July Meeting Summary

Thanks to everyone who attended last week's neighborhood meeting, another great turnout. Special thank you to the Lopez family for opening up their home to the neighborhood! Great job on the back yard, it looks spectacular!

Neighborhood cleanup and yard sale download. Angela Angel provided a summary of last month's neighborhood clean up. Volunteers filled up the entire gigantic trash container! Thank you to Michel at Vice Mayor Ashby's office for arranging the delivery and pickup of the trash container and thank you to the folks at Waste Management for their generosity in donating the container for our cleanup! The yard sale, for those who participated, was also very successful.

Police Update. Officer Zeiger from Sac PD was in attendance and provide an update on police activities in our community. All has been relatively quiet in our neighborhood, except for the helicopter a few weeks back that was called out to assist with a domestic violence call related to the homeless encampment located south of the pump station on the east side East Levee Road. Neighbors inquired as to what can be done regarding removal of the homeless encampment, Off. Zeiger reported at he would look into the matter and report back to us at a later meeting as he was not on duty the day of the incident with the helicopter.

Update from Vice Mayor Ashby's Office.  Michel provided an update of upcoming events in the district. A link to those can be found in a prior VVA blog posting. Neighbors inquired as to the status of the train horn quiet zone application with the federal agency responsible for train traffic. Michel informed us that the application is  still pending.

Natomasbuzz. Also in attendance was Brandy Boyd, the editor of the natomasbuzz.com. Other than telling us how much she covets our neighborhood (unfortunately for sale homes in the neighborhood these days are few and far between), she talked about what she's doing with natomasbuzz . It's a great site will local news and other happenings. If you don't visit the site regularly, I highly recommend that you do so! You are welcome anytime Brandy, thanks for coming!

SMUD Discussion. There were SMUD representatives in attendance that provided an overview of the proposed fee increase. They also fielded many questions from neighbors. More about the increase can be found here: https://www.smud.org/en/residential/customer-service/rate-information/2013-residential-rate-proposal/2013-Rate-FAQs.htm

Solid Waste - Greenwaste Discussion. Representatives from the City's Solid Waste Division were in attendance to listen to neighbors concerns regarding the changes in greenwaste pick up. The biggest thing being the discontinuing of the claw service during most of the year. The claw will still be used during the months of November - December and January. The remainder of the year, we will be required to use a 90 gallon green waste bin.  Many voiced concern over the amount of greenwaste they produced and the inconvenience of having to utilize the bins. Others, especially those north of Barros, who wanted the ability to opt out of the greenwaste pick up all together, though there was not unanimity on this point. The bottom line is that the City will take our comments and determine if there is any level of flexibility for this service given the unique circumstances of VVA. Options will be brought back to the neighborhood at a future meeting.

There is no meeting in July, mark your calendars for August 21st, location TBD.

Thanks!

4th of July Parade

This year will be the 26th year of the Valley View Acres 4th of July Parade! 

Participants are requested to assemble at 10am and 4930 Tunis Road on Thursday, July 4th.  The parade will begin at 10:30am. 

There will be a potluck after the parade, please bring something to share, Libby will provide hot dogs and drinks. 

If you have any questions, please call Libby at 927-0878. 

Also, if you are able to help with the preparations at Libby's place, please head over to Libby's on Wednesday, July 3rd at 8am to noon to help set up tables, chairs and to just do general prep work. 

Thank you Libby for coordinating and hosting this event year after year! 

District 1 June 2013 Newsletter

Find it here:

http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=acd2c62235680684a6f725fca&id=e0641d88d0&e=c2a731e630

June 19, 2013 Meeting

Hi everyone, it's June already and yes, it's time for our monthly get together.

This month's will have a packet agenda with some pretty important stuff that will affect you and your family so I encourage you all to attend. Among other items, we will be discussing the proposed SMUD residential electricity rate increase and the changes to the City's greenwaste pickup program. Representatives from SMUD and the City's Solid Waste Department will be in attendance to field questions. The coming changes will have a huge effect on the disposal of greenwaste in our community, please come and share your thoughts.  Please spread the word to neighbors!

This month's meeting is graciously being hosted by the Lopez family at their home located at 5400 Sorento Road. We'll be meeting at 630 pm, as always.  Folks are encouraged to bring a beverage or a snack to share and their swim wear, the Lopez family has offered their pool for swimming after the meeting. Thanks Mike and Sheila!!

See you next Wednesday the 19th!

Nick

Summer of Fun

Council member Ashby's Summer of Fun has begun, its schedule of great events right here in N. Natomas can be found here:

http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=acd2c62235680684a6f725fca&id=0f4a70b348&e=ebe14abaef

VVA Weather

Our very own Dennis Boyd has put up a weather station in the neighborhood, if you are curious, here's the link:

http://www.wunderground.com/q/zmw:95835.1.99999