Shop Ludlow on Small Business Saturday and then kick off the holidays with your community starting at 6PM on Clifton Plaza!
CTM Meeting Agenda and Link – Oct Meeting
October 4, 2021, 7:00pm. Google Meet Videoconference.
Due to the ongoing public health situation, CTM will continue to hold its meetings via video and telephone conference. To join the videoconference click on the following link – https://meet.google.com/whg-tgjk-cui. To join via phone, dial (505) 585-5460 and use the following PIN – 673 452 758#.
The agenda is as follows:
| Time | Topic |
| 7:00 / 1 min | Welcome to the Google Meet electronic meeting, advice for participation |
| 7:01 / 1 min | Approve prior month’s meeting minutes from September |
| 7:02 / 10 min | Captain Gregoire /Officer Shawn Dent |
| 7:12 / 10 min | Greater Cincinnati Water Works – special guest |
| 7: 22 / 5 min | Treasurer’s Report and Finance Committee Update |
| 7:27 / 8 min | Beautification Committee – Fall Clean Up October 9, 9 am – noon+; plants giveaway |
| 7: 35 / 2 min | Arts and Culture Committee Update |
| 7:37 / 10 min | Nominating Committee Report – slate of candidates all in by (date ?) |
| 7:47 / 15 min | Governance Committee – committee members announced, delivery of suggested changes to the bylaws to be sent to Board members by Oct 22, per 45-day notification rule |
| 8:02 / 5 min | Housing and Zoning Committee |
| 8:07 / 10 min | Holidays on Ludlow support – Patrick Borders, project manager. CBA plans for Nov 27 (Small Business Saturday) Lamposts decoration; Holiday Tree project with John Carnavale – decoration with community generated ornaments (Nov 26), Lighting evening of Nov 27 with Ludlow shops open, carriage rides and live music on the Plaza |
| 8:17 / 10 min | Clifton Avenue Bike Lane – report from Sept 30 special meeting of City Council’s Neighborhoods Committee at Clifton Rec Center with Jan Michele Kearney |
| 8:27 / 10 min | Clifton Chronicle delivery problems update; send electronic copies via Mail Chimp to check on real readership count; Call for Content Creation and Advertisers has been sent. Nominees will deliver their bios for publication by Oct 24 (advertisers deadline) |
| 8:37 / 5 min | Membership Committee – 48 email addresses that are bouncing. Solutions? |
| 8: 42 / 5 min | Clifton Recreation Center Updates – Carpool Cinema Oct 2 and 9. Trunk or Treat Sat Oct 23, 5-7 pm in parking lot; any person or group wishing to sponsor a trunk, please contact Tiffany |
| 8:47 / 5 min | Neighborhood Activation Fund – status of allocations and our program planning |
| 8:52 / 3 min | Trustee, Committee and Liaisons Announcements |
| 8: 55 / 5 min | Community Questions/Concerns |
| 9:00 | Adjournment |
Clifton Town Meeting TrusteesThank you very much,Emailing your issue to contactctm@cliftoncommunity.org is another effective way to have your issue or opinion considered by your trustees. To request an agenda item for the next meeting please email your topic to contactctm@cliftoncommunity.org
Please note that public input on agenda items of pressing community concern will be heard after trustee discussion. Community members should sign up to speak on an agenda item before the start of the meeting. Not all agenda items will have time reserved for public input. Individual input on agenda items will be no more than two minutes. Community members are able to speak on non-agenda issues during the public questions and concerns agenda item. Individuals with statements are asked to sign in before the start of the meeting. Statements will be no more than three minutes during the questions and concerns agenda item.
8th Annual CTM Golf Outing
Join us for the 8th annual CTM Golf Outing, dinner on the Clubhouse deck and prizes!
- Date: Saturday August 28, 2021
- Location: Avon Fields Golf Course
- Time: Shotgun start at 2:00 pm – 18 hole scramble
- Dinner: 6:00 pm; welcome families and friends
- Fee: $90 per player. Make your own foursome or we can pair you up.
- Dinner for Extra Guests: $10 (Kids 12 and under eat for free)
- To Register: Complete the 2021 Golf Outing Registration. Please include names of others registering as a group. This form is required even if you purchased online tickets.
- As of Aug 24 morning, all foursomes are filled. We are sold out! This is great news!
- Purchase Online: Due to foursomes being sold out, you now can pay for extra dinners and provide an additional donation at our online store. We use PayPal for payment. You must complete the paper registration even if you purchased online previously – this is how we will know who is in your foursome.
Over the years, the Golf Outing has helped raise over $60,000 for charitable causes in Clifton including the Clifton Recreation Center, Clifton Cultural Arts Center, The Cancer Institute at Good Samaritan Hospital, Burnet Woods, Clifton Fairview German Language School, Clifton Community Fund, and Little Sisters of the Poor. Proceeds this year will benefit the Clifton Area Neighborhood School PTO.
