 Getting more and more fun every time. So I'm Cynthia Speelman. I'm president of the Celestrius Association. And do we have any new people that have arrived today? Wow. Could you introduce yourself please? Can you move here and introduce yourself? Wow. What part of the neighborhood do you live in? West Russell Close at Blanco. Wow. You are my neighbor. You are very close. I'm on Blanco and Woodlawn. So we'll talk. Wait, I'm taking minutes. What is your name again? Anne Weaver. Anne Weaver. She's the secretary. She doesn't need to be nosy. Okay. Who else is here? Yes, sir. I might say that we live in the neighborhood. We have a family. We own houses. So we have a house there, a grand mansion. But I can always go to the IWC association. There's a lot of concerns about that. I'll also be a candidate for city council at this point. Okay. So I'm sure you'll find our association here much more entertaining. Thank you for performing. Anybody else? I've been on to three of them. Yes, sir. Say another part. Everybody on the floor. I've been in Beacon Hill for about two months now. Off of Great Blanco. That's pretty cool. You're also a neighbor. All of your neighbors, right? Yes. You're a next-door neighbor to her. Like a good one. We have a lot to watch. Very good. Shall I do an intro? No, just, we're just happy to see you. Oh, okay. I knew all the time. Well, thank you for coming. On the agenda, please. I have a few changes. So moved. So moved. What are the next changes? I can't remember what they are, though. All I did was wonder what you think around it. We will sort of do that as a council. It's not like I added something. So are you moving? I will. Anybody have a second? Thank you. Oh, we have to say aye. Aye. Okay, so for November 14th, please. The minutes for last month were let's party. 350 people showed up for our neighborhood party. That's double what we've ever had in the past. That's amazing. That's a really testament to people loving free food. Are you all new to the meeting? Is this the first time you've ever come? Yes, ma'am. Others just introduced themselves. Would you like to introduce yourself? Sure. My name is Abby Sendit. We're invited here by Mark. I'm one of the houses here. Okay. Okay. So, can we... Move different gentlemen. All in favor? Aye. Okay. This is a sort of... In case you pick up the seat over there, I've got both December and November here. I'm going to sort of remind them to talk to you since we can have a meeting in December. Moderately expensive months for a level of fun and Thanksgiving and Christmas expenditures. But they also took in almost as much as donations and so on. For general funds, fair bit of expense on for newsletter. I usually take this on a reason, which actually just went up a little bit this month. And it's like we bought at my toaster. But we also wanted to be out. So we're taking the staple on advertising. We did also just to side note, we raised our advertising rates slightly. So it's good to go, but uncomfortable. So one of the biggest hits was part of the neighborhoods paying for that big part of the business. But they're still in pretty good shape and I'm sure they forgot that it's expensive, but still pretty good shape overall. Yes. Last item, Christmas. That's the part. That's the food for the party. The party. Christmas, that's the that one part. But she delivered baskets of food and toys for families in the school for children. Okay. I'd like to talk to you about making a micro-penis. They came last time when we blocked, blocked, the web. I'm going to start to change. Sorry. Mostly because I expect that crime is going to be an issue. We're going to spend a little time on this. I'd like to give you a quick slide. So on 7.15 May and Michael to come to the neighborhood association meeting and present. Zudd went to all of the two block radius all the way around and doorknocked and invited people personally told them there was going to be a vote or not a vote but a presentation on that property and we also left flyers. Normally what people do is they go to Zudd first. Zudd helps them navigate what they need to know and then Zudd makes a recommendation. And they did it a little backwards and finally it's my bad but they came to the neighborhood person we didn't take a vote. They had a room that was completely filled last time in November because of all those neighbors. And they did a presentation and afterwards they seemed approving of it. I don't think there was anyone that said I don't like this and we're talking about next door neighbors, people who live behind. Zudd, they went to Zudd and met with Zudd and Zudd has a recommendation. Before Zudd talks to you about their recommendation I will come into whatever we vote today. I'll commend them that this is the way it should be done. This is the way when a developer comes into a neighborhood and you talk to people to put together a presentation to come to meetings where they can talk to specific people that wasn't easy. There must have been moments where they thought why are we doing this? And we're lucky that our councilman's office said you have to talk to the neighborhood association first but it gave them an understanding of the neighborhood and helped us understand what they were doing. And Zudd's place is not to say oh we're not going to do this it's to help them figure out the confines of our NCDs and our Midtown plan. So they did all of that. Mark Spilden's chair of