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Thank you to Veda for taking these meeting notes!

We spent most of the meeting time discussing the Habitat Project. There are a variety of opinions about this. There does seem to be a consensus that at least saving a contiguous strip of undisturbed green space would be great. It remains to be seen how infrastructure and the site itself will support construction on the property. Until we have more information about what Habitat is able to do, we will wait and see. There is a contingent of people who still believe that if the site turns out to be undevelopable, the City might yet be pressured into buying the land. Other people feel that the City has no interest in this land, that this development will precede and it would behoove us to cooperate with Habitat and have some input into how the development proceeds. It was a spirited discussion in the democratic tradition of people forcefully sharing their opinions. We are grateful for democracy.

We discussed the need to recruit more participants into the NWNSA. We also need to form a committee to nominate a slate of officers for the spring election. Sophia Hauserman has offered to chair the Nominating Committee (which we hope will also serve as a recruitment tool!) Current officers are not allowed to be on the nominating committee, so we are asking people to volunteer to help Sophia with this task. Please contact Sophia at 332-5556 to support her.

Veda asked people what they thought about amending the NWSNA Constitution to create an executive committee to run the association, instead of the officers that we currently have. Bill Baus made a convincing argument in favor of keeping the current system and there was consensus that Bill was right about this. (The Constitution will be posted on the Near West Side website sometime in the next few days.)

We decided that it would be a good idea to have a party in place of the November meeting. We will post a flyer about this in the next week. All are welcome, regardless of how involved you want to be in the neighborhood – the idea is to build our sense of community and togetherness, and it will be a family-friendly event.

The party will be Monday, November 21st at 7:00 at Bill Baus’ house at the west end of 8th Street. It will be a pitch-in for snacks, with the NWNSA providing drinks. Mark your calendar!