The Allandale Reporter

NW Recreation Center Seeking Board Members

Greetings neighbors!

The NW Recreation Center is a wonderful resource for us - right smack in of our neighborhood. It serves a regional community, not just Allandale, and offers a full complement of recreational programs for children, teens, and adults. NWRC is getting a facelift - new additions to the building at last!
- so this year is an important one for the Center and the neighborhoods served.

The Advisory Board meets one Thursday a month, helping NWRC Director Lucas Massie and his staff in an advisory capacity -- offering ideas, interface to neighborhoods and City administrative staff, and general support to develop NWRC's mission in our community. 

There are membership opportunities currently on the Board. If you are interested in participating, please email the NRWC President Ms. Sammi Frye:  sammi_frye@hotmail.com for more information, and to obtain an application. We appreciate your support!

Thank you!

Gerry Schwartz
NWRC Advisory Board Treasurer
Allandale Neighbor

Neighborhood Q&A with mayoral candidate Brewster McCraken

Tom Linehan

I don’t think there is any better way of learning about a candidate than at a meet-the-candidate gathering at a neighbor’s house. At these events, although voters want to know what the candidate’s plans are for making the city as a whole a better place, they are also looking for answers to neighborhood issues. For instance, if elected Mayor, how would the candidate address concerns regarding the lack of public space in the VMU developments the city is so aggressively promoting for our neighborhood? How would he deal with the problems stemming from the homeless population living under nearby bridges? Neighbors had an opportunity to ask these questions on Saturday, February 28, at Jason Mittman and Sheila Reiter’s house on the north end of Shoal Creek, not far from where the Wal-Mart is going in. Allandale residents were invited to the couple’s house to meet city council member and mayoral candidate Brewster McCracken.

Austin Energy Interactive Town Hall Meeting

Austin Energy will be holding the 6th in a series on Town Hall Meetings related to the Draft resource plan. (See austinsmartenergy.com ) on Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 at 6:30pm. It will be held in the Council Chambers at City Hall at 301 W. Second St.

 

If you are not able to attend in person, you can watch Channel 6 and participate by calling in your questions to 974-5597 or emailing them at austinsmartenergy.com any time this week. Click on Contact Us and fill in the blanks.

 

Please reply to this email or contact Paul Smolen at 512-619-5314, if you have additional questions about the process.

 

Thanks,

 

Paul N. Smolen

Vice President

Fox, Smolen & Associates

Office     512-322-9090 x. 102

Mobile    512-619-5314

ANA Executive Committee Work Session

There will be a December EC meeting at my house at 7:00PM on Thursday December, 11.

Agenda will be:
Set Agenda
Minutes
Treasurers Report
Open space issues
Committee reports
Old business
New business
Adjourn

This is a work session. No votes will be taken. If you have any topics to bring up, let me know.

Allan McMurtry

Minutes from September 25, 2008 ANA General Membership Meeting - Draft

Allandale Neighborhood Association
General Membership Meeting Minutes
25 September 2008
DRAFT

The regular General Membership meeting of the Allandale Neighborhood Association (ANA) was held on Thursday, August 25, 2008, at 6:30 pm at Ralph Yarborough Library, the Treasurer being in the chair (as the President was absent) and the Secretary being present*. The minutes of the last two General Membership meetings (27 September 2007 and 27 March 2008), and of the special General Membership meeting (29 November 2007) were read and approved.

ANA Executive Committee Minutes August 28, 2008 - Draft

Allandale Neighborhood Association
Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
28 August 2008
DRAFT

The regular monthly Executive Committee (EC) meeting of the Allandale Neighborhood Association (ANA) was held on Thursday, August 28, 2008, at 6:30 pm at Ralph Yarborough Library, the President being in the chair and the Secretary being present*. The minutes of the last EC meeting (26June2008) were read and approved.

*Members Present:
Tom Linehan, President; Mary Jean Matus, Secretary; Joe Reynolds, Treasurer; Donna Beth McCormick; Paulette Kern; George Roman; Cynthia Keohane.

ANA EC Meeting Minutes - June 2008

Allandale Neighborhood Association - Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
26 June 2008

The regular monthly Executive Committee (EC) meeting of the Allandale Neighborhood Association (ANA) was held on Thursday, June 26, 2008, at 6:30 pm at Ralph Yarborough Library, the President being in the chair and the Secretary being present*.  The minutes of the last EC meeting (22, May 2008) were read and approved; the minutes of the previous EC meeting (24, April 2008) were corrected and approved.

*Members Present:
Tom Linehan, President; Mary Jean Matus, Secretary; Joe Reynolds, Treasurer; Donna Beth McCormick; Paulette Kern; Laura Slaughter; Dan Jones; George Roman; Cynthia Keohane.

ANA EC Minutes - April 2008 Meeting

Allandale Neighborhood Association
Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
24 April 2008

The regular monthly Executive Committee (EC) meeting of the Allandale Neighborhood Association (ANA) was held on Thursday, April 24, 2008, at 6:30 pm at Ralph Yarborough Library, the President being in the chair and the Secretary being present*.  The minutes of the last EC meeting (March 27,2008) were read and approved as corrected.

Minutes from March ANA General Membersthip Meeting

Allandale Neighborhood Association – General Membership Meeting—Minutes
March 27, 2008
Ralph Yarborough Library
6:30PM
(Note, these minutes are in draft form and have not been officially approved by the membership)

Executive Committee Members Present:
Tom Linehan—President             Mary Jean Matus—Secretary
Joe Reynolds—Treasurer            Cynthia Keohane
Donna Beth McCormick            Paulette Kern
George Roman                 Margie Gordon

I.    Meeting was opened by the President Tom Linehan

II.    Minutes:
George moved to defer reading of the previous General Membership meeting minutes until the next General Membership meeting; seconded by Joe; motion passed unanimously.

Minutes from February 2008 EC Meeting

Allandale Neighborhood Association
Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
28 February 2008

The regular monthly Executive Committee (EC) meeting of the Allandale Neighborhood Association (ANA) was held on Thursday, February 28, 2008, at 6:30 pm at Ralph Yarborough Library, the President being in the chair and the Secretary being present*.  The minutes of the previous three meetings (25Oct2007, 15Nov2007, and 24Jan2008) were read and approved as corrected.

*Members Present:
Tom Linehan, President; Allan McMurtry, Vice President; Mary Jean Matus, Secretary; Joe Reynolds, Treasurer; Donna Beth McCormick; Paulette Kern; Laura Slaughter; Dan Jones; George Roman; Margie Gordon; Cynthia Keohane.