Creekside Neighborhood Association Meeting

Hello Creekside Neighbors!
This is Leslie Rubalcava a member of Creekside Neighborhood Association (CNA) and I want to invite you to come and meet other great neighbors at our next meeting on Wednesday, September 11th, at 7pm, at the Natomas Police & Community Resource Center, 2701 Del Paso Road #140 (located in the Safeway shopping center near It's a Grind & The UPS Store)
Hope to see you there!

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Natomas Police & Community Resource Center Supplies Drive

K.L.E.A.N. Up Kokomo Park

Hey Creekside! We have a new Park Ambassador at Kokomo Park. Let us introduce you to Annette Boyd, committed Natomas volunteer. Please read Annette’s message below about the volunteer group she created for Kokomo and “like” the group’s Facebook page (www.facebook.com/pages/KLEAN/431823796897028) to keep updated on upcoming park beautification projects, including this Sunday, March 10th, at 12pm. To sign up, go to www.facebook.com/events/499925093377092:
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Natomas District 1's, KLEAN, was created as part of my volunteer commitment as Kokomo Park Ambassador through the City of Sacramento’s Adopt-a-Park program, with support of the Office of Vice Mayor Angelique Ashby.

Kokomo's Litter-free Environment Action Network, KLEAN, is dedicated to empowering the community to 'get active' and 'give back' by participating in planned events and by volunteering to beautify the grounds of Kokomo Park. Kokomo Park is located at 4901 Kokomo Drive, Sacramento, CA 95835.

KLEAN hopes to rally the community in a collective effort to take PRIDE in Kokomo Park by helping to maintain its beauty through daily cleanings and monthly community service projects.

KLEAN understands that parks and natural areas are an important part of our community's identify; therefore, would like to help provide the community with a safe/beautiful environment for which to engage with one another.

KLEAN hopes to inspire the community to 'get active' in order to promote healthy lifestyles. A calendar of events, designed to promote and encourage physical activity, is currently being created and will be released month to month.

KLEAN's ultimate goal is to promote community service within the neighborhood, which may improve communication skills, increase self-esteem, develop leadership skills, improve job skills, and promote PRIDE within ourselves and the community.

KLEAN - "Inspiring the community one volunteer at a time".

Please "like" KLEAN (Kokomo Park) on Facebook.

Thank you for your support.

Annette Gilkey-Boyd
Kokomo Park Ambassador
Natomas District 1
With the support of the Office of Vice Mayor Angelique Ashby

Guns & Hoses (police vs firefighters) Basketball Game - 3/16/13

Join us for the 5th Annual Guns & Hoses Basketball Game at Inderkum High School on Saturday, March 16th, starting at 2pm. Local law enforcement and firefighthers battle it out on the court to support Inderkum High School's Safe & Sober Grad Night.



The event includes a chili cook-off, music, games, & more! Fun for the whole family!

For more information, to be a vendor, or to make a donation to Inderkum's Safe & Sober Grad Night, please go to www.tinyurl.com/IHS-GHBB or contact Elena Quintero, Inderkum Safe & Sober Grad Night Coordinator, at inderkumssgn@gmail.com.

Natomas Creek Week - 4/13/13

Join the Office of Vice Mayor Angelique Ashby and become a part of this volunteer effort to celebrate and enhance your community. Save the date! April 13th, from 8:30AM to 11:30AM. We will have two locations to choose from: NORTH NATOMAS REGIONAL PARK (along N. Park Drive/Broadwater Drive) and SAN JUAN RESERVOIR PARK (park along Bewicks Circle or Shrike Circle). To sign up, go to www.angeliqueashby.com/creek-week-2013.

Creekside Dessert Mixer! - 3/13/13

************** Hello Creekside Neighbors! This is Leslie Rubalcava a member of Creekside Neighborhood Association (CNA) and I want to invite you to come and meet other great neighbors and share your favorite dessert! Join us on Wednesday, March 13th, at 6:30pm, at the Natomas Police & Community Resource Center, 2701 Del Paso Road #140 (located in the Safeway shopping center near It's a Grind & The UPS Store). Bring your favorite dessert to share. We'll provide drinks, plates, forks, and napkins. Please email creeksidenatomas@yahoo.com if you have any questions. See you on MARCH 13th, at 6:30pm some YUMMY desserts and friendly faces! DON’T FORGET TO BRING YOUR IDEAS OF EVENTS YOU WANT TO SEE AT CREEKSIDE! Creekside Neighborhood Association an association of neighbors dedicated to celebrating the diversity of our community and ensuring that this neighborhood continue to fulfill its promise and reach its potential. http://www.creeksideneighbors.blogspot.com/

Creekside Dessert Social - 8/20/12

Meet your neighbors and share your favorite dessert! Join us on Monday, August 20th, at 7pm, at the Natomas Police & Community Resource Center, 2701 Del Paso Road #140 (located in the Safeway shopping center near It's a Grind & The UPS Store). Bring your favorite dessert to share. We'll provide drinks, plates, forks, and napkins. Please email creeksidenatomas@yahoo.com if you have any questions. See you on August 20th at 7pm for some YUMMY desserts and friendly faces!

