WBNABoise org

Valley Regional Transit is soliciting public comment to help in planning new public bus service in southwest Boise. The proposed route would connect at the Boise Towne Square Mall and travel along a route bordered by Overland Road to the north, Victory Road to the south, Cole Road to the east and Five Mile Road to the west. It may also be possible for the bus to make passenger pickups within a quarter-mile of the fixed-line route. We need to hear from you so we can include public comment in our planning process. If you are a student of faculty member of the Boise School District campus that includes Frank Church Hiogh School, West Junior High and administrative facilities, click HERE to access your survey. All other members of the public, please take the survey located HERE.

Mark Carnopis
Community Relations Manager
Valley Regional Transit
(W) 208-846-8547, ext. 4215
(C) 208-860-9811
(F) 208-846-8564

The Boise Bark newsletter in pdf is attached.   Please feel free to forward it to your neighbors.

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To all Boise residents,

Alive at 25 instructors from the Boise Police Department are teaching another class this coming Monday at City Hall-West (333 N. Sailfish Pl, south of Emerald, west of Maple Grove). This course is open and free to anyone 15-24. Winter weather is approaching which magnifies poor driving choices. Every person in this age group needs the information that is taught through this course.

For more information you can contact Arden Bauman at 570-6400.

You can also go to www.aliveat25.us for more information and to sign up.

Next Class:

November 15, 2010

4:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Pizza provided for dinner

Det. Todd Bilbo

Boise Police Department

To all Boise residents, Alive at 25 instructors from the Boise Police Department are teaching another class this coming Monday at City Hall-West (333 N. Sailfish Pl, south of Emerald, west of Maple Grove). This course is open and free to anyone 15-24. Winter weather is approaching which magnifies poor driving choices. Every person in this age group needs the information that is taught through this course. For more information you can contact Arden Bauman at 570-6400. You can also go to www.aliveat25.us for more information and to sign up.  Next Class:November 15, 20104:00 PM to 8:30 PMPizza provided for dinner Det. Todd BilboBoise Police Department

Please see the attached press release inviting applications for the City Council seat vacancy resulting from Council Member Vern Bisterfeldt’s election to the Ada County Commission.  Please feel free to forward the information to any interested citizens.

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Attached is a Neighborhood Survey.   Boise Police surveyed neighborhoods a few years ago, and want to determine any changes and/or improvements in neighborhoods and our services.    Please take time to forward it to your neighbors so as many as possible can be surveyed.   Please ask your neighbors to complete the survey and email or mail them to me.    If neighbors want to give their completed surveys to you, I’ll pick them up.   The due date  is Tuesday, November 2nd (2 weeks from tomorrow).     Once we receive and compile them, we’ll share the results with you.    If you have any questions, please let me know.   Thank you!

2010 BPD Neigh Survey

Below is the link to the mid-month Neighborhood Crime Bulletin:http://www.cityofboise.org/Departments/Police/NeighborhoodServices/NeighborhoodCrimeStats/index.aspx

To know which area comprises your neighborhood, I’ve provided a guide:

Bench:
Cloverdale (B1) – west of Five Mile Rd
Maple Grove (B2) – between Five Mile and Cole Rd
Central Bench (B3) – between Cole and Curtis, but taking in the I-84 Y
Orchard (B4) – between Curtis and Owyhee
Vista (B5) – between Owyhee and Federal Way

Valley:
Northwest (V1) – west of 36th St, north of Garden City
Downtown Boise (V2) – Rose St to Broadway
North End (V3) – between 36th and 6th, north of State
Broadway (V4) between Federal Wy/Capitol to Gekeler, south of Reserve to Warm Springs
Southeast (V5) east of Gekeler, south of Warm Springs, but taking in Warm Springs Mesa and Harris Ranch

For more detailed crime, check www.adasheriff.org and click on their Crime Mapping site.

Thank you, and stay safe,

Charlene Miller
Crime Prevention Unit
Boise Police Department
333 N. Sailfish Place
Boise, ID 83704
208-570-6070
cmiller@cityofboise.org

It’s a great time to host a neighborhood meeting!

Why?    Because the upcoming holidays are a great excuse to gather your neighbors, share some appetizers and talk about what’s going on in your community!    Nothing with Neighborhood Watch needs to be formal – remember Neighborhood Watch is knowing your neighbors, securing your property, reporting suspicious activity, and then building that sense of community!

