The City has teamed up with KHTS-AM 1220 and Waste Management/Blue Barrel Disposal to help increase the amount we recycle and reward residents with prizes! Be sure to pick up your “We Recycle” sticker at City Hall, KHTS, or WM/Blue Barrel and put it on your recycling bin. When your FULL recycling bin, with the sticker applied, is “caught” by one of the disc jockeys from KHTS, who will be looking for full recycling bins each week, you and your family could win one of several great prizes, including family four-packs for movie tickets, Six Flags Magic Mountain or Hurricane Harbor, and more! And, every month, a drawing will be held to giveaway a full year of free trash service! Get caught recycling at your home and you could win big!
For more information: “We recycle” @ City of Santa Clarita
SANTA CLARITA ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äù Too often, Santa Clarita Valley motorists fail to pull over when they see emergency vehicles coming.In response to the problem, the city is starting a public outreach campaign to convince residents of the need to clear a path for ambulances, patrol cars and fire trucks.
Presentations will be made to schools, bill inserts will be mailed out and a Web site will be created to educate the public. The message is simple: Pull to the right when an emergency vehicle is approaching.
“When someone’s not breathing or someone’s in crisis, a few seconds can make a very big difference,” said Stephanie English, a spokeswoman for the county Fire Department.
Instead of pulling to the curb, some drivers pull to the left, which makes it hard for emergency vehicles to navigate traffic, English said.
Motorists should also pull to the right even if the emergency vehicle is passing on the opposite side of a center divider, said Heather Leuning, a spokeswoman for the city. That’s because emergency vehicles will cross into the opposite lanes of traffic if they need to get by, she said.
All of us who work or live in the Santa Clarita Valley should be concerned about a potentially unnecessary quadrupling of our sewer bills if our voices are not heard. In April, the State Water Resources Control Board will consider the approval of the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board’s 2006 decision to shorten the existing Upper Santa Clara River Chloride Total Maximum Daily Load implementation schedule, possibly forcing the District to commit to building an advanced treatment facility before scientific studies are completed to determine if the facility is necessary.
In order to avoid rushed and costly upgrades, the District should be given enough time to complete scientific studies and continue successful public outreach and source reduction efforts. Please voice your opinion to the State Water Board and ask them to restore the schedule to its original timeline, allowing the District to complete scientific studies before committing the community to pay $350 million for advanced treatment.
This official survey to explore the possibility of providing van service as direct transportation from your front-door to the nearby Metrolink Station where you make your commute connection is online and available until April 6th.
Plum Canyon is closer to growing by 42 homes and one park after the county Regional Planning Commission’s decision Wednesday to approve plans for the 12.2-acre project.
The single-family homes will be built southwest of Whites Canyon Road, at the south end of Houston Court in Canyon Country. The development will consist of a 26,570-square-foot private park for the community.
Household hazardous waste is any product labeled: toxic, poison, corrosive, flammable, combustible or irritant that is disposed of.
Santa Clarita HHW Collection Event
Date: Saturday, April 14, 2007?Ǭ† 9 AM -3 PM
Location: The College of the Canyons,26455 Rockwell Canyon Road, South Parking Lot,Santa Clarita,91355
What Happens to Household Hazardous Waste Collected by the County?
Most of the paint is reused for the County?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s anti-graffiti program. Motor oil is recycled/ reused as lubricants, marine diesel fuel, supplemental fuel and tar by-products such as asphalt cover and re-refined motor oil.
Household hazardous waste that cannot be recycled or reused is carefully packed into special drums for disposal.
Preparing Household Hazardous Waste
for a Collection Event
Pack household hazardous wastes in a cardboard box so that it does not spill during transport. Be prepared to leave your containers.
Put like chemicals together. Separate unlike chemicals.
Label materials that are not in their original containers.
Make sure containers are not leaking and lids are tightly sealed.
Put your box of household hazardous waste in the trunk of your car, away from passengers during transport.
At the collection site, trained personnel will ask you to remain in your car while they remove the household hazardous waste from your trunk.
For the location and date of a household hazardous waste collection event near you, click HERE.
County Household Hazardous Waste Collection Events will NOT accept:
The southeast side of Plum Canyon Road is currently being graded by the Shappell-Monteverde Development Company to make room for approximately 750 single-family homes. Approved by LA County in 1984 (TR 46018) and under construction since the early 1990’s, when completed, this project will have added 2000 homes and 1202 condominiums to the Plum Canyon area. The county-approved plan also includes a new fire station, a new school, two public parks as well as several other infrastructure improvements.
SANTA CLARITA - Children and adults who live in the Santa Clarita Valley but outside city limits could soon pay more than city residents for city-sponsored park and recreation programs.
Under a proposal to come before the City Council on Tuesday, the city would continue to subsidize a portion of the recreation program fees for residents, but nonresidents would pay the full cost.
“Citizens of Glendale do not expect citizens of Burbank to pay for parks and recreation programs (for them),” said Councilman Frank Ferry, who champions the change. “In my eyes, I’m thinking, ‘Is it fair for the city of Santa Clarita to subsidize nonresidents?’ For me, absolutely no.”
Of the more than 350,000 registrations in parks and recreation programs since 2001, an estimated 51 percent are from residents and 49 percent from nonresidents, he said.
City recreation costs and subsidies vary for the different programs, said Ferry. Swim programs, for example, cost the city $80 a person to run, but the fee is only $45. The youth basketball program costs $130 per person, and the fee is $90. Flag football costs $130 a player, and the fee is $89.
