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February 2017 Meeting Minutes

2/22/2017

Meeting started at 7 p.m

Present:

John Encomienda & Andrew Rickel
Micah LeGall
Carter Faison & Russell Vannoy
Barbie Smalley
Jenny Downey
Francoise Bigot
Chris Turner

Lori Longo
Nancy Kitchen
Justin & Deanne Cliburn
Donna Stiles
Greg Ennis
Dan Keefe
Rick and Cecilia Lane

Barbie Smalley explained that a General Bond Election will occur on September 12, 2017. This will be a vote for residents to decide to fund major infrastructure improvements such as road improvements, bike lines, walkability, parks, etc. If the election passes Oklahoma City will look at the neighborhood surveys to help decide priorities. She passed out and walked us through filling out the survey. For those absent, the survey can be found at www.okc.gov/go
Justin Cliburn gave an update that the sign toppers have been installed at peripheral intersections and asked the membership to think about whether or not they would like to fund installing sign toppers on the interior sections of Crestwood. This would cost approximately $600 to complete.
There is a new dog waste station at the 2500 block; however, Nancy Kitchen informed the membership that the key does not seem to work well and this needs to be investigated. She gave Justin a key to check it out. The last one that needs to be installed is the 2700 Block and will cost $228.
Micah LeGall and Nancy Kitchen gave an update on their findings for getting the median on 19th street sprayed with pre-emergent. They found a very cheap price. Justin made a motion to approve the expenditure to spray the median and Nancy seconded. The motion passed unanimously.
Justin Cliburn made a motion to approve the expenditure for the dog waste station on 2700 block. Greg Ennis seconded the motion. All present voted to approve except for Micah LeGall.
Greg Ennis gave an update on OSU soil testing. Because it now costs money and takes five months of testing and subsequent fertilization, he recommended we not move forward with this unless we were dedicated to fertilizing the median. Discussion was held on the downsides of fertilizing the median.
Justin Cliburn informed the membership that OU’s Big Event (community engagement day) will send students to help clean up the neighborhood. They can work on the median, help to move big trash out to the front of people’s yards, pull weeds, clean up litter, etc. This will take place on April 1, 2017. He asked for other ideas and the general consensus was that pulling weeds on the median would be very helpful.
John Encomienda made a suggestion that there is a venue in the Plaza District that gives discounted rates to community groups. We could possibly hold a neighborhood party there. It would be $50 per hour. Others expressed concerns about lack of foot traffic holding the event a mile away. The general consensus was that a neighborhood event was a good idea, but that the venue should be on the median.
Francoise Bigot asked about ads on the neighborhood website. Justin will look into whether there are advertisers on the website, and whether or not we should try to monetize ad space.
The newsletter needs to go out soon, preferably by Mid-March. John will take charge of it; Lori will help by writing an article. Greg volunteered Alicia to edit it.
Lori Longo questioned if there has been an uptick in violence/crime lately. The group seemed to agree. Chris Turner gave the suggestion that we follow other neighborhoods' example. Some neighborhoods partner with close-by neighborhoods and pitch in to hire an off-duty police officer to patrol their neighborhoods. John will look into the costs and feasibility of this.

Meeting adjourned at 7:56 p.m.

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Crestwood Neighborhood Association
Membership Meeting Minutes

August 9, 2016

Present:
Justin Cliburn, President
Micah Legall, Vice-President
Doris Carder, Secretary
Deanne Cliburn, Newsletter
Aaron Barton,
Dana Deal,
Donna Stiles,
John Encomienda,
Alicia Miller,
Jason Barton,
Don Burnett,
Francois Bigot,
Elizabeth,
Kimberly McCauley,
Russell Vannoy,
Carter Faison.

Not Present:
Nancy Kitchen, Treasurer.

This meeting was held at the Crestwood Vineyard at 6:30 p.m. to discuss concerns, improvements, upcoming events, and future projects.

