Annual Neighborhood Meeting

Great to see so many of you at the April, 12th  2023 Community Meeting
Many thanks to our friends at the 70 St Botolph St Apartments and Director Monica Daniel for hosting our forum! Thanks also to our Councilor (and Council President) Ed Flynn and D4’s Sgt Matthew Hogardt and Det.Thomas Hopkins for attending and taking our questions, as well as our fantastic St B Landmarks Commission representatives! And we also enjoyed meeting John Moran, who is running to fill Jon Santiago’s MA house seat (More on that in a minute!) Questions? Problems? Complaints? Compliments?-  feel free to contact me at [email protected], Ed Flynn at [email protected],  Gabbie at Landmarks at [email protected],Sgt Hogardt at [email protected], or our fantastic Office of Neighborhood Services, Maggie Van Scoy at [email protected]

AND NOW, we need to roll…

We on the SBNA board agree that there are two topics that need to be followed up on - if you agree, please join us in officially reaching out to the city council as they set the 2022-2023 budget. First, STREET CLEANING. The South End street-cleaning schedule goes until the end of December, while the St Botolph neighborhood currently ends in November. We’ve been told it’s a budget issue, so if you would like to see an additional month of cleaning our streets too, please consider sending an email to both Ed and Tania, so they know there is interest. We’ve put together a sample email that you can copy and paste, so if you want cleaner streets, let your voice be heard about it. Second, PARKING AND STREET SAFETY.  We need a reevaluation of the allocation and amount of resident parking spaces, an effective plan to deal with so much truck traffic on our “truck prohibited” streets, and we need to revisit the flex post installation at the corner of St B and W Newton – while they were installed to keep pedestrians safer and provide greater visibility of the crosswalks and stop signs, they are also encouraging worse truck behavior and are regularly disregarded. Do you support the city allocated funds to improve the parking and streets? If so, we'll be sending out the newsletter with links to copy and paste a template and send it to Ed and Tania in order to recommend funds for these items, they need to hear from as many people as possible before the budget process ends - PLEASE EMAIL THEM BY FRI, APRIL 22!