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| Do you want to get more involved in the Natomas community? Do you work or live in Natomas? If so, the Natomas Community Association has 6 open positions on its Board. We serve all of Natomas (north, south and west). We would love to have board members from all areas of Natomas. Please visit our website to get more information on the association: www.natomascommunity.com If you are interested, we would love to have you submit a short statement on who you are and why you would like to serve your community. Please e-mail to Molly Fling, President,mdfling@gmail.com *by January 20th*. You should also be available to attend our meeting on January 25th from 6:30-8:00 pm at the South Natomas Community Center on Truxel Road. |
To date: copper wire thieves have left over 200 neighborhood locations throughout the city in the
dark over the course of the last several months. Miles of copper wire have been stolen from
places
such as street lights, traffic signals, and City parks during all hours of the day and night.
To date:
• The Department of Transportation has spent $200,000 (and counting) to replace stolen
copper wire.
Each theft incident exacts a heavy toll on our resources as the thieves damage conduits and
other equipment, making the repair time much more involved and expensive.
We need your help to curb this trend!
Click here and you will find a flyer that provides photos of items that are associated with the
current thefts.
To report theft in progress, please call 911 or 732-0100 (from your cell phone)
For street light or signal outage, tampering or missing covers, please call 311 to report.
Thank you very much for keeping an eye out in the community! I’ll be sure to provide you with
further updates as more information comes available. Please don’t hesitate to call or email me
anytime with questions. I’m happy to help.
Sincerely,
Sarah Novo
Office of Vice Mayor
Angelique Ashby; City of Sacramento
Director of Constituent Affairs
City Hall 915
"I" Street Sacramento, CA 95814
phone 916.808.7167
fax 916.808.8406 | mobile 916.718.3385
snovo@cityofsacramento.org
www.AngeliqueAshby.com
dark over the course of the last several months. Miles of copper wire have been stolen from
places
such as street lights, traffic signals, and City parks during all hours of the day and night.
To date:
• The Department of Transportation has spent $200,000 (and counting) to replace stolen
copper wire.
- • The City has encumbered $95,000 for contractor costs, $86,000 in copper wire
stock and $90,000 in pull box security lids. The department will be asking Council to
approve more money next month for a purchase of more security lids, as we have 40,000
streetlights and two pull boxes per streetlight that will ultimately need to be secured. The
City has exhausted their supply of vandal resistant lids to deter copper wire thefts from
repaired lights, and hesitate putting in more copper wire without the safe-guard of a
vandal-resistant lid. Experience has shown that the copper wire will only be stolen again,
resulting in more money and resources spent to replace and re-install it. In conversation
with DOT staff, I was told that none of the repaired streetlights which were equipped with
the new resistant lid had been re-vandalized.
- • Staff are responding to more than 200 areas that are currently out. (An area is
defined as a neighborhood street, which could range from one to several blocks, all
damaged by theft.) At least three to ten new sites are reported weekly. Repairs to a single
location can take from one to three days depending on the severity of damage by thieves,
so the backlog is not decreasing.
• DOT first responds to a location of theft to secure the area and ensure public’s
safety, and logs those sites as they are reported. The Department of Transportation then
repairs each location according to the order in which it was reported. Some locations
have been without streetlights for over six months.
Each theft incident exacts a heavy toll on our resources as the thieves damage conduits and
other equipment, making the repair time much more involved and expensive.
We need your help to curb this trend!
Click here and you will find a flyer that provides photos of items that are associated with the
current thefts.
To report theft in progress, please call 911 or 732-0100 (from your cell phone)
For street light or signal outage, tampering or missing covers, please call 311 to report.
Thank you very much for keeping an eye out in the community! I’ll be sure to provide you with
further updates as more information comes available. Please don’t hesitate to call or email me
anytime with questions. I’m happy to help.
Sincerely,
Sarah Novo
Office of Vice Mayor
Angelique Ashby; City of Sacramento
Director of Constituent Affairs
City Hall 915
"I" Street Sacramento, CA 95814
phone 916.808.7167
fax 916.808.8406 | mobile 916.718.3385
snovo@cityofsacramento.org
www.AngeliqueAshby.com
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