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Meeting Minutes
21 March 2011
#1 Sergeant John V. Young Drive, SF, CA
7:10 PM Call to Order
Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag
Roll Call of Officers
There
were 2 new members present.
SFPD
Report:
Lt.
Steven Mannina of Ingleside Station gave an update to the membership on
activity in the neighborhood.
Current issues include continued dumping and
parked campers & trailers on Circular, San Jose, and the Baden and Paulding
overpasses.
A
member brought up the continued difficulty for pedestrians crossing Alemany at
San Juan Ave. (no light or STOP sign).
The Lieutenant passed around copies of the
current crime map and a list for members to sign up for Capt. Cassanego's email
blast.
Easter
Egg Hunt:
A
list was passed for volunteers to help with this year's Annual Easter Egg
Hunt. Those who volunteer to color eggs
were informed that they will also need to cook them this year. More about this event at April's meeting.
J-Church
Streetcar Line Cuts?
Sup. Scott Weiner (District 8) held a meeting
regarding the inconsistent service of the J-Line through Noe Valley. The recommendations proposed were to have
more "turnbacks" at 30th street which directly impacts the service to
our neighborhood. There would be more
streetcars serving Noe Valley towards downtown and fewer through our
neighborhood and on to Balboa Park Station.
There is a meeting next Monday (3-28) with
Supervisor Avalos to speak against cuts to our service.
A motion passes to send V-President David Hooper to the meeting
to speak for our concerns.
A motion passes to compose a letter regarding inaccurate
destination signs on streetcars and failure to stop at islands in our
neighborhood (particularly outbound F-Line Cars).
Balboa
Park Update:
The
work project is to go out to bid in April with work to begin in August
2011. The delay (8 months and counting…)
is apparently due to various City Departments needing to sign off on project
and some ADA issues. The Trust for Public
Lands currently has three projects going on in the City - Balboa is one of
them.
Treasurer’s
Report:
We currently have 41 paid members and
$4,339.15 in our account.
Sunshine
Committee Report:
No cards were sent.
Various
Communications were read.
Old
Business:
There
was no Old Business.
New
Business
§ NMTIA member, Sandy Sherwin, our representative on the Urban
Tree Council brought up the possibility of funding in next year's grants for
greening of San Jose Avenue.
She also discussed the concept of
"Living Sidewalks" where 10-15
contiguous households agree to remove substantial portions of the paving
in front of their homes to be replaced with a street tree and other landscape
plants. With grant funding it can be
done for about $150 a household.
§
Balboa Playground Gate: Linda
Liteheiser reports that the Friends of Balboa Park Playground received a
community challenge grant for $43,000 to erect a decorative entry gate at the
playground to be installed by August 2011.
§
Sunnyside neighbors on Circular Ave. are pursuing changes in parking
restrictions to prohibit vehicles taller than 6' from parking on their street.
A motion passes to support the parking restriction changes.
A motion to adjourn was approved at 8:41PM.