Nieghborhood Meeting Follow-Up
On Saturday, September 13, 2008, the B-BAR-H Ranch residents met at the VFW Hall to discuss a Neighborhood Watch and plan for a second meeting. There were about 30 or more people in attendance. The meeting began sharply at 10:00 a.m., and some of the residents stayed and talked until almost 12:30 p.m.The meeting agenda and speakers were as follows:
1. Curtis Schway, BAR-H Ranch resident, welcomed everyone and thanked them for coming to the meeting. Curtis briefly defined the meeting's intention to reduce problems in our neighborhood by coming together as a group of concerned property owners. He introduced his wife, Laura, who is available as our Spanish translator for our non-English speaking neighbors.
2. Pat Carney, BAR-H Ranch resident, summarized and reviewed upcoming neighborhood County-sponsored events. Here's a summary of the three main events:
•September 9–Earthquake Drill November 13
•October 11-Neighborhood Clean Up at Bubbling Wells Elementary School VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
•October 25–Neighborhood Conference in Palm Desert
See other blog posts on this page for more details pertaining to each event.
Pat introduced the Guest Speakers:
•Deputy Sheriff Lori Hardcastle, Sheriff’s Dept. (Neighborhood Watch)
•Office Mary Overholt, Code Enforcement Dept. (Area Updates)
•David W. Newton, President, I-10 Corridor Neighborhood Watch
1. Curtis Schway, BAR-H Ranch resident, welcomed everyone and thanked them for coming to the meeting. Curtis briefly defined the meeting's intention to reduce problems in our neighborhood by coming together as a group of concerned property owners. He introduced his wife, Laura, who is available as our Spanish translator for our non-English speaking neighbors.
2. Pat Carney, BAR-H Ranch resident, summarized and reviewed upcoming neighborhood County-sponsored events. Here's a summary of the three main events:
•September 9–Earthquake Drill November 13
•October 11-Neighborhood Clean Up at Bubbling Wells Elementary School VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
•October 25–Neighborhood Conference in Palm Desert
See other blog posts on this page for more details pertaining to each event.
Pat introduced the Guest Speakers:
•Deputy Sheriff Lori Hardcastle, Sheriff’s Dept. (Neighborhood Watch)
•Office Mary Overholt, Code Enforcement Dept. (Area Updates)
•David W. Newton, President, I-10 Corridor Neighborhood Watch
3. Questions & Answers - Large group discussion. The group spent the rest of the meeting in a question and answer session.
We closed with the announcement of the next meeting date scheduled for September 27, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. at the VFW Hall.
If you have any questions or comments please submit them by clicking on the Comments Link below.
Labels: B-BAR-H Ranch Residents Invited, code enforcement, neighborhood watch
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2 Comments:
It's 9pm on a Tuesday night and that band on Long Canyon is playing again. This is insane... We need to stop this! I hope people are calling the Sheriff's Dept.
I help run a neighborhood watch group in Tacoma WA in an area known as Hilltop, we started in 1990 when we were the 7th most dangerous place to live in the US. We have since reduced crime here by 82%, not knowing the details of your issues I can't totally address what you might be dealing with, but as far as problem neighbors there are plenty of responses that don't require law enforcement.
If the problem is a rental you can start a phone chain to call the landlord, where one neighbor calls at 6PM, the next at 7PM, etc. This way they can't claim harassment by one individual. Also call the police in groups thru a telephone tree (you call, then call a neighbor, who then calls the police, and they call another neighbor) law enforcement takes an issue more seriously when more people are involved.
We've gotten local churches to call a landlord, and threaten to come to his house in his 'high end' community and picket it as a man who rents to gang members, etc.
We've gone on line and found out that landlords belong to a blog, and told their friends what kind of people they rent to, etc.
The ideas are endless. If it's homeowners it's harder, but there are tools for that. Feel free to email me if you have specific problems I might be able to share resources on. I hope you've continued to meet, thats VERY important. It's easy to get together and vent out issues, but if you can't sustain that thru action, the problem people win, and you lose the peace of your neighborhood to them.
Jeanie Peterson, Hilltop Action Coalition hac@harbornet.com
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