Tim distributed the financial statement for December.
+ $461 (memberships and ad revenue)
- $392 (newsletter printing)
TOTAL: $11,190.71
An event in December necessitated the establishment of CNA policy regarding newsletter article review: The president needs to be given adequate time to review an article before it goes to the newsletter layout person. When possible, articles will be submitted to DropBox by the 15th of the month and reviewed by the president by the 18th. During the review process, necessary communication between the president and newsletter editor will occur by phone. The post-layout reviewer will be given 2 days to review the newsletter afterward.
Some discussion about articles indicated that we may need to establish a policy regarding article style (objectivity, etc.). Kat already pointed out that an article content policy exists. Everyone expressed a desire to see more CNA content in the newsletter, which puts the responsibility on the entire executive committee to write articles for the newsletter updating the neighborhood on the association’s most recent business.
People expressed dismay that the CNA did not contribute to the Arroyo Seco luminaries this holiday season due to the fact that we have yet to establish our policy on determining criteria for donating to events/causes/organizations. This policy has been on the back-burner for a couple of months, and needs to be established ASAP.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Nov-Dec 2010 Ex Comm Meeting Minutes
At Eddie’s house. Eddie, Don, Marcus and Susan in attendance.
Eddie wanted to update the rest of the executive committee on meetings that have taken place over the past two months regarding city staff’s recommendation to open the intersection at Morrow and Lamar to west-bound traffic.
City staff had contacted Eddie to see what improvements Crestview would want to have in place prior to the opening of the intersection. Staff recommended having a sidewalk built along the north side of Morrow. Crestview’s #1 priority improvement would be fixing the Lamar flyover at Anderson Lane. Other options included finishing the existing traffic calming plan implementation, increased lighting and additional traffic calming efforts. Should a transportation engineer be hired to do a current traffic count along Morrow, estimate the maximum safe traffic load, and propose means of preemptively reducing the load? Can we require new counts be conducted after opening at set intervals for a set amount of time to be assured that traffic does not rise above safe levels?
In subsequent meetings with city staff, there have been discussions on what can be done about the Lamar and Anderson intersection. We brought out ideas including:
1) signage to designate where to go from Lamar to get onto Anderson.
2) two lanes to exit instead of one lane.
3) easier flow of traffic onto Anderson using exit and the cross over by
a) controlling right turn traffic off east bound 183 access road to south bound Lamar access road,
b) redesign entire intersection
i) have Lamar truly intersect Anderson
ii) OR have Anderson intersect better with access roads of 183 and Lamar.
c) adding traffic light to traffic coming off Lamar and going West bound onto Anderson.
In addition to the Anderson Lane discussion, we also reiterated our concerns over Morrow.
We also asked about the down grading of Justin Lane. We reminded staff that the downgrade was necessary in order to implement future traffic calming along Justin. Paper work was submitted 2 years ago with the assurance that this was a slam dunk.
We also asked about the completion of traffic calming measures in the neighborhood. Staff promised us that we would receive a schedule of traffic calming completion by first week in January 2011.
When asked, staff did provide some information about measurable trigger for traffic analysis. We all agreed that cut-through-traffic is traffic going through neighborhood to a destination outside the neighborhood. A big trigger for the city is when cut-through traffic increases more than 20% over a typical day happening over a week period. If it is peak traffic time the percent is 30% and not more than 200 cars per hour. In summary there are two delivery dates promised to Crestview.
1) By the end of the first week in January 2011, staff would let us know the completion schedule for the traffic calming.
2) By mid January in 2011, staff would have a response for our list of 8 generic items to be addressed. We would continue our dialog after Crestview Neighborhood reviewed the city's response. Items to be addressed are:
1) Anderson Lane and Lamar intersection improvements
Morrow and Lamar improvements like painting and construction.
2) Sidewalks along Morrow
3) Lighting along Morrow
4) Bicycle mitigation.
5) Traffic and event trigger for Morrow.
6) Downgrade of Justin Lane
7) ____________________
8) ____________________
Eddie wanted to update the rest of the executive committee on meetings that have taken place over the past two months regarding city staff’s recommendation to open the intersection at Morrow and Lamar to west-bound traffic.
City staff had contacted Eddie to see what improvements Crestview would want to have in place prior to the opening of the intersection. Staff recommended having a sidewalk built along the north side of Morrow. Crestview’s #1 priority improvement would be fixing the Lamar flyover at Anderson Lane. Other options included finishing the existing traffic calming plan implementation, increased lighting and additional traffic calming efforts. Should a transportation engineer be hired to do a current traffic count along Morrow, estimate the maximum safe traffic load, and propose means of preemptively reducing the load? Can we require new counts be conducted after opening at set intervals for a set amount of time to be assured that traffic does not rise above safe levels?
In subsequent meetings with city staff, there have been discussions on what can be done about the Lamar and Anderson intersection. We brought out ideas including:
1) signage to designate where to go from Lamar to get onto Anderson.
2) two lanes to exit instead of one lane.
3) easier flow of traffic onto Anderson using exit and the cross over by
a) controlling right turn traffic off east bound 183 access road to south bound Lamar access road,
b) redesign entire intersection
i) have Lamar truly intersect Anderson
ii) OR have Anderson intersect better with access roads of 183 and Lamar.
c) adding traffic light to traffic coming off Lamar and going West bound onto Anderson.
In addition to the Anderson Lane discussion, we also reiterated our concerns over Morrow.
We also asked about the down grading of Justin Lane. We reminded staff that the downgrade was necessary in order to implement future traffic calming along Justin. Paper work was submitted 2 years ago with the assurance that this was a slam dunk.
We also asked about the completion of traffic calming measures in the neighborhood. Staff promised us that we would receive a schedule of traffic calming completion by first week in January 2011.
When asked, staff did provide some information about measurable trigger for traffic analysis. We all agreed that cut-through-traffic is traffic going through neighborhood to a destination outside the neighborhood. A big trigger for the city is when cut-through traffic increases more than 20% over a typical day happening over a week period. If it is peak traffic time the percent is 30% and not more than 200 cars per hour. In summary there are two delivery dates promised to Crestview.
1) By the end of the first week in January 2011, staff would let us know the completion schedule for the traffic calming.
2) By mid January in 2011, staff would have a response for our list of 8 generic items to be addressed. We would continue our dialog after Crestview Neighborhood reviewed the city's response. Items to be addressed are:
1) Anderson Lane and Lamar intersection improvements
Morrow and Lamar improvements like painting and construction.
2) Sidewalks along Morrow
3) Lighting along Morrow
4) Bicycle mitigation.
5) Traffic and event trigger for Morrow.
6) Downgrade of Justin Lane
7) ____________________
8) ____________________
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