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, 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.
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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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.
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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.
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.
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.
Hmong Village and NENDC came to the District 4 Board meeting on November 17, 2014 and got the approval of the board for the expansion of the parking lot. At that time there was going to be a land swap with some PED land near the Hamm’s site going to parks in exchange. That land wen to parks a long time ago. Hmong Village has continued to have the parking issues, but the City has moved slowly.
We did have a meeting with a bunch of local neighbors hosted by Hmong Village the other day to discuss traffic concerns and we again discussed the increase in parking spaces then. Everyone agreed it would reduce the number of cars parking in the neighborhood.
The issue as we all know is that Hmong Village is in D 4 – but all of the residents live in D 2. So, I don’t know what kind of notification you would have done to the residents in D 2 of your meeting since no adjacent properties that have residents are in D 4.
D 2 has been concerned that cars that want to go to Hmong Village park in the D 2 neighborhood and has been supportive of NENDC assisting in their effort to get more parking.
Parks must ultimately approve a site plan that will replace trees and block the parking lot from the D 2 neighbors views.
After a year of amazing success, WEQY 104.7 FM is proud to host the 2nd Annual 7th Street LIVE Festival. Join WEQY personalities for a Battle of the DJs and Battle of the Bands. Taste food from local restaurants, support local artists, and bring this kids for tons of family fun.
For some late night fun, don’t miss the After Party at Minnesota Music Cafe! Enjoy drinks, food, and dance to your favorite jams with the Blue Print Band.
DATE: Saturday, August 13th
TIME: 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm
LOCATION: 895 E. 7th Street
For updates on vendors and entertainment, visit http://weqy.org/7th-street-live.
Dayton’s Bluff Community Council Board of Directors Meeting
Date/Time: Monday April 18, 6:00-8:30pm
Location: Eastside Enterprise Center – 804 Margaret Street
Learning Session: 6:30 – 7:00 PM
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Board Session
Board members present: Tong Thao, Quintin Koger Kidd, Jeanelle Foster, Laura Kidd, Holly Windingstad, Jessica Johnson, Jacob Lambert, Rafael Espinoza, Breann Tierschel
Board members w/ excused absence: Tabitha Benci Derango, Henry Garnica, Pa Chua Vang, Osman Egal, Chris Lollie, Todd Gramenz
Board Members absent: Shannon Prescott, Rob Sebo Lubke, Elizabeth Matakis
1. Introductions & Call to Order- Tong Thao 7:05pm
a. Approval Of Minutes- 3/21/16
b. Approval Of Agenda
Unable to approve minutes, no quorum at the moment
2. Staff Updates
a. Deanna – McKnight foundation is funding a partnership project with DBCC, Lutheran Social Services, HAFA, LEDC, Urban Roots, and Metro… to work collaboratively to support workforce development and youth entrepreneurship in bi-weekly meetings.
b. Brenda – Loan Readiness Program & Business Outreach, a $500,000 grant to work with ESEC partners.
c. Nicole – left a communications report and will gladly speak to any board members if they have any questions.
d. Dezmond – Working on Better Bus Stops grant, doing surveys, listening sessions, and possibly videos.
Quorum is reached, Jeanelle moves to approve minutes, Quintin seconds, motion passed. Holly moves to approve agenda, Jeanelle seconds, and motion passed.
3. Committee Updates
a. Executive Committee – still working on the evaluation process for Deanna.
b. Finance Committee – Review P&L for DBCC and Radio, drafted community fund application, begin drafting fiscal policy. An auditor set up to talk about the scope of audit and fee.
c. Neighborhood Development – Vacant Home Tour, great turn out. Close to 400 signed waivers and good press coverage from MPR and Channel 5.
d. Sports Committee – Issue was raised about equitable investments in Saint Paul parks and recs. More affluent areas are getting more money to have programming while we are left out.
i. Rafael motions to approve Sports Committee to use all of the $2000 dedicated to Community Fund to open rec centers on Sundays for 4 hours until the fund is depleted or the issue is resolved.
1. Seconded by Laura
ii. Motion fails with 7-no and 2-yes,
iii. Rafael requested the following statement from him to be shown in the minutes: “We keep talking about making the neighborhood better but yet we don’t support initiatives to do so. This is the second time the Dayton’s Bluff Community Council has voted no to support youth soccer programing in the neighborhood”
4. First Quarter Financial Report
a. Deanna reviewed line items and talked about quarterly revenue and expenses and how finances are done when brought in.
5. Old Business
a. Board Conduct – Jeanelle talked about the ways we should be treating each other as fellow board members and community members, especially highlighting the racial attacks some board members have received.
i. Jeanelle motions to create ad-hoc committee to work on Board Governance Handbook with members Quintin, Holly, Jeanelle, and Tong. Quintin seconds, motion passes.
b. Policy Training Plan – Deanna is applying for the Management Improvement Fund from the St. Paul Foundation and is awaiting a reply.
6. New Business
a. Committee Membership Recruitment
i. Elizabeth was not present to discuss this
b. Need for racial equity training
i. Not enough time needed to discuss this.
7. Announcements
8. Adjourn – 9:02pm
