BuckinghamPondCrestwood NANEWS: June 2015

UPDATE POND PARK
IMPROVEMENT

Albany City DGS Chief Labor
Supervisor Bob Minard in
cooperation with Sheriff Apple
has scheduled an inmate work
party for Buckingham Pond
Park improvement , July 6 and 7.

The focus will be on foot path
improvement.

Albany DGS will provide gravel
wheel barrows and tools.

Sheriff Apple will provide an
inmate work party .

Neighbors volunteering to
provide lunch for the work
party, officers and DGS
staff would be appreciated.

Contact me for further
information.

Review earlier posts this
subject/site June 15, 10
May 21 and April 7.

Joe Sullivan

POND PARK UPDATE

Friday, June12, took a walk
around Buckingham Pond
Park with Bob Minard, DGS
Labor Supervisor.

We observed work that needs
to be done, including;

* coarse gravel spreading on
foot paths to improve drainage
and traction

*removing dead trees/limbs
overhanging the path between
Euclid and Lenox, South aside
and stacking cut firewood at
the foot of Lenox for pick up
by neighborhood residents

* eradicating the knot weed
invasion; installing a guard rail
or rock barrier to prevent a
run away vehicle from dropping
down on the path below the
foot of Lenox

* cutting brush and vines in
the wooded path from Lenox
to Holmes Dale

* controlling shoreline erosion
by planting more trees/shrubs
that are suitable for that purpose.

See earlier posts, June 10, May 21
April 7 this website.

These improvements will be made
during the course of the summer.

DGS will coordinate with inmate
work parties provided by Sheriff
Apple to establish a work schedule
between the hours of 8:30 AM -
2 PM on selected week days.

Residents who wish to volunteer
to provide lunches/refreshments
for the inmate and city workers
are needed. Also, a volunteer
coordinator for this purpose.

Lunch time 11 AM.

Please contact me. Thank you.

Joe Sullivan

BIKE THEFT

With the advent of warm weather
and school soon to be out, secure
your bikes.

A message forwarded by Officer
Brooks: jbrooks@albany- ny.org

https://local.nixle.com/alert/5433091/

Joe Sullivan

TICKS

http://www.health.ny.gov/diseases/communicable/lyme/

Joe Sullivan

BUCKINGHAM
POND PARK
UPDATE

Yesterday, took the inmate
work crew provided by
County Sheriff Apple for
a traverse around the pond
park to highlight the work
and improvements needed.

Today, talked with City
DGS Commissioner Mirabile
about coordinating city-
county efforts to improve
the park.

City workers have much
work to do after a hard winter.

This cooperative city-county
collaboration will help
Mayor Sheehan in her efforts
to balance the city budget.

Non violent offenders doing
needed public/community
service work is good for them
and good for improving our
neighborhood residential
integrity and quality of life
as well as for property tax
payers.

We will work out a schedule
to accomplish needed work
and park improvements
such as those outlined in
the May 21 and April 7
posts on this site.

Be sure to read the advisory
post below. The APD will be
strictly enforcing speed
limits and cracking down
on drivers who run traffic
lights/stop signs and who
illegally pass on the right
in curb lanes.

Joe Sullivan

NEIGHBORHOOD
ADVISORY

Neighborhood Advisory Neighborhood Leaders Please Disseminate this message to your members

As everyone has noticed the Police Command Vehicle as been parked in the area of Buckingham Pond. I would like to inform everyone IT IS NOT due to a crime increase. The crime in this area is respectfully low. The vehicle is parked at the pond as a strategic static resource point for this objective. Presently the department is engaging in a zone maintenance initiative of the two patrol zones in that area The neighborhood effected are Buckingham Pond/Krumkill Rd/New Scotland Ave Area neighborhoods. This operation will continue till the end of the month.

The reason for said initiative was based on several neighborhood complaints of vehicles speeding and disregarding traffic control signals within the mentioned neighborhoods. The majority of the violations are based on the increased commuter traffic during certain hours of the day (morning/afternoon)

If anyone has any questions/concerns feel free to email me

Respectfully,

Officer James Brooks

Albany Police Department CSU

536 Western Ave

Albany NY 12203

email jbrooks@albany-ny.org

office 518-458-5669

station desk 518-458-5660

fax 518-458-5662

cell 518-795-0020

EMERGENCY 911

Non-Emergency 438-4000

Good News from APD

Joe Sullivan

NEWS OF THIS DAY - 8 JUNE 2015

11 AM observed city workers applying
SONAR chemical to pond park.

A very windy say. Told one of the workers
posting warning signs that the pond water
aerators should be shut down for 24 hours
because winds carry airborne chemical
water spray over paths , children's
play area and picnic area. Not beneficial
for humans to breathe.

Blue-green algae is not the only pond
problem.

Observe the expanding knotweed
invasion, to East of foot of Lenox
South side. If not immediately dealt
with, it will spread to the whole park
and neighboring residential properties.

Don't step in the bird droppings near
the children's play area, pond North
side.

http://www.aol.com/article/2015/06/08/worst-u-s-bird-flu-outbreak-in-history-expands-to-m

Followed up with similar message to Mayor's
office and DGS.

APD mobile crime HQ was at semi circle
park parking lot.

Of late APD units have been stopping
speeders on New Scotland Ave. Good!

Tonight at Cap Hills Golf Course 7 pm
a meeting is slated to update neighbors
on Normanskill issue. Cost sure to be
of concern, 2 million dollars? More
likely to set stage for golf course sale.

Rumors have been circulating that
the City has sold, or is about to sell
the municipal golf course, to try and
balance a huge and growing budget
gap? If true, another wrong move.

One shot fixes will do little to prevent
Albany from becoming Detroit on the
Hudson.

Reassessment, rezoning, poor city
school environments, gambling with
children's education by employing
a lottery system, busing students
failing to return to a K-8 neighborhood
school system, poor city decisions
which threaten the residential
integrity, quality of life, home
values, the City property tax base
and support for city schools/city
government services are causing
people to sell out and flee the
few nice residential neighborhoods
left in the City.

Witness 4 sale signs as numerous
as Spring flowers in those residential
neighborhoods that pay the lion's
share of property taxes that support
city schools and services.

Add , to this the growing social services
burden on taxpayers which is the root
of high property taxes in Albany and
closely related to failing city schools.

Is it true that Albany ranks as the
6th worst city in the Nation for
retirement? USA Today report?

http://fortune.com/2015/06/08/retirement-city/

Ask senior home owners trying
to hang on to their homes with fixed
incomes and ever increasing
property taxes.

Joe Sullivan

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