Silver Hill Neighborhood Association

The Silver Hill Neighborhood Association is launching a weekly gathering at Roosevelt Park at Coal and Sycamore Southeast. “Thursdays at Roosevelt” starts June 21, 2018, and runs through October 5th. From 5-8 pm every Thursday at historic Roosevelt Park for a limited first-year run, the event will feature food trucks, music, games, and family-friendly fun. The event is modeled after Hyder Park’s “Tasty Tuesdays.” Contact us in various ways outlined below for a preview story, or come join us every Thursday this summer.

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Instagram: www.instagram.com/thursdaysatroosevelt/

Facebook group: www.facebook.com/ThursdaysatRoosevelt

Facebook event: www.facebook.com/events/1654075398046738/

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Email us at ThursdaysAtRoosevelt@gmail.com

Time and Location of the Meeting: the meeting was held at CNN Conference Room and was called to order at 7:00 pm.

Board Members Present: James Montalbano, Aaron Du Bay, Elizabeth Doak, Don McIver, Tom Ocken, Jill Berry, Sean Matney & Richard Hallett.

Others Present: Tracy Mallette, Ben Wasserott

408 Maple (Ash between Lead & Coal): We were expecting a presentation from and conversation with a representative from Lucaya House, regarding their garbage bins and a request for a wrought-iron fence.  No one came to the meeting.

Lead/Coal Safety Committee: Ben Wasserott from University Heights paid a second visit to the Board to inform us of the formation of a task force, made up of representatives of affected neighborhoods, to advise the City about ways to improve safety along the Lead/Coal corridor between Nob Hill and Downtown. A 45-minute discussion brought up the main concerns — unsafe drivers, speeding drivers, one-way roads, road design, and lack of police enforcement. Per a July 3, 2018, letter from the City, neighborhoods are to nominate representatives to the task force by July 20th. Richard Hallett and James Montalbano agreed to serve as the SHNA reps and to recruit a resident of Lead/Coal to join them. The Board also discussed talking to neighbors to catalog their concerns and suggested solutions. 

Roosevelt Park Thursday Summer Events: Board members, which included the Thursdays @ Roosevelt Committee, analyzed the first three weeks of the new event and were generally pleased. Items that need attention: Set-up each day (banners, parking cones); the performance of food vendors and the possibility of, after 7/12, considering a rotation of food trucks; musical acts; a tracking system for the event’s finances, including a Google Doc that will monitor income and outflow of funds (the food trucks should cover the music each week); and spreading the word on social media.

The Board voted unanimously to extend the event (permits permitting) to October 5, 2018, the eve of Balloon Fiesta. 

National Night Out (8/7/18): The Board agreed to encourage folks to be out and about in the neighborhood on National Night Out but declined to organize a specific event, in light of the efforts being put into Thursdays @ Roosevelt.

Minutes: The June Board Meeting minutes were approved unanimously as corrected.

The meeting adjourned at 8:55 pm.

Our next meeting is at 7 p.m. Monday, July 9, 2018 at the Heights Community Center on Buena Vista. ALL are welcome to participate.

Here is the agenda:

SILVER HILL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION

AGENDA

July 9, 2018

1. Call to Order
2. New Business
   1. Lucaya House
      1. Request for fence
      2. Garbage on Ash between Lead and Coal
3. Old Business
   1. Lead & Coal Safety
      1. Presentation
   2. Thursdays @ Roosevelt Park
      1. Food Trucks
      2. Music
      3. Park Cleanup w/Discus folks 7/15/18
   3. Crime / Community Policing
4. Approval of Minutes
5. Treasurer’s report
6. Adjournment

Time and Location of the Meeting: the meeting was held at CNN Conference Room and was called to order at 7:05 pm.

