Happy New Year to all. Please come and join us for our first meeting of the year!

Welcome! Housekeeping and Meeting Conduct

• Welcome to the general membership monthly meeting of GPNA. The GPNA meets the third Tuesday of every month at 7:30 p.m. in the Coca-Cola World Studio of the Activity Resource Center (ARC) building in Zoo Atlanta. Enter through gate C5 located at the southeast corner of the Cherokee Av. parking lots.
• Please turn all cell phones to off or at least vibrate.
• To be eligible to vote, you must attend one (1) GPNA meeting, register in the membership rolls, be 18 years or older, and reside or work in a business located in the official boundaries of the Grant Park neighborhood. You are then eligible to vote from your second meeting forward as long as you remain a resident or business employee. All neighbors that are eligible to vote can also make motions or second them.
• We loosely or informally follow Robert’s Rules of Order for our proceedings in order to keep discussions moving along in the interest of valuing everyone’s time.
• Please DO NOT arbitrarily interject comments or questions aloud. Instead, please wait to be recognized of your entitlement to the floor before speaking to the membership. And then ask/make one, and only one, question/comment before allowing others to have a turn. We practice discussions in this meeting, NOT conversations.
• Please reserve your comments not directly related to the agenda items for Open Floor.
• Please take all side conversations all the way into the lobby and close the doors behind you.
• Please use the acronym sheet and neighborhood map provided on the lobby tables to follow along with the discussions.

Call to Order – 7:30 p.m.
Officer Reports

President        

• Welcome and thanks again to Zoo Atlanta
• Please read/review the Housekeeping and Meeting Conduct points above.
• Welcome to new members: Name, Street and profession; hobby; burning question?
• Elected Officials’ SHORT Update (if any are present)
• Grant Park Schools Update
• Grant Park Conservancy (www.GPConservancy.org)
• Grant Park Parent Network Update - (www.GrantParkParents.org)
  • Kindergarten Forum: 1/23/2018
  • Easter Egg Hunt: 3/31/2018
  • Run Before You Crawl: 4/14/2018
• Grant Park Neighborhood Happenings
  • Flux Projects art event in Grant Park, Anne Dennington
• Historic Oakland Cemetery
  • Arts at Oakland, Saturday 19th May from 4:30-10:00 p.m..
• 2018 Action Items and  Proposed budget

Vice-President

• Please check in. Please sign in if you’re a new member
• Committee Sign-up Sheet
• GPNA Monthly meeting reminder signs & Spread the word

Secretary

• December Minutes (approval vote toward the end of the meeting)

Treasurer

• Report
• The GPNA is a IRS recognized 501(c)(3) organization. All donations are tax deductible!

Committee Reports
Public Safety

• Public officials/neighborhood update
  • Zone 6 APD update
  • Zone 6 Community Prosecutor: Keith Lamar, (404) 612-7012
  • Captain Neil Klotzer, new Zone 6 Commander

Philanthropic

• Nicholas House – “Make a Meal” Grant Park volunteers needed.

Technology

• Sign up at gpna.org and follow us on Facebook (info below)
• Kroger Rewards & Amazon Smile
• If you are not receiving contact information from GPNA, please contact [email protected]

Economic Development

• Welcome to new businesses in Grant Park
• Grant Park Gathering Update
• Now in charge of Sunbursts – Order one today and have it by Friday!

Fundraising

• Sponsorship Package update. Businesses, please become a sponsor! Contact [email protected] for more information.
• Volunteers needed!

Homes & History

• Final design of McDonald and Boulevard will be discussed at the next Home and History meeting
• Preservation Tip of Month

Land Use and Zoning (including Transportation and Transit)

• Loomis St
• Grant Park Gateway (Grant Park Parking Deck and green space) update

Minutes Approval Vote
New Business/Open Floor
Adjourn – 8:30pm
Upcoming GPNA Meetings:

• Joint NPU-W & GPNA Public Safety Committees: Every 4^th Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., Village Church of East Atlanta
• Technology Committee: Every Fourth Tuesday, 8:00 p.m., 393 Ormond St.
• Land Use & Zoning (including Transit & Transportation) Committee: Every First Thursday, 7:00 p.m., Zoo Atlanta, ARC Building, Tech Lab
• Homes & History Committee: Every 4^th Monday, 7:00 p.m., Atlanta Preservation Center
• GPNA General Monthly Membership Meeting: Every Third Tuesday, 7:30 p.m., Zoo Atlanta, ARC Building, Coca-Cola World Studio

Upcoming NPU-W Meetings (@Village Church of East Atlanta)

• Joint NPU-W & GPNA Public Safety Committees: Every Fourth Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.
• NPU-W Land Use and Zoning: Every 1^st Tuesday, 7:00 p.m.
• NPU-W Transportation Committee: Every Fourth Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.
• NPU-W General Meeting: Every Fourth Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.

General Info:

• If You See Something, Say Something™: When contacting police: Dial 911 FIRST; call the Zone 6 precinct second at 404-371-5002.
• To report City service related issues, dial 311.
• Help fund Grant Park Security Patrol (GPSP) patrol hours: www.grantparksecuritypatrol.org
• Submit articles for publication in The Porch Press: email MS Word format documents to [email protected]
• Get a sunburst for your home: $75.00 | Purchase at www.gpna.org/sunburst
• Like us on Facebook; Twitter @GrantParkGPNA
• Create account at www.gpna.org to receive neighborhood news and security alerts
• Local Business Directory: www.gpna.org/directory/partners