PPO General Meeting April 28, 2009

1. PPO General Meeting April 28, 2009

2. Agenda • Introduction of the board (5 minutes) • Treasurer’s Report (5 minutes) • Website update (20 minutes) • Roadwork update (10 minutes) • Summer Events (10 minutes) • Spring Community Project (15 minutes) • Evacuation Signage & Loma Gate Repair (15 minutes) • What makes Palomar Park Unique (20 minutes) • Open issues (10 minutes) • Raffle (must be here to win)(5 minutes)

3. Introduction of the Board • Kurt Oppenheimer – President • Jeff Garratt – Vice President • John Claude – Treasurer • Carol Mondino – Secretary • Bernie Wooster-Wong – News Letter & Web Editor • Chris Myers – Web Editor • Kathryn Bedbury • Joe Marshall • Kate FitzGerald – Temporary board member

4. Treasurer’sReport • PPO is a CA corporation filing as a residential real estate association. • PPO Financials: • Approx. $6,000 revenues in 2008 • $12,200 in our checking account (Citibank, San Carlos) • $4,400 in a six month CD • Zero debt • Membership is at 33%(107 of 300 properties) • Planned expenditures for 2009 • Community Projects (Picnic, Work parties etc.) • Community Communication – Web site • Raise Emergency Fund CD to $5,500in 2009

5. Web Site update • Web site is up -- http://palomarpark.org

6. Web Site update • What do YOU want to see? • Forum / eGroup style user generated content • Lists of contractors etc. used by community • Open member forum (Yelp style) to review businesses • Posting of Member Sponsored Events • More Palomar history • Photos of events / parties • Email addresses – xxx@PalomarPark.org • Option to pay dues via web

7. Road work update • County is repairing holes & cracks and top coating the county roads above Bromley • Not sure about Loma road on San Carlos side of Loma Gate • This week the holes and cracks will be repaired • Next week (the one after) the top coat will be done and will only take a few days • County wants the top coat to dry for several hours before allowing traffic – Emergency are the exception • County is aware that the only other alternate routes involve lock gate • Information as available will be posted on the web site and at the sign board at the mail box

8. Repairing the sign boards Spring Community Project

9. Spring Community Project • Sign boards are in varying states of disrepair • We need to • Clean and remove algae/mildew • Repair/replace any rotten wood • Restain the sign boards • For the name plaques we need to • Make wood plaques for new owners • Replace plastic name plaques with wooden ones • Refresh older name plaques. • Update name plaques as needed

10. Spring Community Project • We need volunteers to: Mid-May to Mid-June -- Help create name plaques for the sign boards from. • This is an on-going effort as new people move in June 6th -- Help to clean up and repair the sign boards on. June 13th and 14th– Help to prepare and stain sign board and install new name plaques • Please sign up with Joe • The number of volunteers determines the number of sign boards we can

11. Summer Events • Summer Picnic – American Barbecue • July 18th 12-3pm at Clifford School • If you can come early to help set up or stay after the event to help cleaning up, that would be GREAT! • Summer Concert Series at Burton Park – Look for the Palomar Park sign and join us. – July & August (every Friday for 6 to 8 weeks) • We are looking for people to host a block party.

12. 2 1 3 4 Evacuation Center Incident Command Post - (Emergency Personnel ONLY) Fire Road (Between Duggan Rd & Belle Roche) 1) Down the Hill -- Palomar Dr to Scenic Dr 2) Loma Road Gate (Foot Traffic ONLY) 3) Palomar Dr Gate at Pebble Dr 4) Cervantes Rd Gate at Edgewood Rd Palomar Park Evacuation Plan IF YOU BECOME TRAPPED CAL FIRE San Mateo County Fire Department IF YOU BECOME TRAPPED CAL FIRE San Mateo County Fire Department IF YOU BECOME TRAPPED CAL FIRE San Mateo County Fire Department • In your home • Stay inside until the fire passes. • Close all windows. • Keep all doors closed, but unlocked. • Keep family together and remain calm. • Remember, if it gets hot inside your house, it will be much hotter outside. • In your car • Park away from vegetation. • Roll up windows. • Cover mouth with dry cloth to protect airway. • Cover yourself with a blanket or jacket. • Stay in the car until the fire passes. • If the vehicle catches on fire, exit only after the wildfire has passed. • On foot • Find an area away from vegetation. • Lie face down. • Cover mouth with dry cloth to protect airway. • After the Fire Passes • Check the roof and exterior of your home, extinguish all sparks and embers. • Check your attic for hidden embers. • Check your yard for burning wood piles, trees, fence posts or other materials. • Returning to Your Home • Emergency Managers will decide when it is safe to return. • Information will be available through the media, at road blocks, and the evacuation center. • SIGN UP FOR FREE EMERGENCY ALERTS AT: http://www.smcalert.info/ • In your home • Stay inside until the fire passes. • Close all windows. • Keep all doors closed, but unlocked. • Keep family together and remain calm. • Remember, if it gets hot inside your house, it will be much hotter outside. • In your car • Park away from vegetation. • Roll up windows. • Cover mouth with dry cloth to protect airway. • Cover yourself with a blanket or jacket. • Stay in the car until the fire passes. • If the vehicle catches on fire, exit only after the wildfire has passed. • On foot • Find an area away from vegetation. • Lie face down. • Cover mouth with dry cloth to protect airway. • After the Fire Passes • Check the roof and exterior of your home, extinguish all sparks and embers. • Check your attic for hidden embers. • Check your yard for burning wood piles, trees, fence posts or other materials. • Returning to Your Home • Emergency Managers will decide when it is safe to return. • Information will be available through the media, at road blocks, and the evacuation center. • SIGN UP FOR FREE EMERGENCY ALERTS AT: http://www.smcalert.info/ • In your home • Stay inside until the fire passes. • Close all windows. • Keep all doors closed, but unlocked. • Keep family together and remain calm. • Remember, if it gets hot inside your house, it will be much hotter outside. • In your car • Park away from vegetation. • Roll up windows. • Cover mouth with dry cloth to protect airway. • Cover yourself with a blanket or jacket. • Stay in the car until the fire passes. • If the vehicle catches on fire, exit only after the wildfire has passed. • On foot • Find an area away from vegetation. • Lie face down. • Cover mouth with dry cloth to protect airway. • After the Fire Passes • Check the roof and exterior of your home, extinguish all sparks and embers. • Check your attic for hidden embers. • Check your yard for burning wood piles, trees, fence posts or other materials. • Returning to Your Home • Emergency Managers will decide when it is safe to return. • Information will be available through the media, at road blocks, and the evacuation center. • SIGN UP FOR FREE EMERGENCY ALERTS AT: http://www.smcalert.info/ Palomar Park Emergency Evacuation Plan Palomar Park Emergency Evacuation Plan Palomar Park Emergency Evacuation Plan Keep a copy in your vehicle and in your home! Keep a copy in your vehicle and in your home! Keep a copy in your vehicle and in your home!

