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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
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North Central Area Command/IDA Sector
Learn about the exciting things that are happening right here in your neighborhood! Guest Speaker will be our new Chief of Police Art Acevedo. The new Assistant Chief over Central Bureau, Sam Holt and Assistant Chief Al Eells will be attending to introduce the new commander for the North Central Area Command Phil Crochet. A brief question and answer session with the command staff and district reps will follow. Spanish interpreters will be in attendance.
Hope to see you there!
When: Tuesday August 14, 2006
7 P.M.
Where: Austin Revival Center
305 Deen AveHosted by: North Central Area Command District Representatives
For more information call 974-5722
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With hot dogs grilled by Stillwood neighbor, John Anderson, and a very cool dog that “stole the show” from APD’s K9 Unit led by Sgt. Mike Fitzgerald, North Shoal Creek neighbors celebrated National Night Out in a big way at Pillow Elementary! Austin Fire Department brought their impressive ladder truck and gave away two fire extinguishers courtesy of Lowes. APD District Rep James Hellums hung out with us as we discussed current crime issues and the need for our neighborhood to be aware of crime activity that happens around us, the importance of reporting crime to 911 or 311, and a sense of community that allows us to know and watch out for each other.Click here for photos of the event.
Special thanks to Bryan Hardeman and the Austin Infiniti Dealership on Burnet Rd for his financial support of this event. Debbie Luna from Randolph Brooks was on hand to help with water bottles, glow necklaces and some gift certificates to Target and Home Depot. Special thanks to Lowes for door prizes: two personal safes, a motion detector floodlight, two fire extinguishers. Cothrons Lock and Key gave us two combination key holders. Austin Energy gave us energy efficient light bulbs to remind us about turning on our porch lights to fight crime at night. Also in kind donations were made by Dairy Queen, Mrs. Baird’s Bread, Sonic, Picky’s Pantry at Steck and Burnet.
Extra special thanks to the whole Anderson family: John and Denise, Caleb, Ben, Lauren and Arial, who presided as our hosts that evening and made the event go so smoothly. Thanks to Linda Wilson for her assistance with checking people in and making them feel welcomed. Thanks to Malcolm St. Romain for his assistance with the presentation, not to mention his “neighborhood event” sized grill.
There were 126 attendees including a baby less than a year old, all the way to Flossie Sweat, 100 year old resident of our neighborhood who still lives in her own house, who found the time, motivation and strength to come and participate in National Night Out. We were honored by her presence.
Stillwood residents won the energy efficient bulbs for having the highest number of attendees.
Thanks to everyone who made it a success!!!
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Toby Futrell, the City Manager, invited representatives from all Austin neighbhorhood groups to attend a town hall meeting on July 19th of this year. You can view the invitation here. The City staff were busy putting together 2008’s proposed budget and wanted to get feedback from the neighborhoods before finalizing it. During this event, more than 100 neighborhood groups were represented and the top priorities of each neighborhood was discussed. Our President, Malcolm St. Romain attended the meeting and discussed our top issues with many people.
Today, we received a letter from Toby with the results of that meeting, containing a list of the top 5 priorities most sought after by neighborhood groups as well as a detailed description of each top priority with information on how much money each will get in the proposed 2008 budget.
You can read the letter here.
And please feel free to go to the new discussion forum and discuss it in more detail. Tell us what you think…
