On May 6th the Muncie Action Plan (MAP) board conducted a bus tour that celebrates several good things happening in our community that align with MAP Actions. MAP’s Co-Chairs shared over 20 success stories along the route while riding on MITS buses for the approximately 90-minute tour.
VIDEO: Muncie’s Primacy of Place
Muncie’s Primacy of Place Video Series was produced by Ball State Student Media and funded by the Ball Brothers Foundation. The series explores six main ‘pillars’ of quality of life: Parks and Recreation, Neighborhood Development, Farm to Table, Volunteerism, Education, and Philanthropy.
Research and practice shows the single most important element in strengthening local economies is attracting and retaining talented individuals. This requires not only good jobs and schools, but attention to the quality of life in individual communities. Primacy of Place describes a community’s strategic decision to dedicate resources to improving life experiences for residents, businesses and visitors. Read more about Ball State’s Primacy of Place initiative.
Smart911
Be Smart About Safety
The City of Muncie now offers a free new service to help emergency response. Residents are encouraged to sign up for Smart911 to give 9-1-1 and public safety valuable information about your household. This information will be available when you make a 9-1-1 call and will help officials respond to you during a disaster. Providing these details ahead of time can save valuable seconds or even minutes during an emergency. You can also opt-in to receive emergency notifications from your community in the event you need to be alerted about an emergency or disaster.
Seconds count when…
– There’s a weather emergency.
– You are forced to evacuate.
– Power is knocked out.
– A disaster strikes.
Seconds Save Lives. Sign Up Today.
Smart911 Flier (pdf)
Hardest Hit Funds
Muncie was awarded $2.88 million dollars to spend on the acquisition and demolition of blighted and abandoned properties within Muncie. The qualifying properties were identified based on a matrix system provided by the State of Indiana and are scattered throughout the city’s neighborhoods. Here is a list of the Hardest Hit Fund properties sorted by neighborhood. Hardest Hit Funds (pdf)
Trash Toters
The Muncie StarPress published an article in today’s paper that explained the city ordinance related to trash removal. In brief, city ordinance and sanitary district regulations require that residents place their toters outside by 7:00 am on their scheduled trash collection day and bring them back in by 7:00 pm the same day. Failure to do so may result in a warning notice from Muncie Sanitary District code enforcement officers. These regulations are in place not only for aesthetic reasons, but to protect the public from possible traffic accidents if the toters are knocked into the street.
More information about the city’s trash collection guidelines can be found at http://www.munciesanitary.org/sanitation-sewers/trash-pickup-guidelines/
The full StarPress article can be found here http://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2014/10/12/put-trash-bring-toter/17156465/