Neighborhood Planning Council 2 - North Central

Monday, July 8th, 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 ) X 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 Gary McKinley X Emmilion X Debbra Evans X Mary Thompson X Andre Robinson X Annette Chapman X Angela Broadus City Representation: X Cpl. Brad Gentry X Cpl. O’Bryant X Rep Jim Haadsma X Yolanda Johnson 3. Adoption of the Agenda: Motion to accept Larz Martin Bey. Second Ron Sweet. Voted unanimously. 7 for 0 against. 4. Approval / Amendment of Minutes: Larz Martin Bey moves to accept, Ron Sweet second. Voted unanimously. 7 for 0 against. 5. Correspondence (sent/received) & Announcements: Pastor French. Kathy Anteya talked about Environmental Justice grant. Might be able to partner. Will share when get information. (Please submit all correspondence/announcements in writing whenever possible) 6. Committee & City Staff Reports: a. Police Department/Fire Department: • Cpl. Gentry gives report 6/1-6/30 over 100 traffic stops. A little up. 0 Larceny. Total events 4 of 9. • Cpl. O’Bryant. b. Elected Officials: Rep. Haadsma: passed budget. School aid and general fund. June 27th. Started June 26th 9am. Finished 5am June 27th. Contraversy over bill that got hung up in senate . BC and 44th were able to get enhancement grant to 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, July 8th, 2024 Meeting Minutes NORTHCENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING COUNCIL #2 Washington Heights – Hub of Hope, 153 N. Wood St. oak hill 1.2million to chapel. $250k for Voces for kitchen. 175K for renovate Albion, an elevator disability accessible. Some money for pastor French, New Level and Smith ad ministry as far as childhood and innovative village. . If you have a ballot, you add a couple names. Matt Spurr. Jim does not have a primary opponent. About time to get yard signs out. A week from now. 2693175502 to put up signs. Has a sign guy. c. Neighborhood Services: Yoland Johnson. Majority enforcement complete exterior assessment. About 70% done. Been through post, npc4. After npc2 going to npc 11. 90 E Goodale. Warrant out. Property looks better. d. Beautiful battle creek awards. Present to NPC 2. Given at City Commission meeting on the 2nd. e. Membership: 3 candidates for membership. Shanay Settles Angela Broadus Lynn moved to become member. Ron Sweet support Voted unanimously 7 for f. Committees: nothing yet. Need to confirm who is on committee. Brent and Whitney on Committee. Review and reside bylaws. Ron Sweet wants to be on committee g. Battle Creek Public Schools: None present. h. Landbank. None i. Grace Health none 7. Presentation: Annette Chapman: Working with Pastor John Boyd. Second Baptist. Violence intervention. Since 2019. Working with Chf Blocker. Program being run in Detroit. Hospital based violence intervention program. Through D live. Runs one of the programs. Very successful. Evidence based. Model across nation. Done in larger metro areas. Meeting victims of gun shot in hospital after trauma has occurred. Done by referral of doctor or nurse. Meet them where they are at. Support, prayer. Form trust relationship. Get them in our program. Usually, violence intervention have been 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, July 8th, 2024 Meeting Minutes NORTHCENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING COUNCIL #2 Washington Heights – Hub of Hope, 153 N. Wood St. incarcerated and changed their life and have credibility to talk to people. Looked at gun crime in community when doing master planning, hired consultant that compared us with 12 others and ours were the highest. A lot of them are African American male 14-24 years old. Talk to people in program. Whole idea is to work with people and mentorship. Goals for life and provide resources. Scholarships, employment. Work with partnerships to help out. Covid impacted program and model. Changed model to work with young people, high school age. Referred by teacher. Because under age get permission from parent. Have transitional house for victims. Work with church so have home to stay. Recently formulated gun action violence group. A lot mothers who have lost loved ones, been meeting. Trying to get presenters. Some training going on. Adverse childhood training. Gun violence Michigan. Partnered. Recently passed 4 different laws protecting people against guns. One of which is safe storage. Extreme risk protection order. See somebody acting inappropriately and around guys, can petition to court to get protection. Universal background check for everyone who wants to purchase a gun. Talking to organizations. Working with chief of police. Police can do so much, but community really needs to help. Pastor French asked Annette to come and how we can partner together. Discussion on how community can help. group that gets together once a month. Look at data and come up with model and work together. Chf Bagley very familiar with model in Kzoo. But has a larger community component. Community advising group. If a person is doing a lot of bad things, will use advisory council-- we are watching you. Very successful model. Hoping they would seek input from model and what felt comfortable with. Out of those models. Lets say model used in kzoo. Get community sit on advisory board. Would be call to action. Seven different churches represented and mothers. Usually, the second Thursday of month at 6pm at Second Baptist. But may not meet this Thursday this week. Next will be August 8th. Discussion. Block parties? Rolling parties. Move from area to area, 50-100 cars. Happening in kzoo. Usually 6-7 friends. Police know. Have to have evidence to prosecute. Nobody wants to snitch, unless we find evidence. Will be on street. That is why need community. Need older folks for people follow. Trying to reach young people. Been to Lakeview and BC public schools and talking to them. Discussion. About having place for kids to go. 8. Old Business: Pastor French: 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, July 8th, 2024 Meeting Minutes NORTHCENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING COUNCIL #2 Washington Heights – Hub of Hope, 153 N. Wood St. 9. New Business. none 10. Public Comments/Member Comments: Angela: Discussion on load loud music from cars. Why is one person allowed to do that for 6 years. Music so loud rattles cameras. Shut this guy down. Neighbor has to replace window. This guy went from 8pm – 430am. Gentry: black and white patrol. They turn music down. White Taho to another vehicle. Keep calling dispatch. Gentry will pay attention to it. Gentry and O’Bryant. Greenwood, bowen and parkway. Pastor French. Community carnival 12-4pm here. Looking forward Grace Health: Open and willing to host meetings, have tons of room. If anyone interested. Water snacks. 11. Next Meeting: Monday, Aug 12thh, 2024 at 6:00 PM @ Washington Heights UMC. 12. Adjournment: Moved Lynn Ward Gray. Second by Eric.. Motion Carried Unanimously. 8 votes for. 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, July 8th, 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