June 12 Meeting Minutes
Cabernet Highlands Neighborhood Watch Meeting Minutes June 12, 6:00 p.m.
Raley’s meeting room
Present at the meeting were: Pat Shea, Billie Shea, JoEllen Curtis, Dan Curtis, Chris Rasmussen, Ray Lake, Bonnie Weber, and Officer Wen Wei of the Reno Police Department
A Neighborhood Watch program is a group of people living in the same area who want to make their neighborhood safer by working together and in conjunction with local law enforcement to reduce crime and improve their quality of life.
Pat Shea opened the meeting reporting progress on membership noting the Cabernet Watch group now has 40 members who have signed onto the website to receive information and to participate in this community watch.
A discussion about the effectiveness of the mobile radar cart followed with Pat citing that Reno Police Department and Traffic did 3 traffic surveys over the past 60 days. The report was that the mean average speed was 25 miles per hour with approximately 25 percent of the over 650 cars counted going faster than the posted speed limit.
The city traffic engineer reported that because most of the traffic is within reason no speed bumps are warranted at this time.
Pat spoke on things that would help to reduce speed, he spoke of the average width of Buck drive starting at above 30 feet wide and narrowing as it transitioned into Souverain. He noted that cars parked on the street were actually causing drivers to reduce their speeds inside our neighborhoods.
Officer Wei offered to liaison with Reno City Traffic manager to determine next steps.
Several solutions to the traffic issues were discussed that included radar speed signs that warn drivers of their speed, painted strips on the road that looked like speed bumps with accompanying signs warning speed reduction ahead, and speed rumbles similar speed bumps.
In order to initiate any of these solutions, the community must come together in some way to purchase these options. Radar speed signs sell for approximately $4,100 each with a recommendation of at least 3 placed strategically on the busiest areas. Speed Rumbles would cost around $600 apiece and would advice a minimum of 5 or 6 to be effective. The members at the meeting discussed asking the HOA to purchase these devices by raising the monthly assessments. One member suggested asking the HOA Board to put this topic on the agenda at a future meeting.
This issue is a community wide issue. As such, we would like to hear your opinion on solutions to our traffic issues.
Officer Wei reported there were 14 crimes reported in the last 28 days most of which were in the Raleigh Heights neighborhood. He indicated our neighborhood was pretty quiet overall.
Officer Wei’ Tip of the Day:
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