Join us for the Annual 4th of July Creekside Community Block Party!

February 17 CNA Board Meeting Canceled

Please note that CNA board meeting has been canceled. The board will not meet this Wednesday, Feb. 17. The next meeting will be held in March. Date and time to be announced later this month.

The CNA board had planned to hear proposals from various private security companies. The board decided to table the issue of hiring private security. The board was concerned that not enough Creekside residents had been made aware of the private security proposal. The board hopes this short pause will give all Creekside residents an opportunity to weigh in on the issue. The board also noted that a temporary delay would allow surrounding communities to examine their own security needs and options. Hopefully, all neighborhoods in the Creeksdie area will join together and move forward with a community-wide security plan within the next year.

Upcoming Creekside Neighborhood Association Meetings

The Creekside Neighborhood Association meets the 3rd Wednesday of every month. You are invited to join your neighbors in discussing issues, concerns and victories affecting Creekside and the Natomas community as a whole. Please join us on the following dates:

CNA Meeting for Wed., January 20th: This is an important meeting. At this meeting Creekside residents will discuss and determine whether hiring a private security company to patrol our streets is right for Creekside. If you want private security you need to attend this meeting and be heard!

CNA Meeting for Wed., February 17th: At this meeting, Creekside will host a private security fair. Representatives from various private security companies will be available to answer your questions about their services and costs. Note: this meeting's Agenda is subject to change depending on the outcome of January 20th meeting. Meaning, if there is lack of support, or strong oppoistion to the hiring of private security, we will not have a security fair.

CNA Meeting for Wed., March 17th: Would you like to meet the candidates running for Sacramento city council (District 1). CNA will host a meet and greet for Natomas residents. This is your opportunity to meet and ask the candidates their opinion on flood control, police protection, DNA light rail, and the recently announced Arco Arena land swap deal. This meeting is subject to change in order to accomodate the candidates' schedules.

CNA Meeting for Wed., April 21st: TBA

All meeting are held at the Homecoming Apartments (behind Safeway on Del Paso Rd) on the second floor meeting room. See you there!

Health and Wellness Fair

Security Patrol in Creekside

Creekside Neighborhood Association held its regularly schedule meeting this past Wednesday. The entire meeting was dedicated to discussing whether or not Creekside should seek bids to hire a security company to patrol our community.

Matt Caroll from Paladin Security discussed the benefits of hiring a private security company at the last Creekside Neighborhood Association meeting. Representatives from Homeowner Associations located inside Creekside also attended the meeting.

Mr. Caroll summarized his experience in the industry and Paladin's philosophy toward its employees and communities it serves. Paladin comes across as dedicated to providing good customer service. Endorsements from other HOA's that employee Paladin this assertion.

The leadership at Paladin all have a background in law enforcement. Mr. Carroll was formerly with the West Sacramento Port Authority before it was privatized. He holds a number of law enforcement related accreditations. And the security officers employed by Paladin are all armed security professionals that are well trained compared to other security companies. Many security companies only observe and call the police. Not Paladin. Paladin will approach suspects, try to diffuse or prevent a situation, but will arrest suspects if necessary.

Now how much is this going to cost?

Well, I can give you generalizations but not specifics. Based on certain assumptions, it would cost each resident about $200.00 a year, or just about $16 a month. This is on the high end. There are many patrol variations that affect cost. And also depending on how large the pool of homes contracted, the per month cost could easily sink to below $10 a month.

What services would Paladin provide?

As mentioned above, Paladin offers various packages that can be custom tailored to a neighborhood's needs. But based on the above assumption and cost, this is what we would get for $16 per month:

• 3 random night patrol
• 1 random daytime patrol
• Respond to calls for service. After first calling 9-1-1, you call Paladin and they will too dispatch a Paladin officer to any calls involving suspicious activity or crime in progress. But call 9-1-1 first. Paladin is not a replacement for the Sacramento PD
• burglary alarm response
• car lock out service
• vacation check service
• battery jump service
• Paladin officers will even escort you from your car to your home if there is a suspect or situation that makes you feel unsafe
• Call city to report street light outages
• Call city to report city code violations such as abandoned cars and graffiti
• Note: Creekside is a Neighborhood Association. Creekside will not hire Paladin or another security company on behalf of all Creekside residents. Only those Creekside residents that pay the monthly fee will be entitled to the above services. I am forming an interest list. See below.
• Yard signs could be provided to indicate your home is protected by Paladin.

What is the next step?

The Creekside leadership and leadership are discussing various options on how to proceed, whether to contract with Paladin, Sac Sheriff or PD or another security company with unarmed guards. Our next meeting will we held the 3rd Wednesday in January. We need your help and input on this important decision. Please join us then. Also, please feel free to discuss on the CNA Yahoo Group.

