Minutes for June ANC Meeting

The monthly meeting of the Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3E was called to order at 7:40 PM by Chairperson Diskan, with Commissioners McNamara, Mayo and Posniak in attendance.

ANC Business/Actions

The minutes of the May 11, 2000 meeting were unanimously approved.

The treasurer’s report was unanimously approved pending receipt of written report and all the following checks were also unanimously approved.

#233 Keira Costic $ 300.00
#234 Jeffrey Harps $ 40.00
#235 Roberta Mulholland $ 93.75
#236 Bell Atlantic $ 31.59
#237 Roberta Mulholland $ 266.25
#238 Chevy Chase Playground Co. $1,000.00
#239 Friendship Tenleytown C.A. $ 200.00
#241 AU Park C. A. $ 400.00
#242 Friends of Friendship Pk. $1,000.00
#244 Jeffrey Harps $ 40.00
#245 Friends of Tait Park $1,000.00
#246 Kinko's $ 610.76
#247 Ch. Ch. Plaza Children's C $1,000.00

TOTAL: $ 5,982.35

Announcements

Marvin Tevisky announced an open forum concerning the upcoming school board special election. The meeting will be on June 20th, 4:00 PM at Tenley Library.

Mr. Tevisky also announced that the construction next to the Dancing Crab is going to be a communications tower owned by American Tower Company.

Commissioner McNamara read a letter from DPW Deputy Director Art Lawson acknowledging receipt of the second submission of punch list items.

Commissioner Diskan announced:
An open forum concerning the school board will be held at the Reeves Center on June 9th from 7-9PM.
Ft. Bayard Park clean up on June 10th from 9-12PM with a bar-b-Que following.

Three liquor licenses will be up for renewal in the near future, Maggiano’s; Matisse; and The Round Table and the commissioners are interested if anyone has any objections.

There will be a public meeting June 13th, 7:30PM at Sumner School concerning the National Transportation.
Tenleytown Historical Society has filed a landmark application for the Tenley Fire Department Building.
The new plan for the development at Albemarle and Nebraska is for 14 units with double car garages. There will be a special meeting in September prior to the zoning meeting in October.

Open Forum

Commissioner McNamara brought up the fact that a speed bump had been installed on 49th Street, NW between Chesapeake and Western and DPW and the police department had no knowledge of the speed bump.

Grant Awards Presentation

The following non-profit organizations received grants totaling $4,600.
Friends of Tait Park $1,000
AU Citizens Assoc. $ 400
Chevy Chase Playground $1,000
Friends of Turtle Park $1,000
Friendship-Tenley Neighbors $ 200
Chevy Chase Plaza Children’s Center $1,000
These grant checks were unanimously approved and dispersed.

Presentations

Voluntary agreement between Bambule and ANC 3E was presented for approval. The agreement limits the hours Bambule may have live music and the business must provide parking for its customers. Bambule has agreed to the terms of the agreement and therefore the ANC will withdraw the protest petition against liquor license renewal. The ANC unanimously voted to adopt the voluntary agreement.

Greg McCarthy, Director of Policy and Valuation in the Mayor’s Office was unable to attend but will be present in a future month.

Alex Exman, Administrator of the Office of Mass Transit of DPW and Dave Arian, Metro Office of Planning, addressed WMATA N-Line changes. The changes include, restoration of the N-3 bus service to Foggy Bottom during rush hours, rerouting of the N-2 off of Western Avenue and Mass. Ave. (This should reduce bus traffic on Western Avenue by around 200 per week.) And the rerouting of the N-8 around the Tenleytown station.
Commissioner Mayo requested further supervision of the N-8 line as the buses are not timely and the drivers are not aware of their routes. Commissioner Mayo also requested a change in the small bus ventilation system. Mr. Arian stated changes are being made to the ventilation systems and that he would again pass on the complaints concerning the N-8 line.

2nd District Police

Lt. Carter of PSA 202 gave the crime update for the neighborhood and noted that overall crime was down. Lt. Carter also gave some safety tips and said to call 727-7070 for any light outages on the streets.

There being no further business the meeting was adjourned at 9:20PM.

Respectfully Submitted,

 

Tad DiBiase, Secretary