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Annual General Meeting Minutes

January 18th, 2012 · Minutes

Embudo Canyon Neighborhood Association (ECNA)  General Meeting Minutes, 12 January 2012

The meeting was called to order at 7:05 PM at APD’s Jeffrey Cole Russell Memorial 

Substation by Vice-President Ray Dymale.  

Officers present were Ray Dymale,  John Minks,  Dave Zeuch, Nena-Joy Almodovar, Suzanne Kersten, and Floyd Spencer.  The meeting room at the Jeffrey Cole Russell Memorial Substation was nearly filled with members of the ECNA. [Read more →]

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Don Harris to speak at Annual Meeting on January 12th

January 6th, 2012 · Uncategorized

Neighbors,

Thursday, January 12th will be our first January Annual Meeting (since moving it there, from July, last October in a vote). During this meeting, as with all Annual Meetings, we will have officer elections. This year, President, Treasurer, and three Directors will be elected. We will be discussing our accomplishments in the past year and our schedule of events for 2012, and as always, taking ideas for neighbors on what we ought to be doing.

To kick off the meeting, we will have two speakers. One of our two City Councilors, Don Harris (District 9 – everything south of Indian School in our NA) will speak and then take questions, and then a staffer from Martin Heinrich’s office will speak and take questions.  Please plan to attend and bring your questions for our speakers.

Jay Brotz

President, Embudo Canyon Neighborhood Association

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October Board Meeting(s) Minutes

November 28th, 2011 · Minutes

We had two board meetings in October, owing to the fact that the first did not have enough board members present to conduct business, and we had a vote that was due.

Embudo Canyon Neighborhood Association Minutes for October 13, 2011

Attending: Jay Brotz, John and Judy Minks

Meeting was called to order at 7:30 p.m. by Jay Brotz, President. The meeting was attended by four neighbors of Stutz NE in regards to barking dogs. A quorum was not present so no official business was conducted, however, two items were discussed: 1) A visit to the Office of Neighborhood Coordination (ONC) by Nena Almodovar and Judy Minks to present and request feed back for the Neighborhood Support Committee (NSC) concept. Pat Montoya and Deborah Mason provided excellent feed back about how such a committee would interact with the city. Pat and Deborah suggested NSC detail how the cityʼs 311 system works to resolve issues and explaining the power of googling ʻCABQ + the issueʼ will get the person to the appropriate place in the Cityʼs website for information, etc. Quite a few steps remain before NSC can go live on the website–i.e. interactive nature of the tracking form to be used by the reporting and support parties being the most obvious. 2) Judy Minks presented the ONCʼs Report Form to the four neighbors attending the meeting. Discussion ensued on how to help with a longstanding barking dog issue in the Stutz neighborhood. ECNA was asked to support a general letter that would be sent to area ECNA residents asking for compliance with city ordinances regarding barking dogs. ECNA took the matter under advisement. Because of the lack of a quorum a special meeting was called for October 26, 2011 at the house of John Minks, 7:30 p.m.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:30 p.m. Submitted by Judy Minks

Embudo Canyon Neighborhood Association Minutes for October 26, 2011

Attending: Jay Brotz, John and Judy Minks, Suzanne Kersten, and Floyd Spencer

Meeting was called to order at 7:30 p.m. by Jay Brotz. The first item of official business was to change the annual meeting to January and have this change reflected in the Bylaws. The vote was unanimous. 1) A letter asking area businesses to join ECNA was approved and will be sent out by Judy Minks. The letter will ask for donations to support the annual events mailer in early January. 2) The meeting/event calendar for 2012 was determined as follows: January 12, 2012 Annual Meeting and invite Mayor to speak; February 9, 2012-regular board meeting; March 8, 2012-Speaker; April 12, 2012 Annual CABQ Clean-up; May 10, 2012- Speaker; June 2, 2012-Annual Picnic; July 12, 2012-Board Meeting; August 9, 2012 or date of National Night Out for Annual Ice Cream Social; September 13, 2012 Speaker; October 11, 2012 Board Meeting and Plan for 2013; November 8, 2012-No Meeting; December 13, 2012-No Meeting. 3) Jay will do an email to the membership announcing the annual meeting and election of officers as well as invite the Mayor as a speaker for January, 2012. 4) In reference to the barking dogs in the Stutz area, a chronology of the barking dogs plus two letters was approved. One letter to the owner and tenant of the property and another general letter to the Stutz area residents asking for compliance. Judy Minks is working on the chronology and letters–to be approved by the board.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:30 p.m. Submitted by Judy Minks

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September Board Meeting Minutes

October 1st, 2011 · Minutes

EMBUDO CANYON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION (ECNA) MEETING MINUTES,  08 SEPTEMBER 2011

 

The meeting was called to order by ECNA President Jay Brotz  at 7:00PM.  Officers present were Vice-President  Ray Dymale, Treasurer John Minks, Secretary David Zeuch, and Directors at Large Suzanne Kersten, Floyd Spencer and Nena-Joy Almodovar.


