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ITEM 1 - CALL TO ORDER: 6:30 p.m.
ITEM 2 - Commissioners Present: Little, Brockwell, Larsen, Cohn, Arai, Gaffney-Kindig,
Evans, J. Fox, Harrison, L. Fox, Creswell, Kinney, Mesch, Floyd, Kreienkanp,
Varnes, Wicht, Slabe, Spicer, Roybal, Witkin, Facas, Weston, Lynch, Baca, Bradburn.
26 present. A quorum declared.
Honored Guests: Council Representative Sue King. Also present, Kane Mc Neill,
who will be appointed to the ACIC at the Council meeting on Monday 6/23/08.
ITEM 3 - PUBLIC COMMENT: Jessie Garcia spoke on behalf of bringing Boys and Girls Clubs to Lakewood not only to keep young people occupied but also to build knowledge and give purpose.
ITEM 4 - APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Minutes were approved with correction to the report of the Historical Landmarks Committee to say work continues on assigned project.
ITEM 5 - CORRESPONDENCE
Resignation letter was received from Chris Heisman, Youth Committee citing work-related
conflicts. Resignation accepted with regret.
ITEM 6 - COMMITTEE REPORTS
1. PARKS, TRAILS AND OPEN SPACE: Assignments to date are completed. A new assignment from Council requests PT&OS investigate the possibility of adding a specific parkland zoning to the City Zoning Ordinance.
2. PUBLIC ART COMMITTEE: A new assignment asks the Committee to look at use of mural walls as a tool to prevent graffiti. The next meeting on Monday June 23 will review a similar project from Philadelphia.
3. HISTORICAL LANDMARKS COMMITTEE: The committee will hold a special meeting on 6/25/08 at 7 pm at Carmody Rec Center to prepare its proposal to e-mail to all commissioners for comment. Te proposal will be presented to ACIC in July. All commissioners are invited to this and all other meetings. Additional meetings are as follows: 1) Tues. 7/1/08, 7 p.m. to seek feedback from commissioners for their work; 2) Wed. 7/2/08 7 p.m. to hear presentations on Eiber Neighborhood by Paul Ditson and on preservation and monument at 6th and Wadsworth by Christian. Regular committee meetings are the first Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. All meetings are at the Carmody Rec Center.
4. YOUTH COMMITTEE: Two new assignments. 1) Study graffiti prevention methods, including education of youth. 2) Research other communities to see if they have committees with a youth focus and work/projects they currently are doing. Both have a due date of 9/17/08.
5. SENIOR COMMITTEE: A new assignment to research other cites to see if they have a Senior Committee and what work they currently undertake in the community. Due date is 9/17/08.
6. ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITTEE: Will present reports on their two current projects (Increasing Recycling and Building Green) this evening under New Business.
7. NEIGHBORHOOD LIASON COMMITTEE: Work continues on the report on Neighborhood Cleanup. The committee will present that report at the July ACIC meeting. In addition, the Committee is drafting a report on improving communications between the city and neighborhood groups and among neighborhood groups with each other.
8. BUSINESS COMMITTEE: Current assignment is to review current information
distributed to small businesses in the city. They will present a report on these
items at the July meeting. This review pointed out duplication of effort and
lack of central distribution of information. Thus, they plan to hold a "Business
Summit" to invite representatives of entities currently in the city to
review available information to develop a better plan of distribution.
9. DIVERSITY COMMITTEE: 1) Reviewed available resources on diversity and inclusiveness
as well as a list of organizations and institutions recently contacted by the
committee thus far. They are beginning to draft a mission statement. 2) A new
assignment to propose educational programs for ACIC and City residents. They
are considering a seminar on inclusiveness and diversity and will hold a planning
meeting on Thursday 6/26/08 at 6:30 pm which will be open to all commissioners.
They will present a proposal for the seminar at the July ACIC meeting. 3) Contacted
other Colorado cities which indicate they are also working on inclusive community
issues only to find that no specific action is being taken in any of these cities.
The committee is aware that our ACIC is making more progress in this area than
neighboring cities.
ITEM 7 - OLD BUSINESS:
Moving Committee proposals forward. Trina Brockwell led a discussion of the
proposal outline sent to all commissioners following the May meeting. There
was lengthy discussion of various points including the difference between a
comment to Council and a proposal; whether referring a proposal to the Commission
as a whole slows the process down or functions as a rubber stamp to a committee's
proposal; how to include comments from commission in a committee proposal; how
assignment to the committees is made; and how to ensure that appropriate committees
are involved.
A motion was made and seconded to accept the current draft with revision to combine items 1 and 2 regarding committee assignments. For the second section pertaining to reports based on City Council assignment, the motion was to accept item 6a and eliminate item 6b, thus having the final report to Council approved by the Committee to which it was assigned. Commissioners voted to accept the document as revised. The vote was 23 aye, 3 nay. Nay votes: Witkin, Kinney, Varnes.
ITEM 8 -NEW BUSINESS
Communications Team. Beth Wicht reported on the newly formed Communications
Team which consists of Beth Wicht, KatherineVarnes, Bill Spriggs and LaDawn
Capek. Others interested in volunteering should contact Beth. The team purpose
is to improve communications among individuals, Committees and staff of the
ACIC. They will explore technology to enable Commissioners to better track,
understand and comment on project and assignments of the various committees.
Environmental Committee Presentation. The committee presented proposals on Increasing Recycling and Building Green in Lakewood. Several suggestions were brought forward which the committee will consider for inclusion in these reports. Some of these include citing recycling now available at Rooney Road, inclusion of a paper shredder for recycling. Questions were raised as to whether it is appropriate to include statements that trash companies should be prohibited from taking yard waste, xeriscaping be required in new building projects and Energy Star Standard be required in all new building projects. Due to time constraints, the discussion ended and the committee will present these reports to City Council.
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 8:40 pm.
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