[NENA] xeroscaping the Arroyo Park

[J T REINHARD]

Hello Kristen

The program you mention in which neighborhood associations can earn a stipend of $200 is defunct according to Ms. Deborah Nason, Public Information Officer for the City of Albuquerque.  It has not been in operation for 1 year now according to her telephone conversation with me today, 9 Sept.  

As I recall from the NENA Board meeting, Jeff explained there has not been enough interest from neighbors to come out and clean the medians, park, and areas in back of the privacy walls.  I can also speak about this because for 7 years out of the past 9 I have held numerous neighborhood clean-ups, at least once and sometimes twice a year.  I can only count on 5 to 12 neighbors to come out to pull weeds, pick up trash and prune trees.  Quite depressing considering we have over 1,000 homes that are within the NENA boundaries.  

We advertise the event via our newsletter (when we had one), on the website, and by fliers which I have sometimes hand delivered to 100s of homes.  I know people are busy with soccer and other family events so I also encourage them to pull weeds and pick up trash when they can fit it into their schedules.

I will hold another clean-up sometime this Fall, most likely on 25 October on a Saturday, from 9 am to noon.  I hope you will come out to join us.

Teresa
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: K Cunnar<mailto:HappyKris at msn.com> 
  To: members at noreste.org<mailto:members at noreste.org> 
  Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 9:37 AM
  Subject: Re: [NENA] xeroscaping the Arroyo Park


  Dear NENA Members,

  Every time I walk my dog at the Arroyo Park, I enjoy the lush green grass.  My own back and front yard
  is xeroscaped, so my dog has a nice place to run around.  At the last Neighborhood Association Meeting,
  I asked our President for imput on my idea to get a 200 stipend offered at the Office of the Neighborhood
  Association to improve the area.  I was told that if I wanted to be the sole person to do all the work, then
  I could.  Well, each day I see the Parks and Rec people out in the Arroyo Park what the Parks and Rec
  people don't see at night is all the water waste at the Arroyo Park.  I keep thinking that somebody is going
  to report the water leak that has water shooting up like a rainbow of water spout about 10 feet in  the air.
  It has been several months and nobody has reported this disgusting waste of water.  Our President and members of the Board work during the day and don't have time to help with simple 200 dollar stipend projects.
  Society cannot leave it up to Parks and Rec to discover the water sprinkle system leak where the majority
  of water from the leak goes into the Arroyo and not on the grass causing more times needing to be watered.

  It would be a shame to loose the green grass, but the water leak is causing a terrible leak and waste of water.
  I am going to be proposing that the Arroyo Park be xeroscaped with rocks and a rock garden- no more
  green grass. That would mean having to take our dogs to a Dog Park or to the park on Academy and Eubank where there would be green grass.

  It makes no sense to keep funding a water leak.  I perhaps am a little bit more sensitive to water waste
  as if not for water being drilled and discovered in 1993, then the area subdivision would not be developed.
  It used to be people had water tanks on their property and had to get water from trucks delivered to their
  property.

  Nor Este just like every other Neighborhood Association needs to do their best at water conservation.  
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