Averill Woods Neighborhood Association
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        • Spanish Immersion Program
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      • Volunteering and Donating to Averill

2015 Meetings and Minutes

January 22, 2015 - Cancelled
February 26, 2015 - Cancelled
March 26, 2015 - Minutes including Rejuvenating South Lansing presentation.
September 24, 2015 - Minutes including updates on Sidewalk Assessments
10/22/2015 
11/26/2015 - No meeting
12/24/2015 - No meeting
1/28/2016 
2/25/2016 
3/24/2016 - Lansing Pathway Promise Presentation by Andy Kilpatrick
4/28/2016 
5/26/2016 - Ingham County Register of Deeds Presentation by Derrick Quinney

2014 Meetings and Minutes

October 23, 2014 - Safe Routes to School Grant Review - Minutes
September 25, 2014 - Working with partners to address violence and protect our children and neighborhood - Minutes
August, 2014 - No Meeting
July, 2014 - No Meeting
June, 2014 - No Meeting
May 22, 2014 - Safe Routes to School program 
April, 2014 - Safe Routes to School program
March, 2014 - Safe Routes to School program, and meeting with Lansing Board of Water and Light officials to review new outage reporting system
February, 2014 - Safe Routes to School program
January 23, 2014 - Topic: City of Lansing Emergency Management at Fire Station 6 - Agenda

2013 Meetings and Minutes

January 24, 2013 - Averill Elementary School - (Minutes -- including Radon Presentation)
February 28, 2013 -- Averill Elementary School (Agenda -- discuss traffic concerns with City Transportation Engineer, Andy Kilpatrick. See map with list of questions here.
April 25, 2013 -- Joint meeting at Walnut Neighborhood Organization  (Minutes -- re city budget, leash law, Niowave)
May 23, 2013 -- Meeting with Averill Elementary principal and lead teacher (Minutes -- re Safe Routes to School)
June 26, 2013 -- El Sombrero (Minutes - Social meeting and discussion of problems and action items)
July 25, 2013 -- Colonial Bar and Grille (Minutes - Social meeting and presentation on Ingham County Land Bank)September 26, 2013 -- Averill Elementary School (Minutes -- Discussing Crime Concerns with LPD and Eaton County
August, 2013
September, 2013
October Meeting Topic: Learning about 911 Center updates, challenges, progressWe 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.
November 2013 - No Meeting
December 2013 - No Meeting

December 2013 - Special Leadership Team Meeting:
Averill Woods Leadership Team responds to Ice StormWe 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.

2012 Meetings and Minutes

Our regular monthly meetings occur the 4th Thursday of each month from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the location listed below:

January - Averill Elementary School
February - Averill Elementary School - (minutes)
March - Averill Elementary School - (minutes) 
April - Averill Elementary School
  - AWNA meeting canceled
  - AWNA leadership attended community meeting on Colonial Village Shopping Center (minutes) the week before
  - AWNA leadership attended special meeting at Faith United Methodist regarding crime
May 24, 2012 - Averill Elementary School - (minutes)
June 28, 2012 - Biggby's (minutes)
July 26, 2012 - Dispatch - (minutes)
August 23, 2012 - El Sombrero, 4230 S Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Lansing, MI 48910-5202. 517-272-3530. 
September - Averill Elementary School
October - Averill Elementary School
November - No meeting due to holiday
December - No meeting due to holidays

2011 Meetings and Minutes


January 27 - Averill Elementary School  - (Minutes)
Updates from mayor's office, code compliance, LPD, city council members, and neighbors regarding: Neighborhood watch; Waverly sidewalk & transportation issues; Colonial Village plaza recruitment;
February 24 - Grace United Methodist Church - (Minutes) 
Updates on efforts to bring new grocery store to Colonial Village plaza, working groups.
March 24 - Averill Elementary School
April 28 - Averill Elementary School
May 26 - Averill Elementary School
June 23 - Southside Community Center
July 28 - Southside Community Center
August 25 - Southside Community Center
September 22 - Averill Elementary School
October 27 - Averill Elementary School - (Minutes)
Assessments and strategies (crime prevention, economic development, code compliance) for addressing "problem corners," elections
November - No meeting
December - No meeting

2010 Meeting Minutes

January 28 - Averill Elementary School
February 25 - Averill Elementary School
March 25 - Averill Elementary School
April 22 - Averill Elementary School
May 27 - Averill Elementary School
June 24 - Trinity A.M.E. Church
July 22 - Biggby's Coffee 1701 Waverly 
August 26 - Averill Elementary School
 
September 23 - Averill Elementary School
October 28 - Averill Elementary School
November - No meeting
December - No meeting