Time and Location of the Meeting: the meeting was held at the Heights Community Center on Buena Vista and was called to order at 7:00 pm.
Board Members Present: James Montalbano, Rich Braziel, Elizabeth Doak, Don McIver, Tom Ocken, Jill Berry, Sean Matney & Richard Hallett. Sign-in Sheet
Others Present: Gordon Reiselt, Sal Perdomo – Titan Construction, & Josh Rogers – Titan Construction Sign-in Sheet Continue reading
Our next meeting is at 7 p.m. Monday, May 14, 2018 at the Heights Community Center on Buena Vista. ALL are welcome to participate.
Here is the agenda:
SILVER HILL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
AGENDA
May 14, 2018
Time and Location of the Meeting: the meeting was held at the Heights Community Center on Buena Vista and was called to order at 7:00 pm.
Board Members Present: James Montalbano, Rich Braziel, Elizabeth Doak, Aaron Dubay, Don McIver, Tom Ocken, Jill Marley Berry, & Richard Hallett. Sign-in Sheet
Others Present: Jim Sattler, Gordon Reiselt, Denise Tibbetts, Edgar Avila Sign-in Sheet
Titan Construction: Jim Montalbano & Richard Hallett attended the Sycamore Neighborhood Association meeting with Titan Construction who is doing the work on the development on the North side of Central. They arranged to have titan come to talk to SHNA May Board Meeting. Continue reading
Silver Hill will be participating in the Great American Cleanup, organized by the City. We’ll hit the main streets from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 28th.
The staging area will be the home of JAMES MONTALBANO, who will have supplies (gloves, bags) available on his porch at 1409 Silver Avenue SE.
Please join us for some fresh air and a freshening of the neighborhood.
The Office of Neighborhood Coordination (ONC), now under the realm of the City Council, is a great source of information.
Here is a link to the Office’s Resources web page. That includes a handy Handbook (PDF) for neighborhood association types. You can also sign up for the ONC’s Neighborhood Newsletter.
Here is ONC’s YouTube channel.
Get and stay involved!
The Heights Community Center on south Buena Vista is getting a face-lift. The iconic Depression-era building is getting ready to celebrate its 80th anniversary in 2019.
Expect to see new landscaping and plantings, including trees on the south side. New signage goes on the front. Art and photos will adorn the inside. IF YOU HAVE ANY old photos of the neighborhood, please share them with us or with Edgar Avila, the Center’s director.
The big project is the refurbishing of the dance hall floor. The original maple flooring will be retained and repurposed. This will elbow out the Tuesday night swing dancers for a few weeks.
Here is a link to the Center’s City web page.
The Silver Hill Board met with representatives of CNM last month to discuss various issues, mainly the school’s role in the neighborhood as a property owner and otherwise.
CNM officials vowed to not only retain the homes that have been bought up near the campus’ northeast corner (the southeast corner of Silver Hill), but also to fix them up and closely vet tenants who move in. In that same area, CNM has been using an empty lot at Coal Place and Buena Vista for overflow parking. We were told that such parking will continue through 2019 while construction goes on in the center of campus, which has pushed more students and employees (and their cars) to that northeast area of campus.
We also learned about a new program that provides paid student internships to build eco-friendly and sustainable small homes in Albuquerque. Read about it here.
We vow to follow CNM and its governing board closely. Here are two ways to do that. Here is a link to the CNM Board’s schedule of meetings and agendas/minutes. And here you can keep track of the Board’s Long Term Plan.
Let us know if there are other issues we can bring to the attention of CNM leadership.
Our next meeting is at 7 p.m. Monday, April 9, 2018 at the Heights Community Center on Buena Vista. ALL are welcome to participate.
Here is the agenda:
SILVER HILL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
AGENDA
April 9, 2018
Time and Location of the Meeting: the meeting was held at the Heights Community Center on Buena Vista and was called to order at 7:00 pm.
Board Members Present: James Montalbano, Rich Braziel, Jill Marley Berry, Don McIver, Tom Ocken, & Richard Hallett. Sign-in Sheet
Others Present: Jim Sattler, Gordon Reiselt, Denise Tibbetts, Edgar Avila, Nancy Baca-CNM, Marvin Martinez-CNM, & Samantha Sengel-CNM. Sign-in Sheet
Heights Community Center: Edgar Avila, Heights Community Center Director, told us that he has been working on the list of requested improvements made by SHNA including restoring the meeting room, restoring landscaping, new paint, security cameras, exercise equipment, repairing pillars & filling in wall cracks, HVAC equipment improvements, new dance hall floors, and adding WIFI. He is working on getting the building on the National Historic Registry. He is also working on getting photos of the center and could use Silver Hill Photos too. The Center was opened in 1939 and will celebrate the 80th anniversary in March 2019. The Dances are very popular with an average of 150 people attending. Continue reading
Time and Location of the Meeting: the meeting was held at the Heights Community Center on Buena Vista and was called to order at 7:00 pm.
Board Members Present: James Montalbano, Rich Braziel, Elizabeth Doak, Don McIver, Aaron DuBay, Tom Ocken, Sean Matney & Richard Hallett. Sign-in Sheet
Others Present: Jill Sattler, Jim Sattler, Steve Thoma, Jill Marley Berry, Denise Tibbetts, & Margaret Govoni. Sign-in Sheet
Roosevelt Park Events: Aaron DuBay’s vision for Roosevelt park was that, “We want to reclaim the park.” One type of event suggested was “Movie Nights” with food trucks. This could be similar to “Tasty Tuesdays” which was started at Hyde Park 5 years ago. A food truck vendor originally ran it but the neighborhood is now involved. Now they do free Yoga, live music, and food trucks. They have been so successful that attendance has grown from 50 people per event to 200 people per event. They are now able to pay a small amount to the Yoga instructors and to the bands. Food trucks pay $80/event to the Tasty Tuesday organization. Some of the things we learned were that 1) We would need to have a port-a-potty & if the event grows we would need to get a second port-a-potty that is handicapped accessible, 2) Event permits are issued for the season from the Parks & Recreation Dept., 3) Electricity is provided by the food trucks for the bands or to run movies, 4) We would need to comply with movie copyright requirements, 5) A trash dumpster is being provided for free for Tasty Treats by Bin There, Dump That, 6) Social Media is the main marketing tool including Facebook, email, & Nextdoor, 7) The coordinators are being paid approximately $40/month now after working for free for the first 4 years. Continue reading
