Category Archives: Neighborhood News

National Night Out – Free Food • Great Company • Door Prizes!

Join your Wells Branch neighbors for our night out against crime, Tuesday, October 2, from 6:30-9:00pm at the gazebo at Katherine Fleischer Park. The WBNA will be serving up FREE hotdogs, sausage wraps, sodas, chips and door prizes.

We’ll have distinguished guests on hand from the Travis County Sheriff’s Office, ESD #2 Fire Department, Precinct 2 Constable’s Office and the Wells Branch MUD to mention a few. Both children and adults will have the opportunity to visit with first responders, receive information on Neighborhood Watch and other programs available to residents, and tour the fire safety house and fire truck that ESD #2 will have on hand. Come find out what’s going on in our community and visit with local law enforcement officers and politicians about what you can do to help reduce the opportunities for crimes to occur in our neighborhood.

National Night Out is designed to heighten crime and drug prevention awareness, generate support for and participation in local anti-crime efforts, and to strengthen neighborhood spirit and law enforcement-community partnership. Help send the message to criminals that Wells Branch is organized and fighting back.

Take a stand against crime. Turn on your porch light and come join your friends and neighbors at the park for food and fellowship. If you have a Neighborhood Watch group on your block (or even if you don’t) we’d like to encourage you to come eat dinner with us, listen to the speakers, and then return home to your street and gather with your neighbors over dessert to discuss how you can make your homes and our community safer.

We hope to see you there!

Vision for Wells Branch Workshop • October 4 • 6:30-8:30pm

Submitted by George Holcombe

Fall is here and it’s time to pick up where we left off last Spring!  We will continue the Keep Wells Branch Beautiful Visioning Workshops Thursday, October 4 from 6:30-8:30pm at the Community Center on Klattenhoff, We took the summer off and the next session will focus on tactical actions to implement the strategies from the last workshop. This will call for forming Task Forces to put our plans into action.

The Visions, Blocks and Strategies Charts from previous workshops can be found on the Wells Branch Neighborhood Association website: www.wbna.us under Community, Visions for Wells Branch.  If you look at the Strategies chart you will see that the community is already actuating some of them.

These workshops are open to all Wells Branch residents and are for the purpose of moving our community forward, increasing participation and confronting the issues that are before us. Come get “your oar in the water.”

For questions, contact George Holcombe at 512-252-2756 or geowanda@earthlink.net.

Thank YOU, Dianne!

Many THANKS to Dianne Koehler! Her summer mini-art camps enriched & entertained 51 kids, 76 campers & 9 teen volunteers, not to mention her MORE THAN Generous Donation of 50% of her gross proceeds to the Wells Branch Trees for Trails to buy trees for our parks. $1,520!!! Thank you Dianne for all that you do for our community!!!

Special THANKS to all who participated in our July 4th Silent Auction!

Photo by Holly Thompson

We’d like to thank our community for supporting the WBNA in our fundraising efforts.  Our Fourth Fest Silent Auction raised $2,781.00!  Best EVER!  Thank you to all our donors and participants. Its purpose was to raise enough money to pay for National Night Out, the annual Easter Egg Hunt,  Friday night at Luminary Fest in December and to help with our educational/safety programs.  We exceeded our goal thanks to all of YOU!  Whether you were a donor, a buyer, or the WB MUD who let us use their facilities, you all made a tremendous difference and the WBNA is grateful!

When you see the neighbors listed below, please thank them for supporting our community.  In addition, we hope you’ll patronize these businesses and join us on October 2nd for Wells Branch’s National Night Out Against Crime.

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A plea from our neighbors along our greenbelts…

Submitted by Ed & Kay Peterson

Given the continued drought this summer and the risk of wildfires, we are asking you, our neighbors, to please refrain from smoking along our trails and in our parks, parking on the grass, riding dirt bikes in the fields or other potential hazards until this risk subsides. We are under a mandatory burn ban so if you see anyone doing any of these things, please remind them that it’s just not safe right now.

We lost so many trees to the drought last year; we would hate to lose more due to a fire or worse yet, have a fire spread to our homes. Please, please, please, use caution when doing any activity outside, recreational or otherwise.

Click HERE to download a comprehensive wildfire prevention plan from the Texas Forest Service or look under our “Safety” tab for articles on Fire Safety.  Below is a link to the  FEMA website for further information on wildfires if you are interested.  In addition, there are several Fire Safety articles featured on this website under “Safety”.  Thanks and stay safe.

Willow Run Affordable Housing Update

Submitted by Scott Swain

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT of The Wells Branch Neighbors for Responsible Development (WBNRD)

6:30PM • Wednesday, August 8 • Wells Branch Community Center, 2106 Klattenhoff

This meeting of the WBNRD is to invite our Neighbors of Wells Branch to join in our opposition to The Waters at Willow Run Apartment development.

The meeting will be short, with a history of our efforts, a rundown on what is up next, and our needs to meet these challenges. Your skills are needed in this effort.

We have work to do in preparation for a coming meeting in our Neighborhood with The Texas Dept. of Housing and Community Affairs, representatives of Atlantic Housing, and YOU, the Neighbors of Wells Branch.

For more information, click HERE or select the “Community” tab, then “Opposition” drop down.  Thank you!

If you are not able to attend, but would like to participant in this effort, please email me at scottswain@maxavenue.com

Thank you for your support of our Neighborhood,

Scott Swain

New Format for MUD Board Meetings begins August 7

Submitted by Chuck Walters, President, Wells Branch MUD Board of Directors

The MUD Board has two meetings monthly whereby the first meeting on the first Tuesday of the month is a Work Session and the second meeting on the third Tuesday of the month is the regular Business Meeting. The meetings start at 6:30pm and are held at the Wells Branch Community Center on Klattenhoff unless otherwise posted.

We will be returning to concentrate on a specific agenda item for the Work Session meetings only.  What will be new is the way we will provide ability for residents to have additional input on the Work Session agenda item.

  • The meeting will have the regular ‘Citizen Communication’ at the beginning.
  • During the Work Session agenda item, the Board and Committees will set the goal for the discussion and provide an overview or opening comments.
  • During the discussion of the item, residents may step to the podium and will be recognized to share their comments with a 3 minute time limitation. Questions from Board on the comments may extend this time.
  • In recognition of overall time limits to complete the Work Session item and the entire agenda the Chair may place further restrictions if needed.

This week’s Work Session will focus on the 2012-2013 budget.  Please see the link below to download the agenda.

Wells Branch MUD Agendas

We look forward to having this added opportunity for your feedback.  The Board will evaluate the process as we move forward.

Chuck Walters
President
Wells Branch MUD
Board of Directors