Join SMNA!
Dear Neighbor:
Please consider re-joining Santa Margarita Neighborhood Association for only $20. We are in the process of putting a PayPal button on this website. But meanwhile, please do write a check for one year's dues - $20 (and/or make and additional contribution to a specific program) and send to the address below.
Pete Martin is our new membership chair and will be tracking your donations and I will be cashing your checks promptly.
Santa Margarita Neighborhood Association
Post Office Box 6449
San Rafael, CA 94903
Our vision is Community That Works for Everyone!
Together We Are Better!
Please support our community activities for Health, Safety and Beauty:
- Monthly speaker program
- past monthly issues of The Terra Linda Wind
- representation on important issues with City & County, like curtailing speeding
- Best Bets - 3 or 4 times a month events/updates/announcements
- Bulletin Board at Scotty's
- Community funding raising events
- Candidates Forums (3 city council seats are up for election this year)
- Median enhancement
- Annual social wine & cheese
- Disaster preparedness through CERT and Get Ready Marin!
- Recreate the Creek (did you see the new plants that went in this week?)
- Weigh in on re-design of Kaiser Hospital parking and emergency room
- Dealing with abandoned homes and swimming pools
- connecting you to the right City resources
- Pulling Barbed Goat Grass, a damaging invasive species in our Open Space
- Learn about the Eichler Zoning Overlay
- Membership in the North San Rafael Coalition of Residents, an umbrella of HOAs in 94903
- Membership at CMCM: Community Media Center of Marin
- Vegetation Management in wildland/urban interface
There are LOTS of issues in the works for 2011 including the East/West Softball Game/Picnic, the new Emergency Operations Center, new home for the Farmers Market?, North San Rafael Promenade, annual member meeting for election of officers & directors; and many others...
Our goals are:
- Be effective
- Know procedures
- Build relationships
- Have fun!
Support our clout and diplomacy together with our proven track record of effectiveness. Get to know your neighbors and let's build a resilient Green community beyond "honk'n'wave." Let us know your concerns and priorities at our next monthly meeting: 1/19/11, 7-9pm, 620 Del Ganado Road, Room 6. The San Rafael Police Department will address your personal and property safety.
I hope the coming New Year brings all you want most,
Carolyn
Carolyn Lenert
President 2008-2011
Santa Margarita Neighborhood Association
499-9234