Zudd he'd like to give a recommendation for the Zudd Committee. In essence I think the plan that they put together is one that is a few more meetings surrounding properties instead of being four long shotgun houses that there are a lot of buildings on the site they're asking to have a property in place so that they can put more posts on it and there's more appropriate meetings and there's design and a lot of questions about how far we can go and so we The plan is on the back of your agenda. So if you have any questions or concerns you should ask Yes sir. Remember years ago there was a property that was one big town surrounding a major and had a portion of the garage. It shows that the current building allowed for four separate houses. Mark? We're getting the hold on. Yes. We understand from DSD that they can currently build four houses. They would be similar to what was built on Hollywood because they would be narrow and they would be long. So they would be shotgun houses after they make a presentation if I can look at it. They're not going to present today because they presented last time. They can certainly answer any questions. You don't have anything. That's neat for just a minute. On this some types we're faced with a least worse decision. And I think if I had total control of this and we had to do things my way this would be a magnificent turn of the century, last century style house similar to the one that was torn down. But nobody's building those. Nobody's buying those. It isn't going to be reality. So I think what we need to do today is make a decision similar to what we considered when we did Hollywood is what are the other realities that are possible? And one is this shotgun style and you know what I mean by shotgun about 15, maybe 20 feet wide and about 50 feet long. Kind of like a mobile home truthfully. And our understanding after the Zuck committee drilling down with DSD getting over a phone is that they can legally do this today and they don't have to come talk to us about it. All they have to do is pull the permit and they can build it. But they took a look at this property and the surrounding properties and they realized that they were almost 500 years ago with the character and the style that we're all familiar with in Deakin Hill and they felt that the property really deserved something with a little bit more character than the shotgun houses that they had legal right to build. But in order to do that, they need a little bit different configuration and so they came to us with something similar to this and this has been tweaked a little bit, refined a little bit. This is, as I understand it the most recent version. I think we're going to have a couple questions for you here but so the question tonight is if we say no we're going to have four shotgun houses probably because they don't have to ask anybody or if we say yes then we're likely to have and Zuck has worked very closely with them on making sure that they're good for the work going to have some homes that fit in with the character and the style of Deakin Hill and that's really the choice that we have today do you have anything to add to that? Yes sir, Mr. Smith? Just two quick questions it looks like you guys there Could you stand up because the rest is there. Hi, I'm John Smith I'm an architect Are you guys asking for a variance for the eastern most building that's over the setback and the porch on the building now? Oh, the 21 setback right now? So, yeah what we're asking for is IDC so we're trying to it's exactly that, it's relaxing the setbacks for placing the home where they're supposed to be and what we want to do is do IDC with four residential units the setback right there there's no, we have to be within 10 feet within the building, if there's any homes along the grant we have about a 10 foot but there aren't houses on this block face so we said let's just keep it right around 25 foot setback that we have that we're supposed to add here too neighborhood conservation district so we're just going to have it for the building to start this one but some of them are over the 20s the only one that's over is the porch, right? that's the porch is over and then part of the wall and the southern wall and the grant and the southeast part of all of it on my friends that's coming, is that like a footer still? sure just curious if you can move it the second question was all of the other sort of building technology in the neighborhood all these craftsmen by the way have a sidewalk out in the street and you would be one of the few houses in the neighborhood that's great to have instead of having the sidewalk turn to go drive away after all that oh I see, instead of going straight I don't think that would be too much of a problem I mean this is certainly it shouldn't be I don't see that being a problem just always yeah, instead of going this way instead of going straight go away right right okay but this has been this is our site plan where we want to place stuff the homes and houses that we did submit into the zoning so this is pretty is this the site plan that will be submitted with your request? yes I believe with IDC this is it okay yeah that's it what is your your outside going to look like you're finished on your outside are you going to look like the rest of the neighborhood or are you going to come in and put up the board and stuff like that? yeah IDC neighborhood conservation district doesn't allow