South Frankfort Neighborhood Association t-shirts will be available for purchase at our next quarterly meeting on 25 Sept 2014.
$12 for members and $15 for others
Sales of the shirts will support our scholarship fund and other projects.
Indoor recreation center survey / Franklin County & City of Frankfort KY 2014
A committee is looking into the needs in our community for an indoor recreation center.
A survey has been developed to get citizen input. Below is a link to the survey if you are interested in submitting your thoughts on this type of facility in Frankfort.
Attached is a PDF file if you would rather complete in hard copy.
The survey is available either via Survey Monkey or Mind Mixer:
Web Survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CapitolSportsandRec
Mind Mixer: http://www.CapitolSportsandRec.com
SFNA August 2014 e-newsletter
Dear friends,
I am honored that you have entrusted me with the chairmanship of the South Frankfort Neighborhood Association. My vision for our neighborhood is that it retain its rightful place as the center of residential life in the Capital City.
I hope to continue the fine leadership provided by past chairs; and I will pursue our common interests with great energy and passion. With your help, we can create a vibrant place to live and raise our families. Many thanks!
Below is some information that the SFNA Board has discussed and are planning. We look forward to meeting you around the neighborhood and if you have any ideas or topics that you feel we need to consider, please respond to this e-mail.
— Scott Tippett, Chair
- The attached zip file (SFNA_Attachments_2014829) contains five documents:
- JLUS information x2
- SFNA Membership Application
- City information on proposed new signage
- Simon House information on Kroger Card program
Tonight, August 29 – Last of the downtown summer concert series for this season!
Saturday, August 30 – Lets Move! Sprinkler Saturdays. Cool off on a hot summer day the old-fashioned way–by running through the sprinklers! Behind the Orlando Brown House, 202 Wilkinson, 12:30-2:00 p.m. FREE event. (Program may be cancelled due to weather or a conflicting event in the garden. Please visit their Facebook page for up-to-the-minute updates.) Info: 227-2560
Saturday, August 30 – Family Fun Saturday. Spies and Disguise: Civil War Spies. 1:00-4:00 p.m. at Kentucky Historical Society, State Arsenal, 125 W. Main. Discover the perils of being a Civil War spy as you decode messages using ciphers employed during the war. For children ages five to 10 and their families. Come anytime between 1 and 4 p.m. Admission is free and separate from attending a KHS museum, which has paid admission. Info: 502-564-1792
September 2-7 – Kentucky Senior Games. The Kentucky Senior games are a multi sport medal competition for seniors age 50+. Twenty-two different sport competitions will be held over 7 days. (All competitions held on Friday, September 5 will be concentrated downtown and will include Senior Fun Day at the Old Capitol, 10:00 a.m.) If your interested in competing click http://kentuckyseniorgames.com
If you are interested in volunteering or have additional questions, call 875-1675.
September 4 – JLUS Implementation Committee (see attachment). Also attached is a document that has been compiled by a citizen familiar with the JLUS project and the SFNA representative on the committee will be keeping some of these points in mind when attending the meetings. Here is a link to the study.
Additional information can also be found on the airport’s website at Kentucky: Capital City Airport – Home.
September 8 – City Commission Work Session one of the agenda items will be a discussion regarding historical regulations. http://frankfort.ky.gov/blogs
September 11 – Public Meeting, Hear a presentation and give your input on the proposed wayfinding signage for Frankfort! Thursday, September 11. 5:30-8:00 p.m. at the Paul Sawyier Public Library, 319 Wapping St. Info: Maya at 875-8500 (see attachment) http://frankfort.ky.gov/blogs
September 12 and September 19 – Liberty Hall Open House from 6-7 p.m. and the play Two Loves and River at Ward Oates Amphitheater at 7. Capital City Museum
September 21 – Gospel on the Grounds of the Governor’s Mansion. Starting at 2:30 p.m. This is going to be an incredible event! Admission is free, but tickets are required. The show is expected to “sell out” very soon, so get your tickets right away at Gospel Music at the Governor’s Mansion. Call 502-564-3000 for more information.
September 22 – City Commission Regular Meeting
September 25 – SFNA membership meeting. Doors open at 6 p.m. for dinner and social time and the meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at South Frankfort Presbyterian Church. Please enter through the West Third Street doors to the Fellowship Hall. The members will hear a presentation from Jonathan Mays who has completed several rehabilitation projects within South Frankfort.
Monday, September 29 – October 20 – Frankfort Independent Schools‘ Fall Break
Friday, October 3 – WeWannaPlay.org is sponsoring its annual Black Cat golf scramble at Longview Golf Course in Frankfort. This fundraiser benefits our local high school student athletes by supplementing their expenses to play sports.
Saturday, October 18 – KSU Homecoming Parade – some streets within downtown and South Frankfort will be closed in the morning hours to showcase Frankfort’s university!
