PRESS RELEASE: Tonight's meeting at 3:30pm to discuss the Peaceoholics Group Home on Congress Pl.
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Meeting to determine what the Peaceoholics are planning.
Friday, April 23, 2020, 3:30 PM, 1800 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave., SE (DHCD building)
The new building on the left at the corner of MLK Jr. Ave. and Good Hope Rd – just as you cross the 11th St., Bridge.
Contact: Sandra “S.S.” Seegars 202-561-6616. For news purposes only, cell number 202-320-5554.
The Peaceoholics attended ANC 8E, Sandra “S.S.” Seegars, Chairperson, Public meeting on Tuesday, April 20, 2010. There may have been “ohlics” but there was no peace. They entered about a half an hour later than they said. With everyone else already there, they entered the room in an intimidating fashion as they tried to fill the perimeter of the room.
Ronald Moten and Jauhar Abraham, Peaceoholics, were invited to the meeting to give to a presentation of their plan for the group home/half way house that Moten had not told Seegars about after being asked a few times. Seegars saw the property, 1300 Congress St., SE, on DCRA applied for permit to renovate list. Seegars contacted a resident in the Condo next to the building that had been vacant for years.
During the ANC meeting, the first question was from a commissioner asking about them being noncompliant and failing to answer funding questions at the City Council. Abraham and Moten became very defensive. The meeting went down hill from there. The crew of about 20 that they brought with them became upset because of the questioning. Three young females became belligerent. One tried to take over the meeting by talking out of turn when she got ready, and preceded down the aisle towards Seegars. She was held back by her crew. Another one talked for a while. When Seegars called on the next person, she said she was not through. Seegars insisted she was and refused to let her take over the meeting. Her crew stopped her.
After the meeting was adjourned, two of them confronted Seegars to demand that she listened to them. Seegars refused and conducted a raffle drawing. The other one who had previously proceeded down the aisle was on the other side of the room talking to at least one condo resident. When the condo resident no longer listened to her and began to walk away, she pushed her in the back. Seegars, Mary Cuthbert, Chairperson of ANC 8C, and one attendee were exiting through a different door than the others. One of the young females reappeared in the room and followed Seegars outside trying to make her listen.
The person that was pushed did not file a complaint for fear of retaliation. The meeting tomorrow is to try to determine what program the Peaceoholics is planning to open at 1300 Congress St., SE, and how it will be classified. There were other people who approached the owner to buy the vacant building. The price was $700,000.00. The Peaceoholics got it for $400,000.00. The record reflects that Roy Littlejohn, a long time friend of Marion Barry, owned the building. Barry is in full support of the Peaceoholics. Here’s the problem. There is a law that says these types of facilities should not be within 500 feet of each other. On the NE corner of 13th and Congress streets will be the Peaceoholics group home/halfway house, behind them is a Domestic Violence Shelter, on the NW corner is a nursing home type facility, and behind that is a facility in 3 apartment buildings for mothers and children. One block south of this intersection there are plans for a homeless shelter. To the immediate SE/SW of the condo is Congress Park.
MPD has been summoned to attend this meeting. They will attend.
Just a few minutes ago, I spoke with the commissioner who asked the first question that made Moten and Jauhar defensive. He said the air was let out of both of his back tires sometime Tuesday night.
No Neighborhood Left Behind
Mayoral Candidates' Forum 4-29-2010
3924 4th St., SE, DC 20032
6 pm to 8:30 pm
Commissioner Sandra "S.S." Seegars, Chairperson ANC 8E
Commissioner of Single Member District 8E02
202-561-6616
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