Milwood Neighborhood Assoc.

Garden Workday this Saturday at Summitt Elementary

If you have some free time please join the Beautification Committee this Saturday, May 4 at 9 am for a workday to install our pollinator gardens and plant many, many plants. The rain chances are decreasing, and barring lightning or severe weather, we will still be planting. Please bring work gloves, sun block, shovels, yard bags, gardening tools and plenty of water.

Have a middle or high school student who needs volunteer hours? We can use their help and will have a sign in sheet to email notices of hours worked.

Hi Neighbors! Summitt Elementary could use our support for their biggest annual fundraiser…

Bidding has started and there’s something for everyone at Spring Fling’s Online Auction. There are more than 150 items ranging from classroom baskets, to dinner at Summitt family-run L’Oca d’Oro, to Schlitterbahn tickets, to Ice Cream parties with a teacher, to summer camps. Some already have multiple bids!

To Bid Click Here: https://www.accelevents.com/e/SummittSpringFling2019

Even if you’re not going to Spring Fling on Saturday, you and anyone else who supports Summitt can still participate in the auction. Your generosity helps make Summitt a great place for our students, staff and community.

They could also use volunteers click here to sign up.

Milwood’s General Resident Meeting
This Wed, April 24
7pm at Milwood Baptist Church (corner of Cassady and Cabana)
Open to all Residents: Owners & Renters alike

Please join MNA for the below agenda. We hope to spend some time on property tax appraisals and the process for getting exemptions and how to protest in 3 ways depending on your preference of time commitment. So don’t miss this one as we will hopefully find a way to save you some big money on your taxes.

It’s also a great time to pay your voluntary MNA Member Dues, which are $15 per year, but it is not a requirement to join the meeting, only to vote.

Agenda
6:45pm: Socializing
7:00pm: Meeting Begins

1. Tax Appraisals: A chance to learn how to save possibly some big money on your property taxes this year
2. Open Resident Forum to discuss focus moving forward for Milwood, ie improvements & issues
3. Sidewalk along Adelphi (near completion) & Pushing for sidewalk along Parmer Ln & Pushing for Safe Routes to school changes
4. Finalization of Balcones Park Trail
5. Crime Report, Key Concerns & Neighborhood Watch in Milwood – Get us ready for the Summer!
6. Balcones Pool, Balcones Park & Playground Improvement Updates
7. Quick Updates on:
– Foundation Communities Development Update- Waters Park/Mopac (monitoring for no Waters Park Rd access)
– Compost Services for the rest of Milwood
– CapMetro update about changes being made city-wide & info on our bus route 142 Metric Flyer
– Abel’s North Development

8. Resident Concerns or Questions
9. Board Member Elections – in need of a few positions: Social Media Chair, Membership Chair, and more
10. Brief Mentions if time allows:
– MNA Events:
– Batteries, Oil, Paint & Antifreeze Collection Event – Sat. May 11
– 3rd Annual Pool-Party – Sat. June 1
– July 4th Parade & Picnic – Thurs. July 4
– Other Events in the area/items: Balcones Day Festival, Summitt Elementary Registration, Summitt Elementary Summer Camps, Summitt Spring Fling, Adelphi Acre, Styrofoam Collection, New Businesses in area, etc

8:30pm: Meeting Adjourned

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Don’t Miss Milwood’s Garage Sale on Saturday, March 30th, 2019!

Mark your calendars so you can find some wonderful treasurers at the best prices from your neighbors!

Sign-up your garage sale HERE. It is easy and free to MNA Members (which is $15 annual dues, join any time online). Pay $15 online anytime here to be listed. It’s quick and secure.

The List & Map of the Garage Sale Homes:
The list and map were deleted after the event.

A Thanks to all of our volunteers who came out in the cold and damp to help show our park some love! Thanks also to Erik Harris, Monica Harris, and Austin Parks Foundation! We had a great showing at the It’s My Park Day Event and achieved a lot!

IMPD Spring 2019 will be March 2nd – please consider coming out to help with park maintenance and beautification. It’s also a great way to get to know neighbors and explore the park and greenbelt!

Signup Link –  https://austinparks.givepulse.com/event/103251-Balcones-Park-and-Greenbelt

Projects planned:

1) Trash Cleanup throughout park and greenbelt to Mopac and upstream to Dorsett. If you are familiar with the park, please consider leading volunteers to the trash pickup areas 

2) Creekside Trail maintenance – remove/relocate fallen branches, move rocks off trail,spread straw and native seeds on the slope along the creekside trail.

3) Planted tree maintenance – weed, mulch, remove t-posts that have fallen, etc.  Leaders needed to guide volunteers on proper mulching procedures.

4) Poolhouse landscape maintenance – weed new plantings

5) Patch small area of creekside trail near Duval – we need a hand truck and a couple of strong backs to take the concrete down to the trail.  Please let us know if you can help with this!

Please email balcones_park@austinridgeriders.com if you would like to volunteer to lead a project.   We can get more work done with a little advance coordination! 

We have an update on the Adelphi Lane Sidewalk from Amherst to Scribe Dr & Balcones Youth Sports Ballfields: Project Link Here.

After some communication back and forth, we have been assured by the city that they will be including sidewalk on the South/neighborhood side all the way from Adelphi Acre Community Garden to Scribe Drive, not just to Amalfi Cove. It will be 5ft wide. Sidewalk will also be added on the connecting streets of Amalfi Cove, Gable and Scribe to complete the gaps there and make sure they completely connect to the new sidewalk on Adelphi Lane.

Also the project will be connecting the existing sidewalk on the North/Apt Side of Adelphi and making it 8ft wide. It will go from the current sidewalk all the way down to the ballfields. It’s intention is a Shared Use Path.

The field engineer and team are out there starting today, Nov. 8, 2018 to get the project started. The timeline will be about 4-6 months.

As a heads up: At some point, the road will be harder to access to due to construction and flaggers will direct traffic as needed.

We are so excited to see this done!