Azalea Park Neighborhood Association

General Meeting Minutes for April 10, 2007

 

·        Summary

    • Meeting held at Azalea Park Rec. Center

    • Called to order by Linda Pennington, president, at 6:30 PM

    • Officers: Tom Lashbrook (VP), Mark Pennington (Treasurer), Bob Walters (Ambassador), and Shannon Whitmore (Secretary) in attendance

    • 21 residents and visitors attended the meeting

 

·        SDPD Community Relations Officer -- Pat Morris

    • Took over full duty in January from Jim Tulumello

    • Has been a community officer in the division for six and a half years.

    • Azalea Park is a pretty quiet community

      • Transients/graffiti are the biggest problems

      • Not enough officers to catch the kids in the act

      • There have been some successful graffiti prosecutions recently

    • Phone numbers to contact Officer Morris: cell: 619-515-2733, desk: 619-516-3009

    • Call these numbers if you see groups of kids hanging around the park – he will contact patrol officers and let them know what is going on

    • Mid City police advisory meetings from 6:30-8 the first Wednesday of each month.  It makes a difference to attend!

    • AP Q & A

      • Police wouldn’t make a report for several accounts of stealing mail out of mailboxes.  One was outgoing mail.  Banks require a police report.

        1. Case report was made and given to postal inspector

        2. Generally the postal inspector responds to these cases

        3. SDPD does not generally investigate mail issues like these.

      • Big graffiti covered trucks are parking on Manzanita.  Officer Morris will look into this.

      • Truancy issues

        1. Some schools are in session year round and same aren’t.

        2. Call if you see kids out roaming around between the hours of 8 and 12:30.  Give the non-emergency number a call. 

·        Pride

    • Linda cannot organize Pride this year.

    • Mark has volunteered to fix up the trailer

    • Proposal to reuse costumes from the last several years

    • Theme: Be yourself in Azalea Park

    • Cost: $570 including the booth. 

    • We will have to raise some of this.

    • There was considerable interest from those present to move forward with this low effort plan.

 

·        Ron Roberts Office – Rebecca Leister

    • Dine Out day (4/26/07)– 25% of funds for one day go to LGBT center (aids treatment fundraiser)

    • This is child abuse prevention month.

    • Information about the county’s watershed prevention program was passed around.

    • A helmet and safety fair will be held next Saturday at the Urban village – 10AM to 2PM.

    • Trying to organize a join Fox Canyon/Azalea Park meeting for Ron to attend.

    • 211 announcement: Call 211 (or go to http://www.211sandiego.org).  From the web site:

      • 2-1-1 is the new national dialing code for free, 24-hour community, health and disaster information.

      • Like 9-1-1 for emergency service, 2-1-1 has been set aside by the Federal Communications Commission for the public to easily access community information.

      • Callers receive personalized information from a live phone specialist who can answer questions about a variety of nonprofit services and agencies.

      • Phone specialists can also help callers find out where to go to volunteer or donate to their favorite cause.

    • Azalea Park has received a grant from Ron Robertss office to go for items like helmets, banners, audio/visual equipment etc.

    • More money is available to non-profits for equipment like chippers and a storage shed for project clean!

·        Toni Atkins Office – Katrina Crawford

    • April 25 - Budget Review Committee meeting at Catamaran Hotel/Mission Beach: 6PM

    • 2003 audit is finally complete.  See Toni Times for more information.

    • Adams Avenue Roots Festival – Saturday April 21 from 10AM – 9PM.

    • Safety/Health Fair – April 21 from 10AM t- 2PM, Urban Village.

·        APNA Awards

    • AIWA car repair, which took 37 tires from the swan canyon group cleanup.

    • The City of San Diego street division, who have been very responsive (within a week response time).

·        Facelift/Project Clean

    • Approached the PAC committee for funds as it is getting a lot more difficult to obtain funds via the usual methods

    • June Facelift is already funded  (by businesses)

    • Request made to PAC

      • Fall 2007 Facelift: 60K

      • June: 2008 Facelift: 40K

      • 20K for Project Clean

    • All was unanimously funded by the committee (w/the request for our community to raise 25K ourselves)

·        Community Yard Sale

    • April 28th and 29th

    • Bring your stuff out if you want to be included

    • Cost: $10 (Proceeds benefit APNA and the AP Rec council)

    • Maps will be distributed

    • Joni Craig is trying to organize an open house on that same day.

    • Goodwill or Amvets to come and pick up the extra stuff.

    • If you don’t want to have a yard sale, donate your items to the AP rec center.

·        Senate bill 353

    • Written by local resident Sara Speed

    • Summary: Would allow judges to include animals in protected orders. This is a critical step in protecting thousands of domestic violence victims and preventing abusers from manipulating the loving bond between both child and adult victims and their pets.

    • Sara would appreciate any phone calls, mail, or emails to our senators in support of this bill as they need all of the support they can get

    • Senator contact info:

      • Christine Kehoe

2445 Fifth Avenue

Suite 200                    

San Diego, CA

(619) 645-3133

      • Denise Moreno Ducheny

637 3rd Avenue              

Suite A-1 

Chula Vista, CA 91910

(619) 409-7690

·        Other Announcements

o       Next Design Committee meeting – Thursday at Tom Lashbrook’s house

o       Next APA meeting: Tuesday May 8, 6:30 PM

 

Meeting adjourned @ 7:30 PM