OMVNA 2024 Annual Meeting-Dec 2nd

To all Old Mountain View residents and property owners,

The Old Mountain View Neighborhood Association (OMVNA) will have its annual general meeting and elections Monday, December 2, 2024 at 7:30PM over Zoom. 

Here is the Zoom registration link. Thanks to our newsletter editor Susan Bickford, for setting this up.

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Dec 2, 2024 07:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Register in advance for this meeting:

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

The OMVNA Nominating Committee and OMVNA Leadership Team are recommending the election of the following candidates:

STEERING COMMITTEE:

Chair:                                      Robert Cox
Vice-Chair:                              David Lewis
Secretary:                               Melanie Kaye

Treasurer:                               Carola Thompson
Community Liaison:                Jamil Shaikh
Newsletter Editor:                   Susan Bickford
At Large:                                 Max Hauser & Lorraine Wormald

SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIRS:

CERT                                      Sherril Brennan
Historical preservation            Jerry Steach
Parking                                   Jamil Shaikh & Carol Lewis

Social                                      Kristin Bailey

Newsletter distribution             Lorraine Wormald

Other candidates may be nominated on election night from the floor. 

A quorum of neighborhood residents and/or property owners is required to vote in the election to certify the candidates, so please come and exercise your civic duty and vote in this election!  To accommodate those who cannot stay for the entire meeting, we will hold the election near the beginning of the meeting.

There will also be an announcement of minor textual corrections to the bylaws. The changes will be posted on the website (www.omvna.org). These changes will be voted on at a future meeting.

Also, please send me vicechair@omvna.org any items of interest you would like to discuss at the annual meeting by Friday, November 29, at 5 PM, so that I may include them on the agenda. Please suggest only urgent items for this meeting as we will have a full agenda even without additional items. (The public is always welcome to suggest additional items at any regular quarterly steering committee meeting.)

At the annual meeting, we typically provide an overview of the years’ OMVNA activity, a review of key neighborhood development projects and state legislation affecting our neighborhood, and a treasurer’s report.

Looking forward to seeing many of you there, in our virtual forum!

Robert Cox, OMVNA Vice Chair

OMVNA online www.omvna.org
Facebook www.fb.com/omvna and
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City of Mountain View’s Downtown Digest:

The November 2024 issue is now available and includes updates on:

  • Downtown Safety Initiatives;
  • Cold Weather Shelter Reopening;
  • Community Tree Lighting Celebration;
  • and more!

Click here to read the latest issue.

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Restaurant Scene: October 2024

216 Castro’s Quality Bourbons & Barbecue or QBB (BBQ spelled backwards, not by chance), which opened September 2017, celebrated its last day September 25 (thanks to Mark Flider for the tip). QBB’s managing partner John Andino, whom I first met when he helped open Scratch in 2010, told me a new restaurant tenant plans to move in, offering Chinese hand-pulled noodles. John’s partners operate other establishments currently in Palo Alto.

Downtown MV’s location for the popular Nick the Greek chain (298 Castro), remodeled this year after a long dormancy in the pandemic’s wake, looked “ready to open” at the time of our August Newsletter. It looked even more ready — but still not quite open — when I checked in late September.

Another almost-open new restaurant is Sulbing Cafe at 975 W. Dana, which passed health inspection in June but still sported covered-up windows at my recent check. In Korea, Sulbing is a chain focused on bingsu (milk-based shaved-ice desserts). The former Bushido site, 156 Castro, still has papered-up windows, and I don’t find any recent connected business news in a quick online search. But something’s in the works there. •

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October 2024 Lamppost Newsletter

Check out our latest newsletter. Hand-delivered to your doorstep over the weekend of October 12th.

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OMVNA City Council Forum Recording – 2024

OMVNA hosted a City Council forum of the 2024 candidates. Eight candidates were present and available for a 1 1/2 hour evening of questions and responses.

Candidates in attendance:
Chris Clark
Devon Conley
Nicholas Hargis
John McAlister
Erik Poicon
Emily Ann Ramos
Pat Showalter
IdaRose Sylvester

You may view the video for a limited amount of time – until election day.

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