Next Meeting: Thursday, March 27th
- 6:30 pm: Safe Routes to School
- 7:30 pm: BWL officials respond to our questions

Date: Thursday, March 27, 2014
Time: 6:30 to 8:30 pm
Location: Averill Elementary School, 3201 Averill Dr, Lansing, MI 48911
Agenda:  

Safe Routes to School Planning (6:30 - 7:30)

We will continue to meet jointly with our School and City Partners to prepare to implement the Safe Routes to School program happening at Averill (also Lewton, STEM, and Fairview.) Our next steps at this meeting are these:
  1. Review data from 2012 efforts to audit the walkability of the neighborhood (Jane is working on gathering that)
  2. Look at maps of the neighborhood and identify possible routes and or drop sites that could be used for walking school bus sites.
  3. Brainstorm additional opportunities for neighborhood partnerships and involvement
  4. Parent surveys:  We still need to collect parent survey responses to the Safe Routes on-line parent survey.  

Board of Water and Light Officials Respond (7:30 to 8:30 p.m.)

Several representatives from BWL will be at our next meeting to respond to the questions we raised in December and January.

Background: Following the December 2013 storm our neighborhood developed a list of questions for both the City and Board of Water and Light.

In January we met with City of Lansing Emergency Management staff and had our questions answered regarding the city's emergency plan, communications, and crisis response during the storm.  We learned about things that worked, things that didn't, what improvements are being made, and how our suggestions were being included in the review process.


For our March meeting, Our 3rd Ward City Council representative and Council president, A'Lynne Roberts, has arranged for Board of Water and Light officials to attend our next meeting to answer the questions we had for them.

Past Meeting: Thursday, January 23rd - 
Topic: City of Lansing Emergency Management

Date: Thursday, January 23, 2014
Time: 7 to 9 pm
Location: Fire Station 6, 5135 Pleasant Grove, Lansing, MI 48910
Agenda: At our next meeting we will be meeting with City of Lansing Emergency Management officials (1) to discuss citizen involvement in crisis planning and response so we can all be better prepared for situations like the recent ice storm and (2) to be more informed about the city emergency response system in the last storm. Here is the agenda.
Questions: We intend this to be a productive and civil discussion where we can all work together on awareness, education, and problem solving.  Given the large number of questions and concerns that might be represented, we are asking people to submit questions in advance of the meeting.  There may be time for additional questions, but having them documented in advance of the meeting will help insure that your question will get a response.

BWL outage credits

If you lost power during the December 2013 Ice Storm you can fill out this form to apply for credits on your BWL bill.

Averill Woods Leadership Team responds to Ice Storm

We recognize that there ways in which our response to this storm could have been better on many levels. There is more that we could have done as individuals, a neighborhood, and a community. We also have questions we would like to have answered. He is what we have been doing:

  1. Our leadership team presented a list of questions for BWL, City of Lansing Administration and City of Lansing Emergency Management to the Lansing City Council for the special meeting held on Monday, December 30, 2013.
  2. We presented our concerns and goals on local WKAR radio program Current State on January 2, 2014.
  3. We will be meeting with Lansing Emergency Management folks at our neighborhood meeting on January 23, 2014.
  4. Our leadership team is examining options to improve our non-electronic communications.
  5. We are working to make sure we have all our neighbors connected to a face to face member of our neighborhood if they wish to be part of our shared safety net.

We are taking steps to make sure we have an infrastructure for communication and assisting our neighbors in future crises. We appreciate your support, questions, concerns, and ideas.


October Meeting Topic: Learning about 911 Center updates, challenges, progress

We met with our county commissioner, Vic Celentino, and Bruce Gaukel, deputy director of 911.  Here are updates from them regarding some of the problem experienced in the past and some an upcoming public education initiative.

Other issues we are following now:

Neighbors meet with TIME editor

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Our neighborhood leadership team met with Joe Klein and Katy Steinmetz of TIME magazine to discuss politics and community life.  "You are my heroes" said Joe, referring to our efforts to build community and connect neighbors. Read more...

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