Williamsburg Civic Association

News

• Next general membership meeting:  Tuesday, May 20, 2008, from 7:15 PM to 9:00 PM, Nottingham Elementary School (in the Library), 5900 Little Falls Road, Arlington, VA 22207.
• Annual Meeting and Elections
• Meeting agenda to be determined
• The Williamsburg Civic Association is sponsoring its fourth annual pancake breakfast to celebrate Arlington’s Neighborhood Day!
  
  • Saturday, May 10, 9:00 to 11:00 A.M. at Little Falls Presbyterian Church, 6025 Little Falls Road.
  •  This is a great opportunity to meet your neighbors, enjoy some good food, help strengthen your local civic association, and join in commemorating Arlington’s most important annual event.
  •  The breakfast includes freshly made pancakes, butter and syrup, bacon and sausages, along with coffee and orange juice.  All this for the low price of $6 for adults and $3 for children under 12.  Any proceeds will benefit the civic association.  The breakfast is being organized by Ann Rudd and Mike Murtha.
• The Williamsburg Civic Association is seeking a volunteer to be president of the association.  
• We are looking for a volunteer who would be interested and willing to serve as the president of the Williamsburg Civic Association for the upcoming year (May 2008 to May 2009 – elections are typically held each May).  The current president, Mark Moran will be unable to serve this coming year.  Elections are planned for the May 20 civic association meeting.  We have four seasoned candidates for four of the five officer positions:
  
  
  • President: (No current nominee)
  • Vice President: Coral Gundlach
  • Treasurer: Jim Toronto
  • Secretary: Jim Finley
  • Neighborhood Conservation Advisory Committee (NCAC) Representative: Lisa Moses
  
  If we cannot find a volunteer willing to serve as president for the upcoming year, the civic association may need to go dormant until we find such a person.  If the association goes dormant, we will find it difficult to continue with programs such as traffic calming, street beautification, new sidewalks, lights, and parks.  Being dormant could also hinder our ability to address potential changes that could occur to our neighborhood as part of the East Falls Church Metrorail development plan.
  
  Duties
  
  • Presides over meetings of the civic association and the executive committee.  There are typically four civic association meetings per year (Feb., May, Sept., Nov.) and about four to six executive committee meetings a year.
  • With the help of the executive committee, finds one or two guest speakers for each civic association meeting.
  • Acts as the spokesperson on matters concerning the association.
  • Appoints chairpersons of any committees that are formed
   
  Minimum qualifications
  
  • Willing to serve as president for one year (May to May).
  • Organized and able to communicate well with executive committee and the membership at large
  
  Interested?
  If you are interested and have questions, please feel free to contact the current president, Mark Moran (pres [at] wca-arlington.org) or the vice president, Coral Gundlach (vp [at] wca-arlington.org).
  
  
• Please pay your dues at or before the next general membership meeting on May 20, if you have not done so in the last year.  The civic association is running low on funds.  Each time we send out a paper newsletters to the 1,000 households in the civic association, it costs about $700.  Only about 10% of households in the civic association are current with their dues.  Dues are $5 per person (adults over 18).  Please fill out this form and send it with your check, payable to "Williamsburg Civic Association," to our treasurer, Jim Toronto (3577 N. Powhatan Street, Arlington, VA  22213).  You may also pay at meetings.
• Consider joining our e-mail distribution list:  If you have not done so already, please join our Yahoo! Groups e-mail distribution list (groups.yahoo.com/group/arlington_wca).  This is a great way for us to communicate with each other (via e-mail or the Yahoo! Groups Website).  Once you join the group, anyone can post a message or respond to a post.  When you are joining, please tell us, as a minimum, your FIRST and LAST NAME, and WHERE YOU LIVE (either the street and/or address). This helps us prevent spammers from joining the group.  Right now, we have about 100 members.