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

WELCOME TO TWO-THOUSAND

Apr 27, 2000

CONA NEWSLETTER
JANUARY 2000
Happy New Year! Annual Neighborhood BLOCK PARTY & PARADE OF NEIGHBORHOODS BLOCK PARTY at the Pier, 800 2nd Ave. with Neighbor- hood Associations, entertainment, exhibits, kids activities, and prizes. Free, Saturday, March 4th from 1 to 4 p.m. PARADE OF NEIGHBORHOODS throughout the city. Open houses at participating areas; private home tours; featured homes either for sale, renovated or in process of renovation; home buying and financing information, Sunday, March 5th from 1 to 5 p.m. For more information call Neighborhood Partnership Department 892-5141. SPIFFS ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL FOLK FAIR March 10 to March 12 Visit more than 40 countries and enjoy continuous live entertainment with cultural exhibits, a marketplace and delicious ethnic foods.Featuring colorful local and visiting folk dance groups and choral groups. This is one of the largest in the United States. Each of our 46 ethnic member groups displays its heritage, culture and traditions in its own "village", set up with cultural exhibits, food and gift item sales. Continuous live entertainment in the form of folk dances and musical performances takes place on a central stage throughout the Fair. is the only independent, non-profit, multi-cultural folk fair organization in the U S. HOUSEHOLD CHEMICAL COLLECTION DAY Febuary 26, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. FREE drop off of old paints, pesticides, household chemicals and cleaners. City Sanitation Complex, 2001 28th Street North. For more information please call: 893-7398. 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 Roundtable - 1 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) Sunken Gardens Now Open! 1825 4th Street North * Information 551-3100 Wednesday - Sunday from 10 am - 4 pm Cost is $4.00 for adults and $1.00 for children Presidents Report Dear Neighbors, Well, Y2K didn't get us, so it is time to get started on the New Year. The 12th CONA Leadership classes starts soon and it is a very large class. It just goes to show you when you offer an important service and do a good job everyone wants to participate. The leadership classes have always been a success, this is because of the people who take time to help others. The Police Department, in a couple of weeks, will hold another Police Retreat. This is a follow up of the one held two years ago. Unfortunately, only those at the last retreat are being asked to attend this year. I have asked Dave Goodwin to set up a workshop on Site plans and make available any information that New Neighborhood Association Presidents may need when attending this workshop. To many times New Neighborhood Association Presidents are unable to make decisions, because they do not have enough information before they get to the workshop. Education is always the answer and we never too old to learn. The Visionary Meeting has been put off until a later date. By mistake it was scheduled on a day that City Council meets. These meetings look like they need to be held every other year. The new Executive Board will meet next week and start setting up the agenda for 2000. If anyone has something that needs to be addressed please contact one of these officers, this will help us make this year a great one. Have you been using CONA website on Neighborhood link? Conrad has been doing a great job keeping the website up to date with important CONA information. I hope to see this website become a Bulletin Board where all of our meetings are posted and everyone starts to use it. See you on the January 19th at the Times Building! Your neighbor, Jim Biggerstaff Time to Renew Your Membership for 2000! (See the back page for Application) GET DOWN TOWN MUSIC SERIES February 4th from 5 to 9 p.m. Street party on Central Ave., from 2nd to 3rd Street. Free live music, on first Friday each month, January to May. Local bands to be announced. For more information please call: 895-0051 Dome District Block Party January 21st from 5 to 9 p.m. Dome District Block Party is held on the third Friday night each month. Central Ave. from 11th to 14th Streets. Local bands to be announced. For more information please call: 822-4562