that kind yeah you have to use the project that's going up on West President's plan that doesn't look like a society that belongs in that neighborhood if we can pull it up you can see I think there's a list of what we haven't even gotten to that point we want to get through this yeah whatever it says we'll choose the material yeah whatever it is finish it on my way wait wait Celia Celia had her hand Celia? well I was wondering about the rear setback is that also going to be addressed yes the rear setback can be 5 feet 5 feet from the rear and 3 feet from the side is your setbacks with the IDC we want to get up to 3 feet on the side yeah it really lacks a little setback so you can man to answer your in the NTD we encourage the use of natural wood siding cement fiber board siding stucco brick so those would be our final options whatever it is I also want to say that I really appreciate you all working with us this is one of these cases and I promise that I was going to write an article about zoning and multifamily zoning especially but I haven't gotten the research quite down yet let me intertell why you need to this is Jerry Long, he's part of the board he's also the person that so we have 5 public meetings to come up with this NCD that the city called us right 10 years ago in some houses they didn't really mention zoning but some type were but the one right behind us is the one with the brick original that was the board that was the board but I do want to say that when you look at so we're stuck we have a historic home that was on there but it has multifamily zoning and that zoning is what I want to write an article about because that was added as an overlay for Beaconville at one point in history to kind of make the single family homes that were converted to apartments legally because they weren't legal for a long time and there were so many of them that the city had to do something so we're it's multifamily there's nothing we can do about it at this point but what these great people here have done is one of the major things in the NCD is the porches are so important for single family homes and they have taken their apartments or single family homes smaller ones and they put porches on each of them to meet our NCD on both sides the grand side and the magnolia side which I think is a really great thing that helps fit in the neighborhood even though there's four on a smaller lot is there any more questions what if they bring the price right there we don't want to yeah hopefully we can start construction yeah yeah we're going to you know put it on your city yeah whatever I'm sorry you built something and you don't know what you're going to sell this for we're trying to go through we cannot tell and we won't tell building how much we work yeah we'll see it we'll definitely let y'all know they don't know we'll just ask did somebody else have a question yes sir I think I think there's a couple we need to look at we need to look at where exactly the they have one they don't have one but we want the property to make sure that it's like we're going to be able to save I think it's grant we have a grant that's what I think I am we should be able that was one of our concerns to take the trees are there we have this configuration we can see where we're going because definitely with the shop approach the good thing I think on the trees I have to first check the driveways that come in where the trees are along the grant we're going to pave that alleyway so those trees maybe have to be out there I think they're out there they're out there did you have a question talk to them the developers on covering only 44.08% of the the law because like in carolville it's just ridiculous green space is important too it kind of goes with the neighborhood you know setbacks are are further back but I think it's important you know I was well that have green space in the front yard any other questions okay the motion is Beacon Hill supports the plan site for 715 grant which will be this one which we have labeled the one you have in front of you which was presented at the November 2016 and January 2017 they have met with the general association twice last time may we have a vote by affirmation raise your hands please aye against congratulations to the general association they've had the patience of joe and rightly so they're asking something of our neighborhood but this is the way it's supposed to be so thank you very much for your patience okay one more thing before we get to the safe report we the the board that wants to make an amendment we haven't done this for several years the amendment process is we come up with the amendment by the board we approve it by vote and then we offer it at the neighborhood meeting and we vote on it at the next neighborhood meeting so people have time this is the motion we're not voting or doing anything I'm just reading it to you the motion is to amend the Bihana bylaws to allow those property owners that have properties on the west side of Fredericksburg road that are within the Beacon Hill NCD client area but not within the boundaries of Bihana one vote for property on any actions that affect the NCD's non-residential standards that's the skeeple on either is one block on Fred Road one side of a block that is part of our NCD the city asked us to include it when we were going through the process but it's not part of our neighborhood association they have pointed out on