Neighbors United

See attached treasurer's Report for the period April 1, 2007 to June 30, 2007. Please note that membership renewals are due now for the fiscal year April 1, 2007 to March 31, 2008.

On the Agenda:

• Fun for the whole family
• Food from local restaurants
• Giveaways and prizes
• Music from the 102.9 FM DJ's

On the Agenda:

• Task Reports and Updates.

NOLA.com is reporting that, once again, there will be low water pressure in the Freret neighborhood overnight (or over morning morning, depending on how you look at it) between 12 AM and 3 AM. So for all of you night owls, shower early.

As reported by WWL, the Times Picayune, and the LRA website, the Unified New Orleans Plan (UNOP) has been accepted by the Louisiana Recovery Authority (LRA) as the official recovery plan for the city of New Orleans as of June 25, 2007. From this point the plan still need approval from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) before any federal funds are released to finance items listed in the plan. So it will still be some time before the UNOP plan receives any federal financing.

On the agenda

• Training on creating content for the Neighbors United website and using the web tools.
• Feedback on the website.
• Discussion of domain names.
• Discussion of survey questions and goals.

On the agenda

• Planning for Neighbors United's annual Night Out Against Crime Party.

WVUE reports that the Sewerage and Water Board is doing maintaince work overnight tonight. Between the hours of 12 AM to 3 AM the Freret neighborhood will experience very low water pressure. The development does not effect Milan. More updates as events warrant.

Attached are the meeting notes from the April 10, 2007 General Meeting at Green Middle School, I would like to credit our Secretary Linda Aubert for doing a very good and complete job creating them. The meeting notes from the June meeting will be up soon. Please note this location is a temporary spot until a designated spot can be created on the website.

The Army Corp of Engineers has released its Risk and Reliability Report for the work that has been done on the flood protection system in New Orleans. For the Freret and Milan areas the difference in flood height appears to be 1 - 1.5 ft for a "100 year storm" (i.e. if your street had 3.5 ft of flooding during Katrina, with the hurricane protection currently in place your street would have 2 - 2.5 ft of standing water). You can see the report at this website:

https://ipet.wes.army.mil/