General Info

Hey Neighbors, just some basic info for you to chew on. Yesterday I filed a complaint on the Mayor Action Center. It was in reference to the fallen tree in the Greeway north of the Pleasant Run Creek, and the potholes on Maple Ln. I also noted potholes on Poplar and Norway.

 

Today a city crew was filling potholes on Maple La, and a Parks Dept worker was looking at the fallen tree. I was quite surprised and happy to see this quick action.

 

Also I recieved an email from Barb on the Parkway about a shopping cart at the bridge and that another car went over the berm and knocked over a trail sign. I will be sending an email to Ben Hunter District 21 Councillor about alternatives in slowing traffic in that strech of the parkway. Today I took two shopping carts back to their respective businesses. A neighbor on the Parkway had a metal shopping cart out for heavy trash, which they didn't take.

 

Today I also talked to Joseph Jarzen from Keep Indianapolis Beautiful. I asked him about the tree clearing on the Greenway and he said that there are plans on doing all of the Greenways just does not know exactly when.

 

I will be sending Ben Hunter an email covering some of the issues that we are facing.

 

If anyone was wondering about the Citizens Energy working on the mains in our area, I asked some of the workers and they stated that they had to replace and add new valve shutoffs.

 

Friendly reminder..........March 22nd 7pm Next Neighborhood Meeting.

 

Dan

Fw: News From the Historic Irvington Community Council

News from the Historic Irvington Community Council Dear Neighbors, We have been asked to share this information with you to help support House Bill 1111 - the Historic Tax Credit Bill.  Please consider offering support by contacting the Senate Appropriations Committee. HB 1111 - Historic Tax Credit Bill Last week at the annual HUNI meeting, we were asked to get our neighbors in the historic districts to email their senators and (more importantly at this time) to the members of the Senate Appropriations Committee to urge them to support HB1111 (the historic tax credit bill ) by assuring that it is passed out of the Senate Appropriates Committee so that it can be heard by the full Senate.  The last chance for that to happen is Thursday, so please act fast! The members of the Senate Appropriations Committee are: Luke Kenley (Chair), Ed Charbonneau, Phil Boots, Brandt Hershman, Connie Lawson, Patricia Miller, Ryan Mishler, Brant Waltz, and Thomas Wyss.  Their email addresses can be accessed at http://www.in.gov/bin/gegislative/listing/listing-2.pl?data-district&chamber-Senate  if you have trouble with this, just google Indiana General Assembly and click on the Senators. It will take to their email addresses. The more emails that they receive; the greater the chance would be for positive action.  So get as many of your neighbors as possible to send an email.  Five emails from individuals would be better than one email from a neighborhood association. If you want to give them reasons to pass this bill, here are a few: Historic preservation creates revenue.             For every dollar spent, it generates $3. Historic preservation creates jobs:  Recentdata shows the following comparison: In Delaware, $1 million spent of the rehabilitation of a historic structure means 14.6 jobs, in comparison to 11.2 job in new construction and 9.2 jobs in manufacturing for the same $1million. In Georgia, $1 million per industry creates 16.1 jobs in historic preservation compared to 14.9 in new construction, 10.4 in poultry processing, 8.7 in air transportation, 4.0 in computer manufacturing and 3.5 in automobile manufacturing Indiana data would show the same reality of more jobs than even manufacturing or agriculture. Preservation creates jobs! Many of these Senators are from small communities and need to understand that historic preservation does not benefit just large cities:  Small and medium sized communities would benefit from the state tax credit where there isn't a strong real estate market.  It provides an offsetting benefit to encourage investment in reusing existing structures. Thanks for your help with this action.  We have one of the lowest historic preservation tax credits in the country. This bill will benefit preservation in Indiana significantly if we can get it passed.  .

Irvington Community Council | P O Box 19721 | Indianapolis | IN | 46219

Re: Minutes from Neighborhood mtg 2/16/12

I forgot to mention the date for the next meeting. March 22nd @ 7pm. We will be discussing the spring clean up project.

Thanks

Dan

Sent from my iPad

On Feb 17, 2012, at 4:05 PM, Dan Marshall <irv1870@yahoo.com> wrote:

Meeting was called to order at 7:02pm

 

First we had three people not affiliated with Pleasanton at the meeting. Lori Chapman from the Emerson Ave Baptist Church, Stacy Brachfield from EABC, and Ellen Yoder from the EABC and the Emerson Heights Neighborhood. They stated their purpose for attending and and we welcomed them for joining us. We had a total of nine people from Pleasanton in attendance.

 

First on the agenda was crime in Pleasanton. Roxy Winnings stated that a garage on Pleasant Run was broken into a few months ago. Also, in some areas of the surrongs neighborhoods cars were broken into with valuables in plain sight. Just another friendly reminder to lock your cars and keep valuables out of plain sight.

