11:00 a.m. - 1 p.m.
St. James Lutheran Church
8000 S. Michigan
Agenda items include (from the GCA e-mail):
Milburn Alternative School at St. Clotilde
Many of you are aware about the Alternative school at St. Clotilde. Well, our guest speaker on Saturday is the Chicago Public School's Deputy-Chief of Alternative Schools. We are sure you have lots of questions to ask her. See Alderman Sawyer's letter if you need more details on the school situation.
Proposed Mega Pawn Shop For 87th St.
Now we have another issue regarding a company called EZCORP Inc., a publicly traded company located in Austin, Texas.
They want to redevelop the former Chatham Pancake House, at 700 E. 87th St., into a mega-size pawnshop called EZPAWN. And GCA wants to hear what you think about that?
The Black Caucus' (Chicago Aldermen) Proposed Ward Remapping for the 6th Ward
The Black Caucus' proposed ward remapping is currently in draft stage. But we do know this: the Caucus is recommending that 6th Ward communities--south of 87th street--like Chesterfield, West Chesterfield and Roseland Heights, plus Chicago State University, be placed in Alderman Beale's 9th Ward community.So we ask is this really about being more equitable in ward redistricting in Chicago? Or is this more about diluting the 6th Ward's strength as a group of communities.
For more information, email: gcahonor@sbcglobal.net or call 773.635.6500 for more info
An additional note, just came in yesterday:
In addition to Jennifer D. Vidis, Deputy-Chief of Alternative Schools from the Chicago Public
Schools, attending our meeting, we have been notified today that Calista Winford, the principal of the Milburn Alternative School at St. Clotilde will also be in attendance.
As always, we want to conduct our meeting in a structured, serious manner. So we will ask the audience to submit written questions.
GCA knows that our audience won't hold punches and will ask the serious questions.
We encourage that!
However, if you would like to bring your question(s) for early submission, please print them out.
Please let us know what you hear at the meeting (if you attend), or what questions/solutions you have...
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