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NEW Courier Journal Neighborhoods Office Article January 29, 2003:
Agency wants to name names for county's 'empty' patches
Department will help 'create' neighborhoods across area
By Matt Batcheldor
mbatcheldor@courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal
PHOTOS BY BILL LUSTER, THE C-J
Melissa Mershon, right, director of the Louisville Metro Department of
Neighborhoods, talked with Renee Stigall, neighborhoods development manager,
outside the office of Police Chief Robert White. Mershon said deciding on
names and boundaries for neighborhoods will be a challenge.
Mershon and Police Chief Robert White exchanged business cards at the end of
a meeting. Mershon wants to hear what residents call their neighborhoods.
If you would like to join or start a block watch group or neighborhood
organization, or if you would just like to propose a name for an unnamed
area, call Metrocall at 311, or 574-5000.
* Related Story: Job came looking for Melissa Mershon
Melissa Mershon likens Metro Louisville to a quilt with an elaborate
patchwork of neighborhoods.
But for all the patches that have identities -- from tiny Bonnycastle to
sprawling Pleasure Ridge Park -- more than half are blank.
Years before Louisville and Jefferson County merged on Jan. 6, Louisville
had named all its neighborhoods, both to build pride in where people live
and to help some qualify for federal money.
But much of the outlying suburban area has no official identity.
Mershon, a former alderman who is director of the new Louisville Metro
Department of Neighborhoods, said one of her department's greatest
challenges will be to finish the quilt by coming up with names and
boundaries for those neighborhoods.
It's just one part of Mershon's job for an agency that has a countywide
focus to build neighborhoods by recruiting neighborhood leaders and to
corral state and federal grants to beautify them.
Because there was no county Department of Neighborhoods with which to merge
(it was disbanded in the 1999), she'll guide the old city staff of 35 to
cover an area three times as large.
"From an execution standpoint, it's a nightmare," Mershon said. "We don't
have all the answers yet."
But she said it may also be easier from an administrative view, because
there are no duplicate city and county staff members to reassign.
Mershon said she doesn't want to dictate names for neighborhoods. Rather,
she wants to hear what residents call the places where they live.
She said her department has two missions: to recruit neighborhood leaders
and give them the tools to do their jobs.
Mayor Jerry Abramson has said he wants every neighborhood in Metro
Louisville to have its own neighborhood plan, which would show how residents
want their area to develop.
Mershon's department is charged with helping neighborhoods form those plans.
The department will also help residents develop neighborhood associations
and block watch groups and plan neighborhood festivals.
She said neighborhoods need a nudge from government to help them get
organized.
"Prior to having TV, people sat on front porches and talked to each other,"
she said. "How you get people out on their porches to care about their
neighborhood is a challenge in the 21st century."
Louisville Metro Council member Tom Owen, D-8th District, said that
neighbors can also take some of the burden from government.
"Government can't pick up all the litter that's in the street," Owen said.
"Government can't clean all the catch basins. If we don't have folks
energized and activated, we're up a creek."
Mershon has a plan for bringing the expertise of the old Louisville
department to the county, based on Abramson's campaign platforms.
Her plan includes:
* Creating a task force of "community-building organizations," like the
United Way and the Louisville Community Design Center. She would assess who
offers what services, and how her department can use those services without
duplicating them.
* Building an online database of community associations with phone numbers
of leaders.
* Helping areas without neighborhood associations start them.
* Holding a citywide "neighborhood summit," which will become an annual
meeting of neighborhood leaders.
* Organizing bus tours for people from one part of the community to visit
another -- "neighborhood tourism" to bring people into areas they may
normally not visit.
* Helping any area that doesn't have a neighborhood plan to start one and
then completing a "communitywide" inventory of needs, based on those
neighborhood plans.
* Creating a grant-review process, where residents from across the community
can prioritize requests for government money.
* Taking the Brightside beautification and urban gardening program
metrowide.
