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On Tuesday night, Dallas Maham provided the Board with copies of the agreement signed by NSCNA and the developers of the Lucas Tract which is now the location of the Nissan Dealership north of our neighborhood. This occurred in 1998 and provided our association with $25,000.
You can read the agreement here.
“A combined total of a twenty-five thousand dollar contribution from North Shoal Creek Commercial, Ltd. and Town North Autoplex to be utilized for neighborhood traffic calming efforts or any other neighborhood project. ”
The NSCNA was working with the City to provide speed humps to slow traffic down, but the City around 1999 decided to suspend all traffic calming projects. This money has been accruing interest since this time and now sits close to $30000.
The City has decided to restart traffic calming projects in 2008 with a pilot program. Their plan is to choose 4 neighborhoods with the greatest need and work with them to implement traffic calming measures. They have not chosen the 4 neighborhoods yet, but the traffic committee is doing everything we can to increase our odds. We also do not know if this means more speed bumps, or if technology has improved to include new items that help. But we are certain that neighborhoods that have the ability to partially fund these traffic calming projects will get considerably more attention from the City.
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The NSCNA Board of Directors has received a letter from Tom Linehan who is the current president of the Allandale Neighborhood Association (ANA). He asks if our group would make a financial contribution to their legal fund. Tom and another ANA Executive committee member attended our last Board meeting to discuss their request. They are looking for support from the surrounding neighborhood associations including ours. You can view the letter here.
The NSCNA Board agreed that the general membership should be responsible for providing the NSCNA response. A special general membership meeting will be scheduled soon. Additional details about the meeting’s agenda and logistics will be posted as soon as the information is available.
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The Beautification committee has chosen the Yard of the Month for August 2007. The winner is Joe Carroll at 8213 Rockwood. Congratulations to this homeowner on a good job of beautifying the neighborhood. The next time you find yourself on Rockwood, make sure you look for the Yard of the Month sign to enjoy the view at 8213 Rockwood. Continue reading to see more photos of the yard.
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The 3rd quarterly Commanders Forum was held on Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 at Austin Revival Center, 305 Deen Avenue at 7:00pm. Attending from North Shoal Creek Neighborhood Assn was Mary Arnett, Jo McFerren, and Margaret Flaniken. First on the agenda was District Rep Mike Young who gave an update on the Slayton Dr house which had been the target of an intensive effort to clean up the property and make it safe for children walking to Barrington Elementary. There had been numerous issues with the ownership of the property. A resolution of the issue was achieved when several of the persons who had a joint interest in the property were arrested on various drug or other charges and an investor from the community stepped forward to buy out their interests and the remaining owners interest in the property. The house is now boarded up and safe for the neighborhood.
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I received 7 old newsletters from NSCNA resident Andreas Guenin yesterday. They are primarily 2001-2004 newsletters that I was missing. I have scanned them in and archived them on the website and the Yahoo group site. Thank you Andreas! We now have 29 archived newsletters which contain a total of 319 pages of NSCNA history. You can view the newsletter archive here:
or simply go to the nscna.org website and click on the “Media” tab then scan to the bottom of the page.
Please note that I am still missing a few newsletters. See my list below and if you happen to run across any old newsletters, please check to see if you have any that we are missing. Thanks!
ChrisMissing Issues:
2003 Issue 2
2000 Issue 14
1998-1999 Issue 11
1996-7 Issues 1-5
Anything before 1997
