[StBernard] St. Bernard Parish President Craig Taffaro and Council teams with Civic and Neighborhood groups To kick off a Curb Appeal Initiative with administrative enforcement campaign: Press conference, Tues., Feb. 22 at 2 p.m.

[Westley Annis]

Exactly who or what is the St. Bernard Community Foundation?  I see it is
part of the Greater New Orleans Foundation but exactly who created it and
who finances it?  What authority do they have and where do they get that
authority from?

http://www.gnof.org/meet-the-board/

I see Polly Campbell is apparently the former Polly Boudreaux and is
involved with this.  

I'm just curious as to how this group came about, funding for it, etc.  I
see by the page above it's some of the movers and shakers in the parish.

JY






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	St. Bernard Parish President Craig Taffaro and the Parish Council
teams with
	Civic and Neighborhood groups
	
	To kick off a Curb Appeal Initiative with administrative enforcement
	campaign
	
	
	
	St. Bernard Parish President Craig P. Taffaro, Jr. has pledged his
support
	of a citizens' driven Curb Appeal Initiative that he will endorse at
a press
	conference Tuesday, February 22 when he announces the implementation
of an
	administrative enforcement campaign. The press conference will be at
2 p.m.
	in the St. Bernard Parish Government Complex lobby at 8201 W. Judge
Perez
	Drive in Chalmette.
	
	
	
	"After several months of planning and coordination with the Parks
and
	Parkways Commission Chairman, Honorable Howard Luna and the
Commission and
	Ms. Polly Campbell of the St. Bernard Community Foundation and the
	neighborhood initiative movement, we are implementing a renewed
quality of
	life campaign with a focus on code enforcement of signage,
landscaping, and
	dumpster placement," President Taffaro said.
	
	
	
	"With the support of the parish council, we have garnered support of
the
	business community and neighborhood groups alike to commit to a
	comprehensive campaign designed to gain compliance through community
	buy-in," Taffaro said. "As you know, code enforcement becomes much
more
	effective when there is community buy-in and voluntary compliance.
With
	this program, our area supervisors will now have business leaders
and civic
	groups assisting in self-policing of these quality of life
standards.  We
	certainly do not expect that this will eliminate violations, but the
	community based initiative will accomplish more than what parish
government
	can do alone."
	
	
	
	Luna of the St. Bernard Parks and Parkways Commission, who also is a
Justice
	of the Peace, and Campbell, director of the St. Bernard Community
Foundation
	Neighborhood Initiatives, helped spearhead this as a grass roots
effort to
	get community groups and citizens to support parish government's
enforcement
	of good codes as well as to do their part to help improve the
parish's curb
	appeal on an individual level.
	
	
	
	Luna and Campbell said the parish has made so much progress in terms
of
	building new roads, parks and improving our infrastructure since
Katrina.
	Now it's time to focus on what people see every day.
	
	
	
	"We believe the look of our major thoroughfares has a lot to do with
our
	ability to attract new families into the many homes that are
available for
	sale and rent," Campbell said. "Enforcing our codes keep an
attractive look
	about a community and guides you as to what you can and cannot do
with your
	property."
	
	
	
	Campbell said this announcement about the Curb Appeal Initiative and
the
	administrative enforcement campaign by Taffaro "is part of a big
movement
	and a big initiative to put the icing on the cake with all of the
new
	infrastructure, new buildings and new schools." Campbell said the
St.
	Bernard Community Foundation will provide tools and workshops for
local
	neighborhood organizations to do their part. It will include
organizing
	volunteer efforts such as the ongoing tree planting program on Judge
Perez
	Drive from Arabi to Violet that organizers hope to expand to Paris
Road and
	St. Bernard Highway.
	
	
	
	For more information, call the President's Office at 504-278-4227,
Luna at
	504-908-8880 or Campbell at 504-554-7134.
	
	
	
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