if you're around later today - I'll stop by...
Nathalie
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Hilary Smith 
  To: emca@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 10:11 AM
  Subject: Re: *EMCA* Bomar and Morgan


  Last night I attended the District D Capital Improvement Prep Session, Northwest Quadrant, which was also a Super Neighborhood meeting. I was wearing my two new hats as a representative of the East Montrose Civic Association and a member of Ada Edwards' District D Infrastructure Action Team. Mike Shannon from the city's finance and administration--the people we have to send our CIP requests to--and David Leal an engineer from the city's Public Works and Engineering departament were there. 

  The Bomar and Morgan high water problem was the only issue I addressed. I have some Citizen Request Forms. If someone from the Bomar-Morgan spot would like to fill one out or help me fill one out, I can hand deliver it to city hall. This isn't a bad idea, and it might, possibly result in something being done between 2003 and 2007.

  But I think it's also urgent that we try to get something done now. Both Shannon and Leal agreed that it was a good idea to try to work through our council members at the same time to try to get something done. As I explained last night, we don't know what needs to be done: Is there a storm sewer under Bomar in that block and should there be a drain at that spot? (I personally believe in a flat place like Houston and with Houston's construction and maintenance crews what they are, the best way to get water away from your property is a ditch.) 

  If I can get a copy of the engineer's letter, I'd like to get it to Mr. Leal.

  Hilary


  At 10:41 PM 2/20/2002 -0600, you wrote:
  >>>> 

    When I called and wrote a couple of years ago about his corner, Glenda Scott (I think) said she would dispatch an engineer, who a couple of months later wrote me a letter saying everything was fine with the corner. We all must be suffering from the same delusion. ;-)


    On Wednesday, February 20, 2002, at 03:26 PM, Gayle Rodgers - Rodgers, Ramsey, Inc. wrote:


      There has been a lot of documentation done on this location and the
      standing water problem, and it certainly merits taking up again. It
      will, in fact, take an infrastructure 'fix'--a good item for Capital
      Improvements and far more likely to get attention than new curbs and
      gutters, which are missing in many if not most innercity neighborhoods.

      Gayle Ramsey


  (Mr.) Hilary Smith
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