Check out our video below to learn about the Dayton’s Bluff Community Council’s 2018 Annual Meeting and Board of Director’s Elections.
DBCC Annual Meeting Board Elections and Information Session
Are you a Resident or Business Owner in the Dayton’s Bluff Community who is interested in planning for investment in transportation, housing, the environment, access to water and more?
Check out the informational video and PDF flyer below and please join us at our Annual Meeting on Monday, November 19th, 6:30 P.M. at the East Side Enterprise Center, 804 Margaret Street, as we elect a new Board of Directors and embark on the Road to A Community Plan!
To learn more:
Attend our Information Session Saturday, November 10 at 10:00 a.m.
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To schedule an information session, contact Lissa Jones-Lofgren, Interim E.D., at (612)791-6279 or lissa@daytonsbluff.org
Better Housing for All – Fair Housing Listening Session
DECEMBER 15, 2016
6PM – 7:30PM
East Side Enterprise Center, 804 Margaret Street, 55106.
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Join the discussion about housing on the East Side.
Express your experiences with sub-standard housing, exploitative landlords, high fees, and what solutions are needed for a better result when looking for housing.
A light meal will be shared.
A $5 Cub Foods card will be handed out to participants.
You don’t want to miss this…!
Don’t miss the
2016 Annual Meeting, Dinner and Elections
Thursday, October 27, 2016
5:30pm to 7:30pm
Historic Mounds Theater
1029 Hudson Road (near Earl)
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Click on this link for more details about the meeting:
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OPEN POLLS – Times and Dates to cast Ballots for your DBCC Board of Directors
Open Polls – Times and Dates to cast Ballots, located at 804 Margaret Street:
Monday, October 24 – 10am – 8pm
Tuesday, October 25 – 10am – 8pm
Wednesday, October 26 – 10am – 8pm
Thursday, October 27 – 9am – Noon at 804 Margaret Street, and Final voting from 5:30pm – 6:30pm at the Historic Mounds Theater located at 1029 Hudson Road.
Voting: gives you the opportunity to voice your opinion on issues that affect those in your community, and the power to shape the government and its policies.
As a voter: you have the responsibility to vote for policies that will benefit your children, as well as future generations.
Since Voting: is a democratic right to all, you have the opportunity to share the issues that need to be addressed.
Meet The Candidates – TONIGHT – 10/19/2016 6pm
MEET THE CANDIDATES
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
6:00 – 7:30PM
East Side Enterprise Center
804 Margaret Street, Saint Paul, MN 55106
Please join us for an evening of engaging conversation, and meet your candidates up close and personal! These community members are seeking your support to represent you and the work you want done in your community. Each Dayton’s Bluff sub-district elects it’s own local representatives to champion their interests.
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Roger Tetu Award, 2016
Seeking Nominations for the Roger Tetu Award.
Dayton’s Bluff Community Council established an annual award named for Roger Tetu to celebrate the good works of “community members who offer kindness without hesitation on a daily basis.” This award is less about leadership and recognized accomplishment and more about the daily expression of caring for community and all its members.
Nominees may be individuals or groups of any age. We encourage the inclusion of young people beginning their life of community engagement and service.
The award will be presented at the Dayton’s Bluff Community Council Annual Meeting and Community Dinner to be held on Thursday, October 27th, 2016.
Deadline for Nominations is October 18, 2016. Please email the following information to: michelle@daytonsbluff.org
Name of Nominee, Nominee’s address, phone and email,
a Summary Statement of Qualities that Represent your Roger Tetu Award Recipient (1-2 sentences),
Reason for Nomination (500 words or less).
Also, please include examples and anecdotes demonstrating a determined commitment to community service and generosity with respect to individuals or groups living in Dayton’s Bluff.
Download MSWord version of the form
St. Paul business incubator wins grant
A planned business incubator in St. Paul’s Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood is the next step in an effort to turn East Seventh Street, a road once dominated by car dealerships, into a more people-oriented and entrepreneurial corridor, community planners say.
