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Bosart Brown Neighborhood ​Association

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Bosart Brown is a burgeoning neighborhood on the eastern ​edge of Center Township. This historic neighborhood is ​predominantly Arts & Crafts style architecture. The majority ​of the houses were erected in the mid 1920’s on the ​pastureland of the Brown Mansion (which is still standing on ​the corner of Bosart & Washington). The neighborhood is a ​very eclectic & diverse, with a strong & growing creative class ​of artists, musicians, teachers, collectors, and small business ​owners.

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Bosart Brown Neighborhood Association is the neighborhood organization for the ​Bosart Brown neighborhood on the eastside of Indianapolis. Bosart Brown is a NESCO ​community.

We hold quarterly meetings for homeowners and renters alike. If you have questions ​about the meeting, please e-mail us at Bosart.Brown@gmail.com

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Bosart-Brown is 12 minutes east of downtown Indianapolis ​and 16 minutes to IUPUI without getting on the interstate. ​It is 7 minutes from Emerson and I70.

The neighborhood boundaries are Michigan Street on the ​north, and the southern railroad tracks on the south. The ​eastern edge is Emerson Ave and the western edge is ​Linwood Ave.

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BoBro 1st Quarter Meeting Minutes

February 2nd, 2024

Call to Order

• Welcome and Introductions
  

Announcements:

• Two homes recently featured in print. One in Indianapolis Monthly and one in the Indy Star
  

Open Forum:

• Grant open for neighborhood public art Funding art beyond Indy’s downtown: Addressing public art deserts
  
• BoBro mural down middle of Wallace for tactical urbanism?
  
• Indy Arts Council for murals
  
• INRC for logos, signs, etc. End of February to apply for $10k under community engagement
  
• KIB for $500, tree planting, pocket park
  
• DPW for tactical urbanism
  
• Great Indy Cleanup Focus Application
  

Focus Neighborhood Application - Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc.

• Monthly porch parties
  
• Music, movies, food, drinks, etc.
  
• Group text ideas regarding art grant:
  
• 1) Washington & Wallace corner lot-Who owns it? Will it be available for purchase? Where is the funding source to ​purchase coming from? Will it be purchased by the BoBro Neighborhood Association? Do we have the buy-in from more ​than this block to maintain the lot in perpetuity?
  
• 2) Art for that lot-If more funds are needed or needed in the future will there be similar opportunities?
  
• 3)Tossing it out there to apply for a grant for a BoBro traffic calming mural on 100 block of Wallace
  
• Grace Tuxedo - contact for joint events/meetings
  
• BoBro Neighborhood Association
  
• Branding (Eric)
  
• Instagram (Matt)
  
• FB access (Nick)
  
• Post events to Irvington, Emerson Heights, NESCO pages
  
• Next Door
  
• Community liaison (Christian)
  
• Partner with 58
  
• Mini concerts
  
• Emerson Street Baptist lol Church for May 5th
  
• Kroger
  

Guest Speaker 1:

Speaker: Chris Staab - NESCO President

• Apartment on corner-Mayors Action Center (MAC), IMPD homeless unit and criminal justice center, MCHD Health and ​hospital
  
• Health Dept-occupied houses
  
• MAC-unoccupied houses
  
• 3173274622
  
• Tax payers not paying for gunshot detection
  
• Contract with Flock safety for license plate readers (paying for)
  
• Flock left gunshot detectors on
  
• Muzzle and bullet-Able to triangulate using different microphones. Direction, angle, and type of bullet
  
• Do not dispatch cars bcs it’s not being paid for
  
• IMPD can subpoena them if there’s a homicide
  
• Have an exact address call 911
  
• If you can’t give an exact address, call 311
  
• Don’t hang up or else a supervisor has to call you back
  
• Indy Public Safety Foundation-BLINK (blink.org)
  
• Share security system footage with them
  
• They want to know who has cameras?
  
• Register cameras & address
  
• Some businesses let IMPD monitor their cameras
  
• BlueP3-crime stoppers app
  
• BoBro movie night-kickback to neighborhood association
  
• Not a non profit
  
• NESCO is a fiduciary and will hold money for the neighborhood
  
• Sales tax exemption
  
• No holding fees and NESCO holds interest
  
• Duvall Residential Center will assist if they are fed
  
• Work release status
  
• Supervisor goes out with them
  
• Christina Cesnik (Duvall contact)-317.518.0611
  
• NESCO has unlimited Zoom account
  
• NESCOcommunity.org and submit an event to the calendar
  
• Mayor’s Neighborhood Advocate-Jacob Barnes
  
• Blue Line
  

New Business:

• Plant & bulb swap
  
• Early spring
  
• Date?
  
• KIB Dates
  
• Email KIB for 04/06 and 04/07
  
• Plant swap date same as KIB
  
• Use 58 or Emerson Baptist as a home base?
  

