Next Meeting: Thursday, February 27th - 7 pm
Topic: Safe Routes to School

Date: Thursday, February 27, 2014
Time: 7 to 8:30 pm
Location: Averill Elementary School, 3201 Averill Dr, Lansing, MI 48911
Agenda:  Safe Routes to School

This Thursday we have a special opportunity to meet jointly with our School and City Partners to officially kick off the development of the Safe Routes to School program.

Averill Elementary and Lewton Elementary are 2 of the 4 school within the Lansing School District chosen to participate in this project. 

In addition to partners from Averill and Lewton, Jane Whitacre coordinator for the SR2S program for Lansing and will be presenting along with Andy Kilpatrick, City Transportation engineer.

The Safe Routes to School National Partnership’s mission is to advance safe walking and bicycling to and from schools, and in daily life, to improve the health and well-being of America’s children and to foster the creation of livable, sustainable communities.

This program will have an impact on our neighborhood in many ways. We would like to have lots of neighbors involved to support and provide input. 

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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