Thursday, October 23 – SFNA will sponsor a City Commissioner Candidate Forum from 7-8:30 at the Frankfort High School Auditorium. If you have any questions or issues that you would like to have asked of the candidates by our emcee, Al Cross, then please submit them to the SFNA Board via e-mail to sfna.news@yahoo.com or on our Facebook page.
The SFNA Board has designed and purchased some neighborhood pride t-shirts, we hope to have these available for sale at the next membership meeting on Thursday, September 25. There will be a discounted price for SFNA members! Proceeds will go to benefit the Randy Bacon Memorial Scholarship that SFNA provides yearly to at least one deserving graduating senior at Frankfort High School who lives in South Frankfort.
Check out the Simon House attachment for when you do your next shopping trip to Kroger.
An update from the KY Transportation Cabinet regarding Riverview Trail – Due to construction, a section of the River View Trail between Leestown Lane and the entrance to Buffalo Trace Distillery is currently closed to cyclists and pedestrians. All portions of this paved path along Wilkinson Boulevard will be restored back to its original configuration before the project is complete. Weather permitting, the contractor plans to have the path fully repaired by the end of September.
Public meeting – new signs / signage for Frankfort; 11 Sept 2014
A public meeting will be held to discuss the proposed update to signs / signage in the city.
See the attached PDF for samples.
Paul Sawyier Public Library Community Room, 5:30om, Thursday September 11th 2014.
Agricultural Extension Office autumn horticulture newsletter
SFNA 2014 Candidates Forum, 23 Oct 2014
The South Frankfort Neighborhood Association is pleased to invite you to its
2014 Candidates Forum
Thursday October 23, 2014 from 7pm to 8:30pm
Frankfort High School Auditorium (328 Shelby Street)
Join us for a public forum with all candidates for City Commission moderated by Al Cross.
4 September 2014 meeting of the JLUS Implementation Committee
The next meeting of the JLUS Implementation Committee will be held on Thursday September 4, 2014 at 5:30 p.m.
The meeting will be located at Frankfort City Hall in the Council Chambers, which is located at 315 W. Second Street, Frankfort, KY 40601.
Based on the comments and discussions from the first meeting, the agenda will include discussing Real Estate Disclosures.
If you have any questions or would like to speak with staff directly, feel free to contact Robert Hewitt at (502) 875-8701, Gary Muller at (502) 352-2100 or Chermie Maxwell at (502) 352-2088.
SFNA July 2014 Quarterly Meeting recap / message from outgoing Chairperson
I want to take a moment and provide you with a recap of our meeting last Thursday night and to give some heartfelt words of thanks as I step down as Chair of this wonderful organization.
Over the past few years, I have had the pleasure of serving as your treasurer, vice chair, and chair. During this time our association has grown through this e-mail distribution list and our Facebook page; however, I encourage even more growth of our organization by attending our meetings, serving on one of our committees, or volunteering to help organize a social event. If your time might not allow you to attend an event, then please mention our organization to your neighbors and encourage them to start receiving our e-mails or come to one of the meetings. The Board is also always open to suggestions on discussion topics at our meetings, so shoot us an e-mail with an idea you have that might be of benefit to our neighborhood.
I will still be involved with the organization on the board in the capacity of Immediate Past Chair, but I am looking forward to cherishing in the newer roles of my life as a newlywed, new mother, and soon to be graduate student. My family is committed to South Frankfort and are excited to see the direction our Association is headed.
I would like everyone to welcome Scott Tippett, your new chair to the Association. He is a retired teacher within the Frankfort Independent School district and lives on West 4th Street. There are some other familiar faces on the Board with Jennifer Oberlin returning as Vice Chair, Christa Burton as Secretary, and Natalie Wilkerson changing roles from Beautification Chair to become Treasurer. Libby Marshall will pick up as Government Affairs Chair, Maryam Kaykavoosi is the new Beautifications Chair, and at the moment Margaret Townsley, Joel Fischer, and myself will continue on as the primary people for the Communications committee.
In addition to the election this past Thursday night, the City of Frankfort announced the applicants for matching residential and business grants through a new pilot program and during their presentation they drew the winners for the grants. We also heard a presentation from the 2010 Randy Bacon Memorial Scholarship recipient, Deshon Floyd, about his fundraising efforts to participate in a semester abroad internship program in Wellington, New Zealand. During the business portion of the meeting, the Association adopted the attached bylaws. There is one more verbal amendment that was approved that will be incorporated into the attached document. It relates to paid members from the previous fiscal year being allowed to vote at the regular membership meeting of the Association since dues are generally not collected until this particular meeting, typically held in July (after the start of the fiscal year which is how our membership is based on). The official minutes of the meeting will be distributed at a later date, but if you wish to have more information on any of these topics, then please respond to this e-mail.