Upcoming Events

• KIB Clean UP
  
• Quarter 2 Meeting - May
  

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BoBro 2nd Quarter Meeting Minutes

May 4th, 2024

Call to Order

• Welcome and Introductions
  

Announcements:

Recap:

• KIB Clean Up
  
• It was a success!
  
• Received feedback that most would prefer to hold clean up in the afternoon vs morning.
  
• NESCO fundraiser
  
• Great turnout
  
• Keep in mind for future BoBro fundraising
  

Open Forum:

• Duplex and apartment
  
• It’s definitely close enough. The needles, waste, etc. are near our homes, families and pets. It’s not sanitary or safe.
  
• Call Health Dept.
  
• Illegal dumping at properties and alley
  
• Anita will take pick and send to Nathan Scheetz
  
• Security Lights
  
• AES-get numbers off pole and send to Anita Trejo-Bork - will send to Nathan Scheetz DPW
  

New Business:

• Dates for garage sale (???)
  
• Garage Sale event and signage-06/08-06/09
  
• Pocket Park
  
• NY & DeQuincy land-is it owned by the city?
  
• “Alley” by Washington & Wallace
  
• Mock’s
  
• Jordan & Ana @ 406 DeQuincy will look into cheap lots for auction
  
• Contact IMPD for BoBro bike ride
  
• Anita has contacts for community bike building and riding on Pleasant Run Trail
  
• Howe Middle School - safety questions and ADA accessible sidewalks and curb cuts needed
  
• KIB (Jessica Rohn)
  
• Project Greenspace
  
• Adopt a Block Signs
  
• Irvington Historical Society for house info
  

Upcoming Events

• BoBro Garage Sale
  
• Quarter 3 Meeting - July
  

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BoBro 3rd Quarter Meeting Minutes

July 13th, 2024

Call to Order

• Welcome and Introductions
  
• In attendance:
  
• Co-chairs: Jessi and Jessica
  
• Neighbors: Matt, Nick, Anya, LuAnn, Chris, Christian, Todd
  
• Guest Speaker: Chris Staab
  

Announcements:

• LF Neighborhood Update:
• National Night Out. Also let folks who found rocks know Ill be posting “winners” of the gift cards this week on their ​posts. Ill be at a conference out of state so I will have a smidgen of time to get that done! Here’s a secret: we have 40 gifts ​and we hid 43 rocks! There are about 25 unfound rocks still.
  
• 07/16 @ 5 pm LF meeting being held at the Emerson Theater
  
• Logo/Website Update:
• Meeting w/ Cassie Lowe to create a BoBro logo for the website
  
• Ensure artist is registered with the Indy Arts Council
  
• Brainstorming session where artist collects feedback from the neighborhood
  
• Use logo for branded house signs, mission, and vision to expand.
  
• Request RSVPs for a brainstorming session
  
• Make QR code for fire night to get neighborhood feedback on logos
  
• Add vision & mission statement
  
• Use BoBro Beast for t-shirts and electrical box mural
  
• Nick will send domains to Jessi.
  
• Nick will send email info to Jessi and Jessica
  
• Jessica will be the contact for DMD
  
• Grant update:
• Still in the running for 5.1 of INRC grant
  
• Applied for Little Big Grant through KIB for Fire Safety Event
  
• Apply for 2nd Big Little Grant for vintage movie night
  

Open Forum:

Guest Speaker 1:

Speaker: Chris Staab - NESCO President

Property Update:

• Zoning update for 4545 Michigan-NESCO
• Currently D5 (mixed use) and requesting to be rezoned to C5 (auto shop)
  
• Owner lives in Greenfield. SJM Company Inc. 2020
  
• Expeditor phone is disconnected. No other means of contacting the owner.
  
• BoBro is in opposition. EH is in opposition
  
• Hearing on July 25 @ 1.00 pm City County Building in Public Safety Room
  
• Show up as a remonstrator to drop the expeditor
  
• Can request one continuance
  
• Reveles Auto Shop and Roman’s
• Wallace Ave
• Speed bumps and speed limits
  
• Contact Jesse Brown
  
• He passed for lower speed limits but didn’t include our area bcs it’s south of NY
  
• Apply to Arts Council for street mural
  
• Community land trust: own the structure but not the land
• NEAR is utilizing this heavily
  
• Land trust lasts for 99 years
  
• Vacant lot for conservation
  
• Contact KIB for firm data to support apartment lot becoming a green space
  
• Contact MPD to share interest
  
• Apartment at Washington & Wallace-Demolition hearing isn’t set yet.
• Once demolished it’s in the cities hand (Metropolitan Department of Development/MPD)
  
• Will go to sale. Goal of having community development corporation (CDC) take on the project
  
• Possibility to have a green space. Apply for access on a lease basis or to purchase. Contact LISC for assistance.
  
• NEAR owns pocket parks in St. Clair
  

New Business:

• Interest in late summer/early fall neighborhood cleanup-Jess
• KIB Volunteer Appreciation Day-08/22-5.30-8 pm Call to Order
  
• Welcome and Introductions
  
• Announcements:
  
• Recap:
  
• KIB Clean Up
  
• It was a success!
  
