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INTER-NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL
INTER-NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL
Making Better Neighborhoods
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Minutes of Meeting of July 25, 2000
Police Department Community Services Room
Members Present
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Al Stone
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Duke Homestead
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Ann Steedly
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NCDOT Rail
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Carrie Mowry
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Colony Park
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Cheryl King
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Carter & Burgess/NCDOT
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Dale Stouch
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Placid Valley
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Janene Tompkins
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Trinity Park
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Erick Larson
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TLNA
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Fred L. Mowry
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Colony Park
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Jim Emery
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Old North Durham
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John Dagenhart
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Trinity Park
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Johnea D. Kelley
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Duke Park
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Karen Fried
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Placid Valley
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Leza Munot
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Aradis/NCDOC
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Linwood Best
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Housing and Com., City of Durham
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Norm Krause
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Hope Valley
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Tad Howard
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Carpenter-Fletcher
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Terri Koch
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Watts Hospital/Hillandale
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Administration and announcements
John Dagenhart called the meeting to order at 7:10.
Treasurer Norm Krause reported that no new neighborhoods have paid. The totals are thus the same as last month: 24 neighborhoods have paid dues, and the INC bank balance remains at $1186.
The minutes for June were approved, with the suggestion that a paragraph be added to report that Governor Hunt's Million Acres initiative passed.
Carrie Mowry reported that she has a draft INC newsletter and invited comments on it.
New Business
Featured Speakers: Ann Steedly and others from NCDOT, speaking on the Southeast High Speed Rail project.
Ann heads an NCDOT team that has been holding local workshops (26 of them held by the end June) to explain the project and to solicit citizen comments. Despite its name, the project is focused less on speed than on improving rail efficiency and safety, and on providing service competitive with air and auto. The planned maximum speed for trains in North Carolina would be 79 mph, rising ultimately to 110 mph. The speed limit within Durham would be 50 mph. By contrast, the speed for the Northeast Corridor (Washington to NY) is 125, to rise later to 150 mph.
Current plans call for six of eight trains on the NC southeast route to have stops in Durham. The trains will be part of the AMTRAK system. The engines probably will be diesel, not electric. The line eventually will link with another connecting Greenville SC, Macon GA, and Atlanta.
Ann said she expects the plans to be implemented in about ten years.
Other new business:
· City-county merger: John Dagenhart said he would like INC to tell the city and county that we would like to be able to vote on the issue. However, he did not propose a formal motion because we lacked a quorum.
· Neighborhood summit: John repeated his call for volunteers.
· New PAC district: Jim Emery reported that the PACs (Partners Against Crime) were preparing to create new PAC district, District 5, for downtown Durham. PAC 5 would incorporate parts of the existing PACs 1-4 and would split neighborhoods between two or more PAC districts. He said he thought the reorganization plan was being imposed from above with little neighborhood input. It was decided to make this a topic for discussion at the next INC meeting.
Closing
The meeting was adjourned at 8:25.
AAS
8/22/00
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