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<DIV>Hello Kristen</DIV>
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<DIV>The program you mention in which neighborhood associations can earn a
stipend of $200 is defunct according to Ms. Deborah Nason, Public Information
Officer for the City of Albuquerque. It has not been in operation for 1
year now according to her telephone conversation with me today, 9 Sept.
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<DIV>As I recall from the NENA Board meeting, Jeff explained there has not been
enough interest from neighbors to come out and clean the medians, park, and
areas in back of the privacy walls. I can also speak about this because
for 7 years out of the past 9 I have held numerous neighborhood clean-ups, at
least once and sometimes twice a year. I can only count on 5 to 12
neighbors to come out to pull weeds, pick up trash and prune trees. Quite
depressing considering we have over 1,000 homes that are within the NENA
boundaries. </DIV>
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<DIV>We advertise the event via our newsletter (when we had one), on the
website, and by fliers which I have sometimes hand delivered to 100s of
homes. I know people are busy with soccer and other family events so I
also encourage them to pull weeds and pick up trash when they can fit it into
their schedules.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I will hold another clean-up sometime this Fall, most likely on 25 October
on a Saturday, from 9 am to noon. I hope you will come out to join
us.</DIV>
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<DIV>Teresa</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>From:</B> <A title=mailto:HappyKris@msn.com
href="mailto:HappyKris@msn.com">K Cunnar</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=mailto:members@noreste.org
href="mailto:members@noreste.org">members@noreste.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 09, 2008 9:37
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NENA] xeroscaping the
Arroyo Park</DIV>
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<DIV>Dear NENA Members,</DIV>
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<DIV>Every time I walk my dog at the Arroyo Park, I enjoy the lush green
grass. My own back and front yard</DIV>
<DIV>is xeroscaped, so my dog has a nice place to run around. At the
last Neighborhood Association Meeting,</DIV>
<DIV>I asked our President for imput on my idea to get a 200 stipend offered
at the Office of the Neighborhood</DIV>
<DIV>Association to improve the area. I was told that if I wanted to be
the sole person to do all the work, then</DIV>
<DIV>I could. Well, each day I see the Parks and Rec people out in the
Arroyo Park what the Parks and Rec</DIV>
<DIV>people don't see at night is all the water waste at the Arroyo
Park. I keep thinking that somebody is going</DIV>
<DIV>to report the water leak that has water shooting up like a rainbow of
water spout about 10 feet in the air.</DIV>
<DIV>It has been several months and nobody has reported this disgusting waste
of water. Our President and members of the Board work during the day and
don't have time to help with simple 200 dollar stipend projects.</DIV>
<DIV>Society cannot leave it up to Parks and Rec to discover the water
sprinkle system leak where the majority</DIV>
<DIV>of water from the leak goes into the Arroyo and not on the grass causing
more times needing to be watered.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>It would be a shame to loose the green grass, but the water leak is
causing a terrible leak and waste of water.</DIV>
<DIV>I am going to be proposing that the Arroyo Park be xeroscaped with rocks
and a rock garden- no more</DIV>
<DIV>green grass. That would mean having to take our dogs to a Dog Park or to
the park on Academy and Eubank where there would be green grass.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>It makes no sense to keep funding a water leak. I perhaps am a
little bit more sensitive to water waste</DIV>
<DIV>as if not for water being drilled and discovered in 1993, then the area
subdivision would not be developed.</DIV>
<DIV>It used to be people had water tanks on their property and had to get
water from trucks delivered to their</DIV>
<DIV>property.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Nor Este just like every other Neighborhood Association needs to do their
best at water conservation.
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