It appears the DHNA has dropped the ball for our neighborhood once again.
Decatur News Online reports which neighborhoods were represented at the city neighborhood meeting. Sycamore Ridge and Sycamore Station were. Decatur Heights was not.
I'm sure a number of neighbors would have been willing to attend this meeting, had received an e-mail form DHNA saying none of the unelected officers (at least in the last 8 years) could attend. [I know I would have. I elected not to attend for fear it would appear I was usurping on their authority.] But, we received no such e-mail.
If anyone on the current DHNA wants to explain how this happened, I'm sure all neighbors reading this would be happy to hear it.
If you're interested in having neighborhood leadership which is elected annually and feels a true sense of responsibility to our neighborhood, please reply or email dav3kell@gmail.com. Since the DHNA e-mail list is not published, I need to create a new e-mail list for the neighborhood.
Just to be clear, I have no desire to be a community leader. My interest lies in providing an easily accessible format for interactive communications between neighbors.
The next city-wide neighborhood meeting is in September. Let's make sure our neighborhood is represented, but that's a long ways off. In the meantime, we have some short-fuse items to deal with, like the repaving of Sycamore Drive. Those of us who have a real-time interest in our neighborhood need to step up and take the ball others have dropped and run with it.
