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Meeting Notice
GPNA Board Meeting set
For Monday, August 17, 2020 at 6 PM
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Meeting agenda-
Meeting Opens at 6 PM with Roll Call by President
Minutes read for board approval by Secretary
Welcoming and calling on special guests- (includes our council persons and council elect persons)
New Business-
President names chair and membership of the following committees:
1. Public Health & Safety
2. Transportation, Parks, Arts and Environmental (includes Sanitation issues)
3. Development and Fund Raising
4. Business Advocacy and Support
5. Neighborhood Equity
6. External Affairs
7. Financial and Facilities
There will be and Oversight Committee that is made up of the Executive Board; that being the President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary. This committee is chaired by the Vice President.
Old Business-
- Report from the PH&S Committee (Steve)
- Report from the Transportation-Parks-Arts & Environmental Committee (Mary-Karen)
- Report from the Development and Events & Fund Raising Committee (Mel and Bryce)
- Report from Business Advocacy Committee (Mike and John)
- Report from the Neighborhood Equity Committee (Kathleen)
- Report from the External Affairs Committee ( Eric)
- Report from the Financial and Facilities Committee (Steve)
Other Business-
Adjournment-
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For starters this result is a far cry from what happened with last budget vote by city leaders a year ago this week. The end result of that now long ago vote was to see Engine 11 on Rubel Avenue decimated with a loss of 50% of firefighters housed there, and also its Engine. But that was then.
Let me take a few minutes and talk about the "now". Though pleased by the Headline above stating no staff cuts for 20-21, the work of Citizens For Firefighters-20 (CFF-20) is no where near over. The group's next step will be to watch closely the Federal Budget review. It most likely will need to take this on in a way to help see that adequate Federal dollars are forwarded to City government. The neighborhood associations of this part of Louisville need to work via CFF-20. We owe it to these brave First Responders to stand in support of them. And to be crystal clear I'm speaking of the sworn Fire, Police and EMS professionals. It must be stressed that appropriate funding for these next 12 months has to be in place so these men and women can make these runs, and take on the role of being the first to provide treatment! By all counts, and I mean that literally, this Pandemic is not over. And the rising numbers of new cases means the role of these public health and safety professionals remains critical.
To repeat it is OK to be pleased there are no budget cuts planned for 2020-21, but an added goal for CFF-20 is to realize more federal dollars to become added later into this next fiscal year's budget amounts as well! As one of the initial sign on neighborhood associations to help start CCF-20 GPNA has been out front for months in its support for staffing for the Fire Department being stabilized, and kept whole. And this goal is even more important to see assured given the Pandemic we continue to experience. July 1, 2020 is the start of the City's next fiscal year. We all know that Covid-19 will be right there every day as well.
Hi Everyone,
GPNA sends its deepest sympathy. We are so appreciative of Bob's long time work to better our association and his care for family, and neighbors. He will be missed.
Thanks to our calling on our high tech consultant Paul Impellizzeri's we will be posting again to our Website. Once we test for a couple of weeks we will be developing a strategy to tie content to our Facebook Page. We hope you Bookmark us and follow both our Website and Facebook Page.
If you have an interest in posting to our Webpage or wish to make suggestions please email to stevemagre.m39@gmail.com. Steve serves as the association's Volunteer Administrator. He will be pleased to connect with you.
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