numerous occasions how unfair it is that we make decisions about that block and they don't get a chance to vote on it so this is an attempt to remedy and we should have done this when we did the NCD but we're doing it now so we will vote on this next time one of the big issues in our neighborhood is crime I don't know if you've read the newsletter about the woman on Christmas Eve who broke her window in she came in cleaned out her refrigerator took her TV and most importantly took all the presents under the tree she had four year old son she was afraid that Santa wasn't going to come visit him the neighborhood when I wrote the article it was to show what a community we are people came on midnight on New Year's Eve brought presents from their own kids tree a big yellow truck for this kid wrapped things brought food boarded up her window brought even clothes on Facebook what are your ages or sizes of your teenage daughters I've got a couple things that are new we'll wrap them up and there's a picture of him Christmas morning this little boy just beaming with this big yellow truck it was an amazing story about what kind of community we are what underlying theme is it's also a story about the kind of crime we're having so I'd like to invite our safe officer Officer Brian Bigler I guess evidently everyone refers to as the specimen because he's so nice and cool and when everybody else is sweating he's nice and cool the specimen ladies and gentlemen I'm going to start sweating here good evening everybody and Happy New Year going over the crime reports today or for the month of December so in the month of December we had three burglary of habitations one burglary of building which was somebody's back shed four burglary of vehicles two robberies and a discharge of firearms I'm going to clarify a couple things so with the burglary of vehicles one of the vehicles was momentarily left unattended and I talked about this I always talk about don't leave stuff in your car don't want to be visible take everything out so you don't give them the opportunity to find something but also I mean it's cold for Texas it's cold people start their cars in the morning and leave them running outside to warm them up I wouldn't recommend doing that because you basically just left the keys in the car for somebody to take so it's one of those things and it seems like in this situation she just went inside real quick came back out and they had rifle to her car and they had splines so it's one of those don't want to leave it for just a second I mean we're in a great neighborhood but there's no place safe in this world anymore so you just have to be vigilant about these things two of the other burglary of vehicles were Ford pickup trucks and I think I have to put on that before that these thieves and burglars would love to pick up trucks especially the 250 and the 350 but it's not red hot mail down they'll steal whatever they get their hands on so that's just something to think about the other burglary of the vehicle was actually a mechanic shop they broke into the yard and took some things out of the vehicle that were being repaired in regards to the two robbery of individuals one was an intoxicated mail that was found late at night exactly cooperative but he'd been feed over the head and so that's one thing the other one it was reported in central it didn't occur so when y'all look at the raids online if y'all have used that app or when I'm telling you what was reported it doesn't mean it actually happened here so there was only one robbery and it was an intoxicated mail that got knocked unconscious and then the discharge of firearm the only details that were given were individuals in the yard saw the vehicle drive by taking shots in the air so it wasn't directed at any person not that that makes it any better but it was just shots fired into the air I I guess I'll tell them so I know it was thank y'all for coming together on Christmas Eve we don't see that very often as soon as that sounds we're not coming together like a community anymore I guess it's just a sign of the time but it's great to hear that y'all actually did I didn't get a copy of a report or I didn't find a report for that burglary so this I'm going to touch on a couple of points with that one if any of y'all know or have her contact me or have her contact the police department so we can file that report the other thing that I'm going to touch on based on that is the fact that if y'all don't call us when crime happens then we don't know about it and if we don't know about it technically it didn't happen so if y'all are concerned about crime in the area which y'all are because it's happening the problem is if you don't call in the crime we don't hear about it it's not documented or documented with all those beat counters so you don't get more resources so if you had four burglaries but you actually had 15 that happened and y'all can post on Facebook to yell or blow in the face sorry to tell y'all that but if y'all don't call the police then I can't chief can't no one can get y'all the additional resources that you need in order to make the community actually safer so I can give you tips I can give you pointers I can tell you lock your stuff up, lock your doors call the police when you see anything suspicious but if y'all don't do it unfortunately nothing's gonna happen as usual I'm a better vet but are there any questions or so one of the concerns