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Mission: To empower residents of the Belknap neighborhood to identify their interests, support their own well-being, and to facilitate community health and prosperity.
Purpose: We were founded in 1980 to deal with Crime and Blight. Housing and safety remain the top two concerns of neighbors.
Our activities for the next two years are laid out in our strategic plan. One of our big projects this spring was hosting a series of Restorative Practice trainings. Our summer interns have been active in cleaning up litter and clearing sidewalks of any tree limbs blocking the walking path. We are about to launch a food truck series to get more eyes on Lookout Park to address recent safety concerns.
Here's what we expect to accomplish via our committees in 2023:
- Beautification is expected to conduct outreach to potential recipients and plan and install 6 patio/landscape combos on key streets, host a perennial exchange, Dumpster Day, and 3 peer education sessions.
Circle Planning is expected to learn about shared decision making, teach other groups key principles and facilitate their use of relevant methods, prepare for the Annual Meeting, and propose an overall structure and process for NOBL governance and committee operations at that meeting.
Community Development will continue to evaluate projects as they arise, participate in Master Planning, learn and report about affordable housing option FUSE, advocate for trash cans at bus stops and sidewalk snow removal by the City, learn and report about home repair programs, LMCU and Seeds of Promise, advocate for tenant to ownership and recap and begin recruiting business types.
Events may host 7 food truck events, a basketball tournament, the board social / block party, national night out, farm to table fundraising dinner, walkathon / dog walk, and blood drive.
Public Safety will create a work plan focusing on coordinating with local organizations providing youth activities. They may also call neighbors to ask about any safety concerns.
Racial Equity will develop a work plan to determine specific topics to be covered at their basic monthly meeting. As the quarterly cycle continues they will prepare a policy suggestion and build new partnerships.
