Castleberry Hill Neighborhood Association
General Business Meeting
February 15, 2010, 6:30pm
The Granite Room – 211 Peters St.

MINUTES

Social half hour 6:30-7p.

Vice-President, Krista Ruggles, called the meeting to order at 6:59pm.

OFFICERS’ REPORTS

Vice-president

• Thank you Larry from Chevron who donated the sodas and Karen from Slice who donated the pizza for our social half hour.
• Project PushPin event was held at Artist Trifecta during the ArtStroll on 02/12/10.  Thank you to Artist Trifecta for hosting this event, presented by Atlanta Photography Exhibit (APE) and CHNA.  The event proceeds of $300 went to the American Red Cross: Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund.
• The next Project PushPin exhibition will be during the April ArtStroll and will be hosted by Zucot Gallery.
• The liquor license review board meeting is tomorrow at city hall, 2nd floor conference room at 5p.  We have a business in the neighborhood which is on the agenda.

Treasurer

• We have $28,000 in the bank which includes an amount marked towards the dog park.  We have 15 paid members and about 4 business members.  You can pay through PayPal or we are taking money tonight.

Secretary

• The Next NPU meeting is Monday, Feb. 22, 6:30pm at Helene Mills Senior Center.  The CHNA Executive meeting, which is open to the public, is Mar.1, at GE Lofts unit 314.

SPECIAL GUESTS: CITY, COUNTY, STATE, & FEDERAL OFFICIALS

• • Kwanza Hall – Jay Tribby representing – District 2 handed out newsletter.

COMMITTEE REPORTS

Membership

• Covered in treasurer report.
• $30 for individual, $27 with building membership, and $100 for business membership

Public Safety

• Ko:  We have had 2 reports of prostitutes.  Please call 911 so police are aware of this activity.
• There is a form on the website you can submit an incident report.
  • http://castleberryhill.org/wpmu/contacts/public-safety/
• 1st Thursday of each month is NPU M public safety meeting at Helene Mills Senior Center.
• Most break ins last only 5 minutes.  Don’t let things inside your house be seen from the outside.
• We will probably do a neighborhood public safety meeting every quarter.  We still need a co-chair.
• resident:  on south side of Peters, there are 2 men who flag people in their cars down to “park their car”.  If it is a female driver, they get right at their door and block them.  If anyone witnesses this behavior, snap a picture with your phone and email to the police or send to Ko to send to the police.

Neighborhood cleanup

• Steve :  The first cleanup this year will be Saturday, March 6.  Meet a Mueller; coffee and doughnuts will be provided.

Business Development

• no report

PR/ Communications

• Carrie:  neighborhood maps is topic; she’s holding the last map from December and will have to do a new run.  Much of the information shown here will be removed in the new map because there is not enough space on the paper and we will provide the additional headline billing only for paid business memberships.  CHNA pays for the printing of the maps.
• You have til Mar. 1 to pay your business membership.  The additional details for non-paying businesses will also be removed from the CHNA website.
• resident:  can we tell how many click-throughs those businesses get?  No, but they could from their own website statistics.
• resident:  is it possible they don’t know they need to renew?  Laurel went door to door last year and we do invoices so they should know.  Valerie volunteered to call businesses to provide reminders.
• Our website gets several thousand hits each day and jumps higher during the ArtStroll.  The e-blast reaches 2500 people. If you are a paid business you may distribute your press release in our e-blast.
• Amanda Brown of Artist Trifecta got us in the Daily Candy and on CBS News.  Thank you Amanda.
• New signs announcing our monthly neighborhood meeting will go up the weekend before each meeting.  If you see one still out at your building after the monthly meeting, please take it down for us.

Code Enforcement

• http://web.atlantaga.gov/ocf/violationform.aspx
• We still need a code compliance chair.  Code enforcement deals with code violations on private property.

