Board Members Present: Shayna, Matt, Wynn, Corey, Aaron
Staff member – Amanda
Total Attendees: ~19
- Start: 7:05pm
- End: 7:49pm
Agenda
- Baltimore Transportation Equity Coalition
- Looking for signatures to create a regional transportation authority.
- Amends the city charter.
- Baltimore is the only city that doesn’t have a regional transportation authority.
- Even if you’ve already turned in a petition, please re-sign.
- Electronic petitions are not allowed.
- HB1112 to allow electronic petitions is currently making it’s way through the MD house: https://legiscan.com/MD/bill/HB1112/2023
- www.moretransitequity.com
- btec.moretransitequity@gmail.com
- First National Bank
- Now Open
- Good promotions
- Direct deposit with 2500 with a certain amount of transactions
- Home Equity Loans at 1.99 percent
- Businesses get no charge checking accounts
- Grand Opening June 8th
- 9-5 Monday to Friday
- Live Telebanking in the ATM area
- 8am to 5pm on the weekends
- Lorraine Block Parties
- Streamlining them to be open to the entire neighborhood
- May 13th 3pm-11pm
- Night Market
- 5pm to 9pm this Friday
- Food Vendors:
- Ekiben
- Emmanuellas Cuisine
- Any food vendors that are closer to the neighborhood
- Volunteer and events coordinator
- Hired to help plan events and organize our volunteer base.
- Will be organizing flyering in the future
- Community Needs Assessment
- Presented last community meeting
- Finishing up now
- Looking for comments
- Johns Hopkins Student Union
- Here to interface with community associations
- JHPD
- Feels that it hasn’t been legally setup
- Will be bargaining with Johns Hopkins in the legal sense soon
- Dumpster Day
- April 29th at 8am and generally full at 10am or 11am
- Lower Remington at Hampden and 23rd
- Donations and Joining GRIA!
- Dues are $10 dollars
- https://griaonline.org/donate