Kingfield Neighborhood Association

Batteries no longer accepted in Minneapolis recycling

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Citing a potential for fire hazards, Minneapolis officials said Tuesday that batteries will no longer be accepted in recycling picked up from residential properties, effective immediately.

Rechargeable batteries, lithium batteries and items containing batteries, such as electronic cigarettes and cellphones, are no longer allowed in city garbage and recycling carts, the city’s solid waste and recycling office said.

Alkaline batteries, including single-use AAA and AA sizes, can be thrown in the residential garbage carts.

The move comes a few weeks after Hennepin County ended battery recycling at city and county buildings, libraries, schools, and community centers after an active vaping pen started smoldering in one battery recycling receptacle, forcing the Westonka Library in Mound to call the fire department. More: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/11/19/mpls-will-no-longer-accept-batteries-in-recycling-picked-up-from-homes

Batteries no longer accepted in Minneapolis recycling, some may go in trash

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.

News from the 5th Precinct Regarding Individual with Firearms in SW Minneapolis

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This info was provided from the 5th precinct:

On August 2, 2019 at about 5:00 pm, officers responded to a 911 call about a suspicious vehicle parked in the 900 block of 42nd Street West.  When they arrived, they spoke with a man inside the parked car and observed that there were also firearms inside the vehicle.  They took possession of the firearms while they spoke with the man.  Ultimately, they retained the firearms and inventoried them in the MPD Property & Evidence Unit for safekeeping.  No one was arrested at the scene and there is no information that the firearms were obtained unlawfully.

There is no known connection to the Barton School building or to Barton students or personnel. There was also no threats made regarding anyone by the man.  The supervisor of the school resource officers working in Minneapolis schools has reviewed the information about this incident.  We have talked with the Minneapolis Public Schools Office of Emergency Management, Safety & Security and the officers in the 5th Precinct and the MPD School Resource Officers will continue to work with Minneapolis Public Schools to respond to safety concerns.

Additional details:

  • The owner will need to be able to pass a firearms background check or obtain a court order before the firearms will be released to him.
  • A combination of Federal and State laws outline who may or may not be in possession of a firearm, what conditions disqualify someone from firearm possession, and limits on what types of firearms can be possessed.  MN law also sets out the processes for a resident to obtain a permit to purchase a firearm from a firearms dealer and for residents to obtain a permit to carry a gun.  For further information about MN laws related to purchasing and carrying guns, please see:  https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/bca/bca-divisions/administrative/Pages/firearms.aspx
  • This background check will find any disqualifying conditions that would prohibit the owner from possessing a firearm.  A list of disqualifiers can be found here:     https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/624.713
  • We have circulated the details of this incident among officers in the precinct so they will also be aware of this incident and able to keep an eye out for the vehicle that was involved.
  • Investigators in the Weapons Unit are reviewing the incident in more depth including tracing the firearms.
  • We encourage anyone in the neighborhood to call 911 if they see someone behaving in a way that raises concerns that a crime has been or is about to be committed or that the person may need medical attention or crisis intervention.

MPS has robust emergency plans in place to prevent, mitigate and respond to safety incidents.  Please let us know if you have questions.

Jennifer Waisanen, Crime Prevention Specialist, City of Minneapolis- MPD 5th PCT

612-673-5407 | Jennifer.waisanen@minneapolismn.gov

Crime prevention resources: http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/police/crime-prevention/

Crime maps and statistics: http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/police/crime-statistics/

 

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!