Monthly Meeting Notes – September 14, 2017
Goodbye and good luck Cindi Wight! Thank you for being so amazing, inspiring, passionate, and a true visionary! We’ll all miss you!!
Mayor’s Updates:
- Currently searching for a new fire chief and a new Superintendent of Recreation Dept
- Congrats to Matt Prouty on new job!
Chief Kilcullen
- Luncheon to honor Scott Tucker TOMORROW at 12
- Commander Matt Prouty is now Executive Director of Project VISION
- Last Night: PBS Opiate Crisis Stories & Solutions (15 yr old movie) – dynamic of issue hasn’t changed, but solutions have – Project VISION being one of them (national recognition!)
Commander Prouty
- Excited & honored to be Executive Director of Project VISION
Pearl Grant recipient: Vermont Farmers Food Center
- Greg Cox: VFFC put in a commercial kitchen for educational purposes, money will be used to upgrade and improve the kitchen. Proud to be part of the Northwest Neighborhood.
Rutland County Women’s Network and Shelter
- Event: The Big Reveal: Our Next Chapter
- Unmasking of new identity @ CSJ Tuttle Hall at 6 PM
- Great food, music, activities, celebration!
- Building Bright Futures of Rutland – working to mitigate impacts of ACES
- Film: “Resilience, The Biology of Stress & The Science of Hope” Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on health
- October 17th presentation: film followed by panel discussion
Commissioner of Public Safety – Tom Anderson
- Tom “works on supply side to reduce availability of opioids in the community BUT this issue is really about demand-side reduction – this is where things like Project VISION come into play”
- On Governor’s Opioid Coordination Council – “statewide problem that needs a statewide solution; needs investment of every Vermonter“
- “Here to look, listen, and learn to see if we can replicate Project VISION around the state, especially in rural areas”
- Statewide statistics: 106 opioid-related deaths last year; we’re on track to hit that number again. More overdoses that haven’t resulted in death this YTD.
- Concerned about number of opioid prescriptions in the state
Ride for Recovery & Recovery Rally – Evergreen Substance Abuse/Rutland Mental Health
- September 30th @ BROC (45 Union Street)
- Recovery can be FUN! Make recovery more visible
United Way Fundraiser
- October 25th – Guns and Hoses since Fire Dept & Police Dept are volunteering
Rutland Recreation
- Water Street Park – permit has been submitted to planning and zoning – April will now be taking over that
- October 14th , 4-6 PM, Movie starts at 6 PM, 113 Library Ave
- Pumpkin Carving, Cider & Apples,
Center Street turning into a Park for the Green Street Challenge
- Saturday, September 23rd , need volunteers! 6:30-7 PM to pick up sod, email andy@comealiveoutside.com
- Share event! https://www.facebook.com/ComeAliveOutsideRutlandVT/photos/a.1422077397825559.1073741830.1323678144332152/1664599206906709/?type=3&theater
Rutland Photo Sharing
- Creating way to share photos/upcoming events easily
Workforce Investment Board
- If you know of an organization that needs to increase their capacity, or an individual who might benefit from these services, let Teresa Miele know: miele@hracquired.com
Vermont Stand Down for Veterans
- Sept 30, 8 AM – 6 PM @ Barre Auditorium
- Transportation from Rutland available for Veterans
Kids & Family Fun Day
- Saturday, November 25, 1-3 PM @ Giorgetti
- Theme: I Love Rutland
- S’mores, painting rocks, making snowflakes, free skating
- Meetings every Tuesday @ 5 @ The Dream Center from now through December
- Looking for a volunteer photographer (email ljustin@dreamcenterrutland.org)
Physical Improvements to the neighborhood:
- Habitat for Humanity: 42 Cleveland Build
- Putting on shingles, getting ready to move inside
- Individuals can come volunteer any build they want!
- Wednesdays & Saturdays 9-2:30
- Email aylesa98@yahoo.com
- NeighborWorks: 3 of 7 renovations complete
- 120 Library Ave, 59 Baxter Street, and 39 Pine Street complete
- 128 Library Ave to be finished in November
- Park Ave Properties next: 114, 117 to be renovated, 116 to be razed