Council Proclaims August 26 Women's Equality Day in Cloverdale

At their August 24th City Council meeting, the City Council proclaimed August 26, 2022 as WOMENS EQUALITY DAY, celebrating the essential role of women in the wellbeing and economic growth of Sonoma County and the City of Cloverdale and recommitting to realizing gender equality in the City of Cloverdale in all areas of employment and access to opportunities. 

The Council's Proclamation commemorates Women’s Equality Day, as a national day celebrating the importance of the women’s suffrage movement and the work to secure and expand equal rights today.

The City Council was joined by a team of young women to receive the proclamation.  The proclamation will be presented to the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women.

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New Parks Website Unveiled!

The City unveiled a major update to the City of Cloverdale website featuring Parks and Recreation.  Parks and Recreation are vitally important to the quality of life in a community, encouraging health and wellness, and contributing to the economic and environmental well-being of a community.

The Cloverdale Parks and Recreation Department continually strives to establish and maintain a robust and active system of parks and recreation programs for public use and enjoyment. The Parks Division care-takes and maintains over 500-acres (and growing) of City park lands, open spaces, landscape districts, civic spaces, and roadside landscaping, including 8 neighborhood and community parks and over 400 trees. The up and coming Recreation division supports local sports and community events and will soon provide recreation programs, classes, clinics and events to participants of all ages and abilities. Clink the link below to learn more: 

Parks and Recreation | Cloverdale, CA - Official Website

Resilient Cloverdale Wildfire Season Planning Workshop

The leadership of the Resilient Cloverdale Initiative convened an interagency workshop on Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at the Cloverdale Citrus Fair. The goal of the meeting was to bring together local, regional and State agencies that are connected to the City of Cloverdale’s mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery mission(s) in order to establish a baseline for the highest level of interoperability during any wildfire related response activities this Fall.
 
Background:
Founded in 2019, Resilient Cloverdale is a community led disaster resilience development initiative which is building on the lessons learned from the Kincade and Tubbs fires to craft and implement a hyperlocal resilience action plan that guides the community’s efforts to advance meaningful mitigation, preparedness, response investments at the individual, organizational and community levels.
 
Meeting Overview:
Location: Citrus Fairgrounds, Cloverdale
Date: Tuesday, August 23
Times: 8:30am to 1pm
 
Purpose: 
To convene any and all stakeholders and establish the highest level of interagency interoperability between local, regional, state and federal agencies during any Fall disaster events.
 
Meeting Goals: 

1. To identify, convene and connect leads at key agencies
2. To update and share any agency level investments in capacity and mission
3. To generate a collective vision of how to activate and coordinate response in a timely manner that is reflective of the needs of residents, especially the most vulnerable, in and around the city of Cloverdale

• Government Representatives - Sonoma County, City of Cloverdale, CalOES
• Non Profits - Chamber of Commerce
• Faith Based Organizations
• First Responder Agencies - Cloverdlae Fire, Cloverdale Police
• Businesses
• Housing and Medical Services Providers
• Civic Networks (Kiwanis, Lions and Rotary Clubs)
• Volunteer Response Organizations

Parks Update

Several projects were accomplished this work week throughout Parks and L&L Districts.
 
This first project consisted of replacing malfunctioning lights at the Second Street City Park baseball field. The lights are utilized by organized sports during games that procced late into the evening. A total of seven light fixtures were repaired. In order to complete this project, it was necessary for the department to rent a 60ft boom-lift to reach the light towers and make necessary repairs.
 
Weed abatement was performed at the L&L District The Cottages. Two blocks of landscaping was completed from Douglas Fir to Pepperwood Drive. We initiated the project by string weed eating the tall grasses and invasive species of weeds, and work was finished with the application of organic herbicides, the goal to suppress weeds. A significant irrigation leak was also repaired while working in the District.
 
Parks staff allocated two working days to maintaining our Parks playground structures. The City has four playground structures located on Second Street City Park, Vintage Meadows Park, Furber Park and Clark Park. A general inspection was performed of each of the structures to ensure the equipment is in safe condition for the kids to enjoy. This week’s focus was to address the fall protection standards by adding 60yds of playground certified wood chips. Application was made around all structures, but mainly slides, swings, climbing structures and benches. 
 
Lastly, several vegetation service requests were completed this work week including vegetation trimming along Foothill Drive at the entrance of Furber Park .
 
Parks staff would like to thank the community for all of the positive feedback we received while working around playground structures.

City Population Continues Decline 

The California Department of Finance (DOF) released the 2022 Population estimates. According to DOF’s estimates, the City of Cloverdale’s population declined 1.4% from 9,029 in January 2021 to 8,905 in 2022.  This follows a decline from 2020. Overall, Population in Sonoma County and the State declined as well. Housing costs are a large factor in the out migration.