(Greetings Delilah, it was good meeting you Sunday at the breakfast gathering and thanks for getting involved. Also, a quick shoutout to newbie Veronica Schuder for recruiting Delilah and jumping headlong into the fray with her contact at the YMCA.)
Here's Mike's report:
Just a note to let you know, that our meeting with Johnny Riley (dept. of community affairs), and John Ross Jr. (director of parks and recreation) of the city of Monroe, went very well.
Delilah Clark and myself expressed our groups intentions for the 2 community garden sites. Mr. Riley and Mr. Ross agreed that our project is needed and can work.
They also are going to meet with Mrs. January with the Beautification Dept. and our city attorney and ask about the areas to be used as Adopt-A-Spot locations. They seem to agree with us that this may be the quickest and non-liability way to accomplish our goals.
Mr. Riley gave me his brothers phone number and said he works for Kansas City Railroad and can assist us in getting Rail Road Ties for free.
They are trying to put this on the next city council meeting agenda and said that they could have an answer for us by the end of the week. They also implied that if the council can agree, we may be able to have our lots by mid-April in time for spring planting. I informed them that our time frame for planting is getting shorter each day. Delilah took a lot of notes for us at the meeting.
They asked me to go ahead and try to get a group on the south side committed in forming there part of the community garden network for us.
We are now waiting on the city for further instructions.
-- Mike Roberts
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