11-7-01 Minutes

Council of Albany Neighborhood Associations

Meeting Minutes of November 7, 2001

Albany Public Library

Howard Stoller, CANA Chair, called the meeting to order.
Introductions
Minutes: The website address of the Historic Albany Foundation was corrected and the minutes of the September 5, 2001, meeting were accepted.

GUEST SPEAKER: The Superintendent of the City School District of Albany, Lonnie Palmer, presented information on the facilities long-range plan. A copy of the information presented is available on the CANA website. Several members expressed concerns and had questions.

The construction manager selected for the project is the firm of Pike-Heery.

The amount of money to be spent will be determined by the voters. No additional funds are available to cover budget over-runs except by an additional vote.

The District�s administrative offices will be relocated to Livingston rather than an existing vacant building because there is no State aid available to rebuild administrative offices.

The facilities design plan accommodates for both expansion of the student population as well as the transfer of additional students if the charter schools close.

5. COMMITTEE REPORTS

Committee on University and Community Relations � Tom Gebhardt

The next Committee meeting will be held on November 14, 2001, at the Albany Police Department, 526 Central Avenue. Members of the Albany Citizens Police Review Board will make a presentation and the Campus-Community Crime Prevention Coalition will give updated information. The Committee has begun two advertising campaigns�one suggesting that and carbon monoxide detector batteries be changed and one about safe trick-or-treating.

Quality of Life Surveys � David Phaff

Approximately 1900 responses were received, and the compiled data will be presented at the Neighborhoods Work II Conference on December 1, 2001. The software used to compile the information in the surveys prohibits sorting responses by neighborhood; therefore, it will be presented by zip codes.

Executive Committee � Howard Stoller

The CANA website has moved to https://members.tripod.com/councilalbanyna/. The old one has a link to the new one.

6. NEW BUSINESS

Neighborhoods Work II Conference - Gene Solan

The conference will be held on Saturday, December 1, 2001, at the First Lutheran Church hall. Volunteers are needed to assist at the conference and to help set up the afternoon before.

Albany Public Library � Jeff Cannell

At the December 5, 2001, CANA meeting information will be presented about the library�s proposals for a new charter.

City of Albany Budget

CANA members will be present at the meeting on November 14 budget hearing to propose to the city that a more understandable budget be presented.

New Members are needed for the CANA Budget Committee. Harold Rubin will suggest two members.

ARISE (A Regional Initiative Supporting Empowerment) � Tom McPheeters

ARISE will convene a town hall meeting at 7:00 on November 13, 2001, at Temple Israel. Some of the issues on the agenda for that meeting include teen activity programs, business movements, gang prevention, and education. The group encourages more neighborhood associations to join ARISE.

A motion was made to endorse the school district�s facilities improvement plan; however, the vote was postponed until the December 5, 2001, meeting so that more CANA members may participate.

Endorsing the facilities plan � Howard Stoller raised the question of whether CANA should endorse the School District Facilities Plan that Lonnie Palmer presented on earlier. He made a motion to endorse it which was seconded, but discussion was postponed for the December 5 meeting.

Harold Rubin convened the meeting at 8:40.

CANA MEETING ATTENDEES

November 7, 2001

NAME	ASSOCIATION	E-MAIL ADDRESS
Howie Stoller	Melrose	Hstoller@aol.com
Harold Rubin	Center Square	HRChestnut@aol.com
Tom Gebhardt	PSNA	tgebhardt@uamail.albany.edu
Gene Solan	Pine Hills/WRC
Betsy Shearer	PSNA	bshearer@Quixtar
Colin McKnight	Mansion	collinnalbany@yahoo.com
David Phaff	New Albany NA	dphaff@yahoo.com
Mary Connari	DANA
Colleen Ryan	Historic Albany Council	Ryanc@crisny.org
G. Mowbray	Hudson Park	463-4310
Daniel Van Riper	LPNA	Dwvr@atecone.net
Matthew Montesano	Albany Police Department	Cruiser603@hotmail.com
Jeff Cannell	Albany Public Library	Cannellj@uhls.lib.ny.us
Martin Gawoski	West Hill	Gawoskimd@hotmail.com
John Cirrin	Albany Public Library	Cirrinj@uhls.lib.ny.us
Fred Perkins	Pine Hills	FredMpork@aol.com
Jeff Cannell	Albany Public Library	cannellj@uhls.library.us
Kay Maynard	City of Albany DDP	maynardk@ci.albany.ny.us
Kate Frank	City of Albany DDP	Frankk@ci.albany.ny.us
Martin Duffy	Albany Housing Authority	mduffy@albanyhousing.org
Stephen Winters	SANA	sdoxie@aol.com
John A. Frederick	Hudson Park NA	Janthony01@yahoo.com
Tom McPheeters	Mansion NA	Focustom@aol.com
Henry Madej	Pine Hills NA	hmmadej@yahoo.com
Aimee Allaud	Melrose NA	aimee@nycap.rr.com
Donald Wardle	United Tenants of Albany