Some ideas might be:

• A pre-Halloween get-together to discuss safety with the kids, which neighbors will be home and who won’t be, etc.    We have Halloween safety flyers for the kids.   Ask me and I’ll send them to you.
• A fall ‘help your neighbor’ day.   How many of you have elderly or disabled neighbors, or families in the military with the dad deployed, who need a little help raking up leaves or pulling the last of summer’s weeds?   Organize volunteers (include the kids) to get your neighborhood cleaned up.   Remember, a well kept neighborhood helps keep criminals away.
• Adopt a family for Thanksgiving or Christmas.   Contact a local church, Boise Police Victim/Witness Unit (570-6221), local school, or Salvation Army and see what your neighborhood can do together to help someone in need.
• Host an open house.   Offer hot cider and cookies.
• Crime prevention discussion on holiday safety, etc.   Contact me (Charlene) if you’d like me to come, and we’ll have fun.
• Train (motivate) your block captains.   Contact me for more information.

Our last (of the year) Quarterly Luncheon will be Tuesday, October 26, 11:30 – 1 p.m. at Casa Mexico Restaurant, on Fairview, east of Five Mile.   RSVP’s to me are important.     Officer Dave Cavanaugh will talk to us about how BPD Officers handle situations involving mental illness and addictions, and the impact on neighborhoods where these people live.   Intervention may be a role Neighborhood Watch groups play in some of these situations.

The Fall/Winter Boise Bark Newsletter will be available in time for the luncheon on 10/26.    I’ll bring some with me; I’ll email the pdf for those who want to email it to your neighbors, and for those who want to pick them up at Sailfish, please contact me so I can have them ready for you.

Stay safe,

Charlene Miller
Crime Prevention Unit
Boise Police Department
333 N. Sailfish Place
Boise,   ID  83704
208-570-6070
cmiller@cityofboise.org

Good afternoon,

ACHD, the City of Boise and the City of Meridian have been developing an access management plan to increase safety and reduce congestion along Fairview Avenue between Orchard Street in Boise and Linder Road in Meridian.

We are seeking input on the plan by asking the public to take a survey about Fairview Avenue and access management. Would you be willing to forward this link to your neighborhood association members? It contains information about the project, as well as a link to the survey. The last day of the survey in November 1, 2010.

http://www.achdidaho.org/Projects/PublicProject.aspx?ProjectID=178

Thank you,

Christy Foltz-Ahlrichs <cahlrichs@achdidaho.org>
Sr. Communications Specialist
Ada County Highway District

Ada County Highway District  387-6100

The mid-month September, 2010 Neighborhood Crime Bulletins are now available:
http://www.cityofboise.org/Departments/Police/NeighborhoodServices/NeighborhoodCrimeStats/index.aspx

 
Charlene Miller
Crime Prevention Unit
Boise Police Department
333 N. Sailfish Place
Boise,   ID  83704
208-570-6070
cmiller@cityofboise.org

Hi,

Some of you have received, or may receive in the future, an email (or phone call) that goes something like this:

“I’m writing this with tears in my eyes. I came down here to London, United Kingdom for a short vacation. Unfortunately, I was mugged at the park on my way to the hotel. All cash, credit card and cell were stolen off me but luckily I still have my passport with me.

I’ve been to the embassy and the police here but they’re not helping issues at all, and my flight leaves in less than 3 hrs from now. Am having problems settling the hotel bills and the hotel manager won’t let me leave until I settle the bills. I am freaked out at the moment”

The signature name is a friend, neighbor or family member of yours.

**************

If you reply, they thank you profusely and tell you to wire via Western Union a specific amount of money (in one case $1,900) to help them. The person, because they are your friend, neighbor, family member, promises to pay you back as soon as they get home. That may cause you to think this is legitimate. It is not!

This is a Scam! Many variations of that email or similar phone calls continue to come in to our computers and homes. Another variation might be, “I’ve been arrested and I’m in jail in Canada” (or some other country).

Once you wire money in these cases, it is gone! You will not get it back. These are very difficult to investigate; local law enforcement agencies can’t because the money went out of the country.

Here are some tips from BPD detectives and our IT (computer) unit:
1. Create 2 personal email addresses. One is strictly for online purchases, downloaded music, etc. The other email address has your contact list.
2. When you send/forward emails to more than one person, send them as bcc (blind copies).

If you receive one of these Scam emails:
1. Don’t reply; don’t wire them money!! Call your friend, neighbor, family member (signee of the Scam email) and tell him/her so they can follow tips 3 – 6.
2. Add the scammer’s email address to your Blocked File.
3. Change your email address.
4. Contact those on your contact list and inform them you now have a new email address. Per IT, the Scammers only have the names/email addresses on your list; they cannot read the emails unless someone replies.
5. Place your “old” email address in the Blocked/Junk Mail.
6. Notify those on the contact list to place your “old” email address in their Blocked/Junk Mail.

I hope these tips save you and others the grief of thinking your friend or family member is in trouble in another country (and you didn’t even know they’d gone there), and the financial loss of wiring money to a Scammer.

Stay safe!

Charlene Miller

Charlene Miller
Crime Prevention Unit
Boise Police Department
333 N. Sailfish Place
Boise, ID 83704
208-570-6070
cmiller@cityofboise.org