Neighborhood Planning Council 2 - North Central

Monday, June 10th, 2024 Meeting Minutes NORTHCENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING COUNCIL #2 Washington Heights – Hub of Hope, 153 N. Wood St. 1. Call to Order & Welcome: 6:03pm Pastor French calls to order. Welcomes. Introduction and what someone is excited about. 2. Attendance: NPC 2 Members (E = Excused - notified an officer/member, X = Present, O = Absent): X Mary Bourgeois X Church of Scientology (Jeff Breedlove – Secretary) O Frank Drury O Faith Temple COGIC (Joe Hooper) X Dr. Monique French - Chair X Grace Health (Eric Gestring ) E Lynn Ward Gray O Samuel Gray X Larz Martin-Bey - Vice Chair X Patricia Martin O Neighborhoods Inc. of Battle Creek/NIBC (Whitney Wardell) X Bettie Robertson X Springview Tower (Brent Heuss) X Ron Sweet O Prentice Thompson O Karen Todd X Cynthia Wyatt Guests: X Quiton Hay Land Bank X Gary McKinley X Emmilion X Debra Evans X Mary Thompson X Andre Robinson City Representation: X Cpl. Brad Gentry X Cpl O’Bryant X Rep Jim Haadsma X Helen Guzzo X Patrick Cleland Fire department 3. Adoption of the Agenda: Motion to accept Jeff Breedlove. Second Ron Sweet. Voted unanimously. 7 for 0 against. 4. Approval / Amendment of Minutes: Brent Heuss moves to accept, Cynthia Wyatt second. Voted unanimously. 7 for 0 against. 5. Correspondence (sent/received) & Announcements: June 18th at 7pm representation at City Hall for Helen Montgomery Monument (Please submit all correspondence/announcements in writing whenever possible) 6. Committee & City Staff Reports: a. Police Department/Fire Department: • Cpl. Gentry gives report 5/1-5/31. Foot patrols at 24. Traffic stops down. 0 robberies. 1 carjacking. . 0 fraud. Arrests went up significantly. Total events 4 of 9 • Cpl. O’Bryant. Celebrating 0 robberies and frauds. Non aggravated assaults. 14 reported. Does not mean after they went to court that is what it ended up at. Summerset was problem house. Search warrant. Many people in house. Condemned house. Owner occupant is able to be there during daytime house to bring up to code. Many people were arrested for possession of drugs. Still happening, trying to get it under control. Owners have a 4th amendment right. It is an owner occupied house. • House on fox. Knocked on door. • Calls on Howland. Playing phone tag. Knocking on door again. Mailing Address: City Hall, 10 N. Division St., Room 104, Battle Creek, MI 49014 Phone: (269) 966-3315 Fax: (269) 441-0380 Web: www.battlecreekmi.gov  Monday, June 10th, 2024 Meeting Minutes NORTHCENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING COUNCIL #2 Washington Heights – Hub of Hope, 153 N. Wood St. • If you have a problem in neighborhood. Cpl Obryant will knock on door. Name will not be given. b. Elected Officials: Pastor French: Elected new board chair. Dereck King. Commission board for Calhoun county. c. Neighborhood Services: Helen Guzzo: goes over code compliance report. Weeds. 800 enforcements so far this year. Any properties having issue, will relate to Yolanda. Discussion of condemned houses. They lose their certificate of occupancy. Can convict them. 90 Goodale. Discussion. Corp. O’Bryant. Have to call building inspection. Don Wilkenson. Can call him to ask specific questions. Discussion on 214 Kendall. Garbage everywhere. They were evicted. But garbage all in front. Discussion. Yolanda will look at that tomorrow. d. Beautiful battle creek awards. Patricia Martine nominates: Second Missionary Baptist Church 485 N Washington Ave Ron Sweet nominates: Deborah's Salon 160 N Washington Ave Breedlove supports Second Baptist Cynthia supports beauty salon. Voted unanimously 9 for and 0 against. e. Membership: 3 candidates for membership. Gary McKinley 164 Greenwood Ave. gmac5033@gmail.com (269) 419-4133e Andre Robinson 202 Graves Ave. kenrob228@yahoo.com (269) 779-4112 Mailing Address: City Hall, 10 N. Division St., Room 104, Battle Creek, MI 49014 Phone: (269) 966-3315 Fax: (269) 441-0380 Web: www.battlecreekmi.gov  Monday, June 10th, 2024 Meeting Minutes NORTHCENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING COUNCIL #2 Washington Heights – Hub of Hope, 153 N. Wood St. Debra Evans 48 W. Roosevelt Ave evansd4028@yahoo.com (269) 243-7122 Voted unanimously 9 for and 0 against. f. Committees: nothing yet. g. Battle Creek Public Schools: None present. h. Landbank. Quinton demolition project gone out to bid. Stabilization for the project. The bids will go on 25th of this month. New roofs for all of them. Shout out to neighborhood Advisory committee. Next meeting July 10th Wed. 6-8 pm Link community event space. i. Grace Health. Accepting walk ins. Minor injuries, vaccines. Pediatric and will fill prescriptions and have free delivery. Would love to help. Taking walk ins for dental. Medicade patients only. M-Th 730-1130 am 130-530. Friday hours a little different. The rest of grace health will accept all insurance. No openings for family practice. Only reestablishing or already existing for walk ins. See attachment 7. Presentation: Battle Creek fire department. Fire inspector Cleland. Meet and greet. Planning on installing 500 smoke alarms in NPC 2 area. Struggle to get enough volunteers. 