 

Next, we talked about the KIB Adopt-A-Block program. Our neighbor Molly Wilson presented a thorough explaination of this program and what we as a neighborhood could get if participated in this. She stated that we could get flowers, trees and if you would sign up to become a Block Coordinator, KIB supplies you with a shovel, trash bags and misc. items. Dan Marshall stated that he had signed up for the block of Maple Lane. Others are encourged to signed to become Block Coordinators with the Adopt-A-Block program.

 

Spring Clean up was next on the agenda. This recieved probably the most discussion. Ellen Yoder from the Emerson Heights Neighborhood stated that they do a spring and fall cleanup.We talked that maybe doing a joint effort with the Emerson Heights Neighborhood might benefit with the clean up. We discussed the option of cleaning up the greenway and parkway in April, then in May clean the inner and outer streets of the Neighborhood. There was also various discussion on fallen trees, limbs and leaves being dumped along the creek. We agreed that have another meeting in March will benefit the neighborhood with getting things better organized.

 

Dan Marshall asked if anyone in the neighborhood has any old photos that he would like to scan them and give them back as soon as possible, he is the the process of writing a book on Pleasanton in Irvington Historic District and the photos would be helpful. He already has some photos but needs more to make it very complete.

 

Meeting ended at 8:20pm

 

At 8:30pm there was a side bar meeting on the corner of Maple Lane and Poplar Rd, and some discussion on Pleasanton Signage for the neighborhood. It was not brought up in the meeting, but from various people in the neighborhood I don't think it will be an issue getting the number of signs needed to be placed throughout the area.

 

One last thing, I made a Pleasanton In Irvington Facebook page. I do not have an account for Facebook, and do not really know the ins and outs of it, if anyone would like to make changes to it I have the Admin password. Let me know if you need it.

 

 

Dan Marshall

 

 

Minutes from Neighborhood mtg 2/16/12

Meeting was called to order at 7:02pm

 

First we had three people not affiliated with Pleasanton at the meeting. Lori Chapman from the Emerson Ave Baptist Church, Stacy Brachfield from EABC, and Ellen Yoder from the EABC and the Emerson Heights Neighborhood. They stated their purpose for attending and and we welcomed them for joining us. We had a total of nine people from Pleasanton in attendance.

 

First on the agenda was crime in Pleasanton. Roxy Winnings stated that a garage on Pleasant Run was broken into a few months ago. Also, in some areas of the surrongs neighborhoods cars were broken into with valuables in plain sight. Just another friendly reminder to lock your cars and keep valuables out of plain sight.

 

Next, we talked about the KIB Adopt-A-Block program. Our neighbor Molly Wilson presented a thorough explaination of this program and what we as a neighborhood could get if participated in this. She stated that we could get flowers, trees and if you would sign up to become a Block Coordinator, KIB supplies you with a shovel, trash bags and misc. items. Dan Marshall stated that he had signed up for the block of Maple Lane. Others are encourged to signed to become Block Coordinators with the Adopt-A-Block program.

 

Spring Clean up was next on the agenda. This recieved probably the most discussion. Ellen Yoder from the Emerson Heights Neighborhood stated that they do a spring and fall cleanup.We talked that maybe doing a joint effort with the Emerson Heights Neighborhood might benefit with the clean up. We discussed the option of cleaning up the greenway and parkway in April, then in May clean the inner and outer streets of the Neighborhood. There was also various discussion on fallen trees, limbs and leaves being dumped along the creek. We agreed that have another meeting in March will benefit the neighborhood with getting things better organized.

 

Dan Marshall asked if anyone in the neighborhood has any old photos that he would like to scan them and give them back as soon as possible, he is the the process of writing a book on Pleasanton in Irvington Historic District and the photos would be helpful. He already has some photos but needs more to make it very complete.

 

Meeting ended at 8:20pm

 

At 8:30pm there was a side bar meeting on the corner of Maple Lane and Poplar Rd, and some discussion on Pleasanton Signage for the neighborhood. It was not brought up in the meeting, but from various people in the neighborhood I don't think it will be an issue getting the number of signs needed to be placed throughout the area.

 

One last thing, I made a Pleasanton In Irvington Facebook page. I do not have an account for Facebook, and do not really know the ins and outs of it, if anyone would like to make changes to it I have the Admin password. Let me know if you need it.

 

 

Dan Marshall

 

 

Reminder of Next weeks meeting

Hello Neighbors, friendly reminder of our neighborhood meeting next Thursday the 16th at the Emerson Ave. Baptist Church. It is scheduled for 7pm. We have alot to talk about. I was informed today that we will have several NESCO members attending our meeting.

 

Rough Agenda

 

2012 goals

 

KIBI Adopt-A-Block program

 

Neighborhood events. Spring Clean Up.

 

ideas and suggestions

 

I hope everyone can make it. Until then.

 

Dan