Redistricting May Move Our Neighborhood to the West Side

The Committee of the Whole voted 5-4 last week to send Map L (http://www.cabq.gov/council/documents/plan_l_with_precincts_and_neighborhood_associations.pdf) to Council with a recommendation of "Do Pass."  Map L moves District 3 to the Southwest Mesa.  If that happens, our representation will be diluted on the City Council and our neighborhoods will be divided into surrounding districts

What Happens Next
The next Council meeting is Monday, February 6 at 5:00 pm. Redistricting will not be on the agenda but you may speak about it then (see below).  Council will vote on Redistricting at the meeting on Wednesday, February 22.  Once the Council has acted, the Mayor has the right to sign or to veto what has been passed.

What You Can Do
If you are concerned, get involved.

• Write to the Council to be placed in the public record:  http://www.cabq.gov/council/councilors/contact-all-councilors.  Select ALL

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Launching Silver Alert Program for Alzheimers/Dementia Patients

The Department of Senior Affairs and the Albuquerque Police Department are pleased to announce the launching of Silver Alert on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 9:00 am - 2:00 pm at the Barelas Senior Center.
Albuquerque Police and Senior Affairs departments

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Seeking Info on the Creamland Bldg Art Project

from Brandon Call, Albuquerque The Magazine

I'm a writer for Albuquerque The Magazine, and I am currently working on a story relating to the Creamland building on Broadway and

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Workshop—Grants, Loans, Business Opps with Bernalillo County—Thurs Jan 12, 2012

The neighborhood received the email below from Bernalillo County Purchasing.
 
If your New Year’s Resolution for 2012 is to make more money (and, isn’t that all of us!), why not do it with Bernalillo County? We’ve been working with local businesses and individuals for years—buying millions of dollars of everything from pens and pencils to computers and cleaning services. Find out more about how to do business with Bernalillo County, get help growing your company, and even apply for a neighborhood association improvement grant at our next big Vendor and Community Workshop on Thursday, January 12 from 9 a.m. to noon. The workshop will be held at 1 Civic Plaza NW (at the corner of 5th Street and Marquette) in the Vincent E. Griego City/County Chambers in the basement. It’s free and open to the public.  For more information, please call 468-7013 or email us at purchasing@bernco.gov. We look forward to working with you!

Participate in Research on Foursquare Houses

Below is a inquiry our neighborhood received about foursquare houses in our neighborhood. 

Subject: Research on Houses in your neighborhood
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 21:16:33 -0600
From: EMontgomery@dallasheritagevillage.org
To: apyles505@msn.com; KThornton@saludunm.edu

Hello,
I am an architectural historian and museum curator from Dallas, interested in researching some of the houses in your neighborhood. I am researching American Foursquare houses-built during the bungalow era, they are two-story, cubic, originally 4 squarish rooms per floor, though often enlarged now. I found several potential foursquares looking through the photos on your website. I am going to

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Fire Station #2 to Be Closed in 2013

It was with some surprise that the neighborhood association learned in September that our historic fire station on High Street (across from the Greek church) will be closed in early 2013. The last we had heard about Station #2 was that it was going to be remodeled. Station #2 had been on some city council agendas but none of us knew the discussion had changed from rehabbing it to shuttering it. 

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Update on 119 Arno SE re Surface Parking Lot

First, a little background for those of you who have not been in the loop. The lot on 119 Arno SE has been vacant for some time. As happens with many empty lots in our neighborhood, it slowly became a de facto parking lot. At some point, the owner, Art Hayman (represented in these matters by William Kraemer), was told the lot could no longer continue as an unofficial parking lot. So the owner sought a conditional use permit

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Here's the Dirt Nov 2011

A few hardy marigolds and herbs spot the garden as a newly planted winter cover crop of nitrogen-fixing plants starts to emerge. The latest project for this season was improving the fence surrounding the garden so that the chicken coop area could be opened into the garden area for the winter. 

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Be Heard about Redistricting

The next step in the City's redistricting process is Council review of the recommendations of the Redistricting Committee.  This will be conducted first by Council's Committee of the Whole (COW), a committee made up of all 9 Councilors. 

A Committee of the Whole meeting is scheduled for next Friday, December 9 at 5:00 pm.  This meeting will be held in the Vincent Griego Chambers, basement

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Lead/Coal Project Update

The Lead/Coal project from I-25 to Washington is slated to be completed by April or May. At that point, the contingency fund (along with $500,000 from the recent bond election) will be refocused on completing the last leg of the project that runs through our neighborhood. Wilson and Company, the design contractors, are planning to modify the original plans so that they can be accomplished with the smaller budget. For example, we may only get improvements one side of each roadway

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