Sign Toppers

Enough money has been raised (approximately $590.00) to put the sign toppers on the peripheral entrances to the neighborhood.
- The membership voted to order and pay for the first round of sign toppers
- CNA President Justin Cliburn has paid for the application fee and installation costs to the City and ordered the signs from OCI
  - The signs will arrive in two to three weeks
Future donations can go towards toppers on the intersections within the neighborhood.

Marketing

John Encomienda suggested we knock on doors to invite people to come to our meetings in the future.
- John has created a Crestwood Instagram account (@crestwoodokc) that he is using to market the neighborhood

Sustainability Grant from OG&E

Deanne explained about a grant from OG&E (1 of 3) for the neighborhood which has the best sustainability project this summer.
OG&E is giving 3 grants this summer to the neighborhood in Oklahoma City that has the best sustainability project.
It can be a fund raiser for improvements that better our environment, energy efficient improvements to our homes (collectively) or Median, recycling projects, or whatever we can think of to work on as a neighborhood to conserve energy
Deanne Cliburn passed out questionnaires (detailing what members may have done to help qualify for the grant) to meeting attendees to complete and return to her.
We have until Oct. 7 to qualify for the grant.
Donna Stiles had previously told the membership about OG&E coming out to her house to do an energy analysis and how beneficial it was and would be to others [President's note: You can request a free home energy audit here.]

Crestwood Yard of the Month

Donna Stiles (who lives on NW 20th St.) was congratulated on receiving Yard of the Month for August.

19th Street Median—General

Justin Cliburn has been working on getting the spigot fixed so a hose can be attached to it to water the median.
Justin Cliburn has contacted Parks and Recreation to see about replacing the broken doggie trash receptacle and to purchase 2,000 doggie bags for $75.00.

19th Street Median--Bird Sanctuary

Don Burnett and Doris Carder put (attached) a bird bath that Don Burnett and his family donated on the Median concrete area by the flag pole where there is a wood bench.
Seddie Barber donated recycled lumber for bird houses and feeders on the Median to create a bird sanctuary.
Doris is almost finished with a bird feeder/house that will be attached to one of the dead pine trees by the flag pole.
Other feeders and bird houses may be built and put on the Median when completed.

19th Street Median—Landscaping Controversy

Doris Carder cut down a seven-year-old ash tree on the east end of the 2700 block of the 19th Street median and replaced it with a crepe myrtle donated by Lowes. This caused controversy.
- CNA member Francoise Bigot appeared at the meeting to ask why the tree was cut down, as she had planted it seven years prior
- Doris maintained that it was not a tree, but a "bush-like tree" or "weed tree" while Francoise said that it was an ash tree.
  - CNA President Justin Cliburn said that the CNA will stipulate that it was a tree.
- Doris maintained the tree was dying and that the CNA had decided to cut it down
  - At the meeting, the CNA made it clear it had never discussed cutting down the tree at a general meeting, nor had the CNA voted to cut down the tree
- The shouting back and forth prevented a more nuanced discussion of the issue, but a rule was put in place to prevent it from happening again:
  - Before any permanent structure is placed upon or removed from the 19th Street median, there will be a membership vote
Doris explained she will build another fence to go around the newly-planted crepe myrtle so mowers won’t disturb its growth.
After the meeting, CNA President Justin Cliburn met with both Doris Carder and Francoise Bigot, separately, to discuss the concerns they raised at the meeting. Justin also sent the members present at the meeting an email apologizing for how the meeting devolved into shouting.

Neighborhood Night Out, Tuesday, October 4, 2016

This is a city-wide event where we meet our neighbors and usually have speakers come in to discuss safety (fire and personal).
We can invite the local police and fire department to speak.
We have had our councilwoman Meg Salyer and Senator David Holt and Representative Jason Dunnington also speak and/or attend in the past.
We would like to set up games for younger people who attend.
John Encomienda is leading the charge on our NNO Committee
Elections will be held at the October NNO meeting, so be thinking of that if you plan on running for a position.

The meeting adjourned early at approximately 7:35 p.m. in order to end the shouting between members.

As a result, John Encomienda did not get to present a giveaway he organized on his own
- CNA President Justin Cliburn assured John that he may do the giveaway at the September meeting

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