General Membership Meeting Agenda

Tuesday, April 8, 2025,  6:30 - 8 PM MT

Hirschfeld Towers, 333 W. Ellsworth Ave.

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Call to Order / General Updates                                                       6:30 

• Welcome and Neighborhood Updates
  • House of the month photo!  Keep them coming!
  • Brenda stepped down from the Treasurer's position due to new job obligations, but will remain on the board as a member-at-large, creating a vacancy.  Andrew Young has agreed to step-into the Treasurer position.  Vote by membership.
  • Good news! BHNA was recently awarded a $1000 Strengthening Neighborhoods grant from the Denver Foundation to help us continue our work with DHA in planting trees in the yards of some of our less fortunate neighbors and work on Baker Blooms to further beautify our lovely dynamic neighborhood.  We are also looking at using some of the money for bi-lingual outreach mailers to promote membership in BHNA as well.  We are open for ideas!
  • More good news.  Gabe from MDLDC has offered his team's assistance with our Baker Blooms redo.  
  • We will be updating the bylaws to add content on indemnity for the board, draft to follow, vote next month.
  •  There will be night time work to resurface I-25 in both north and southbound

    lanes from the 44th Ave. Bridge south to Alameda. Night work is
    scheduled to begin as early as May 2025 with approximately 176 days/nights of construction needed for the project to be completed no later than January 31, 2026.  Also on Santa Fe.

Presentation                                                                                6:40 pm

• Underground Music Showcase, 7/25 -27

                     - Kristen Sommer-Swager

Community Partner Reports                                                           6:55 pm

• District 3 Denver Police, Officer John Silva
• District 7 Councilwoman Flor Alvidrez’s Office, Mark Montoya
• La Familia Rec Center, Jacob Pacheco
• Ross-Broadway Library, Lorrie Spurling

Committee Reports                                                                           7:05 pm

• Zoning Committee Report  - Connor                                                        
• Landmark Committee Report  - Ozi
• Sustainability Committee Report   - We need a new lead.  Volunteers?

Old Business                                                                                     7:45 pm        

• Approval of March Membership Meeting Minutes                                             
• Treasurer’s Report                                     

New Business                                                                                    7:55 pm

•  Open forum                                                                

 Adjourn                                                                                              8:00 pm