Due to the extreme cold, we are canceling the neighborhood social. See you Tuesday, Feb 18 for the next one!
November 2024 North Street Neighborhood Association Meeting Agenda
Our November meeting will be on Thursday, November 7th, at 6:30pm, at Bashford Church, with a call-in option (no video). You can view the meeting agenda, which includes the call-in information, meeting materials, and announcements.
November is when we hold our officer elections. Any member is eligible to run to be an officer, and you can nominate yourself. We need to elect a secretary, treasurer, and co-chair. The secretary and treasurer are one-year positions, and the co-chair is a two-year position. The co-chair for this year must be a resident of Emerson East. The secretary and treasurer can be from either neighborhood. All members of the association who are present at the meeting can vote for officers.
There are a few items that will be added to the agenda once they are ready. Those are the minutes from October 2024 (which will be added directly into the agenda) and information from Bear Development about their project (which will probably be a link to a PDF).
October 2024 North Street Neighborhood Association Meeting Agenda
Our October meeting will be on Thursday, October 3rd, at 6:30pm at Bashford Church and online. You can view the meeting agenda, which includes the call-in information, meeting materials, and announcements. There are several items with a lot of information to review.
Don’t forget to go to the Emerson Eken Arts Walk this Saturday, September 28th!
Reminder: Time to renew your membership
If you’ve been a North Street Neighborhood Association member, thank you! If you are interested in joining, now is a great time.
Our membership year ended on August 31st. We hope you’ll continue to be a member for the membership year that starts September 1, 2024 and goes until August 31, 2025. You can renew your dues by going to https://northstreetna.org/join-nsna, where you can select whether you are an individual or a household, and how you’d like to pay your dues (as well as how to apply for a waiver of your dues).
If you are planning to come to the NSNA meeting on Thursday, September 5th, you should renew ahead of that so that you can vote at the meeting (anyone is always welcome to attend). You can even renew online and then bring your dues in cash or check (made out to North Street Neighborhood Association) to the meeting.
Note: if you have paid your dues since August 1st, you are all set for the year and don’t need to pay again until next year.
By the way, you should have gotten a postcard in the mail from us – we’re doing a neighborhood survey at https://northstreetna.org/survey, and we’d love to hear from you.
Volunteer at Eken Park Festival
Our annual festival, Eken Park Festival, is coming up in August. Did you know that it’s an entirely volunteer effort? We’re seeking volunteers for this year’s festival, which will be Saturday, August 17th. Volunteering is a great way to support the festival and get to know your neighbors. You can sign up here. Volunteers help with setting up, selling beer, emptying trash bins, and keeping things running smoothly. We also need volunteers to help with our fantastic kids area.
July 2024 North Street Neighborhood Association Meeting Agenda
The July 2024 meeting of the North Street Neighborhood Association will be on Thursday, July 11th at 6:30pm, at Bashford and online. You can view the full agenda, which includes the link to join online and links to any relevant documents. We look forward to seeing you next week.
Yard Sale – again!
Our neighborhood yard sale continues this Saturday, June 8th, from 8am-2pm. You can view an interactive map here. If you missed last week due to the rain, this week is sure to provide all sorts of treasures.
Emerson East Sign Installation
The new Emerson East neighborhood sign has been installed, and it looks beautiful. Groups of volunteers worked over the course of two weekends to install the sign and plant around it. If you haven’t had a chance to see it, it’s at East Johnson and Packers. We were joined by our alder Amani Latimer-Burris and City staff person Linda Horvath, who works in the Planning Division (which gave us the grant to fund the sign). The sign was designed by Emerson East resident Sara Hinkel.
Neighborhood Announcements
We have a lot going on in the next few weeks in the North Street Neighborhood Association area, and even more in the coming months. Here are announcements about some of those, including volunteer opportunities.
Emerson East Neighborhood sign installation: We’ll be installing the new Emerson East neighborhood sign over the next two weekends. On Saturday May 11th from 9am-12pm, we’ll be pouring concrete and pulling up sod to prepare the site for planting. On Saturday May 18th from 9am-12pm, we’ll be planting a variety of plants around the sign. More volunteers means easier work for everyone. The location is East Johnson Street at Packers. You can preview the beautiful new sign on our homepage.
Friends of Starkweather Creek will be doing some planting by the creek during the week of May 19th. They will post a time and date on their Facebook page.
Yard Sale: Our annual Yard Sale will be on Saturday June 1st from 8am-2pm (rain date is June 8th). Register by May 22nd to be listed on the map. For more information, visit our Yard Sale page.
Bike to Work Week: Our Transportation Committee will setting up tables on the bike path on two different dates during Bike to Work Week. On Tuesday, June 4th, they’ll be on Commercial Avenue at the Starkweather path, and on Thursday, June 6th, they’ll be at Emerson East Park. Both mornings will be from 7am-10am. They are looking for volunteers to give out coffee & pastries to cyclists. You don’t have to volunteer for the full 3 hours. Contact us to get connected. And if you are a bike commuter, check out these stops on your morning commute.
Common Council Budget Engagement Events: Facing a budget shortfall for 2025, our Alders have put together events for people to give feedback about how we want to see the City address this. The event for the Northside (which includes District 12) is on Wednesday, June 5th at 6pm, at Black Hawk Middle School. There is also a downtown event on Thursday, May 30th at 6pm which will be hybrid, with a virtual participation option for those who may not be able to make it in person.
Our annual Eken Park Festival will be on Saturday, August 17th in Eken Park. The festival is always looking for volunteers, especially volunteers to help run the festival during that day. We’ll announce when the official volunteer sign-up is available. In the meantime, save the date and think about how you might want to help out.
The Emerson East Eken Park Art Walk will be on Saturday, September 28th. The Artist Registration is open now. If you are an artist in the Emerson East or Eken Park neighborhoods, sign up to show your work at the second year of this event (and if you know your neighbors are artists, encourage them to participate).
Finally, a reminder that our July Neighborhood Association Meeting will be on Thursday, July 11th (rather than on July 4th).
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