[Durham INC] re-corrected October minutes

Tue Nov 11 08:36:27 EST 2014

I hope I finally got the attendance right -- I think I got distracted before I finished typing it )-:

Attending the meeting were:

Neighborhoods

Colony Park – Don Lebkes

Cross Counties – Pat Carstensen

Downing Creek – Dick Ford

Duke Park – Bill Anderson

Fairfield – Steve Biccum

Falconbridge – Jim Carroll, Lawrence Charny

Forest Hills – Donna Laws

Golden Belt – DeDreana Freeman

Northeast Hills – Wanda Boone

Northgate Park – Debra Hawkins, Mike Shiflett

Old North Durham – John Martin, Peter Katz, Denise Schreiner, Jackie
MacLeod

Old West Durham – Vicky Welch

Solterra – Leslie Nydick

Stage Stop – Dolly Fehrenbacher

Trinity Park – Philip Azar

Tuscaloosa-Lakewood – Susan Sewell 

Woodcroft – Scott Carter

Woodlake – Katrina Portwood

Visitors 

Lynwood D. Best – City of Durham, NIS

John Killeen – City of Durham, NIS

Dale McKeel – City of Durham, Transportation Department

Ed Sarvis – Assistant Deputy Chief, Durham Police Department

Wayland Burton – Durham County ABC

News and Observer – Jim Wise

From: pats1717 at hotmail.com
To: inc-list at durhaminc.org
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 07:52:50 -0500
Subject: [Durham INC] corrected October minutes

Please let me know about any other errors…  Regards, pat

October Delegate
Meeting of the InterNeighborhood Council of Durham

NIS Conference
Room, Golden Belt

October 28, 2014

Attending the meeting were:

Neighborhoods

Colony Park – Don Lebkes

Cross Counties – Pat Carstensen

Downing Creek – Dick Ford

Duke Park – Bill Anderson

Fairfield – Steve Biccum

Falconbridge – Jim Carroll, Lawrence Charny

Golden Belt – DeDreana Freeman

Morehead Hill – Bruce Mitchell

Northeast Hills – Wanda Boone

Northgate Park – Debra Hawkins, Mike Shiflett

Old North Durham – John Martin, Pete Katz, Denise Schreiner, Jackie
MacLeod

Old West Durham – Vicky Welch

Solterra – Leslie Nydick

Stage Stop – Dolly Fehrenbacher

Trinity Park – Philip Azar

Tuscaloosa-Lakewood – Susan Sewell 

Woodcroft – Scott Carter

Woodlake – Katrina Portwood

Visitors 

Lynwood D. Best – City of Durham, NIS

John Killeen – City of Durham, NIS

Dale McKeel – City of Durham, Transportation Department

Ed Sarvis – Assistant Deputy Chief, Durham Police Department

Wayland Burton – Durham County ABC

News and Observer – Jim Wise

President Philip Azar called the meeting to order; those present
introduced themselves.  Bill
Anderson moved to approve the September minutes,
Dick Ford seconded and the motion carried.    Susan Sewell reported
that there has been no change in the financial
accounts, but there is a bill for the website; we need to update the
signatures.

Wayland Burton gave a presentation about the Durham Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Board, which controls the
sale of spirits in Durham County at 8 stores in Durham County and provides
funds to the community.  He
distributed copies of the 2014 Annual Report, available at http://www.durhamabc.com/newsite/asp/index.asp?action=annual_rpts.  The ABC board had 5 members.  The new general manager is Barry
Sessoms, and the new law enforcement chief is Rufus Sales.  Distributions from profits in FY2014
include $1.5M to Durham County, $166,667 to the City of Durham, and $141,149 to
non-profits.  Wanda Boone brought
up a process developed with Steve Schewel whereby neighborhoods and
citizens can try to block renewal of a store’s license if they are selling to
underage drinkers or are not preventing illegal activities on site.

Ed Sarvis gave an overview of the Police Department’s Strategic Plan, especially as it relates to
pedestrian and bicycle safety.  The
plan is still in draft, but they expect changes to be minor.  The plan looks at steps the Police Department
can do to support the overall goals of the city, especially being a
well-managed city and being a safe and secure community.  They also did an analysis of strengths,
weaknesses, threats and opportunities. 
On dangers to pedestrians and bicyclists, the police don’t want to set a
goal of writing some number of tickets, but to improve problem areas.  Assistant Chief Sarvis said that Durham
One Call is the preferred one-stop place to request additional traffic enforcement
in an area of the city and that DPD will be making regular reports to BPAC on
its traffic enforcement activities on neighborhood streets.  Furthermore, DPD will re-engage with
INC (whether the traffic safety committee or the full group) when the strategic
plan is in final form and the Department is comfortable with broad distribution
of the plan, in order to help operationalize the strategic plan.  Finally,
the “State Law Says to Yield in Crosswalks” signs are effective, but there are
limits on where they can be used.

Committee Reports                                                                                                

 Parks,
     Public Spaces and Environmental Issues – Deb Hawkins asked again for
     comments and questions and will be sending the final report to the
     list-serve if there are no new questions.  Charge Ahead Durham will have no new suggested
     activities or prizes, but the website will remain up with all the great
     suggestions on saving energy and water and money, plus having more fun
     outside.  
 Zoning
     and Development – The FCC has come out with a new ruling that makes it
     easier to put in and expand towers, gives communities only 60 days to
     decide on towers, and requires generators.  For a summary, see: http://www.telecomlawmonitor.com/2014/10/articles/uncategorized/fcc-eases-process-for-tower-construction-and-wireless-infrastructure-deployment/.  Planning won’t wait to see what
     these new rules mean for their proposal, which still makes towers under 60
     feet a non-transparent (that is, secret) process between the planning
     department and the tower developer.
 Membership and Outreach – PAC 3 has allocated 5
     minutes at their meetings for an INC update.  We will see about including an INC hand-out in the
     National Night Out packet.   