Transportation

• Heather:  The feds have til 02/15 to notify us for funds requested for the Peachtree Street Car project.  Here is a link to the proposed street car route:  http://www.peachtreecorridor.com/UserFiles/Map_Downtown.pdf
• Parking signage:  if you feel there are signs which have an inappropriate time limit or are outdated, please send Heather a note before she sends in the final list of requests.
• Is 404 POTHOLES still the right number?  Yes.  The form on the website works well, too.  http://www.atlantaga.gov/HowDoI/ReportPothole.aspx

Dog Park

• We have enough wood chips.
• Lighting:  Heather has met with Georgia Power; needs feedback on lighting proposal.
  • GA Power offered to put up a new pole for free.  We pay the monthly bill for the electricity.
  • The pole would be where the wood chips are now, in the burnt out bonfire area.
  • Resident:  the daylight glow is preferred over the yellow light.
• Residents are not picking up after their dog.  Please pick up after your dog.
• There will be 2 areas:  one for small dogs and another for large dogs.

Cleopas Johnson Park

• Clay:  02/11 was the first visioning meeting held here at the Granite Room.  There were 12 participants.  Park Pride will be donating 35k in services and they just ask us (CHNA and Atlanta University Neighborhood Assoc.) to participate.
• Next design workshop will be 03/11 at south lounge Kilgore Campus Center at Morehouse College.  Some streets close after certain time of day, so allow enough time to find parking.
• There is a link on our website for the survey via Survey Monkey:  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/55LZ9DQ
• Resident:  for those of us who have completed the survey, at what point does our feedback become incorporated?  It will be at the Mar. 11 meeting.
• The meeting in April will take all of those plans and move toward a final plan.  By May, we will have a plan.

Neighborhood Census

• Scott:  we will conduct our own “census” for the purposes of business development and putting together a PR package for the neighborhood.  More to come.
• Castleberry Hill falls across 2 census tracts which cause our demographics to be misleading in the federal census.

Land Use/Zoning

• Calvin Lockwood:  we still have landmark posters for $10.

Neighborhood Relations

• No report.

NEW BUSINESS, ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Eric and Robin:  purchased the triangle building across from Castleberry Point.  They are business brokers.
• Kristofer Lamey -  meet one of our artists; studio  is at 215 Peters.
  • Director from Paris is doing his rendition of Hamlet at 7 Stages and Kristofer is doing the lighting.
  • “Art Partners“ from the High will come to visit his studio to hear him speak about his work, 07/25/10.
  • His experiments are donated to Art Paper auctions; he donated an experiment for the dog park.
  • On his website http://kristoferlamey.com on the front page is camp fire work which he describes as fun and conversation made tangible.
  • The next person who wins the auction chooses the charity of benefit and gets to choose the next piece.
• Calvin:  Phoenix Flies, 7^th annual tour of predominantly historic structures.  C’berry Hill is on the tour.
  • Jim and Stefan will be the tour directors.
  • Reservations required through the Atlanta Preservation Center for Mar. 12, 13, and 14.
• Lena and Steven Jones:  Saldivia + Jones
  • Creating a dogs of Castleberry Hill calendar.
  • Needs help to get the word out; printing the calendars.
  • Could raise funds by selling the calendars, shoots, other photographers can shoot for fee, with half of shoot fee going to the dog park.  There could be little tear-off coupons with advertising.
  • People could upload their pictures and everyone votes and the top 13 get in.
  • Would like to have a meeting to brainstorm and collaborate.
• Anne Dennington – Flux Projects
  • Here to introduce herself and get on our mailing list for events and information. info@fluxprojects.org
  • They are doing Flux events throughout the year; just had one had at Lenox Mall.
  • Has a meeting scheduled with artists in March to discuss opportunities.
  • 10/01/10 is C’berry Hill Flux Project.

OLD BUSINESS

• Parking
  • Recommendation for residents to pay their moving violations ahead of time because they are booting and the boot will not come off til you pay all of your fines and a fee to remove the boot.
  • You can enter your license plate in an online search to see if you are in the system.
  • http://parkatlanta.org/

Meeting was adjourned at 8:10p.