OHI Board of Directors: Goals for 2022
The OHI Board of Directors met early this year to set a series of goals and objectives for the coming year. We are, as always, looking for any help you can give in achieving these goals. As each one is accomplished, our neighborhood becomes a better place.
Neighborhood Communications
It is essential for any community organization to effectively communicate with its residents, and admittedly we can do a better job. We have designated a member of our Board to establish a new website that we can maintain ourselves to keep information fresh and relevant, to provide transparency by publishing our meeting minutes, the OHI Journal, and other Board business, and to encourage communication back from the community. We maintain and are committed to grow an email contact list for anyone in the neighborhood who would like to receive a monthly Calendar of Events. The OHI Journal will be sent to the households in Observatory Hill and are also posted online in the Newsletter dropdown.
Our Business District
The heart of any community is its business district and ours is no exception. We are committed to organize an effort that will improve communication between OHI, the community, and the business district. We continue to stay informed as to which businesses move into our neighborhood and then to assist and welcome them. We have in the past worked with the City to bring new trash receptacles to the district. We are compiling a list of the businesses and will better engage them in our process and events. We have purchased three vacant buildings and are in the process of securing leases for interested tenants. We have a house on Mairdale in a tax sale to acquire it to allow for expansion of our businesses. We applied for and was granted a conservatorship for the former Lamb of God Church and its adjacent apartments. The buildings were abandoned. Follow our Conservatorship page on this website for future updates.
Community Involvement and Outreach
We are planning to host a House Tour this year that brings our whole neighborhood together and showcases our stock of historic homes to people from across the Pittsburgh region, who come for the Tour. We invite you to community meetings to hear the latest on local developments, ask questions, and let us help you resolve neighborhood issues. You can meet representatives of City government, police, local leaders. Meetings held the third Wednesday of the month, 7p.m. Byzantine Seminary 3605 Perrysville Ave.