7/6/2016 -- Board Meeting Minutes

Post date: Jul 16, 2016 7:38:34 PM

River Oaks Neighborhood Association

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Elan Meeting Room, 7:00-8:00pm

Attending

From RONA: VP Mike Bertram, Secretary Laura Carns

From County of Santa Clara, District 3 Office: Mike Donohoe

From California State Senate, District 10 Office: Tim Orozco

Lan Diep, Candidate for San Jose City Council, District 4

and about 8 other community members.

MINUTES

  1. Tentative congratulations to Lan Diep, our new Councilmember District 4. We look forward to working with you.

    1. Note that there are some recounts still ongoing, but the result is expected to hold at this time.

  2. ROP Traffic issues

    1. Zebra bike bumpers are removed. They will leave the botts dots.

      1. 4-way stop sign at Village Center & Research installed. Tree blocks one of the signs, will call it into DOT.

      2. Will ask again for a traffic study, this time not on a holiday week. ROP is a designated special flow street so we'll have to find a good reason for it to be re-designated to get the speed limit down to 25mph. The Agnews school would be a good leverage point for this.

      3. Still no action on the noisy manhole covers.

  3. Jean and Mike have an appointment to talk with SJ City Planners regarding NSJ Area Development Policy. They will have a lot more information at the next RONA meeting.

    1. Some questions they will be asking: where is high-density planned? where is retail? what's this about more compact parks?

    2. Will request to get a single planner assigned to NSJ so they have time to get familiar with our issues.

    3. Community support will be important going forward to make sure we have a voice in any changes to the NSJ plan.

  4. Need to check in on what's happening with Epic park. Some grass has been installed but there's no facilities, and still a large area fenced off.

  5. Homeless issue update

    1. County has sent in service providers to work with folks in the creekbed.

    2. County has worked with various fire departments to make sure they're aware of the campfire issue and to work out any jurisdictional issues.

    3. County has worked with water district to set up flood triggers to ensure people get evacuated if they're in danger.

    4. County will be putting a bond measure on the ballot this November: $950 million over the next 30 years to address affordable housing concerns.

  6. Concern about high vegetation along the creek. Rick Santos will email the maintenance folks.