In attendance: Tom Parent, JobyLynn Sassily, Marie Wolf, Chris Sur, Chris DeParde, Diana Schleisman

 

Meeting called to order at 7: 10pm – No Quorum

 

Community Forum – No comment

 

Secretaries Report – Last meetings minutes not submitted. Will vote on acceptation in February. Chris Sur will keep March meetings minutes.

 

Treasurers Report – Reviewed balance sheet. No comments from board members. The city is behind in payments and as a result, KFNA needs to stay current on reimbursement requests. Wall Dogs: Sarah is trying to calculate in- kind donations, as one of the final financial piece of the project. The final financial piece is determining with LNA the allocation of staff time for each organization.  Sarah Linnes Robinson acknowledged she donated a great deal of her time on this project by her own choice; Tom Parent recognized and thanked her for her efforts. KFNA will share any profits or losses accrued from the project with the LNA. It appears that the project will break even with no losses to KFNA, except for staff time on the project.

 

Chris DeParde asked how our new book keeper arrangement was progressing. Linnes-Robinson said that both Lois and Neela had worked together in December for training purposes.  Tom Parent said that the transition was supposed to be seamless and KFNA was not to be paying for the book keepers training. Linnes-Robinson said the situation has worked and she has not needed to provide any training, and normally that would be her role; she will also make sure that Lois understands that her future bills as a contractor need to fall within the range of those of her bills as an employee did. 

 

Also: The direct mail campaign received $5,250 in contributions representing 170 households. The unemployment claim that Sam put in will be appealed and the hearing will be on February 3^rd. KFNA offered Sarah Linnes Robinson any support she made need.

 

Committees and Task Force:

 

CPaS – Community initiated grants were discussed at the last meeting.

 

38^th & Nicollet – KFNA is organizing a stakeholders meeting at Michael Lander’s building.  February 5^th at 10:00am. Theissen Building tour will follow.

 

CIS – Mark Loesch Trial – Sarah Linnes Robinson will compose draft from her personal perspective as a friend and as an employee of KFNA.  She will offer KFNA an opportunity to add their name.

 

Art Show – On track for March 21^st at Rau Barber.

 

Craft Resolution for NRP Project/ Neighborhood Community Engagement Commission:  KFNA needs to determine an individual to attend the meeting in which process will be established to appoint neighborhood reps to the commission.

– Designate individual(s) to attend.

– KFNA will get one vote

– No quorum to approve resolution but could be approved through e-mail vote.

– We will send all KFNA interested parties to this meeting – 3 person delegation

with one vote. Question is who will cast vote. Marie Wolf suggested sending 3         reports from individuals and vote. Top vote getter gets the vote, second is the alternate. The resolution needs to be out by January 30^th.   

 

Website – Tom Parent says we have good traffic. When he Googled Kingfield, KFNA site came up number one. Board members need to comment on website usability to Sarah Linnes Robinson.

 

Block Organizing Groups – Sarah Gleason has started to identify block leaders but is finding that most are not organized. “Eyes on the Street” project will utilized KFNA website and also the website will be used to invite people to the next CPaS meeting. JobyLynn and Sarah G will meet before the February board meeting to develop a rough draft for a block welcome packet.

 

Experience Southwest “XSW” website – Linnes-Robison asked the board for guidance regarding the follow-through on the board’s vote last year to give the Nicollet East Harriet Business Association $750 for the website.  The vote was based upon the site including all Kingfield businesses; it has been updated with most businesses we have told them are not there, but Linnes-Robinson does not feel it should be KFNA’s job to tell them who is not present.  Additionally the usability of the site is not good—names have to be spelled precisely, businesses can’t be searched by categories, focus is too broad.  Board will look at site to determine if it is useful to KFNA and will follow up on this topic in the next meeting so KFNA Staff is not the one making the call on if and or when KFNA will provide funding on this project.  

 

KFNA History Project – Topic for March board meeting.

 

Adjourned at 9:00pm                                       

 

Kingfield Neighborhood Association

Board Meeting

SEPTEMBER, 2008

7 PM MLK Park

 

7:00     Call to Order and Community Forum
            Attendees: David Buchanan, David Brauer, David Saddoris, David Potosky, Marie Wolf, Chris Sur, Chris De Parde, Mark Brandow

 

7:15     Strong Schools Strong City Referendum Presentation and Q & A with Sharon Henry-Blythe.

            Vote was held on whether to support and endorse the referendum.

            Vote In Favor: David Brauer, Marie Wolf, Chris Sur, Chris De Parde, Mark Brandow

             Vote Against: David Potosky

              Abstain: David Buchanan, David Saddoris

 

7:35     Reports

·         Secretary approved minutes with no questions or concerns

·         Treasurer

o   Year End Report

o   How to Read the new financial report, Lois Epstein, KFNA Bookkeeper

New report by QuickBooks was presented June and July (new fiscal year) by Lois Epstein.  Board made comments on format and important information, Lois Epstein will modify.  New report was approved and new format commended for being easier to read and understand.

