ANNUAL MEETING

ANNUAL MEETING RE-ELECTS ALL OFFICERS, ALLOCATES TASTE OF WHITE ROCK FUNDS

By Mel Cyrak

The Annual Meeting of the Peninsula Neighborhood Association was held on October 22^nd at the Bath House Cultural Center.  Approximately 40 members attended.

Our four officers serve one-year terms and are up for re-election at each Annual Meeting.  All four officers agreed to serve another term and were elected by unanimous vote.  The new/old officers are: President, Joe Gillum, Vice President, Ben Davis, Secretary, Chris Winter, and Treasurer, Madeline Cyrak.

The majority of the meeting was taken up by a report on the completion of the 2008 Taste Of White Rock Dinner Club book and the allocation of the $5,000 the PNA book organizers pledged to the non-profits at the lake.  After much discussion and a vote, the allocation is as follows:

Bath House Cultural Center                                                          $1,500

WRL Conservancy – Security Cameras                                      $1,500

Save Dixon Branch                                                                            $500

For The Love Of The Lake                                                                $500

WRL Foundation                                                                                $500

WRL Volunteers In Patrol                                                                 $500

            Total                                                                                       $5,000

The meeting also included two guest speakers.  One was Gary Griffith,  the former city council member for our area who is the new Chairman of the new White Rock Lake Conservancy.  As Gary explained, the Conservancy was formed at the request of the Dallas Park & Rec. Dept. to serve as the major fund-raising organization for private donations to White Rock Lake Park.  WRL Park was the only signature park in Dallas that did not have a major fund-raising group.  Signature parks are those parks that are used by the entire area population rather than just as a neighborhood park.  The other four signature parks are the Zoo, the Arboretum, Fair Park and the Katy Trail/Turtle Creek Courridor.  Those parks all have staffed non-profits raising millions of dollars per year.   The first two projects that the Conservancy will be embarking on are raising funds to purchase security cameras in the park and funding the rebuilding of the Dreyfuss Club.  The PNA was the first neighborhood association to make a donation to each of those projects.

The second speaker was from the Dallas Code Enforcement Dept.  She explained what we need to do to report code violations and how the city works to improve neighborhoods by working with property owners to upgrade their properties.

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