1) Email your interested neighbors and talk about this with them. Ask them to sign the on-line petition at https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/newark-ca-quiet-zones
2. Email the City Commission:
You elected them and pay the salary of the City Manager. Although there are many priorities, you can make your opinion known.
Thank them and gently/politely prod them to actually move forward…using a short email (clicking on the following addresses should open an email for you):
City Manager - David J. Benoun - email: david.benoun@newark.org
Asst. City Manager - Lenka Hovorka- email: lenka.hovorka@newark.org
Public Works Director / City Engineer - Soren Fajeau - email: soren.fajeau@newark.org
Volunteer / Elected
Mayor Alan L. Nagy - email: al.nagy@newark.org
Vice Mayor Michael Hannon - email: michael.hannon@newark.org
Council Member Luis L. Freitas - email: luis.freitas@newark.org (Newark Rep. on Alameda County Transportation Committee)
Council Member Maria "Sucy" Collazo - email: sucy.collazo@newark.org
Council Member Mike Bucci - email: mike.bucci@newark.org
3. Email us: We would love to hear your ideas. If you would like to be a part of the Steering Committee or Working Group, please let us know by emailing NewarkCAQuietZones@gmail.com
4. Email your other elected officials: Send a quick/polite email to our voting district’s legislators to ask for general support for increasing railroad crossing safety in the City of Newark,CA.
State Senator (District 10): Senator Bob Wieckowski (lives in Fremont): senator.wieckowski@senate.ca.gov
State Assembly Member (District 25): Assembly Member Alex Lee: https://a25.asmdc.org/contact (Thank him for securing $2M for Quiet Zones in 2022!!!)
Alameda County Board of Supervisors (District 2-Newark): Richard Valle: https://district2.acgov.org/contact/
5. Connect with California Public Utilites Commission: The CPUC is here to help with the creation of Quiet Zones. They have a page dedicated to the creation of Quiet Zones in California http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/General.aspx?id=2969 . The City of Newark will have to work with the CPUC to get Quiet Zones created.
General Quiet Zone Inquiries: Matthew Bond matthew.bond@cpuc.ca.gov
Senior Engineer (Northern California): Felix Ko felix.ko@cpuc.ca.gov
Engineer (Alameda): Sia Mozaffari siavash.mozaffari@cpuc.ca.gov
6. Inform yourself: Review the information at https://sites.google.com/site/newark-ca-quiet-zones such as
◦ the How to Create Quiet Zones GUIDE Click here.
7. Get free advertising for your business or organization: If your business or organization provides a copy of a letter of support you have sent to the City Commission and/or City Manager, then we would be glad to post it along with the other letters of support. If you are reading this, then your potential customers may be as well. If intelligent residents of the the City of Newark,CA are your target customers, then this site is aimed towards your target market.
8. Stay interested:
Sustaining interest in this could be difficult. Attend the City Council meetings that are held on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall 37101 Newark Boulevard, 6th Floor, Newark
More information on City Council Agenda here: http://www.newark.org/departments/city-manager-s-office/agendas-minutes
Perhaps attend and stand up at “citizen comment” time a.k.a "Oral Communications", which is always item K. on the agenda. Say something brief about your support of Quiet Zones (even just, “Please stop the train horns”), then feel free to leave. This helps them track interest.
Consider signing up for the City’s automated “eNotification” at http://www.newark.org/residents/advanced-components/misc-pages/enotification/ to see what is on the upcoming agenda.