From winterety at sbcglobal.net Sun Jun 11 21:15:07 2006 From: winterety at sbcglobal.net (sheryl lynn gerety) Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:15:07 -0700 Subject: [OldNorth] Annual Meeting Message-ID: 06/11/06 Dear Old North neighbors: The ONDNA held its annual meeting and picnic yesterday afternoon in the pocket park between D and E Streets, adjacent to City Well #1 and the Lyda Williams Memorial Garden. After a short meeting in which the main business was election of a new Board, everyone ate and conversed heartily. Representatives from our "sister" core neighborhood organizations were in attendance (Tim Allis from Old East and Susan Crocker from Central Park West, as was mayor pro-tem, Susan Greenwald). Retiring from the Board are: Dan Braunschweig, Andy Wallace and Bruce Winterhalder. Newly elected to the Board are: Sheryl Gerety, Kathleen Groody and Donald (Dutch) Martinich. Continuing members, with positions renewed by re-election, are: Dennis Dingemans, Tony Martin, Dan Quickert, and Steve Tracy. At the suggestion of Angela Wilson and Steve Tracy, those assembled were asked to name the topics and ideas that should be on future agendas of Old North. Among the suggestions offerred: -We should follow closely the possible sale and development of the DJUSD property, five hundred block, between B and C Streets. -We would benefit from closer coordination of events and activities with the Food Co-op. -We might investigate having a coordinated yard sale that spanned Old North. -We should prepare an inventory of emergency preparedness in the neighborhood. -We would benefit from tightening up procedures and attention to our by-laws. -We should be watching carefully the zoning of G Street. -We might want to return to the issue of scheduling an alley clean-up day, and consider asking the City and DWR to return to alley trash pick-up. -We would benefit from closer coordination with Old East and Central Park West, as we share problems and opportunities in common. -And, we want to be watching the B Street renewal process carefully. Not content only to organize the picnic and hand-cranked ice-cream for the Annual Meeting, Dan Szumski also supplied the strawberry desert wine and was busy recruiting host households for the holiday progressive dinner this coming December. Several individuals took note of special contributions this last year: John Lofland, Heather Richardson and Tony Martin for carrying-through the heritage sign project, and outgoing Board members for perseverance and continuing good humor on projects, some finished and some not. My appreciation, to everyone who has worked so hard on behalf of our small community over the last two years. Your (retiring) president, Bruce -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2636 bytes Desc: not available URL: