Kingfield Neighborhood Association

MPS Comprehensive District Design Survey

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MPS Comprehensive District Design Survey

Understanding the values of the Minneapolis Public Schools community is vital to creating the best possible Comprehensive District Design. We invite anyone who has students enrolled at our MPS schools to complete a survey that focuses on the student placement process. The deadline to complete the survey is October 7th. 

MPS is also engaging with other key stakeholders, including students, teachers, and school leaders to understand how they navigate the student placement or student request process. This project is one way we are digging deep to better understand our systems and structures as we create a Comprehensive District Design. The information gathered from this project will be shared at the November 26th Board of Education meeting.

Stay tuned as there will be other opportunities to engage in conversations about the Comprehensive District Design process this fall. Broader input on Comprehensive Design elements will become available in October and throughout the school year.

Click here to take the enrollment survey.

Building Bridges/Breaking Bread Event Moved Indoors Tonight Due to Weather

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Due to a forecast including likely rain and thunderstorms throughout virtually all of today we will be going with our RAIN PLAN! Join us at Sabathani Community Center, 2nd floor, 310 E 38th Street, located 1 block east of the bridge on 38th St.

Don’t fret, other than a change of locale the event will be just as lively and engaging as it was last year! And all the food vendors are still on board so get excited for a cross cultural feast from local restaurants, eateries, and grocers that is delicious and abundant as well as appropriate from vegan to carnivore and considerate of various allergies and dietary concerns.

For more information, including specific food vendors and menu items,  visit the Facebook event.

Volunteers Needed for Events in Kingfield!

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Nicollet Open Streets

Help bring the biggest annual party IN the neighborhood TO the neighborhood…by being a volunteer at the event.  We can’t do this event without you—from street closings to attendance tallies to compost and waste educating, sign up here!

https://bit.ly/2NTgUT5

 

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Building Bridges/Breaking Bread

Thank you so much for your interest in helping with the 2019 Building Bridges & Breaking Bread: E 38th St Bridge Pop Up Feast!  Please fill in the short survey so we can better understand how you would like to help with the event.  Council member Jenkins’ office will be reaching out to volunteers to coordinate final event details.

https://forms.gle/Qi3eAQzEoZShgCoZ7

Dept. of Corrections Community Input Requested 8/15/2019

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On Thursday, August 15th, everyone is invited to attend a community conversation about the needs or concerns specific to the immigrant community as the Hennepin County’s Department of Community Corrections and Rehabilitation seeks to develop an inclusive community advisory board.  The meeting is open to anyone who lives in Hennepin County, including youth and adults of all ages.

The meeting will take place on 8/15, from 6-9pm, at Wood Lake Nature Center (in the Fireplace Room), 6710 Lake Shore Drive, in Richfield.  If interested, please RSVP to elexis@marnitastable.org.

For more information, please click here to read the attached flyer, or call 612.928.7744.

Happy National Night Out!

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National Night Out is Like Christmas for KFNA!

We love this night for being able to come to your street and see a so many neighbors celebrating our community! Thank you for allowing us to visit your parties. We will be scooping free ice-cream from the back of bike trailers again, made and donated by our neighborhood confectionary, Sebastian Joe’s. We are going classic—with a nod to a different construction project than the 35W one we are currently living with—and we will be bringing back Nicollet Pothole, and a new vegan edition of Joe’s Oreo!

Nicollet Pothole was created one decade ago to protest the removal of Nicollet Avenue from the upcoming Minneapolis construction budget. It might have been the very first time that ice-cream was ever used as an organizing tool, but the tagline for the BEST ice-cream created for the WORST road in Minneapolis raised some eyebrows.

Joe’s worked with KFNA to create a dark base of chocolate ice-cream with a thick, slick of caramel, deep-dark holes of fudge, a heavy gravel of toffee chunks, and of course a dash of salt (sea salt, not road salt!) On National Night Out 2009 we celebrated the fact that Sebastian Joe’s was masterful at creating a smooth flavor—and lamented the fact that they weren’t also the one’s responsible for creating a smooth roadway. Needless to say, Nicollet Avenue was put back into the City budget within three months of unveiling the flavor.

This year, besides celebrating past accomplishments, the KFNA Board wants to talk with you about the future. For the first time in over 20 years we are short of Directors on our non-profit volunteer board; we want to find out how we can connect to neighbors more personally and address issues that are potentially more relevant. We hope that this will encourage more neighbors to participate with KFNA either on the Board of Directors, on various committees or work groups, or at events. If in the midst of the festivities you miss directly connecting with a KFNA representative and don’t receive the card with a short survey link on it, and you want to share your thoughts and opinions, just email info@kingfield.org, or follow the link here.

And again, happy National Night Out!