Executive Committee 11.3.08 Meeting Minutes

Meeting called to order at 7:35 pm

There were 5 executive officers in attendance
1) Mike K.
2) Pam M.
3) Jerry S.
4) Tim R.
5) Jonathan L.

There were 2 presenters with Sustainable Neighborhoods
1) Steve Zettner
2) Mary Arnett

We follwed the agenda:
1) Heard presentation from Steven Zettner about Open Space and how Sustainable Neighborhoods is helping to coordinate efforts in North Central Austin to increase Open Space in the area. The Executive Committee decided to invite Steven to present at the CNA General Meeting. He is requesting support on a resolution for incresed Open Space in VMU developments. A motion was made and passed to present this resolution at the November General CNA meeting. However a vote will not be taken until December's General CNA meeting.

2) Round Table Discussion: Pam brought up the continued illegal parking at Hardy and Morrow / Cullen. We discussed that we should encourage residents to call 311 to report these illegal code issues such that these concerns will get attention. We discussed the crime rate in the neighborhood. We dicussed reported issues and resolutions to the association about noisey pigs.

3) Discussed finances. We are covering all our expenses.

4) We Discussed the emails from resident to Jerry about advertising many businesses at once. The executive committee recommended that Jerry deny these two requests. The discussion included the follwoing:
a) The newsletter already has a mechanism for advertisement.
b) There has been a precedence that inserted pages in the newsletter have been from church organizations or the like.
c) There is an effort to keep the ratio of articles to advertisements at current levels. We do not want to turn this volunteer newsletter into volunteers delivering most advertisements.
d) We are curious as to the expense to hire someone to deliver advertisements door to door verses using our delivers. We are not a business and do not want to compete with other businesses. We have advertising to cover costs of producing a newsletter and not in delivering it.

5) Discussed Mondays general meeting with Marc Ott. Reviewed topics and actvities for December's general meeting. The executive Committee Voted to spend no more than $250 on no more than 10 signs to advertise the Neighborhood Association General meetings. The signs will be re-usable and will include the text:
Crestview NA Meeting
Next Monday

for details see
www.crestviewna.org

6) Reveiwed the responses to the questions sent out in late summer. There were 23 respondents. Please see website for numeric tally of results.

7) Voted to collect remaining Neighborhood Planning Area priorities at meeting this Monday. Pam will collect all the forms and compile the results for us to vote on at the December Executive Meeting.

Adjourned at 9:20 pm

Minutes provided by Jonathan Locklin