cochairs3d9c9460f2 announcements

December North Street NA Meeting Agenda

The December meeting of the North Street Neighborhood Association will be on Thursday December 4th at 6:30pm. It will be held at Hawthorne Library and online.You can view the agenda here.

Main topics:

  • Still looking for someone interested in being NSNA co-chair
  • Voting on 2026 Budget Proposal (must be a member to vote)
  • Reminder about membership registration

If you have not yet re-upped your membership or completed your new-member registration, please visit Join NSNA page (you can either pay using a credit card or paypal, or bring a check to the meeting).

rek announcements

November North Street NA Meeting Agenda

The November meeting of the North Street Neighborhood Association will be on Thursday November 6th at 6:30pm. It will be held at Hawthorne Library and online. You can view the agenda here. At this meeting, we will be electing our new officers. You must be a member to vote – if you have not yet renewed your dues for the September 2025-August 2026 membership year, you can do that on our Join NSNA page (you can either pay using a credit card or paypal, or bring your check to the meeting – if you mail it, we might not receive it by November 6th).

rek announcements, General

October North Street Neighborhood Association Meeting

The October meeting of the North Street Neighborhood Association will be on Thursday, October 2nd, at 6:30pm, at Hawthorne Library and online via Google Meet. Our regular meeting location is still under construction.

The call-in information is at the top of the agenda as well as on the calendar event (viewable on the righthand side of our website, https://northstreetna.org). You can view the agenda here. The Treasurer’s Report will be added before the meeting if possible, and several other items will have proposals added by October 2nd.

If you have trouble accessing any of the documents, please contact cochairs@northstreetna.org to let us know!

rek announcements, General, Giving Committee

Feedback About the NSNA Giving Process

We’re seeking feedback about our giving process! One of our primary purposes is to support groups and organizations that are supporting our local (Emerson East and Eken Park) neighborhoods. There are several ways that we do this, one of which is by giving funds to local groups that are doing work in our community through our Giving Process. Every year, our Giving Committee coordinates this process, where groups can seek funding for work they are doing, ranging from supporting local arts to improvements at the elementary school playground to to native plantings in local parks to feeding high school kids. The process includes that we have chances for people to give feedback about it, and then revise the process based on that feedback. We’ve now gone through this process twice, in 2024 and 2025. We are asking community members (including NSNA members and groups who have received funds) to provide any feedback. We’ve put together a brief survey focused on things that you like and things that you’d like changed. We’ve intentionally left it short and open-ended so you can say as much or as little as you want. We will leave the form open until noon on September 17th.

rek announcements, General

September North Street Neighborhood Association Meeting Agenda

The September meeting of the North Street Neighborhood Association will be on Thursday, September 4th, at 6:30pm, at Hawthorne Library and online via Google Meet. Our regular meeting location is still under construction.

The call-in information is at the top of the agenda as well as on the calendar event (viewable on the righthand side of our website, https://northstreetna.org). You can view the agenda here. The Treasurer’s Report will be added before the meeting. It’s a very full agenda, so we have limited time for open comment.

If you have trouble accessing any of the documents, please contact cochairs@northstreetna.org to let us know!

Reminder: Our membership year runs from September 1 to August 31, so if you haven’t yet renewed your dues, now is the time to renew. You can renew online here, and choose how you want to pay – you can use a credit card or paypal online, mail us a check, or bring your payment (cash or check) to a meeting.

rek announcements, events, festival

Volunteers needed for Eken Park Festival

Eken Park Festival 2025 Volunteer Sign Up

Eken Park Festival 2025 is back in Eken Park on Saturday, August 16th.  

This fun, family-friendly event only comes together with the hard work of volunteers. There are a variety of important jobs that need to be filled. Please consider signing up! If you won’t be around the day of the event, there are flyering opportunities in the weeks before the event.

Thank you in advance,

Eken Park Festival Planning Committee

Click on this link to sign up:

Eken Park Festival 2025 Volunteer Sign Up

More details:

Here’s how it works in 3 easy steps:

1) Click this link to see the available spots on SignUp: https://signup.com/go/VCaycer

2) Review the options listed and choose the spot(s) you like.

3) Sign up! It’s easy and you will NOT need to register an account or keep a password on SignUp.

Note: SignUp does not share your email address with anyone. If you prefer not to use your email address, please contact the festival committee to sign you up manually.

rek announcements, General

July Meeting Rescheduled

We are rescheduling the July North Street Neighborhood Association to Thursday, July 10th (still from 6:30pm-7:30pm at Bashford and online).

Our regularly scheduled meeting falls the night before the July 4th holiday and we were concerned about low attendance. We’ve updated the calendar to reflect this, but wanted to make sure folks knew.

rek announcements, Uncategorized, yard sale

Yard Sale Map is Live

Our annual Yard Sale is coming up on Saturday, June 7th from 8am-2pm!

The map is now available on our Yard Sale page or directly on GoogleMaps here.

Our rain date is Saturday, June 14th – but some sellers may still choose to sell on June7th even if it’s rainy. If the sale is postponed, we’ll post on our blog & social media to let you know.

rek announcements, events, transportation committee, yard sale

Bike Week and Yard Sale Are Next Week

NSNA is celebrating Madison Bike Week and our annual yard sale weekend the first week of June! See details and links below, and we hope you can join us.

  • First up, on Tuesday, June 3 from 7-10am, join us in Emerson East Park (corner of N Second and E Johnson) for our Bike Week commuter station. We’ll have coffee donated by MOKA, pastries donated by Bloom, and extra food purchased by NSNA. More info at https://www.facebook.com/events/583138088159577. If you would to volunteer at the event, please sign up at https://signup.com/go/uBCeDSU
  • On Wednesday, June 4 at 6:30pm, we’re doing a family-friendly slow roll from points in Emerson and Eken to the Chocolate Shoppe on Atwood. Also on the agenda is tacos and/or bingo (for 21+) at the Ohio Tavern. Pick one or the other, or all of the above! More info at https://www.facebook.com/events/1402717997739479
  • On Saturday June 7, it’s time for the annual neighborhood yard sale from 8am-2pm. More info at https://northstreetna.org/yard-sale/ 

And of course, our monthly meeting is on Thursday, June 5th at 6:30pm. We will post the agenda tomorrow (Thursday, May 29th). This is the meeting where we will hear from grant applicants and members will rank the recipients, so it may run as late as 8pm. Please read their applications (in the agenda) ahead of time.