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The following are the rough, working notes from the third breakout session convened at the connecting places in the Broadway-Fillmore District of Buffalo meeting held at the Central Terminal on October 3, 2009.
Issue: Coordinating events in the district, establishing a program calendar and a project timeline
Convener(s): Eddy and Rich
Summary of Discussion:
Making people aware of events going on:
· Too much “red tape” to get project going and through city hall
· Share email addresses
· Post it (notices) outside (example – Central Terminal)
· One set person to coordinate calendar
· Repetitive advertising
· Come up with a unified image
· Focus on “your” area (i.e. not entire east side) – If not, “name”
How to select a “Name”?
· Notify Buffalo Police of events (C District – Chief Scott)
· Board leadership cross-overs ( a board member of Broadway Market also serving as a board member at Central Terminal
Restoration Corporation)
· Use workers for all
· Expand to all groups
· Bring events from other (outside) communities: must be “thought out” well; need someone to find and plan them, (e.g. “Parking and Ride” on second level of Broadway Market (NFTA) research and implement)
· Add to existing events (e.g. “Art Deco” fashion show at Central Terminal)
The following are the rough, working notes from the second breakout session convened at the connecting places in the Broadway-Fillmore District of Buffalo meeting held at the Central Terminal on October 3, 2009.
Issue: Restoring the Broadway-Fillmore Area and Re-Inventing Paderewski
Convener(s): Bishop Grosz and Eddy D.
Summary of Discussion:
- Bring in people/keep people
- Preserve the old post office
- Paderewski: NYS/COB/E.C. attend – change laws
- Support each others events
- Creation of a calendar of events
- Need one master plan
- Get a foundation involved
- Urban planner stay involved
- A small group can get things going: talk and share
- Keep “re-entry” initiatives
- Collaboration, communication and planning
- Rebuild on empty lots
- Continue meeting
- Rebuild neighborhoods
- Hit city hall
- All groups work with police (E. Ferry & Fillmore)
- Involve more people
- Get more people to move here
- Unity
- Today – first step-next-develop solutions
- Develop a plan for houses around St. Stanislaus
The following are the rough, working notes from the first breakout session convened at the connecting places in the Broadway-Fillmore District of Buffalo meeting held at the Central Terminal on October 3, 2009. Several topics were discussed, each with their own
notes.
Issue #1: “Successful Re-entry”
Convener: Antwon D.
Summary of Discussion:
- Communication
- Plan
- Help those who come back as good neighbors.
- Help businesses who would do this: politics
- Need help – accountant/lawyer
- Promotion re-entry incentive
- Successful re-entry statistics
- Child molesters
- Make them resources
- Programs to help the comeback
- Occupations in area that need help
Issue(s) #2:”Improving the relationship between the police & the community/Crime & drugs”
Convener(s): Bill C. and Ken K.
Summary of Discussion:
- Police care – know neighborhood, make contact with police, have a “war” on love.
- Abandon Buildings – COB do something
- Drugs & crime
- Absent landlords
Issue #3:”Homeless/Squatters”
Convener(s): Joyelle and Karen
Summary of Discussion:
- Hope Center – help homeless and support network
- Violence against homeless population
- Abandoned buildings – homeless moving in
- Rehab old house/owner occupied
- Helping people
- Volunteers
- Organize
- Jobs in the community
- Money needed
- How do home/business owners find out about $$$
- Council members should be here to help
- Many people want money; help needed to write grant requests
- Strategic planning needs to take a broader look
- Neighborhood needs one large voice
- New generation must be included/involved
- Education
- Have a solution
- Work together
You Are Invited to Help Connect Places in . . .
Broadway-Fillmore — Broadway Market Village — Historic Polonia — The Terminal District.
This area — however you define it — is one of Buffalo-Niagara’s more challenged neighborhoods from a residential perspective but also one of its most attractive culturally. If you care about the opportunity to strengthen this area by making connections among its cultural places, come to this meeting.
To be discussed:
• What has happened?
• What are the problems?
• What’s important to you?
• What are the plans?
• What are the solutions?
• What should be done first?
• Who is going to do it?
• Who is currently involved?
If you have a passion for this neighborhood, come join us at a public meeting convened by [LIST
OF CONVENERS].
Saturday, August [DATE], 2009, at 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. (with lunch by reservation only), at
[LOCATION], Buffalo. Reserve your lunch by August 10th by sending your name and contact
information to connectin2009@[HOST.COM]