Mershon is leading Metro Louisville through a process the old city went
through 30 years ago. Before the mid-1970s, Louisville's neighborhoods had
names, but their boundaries often were unclear. Faced with having to draw
neighborhood borders to get federal grants, then-Mayor Harvey Sloane created
the forerunner to the neighborhood department and put out Louisville's first
official neighborhood map.
"We became known as a city of neighborhoods," Mershon said.
The former county government's department of neighborhoods, which was last
known as the Department of Community Outreach, was disbanded by county
commissioners in 1999, in a budget dispute between the commissioners and
Judge-Executive Rebecca Jackson.
John Flood, a former employee of the department, said it had 10 neighborhood
coordinators who functioned much like their counterparts in the city.
Barbara Davis, president of the South Jefferson Improvement Organization and
a former county commissioner, said neighborhood organizations have missed
the county agency. She said it provided helpful advice, although it didn't
hand out any grants. She hopes the new metro department will be able to fund
more projects.
But LaVerne Davis, president of the Berrytown-Griffeytown Improvement
Organization, said that Mershon's department can be effective only if it
employs community-outreach people who stay in close touch with the areas
they serve.
She said the old county department didn't respond quickly to requests for
help from Berrytown, a historic African-American community in eastern
Jefferson County.
Mershon asked community leaders to be patient.
"We have to govern smarter," she said. "If we're going to have limited
resources, we have to have a road map to help us decide how to locate these
needs."
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NOTE: The Calendar is suspended as we re-design the site. Check back soon!
In the meantime, take a look at the Imagine Louisville Sustainable Neighborhoods Calendar below (from http://adenainstitute.org
) and check out the general community calendar listings at http://east.our.calendars.net/louisvillepeace/loujustice
Sustainable Louisville Calendar
10-28-03 Update
Update: Imagine Louisville: Fall 2003 Events
A Calendar of Green Issues and Visions for Louisville and the Ohio Valley
We had a quick response to our request for Calendar items, so this is one of several updates to the Imagine Louisville calendar for the
coming month. Do you have an event you want listed here? Please send your information to: imagine-calendar@adenainstitute.org
Also take a look at our sister community calendars at http://louisvillepeace.org and the Conversation Cafes calendar.
UPDATE: Oct 22, 2003: Land Machine, © Gail McGowan Mellor, has been released for community review and publication. Anyone
concerned wih sustainable development and democracy in Lousiville or elsewhere in the U.S. needs to read this book now. Land Machine documents much of the power structure,
decision-making and economics of "globalization and good old boys" currently moving Louisville and other mainstream communities rapidly away from sustainability. From the jacket: "Land
Machine is a tightly-documented, swiftly moving tale about the hidden forces driving the construction destruction in and around Louisville, Kentucky, the 16th most populous city in the United
States. Insiders blow the lid off of what they say are the dubiously legal use of governing systems to pressure developers for campaign money, deliberately distorted land use planning systems,
shattered communities, runaway local construction, and the relationship between global corporations and modern political bosses and good old boys. Far from being an inevitable effect of economic
growth, that combination retards both quality economic development and job growth. Researched and written by a Pulitzer nominee, the book draws on the knowledge and often speaks through the voices of
over 250 strategically placed people, describing the machine that is eating the environment, homes and economic future of Louisville and other metro areas across the central and eastern United States.
It ends with a deadbolt-practical guide to local reform." Available online at: http://www.earthsciences.com/Views/index1.asp
October 21, Tuesday 5:30 PM: Louisville Bioneers Conference Follow-up and Community Action Team Planning:
2410 Frankfort Avenue in Crescent Hill in Louisville. Entrance and parking at rear of building. Call 502 721 - 0350 www.adenainstitute.org/bioneers
UPDATE: October 22, Wednesday 6:30 - 8 PM: Community Meeting on Implementation of the 2000 Civilian Review Board Ordinance that
provides independent investigation of police. Part of National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality and the Criminalization of a Generation. Informational Panel Hosted by State
Representative Paul Bather, Featuring Bill Allison, Member of Louisville Board of Alderman in 2000, Janice Carter, President, NAACP Louisville Branch, Dr. J. Blaine Hudson, Chair, Department of Pan
African Studies, U of L, Suzy Post, long-time organizer for the ACLU of Kentucky. Metro Council Chamber, 3rd Floor, City Hall, 6th & Jefferson, 502 778 8130.
