Glenwood Hills Neighborhood Ass. Board Meeting
Dwyer Substation
Meeting was called to order by President Roger Cook
Board members in attendance: Roger Cook, Roger Abbott, Burt Guerrero, Woody Owens, Steve Ciepiela, Dave Bentley, Carole Rising, Jack Oestreicher
Members absent: Nick Manole
Sergeant Natalie Sanchez made a police report. She reported over 100 citations for noisy vehicles near Montgomery and Tramway were given out in August. She also reported that they have undercover officers in the neighborhood looking for burglary suspects. Several board members had crime concerns which she said that she would investigate.
Roland Penttila, Manager of Albuquerque Stormwater Quality Team, Talked about Albuquerque’s Storm/surface Draining System. He said that Albuquerque is under EPA rules & regulations regarding surface water runoff to the Rio Grande River. He said that surface water runoff is very polluted. New EPA regulations will probably results in fines for the city and new and costly City Ordinances will be required. He reviled several pollution sources. His talk was mainly for information.
President’s Report:
Minutes of the Annual GHNA Meeting on 8/23, 2009 were approved by the board.
Roger talked about A “Dog” Park south of the police substation. He said that little is known about the park and no neighborhood inputs have been solicited. This appears to be a Trudy Jones project. Burt move and it was seconded requesting that Roger C send a letter To Trudy Jones to explain the Dog Park. The motion passed.
Treasury Report: Roger Abbott reported that the August Treasury was posted on the web site. Dave Bentley reported that membership is down about 10% over the last 18 months. He also reported that the Annual Meeting/Picnic costs $945. Only 20 “non board” families (out of 851 residences) were registered (some people did not registered). Much discussion about whether the cost and work was worth the effort. Several ideas were given on alternate means of having the Annual Meeting. Roger Cook said that this subject needs to be discussed at a future meeting.
District 8 Coalition, Environment / Landscaping: No Report
Welcome Committee: 7 visits were made in August
Neighborhood Patrol Report: Marc LaChey reported on crime/patrols.
Block Captains: Burt Guerrero reported that he has 3 new block captains. He indicated that we have about a quarter of the neighborhood covered
Web site Report: Roger Abbott reported that the GHNA Group Email sign-ups are at 272. He reported that 5 residence’s responded to a Group Mail requesting reference of business that might advertise with us. He also reported that the YMCA ad was extended an additional 3 months. He is also negotiating with the Albuquerque Academy for an ad but was held up by their request for a W-9 form.
Roger pointed out that the board has a policy that committee reports are required monthly so that this information can be posted on the web site. This was a way to keep the neighborhood informed on board activities. This policy has not worked. Roger suggested that maybe an annual report by committees might work better. After much discussion it was moved and seconded that quarterly reports be made. The motion passed.
New Business: Election of officers for next year
Jack moved that the current officers be extended for the next year. Burt seconded the motion and the motion passed.
Officers Are:
President: Roger Cook
Vice President: Woody Owens
Treasurer: Dave Bentley
Secretary: Roger Abbott
Next Meeting:
The next board meeting will be held October 6, 2009 at the police substation at 7:30.
These minutes prepared by Roger Abbott, Secretary GHNA Board
Glenwood Hills Neighborhood Association Board Meeting Minutes of Sep. 02, 2008
James Joseph Dwyer Mini-Substation Community Room
Meeting was called to order at 7:35 by President Nick Manole
Board members in attendance: Roger Abbott, Dee Acree, Dave Bentley, Steve Ciepiela, Roger Cook, Nick Manole, Jack Oestreicher, Woody Owens, Carole Rising
Board members absent: none
Minutes of the July 01, 2008 general meeting were approved by motion and unanimous vote.
Minutes of the Aug. 10, 2008 annual meeting were approved by motion and unanimous vote after several changes were noted.
Foothills Patrol Police Report – Sgt. Roger Banez
There have been a two house burglaries in the past month and one incidence of car windows getting smashed. There was some discussion concerning possible deterrents. One idea that came up was to put a parking lot on the north side of the Dwyer Police Station so the police cars would be visible to folks entering our neighborhood.
All standing committee reports will now be posted on the website instead of in the meeting minutes. Please see the reports page on the website for these updates.
Actions taken during committee reports:
A motion was made for the GHNA to pay up to $400 to a professional landscaper for landscaping/clean-up between Sheree and Glenwood Hills Drive on a one time basis. This motion passed unanimously.
A motion was made to approve the website procedures as published by Roger Abbott. This motion passed unanimously.
A motion was made to approve up to $150 for mailing post cards to members of GHNA who have not signed up for email notification, asking them to do so. This motion passed unanimously.
There was some discussion about what was appropriate for sending out as an email alert. Since the Vice President is the owner of email alerts, we tabled this discussion and asked Woody Owens to work with a subgroup and bring a proposal to the next meeting.
Old Business:
Tramway
Steve is still trying to find out if there is a way to put a restricted access to this property to keep vehicles from using it as a shortcut.
Annual meeting/picnic:
We thought the meeting went well without the tent and having the tables and chairs delivered worked out very well. This seems to be a new ‘best known method’. The cost savings compared to the previous method was ~$600.
Block Captain:
Dee Acree was appointed the back-up block captain.
Form 990-N submission: David Bentley
Dave reported that he discovered this was not necessary.
New Business/Opens:
Officer Election:
The following were nominated and elected to serve as the officers of the GHNA for the next year:
President – Roger Cook
Vice President – Woody Owens
Secretary – Roger Abbott
Treasurer – Dave Bentley
GHNA monthly meeting location:
A motion was made to hold future meetings at Nick Manole’s house (4501 Larchmont) but to keep the police station reserved in case we need a bigger space. Motion was approved by a majority vote.
A motion was made to have the neighborhood garage sale on Sept. 27th. This motion passed by a majority vote. Dee Acree will coordinate the communication and put an ad in the paper.
A resolution was made for Roger to contact our State Representative, Jimmie Hall, to see if he could get money to make a new parking lot at the Dwyer Police Station.
Host for monthly meetings:
Oct. – Dave
Nov. –
Jan. – Carol
Feb. – Steve
Marc – Woody
Apr. – Roger C.
May – Jack
June – Nick
July - Marc
Next Meeting:
Oct. 7, 2008 7:30 at Nick’s house
These minutes prepared by Roger Cook, Secretary GHNA Board.
