We welcomed many guests today: Jean Manary brought Ron Butterfield as her guest; Maureen Kelly brought three guests: two deputies from her office that deal with foreclosures - T. J. Lynch and Melissa Underwood - and Jim Walsh, the IT person for Lake County Courts and other government offices. Thank you all for joining us!
Nick won $32 in today's raffle and the Queen of Spades drawing is back down to $32, after Nick won it all last week! Congratulations, Nick!!
Birthdays:
No birthdays this week.
Announcements:
Welcome to our two new members: Tom Cofer and Greg Sanders!
Dick announced that the dictionaries have been ordered, and when they arrive, will have Four-Way Tests put into them, and then will be ready to be delivered to the third grade classes. Volunteers will be needed for this distribution.
Today's program was about the Lake County Land Reutilization Corporation (LCLRC). Presenting was John Rogers, Director of the LCLRC, and also State Representative for House District 60. The LCLRC is a non-profit organization, not a government entity, and is funded in part by delinquent property taxes in Lake County. It was created in part as a response to the ever-increasing number of foreclosures in Lake County from 2000 - 2010; though this number has begun to decline in the last three years. The program serves as a land bank, to which properties may be donated; the organization then demolishes them and creates green space. This helps neighborhoods in several ways, among them the prevention of (further) property value decline that is caused by foreclosed homes and the creation of attractive and safe green space where there once was blight and potential for crime activity. The program has an initiative called Moving Ohio Forward, through which 58 properties (in numerous cities throughout Lake County) have been demolished to date, with another handful slated to be demolished in the coming months. The properties are demolished at no cost to the city or township. For more information, please visit their website at: http://thrivingcommunitiesinstitute.org/ohio-land-bank-lake.html.
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