NSCNA Blog Archive


  • Would you like a free tree delivered to your home? If you’re an Austin resident or an Austin Energy customer, you can sign up for our NeighborWoods program and we will deliver a tree directly to your doorstep by the end of March.

    The best part? Our only expectation is for you to be a loving tree owner. How sweet is that? Go to https://www.treefolks.org/gis/waitlist.php to sign up for your tree today. Don’t forget to spread the word to to your friends and neighbors!

    Thank you to the Urban Forest Grant for supporting this program.

    For more info on TreeFolks, go to https://www.treefolks.org/


  • The North Shoal Creek Neighborhood Plan Contact Team’s first quarterly meeting of 2019 is Thursday, February 14, from 6:30 to 7:55 p.m. in the First Texas Honda Conference Room*.  The agenda for the meeting is posted below.

    * (Please enter the dealership via the Steck entrance and park in the visitors’ parking lot to your left, nearest the big United States flag. If you enter through the main entrance, the conference room is down the corridor to your left. If you enter through the door on the west side of the building, the conference room is down the corridor, just before you reach the show room.)

    All Contact Team meetings are open to the public.

    To be a member of the North Shoal Creek NPCT, you must also fall into one or more of the following categories:

    • Property owner
    • Residential renter
    • Business owner
    • Neighborhood organization member owning or renting property within the neighborhood plan area.

    To be a voting member, you must be over 18 years of age; meet the membership requirement listed above; and have attended one prior meeting of the North Shoal Creek Neighborhood Plan Contact Team in the last 12 months.

    For more information on the NSCNPCT, please email nsccontactteam@gmail.com

     


  • Once the shared use path is open, walkers and bikers will have access beneath 183 to Neils Thompson Road and areas north.


  • Here is a list of the NSCNA’s 2019 officers and board of directors who were elected during the January 8 membership meeting:

    • Officers-
      Kevin Wier, President (president@nscna.org)
      Jon Menegay, Vice President (vp@nscna.org)
      Dylan Biles, Secretary (secretary@nscna.org)
      Jeri Wines, Treasurer (treasurer@nscna.org)
    • Directors (directors@nscna.org) –
      Iain Cox
      Anna Hobbs
      Sharon Justice
      Rima Star
      Kenneth Webb
      Steven Weintraub
      Mary Jane Wier

    The NSCNA’s first board meeting of 2019 is scheduled for Thursday, January 17, 2019.

    LOCATION:
    First Texas Honda Conference Room
    3400 Steck Ave
    Austin, TX 78757
    (Conference Room is on the left side of the building. You can enter from the side door on the left side of the building, which is closer to to where visitors can park. As a courtesy to First Texas Honda, try not to park in their prime, front visitor parking for their potential customers and customers. Note, however, that sometimes the parking lot is very full.)

    DATES: The 3rd Thursday of each month.
    January 17
    February 21
    March 21
    April 18
    May 16
    June 20
    July 18
    August 15
    September 19
    October 17
    November 21
    December 19

    TIME:
    6:30 P.M. until 7:55 P.M.

    Board meetings, like membership meetings, are open to the public.


  • This is the design for the mosaic to be installed on the south or KVUE side of the bridge. Design is by Kevin Wier, NSCNA President, 2018-2019. Members of NSCNA’s Beautification Committee are currently working on creating this mosaic. If you are interested in participating or want more information on this project, please email beautification@nscna.org.

     

    This design, also created by Kevin Wier, is to be installed on the north side of the bridge: