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More from County NewsThe city of Fillmore is accepting applications from residents interested in serving on a new Going Green environmental committee or on a separate commission that deals with housing issues, officials said.
The deadline to apply is May 16.
Five positions on the Going Green Committee will be filled.
The committee will assess the city's "carbon footprint" and energy consumption to develop a response to a state law requiring a 10 percent reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases, mostly in the form of carbon dioxide.
Officials said the recommendations of the committee will include a set of responses and budget items for the City Council to evaluate.
The committee will determine its meeting dates and times. Officials expect the committee will meet several times a month for approximately three months.
The city also is seeking residents interested in applying to serve on the Area Housing Authority Commission.
The city has two seats on the housing commission, and both seats are vacant.
The commission, which also includes representatives from other areas of the county, deals with efforts to provide "decent, affordable housing accommodations for low-income families, elderly, handicapped and disabled residents."
The 15-member commission generally meets at 3 p.m. on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month at the offices of the Area Housing Authority in Thousand Oaks.
Appointments will be made by the mayor, with approval of the City Council, following interviews.
Applications for the positions are available at City Hall. Information on the application process is available by calling 524-1500, extension 211 or extension 269.
Posted by iseepeeple on April 28, 2008 at 9:18 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Yes..and they should hold their first meeting on July 5th...after all the air clears from the smokin firecrackers ... and while the trash is still blowin' around on the streets.
Goin' Green..my environmental butt.
Posted by heritagevalley on April 28, 2008 at 11:02 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Iseepeeple,
Funny and true, all that smoke and trash can't be good for the enviroment.
Posted by GramMars on April 28, 2008 at 2:09 p.m. (Suggest removal)
iseepeople: I appreciate sarcasm in all its forms, thank you! Perhaps the new panel should be made to clean up the Von's parking lot the next morning. The sale of fireworks in Fillmore have got to stop. The fire danger in this area arrives earlier every year as noticed by the current fires in the Sierra Madre area. The noise goes on for hours and trying to drive through Fillmore at the end of the 4th is hazardous. Every year I swear I'll leave town on the 4th, but I'm afraid my house will catch fire because of all the idiots setting off fireworks in their backyards, front yards, streets, etc.
Posted by iseepeeple on April 28, 2008 at 5:41 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Hmmm...maybe we should apply for a seat on that committee?? :)
Posted by heritagevalley on April 28, 2008 at 9:31 p.m. (Suggest removal)
iseepeople,
Go for it... We can reduce our carbon footprint and stop Fillmore's fiasco of July celebration. It just gives all the other cities a reason to trash Fillmore, verbally and physically.
Posted by Brownpride on April 29, 2008 at 12:13 a.m. (Suggest removal)
No one that lives in Fillmore can read the warning labels on the fireworks. I dont even notice trash on the 5th? Its like that all year long isnt it?
Posted by GramMars on April 29, 2008 at 9:05 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Brownpride: The sale of fireworks in Fillmore is a bad idea, but after having worked in the booths while my kids were in school and involved in sports, I will tell you that the majority of sales were to people outside of Fillmore. Your remarks regarding the intellect of the residents of Fillmore and their ability to read or not is needless, as is the remark about the trash year-round. It's the second such remark from you that I've read in this forum regarding Fillmore. I'd like to know why.
Posted by iseepeeple on April 29, 2008 at 5:34 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I agree..there is really no reason to turn this into a racial flame. The topic here is the environment and Fillmores need to find a couple of folks willing to work on the environmental committee. I love the little town of Fillmore, and always have. The ONLY issue I have with it is the annual selling of fireworks. There are pros and cons but I really feel that they are living on borrowed time by selling these dangerous and environmentally unsafe products. I would like to see them go personally. I hope that the folks who are chosen to represent Fillmores environmental safty hazzards will see it that way to.
Posted by dddtweet on April 29, 2008 at 9:04 p.m. (Suggest removal)
To GramMars
It is not the fireworks that are sold here that are the danger. It is the illegal ones brought into this town. The fireworks sold here would be perfectly safe if the so called adults in this town would set them off the way they are meant to be used. I have had to take my kids into the house for the past three years because of illegal fireworks shooting off in all directions. At my friends house the police drove down cook drive and Casner way while about 25 households were shooting off illegal ones and they did not issue one citation to anyone on that street, maybe because the fireman who lives on Casner was shooting his own illegal ones. As for the trash after the 4th, it is mainly the out of towners who leave everything. On Cook Dr.,Casner Way and my street we clean our mess up that night except for a couple of houses on those streets who do it the following morning. So if you don't like our 4th of July celebration there are plenty of other places you could move.
Posted by iseepeeple on April 30, 2008 at 7:32 a.m. (Suggest removal)
dddtweet,
The fact is, no matter how you look at it, Fillmore ALLOWS fireworks to be set off in their city. There will ALWAYS be irresponsible people, adults and children alike, residing in any city...so why put the temptation out there at all? Make it illegal, do away with that fine line of what is right and what is wrong, and the problems will eventually get back under control.
The issue here is, Fillmore is looking for people to sit on their environmental committee. In a town that allows SMOKE and TRASH on the 4th, (and lots of it)seems a bit hypocritical to even suggest it. Don't ya think?
Posted by AnnaWhaat on April 30, 2008 at 9:27 a.m. (Suggest removal)
dddtweet ,I agree, We always have a bucket of water out there for when we are done we can sweep up and put into the bucket. Then the next morning go out and sweep up what we missed. As for the Schools and such its out of towners who leave thier mess behind. If anything at all we should have them pay more for thier fireworks. But we have great Volunteers that are out there before the sun comes up cleaning up the mess they leave behind.
And remember alot of out of towners that buy them come back to Fillmore or to relatives homes or block parties to light them off on the 4th.
I knew this story would lead to someone throwing back the fireworks story..........
Posted by GramMars on April 30, 2008 at 4:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)
iseepeeple -- I think others have missed my point......
Posted by dddtweet on April 30, 2008 at 6:58 p.m. (Suggest removal)
iseepeeple, I remember as a child coming to Fillmore to visit relatives. The sky was so blue compared to Los Angeles. Now It is just as polluted as L.A. and not because of fireworks, it is because of all the traffic that is now traveling through Fillmore. What difference will this committee make? All the city cares about is making Fillmore a bigger town. You can't even drive to the store without 126 being jammed with traffic. We just need to get people on the City council who want to stop all this growth in this town, because to me it is not the last best small town in California anymore.
Posted by AnnaWhaat on May 1, 2008 at 9:53 a.m. (Suggest removal)
dddtweet,I agree! If driving through Fillmore during the time everyone in the County is getting off work is next to impossible! SO you had better know all the side streets to get home..........
Fillmore doesn't need more people or congestion.
Posted by vcsexplorer11 on May 1, 2008 at 11:55 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I am all for Fillmore to stop building residential homes of any kind. Not only will it help the enviroment but it will force any future gang members to buy home somewhere else, maybe Santa Paula. Then Fillmore may become the best little town again.
Posted by Brownpride on May 2, 2008 at 12:06 a.m. (Suggest removal)
If you buy fireworks you are literally burning money. The fourth of July starts about June 1st in Fillmore. I bet Mexico makes a killing.
Posted by AnnaWhaat on May 2, 2008 at 11:04 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Actually the booths do not open until about one week before the 4th. And its illegal to light them off until a certain date. Which I think is the 3rd of July. Or if not then the 4th. So if people are getting them from Mexico then the border isn't doing thier job !!!! huh!
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