INC Delegate Meeting Minutes – June 13, 2015 – Inter-Neighborhood Cooperation

June 13, 2015

28 – Voting delegates in attendance – met quorum

Minutes–Minutes of the May 9, 2015 INC monthly meeting were approved without exception.

Treasurer’s Report

CD’s: $12,197
General Savings $14,518
Charity (formerly DDD): $1,904
Checking: $3,350
Total amount: $31,972

Notes: Our thanks to Xcel Energy for a $700 donation for INC operations. We have approximately $2,000 outstanding invoices.

Committee Reports

 President

 ZAP

o SWIC has offered us an office in their community center @ 1100 S. Lowell Blvd at a very low cost per month. Board approved this expense at the last meeting.

o SWIC is a great place for any committee or community group to meet.

o David Felice, in partnership with Centurylink donated a computer and printer for our use.

o June meeting will emphasize Excise and License

 Hosting the Dir. of Excise and License

 This will be a Question & Answer meeting

 Will be collecting can goods as part of an ongoing food drive for SWIC

 PARC

o The resignation of Lauri Dannemiller is big news

 Scott Gilmore is acting lead until a nation search can be conducted

o The Parks and Rec Advisory Board will have a changing of the guard. These are City Council appointees and they are volunteer positions. INC would like for any of you who are interested to contact PRAB and City Council.

o Next Meeting – Discussion of Park Tree Exposure

 Is there a tree spraying plan for city parks? Yes, but it has limited funds.

 Sonya Johns is documenting impact of increased sodium in our water supply (purple pipes) on our trees and we want to
bring her methodology to other city parks.

o INC August Meeting

 Will focus on the Gasification/incinerator Process that is coming to the Denver Zoo

 This will be burning more than animal waste. These are typically located outside city limits.

 City is treating this as an experiment and Neighborhoods need to do more investigation

 Safety Committee

o Safety Expo is Saturday, September 12

 This will be a large event in partnership with the Colorado Classic Car Club and the Fireman and Policeman Museums

 2 Locations

 Mile High Stadium – Car Show and Vendor Booths

 East High School – Safety Expo and Demonstrations

o The District Safety Meetings will continue

o An e-mail distribution list is being created for future communication

o Police Sensitivity Training

 There will be a parade between Mile High and East High

 Channel 9 News and AM 950 will be partners

 Next meeting: June 23rd (Dist 3) @ 6pm

 They will be the 4the Tuesday of each month

 District 2 had a streaming video of the meeting. Linda Dowlen created the video

 Michael Sapp (Mayor’s Office) – Requested INC involvement

 Would like to involve students

 Date will be during Denver Days (Aug 1 – 9th)

 Possible venue is Clayton College Campus

 INC has concerns with the optics of such a “training” of citizens.
Perhaps we could combine it with officer training as well. Teach how a citizen can file a citizen’s report.

o INC said thank you to Merce for all her hard work

 Charitable Giving Committee

o A new Goal and Direction has been established

“Keep Good Going”
Support local groups that are doing good work and bring resources to them.
Question: Shall we make an INC Foundation?
Maybe down the road, but not this year.

 Involve RNOs in performing this survey (as applicable)

 Create buy in by surveying the whole city instead of one focus area

 Suggestion: Use United Way & Denver Post to help as they have

o Include direct neighborhood activities – Community Gardens, Help for the Homeless

o Recommendation: Include Beacon House – This is an amazing organization that needs resources already done a survey as well

 Communications Committee

o The committee will collaborate with Charitable Works to create a web page in denverinc.org for them to use.

o Working on the start of an “INC Academy”

 Need more content from committees

 Would like each committee to have a curriculum

o Facebook seems to have slowed down, working on pushing more information to Facebook.

o Working to make denverinc.org a library of information

 Membership

o We are working on reaching out to all RNOs this month to increase membership.

o Wash Park Profiler said All RNOs are members, but that isn’t true. RNOs must fill out an application and pay the membership dues to become a member.

New Business

 A July 4th Parade is being planned for Observatory Park

 The Virginia Village RNO hosted the National Bocce Ball tournament last month

 INC needs a chair for the INC Dinner

 West Washington Park is hosting a garden tour this summer

o Jane Potts volunteered to be the INC Dinner chair

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