Draft Minutes for the Oread Neighborhood Association
General Meeting 1/28/2011

The meeting was called to order at 7:05 pm by the President, Rob Farha.

Corrections were made to last month’s minutes. The minutes were approved as presented (motioned by Rose Moore and seconded by JD Davis).
 
1.	 President updates, Rob Farha:
-	A new upcoming Cat Clinic in the neighborhood.  A new resident and owner of the clinic Jennifer O’Donnell wanted to be introduced to the community.  Her clinic is located on 17th and Massachusetts.
-	Fund raising event on February 4th for the Community Shelter
-	Tenant to home owner:  Asking for donations
-	Dillon’s project:  The site plan was due on December 6th, the staff reviewed it on the 10th, the HRC review took place on December 16th and BZA review took place on January 6th.  The Dillion’s group asked for three variances: Parking, set-backs and landscape.
-	Meeting with the University, the City and ONA representatives to discussed planned renovation for GSP.  The dorm is currently 60% occupied and the plan calls for full renovation which will involve geo thermal wells for HVAC.  The planned completion date for all the work is July 2012.
-	Response from the ONA president to a letter written by Candice Davis alleging that the ONA was no longer representing the residents and that no stand was taken by the association.  The response clarified that there was a conscious decision made by the ONA to not have a stand on the boarding house text amendment because there are too many interests/perspectives within the ONA group and that each sub group was better served by speaking up for themselves.
-	Postcard to be sent for spring clean up.  The date for the Spring Clean up was discussed and Brad Rector suggested having the ONA Spring Clean up coordinated with the student day of service event.  Brad will follow up with additional information to lock the date. Steve Watts suggested using CBDG funding for clean-up projects to improve the neighborhood.  Rick Kupper encouraged the ONA members to donate time and resources to clean up the alleys.

2.	 Vice President:  Nothing to report
3.	Treasurer: Some accounting clean up and filing need to be performed.  Shane will meet with an accountant to get it all straightened out. Steve Watts moved to hire a professional accountant to ensure the books are up to date.  Brad seconded the motion that was unanimously approved.
4.	Secretary:  No update
5.	District Representatives (1-6):
a.	District reps 1-5:  No updates
b.	District rep 6:  Would like the city to keep the roads in his districts clean.
6.	Representative a large (1-2)
a.	Brad Rector:  Lighted pathway project under way awaiting CBDG funding approval.  KU day of service event scheduled in March.  The goal is to partner with the Students and combine ONA Spring Cleaning with this event.
City Commission meetings (Dec 13 and 16):  
-	 Text Amendment RM32 zoning:  Passed
-	Boarding House text amendment:  Passed

BZA (January 6th):  
-	 Dillon’s request deferred to February 3 (the landscape and parking variances were passed but the set back request was deferred).

Traffic and Safety Commission:  Carol V. did not attend the meeting so no report.

LAN:  No report.

Miscellaneous items:
-	 Rick Kupper praised Westar for the tree clean up initiative.  Rick will write a thank you letter on behalf of ONA.
-	Steve moved to freeze ONA donations until the budget is formalized.  Jon Davis seconded it and all members approved
-	President Farha moved to cancel the February meeting and call a special meeting in March.  Steve Watts seconded it and members unanimously approved.

Adjournment 8:40pm