December 16th
Call To Order - 9:05AM
Today we were graciously hosted by Anything But Beer. If anyone else would like to host our monthly meeting, please reach out to us.
Members - We had 12 participants in today’s meeting representing businesses, residents, and community leaders.
Safety/Security
This week we had Sgt. Wells of the Syracuse Police Department on behalf of Capt. Lynch. We briefly discussed the report of gunshot being fired in the early hours earlier this month. The Sgt. is from a different district and was not privy to the incident in question. However, previously, Luke had been in contact with the Mayor’s office and SPD, and was told that it was likely on Clinton St (outside of our neighborhood) but also was likely in a vehicle traveling with no evidence of damage to the area. Sgt. Wells also noted that SPD has had some cars set off the “shot spotters” around the city with modifications of exhausts.
The Sgt was asked whether he knew about the new leadership coming to the SPD for our neighborhood, and the only thing that he was sure about was that Capt Lynch was likely moving to another district in the new year.
A member brought up a camera outage downtown and Heather with the Downtown Committee mentioned that the DTC owns the cameras that are downtown and she will look into it further.
Another member discussed the crosswalk on Salina St adjacent to the bike lane between Hanover Square and Clinton Square. It seems as though the cross walk button does not change with the button, and there is only a "bike” signal and not a walk signal. This will be an issue for the DPW, and we will reach out to someone to discuss the issue and hopefully get someone from that department to participate in our meetings. Of note, the light directly west of Clinton Square that was installed for pedestrians only seems to falsely trigger leading to people more likely j-walking.
Beautification (Chair: Betsy Elkins)
We discussed with Heather our desire to work with the DTC to adopt our square as part of their Earth Day cleanup on April 23rd. So we will work with the DTC for the cleanup portion of Earth Day and keep you all posted.
We will soon have a meeting scheduled with the Parks Department to help plan the planting project in January.
Street Barriers - Our application has been completed and will be submitted to Tomorrows Neighborhood Today (TNT) for approval. The approval process will happen in February 2022 and will be an open zoom meeting where all participants can vote on the proposals.
Heather has informed us that there are two other proposals being submitted to TNT that will effect Hanover Square. The first is a proposal from DTC for a bike rack in Hanover Square, and the second is from the Erie Canal Museum for a bike repair station.
Events
Our next planned event will be our Spring Cleanup event coordinated with the DTC. Due to the time of year, we may need to plan a separate “planting event” to fill the planters and possibly some other beds.
Identity/Outreach
We unveiled the our new logo and identity from CINSYR.
As you can see to the right, we have a new name logo/slogan and an icon.
The icon itself is intended to be altered or modified for individual businesses to use in their own businesses to emphasize inclusion. We have discussed being able to put different flags or designs in the shape itself, or inside of the shape as shown.
We could also look at creating some sort of art for the square with the icon where the inside is cut out, for people to take photos through or selfies inside of them.
New Business
Window Wonderland - The DTC has a record number of participants in the window decorating contest this year. Please see the map and vote for your favorites and support your neighbors!!!
Winterfest is being planned for Feb 17-27th.
Visit Syracuse has informed us that a movie with Jessie Eisenberg and Adrian Brody has just wrapped in Syracuse, and the sequel to Binge (aptly named Binge 2) will be filming in Hanover Square in February and they have requested that Christmas lights be maintained through the filming which means we will likely keep the holiday lights up longer than usual this year.
Meeting Adjourned - 9:48AM