12-15. Will be flyer with water bill and door hangers. Create list in NPC 2. Small fire presentation. Then three smoke alarms and one CO alarm. Sept 21st and 28th. 2.5hrs each day. See attachment 8. Old Business: Pastor French: Concerns in neighborhoods. Speeding down Greenwood. Nobody has been saying anything lately. Still a concern. Mr. McKinny feels it’s a concern. Flying up and down the street everyday. One day tried to get speed bumps. Discussion. Was not able to do it because is damages plow trucks. Discussion of removable speed bumps. Check into it. Corp O’Bryant will check on removable speed bumps. Pastor French concern. Somebody had a tent camped out in playground. With shelter closing, people trying to find places to sleep. If you see things, keep an eye out. Discussion. Corp O’Bryant has been doing project. We know certain circuit courts have said homelessness is not a crime therefor they can sleep and hang out on public property. Private property, police does not have right to make someone leave. But all means give dispatch a call. 269 781 0911 give location and date. Working on process with city attorney to remove them from public property in certain amount of time. Mary Thompson. Concerned about property in front of her. Animals. Grass, bushes, running over to my property. Washington. Big house on hill. On Washinton. No driveway or anything. Discussion. Its on the radar to be declared vacant and abandoned building. 365 N Washington. Pastor French. Battle Creek impacting violence. This Thursday. Try to decrease violence in community. Last month had a team. Gang unit. Did presentation. This upcoming week. Have lock boxes for guns. 6pm at Second Missionary Baptist church. Will invite to NPC 2 meeting. Mailing Address: City Hall, 10 N. Division St., Room 104, Battle Creek, MI 49014 Phone: (269) 966-3315 Fax: (269) 441-0380 Web: www.battlecreekmi.gov  Monday, June 10th, 2024 Meeting Minutes NORTHCENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING COUNCIL #2 Washington Heights – Hub of Hope, 153 N. Wood St. Claude Evans parking lot. Still in process of doing that. Discussion. At Juneteenth reps from city will be there. Pastor French. Encouraging community. Putting extra effort in keeping lawns good and clean. 9. New Business. Discussion. Is it possible to tap into one of fire hydrant for water? 10. Public Comments/Member Comments: Pastor French: July 13th. Community carnival. Encourage to come out and show support. Looking at being a great event. No charge. Free hotdogs. Need support. Will have police presence. Car show. Motorcycle show. Will have a collective worship service at Second Missionary church this year Juneteeth will be showing Wish on Friday at Washington heights. then celebration on Saturday. Friday at 7pm. There will be popcorn and pizza. Spread the word. Discussion of dunk tank. 11. Next Meeting: Monday, July 8th, 2024 at 6:00 PM @ Washington Heights UMC. 12. Adjournment: Moved sweet . Second by Mary.. Motion Carried Unanimously. 8 votes for, 1 against. Meeting adjourned at approximately 702pm PM Minutes recorded and submitted by: Jeff Breedlove NPC2 Secretary NPC 2 Mission: To improve the quality of life by listening and engaging residents. NPC 2 Vision: A safe, friendly, family-driven neighborhood where everyone wants to live. The City of Battle Creek will provide necessary reasonable auxiliary aids and services, such as signers for the hearing impaired and audiotapes of printed materials being considered in the meeting upon reasonable notice to the City of Battle Creek. Individuals with disabilities requiring auxiliary aids or services should contact the City of Battle Creek by writing or calling the following: City Clerk Office (269) 966-3348/TDD Mailing Address: City Hall, 10 N. Division St., Room 104, Battle Creek, MI 49014 Phone: (269) 966-3315 Fax: (269) 441-0380 Web: www.battlecreekmi.gov  Monday, June 10th, 2024 Meeting Minutes NORTHCENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING COUNCIL #2 Washington Heights – Hub of Hope, 153 N. Wood St. Mailing Address: City Hall, 10 N. Division St., Room 104, Battle Creek, MI 49014 Phone: (269) 966-3315 Fax: (269) 441-0380 Web: www.battlecreekmi.gov