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A resident of our neighborhood has been reported as diagnosed with the West Nile Virus.
The Texas Department of State Health Services website
states that ‘our best defense is to practice these habits, known as the “Four Ds”:1.Use insect repellent containing DEET, picaridin or oil of lemon eucalyptus.
2.Dress in long sleeves and long pants when you are outside.
3.Stay indoors at dusk and dawn, when mosquitoes are most active.
4.Drain standing water where mosquitoes breed. Common breeding sites include old tires, flowerpots and clogged rain gutters.’ The DSHS website is:
http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/idcu/disease/arboviral/westNile/ That website includes links for a fact sheet. FAQs, myths, insect repellent, public services announcements, etc.The City website also provides information about reporting mosquito problems at :
http://www.austintexas.gov/department/vector-control
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The Harvest Fest at Redeemer Lutheran Church is Saturday, 10/13 from 10AM to 3PM at the Church at 1500 West Anderson Lane–Fun for the whole family!
Games, Food, Music, Silent Auction, and Arts and Crafts for Sale.
Free Admission!
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The following letter has been received from Austin Energy:
Austin Energy will be working in your neighborhood, North Shoal Creek Neighborhood Assn, pruning, and if necessary removing, potentially hazardous trees from near the high-voltage electric transmission lines. This work along the transmission lines is routine, scheduled, vegetation maintenance. As a courtesy, we are notifying the appropriate neighborhood associations to provide information related to this work.
These transmission lines are critical links in moving electricity from Austin Energy power plants to our substations, and ultimately into your neighborhood. Austin Energy transmission lines can be identified as the high-voltage electric cables on the tall metal or wooden poles, well above the familiar electric lines on standard
utility poles that distribute electricity throughout your neighborhood to individual homes an businesses. Only a limited number of properties, located along the transmission line(s) and easements in your neighborhood, may be affected.Work planners will evaluate each property to determine if tree work is necessary, and if work is required, they will make every effort to contact each property owner
to discuss the proposed work. Our Contract notifiers and Austin Energy staff will work with each property owner to outline the work to be performed on their property. The property owner will receive a written Vegetation Work Plan (VWP) documenting the proposed work near the transmission lines on their property.Federal and State regulations and the National Electric Safety Code require Austin Energy to maintain our transmission lines in a manner to ensure safe and reliable operation of these high-voltage lines. All tree work will be performed by our contractor, Asplundh Tree, under supervision of Certified Arborists from Austin
Energy and Asplundh.Our intent is to maintain the high-voltage transmission facilities in your neighborhood in a responsible manner to maintain a safe and reliable transmission system.
If you or any of your neighbors have any questions about the proposed tree work or any tree replacements for individual properties affected, you may contact me
at (512) 322-6931 (office) , or Ray Henning, Line Clearance Superintendent, at (512) 322-6930 (office). Thank you for your cooperation.Sincerely,
Carl Schattenberg, CF
Utility Forestor – Transmission
Austin Energy
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The following information about the planned new central library is posted as an item of interest to residents:
Special Called Library Commission Meeting
Come See the Drawings for the New Central Library
Monday, October 1st, 7 p.m.
Austin History Center
810 Guadalupe Street
512/974-7400
Join the Austin Public Library for a Special Called Meeting of the Library Commission to view the latest drawings for the New Central Library and to take a virtual tour of the public spaces planned for the redevelopment of the Seaholm District and the Lower Shoal Creek area.
The presentation is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided.
For more information please call 512-974-7400 or visit http://library.austintexas.gov.
About the New Central Library:
More than 500,000 customers utilize the resources at the Faulk Central Library each year. However, the current facility cannot be expanded to accommodate Austin’s population growth. In November of 2006 voters approved a bond to construct a new Central Library to replace the 110,000 square foot John Henry Faulk Central Library that was built in 1979. On December 11, 2008 the Austin City Council selected the Joint Venture of Lake | Flato Architects and Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott to design our city’s New Central Library. On December 9, 2010, the Austin City Council approved an Architectural Building Program and a funding plan of $120 million for the New Central Library. On October 20, 2011, Council approved the Schematic Design (30% complete design) for Austin’s new main library. Now this landmark project for our community has successfully reached the end of the Design Development Phase (60% complete design) of the architectural development process.
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If you are interested in serving on the 2013 NSCNA Board of Directors, or know of someone who might be interested in volunteering, please contact one of the following five Nominating Committee Members below. We need your help.
The NSCNA Nominating Committee is beginning its search for volunteers to serve on the 2013 North Shoal Creek Neighborhood Association Board of Directors (BOD). If you are a current 2012 member of NSCNA you are eligible to serve on the 2013 Board. If you are not a current NSCNA member, but would like to serve on the 2013 Board, now is the time to renew your 2012 membership.
It is the responsibility of the four officers and seven board members to conduct the business of the Association between membership meetings and make recommendations for action and policy to the general membership. Actions of the Board are based on the will of the membership as expressed at general and special membership meetings. The 2012 Board of Directors have been very involved in working with the developer of 8100 Burnet Road and with representatives of the new Honda Dealership on Steck Avenue.
John Anderson, Committee Chair 459-8940 jrander76@sbcglobal.net
Jerry Horn 452-5068
Sharon Justice 451-4688 ssjustice@yahoo.com
John Migl 452-3482 jmigl@sbcglobal.net
Sherran Williams 451-2417 bunnyw@email2me.net
