Executive Committee 10.06.08 Meeting Minutes

Present: Mike, Eddie, Jonathan, Jerry, Tim, Don, Steve

Sonny Poole from Austin Energy came to answer questions regarding the new power line poles going in along Morrow and Grover. Sonny is open to questions from concerned neighbors and can be reached at 332-6442. [NOTE: Some of the information provided below has been updated/corrected by information handed out by Sonny at the following CNA General Meeting. Please see the Austin Energy FAQ link under the Neighborhood Documents section of www.crestviewna.org for more up-to-date information.]

· The poles will be wooden poles, raised an additional 10 feet in height, except for at the corners where the line makes a turn. The poles at the corners will be metal, but they will be buried in the ground and affixed to a 24-36” base, not bolted to an aboveground cement base.

· The new lines will carry three times the current voltage, mainly to support the new retail stores at Crestview Station.

· The poles cannot be moved closer to the street because waste water lines are there.

· The lines will not be buried because, unless there is safety issue with going overhead or the cost of going overhead exceeds the cost of going underground, Austin Energy does not pay for that. The cost of going underground exceeds the cost of going overhead by $200-300 per foot, with a manhole cover every 200 feet. The lines will be underground at Crestview Station because the developer paid the extra cost to have them buried.

Current CNA financial balance is $6671, after $633 in expenditures last month for P.O. Box rental and newsletter printing.

A resolution in support of a hike and bike trail along the east side of the rail through Crestview Station to be presented to the Planning Commission was voted on and passed 4-to-2. More resolutions regarding alternative uses and areas for parkland are desired. These resolutions will need to be drafted prior to the station site plan going before the Planning Commission (sometime before January).

Steve attended the Austin Neighborhoods Council and Crestview is now a member neighborhood. The meeting addressed primarily code enforcement. Steve was voted unanimously to have voting rights at ANC on behalf of the neighborhood association and was given the duty of providing summaries of the meetings to the CNA executive committee.

Those present were asked to rank the Neighborhood Planning Area priorities before the general meeting on October 13th.

Ideas were discussed for general meeting topics for December. Historical slide show, social, donation of canned goods, Cap Area Food Bank coming to talk, Care Givers or other organizations coming to talk were all possibilities. Also, the idea to have a presentation to educate the neighborhood on the function of the Planning Contact Team, and the need for careful bylaws formation, was proposed. The current form of the CNA bylaws were proposed as a January general meeting topic.

Preliminary Agenda for the Executive Committee Meeting 06-October-2008

The meeting will be called to order between 7:15 to 7:30 depending
upon if we have any public input. The meeting will be held at St
Louis Church at 7601 Burnet Rd, Austin, 78757 in the library.

1) Austin Energy will present changes to electric infrastructure along
Morrow and Grover [30 minutes]

2) Financial Status [10 minutes]

3) Announce next General CNA meeting topics [15 minutes]
a) Laura Morrison will present at 13-October-2008 meeting
b) Marc Ott will present at 10-November-2008 meeting
c) Discuss December's topic

4) Review and vote on Neighborhood Planning Area priorities [30 minutes]

5) Review Neighborhood Planning Contact Teams and vote on next steps
[15 minutes]
a) Need to either
i) Create Neighborhood Planning Contact team with or without
Wooten with a new set of By-Laws based on City Ordinance. The first
step would be to create a committee to perform the tasks necessary to
forming this Contact Team.
ii) Write a position statement on what the will of the CNA
executive committee is on this issue.