Author: Becky Volz for SGFNN

Each year, the Neighborhood Advisory Council advocates to City leadership for resources to support Springfield’s 24 registered neighborhoods. The focus areas for the upcoming 2024-25 budget include additional neighborhood clean-ups, more staffing for Building Development Services to address blighted properties, and funding for the implementation of Forward SGF. Annual neighborhood…

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Neighborhood leaders who come to the quarterly Neighborhood Advisory Council (NAC) meetings represent you and the concerns and progress in your neighborhood. It is an avenue whereby we can request change and create a healthier community. Neighborhood leaders are designated from the neighborhood association in each neighborhood. The volunteer board of directors…

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Our neighborhoods thrive on the volunteers who give their time and talents to our neighborhoods. When we volunteer in our neighborhoods, on projects and events (like cleanups, painting fences, cleaning gutters, landscaping, ice cream socials, Neighborhood Night Out, etc.), everyone matters and every hour volunteered makes a difference. To make…

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Milestones accomplished! We are now 24 registered neighborhoods who are a part of the Neighborhood Advisory Council. We have increased our voice when we advocate to the City for the needs and concerns of our neighborhoods. I encourage you all to connect with your neighborhood association and work together on your…

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It was five years ago when the Little Fruit Garden got its start, and its name, in Woodland Heights on the south side of Reed Academy on West Atlantic. Named in honor of a long time school secretary at Reed Academy, Janet Little, the garden provides sweet yummy fruit for neighbors…

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Over the years as a neighborhood association leader, I’ve had a number of phone calls from real estate agents and title companies asking if a property in question owed any fees or dues to the homeowners association. I was always happy to report that our neighborhood association does not have covenants, fees…

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