Inter-Neighborhood Council
Making Better Neighborhoods
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Minutes of Meeting of July 27,2004
REPRESENTATIVES PRESENT
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Pat Carstensen
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Cross County
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* Chris Boyer
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City of Durham
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Cheryl Sweeney
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Northgate Park
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Virginia Bridges
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Herald Sun
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Mike Shiflett
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Northgate Park
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Randy Pickle
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Forest Hills
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Risa Foster
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Trinity Heights NA
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Dale Stouch
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Placid Valley
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Helena Cragg
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Old North Durham
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Fred Foster, Jr.
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Old Farm
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Mike Woodward
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WHHNA
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Bill Anderson
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Duke Park
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Dick Mentock
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Hope Valley Farms - South
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Lynwood D. Best
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City of Durham, Housing & Comm Development
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Paul Cornsweet
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Morehead Hills NA
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Deb Cristie
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Colony Hill
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B J Council
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Police
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Carrie Mowry
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Old North Durham
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Rudy Henkel
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PAC4 / HVF North
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Larry Revelle
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Durham Human Relations
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Sharon Williamson
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Parkwood
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Melvin Whitley
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Y. E. Smith
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John Higgins
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Parkwood
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Richard Mullinax
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Old North Durham
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* Speaker
Administration and Announcements
President Cheryl Sweeney opened the meeting, and members introduced themselves.
Neighborhood Street Tree Planting Partnership Forms and more information are available at www.ci.durham.nc.us/departments/works/forestry.cfm.
§ There is $15,000 in the General Fund Urban Forestry Budget and continuing funds from Water into Trees water bill rounding and other donations. There has also been grant money for low / moderate income areas. The city would pay up to 1/2 the cost of the tree, plus deal with installing trees and keeping them happy.
§ The deadline for tree planting requests is Monday, September 13; if there are extra funds, later applications will be considered. Preferably there will be a coordinated application from a neighborhood.
§ Tree gators are great for trickling water onto roots so they have adequate moisture.
§ Ideally planting happens Thanksgiving to Easter.
§ Trees need to be in places with no major interference with traffic visibility or utilities, but there is still a lot of lee-way. Consult Urban Forestry about what is possible (
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§ Richard Mullinax led a discussion of benefits from trees and ways to generate cost-sharing money.
Honor Your Neighborhood Hero The nomination forms are on the website. They can be mailed in, faxed, or e-mailed to Bill or Cheryl; the deadline in August 20. Any neighborhood can participate.
UDO Neighborhoods should look at their areas and try to understand what could change, not just in uses but also designs. There is a working list of issues but overall the UDO will be a great improvement. Alice Bumgarner is organizing a working group to work on the RU issue. The amount of detail is daunting to understand.
Funding for Durham Courts We will take up in September.
Citizen Comment at Public Hearings The issues where there have been problems have been general business items, not public hearings. However, if people have even called in indicating they want to speak, they should get a chance to address governing bodies.
Apex Street Bridge Closing After a lot of discussion, we decided to that we couldnt make a decision during the meeting.
Other actions / updates / items:
§ Nominating Committee They are getting organized.
§ Long range transportation plan Opportunities to examine the plan on August 3 and 10. See www.dchc-mpo.org
§ August meeting we will hold one, but topics will be limited to UDO and housekeeping.
Adjournment The meeting adjourned.
