Quick Summary of Annual Community Meeting on 11/10/18

We will be writing up a complete summary of our Annual Community Meeting held on Saturday, November 10, 2018 at St. Luke Church. It was extremely well attended by over 100 residents. Our speakers included Marin County District 1 Supervisor Damon Connolly and San Rafael Mayor Gary Phillips along with many other key County and City officials. There were several reports as well as discussion of many issues of interest and/or concern to our residents.

It will take a bit of time for us to collect our thoughts and document what transpired at this meeting. However, some critical websites and contact information were identified by several speakers. That information was graciously documented during the meeting by Rebecca Woodbury, San Rafael Senior Management Analyst, and provided to us immediately thereafter. We wanted to get it out to you right away.

Here is that list and the Coalition urges you to sign up for the emergency notification services and use any of the other information that is pertinent to you. While some of this information is already documents on our website, the rest will eventually be incorporated into our website pages.

Transportation & Infrastructure

• Bettini Transit Center: provide your feedback by 11/19 at http://goldengate.org/SRTC/
• 101 North Central San Rafael off-ramp replacement: http://www.cityofsanrafael.org/central-san-rafael-101-nb-off-ramp-replacement/
• 3rd & Hetherton Pedestrian Safety Study: http://www.cityofsanrafael.org/pedestrian-safety-study-on-third-street-and-hetherton/
  • July 2 City Council meeting video about the final report: http://cityofsanrafael.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=38&clip_id=1391&meta_id=127339
• Kevin McGowan, Assistant Public Works Director – (415) 485-3389 or (415) 485-3355

Emergency Preparedness

• FireSafe Marin: http://www.firesafemarin.org/
• ReadyMarin: http://readymarin.org/
• San Rafael Emergency Management: http://sroes.org
• Sign up for alerts:
  • AlertMarin: http://www.marinsheriff.org/services/emergency-services/alert-marin
  • Nixle: http://www.nixle.com/
  • PG&E power alerts: http://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/emergency-preparedness/natural-disaster/wildfires/community-wildfire-safety.page?WT.mc_id=Vanity_wildfiresafety
• 1 Hour 2 Get Ready: http://www.cityofsanrafael.org/1-hour-2-get-ready/
• Family Plan template: http://storage.googleapis.com/proudcity/sanrafaelca/uploads/2018/10/Family-Disaster-Plan-Template.pdf
• CERT: http://www.cityofsanrafael.org/san-rafael-cert/
• Quinn Gardner, Emergency Manager – (415) 458-5336
• Vegetation Management: http://www.cityofsanrafael.org/vegetation-management/
  • Inspectors:
    • Patrick Bignardi – (415) 458-5002
    • Marshall Nau – (415) 485-3457