McKnight Neighborhood Council, Inc.

Office Location:

Catherine St. office is closed

Mailing Address:

P.O. Box 90336

Springfield MA 01139-0336

Phone: 413-746-6206   

           Email: mcknightcouncil@yahoo.com

 Board of Directors

Calendar

Last Meeting Minutes

Next Meeting Agenda

MAP

Mason Square Library Advisory Committee

Articles of Organization

By-Laws

 

Board of Directors    

 

Newsletter (See Current Issue below)

 Board of Directors  

2008-2009 OFFICERS:

Gregory Hession, President

James D. Llewellyn, Vice President

Marianne Winters, Treasurer

Ben Swan Jr., Secretary

Denise Moccia, Assistant Secretary 

Tony Anthony, Assistant Treasurer positions

 

Committees:

Communications/ Website (Co-Chairs: Jim Llewellyn & Ben Swan Jr.)  

Finance / Fundraising (Chair: Marianne Winters; Vice Chair: Tony Anthony)

Good Neighbor (Chair: Gregory Hession) 

Housing / Code Enforcement (Chair: Denise Moccia)

Neighborhood Development & Planning (Chair: Demetrios Panteleakis)

P.E.S.T. Committee (Chair: Tony Anthony) 

Public Safety (Chair: Walter Kroll)

Links:

City of Springfield

Springfield Police

Commonwealth of Masachusetts

Weed and Seed

Sprinngfield Partners for Community Action

Springfield Public Library

 

You can still take our neighborhood surveys on line     -  

Adult Survey Link:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pzAWzstuetkHBKHb266u6Ew  

 

Youth Survey Link:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pzAWzstuetkGNtfOHSBzQRQ   

[Surveys available on line or on paper ... see below . . .]

  McKnight Neighborhood Council, Inc.

 

Next Meeting:

TUESDAY,   MARCH 10th   at   7:00 pm

 

at   REBECCA JOHNSON SCHOOL

Music Room

 

Agenda 

FEATURED PRESENTATION: Combating child poverty in Massachusetts, impact on Springfield

 

Full agenda will be posted here one week before the meeting

 

 Regular meetings are the 2nd Tuesday each month.  

McKNIGHT ALBUM:

McKNIGHT'S HOLIDAY POTLUCK & CELEBRATION - DECEMBER 9th, 2008

SPRINGFIELD COMMUNITY CAROLERS led by Zeddie Perry, Choral Director, performed a joyful program of holiday favorites and got everyone singing along! The Carolers, ages 5 to 15, are based at Holy Trinity Church of God in Christ on Bay Street. If you missed this meeting, you missed a great party!

 

 

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

HUMANICS IN ACTION DAY IN McKNIGHT NEIGHBORHOOD

CLEANING UP GIRARD AVE. - BERGEN CIRCLE VOLUNTEERS, McKNIGHT COUNCIL & SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE STUDENTS

(Below) Kenny, from Bergen Circle, supervised painting 5 garage fronts

 

(Left) Walter Kroll, Chair  or McKnight Council Public Safety Committee, 

shows SC students how to whack away those weeds                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Liz Stevens fetched ladders,

buckets of paint, pans & rollers

& organized the volunteers

OCTOBER 18, 2008  

McKnight Neighborhood Council TEAM at SPRINGFIELD KIDNEY WALK,

SUPPORTING RHODAJA SHUBRICK & HER FAMILY

Council Board Member Rodrick Shubrick (Rhodaja's proud dad) is second from right.                                   

Take our surveys
On-line survey links below
Paper surveys available from any MNC councilor
or by calling us at 746-6206
 
McKNIGHT NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL
NEIGHBORHOOD  Adult & Youth SURVEYS 
Tell us what YOU think so we can do a better job for the neighborhood
 
 
 
Adult Survey Link:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pzAWzstuetkHBKHb266u6Ew

McKnight Neighborhood Council Adult Survey 2008-2009

Thank you for participating in the McKnight Neighborhood Council Survey. The results of this survey, will be used to create a plan of action for the McKnight Neighborhood Council for the next 3 - 5 years. Your input is essential in this process.

This information will be kept private and will only be used as combined data. All questions are optional, but we would encourage you to answer as many as possible.

If you provide contact information, we will use it only to contact you and to enter you into a drawing for a prize for participating in this survey.

The McKnight Neighborhood is located one mile east from Springfield’s Central Business District and is one of the smallest of the city's seventeen neighborhoods. It contains 306 acres of land, plus streets and railroads. Its boundaries are Armory and Federal Streets to the west; the Boston & Albany Railroad to the north; the old Highland Division railroad bed to the east; and State Street to the south.

Thank you for your time and input!

 

 

Youth Survey Link:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pzAWzstuetkGNtfOHSBzQRQ

McKnight Neighborhood Council Youth Survey 2008-2009

The McKnight Neighborhood Council Survey is being done in the interest of the neighborhood and on behalf of the McKnight Neighborhood Council, a community group run by and for the residents of the McKnight Neighborhood.  The Council wants to hear your hopes and concerns about living in McKnight, and your ideas about how we can make our neighborhood a better place.  Your name will not be used without your permission.

Each of the following questions is optional.  This information will be kept private and will only be used as contact information.
Please complete the contact information at the end questions so that the McKnight Neighborhood Council can contact you regarding your concerns and interests.

Note:   The contact information section must be completed for entry into the prize drawing
 

What's This?

 

Mason Square Library Manager Reggie Wilson Received Thanks from DeBerry First Graders

More Pix

 

PLEASE PARDON US WHILE WE REBUILD THE McKNIGHT WEBSITE TO WORK BETTER FOR YOU! Sorry for any inconvenience, but please be patient ... THERE'S A BRAND NEW, SUPER-DUPER, INTERACTIVE WEBSITE ON THE WAY!! STAY TUNED!!!

[Last updated 2/11/09 ... and still working on it.]

MNC Newsletter (Current Issue): December 2008 - Call 746-6206 to request a copy.

 We have changed our out-dated By-Laws

  Thank you very much to all who participated in this effort and showed up for the meeting!

To see the By-Laws as adopted on April 8, 2008, at a general membership meeting of the McKnight Neighborhood Council, Inc. Click on By-Laws.

GRAFFITI HOT LINE:    787-6145
Report location of graffiti to the City's CLEAN TEAM  
 

  

What are these people doing?????

KEEPING SPRINGFIELD BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!!!!!!!

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO PICKED UP!!!

Saturday, MAY 3, 2008

 

Let's Keep it UP!!

Don't litter - Pick it UP!!     

Keep Springfield Beautiful

 

 

 

 CITY-WIDE COMMUNITY CLEANUP

Another GREAT SUCCESS in McKnight!

 

     Many THANKS

                                           to all who participate!

 

  PLEASE KEEP McKNIGHT and SPRINGFIELD GREEN and CLEAN!

 

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