NOTE: From the "Imagine Louisville" Ohio Valley Bioneers conference: Bioneers Board member Van Jones' presentation to
the conference, which brought many to tears with his compelling stories of the effects of the current criminalization-industrial complex on young people, pointed out that as long as the
criminalization process is not subject to participatory democracy and civilian review, there is no chance for the emergence of a green economy. One of the decisions made during the Bioneers conference
is to investigate the prison-labor basis for the recycling industry here and propose sustainable livelihoods and other reforms. For more information on the connection between the prisons industry and
barriers to the sustainable communities and green economy, go to www.ellabakercenter.org or contact Van Jones at van@ellabakercenter.org
UPDATE: Wednesday, October 22, 2003, 7:00 PM: "How does domestic violence impact our community?" Conversation Cafe,
Heine Brothers' Coffee 119 Chenoweth Lane (in St. Matthews next to Paul's Fruit Market)Contact: John Hartmann 454-4820, johnhartmann@iglou.com For information on Louisville and Ohio Valley Conversation Cafes see: http://adenainstitute.org/conversations All are welcome.Conversation Cafes are open, hosted, drop-in conversations among people with diverse views but a shared passion for engaging with others. Held in public spaces like
cafes, restaurants and bookstores, Conversation Cafes provide a safe setting for talking with neighbors about things that matter over a cup of coffee or tea. Please make a purchase in respect for the
business owners. The topic for this Wednesday, October 22 is: "How does domestic violence impact our community?" Corissa Phillips, Communications Manager for The Center for Women and
Families will and others from The Center will be present for this special Domestic Violence Awareness Month community conversation.
October 23, Thursday 1 PM: West End Neighborhoods Environment Day, Featuring Wilma Subra of Subra Associates, one of the
Founders of the "Bucket Brigades" Community Pollution Monitoring Program and a leading researcher/activist in Louisiana's Cancer Alley. She will be speaking on the findings of the
Louisville Bucket Brigades research and next steps for Louisville neighborhoods. Also a video and discussion from Bioneer Diane Wilson: Why I Tried to Sink My Shrimp Boat on Toxic
Polluters. Diane Wilson, mother of 5 and a fourth-generation fisherman on the Texas Gulf coast, for more than a decade has used civil disobedience to fight such chemical giants as Union
Carbide and DuPont. In 1995, she won zero-discharge agreements from Formosa Plastics, one of the largest producers of PVC in the world, and Alcoa Aluminum, among the nation's largest polluters.
She is currently involved in health research to test Vietnamese and Hispanic fishermen for endocrine disruptors, heavy metals, and PCB's, and is doing "her darnedest" to launch zero
discharge as a movement within the United State and beyond.1321 Cecil Avenue, Louisville. to be followed by 3:30 PM neighborhoods meetings in Rubbertown. 502 774 1146
UPDATE! October 25, 2003, Saturday: EcoQuest Fresh Air Tour Registration: 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Meeting: 9:00
a.m. to 3:00 p.m. ( Lunch served ). A second session will begin at 4:00 p.m. and run through ? ( we had a meeting late last night and we have chosen to go the extra mile and have
an afternoon session as well due to the overwhelmingly high response of people who are interested in attending but who are unable to make the morning
session). "Please join us to learn about the latest advancement in air purification technology that is now capable of addressing fully the serious issues
facing schools, health facilities, institutions, as well as personal residential & commercial applications and the "bigger picture" of a better world and healthier lives for us
all as a whole. Effective Advanced Safe Water and Clean Sustainable Energy Solutions info will also be available. Host: Kelly Clarke EcoQuest Intl. Master's Team
Manager Location: Silver Lakes Community Center, 5935 Highway 31E, Clarksville, IN 47129 Contact Phone: 812-849-0523 Contact E-mail: one@ecoquestintl.com Contact web address: www.freshairliving.com/one entry pass code: "guest" (new advanced technology overview) www.maximumsuccess.com/one V.I.P. pass code: "guest" www.yourairknowledge.com/one www.yourwaterknowledge.com/one Directions: Take
I-65 to Exit #7 (Hamburg and Sellersburg exit).
