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FALL - 2018 THE BANNER YOUR SOUTH SEMINOLE HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD NEWSLETTER In this issue • Elections • From the President • Traffic Safety • Broward Elementary • SH Garden Tour • New Members • Candidate Forums • Upcoming Events • Candidate Mixer SSHCA Board Members Stephen Lytle Volunteers recently joined with the SSHCA and Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful President for shoreline, river, and park clean up at Rivercrest Park. Steve Swiger Vice President Dawn Dayringer SOUTH SEMINOLE HEIGHTS Treasurer Sharlene Hartford CIVIC ASSOCIATION Secretary ELECTIONS 10/17 Lara D’Amico Delegate Every two years the South Seminole Heights meetings which take place at 630 pm at Sandy Ray Civic Association (SSHCA) has elections to the Seminole Heights Library on the third Delegate select our new Executive Board. The SSHCA Wednesday of every January, April, July, Brian Curry Board is charged with educating, promoting, and October. Delegate and encouraging civic pride and awareness of issues impacting the neighborhood while Candidate bio’s and voting ballots will be mailed out to members with voting privileges SSHCA revitalizing a sense of community in a safe in the beginning of October and completed Committee and healthy residential neighborhood. ballots can be mailed in or turned in at Chairs Elections for the 2019/20 Board will be taking place on October 17th, the date of the general meeting. Membership may be David Harrington purchased up to and at the meeting as well. Land Use/Transportation our next general meeting. If you ‘d like to take an active role in the Lara D’Amico The SSHCA is a volunteer organization direction of your neighborhood this is a Neighborhood Watch and is recognized by the city as one of the great opportunity and first step. Sandy Ray voices of the neighborhood, but not the Membership/Events singular voice. Membership in the SSHCA Residents and business owners interested OPEN is open to all residents, businesses, and in taking on added responsibility are also Communications organizations interested in furthering our permitted to apply for a chair position Ryan Hill mission. However, voting privileges are with the association after elections. Chair Beautification limited only to those members who have positions are yearlong positions appointed a physical address located within our and reviewed annually in January by the neighborhood boundaries. Membership SSHCA Board. Chair position include can always be purchased online at Neighborhood Watch, Communications, www.sshca.org or at any of our general Membership/Events, Heights Unites, Beautification, and Land Use/Transportation. FROM THE PRESIDENT SSHCA WORKING WITH CITY As we come down to the and to move the needle on transportation issues in AND FDOT TO ADDRESS home stretch for our current South Seminole Heights. I feel our board has done an SSHCA Board Members excellent job in meeting those goals as we became TRAFFIC SAFETY I have to recognize the a 501(c)3 in the first 6 months, now have the Heights During the last few months the SSHCA Board has been • Adding a pedestrian crosswalk and traffic signal to hard work and efforts of Unites Music & Arts Festival established and growing, focused on moving the needle on our transportation Wilder Ave at Florida Ave. the entire board and our and completed the street mural and have defined and pedestrian safety concerns in South Seminole Long Term (4-5 years): committee chairs. Over the specific transportation projects in South Seminole Heights. In July Stephen Lytle (Pres), Steve Swiger last 21 months our team (VP) and David Harrington (Transportation/Land Use • Renovating Highland Ave between Hillsborough Heights, including Highland Ave going through a and Violet as part of the complete streets project. has worked tirelessly to Chair) met with representatives from Tindale Oliver, Complete Streets makeover. City of Tampa Transportation, and Florida Department improve the association Additionally, the SSHCA Board would like to recognize of Transportation to discuss our the issues, develop the neighbors who have formed the Heights Traffic and neighborhood and has I am proud of where our association stands today priorities and set timelines and plans to make our streets Awareness Campaign. You may have seen them out done so successfully. I want and look forward to seeing how it will continue to safer for everyone. Minutes and the powerpoint from in the mornings along Highland Ave. The purpose of to call out some highlights: improve during the next board term. In an effort to that meeting are available on our website www.sshca. the group is to help make drivers aware that they are org. We were able to walk away from the meeting with set the board up for success we will be sending out driving through a neighborhood by developing a small, Steve Swiger, SSHCA Vice