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Neighborhood Alert Center Goals

• Build trust in City Services and Staff
• Broadcast a sense of unified neighborhood intolerance for drug and criminal activity
• Deny drug dealers and customers access to open space in the neighborhood
• Remove the sense of impunity street market dealers feel
• Clean up the neighborhoods
• Create a climate of achievement and reclaim neighborhood power

The aim of the Neighborhood Alert Centers is to meet these six tactical objectives. The avenues taken to meet the tactical objectives have only been limited by the imagination of the neighborhood alert center team members and the neighborhood residents. Alert Center team members have assisted residents to create neighborhood groups such as crime watches and neighborhood associations, as well as neighborhood business organizations and religious organization alliances. They have organized and participated in neighborhood clean-ups. Neighborhood facilitators approached City Hall with the idea of creating a tool lending library through the alert centers so residents would have access to yard tools and lawn mowers to promote neighborhood beautification. Frequent neighborhood functions, alert center open houses and block parties are held to boost neighbor-to-neighbor and neighbor-to-city staff relations.

In 1995, neighborhood task forces were formed in each of the neighborhood alert center areas, comprised of alert center team members and neighborhood residents. The neighborhood task forces were charged with developing Neighborhood Negotiated Workplans. The neighborhood task forces, comprised of residents and city staff, identified problems in the neighborhood and identified solutions to the problems. They established neighborhood goals, developed projects and activities to meet the goals and set implementation time frames. The City established a pool of money to fund cash awards for the top proposals and projects developed in the Neighborhood Negotiated Workplan process. Criteria for selecting the top proposals and projects included clarity and specificity of goals and objectives, nature of goals as challenging or stretching purposes, degree to which the workplan will accomplish the goals, degree of community involvement in the process.

Neighborhood Alert Center Locations and Staff

Alert Center Operations Supervisor Willie Carpenter City Hall Room 120W 500 West Markham Street Little Rock, AR 72201 (501) 565-4807 wcarpenter@littlerock.org East Broadway Facilitator Maggie Hawkins 500 East 21st Street Little Rock, AR 72206 (501) 376-3406 mhawkins@littlerock.org East LR Facilitator Bert Butler 500 East 21st Street Little Rock, AR 72206 (501) 374-3406 bbutler@littlerock.org Neighborhood Resource Center Dwight Pridgeon 3805 West 12th Street Little Rock, AR 72204 (501) 379-1515 dpridgeon@littlerock.org SWLR Facilitator Valeria Tate 5621 Valley Drive Little Rock, AR 72209 (501) 562-0042 vtate@littlerock.org Oak Forest Facilitator Carla Nichols 2123 Harrison Little Rock, AR 72204 (501) 666-0916 cnichols@littlerock.org

West Baseline Facilitator Linda Williams 9209 Mann Road Little Rock, AR 72209 (501) 565-1499 lwilliams@littlerock.org South End Facilitator Arnuard Crump 1100 West 33rd Street Little Rock, AR 72206 (501) 370-9537 acrump@littlerock.org West Central Facilitator Willie Carpenter 4200 Barrow Road, Suites B&C Little Rock, AR 72204 (501) 565-4807 wcarpenter@littlerock.org Upper-Baseline Facilitator Shuan Smith 3623 Baseline Road Little Rock, AR 72209 (501) 565-4669 ssmith@littlerock.org Wakefield Facilitator Iglorida Conley 7414 Doyle Springs Little Rock, AR 72209 (501) 565-7119 iconley@littlerock.org Central High Facilitator Valerie Conway 1108 South Park Street Little Rock, AR 72202 (501) 376-7610 vconway@littlerock.org Capitol View-Stifft Station Facilitator Kathleen Countryman 2715 West 7th Street Little Rock, AR 72205 (501) 372-3856 kcountryman@littlerock.org