Today we covered (more or less) the following:

Flamingo Fridays! – Get to know your neighbors at a random (volunteered) location every (hopefully) Friday. Enjoy a beer and enjoy the nice weather basking in the glory of the mighty flamingo! Okay so we may not find a flamingo but hopefully we can get this going.

Meeting protocol - Who needs yet another long meeting? Relax, grab a beverage and know it won’t be going on all night. Going forward we will always try to have a set (okay maybe rough) agenda and keep the meetings to an hour. This should keep everyone focused and productive without scaring people off if things get too involved.

Clean-up – This was brought up but we don’t have anything scheduled just yet. Hopefully we can plan our next clean-up session at the next meeting. The worst area seems to be the entrance at Venice. There are also some yards that could really use some love. Once I get my mower in action I am happy to volunteer it for this duty. Perhaps we can also toss Reggie a few beans to help us out.

Fliers and signs - For now, Ashley and I will handle printing any fliers that are needed (I have quite a surplus of paper) as well as handling the maintenance of the signs (getting more insert material and writing them up ahead of events). We will look to the block captains to help distribute the materials as needed.

Maps – Amanda and Devery have volunteered to manage the maps. We will get these posted to the site soon for download. If anyone knows what happened to the big map used at previous meetings please let us know. I will follow up with Mark on it. Maps are here (blank) and here (color).

Contact Information - Please, please, please sign up for the site by first going into the Discussions area then registering. This will make it much easier for us to stay in touch with you. Block captains email or PM me to get the list of everyone’s info we have to date.

The Website - Anyone can post to the discussion area! This includes creating new topics and responding to existing ones. You can also send private messages to other users. Jeremy O. and I will be supporting the site so if you need any assistance let us know.

Homework - Well, it’s not all fun and games. Block captains your homework assignment is to identify the houses which you think you will be responsible for. You can download the maps here (blank) and here (color).

Block Captain Meeting Take Two – We will be having another meeting for the block captains on Tuesday the 13th at 6:30pm on our back patio at 1520 Harvest Lane. We should have enough seating but it couldn’t hurt to bring an extra chair or two. If the weather turns sour on us we will have to relocate so if it looks like rain, look for an update here and a phone call.

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Hopefully that covers it. I guess we covered more ground than I thought. Please feel free to hit me up if I have missed anything. I have setup an email box, info@dekalbcrimewatch.com. Please make sure you don’t block this as it will be where we send out any email notifications from.

- Dave Wheeler (1520 Harvest Lane)