LPENA Board Meeting Minutes, 11-14-06

Board members in attendance: Aren Cambre, Richard Fleming, William White, Terry Syler, Rory Yocum, Josh Theodore, Jennifer Hoesterey, Karen Pape.

Others in attendance: Krista de la Harpe (Galway Circle project)

Meeting called to order at 7:37pm

LPENA Incorporation

• Motion made by Aren Cambre to dissolve the existing Lake Park Estates Neighborhood Association Inc. and to activate new corporation LPENA, Inc.
• Unanimous vote by all board members to approve the motion made by Aren Cambre
• All board members signed the document establishing the new organization.

Treasurer’s Report

• $100.00 currently in new account established for the new LPENA, Inc. (Remainder of funds to be transferred from old LPENA account to LPENA, Inc. account.)

Galway Circle Project

• Discussed the current status of the project. It was determined that little progress has been with the Momentum Program.
• Aren Cambre has played phone tag with Michelle Gonzalez
• Krista de la Harpe has been talking to Evette Holly concerning the approval of the project
• Informed by the city that they do not have our application for the Momentum Program that was submitted by Molly early this year.
• Krista is working on getting pavestones donated towards the project.
• It was proposed to develop a timeline and plan of action to advertise to the neighborhood.

Meeting schedule sign-up form was passed around so board members can volunteer to host monthly meetings.

Alley cleanup flyer was distributed to board members, no date has been set for it yet, more info to follow

Aren Cambre will be attending a meeting with Gary Griffith on the 15th. Planning to go over our neighborhood accomplishments with him.

Code enforcement update: Kevin Martin is the current code enforcement officer for our area.

Christmas Lights Contest

• Rory leading it.
• Need to be ready to send (Eric Burkes store mgr) Lowes a thank you for the donation of $300 in gift cards that will be presented as 1st and 2nd place in the annual Light the Night x-mas light contest in our neighborhood.
• We need to have the voting parameters for each category that we have chose so all are clear on how and what to vote on. The 3 classes are MOST CREATIVE, BEST SHOW, and MOST WATTAGE.
• We still have not made clear what each will entail and be judged on so this needs to be done at the Dec 12th meeting

New block captain is Jennifer Presely on Galway.

Casa Linda shopping center has been sold to AMReit. New owners seem to be pro-active right no so we can voice our concerns with what kind of tenants we want.

Scott Williams was at our fall Picnic and set up a table for the info of the Buckner Road Garland Road project. Remember most of this work will be performed at night and they are planning on starting it sometime 2007.

Needs ideas on trees, vegetation north and south along Garland and Buckner roads.

Richard Fleming will host the Jan Public meeting, place and time will be announced hopefully at least 2 weeks before the actual meeting so all can plan in advance.

Board voted to move block party to May. Established events committee to be led by Kathy Renaud.

Meeting closed at 8:45 PM.