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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> INC-list <inc-list-bounces@lists.deltaforce.net> on behalf of Pat Carstensen <pats1717@hotmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 1, 2021 7:39 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> inc listserv <inc-list@lists.deltaforce.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Durham INC] DRAFT INC minutes</font>
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We do need to have a slate of candidates for INC offices by the September meeting -- we usually list the slate in September and approve the slate in October.</div>
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Please let me know about any additions or corrections to the minutes. Thanks, pat</div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:700">August Delegate Meeting of the InterNeighborhood Council of Durham</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:700">Via Zoom</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:700">August 24, 2021</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400">Attending the meeting were:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:700">Neighborhoods</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400">Bragtown – Vannessa Mason Evans</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400">Falconbridge -- Dick Ford</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400">Long Meadow – Pakis Bessias</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(33,33,33); font-weight:400"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400">Merrick-Moore – Bonita Green</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(33,33,33); font-weight:400"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400">Morehead Hill –
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400">Old West Durham – David Eklund</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400">Trinity Park – Philip Azar, Mimi Kessler, Diane Amato, Mary Molina</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400">Annette Smith -- Durham Parks and Recreation, Durham Parks Foundation</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400">Will Wilson -- president of INC</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400">President Will Wilson called the meeting to order, and those present introduced themselves. There were no adjustments to the agenda.
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400">Sarah Morris</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; font-weight:400"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400">moved
to approve the June minutes, Bonita Green seconded, and the minutes were approved. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:700">Trinity Park Neighborhood Fiber Installations</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400"> --
The resolution was sent the mayor and council; the response from the mayor is in the appendix. The issues, including gas leaks and torn-up lawns, continue with all the fiber installers.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:700">Bylaws Revision Update</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400"> --
The committee now has a draft better-arranged bylaws, so progress is continuing.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:700">Duke rezoning</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400"> --
Burch Avenue has been watching the “issue football” tossed around Duke people and departments, but now has a meeting set up. Duke would like to do an “omnibus” rezoning to UC (University Campus), mostly without a development plan, for a bunch of small properties.
Burch Avenue is concerned about a property (the old Duke laundry) that is in the middle of the neighborhood because of the traffic impacts of many of the uses Duke could do there with UC zoning. There is another piece of the proposal next to the Crest Street
neighborhood, and we should support this neighborhood. Burch Avenue could bring in a resolution on the issue.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:700">Candidate Forum</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400"> --
No-one has raised a hand to lead this. Not all the candidates showed up at forum sponsored by the Committee on the Affairs of Black People. Doing a candidate forum is a lot of work. What questions would we want to pose that aren’t done elsewhere? Would
it make sense to send out a questionnaire, creating focus on neighborhood issues? If so, we would want to limit the number of questions to about 6 questions.. Susan will take in questions and make a list; Will will send out an appeal.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:700">Development Project updates</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400"> -- </span></p>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">There was a neighborhood meeting for an affordable community at Fayetteville and Geer; on paper, it sounds good. </span></p>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Bragtown is still working with different developers. </span></p>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Rosewalk is asking for a re-zoning.</span></p>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Aura </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Farrington 54, a traditional garden-style apartment complex on Farrington Road near the intersection of N.C. 54 and I-40, aimed
for completion in early 2023. Plans for Aura Farrington 54 include 250 apartment units across three four-story buildings on around seven acres with 400 surface parking spaces. The intersection is already “challenging.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:700">Neighborhood Reports</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400">Dearborn Park got their mural put in today; Red Maple Park is also going to get one. Other parks are getting murals and in different
stages of work. More on Durham’s public art: </span><a href="https://durhamnc.gov/3245/Public-Art-Collection"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip:none">https://durhamnc.gov/3245/Public-Art-Collection</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400">We could potentially do a program on land trusts versus other avenues to affordability.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Cambria,serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:700">Appendix: Mayor’s Response on Damage from Fiber Installers</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400">Thank you very much for this resolution of the INC. I agree that we have had a lot of difficulties with fiber optic cable installers
over the past several years. City staff has repeatedly had to suspend digging for some of the installers for the reasons you cite. I have not heard much about this recently, so I appreciate hearing this from you all.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400">Many of the practices you outline are ones that we require already. I hope they are being effectively carried out.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400">As you may know, the City used to charge the utilities to pay for the inspections the City has to do after the companies dig.
But the fiber optic companies went to the legislature four or five years ago and got the legislature to disallow the City from charging for this very necessary service. The City still does this inspection, of course, but it costs the taxpayers now to provide
this service to the fiber optic companies that should be paying for it. At the height of the digging a couple years ago, this cost the City $2 million in a single year.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400">So I share your concerns. I will pass this resolution on to our City Manager for her to share with staff. I am sure they will
give it their attention.</span></p>
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