           

7:50     New Business

·                     HR Policy Amendment Recommendation

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  • Stipend removal – all references to stipend will be removed from HR policy.
  • Adjusted compensation of Kingfield Director (Linnes-Robinson) to account for HR policy change.  Rate of pay adjusted to reflect the removal of stipends from employee payments from October and on by adding $1.44 per hour to salary.  Hours from beginning of year through September will be paid at this additional rate to adjust for period when stipend ends.

·                     Funding for Nicollet East Harriet Web Site was requested by Mark Brandow for the Experience Southwest Site, which will list all southwest businesses.  Mark added that getting a plug for the Kingfield Farmers’ Market might be a possibility. Mark also noted that the NRP Committee had identified a strategy were funds could come from; Linnes-Robinson confirmed that there was money in a strategy for supporting businesses that could be used for this but it would require a board vote.

 

Linnes-Robinson stated that most Kingfield businesses she had searched for on Experience Southwest were not listed.  Brandow asked that the names be sent to him of these before the next business association meeting.  The board voted to approve the spending of $750 contingent on the listing of the additional sites. 

 

8:20     Old Business

·         SMACC Proposal – not discussed

·         Walldogs Report – Walldogs might break even.  Two events remaining (one an income-generater, Eating For Art, and the other an expense, Volunteer Thank You Party) and two grants outstanding.  David Brauer asked what would happen if money received was over the cost of the Walldgos project.  Linnes-Robinson stated that was unlikely since the final expense billed to the project was staff time and paying for this expense in full would most likely use up any “profits”; she also stated that the agreement with LNA was all costs and profits would be shared equally. Brauer wanted to be sure that if there were profits the spending of them would be brought back to the board .  Linnes-Robinson agreed to research the exact woding of KFNA’s Agreement with LNA on this matter.

·         Website Updates Posting again—David Potosky discouraged by the lack of updates by other board members.  Asked that other members participate.

·         Hiring of a Project Organizer Linnes-Robinson posted position with goal of interviewing select applicants after Sept 25

 

8:30     Committees and Task Forces:

o   Redevelopment and Zoning

o   NRP

o   Green

o   Newsletter

o   King Bridge Partnership (update provided in writing)

o   Farmers’ Market

o   Crime Prevention and Safety (CPaS)

o   Bike TF

Projects

o   Walldogs

o   Transportation (Access Minneapolis Report:10 Year Plan and BRT)

o   40^th & Lyndale

 

*****

Upcoming KFNA events:

 

2^nd Annual Eating for Art

Thursday October 2

Local restaurants are donating a percentage of their sales this day to KFNA for community art projects including tieing up Walldogs and the art show 2009.  Plan morning breakfast at Curran’s or Anodyne, grab a mid-morning treat at Butter, have lunch on the patio at Victor’s, and then dinner at El Paraiso and know that up to 31% of your tab is going directly to your neighborhood association—the more you eat then better we’ll look! 

 

Harvest Hoedown

Friday, October 3 from 6-10:30

Leonardo’s Basement, KFNA, Corner Table and Anodyne are hosting a block party on E. 43rd Street between Nicollet and 1st Ave on PM.  This will be a family event. Tickets will cost $10 for adults and $5 for children ages 6+. Tickets proceeds (donations) will support the Kingfield market; food sales will be kept by the partnering restaurants. 

 

From 6-8 PM Kingfield neighbors will play in a bluegrass jam band. From 8-10 PM an organized band will play music for folk dancing. There will be a dance caller to demonstrate dance steps and call dances.

Our hope is that this will become an annual event.

 

KFNA is putting $750 toward this event through a Community Initiated Grant.

 

Kingfield and Bryant neighbors –

 

There is a small amount of $ ($15,000) in the 2008 capital budget of the City designated for the 40^th Street pedestrian bridge.  I had asked our staff for more explanation on what these funds could be used for, after conversation with Kingfield board members.  Below is Don Elwood’s response.

 

How would you like to proceed?  Let me know your thoughts and we’ll move forward.

 

Elizabeth Glidden

Eighth Ward Councilmember

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From: Elwood, Don R.
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 12:43 PM
To: Glidden, Elizabeth A.
Cc: Kotke, Steven A; Hamilton, Heidi J; Yuzna, Jack S.
Subject: RE: Capital budget – $15,000 for the 40th Street Pedestrian Bridge

 

 

CM Glidden,

 

The 15K was put in the budget to provide Capital money to make an interim connection for the River Lake Greenway across 35W until a future plan for 35W is programmed. These $$ could be used for striping, way finding signs or other elements. At this point the plan for 35W is long term at best.  The money could be used for planning purposes or to conduct a study.

 

One option would be to put this project on our Federal Priorities list with IGR and use the 15K on the interim solution.

 

Don