General Member Meeting Schedule

Our General Member Meetings are 4 times a year on the first Thursday of the month. We also hold special events on topics important to our member neighborhoods.  

September 2, 2010 -      6:30pm, University Christian Church 2720 So. University

Topic: City of Fort Worth Budget Review: How will Cuts in Services and Funding affect Neighborhood Priorities? 

A public meeting to consider an ordinance on keeping roosters withinCity limits.

July 24, 9:00 a.m.and July 29, 6:30 p.m.-      Fort Worth Botanic Gardens Dorothea Leonhardt Lecture Hall

The City of Fort Worth has struggled with many animal control issues over the years. Recently, many of the old laws have been amended or revised to reflect a modern growing city. First, the city addressed the large animal ordinances and then more recently the “aggressive canine” issues. Each of these issues has been met with lots of public consideration during sponsored town hall meetings, to solicit the populace opinion. I believe the city has been moving in the right direction by making some positive changes. Anytime people are living in close quarters such as in a city people must consider their neighbors well being. Laws must be created that will promote peace between neighbors and across cultures. City ordinance currently allows twelve chickens of unspecified gender to be housed at any residence ½ acre or less (50 chickens of unspecified gender on 1 acre). Residents are currently using this to legally house roosters possibly for underground cockfighting. Does the City of Fort Worth Code inadvertently support cockfighting? If this doesn’t seem important, consider this fact--cockfighting has been on the rise in North Texas. I think there are several reasons the city should outlaw roosters in the city. Cockfighting is currently illegal in all lower 48 states. Closing this loophole in Fort Worth’s Municipal Code will play a key role in assisting authorities to thwart future illegal activities such as: involvement of minors, drug use, and animal cruelty. This argument may look like the old arguments of outlawing cockfighting, but allowing gaps in the system puts us back into the same situation. Closing this loophole, in Fort Worth’s Municipal Code, will promote peace among neighbors. Allowing even twelve chickens of unspecified gender to be cooped at a residence supports small scale cockfighting; it is time the City of Fort Worth made a statement about its position on all cockfighting. Meeting Flyer

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Past General Member Meetings

January 28th, 2010 - Annual Neighborhood Awards 6:30 p.m.   Dinner courtesy of neighborhood restaurants (including Old Neighborhood Grille, Chadra, Central Market, Mamma Mia’s and many more)                  7:00 p.m. Neighborhood Awards Ceremony

September 3, 2009 - General Member Meeting - Bylaws                 SPECIAL LOCATION! St. Stephen’s Presbyterian Church 2700 McPherson Avenue Fort Worth, TX 76109

August 24, 2009 - "A Citizen's Guide to the City of Fort Worth Budget" - Guest speaker Karen Montgomery, Asst City Manager 

Dana Burghdoff, Deputy Director of the City of Fort Worth Planning and Development Department, presented this power point on proposed amendments to the City of Fort Worth Conservation District Ordinance.  The Fort Worth City Council will vote on the amendments at its September 22, 2009 meeting where public comments on it will also be taken.

 June 4, 2009 - Neighborhood Awards -                                           Guest Speaker - State Senator Wendy Davis  Click for invitation

March 5, 2009 - Board Elections

February 4, 2009 - Business Meeting to discuss Bylaws Revision

December 4th, 2008 - Community Relations Dept

October 20th, 2008 - Urban Gas Drilling Series - OAGP Panel 7pm      

September 18th, 2008 - Urban Drilling Education Series -Environmental Impact click here for more info including times and location

September 4th, 2008 - Potluck Dinner Come and share what's happening in your neighborhood and get to know other neighborhoods as well. Bring a side dish, vegetable or dessert and the League will provide the main course (meat) and drinks. 

August 28th, 2008 - Gas Pipelines and Imminent Domain             

June 5th, 2008 - Rick Disney, Attorney - Title of his talk for our membership is "Update on Gas Lease Issues." 

April 17, 2008 - Presidents' Forum   Get More Info  This event will be held at the Botanical Gardens

March 24, 2008 - City Manager Dale Fisseler's State of the City Address

February 9, 2008 - Neighborhood Workshops & Awards

Click Here for the list of classes at the workshop         

November 1st, 2007 - City Managers / NUSA Awards Reception

October 23rd, 2007 - Gas Well Educational Event for NA Presidents

September 6th, 2007 - Code Enforcement Update/ FWISD Update

July 5th, 2007 - Police Chief/ Fire Chief

June 20th, 2007 - Homeless and Housing Trust Fund Education

May 3rd, 2007 - Coffee with the Mayor - Mike Moncrief

March 22nd, 2007 - Gas Well Lease Educational Event

March 1st, 2007 - Street Maintenance Strategy and Code Rangers- Election of Officers

February 15th, 2007 - Gas Well Lease Educational Event

Feb 4th "Stand Up for Education" An Educational Forum 

November 2nd, 2006 - City Services We will have several speakers who are looking for neighborhood input on issues such as code compliance, transportation, city streets and more. Please come prepared to share your neighborhoods opinions. Click Here for Presentations

May 7th, 2006 -  Coffee with the Mayor Mayor Mike Moncrief

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