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The Midtown Community Benefits District is pleased to bring you the second edition of our new electronic newsletter.  We expect to use this medium to keep you up to date on the news, issues, policies and practices of the district.  Please feel free to refer your friends and neighbors for subscriptions to this publication, or contact us if you wish to be removed from our list. We expect to send out this brief newsletter once a month.
SAVE THE DATE: Wednesday, March 19, 7:00pm 

SPRING TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday, March 19, 7:00pm 

Hosted by the Associated Jewish Federation
Mount Royal Avenue at Maryland Avenue
Agenda includes the public hearing on Midtown's proposed FY2009 budget.
Full details and information on the proposed budget will be published in our February newsletter.

 

REPORT FROM OUR VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR

Citizens on Patrol Kicks off in Bolton Hill on Feb. 5th
by Shie'ree Saunders
 
 
tree-wells Midtown is celebrating the growing number of residents in  Bolton Hill who have volunteered lots of time and effort in the newly organized Citizens On Patrol program. This makes a remarkable difference in the community for us all. Neighbors are coming together to make a safer, friendlier community. Orientation and training is provided by the Baltimore City Police.  COP groups are forming in Mount Vernon too. We invite you to get involved. 

 

SPRING TIME Is Coming!!!..... Get involved in our spring tree-well cleaning and greening projects. Or volunteer to help with gardening in our area parks in Mount Vernon Place, Charles North and on Eutaw Place.

 

Please contact Volunteer Coordinator Shie'ree Saunders at The Midtown Benefits District for more information on volunteering opportunities at 410-528-1512.

 
Parks & People's Monthly Greening Series: Alley Gating and Greening
Thursday, February 21, 2008 6:00 pm-8:00pm

You are invited to participate in the Baltimore Alley Gating and Greening Workshop. The workshop will provide residents with valuable information on the steps required to create an alley green. Participants will learn how to organize fellow block residents, navigate the city process required to gate and green an alley, as well as how to create and maintain the alley green. Guest speaker for the night will be Kate Herrod from Community Greens.

For more information or to RSVP please contact Sabrina Hudson at sabrina.hudson@parksandpeople.org or 410-448-5663 ext. 111.

From 11th District Councilman William Cole:

DON'T MISS THE PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES

February 12, 2008

7 am - 8 pm

 

CLICK HERE TO FIND YOUR POLLING PLACE


 

[NOTE: ON THE PAGE WITH YOUR POLLING PLACE, YOU WILL ALSO BE ABLE TO LINK TO YOUR SAMPLE BALLOT]

If You Need an ABSENTEE BALLOT Request it Now 

DEADLINE: February 5, 2008

Absentee Ballot Request

 

**Critical Information**

A request for an absentee ballot for the 2008 Presidential Primary must be received by:

4:30 p.m. on February 5, 2008, if the application is mailed; or 11:59 p.m. on February 5, 2008, if the application is faxed.

 

William H. Cole, Baltimore City Council, 11th District, wcole@baltimorecitycouncil.com

State Center CITYSCAPING
State Center

State Center Redevelopment

VISION Documentation Now Available
 
Please click here to download a complete summary!

PLAN Part II Meetings Now Scheduled
201 W. Preston Street L-1

Tuesday February 5, 3-5pm
or
Tuesday February 5, 6-8pm
or
Saturday February 16, 10am-12noon

Now that Vision is complete, we are ready to move to the next stage of our CityScaping planning process - "Plan." Please click here to download the complete Vision summary.
In Plan, our team will present new concepts for the physical redevelopment of State Center, as well as a framework for the human capital components of the initiative. Both the physical and human capital plans build on the ideas and concepts that were shared with us by the community during Vision.
We intend to hold a series of public "Plan" meetings in which you will have the opportunity to react to the initial physical schemes and human capital ideas. Our team will then refine the proposed plans based on your input, and these revisions will be presented at subsequent public meetings.

 
 
Peter Merles, District Administrator
Midtown Community Benefits District
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