Board Meeting from Sept 15

 

Occurred

Sept 15, 2025
Taylor Home

Attendees

President Deanne Kearney

VP Brian Keller

Secretary Adrienne Taylor

Treasurer Tom Mast

Topics of discussion: 

Oct 3rd meeting and cook out planning

How to Casino Beach planning done faster

Oct ? Fort Worth Litter Stomp

Recent alligator activity

Hosting a Christmas lighted boat parade party again

Exploring lane striping on Watercress

Further decisions were made about our October 3rd meeting

• VP Brian Keller will provide the grill and will buy the hotdogs, brats and buns
• Jim Kearney has been volunteered to do the grilling
• Treasurer Tom Mast will manage collecting money for t-shirt sales and food purchases
• President Deanne Kearney will provide tables and table cloths for the food neighbors bring
• Deanne will also bring plates and napkins
• We have one volunteer for early set up so far, Barbara Wooten
• We will be inviting the Marshals, other NA presidents, and the Sailboat Club Commodore
• Brian will provide an update from TxDOT about the construction
• The Casino Beach committee will provide an update on their progress
• Dave Bowden will be given time to discuss his ideas for possible lake restriction changes
• Brian will invite Jared Wood from the Nature Center to talk with us about the alligators

Casino Beach Development

Deanne shared her interactions in the last month with Scott, Joel McElhany, and Dave Lewis.  Very little information has been gathered about their progress in developing and distributing an SOI for Casino Beach.  A suggestion was given to Deanne by someone familiar with the inner workings of the city to try to get a petition going for the City of Fort Worth to put in pickleball courts (specifically at Casino Beach) as the City of Fort Worth has never put in courts for this every growing sport.  While the city has converted a few old tennis courts, surrounding smaller cities have listened to their residents and invested in many pickleball courts.  The idea would be that the angle of petitioning for pickleball courts  would be a great way to get a move on getting development begun on Casino Beach.

Oct 11 Litter Stomp

Deanne asked the city to provide us trash bags and gloves for 25 people.  She will distribute the materials on Friday October 10 on Island View Dr.  Saturday morning is the Litter Stomp.  We’re just to walk around our own areas (streets, water line, parks and common areas), fill up our trash bags and dispose of the trash in our own trash cans.

Recent Gator Activity

Neighbors on Peninsula Club West have reported a large alligator dwelling under their docks recently.  The nature center was contacted, but they perhaps don’t choose to relocate all alligators.  We will be inviting Jared Wood to speak at our meeting about the alligators, or hope to gather more information from him to present at the October 3rd meeting.

2025 Christmas Lighted Boat Parade

While we don’t yet know the date from the sailing club of the Christmas Parade of Lights (possibly December 6th), we mentioned repeating the event this year as last year’s event was a success.

Exploring Lane Striping on Watercress

It is a common complaint about how dangerous driving on Watercress can be as people tend to drive fast, and in the middle of the road to accommodate their speed.  Recently, Adrienne noticed fresh yellow dashed lane stripes on 8600 block of Heron Drive (near the 820 bridge).  Last winter a 17 year old driver had driven off the road on a sharp corner, the car went into the lake and tragically the driver died.  We’d like to investigate what it would take to have lane striping on parts (or all) of Watercress, and also learn from our neighbors what they think of the idea.