Meets: Chair: Clayton Waller Mission: The 19th Ward Public Safety Committee is presently going through a re-structuring and is beginning again to host regular meetings. The committee provides a forum to review public safety challenges. Discussions are usually centered around specific monthly topics.  We frequently invite experts in various public safety fields to meet with us and discuss effective approaches to public safety issues. We have hosted the District Attorney and City Court judges as well as representatives from Animal Control, the City’s Legal Department and the City’s Traffic Specialist. We also discuss new proposed legislation as it is presented to City Council. Call the office, 328-6571, for more information, or if you would like to be placed on the mailing list for future notifications regarding our new Public Safety Committee. Notable Projects:

Meets:  Chair: Open Mission: The 19th Ward Housing Committee focuses on code violations, housing preservation, and other issues that the community can impact in order to protect the housing stock in our wonderfully diverse community.  We encourage residents and landlords to be good neighbors by keeping their properties attractive and current with City code. In 2014, the Housing Committee chose to begin with six properties that have particularly egregious violations.  As these are dealt with, more will be added.  We have reached out to the University of Rochester to discuss student housing in neighborhood single-family homes.  We have created “thank you” postcards for all 19th Ward neighbors to hand out if we notice someone who has made noticeable improvements to their properties.  We work closely with the Association’s Zoning Committee and with the Neighborhood Service Center. 

Meets: Chair: John DeMott Mission: The Zoning Committee is a standing committee of the 19th Ward Community Association, approved at Delegates’ Council April 16, 1986. We are charged with looking after the long-term interests of our neighborhood, insisting on strict adherence to the standards of the Zoning Ordinance. Some of our considerations have been opposition to legalize signs of businesses not in keeping with the character of the neighborhood, opposition to installation of front-yard parking, opposition to a second-floor kitchen in a one-family house, and several other issues. The committee meets when an issue that impacts our neighborhood comes before the Planning Commission, or Zoning Board of Appeals, or other City department.  A letter of support or a request for denial is sent to the City and is included in the packet of information the board considers in their deliberations.

Meets: Chair: Dr. Phyllis Moss Mission: Our goal is that the 19th ward neighborhood offer residents the opportunity for their children to attend high quality neighborhood public schools that provide a clear, stable educational path from early pre-kindergarten through comprehensive high school. The renovation of School 16 is in progress and it is planned to re-open in September 2018.  It will include a gymnasium and cafeteria in an area which can be used as a community center for after school activities.  A similar partitioning of school 10 is being planned for the renovation of that school. Notable Projects: We partner with the  Community  Foundation,  U of R, the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, the Arnett library and RCSD to sponsor annual 19th Ward Spelling Bee.  All four 19th Ward schools, plus School 19 participate.  This has become one or our favorite annual activities and we encourage more community participation. We are working to improve student outcomes through recruiting and placing volunteers to work with the students in our elementary schools.  If you want to read with a child, please contact one of the committee members or the association office, 328-6571.  Alternatively, on-line volunteer application forms can be found on the RCSD […]