Pursuant to prior notice, the meeting of the Board of CIDNA came to order at 7:05 p.m. on Tuesday, October 3, 2000, at Jones-Harrison Residence on Cedar Lake Ave.

Present at the meeting were the following directors:

Judy Berge, Glenna Case, Kathy Hendricks, Angie Lillehei, Ken Moritz, Bob Olson, Marsha Porter, David Shirley, and Desmond Whitney.

Also present were:

Shelia Rawski (CCP/SAFE); Vivian Mason (Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board Commissioner); Susan M. Reyes (resident of Calhoun Beach Club Apartments); Lisa Goodman (City Council person 7th Ward); Douglas Gardner (Lisa Goodman’s assistant); Carla Egerman (CIDNA resident and pending board member), David Anson (CIDNA resident and pending board member), Roger Adams (Lake Point Newsletter and CIDNA resident), Fritz and Ilrid Richards (CIDNA residents requesting a variance), and John Brewer (Southwest Journal).

Chair Kathy Hendricks opened the meeting by introducing Carla Egerman and David Anson as potential board members and inviting board members and guests to introduce themselves.

Motion before the board made by Judy Berge and seconded by Ken Moritz:

The foregoing resolution of the board was passed unanimously by those members who had been in attendance on September 5, 2000.

1) There is a new process for reporting graffiti : A hot-line for reporting graffiti now exists within the police department. Lisa Goodman reported that graffiti continues to be a "HUGE" problem in the city. Property owners are required to clean the graffiti on

their property. This is time consuming and can be quite costly. Lisa Goodman

handed out a card with information and hot-line phone number for reporting

graffiti.

2) Council member Goodman also handed out a card with phone numbers

that are useful to citizens.

3) The October 25 "Lunch With Lisa" will be the last of this year. The topic to be discussed will be the new library. "Lunch with Lisa" will resume in January.

4) Ms. Goodman and Susan Reyes from the Section 8 Tenants Association gave the following update: There will be a meeting on Thursday, October 5, at 11:00 a.m. with the section 8 housing representatives and AIMCO. Susan requested that a representative from CIDNA attend said meeting . Kathy Hendricks will attend and report back to the board via e-mail.

Ms. Goodman then introduced Fritz and Ilrid Richards who had called her office that day to request a side-yard variance for their home at 2798 Dean Parkway. Since the agenda was full and more information was needed before a decision could be made about the variance request, the following motion was made by Ken Moritz and seconded by Angie Lillehei:

The motion was passed unanimously.

1) Commissioner Mason reported that there are three issues under discussion regarding the Lake of the Isles Renovation Plan: 1. Access to the new island, 2. The location of the canoe racks, and 3. Saving the existing willows as well as planting new trees. A planning committee regarding said issues is scheduled to meet on October 25, 2000. Individual letters indicating any concerns regarding these three issues should be sent to Vivian Mason before that date.

2) The paving of the Dean Greenway plans will be done yet this fall. Marsha Porter, board member, will contact Rachel Ramadyani of the MPRB to arrange an on site meeting at Dean Greenway regarding and access point onto the Greenway paths from the pedestrian crosswalks.

3) Regarding the off-leash dog area: fencing will be in place by the end of October. The MPRB is working with ROMP on an agreement to insure stewardship of the off-leash area. The concerns presented via letter, by CIDNA resident Don Willeke regarding the trees in or near the off-leash park have been addressed, said Commissioner Mason. She clarified that no trees are to be cut down for the off leash park that is to be constructed on the south end of Lake of the Isles, in CIDNA.

The board turned its attention to NRP Specialist and trainer, Robert Thompson. Mr. Thompson reported that there will be a neighborhood conference on February 24, 2001 to celebrate the accomplishments of Phase 1 of NRP, and to "kick off" Phase 2 of NRP. This event will be a venue for neighborhoods to display information about the NRP processes that were initiated and accomplished in their neighborhoods. Mr. Thompson also described ways that he can help neighborhood boards, via "board training" to develop skills necessary to function effectively as a board and to

function more effectively in achieving outcomes related to NRP plans and goals. A discussion ensued as to whether the board members would like such training and what would be helpful for us to focus on in such training. It was generally agreed that "board training" would be helpful to the CIDNA board, and that Mr. Thompson would be invited back to pursue this training.

Board member Ken Moritz reported on the meeting he had attended with the CBC

regarding parking on the neighborhood streets. A system of tracking will be implemented to determine who is parking on said streets, i.e. whether it is

members of the CBC or employees of the Club, etc. Mr. Moritz noted that he had made

a suggestion to the CBC/AIMCO representatives that their reputation within the neighborhood was suffering and that they would want to attend to their image-problems within the community to be good neighbors and quality business people. Kathy Hendricks announced that there would be a meeting on these issues on October 17, 2000, at 7:00 P.M. at the Kenwood Recreation Center. This meeting is sponsored by the Park Board.

The board then turned its attention to fundraising. The following motion was made by Glenna Case and seconded by Judy Berge:

THAT CIDNA SEND A LETTER TO THE COMMUNITY IN NOVEMBER 2000, ASKING RESIDENTS TO CONSIDER DONATING FUNDS TO CIDNA.

The motion passed unanimously. Glenna Case will draft the letter and seek input from the board on its completion.

The discussion turned to the financial procedures for accepting gifts of stock as written by Bob Corrick. The following motion was made by David Shirley and seconded by Glenna Case:

The motion was passed unanimously.

Kathy Hendricks reported that the CBC will begin constructing the sound proofing for the chiller units on October 16.

Kathy Hendricks brought to the attention of the board a letter received from Judy Farmer asking for CIDNA’s endorsement of the School Referendum. The following motion was made by Desmond Whitney and seconded by David Shirley:

The motion passed unanimously.

There were 3 crimes in CIDNA this month. After checking the crime map, David Shirley mentioned that it appeared that only 1 of those crimes was actually in CIDNA, the other 2 occurring just outside CIDNA’s borders.

The board members expressed their sincere and deep appreciation to the

members of the Park Siding Park festival planning committee for their

excellent work on the festival. There were many welcome new additions to the

festival this year.

The business before the board being completed, the following motion to adjourn the meeting was made by Marsha Porter and seconded by David Shirley:

The foregoing resolution was passed unanimously and the meeting was adjourned at 9:00.

Meetings of the CIDNA board are generally held in the Lake Room of the Jones-Harrison Residence on the first Tuesday of every month. The next meeting is scheduled for November 7, 2000 at 7:00 p.m. The meeting is open to the public.

These minutes were prepared and submitted by Secretary Marsha Porter, with aid in typing by CIDNA Chair Kathy Hendricks, and adopted at the Board Meeting held on __________________, 2000.

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