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Flowers of Marengo
Minutes
Flowers of Marengo Web-Site: ? www.neighborhoodlink.com/pasadena/flowers .
from@ Judith Saunders?’ House ?
? A new gate has been installed, so people can?’t get into the school yard on Penn unless the gate is unlocked. The entrance was supposed to have been moved to Raymond, but the Y construction has delayed this. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Robert reported that over 60 street lights are out. He is reporting these lights via email. The contact person for street lighting repair/maintenance is Andy Torres. His telephone # isand his email address is atorres@cityofpasadena.net . It is more effective to use email than telephoning.
Things are going well on.
i) Balance carried over ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? $166.59
ii) Minutes of Sept. 29, 2003 meeting approved
Family has begun explorations into gaining permission and funding to build a halfway house for parolees. Need to try to stay aware of progress of these efforts, but this will be difficult as we do not know the name of their partners in pursuing this.
Most of Robert?’s efforts have bee directed toward the General Plan/Central District that the City Council is moving forward and discussing. He has identified errors and discrepancies in the General Plan, and has tried to suggest alternative approaches to consider, particularly as they impact the general environment of. Also, we talked about the evolving plans being submitted for the Rose Bowl to try to bring a NFL team to. Past concerns have included pros and cons for support for a Box Store (such as Home Depot, Walmart, etc.) to. The state legislature has passed a bill that would facilitate building granny flats on single residence lots (Note: the Governor has since vetoed this bill). Robert hasn?’t been able to attend many of the Neighborhood Coalition meetings recently.
No one has updated the web site for a long time. Robert was the only person doing this and he has become too busy with other activities. Lori Musicant has agreed to check out the site to see if this is something she can do. Judith will email minutes to Lori for posting on the web site.
Tony Koch has agreed to represent Flowers of Marengo at the Police Advisory Board Meetings. The meetings have recently been switched to Thursday evenings, and may be the second Thursday of each month. The contact person is Joy at .
Eight people returned their surveys, but only five people ranked their concerns. The following items were identified as concerns (listed in order from greatest to least concern)
Neighborhood Blight
Fast and heavy traffic (and Marengo)
Frequent , loud parties
Street trees need trimming
Inadequate ways to meet neighbors
Soccer games: noise and trash
Drug dealing and high crime
Streets need repairs
Street lighting
Lack of neighborhood disaster readiness program
Street sign missing (and Penn)
Stray dogs
Inadequate street sweeping
Respectfully Submitted,
Judith M. Saunders
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