March General Membership Meeting – 3/26/18 from 7-8 PM

March General Membership Meeting 

Monday, March 26 at 7 PM – 8 PM

Southside Preservation Hall | 1519 Lipscomb St

General Membership Meeting

7:00pm –     Call to Order & Introduction of New Members

7:05pm –  NPO Sergio Guadarrama: Neighborhood Updates

7:10pm –     Code Compliance Officer Eric Muhammad: Neighborhood Updates

7:15pm –      Daggett Middle School Junior Cadets & Instructor Dr. Valerie Kitchens: To present on student-led and private industry supported initiatives to revitalize the campus.  Would love letters of support from the FNA and Fairmount neighbors to the FWISD.

7:25pm –     Chad Lorance: To speak on the current and future water supply, flood protection and recreation projects and initiatives of the Tarrant Regional Water District.

7:35pm –     Board Member Updates

Finance: Melanie Dotzour: finance@historicfairmount.com To give updates on accounts

Administration: Leah Suasnovar: administration@historicfarimount.com

• Voting item: Leah will be presenting information on an FNA community cookbook to be used for both simple enjoyment and fundraising opportunities.  Will ask membership to vote on putting money toward the upfront costs for printing.

Historic Preservation: Susan Harper: preservation@historicfairmount.com

• To provide a presentation of the monthly cases that came through HCLC
• The next monthly Preservation Palaver is this Wed for those looking to learn about our historic guidelines

Membership: Deanna Stuart: membership@historicfairmount.com

• March 17th Family Social was a HUGE success with about 75 adults and kids! Everyone was excited about more family events. Family Socials will continue on a quarterly basis.
• Friday, April 13th is an “Adult” Social at Chimera & SiNaCa from 5:30pm-7: 30 pm.
• No Social in May due to the Fairmount Home Tour.
• Socials are open to ALL Fairmount residents. We DO highly encourage everyone to join the FNA. Membership dues enable us to provide even more opportunities to mingle.
• Reminder: FNA Memberships are January – December of each year. If you have not renewed your membership for 2018, please do so through the website: www.historicfairmount.com.  Family Memberships = $25 and Individuals = $20. You can join at any time throughout the year!

Safety: Geri Cotten:  fmcops@att.net

• For those wishing to join Citizens on Patrol to help make our neighborhood and City a safer place to live, there is a class on Saturday, April 14th from 9:00-1:00 at the Hazel Harvey Peace Center. Applications are on the table at the back of the meeting room.

Communications: Betty Spitzberg: communications@historicfairmount.com

• Home Tour newsletter deadline is April 1st for ads and articles. These will go out near the end of April. I will have a call out via facebook and the weekly constant contact email for volunteers to help deliver. Home Tour issue goes out to the whole neighborhood.
• The next kids’ cover art contest is for June’s issue and will be due mid-May. June’s theme is family. Thank you to Fire Station Community Center for getting so many participants for April! Use the contact info above for any submissions.
• Currently a member and not receiving a monthly newsletter? Please email me your address.
• Sign up for weekly constant contact emails on our website to stay up to date on events and other neighborhood information.

Promotions: Sean Ford: promotions@historicfairmount.com To give updates verbally

Infrastructure: Breinn Richter infrastructure@historicfairmount.com Giving verbal updates

7:55pm –     Open discussion for members

8:00pm –     Adjournment and Cleanup

UPCOMING EVENTS

03/28    Preservation Palaver            Fairmount Community Library    1310 W. Allen Ave     7:00pm

04/13    FNA Magnolia Meetup            Chimera & SiNiCa                    1001 W. Magnolia        5:30pm

04/14    Fairmount Neighborhood Yardsale                                                        8:00am

04/15    Open Streets: FNA Chicken Bingo!                                                        12:00pm

About Southside Preservation Hall:

Southside Preservation Hall welcomes THOUSANDS of people each year to its facility where they participate in events like Buddy’s Big Band night, Swing dance lessons on Tuesday nights, weddings every week, and more.

• The average attendance for Buddy’s Big Band is 200 at each performance or 2400 people per year!
• We welcome over 4800 Swing Dancers for Tuesday night lessons each year. (8p-11:30p)
• We have well over 150 weddings and other events each year!
• We are making plans to start replacing missing wood windows on the 1922-era three story addition to our building and paving our back parking lot.

Please help by making a donation to the Hall. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization & donations are tax-deductible.