Treasurer Report
$5 in savings
$2652 main
$2507 parks
Parks
In my park day March 7th. Seju is submitting our project request.
We spread 15 cubic yards in Nov.
Contact Team
Updated on Anderson Square, $100,000 for parks.
Explained that contact team is for providing feedback on different city plans that impact our neighborhoods, rezoning cases, and conditional use permits.
For the Toyota dealer on lazy lane the contact team submitted it’s approved requests for inorder to provide support for the CUP. Also, learned that they’ve engaged a land use attorney who is beginning to have conversations with Council Member Vela’s office.
Communications
Winter Newsletter in the works.
Website got a refresh launch in December
AISD updates
Wooten Elementary is having a Open House, Friday January 16th at 1:45 pm. The School was modified back to a local school and remains dual language thanks for the work of Wooten Elementary PTA. Burnet middle school had a turnover of all the staff and could potentially to become a charter.
Living Streets Update
Jonathan from Living Street at the city gave an update on the program. Big update: they are moving away from orange cones to planters and parking stops. They will be more stable and move less, and more aesthetically pleasing. Planters and parking stops are multihundred pounds and will move far less. Planters will require maintenance from residents. Will likely start with grass roots organizing for maintenance. Vision for setting up a garden team, but not implemented for roll out.
They will update the streets west of the tracks with new hardware soon and the Tisdale will be updated in the summer.
Residents submit applications and need 60% of the street to sign off on it. They have rolling applications.
Ineligible streets are large streets like Ohlen, Burrel, and larger. Can’t have a bus line on the street or traffic signal on that block.
Previously had signage that said it was local traffic only. Those were updated because they were not followed and could not be enforced. Updated to yellow diamonds with bike/pedestrian symbols.
Question about Shared Street, are they related to living streets? A shared street has elements that are more permanent and glued down. The goal is to having living streets come more into alignment with shared streets and serve as a pipeline to the Shared Street status.
Last mobility bond money has been spent, there is interest in having another mobility bond. The mayor has expressed that he does not want any bonds in 2026, but he isn’t the one who decides.
Living Streets suggested a large chunk for the Villanova and Weyford application and the residents felt like it was large. Johnathan will speak with resident after the meeting about changing the size.
Question about demographics changes, average age has gone down and there are more kids.
New Business
Suggestion that new budget be discussed in light of prop q failure.
Candidates
Daniel Wang
Candidate for State House Seat 49. Wants to change school funding policy expand and protect funding, cares about housing affordability wants more housing supply. Health care, expand affordability and access to health care. Accept Medicare expansion.
Amanda Marzullo
Travis County Commisioner, Pct 2. Concerned with federal govt. overreach,
County- courts, jail, sheirffs office. Wants to protect people, by not jailing people unnecessarily.
