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GCCC Meeting Rocked!
Thanks and Special Thanks
Thanks to all who attended last night's meeting. A number of new members attended, and we offer a special thanks to you.
Going into last night's meeting we counted 52 members, but with last night's new members and the the checks that came in today's mail, in all, GCCC now boasts 57 paid members. Last night's attendance numbered 25.
Last night we formed a Crime Watch Committee to help Ellen and Roy, our Crime Watch co-chairs, formulate a workable action plan for street by street coverage of crime watch recruiting. Six members signed on, and we wish to hold our first meeting next week.
We touched upon the 2005 GCCC Agenda, which consists of two parts: the ambitious and demanding project, the Community Wide Mt. Hope Crime Watch, and The Mt. Hope Beautification and Infrastructure Improvement Project.
We wish to begin immediately on parts of the Beautification & Infrastrusture project: the cleanup of vacant lots and land by the parties legally responsible for the property and identifing all potholes and road repairs within Mt. Hope that need the DPW's attention.
We must first identify and chart all vacant lots and land in Mt. Hope, then determine who is responsible for their maintenance. We must also identify and chart all potholes and neglected road repairs before presenting the list to the DPW and the City.
We will need logistical help for these projects, like assembling an alphabetical list of Mt. Hope Street names, color coded maps of Mt. Hope, we will need a War Room.
We need members with vigilant eyes to spot and report vacant lots and road locations.
This is where the Mt. Hope Weblog will come in handy.
We welcome your creative suggestions as to how we should proceed.
Our next meeting will be a big one, June 22. We will begin preparing a list of guests to invite, from City Departments, related to our ongoing projects.
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Call for a person to fill the GCCC officer position of Member's Secertary.
Our current MS cannot continue in the position due to the demands of his new business start-up, but Sam will continue to help with research and data mining.
We need a person who is personable, a quick study, and willing to do a certian amount of leg work recruiting members and Corporate Members. Irene will provide training in recruiting techniques to the new Officer.
Interested members, please conatct me at john@mthope-east-side.org or call me @ 640-8077.
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In the comming days I will be posting more about how members can contribute using this weblog.
Thank you to the members who have been contributing to the blog. More people still use the blog than contribute to it. We all need to step up a bit more and get over our hangups and shyness and whatever holds us back.
I think you all have been doing some good work.
John Twomey
Posted at May 19, 2005 01:09 PM