Attached are some additional documents that were referenced at the meeting along with tonight’s City Commission agenda and an updated membership application form. On Thursday, 7/31, there is a meeting of the JLUS Implementation Committee at 5:30. SFNA has a representative on this committee, so please either attend this meeting or respond to this message and we will be able to continue to keep you informed.
Many thanks to all for your support over the years. I am looking forward to now being known as Julian’s wife, Emerson’s mom, and what is she thinking going to graduate school student along with my other titles of Donna’s daughter and that busy LRC employee.
Enjoy the rest of this summer and good luck to all the students starting school next week!
Katie Carney
Floodgate exercise in SF, evening of 25 July 2014
The City will be conducting a floodgate exercise later today beginning at 4:30 pm.
There will be some road closures associated with the exercise.
Bridge Street at the Singing Bridge will be closed no earlier than 11:30 pm, this will allow traffic from attendees at the Movie Night on Broadway to leave the area. This closure is expected to last approximately 2 hours.
Also closed: Battle Alley and Jones Run, which shouldn’t impact traffic.
SFNA next quarterly meeting & Bylaws update
Dear Neighbors:
Attached are three documents that relate to our quarterly meeting next week. Please review all and feel free to submit any comments you might have by replying to this e-mail. I have outlined the primary changes and reasons to the proposed bylaw changes below. My apologies to not being able to submit these proposed changes to you yesterday or over this past weekend. I was out-of-town and returned to Frankfort and my computer very late last night.
We look forward to seeing you at our meeting next week (Thursday, 7/24). The doors to the Third Street entrance of South Frankfort Presbyterian Church will open at 6 p.m. for dinner and the meeting will begin at 7. I believe we will be able to adjourn by 8:30. Because of our presenters’ schedules, we had to place the core neighborhood association business at the end of the agenda, but we will be able to move some things around on agenda items IV-VII.
Also as of this time, we will be unable to provide a full slate of candidates for our officer elections. All positions are available to receive nominations and we have some people that might be able to serve, but we would like to see if any other nominations are received at the meeting. According to our current bylaws, three of the current officers are unable to serve another term in their current position (chair, treasurer, and secretary).
Thank you for your consideration of these proposed changes.
Katie Carney, Chair and your SFNA Board
Bylaw Changes
Article III – Membership Dues
Change the per household dues from $12 to $10 for regular membership and the household associate membership dues will change from $6 to $5. The primary reason for this change is that many people do not have single bills when they pay their membership dues. The Board does not believe this will affect our low operating expenses.
Article IV – Fiscal Year and Membership Meetings
The Board recommends changing the bylaws to meet twice a year as opposed to quarterly. Over the past few years the Board has had difficulty arranging speakers that would provide topics of interest to the members. We have also experienced a decline in attendance at the meetings and feel that if there were fewer meetings, individuals might be able to be more involved in the association by not having to commit to four meetings per year. We would recommend to the future board to begin the meetings at 6 or 6:30 and still provide dinner, but lesson the time for a social period.
Article V – Officers
Change the name of the section to “Election and Terms of Office” which better reflects the subject of the article.
Removal of the duties of the Membership Development and Officer Nominations Committee (explanation for that is later in the e-mail).
Delete a phrase in Section 2 that relates to the length of time an elected officer shall serve until – “or until their successors are elected and qualify”. A possible scenario would be if there is no one elected to serve in a specific position and the currently elected officer would have to continue to serve until someone is elected. Which could possibly be in conflict with Section 3 of Article V about serving no more than 3 consecutive terms of office. There is a contingency plan at the end of the proposed bylaws.
Article VII – Board of Directors
Delete the member at-large position. It is suggested to delete this position because there are no clearly defined duties.
Delete Section 3 which requires monthly Board meetings. Section 4 becomes the new Section 3 and recommends that there be regular meetings of the Board.
Article VIII – Committees and Programs
Deletion of the Membership Development and Officer Nominations, Government Affairs, and Community Events committees. The Board has had a difficult time maintaining volunteers and chairs for these three committees and feel that the duties of each can be incorporated into the duties of the Board as a collective group. Within this article there is authorization for the chairperson to establish additional committees and programs of this organization. The Board believes that when there is a need to establish a committee it is a temporary need and would not need formal acknowledgement in the bylaws.
Also within the description of officer duties and the Board of Directors, there is authorization to incorporate most of the responsibilities of these three committees. The Beautification’s Committee currently addresses governmental topics of planning and zoning, architectural review, code enforcement, historic preservation, and community improvement. The community improvement aspect of Beautification’s Committee could be expanded/interpreted as being able to pick up aspects of the Community Events Committee.
Article XI – Dissolution of SFNA
This is a new article that might still need some tweaking made to it. The Board wanted to provide an avenue as to what might happen in the event of no officer being elected to a position.