This year’s three presenting sponsors are
- Superior Honda
- Superior Kia
- Robert Ditimassi & Barbra Druffel – Realtors
For more information about the event or Sponsorship Opportunities, click here to email the event leaders.
This year’s event planning and producing was led by a small team of gracious volunteers. CTM is thankful for all they did to prepare and execute this event:
- John Whedon – Event Captain
- Luke Blocher
- Gerald Checco
- Tom Dwyer
- John Juech
- Brian McCarren
- Vince Metzger
- Christina Smart
- Andrea Steege
We are happy to have the following hole sponsors for the event.
CTM Meeting Agenda and Link – April 5th
Clifton Town Meeting, your community council, is having its regular monthly meeting on Monday, April 5th from 7-9pm. All our meetings are on the community calendar. We hope you will join to learn about what is happening and how you can be involved.
Click here for the meeting invite and agenda that went to email subscribers. You can become a subscriber here.
Due to the ongoing public health ban on mass gatherings, CTM will continue to hold its meetings via video and telephone conference. To join the videoconference click on the following link – https://meet.google.com/rry-agnd-bbf. To join via phone, dial (470) 722-0310 and use the following PIN – 572 595 448#.
The agenda is as follows:
| 7:00 / 1 min | Welcome to the Google Meet electronic meeting, advice for participation |
| 7:01 / 1 min | Approve prior month’s meeting minutes |
| 7:02 / 10 min | Vote for a new trustee replacing |
| 7:12 / 5 min | Library Update |
| 7:17 / 10 min | Police District 5 Report |
| 7:27 / 10 min 7:37 / 10 min | Councilperson Betsy Sunderman visits Councilperson David Mann visits |
| 7:47 / 5 min | Financial Committee Report |
| 7:52 / 5 min | Treasurer’s Report |
| 7:57 / 4 min | Arts and Culture Committee |
| 8:01 / 10 min | Clifton Chronicle Committee update, Editor/Publisher Search, Call for Content Creation |
| 8:11 / 10 min | Caretaking and Beautification – Spring Cleanup Plan and Invitation to Volunteers |
| 8:21 / 15 min | Parks Committee Update and Potential Vote on Dunore Dog Park |
| 8:36 / 10 min | Housing and Zoning Committee report |
| 8:46 / 10 min | Transportation and Public Safety report |
| 8:56 / 4 min | Trustee, Committee and Liaisons Announcements |
| 9:00 | Adjournment |
Emailing your issue to contactctm@cliftoncommunity.org is another effective way to have your issue or opinion considered by your trustees. To request an agenda item for the next meeting please email your topic to contactctm@cliftoncommunity.org.
Please note that public input on agenda items of pressing community concern will be heard after trustee discussion. Community members should sign up to speak on an agenda item before the start of the meeting. Not all agenda items will have time reserved for public input. Individual input on agenda items will be no more than two minutes. Community members are able to speak on non-agenda issues during the public questions and concerns agenda item. Individuals with statements are asked to sign in before the start of the meeting. Statements will be no more than three minutes during the questions and concerns agenda item.
Ludlow Garage 50th Anniversary Mural Project
Seven masterful Cincinnati artists are creating paintings and drawings that will be enlarged and printed to create 10 foot-tall portraits of important musicians who have performed at the famed Ludlow Garage. Our creative team includes CF Payne, David Michael Beck, Ellina Chetverikova, Brandon Hawkins, John Maggard, Gabrielle Siekman and Jenny Ustick. The artists selected the musicians they wished to honor: Judy Collins, Rickie Lee Jones, BB King, Albert King (also recorded by King Records), Iggy Pop and the Stooges, The James Gang and Captain Beefheart.
The project has created a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for three of our artists. David said, “ Chris, John and I have known each other since the 1970’s and have competed with each other, and often referred each other for really important illustration jobs. We have been great friends over the years, all of us loving music, and this mural project is the perfect chance for us to work together for the very first time.”
“I am so happy to be a part of this amazing project, said Ellina. “I am honored to bring back Don Van Fliet aka Captain Beefheart with a grandiose portrait in the center of the historic Clifton community.”
Instead of painting directly on the wall, the artists will create studio paintings in the medium of their preference that will be scanned and printed to a 10-foot tall scale onto aluminum composite panels which will be cut out on silhouette lines. The finished panels will be mechanically attached to the historic building, with minimal disruption to surrounding business activity.
The mural will be dedicated at Cliftonfest 2019 on Saturday, October 5.
This public art project has been made possible by the permission and support of Clifton Business Association, Clifton Community Fund, Clifton Town Meeting, and the owners of the Ludlow Garage, Dave and Claudia Taylor.
Off Ludlow Gallery will host a show of the original mural artwork on Friday, September 27th from 4-8 pm. All work as well as process sketches will be available for purchase at the Off Ludlow Gallery.
To support the project, you can donate here.
Questions or comments? Sean Mullaney, seanmullaney@fuse.net, 513-374-7928