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The Pubic Works Department of the County of Marin is spreading the word about a new and free Household Hazardous Waste Recycling Program for residents called "Bulb and Battery Take-Back Program", or simply 'The
BnB'.

The goal is to simply reduce and eliminate the amount of illegally disposed of hazardous waste from household products like florescent bulbs, tubes and batteries. To facilitate this; 10 local businesses have volunteered to serve as convenient collection points for residents to drop off their spent tubes, bulbs and batteries. Take the spent items with you while you're shopping and deposit them at the collection location's BnB bin for free. That's it! The Civic Center Library is collecting household batteries as well.

More information on this program is in a printable PDF attached to this email or go to our program website (click HERE ).

Additional information on Household Hazardous Waste disposal at other location is available at our program website (click Here).

The following is from Dick Paulson, Marin Municipal Water District:

"The Bayside Acres project should be completed by the end of the month. There still are a few small water shutdowns to perform and then all sites will be finished paved with a four foot wide grind and overlay at the site of the existing trench.

The project was scheduled to be completed on August 23, 2010 but due to some delays and rains the project will take a small amount of additional time.

We appreciate your patience with the pipeline construction in your area and in the end it will provide upgraded fire protection."

Advisory from the offices of Supervisor Susan Adams: The City of San Rafael and the County of Marin share jurisdiction over this pedestrian pathway and we have been working together with the school and the neighbors to address the safety concerns associated with automobile use of this pathway. The design to be implemented is to install four-inch diameter bollards, four feet in height, to prevent entry by automobiles... Click here for more info and photos

According to Nader Mansourian, Asst Public Works Director, the surcharge work at the marina is NOT ready to proceed at this time because, "the applicant has not signed and finalized the grading permit and a lot of the details are not available yet."

For ongoing updates and information related to The Village at Loch Lomond Marina project, you should monitor the Pt. San Pedro Road Coalition's Loch Lomond Marina Oversight Committee (LLMOC): News website page. In general, the Coalition's LLMOC web pages will provide contact and other important information related to this project.

The following is from the San Francisco Estuary Invasive Spartina Project of the State Coastal Conservancy. Your Board has recommended that the process outlined in this email be approved and that the Conservancy proceed. Please contact the Webmaster or the Board should you have any comments or concerns:

We are beginning our invasive Spartina treatment season and I've been surveying sites for the level of effort required for this year. While the efficacy we achieved last year in the cove along Beach Drive is very good in sections (especially behind/under the houses and at the northwest end near the grocery store), you may have noticed some of the taller hybrid clones out in the mudflat near the center. As this noxious weed moves further out onto the soft mud, the treatment methods we have been using to date become less effective. The crew from West Coast Wildlands does an excellent job working with truck and hose as well as working their way out with backpack sprayers, but it is obvious that they can't reach it all, and that compromises the work by reinfesting the successful areas with viable seed.

We often use airboats to mobilize out onto the mud in other areas of the Bay, including extensive work in the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge in the South Bay . I think that this method would be very beneficial to the Beach Drive site. It would allow us to motor right up to the clones and spray them with the higher pressure apparatus, thereby increasing efficacy and greatly improving the efficiency and even safety of the effort.

I wonder if your community would be amenable to this method. We have encountered such friendly and helpful people in our work out there each year. Many folks have given us access to their decks/docks to let us reach the Spartina. Some have even proposed that we walk through their house, mud and backpack sprayers and all, so as to better reach the plants. Using the airboat would eliminate the need for those types of intrusions. However, they are very loud and we do have the constraint that we need to work on the early morning tides before the winds reach 10mph, which is why we always begin at sunrise. Since the airboat would be more efficient, we could plan to start later to allow the community members to be up and about. Construction and street maintenance crews often begin work at 8am or so pursuant to local noise ordinances, so we could consider that kind of timing.

What do you think? We have made good progress at this site, but I think we need to change our strategy to reach our goals more quickly. Funding for our work is not indefinite.

Thanks,
Drew

Drew Kerr
Co-Manager Field Operations
San Francisco Estuary Invasive Spartina Project
State Coastal Conservancy
2612-A 8th Street
Berkeley, CA 94710-2514
510.548.2461 ext. 203
www.spartina.org

The Pt. San Pedro Road Coalition held its Annual Community Meeting today. During that meeting, San Rafael General Manager Ken Nordoff introduced a new brochure (with the above title) that provides excellent information on preparing for and surviving a wildfire. Given our location and suseptibility to wildfires, this is invaluable information. You are urged to review this brochure and prepare yourself for the likelihood of such an event in the future. The brochure is available online as a PDF download from the Coalition's Disaster Preparedness Committee Library (as well as lots of other useful information on the subject of emergency preparedness!).

Your Board was asked to take a position regarding the activities and goals of the Medians Committee. It met to discuss this issue and the result is a Position Paper providing its thoughts and guidance to Association members. The Board urges its members to become educated on this matter and to attend the Committee's community meeting on June 19 (see item posted below on May 30, 2010).

The San Rafael Sanitation District will be replacing 1.5 miles of sanitary sewer line along Pt. San Pedro Road from July 1010 to January 2011. For more information, see the attached notice or access the San Rafael Public Works website and go to "Currrent Projects". You may also call Karen Chew, the Project Engineer, at (415) 458-5369.

A request for a permit to remodel 45 Marine Drive, increasing the residence from 1,620 sq. feet to 4,609 sq. feet, has been submitted to the Marin County Community Development Agency. Design Review is required because the project is located in a Planned District. It may also be subject to deed restrictions (Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions - CC&Rs). For more information, see the Planning Referral Transmittal. Also, the proposed project plans can be viewed at the Community Development Agency and our Bayside Acres HOA President, David Tattersall, has a copy of the plans. He can be reached at 453-3222 or via the Contact the Board form.

The Bayside Acres HOA Annual Meeting was held on Thursday evening, March 18, 2010 at St. Luke Presbyterian Church. Bayside Acres resident and owner of Andy's Market, Andy Bachich, provided wonderful appetizers and the Board provided wine and sparkling water. Please do yourself a favor as well as the community, and do your shopping at Andy's Market!

There was a great turnout of owners and residents who caught up with each other over the appetizers and wine before the meeting began. Once the meeting started, Association business was quickly dispatched and updates were given on the Marina, Disaster Preparedness, San Rafael Rock Quarry and this website. We welcome Joe Tyszkiewicz as our newest member of the Association Board.

The minutes of the Bayside Acres HOA Annual Meeting are now available for review. Click here.