Get Registered and VOTE !!

There are over 8,000 residents of voting age in Redwood Shores. In recent years the winners of Redwood City elections have won with totals of less than 4,000 votes. It’s easy to see with those numbers that voters in Redwood Shores can have a significant impact on the outcome of races that affect us — IF WE VOTE!

If you are eligible, make sure you are registered to vote. You can check your voter status at shapethefuture.org . There are links under “Voter Registration” that let you check your registration and, if you’re NOT registered, provide a guide to getting registered.

Again, 8,000 potential voters in Redwood Shores with winners in local elections receiving 4,000-5,000 votes. It’s clear that every Shores vote counts and makes a difference!

And don’t forget to join us on Sept.13 and meet the candidates for Redwood City Council. With five candidates for just four open Council seats, this should be both an interesting and informative evening.

Then VOTE on November 3rd !

More on the Canada Geese Problem

In early August I met again with state & federal wildlife officials, and we are also working closely with Redwood City staff.

We have two goals. One is to contain the movement of the geese and – hopefully – reduce their feeding/pooping area within the Shores. Second is to begin to reduce the numbers of resident Canada geese here instead of tolerating continually increasing numbers. Here’s a brief outline of what we are trying to do:

1. Work with US & CA wildlife officials to be sure we have “validated” information about what we can and can’t do (now in process).
2. Work with the City on a coordinated & “officially recommended actions” plan to present to BOTH the business & residential communities (next few months).
3. Identify “hot spots” that might need special attention or additional measures.
4. Provide information to the business property owners/managers on the problem & the recommended actions. This is information we expect they will pass along to their tenants and employees in order to reduce as much as possible any complaints about what we will be asking the community to do (target date ~ January 2012… next breeding season is March-June`12).
5. Meet as needed with business property owners & managers to inform and solicit their support (no later than mid January 2012). We will also seek assistance from our local Chamber of Commerce and the Shores Business Center Association.

You should know that U.S. Fish & Wildlife and CA Dept. of Fish & Game are being especially helpful. Since we don’t want to simply move the problem from one area to another, we are going to need cooperation from all of the business property owners/managers and their tenants and employees of our Shores businesses. At this point we don’t expect the solutions to be particularly burdensome to either businesses or the residential HOAs, and there seems to be an almost consensus interest in finding some way to begin to reduce the numbers of geese and the excrement they leave all over the Shores.

Our Logo Art

Have you ever looked at our logo and wondered what it’s all about? The background is an abstraction of the waves on the waterways in and around the Shores. The birds represent the pair of swans (names ??) that used to habit our lagoons. The male (name) of this pair was killed in an act of vandalism in (year?). The female (name) can still be seen swimming along in our interior waterways.

RSCA Can Always Use Your Help

RSCA is entirely a volunteer organization, and we need more help. The list of things that we could be doing – things we would like to be doing – continues to grow. .

If you have areas of specific interest in the Shores that YOU would like to see improved, and you have 1-2 hours a week to work with RSCA, let’s talk about how we might help each other. RSCA can provide support and a platform for action that you might not have as a single individual. We can find a way to use just about any skills you might have that you could volunteer for 1-2 hours a week.

Right now one specific area of interest is the (ugly) entrance to the Shores coming off Hwy.101 at Holly/Redwood Shores Pky. (It’s just not as nice as the impression you get coming into the Shores off of the Ralston exit.) Coming off the Holly exit, CalTrans, the City of San Carlos, San Mateo County, and Redwood City all own some of the property between Hwy.101 and the “beginning’ of the Shores at Twin Dolphin Drive. We need at least one person who would be willing work with these agencies to look into what might be done to “clean up” this area as CalTrans is planning new work on the Holly/101 interchange.

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