I would like to start forming a list of those interested in contracting with a security company. I need to hear from those that are interested and willing to pay the $16 a month or less for the above provided services. We need at least 100 homes to get this off the ground. If you are interested, please email me at ucd9699@sbcglobal.net. I will add your name to a list.

In closing, I think is important that Creekside hire some form of security to patrol our neighborhoods. The communities surrounding Creekside: Westlake, Natomas Park, Homecoming Apts, John Laing Homes, and Hampton Village have all taken this step. This leaves Creekside in the middle without any security patrol. and deterrent. As we learned from Kurt McCray, Sac PD's neighborhood watch coordinator, the goal is to move crime out of your neighborhood. The problem as you can see, is we don't want the crime being pushed out of the surrounding communities into Creekside. We want to push it outward and out of Natomas altogether.

Don't remain silent on this! Get involved. Contact me and get on the forming interest list.

Sean

Security Patrol

Creekside is exploring the idea of hiring private security to patrol our streets. We need approximately 100 or so interested residents. The cost per participating home will be less than $20.00 a month. The cost will vary depending on the number of homeowners that show up and the level of service we agree upon. Please join us at our next Creekside Neighborhood Association meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 18 to discuss.

Hight Walking Wednesdays

MOMS Club of Sacramento

Looking for people to laugh, learn, grow and play with?

Did you know that there is a Greater Natomas Moms Club?

We offer a wide variety of activities for mothers and their children. Park days, play dates, mall outings, fun trips for the kids such as Fairytale Town and the Zoo, even a mom's day out!

The MOMS Club of Sacramento-Greater Natomas, invites mothers with children of all ages to join our club. Most activities are held during the day, when stay at home mothers need the most support. However, moms who work outside the home are welcome to attend any activities that fit their schedule. We believe in supporting mothers at every stage of motherhood.

Please check out our website at http://momsclub.htsnet.com/!

Next CNA Meeting, Wednesday, Jan. 20

The next Creekside Neighborhood Association meeting will be on Wednesday, Jan. 20 at 7 p.m. at the Homecoming Apartments. The main topic to be discussed will be hiring private security for Creekside. Keep checking back for updates on the meeting.

Next CNA Meeting, Wednesday, Nov. 18

Don't forget this Wednesday evening is the monthly Creekside meeting.

We will send out details on Tuesday, but please try to attend as we will be discussing security and possible ways to work together to bring security to all of Creekside.

This effort is headed up by Creekside neighborhood watch captain, Sean Avalos.

Hope you will make some time to join us and share your thoughts, concerns, interests, etc. We want your input and will need lots of participation to make it work.

Angelique, President
www.creeksideneighbors.blogspot.com

Natomas Police and Community Resource Center Looking for Donations

If you have time and a little extra to donate to the Natomas Police and Community Resource Center, they need donations of the following items....

Bottled waters
Soda
Microwave popcorn
Copy Paper
Cookies
Snacks
Bathroom supplies
Candies of any kind, individually wrapped.

These items are for volunteers and police officers who use the center daily.

It is located in the Safeway shopping center next door to the UPS Store and two doors down from Its A Grind.

Remember the center is for everyone who needs help with police reports, neighborhood watch, code enforcement or has questions about City services.

Feel free to stop by anytime and thank you for supporting the center with your donations.

Sacramento City Code Enforcement

Keeping our neighborhood clean and pleasing to the eye is very important to many Creekside residents. Recently, we have had multiple vehicles that are parked on Creekside streets for long periods of time.  Besides looking horrible from collecting dust and cobwebs, taking up space on our already narrow streets and being a magnet for crimes, these vehicles parked for long periods of time are also violating Code Enforcement.  To clean up Creekside streets, residents requested the assistance of the City.  Here are some facts provided by Code Enforcement.

"Community members are on the right track in reporting all violations.

It is important to remain diligent in reporting all crimes or violations in your community. This will not only assist in lowering crime levels, but will help to alleviate blighted conditions and hopefully in turn maintain/increase property value levels.

As far as the individual/vehicle owner being held accountable; let me explain the on-street enforcement process.

Code officers will normally respond to reported vehicles within 1-3 days. At the time of inspection the officer will:
  A. Determine the registration date/stolen (too many months out of registration may be immediately towed).
  B. Check the condition of the vehicle (missing major components may be immediately towed).
  C. Check the location/surrounding circumstances (is it leaking fluid or parked causing a hazardous situation).

All of these, and more conditions will assist in the officers' determination. Most of the time the vehicle will be marked, and the officer will return in 3 days to re-check. If the vehicle remains in the same location, it may be towed. When vehicles are towed, the owners are directly held accountable for recovery costs."

Thank you to:

Officer Sarah Novo

Business Compliance Division
Sacramento Code Enforcement Dept.
915 I St. Sacramento, Ca. 95814
(916) 808-8087
snovo@cityofsacramento.org

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