Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Safety First Program - Coming Soon!

To our Fellow Neighbors;
The board has been working on some ideas with other associations, police, and local government officials. We have seen recently an increase in crime in our neighborhood. We have had people who have had their vehicles broken into, egging and vandalism as well as an increase in garbage in our community areas. We are looking at implementing the following programs to help curb these issues.
1. COP Program: The Cellular on Patrol program is compiled of persons in our neighborhood who have taken training through the police department and given access to our local police officers so we are more observant of what goes on in our community. Signs will be placed in our neighborhood to let people know we are part of the COP Program. Please contact the board if you wish to help out.

2. The board as part of the safety program is looking at implementing a community vehicle ID system. This would entail two vehicle stickers per household for current HOA members. This is to allow everyone in our community to easily identify vehicles that belong in our neighborhood and would assist local police as to vehicles who are out of place in our neighborhood. If additional stickers are needed they would be available at a small fee. More information to come!

3. We are currently looking at putting IP Video Cameras at our entrance to the community to help in the security of the neighborhood. This may be a more cost effective strategy then putting in a gate system as it would cost more and there would be more maintenance and we would then become responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of our streets. If this is implemented we would also include this monitoring system in the community areas such as the park and parking lot, along with signage notifying others that they are under video surveillance!

Based on the input we have received from a variety of reliable sources the board feels these measures will go a long way to help prevent future incidents. Please any constructive input is welcome as well as volunteers to help keep our community stay safe.