The next board meeting is October 17, 7:00 pm . It will be held at 3303 Silkgrass Bend. Please feel free to come and listen or voice your concerns.
Flooded Picnic Area
All our hard work was flooded out Saturday night!! We loved the rain, we needed it so much, but what a disappointment to see it look like this less than a day later. National Night Out will still go on. Look for us either in the grassy area beside the picnic area or at the end of Silk Oak Drive. Please come out and meet your neighbors!!
More Info About National Public Lands Day
A reminder and more info about Saturday, September 28, 2013. Please come out and give us your support in the first step of cleaning up our neighborhood park. We will be mulching trees from 8-11 am. Please bring shovels and wheelbarrows if you can. Not a problem if you can’t we should have enough. Whatever time you can give will be appreciated! Afterwards there will be Fun For All at the appreciation party at Zilker Park and a chance to win ACL tickets!The Appreciation Party starts at 12:45 – 3p.m.We will hold the drawing for the ACL tickets at 2p.m. – You will need to submit your Liability Forms at the Appreciation Party (table will be designated) to be able for yourself and your volunteers to be in the running!Last few points –
- For the Tree Mulching projects, please make sure to watch Urban Forestry’s mulch video yourself so that you can discuss it with your volunteers.
- Also, please use your Site Control connection to your volunteers to let them know the details for the Appreciation Party including the map for the Zilker Rock Garden, so that they are up to speed on the location and details of the event.
- RAIN! Let your volunteers know that in the event of pouring rain at Saturday’s start time, our rain plan has been to wait an hour and if it is still raining, then we postpone to Sunday at the same start time.
- Finally, don’t forget to sign up on the Calendar page for a time to pick up your tools on Thursday or Friday!
Lost Cat Gracie
She has been missing since around 3PM Tuesday, April 30. She is a brown and black tabby and is quite shy – she is unlikely to come to any strangers but will come to me or my housemate. If anyone sees her, please have them call Leslie Lowdermilk at 360.601.7621. A reward is being offered for anyone who has information leading to her rescue.
New Website
Welcome to the new and improved Cherry Creek on Brodie website. Since the peel newsletter is no longer being published for us, we thought it was time to take control of our community news. This is still very much a work in progress, but we have a lot of cool things planned. This is a 100% volunteer effort and anyone who has something to add is welcome. We also have decided that we should offer free advertising for those businesses owned by our neighbors. So if you would like some advertising let us know.
Road Construction on Deer Lane
This a response sent to a neighbor concerning Deer Lane between Brodie Lane and Coastal Drive from the Street & Bridge Division, Public Works Department.
Street & Bridge has now received approval for major repairs and resurfacing for the section of Deer Lane between Brodie Lane and Coastal Dr. We are evaluating the existing City wide re-paving program, and hope to have the Deer Lane project included in that schedule for completion by late August 2012. As you noted, the existing section of Deer Lane between Coastal Dr and Brodie Ln is in bad shape. This is due in part to deferred maintenance in anticipation of the future extension of Davis Lane that would divert traffic off Deer Lane. For the past three – four years, only minimum spot patching was done on Deer Lane. Unfortunately, the Davis Lane project has been delayed for an indeterminate time. As such, Deer Lane will now have to remain in service much longer than anticipated, and needs major work. After a review of project schedules and repair options, we have approval to proceed with major repairs on Deer Lane. Street & Bridge will be scheduling the repair work on the existing Deer Lane, and for questions about that work, please contact us here at Street & Bridge. The Davis Lane extension project is being managed by Mr. George Jackson, Project Manager at the CIP Project Management Office 974-7197. He remains the main contact for information about that work status and schedule. We appreciate your concern for roadway projects and maintenance in Austin.
Ron Koehn P.E. 974-8777
Paving Operations Engineer
Street & Bridge Division
Public Works Department
Crime Watch
- 7/18/2012 – Assault on 33XX Silk Oak Dr
- 7/30/2012 – Burglary on 31XX Silkgrass Bend
- 7/30/2012 – Burglary on 93XX Tea Rose Trail
- 7/30/2012 – Burglary on 32XX Grasshopper Drive
- 7/31/2012 – Burglary on 33XX Silk Oak Drive
The Austin Police Dept sponsored a Neighborhood Watch program on Aug 7th which was helpful in getting the word out about how a criminal thinks. Always lock your car doors, don’t leave valuables in your car, keep garage doors closed day and night, keep your porch lights on at night, keep bushes low close to your house, close your blinds and/or curtains when you are not at home. These are a few things to keep in mind for your safety. We are planning a neighborhood watch program for Cherry Creek and need neighbors to volunteer to be a block captain for their street and get their neighbors involved to keep an eye out for any criminal activity. We need everyone’s eyes and ears to let the criminals know we are watching. There is a follow-up Neighborhood Watch meeting on September 2 to answer our questions on how to implement this program.