CNA Board Meeting Minutes
Date: June 9, 2021
Start time: 7:00 PM – 7:50 pm
Where: Zoom meeting
Attendees: Art Maurice, Kirk Vartan, Kathy Moe, Georgie Leonis, Linda Brennan, Willard Simms, Faye Mowery, Lana Chou, Felicia Hipps, Steve Bowman, Kevin Roderick, St. John Johnson
Items to discuss:
- Approval of May minutes
- Approved
- Finance report – Kathy Moe
- UNSCC Dues has been paid ($200)
- Chase $3,654.49
- Meriwest $10,086.30
- Next General Meeting – July 26
- Councilwoman Dev Davis
- SJPD Captain Brian Shab – Our new captain
- Our City Forest – Violet Awwad, Climate Action Corps Fellow
- San Jose Environmental Services Dept (Recycling) – Linden Skjeie
- Valley Water – Barbara Keegan
- 20-30 minutes, depending on how long Q&A goes
- Art doesn’t expect Q&A to be that long
- Community Art Project – Willard Simms
- Willard has been away until last week
- Many kids out there making artwork
- Felicia will link up with Willard to connect to Google Drive
- We’ll put out in our general meeting fliers that the artwork will be posted on the website
- Currently word of mouth, will be good to get the word out
- Dumpster Day
- Art sent a message to Dev Davis about another Dumpster Day
- Typically, Dumpster Day only happens once every three years
- Art will meet with Kate Diefenderfer (Marketing Director of Valley Fair) and will ask about Dumpster Day if Dev says no
- Dev advertises DD to the neighborhoods, does not reach out to neighborhoods to offer it
- Last year’s DD was in October, will probably be good for this year
- Open Forum:
- This coming Christmas, there will be two Christmas in the Park
- Live festival at Cesar Chavez and a drive-through version
- $70 for one tree
- Kathy requesting that we again have another tree (1, not 2) for Cory
- Letter from the Association – Kathy Moe
- On the Opportunity Housing, there are some groups that are sending letters to City Council or Planning Commission about their stance
- Kathy would like for the group to take a stance for various reasons
- Open discussion on this matter
- Group has decided to do nothing until there is more information
- Challenges everyone in the board to keep up with information
- We will request that Dev Davis give a quarterly update on developments
- “Drought forces water limits to be mandated”
- Water conservation tips from Willard to be put on website
- For example, water lawn before 9 am and after 5 pm slows evaporation
- Willard will link up with Felicia about putting something together
- Drought will go on for years
- Willard could do a presentation during a General Meeting
- 15% less than 2019 water usage numbers mandated as of yesterday
- Suggestion to add an agenda item regarding website traffic
- Mother Jones – Kirk is going to have photos taken for an article about co-ops
- Website suggestions
- Present a slide or live screen share of the website in the meeting
- Suggestion to give gift cards to people who sign up to the website
- This coming Christmas, there will be two Christmas in the Park
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