Old Business 

 Resolution on Internet Services –
     Given what is already happening, we need to find out whether we need a
     presentation, the current draft resolution (Appendix A), or a different
     resolution.  Pat Carstensen
     will check around.

·     
Resolution on
Solar Power
– Deb Hawkins has collected questions and answers and will send to the
list-serve.  Just in case the
motion never got moved and seconded, Deb Hawkins moved the resolution (Appendis
B) and Susan Sewell seconded.  We
will ask Dave Rogers to come back when we discuss the resolution further.

New Business 

·     
INC Executive Committee meetings will be on
second Tuesdays and are open to all; e-mail Phil Azar for directions.  

·     
Please consider getting involved in existing
committees, or bring ideas for new committees we need to form.

·     
November and December delegate meetings will be
combined on December 9th (NIS has confirmed that the room is
available).

·     
Different neighborhoods will probably choose
different dates for Night of Lights. 

Neighborhood Reports and Announcements                                                            

·     
Colony Park has passed a resolution that to keep
the current zoning on the tract between their neighborhood and 15-501, rather
than re-zoning to build townhouses like those at the Townes at Briar
Creek.  Any help they can get would
be appreciated.

·     
Jackie MacLeod of Old North Durham and Liberty
Arts (http://www.liberty-arts.org ) gave an
overview of what they do and how devastating it has been to be kept out of
their casting facility because of East West Partners’ construction at Liberty
Warehouse.  Liberty Arts has been a
key part of re-development in Durham, and raised money for the Pavilion, but
the city didn’t even include them or tell them about what was going on.  

The
meeting adjourned.

Appendix A: A RESOLUTION BY THE
INTERNEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL OF DURHAM SUPPORTING FASTER, LESS EXPENSIVE, AND MORE
RELIABLE INTERNET SERVICE

WHEREAS, many
communities are experiencing the benefits of gigabit Internet service (Kansas
City from Google Fiber, Austin with AT&T’s U-verse GigaPower, various communities
with Verizon’s 500/500 FiOS, and Chattanooga from their community-owned
electric utility); and

WHEREAS,
residents of Durham experience poor Internet performance from the existing broadband (1.5 to 30
megabit) carriers; and

WHEREAS,
Durham’s economic future is dependent, in significant part, on growth in
industries and services which require high speed, high quality Internet access;
and

WHEREAS, quality of communications services affects the
perceived quality of a neighborhood; and

WHEREAS,
Durham neighborhoods and residents have drawn the attention of the
InterNeighborhood Council of Durham to a number of initiatives, whether by
publicly traded companies or public-private consortiums, designed to bring high
speed Internet alternatives to Durham and to the determination of the City and
County of Durham to pursue one or more of those alternatives;

NOW,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the InterNeighborhood Council of Durham:

1.  Recognizes, salutes, and celebrates
Durham's desire for faster, more reliable and less expensive Internet
alternatives; and 

2.
Supports competition in the Internet service provider market; and 

3.  Expresses its gratitude, enthusiasm,
and encouragement of and for the City and County of Durham as they pursue high-speed
Internet alternatives; and

4.  Urges Durham elected officials and other
government officials to seek one or more alternatives that balance the desire
for higher real-world speeds, more reliable and cheaper service, and expanded
coverage of as much of Durham as possible, as quickly as possible, in as
equitable a manner as possible; and

5.  Offers its support, whether by
resolution or otherwise to any application, pooling of information, or other
reasonable means that might increase the chances for high-speed (fiber-based) Internet alternatives
being realized sooner rather than later.

This
_________ day of ______________________________, 2014.

THE
INTERNEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL OF DURHAM

By:
__________________________________________

      Philip Azar,

      President

Appendix B: Solar Power Resolution

RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF
MAKING DURHAM A WORLD-CLASS SOLAR CITY

WHEREAS, the
State of North Carolina currently emits 72 million metric tons of carbon
pollution annually to produce electricity; and

WHEREAS,
solar power is a clean source of energy with which North Carolina can power its
homes, businesses, and cars to achieve better air quality and reduce carbon
pollution; and

WHEREAS, the
State of North Carolina receives more than 250 days of sunshine per year, and
last year installed more solar than every state but California; and

WHEREAS, the
solar industry provides over 3,100 jobs to North Carolinians, and has grown for
six consecutive years; and

WHEREAS, if
the State of North Carolina were to generate 14% of its electricity from
distributed generation solar, an additional 700,000 solar rooftops would be
installed; and

WHEREAS, the
City of Durham is the fourth largest City in the State; and

WHEREAS, the
City of Durham has adopted a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory and Local
Action Plan and has committed to reduce emissions by 30% from 2005 levels by
2030; and

WHEREAS, the
City of Durham recognizes the above assets of solar power and desires to renew
its commitment to this important clean energy solution; and

WHEREAS,
neighborhoods support the reduction in greenhouse gases,

THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED that the Interneighborhood Council of Durham urges Durham to
become the first North Carolina city to officially set its own goal of
generating 15% of the electricity used by the City of Durham and its residents
from solar by 2030 and to call on the State
of North Carolina to follow Durham’s lead in making North Carolina a leader in
solar power and to set a goal of having 700,000 solar roofs by 2030.

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