This is to let people know of a meeting next Monday (March 23rd) of the Fitzgerald Neighborhood Alliance, to be held at The Pointe. The Alliance is a consortium of people who live and/or work in the Fitzgerald Neighborhood, which, roughly speaking, comprises the fifteen city blocks bounded by 7th,… Read more »
From Friends of the Skyway (instructions to reply refer to the skywaysaintpaul email address): Help Activate the Saint Paul Skyways — even 2–3 minutes helps! 1) Stakeholder Survey — Share with two people We’re gathering a balanced picture of how people use (or don’t use) the skyways. Action: Forward… Read more »
In the aftermath of the struggle to post announcements about the City Walk Talk newsletter to the bulletin boards, I heard* that one board member suggested that they vote on removing the bulletin boards entirely! Thankfully, nothing seems to have come of this, but it underscored the need for channels… Read more »
The main purpose of this posting is to encourage everyone at City Walk to join the newly formed Friends of the Skyway. You can contact them at skywaysaintpaul@gmail.com — feel free to email me at bcipra@rconnect.com if you have questions. The skyway is one of the (many) attractive features of living… Read more »
In the February 23 board meeting, board president Ray Aguirre made an attack on Social Committee chair Ruth Markovitz that I believe was unjustified on every possible level. You can listen to the first five minutes of the incident here: And you can consult the audio recording and AI-generated transcript… Read more »
Our HOA’s governing documents are poor scans of typewritten pages, which makes it impossible to search them and hard even to read them. I’d like to convert them all to real text using an automated service, but need volunteers to help proofread the results, comparing them to the original PDFs… Read more »
I’ve been having lots of trouble posting this card to the bulletin boards. For over a week, somebody was removing them as quickly as I could put them back up, I assume because they wanted to prevent more people from subscribing to my newsletter and reading the content on this… Read more »
We’ve received our packets for the 2026 Annual Meeting, and I have an issue with this year’s proxy form. You can read more about how they generally work here, but the problem with this year’s form is that, if an owner doesn’t name the person they want to receive the… Read more »
Last week I received a disturbing email from a board member attempting to suppress my speech about problems I see in the governance of the HOA. It refers to posts or comments I’ve made in the City Walk Facebook group, but doesn’t specify what they were. At no time did… Read more »
At this year’s annual meeting, I plan to vote for Laura Park for the board. I believe she can improve the transparency, accessibility, responsiveness, and civility of our HOA leadership You can view a recording of the Candidate Forum at which she spoke here, and you can read more about… Read more »
