SRCC meeting notes
8-4-2008
special notes:
--officer daniel is the new
district rep and brought info and
--sarah
1- treasurer's report--bob drew: we took in $282 at the 4th of july event; there was an overage of $509.22 with PBSJ
MOTION: pay them = PASSED
2- ANC's vote on single member district--jean werneke: she is the SRCC rep to ANC; ANC wants this issue on the november ballot; it breaks the city up into 8 voting districts, 2 big districts (east/west) and a mayor; your district council member would have to live in that district
MOTION: conceptually we support the idea but we'd like to learn more about it; continue discussion and aim for may ballot with special attention paid to the division of the SRCC into separate districts = PASSED
3- travis park apartments--terry franz; the 100% HUD apartments on oltorf across from travis high school are having many issues with the management not taking care of problems; issues include the sewers backing up again with management trying to clean and reuse the carpeting, many units are without a/c all summer, mold; austin inTer faith heads up the team working to fix these problems with the primary contact being terry, 512-447-8768, tmfranz@airmail.net; HUD contracts southwest housing compliance to make sure management is within compliance but they can only report their finding to HUD and HUD is not responding with urgency; an increase in inspections might help
MOTION: compose letter from SRCC voicing discontent with the situation and send a copy to doggett, HUD, management, southwest housing compliance and city council = PASSED
4- guero's request for a late hours permit--jean mather: they want to extend liquor serving hours to 2am from 12am
MOTION = compose letter stating SRCC does not support the granting of a late night variance: PASSED
5- variance on harwood--doug frey: in an attempt to preserve trees the layout of the building violates some building codes of which they would like a variance; the property and trees make for a long building; the common wall of the duplex must be parallel to the street and the floor to area ratio must be .4 but his is .45 due to the shape.
MOTION = SRCC does not oppose the variances based on the owner / builder / designer's desire to protect the trees and reduce the scale of the building = PASSED
6- capital metro's proposed changes--alicia schram: alicia is normally the rail safety liason so you can contact john michael for more info but she shared info about proposed bus route changes, rate changes, etc.; rates will change from .50 to .75 fall 2008 and then to 1.00 in 2010; the dillo will cease to run on south congress and will cost .50; express route ridership is up 55%!