Minutes
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Rosewood Neighborhood Contact Team Monthly Meeting
Thursday, July 19, 2007 6:15 p.m.
Conley Guerrero Senior Activity Center

Present
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Ryah Christensen, Judith Clarkson, Marie Fischer, Alice Glascow
(representing the Hargrave Development), Greg Hammond, Dusty
McCormick, Emma Roy, and Adam Talianchich.

Old Business
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Minutes approved unanimously.

Chair's Report (with Dusty McCormick presiding)
The August 16th RNCT meeting will be moved to Thursday, August 23rd, 

Tuesday, July 24th there is an important Planning Commission meeting
at City Hall, discussing the proposed NCCD for 12th Street. Please
attend if you can.

Harvey Development
Alice Glascow gave an update on the Harvey Development. They now have
a portion of the Austin Sausage Factory land under contract.
(Apparently the owner will keep his storefront but sell the back part
of his lot). Accordingly, they are going ahead with the bigger-sized
version of their condo plans. Ms. Glascow also showed us updated
drawings of the condo layout, with the building along 12th resembling
a zig-zag footprint. The townhomes that previously were shown along
Bedford were not in these drawings, but that doesn't mean they are out
of the plans. Due to difficult cleanup involved in that area of the
property, their future is more in question.

Ryah asked for an update concerning the cleanup/possible purchase of
the woods between the condos and the neighborhood that developer Jason
Reese promised to help facilitate. Homewood Heights residents are
interested in keeping those woods free of future development to
protect the privacy of the neighborhood. Ms. Glascow did not know the
status of that endeavor.
 
By-Law Changes
We were pretty sure that we did not form a quorum (as specified in the
by-laws) but we voted anyway just in case. The following neighborhoods
were represented in these votes: Homewood Heights (with 3 voting
members, one non-voting member), McKinley Heights (with 1 voting
member), and Foster (with 1 voting member, and 1 non-voting member).
"Non-voting" means these folks have not yet attended the number of
meetings required to become eligible to vote.

First vote, on the following wording:
    "Meetings shall be held at the discretion of the executive
    committee, typically monthly, but no less than six times a year."

5 yes; 0 no; 2 non-voting because ineligible

Second vote, on the following wording:
    "The officers of the Rosewood NCT shall be elected as described in
    Section 7, and shall be, at minimum: Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary
    and Parliamentarian."
    
    "The Parliamentarian will ensure that all RNCT actions are in
    compliance with these by laws and will, in case of any question of
    compliance, rule as the final authority on said compliance."

1 yes; 3 no; 2 non-voting because ineligible

Relating to these votes, 2 items of discussion. Adam suggested that
rather than have a Parliamentarian, we could just make it someone's
job to always bring a copy of the by-laws to every RNCT meeting.
	
Ryah suggested the following change to the by-laws:
    "If there is a quorum (as defined in the by-laws) present at the
    meeting, and 100% of that quorum agree to suspend the by-laws to
    better serve the efficiency or intent of those laws, then they may
    do so without being considered out of compliance."

*Meeting adjourned*