19th Ward Community Association
Housing Committee
Day Meeting Notes for Posting
April 18, 2012
Final

The Meeting convened at 11:10am.

Present: John B, Lee K, Toni O, Donna S, Berda G

315 Kenwood went for $37,000 .

565 Chili needs a lot of attention. It has 15 apartments. Called 911 Friday but still a problem this morning. Tony will call NSC.

Tony and Donna will check on totes Thursday morning.

Tony again reviewed the steps in addressing tote violations: we bring the list of tote problem to NSC; the list goes to Phil who checks locations to verify violations; the NSC sends ticket if they verified the tote violation.

537 Post Avenue totes still out.

Next area to be addressed is in district 8 and 9 as far west as Woodbine.

Donna reported information from the We Care meeting: only 2 garage sales per year are allowed. Also looking at to select one area for a year for Project 365. Next We care meeting is May 10th.

There was discussion about the log used to write up problems on a street. It needs work. Extra wide sheet is a problem to handle in the car.

The letter given to Mayor Richards at Palm Sunday breakfast was answered in R. Carlos Carballada letter which says that

• 70 chili is on demolition list.
• 96 Chili vacant 8 years “was scheduled to be demolished but was removed from list, per 19th Ward Community Association' s Housing Committee's initiative to rehabilitate the structure.” It needs $500,000 for proper rehabilitation. They are under the impression “the Committee is currently trying to raise money for rehabilitation.” That is not what the committee is doing. We would like to know who told them we were raising money. We're struggling to raise money for stamps.
• Wellington has been vacant for 3 years and a source of many problems primarily drugs. ”The SWNSC was able to close this disorderly premise and currently the location has been cleaned.”...There is no plan for the property at this time, but we are open to developers.” We would like to know if rubbish was removed from the inside. We have verified they cleaned the outside trash. Are they actively soliciting developers?

John mentioned the merchants checklist that is going to be put up on Location19 for convenience stores so residents know which ones carry items such as whole wheat bread, skinned and 2% milk, eggs and fresh produce to encourage new customers to stores that carry a wider selection. There will also be a “Go Clean” rating for stores that agree to not sell drug paraphernalia, call 911 whenever they see drug activity, not sell counterfeit merchandise or loosies.

Meeting adjourned at 12:10pm

Submitted by John B