*** To sign the petition – CLICK HERE ***

Please take the time to put your support behind the initiative to build a new road in the Four Points area providing a second point of access to our neighborhood High School and the Four Points Middle School. The intent of this road is to:
1. Provide a safe additional path for emergency access and egress from the schools in the event of an emergency and
2. Provide an alternative route of access to the schools rather than have high school students continue to use FM 2222 via McNeil for school access.

Read more about the proposal, including the focus on safety and environmental sensitivity from Pam Waggoner’s traffic committee which has been working with LISD at the following web site:

http://www.4pointstraffic.com/

Help spread the word to your friends and neighbors

If you want to take your support a step further, consider contacting the BCCP Coordinating Committee Voting Members to express your support for this proposal:

City of Austin Mayor, Lee Leffingwell
Lee.leffingwell@austintexas.gov
(512)974-2250

Travis County Commissioner, Gerald Daugherty
Gerald.daugherty@co.travis.tx.us
(512)854-9333

Click below to view the presentation from our meeting:

SRNA 2013 Community Meeting – April, 17, 2013 – SLIDES

In its first year, SRNA has been become a vocal and recognized voice for our community and with your help we have achieved tangible results.

We have been highly engaged with developers and government entities – actively working on a multitude of issues. We represent everyone in the "Land between the lakes" including all neighborhoods between Lake Travis and Lake Austin click here to see our boundaries.

Some of our successes in the first year include:

• Fighting for compatible growth: we have negotiated concessions from developers that will help our neighbors. We are actively fighting to limit the scale and nature of development where it risks our safety, property values, school crowding and traffic.
• Taking on traffic – saving time and improving safety: we have already had success with improving our morning commutes via signal re-timings and we are working on solutions for the future – advocating for  improvements that will help tame our traffic congestion in the long run.
• Fair energy utility rates saving you money: we worked side by side with HURF to get them the support needed to take AE's energy rates to the PUC – as a result you will see a drop in your rates, with less money funneled to the city, and a pull back from the five tier rate structure that penalized our community.

Plus we are engaged with a host of other issues including:

• Local Governance: we have a committee looking ahead at our long term relationship with the City of Austin and other governmental entities in our area.
• Services & Safety: we are engaged with the Lake Travis Fire and Rescue, the County and working with Firewise and other entities on issues such as evacuation planning, emergency response and water rights for our area.

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—> Renew or start your SRNA membership now: http://steinerranchna.org/join-now <—

We need your help to look out for our community – if we don't do it together, no one else will. HOA's are not in a position to take a stand on many issues that are important to us – so we need your continued support to help the SRNA fill this important role.

SRNA members are the eyes and ears of our community – we need to keep each other informed of what is happening and what needs attention. As a member, you can choose to be as involved as you like by serving on a committee or joining the Board.

For the price of a latte a month – about $4 / month – you can protect and improve your family's quality of life in the Four Points area by supporting the SRNA. Please join now or renew your membership.

Join the SRNA, stay informed and help keep us informed on the issues.

SRNA Annual Meeting:

Our annual community meeting will take place on:

April 17th at Steiner Ranch Elementary School at 7pm.

This meeting will be open to the community to help keep everyone informed of important issues and to encourage new membership in SRNA. Please mark your calendar.

At the meeting, SRNA board members and committee leaders will present status on issues and answer questions. After the meeting we will open nominations for SRNA Board positions as well as committee sign-ups for those that are passionate about an issue or are willing to lend a few hours a month to our community. Members can vote on SRNA Board positions in the following week.

If you have any topics or issues you want to see discussed at the annual meeting or an up-coming Board meeting – please send an email to chair@steinerranchna.org.

As a member you are also welcome and encouraged to also join our monthly Board meetings which are normally held on the 2nd Monday of each month at Bella Mar Community Center in Steiner at 7pm.

Important Issue Updates:

SRNA Board and committee members have been very busy and highly engaged in the past year. You can learn more at our annual meeting – where you can hear more detail and ask questions, and by visiting our website.

Thank you for your support and remember to mark your calendar for the April 17th annual meeting and to renew or start or your SRNA membership (click here).

** Please communicate your thoughts and feedback via email:

: chair@steinerranchna.org.

Best regards,

Brian Thompto
Chairman, Steiner Ranch Neighborhood Association

Please join the SRNA board for the 2013 Community Meeting the evening of Wednesday, April 17 at 7pm . Steiner Ranch Elementary

We hope you are able to join us.

SRNA includes :
Steiner Ranch, Caslano, River Bend, Montview Acres, Marshall Ford
Vista, Travis Vista, Hughes Park Lake, Comanche Trail Estates and
Everyone in the “Land between the Lakes”
SRNA Board

Board members H Lobdell and Brian Thompto attended a meeting with TXDOT this past week and also were able to speak with the City signal engineer.

Updates have been posted under ‘Traffic Issues‘ detailing:
1. Progress with the City of Austin to start adjustment of signaling near 620/2222
2. TXDOT meeting summary including expanding immediate and longer-term plans for improvements
3. Feedback from Travis County TNR that they will consider the Comanche Trail – Steiner Ranch Blvd. connection in the next capital assessment cycle.

2. Apartment development has slowed in part due to the pull out of “Greystone” in developing MU-13 – see all the updates to development along with an updated Map.

Meeting Agenda (subject to change):

7pm – regular Board Agenda:

1. Member Input
2. Approve Minutes from October 15th meeting
3. Consider Board assignments (Director of Communications, etc.)
4. LISD Demography Readout and Response
5. Development Discussion: MU-14 TNR feedback; alternatives
6. Transportation Discussion: 2222 / 620 – re-engage City, et. al.; Comanche Trail
7. Discuss and consider signing a supporting document in favor of continuing LCRA Emergency Drought Order for 2013.
8. Discuss and consider membership in the Central Texas Water Coalition (http://www.ourwater-ourfuture.com)
9. General Committee Report/updates
10. Board Member Reports/updates

If you would like to propose any changes or additions to the agenda please email the Chairman.
Link to SRNA Meeting Schedule.

Meeting Agenda (subject to change):

7pm – regular Board Agenda:

1. Member Input
2. Approve Minutes from September 10th meeting
3. Development Update (Mu-14, LISD)
4. General Committee Report/updates
i. Incorporation filing
ii. Member dues collection
5. Board Member Reports/updates

If you would like to propose any changes or additions to the agenda please email the Chairman.
Link to SRNA Meeting Schedule.

At the website, you can listen to a one hour special on the Central Texas Fires one year ago and you can also read personal stories. There is also an event Monday evening, September 10 at 6pm at the KUT studios: Forged in Flames: An Oral History of the Labor Day Wildfires

September 4, 2011
Central Texas was a fire: suburban neighborhoods abutting drought sticken green spaces had provided the perfect tinder – even the smallest spark could quick burn out of control. And on this day it had from Steiner Ranch to Delhi, Spicewood to Bastrop. These are the stories of Central Texans who lived through the Labor Day Wildfires. On Monday, Sept. 10, KUT will host a free community forum at 6 p.m. in Studio 1A at the KUT Public Media Studios.

Full event information here.

Meeting Agenda (subject to change):

7pm – regular Board Agenda:

1. Member Input
2. Approve Minutes from August 13th meeting
3. Development Update (Mu-14, improvement survey)
4. Steiner Ranch Blvd. Realignment
5. General Committee Report/updates
6. Board Member Reports/updates

If you would like to propose any changes or additions to the agenda please email the Chairman.
Link to SRNA Meeting Schedule.