December Meeting Minutes

Gathering started at 6:30pm and meeting started at 6:45pm.

No formal agenda tonight, meeting kept informal with plenty of open discussion and time for cookies, etc.

Neighborhood & CLO reports :
Speed watch program is progressing…plenty of speeders on Park and 64th, also witnessed many cars “blowing” thru stop sign.
Officer Williams presented statistics for calls in 4th sector for November (4,598 calls for service). Burglaries are still rising.
The “Yard Girls” home is apparently a meth house and is being monitored by neighbors closely.
Two more of our residents have graduated the Neighborhood Patrol Academy.
Alley between Yakima & Park, south of 61st Street is finally getting cleaned-up.

Darren Pen, Community Mobilizer of Safe Streets reports
Requested report of our neighborhood’s volunteers hours for meetings, clean-ups, flyer distribution and “donation” from church since they let us use their meeting room.
Reminded us Neighborhood Patrol Academy continues in January.

Reviewed Park Avenue Neighborhood’s successes for 2008:
Our neighborhood watch group is now over 1 year old.
Know more of our neighbors and stay in contact with them (our roster includes over 70 neighbors).
Building neighborhood phone trees.
Know and work openly with our neighborhood’s Community Liaison Officer (CLO) of Tacoma Police Department.
Know and work openly with our neighborhood’s Building Inspector with city Code Enforcement
Adopted spots in the neighborhood and have completed two neighborhood clean ups through Adopt-a-Spot program.
Conducting Neighborhood Speed Watch Program.
Participated in march against drugs and crime on Pacific Avenue at 64th Street (with Mayor and other public officials).
Have several residents in neighborhood who have graduated the Neighborhood Patrol Academy. Completed neighborhood walkabout in September.

Meeting ended at 8:15pm, after consumption of many cookies and other goodies