PPO General Meeting

April 28, 2009

Agenda• Introduction of the board (5 minutes)

• Treasurer’s Report (5 minutes)

• Website update (20 minutes)

• Roadwork update (10 minutes)

• Summer Events (10 minutes)

• Spring Community Project (15 minutes)

• Evacuation Signage & Loma Gate Repair (15 minutes)

• What makes Palomar Park Unique (20 minutes)

• Open issues (10 minutes)

• Raffle (must be here to win) (5 minutes)

Introduction of the Board

• Kurt Oppenheimer – President• Jeff Garratt – Vice President• John Claude – Treasurer • Carol Mondino – Secretary• Bernie Wooster-Wong – News Letter & Web Editor • Chris Myers – Web Editor• Kathryn Bedbury• Joe Marshall• Kate FitzGerald – Temporary board member

Treasurer’s Report• PPO is a CA corporation filing as a residential real estate

association.• PPO Financials:

– Approx. $6,000 revenues in 2008– $12,200 in our checking account (Citibank, San Carlos)– $4,400 in a six month CD– Zero debt

• Membership is at 33% (107 of 300 properties)• Planned expenditures for 2009

– Community Projects (Picnic, Work parties etc.)– Community Communication – Web site– Raise Emergency Fund CD to $5,500 in 2009

Web Site update• Web site is up -- http://palomarpark.org

Web Site update• What do YOU want to see?

– Forum / eGroup style user generated content– Lists of contractors etc. used by community– Open member forum (Yelp style) to review businesses– Posting of Member Sponsored Events– More Palomar history– Photos of events / parties– Email addresses – xxx@PalomarPark.org– Option to pay dues via web

Road work update• County is repairing holes & cracks and top coating the county

roads above Bromley– Not sure about Loma road on San Carlos side of Loma Gate

• This week the holes and cracks will be repaired• Next week (the one after) the top coat will be done and will

only take a few days• County wants the top coat to dry for several hours before

allowing traffic – Emergency are the exception• County is aware that the only other alternate routes involve

lock gate• Information as available will be posted on the web site and at

the sign board at the mail box

Repairing the sign boards Spring Community Project

• Sign boards are in varying states of disrepair

• We need to– Clean and remove algae/mildew– Repair/replace any rotten wood– Restain the sign boards

• For the name plaques we need to – Make wood plaques for new owners– Replace plastic name plaques with wooden ones– Refresh older name plaques.– Update name plaques as needed

Spring Community Project

• We need volunteers to:Mid-May to Mid-June -- Help create name plaques for

the sign boards from. • This is an on-going effort as new people move in

June 6th -- Help to clean up and repair the sign boards on.June 13th and 14th – Help to prepare and stain sign board

and install new name plaques

• Please sign up with Joe– The number of volunteers determines the number of

sign boards we can

Spring Community Project

Summer Events• Summer Picnic – American Barbecue

– July 18th 12-3pm at Clifford School– If you can come early to help set up or stay after the

event to help cleaning up, that would be GREAT!

• Summer Concert Series at Burton Park – Look for the Palomar Park sign and join us. – July & August (every Friday for 6 to 8 weeks)

• We are looking for people to host a block party.

Palomar Park Evacuation Plan

1) Down the Hill -- Palomar Dr to Scenic Dr2) Loma Road Gate (Foot Traffic ONLY)3) Palomar Dr Gate at Pebble Dr4) Cervantes Rd Gate at Edgewood Rd

Evacuation CenterIncident Command Post - (Emergency Personnel ONLY)

Fire Road (Between Duggan Rd & Belle Roche)

Evacuation signage and Loma gate

• In 2008, Cal Fire developed an emergency evacuation plane for Palomar Park using four emergency routes

• Three of the four routes use non-county roads and require the passage route locked gates

• One of the routes (Loma gate) is limited to able body foot traffic due to non-passable curbing –

• Not usable by vehicles nor handicap accessible

• None of the routes are marked• Worst 3 of them state that the road is “Not a Through Street”• One road is truly a “Dead End” is not marked as such

Evacuation signage and Loma gate • Recommendations – Details on walls:

– Palomar Dr and Bromley• Add “Not a Through Street” sign

– Palomar Dr, South Palomar Dr, and Hermosa• Replace unreadable road information sign with Evacuation route sign

–Palomar Dr and Loma Court (Do we need?)• Add Evacuation route sign to pole with “End County Road”

–Palomar, Loma and Montalvo• Add “Not a Through Road” to new pole on Montalvo• Replace “Neighborhood Watch” sign with Evacuation route sign on Palomar• Add Evacuation route sign to pole with “Road Signs 500ft” on Loma

–Cervantes and South Palomar Dr• Replace “Dead End” sign with “Not a Through Road” sign• Add Evacuation route sign to above pole

Example Evacuation signage

2 - Loma Gate3 - Palomar Gate

4 - Cervantes Gate

3 - Palomar Gate

2 - Loma GateFoot Traffic Only

Cervantes Sign

Loma Sign

Palomar Sign

Palomar/South Palomar &Palomar/Loma Court Sign

Gate3

Which do you like or something else?

Option 1 Option 2 Option 3

Gates2 & 3

Gate2

Foot Traffic Only

Gate4 4

3

2Foot

Traffic Only

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Loma gate Issues• Loma Gate is broken beyond repair• Drainage curb is too high to allow vehicles to pass• Current evacuation plan designates this exit route is foot traffic only• But

– Getting to the exit requires walking up a very steep road, which many of the older or handicap residents may not be able to do

– The end of Loma RD and the gate are not passable by a handicap person – Once at the gate, there is not means to get to the evacuation center

• Soil beyond gate is not compacted in old slide area and is not recommended for vehicle traffic

Proposed Recommendation• Replace Loma Gate with a locked gate that allows foot traffic to pass • Fix Drainage issue from Loma Road• Fix curb and pavement to allow wheelchair access• Review soils report to see if vehicles could use it in an emergency.

What makes Palomar Park UniqueTo understand how an issue will impact Palomar Park, we need to better

understand what makes Palomar Park unique

• The PPO board needs your help to answers four questions:– What makes Palomar Park unique and what we need to preserve as

a community?– What defines us as Palomar Park vs San Carlos or Redwood City?– What concerns do we have a community that need to be address

over the next 5, 10 years?– How are the answers to the above the same or different from the

various parts of Palomar Park?

• Please contact Kurt Oppenheimer at Kurto@Mabija.com or 430-2566 if you would like to be part of the team

• OR send us input on the four question, please email these questions to Palomarnews@Gmail.com

• Open issues

• Please sign up to help with the sign boards.

• Please send in your thoughts on Palomar Park’s Uniqueness.

Thanks for coming!

Open issues & Raffle

Palomar Park Roads

Locked Gate

Locked Gate

No accessTo Loma RD

County Road

Paper Road

Private road

Detailed schedule:• Mid May to mid June

– Rout new name plaques– Stain and paint new name plaques– Test clean and stain one small sign board

• Small Workday (Saturday June 6)– Remove name plaques– Power scrub sign boards– Perform minor repairs

• Main Workday Saturday June 13– Sand, scrape, and clean sign boards– Restain sign boards– Paint name plaques

• Small Workday Sunday June 14– Bolt name plaques back on

Spring Community Project