T-Mobile is located at Pasadena & Southmore.

The First Annual “Strawberry Stroll” 5K Walk/Run will be held November 6th, 2010 at Strawberry Park Pasadena TX. Registration will begin at 7am. For more information www.strawberrystroll.com

The North Pasadena Business Association awarded Slick’s Carwash and Detailing with its July NPBA Beautification Award.

Slick’s Hand Carwash and Detailing, located at 205 Shaw Ave., opened its doors in November 2008.

The carwash serves residential, commercial, and industrial customers and is open Monday through Saturday.

Our guest speaker will be Paul Davis of Second Century Development. He
will be talking about the new businesses that are coming to Pasadena and the business climate in our area. As Paul likes to put it, “Everything I ever wanted to know about Economic Development, I learned in Kindergarten”!!

Please join us for this enjoyable and informative meeting in the conference room at the Pasadena Public Library at 11:30am.
Feel free to bring your lunch. Water and coffee will be available.
For more information, you may call 832-724-4459.

ABC Dental is located at 1500 Southmore Pasadena

Last year ABC Dental Owner Dr. Jabbary purchased 3,000 bicycles and asked his staff at ABC Dental and volunteers from the community to help him reach his goal of providing a Christmas present for children from lower income backgrounds.

Please join us at The Pasadena Public Library, 1201 Jeff Ginn Memorial Dr.
from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM in the conference room. Feel free to bring your
lunch. Coffee and water will be available.

If you have any questions, call me at 832-724-4459.

This is a group of local pastors from all denominations helping residents
whose homes are in need of repairs.

As usual, we will meet in the conference room at the Main Branch of the
Pasadena Public Library, 1201 Jeff Ginn Memorial Dr. from 11:30A – 1:00P.

Please feel free to bring your lunch and join us for this interesting and
informative meeting.

If you have any questions, call me at 832-724-4459 or reply to this email.

We’re looking forward to seeing you there.

They will be talking about fire hazards, code enforcement and real estate
and the impact it can have on North Pasadena.

2010 meeting dates listed at end of agenda

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PASADENA CITIZENS’ ADVISORY COUNCIL

Thursday, March 25, 2010

6:00 – 8:30 p.m.

First United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall

1062 Fairmont Parkway
at intersection of Fairmont and Strawberry

6:00 Dinner – Welcome – Review agenda
Approve February meeting notes

6:10 “Safety Moment” – presented by MEMC

6:15 Chemical Transportation Security on the Road and
the Rails

o Bryan Bass, BNSF Railroad’s Senior Manager of Homeland Security will describe some of the things done by Burlington Northern Santa Fe to keep hazardous material shipments secure from terrorists.
o Jeff Tippit of Clark Freight has been invited to do the same for trucking.
o Speakers will show us how to read placards on railcars and trucks.
o Pasadena Police Department will provide an update on enforcement of DOT truck regulations.

7:45 Updates (including but not limited to the following)

o Periodic updates from plants: highlights from plants; member questions
o Member input on plant items in the news since we last met
o Membership and Visibility Committee; 20th anniversary planning
o Booth at LEPC Safety Fair on May 22?

8:15 Future PCAC meetings

Shall we start dinner service at 5:45 due to size of group?

o Tuesday, April 27 – Tour of Kinder Morgan Liquids Terminals

o Tuesday, May 25 — Community Emergency Communications with Schools. Responding to Changing Demographics

o No June meeting
o No July meeting
o Thursday, August 26
o Tuesday, September 28
o Tuesday, October 26
o Thursday, December 2

8:20 Observer comments

8:30 Adjourn

Directions

Park in the main lot. Enter from Young St., which is parallel to Strawberry and west of the church. Enter the main doors of the church. The Fellowship Hall is a large room to your right as you enter the building.

By MARK FLEMING
Updated: 03.08.10
Census forms should begin arriving in mailboxes this week, and members of the North Pasadena Business Association heard in their Monday meeting why it is important to get everyone to complete the forms.

Yvonne Moore from the census bureau said every residential address in the country should receive one of the forms between the end of this week and March 23. The forms need to be mailed back in time to be received by April 17.

The census, which has been conducted every 10 years since 1790, is mandated by the U. S. Constitution. Its primary constitutional purpose is the allocation of representation in the House of Representatives between the states, but its importance has grown.

State and local governments use its population statistics to draw districts for representation at all levels of government.

Also, the federal government uses statistical information to determine the disbursement of billions of dollars in grant money. Each person counted in the census can lead to thousands of dollars of revenue lost or gained over the next ten years for a community.

Private businesses use census information on population and demographic characteristics to decide where they will locate and invest.

Moore said this year’s form, at 10 questions, is one of the shortest in history.

In addition to asking for each person’s name, age and date of birth, the form asks for information about sex, race and ethnicity. It also asks if the housing unit is owned, rented or lived in rent-free.

Moore said the census bureau will have assistance centers for people who cannot fill out the form on their own. One of those centers will be in Pasadena at the Cleveland-Ripley House on Fairmont Parkway.

Margie Pena, from Cleveland-Ripley, said that organization and other Neighborhood Centers are working with the bureau “to assure an accurate 2010 census.”

Both Moore and Pena stressed it is important for everyone to respond to the census.

The census needs to determine how many people live in the area, Moore said, regardless of citizenship status. When planning for services and business locations, she said, it is important to know the total number of people who are in the area.

The three requirements for someone to be counted, she said, are for a person to be human, alive, and living in the United States April 1.

The third speaker at the meeting, Patti Bodkins of the Drake Companies, introduced the association to the HUBZone program.

Many government agencies and even private companies, she said, give preference to Historically Underutilized Businesses. Often these are businesses owned by women or members of minority groups, but certain businesses also qualify based on their geographic location. Census data is used to determine if an area qualifies as a HUBZone, she said.

Parts of north Pasadena qualify currently, Bodkins said, but the new census will determine what areas qualify in the future.

Qualification as a HUBZone can not only benefit businesses already in the area, but can also provide an incentive for new businesses to locate there.