North Hills Phoenix Association Records, 1991-2011North Hills Phoenix Association Records, 1991-2011

Correspondence, newsletters, meeting agendas, financial records, and other printed material related to the North Hills Phoenix Association (NHPA) and the Berkeley-North Oakland Hills area that was affected by the 1991 firestorm. Includes materials from neighborhood associations and subgroups such as Shepherd Canyon, Vicente Canyon Association and Fourth Bore Coalition, circa 2005-2010. Also contains records of the successor organization, the North Hills Community Association (NHCA), 2009-2011. Records in the collection were largely retained by three longtime NHPA officeholders, Treasurer Howard Matis, Secretary Dolores Bermak, and David Kessler, who served as President from 1994 to 2010. Kessler retrieved the bulk of records from Bermak and Matis, including nearly all the records created before 1999.