SPENA Board Meeting Minutes 8/30/22, Riley Willson
Attendees:
Kenda North, Carol Rybarski, Carol Somers-Clark, Nathan Cox, Riley Willson, Ellie Hajek, James Barnes.
-Treasurers Report, Nathan Cox:
- We have 4 new members in SPENA
- Discussion about adding a method to repeat charges for SPENA membership. Adding this feature would require that we store credit/debit card numbers and hence was rejected due to perceived liability
- Tom Thumb has removed SPENA from their Good Neighbor account due to lack of use.
- SPENA has $6,791 in the bank. (therefore money to pay for Halloween Police patrol
-Halloween:
- Lindsey Patterson tell us how to engage and pay for a Police patrol including barricades. It is understood that the Police themselves bring the barricades.
-Minutes for June SPENA meeting
- Nancy will provide the minutes at her earliest opportunity and Carol said she would post them to the SPENA website
-Island Garden Cleanup
- It was suggested that we schedule this for Saturday Oct. 22
- It has been suggested we have a signup list.
-First Friday on Oct. 7 at Russ and Erica Snook’s house
-New Neighbor Brunch
- Scheduled Sunday October 9th, 11am-1pm, Carol and Joe hosting
-Significant Events for next Year
- Total Solar Eclipse 4/8/24 12:23pm – 3:02pm
- Stevens Park Golf Course 100th anniversary
-Heritage/Passport Home Tour Oct 22, 23.
- SPENA will not be responsible for any service at this time.
-Sewer overflow in the flood
- No action at this time but call 311 if it happens again
-Crosswalk/ sidewalk
- Chad West said he can help via conversation with Kyle Wick
- We will wait until we hear back before taking further action.
-Stephanie Wick has resigned from the SPENA board
- She was doing SPENA’s Social media, Facebook, Instagram, Constant Contact
- We need to find a volunteer for this and other technical issues. Kenda will send out a request to the SPENA email address list
- Stephanie could never get logged in to our Facebook page for edits
-Kenda maintains the SPENA member email address list
-Sprouts withdraws from building a proposed store on FW Ave.
- Plan Commission rejected Spouts layout plan due to code non-compliance.
- Carol with tell Chad West that the SPENA board in general thinks that businesses should comply with the existing plan.
-Church
- It appears nothing is happening to improve the condition of the property and building.
- Owners are unresponsive.
- Kenda will send a note to Code Compliance asking for direction
-SPE Conservation district re: the Church
- There are two documents on our website. The older one (2011) should be removed as only the 2018 one applies
- Main uses listed for the Church property are: Church, Handicapped group dwelling units, Local Utilities, and Single Family
-Kenda passed out a new neighbors list
– Kenda passed out a flyer for the Rising Star artist exhibition put on by Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts.
-Next SPENA Board Mtg. 9/27/22 (now at Carol Rybarski’s home, 7pm
