City Storm Drain Project in Crestview

Stephanie Lott, the Public Information Specialist Senior of the City of Austin Watershed Protection and Development Review Department, will be giving a talk on the city's storm drain project at the CNA general meeting on June 9th, 2008. Information is provided on how the project will affect West Crestview and Brentwood and East Crestview and Brentwood.

Remember we will not be meeting at Wozniak Hall on 9-June-2008. Below is the map of where the Crestview Neighborhood Association general meeting will be held this time. We will meet at St. Louis in Parish Religious Education Center & Library room 201.

Crestview Traffic Calming Committee

Traffic in Crestview has been an increasing problem, both in volume and in speed. Congestion on area arterial streets such as Burnet, Anderson and Lamar has been a major contributing factor to 'cut-through' traffic in our neighborhood. Both the congestion on these thoroughfares, as well as traffic problems on Crestview streets are expected to increase exponentially over the coming months and years as new development springing up around us draws even more vehicles to the area.

In December the City of Austin Public Works and Transportation Division announced that Crestview had been selected as one of the City's Neighborhood Traffic Calming Project areas for 2008. A survey was mailed to all residents of Crestivew so that neighbors could voice any traffic problems and concerns.

The City held a meeting on January 12th where they presented the results of the survey and provided traffic-calming options that could be implemented. Residents also had a chance to voice any additional concerns or problems at that meeting. A neighborhood committee of residents representing all quadrants of Crestview was selected by the attendees. This committee of your neighbors has already met several times to identify problem streets and intersections within Crestview. We are actively reviewing traffic volume data for our neighborhood as well as the resident survey results and are working to formulate a traffic mitigation plan. We will continue to update you of our work as we progress. Our final plan will be presented to Crestview residents to answer questions and to help you to fully understand the impact of the traffic calming solutions prior to being asked to vote on the plan.

It's important that we take advantage of this opportunity to work with the city to mitigate existing problems as well as plan for the inevitable increase in traffic down the road. Crestview will be gaining many more residents with the addition of the Crestview Station subdivision, as well as over 150,000 square feet of vertical mixed-use commercial and retail space at the site of the former Huntsman Chemical plant on North Lamar. And with Northcross Mall being redeveloped, a new Wal-Mart, Office Depot and potentially more redevelopment at The Village, we can expect a significant amount of additional traffic on an already overburdened infrastructure. With development comes traffic, with traffic comes congestion, and with congestion comes creative ways to avoid congestion. Rest assured those creative drivers will find their way through Crestview.

If you would like to share your traffic concerns, comments, or have any questions about the work of the Crestview Traffic Calming Committee, please call or email 512-407-8387 or CNAtraffic@hotmail.com.

Crestview Minimax reusable grocery tote bag

by Meredith Roddy

Please come by the Crestview Minimax on Saturday, May 31 and purchase a reusable grocery tote bag. The bags say "Brentwood Elementary- Growing up with Crestview Minimax." We'll be selling the bags in front of the store from 10-6. Bags cost $4.00 each and portion of the funds collected will go towards replacing our school's broken and tattered gym equipment. Show your school pride when you shop, and help improve Brentwood Elementary and our environment, by purchasing Bulldog bags. See you Saturday!Thanks! --The Brentwood PTA

Meeting Minutes - CNA General Meeting, May 12, 2008

The meeting was called to order by President Chip Harris at 7:12pm. Chip explained the nomination and voting process.

Jonathan Locklin was nominated for President. No other candidates were nominated, so Jonathan was elected by a vote of the attendees.

Steve Kuehner was nominated for Vice President. No other candidates were nominated, so Steve was re-elected by a vote of the attendees.

Don Tucker was nominated for Secretary. No other candidates were nominated, so Don was elected by a vote of the attendees.

Tim Ramirez and Deanne McMillan were nominated for Treasurer. Each candidate provided an overview of their qualifications for the position. Tim Ramirez was elected by receiving 51 votes, while Deanne received 26 votes.

Jerry Schmidt and Paige Hill were nominated for Newsletter Editor. Each candidate provided an overview of their qualifications for the position. Jerry Schmidt was elected by receiving 42 votes, while Paige received 36 votes.

Pam Mathison was nominated for Board Member in Place 1. No other candidates were nominated, so Pam was elected by a vote of the attendees.

Dave Considine and Paige Hill were nominated for Board Member in Place 2. Dave was not in attendance to provide an overview of his qualifications. Paige indicated that her previous description was sufficient. Dave was elected by receiving 41 votes, while Paige received 37 votes.

Michael Keenan and Deanna McMillan were nominated for Board Member in Place 3. Mike provided an overview of his qualifications for the position. Deanna indicated that her previous description was sufficient. Mike was elected by receiving 42 votes, while Deanna received 36 votes.

Eddie Gary was nominated for Board Member in Place 4. No other candidates were nominated, so Eddie was elected by a vote of the attendees.

After the elections, Chip Harris was presented with a plaque thanking him for his long-term service as president of the Crestview Neighborhood Association.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:30pm.

Location Change for June General Meeting

Our regular meeting room at St. Louis Church isn't available on Monday, June 9th, 2008. The church has reserved PEC 201 for us. We think that means Parish Education Center / Room 201. The Education building is just across from Wozniak Hall - slightly southeast.

Crestview Neighborhood Officer Elections

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Submitted by Don Tucker

For those who were unable to attend Monday night's CNA meeting, annual elections for the CNA officers and steering committee were held. We had a well-attended (over 50 people by voting counts) election with pipe cleaners distributed to verified CNA members for voting. The candidates for president, vice president, secretary and Place 2 were unopposed. Two candidates ran for each of the other positions, with voting results being very close for each. The elected officials for the following year are:

President: Jonathan Locklin
Vice President: Steve Kuehner
Treasurer: Tim Ramirez
Secretary: Don Tucker
Newsletter Editor: Jerry Schmidt
Place 1: Pam Mathison
Place 2: Eddie Gary
Place 3: Mike Keenan
Place 4: Dave Considine

The previous president, Chip Harris, was honored with a plaque by the previous executive council for his many (25+?) years of service to the neighborhood. Chip will remain on the executive council for the following year as the Advisory Chairman to assist in the transition.

Contact information for all of the members of the executive council is not yet publicly available.

Pre-K teacher Priscilla Fife is retiring

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Submitted by Luann Toney

Brentwood Elementary is hosting a retirement reception for her at HopeChapel on Thursday, May 29 from 3:30 - 5:30. We invite those who've known and loved her to attend the reception and/or send well-wishes to Ms. Fife at Brentwood. You can contact Brentwood's campus office at 414-2930

HopeChapel is located at 6701 Arroyo Seco.
http://www.hope.org/

Bios for Those Seeking Officer Positions in the Crestview Neighborhood Association

The Bios for those seeking officer positions in the Crestview Neighborhood Association are now available with the following link

Bios for those seeking officer positions in the Crestview Neighborhood Association

If you intend to run for one of the 9 officer positions, please get your Bio into me no later than Sunday 11-May-2008 at my email address jslpublic@gmail.com.