Dear ANC Member Representatives,

It is that time again- the ANC General Membership will meet this coming Wednesday, July 27 at 7-9 PM, 721 Barton Springs Road. As usual, we have a sizzling program planned for you!  In order to promote “healing” within our community and nationwide, our first speaker, Saundra Kirk will give a talk entitled, “Embracing America’s Melting Pot.” With “Back to School” just around the corner, Paul Cruz, the Superintendent of AUstin Independent School District will give us an update on AISD. Greg Guernsey from the City’s Planning and Zoning Department will also be there with an update on CodeNEXT, especially important with so many CodeNEXT staff members who have taken jobs elsewhere.

We have the great fortune to have Bill Aleshire, well-known in the community as a Government Transparency Activist, to speak about government transparency. ANC Member,James Bilodeau, will present an internal ANC Executive Committee project/product, the ANC Scorecard that rates all of the Council Members and Mayor for their voting records (this is particularly important since the City does not have an electronic document with these votes available!). Well-known attorney, Fred Lewis, will give his perspective on the CodeNEXT Affordability Prescription Paper, and Our CAG (Citizen’s Advisory Group for CodeNEXT) member of the month will be Lauren Ice, an attorney for SOS with environmental expertise.

I look forward to seeing all of you at the July ANC General Membership Meeting on Wednesday, July 27! Our complete agenda will be posted on our website.

Best,

Mary Ingle

ANC President

Dear All,
It’s that time again for another ANC General Membership meeting, this coming Wednesday, June 22. I will be out of the country for this meeting, but David King, ANC VP2 will be chairing this ANC meeting, with Joyce Basciano, ANC VP1 supervising!

If anyone is able to come at 6 PM to help set up the room, I am sure that David and Joyce would appreciate your help. Attached is the agenda.

Cheers,

Mary Ingle, President

http://ancweb.org/download/6-22-16GMMAustin-Neighborhoods-Council.doc

Dear All,
We will be having our ANC General membership Meeting on Wednesday night, 4/27/16 at 7PM, 721 Barton Springs Road. As usual, if anyone is able to come at 6 PM to help set up the room, that is always appreciated!
Attached is the agenda. I look forward to seeing everyone at the meeting on Wednesday– it should be an interesting meeting!- Mary

Agenda

Dear All,
Our General Membership Meeting will be this coming Wednesday, March 23, 721 Barton Springs Road, at 7 PM; the meeting starts promptly at 7, but I will need some set up help for the room in advance of the meeting (6 PM). If you are able to help, please let me know (it’s fairly painless, but you will get lots of appreciation!).

Look forward to seeing everyone on Wednesday night. We have a great program planned!

-M

Click to download Agenda

Austin’s Commercial Real Estate Industry Promotes “Affordability” as a Trojan Horse to Destroy Our Single-Family Neighborhoods.

A press conference was held Monday, February 22, 2016 at Austin City Hall, to release a report showing that the Austin commercial real estate industry seeks to gut single family zoning and commercialize our neighborhoods. While they promise more affordability, they are actually making our city more expensive and less livable.  This is of great interest to single-family homeowners and advocates from across Austin whose single-family neighborhoods are threatened by the real estate industry’s Trojan Horse of “affordability”.  The report reveals to Austin’s single-family neighborhoods that the commercial real estate industry aims to commercialize our neighborhoods to maximize their profits under the covers of “affordability”, “density”, and CodeNEXT.

Contact: Fred Lewis at f_lewis@sbcglobal.net or 512-636-1389 (c)

Austin’s Trojan Horse

Agenda – January 27th

http://ancweb.org/download/10-28-15Austin%20Neighborhoods%20Council(2).doc

Dear Member Representative,

The ANC nominees for the 2016 Executive Committee have been announced! Please take some time to look over the ballot and these nominations:

Nominations: Slate of Officers

We’d also like to encourage you to make these two resources available to your residents and your boards:

Connecting with City Council

Communicating with Council Offices

Regards,

Mary Rudig, Communications Chair

Dear Member Representative,

Download Agenda:

http://ancweb.org/download/9-23-15Austin%20Neighborhoods%20Council(2).doc