7:00 Call to Order

7:05 Welcome & Community Forum

7:15 Board Business
• Executive Committee Placement: Vice President
• Secretary Need for Next 4 months

7:20 Reports
• Secretary
• Treasurer

7:30 New Business
• Request from MLK Legacy Council

8:00 Old Business
• Mulroy’s Zoning Discussion: Redevelopment, Arthur
• Blaisdell Community Garden Land Bank—Chris

8:30 Committees, Task Force and Project Reports, as needed:
• Redevelopment Committee
• Dog Park Task Force—dissolution of TF?
• Green Committee
o Community Gardens
o Graffiti Grant for Soundwall Gateway
• Newsletter Committee
• Youth and Schools Committee
• Crime Prevention and Safety (CPaS) Committee
• Event Committee
• 40th & Lyndale TF
• Transportation Projects
o BRT /46th Street

Adjourn

Dear Kingfield Neighbor— 

Please consider a year-end gift to your local nonprofit, the Kingfield Neighborhood Association!  KFNA works throughout the year to build connections between all our neighborhood stakeholders (homeowners, renters, property owners, businesses, and nonprofits) with the goal of strengthening a connected and vibrant community that is poised to both tackle neighborhood issues and implement community solutions.  We hope you feel our work in the Kingfield neighborhood and advocating for our neighborhood in the larger City is a benefit to your life as a resident of Minneapolis. You can read more about KFNA at our website at www.kingfield.org, and stay up to date on Kingfield happenings by signing up at the site for the weekly e-mail list.

Despite the “sunset” of the Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NRP) occurring at the end of 2011, KFNA is determined to keep actively working in our community.  For over 15 years, Kingfield has benefited from a hardworking, accountable nonprofit organization called the Kingfield Neighborhood Association which has helped neighbors identify issues and develop solutions to our specific and unique community’s problems.  Issues that KFNA has helped both analyze and fund solutions for include the lack of a neighborhood grocery store (KFNA started the Kingfield Farmers Market and is working to create community gardens!); the lack of business connections to each other and the community (KFNA started what is now the Nicollet East Harriet Business Association and also a series of events tied to promote our local businesses like ‘Eating for Art’ and ‘Celebrate 38!’); the condition of our “main street”, Nicollet Avenue, (KFNA invested almost ½ million dollars into businesses along this corridor alone, and has invested almost 1 million more to lighting, and park improvements along the avenue.  In fact, KFNA continues to be a driving force for the repaving of the avenue, finally coming in 2013, which will include over $160,000 of arts dollars to supplement the paving project!)  Besides these major accomplishments we have also painted over 30 murals in Kingfield, conceptualized and implemented a utility box wrapping program which is being duplicated across the city, supported innovative storm water and solar programs in our neighborhood, helped start and support block clubs on over 50% of our blocks, and more. 

Without your support KFNA will face a difficult few years.  The new City of Minneapolis Community Participation Program provides KFNA with only about half of what it needs to maintain its regular workload and we still have work to do in your community.  KFNA will be spending the remainder of the NRP dollars in a manner consistent with the plans adopted by the neighborhood in 1999 and 2006.  We hope this will result in a few major large-scale projects benefiting the community still occurring in the coming years, but we need to maintain the infrastructure to make sure this can happen.

If every Kingfield household donates just $10 to KFNA, we can pay for our administrative costs for an entire year. For $20 per household, we can cover our general operating costs too, including rent, insurance and neighborhood communications. And if you are able to donate $50, $100 or $250, you can significantly contribute to the plethora of programs and services that KFNA offers.  Anything you can afford is appreciated!  Donations to KFNA are tax deductible and every dime you donate is spent on trying to make Kingfield an even better place to call home. Remember, KFNA is you – and with your help, we can continue building a better Kingfield.

Have a Happy New Year!

Scott Bordon, President, & Sarah Linnes-Robinson, Executive Director

…Hear about art crawls and murals, performances and pop-up galleries. Share ideas, successes, and challenges. Meet City and nonprofit pros who can assist you in creating art in your community, and hear from neighborhood groups that have been there. Learn from one another and come away with ideas for the upcoming year!

WHO IS INVITED
Community members, artists, neighborhood association leaders, and others interested in creating art in the community

FEATURED SPEAKERS
Mary Altman, public arts administrator, City of Minneapolis
Melinda Childs, artist services manager, Forecast Public Art
Sarah Linnes-Robinson, executive director, Kingfield Neighborhood Association
Julian McFaul, designer, performer, and co-founder, Powderhorn Park Art Sled Rally
Nick Legeros, board member of NEMAA (Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association, presenters of Art-A-Whirl and other events)

QUESTIONS
Jill Boldenow, bolde001@umn.edu, 651-757-1862

6:30 One-Pot Cook-Off / 7 PM Kingfield Neighborhood Association Annual Meeting & Election

Stroll on down to MLK Park, 4055 Nicollet, one-pot in hand if you care to share and test your dish against KFNA Board members, and enjoy a sampling of tidbits and tasty treats made with care by your neighbors! 

NRP Plan modifications WILL be made at this meeting. See details at www.kingfield.org, as well as  outside the KFNA Office, Room #101, 3754 Pleasant Ave. S. 

Six officers (residents & business owners eligible) will be elected to the board for two-year terms. Questions regarding KFNA, its operating procedures, responsibilities, and mission can be directed to the KFNA Office, 612.823.5980 or info@kingfield.org.

NRP Plan Phase I Modification:

Move all Phase I dollars remaining (approximately $145,000) for “redevelopment projects” on Strategies 2.3.1.3 and 2.1.2.2 to Phase II Housing Staff Strategy 1.4.11.  At this time it is deemed prudent to move all Phase I NRP dollars into active Phase II contracts.  The intent of moving these dollars to this strategy is to contract them on the Non-personnel line so they can be accessed easily for future, not-yet-identified, redevelopment projects.

Background:Recent race-based dialogue about a dog park has highlighted our need to build stronger relationships and understandings between neighbors of diverse race, culture, and age.

The mission of Building Bridges is to understand how race and racism impact our communities and to build the future of our neighborhoods together.  Our goal is to reconnect our communities divided by race, time, and 35W.

Building Bridges is a project led by neighbors from South Minneapolis neighborhoods East and West of I-35W, including Central, Bryant, Kingfield, Regina and Northrop.  Read more about the Building Bridges project here: Building Bridges Description Mission and Action Steps

Invitation to Participate in Free “Facing Race” Workshops
Conducted by the St Paul Foundation
www.facingrace.org

Tuesday, April 12:  New Conversations about Race and Racism (participants watch scenarios and complete activities designed to help them explore and understand their perspectives and behaviors on the issue of race and racism.)

Sabathani Community Center, 310 E 38th Street, 3rd Floor (Conference Room J)
6-6:30 pm – Light dinner and social time
6:30 pm – Workshop begins
Saturday, April 30:  New Conversations about White Privilege (designed for individuals and groups who have begun to explore racism and want to learn more about the various facets of the issue. The white privilege tool draws on the work of author Dr. Peggy McIntosh, who defines privilege as unearned advantage)
Park Ave Methodist Church, 3400 Park Avenue
(attendance at the Race & Racism workshop is a prerequisite to attend the White Privilege workshop)
9-9:30 am – Breakfast and social time
9:30 am  – Workshop begins

RSVP Your Attendance: elizabeth.glidden@ci.minneapolis.mn.us