President’s Memo: January 2012

Join Our Email List (please?)

Why do we keep asking for your email address? It’s all about MONEY!

It costs RSCA a minimum of about 45¢ just to send a postcard, and almost triple that to send a letter. An email takes less time to prepare, and there are no printing or postage costs. Each email costs just fractions of a penny. So we can send information much more frequently than we do postcards or letters, and…

Each email address you provide saves RSCA more than $2.00 each year!

That’s money the we can use for events like our Eggstravaganza egg hunt, the Summer Concerts, Halloween Walk for our children, and Santa Comes to the Shores. With over 5,300 residences and 700 business in the Shores, we use our email list to keep more people informed about our community and events during the year. If you would like to be on our email list, simply go to RSCA.org and under “Feedback”, click on the “Join our email list” button to sign up.

HERE’S OUR PRIVACY POLICY:

The contact information your provide is for use only by Redwood Shores Community Association in contacting you. We do not share, sell, or provide your contact information to any other person or organization.

Once More on Our “Resident” Canada Geese

In addition to emails, I’ve had several people approach me at Nob Hill and at our recent Santa event with criticism that our December PILOT gave the impression that opinions in the Shores regarding our “Canada Goose problem” were fairly evenly divided. That criticism was justified. In an attempt to provide a forum for differing opinions, we over-compensated.

Let me say again, as I have said several times before, that when we polled Shores resident last winter well over 80% ranked the issue of goose feces as one of the highest issues affecting the quality of life in the Shores. The only issue that ranked higher was public safety, e.g., police and fire protection.

We have been working closely with federal and state wildlife officials since last spring to find out what we can and can NOT do to help mitigate the problem of the increasing amount of goose feces left in our parks and on our walkways and open lawns.

I think that even some of those who presently “disagree” with what we are trying to do will be surprised at some of the simple things we can do around our open areas that should make a big difference to the cleanliness of our parks, walkways and lawn areas.

We are making every effort to begin to disseminate the information we’ve gathered later in January. This information will be mostly applicable to property managers for our local HOAs and business properties, and to Redwood City for the park areas, especially those on the waterways. But we’ll also provide information on the national scope of the problem caused by these “no longer migrating” birds.


Join Our Email List

With over 5,400 residents and 700 business in the Shores, we use our email list to keep you informed about our community events during the year. If you would like to be on our email list, simply click on the “Join Our Email List” button in the Feedback section of RSCA.org to sign up.

Our Privacy Policy:

Your information is for use only by Redwood Shores Community Association in contacting you. We do not share, sell, or provide our contact list to any other person or organization.

— Harris Rogers, RSCA President

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