Sunny Side /South Park Super Neighborhood

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Memorandum

To: Mayor Bill White, City of Houston
From: Charles X White, President Sunny Side/South Park Super Neighborhood
Subject: Hope 6 and Cooperation
Cc. All Civic Clubs Presidents

Mayor White we are sending this memo to you as a follow up to your meeting on Saturday at the Sunnyside Multi Purpose Center concerning Hope 6. We are including Hope 6 on our Agenda for Monday night. We will include this topic until we have a clearer understanding of the impact of this project. It seems as though there may be some miscommunication within your department. Holmes CDC submitted a list of lots to Mr. Tinnermon weeks ago and we have not heard back from him. Thank you for your attempt to explain Hope 6 however, we still have unanswered questions related to this subject.

We requested a meeting with you on January 18, 2005 and withdrew our request because you did not respond in ninety days. Therefore, we are requesting a meeting with you again. We have never asked for your permission -- but we have asked and are still requesting your cooperation.

Mayor, several of us have listen to several of your speeches around the city on the subject of readiness with these lots and we designed a combination of solutions with participants in response to your public statements about Hope 6 and community development in general. We have prepared and continue to improve our proposal however, it may not be the best proposal but we did enlist some of the best minds on the subject to help create various practical solutions.

• The highlights of our proposal included all existing and new CDC's and Civic Clubs in SN areas 68, 71, 72 & 76. We have planning and design team guidelines that include the city planning department's input. -- No response from you in six - months.
• We have sent you recommendations to amend Chapter 33 Community Development and Planning and CO 1025 -- no response from you.
• The diagram that was included on January 18, 2005 was designed to prevent and reduce any negative reactions from an existing or new CDC, civic club, builder or developer.
• The diagram was also design to improve community support for a variety of city projects related to community development.
• Mayor the city of Houston has proven to many of us that -- the city does not have the capacity to intervene in existing community politics however, if a universal formula can be created that would take those conditions in to account -- existing misunderstanding would be less of a factor in proceeding implementing various agendas. In other words, researched based facts and process oriented protocols -- rather than emotional unscripted out bursts.

This will be an agenda action item number 6 on Monday night.
Sunny Side/South Park Super Neighborhood Agenda
August 8, 2005

Location: Sunnyside Multi Purpose Center
Time: 6:00pm.

Meeting called to order
Prayer
Roll Call
Consent Agenda

• Action Item # 1 - Presidents Update - Charles X White
• Action Item # 2 - Filing Complaints on Reverse Mortgages, Medicare Scams and Home repair - Mrs. Dorothy Dawson chair. HPD, HUD, Better Business Bureau
• Action Item # 3 - Alpha and Gulf Coast Community Services --- Membership Drive, Voter Registration Drive, Service Delivery Capacity Building and Speaking Tour Schedule
• Action Item # 4 - University Collaborative Update - Planning and Design Teams
• Action Item # 5 - Civic Engagement - Honoring the legacy
• Action Item # 6 - Hope 6 - Review - Assign a chair
• Action Item # 7 - Political Agenda - Elected Official Accountability Matrix - Appoint chair
• Action Item # 8 - HISD - Assign a chair
• Action Item # 9 - Community Partnership Breakfast
General Discussion and voting will take place on Action Items.

Prayer
Meeting Adjourned.