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NOTICE from Department of Excise & Licenses

From: Ayeni, Charlotte D. - EXL
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 10:21 AM
To: Garcia, Priscilla M. - EXL; Hall, Tina M. - Excise & License; Johnson, Sandra A. - EXL; Martinez, Charlotte J. - EXL; Ownsabre, Roxanne L. - EXL; Weeks, Nicole L. - EXL
Cc: Marquez, Awilda R. - EXL
Subject: FW: RNO Notification by e-mail
Importance: High

Ladies,
EFFECTIVE IMMEIDATELY, you must start notifying RNOs by email instead of by regular United States Postal Service. For each and every email, please insert AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EMAIL, the following notice/warning:

IMPORTANT NOTICE: THE DEPARTMENT OF EXCISE & LICENSES HAS IMPLEMENTED A POLICY OF NOTIFYING REGISTERED NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATIONS (“RNO’S”) OF RELEVANT LICENSE ACTIVITIES BY E-MAIL. WHEN E-MAIL NOTIFICATION IS MADE, THERE WILL BE NO NOTIFICATION THROUGH THE POSTAL SERVICE. WE WILL ONLY USE THE E-MAIL ADDRESS THAT IS REGISTERED WITH THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT (“CDP”). IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF EACH RNO TO MAINTAIN A CORRECT E-MAIL ADDRESS WITH CDP. WE WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR FAILURE TO CHECK YOUR E-MAILS OR FOR BOUNCED E-MAILS, WHETHER BECAUSE OF A FULL MAILBOX, OR CHANGED E-MAIL ADDRESS, OR FAILURE TO CORRECT THE CDP ADDRESS. WE ARE ALSO WILLING TO SEND NOTIFICATIONS TO A SECOND RNO E-MAIL ADDRESS. TO THAT END, WE HAVE REQUESTED CDP TO ADD A SECOND E-MAIL ADDRESS FOR EACH RNO. PLEASE CONTACT CDP DIRECTLY TO ADD A SECOND E-MAIL ADDRESS TO THE CDP LIST.

Next General Meeting

Wednesday, May 20th, 7-8:30 PM
Montview Manor Penthouse
1663 Steele Street

Meeting Agenda:
TBA

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Followup to The Denver Foundation's Strengthening Neighborhoods Program

17 December 2008

Hello Learning Exchange Participants,

Thanks again for your contribution to our dialogue about Neighborhood Vital Signs, which took place last Saturday at Manual hosted by The Denver Foundation’s Strengthening Neighborhood Program. Your energy and ideas helped to make the day a success.

In an effort to not let the perfect be the enemy of the good, I wanted to get out to you all the notes from our last session of the day about “building our Neighborhood Vital Signs toolbox”, copies of one of the powerpoint presentations, and let you know about a couple of ways you can continue to engage with Neighborhood Vital Signs. Additional notes and powerpoint presentations will be posted on The Civic Canopy website next week. I’ll email the url once its up.

Ways to engage with Neighborhood Vital Signs

Stakeholder Committee
Our next Neighborhood Vital Signs Stakeholder Committee meeting is Tuesday, January 6th, 5:15pm at the CHUN Community Center located at 1290 Williams street (southeast corner of 13th and Williams on the North side of Cheesman Park). The Stakeholder Committee is the steward of the Neighborhood Vital Signs effort. They advise The Civic Canopy Staff on direction of the effort and act as linkages to neighborhoods and other grassroots efforts. Oh, and we always serve dinner at Stakeholder Committee meetings. Let me know if you are interested in joining us with an email.

Apply to Become a Pilot Neighborhood
In addition to our current three pilot neighborhoods in Athmar Park, Northeast Park Hill and the Greater Capitol Hill, will be taking on just a few more neighborhoods in Spring of 2009. It will likely be tied to a Neighborhood Vital Signs Training Institute which would have a 3 to 4 month obligation. Details are still being worked out, but if you think a group of people from your neighborhood might be interested in the Neighborhood Vital Signs approach, let us know and we’ll be sure to include you in the application process.

Inclusiveness in Neighborhoods
In addition to our discussions about the democratization of data and the power it can bring to neighborhoods, inclusiveness emerged as a critical theme during our dialogues, and is clearly a topic we want to pick up on. We haven’t yet formulated exactly what this will look like, but we envision creating a safe space for a group of interested folks to meet on a regular basis to continue an “inclusiveness in neighborhoods dialogue” and help us identify challenges while continuing to build our toolbox towards greater inclusivity in our neighborhoods. If you are interested in participating in an “Inclusiveness in Neighborhoods Dialogue and Planning Group”, email back and let me know.

Lastly, participants made a request that we share our registration list and contact information from Saturday’s event, which I’m more than happy to oblige. I do know however that not everyone may be comfortable sharing their contact info with the entire group. If you’d like to be taken off of the full list to be sent out to all participants, reply email to let me know by next Tuesday.

Thanks again for your participation at the Learning Exchange, and we hope to be connecting with you in our neighborhood efforts.

Best,
Drew

Drew O'Connor
Senior Associate
The Civic Canopy
303-292-3144 (office)
303-909-4639 (mobile)
EMAIL: drew@civicanopy.org
www.civiccanopy.org

Strengthening Neighborhoods Program from The Denver Foundation

2008 Listening Exchange Invitation