June 9, 2026 Meeting Minutes

ENA Board Meeting

June 9, 2026 7:00 PM

Northwest Beerwerks

Minutes

Board members present:

Sherry Chilcutt (President), Karen Sweeney (Vice president & CNA representative), Jim Sweeney (Secretary), Jim Rioux (Treasurer), Abigail Twombly, Josh Elliott

1) Approval of April minutes

The May 12^th minutes were unanimously approved as submitted.

2) Treasurer’s report

Jim R. reported the following account balances:

Checking  $1,716.54

Savings    $1,951.37

Total       $3,667.91

3) CNA report

Karen reported on the following from the June 8^th CNA meeting:

• Neighborhood Matching Grants – After Brittany Gillia’s email granting permission to spend 2026 grant funds there has been no word on grant contracts. Councilperson Gillman said he was not aware of this but he will make it a priority. Karen intends to  push for a meeting in the fall to discuss the NMG program.
• Councilman Gillman reported the Jungle closeout is expected to be phased over a period of years. The City is partnering with Providence. The City is looking into whether churches can allow RVs to park on site. The Hands-on Children’s Museum addition is moving along. The City has hired a 4-person team to fix sidewalks. The Council will hold a study session in July.
• SWONA is building garden boxes, sponsoring an outdoor movie night and art in the alley.
• Nottingham is doing an ice cream social.
• South Capital reported that St John | San Juan Episcopal church is up for sale for $1.9 million; the building is reportedly not salvageable.
• Ken Lake is doing a neighborhood garage sale.
• Matt McGuinness is working on a mesh wifi network which would work well for emergency communications.

4) Block Parties – June 27, 5 to 7PM

We are planning to hold three block parties:

1. Sherry – Lybarger between 10^th & Union
2. Jim & Karen – McCormick between Legion and 7^th
3. Jim R. & Josh – Frederick Street between 9^th and Union

5) Newsletter topics

• Neighborhood Matching Grants
• Tool library
• Porch fest
• Emergency preparedness event

6) Neighborhood grant status

Grant funds are adequate to cover block party food and incidentals.

7) Emergency Planning Day – August 1^st 

Josh is working on the event plan and the time.

8) Website contact information

Sherry wants to plan a website improvement coffee event. She will ask Nathan about a meeting time and invite Mikaela. We also need to continue work on our email list.

It was suggested we apply for grant funds next year to hire a consultant to upgrade our social medial presence.

9) Porch Fest – August 29^th

Ours will be small and each porch will plan their own event. We will know which porches will be participating by August 1^st.

10) National Night Out August 4^th 

We will do block parties instead.

The next meeting will be July 14

The meeting ended at 8:20 PM