Board Members Present: James Montalbano, Rich Braziel, Don McIver, Aaron DuBay, Tom Ocken, Jill Berry, Sean Matney & Richard Hallett. Sign-in Sheet

Others Present: Charolotte Rode, Gordon Reiselt, Sign-in Sheet

408 Maple (Ash between Lead & Coal): They want to replace their chain link fence with an 8’ high wrought iron fence.

Roosevelt Park Thursday Summer Events: Our first of 11 events this summer will be held on Thursday June 21^st from 5:00pm to 9:00pm at Roosevelt park. We are going to get 30 gray, crew neck, tee shirts with red lettering. It will cost $15 for a set up fee & $7/shirt with printed LOGO. We will also look at getting ¼ page flyers & a large banner with the LOGO. Teacher’s Workshop is a resource that we could use. Board Members could preorder shirts to help defer costs. We may set up a PayPal account to facilitate transactions with the food truck vendors. We are paying a band $50. Food vendors will pay $50/event if they commit for the season and $62.50/event with no future commitment. The Department of Health is sending 2 people to sweep the park for needles two hours before the event. Six Board members paid for 6 shirts for $90 and 4 additional shirts have committed to buy a shirt and will pay later.

We have received all of our permits for “Thursdays @ Roosevelt.” We don’t need to get Event insurance if there are less than 150 people attending. Sal Perdomo has offered his services for Marketing and Tom Ocken for Design.

A motion to provide $250 as initial funding for Thursdays at Roosevelt, including for the creation of the LOGO was approved unanimously.

Minutes: The May Board Meeting minutes were approved unanimously as corrected.

The meeting adjourned at 8:50pm.

Time and Location of the Meeting: the meeting was held at the Heights Community Center on Buena Vista and was called to order at 7:00 pm.

Board Members Present: James Montalbano, Rich Braziel, Elizabeth Doak, Don McIver, Tom Ocken, Jill Berry, Sean Matney & Richard Hallett. Sign-in Sheet

Others Present: Gordon Reiselt, Sal Perdomo – Titan Construction, & Josh Rogers – Titan Construction Sign-in Sheet Continue reading →

Our next meeting is at 7 p.m. Monday, May 14, 2018 at the Heights Community Center on Buena Vista. ALL are welcome to participate.

Here is the agenda:

SILVER HILL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION

AGENDA

May 14, 2018

1. Call to Order
2. New Business
   1. Titan Development (across Central from Presbyterian)
      1. Presentation updating project
3. Old Business
   1. Roosevelt Park events
   2. 1512 Silver Avenue
   3. Crime / Community Policing
4. Approval of Minutes
5. Treasurer’s report
6. Adjournment

Time and Location of the Meeting: the meeting was held at the Heights Community Center on Buena Vista and was called to order at 7:00 pm.

Board Members Present: James Montalbano, Rich Braziel, Elizabeth Doak, Aaron Dubay, Don McIver, Tom Ocken, Jill Marley Berry, & Richard Hallett. Sign-in Sheet

Others Present: Jim Sattler, Gordon Reiselt, Denise Tibbetts, Edgar Avila Sign-in Sheet

Titan Construction: Jim Montalbano & Richard Hallett attended the Sycamore Neighborhood Association meeting with Titan Construction who is doing the work on the development on the North side of Central. They arranged to have titan come to talk to SHNA May Board Meeting. Continue reading →

Silver Hill will be participating in the Great American Cleanup, organized by the City. We’ll hit the main streets from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 28th. 

The staging area will be the home of JAMES MONTALBANO, who will have supplies (gloves, bags) available on his porch at 1409 Silver Avenue SE. 

Please join us for some fresh air and a freshening of the neighborhood.

The Office of Neighborhood Coordination (ONC), now under the realm of the City Council, is a great source of information. 

Here is a link to the Office’s Resources web page. That includes a handy Handbook (PDF) for neighborhood association types. You can also sign up for the ONC’s Neighborhood Newsletter.

Here is ONC’s YouTube channel.

Get and stay involved!

The Heights Community Center on south Buena Vista is getting a face-lift. The iconic Depression-era building is getting ready to celebrate its 80th anniversary in 2019.

Expect to see new landscaping and plantings, including trees on the south side. New signage goes on the front. Art and photos will adorn the inside. IF YOU HAVE ANY old photos of the neighborhood, please share them with us or with Edgar Avila, the Center’s director. 

The big project is the refurbishing of the dance hall floor. The original maple flooring will be retained and repurposed. This will elbow out the Tuesday night swing dancers for a few weeks.

Here is a link to the Center’s City web page.