January 2005
Cedar Park Neighbors Newsletter A Change at the Top: Jim Kurtz Takes the Lead! By Jim Kurtz, CPN President regret to announce Lisa Johanningsmeier’s INeighbors, resignation as President of Cedar Park due to personal reasons. As First Vice-President I will serve as acting president until our April election. I want to take this time to thank Lisa publicly for all the contributions she has made and will continue to make to CPN. With the support of the highly committed CPN executive board, I will do my best to lead this association of so many active and committed individuals and committees. We thank enthusiastic newly appointed board members Joanne Pham, Josh Schneider and Carol Walker for filling in vacancies for additional mid-term board resignations. The strength of CPN lies in our committees, where volunteers from our general membership do the real work. For these committees to function in the most efficient and cohesive manner, a strong CPN Board must provide vision and oversight so the committees meet the goals mandated by CPN’s mission statement. We plan to address the Board leadership question with members at the upcoming General Membership Meeting on Wednesday, January 26. We hope many of you will come to this important meeting.
Committee Calendar
January is the time in the CPN calendar year to form the Nominating Committee to recruit a slate of executive officers and board members to serve from June 1, 2005 to May 31, 2006. A committee has been formed and will start seeking out January 19 Crime and Safety Committee 7:30 pm
nominees in the near future. They will be looking for CPN members willing to provide leadership to this diverse and active organization. Some of you can give a lot of time and skills to CPN... others are more limited. We ask board members to commit to attending 10 monthly board meetings, one Saturday planning event once a year, general membership meetings and participate in at least one committee of the association. Would you be willing to join us? Sure, there are meetings ... but you will learn much about our great community and you may even be able to make a difference. We need people who can represent the many members of our diverse community. We need board members who are young, old, “new’ to the Cedar Park area, “old” to Cedar Park. We need people representing the diverse ethnic groups which makeup Cedar Park. We need homeowners and renters. We need former board members who served many years ago and can come back for another round. We need representatives from the business community and religious communities. We need people representing the diverse political and ideological persuasions in our community. Most importantly we are looking for prospective members who want to make a difference and are willing to put in the time to make it happen. Are you that person? Do you know someone else who is? Let us know. Contact us via our email or phone connections and a member of the nominating committee will follow-up!
January January 26 General Membersip Meeting 7:30 pm, Calvary Center
February 14 CPN Board Meeting 7:00 pm
January 19 January 27 Cedar Park Improvem’t Committee Scholarship Fund Committee 7:15 pm 7:30 pm
February 16 Block Organizing Committee 7:30 pm
January 22 Firehouse Recycling 9:30 am (special 4th Saturday date)
February 24 Property/Housing Task Force 7:30 pm
February 5 & February 19 Firehouse Recycling 9:30 am (regular 1st and 3rd Saturday)
Jim Kurtz CPN President
Come One, Come All!
General Membership Meeting Wednesday January, 26 7:30- 9:00 pm Calvary Center for Culture & Community 48th & Baltimore Ave.