Eight
Streets Neighborhood Association
October 11th, 2016
Project Place Common Room (1145
Washington Street)
Next
meeting: Tuesday,
November 1st, Capital One (310 Harrison Avenue); speakers include:
„ Richard Gordon, South End Buttery
„ Polka Dog Bakery
„ DiPierro Construction: Discuss proposal for
adding dormer at 47 Dwight. Lighting will be discussed.
„ John Keith, Candidate for Register of
Deeds, County office
December meeting: likely to be Tuesday, December 13; need to confirm. This
will be a social at The Eagle.
Meeting
minutes
Introductions: Michael Almond
(President)
„ Alley clean up + Boston Shines: Nov
19th
Sgt. Lucas Taxter
and Officer Richie Litto (Boston Police Department)
„ Wayne Lanchester,
new captain, transferred from Brighton
„ 12 Police Districts in the city
„ 911 calls go directly to City Police,
no longer State police
„ Crime Trends Š overall, crime is
going down in our area; Operation Safe Alley maybe, in part, responsible (see
more below)
o
Residential
burglaries
_
Oct
3 @ 39 Milford, B&E at night while at home sleeping, unlocked windows
_
Oct
6 @ 61 Dwight, doors propped open with newspaper
o
Commercial
burglaries
_
EmilioÕs
Pizza, broke side window
_
Aug
29 @ FormaggioÕs, 268 Shawmut, 2am, rear window
broken
o
Larcenies
and thefts
_
Apr
17, Apr 29, Sept 16 - Dwight & Taylor, Sept 24 - 31 Dwight
o
24
gun arrests in D4 YTD, up from last year
„ Operation Safe Alley
o
Officer
Richie Litto facilitates alley way and street walk
safety tours on select evenings.
These have been very successful in elevating key safety items from dusk
to dawn, e.g., locking back door gates, adding house numbers to back areas,
adding peep holes to alley doors and increasing lighting.
o
Officer
Litto will help clean the alley ways from a safety
perspective during Boston Shines on Nov 19th.
o
Officer
Litto to approach EmilioÕs about adding low level
lighting behind restaurant.
„ Suggestion was made that lighting
should be managed by developers during construction. Can ESNA get involved in
the communication before we give our vote of non-opposition???
„ Peters Park: homeless are
sleeping/living in the park, smoking in the park, and drinking in the park
Karen van Unen
(COO, South End Community Health Center)
„
Location:
1601 Washington Street (next to Flour Bakery); Phone: 617-425-2000
„ Mission: a board governed non-profit,
comprehensive health care organization for all residents of the South End and
the surrounding communities. Committed to providing the highest quality,
culturally and linguistically sensitive, coordinated health care and social services
to every patient, regardless of their ability to pay. Staff serves over 19,000 patients
accounting for 75,000 visits annually.
„
Primary Medical Services Offered:
o
Adult
Medicine
o
Pediatrics
o
Family
Medicine
o
WomenÕs
Health
o
Walk-In Care
„
Specialty Medical Services Offered:
o
Behavioral
Health
o
Dental Care
o
Eye
Care & Optical Shop
o
HIV/AIDS
Care
o
Nutrition
o
Pharmacy
o
Sexual
Health
o
SUPPORT
for Substance Abuse
TreasurerÕs Annual Report (Colleen)
„ Bank Finances, currently $6,200
positive in the bank
„ Fall Membership Campaign will begin
this month with an email outreach
„ Dues: Individual $20, Household $30,
Business/associate $50
Friends Groups Updates
„ Peters Park (Bernard)
o
Dog
run renovation will be complete by end of October
o
250K
funds to improve the rest of the park will be managed by a subcommittee of
members from Old Dover and Friends of Peters Park. City Parks will make all of the
decisions but they will allow this sub-committee to lead the direction. If anyone would like to join this
subcommittee, please reach out to Friendsofpeterspark@gmail.com
„ Watson Park (Michael)
o
Established
friends group as a 501 3C
o
Opened
bank account
o
Exploring
fundraising opportunities
„ Ringgold Park (Don)
o
Pruning
trees
o
Halloween
party will begin at 5pm; street closed to traffic for 2 Š 3 hours
o
Fall
clean up on Nov 19th
„ Berkeley Community Gardens (John)
o
Fall
clean up on Oct 29th