Allandale Executive Committee Meeting: March 23, 2007 Minutes

sumbitted by Katie Hansen

Executive Committee members in attendance: Joe Reynolds, Tom Linehan, Laura Slaughter, Paulette Kern, Allan McMurtry, Michael Bomba, Katie Hansen, Dan Jones, Brent Sjolseth, Cathy Yang.

Meeting minutes were read and approved for May 9, 2007.

Treasurer report: Joe Reynolds

Legal Fund $16,699.34
Regular $5948.01
Savings $9575.98
Total $32,193.3

The amount of donations raised for Legal Fund is $18,852.58. Have expended $22,062.20 on lawyer fees and traffic engineer.

The current treasure still has not received the records from the previous treasurer.

Report on D & O insurance: Cathy Yang

Joe Reynolds has expedited an application form for a new quote for D & 0 insurance. The

anticipated cost for this insurance will be approximately $1,500/year for $1 million coverage. Allan McMurtry suggests that we should consider a policy that protects not only Executive committee members, but also volunteers and committee members. A quote for D&0 could be available as early as Friday.

Fundraising Committee: Laura Slaughter and Joe Reynolds

The Tyke and Bike event had 93 children registered. The event grossed 2,035 dollars. Net profit is around $800. Laura has received lots of very positive feedback about this event. The kids really enjoyed the event. The next event is a planned appeal to our neighbors for more financial support for the Northcross issue.

Marlene Meador has a friend from New Braunfels who is willing to work with the ANA on some mass mails outside our neighborhood based on demographic data. These mailings will target locations around town that have been impacted by huge retail developments within neighborhoods.

Membership Committee: Dan Jones

The number of members stands at just under 400 households. Of these 125 had been entered by the previous treasurer plus a shoebox full of memberships that had not been entered into the database. The database appears to have several inaccuracies in it, such as members who have duplicate memberships. We will not worry about correcting these inaccuracies, but try to fix things as we go along. Only have 1/4 to 1/3 of the e-mail addresses for these members available. We need to increase our membership.

Northcross Committee: Allan McMurtry

We have several strategies that we are working on.
1) Appeal to the board of adjustments if site plan is approved.
2) We have requested a meeting with the City Traffic people. This will take place next week.
3) The ANA has been collaborating with RG4N.
4) Evaluating our options on filing a lawsuit against the City of Austin.

Lincoln Properties filed an amendment to the TIA on Friday. Although Wal-Mart has reduced the size of the store slightly, Allan heard that it will not decrease the number of SKUs sold. This is unconfirmed. The decrease in size is predicted to come out of common areas and a decrease in the width of the isle.

Newsletter: Cathy Yang

The next edition of the newsletter is near completion and will be ready for distribution the second week in June. Worley has increased printing costs. Right now, the newsletter is approximately $700 in profit per issue if we could calculate it by looking at ad space and our costs. We can't do this yet because we are still honoring commitments for ad space from last year.

Meeting adjourned at 8:30 p.m