Courtyard Caller
January 2022
Volume 18, Number 01
Board Message Happy New Year! As we say goodbye to the holidays and enter 2022, we reflect on the year past and plan for the coming year. We will have a chance to do that as a neighborhood at this year’s Annual Meeting for the membership, which will be held on Sunday, January 30, at 6PM VIA ZOOM. The HOA Board decided that even though the pandemic has been somewhat calm recently in the Austin area, with the recent surge of the new variant Omicron and uncertainty about how Omicron might impact best practices for gatherings, we will play it safe for the community and hold the Annual Meeting virtually again this year. We have several interesting speakers planned, but not yet confirmed, such as Jonathan Coon, owner of the Camelback property across Loop 360. Last year he gave a presentation about proposed parking for the “Scenic Overlook,” and this year we are hoping for an update. Also on the potential guest list is a representative from the Texas Department of Transportation for updates on the status of the intersection changes on Loop 360, especially the intersections of Courtyard Drive and Loop 360 as well as the intersection of Loop 360 and Ranch Road 2222. With the ever-present changes in the City of Austin, we also hope to have Council Member Alison Alter or her Chief of Staff Kurt CadenaMitchell give us a summary on relevant issues, such as APD, budgets, and Land Development Code status. Be sure to return your Proxy and Ballot for the Annual Meeting timely! It is very important that we receive the required number of proxies in order to meet quorum for the Annual Meeting. Voting for Board members will ONLY be conducted by ballot in advance of the meeting, so please be sure to return it timely. Neighbors, please remember that 2022 Annual Assessments are $315, due on January 1. Payments received after January 31 are considered late. Please get those payments in early. Contact Marilyn Childress our Goodwin Property Manager for any questions regarding Annual Assessments. Marilyn.Childress@goodwintx.com And finally, January is the last month to safely trim oak trees. Starting February and continuing through the end of June, the oak wilt beetle is active. If you need to trim limbs away from your roof or fence, or remove ball moss, please do that work NOW in January. Please, drive SLOWLY in the Courtyard!!!! Copyright © 2022 Peel, Inc.
Courtyard Book Club Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Books don’t get more classic than Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, the classic book selection for discussion at the Courtyard Book Club for its Feb. 1 meeting at 1 p.m. Often considered Hemingway’s greatest work, the 1926 novel has it all – interesting lives of British and American ex-pats in Paris, the lifestyles of the Lost Generation, the running of the bulls in Pamplona, bullfights in Spain, and the author’s unique and spare writing style. A book read by many in long-ago English literature classes, The Sun Also Rises often offers up new themes and ideas when given a second look years later. The Courtyard Book Club meets at the home of its chair, Lou Blemaster, 5612 N. Scout Island Circle, at 1 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month. To receive book club emails, contact Lou at LouBlemaster@gmail.com. Even those who haven’t read the monthly book are welcomed to join your neighbors for some interesting discussion. And if you have friends in other areas of Austin who would like to join a book club, feel free to bring them along.
2022 Courtyard Book Club Picks January – Killers of the Flower Moon/David Grann February – The Sun Also Rises/Ernest Hemingway March – One Summer America, 1927/Bill Bryson April – We Begin at the End/Chris Whitaker May – Just Mercy/Bryan Stevenson June – The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek/Kim Michele Richardson July – Guns, Germs and Steel/Jared Diamond August – Ordinary Grace/William Kent Krueger September – Caste/Isabel Wilkerson October – Interior Chinatown/Charles Wu November – Girl with the Louding Voice/Abi Dare December – 2022 Holiday Party Courtyard Caller - January 2022
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