CNA Board Meeting Minutes
Date: July 14, 2021
Start time: 7:00 PM
Where: Zoom meeting/Art’s house
Attendees: Art Maurice, Kirk Vartan, Kathy Moe, Linda Brennan, Willard Simms, Faye Mowery, Lana Chou, Steve Bowman, Kevin Roderick, Felicia Hipps
Items to discuss:
- Approval of June minutes
- Approved
- Finance report – Kathy Moe
- Chase: $3,654.49
- Meriwest: $10,087.13
- Next General Meeting – July 26
- Councilwoman Dev Davis
- SJPD Captain Brian Shab – Our new captain
- Our City Forest – Violet Awwad, Climate Action Corps Fellow
- Linden Skjeie – San Jose Environmental Services Dept (Recycling)
- Valley Water – Barbara Keegan
- Valley Water is the district, oversees water in the area, authorizes rates for SJ Water
- No outdoor meeting for July meeting due to short notice to Cory School
- Two $50 prizes, Art will see if Santana Row/Valley Fair will contribute
- Dumpster Day – possibly in October
- Earliest is every six months
- Dev asks for two months advanced notice
- October General Meeting (filling up)
- Dev Davis – City Council
- Susan Ellenberg – County Supervisor
- Basil Saleh left, replaced by Jasmine Leyva as the new Communications Manager
- Bob Wieckowski – State Senator
- Amanda Orozco – SJ Clean Energy, Sr Public Information Rep.
- Neighbors received a letter about clean energy
- Large solar plant that sells energy to residents
- PGE’s new CEO is progressive, aiming for more battery storage, etc.
- Open Forum:
- Willard will send Felicia photos of neighborhood artwork
- Art will add a shoutout on the flyer for the General Meeting to see artwork on the website
- Meetings will stay on Zoom for the foreseeable future
- Discussion regarding flyer punctuation
- Santa Clara Assemblymember Alex Lee nominated ASONY for small business of the year
- Agrihood has broken ground, starting to prep land for construction
- On 2-year timeline
- Mid-2023 completion goal
- Fireworks on Fourth of July were out of control, group does not know origin
- Suggestion to check Cory Nextdoor forum
- July 4th fireworks going on until 2 am
- Newhall and Monroe, July 14 around 2:30 pm, 7 police cars came for a person with potential mental illness or on drugs yelling at people in the street and tried to get into a driver’s car and was arrested
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