Executive Committee 08.04.08 Meeting Minutes

Present – Jonathan, Steve, Tim, Mike, Jerry, Pam, Don

Finances:
June +$940 (790 – newsletter ads, 150 – new members); balance $7189
July +$440 (340 – newsletter ads, 100 – new members); -$884 (600 – ice cream social band, 197 – newsletter production, 87 – stationary); balance $6844

Contact Team:
Margaret Valente (city staff w/ planning and zoning) is again requesting a list of contacts to serve as those to be notified regarding changes to the neighborhood plan, development, etc. Crestview does not have a contact team, instead the executive committee serves that function. Other things are still TBD on the neighborhood plan.

Carolyn Sprock from Wooten met with Jonathan on bylaws lessons learned for the contact team (since the neighborhood plan includes Wooten). In Dawson, developers came in and took over the contact team in one meeting and did things like use their children to vote since the bylaws did not specify that you had to be 18 to vote. People are changing bylaws to require members to be active for some period of time in the neighborhood association before gaining voting rights.

Ice Cream Social:
The consensus was that there was good attendance and that people liked the band. However, because most people showed up at the end when all of the ice cream had already melted, we considered starting later and perhaps going for only 2 hours next year.

Next General Meeting:
Elaine Dill will talk about turning your yard into a wildlife habitat.
Possible September general meeting topics: Wall of Welcome video, have the Wall of Welcome artist talk, or the Violet Crown Foundation talk about possible future projects.

Newsletter Announcement:
We need to announce in this and the next newsletter that the September general meeting will be on the 15th because of Labor Day shifting everything 1 week ahead.

Opinion Survey Responses:
20 responses received. Pam will tally the results. Jonathan will find out when Phase II of the Crestview Station plan goes before the planning commission. That is our opportunity to push for pedestrian/bicycle access. Jonathan has support from local bicycle activist groups and some city staff.

VMU Committee Results:
The executive committee voted unanimously to accept the VMU Committee’s recommendations.

Justin Lane Downgrade:
Steve will bring the planning commission response regarding the downgrade to the attention of the engineer (Peter Marsh) with City of Austin traffic calming.

Power Lines of Grover:
+10-ft high poles are going in. No one is willing to create a committee to fight this.

Ryan Austin Energy Property:
Heather, who presented on behalf of affordable housing last meeting, is looking for feedback on whether or not the neighborhood association is willing to push for affordable housing on the property. CAN is awaiting the effects of Crestview Station. It is too soon for come to consensus on a desired use for that lot. There will be no response by December.

Newsletter Committee 08.05.08 Meeting Minutes

In attendance were Stephanie Philips, Jonathan Locklin, and Jerry Schmidt

1) The Newsletter Committee meetings are scheduled for the first Tuesday of the Month. In order to have the articles in the upcoming newsletter it was determined that they need to be in by the preceding Friday.
Deadline to printer -- Monday before, (the first Monday)
ad & copy deadline -- the Monday before that, (the last Monday of the month)
Also we need to work out a "news budget," a list of articles, etc., at our committee meeting, so George will know what to be planning for.
2) We received two letters from Faith Lutheran Church about two bazaars that they have coming up in November. One is for Travis Extension Education Association and the following week the next one is for Faith Lutheran Chruch High School Youth trip for a youth gathering.
3) An article for the upcoming Violet Crown Fall Art Festival was received and will be placed in the September newsletter.
4) The website http://middtowncommons.com was posted on the listserv for Crestview. This website shows an artist’s conception of what the Huntsman property will look like.
5) Stephanie will go over Tim’s list of advertisers and compare with hers.
6) For the September meeting we would like to set up to show the documentary “A Community Mosaic” about the history of Brentwood and Crestview. We will need to contact Jean Graham and Susan & Rob Burneson about being the featured speakers. The September meeting will be moved back one week to September 15th due to Labor Day.
7) Articles are coming in slow for the newsletter.
Ask Don to post on the listserv or website that we are looking for articles.
The information that was on the listserv recently about chickens would make a good article if someone would step and volunteer to write it.
Also if would could obtain histories of some of the businesses in the Crestview Neighborhood would be appreciated. We have quite a few businesses around our perimeter plus the Crestview Shopping Center.

Submitted by Jerry Schmidt