Category Archives: news

08/13/17

Street Paving – Is Your Street Next?

Hi, all. Mayor Strickland wanted to share some news I think you’ll all welcome: With more money for paving in this year’s budget, we’re back on our goal of a 25-year paving cycle for the first time in a decade. Under the mayor’s administration, and with the approval of the City Council, we’re now paving double the lane-miles than we were just four years ago. A little while back, in an effort to continue what we’re doing to be transparent, we built a map that shows where we’ll be paving soon. Public Works recently updated the map in accordance with this year’s additional appropriations for paving, and you can find it here.

<Spoiler Alert> No streets in our neighborhood are scheduled to be repaved.

03/4/17

MPD Seeking Community’s Opinion

The Memphis Police Department is working with Response to Resistance to ensure they are protecting the citizens of Memphis with reasonable use of force techniques. This groundbreaking and forward thinking approach of garnering civilian perspective puts the Department at the national forefront of improving police and community relations. Members of the Memphis community may take the survey at www.responsetoresistance.com.

In October of 2016, all MPD officers took the survey and it is now available to the community. The Response to Resistance Survey was created to support the public safety community and aid their efforts to safeguard the citizens they are sworn to serve and protect. The Survey takes about 8 minutes and presents five different scenarios regarding reaction and response to resistance ranging from simply failing to obey an officer’s instruction to use of a knife or firearm against the officer. The results for both law enforcement and civilians will be analyzed and compared to ensure the use of force techniques adopted by the Department match the way in which the community wants to be protected. Participants simply take the survey and enter the Agency Code “MEMCIV17”.

Read the complete NextDoor post.

02/25/17

Join America’s PrepareAthon!

Receiving timely information about weather conditions or other emergency events can make all the difference in knowing when to take action to be safe. Local police and fire departments, emergency managers, the National Weather Service (NWS), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and private industry are working together to make sure you can receive alerts and warnings quickly through several different technologies no matter where you are–at home, at school, at work, or in the community.

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Reposted from this NextDoor post

02/11/17

AutoZone Update

AutoZone recently received approval from the Land Use Control Board to increase the sign height of their planned store at the corner of Kirby Parkway and KirbyGate Blvd from 10 feet to 25 feet. Despite objections by KSANA and Kirby Trace Neighborhood Associations, the LUCB approved an amended request to allow a sign height of 18 feet.

KSANA appealed that decision to the City Council. On February 7th KSANA president Suzanne White spoke to the council, first in committee and later in the full council meeting, on behalf of the association. District 2 Councilman Frank Colvett supported our position and encouraged his fellow council members to do the same.

Verdict: WE WON!! AutoZone’s sign height is limited to 10 feet.

02/11/17

Annual Dues

Annual membership invoices were sent out in August. If you haven’t paid your $25 annual dues yet, you can still catch up!

Our dues (and much appreciated extra donations) fund the daily security patrol, newsletter and the events we have for our residents – adults and children alike! Your $25 payment (just $2 a month_ helps create a safe and vibrant community.

You can mail your dues to

KSANA
P.O. Box 171139
Memphis, TN 38187-1139