West St. Catherine Neighborhood Association

WSCNA May Meeting

Agenda & Notes

St. Catherine Neighborhood Association

Meeting Agenda #1
Sunday, May 25th, 6:30 to 7:45
Location: Nancy McCormick, 1054 Garvin Place


Discussion Topics & Notes Taken


Item Topic Notes & Comments
1.Meet and Greet Attendees: Jon Huffman, Barb Cullan, Jessica McCarty, Mike Tyree, Nancy McCormick-Cogan, Greg Moore, Chris Moore, Neal Nixon, Charles Zoeller, Sonia Perez and (her lovely daughter).
2.Block Watch & Securit: Many neighbors still did not know about the death of Charles our neighbor on Zorn – no resolution
•New motion sensor lights being set up by individual home owners. Good deterrent.
•New officer liaison – Officer Sturges
3.Planned Development District
•Property -Sons of the Revolution
•Other initiatives:Steve Sizemore provided information stating that Planned Development District planning for SoBro (South Broadway) which takes in properties to Zane will kick off in the fall.
4.Traffic – 1 way, 2 way, Traffic Lights Jessica McCarty updated all on the work she has done to curb speeding semis and inappropriate traffic through contacts with Rep. Reginald Meeks and the KY Legislative Research Commission, Public Works, Donna Sanders who works for Councilman Unseld and others. Unfortunately, no one really wants to slow traffic via changing the lighting sequence or re-route overweight semis traveling to the 15th street industrial district.
Several of our neighbors have had damage to cars, property, and buildings (plaster cracks) due to the large trucks and semis traveling on St Catherine, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th streets and Garvin Place. Jessica has put a letter together for each home owner to forward to Ted Pullen, Director of Public Works, and Donna Sanders, Assistant to Councilman Unseld letting them know about the annoyance. The letter is attached with the notes. Their e-mail addresses are ted.pullen@louisvilleky.gov-donna.sanders@louisvilleky.gov
•We also discussed a civil protest against the truck traffic in July and invite local and state media
5.Block Party: The idea of the block party is to get interested neighbors together to discuss enhancements to the neighborhood and how to achieve them. Grill hot dogs, chips, beverages, Live Music from one of our neighbor’s bands. The suggested date for the Block Party is Sunday, June 15th. The location is Garvin Place between Zane and St. Catherine.
Next Steps –
•Get volunteers to help plan the event
•Gain approval from neighbors to block Street
•Get permit to block the street from Public Works
•Advertise the event
•Invite police liaison, Major Green, Councilman Unseld, Mayor & anyone else we think is important to our causes
Also, 6th Street Neighborhood Association would like to join us as they are so small the need our help.
Note: If you want to be on the Block Party Committee, please send a response e-mail by Monday, June 2nd.
6.Ghost Tour: This is a major fund raiser for St Catherine neighborhood assoc. If you want to be part of the excitement October 24th, 25th or 26th please e-mail your response by June 18th.
7.Items for next meeting:The attendees said they wanted to discuss schedules and meeting structure at the Block Party. In the next few weeks we will request your list of ideas, concerns and neighborhood issues to be provided to all neighbors for priority.
8.Miscellaneous Items• City Call 311 to report landscaping problems – If you say you saw a Rat they will come.
•Welcome Wagon for new neighbors – Package of neighborhood key contacts, etc.
•Michael Tyree will work on a private “Face Book” link which will automatically update our e-mail addresses with neighborhood security items.
•Produce neighborhood treasurer’s report.