Wonder Valley Community Meeting, May 6, 2017

Everyone is invited and welcome to attend and participate in the

Wonder Valley Community Meeting

Saturday, May 6, 2017, from Noon - 2 p.m.

Wonder Valley Community Center

80526-1/2 Amboy Road, Wonder Valley, CA 92277

On the agenda:
- Assistant Fire Chief Tom Marshall will present on a recent structure fire and the status of our Fire Department
- MAC Delegate Teresa Sitz will report on a recent meeting with Land Use Services regarding illegal landfills in Wonder Valley
- A discussion on the differences between a Community Service Area (CSA) and a Community Service District (CSD)
- A discussion on creating committees, such as Recycling, Illegal Dumping, Fire, Historical Landmark

AGENDA (posted 04302017, 7:08 a.m.)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/z09lvnp4a4v5whn/05062017_wv_meeting.pdf?dl=0
NOTES (posted 05112017, 5:36 p.m.)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/i2ekf6hl3e2ttd0/05062017_wv_meeting_notes.pdf?dl=0

Coffee and refreshments will be available.

The Permaculture Presentation with Tim DeLorey starts at 3:00 p.m. for those of you who would like to stay for that.

For more information, visit WonderValley.org.

Water Tender is gone

"A" water tender, not "our" water tender

For the first time in 50 years Wonder Valley is without a water tender. The old one that we had was on its last legs with more than a million miles on its odometer. It was a behemoth and with a gear box that made it nearly impossible to drive, but it was OUR water tender.

We learned that we lost the water tender at last Saturday's Community Meeting. I talked with Assistant Chief, South Desert, Tom Marshall at last night's MAC meeting and he said they are replacing the water tender with a newer, better one that will be housed at the Twentynine Palms Fire Station. The water tender should be able to get to a fire in Wonder Valley within 10 minutes. Assistant Chief Marshall affirmed that he was doing the best thing for the Community of Wonder Valley.

It is important to consider that we have a 2-person fire station with one captain and one firefighter/paramedic at any one time. These two take the brush patrol truck to any event - fire or medical. It takes two people to operate the brush patrol at a fire. We do not have the manpower at Station 45 to respond with a brush patrol and a water tender. We have depended on Twentynine Palms and the Base to back us up with a water tender.

Residents at the meeting were very upset to hear that we no longer had a water tender. James Copeland, a former assistant fire chief of the Wonder Valley Volunteer Fire Department, described the water tender as our portable fire hydrant, and said that without it we are basically without fire coverage.

Monthly Community Meeting - June 11, 10 a.m.

Everyone is invited and welcome to attend and participate in our monthly community meeting. 

Tom Marshall, Division Chief, Division 5, County Fire, and James Brakebill, the head of the Fire Technology Program at Copper Mountain College will talk about the requirements for those interested in the Paid Call Firefighter program. There's a job for everyone so come find out what you can do!

Check out the
Paid Call Firefighter requirements and application:
http://www.sbcfire.org/viewer/attachment.ashx?id=5e26edf5-ecbf-438a-9969-4bb67ee95424

And there will be PORTO'S pastries and French roast coffee.

Download the agenda. Posted June 3, 2016.
Meeting Notes:
https://www.dropbox.com/home/wonder%20valley%20csa?preview=06112016_wv_meeting_notes.pdf

2nd Fire Tax Meeting Notes Transcribed

Download the December 12 meeting notes from the Second Fire Tax Meeting here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/etmoxme3tgn0goc/12122015_special_meeting_notes.pdf?dl=0

Download the Power Point presentation here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/75d0e0g4n3hkio9/Wonder%20Valley%20Presentation.pptx?dl=0

Tom Marshall presents to the Wonder Valley Community