Lexington Hamline Community Council

Building Community and connecting neighbors to improve quality of life in our neighborhood is central to our mission and work. We do this by working with a core set of volunteer block leaders to communicate information about events, service opportunities, crime and safety issues, housing and development issues, and information related to our parks and open spaces in lex-ham. We also publish bi-monthly newletters to 700+ neighbors, keep an updated website, post on social media, and distributed an electronic newsletter to 300+ recipients. We hold at least 6-12 public and Community events per year. In 2022, we held over 10 large-scale Community events ranging from free meals, to environmental clean-ups, and a blood drive. We also held over 5 service-oriented projects like a winter warmth and personal hygiene drive for unsheltered families in the Community. Neighborhood advocacy is also important to our organization. We work with the leaders and staff at the union park district Council and ward 1 leadership in the city to advocate on behalf of our residents for needs related to crime and safety, housing and development, and parks and open spaces in addition to hosting our Community events. For example, in 2022 we had active involvement with organizations like mndot regarding the long-term rethinking i-94 project, and interactions with organizations engaged in the summit avenue regional master trail.