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UPDATE
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This meeting has been moved due to a water line break. The PSA 504 Brainstorming meeting has been relocated to MPD Fifth District Station at 1805 Bladensburg Rd., NE (phone (202) 698-0150). The time is still 6:30 - 8:00 PM.UPDATE
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What appears below is the announcement from the TrinidadDC listserv. Basically this came out of citizen requests for more productive and focused PSA 504 meetings, but it may go beyond that. I cannot attend the meeting due to school but people should go and I promise it will address issues of interest to the community far beyond the Mt. Olivet Road area [if you live in PSA 504 you should attend]. This is just who is spearheading it. So please attend and participate. It may well turn into something larger.
Title: Meeting with Alice Thompson, Ward 5 Community Outreach Specialist
Date: Monday March 24, 2008
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Trinidad Rec Center
Street: 1310 Childress St., NE
Notes: To help combat our issues, surrounding the Mt. Olivet Road vicinity etc.
Here is the tentative agenda for the meeting-
* Create comprehensive plan, with community, MPD, DDOT, DCRA, DPW, City Hall, and other input, to combat crime, trash, and other community ills. To include, but not be limited to:
o MPD/community focus groups
o MPD/community crime surveillance
* Request more MPD foot patrols in areas of concern including 16th and Levis Streets, NE
* Establish procedure to back-up Lt. Anderson with MPD personnel at future meetings to ensure community requested information is available in her absence
* Establish procedure to invite community selected speakers to future PSA meetings
* Request a DCPR Urban Ranger’s representative attend next month's meeting to discuss patrolling area recreation centers after-hours.
* Request DC US Attorney Jeff Taylor attend next-month's PSA 504 meeting to address papering arrests
* Address tow-truck removal from lot at 1520 Levis Street, NE
* Request that Council member Harry Thomas Jr.or a representative, attend next month's PSA meeting
* Request DCRA'S Linda Argo attend future PSA meetings to address business anti-crime efforts.
* Request Janice Quintana, head off DC's Unified Communications Department, attend future meetings to address dispatcher handling of 911 and 311 calls.
* Request representatives from DC Housing, DDOT, DPW and other agencies attend future PSA meetings.
* Request contact information for ANC-5B10 representative India Henderson
* Request schedule of activities provided by Trinidad Recreation Center
* Establish regular meetings with Friends of Trinidad Recreation Center Organization to discuss community concerns regarding the center.
2 comments:
Well, I hope Ms. Thompson does more than what she has been doing, since she has proven quite useless in her position. All she knows is to call police for everything, instead of getting the proper city officials involved in whatever matter it is. There are just some matters that MPD cannot handle, nor are they responsible for, like property maintenance issues that invite criminal activities and bring down property values of neighbors. Someone must have gotten on her case, since she is now going to be at this meeting. No offense, but in my past experience in dealing with her for Ward 5 issues, Ms. Thompson has been very unresponsive and lazy. Others I know who have contacted her have also had no luck in getting her to do things that are necessary and not out of her control. Needless to say, Ms. Thompson has a bad or spotty track record in making an effort to get things accomplished in Ward 5. Let's hope tonight's meeting has something productive coming out of it and that Ms. Thompson actually realizes that she should do her job.
The meeting was, in my opinion, a success. I heard a lot of good ideas I hadn't heard before and I heard a lot of action items assigned.
Ms. Thompson, Commdr. Greene, Lt. Anderson, Councilman Thomas, a representative from Kwame Brown's office and others were there meeting with our PSA 504 residents.
I took decent notes at least for the first 2/3 of the meeting, but I'll defer to the organizers of the meeting to post their minutes.
Folks who are in the area but who haven't attended PSA meetings or ANC meetings...sounds like we've got some concerned citizens who are stepping up and trying to improve the neighborhood.
Give these meetings a chance and come out & join the push to improve our neighborhood!
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