Neighborhood Christmas Party

Neighbors, we cordially invite you and your family to celebrate the season with us at our annual Greenwood Neighborhood Association Christmas Party!

Saturday, December 10, 2011, at 6:00pm
909 Manila Street

Please bring a covered dish or a dessert and one gift. Label your gift: man/woman, adult/teenager/child, boy/girl

For more information, please contact GNA President Anita Armstrong: 615-226-6960

Neighborhood Cookout

Neighbors, please join us for a Greenwood Neighborhood Association cookout on Tuesday, October 11, at 6:00pm at the House on the Hill, 909 Manila St. The cookout will substitute for our regular monthly meeting. Please bring an item from the list below or another item to share and invite your neighbors to come with you!

Suggested Items to Bring
hamburgers and buns
hot dogs and buns
chicken
baked beans
potato salad
tea or sodas
desserts
ice
mustard
mayo
cheese
pickles / pickle relish

For more information, please contact GNA Chair Anita Armstrong: 615-226-6960

Brush Pick Up for Area Between Dickerson and Gallatin

Metro Nashville Public Works will begin Brush and Leaf collections in Area 1 on Tuesday, August 23, 2011.

To ensure that your brush will be collected, you should have limbs and all other yard waste out and ready for pick-up on the date above. Place only limbs, branches and true yard waste by the curb for brush crews. Lumber, household trash and other types of debris found in your brush pile means it won’t get picked up.

Brush piles should not be placed close to mailboxes, utility poles, fences, trees or other stationary objects. The mechanical arm of the knuckle boom truck needs enough room to lift the brush pile up and into the trailer pulled behind the truck. Only the driver travels with each truck; no other crew members are there to move piles or separate items that don’t belong in a brush pile.

Place leaves in biodegradable paper bags only. Paper biodegradable bags can be purchased at most hardware stores, Kroger, Wal-Mart, Target, Home Depot, etc. Public Works also has a supply of these bags available for purchase at the Omohundro Convenience Center: 5 bags for $3.00 and 10 bags for $6.00. Plastic bags will not be picked up.

Route 1 boundaries are between Dickerson Pike and Gallatin Pike. From North First Street to the Sumner County line (excluding Goodlettsville).

For more info, review details for each route and the Brush "Do's & Don'ts".

2011 East Nashville Night Out Against Crime.

To: Greenwood Neighborhood Association
From: Anita Armstrong, GNA President
My contact info is 226-6960
see below. I will be there with our flyers for GNA.....please make plans to attend / volunteer!

We have been invited to be a part of the 2011 East Nashville Night Out Against Crime. The event will take place on Tuesday, August 2nd from 5 - 9 PM at Eastwood Christian Church, 1601 Eastland Ave. They will have live music, food, children's activities, prize drawings, informational presentations, commercial vendors and non-profit information booths planned. We have a facebook page at www.facebook.com/EastNashville2011NightOutAgainstCrime where you can learn more.

Some of the sponsors include US Bank (presenting sponsor), NCA Alarms, PEST, Inc, Fannie's House of Music and others.

In addition to neighborhood group tables, some of our nonprofit information groups include CASA, Park Center, Big Brothers/Big Sisters and others.

They are hoping to have strong presence from each of the neighborhood groups and to use this event to advertise and strengthen the neighborhood groups in East Nashville. We are thankful for our corporate sponsors who have provided funds to produce a fun event that benefits everyone.

Each group will need to provide its own table and chairs and tents/canopies if you have one. Each group will also need to provide volunteers to staff your table for the duration of the event.

The organizing committee is in need of volunteers to help us pull off this large event. Some of these areas include:

-Set-up (5 people)

-Staffing the welcome booth (1 per hour, 4 shifts)

-Monitoring the bounce houses and play area (2 per hour, 4 shifts)

-Helping out with the food tables (1 per hour, 4 shifts)

-Entertainment (2 to 3 people)

-Tear-down (5 people)

Nashville For All Of Us Seeks Pledge from Metro Council Candidates

Local community coalition Nashville For All Of Us recently asked all of the candidates in Metro elections to join in their commitment to ensure Nashville is a productive, just, and welcoming city where all residents are valued. They asked the candidates to affirm the following pledge:

As a candidate for the Nashville Metro Council, I pledge that I will support a Nashville that is built on shared values and aspirations; is committed to inclusivity, equality, and the ethical and moral treatment of all residents; encourages and values the contributions of all citizens; makes its services and benefits accessible to all; embraces every resident’s inherent worth and dignity; and encourages civil and respectful public discourse among its residents and their representatives.

