I had a really adventurous day yesterday. So much so that I thought I would share the highlights with you.
I started my day with an in-service on the new Memorandum of Understanding between NRP and CPED for the new "fees for service" CPED will be charging every NRP contract from now on. It was an interesting lesson in both the history of how the old MCDA paid itself for these services previously and how it will impact neighborhoods from now on. Then I went to a meeting about the Global Marketplace in the new Midtown Exchange. That meeting was very exciting. The presentation gave me a much better idea about the vision that the Marketplace Development Team wants to create in there. There were good questions. I am excited to see this grow from the ground up. I drove home to check on my teen since he has a week of unstructured time this summer. I bought him a couple outfits from the Sports Image shop that is now going to convert to an African Grocery. There were about 200 kids in Whittier Park doing all kinds of good things. There were highly structured activities going on all day in the park. It was a great sight to see. My son was in good hands. Off I go. When I got home from work last night my new neighbor was in her front yard. She is from originally from Nigeria and didn't have much experience with gardening so we were all sharing our expertise with her. Her kids, mine and several others from the neighborhood were doing bike surgery and playing in the yard. Just then during rush hour, the people in the house from hell on the corner decide to have a gunfight. There were thugs on my side of the street shootin' up the thugs on the other side of the street and some SUV driving down the street. Thugs were scrambling everywhere as were the kids in my yard, my neighbors and myself. The police came. By then half the shooters were gone. I was pretty fed up and went and pointed out the other shooters to the cops and decided I've had enough of this crap decided to go off on the thugs in typical Barbie style. I let them know we were sick of their drug dealing, sick of their guns, sick of their gangster behavior and sick of the loser store on the corner that's in cahoots with them. My husband is still mad at me for it. He fears we will get retribution. I am shipping my son off for the weekend just in case he is right. I slapped my old crime prevention hat on that I thought I retired. I did some research this morning and found out the 5th precinct has the highest number of Part 1 crimes of all the police precincts. I also found out every other precinct has their own City Attorney assigned but not the 5th that right now appears to need it the most. I also found out that in the big "cop reshuffle" the 5th precinct got none. I am not sure I understand why that it if our part 1 crimes are the highest right now. Anyway, just thought I would share this all with you. If you live in the 5th precinct, maybe you want to call your Council member and ask how Paul Zerby was able to get a City Attorney assigned to the 2nd precinct that has the lowest number of part 1 crimes while the precinct with the highest has none. Maybe they can talk to Paul and find out how he did that and they too can talk to the lead City Attorney and ask for one to be assigned to the 5th. And, call Chief McManus and ask if he can send a few of those reshuffled cops our way in the 5th precinct. In the meantime, if you hear I got killed over the weekend, steer the police to 2742 Grand Avenue South. You will most likely find the killer there. By the way, the owner of that property lives at 2204 W. Lake of the Isles Pkwy. Wave to them if you see them basking in the sun this weekend. Have a nice weekend everyone. Barb Lickness Whittier ===== "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
