TLNA Council Minutes
May 26, 2005
Present: Joe
Brogan, Richard Linster, David Waugh, Sandy Ward, Ruth Rohlich, Gigi Holland,
Gay Davidson-Zielske, Carol Weidel, Bob Shaw, Cheryl Wittke (Chair).
Guests: Brenda
Konkel, Beth Gross, and Bob Sommerfeldt.
Call to order and introductions at 7:00
I.
Beth Gross: County update.
a.
County planning process is underway
i. On
June 1 there will be an Attain Dane session. She will email details regarding time and place
ii. On
June 8 there will be a session for young professionals
b.
Beth and Brenda are planning a listening session. Details will follow by email
c.
Beth is putting a newsletter together and needs to fund raise
to support this effort because County Supervisors have no budget for this sort
of thing.
d.
Boating policy
i. There
are plans to install buoys to mark the no-wake zone
ii. The
uproar over extending no-wake in Squaw Bay shows how loud the opposition to
no-wakes can be.
iii. Many
on the TLNA Council expressed a desire to stop boats from parking near Tenney
beach.
iv. Complaints
should be called in to Fritz Kroncke at Parks
v. Beth
will look into whether lifeguards could tell boaters that they can’t park
there.
vi. How
about signage?
II.
Announcements
a.
OMP
i. OMP
has officially dissolved
ii. Blair
will be the split for those who join TLNA versus those who join Downtown
Neighborhoods
iii. Richard
Linster moved and Carol Weidel seconded that TLNA forgive one year’s membership
for those coming from OMP into TLNA.
Unanimous in favor
iv. Richard
moved and Gigi seconded that Bob Sommerfeldt will be the Area Rep.
b.
Joe Brogan offered to take over the newsletter
i. Bob
will walk him thorough some of the tricks of the trade
ii. Sept
15 is the deadline for the fall newsletter
c.
Carol Weidel passed around a letter for our consideration and
Cheryl asked that it be discussed via email rather than at the meeting.
III.
Minutes of April meeting approved
IV.
Update of neighborhood plan
a.
Town Hall meeting
i. 45
people signed in and probably more than that were there
ii. Work
on summarizing the input from the session is in progress
b.
Next steps
i. Split
into 2 workgroups to address the 6 topics
1.
land use – Cheryl will organize
2.
the other five topics – Gigi and Sandy will organize
ii. timeline
1.
Next town hall meeting on Sept 13 from 7 to 9 at Lapham
2.
Ratify at the October annual meeting on Oct 20th
V.
Committee reports, Budget and Workplan development
a.
Budget
i. Goal
is to develop an explicit budget
ii. Committee
will be Richard, Cheryl, and Gay
b.
Social – the following ideas were considered
i. Bring
local talent to social meetings
ii. Provide
educational sessions
iii. Have
movies in the park
c.
Membership
i. Since
last report Richard has collected $238 in dues from 30 members
ii. He
would like to bring more people into the membership committee
d.
Business – the following ideas were considered
i. Create
a business brochure
ii. Join
the buy-local initiative
iii. Profile
one business for each newsletter
e.
Education
i. Goal
is to bring the community and schools into better understanding of each other
ii. A
petition regarding fine arts and foreign languages was distributed. Return completed ones to Joe by June 6th
iii. On
June 12th there will be a School Board Meeting
VI.
Brenda Konkel report
a.
Parks
i. Brenda,
Sy, and Mary Jo Schiavoni met about parks issues
ii. Send
Brenda or Mary Jo your ideas for park improvements
b.
Send Brenda ideas for people deserving of recognition by the
Council
c.
TIF and BUILD -- Some in the Marquette neighborhood are
concerned that the processes are moving too quickly
VII.
Bob Shaw announced that Skip Zak died and suggested that TLNA
send a condolence card.
The meeting ended by consensus at
9:00
Minutes submitted by Sandra Ward