It's been a while, but the Hillside to the Hollow open space area is once again up for sale. Signs have been placed at multiple locations along the border of the 267 acre area. 10 separate parcels are being offered.
To help preserve this area or get more information, please visit the Land Trust of the Treasure Valley at: http://www.lttv.org
You can also contact the Mayor & City Council at: http://www.cityofboise.org/Departments/Mayor/ContactUs/page813.aspx
Act fast, April is here already !
Your Neighborhood Association (Central Foothills Neighborhood Association) in concert with the Foothills Chipper Project, Boise Fire, Parks and Planning and Development Services Departments is proud to let you know that our neighborhood has been selected to be one of three that the City of Boise is making available a chipper during April ! You likely saw the newsletter information on your door, but here it is again: Chipper Flyer
Welcome 2012 CFNA Officers:
President: Dorothy Finaldi
Vice President: Helen Thorsen
Secretary/Treasurer: Angela Wickham
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
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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