submitted by Kay Newell
Gretchen Vaden Nagy,
President of the Allandale Neighborhood Association, opened the September 2006
General Meeting.
Main Library - Proposition 6
Gretchen introduced David Mintz - City of Austin
Library Commission Chair and former President of
ANA. David spoke about the need for a
new main library to provide all of Austin with a stronger library system. The
current main library opened in the 1970's, since then the library system has
grown from 11 locations to 22. This has
caused a great deal of strain on the main library.
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submitted by Gretchen Vaden
Please join us for our Allandale Neighborhood Association
September General Meeting this
Wednesday, September 27, at the Ralph Yarborough Library on Hancock Drive beginning at 6
p.m.
We will begin our meeting with an update on the Shoal Creek Greenbelt. That will be followed by a
discussion of the ANA newsletter.
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Gretchen opened the meeting and said the sale of the Farmers
Market on Burnet is scheduled to close in September.
Budget
Paul Nagy, Treasurer, presented the budget. Allandale Neighborhood Association (ANA) has
a balance of $31,650 and no payables. Two thirds of this amount is in a savings account and one third is in
checking. Out of 3100 households in
Allandale only 270 households are current members of the neighborhood
association. Membership dues provide income
of approximately $2300 a year. ANA gives
$500 annually to Lamar and $500 to Gullett. With Lucy Read School now an active school, ANA will also vote on giving
$500 to Lucy Read. This year ANA also
gave an additional $500 to Gullett for The Teaching Garden.
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What follows is a response from
Mark Herber, Project Manager at the Texas Department of Transportation to questions posted to the Allandale listserve regarding what's in the works for Mopac.
Begin message:
Thank you for passing along the inquiry from the concerned
resident. I appreciate the opportunity to "shed some additional
light on the subject." I will address the questions and statements (in "quotes" below) point
by point.
"I just read the ANA message from Frances
about the upcoming "Open House" meetings regarding TxDOT plans for
developing MoPac between Parmer and Cesar Chavez."
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