that we're having is it happened to us and Mark was able to get our stuff back but because of a woman who put all this stuff on Facebook Facebook's an amazing thing despite everything you can say bad about Facebook crime especially you can't believe how many postings there are there's guys walking through our neighborhood at night sometimes during the day just rifling through stuff on our porch or kicking down the doors and we've got pictures of that well somebody went on our porch stole two big cement planters and tea planters sold them went to a store on the Hildebrand and Lisa Chavez Lisa here she's been stealing stuff tells the shop owner he stole that that's from our neighborhood and you're buying stolen goods and the guy got attitude and threw off the thing she took pictures of the planters put it on the Facebook page I saw it it was our planters Mark went down there he said it was a short conversation got our planters back and we called the police we have those individuals in our neighborhood they're drug addicted there's all kinds of problems but those stores that we only find stolen goods are part of a big part of this problem if they have a customer if the guys were going on our porches and in our homes and stealing our cars they're selling it to somebody and that somebody is who I think maybe we should start focusing on we also Senator Menendez has asked us Chief McManus has asked us to have a prime point person I'm not asking for volunteer tonight I'm just saying you take that home and talk about it a little over and if you'd like to be that person and you would start by going to a luncheon with Officer McManus and other neighborhood leaders to get information about crime and homelessness in our neighborhood are there any questions you have? can you maybe talk about some of the options people have for reporting crimes maybe they're concerned about crimes or something like that the simple is the easiest one just dial 911 or even the number which is 207 7273 or SAPD you never have to leave your name you don't have to leave any contact information you can be totally anonymous if you want to or you can say that you want us to knock on your door and make contact with you you can be anonymous so that way you don't have to fear the cops showing up you're calling on your neighbors and the cops are knocking on your door like oh yeah is that him over there? you don't have to worry about that totally anonymous now other options that we have that we've made available is if you see crime in your area but you just it's not actively happening it's not going on right then and there you can do the 401-1-Tib app which is on the SAP web page it's 401-1-Tib right hand side corner of the way down you can see a little icon for it you can write the location all the characteristics of what's going on what you're seeing, the behaviors the people you're seeing and it's said directly to our intelligence unit the intelligence unit is required daily to take every single tip they get on that and distribute them to the follow-up units so if you're seeing your neighbor down the street dealing drugs and you don't want to get involved in as nice as people in the world you can document all this stuff on this form it's sent goes to intelligence, it'll go to narcotics and narcotics will follow up with it on that other options is always crime stoppers you have any information you can always call crime stoppers as well it can be totally anonymous just like the 401-1-Tib just like calling the police they can bring it up they're scared to call the police now mostly for that reason you may have a burp or you may have drugs going down the street you may just have a drunk in your backyard you know, a nearby who's giving you a hard time that you don't want to necessarily confront or have it be known that last Friday when I passed by that guy I had a whole bunch of stuff a whole wire fence it had taken off somebody's property and believe me it has been a problem I've known about it since before I came to this unit two years ago I've known about it the entire time I've been on central my problem is can we just say what housing is? I will, nobody else 1045 West Summit I didn't say she said the problem is you got to get familiar with the guy who writes the pipe that way when you see him in your neighborhood you know what he looks like and you can keep a better eye on that doesn't mean he's necessarily going to do something at that moment and he might be at least your where and that goes back to if you've seen some suspicious activity then call and the biggest problem we're having with that is just like I reported four burglaries that's all that was reported to the police department and were there more than that? I can almost guarantee it so what's happening is especially courts burglaries or court staffs is what they're technically what they are people don't call those in all they stole my planters went off that you know I'd stink but what am I going to do there with some planters or sometimes it's a bicycle people don't have well with planters and other items like that there's no way to identify them there's no serial numbers or anything like that or people don't put homemade markings on there to identify them so it makes it very difficult to ID after it's taken bicycles people actually have written down the serial number on their bicycle one, two, okay that's more than I expected because bicycles get stolen