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Father’s Day Car Show 2024

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As a public service, to help spread the word for an annual local event, Bernal Church is hosting an event for Foster the City

Where: 160 Bernal Rd
San Jose, CA 95119
When:   June 16, 2024
9:00AM – 2:00PM

This is their annual Father’s Day Car Show benefiting foster families. Come support Foster the City, a coalition of churches training support teams for foster families and increasing stability for the children from hard places.

Entrance is free. Raffle with many prizes suitable for all ages! Come enjoy the show, have some BBQ. Donations encouraged! All proceeds go to the organization, Foster the City

LPNA Board Meeting – May 28, 2024

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This is a Board meeting to plan for our upcoming General Meeting (June 20, 2024) and NNO (August 6, 2024). The board meetings are open to public attendance.
Board meeting Agenda:
  1. Draft LPNA June General Meeting agenda (all discuss and finalize):
    1. LPNA Update
    2. SJPD
    3. D10 Council Office Update
    4. Presenter, or make D10 update us on Homelessness activities.
  2. 2024 NNO Planning (all)
  3. Los Paseos Park trees and native plant garden update (a quick update by Barbara)
  4. Mailchimp discussion. Survey (?) to get member inputs regarding engagement (all)
  5. BRNA meeting update to LPNA board (Greg)
Zoom link for LPNA board meeting:
Topic: LPNA Board meeting, May 28, 2024
Time: May 28, 2024, 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Reporting Illegal Fireworks

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With the summer holidays approaching, the warmer weather, fire season, and school drawing to a close there will undoubtedly be people with more time on their hands. Often, it ends with mischievous behavior, if not outright illegal. One of the prevalent problems facing our community is the repeated use of fireworks. Fireworks in the City of San Jose are illegal!

Many in the community worked tirelessly with the City and law enforcement agencies to update the City’s laws and enforcement policies regarding the use of illegal fireworks.

The city is taking a slightly different approach this year.  They are requesting to NOT report illegal fireworks via the police emergency or non-emergency phone numbers. Instead, they updated their 311 app to allow quicker and more efficient reporting of illegal fireworks.

    • Use of the app in anonymous mode results only in data collection for trouble spots around the city, and no citations issued.
    • However, if you log in to the 311 app, code enforcement will be notified and citations issued to the offending party

Video of LPNA Meeting on March 21, 2024

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For those unable to attend the last meeting due to other commitments, we are posting the video here for your viewing.


00:00 Introductions
01:55 LPNA Business and Neighborhood Update
21:00 US Congressman Jimmy Panetta
41:50 District 10 Councilmember Arjun Batra – D10 updates
59:20 SJPD updates – Captain Steve Donohue
1:19:40 Open Space Authority – Gavin Comstock & Teri Rogoway presentation on Mayyan Ooyakma – Coyote Ridge Open Space Preserve
2:02:50 Next meeting update

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Quarterly Meeting for Q1 2024

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Hello, Los Paseos Neighbors.

Join us at 7:00 pm Thursday, March 21 for the quarterly meeting of the Los Paseos Neighborhood Association. The Zoom link for the meeting is below.

This important community meeting will feature updates from

  • Congressman Jimmy Panetta
  • D10 Councilman Arjan Batra
  • SJPD Southern Division Captain Steve Donohue.

Our Featured Presentation: 

Gavin Comstock, Volunteer Programs Administrator for Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority.

Máyyan ‘Ooyákma – Coyote Ridge is the newest preserve. Comprised of rare, sensitive serpentine grasslands, this unique landscape is a biodiversity hotspot for endangered plants and animals, including the Bay Checkerspot Butterfly.  Springtime affords an incredible show of wildflowers as well.

Discover how you can enjoy all that this new open space offers — as a visitor or a volunteer.

SAVE THE DATE:

March 30:  Volunteer Day in Los Paseos Park — help with trimming, weeding, and planting in the Los Paseos Park.

April 20:  Great American Litter Clean Up — join D10 leadership to clean up areas around the Los Paseos neighborhood. Specifics to be announced.

Get involved and learn what is happening around your neighborhood and in your city! We look forward to seeing you on March 21 at 7:00 pm.

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LPNA Free Street Trees Project

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Hello, Neighbors. The message below is from LPNA Treasurer, Barbara Canup…

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We’ve planted the first batch of street trees under LPNA’s BeautifySJ grant, and we have some applications in the pipeline, but that leaves us with funding for a couple of additional trees.