13. Evacuation signage and Loma gate • In 2008, Cal Fire developed an emergency evacuation plane for Palomar Park using four emergency routes • Three of the four routes use non-county roads and require the passage route locked gates • One of the routes (Loma gate) is limited to able body foot traffic due to non-passable curbing – • Not usable by vehicles nor handicap accessible • None of the routes are marked • Worst 3 of them state that the road is “Not a Through Street” • One road is truly a “Dead End” is not marked as such

14. Evacuation signage and Loma gate • Recommendations – Details on walls: • Palomar Dr and Bromley • Add “Not a Through Street” sign • Palomar Dr, South Palomar Dr, and Hermosa • Replace unreadable road information sign with Evacuation route sign • Palomar Dr and Loma Court (Do we need?) • Add Evacuation route sign to pole with “End County Road” • Palomar, Loma and Montalvo • Add “Not a Through Road” to new pole on Montalvo • Replace “Neighborhood Watch” sign with Evacuation route sign on Palomar • Add Evacuation route sign to pole with “Road Signs 500ft” on Loma • Cervantes and South Palomar Dr • Replace “Dead End” sign with “Not a Through Road” sign • Add Evacuation route sign to above pole

15. Example Evacuation signage Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 Palomar/South Palomar & Palomar/Loma Court Sign 2 - Loma Gate 3 - Palomar Gate Loma Sign 2 - Loma Gate Foot Traffic Only Gates 2 & 3 2 Foot Traffic Only Gate 3 Gate 4 4 3 Gate 2 Foot Traffic Only 2 3 3 - Palomar Gate Palomar Sign Cervantes Sign 4 - Cervantes Gate Which do you like or something else?

16. Loma gate • Issues • Loma Gate is broken beyond repair • Drainage curb is too high to allow vehicles to pass • Current evacuation plan designates this exit route is foot traffic only • But • Getting to the exit requires walking up a very steep road, which many of the older or handicap residents may not be able to do • The end of Loma RD and the gate are not passable by a handicap person • Once at the gate, there is not means to get to the evacuation center • Soil beyond gate is not compacted in old slide area and is not recommended for vehicle traffic • Proposed Recommendation • Replace Loma Gate with a locked gate that allows foot traffic to pass • Fix Drainage issue from Loma Road • Fix curb and pavement to allow wheelchair access • Review soils report to see if vehicles could use it in an emergency.

17. What makes Palomar Park Unique To understand how an issue will impact Palomar Park, we need to better understand what makes Palomar Park unique • The PPO board needs your help to answers four questions: • What makes Palomar Park unique and what we need to preserve as a community? • What defines us as Palomar Park vs San Carlos or Redwood City? • What concerns do we have a community that need to be address over the next 5, 10 years? • How are the answers to the above the same or different from the various parts of Palomar Park? • Please contact Kurt Oppenheimer at Kurto@Mabija.com or 430-2566 if you would like to be part of the team • OR send us input on the four question, please email these questions to Palomarnews@Gmail.com

18. Open issues & Raffle • Open issues • Please sign up to help with the sign boards. • Please send in your thoughts on Palomar Park’s Uniqueness. Thanks for coming!

19. No access To Loma RD Palomar Park Roads Locked Gate County Road Paper Road Private road Locked Gate

20. Spring Community Project Detailed schedule: • Mid May to mid June • Rout new name plaques • Stain and paint new name plaques • Test clean and stain one small sign board • Small Workday (Saturday June 6) • Remove name plaques • Power scrub sign boards • Perform minor repairs • Main Workday Saturday June 13 • Sand, scrape, and clean sign boards • Restain sign boards • Paint name plaques • Small Workday Sunday June 14 • Bolt name plaques back on