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From: "Eva Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 12:17 PM
Subject: [Mpls] CNIA "Family Festival"
> Others in the neighborhood received this flyer by snail mail a few weeks
back.
>
> FAMILY FESTIVAL/NRP PLAN MODIFICATION
>
> March 10, 2001
> 12-5
> Place: Richard Green Central Gym
> 3400 4th Ave. S.
>
> Purpose: The Central Neighborhood will be conducting a NRP Plan
> modification meeting to discuss and review the proposed reallocation of
> $120,000 from remaining NRP funds for general administrative purposes.**
>
> <italics>
> **Watch for upcoming Community Word for further infomration and
specifics**.
>
> for further information concerning organizational activities and committee
> meetings feel free to contact us at 612-822-3302.</italics>
>
> ------------------------------------
> I'll have to call CNIA to find out more. The question that comes to mind
> is why does CNIA need to reallocate money into the general fund. What has
> happened to the money they had budgetted?
>
> Eva Young
> Central
I have two concerns about this upcoming meeting. The first is that I have
heard that the intention of the current board is to take monies that I
believe could and should be going to housing issues and put it in their
pockets to form a CDC that is supposed to address housing. The meeting I
suppose is to get the neighborhoods blessing on their intentions. This
concerns me because if this is true their plan would go against what the
neighborhood wanted the NRP funds to go to. It sounds that they want the
funds to go more to individuals and not to help in overall housing
improvements. One of the directives of the neighborhood was a Comp Block
Plan which would distribute $200,000 to each district in Central
Neighborhood to be used as each district sees fit to improve housing
quality. I worry that the new board wants to take away from programs like
this. I haven't heard anything about the continuation of this since they
were elected.
My overall second concern is that this current board has had nearly a year
to show the neighbors that they can actually accomplish the business of the
Central Neighborhood. From my perspective they have not accomplished even
the simplest of tasks. For example getting out notices and monthly minutes
of the various committees has stopped since they fired the Jana Metge, the
previous executive director. The latest Comunity Word that they refer to in
the above flyer used to be delivered in the mail on a regular two month
basis. I have received only one since the new board has taken over and that
was delivered to our household on a snowbank in the front of our house. I
also understand that the board had to pay for a mailing list to mail the
above flyer. If they had not refused to receive help form the previous
board they couldhave taken the current data base off the computer. If they
can not handle the basic tasks they have no business making changes.
A third concern I have is how they appparently are handing the finances of
CNIA. I understand they have laid off staff, yet they are paying their
current executive director $12,000 MORE than the previous executive director
was being paid. I also heard that the new director also receives as a perk
a car so he can drive from the Northside to the Southside.
Many of us plan to attend this "Family Festival" and vote on what we feel
will be best for our neighborhood. Of course I worry that the meeting will
be "stacked" as it has in the past and the voting will not be fair.
Karen Forbes
Central Neighborhood
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