December 30, 2007 by Baker.

Conducting: Jeremy Walters

Welcome/Pledge of Allegiance

1.  City Council Issues–Carlton Christensen                                      10 min
2. Crime Report–Detective Wierman                                                     5 min
3. Center for Science Education–Larry Madden                                 15 min
4. Emergency Preparedness Update–Rich Foster                               10 min
5. City Issues–Michael Stott                                                                   10 min
6. Winter Gardening–Scott Steenblik
7. Neighbor to Neighbor                                                                          10 min                           

Next Meeting Wednesday February 6, 2008 6:30 pm Ron Jarrett conducting

Information Items

1. The Rose Park Elementary School Community Learning Center will officially open January 8th.
2. Our Rose Park Community Council meetings are among the best attended meetings in the city.  We attribute this to you wonderful people and supportive leadership.  Ken Neal has served as the leader of this active organization for 12 years and was honored in our December meeting.  Please continue to be involved in our changing neighborhood.  It is always during times of change that we need the strength and support that we can give as good neighbors.  Staying in touch with one another is important to community strength.  There will be a list for all community members wishing to receive information as it is passed to the council.  You may contact our new council chair Ron Jarret, by phone at 595-6259 or by email at r.jarrett@concast.net
3. The Salt Lake Center for Science Education will hold an open house on Thursday, January 3 from 5:30-7:30 pm and January 5th from 9:30am-11:30 am at the Center which is located at 1400 W Goodwin Avenue.  This school accepts students in grades 6,7, and 8.  Please attend our council meeting on January 2nd to learn more about this new opportunity for students in our neighborhood.

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December 6, 2007 by Baker.

 Wednesday December 5th–Day Riverside Library

1. City Council Issues–Carlton Christensen–10 min
2. Crime Report and Gang Problems–Dets. Wierman/Eldard–10 min
3. Legislative Matters–Jennifer Seelig–15min
4. UTA Bus Routing–Jamie Van Beevers–15 min
5. Chair-Elect-Ron Jarrett–5 min
6. City Issues–Michael Scott–5 min
7. Community Garden Report–Scott Steenblik–5 min
8. Information–Kenneth Neal–5 min

Next Meeting Wednesday January 2, 2008 at 6:30 pm

Information Items

1. Four of the committee attended the UTA open house on TRAX held in October.  Several issueswere raised concerning the routing of this line.  Since then other questions have surfaced about the routing if buses in our area.  We have invited representatives from UTA to discuss these.  Items to be discussed are: stop improvements; more frequent service at peak hours; end of line location ; affect of Trax on local bus routes.
2. The chair of the council has asked to be released effective at the end of this month.  Personal reasons are given.  The board has granted this release and wishes to  inform you that the new chair of the Rose Park Community Council will be Ron Jarrett.
3. The crime report for October reads: 1 aggravated assault, 11 auto thefts, 7 burglaries, 9 car prowls, 4 gang related prowls, 2 robberies, 2 car strips and 2 sex assaults.  The total for Rose Park was 38.  Citywide there 891 such crimes committed–our share was 4% of those crimes, placing us 10th out of 14 major councils.
4. We have begun planning the Rose Park 4th Annual Festival.  Please keep this activity in mind and plan on being a part of it.  Our university co-chair, Luke Garrett, was just elected to the City Council.
5. City code requires  sidewalks to be shoveled within 24 hours of a snowstrom.  Street cleaning is often hampered by cars left on the streets overnight.  The city snow removal crews aer asking residents to park on laternating sides of the streets, realizing the difficulty of parking in small dr 

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