Tuesday night’s snow started a little too late to affect the evening’s slate of community-group meetings. At the old Fauntleroy schoolhouse, the Fauntleroy Community Association looked back and looked ahead. More after the jump:

Judy Pickens is putting together the FCA’s annual report, and suggested the look back to consider what 2010’s theme had turned out to be. Three significant issues/events topped the list – the county’s search for a solution to Combined Sewer Overflows (CSO), Washington State Ferries changes and cuts, and the Fauntleroy Fall Festival.

FCA president Bruce Butterfield talked about the “green” solution that King County is pursuing to reduce CSOs in the “basin” that FCA serves, the one the feeds the Murray pump station. Dealing with the CSO issue took a lot of time and energy in 2010, for local community groups like FCA as well as for the county. her Before the county announced its intention last month, FCA had planned to bring Linda Sullivan from the Wastewater Treatment Division to this meeting to talk about its ideas for a solution involving storage tanks by the Fauntleroy schoolhouse. Now that’s a moot point – but the board said they’d still like her to come back to Fauntleroy, for a community meeting explaining the county’s plans.

Regarding the ferries, FCA’s Gary Dawson talked about the latest cut proposals, which came out before Governor Gregoire’s suggestion to turn them into a regional operation. For the Fauntleroy-Vashon-Southworth route, Dawson said, the state proposed reducing night/weekend service. In the short run, he said, that would lengthen lines, but in the long run he thought that might cut down on ferry use overall, which would reduce neighborhood traffic, a longstanding concern for FCA. He’s planning to attend an advisory-group meeting next month to hear the final budget numbers for the ferry system.

As for the Fauntleroy Fall Festival – with last year’s edition considered a major success – most of the looking ahead had to do with how much FCA should plan to spend, in the context of overall discussion about the group’s 2011 budget.

One more look ahead: The FCA’s annual membership meeting is getting close, coming up March 15th. But the FCA board will have one more meeting to finalize details before that date – in February.

Find Fauntleroy Community Association online at fauntleroy.net, and on Facebook by going here.