Introductions and welcome: 5 neighbors attended along with Penny Weber and Ric Olson.

Police officer update & questions: An officer was not available to attend. But Sarah shared these links for more information:

•  The 2021 Police Department annual report is available, see Page 41 for crime statistics covering 2017 through 2021, go to: https://sheboyganpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2021-SPD-ANNUAL-REPORT-COMPRESSED.pdf
• Past PD annual reports are available at https://sheboyganpolice.com/community/annual-report
• The Police Department just launched a new GIS crime map: https://sheboyganpolice.com/community/crime-map

Penny and Ric shared these agenda items along with handouts:

1. Boundaries of Farnsworth Neighborhood

• East side S. 12th Street to Lakeshore Drive
• South side of Union Avenue to north side of Mead Avenue

2. Nextdoor

• It’s a social media website that’s like Facebook for neighborhoods
• Go to nextdoor.com and sign up, it’s free
• Find out what’s happening in Farnsworth Neighborhood
• Great way to communicate with your neighbors

3. Sheboygan Neighborhood Pride

• An organization that helps neighborhoods to organize, meeting place, guide meetings, speakers
• Neighborhood meetings a great way to meet your neighbors and neighborhood officers
• Ultimate goal is to become a neighborhood association recognized by the city which then sends a representative to sit on the Mayors Neighborhood Leadership Cabinet (MNLC)
• The Sheboygan Neighborhood Pride website is https://sheboyganneighborhoodpride.info, go to https://sheboyganneighborhoodpride.info/official-neighborhood-associations and the first sentence on that page says “Wondering what neighborhood you live in? Click here to view a map of all the community neighborhoods.”

4. Mayor’s Neighborhood Leadership Cabinet

• A representative from each neighborhood association attends the meetings
• There are currently 12 Neighborhood Associations with a 13th neighborhood in the process of being approved
• Meet periodically during the year with discussion, speakers, tours of city facilities

5. Sheboygan Countywide Crime Stoppers

• An organization that provides 3 ways to submit info about a crime anonymously: www.cufthem.com
• If information leads to an arrest, cash reward available
• Reasons people don’t give info – fear & apathy
• A resource for law enforcement
• We discussed Neighborhood Watch and noted that creating a formal neighborhood association is a better way to create a safe neighborhood.

6. Nixle

• Allows the SPD to send alerts about things happening in the city
• Sign up at www.nixle.com or go to SPD website, it’s free

7. Additional Items we talked about:

• National Night Out will be on Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at End Park.
• Sign-up for the Sheboygan Insider newsletter at www.sheboyganwi.gov/sheboyganinsider and at the bottom of that page there is a form for submitting your info to subscribe to the mailing list. On this page is also the archive of past editions.

Questions and comments

Ask if any interest in having another meeting – if yes will contact via email and Nextdoor

• Next meeting – April 26, 2022 at 6:00 pm at the Wesley United Methodist Church basement
• We will try to meet on the 4th Tuesday evening each month for the next 5 months