right and left Alphabista just had several and I don't know I don't know all the information on that one but if you don't write down the serial number they take that bike, they take it to a punch up it's gone or he sells it in this front yard it's gone and I can't prove that that merchandise is actually stolen but if you wrote down a serial number or on the bottom of the planter you just have to even use a marker or something and write you know or like these burgers they're not going to take the time to wipe it off and he takes it to a takes it to any shops and they flip it over hey I got everything I need in order to pursue a criminal case on this person whereas before and like everybody's seen it you see the bikes in front of the yard you've seen lawn mowers or god knows what else if you don't have a serial number to prove insurers there's no way I can say well that's mine because I've had the dent and the scratch on the side and as much as I believe you that's not going to hold up in a court you understand what I'm sure it is why do you say that I'm not I'm not you know I can't she knows what her earns look like and you arrest them and take them in and they go into a court what do you think is going to happen you don't think the judge is going to say this is a totally different thing so I don't think so I think that you know we can agree to disagree but I don't understand why you're if we've known about it for a year and nothing's happening I don't understand y'all may have known about it for a year and I know it's a dirtbag house but I don't have any proof that that's what I was doing now I've got one case one possible case and I've given everybody information I have about the history of the person history of the house, history of that street every golem's on that's happening there and the detectives in that unit are going to follow up on everything now does that mean they're going to get a conviction does that mean they're going to get a charge from I don't know but if people aren't calling in and people don't make those safety measures to safeguard your own property or you can just like I said steer them you're going to steer them down to your lawnmower and that individual takes it and he has it and I can say that person there that person stole that and I can send that up it's like in her case visual person sees it notices guys not nice takes pictures of it, updates it so we have pictures of the guy with the planters in front of the store that's what I need now that's what I need you understand what I'm saying? don't get me wrong you want to say the law like right wrong is black and white the law is so many shades of gray is nothing so that's what makes everything so difficult so officer Bickler is here on his night off so oh I'm sorry now I've heard a report about suspecting an operation on Kildevren I'll take that the question is is the police department going to open up a case an investigation case? there is an active case that's why I can't mention names, addresses anything of that sort there is an active case I would if I had had a little bit more time I could have possibly gotten the detective assigned to the case to come and talk to you all about how the process goes after a patrol officer sends a report about I'm working on that maybe at the next meeting I can have the detective come because once the patrol and the rights report it starts a whole new process and if I could get an action perspective about here to go through with Yelp it might help y'all to understand how delicate it is to actually get a criminal case Madam President, you may want to bring such a person over to our next meeting well I'm thinking we'll do a little meeting where maybe we just talk about it'll be a crime scene you can invite the guy from the the store owner I was the last one I know this is quite well outside the box since we have a picture of this individual would it be too much to ask that you carry that picture of that individual called the other empty dealers in our neighborhood and let them know have they ever seen this guy that are bodied at least that puts them on notice that hey people are watching and we're not accusing anybody of doing this stuff but everybody needs to know it's not right I think that's one of our jobs too I think that's something where in the neighborhood we're going to do is go to the local stores and say please get on I had to call the non-emergency on my neighbor because there was horrible domestic violence going on living a really old blue flex and the walls are paper thin and so they responded probably within five minutes there were four units that came the only thing that I would suggest is to come in dark because they came in with their lights flashing and it caused them to shut down and it made me look like an idiot because you know you could almost hear them through the phone that's how loud it was and he was obviously choking her and so I don't know the result of it I did talk to the police officers but you know I've already got a plan next time you know please come in dark don't say anything but you know but it did make me look like a nosy neighbor that was just making things up and so I did get a text the next day from my neighbor that apologized for me hearing them fight so I knew you know whatever but it's just those things if we did call in report you know are there ways to assure that you know they're not just going to knock and say oh