NOTES ON MEETING OF EEEHA BOARD COMMITTEE ON FORMING CITY-APPROVED NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION October 9, 2008 at Elaine Hegstrom's home Present: Joana Diamos, Elaine Hegstrom, Brad Rollings, John Rupley Absent: Guy Borders for information passed out before/at meeting, see file: DNR-081003.pdf containing: DNR-background.txt information from dnr website DNR-meeting-080930.txt notes on meeting with city representatives and Bill DuPont DNR-comm-meet.txt framework for discussion for this meeting [this file updated as more information available] AIM: get feel for opinions on what to do, wrt city-approved NA and related options discuss benefits and costs organize, wrt gathering more information needed to reach conclusions and recommendation OPENING REMARKS: BRAD: NPZ is in stasis; suits on takings. JOANA: Problems: danger of city control mailing list becomes public (privacy concerns, generally) give up (significantly alter) current bylaws ELAINE: expands on comments by Joana BRAD: don't change if no good reason JOHN: summarizes: why change why not... Free-form Discussion ... leading to ... CONCLUSIONS: BRAD: more information on NPZ JOANA: talk with city attorney JOHN + ELAINE: meet with dnr, leticia bermudez for questions to ask at dnr, see file: DNR-questions-081125.txt for responses from L.B., see file: DNR-meeting-081125.txt