 

We want to hear from you now if you have a spot in the park strip in front of your house (between the sidewalk and street) with space for a tree to thrive! We need to plant during the rain and before the grant runs out in March. Send an email to gardener@lospaseosneighbors.com. Please include your name and street address in the email.

 

We will send you the Tree Stewardship Application from Our City Forest, along with instructions. Then we will guide you through the process with OCF, and LPNA will pay the $250 fee and help with the planting.

 

(Note that the space cannot be close to a lamppost or right beside a driveway. If there is a tree already there, or the spot currently has cemented bricks, rocks, or other “hardscape”, an additional permit for removal would be required, and the cost to remove would be your responsibility.)

 

Barbara Canup

LPNA Treasurer

 

Here’s a newly planted tree with LPNA President, Greg Peck, and Pat and Vicki from Our City Forest:

LPNA Board Meeting – January 8, 2024

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This is a board meeting to discuss issues and direction for the upcoming 2024 year

Agenda:
1. Review Cycle 6 BeautifySJ Grant to be ready for imminent submission by Barbara – Barbara
• 2024 event ideas
2. Park projects
• Meet with PRNS to discuss our list. Set up meeting
• Volunteers for weeding at the Los Paseos Park – write email to LPNA members
• Volunteers for other projects during the year (combine with the above in the email to LPNA members)
3. Los Paseos Tree project update – Barbara
4. San Jose Housing projects locally, and LPNA inputs
5. Constant Contact, MailChimp, or other?
6. LPNA inputs for our members to inform them of D10 Councilmember forums
7. Ideas to increase LPNA membership
8. Start a short list of presentations for our March meeting (this can be done by email amongst the Board, including inputs from LPNA members)
9. Other
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Zoom link for the LPNA Board meeting on Monday, January 8, 2024 meeting:
Topic: LPNA Board Meeting – January 8, 2024
Time: Jan 8, 2024, 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Video of LPNA Meeting on December 7, 2023

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For those unable to attend the last meeting due to other commitments, we are posting the video here for your viewing.

00:00 Call to Order
01:35 Approval of minutes from Sept. 21 General Meeting
02:30 LPNA business and neighborhood update
03:00 Annual Election of Officers
05:15 Los Paseos Park update
09:20 Chemical-free weed abatement at Los Paseos Park – Hita Modha
20:45 Volunteer Opportunities at Los Paseos Park
23:15 Park Strip Street Tree Project
26:12 Community Events update
29:30 District 10 Council Office update – Arjun Batra
50:38 SJPD update – Captain Steve Donohue
1:06:30 San Jose Recycling – Linden Skjeie
1:38:45 Santa Clara County Hazardous Waste – Andrew Park
1:54:50 Object Detection Pilot in D10 (an AI tool using cars and cameras to detect blight) – Albert Gehami
2:14:35 Next meeting – tentatively, Thursday, March 21, 2024

Quarterly Meeting for Q4 2023

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Hello, Neighbors, see the Zoom link and the Meeting agenda below…

Topic: LPNA Qtrly Mtg – Thursday, December 7, 2023, 7 pm
Time: Dec 7, 2023, 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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AGENDA…

Join our meeting to learn about the goings-on here in our neighborhood and in other parts of the City, and learn about recycling and hazardous waste processes.

The LPNA quarterly meeting (December 7, 2023. 7 p.m. Zoom) agenda is:

  1. LPNA update on events and LPNA projects.
    1. LPNA Officer elections.
    2. Los Paseos Park– update on ten trees planted in December with the help of Our City Forest, update on non-chemical weed abatement (working with PRNS and neighborhood volunteers), update on native plant garden planted in 2021.
    3. Parking strip trees– Trees from Our City Forest for Los Paseos residents who lost a parking strip tree. LPNA and OCF will help with permits and planting. Six trees were purchased with funds from the Cycle 5 BeautifySJ grant.
    4. Holiday Event held on December 2, 2023, at the Los Paseos HOA clubhouse.
  2. District 10 Council office update – Councilmember Arjun Batra, Michelle Dexter
  3. SJPD update for our area – Captain Donohue’s update on Los Paseos statistics and other local and city information.
  4. San Jose Recyclingand Santa Clara County Hazardous Waste: goals, process, and how to do it best. We want to help the neighborhood have less impact on the environment.  – Linden Skjeie, M.S. (CSJ), and SCC HW inputs

Regards,

Greg Peck

President, LPNA

Sept 21 2023 General Meeting Minutes Final