July 6, 2017

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—(Columbus, Ohio). The Clintonville Area Commission is recruiting new members for its committees for the 2017-2018 term. The Commission has five standing committees: Planning & Development, Zoning & Variance, Historic Buildings Preservation, Technology and Public Relations, and Election. Information regarding the standing committees is set forth in the Commission’s bylaws, which are available at https://www.clintonvilleareacommission.org/?p=268. Members of the committees are volunteers and serve 1-year terms, beginning the first Thursday of August.

Clintonville residents interested in joining one of the Commission’s committees may submit a letter of interest via email to commissioners@clintonvilleareacommission.org by 5 pm on Thursday, July 20. The letter should include: mailing address, phone contact information, the specific committee(s) of interest, as well as a brief statement regarding your background or reason for interest in serving on a committee. Resumes are not necessary but may be submitted.

About the Clintonville Area Commission.. The Clintonville Area Commission was empowered in 1974 by the Columbus City Charter to represent the Clintonville community in the discussion of community concerns. By City code, the purpose of the Commission is to “…afford additional voluntary citizen participation in the decision making in an advisory capacity and to facilitate communications, understanding and cooperation between neighborhood groups, city officials and developers.”

We received this notice from the city of Columbus late this afternoon:

Columbus Public Health (CPH) will be spraying area parks ahead of the July 4th holiday weekend to prevent disease and protect residents’ health.

 Columbus Public Health has added Whetstone Park to the holiday spray schedule for Monday, July 3 because of what we found over the past couple of weeks regarding the mosquito population at the park. The amended press release is attached.

Two traps were set on 6/15/17. The first trap was set close to the pond and only resulted in six Culex mosquitoes being trapped. The second trap was set in the Prairie and resulted in 262 Culex mosquitoes being trapped.

Two traps were set on 6/21/17. The first trap was set close to the beaver dam and resulted in 283 Culex mosquitoes being trapped. The second trap was set in the Prairie and resulted in 445 Culex mosquitoes being trapped. 445 is a high number for mosquitoes, and would normally result in adulticiding due to the high number and historical positives of West Nile Virus mosquito pools found in Clintonville.

We have four areas in Whetstone Park that we check for mosquito larvae. Two of the sites had mosquito larvae present. One site is located along the bike path in the woods and it had larvae present on 6/15/17. The other site is the stream where the beaver dam is located. This site had larvae present on both 6/15/17 and 6/21/17.

We are scheduled to spray all city parks in Columbus and Worthington Friday, June 30 and Monday, July 3 in preparation for 4th of July activities. Adulticiding with truck mounted sprayers is the most efficient way to knock down and kill adult mosquitoes. Spraying is conducted at dawn to avoid targeting pollinators. While spraying in the early morning of Monday, July 3 in Whetstone Park, staff has been instructed to avoid spraying within 150 feet of the Rose Garden and the Prairie.

CPH practices disease control and prevention for the West Nile virus by trapping mosquitoes, investigating complaints, treating standing water and spraying in areas with high mosquito counts and disease presence. The adulticiding product used is Pursuit 4 – 4, which is a permethrin-based formulation that provides quick knock-down and effective control of mosquitoes.

Clintonville residents also are encouraged to help prevent mosquito growth by eliminating standing water and to protect themselves by wearing insect repellant with DEET.

For more information on West Nile, visit www.publichealth.columbus.gov, www.cdc.gov and www.epa.gov. For an updated spraying map, visit www.publichealth.columbus.gov.

Regards,

Keith L. Krinn, RS, MA, DAAS, CPHA

Environmental Health Division Administrator

July 6th, 2017  CAC Meeting Whetstone Library Community Room- 7 pm-8:55pm

Topics include:  A presentation by SWACO, The Indianola Road Diet (Matthew Lorenz) & Ohio Health Project and other topics. Time has been built into the meeting for public comment after each presentation.

Complete CAC Meeting Agenda 2017.7

This letter was broadly distributed in the community.  We are adding it here to ease continued distribution.  SWACO’s Director of Innovation and Programs Kyle O’Keefe (the signer) will attend the July 6 CAC meeting to speak about the changing Drop-Off Recycling Program which he oversees.

Drop-Off Recycling Program Update Letter 6.2017

7:00 p.m.                   Call to order by Chair & introduction of commissioners

NEW BUSINESS

7:05 p.m.                  REORGANIZATION DISCUSSION

1.                   Willingness to serve in officer capacity

1.                   Any goals to work toward?

8:30 p.m.                                     ADJOURN

The City of Columbus hosted two open houses on May 22^nd to provide the community with an overview of public improvements in the vicinity of North Broadway and Olentangy River Road.

As a follow-up to the open houses and for those who were unable to attend, project information related to State Route 315 and city streets near Olentangy River Road can be found within the following link.

https://www.columbus.gov/Templates/Detail.aspx?id=2147497203

Please send comments, questions or concerns via mail or e-mail to:

Michelle Larsen
City of Columbus
Economic Development Division
150 S. Front Street, Suite 220
Columbus, Ohio 43215

MELarsen@columbus.gov

Media inquiries may be directed to Cynthia Rickman, Department of Development, City of Columbus – tel. (614) 645-8795, CJRickman@Columbus.gov.

The plans for the OhioHealth traffic management redesign are now available on this website.  They have their own folder in the Documents section–OhioHealth/N Broadway Reconstruction.