President, has done the following takeaways: a survey to our residents to identify what issues are steady, persistent and ongoing visual presence to help an excellent job of streamlining committee chair most important to our neighborhood and what we drivers passing through remember that we live here. responsibilities and accountability up through the Short Term (Sooner, once funded) should focus on to be most effective for you. Similar • Maintenance of overgrowth blocking signage. Over time, they would like to develop a sustainable and VP position. This has defined VP responsibility and to when our current board took over we will host a repeatable model that can be shared with and utilized operational efficiency on the board. board retreat to talk about the current status of the • Lowering speed limit on Violet between Florida and by other neighborhoods and organizations. Highland. Changing turning and lanes Dawn Dayringer, SSHCA Treasurer, has done an association, identify projects needing completion, configuration and enhancing crosswalks. excellent job of managing our financial performance. helped the board establish roles and responsibilities, She has collaborated to create budgets, provided and to use that survey data to set three distinct goals transparency to accounts, and always been a voice of for the association over the next two years. reason on the board. I am excited about our community’s future and Sandy Ray, SSHCA Delegate, has also taken on the everyone reading this plays a role in that. Make sure responsibility of our membership chair role. During to join the association and support our efforts at her tenure Sandy has found innovative ways to grow www.sshca.org, come to meetings, and get involved. our membership to all-time highs. We have grown to We can’t do it without your support! We provide the best possible grooming services...right at over 200 members and her hard work and dedication Stephen Lytle your doorstep! You Bark... has played a major role in that. We Park! SSHCA President Brian Curry, SSHCA Delegate, has taken Broward FREE Why Mobile Grooming? Elementary on as his pet project and successfully - Less stress for you & your pet - Toothbrushing Not caged for hours fostered a relationship with the school where one for New Clients! - Great for senior pets *New clients only. One coupon did not exist before. He was honored with an award per person. Mention - No exposure to other animals last year for his efforts and is continually focused CULBREATH to receive offer. - Hand dried-not cage dried on opportunities to help improve our neighborhood school. Likewise, our committee chairs have come in and worked hard to understand their roles and make a positive impact on the association. Our current board originally set three goals to We are a fully contained grooming shop on wheels! Follow us on Facebook! accomplish in our tenure. They were to become Lots of neighbors attended the recent a 501(c)3, establish a signature fundraising event, SSHCA Summer Pool Party! www.RoverDoneOver.net BROWARD ELEMENTARY SEMINOLE HEIGHTS UPDATES GARDEN TOUR NOW The teachers and students at our neighborhood school 9/14/18: Superintendent Jeff Eakins visited Broward have returned from summer vacation. By the time you 9/16/18-10/16/18: Hispanic Heritage Month (see ENTERS SECOND YEAR receive this issue of The Banner, the 2018-19 new school SSHCA Facebook for more info) The second annual Seminole Heights Garden Tour year will already be 2 months in with Halloween fast 9/27/18: Family Bingo Night (PTA fundraiser) (see will be held on Sunday, October 28th. The tour approaching. SSHCA Facebook for more info) starts at the Seminole Heights Library at 1:00 pm 10/10-11/18: Hearing Screening-K and 1st and ends at 5:00 pm. This year we have added Our historic Broward Elementary had a great 2017-18 10/11/18: Fall Picture Day additional gardens and will have a horticultural expert available to answer any questions you may year and 2018-19 looks to be the same with lots of 10/12/18: End of 1st Grading Period have about the plants used within the various gardens. activities planned. The School Advisory Committee 10/19/18: Fall Festival (see SSHCA Facebook for Make sure you stop in to say hi and learn more has already met twice, reviewed Broward’s Mission more info) about Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful at their both, as and Vision for 2018-2019 and reviewed of the Title I well as at the Master Gardener’s Booth. There is Parent Involvement Plan. They also identified schedule And don’t forget, we are always looking for school the possibility of a hydroponics booth participating of important upcoming Fall dates (note, some event volunteers. Those interested in volunteering during the this year – time will tell. have already taken place): 2018-19 school year should go to the link and fill out the The Garden Tour is a major fund raiser for the appropriate forms.