Go east on Hwy. 60 to Hwy 31 (approx. 1 and 2/10ths of a mile. There is astoplight here. Turn right onto Hwy. 31.Go less than 2/10ths of a mile to Silver Lakes entrance (on
right). The entrance has a white brick wall on each side of the entrance with a "Silver Lakes" plaque on the wall. Turn right into Silver Lakes entrance.
Silver Lakes Community Center is the first building on the right. The parking lot is on the right just before you reach the Community Center.
October 27, Monday 5:30 PM: First "Imagine Louisville" Sustainable Louisville Community Workshop. Subject Sustainable Neighborhoods
Planning - From Neighborhood Ecovillage and Permaculture to Neighborhood Plan to Cornerstone 2020 reform. Year of the Green City 2004 Planning. Urban Design Studio, 507 South 3rd
St., Louisville 587 7015 or 336 9440 www.adenainstitute.org
Update: October 28, Tuesday, 7 PM Community Communications Working Group: Meeting at SHADE / CEI Productions 1615 Mellwood Ave., Louisville, KY. Call 336 9440 for more information on CCWG or 589 0827 for directions. Indymedia
and Mass Communications Strategy in Louisville and Ohio Valley Region See www.adenainstitute.org community
communications links for updates soon
November 1, Saturday 8 AM to 3:30 PM: Mayor's Neighborhood Summit: Bellarmine University, Frazier Hall 502 574 4227, www.loukymetro.org/Department/Neighborhoods
November 5, Saturday E-Democracy Meet Up, various locations, see http://edemocracy.meetup.com/ or www.democracy2.org or contact steve@stevemagruder.com for details.
November 9 -18: Festival of Faiths "Faith and Justice:" Various locations, 502 587 9647, www.cathedral-heritage.org Note particularly: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Sun Nov. 3:30 PM.; Arun Gandhi Thurs, Nov
13, 7:30 PM, Two Day Colloquium on Faith, Justice and Environment, Friday and Saturday at Kentucky Center for the Arts, Cathedral of the Assumption and Metro United Way, of all places.
November 10, Monday 5:30: "Imagine Louisville" Sustainable Louisville Community Workshop. Subject:
Sustainability Around the World: Bringing the Best Home (to be followed by the International Voices of Peace, Cathedral of the Assumption) Urban Design Studio, 507 South 3rd
St., Louisville 587 7015 or 336 9440 www.adenainstitute.org
November 11, Tuesday: "Another Community Is Possible" People's Agenda meeting on assessing the first year of Metro Government and planning for the 2004
People's Agenda conference. Quinn Chapel AME Church, 19th and Muhammad Ali Blvd, Louisville, www.peoplesagenda.org
Update: November 18, Thursday, 7 PM Community Communications Working Group: Meeting at SHADE / CEI Productions 1615 Mellwood Ave., Louisville, KY. Call 336 9440 for more information on CCWG or 589 0827 for directions. Indymedia
and Mass Communications Strategy in Louisville and Ohio Valley Region See www.adenainstitute.org community
communications links for updates soon
November 24, Monday 4:30: "Imagine Louisville" Sustainable Louisville Community Workshop. Subject: Bio-regional
partnering. How do we work together to create a sustainable bio-region throughout the Ohio Valley, rather than simply a 23 County Industrial Development Zone? We will meet at Urban Design Studio and
then car pool to Lexington to meet with UK School of Architecture and Kentucky Green Building collaborators. Meet at 507 South 3rd St., Louisville 587 7015 or 336 9440 www.adenainstitute.org
December 8, Monday 5:30: "Imagine Louisville" Sustainable Louisville Community Workshop. Subject: Year of the
Green City: Strategies for Overcoming Institutional Barriers to Sustainability for Government, Business, Facilities Managers, Planners, Builders and Citizen-Neighbors. Urban Design
Studio, 507 South 3rd St., Louisville 587 7015 or 336 9440 www.adenainstitute.org
