Barton Hills Neighborhood Association

Barton Hills-Horseshoe Bend Neighborhood Association
Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
November 13, 2001
Introductions
Outgoing and incoming officers present were Joe Gieselman, Robin McKeever, Sharon Slagle, Emily Mazac, Peter Hess, Noel Holmes, and Mark Gentle.

Joe Gieselman called the meeting to order about 7:20 pm. Sharon Slagle read minutes from the September 27th Executive Committee meeting, and the committee approved them. Robin read the Treasurer's report for Rafael Quintanilla-no change since the October 23rd general meeting.

Changing of
the Officers
Each officer briefly reviewed duties of his/her office according to the bylaws, with outgoing officers transferring responsibilities to new officers:

President: Joe Gieselman had previously transferred appropriate files to incoming President Robin McKeever, and he offered suggestions to incoming officers on using key neighborhood resources and neighborhood special concerns.

Vice President: Robin reviewed responsibilities for Mark Gentle.

Treasurer: Rafael Quintanilla, absent from the meeting, will continue in this office.

Recording Secretary: Sharon summarized her responsibilities; she will continue in this office.

Corresponding Secretary: Emily Mazac transferred appropriate materials and reviewed responsibilities for Noel Holmes.

Austin Neighborhood Council Representative: Peter Hess continues in this office.

Calendar BHNA meetings in 2002 will be as follows:

Executive Committee meetings - January 3rd, March 19th, June 4th, October 1st.

General meetings - January 22nd, April 9th, June 25th, October 22nd

Special Projects

Committee members discussed a number of potential special projects for the coming year:

  • Terrace development. Joe recently talked to Richard Suttle, attorney for the Terrace development project, who agreed to meet with BHNA representatives to discuss concernss about light and noise pollution from construction work. Joe will lead a team of interested neighbors, including Robin, Mark, and Craig Smith, and Robin will arrange a planning meeting for the team to prepare.
  • Membership drive. Mark will consider whether BHNA needs a membership committee and make recommendations to the Executive Committee at its next meeting, January 3rd.
  • Newsletter changes. Before the next Executive Committee meeting, Noel will propose an adjusted format for the newsletter, and at the meeting she will make recommendations for how to distribute the January newsletter.
  • ANC. Peter will provide committee members with URLs to ANC information so that they will be better informed and better prepared to support him in this important forum.
  • Trail of Lights. The committee agreed that it is too late to participate in this in 2001.
  • List-serve. Robin will follow up to try to get this functioning before the January 3rd Executive Committee meeting.
  • Greenbelt Cleanup. The committee does not have resources lined up to participate in 2002; however, we will try to start planning early so that we can participate in 2003.
  • Barton Elementary School Landscaping. The committee enthusiastically supports Carl Newsome's suggestion that we adopt a special project to support landscaping at the school. Robin will talk to Carl and recommend a plan at the January 3rd Executive Committee meeting.
  • Survey of membership concerns. Robin will revise the current survey for committee review on January 3rd.
Miscellaneous
Business
Topics of general discussion included:
  • Ideas for speakers at the January General meeting: presentation by the project manager of the Barton Springs Rd. construction (preferred), and a slide show on Barton Creek/Edwards Aquifer.
  • Signs. Noel will get new meeting date inserts printed for our signs, and she will arrange to use the Barton Hills Elementary school marquee for meeting notices.
  • General meeting set-up. Robin will buy new tablecloths, and she will talk to Betty Brown to determine whether we need to help with meeting set-up.
  • Name tags. The committee agreed that name tags would be a good idea for the General meeting.

The meeting adjourned around 9:20 pm.

 
Respectfully submitted,
Sharon Slagle
Recording Secretary

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