Meadowbrook Lane Neighborhood Watch

I need too see how many of Meadowbrook Lane is reading this site.Myself, and Ron have work hard on this site. We have made it free to our members.

Your Coordinator

Walter Tracy

Its amazing how many people in our neighborhood dont see anything.We have to start keeping an eye on things that dont look right.,I cant tell you how many things I  have seen in this neighborhood through out the years.Just a few weeks ago there were some kids out front in a car on Meadowbrook that dont belong on our street and they were inhaling some kind of drugs and noone seen anything.Yes I did call the police and they left before the police got here.

Hello --- Forgive my intrusion. I live in Tampa, Fla and I enjoy perusing other Neighborhood Watch's web sites; I find a lot of information/publications/ideas for posting on the NHW web site that I set up and maintain. I don't have an actual web address to view your web site -- perhaps someone could send it to me @ Aquarius9721@verizon.net.

I'd like to make a comment or 2. I hope you don't mind. We all have the same goals; maybe one or all of us can pick up some ideas that would help one another.

I set up our web site in August 2008. Our grid is in a middle to lower middle class neighborhood; the area began to evolve in the mid 50s. Some houses belong to original owners or children of original owners, one circle is only 30 years old.We have 3 public schools within 0.5 miles of our grid (elementary, middle and high; the high school is in the southwest corner of our grid) as well as a RC Inter-parochial school about 0.8 miles away (K-8). I have repeatedly asked for feedback on our web site, and cannot get one person to critique it, or to answer a posting on the discussion page. We receive anywhere from 500 to 1300 hits per month to the site, yet nobody feels the need to respons to my pleas for input. As far as criminal activity our grid is in one of the most quiet areas in Tampa, but it's far from paradise, meaning the neighbors can't be simply so happy with the state of things that they don't want to comment. SO I hope you have better luck getting responses to see who is reading your site than I have had.

Also, since we do not operate under a homeowner's association, we do not get the obvious involvement that a NHW group which does operate under a HOA would get. So I am curious as to the make up of your group, as well as what your group does to encourage involvement. The next grid over just organized their NHW group in Jan. 09, and in March had a big Saturday lunchtime cook out in the city park within their grid, obtaining food donations from local busines, and residents brought a covered dish. Probably one fourth of their residents participated in this cook-out (I assisted their grid leader by manning the grill so that she could circulate) & I think that is a good way to make everyone comfortable to work together. Our police department had about 6 people show up to break bread with the neighbors, plus the district major & the NHW Liaison, and it was really nice to interact with the street cops as well as the big guns (this big gun just got promoted from major to asst. chief last week) I think such an activity encourages people to become a bit more likely to pick up the phone and place a call for suspiciousperson/vehicle, etc, because they are more comfortable interacting with police.

Just in the last couple of months or so I have noticed a lot more people are picking up the phone to call for police service, so I guess comfort must be the key to involvement. What do you all think?

Never mind--I just figured out how to get to your home page!!  LOL