April Meeting Minutes

CSANA 4/6/2016

7pm

Hampton House: 155 Northhampton St

Meeting Minutes: Miren

7:04pm                 Meeting opened by Bud and introductions.

Last meeting’s minutes were reviewed and approved at 7:06pm.

 

Treasurer’s Report: Sara

• Current budget: $3,370.62
• Sara would like to have 3 committee members to assist in drafting a fundraising letter, with the objective of beautifying/lighting the park, as well as events for the whole year.
• This will be put on the agenda for next month’s meeting

Boston Shines April 30th

• Bud will talk/email Sam Chambers re: mulch and will know how much mulch is needed, and how much mulch will be available to us
• Miren: will handle getting wheelbarrows (preferably two)
• We will do flyers that mention FB and website
• Start time will be 10am. VH clients will be available to help starting at 9am

 

Alexandra Hotel

• Nothing new, down to 5 contenders/potential buyers from 52

 

Mass Ave/Shawmut Store Vacancy

• What do we want to see there?
• Coffee shop, ice cream/frozen yogurt place
  • Something that adds to the community

Foodies

• Randi has requested that this be moved to May’s agenda
• As an aside: Sara would like to have owners of Tropical Foods to come to a CSANA meeting and share how we can support them

Comet Place-

• waiting on info from Sam Chambers

Ideas for Beautification, Activities and Safety in Chester Park

• It was suggested to look into a 3 month lighting opportunity in park (like in Franklin Park)
  • Idea is to light trees 2/3 way up
  • This could be done to trees around the fountain or all trees
  • Both sides of park will support lights, as well as flood lights that will not shine into residences
  • Idea will be to Increase safety and decrease drug use in area as well as beautification
  • Likely will need a “partner” to sponsor Chester Park to make this happen (going back to Sara’s request for a fundraising committee)
• Wesley suggested approaching art schools in area about doing an installment
• Overall everyone agreed that the following needed to be determined:
  • What do we want
  • Who to partner with
  • What do we prioritize
• As a result the following was decided:
  • Subcommittee: Bud, Mark, Wesley, Sam
  • Prioritize working on planters first
    • Mark has done inventory on dead and missing trees and will send to Boston Parks Dept to be rectified
  • Daffodils on median: Done by Mark
  • There was a motion by Sara to determine how much money CSANA would spend. It was agreed this would be discussed again next month after inventory of supplies is completed.

South End Forum

• At most recent meeting there was a discussion about traffic, Bud communicated that Mass Ave has worst traffic in the South End.
• There was a digital speedometer recently installed on Mass Ave on odd side of the park.

Website

• Wesley has volunteered to help
• Julian paid domain fees and will need to be reimbursed

Next Meeting:  Wednesday 5/4/16 Hampton House @7pm