Thanks to everyone for coming out this morning. If you weren’t able to attend here is a brief recap…

Incidents
The only incidents seem to have been related to noise late in the evening and possibly an occurrence of mail theft. So, overall things have been going great with no break-ins or rampant mail theft.

The Big News is…
Both Don and Mark will be moving so they will not be able lead the Neighborhood Watch any longer. Don will be available for neighborhood cleanups and such and Mark will be around to help keep after Don’s house. So they haven’t left completely but it means we need to pick things up and make sure we don’t lose momentum.Thanks guys so much for your help getting this started. I don’t think we (Ashley and I) would feel as much a part of the neighborhood without your efforts.

What’s next?
Several folks, myself included (Dave Wheeler), have indicated they would be willing to take on responsibility in leading the watch.We will begin meeting every other week with the block captains and monthly with the entire neighborhood. Our first block captain meeting will be held on Tuesday May 6th, 2008 at 6:30pm. The location will be 2652 St. Patrick Ct. We will send out a communication before the meeting as a reminder.

Spring get together
There seems to be a number of folks who would be on board with getting this started. The weather has been great and this would really help us to get to know one another. If you would like to contribute or have any ideas please stop by the discussion started in the forums.

Save our trees
Many of the trees in the neighborhood have vines which may choke them out in the drought. To save our trees please keep the vines at bay. This affects our homes as well as those of our neighbors and some of the vacant lots. It would be a great help if we can all contribute to staying on top of this. If anyone can post more detail on the best way to handle the removal please do so. I know several of us are severely allergic to poison oak so it would be great to know if there is a hands-off approach.

Trash
The gentleman that had been providing and maintaining the trash cans in the neighborhood has removed them. This is unfortunate as it was helping to keep the neighborhood clean. If possible we can get a work day setup soon to address this in the worst areas.

I think that about covers it, please let me know if I missed anything. Feel free to sign up and hit the discussions area to comment on this or anything else.

- Dave Wheeler