A big THANK YOU to all who attended our informative Alert Neighbor Meeting on August 16th.  We had two guest speakers. Ross Ford who is head of Union Securty and Carol Bush who is in charge of the Alert Neighbor Commission.  A handful of things were discussed, but most importantly issues involving truancy and loitering associated with Union I-High.  While most may not be aware, there is alot of students who skip school and cut thru our neighborhood in an attempt to not be seen. They jump fences into yards and have damaged property at times.  Ross Ford started off the meeting by addressing these issues, we as a neighborhood have.  Most times after calling the school, we have been told to call 911 because there is nothing the school can do once the kids are off their property.  Our question back was that it is their job to keep them on the property not ours and that there should be some program in place for that.  He explained that they do hire some off duty police officers and SRO (school resource officer) but that they are stretched thin with dividing there time between the I-High and High School.  One idea was for our neighbor hood was to hire some off duty police officers to deal with the loitering on the corner and parents picking up their kids in our neighborhood entrance or right on Garnett, to help stop this dangerous problem. We were also advised that the more we call the police about situations like this in our neighborhood, they will see a repetitive problem and patrol more.  Some others ideas are posting no parking or loitering signs at the front entrance for certain times of the day.  We welcome all ideas to help with this ongoing problem.