[rha ] Street Sweeping Questions Answered, CERT Academy & Waste Changes

Published: Sun, 01/02/22

We've had some additional questions about the street sweeping changes, so we wanted to get them answered.

First, here is a link to the sweeping schedule map and this link will give you more details.

Street Sweeping on Monday (1/3) & Tuesday (1/4)

Our new sweeping vendor, Sunset Property Services, will have their trucks in Rossmoor cleaning our streets of the leaves and debris from last week's wind and rains starting at 8:30 Monday and Tuesday mornings. On Monday the sweepers will be sweeping in front of the ODD addresses and on Tuesday, they will be sweeping in front of the EVEN addresses.

Our job is to make sure there are no vehicles or trash carts where the sweepers are sweeping from 8:30 to 4:30. You can park on the opposite side of the street, so there should be plenty of street parking, even if you have to park 3 or 4 houses away.

If your waste collection day is on Monday or Tuesday and your address is scheduled to be swept, please place your waste carts on the parkway,

These efforts by all of us helps the environment and helps keep Rossmoor looking clean. Thanks for making the adjustments to our new schedule.

CERT Academy This January

West Orange County CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) is holding an interactive academy at the end of January at the Joint Forces Training Center (JFTB) in Los Alamitos.

This Academy is FEMA approved and includes fire suppression (yes, you get to use a fire extinguisher to put out a real fire), basic first aid and wound dressing, light search and rescue techniques (the kind you'd need to help your family in an earthquake) and disaster psychology.

The 20-hour Academy runs from 6:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m. on Friday 1/21 and 1/28 and from 8:00-5:00 on Saturday 1/22 and 1/29. All four days are required to complete the course. Lunches are provided on both Saturdays.

Here's the application and details on the event. It's a great course and you will learn a lot about how to protect yourself and your family when disaster comes your way.

Our Rossmoor Membership - It's your choice

Online or on paper, it's your choice. From this page, you can download the paper application, fill it out and mail in the application with your check for $40 or you can complete the membership application on the site and pay just $36.

Thanks so much to those of you who have already renewed or signed up new. We appreciate it greatly.

2022 is looking like a great year with park events, contests, and other community engagement activities already in the works that help make Rossmoor such a great place to live. Join your neighbors and support Our Rossmoor - Pick up your 2022 membership today!

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Your Thoughts Please

Over the past couple of weeks the RHA's Community Engagement Team has delivered more than 240 free home Covid Test kits to our Rossmoor neighbors. The kits were supplied by Supervisor Katrina Foley and her team (thanks Manuel). And before you ask, at this time we have no more kits to distribute.

During the many phone calls and emails to coordinate this distribution effort, the Engagement Team received many thank yous and appreciation for their efforts.

Maybe more importantly though, the interactions created conversations about Rossmoor and raised some questions. Now the Engagement Team wants to know what your questions are about Rossmoor.

Please take this one question poll in the Community Engagement Facebook group, or if you don't "do Facebook" just reply to this email with your Rossmoor questions.

Thanks for your engagement with Our Rossmoor!

Rossmoor Street Sweeping Changes

After years of discussions, debates, and delays, the RCSD and Supervisor Katrina Foley were able to get the County Board of Supervisors to change the Rossmoor street sweeping ordinance to provide for alternate side sweeping.

These changes take effect now, January 2022.

Sweeping map and schedule details here

Simple, Straight Forward Schedule

The new sweeping schedule is simple:

1st & 3rd Mondays ODD addresses get swept
1st & 3rd Tuesdays EVEN addresses get swept

Click here for a the Rossmoor Sweeping Map

If either day is a holiday, sweeping will occur on the following Wednesday. And the sweeping times have not changed: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Since street sweeping is designed to help keep pollutants out of our oceans, it’s really in all of our best interest to move our vehicles (and waste carts) from the street so the sweepers have a clear path to do their work.

And, just in case you need a financial incentive to do the “right thing” parking enforcement will ticket vehicles parked in the street between 8:30 and 4:30 on sweeping days. It is our understanding that during January, only warnings, rather than citations, will be issued

Waste Collection: New Lids & Routines

As many of you have seen, we have new lids on our waste collection carts. The image above is a guide showing what goes in each cart.

Yes, the state expects you to separate your refuse into these three groupings on an ongoing basis. And yes, there will be fines for violators coming in the next few years. Beyond all that, it's the right thing to do. Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.

RHA Community Engagement Group

We encourage you to join our Community Engagement Team's Facebook group!

You can expect to see posts about activities and events associated with the RHA along with positive/uplifting stories. You will also see posts about upcoming community service opportunities in the group. We have already partnered with The Youth Center and the American Red Cross as community service partners.

Our Engagement Group is also where we make timely announcements regarding the neighborhood. For example, we shared with this group when we had the free home Covid Test Kits from Supervisor Foley and the County available.

Pop into the group and see what's going on.

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People Spotlight - 2021 Top Influencers

Congratulations!

When the Orange County Register announces their list of the top 125 most influential people in Orange County, it's a who's who list for 2021. That's the point, right?

Two people on this year's list directly impact us and the families that live in Rossmoor: Super visor Katrina Foley and LAUSD Superintendent Dr Andrew Pulver.

Both of these individuals have helped Rossmoor in too many ways to count. From getting our street sweeping issues fixed after years of discussion, to guiding our school district through another difficult year of transition and of course the issues around Covid, this recognition is worth noting and congratulating both of them for being include on the 2021 Most Influential People in OC list.

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