Zoom General Meeting Agenda Minutes                
Tuesday, March 2, 2021

7:00 PM – Log In & Call to order:   Start Recording Meeting for website

             Welcome from Don. - Announcements 

Approval of last meeting’s minutes – APPROVED without objection

Alderman’s Report: Dan Guenther, 9th Ward

• Today was voting day in the primary, next election APRIL 6th will actually be the one that chooses the alderman

• Received approval for city to give out COVID vaccines at Walgreens

  • St. Louis Area Agency on Aging is now giving a phone number (314) 657-1499 to sign up if you do not have internet access – will sign them up and give them a ride to get the vaccine

• Pedestrian fatality at Lemp and Arsenal on Saturday 2/27

  • Car came off the highway at a high speed, hit 2 people at 11:30pm and one was a fatality

  • Friday Dan is meeting with pedestrian traffic and safety contact for changes – maybe rumble strips on off ramp

• Cherokee Street – medical cannabis – Cherokee has growing, processing (DeMenil) and dispensary Cherokee/Jefferson

  • Job fair Saturday March 13th – they are hiring for all 3 locations in the medical marijuana locations

Police Report: Officer Jazmon Garrett – was not able to make it

Treasurer’s Report/ COVID19 relief program: Liz Gerard – report will be uploaded to the website for review

Committee Reports:

• Building Review Committee - Tim Mulligan (Chair)

  • Pestalozzi – new request – developer who has done a number of other projects will be doing a townhome project catercorner from Benton Park Café

  • Indiana projects asked the developer to go back to the drawing board

    1. Their projects did not fit into the historical nature of the neighborhood

  • Jefferson/Lynce large project is pending still hoping to break ground in 2021

• Events Committee – Brittany Nelson (Chair)

  • Planning full schedule of socially distanced concerts in the park

• Safety Committee - Barbara Vindiola (Chair)

  • If anyone is interested in joining the safety committee

  • Trying to reinstate block captains that can be the contact for each block to relay information

• Marketing/Web/Social Media

  • If anyone knows of anyone who would like to become a member of BPNA

• Parks Committee – Dan Guenther (Chair)

  • Alley/Parks spring cleaning – 55 ramps are covered in trash he will be asking for help to clean up those ramps from volunteers

• Garden Committee - Bill Kranz (Chair)

  • If you want a box to garden in contact Bill

  • If interested in learning more about the cave recovery project contact Bill

• Dog Park Committee - Nicole Poston (Chair)

  • Committee met last Saturday and they decided to keep the park closed for 2 weeks for the seeding, looking to reopen late April/Early May

  • Nicole will be stepping down from the President of the Dog Park role

  • There will be gardening days to keep up the park March 21st/April  (10am-2pm)

  • bentonparkdogpark@gmail.com to volunteer or lend gardening tools to use

NEXT MEETING APRIL 6, 2021