Details of (CCHOA) Secret meeting with Mayor leak out
Oak Hill Gazette September 3, 2004
The following are excerpts from that article. It is not in electronic form...find it at your local grocery store this week.
.... Keel got motivated to try to arrange a meeting concerning the MoPac toll after the leaking of a private luncheon meeting that President Quentin Fennessy and other Circle C Homeowners Association directors had attended in Mid August with Wynn, Councilman McCracken and Rep. Krusee of Williamson County, who played a key role in crafting the 2.2 billion Austin area toll.
Fennessy told Gazette reporter this week that he and other Circle C directors were invited to the luncheon meeting at the Shady Grove restaurant by the mayor. The mayor reportedly communicated his desire for the meeting through McCracken.
But Matt Curtis, Wynn's spokesperson insisted ''the mayor was invited to the meeting (by the Circle C officials) to discuss the toll policy amendments and he jumped at the chance to talk to the constituents.''....
...Keel said he believes this should be a public meeting with Wynn and other city officials and Krusee. ''It should be open to anyone who wants to attend,'' he maintained....
...some have expressed great disappointment with their homeowners association for meeting with government officials on such a controversial issue without informing the community residents or soliciting their input....
...Daughery said ''For Terry Keel and I not to be invited to this meeting was ridiculous''...
....Costello, who resides in Circle C and is heavily involved in the www.AustinTollParty.com operation said new Circle C directors elected there this year ran on openness for our community.
''And, for them to have a secret meeting to even consider giving away a bridge we already paid for is unacceptable,'' said Costello. ''They are out of touch with the families in our neighborhood that find this a double tax.''
At the meeting with Circle C officials, Mayor Wynn reportedly suggested the idea of ''a pay once a day pass'' for Circle C residents. A Circle C board member reportedly asked if Circle C residents could obtain a free pass for use on Saturdays if they wanted to drive to stores in Sunset Valley...
.... Earlier, Perrin, the OHAN president, circulated an E-mail accusing Wynn, McCracken and Krusee of trying to ''divide and conquer'' the local neighborhoods fighting the toll plan they feel is unjust.
''No one neighborhood should negotiate for all the other ones,'' he said. And no Austin neighborhood should agree to any deal ignoring other ones.''
Oak Hill Gazette September 3, 2004
The following are excerpts from that article. It is not in electronic form...find it at your local grocery store this week.
.... Keel got motivated to try to arrange a meeting concerning the MoPac toll after the leaking of a private luncheon meeting that President Quentin Fennessy and other Circle C Homeowners Association directors had attended in Mid August with Wynn, Councilman McCracken and Rep. Krusee of Williamson County, who played a key role in crafting the 2.2 billion Austin area toll.
Fennessy told Gazette reporter this week that he and other Circle C directors were invited to the luncheon meeting at the Shady Grove restaurant by the mayor. The mayor reportedly communicated his desire for the meeting through McCracken.
But Matt Curtis, Wynn's spokesperson insisted ''the mayor was invited to the meeting (by the Circle C officials) to discuss the toll policy amendments and he jumped at the chance to talk to the constituents.''....
...Keel said he believes this should be a public meeting with Wynn and other city officials and Krusee. ''It should be open to anyone who wants to attend,'' he maintained....
...some have expressed great disappointment with their homeowners association for meeting with government officials on such a controversial issue without informing the community residents or soliciting their input....
...Daughery said ''For Terry Keel and I not to be invited to this meeting was ridiculous''...
....Costello, who resides in Circle C and is heavily involved in the www.AustinTollParty.com operation said new Circle C directors elected there this year ran on openness for our community.
''And, for them to have a secret meeting to even consider giving away a bridge we already paid for is unacceptable,'' said Costello. ''They are out of touch with the families in our neighborhood that find this a double tax.''
At the meeting with Circle C officials, Mayor Wynn reportedly suggested the idea of ''a pay once a day pass'' for Circle C residents. A Circle C board member reportedly asked if Circle C residents could obtain a free pass for use on Saturdays if they wanted to drive to stores in Sunset Valley...
.... Earlier, Perrin, the OHAN president, circulated an E-mail accusing Wynn, McCracken and Krusee of trying to ''divide and conquer'' the local neighborhoods fighting the toll plan they feel is unjust.
''No one neighborhood should negotiate for all the other ones,'' he said. And no Austin neighborhood should agree to any deal ignoring other ones.''