Neighborhood Association Committees

Our neighborhood committees provide neighbors more opportunities to get involved and help make our community a better place to live. Please consider joining a committee to make your voice heard and help shape our neighborhood. 
Executive Committee

President: Jeanette Swenson
Email: president@windsorpark.info
Meets: Last Monday of each month at 7 pm (currently all meetings are held virtually)

Carries out the business of the neighborhood association, sets the agenda for monthly meetings. It is composed of the president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer, but all neighbors are welcome to attend if they have questions or concerns. The current members of the executive committee are listed below.

  • President: Jeanette Swenson
  • Vice President: Chad Cotton
  • Secretary: Heather Wong
  • Treasurer: Sam Searle
  • Interneighborhood RepresentativeKeith Edwards

Important Documents

Find minutes from past neighborhood meetings here.
Find treasurer’s reports and yearly budgets here.

Beautification Committee

Chair: Rodney Ahart
Emailbeautification@windsorpark.info
Meets: 4th Thursday of each month, 6 pm, Cement Loop (in Windsor Village)

The mission of the beautification committee is to enhance, restore and protect the beauty of Windsor Park. It primarily works to organize monthly neighborhood beautification projects such as litter clean up along Berkman or Cameron Road. Its biggest project is currently to create signage in the neighborhood to showcase our neighborhood pride.

 

Climate Committee

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Chair: Martin Luecke
Email: climatechange@windsorpark.info
Meets: First Sunday of each month

The Windsor Park Climate Committee is a group of neighbors who are concerned about the climate crisis and are taking active steps toward resolving it. We provide articles on climate change solutions, host events with climate change leaders, and offer tips and tools you can use to reduce your own carbon footprint. We also meet with local elected officials to lobby for climate change legislation. We meet virtually on the first Sunday of every month. Come join us!

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Newsletter and Sponsorships

Editor: Amanda Rose
Email: newsletter@windsorpark.info

The monthly newsletter is delivered free to every Windsor Park resident’s door. It contains interesting and important information about things going on in the community and keeps us all connected. Copies are also available at some local businesses and the Windsor Park Library.

We post the newsletter on our website under News every month.

Sponsorship Chair: [VOLUNTEER NEEDED!]
Email: sponsorship@windsorpark.info

Sponsorships help cover (almost entirely) the cost of printing our monthly newsletter. If you own a business and would like advertise to the neighborhood, the newsletter is a great way to spread your message. Please check out our sponsorship page if you’re interested in learning more.

Parks Committee

shadesChair: Jeanette Swenson
Email: parks@windsorpark.info

Meets: TBD

Works on beautifying the neighborhood, with a focus on Bartholomew Park and our newest park, Pomerleau Park (off Patton Lane). It organizes occasional workdays in the park, spearheads the effort to establish wildlife-friendly yards throughout the neighborhood, and is currently working to raise funds for general parks projects. If you’re interested in donating, please click on the PayPal button below.

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Enlivenment Committee

Chair: Mohan Rao

Email: enlivenment@windsorpark.info

Meets: TBD

The Enlivenment Committee supports vibrant spaces and events within Windsor Park that increase neighborhood engagement and foster community vitality.  We help build a thriving, distinctive, healthy, attractive, engaged, inclusive, diverse and visionary neighborhood through:

Creative Placemaking

Using the arts, architecture, landscaping, and imagination to create or support temporary or permanent spaces that add vitality, beauty and distinction to the neighborhood and/or bring people together

Community Building / Community Engagement

Partnering with the other WPNA committees, when appropriate, to plan events that bring people together for fun, for learning, and for contributing to the betterment of our neighborhood and beyond

Business Development

Attracting, supporting, and promoting businesses that serve the needs of Windsor Park residents while being engaged and responsible neighbors

Local Economies

Encouraging the sharing of resources, bartering, giving away, buying local

Land Stewardship and Ecological Health

Partnering with the Climate Change and Beautification Committees to encourage sustainable landscaping practices that are good for the environment

Safety Committee

Chair: White Snake

Email: safety@windsorpark.info

Works to educate Windsor Park residents about concerns of safety in the community. It represents the interests of Windsor Park at commander’s forums and to the Austin city council to advocate for more police presence in our neighborhood. It encourages neighbors to form neighborhood watches on their streets and participate in National Night Out, a night to organize block parties or neighborhood get togethers and be informed about crime in the area.

Schools Committee

Chair: Emily Vitris

Email: schools@windsorpark.info

Meets: First Wednesday of the month at 7 pm. Currently, all meetings are held virtually. Please email to find out more.

Works to collaborate with seven of our neighborhood schools: Harris Elementary, Blanton Elementary, Andrews Elementary, Bertha Sadler Means YWLA, Gus Garcia YMLA, LBJ High and Northeast High Schools. Its primary goal is to increase communication with our public schools and advocate for our neighborhood with AISD leadership. It recognizes teachers during teacher appreciation week and provides scholarships to graduating seniors. It also looks for volunteers in the community to provide tutoring or to present during career days at the schools. Members also participate on the Campus Advisory Committees of the schools in order to understand better what is happening in the schools and be more aware of opportunities for the neighborhood to be involved.

Our school’s committee meets every 4-6 weeks, and meetings are open to all Windsor Park residents. Please email us if you’d like to attend our next meeting.

Schools Committee Advocacy:

Read communications sent to AISD by the WPNA Schools Committee and learn about the latest advocacy efforts.

Click here to see the Public Access Advocacy page.

 

WPNA Scholarship for High School Seniors

The Windsor Park Schools Committee raises local donations for scholarships in the amount of $1,000 each, for Northeast & LBJ High School seniors and any Windsor Park residents attending other AISD high schools. 

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Transportation Committee

Chair: Hector Martel

Email: transportation@windsorpark.info

Meets: TBD – contact chair for more info

Safe and efficient transportation is a major concern in the neighborhood, especially with increasing traffic along Cameron Rd and Berkman Dr. This committee discusses transportation issues in the community and works with the city of Austin to resolve problems (for example, needs for stop signs or lights, traffic calming, etc).

Yard of the Month Committee

Co-Chairs: Sandi Wilcox

Email: yom@windsorpark.info

Meets: 1st Saturday of each month, 9 am. Contact the chairs to find the meeting place.

Identifies yards that introduce beauty and practicality to the neighborhood. If you wish to nominate your yard or a neighbor’s yard please contact the team at the email address listed. The yard of the month is featured on our website and recognized at our monthly meeting. The winner(s) of yard of the month receive a gift certificate from Shoal Creek Nursery.

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Scholarships

Seven of our eleven 2023 Scholarship recipients being recognized at our June WPNA meeting. Please support our scholarship effort by contributing below through our secure PayPal site.

Fundraising

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