we would have a certian ammount ($10 for now) automatically budgeted for buying funeral flowers for members of the block who pass away. The measure was passed with a unanimous vote.
There was thought about purchasing a garbage can for outside the garden, as the city garbage can on the corner has vanished. Gil volunteered to look into the missing can. Thanks, Gil!
New Business
There will be some changes in the G train service as the 4th avenue station has a huge rennovation. The G will start running to Church street instead of Smith-9th, but this won't happen for a while.
We'd also like to look into resident parking permits on the block to control parking.
Our next meeting will be December first at 6:30.
Friday, November 16, 2007
Check your credit regularly to avoid identity theft!
At the Block Association Meeting on Sat. Nov 3, someone mentioned how
to get the Free Credit Reports in order to check your credit report and avoid identity theft. That will help to make sure nobody's signed up for a credit card in your name.
According to Suze Orman you can a free credit report annually and
should never have to give credit card info.
www.annualcreditreport.com
The 3 main credit bureaus are:
Equifax www.equifax.com (800) 685-1111
Experian www.experian.com (888) 397-3742
TransUnion www.transunion.com (800) 888-4213
to get the Free Credit Reports in order to check your credit report and avoid identity theft. That will help to make sure nobody's signed up for a credit card in your name.
According to Suze Orman you can a free credit report annually and
should never have to give credit card info.
www.annualcreditreport.com
The 3 main credit bureaus are:
Equifax www.equifax.com (800) 685-1111
Experian www.experian.com (888) 397-3742
TransUnion www.transunion.com (800) 888-4213
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