View Place Neighborhood Meeting

It was a pretty decent turnout for our neighborhood meeting at Gracepoint Church.  In attendance from Finneytown Civic Association was Jim Golan and Dick Meyer letting us know that we were in good hands.  Jeff Dean presided and gave his treasurer's report.  He will write the final check from the View Place bank account as soon as he gets the last statement. 

Like many other banks, Key Bank was charging monthly fees because our account was consired inactive because  although we deposited the membership dues which flowed in infrequently, we only write a one or two checks a year to reimburse for the flowers and neighborhood activities.

Jeff has spent the last year calling up the bank each month asking them to waive the fee.  A big thank you goes out to Jeff Dean for being such a good steward of our neighbhorhood money. He saved us considerable money that would have been swallowed up in fees by asking the bank for more time to settle our accounts. 

We have over $1,300 in the account and rather than losing $60 in annual fees, we thought it was  good idea to merge into the Finneytown Civic Association where they have free checking. It's an efficient use of our time and very good way to pool our resources.  FCA assured us that they will keep aside our money for the upkeep of the flowers.

We will continue to keep our View Place designation as a neighborhood like Hollyhock Farms. We'll also continue the traditions of the parade, egg hunt, directory, and weblog. I'll try to keep everyone connected through the email and copy everything to Jim Golan.

In the meantime, visit the Finneytown Civic Association webpage and send in your membership. They do a lot of work in the community and will represent our concerns even better then when we had VPCA.  I did mention the issues and concerns that were currently on the slate:

1)  Concerns we had about being blocked in from St. X traffic and the high volume of traffic accidents

2) Current petition for sewers

One thing we're hearing is "rumors" about the church building a recreation center or gym on their property. Our relationship with the church has been very good so we know that the neighbors impacted by any plans  will be involved in the planning stage.