MotherShip Foundation and its stakeholders have invested tens of thousands to improve the land adjacent to Bayou St. John since 2006. In 2012 and 2013, MotherShip Foundation invested over $30,000 in planting eight - 200, 300, and 670 gallon southern live oak trees along the Bayou. The annual Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo has also become a vehicle for several non-profit partners to raise much needed dollars for their causes to include Morris Jeff Community School, Second Harvest Food Bank, and ReBridge (a project to rebuild the Magnolia Bridge). This drastic increase in rent jeopardizes opportunities for all of the aforementioned organizations as well as the artist and vendor partners.
Please sign our petition if you support the use of Bayou St. John to host the annual Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo. We also ask the Department of Property Management to rescind the excessive proposed rental fee for 2014 and beyond. Instead, MotherShip Foundation proposes that a percentage of net profits be directed to future improvements of Bayou St. John, to include MotherShip's Restore the Bayou Canopy campaign.
If you wish to place a sign in your yard in support of our cause, please e-mail [email protected].
Thanks,
Jared M Zeller
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
January 16, 2014
January 14, 2014
I am truly humbled by the way this has taken off. Seeing so many people value our bayou community is entirely down to your passion and belief in what we are fighting for.
Reached 100 supporters
January 14, 2014
267 Comments
I live in the Parkview Neighborhood near Bayou St. John and am embarrassed for my fellow neighbors that would want to take a free, public space and charge people to utilize it. Please keep the Bayou Free!
This is one of the best festivals in New Orleans. A genuinely fantastic event for the entire family. The free admission gets the people there. The great food, vendors, and entertainment gets the people to open their wallets and support the local economy. Keep it free!
This is nothing short of a LAND GRAB by property owners who feel that their property lines extend to the waters edge. This is PUBLIC SPACE & we must resist every attempt to treat it as anything else by a few over-reachers.
It is because of the Bayou Boogaloo annual event that has helped improve the Bayou St. John waterfront. Your decision to increase the rent, especially for not-profits, is not very "community oriented" and these events will find other spaces to hold their functions and you could loose out completely.
As a taxpayer in New Orleans, I am requesting that you rescind the increased proposed rental fee charged to Bayou Boogaloo. This event is important to the Mid-city neighborhood and it should remain free and accessible to everyone.
Can't boogie without the Boogaloo!!!
Thanks for all the hard work! BTW, I'd also like to bring an issue to y'all attention: Today, Sat, 17th, we parked our car where dozens of others were parked, at the end of the bayou, grassy ares. We were issued a $75 ticket by NOPD. No signs or anything. Compete ripoff,,,
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MotherShip Foundation and its stakeholders have invested tens of thousands to improve the land adjacent to Bayou St. John since 2006. In 2012 and 2013, MotherShip Foundation invested over $30,000 in planting eight - 200, 300, and 670 gallon southern live oak trees along the Bayou. The annual Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo has also become a vehicle for several non-profit partners to raise much needed dollars for their causes to include Morris Jeff Community School, Second Harvest Food Bank, and ReBridge (a project to rebuild the Magnolia Bridge). This drastic increase in rent jeopardizes opportunities for all of the aforementioned organizations as well as the artist and vendor partners.
Please sign our petition if you support the use of Bayou St. John to host the annual Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo. We also ask the Department of Property Management to rescind the excessive proposed rental fee for 2014 and beyond. Instead, MotherShip Foundation proposes that a percentage of net profits be directed to future improvements of Bayou St. John, to include MotherShip's Restore the Bayou Canopy campaign.
If you wish to place a sign in your yard in support of our cause, please e-mail [email protected].
Thanks,
Jared M Zeller
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
January 16, 2014
January 14, 2014
I am truly humbled by the way this has taken off. Seeing so many people value our bayou community is entirely down to your passion and belief in what we are fighting for.
Reached 100 supporters
January 14, 2014
267 Comments
We should encourage the arts instead of making it more difficult. As long at the event is willing to direct profits from the event for future improvements of Bayou St. John the event is giving back to the community in exchange for lower fees. A win-win situation!
I live in the Parkview Neighborhood near Bayou St. John and am embarrassed for my fellow neighbors that would want to take a free, public space and charge people to utilize it. Please keep the Bayou Free!
This is one of the best festivals in New Orleans. A genuinely fantastic event for the entire family. The free admission gets the people there. The great food, vendors, and entertainment gets the people to open their wallets and support the local economy. Keep it free!
This is nothing short of a LAND GRAB by property owners who feel that their property lines extend to the waters edge. This is PUBLIC SPACE & we must resist every attempt to treat it as anything else by a few over-reachers.
It is because of the Bayou Boogaloo annual event that has helped improve the Bayou St. John waterfront. Your decision to increase the rent, especially for not-profits, is not very "community oriented" and these events will find other spaces to hold their functions and you could loose out completely.
As a taxpayer in New Orleans, I am requesting that you rescind the increased proposed rental fee charged to Bayou Boogaloo. This event is important to the Mid-city neighborhood and it should remain free and accessible to everyone.
Can't boogie without the Boogaloo!!!
Thanks for all the hard work! BTW, I'd also like to bring an issue to y'all attention: Today, Sat, 17th, we parked our car where dozens of others were parked, at the end of the bayou, grassy ares. We were issued a $75 ticket by NOPD. No signs or anything. Compete ripoff,,,
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We should encourage the arts instead of making it more difficult. As long at the event is willing to direct profits from the event for future improvements of Bayou St. John the event is giving back to the community in exchange for lower fees. A win-win situation!