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Planning Progress
As early as March of this summer, it became clear that the proposed process for community involvement was not going to be sufficient. BNA submitted a proposal to the Greater Twin Cities United Way for additional funding to conduct more in depth community outreach. The United Way awarded BNA with a $2,250 grant.
BNA then took the planning efforts to the street, literally. The neighborhood was split into five small areas, each consisting of about five city blocks. Each area received notice of a neighborhood planning meeting that was going to be held nearby under tents. Each area was then door-knocked on multiple occasions in order to extend a person invitation and to start getting neighborhood input. Those attending were asked their opinions about what they liked about the neighborhood and ideas to strengthen these assets. They were also asked about their concerns and ideas about how to make improvements. The people in the area that could not attend the meeting received a mail in questionnaire that they could use to provide input.
To date, we have conducted four of the five planned neighborhood meetings.
All the input is being reviewed to identify common themes and ideas for neighborhood improvement. These themes, concerns, and ideas are grouped and turned into actions. The groupings and the related actions will be turned into the Neighborhood Action Plan.
The plan will soon be mailed to every household in the neighborhood for each person to have another chance to see and review how their input and the the input from others has come together to create a plan for neighborhood improvement.
In late January, 2005 the results of the questionaire included in the fall mailing were tabulated and comments reviewed. Additionally, the action plan was submitted to NRP for a legal review (to make sure all the actions identify qualifying expenses under the State statute that created the NRP). Only one action was not fully cleared.
There have only been a few changes, clarifications, and errors corrected from the first draft to the final draft. The final draft will be mailed to all households in early February with a final neighborhood ratification ballot. The final version is alreay available online > here <.
As early as March of this summer, it became clear that the proposed process for community involvement was not going to be sufficient. BNA submitted a proposal to the Greater Twin Cities United Way for additional funding to conduct more in depth community outreach. The United Way awarded BNA with a $2,250 grant.
BNA then took the planning efforts to the street, literally. The neighborhood was split into five small areas, each consisting of about five city blocks. Each area received notice of a neighborhood planning meeting that was going to be held nearby under tents. Each area was then door-knocked on multiple occasions in order to extend a person invitation and to start getting neighborhood input. Those attending were asked their opinions about what they liked about the neighborhood and ideas to strengthen these assets. They were also asked about their concerns and ideas about how to make improvements. The people in the area that could not attend the meeting received a mail in questionnaire that they could use to provide input.
To date, we have conducted four of the five planned neighborhood meetings.
All the input is being reviewed to identify common themes and ideas for neighborhood improvement. These themes, concerns, and ideas are grouped and turned into actions. The groupings and the related actions will be turned into the Neighborhood Action Plan.
The plan will soon be mailed to every household in the neighborhood for each person to have another chance to see and review how their input and the the input from others has come together to create a plan for neighborhood improvement.
In late January, 2005 the results of the questionaire included in the fall mailing were tabulated and comments reviewed. Additionally, the action plan was submitted to NRP for a legal review (to make sure all the actions identify qualifying expenses under the State statute that created the NRP). Only one action was not fully cleared.
There have only been a few changes, clarifications, and errors corrected from the first draft to the final draft. The final draft will be mailed to all households in early February with a final neighborhood ratification ballot. The final version is alreay available online > here <.
