Friday, July 31, 2009

Sabre Springs Planning Group Approves Project

On Wednesday, your planning group, acting as the maintenance assessment district, approved the use of approximately $40,000 in excess reserve funds for a water-wise median demonstration project. The project will remove and replace some groundcover and other landscaping on a median in Sabre Springs Parkway, just south of SR-56/Ted Williams Pkwy.

The design for the new landscape plan will now begin. Planting is scheduled to begin by this fall. The goals of the project are to reduce water and energy use as well as maintenace costs by providing a more sustainable median landscape. It is the hope of the group that the design of this new median landscaping and irrigation will serve as a template for future maintenance assessment district projects, as funds become available.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Sabre Springs Planning Group Meeting 07.29.09

Sabre Springs Planning Group
Sabre Springs Maintenance Assessment District
July 29, 2009
6:30 p.m.
Carmel Mountain Ranch/Sabre Springs Recreation Center

1. Call to order
2. Maintenance Assessment District (MAD) Report – Jaime Diez
3. Approval of meeting minutes (May 20, 2009)
4. Changes to agenda
5. Chair’s report
6. Public comment
7. Police report – Jeff Carter
8. Reports from Offices of Elected officials
a. 75th State Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher’s Office – Oscar Urteaga
b. County Supervisor Pam Slater- Price’s Office – Mark Olson
c. Mayor Jerry Sanders’ office – Stephen Lew
d. Councilmember Carl DeMaio’s office – Kelly Batten
9. Community Planner’s Report
10. Information Items
a. Community website (www.sabre-springs.com) and use of social media by planning group - Craig Levitt
The planning group will receive an update on stats for the community website and learn about ways the planning group is expanding its online presence.
b. Updates from Ad Hoc Subcommittees
i. MCAS Miramar – Mary Jean Word
ii. Parking Issues – Craig Levitt
11. Action Items
a. Excess MAD reserve funds – Craig Balben/Andy Field
A subcommittee of planning group members met with Joe Henderson, Andy Field, Jaime Diez (city of San Diego), and Nate Magnusson (Schmidt Design Group) in June to discuss excess funds in the maintenance assessment district reserves. The subcommittee will discuss its recommendation for what to do with the excess reserve funds.
b. Parking issues in the residential areas of Evening Creek Drive East, Shy Bird Lane, Granite Creek Road, and Cool Lake Way
The planning group will discuss updates on options for dealing with parking issues on these streets.
c. Parking issues on Evening Creek Drive North and South
The planning group will discuss updates on parking issues and receive an update on the status of the installation of angled parking.
d. Planning Group Executive Committee – Craig Balben
The planning group does not currently have a vice chair. The planning group will discuss options to fill this vacancy.
12. Future Planning Group Agenda Items
13. Next Meeting: September 16, 2009 at 6:30 p.m.
14. Adjournment
If you have questions about this meeting, please call Craig Balben, Chairman, Sabre Springs Planning Group at 858-486-1583.
This information will be made available in alternative formats upon request. To request an agenda format, or to request a sign language or oral interpreter for the meeting, call 235-5200 at least five working days prior to the meeting to insure availability. Assistive Listening Devices (ALD's) are available for the meeting upon request.

Friday, July 17, 2009

Vector Control

San Diego, CA July 15 2009 San Diego County Vector Control program will conduct aerial applications of mosquito larvicide at various wetlands throughout the county next Tuesday, 7/21/2009 in the North County and Wednesday, 7/22/2009 in the South and Central County.

This will be the fifth aerial drop of mosquito larvicide for the 2009 mosquito breeding season. Additional applications will be conducted at three week intervals or as needed. Higher temperatures have increased adult mosquito activity. Adult mosquito populations will be monitored every two weeks, countywide.

County Vector Control will use a helicopter to apply mosquito larvicide to local wetlands to reduce mosquito breeding. The larvicide is not toxic to humans and does not pose a risk to wildlife or the environment.

Controlling mosquito breeding is essential in preventing the spread of West Nile Virus and other mosquito-borne diseases. West Nile Virus is a mosquito transmitted disease that has its peak occurrence during the warm summer months. The symptoms of WNV include: headache, fever, nausea, fatigue, skin rash or swollen glands. About one in 150 people infected with WNV develop more severe symptoms, such as meningitis, encephalitis, or myelitis.

If you think you have symptoms consistent with WNV, contact your healthcare provider. Remember: the best protection against this virus is to prevent mosquito breeding and mosquito bites.