GRIA Community Meeting 01/22/2019
Board Members Present: Phong, Nellie, Corey, Aaron, Maryanne, KC, Jed
Staff Present: Carrie
Total Attendees: ~20
Start: 7:04pm
End: 8:33pm
Community Announcements:
- Baltimore Day in Annapolis 2020
- Medstar Medical Group in the Rotunda has a new Pediatrician, and is looking for new patients under 18:
- The Undercroft has special events coming up
- Soup Tasting at Greater Faith Baptist Church happening on Saturday
Votes:
- Corey voted in as Vice President of GRIA
Agenda:
- Communications
- Remington Newsletter
- We’re reinstituting the newsletter
- Much simpler, one page printout
- Looking for block captain to distribute the flyer
- Looking for businesses interested in being involved
- Less article focused, more community event and GRIA focused
- New Website
- Remington Newsletter
- Land Use
- Letter of Support for the Dizz
- Paving in Druid Hill Park
- GRIA learned that Parks and Rec were moving forward with
- Waiting for Rec and Parks to communicate
- Next Land use committee
- Feb 11th at 7:30pm
- Dumpster Day
- Saturdays from 9:00am to 11:00am (sometimes earlier)
- March 21st
- …
- Facebook Event will be posted
- Saturdays from 9:00am to 11:00am (sometimes earlier)
- Candidate Forum
- Occurring on February 19th (instead of the community meeting)
- Accepting questions for the candidates at
- info@griaonline.org or call Carrie at 443-540-4167
- BGE
- We’ve been told in years past that we’re a test case for rolling out smart switches to the rest of the city
- It’s been downhill from there
- Uncommunicative and at times combative
- We’ll be forwarding all community feedback of experiences with BGE to the upcoming hearing
- Please submit your story to
- info@griaonline.org or call Carrie at 443-540-4167
- Public service commission
- State agency which has attempted to introduce rules for BGE that wasn’t successful last session
- Remfest
- Website is up at remfest.org
- May 9th, 12pm – 9pm
- Soliciting applications for Remington/Baltimore Bands