Project 504 is in the pre-launch phase of a project currently and boringly titled "Environmental Justice Campaign." It is focused on the City's Northside, with four focus neighborhoods: Harrison, Hawthorne, Jordan and Near North. We have a community committee made up of residents of each of these neighborhoods, and that committee is helping us guide our work.
We are part of a national project involving ten groups that will use simple sampling tools to document environmental hazards in people's homes, namely lead, and also cockroach debris and radon. Lead is the obvious and primary focus of the campaign, as it disproportinately affects low-income residents. We are now looking to recruit a total of ten community members from these four neighborhoods to be "hazard investigators." They will be responsible for working with residents, using the sampling tools, and documenting the hazards for use in the overall EJ campaign. Each member MUST be a resident of one of the four neighborhoods. This is a paid gig for each investigator--up to $40 per home tested (after training, it should take 1-2 hours for sampling a home, plus 1-2 hours for follow up documentation). Free training is provided, and the training could lead to economic opportunities for the individuals; i.e., jobs in becoming lead clearance sampling technicians. Our hotline for more info is (612) 521-LEAD. Leave a message on the hotline if interested. The program coordinator for this is Ambur Klein (a Northside resident herself and the newest addition to Project 504), who can be reached at (612) 277-0408 or by e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please pass this on to people interested. Thanks, Gregory Luce Project 504 St. Paul _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
