C.O.N.A. of South Pinellas County

NOVEMBER 1999

Apr 27, 2000

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CONA NEWSLETTER

NOVEMBER 1999 ,

CONA Board Meeting
November 17 - 7:00P.M.
*** New Bigger Location!***
St. Petersburg Times Building
490 1st Avenue South

Nominating Committee Update
2000 Slate of Candidates
The slate of Candidates for next years officer's will be
presented at the November Board meeting by the
Nominating committee. Followed by nominations from
the floor, and closing nominations. The Election will
be held at the December Board meeting, announcing the
new Board of officers for the year 2000. Remember if
your representative has missed 3 consecutive meeting,
your neighborhoods voting rights have been suspended
and must be reinstated by the executive board. For
additional information please contact John Galik 327-1460.

City Boards & Committees Vacancies
CONA and The City Needs Your Help Filling These Vacancies!
Committee to Advocate for Persons w/Impairments (CAPI)
1 Regular Member; 2 Alternate Members - (Terms expire 12/31/01)
City Beautiful Commission
5 Regular Members - (1 Term expires 12/31/01; 4 Terms expire 12/31/00)
Civil Service Board
3 Alternate Members - (Terms expire 6/30/01 and 6/30/02(2))
Environmental Development Commission
1 Regular Member Builder/Developer Category - (Term expires 6/30/02)
Housing Roundtable1 Regular Member
Homebuilder/Developer Category - (Term expires 12/31/02)
Human Relations Review Board
1 Regular Member (Disabled Category) - (Term expires 9/30/99)
International Relations Committee
1 Regular Member - (Term expires 6/30/02)
Nuisance Abatement Board
1 Alternate Member - (Term expires 8/31/99)
Planning/Historic Preservation Commission (Engineer category)
1 Alternate Member and 1 Regular Member (Terms expire 6/30/02)





Hands Across the Bay
Grand Opening of the friendship TrailBridge
Saturday Morning, December 11, 1999
An Official event of Pinellas County Millennium
Celebration Citizens of Pinellas and Hillsborough counties
and all interested persons are invited to participate in a
joining of hands across the Friendship TrailBridge at this
event. It is estimated to require at least 3400 people joining
hands to span the 2.6-mile bridge. Details will be sent to
those responding as groups and announced to the media.
"Contact persons" representing organizations that would
like to participate as a group are asked to contact:
Hands Across the Bay, Friendship Trail Corporation
601 N. Lois Avenue Tampa, FL 33609
813-289-4400 x 303


MUSEUM MONTH
November is MUSEUM MONTH in downtown St. Peters-
burg. Specials and events at 7 museums: The Salvador Dali,
Great Explorations, Museum of History, Museum of Fine
Arts, Florida International, Florida Holocaust, and The Pier
Aquarium. Call for more information:
895-PIER(7437) or 821-8992

JOHN F. KENNEDY THE EXHIBITION
Grand Opening - Nov. 12
Florida International Museum, 100 2nd St. N.
1-877-JFK-SHOW (535-7469) or 1-800-777-9882




















CONA Newsletter Page 2

Presidents Report


Dear Neighbors,

November is going to be an another busy month. At this month?’s board meeting, the nomination committee will present the nominations for the 2000 Executive Committee. Also nominations will be taken from the floor. Remember, only those Neighborhood Associations that qualify will get ballots in December. So make sure you attend the November meeting to see if your Neighborhood Association qualifies. Julie Weston will be on the agenda to explain why the city is raising the price on obtaining permits. We also hope she explain why the costs for appeals to the city council are being increased. A lot of our smaller neighborhoods can't afford the $100 it takes to appeal to city council now, without raising it. I personal feel that we should look at lowering the fee. Sharon Joy will be at the meeting, she has requested ten minutes to tell you why she feels Y2K will be a problem. Also, Ingrid Comberg will give us an update on the Social Agency Ordinance and the change to the comprehensive plan, which should protect our neighborhood plans.

This month, we will have our first Visionary Meeting with the city. At this meeting, we will present the city with our wish list for the next two years. The reason for this meeting is we the members of CONA think we should start looking at the needs of the future. In the past we did not look at these needs, which sometimes made us unprepared when issues and problems arise.

At last month?’s board meeting, we took a stand on the 25-MPH speed limit on all residential streets in the city. At the city council meeting I requested that the council request that staff write the ordinance, so that we could have a public hearing. The council approved the request unanimously. Hopefully the ordinance will be presented to city council by the first of the year.

It has been a great year and again. I want to thank all of the volunteers who spared some of their valuable time this year helping out. You sure made it easy for me.

Your neighbor, Jim Biggerstaff

Time Warner/Bay News 9 Annual SANTA PARADE
Dec. 4 from 10 a.m. to Noon. Arrival of Santa, Bayshore Dr. NE.
For more information please call: 437-2000 or 893-7734.

GET DOWN TOWN MUSIC SERIES

December 3 from 5 to 9 p.m.
Street party on Central Ave., from 2nd to 3rd Street. Free live music, on first Friday each month, Oct. to May. Local bands to be announced.
895-0051



Dome District
Block Party
Nov. 19 and Dec. 17 from 5 to 9 p.m.
Dome District Block Party on the third Friday night monthly. Central Ave. from 11th to 14th Streets. Next dates: Nov. 19 and Dec. 17. Local bands to be announced. See On-Going Activities listing.
822-4562