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At the October 14th general meeting, the main topic of discussion was the proposed Bylaws from the Bylaws Committee. After much discussion and a few amendments, the new Bylaws were ratified by the members in attendance. These bylaws go into effect November 1, 2008.

You can read the new bylaws here.

The Development Committee has finalized the Restrictive Covenant with the developers of the Village Shopping Center. You can read more about this in the next issue of the newsletter, but until that arrives in your mailbox, you can read the text of the covenant here.

Village Shopping Center Restrictive Covenant

A meeting of the Traffic committee will be held this Thursday, September 18th. Here is the agenda:

MEETING AGENDA
Traffic Committee of the North Shoal Creek Neighborhood Association (NSCNA)

LOCATION:
Thursday, September 18, 2008
7:00pm-8:30pm
8204 Sandalwood Cove
phone: 415-9809 (Jeff)

PURPOSE:
Discuss City of Austin traffic calming and Steck re-striping.
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The Bylaws committee has worked diligently over the past six months to improve the bylaws of the Association. They have studied State Law, Robert Rules and many other Neighborhood Association bylaws to determine what changes should be made to the NSCNA bylaws.

The primary goal of the Bylaws committee was to clarify parts of the bylaws that had been points of disagreement over the past few years. As they sought to clarify these points, it became clear that many other issues needed to be resolved. The committee’s finished product is more of rewrite than a simple change of wording.

At their last committee meeting, August 5, 2008, all committee members agreed that the finished product is a great improvement. Is it perfect? Probably not. This was not the easiest job to complete but the committee is very happy with the final results and look forwarding to presenting it the membership with pride.

You will find the proposed bylaws here. Any substantial wording changes made are underlined for clarity. Spelling, grammar or punctuation changes are not underlined.

All NSCNA member households in attendance of the September 2 General Meeting received a copy of the proposed changes and a copy has been mailed to all member households not in attendance. The Bylaws committee will hold three Open Houses during the month of September for members to come and discuss the proposed changes and ask any questions they may have to understand the committee’s reasoning for specific changes. The dates for these Open Houses have been scheduled as follows: Pillow Elementary Cafeteria on Thursday Sept. 11th at 6:30 to 7:50 p.m, Pillow Elementary Cafeteria on Tuesday, Sept. 16th at 6:30-7:50 pm and Village Christian Apartments on Sunday Sept. 21st from 2:00 – 4:00 pm.

A General Meeting has been called by NSCNA BOD at Pillow October 14, 2008, 6:30 pm. at which meeting the members will be asked to vote to ratify these changes.

The focus of the September 2 General Meeting was information on the City’s new single stream recycling program, mentor volunteer opportunities in AISD schools and a brief review of the Bylaws committee’s proposed changes to the Bylaws.

The first speaker was Jennifer Herber from the Solid Waste Services department. She gave an overview of the new single stream recycling program and discussed the changes to expect starting October 6th. Each household will receive a new rolling trash can specifically for recycling paper, plastics marked with a 1 through 7, glass, aluminum, etc.
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