SouthWest Common Council Minutes –12/21/17

Meetings are held every 3rd Thursday, 6-7:30 p.m. @ Phillis Wheatley Library

The SWCC represents leaders, community residents and stakeholders who meet to contribute to the vision and planning for the SouthWest Quadrant. SW Common Council - the place to come for grassroots community input - THE DOOR IS ALWAYS OPEN!

In Attendance: John Boutet (19th Ward), Eleanor Coleman (ProsperRochester), John Curran (Rapid Cemetery), Jennifer Lenio, Lynnette Robinson, Donna Sarnacki

Organization
Presenter / News / Action Requested
19th Ward
Donna Sarnacki /
  • No SW Quadrant meeting this month.
  • Laron Singletary (one of our CPO’s) has been named Deputy Chief

Changing of the Scenes, Etc.
Lynnette Robinson /
  • No COTS updates.
  • Considering taking on a new task around informing the community of health insurance system deficits that occur after hospital stays. Has had a negative experience in the last month with the care for her mother after a hospital stay; nursing home facility for rehabilitation is not a friendly transition if it happens at all. Big business; breakdown in communication and community is uninformed as to how the system works.

Cottage St Block Club
Elizabeth Doucette /
  • Elizabeth on vacation.

ProsperRochester, Inc.
& OACES
Eleanor Coleman / PR
•Very successful RocSOUP 12/2; raised $560 with a match adding up to $1,120. Gave first place Presenter$820 and all other 3 Presenters $100. Tentatively looking at 4/7 for the next RocSOUP which will be at 1872 again. However, we would like to schedule a Pre-RocSOUP that offers information on how to present, marketing your idea on social media, networking, completing the RocSOUP application, etc.
OACES
  • Successful Legislative Breakfast in beginning of the month. Several representaties attended, listened to student and staff presentations, at breakfast made by Culinary students, and toured the programs. OACES is asking that the State consider putting OACES in the State budget to alleviate some of the stress in continually needing to rely on competitive, outcome based grants as funds have been steadily decreasing.
  • Mary D’Allessandro and other OACES Advisory Board members are at the School Board tonight advocating for OACES.
  • Open House on January 18 will open up the building to visitors and those who want to learn more about OACES. Student Ambassadors will be giving tours and available for inquiries about the programs.
  • OACES still in the process of establishing the NEDP (National External Diploma Program) to offer a life-experience-based model for earning a high school equivalency.
SW Rotary 1/13, 6pm
  • SW Rotary will have a dinner on 1/13 at the Staybridge Suites Hotel on Genesee St @ Brooks Ave starting at 6pm. This dinner is to officially establish the SW Rotary as a Charter organization and will include Rotarians from around the world.Rotarians will be given a tour of Rochester and we’ll be sure to include Susan B. Anthony House, Phillis Wheatley Library, women with Voices mural project, etc. All welcome; $40 per ticket.

Rapids Cemetery
John Curran /
  • Still working with RIT students to produce a self-guiding tour of the cemetery. Finding out interesting facts as they research.
  • Non-burials – Who is here and who is not here? Why are there two headstones for the same person in two cemeteries?
  • Summer outdoor physical entertainment proposed.
Instructional Learning Center – spending some time looking at other interactive learning models around the country. RIT just received $50 million donation that will be used for a grand scale Makers Space.
S. Plymouth Bus Assn
Mary D’Allessandro /
  • Mary is attending the RCSD School Board meeting to advocate for OACES.

SWCC Education & Location SW
John Boutet /
  • Next Wed is next Education Committee meeting; new Corn Hill rep was at the meeting – good school background.
  • School 41 will either go into receivership or school will be closed and reopened under another name.
  • Path Forward attendance list does not appear to be anywhere. John B. has recreated the list based on our resources (video and minutes). No Path Forward update to date. (Attendance list was supposed to be used to publicize progress.) There is a website on which progress will be noted.
  • Concern expressed that principal of School #33 meeting was not aware of the Path Forward meeting at that school. Attendance for those meetings has been pretty consistently low.

SW Libraries
Jennifer Lenio / •New website; live for staff this week. Hope to have it out in a week or so. RPL has never had its own website; won’t need to wade through County info.
•Master Facilities Master Plan Project still underway. Reviewing top Consultant/Architect candidates to help with the project.
WHEATLEY
  • Kwanzaa Festival 2017 Thurs, 12/28, 2-5
  • “Take It Down” Traveling Exhibit is available daily for view when the meeting room is now in view. Exhibit is the panel that features racist artwork which was removed from the Dentzel Carousel located in Ontario Beach Park; text and video also available.
ARNETT
  • Puppet Show 12/30, 1:30pm; good comedy for all ages.
  • Game of Pet life, 12/27, 2:30pm – fun way to learn how to take care of a pet and improve financial literacy.
  • Money Matters Book Club, 12/29, 2:30pm
  • Adult Craft –New Year’s Toasting Glasses, 12/28, 4:30pm

Co-Chairs:

•Lynnette Robinson, ,(585) 953-0415

•John Boutet, ,(585) 328-4271

Scribe:Eleanor Coleman, ,(585) 224-5119

Respectfully Submitted,

Eleanor

Eleanor Coleman