Be sure to come out for the Lamond-Riggs Citizens Association meeting tonight, May 1, at 7:00 pm. Paid members will be able to vote for LRCA’s new officers. The meeting/election takes place at LaSalle Backus Education Campus, located at 501 Riggs Road NE (enter on Madison Street).

I am running to become the next LRCA president as I explained in this post. I am a part of a slate of candidates that I believe will be excellent stewards of the Association. Please vote for:

Uchenna Evans – President
Paul Garcia – 1st Vice President
Gwen Cofield – 2nd Vice President
Iyanna Holmes – Treasurer

LRCA Campaign Flyer (pdf)

Either individually or collectively, this slate of candidates is directly responsible for the following actions to ensure that the Association has systems in place to effectively ensure that the community continues to thrive:

• Co-founding the Lamond-Riggs Development Task Force
• Submitting cohesive testimony on behalf of the association for the Fort Totten Triangle surplus disposition process (the sale of the District-owned land on the corner of Riggs Road and South Dakota Avenue NE)
• Creating and administering a community benefits survey to solicit resident input on what benefits residents would like to see in connection with this process and making that information available in the newsletter and on the listserv, website, and social media accounts
• Timely drafting professional, coherent, and persuasive documents related to development and planning on behalf of the Association
• Participating in initial planning workshop for Vibrant Retail Street for neighborhood, resulting in development of market study of sustainable neighborhood retail for area
• Successfully advocating for the placement of the neighborhood’s name on the neighborhood profile sheet used by District officials to market the neighborhood
• Conducting a member survey to find out things like what topics residents would like to cover at meetings and in the newsletter; inviting to meetings District agency personnel to present on useful government programs, e.g., DC’s RiverSmart program which aids homeowners in reducing storm runoff into the Anacostia River through partial subsidy of the costs of rain barrels and landscaping
• Creating for the first time a website for the LRCA at http://lrcadc.org, as well as active listserv and social media accounts, to ensure that residents are always informed and engaged about what is happening in the community
• For the first time, obtaining federal 501(c)(3) designation for the Association to enable the organization to accept tax-deductible donations and to also qualify for grants and monies available only to 501(c)(3) organizations
• Setting up an online payment system for the Association to enable residents to pay dues online and make online donations
• Setting up for the first time an official email for the Association and associated online document recordkeeping site for the Association
• With others, preparing and distributing the neighborhood newsletter each month
• Generally serving as a resource for efforts by others in neighborhood
• Fostering a collaborative, respectful relationship among residents and the District’s elected and agency officials