LPCA ELyse Metune's Memo to LPCA membership regarding the January 21st meeting, the outcome and scheduling of another meeting for Sunday, January 25th. Notice the date and time the email was sent to LPCA members (12:15 am Saturday 1/24).
Be sure to read Craig Powell's response about the meeting, the threats at the Eskaton meeting place, the individual who was disturbing LPCA members, the unauthorized facilitator fee and other recent issues (titled LPCA Renaissance Responds).
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To: LPCA Members <members@landpark.org>
date: Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:15 AM
subject: LPCA Community Forum another Board meeting
The Land Park Community Association (LPCA) would like to thank everyone who attended our Community Form, January 21, 2009. Ideas, strategies and solutions for specific Land Park community problems were identified for key neighborhood issues as brought forth in the survey:
Traffic and Transportation
Neighborhood Crime
Unique Architecture of our neighborhood
Revitalizing our Commercial Corridors
Streetscape and Tree canopy
William Land Park
Association Operations/Communications
The meeting facilitator will collate ideas and provide a report to the LPCA Board, which will be shared on our web site. I anticipate that the board will create action plans and recruit volunteers to help implement strategies to address these issues.
A special thank you to those who stayed through the turbulent beginning of our Community Forum. After tedious discussion and interuption residents decided the group known as the LPCA Renaissance was trying to take over the Community Forum agenda and supported the facilitator moving forward with the original agenda.
Approximately 80 people attended the forum and shared their ideas and concerns. Our recent community survey indicates 77% of LPCA members support LPCA efforts - and 63% of all respondents supported LPCA efforts. Thank you for that support. Finally, the LPCA board will be having another one of those emergency Board meetings Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 7pm at Eskaton Monroe Lodge. We will be discussing petitions received to date calling for a meeting of the membership to address proposed bylaw changes. Unfortunately this business can not wait to our next regularly scheduled Board meeting. As always our Board meetings are public and we invite you to attend.
Again, thank you for supporting your neighborhood association. If you have questions please feel free to contact me any time.
Elyse Metune, President
Land Park Community Association
president@landpark.org
524-8630
PS Members, do you know your username and Password to access our members-only web pages? Email request to webmaster@landpark.org. Be sure to include your full name and address so we can find you on our membership list.
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Launching the LPCA Renaissance
"Renaissance" - To be born anew.
Websters New World Dictionary, 4th Edition
Land Park is considered one of Sacramento's finest neighborhoods, long known for its quiet leafy streets, lovely homes and friendly easy-going ambiance. It is home to young families, savvy urbanites, busy middle-aged homeowners and a goodly number of senior residents, many of whom have raised their families here.
Since it was formed almost 20 years ago, the Land Park Community Association has been the principal neighborhood organization for Land Park. Since then, the LPCA has performed some functions well, such its annual "Taste of Land Park" wine-tasting fundraiser. The LPCA, however, has not realized its full potential to be an effective community organization. Instead, it has become a largely insular group with a narrow view of its mission and little ambition to energetically serve Land Park. It is an organization sorely in need of new energetic leadership.
During this past year, the LPCA has struggled. The new contingent of directors elected in a board shake-up last Spring has been championing new initiatives and seeking to implement organizational reforms, such as a Transparency Proposal to open up the LPCA to broader participation by its members . These proposals have been frequently stymied by deadlocked tie votes.
Land Park is facing new challenges: growing concern over crime, increased traffic congestion and a controversial proposal to move the Zoo out of Land Park. We are also facing the specter of economically challenged commercial corridors, such as Freeport Boulevard and Broadway. There is also a desire among many residents for more opportunities for social interaction- for our children, our families, our seniors, for everyone.
With the LPCA often preoccupied with internal discord, opportunities are being missed and challenges are not being adequetly met. We seek to bring fundamental change and reforms to the LPCA, to make it stronger, more cohesive and more effective in serving our neighborhood. What we propose is a new beginning for the LPCA: an LPCA Renaissance.
We ask you to join us in this effort to give Land Park the community organization it richly deserves. In this blog, you can view the first round of reform proposals that we are championing. Please feel free to post your comments and join this dialogue on the future course of the LPCA and Land Park. If you would like to lend your support to these efforts or wish to discuss them, please e-mail us at ckpinsacto@aol.com
Websters New World Dictionary, 4th Edition
Land Park is considered one of Sacramento's finest neighborhoods, long known for its quiet leafy streets, lovely homes and friendly easy-going ambiance. It is home to young families, savvy urbanites, busy middle-aged homeowners and a goodly number of senior residents, many of whom have raised their families here.
Since it was formed almost 20 years ago, the Land Park Community Association has been the principal neighborhood organization for Land Park. Since then, the LPCA has performed some functions well, such its annual "Taste of Land Park" wine-tasting fundraiser. The LPCA, however, has not realized its full potential to be an effective community organization. Instead, it has become a largely insular group with a narrow view of its mission and little ambition to energetically serve Land Park. It is an organization sorely in need of new energetic leadership.
During this past year, the LPCA has struggled. The new contingent of directors elected in a board shake-up last Spring has been championing new initiatives and seeking to implement organizational reforms, such as a Transparency Proposal to open up the LPCA to broader participation by its members . These proposals have been frequently stymied by deadlocked tie votes.
Land Park is facing new challenges: growing concern over crime, increased traffic congestion and a controversial proposal to move the Zoo out of Land Park. We are also facing the specter of economically challenged commercial corridors, such as Freeport Boulevard and Broadway. There is also a desire among many residents for more opportunities for social interaction- for our children, our families, our seniors, for everyone.
With the LPCA often preoccupied with internal discord, opportunities are being missed and challenges are not being adequetly met. We seek to bring fundamental change and reforms to the LPCA, to make it stronger, more cohesive and more effective in serving our neighborhood. What we propose is a new beginning for the LPCA: an LPCA Renaissance.
We ask you to join us in this effort to give Land Park the community organization it richly deserves. In this blog, you can view the first round of reform proposals that we are championing. Please feel free to post your comments and join this dialogue on the future course of the LPCA and Land Park. If you would like to lend your support to these efforts or wish to discuss them, please e-mail us at ckpinsacto@aol.com