nobody's home do you hurt things or whatever but I really I did call back and say thank you for responding very quickly I appreciated that so I did do that it's very complicated when we get a call for like domestic violence especially if it's actively going on we almost always go lights and sirens because we need to get there we need to stop it he was choking her this time he could have been here with the baseball that next time and there's and trying to think it's complicated because there's time when we have like a burglary going on and we'll be going lights and sirens but then we'll shut everything off so we can cruise up quietly and hopefully catch them in the act but when there's an assault going on typically we're going as fast as we can and we're going very safely at a high rate of speed with lights and sirens so that we can address the problem immediately without you know so it's to answer your question it's it's complicated because I've been on the force over 10 years now and every situation is unique every situation is different so you could call trust me most officers love nosy neighbors because we can get information because it's like okay so you called in and he was beating her up she texted you the next day saying sorry about that well the next time there's going to be a history okay there was a call there for violence domestic violence nothing came of it but any any cop who's worth assaults knocked on the door and say hey is everybody okay do you mind if I come in and talk to everybody no I don't want you to come in and if we don't have exigent circumstances to enter that house and everybody's telling us they're fine if we don't hear anything we can't go in now next time we get a call and we walk up to the door maybe she comes to the door and you can you can see that look over her face like hey everything's fine but you know come on in anyway that's what I'm saying nosy neighbors are the best neighbors call the police if you have to call can you talk to them for domestic violence so a diagonal of if they're strangulation so that's one of the side things or that from a trader's more might be to think of and that's the thing a lot of domestic violence and I know I'm going way over a lot of domestic violence can be it most of the majority of women but in certain circumstances they're afraid definitely afraid of the person sometimes they need that extra little help to call out we have officers specifically trained to help in those situations but I can tell you from experience I've been to houses over and over where I know I've even caught the guy in the act and looked them and either they don't testify with a victim doesn't testify or the case just gets dropped because no one wants to talk so it's nosy's better don't feel bad nosy's excellent they type of warrants they sit down, they interview photographs rcrt on top well thank you officer vickler the praise for the law I'm thinking an offensive theory I'm just going to hug it because I'm a hugger speaking of crime vietter has helped figure out what to do about the crime on rosewood and blanco or rather blanco star one of the things that we've met with the councilman's office and in partnership with the city we'll have another meeting before this happens but february 18th from 9 to 1 p.m. we need volunteers to help us figure out that alley nefarious activities are happening there and the neighbors have been cited by co-compliance most of those neighbors hardly have the money to fix their roofs much less and I'm sort of paraphrasing what Mr. Yatter said a lot of her elders and we need to be able to help them clean out that alley and stop that crime on rosewood and blanco that will go a long way it's one of the steps but I hope you can attend february 18th the city is sitting out a big bin people are volunteering from city departments to come work surely we can also meet the demand in our own neighborhood if city employees are willing to give a saturday morning to come help clear that alley it's on february 18th but it will be in the next newsletter it will be at the next neighborhood meeting I'm just kind of putting it out there so we have committee business and that's about it benevolence mrs. Eller would you like to give a report first I would personally pay a deal and I want to say thank you I want to say thank you but I want to say thank you to the police officers because they have just contacted me they called they come to my house when I leave so we need to continue to be involved and do our best chapter 1, chapter 2 this christmas was the most exciting christmas it is a joy to be able to supply toys, food, hams to 22 seven families who were out and we delivered the baskets with toys we gave them bread packs with good supplies to the children and the community so this was truly a miracle on language 3 and I want to thank each one of you they have so beautiful supported our benevolent fund thank you so much thank you community garden there is a garden work day on the 21st from 9-11 that is at Gramercy and Capital and for those of you that are new we have a community garden on Gramercy and Capital there are I believe still plots available that holds $10 a year to have a plot what you do is once twice a year you are required or required like you to come and help and keep the garden clean and weed and that kind of stuff it is right across the screen from the playground so it is great for the kids in that area too