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Matthew Dufresne wrote:
> FYI:
>
> I spoke to Robert Miller and Robert Cooper, of NRP's Citizen
> Participation office, and was told that CNIA's funds were once again
> being frozen (or already had been as of last Friday?), due in part to
> ongoing inconsistencies and the latest claim by the current CNIA board
> that $110,000 of funds had gone missing.
If any funds went missing, they were very, very small--two or three digits at
most. There is a $110,000 liability on the books. I cannot remember what it
was about, but I'm sure someone does. Were it me, I'd check with Richard
Barrett at Hennepin County. He may remember what that was about. Liabilities
are not missing funds.Here is the situation vis-a-vis funds: The $1.9K for
housing has been signed and turned over to Southside N Housing. They will
execute the comp block piece of the NRP first phase funding. Any other
espenditures that were voted on are being funded through NRP. Because the NRP
Phase I monies were not spent down, there is no way to apply for second phase
funding. The neighborhood turned down a request to shift NRP funding from
programming plans to administrative costs. That request was denied by the
neighborhood.
Ergo, there is no money to run CNIA--pay rent, pay staff, phones, etc. Any
unallocated funds are being held by NRP.
Matt, we have been here before. We have worked our way out of it by finding
people who have the diplomacy to be board members, someone with the skills to
chair, the skills for the treasurer's functions, and all of us demanding
civility of ourselves and each other. Both sides press each others buttons and
go round and round and round about what has happened in the past. (The day
before the meeting also counts as the past, by the way.)
To break out of the pattern, everyone has to cool their jets. Everyone has to
stop the blame game, everyone has to look at the present situation and the
nearness of an election, and think how they and their neighbors can use their
noggins to untangle ourselves.
The reason we keep coming back to this spot is so that we never have to
untangle the mess and we can keep the resentment going and going and going like
the energizer bunny.
At this point we may be coming back from the dead, but with help--and listening
to those who have a vested interest in helping us--we can do this. If we don't
do it, it's nobody's fault but our own.
WizardMarks, Central
> Matthew Dufresne
> Central
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