Monday, May 7th SNA held its quarterly meeting.  This meeting was special with a meet and greet.  Paella was prepared by a local chef, all under the careful watch of smiling SNA President Lisa Spinali.

With over 130 people in attendance, the meeting and meet and greet were a great success.  President Lisa Spinali spoke about SNA and its goals.  SFPD and CCSF PD were represented.  San Francisco’s NERT representative provided valuable information on being prepared for emergencies.  Supervisors Sean Elsbernd and Scott Weiner were also in attendance.

Committee members provided updates on SNA activities, and upcoming events such as the annual garage sale and Halloween party were highlighted.  Anyone interested in volunteering or participating, please email info@sunnysideassociation.org.

 

 

Represent Sunnyside in style with cool apparel and accessories.  This great image based on a linoleum block print by Sunnyside resident Christine Weibel.

You can purchase them at http://www.cafepress.com/outsidelands/4746909.

St. Finn Barr Catholic Church Community Room

419 Hearst Street at Edna Street (Entrace is on Edna)

Meet & Greet at 6:00 p.m.

General meeting from 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Agenda includes President’s updates, SFPD & CCSF PD updates, NERT & Safety Updates, Committee Updates, Upcoming events, and Open issues.  Supervisor Sean Elsbernd will attend.

 

 

http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2012/04/30/curb-your-wheels-even-on-flat-roads-or-face-s-f-muni-wrath/

 

Curb your wheels – even on flat roads – or face S.F. Muni wrath

 

 

 

 

A dreaded sight (Credit: The Chronicle)

Residents along Chenery Street in Glen Park have been perplexed in recent days to learn they live on a hill. Common sense would say the stretch just east of the canyon is flat, but when you’re talking about the Municipal Transportation Agency, common sense doesn’t always come into play.

Several residents have been shocked to receive numerous citations for $50 apiece for failing to curb their wheels when parked on the street, tickets they’ve never received before. There’s apparently a petition to fight the citations in the works and a pledge by some not to pay up.

Paul Rose, spokesman for Muni, said there’s been no word from on high that parking enforcement officers are supposed to be raising more money for the cash-strapped agency by issuing such citations. And he said individual officers aren’t given a quota for the numbers of tickets issued or paid per citation; rather issuing tickets is up to their own discretion. He added that citations are actually down year-over-year.

So the most likely scenario is that there’s a new officer on patrol along Chenery Street who is taking Muni’s rules very, very seriously. After all, the code states that drivers must curb their wheels “on any perceptible grade” which technically is one of at least three percent. In hilly San Francisco, that’s pretty darn flat.

“It’s business as usual at this point,” Rose said. “We’re just making sure people follow the rules of the road. The rules are put in place for specific reasons, and in this case, it’s to ensure safety for all users.”

 

Sunnyside Sunday weather brought a great crowd out to the Glen Park Festival on Sunday, April 29th. Festival goers stopped by the SNA booth to get information on the association, enter the raffle, and take a piece of Sunnyside home with them. Our esteemed President and quite crafty gal Lisa Spinali created a mosaic of a mosaic, turning the Sunnyside Elementary mosaic into magnets which were handed out at the Festival.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had Supervisor Scott Weiner from District 8 came by the booth to say hi.  Here he is chatting with Lisa and Richard Goldman.  Ray Kutz, treasurer is in the background having a nice chat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for all who stopped by and to those who helped with the booth.  The neighborhood association membership increased 10% with new residents joining the association on Sunday.  New members and current members, all had a great time and all are looking forward to the SNA meeting on May 7th.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Above are some of SNA’s current board members, President Lisa Spinali, Vice President Renee Espinosa, Treasurer Ray Kutz and Secretary Estelle Smith.

One of the executives from Nextdoor.com stopped by to congratulate Sunnyside on being a great model for what their vision of Nextdoor.com would represent.  They mentioned how active our neighborhood site is and how they regularly reference the Sunnyside site when promoting Nextdoor.com.  A lot of credit goes to Richard Goldman (pictured below) for all of his hard work in creating the Sunnyside Nextdoor.com site.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to everyone for making the Glen Park Festival, Sunnyside Neighborhood Association event a success!