Just received the latest well written AND well designed NSNA newsletter.

It's good to know after well over a year of speculation that much of the production of ''our'' neighborhood newsletter has been a PAID (non-volunteer)effort!

....and after we were led to believe it continued to be a volunteer production for soooooooo long!

Now the inclusion of talented volunteers is ''couched'' as a cost saving measure - interesting.

Why were we foolish members paying for this from our dues and contributions to begin with?



By Foolish member

TO: ''Foolish Member''

Not sure what your problem or point here is but funds have been available for the last several years
because of the hard work of those volunteers who work on the Holiday Tour of Homes. What better way to use some of these monies than to try to keep the neighborhood informed?
I see no point in disparaging the volunteer efforts of those who work to make Old Northeast a more cohesive community.

Re-read that posting!

Re-read the posting - I don't think the writer was disparaging any volunteers!

But if the association was PAYING for services it wasn't VOLUNTEER provided...correct?


Could those ''funds'' be put to better use such as getting this neighborhood added as a historic district as promised years ago?

I thought the newsletter has been a volunteer production all along too.



By More questions

To ''More''

It was by inference that the volunteers were insulted. Like if they did not do the WHOLE job then they weren't doing enough.

It takes volunteers to write and assemble all the info to go into the newsletter. Whether they got help on the final layout or not I don't think is any big deal. (And I don't even know!) The historic deal is in the works. Just like with the newsletter the chair of that committee also dumped everything on others during the disagreements within the association over CVS. So new volunteers had to pick up in the midst of it all, assume the responsibility, and move forward. Too bad about all the petulant behavior in the past.

Whether you want money spent on informing the whole neighborhood through the newsletter or pushing the historic district is your opinion.
Take it to the Board of Directors.

By the way how is $$$$ going to hurry along the historic deal?