What: The City of Tyler Neighborhood Services Department and representatives from several other City Departments will hold a neighborhood meeting with the residents of the Fall 2009 Neighborhood Empowerment Works (NEW) focus area. Departments that will be represented include Police, Fire, Code Enforcement, Engineering, Traffic, Animal Control, Water Utilities, Streets and Parks.
The meeting is an opportunity for neighbors to share their concerns and help identify projects that the City can address during the focus period.
When: 6 p.m., Monday, Nov. 2, 2009
Where: Ebenezer Baptist Church
1101 W. Queen St.
Tyler, TX 75702
The City of Tyler has announced the neighborhood selected for the Fall 2009 Neighborhood Empowerment Works (NEW) program and has scheduled a neighborhood meeting with residents to be held on Monday, Nov. 2 at 6 p.m. at Ebenezer Baptist Church, 1101 W. Queen St. The meeting will provide residents an opportunity to meet with representatives from the City to share their ideas and concerns about their neighborhood. Refreshments will be provided.
The NEW neighborhood’s boundaries are from Gentry Parkway to North Englewood, to Crescent Drive, to West Vance to North Ross Avenue (see map attached).
“Resident input is critical to this program,” said Neighborhood Services Director Brenda Johnson. “The residents know their neighborhood better than anyone and are in the best position to identify opportunities for improvement.”
The NEW program enhances the quality of life for Tyler residents – one neighborhood at a time – by intensely concentrating City services in a specific area for four weeks. Various City departments use information gathered from the neighborhood meeting as well as an examination of the area to identify services that could make an immediate impact on the neighborhood.
This will be the eighth NEW neighborhood since the City started the program in 2006.
“The NEW program is an important tool that the City uses to stop neighborhood decline in its tracks,” said Mayor Pro Tem Donald Sanders. “By involving the neighbors and leveraging City services, the program has proven to be successful in encouraging reinvestment in Tyler’s older neighborhoods. Get rid of the grime…get rid of the crime.”