CPCA October 2017 Neighborhood meeting

October 2017 Neighborhood CPCA meeting

The meeting began at 7:10 pm with the Pledge of Allegiance.  Board members in attendance were Pat, Michelle, Rhonda, Heather, Beth Jodi, Nicohle, Virginia and Joe.  As advertised we had our traditional October Fall dessert buffet.

FLPD Officer Pekrol, our Crime Watch team member reported that we had 3 vehicle burglaries and 1 residential burglary through a back window during the day, sometime between 9am and 5pm.  Watches were stolen.

GYR (GreenYourRoutine) spokesperson Beth reports that we have “adopted” SW 9th Avenue between 20th Street and Davie Blvd. for the Adopt-a-Street program. Beth will post on nextdoor.com for volunteers to help pick up trash on 9th Ave on Saturday, November 18th.  If your know of any school age kids who want to fulfill their volunteer requirements, or if you are a civic-minded person who wants to help clean up our ‘hood, sign up and we’ll all go to work together.

Allen Dodd with the Waste Water Operations of the Public Works Department reported that Phase One of the project in Sailboat Bend will be finished by December 1, 2017, thereby ending any waste water shipping to other areas.

Our big event this evening was our Meet the Candidates night.  We invited all the Mayoral candidates and Commissioner candidates for the 2018 election that will hold its primary on January 16, 2018.

For Mayor: Charlotte Rodstrom, Bruce Roberts and Dean Trantalis 

For Commissioner for District 4: Warren Sturman, Walter Duke and Ben Sorenson.  All candidates were given three minutes to introduce themselves and state their main issues to the audience.  For the Q and A portion, our President Pat put together a well thought-out list of questions based on feedback she received from her inquiries on nextdoor.com.  Each candidate was given 45 seconds to one minute to respond to the question, depending on the nature of the question. Here is a sample of some of the questions asked: how to handle the homeless issues in our city, waste water and storm water issues, sober homes and treatment centers, development projects including, can water, sewer and road handle all the new development?, preservation of historic properties, and last but not least-the WAVE project.

[I cannot begin to record here all the answers to these questions from the six candidates but I can say every single candidate is not in of support the WAVE considering the state of our water, sewers, etc.]

The slate for the CPCA Board was elected.  All Board officers and Directors: Pat Rathburn-President, Michelle DiMaria-Vice President, Joe Russell- Treasurer, Virginia Dill Russell- Secretary, Directors Rhoda Kramer, Heather Cunniff, Beth Falkenhagen, Nicohle Kallio andJodi Perraud will serve on the Board through 2018.

We had a record turnout of 70 people attending tonight. Whether it was to meet the candidates or to sample all our luscious fall desserts or maybe both we are glad to see the participation in the neighborhood.

The 50/50 raffle was won by Maxine Streeter who donated it back to the Association.  Paul Ruble won one of our GYR canvas shopping bags and I don’t have info on who won the other bag.  Thank you to Jack Timmins for his very generous contribution of Toblerone chocolates. 

Minutes by Virginia-Sec’y