WRA Board - 2008-9 Meeting Calendar (No Board meetings in July & August)
All meetings will start at 7:30 p.m. and be held at the Anderson Cultural Center, 5301 Overbrook Ave. unless otherwise specified
Sep 08	Oct 08	Nov 08	Dec 09	Jan 09	Feb 09
Hon Curtis Jones, Jr	Ray Scott-Jones, SJU
Tuesday 16	Tuesday 21	Tuesday 18	Tuesday 16	Tuesday 20	Tuesday 17
Board meetings are open to all WRA members. Executive Committe meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday and are not public.
Current Board minutes appear below. Click on month names to see other minutes
Sept 2008

 

Minutes of the Wynnefield Residents Association Board and General Meeting Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Attending
Frances Aulston	Elaine Brown
Dru A. Brown	Gwen Cottman
Gloria Howard	Cecelia Jones
Ray Scott-Jones	Stephanie V. King
Paula Lamb	Bristol Leake
Nora Levitt	Maurice Monroe
Louise Moss	Dick O’Malley
Emory Pabuey	Legora Ragland
Peter J. Rescorl	Karen Robinson
Clarence E. Smith	Hannah Rollings
Al Spivey, Jr	Wanda Staples
Brenda Williams	Jocelyn Wims

Meeting was called to order at 7:30pm by Peter Rescorl, President of WRA   Old Business   President Peter Rescorl asked if the members invited any guests to the meeting as requested by Peter from our last meeting. Two guests were at the meeting:   The first guest was a return guest Drew A Brown. The second guest was invited by Wanda Staples, her name was Emory Pabuey   President Rescorl informed us Cassandra Cooley was out the office for two weeks because she lost her mother. Also he announced the death of Bill Ramsey a few weeks before and a letter of condolences was going out to Mary Ramsey. He encouraged the members to call Mary Ramsey.   Review of the Minutes from the last meeting, 9/16/08. Motion was given and seconded for the Minutes to be accepted as written.   Review of the financial report. Paula Lamb explained about some funds deposited in Sovereign bank because of a question by Nora Levitt. Motion was given and seconded for the financial report accepted as written.   President Rescorl welcomed Ray Scott-Jones to the meeting and he asked her a question regarding the sport facilities for the purpose of the use of the track for the people in the neighborhood. There were some concerns about the availability of the track for people to run or walk the track.   Ray Scott-Jones addressed those questions by assuring the members of her looking into the availability of the facility for the purpose of running the track and having access to those facilities or what restrictions are being posed on the usage of the facility.   Al Spivey discussed various promises proposed by Councilman Jones and how those promises are implemented in the neighborhood. He also touched on some pointers regarding the merchants responsibility about keeping their areas clean and if those duties are not done the neighbors calling Councilman Jones office and/or L/I office to report the merchants not up-holding to their responsibility.   There were questions posed to Al Spivey regarding certain areas needing a clean up. He answered by informing the members about the proposed cleaning of the 59th street Bridge, Jefferson Street bridge. Al Spivey also informed the members of the pending cuts in service as announced by Mayor Nutter in the announcement during his news conference on the budget and the economy.   Commitee Reports   Zoning Committee — Stephanie King She reported on the property at 54th and Wynnefield Avenue. How the organization is handling the sale of the property and the rules in how the property is not to be used. The Real Estate brokers’ office was informed about who to speak to if someone was purchasing the property and directing the individuals to WRA for a zoning permission if they want to put something in that space besides homes. Another property is 2453 N 54th Street the Phillips Electronic is leasing their property to Dominos Pizza and the zoning board approved the property for this venue for the neighborhood. There were discussions by the members with Stephanie why another pizza shop and why not at a different location such as the property at Saint Joseph next to the book store. There were other question regarding zoning for other type of companies in the neighborhood and if there are violations how they report them. Stephanie answered the questions and directed the people how to handle the various situations. Dick O’Malley informed Stephanie of property vacant over a year and the need for a good sit-down restaurant in our area.   President Peter Rescorl discussed some reasons why we do not have such a restaurant because of our convictions of not having an organization with a liquor license to sale or use alcoholic beverages in their establishments.   Triangle Park -— Wanda Staples Wanda left early so she did leave a message to inform the meeting of an up-coming town watch meeting at the triangle park on 10/28/08 at 7:00pm. The location was not clear if the meeting would be in the park or some other person's residence.   President Peter Rescorl Informed the members of the standing of the property where the triangle park is located. The Commissioner of Public property has issued a statement that WRA is the grantee of the deed to this property. When it happens we will be the owner of the said property. There is some legal process this needs to go through before it becomes official. Wanda has agreed to be the head of the beautification committee. That is how this property and the committee been organized. This is the project Councilman Jones and the American City foundation has been committed to help any way they can such as future funding. There was proposed a year ago of another $50,000 in the making, it has been tabled it may come back up at another time.   Block Captains committee- Dick O’Maliey Block organizer set up a meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 7:30pm at the home of Jay Johnson, 5638 Gainor Road.   Weed/Seed Committee-- Clarence Smith 19th district is having its town hall meeting on 10/23/08 at 7:00pm at the 19th district office, 61st and Haverford Avenue. These town hall meeting are for the purpose of people having any problems or concerns to come out and ask questions. They will have all the higher ups law enforcement there to answer your questions and reassuring you of your safety and other concerns. You should try to come out and attend these meetings.   Membership Committee -— Louise Moss The membership committee met and talked about and contacting schools to find out when they are having special events. The committee will then be there in place to represent WRA. We are going to redesign the membership forms.   President Peter Rescorl Is there a way we can get the letterhead we already have printed so that we can have it available? We should design Wynnefield banners for light poles on City Avenue, much like the university has and Overbrook Farms. We have four poles between 52nd street and Bala Avenue so we can hang the banners. We need to form a committee to design these banners. Is there any one willing to head this committee and form the committee and get members together to start working on this. This should be a simple design and it should not take long for the banners to be made. Once we get the money then we can move forward with the committee but we do need someone to lead the committee for making the banner. Francis Austin has volunteered to chair this committee.   Shredder proposed by Paula Lamb I had suggested we have a shredder truck. I have looked at several vendors and I would like to put together a committee together to look at the options we have. When would you like to have the truck in the spring or before this Christmas? When we have the truck out for the shredding we can have a table set up for people to sign up for membership.   Meeting adjourned at 9:15pm   Submitted klr 11/18/08