Park Cleanups Next Saturday for Keep Austin Beautiful Day

Posted on April 9, 2018 by vicepresident

Saturday April 14th is Keep Austin Beautiful Day. This event is hosted each year by Keep Austin Beautiful, and was previously named Clean Sweep. The goal is for volunteers to remove trash and beautify local parks.

This is a great opportunity to spend some time with neighbors and make a difference in the neighborhood.

There are 2 parks within the SRCC area that are participating:

  • Heritage Oaks Park is a pocket park in the SRCC area east of I-35. Richard Whymark (richard@apiproductions.com) gave us an update on this park at the April SRCC meeting. On KAB Day from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM volunteers are going to clean beer cans out of the bamboo, pull trash out of the pond, and pick up micro-trash from the grass.
  • Please join the Blunn Creek Partnership for a Keep Austin Beautiful volunteer day at Blunn Creek Nature Preserve, this coming Saturday, April 14th, from 8:30 AM to noon. We will meet at 1100 St. Edward’s Drive, the southwest entrance to the Preserve, to do another round of removing invasives, planting natives, and doing general clean-up and fix-up. Please come! Thanks, David Todd

Here’s a flyer with more info about the Heritage Oaks volunteer day:

Here’s a link to the Keep Austin Beautiful website’s page about KAB Day:
https://keepaustinbeautiful.org/programs/kabday/

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Provide Feedback on Art in Public Places Coming to Little Stacy Park

Posted on April 6, 2018 by vicepresident

At the April 2nd SRCC General Membership meeting, Marjorie Flanagan with Art in Public Places (AIPP) presented about the AIPP component of the ongoing Little Stacy Park Improvement Project. The presentation included some information about the AIPP program and process, as well as specific thoughts related to the Little Stacy project.

Here is a link to the presentation.

Marjorie is asking for feedback from neighborhood members about the preferred location and goals for the artwork. You can contact Marjorie directly at Marjorie.Flanagan@austintexas.gov. Please provide any feedback by April 30th.

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Ms. Roberston’s Retirement Party

Posted on April 4, 2018 by Secretary

Lisa Robertson, the principal at Travis Heights Elementary, is retiring at the end of this school year.  We’ll have a community celebration, Friday, April 27th from 4-6pm.  Please spread the word.  She has touched many lives in our neighborhood.

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SRCC General Membership Meeting Agenda – April 2018

Posted on March 29, 2018 by vicepresident

SRCC GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
Monday, April 2, 2018 7:15 PM
LIFE IN THE CITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
(formerly Grace UMC)
205 E. MONROE, AUSTIN, TEXAS

AGENDA
To be sure you get a vote, become a member. You can join or renew online www.srccatx.org. Not sure if you are current? Email membership@srccatx.org and we’ll let you know.
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Neighborhood Watch Update

Posted on March 28, 2018 by Communications

We are putting together a Google sign-up sheet so that members who have volunteered, and any future volunteers, will be able to select times and areas of the SRCC neighborhood to patrol as part of our reinstitution of the Neighborhood Watch. Our goal is to get all of the 8 areas of SRCC covered by patrols at some point, and have sign-ups be for walking, bicycling and/or driving for periods of a minimum of 30 minutes to an hour. There are different viewpoints on what type of patrol is most effective (such as the benefit of patrolling the area around your street so that recognition of something or someone out of place is easier to spot), but paramount in this will be to have all of the areas patrolled at one time or another, and in particular at times and in areas where the most criminal activity is occurring, recognizing that many if not most participants are typically not able to patrol late into the night. Everyone should keep in mind that when on one of the neighborhood watch patrols, it is not our job to stop crimes or apprehend criminals. The goal of the Neighborhood Watch patrols, as well as the placement of Neighborhood Watch signs in our 8 areas, is to provide a deterrence by our roving presence, and to alert the police to any observed suspicious persons or activity.
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