GUEST SPEAKER, APD SARGENT PAUL DURAN


Sargent Duran gave us an update on crime in the area.  There was nothing new to relate for the immediate area that includes the Association.    However, APD has been focusing attention on apartments in neighborhoods that are near ECNA.   This has included investigating problem tenants, problem apartment buildings, and running the license plates of automobiles that are out in the open to find stolen vehicles.


This has had an effect, reducing burglaries by 15% within the Foothills Command. [Read more →]

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July Board Meeting Minutes

September 6th, 2011 · Minutes

Embudo Canyon Neighborhood Association Minutes, July 14, 2011 Annual Meeting

The meeting was called to order at 7:05 PM by Vice President Ray Dymale at the Jeff Russell Memorial Albuquerque Police Department  Substation, 12800 Lomas Blvd. [Read more →]

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May Board Meeting Minutes

July 11th, 2011 · Minutes

Embudo Canyon Neighborhood Association (ECNA) Meeting Minutes,  12 May 2011

The meeting was called to order by ECNA Secretary  David Zeuch  at 7:05 PM at the Jeffrey Cole Memorial Police Substation.  Officers present were Ray Dymale (Vice President), David Zeuch (Secretary), and Suzanne Kersten and Nena-Joy Almodovar (Directors at Large).

Owing to the presence of a guest speaker, Mr. John Kolessar (Director of Traffic Engineering for the City of Albuquerque), Old and New Business were deferred until later.  Mr. Kolessar gave a presentation that was so detailed,  interesting—and often, so surprising—that it dominated most of the meeting. [Read more →]

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Second Annual ECNA Picnic (potluck dish list)

May 28th, 2011 · Uncategorized

We’ll be at the Embudo Hills Park again this year on Saturday, June 4th, from 11 am to 3 pm. We’ll provide the hot dogs and buns, an we’re asking neighbors to bring a dish for 5-10 people. This post will be used to compile the list of dishes already committed, so you can make a decision about what you’d like to bring.

Dishes already signed up for:

  • Hot dogs, buns, and condiments
  • Pasta salad
  • Rice quiche casserole
  • Fruit salad
  • Baked beans
  • Cake or cookies

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Spring Cleanup and Crime Prevention Seminar

May 1st, 2011 · Uncategorized

We have three events coming up this month: our annual Spring Cleanup on Saturday, May 7th, our May Board Meeting on Thursday, May 12th, and a Crime Prevention Seminar on Saturday, May 14th.

For this year’s Cleanup, we’ll be collecting trash along Tramway Blvd. and the Tramway Trail between Lomas and Indian School. If you’re interested in helping out, bring a pair of gloves and meet us at the Circle K at Lomas and Tramway at 9 am on May 7th.

Our board meeting on the 12th and the Crime Prevention Seminar on the 14th will both be at the Foothills Police Substation, at 12800 Lomas Blvd NE, in the community room. The Board meeting will be at our usual time of 7 pm and all members and neighbors are welcome to attend. The Crime Prevention Seminar will run from 9:30 am to 11:30 am, and will be conducted by Albuquerque Police Department crime prevention specialists. Everyone is welcome to attend this seminar, whether they live within our NA boundaries or not, so please tell your family and friends.

And don’t forget, our second Annual Picnic will be held once again in Embudo Hills Park on June 4th.

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March Board Meeting Minutes

April 1st, 2011 · Minutes

Embudo Canyon Neighborhood Association (ECNA) Meeting Minutes, 10 March 2011

The meeting was called to order by President Jay Brotz at 7:00 PM at the Albuquerque Police Department’s (APD) Jeffery Cole Russell Memorial Substation.

Officers present were Jay Brotz, John Minks, David Zeuch and Nena-Joy Almodovar.  The meeting room was once again almost entirely filled with a mix of old and new members.

Owing to the presence of a guest speaker, Albuquerque City Councilman Don Harris, Old and New Business were deferred until later in the meeting. [Read more →]

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Free rose pruning demonstration at the Albuquerque Rose Garden

February 24th, 2011 · Uncategorized

I have received an announcement from the city that you may be interested in. Please see the attached PDF.

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