Everyone Loves a Garage Sale !
The Central Foothills Neighborhood Association is planning a
garage sale on Saturday May 21, 2011 in order to supplement our
dwindling operational funds. Each quarterly meeting
incurs come costs and the annual Neighborhoold Night Out has
costs associated with the event. We manage to cover
these costs with donations received at meetings and executive
committee contributions.
The garage sale will take place at the Church of Jesus Christ,
2600 West Hill Road.
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Fire Hazard Mitigation in
the Central Foothills
After contacting various
city/county/state agencies for grant money to try and do some fire
mitigation within our neighborhood association, I was contacted and
asked to sit on a steering committee that helps decide which deserving
projects around the county get grant money from the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA). The steering committee is made up of
government, private sector and concerned citizens who meet once a
month to reassess the current Ada City-County Hazard Mitigation Plan
and help to reshape it into something more user friendly and
utilitarian to the public. Hazards include floods, earthquakes,
wildfire, tornadoes and other natural disasters.
Following are links to the website and a questionnaire on how
prepared you think Ada County is in the event of natural disasters.
The website provides information on our progress, future public
meetings, and will keep you updated on our progress. It would be
great if you could take a moment (I think it took me about 3 minutes)
to answer the questions so we can get some feedback from the public on
what services could be improved. We estimate that it will take about
11 months of meetings to get the plan revised and to make decisions
regarding dissemination of grants. Hopefully in the end, we'll
be able to take advantage of a grant that could help us to make our
neighborhood better prepared in the event of a wildfire.
The Ada City-County Emergency Management web link:
http://www.accem.org/hmpu.html
We have developed a hazard mitigation survey that is ready to be
deployed via the web. The web link is as follows:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/adacounty-wewanttoknowwhatyouthink
Sincerely,
Jody Orr
CFNA President
Congratulations to the 2010 CFNA officers:
President: Jody Orr
Vice President: Julia Wright
Secretary/Treasurer: Genie Sue Weppner
If you missed the last neighborhood association meeting, and Pat Durland's Firewise presentation, you might want to check out the following links:
"A Tale of Two Homes - Wildfire" - A short video showing how an 82 year old woman prevented her home form burning in the 2007 San Diego wildfires.
"Firewise You Can Use" - Several interactive links about wildfire and reducing the risk of your home igniting.
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