{"id":20,"date":"2011-03-20T20:03:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T01:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2026-03-24T15:04:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:04:42","slug":"the-council","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.concernedcitizensforspringfield.org\/?page_id=20","title":{"rendered":"Who We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We are a 501C3 non-profit corporation. CCS is eligible for public funding and private donations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">By agreement among its members, CCS operates only within the confines of the Forest Park neighborhood, defined by the Mill River on the north edge, the old rail line just east of\u00a0 Allen, Daviston, and Dorset streets at the eastern edge and by the Longmeadow line along the southerly edge.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Areas of Activity:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>C<\/strong>ommunity Gardens<\/p>\n<p><strong>F<\/strong>armer\u2019s Market<\/p>\n<p><strong>H<\/strong>ousing Renovation<\/p>\n<p><strong>D<\/strong>ecorative StreetLights<\/p>\n<p><strong>T<\/strong>ree Belt Landscaping<\/p>\n<p><strong>G<\/strong>raffiti Remediation<\/p>\n<p><strong>N<\/strong>eighborhood \u00a0Improvement Grants<\/p>\n<p><strong>T<\/strong>ree Belt Tree Planting and Maintenance<\/p>\n<p><strong>B<\/strong>light Remediation \u2013 Housing Code Enforcement<\/p>\n<p><strong>L<\/strong>onghill Entry Garden Design, Installation and Maintenance<\/p>\n<p><strong>F<\/strong>orest Park Heights and <strong>F<\/strong>orest Park Neighborhood Entry Signs Maintenance<\/p>\n<p><strong>L<\/strong>andlord Training (subsequently taken over by HAP Housing)<\/p>\n<p><strong>C<\/strong>ommunity Fairs<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are a 501C3 non-profit corporation. CCS is eligible for public funding and private donations. By agreement among its members,<a class=\"ninja_pages_read_more\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.concernedcitizensforspringfield.org\/?page_id=20\"> &#8230;.. Read More and View Photos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.concernedcitizensforspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.concernedcitizensforspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.concernedcitizensforspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.concernedcitizensforspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.concernedcitizensforspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.concernedcitizensforspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.concernedcitizensforspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}