December 16, Tuesday TBD: "Gathering of the Seeds of Light" Kentucky Theater, 651 S Fourth St, Louisville, 336 9440, www.adenainstitute.org
Louisville Bioneers Conference Follow-up and Community Action Team Planning
October 21, Tuesday: 5:30 PM, Center of Essence, 2410 Frankfort Avenue in Crescent Hill in Louisville. Entrance and parking at rear of building. Call 721 - 0350 for directions or related information.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!, to the people of Louisville and all of our beautiful and dedicated volunteers and participants who made the Louisville Bioneers 2003
Conference a great community building success! Bioneers Louisville will have conference outcomes, proceedings, photos and more on the Bioneers Louisville site (http://adenainstitute.org/bioneers ) over the next few days. Please check back soon!
What next?
The Conference accomplished several major goals in galvanizing hundreds of commitments from local civic and community leaders to move beyond "business as usual" to
create a "Green City and Region" here in the Central Ohio Valley. Come if you can for the Oct 21 organizing meeting. Also, please attend the upcoming Imagine Louisville: Sustainable
Louisville Community Workshops to participate in the transition of our households, neighborhoods, businesses, and governments in moving towards green planning, investments, building and
action now. These are also among the planning meetings for the "Year of the Green City 2004" initiatives.
Thanks again, Louisville! There's much more Bioneering to come!
And Thanks Again to our community Sponsors:
Partial Sponsor List for Imagine Louisville:
Adena Institute
Center of Essence
Clifton Community Council
Community Farm Alliance
Communicas
Community Communications Working Group
Community Grow
Conversation Cafes
Cultivating Connections
Featherhawk
Jobs With Justice
Kentucky Theater Project
Louisville Neighborhoods Network
University of Louisville -
Kentucky Institute for the Environment and Sustainable Development
Kentucky Theater Project
New Life Computers
Park Du Valle Community Health Clinics
People's Agenda
Progressive Asset Management
Sustainable Business Network
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BELOW is the Old Louisville News and Calendars Section, Now Being Redesigned:
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News
News Coverage:
Neighborhood groups form a coalition: United front
under merger is the goal" Article in Courier-Journal, 2/13/02. Click to read the article!
If you have news, events, articles or links to share, please send them to NeighborhoodsNews@yahoo.com
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Calendar
Click here to view the current Louisville Neighborhoods Calendar
Add Your LouisvilleNeighborhoods Calendar Events!
If you would like to Add an Item to the Neighborhoods Calendar, Click Here.
(this will also subscribe you to our email listserv group, and send notices of your event to all listserv members - just fill out the forms and sign up!
You can choose to view the list online, or receive digests or individual emails).
(click here to view past events)
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Calls for Neighborhood Action!:
Bonnycastle Neighborhood Call for Support on Moratorium
"The Clifton Community Council strongly urges everyone to respond to the Draft Land Development Code. We particularly urge all
neighborhood to support Neighborhood Plans. Specifically, this means having inserted in Chapter 11 - Development Review Process the following: 11.4.2, 11.5A, and 11.5B: "Change shall be in
compliance with the
established Neighborhood Plan".
New Postings !
New! (For Fall, 2002)
Consensus Process - How To: A short (2 page) overview of consensus tools and process for neighborhood and other
groups.
