Substantiate the reasons for a name change.
1. Crime List Data. Mat (me) will compile of list of crime events over the last few months and highlight the areas associated with Berkshire Downs West.
2. Separation from Berkshire Downs West. Why we feel it is important.
a) BSD West is in the City / BSD is in the County
b) BSD has huge Lots / BSD West has small lots and section 8 housing
c) BSD currently has a low crime rate / BSD West Crime is High
3. Building Community Pride by becoming involved with the name selection process.
a) Building a potential name list, getting families, neighbors and community involved.
b) Have a ceremony when the final selected name is determined.
c) Have dedication celebration when the new name sign is posted at he entrances
A) Next immediate steps to take
a) Create a petition statement
b) Write the reasons and data to justify the change
b) James has volunteered to go to each home with the petition and information
d) Once we have 51% of the vote we can proceed to the next steps
B) We need to explore the requirements needed to begin the legal process of changing the subdivision name.
a) Who do we need to contact?
b) What forms are necessary?
c) How much will it cost?
d) How will it be funded?
e) Who in the group will be responsible for the legal paper work?
f) How long will it take once we have filed?
Our Next Meeting will be 7:00 PM Thursday July 8th
We did speak briefly at the beginning of the meeting about cleaning up some of the foreclosed homes in the neighborhood that are looking really bad. The reason is that it de values our property and turns off potential buyers from these homes and other homes in the neighborhood. If we want to attract responsible respectable neighbors we have to demonstrate why they should consider why this would be a nice place to live. Most of their decision is based on appearance after price.
It was suggested that we could collect volunteers and equipment needed to do these tasks after we have established who are the owners of these properties and which houses to begin first. We were just discussing cutting the grass(hay in some cases) and picking up the yard.
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Thanks, Mat Trickel
