Brian Flahaven

It is nice to be back in DC after a busy work trip to Arizona. I plan to post a brief recap of last week’s April ANC 6B meeting in the next day or so. In the meantime, a few important upcoming meeting announcements:

• Tonight at 7:00 pm I’ll hold my monthly Office Hours at New York Pizza (1401 Pennsylvania Avenue SE). Please stop by if you have questions, want to share your views, or have an upcoming project that will be considered by ANC 6B.
• Tomorrow (Thurs., April 21) is the monthly PSA 107 Meeting, 7:00 pm at Liberty Baptist Church (527 Kentucky Ave. SE). Lt. Michael Thornton will provide an update on public safety issues and trends in our neighborhood.
• Next Tues., April 26, ANC 6B will hold a second special call meeting on the proposed design of the Hine Jr. High School redevelopment. The meeting will be at  6:30 pm at Brent Elementary School, 701 North Carolina Ave. SE. The commission has posted a draft resolution (third bullet from bottom) and plans to vote on a final resolution to submit to the Historic Preservation Review Board during the special call meeting. The HPRB will consider the Hine project on Thurs., April 28. You can view the latest design concept on Stanton-Eastbanc’s Hine website. Please e-mail me or post your comments below on the draft resolution or the Hine project in general.

• Looks like negotiations over the federal budget are going down to the wire. If the federal government shuts down tonight at midnight, a number of DC government services will be affected, including trash collection (for one week), DMV and permitting services. Police, Fire & EMS, DC Public and Charter Schools and a limited number of health and human services functions will be unaffected by the shutdown. Please take a few moments to review the shutdown plan posted on the DC government website.
• Regardless of whether there is a shutdown or not, ANC 6B will hold its April commission meeting next Tues., April 12, 7:00 pm at the Church of Jesus Christ of LDS, 522 7th Street SE. Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend Tuesday’s meeting due to a work conference scheduled more than a year ago. My colleague, Commissioner Jared Critchfield (6B07), has graciously offered to send me the highlights so I can still provide a meeting recap. Barring the unexpected, this should be the only ANC meeting I miss this year.
• Next Thursday, April 14, Congressional Cemetery, in partnership with The Faith & Politics Institute, will be hosting a Civil Rights Heroes Tour beginning at 7:00 pm at the Cemetery Chapel. The evening will honor abolitionists, suffragists, Native American delegates, and gay rights activists who have fought for social justice over the past 200 years. Food and wine will be provided. You can register for the event on the Congressional Cemetery website.
• Stay tuned on ANC 6B’s Hill East Task Force. We hope to hold an organizing meeting for the task force sometime in the next month or so. Thanks to everyone who has expressed interest in serving and/or being involved on the task force. If you are interested in the Hill East Task Force or serving as a resident member of any other ANC 6B committee or task force (planning & zoning, alcoholic beverage (ABC), transportation, outreach and constituency services), please let me know.
• Finally, join us for our weekly neighborhood walk this Sunday, April 10, 6:00 pm in front of Harris Teeter (1350 Potomac Ave. SE).

Have a great weekend!

• The April ANC 6B meeting agenda is now available on the commission’s website. The full commission meeting will be held next Tues., April 12, 7:00 pm at the Church of Jesus Christ of LDS, 522 7th Street SE.
• ANC 6B’s Planning and Zoning Committee meets tonight, 7:00 pm at Cesar Chavez Public Charter School, 714 -722 11th Street SE. Enter on the 11th Street side of the school. ANC 6B will not hold an Alcoholic Beverage Committee (ABC) meeting this month.
• The Capitol Hill Restoration Society is also holding a special public meeting tonight to discuss the Hine Jr. High School redevelopment project. The site’s developers, Stanton-Eastbanc, are expected to present updated plans for the site. The meeting is from 6:45 pm – 8:30 pm at Maury Elementary School (13th and Constitution Ave. NE).