Brookings Institute Louisville Report Neighborhood Session Q &A Partial Transcript
Brookings Institute Louisville Report: LCON Responses
Advocacy Issues: How to Get LCON Action on Neighborhood Issues.
Resident Issues Categories - 6/15 Issues Summary
Freedom of speech links
Louisville Coalition of Neighborhoods has formally incorporated and elected an Interim Board of Directors.
LCON Interim Board of Directors July 2002 Recomendations:
1) Recommendations of Interim Board - Cover Letter
2) Draft Bylaws
3) Proposed Organizational Structure
4) Minutes
We will be posting other action items and news in this column shortly.
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From now on, access to the calendar will be through the Louisville Neighborhoods Calendar
at http://localendar.com/public/louisville_neighborhoods
Please take a look!
The past events listed below will be added to our archives shortly
Next Meeting:
The Louisville Coalition Of Neighborhoods Advocacy Committee
: Thursday, November the 7th, 6:30PM-8:30PM
Southwest Regional Library,10375 Dixie Highway.
The location is less than a mile north of Exit 1 from the Gene Snyder. First stop light north of the exit ramp is to Bethany Lane. Next light is to the shopping center, with the library being at the
junction of the two
portions.
Coming south on Dixie it is on the left at
the next light after Valley High School.
Contact: John Baker, johnbaker@bellsouth.net 01502 893 0477
Neighborhoods Advocacy and Issues Documents
10-16-02 Advocacy Minutes
Agenda from 9-26-02 meeting: AdvocacyAgenda92602.doc
We will review the issues gathered at previous meetings and review new issues for consideration by the coalition. Neighborhood leaders or anyone in
the community with neighborhoods related issues who wants to educate or get support from neighborhood organizations is invited to attend and present issues and ideas. These meetings will
continue to rotate through different parts of the community to encourage involvement. Please attend if you can. Please read the guidelines and links below for background.
Advocacy Issues
Neighborhood groups, individuals and organizations concerned with neighborhoods issues are urged to write short proposals of neighborhoods issues they want
brought to the LCON membership. Please send email copies of these proposals to the LCON listserve at louisville_neighborhoods@yahoogroups.com.
If you are not registered for the listserve, please go through the sign up process and then post your email proposal. Please put "Advocacy Issue: (and the title of your issue)" in the header
of the email and the top of the proposal. Please also bring a written copy of your proposal to the Advocacy Committee meeting if you attend, with several copies so members can read it there.
You can see an example of an issue proposal you can use as a model by clicking here.
If you wish to learn more about the Advocacy Committee process or wish to propose presenting issues in other ways, please contact John Baker at Johnbaker@bellsouth.net.
If you have difficulties posting your email proposal to the louisville_neighborhoods@yahoogroups.com
listserve, please send a copy instead as well to David Silverman at communicas@communicas.com along with a description of the problem you are having. We
will post it for you if need be and try to address any posting problems you have.
This is an invitation to LCON and individual neighborhood organizations to participate in:
AlterNation -a free festival of Community Culture, Activism, and the Arts
Central Park on Saturday, October 12, starting at 1:00 p.m.
Please join us!
This year's agenda will include:
The "Race to the Bottom" (a 3k parade/mock-a-thon), a diverse mixture of local musicians, workshops, artists, peace / social justice organizations, churches, activists,
neighborhood groups, games and activities for children
and adults, locally owned business, and multi-cultural foods.
Encourage active involvement in Louisville communities!
Reserve a space for your organization today at no cost! Please contact
Aleve Douglas
589-5304
or email: alevedouglas@hotmail.com.
Click here for more information on Alternation.
While this is not an LCON sponsored event, LCON members and other folks in the community are invited:
"Sustainable Development, Neighborhoods, and The Local Louisville Economy".
The next Conversation Cafe will meet at Heine Brothers' Coffee at 119 Chenoweth Lane in St. Matthews on
Wednesday, August 21 from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. The topic of discussion will be: (paraphrasing)"Sustainable Development, Neighborhoods, and The Local Louisville Economy".