According to a recent email from Nashville For All Of Us, the following candidates have committed to supporting this vision for the city:

Candidate	Office	Incumbent (I)		Candidate	Office	Incumbent (I)
Karl Dean	Mayor	I		David Glasgow	District 18
Diane Neighbors	Vice Mayor	I		Erica Gilmore	District 19	I
Megan Barry	At-Large	I		Curt Wallen	District 19
Renard Francois	At-Large			Buddy Baker	District 20	I
Jerry Maynard	At-Large	I		J. Gower Mills	District 20
Donald Ray McFolin	At-Large			Mary Carolyn Roberts	District 20
Don O'Donniley	At-Large			Seanna Brandmeir	District 22
Ronnie Steine	At-Large	I		Emily Evans	District 23	I
Sajid W. Usmani	At-Large			Jason Holleman	District 24	I
Lonnell Matthews, Jr.	District 1	I		Sarah Lodge Tally	District 24
Frank Harrison	District 2	I		James Michael Kaminski	District 25
DeCosta Hastings	District 2			Sean McGuire	District 25	I
Brady Banks	District 4			Chris Harmon	District 26
Eugene Batsuk	District 4			Greg Dooley	District 27
Scott Davis	District 5			Travis Danker	District 28
Priscilla Eaton	District 5			Tanaka Vercher	District 28
Dave Rich	District 6			Arnett H. Bodenhamer	District 29
Hans Schmidt	District 6			Karen Y. Johnson	District 29
Peter Westerholm	District 6			Vicky Tataryn	District 29
Anthony Davis	District 7			Isaac Okoreeh-Baah	District 29
Nancy VanReece	District 8			Jason Potts	District 30
Darren Jernigan	District 11	I		Fabian Bedne	District 31
Steve Glover	District 12			James Widrig	District 31
Anna Page	District 16	I		Markeith Braden	District 32
Sandra Moore	District 17	I		Jacobia C. Dowell	District 32
Burkley Allen	District 18			Carter Todd	District 34	I

A “Nashville For All Of Us” is not just a place to live, but a way of life for our city. It is built on shared values and aspirations. It is committed to inclusivity, equality, and the ethical and moral treatment of all Nashvillians. It encourages and values the contributions of all residents to their community and makes its services and benefits accessible to all. It embraces and defends all persons’ inherent dignity. It is a vision that will be a reality when we all speak up.

For more information on early voting and the August 4 election, visit the Davidson County Election Commission.

Members fo the Nashville For All Of Us Steering Committee:

Alistair Newbern, Chair	Stephen Fotopulos	Renata Soto
Krissa Barclay	Lisa Pote, Secretary	David Taylor
Kenny Byrd	Kathleen Murphy	Hedy Weinberg
Sonnye Dixon	Tom Negri	Anderson Williams
Mark Eatherly	Avi Poster	Stephen Zralek

Video of District 5 Metro Council Candidate Forum

If you missed the forum for District 5 Metro Council candidates held on Thursday, June 30, you can now see what the candidates had to say by watching this series of videos on YouTube provided by Andy Reuter.



The forum was moderated by Joe White, state capitol reporter for WPLN, and sponsored by the following organizations:

Cleveland Park Neighborhood Association
Dickerson Road Merchants Association
Greenwood Neighborhood Association
Highland Heights Neighborhood Association
Maxwell Heights Neighborhood Association
McFerrin Park Neighborhood Association
Neighborhoods Resource Center
Renraw Neighborhood Association

Public Hearing on Community Plan Amendment for Corner of McFerrin and Chicamauga

The Metropolitan Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on a request to amend the East Nashville Community Plan at its meeting on Thursday, June 23, 2011, at 4:00 PM in the Howard Office Building Auditorium located at 700 Second Avenue South.

The purpose of the Public Hearing is to provide interested persons the opportunity to express their views about the requested amendment. The East Nashville Community Plan, requested to be amended, is the policy document that the Planning Commission uses to guide its recommendations to Metro Council regarding requests to change the zoning of property.

This is a housekeeping amendment being undertaken at the direction of the Metro Planning Commission to make the community plan policy consistent with an earlier zone change that occurred in the area:

• A zone change from RS5 Residential district to MUN Mixed Use district enacted by Metro Council on March 22, 2011, Ordinance Number BL2011‐854 for property at 731 McFerrin Avenue.
• The Metro Planning Commission’s recommendation action on February 24, 2011: “Approve and direct staff to initiate a housekeeping amendment for parcels 307 and 308 on Map 082‐08.”

The requested amendment would change the named properties from "Mixed Housing in Neighborhood General (MH in NG)" to "Mixed Use in Neighborhood Center (MxU in NC)".

Additional information can be found on the Public Hearing Notice (PDF).