• Received feedback that most would prefer to hold clean up in the afternoon vs morning.
  
• NESCO fundraiser
  
• Great turnout
  
• Keep in mind for future BoBro fundraising
  
• Open Forum:
  
• Duplex and apartment
  
• It’s definitely close enough. The needles, waste, etc. are near our homes, families and pets. It’s not sanitary or safe.
  
• Call Health Dept.
  
• Illegal dumping at properties and alley
  
• Anita will take pick and send to Nathan Scheetz
  
• Security Lights
  
• AES-get numbers off pole and send to Anita Trejo-Bork - will send to Nathan Scheetz DPW
  
• New Business:
  
• Dates for garage sale (???)
  
• Garage Sale event and signage-06/08-06/09
  
• Pocket Park
  
• NY & DeQuincy land-is it owned by the city?
  
• “Alley” by Washington & Wallace
  
• Mock’s
  
• Jordan & Ana @ 406 DeQuincy will look into cheap lots for auction
  
• Contact IMPD for BoBro bike ride
  
• Anita has contacts for community bike building and riding on Pleasant Run Trail
  
• Howe Middle School - safety questions and ADA accessible sidewalks and curb cuts needed
  
• KIB (Jessica Rohn)
  
• Project Greenspace
  
• Adopt a Block Signs
  
• Irvington Historical Society for house info
  
• Upcoming Events
  
• BoBro Garage Sale
  
• Quarter 3 Meeting - July
  

Upcoming Events

• Fire Prevention Night update-Jessi
  
• Indy.gov and apply at least 30 days in advance
  
• Request for volunteers
  
• Make QR code for fire night to get neighborhood feedback on logos
  
• TBD - Vintage Movie Night
  

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-FALL BULB/PLANT SWAP-

SEPT 14th

1:00 PM- 2:00 PM

Meet us at Mock’s - 213 Wallace Ave

Bring your favorite bulbs or perennial to swap!

Let’s give BoBro the curb appeal it deserves.

-VINTAGE MOVIE NIGHT-

SEPT 28th

7:30 PM - 11:00 PM

Meet us at the 100 Block of Wallace Ave

Between New York and Washington St

Join us for our 9th annual vintage movie night. ​Bring your own comfortable seating, such as chairs ​or blankets, wrap yourself in warmth, and enjoy an ​evening of silent films enhanced with live music.

-WINTER LUMINARIA-

DEC TBD

6:00 PM- 7:00 PM

Meet us at 33 Wallace Ave

Join us for the 2nd Annual Bosart Brown Neighborhood ​Celebration. Collect your complimentary supplies from ​117 Wallace Ave and get ready to illuminate your street.

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DO NOT leave waste at the site when it is closed. This is ​considered illegal dumping. You can dispose of 20 gallons of ​liquid waste or 75 pounds of solid waste per visit.

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The following can be recycled in Indianapolis. Please note that ​just because an item says it's "recyclable" does not mean it is ​recyclable where you live or in your municipal recycling stream. ​You may have to take it to a special drop-off location or try to ​avoid purchasing/obtaining that material in the future.

• All colors of glass
  
• Plastic bottles, jugs, and containers (ex. shampoo, milk, ​detergent, yogurt. NOT takeout clamshell containers.)
  
• Aluminum, tin, and steel beverage and food cans
  
• Newspapers, cardboard, paper, paper/paperboard cans, and ​magazines
  
• NO plastic bags, plastic film, or Styrofoam
  

-DONATIONS-

• The Mustard Seed of Indiana - Help rebuild the lives of ​families and individuals who have suffered disaster, personal ​tragedy, or other misfortunes by providing household ​furnishings.
  
• Thrifty Threads - Your gently used clothes, home goods, and ​furniture can help survivors and benefit the Julian Center.
  
• The Gifted Gown - formalwear, gowns, tuxes, shoes, and ​accessories
  
• Coburn Place - Donations of new or gently use items of all ​kinds help the more than 1,200 adults and children served ​annually.
  
• Exodus Refugee - household items
  
• Teachers' Treasures - cleaning supplies, teaching tools, toys ​and prizes, some books/print material
  
• Dress for Success Indianapolis - professional dress, shoes, and ​accessories
  
• Brides Across America - wedding dresses
  
• Indiana Diaper Bank- new and open packaging of disposable ​diapers, clean cloth diapers, wipes, creams, and diapering ​essentials
  
• Indy Reads Books - books of all kind
  
• Indianapolis Public Library - gently used books and select ​other materials
  
• Girls Rock Indy - select music gear
  
• Indy RBI - baseball and softball equipment
  
• Educate Beyond All Barriers - laptops, monitors, home ​printers, keyboards, and mice
  

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We’d love to hear from you!

Bosart.Brown@gmail.com

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