Minutes of CONA Meeting

7:00 p.m., July 16, 2008

City Hall Building

Bloomington, Indiana

Board Members Present:
6th & Ritter - David Walter
Arden Place - Kathy Berry
Elm Heights - Kathie Holland
Southampton - Richard Carr
Maple Heights - Greg Alexander
Prospect Hill - Sarah Ryterband
Old Northeast - Jerry Stasny
Eastside - Molly O'Donnell
Sycamore Knolls - Shirley Davies

Business Meeting

1. The minutes from the June 18, 2008 meeting were approved as corrected.
2. David Walter reported treasury balances as follows: Checking: $546.48 and Savings: $8,102.40.
3. David Walter reported that the City of Bloomington would consider a grant application from CONA again this year. The Board discussed possible grant items such as:
   1. Sending delegates to the October 2-4 Regional Neighborhood Network Conference in Lima, Ohio. More information is available at http://columbuscoalition.org/images/pdf/RNNC_Lima_2008.pdf
   2. Sponsoring a speaker from Pyatok Architects http://www.pyatok.com/index.html or Jonathan Rose http://www.rose-network.com/ Jonathan Rose Companies LLC and Pyatok Architects are both primarily planning companies. Tsort of development they do and the open (community) planning processes they support definitely seem promising. There might be some region of urban blight that they can discuss with us.
   3. Visualizing Density (Julie Campoli) http://www.lincolninst.edu/ Visualizing density is a very relevant topic since Bloomington's dense downtown is growing so quickly, which ultimatelyaffects all of the neighborhoods. Their emphasis (at least the book titled Visualizing Density) is on showing people the advantages and drawbacks of different levels of density.
4. David Walter provided information on the proposed adoption of a new City Fire Code, the Citizen's Academy, and what items are needed for flood buckets to help people clean up after the recent floods.
5. Kathy Berry reported that the rental house in Arden Place that had sewer problems and then later was abandoned and left with trash has been reported to the City of Bloomington. She has had no response from HAND, the Solid Waste District or Public Works about the problems.
6. Sarah Ryterband reported that Prospect Hill neighborhood is now a Conservation District. Their guidelines were accepted by the City Council with no dissenting votes and no opposition from the neighborhood residents.

There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 7:55 PM.