City officials awarded the incubator a $350,000 Neighborhood Sales Tax Revitalization grant this year – the largest award in the 2016 batch.
The STAR funding is a critical piece of the $2 million endeavor to revamp an old Chevrolet car dealership at 809 E. Seventh St., said Jim Erchul, the executive director for the Dayton’s Bluff Neighborhood Housing Services.
“We wouldn’t be able to do this without that [STAR grant], because of the mathematics of financing a project like this,” he said. “It just doesn’t work in terms of what you can get for rent versus what it would cost to renovate that building.”
The building will need a new roof, brick work, heating and cooling systems and an interior makeover to accommodate the new uses, Erchul said.
The Dayton’s Bluff Neighborhood Housing Services organization has been leading the charge on the project along with St. Paul-based Neighborhood Development Center, which manages other business incubators in the Twin Cities and offers entrepreneur training.
The groups want to turn the building into an aspiring entrepreneur and contractor haven, with space for construction materials, a shared co-working office and room for a few small businesses.
One of the main goals is to get young people and business owners “rubbing elbows” as companies grow and look to hire people, Erchul said. The incubator will be especially good for contractors because of the space available to store materials, he said.
Dayton’s Bluff Board Member wins DFL endorsement for School Board
A year after setting in motion a series of dramatic changes at the top of the city’s public schools, St. Paul DFLers on Saturday endorsed an East Side neighborhood leader with a decades-long commitment to early childhood education as their candidate for a vacant school board seat.
If elected Nov. 8, Jeannie Foster would serve the final 13 months of a term vacated by former board Chairwoman Jean O’Connell — and would, in turn, carve out a new chapter in what her supporters describe as a remarkable beat-the-odds life story.
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A year after setting in motion a series of dramatic changes at the top of the city’s public schools, St. Paul DFLers on Saturday endorsed an East Side neighborhood leader with a decades-long commitment to early childhood education as their candidate for a vacant school board seat.
If elected Nov. 8, Jeannie Foster would serve the final 13 months of a term vacated by former board Chairwoman Jean O’Connell — and would, in turn, carve out a new chapter in what her supporters describe as a remarkable beat-the-odds life story.
Foster was endorsed by acclamation Saturday after nearly capturing a first-ballot victory over former board members Keith Hardy and Claudia Swanson, and two other political newcomers: Tony Fragnito, a PTO president at J.J. Hill Montessori Magnet School, and Monica Haas, a leader of a No Cuts to Kids group that pushed hard this spring to restore funding to district classrooms.
Like Hardy, Foster is black, and if elected, she would be among three people of color on the seven-person board.
Roy Magnuson, a Como Park Senior High teacher and veteran campaigner for local and state candidates, said Foster drew support Saturday from a rare coalition of DFL activists from the East Side and the city’s wealthier Fourth Ward.
Historic Dayton’s Bluff apartment building gets new developer, higher costs
Euclid View Flats in St. Paul’s Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its local significance in architecture. (Courtesy of McGhiever, via Wikimedia Commons)
The three-story apartment building at 234-238 Bates Ave. in Dayton’s Bluff occupies an interesting place in St. Paul history.
The red-brick structure dates back to 1888, earning it praise from fans of St. Paul architecture. Many founding members of the East Side Boys gang lived in the building and called it home in 2002, according to several former leaders interviewed by the Pioneer Press. The gang became one of the biggest in the city.
The historic property, heavily vandalized in recent years, has been vacant since 2010. On Wednesday, the St. Paul City Council met as the city’s Housing and Redevelopment Authority and designated the Sand Co. as a tentative developer for the “red building,” which will be rehabbed into a dozen affordable units named Euclid Flats. Sand has until Feb. 1 to finalize financing, rehab costs and approvals for the estimated $4.5 million project.