For more information on this Community Cafe, got to Neighborly Conversations Events.
For more information on LCON Neighborhood Dialogues in development, go to the Neighborly Conversations and Community Communications pages.
LCON Community Communications Working Group Meeting
Saturday, September 7, 2002
10 - 12 Am ?
Days Cafe 1247 Bardstown Rd
Communications members please attend, or let us know if a second meeting time would work better for you. All LCON participants are welcome. Please RSVP if
possible to: communicas@communicas.com.
If we overflow at Days Cafe, we will go to the Public Meeting Room at the Highlands-Shelby Library Branch at Mid City Mall, 1250 Bardstown Rd. There are some schedule conflicts, but this seems to work
for most committee members. If you cannot attend but would like to participate in the communications working group committee, please let us know. A followup meeting may be scheduled for the Clifton
Center following the Advocacy Meeting 9-9-02. For an overview of Communications Committee work and planning thus far, please review http://www.louisvilleneighborhoods.org/Community_Communications_Workin g_Group.htm Tentative Agenda: Introductions,
Meeting Facilitation/Process, Agenda Review/Additions, LCON Communications Project Status Review, Strategic, Work, and Business Plans, Working Group Organization, Tasks Schedule and Assignments, New
Business, Reporting, Next Meeting, Adjourn. Thanks, David Silverman communicas@communicas.com 01.502.551.6294
The LCON Advocacy Committee
will meet on Monday, 9/9 at 5:30 PM.
Where: Clifton Center, Clifton & Payne Streets, in the second floor meeting room..
We will review new issues to be presented to LCON and the issues gathered at our 6/15
neighborhood forum and bring issues forward to the entire group.
Neighborhood groups, individuals and organizations concerned with neighborhoods issues are urged to write short proposals of neighborhoods issues they want
brought to the LCON membership. Please send email copies of these proposals to the LCON listserve at louisville_neighborhoods@yahoogroups.com.
If you are not registered for the listserve, please go through the sign up process and then post your email proposal. Please put "Advocacy Issue: (and the title of your issue)" in the header
of the email and the top of the proposal. Please also bring a written copy of your proposal to the Advocacy Committee meeting if you attend, with several copies so members can read it there.
You can see an example of an issue proposal you can use as a model by clicking here.
If you wish to learn more about the Advocacy Committee process or wish to propose present issues in other ways, please contact John Baker at Johnbaker@bellsouth.net.
If you have difficulties posting your email proposal to the louisville_neighborhoods@yahoogroups.com
listserve, please send a copy instead as well to David Silverman at communicas@communicas.com along with a description of the problem you are having. We
will post it for you if need be and try to address any posting problems you have.
A first ad hoc meeting of the LCON Finance Committee
has been requested to follow the Advocacy meeting, to begin approximately 7:00 PM at 9/9/02 at the Clifton Center, 2117 Payne Streets, corner of Clifton
and Payne.
Next Meeting:
To All Friends of the Louisville Coalition of Neighborhoods
- Important Meeting -
Louisville Coalition of Neighborhoods General Meeting
6:30 p.m., Thursday, September 12
TARC (Union Station)
1000 W. Broadway, 2nd floor (front of building)
(Please note that the meeting location has been moved from the Library to TARC)
Guest Speaker:
Steve Higdon, President, Greater Louisville Incorporated
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Discussing G.L.I. and sustainable neighborhood economic and community development
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In addition to other topics of discussion, come prepared to discuss your group's main neighborhood-related
concerns. LCON will continue to formulate these concerns and present them to all the candidates for the new merged metro government and other community organizations.
It is important that LCON is involved from day 1 in our new government by keeping everyone aware of
neighborhood
concerns.
Beechmont
Assoc. is having a pot luck 15th of September 2:00 to 6:00 P.M. At the Fire Station on Ashley Ave
. Come one and all. Free food and drinks. And
we will have booths.
Contact: Laura Hosbach 361-4952
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