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Mountain Groups

The MNA is organizing several groups provide residents an opportunity to gather, discuss, or socialize around common interests.  Our initial set of groups are:

  • Sustainability
  • Carpooling
  • Gardening
  • City Issues
  • Pickleball
  • Running
  • Cycling
  • Kickball

If you are interesting in finding out more, please add your name to the form and you will be contacted by the group leader.

https://forms.gle/jBfbV37QW5NGT8Xb7

Pickleball: Next meetup is Friday, March 6th @ 9am at Mountainview Park tennis courts.

Feb 6th 2020 MNA Board Meeting Minutes

The MNA held its first meeting of 2020 on Feb 6 and the minutes can be found here:  Feb 6 2020 Meeting Minutes

The MNA is planning more social events and opportunities for residents to get together this year (see the minutes).  We will be using the MNA mailing list (not the Google Group) to announce upcoming activities and encourage all Mountain residents to become members of the MNA to be more engaged with our neighborhood.

For inquries about the MNA, please contact Eric Deal at “mna @ dealfamily . net”

MNA Board Meeting – Thursday, Feb 6th at 7pm

The Mountain Neighborhood Association will hold its next meeting this Thursday evening at 7pm.  The meeting will be at 10703 McFarlie Cove (Eric Deal’s house).

This will be our first meeting with our new board and we plan on holding meetings once per quarter.  The agenda for the meeting is as follows:

  1. Call to Order
  2. Introductions
  3. Review of Agenda
  4. Approval of Minutes
  5. Officer/Committee Reports
    1. President’s Report
    2. Treasurer’s Report
    3. Membership Report
    4. Reports from any other standing committees
  6. Other Items
    1. Social Events
    2. Community Involvement
    3. MNA Website
    4. MNA Entrance Improvements?
    5. CodeNext Discussion
  7. General Discussion
  8. Open Forum
  9. Adjournment – Set next meeting date

All MNA members are welcome to attend, but I would like to ask that you are not on the board and are planning on attending, please send me an email at so I know how many people to expect.

MOUNTAIN NEIGHBORHOOD GARAGE SALE — NEW DATE: SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2019 8AM-12PM

Hello Mountain Residents,
Need more space in the home? It could be time for a little Spring cleaning. Several Mountain neighborhood families have expressed interest in holding a garage sale and rather than each family having their own garage sale, we thought we could maximize the exposure by turning this into another spectacular Mountain Neighborhood Garage Sale, now scheduled for Saturday, April 6th, 2019, 8am-12pm.  
You can always run your own garage sale but if you’d like to participate in the one we are organizing,  please contact the organizers (below) and send your address and a short list of items you’ll have for sale.
In addition, we like to find ways to incorporate children where we can as a learning and growing experience. We encourage families with children to get their children to help organize and run the garage sale. In doing so, we will have a raffle and give away up to three (3) $20 to 3 children (under the age of 12) in the neighborhood at the end of event who gets involved in the garage sale.  This is on an honor system so parents can email their child’s name to the email below for the raffle. We will have a third party draw the winners and make the announcement.
Co-organizers:  Donna Bhavsar  & Judit Kolics
Here’s to a new Spring, less clutter and more space to live and play.
Donna & Judit
Neighborhood Parent Volunteers

It’s My Park Day!! (March 2nd, 2019)

Please save the date for Parks Day at Mountain View Park on March 2nd.  This is our third year for this event and all have a good time.  All family members are invited.  We will start around 9 am and finish about noon.
Thanks for putting this on your calendars.  We need about 75 people to help spread mulch around trees, plant a few tree and clean up the Park.
Thanks
Sharon Blythe
President – The Mountain NA

Mountain View Park – Beautification and Cleanup

Saturday, March 3rd, 2018 from 9:00am to 12:00pm
Mountainview  Park – Meet at the Park Pavilion
Yearly we have volunteers clean out flower beds and plant flowers.  We also will clean out brush in the Park, mulch trees and plant two trees damaged by deer.  Also, we will installed green gator bags around trees and water the trees.  In addition, we will paint the bathroom doors and repair bathroom fixtures that are rusting.

Neighborhood speed mitigation meeting

A speed mitigation meeting was held with the city of Austin’s ATD (Austin Transportation Department) on Sunday 9/24/2017 at 4:30pm at the Balcones Country Club. Atendees spanned the Mountain, Balcones Village/Spicewood, the Enclave, and perhaps Spicewood Estates.  Approximately 75 people attended.

See the two files attached for the presentation from ATD and the presentation from me representing the multi-neighborhood survey and requests.

The short summary of the meeting is:

From ATD:

PROPOSED SPEED MITIGATION

  • Cedar Crest:  Four locations of Speed cushions
  • Clearock:  Two locations of Speed Cushions
  • Spicewood Parkway:  Possibility of flat top cushion installation

Messages from neighborhood to ATD:
– ATD is only listening to a small fraction of the impacted residents
– 95% of the neighborhood does not like the Spicewood Parkway Speed Bumps
– Request: remove those rubber speed bumps
– Request: do not install any more rubber speed bumps
– Engage the full neighborhood; change your policy

There are a several follow-ups under consideration and a few of us are going to meet Thursday to discuss next steps.