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Code enforcement/public works Events

Citywide clean-up week Oct. 16 – 20

Palm Springs Disposal Services holds a week-long clean-up event twice each year – in April and October – giving Palm Springs residents an opportunity to dispose of extra household waste and bulky items. 

CURBSIDE PICK-UP

On Monday, Oct. 16, all single-family dwellings may set out additional compatible household waste and/or bulky items at the curb for collection. There is no charge for this service and no need to call to arrange collection. Items must be at your curbside by 7:00 A.M. Collections will performed on all days of the week (Monday, Oct. 16 – Friday, Oct. 20) as crews canvas the City. Please note that collections may not necessarily be on your regular collection day.

DROP OFF EVENT

Saturday, Oct. 21, 8 a.m. – 2 p.m.  Palm Springs City Hall, 3200 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way. Large debris boxes will be set up in the north parking lot of City Hall for Palm Springs residents to self-haul and dispose of extra household Waste and bulky items.

For more information: Citywide Clean-Up Week

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Events Neighborhood activities

Breakfast social

Two dozen residents turned out Sunday morning, Sept. 17, to meet neighbors or catch up with friends and acquaintances. Thank you to Kristin Maschka for coordinating the delicious food and to those who brought fruit salad, homemade quiche and other baked dishes. Photos courtesy of Kate Maschka Hitchcock.

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Events Our Members

Outreach efforts

CPNO members set up a “coffee talk” on July 26, 2023, at the Koffi South on Camino Real near the Ace Hotel to raise awareness of our neighborhood organization. We encourage all our neighbors to join online and be on our confidential, low-volume mailing list. It is an important source of information in the event of a public safety emergency in the neighborhood.

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Neighborhood activities

Check out our newsletter

This year, the Board of Directors hopes to improve communication with our neighbors through a newsletter. We will share helpful information you can use throughout the year. Let us know what you think. Enjoy the summer, stay cool, and hope to see each of you at one or more of our planned events or at a future Board meeting. You can read, download, or print the newsletter by clicking the button below. Please share it with neighbors who have not yet learned about our activities.

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Board and Committees Events Governance

2023 annual meeting held April 22

Thank you to all who attended our Annual General Membership meeting, helping to make it another successful event in our short history as the 48th organized neighborhood in Palm Springs. A special thank you to Mario Bucacci-Pezzullo for his service to the Board and welcome to our newest Board member, Kristen Maschka.

Mayor Grace Garner and police Lt. Mike Villegas (shown during and prior to the meeting) and our district council member, Lisa Middleton, joined us at the Pavilion in Sunrise Park for the meeting. You can see the full agenda on our documents page, where we also will post the minutes once approved by the new Board.

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Events

2023 Police Week

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Safety

Register your security camera

Police Lt. Mike Villegas, speaking at our Annual General Membership Meeting on April 22, suggested anyone in Palm Springs with a residential or business security camera register it with the Police Department. This link will take you to a Public Camera Registry page, from which you can easily partner with Palm Springs police when they are trying to determine whether crimes have been captured on video.

“Participation in this program will help strengthen our investigative abilities and give us an easier way to communicate more effectively with potential witnesses,” the Police Department says.

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Neighborhood activities

Community-wide Yard Sale

Want to sell some old clothing, collectibles, or anything else you might find at a garage sale? This is your best opportunity of the year.

  • We obtain the permit from the city.
  • We advertise the sale on websites with a total reach of more than 20,000 people. See an example here.
  • We provide maps and street corner placards to direct buyers to your home.
  • You keep the sale proceeds.

March 18, 8 a.m. to noon. Sign up NOW and pay the $17 fee, which will help support future neighborhood organization activities. The online form below allows us to accept donations by credit card, PayPal, Venmo, Apple Pay and Google Pay. The donation platform, Givebutter, will ask you for a “tip,” but it’s entirely up to you whether you want to change the default tip from $2 to a greater amount or $0 and whether you want to agree to pay our processing fee to cover this convenience. (Click here to ask any technical questions about online payment.)

The day of the sale, participants should plan on beginning setup at 7 a.m. But planning already has begun. In order to obtain the permit and place the advertising, we need you to sign up now. Simply email your full name and address to the estate sale coordinator, our neighbor Sanford Cohen, along with photos of your best items. These will be advertised (without your name and address) on websites like EstateSales.org.

If you don’t have much to sell, but want to participate anyway to meet new neighbors, please let us know. We need some homeowners to offer their driveways to neighbors in the Canyon South One HOA, which does not allow garage sales on its property.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If Sanford doesn’t have your name and address on the permit application he submits the week of March 6 and you decide to participate anyway, the city’s code enforcement officer can cite you for a permit violation.

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Our Members

Remembering Bob Fey

Our Canyon Palms neighbor Bob Fey, who died July 29 at the age of 79, is being remembered for the roles he played in the growth of Palm Springs as a developer and philanthropist. (See the Desert Sun’s obituary.) Bob was present for our organization’s formation, and many of us got to know him as he walked his dogs in the neighborhood.  

“Bob was always forward thinking and engaged in today and the future,” said Ken Patrick, chairman of the Canyon Palms Neighborhood Organization. “To my delight, he would recall and share neighborhood development history and his significant contributions when coaxed. He was a positive and generous man.” 

The newspaper said Bob’s funeral was scheduled for 11 a.m. Aug. 3 at Temple Isaiah, a synagogue he helped build and lead.

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Safety

How to attend the Community Police Academy

The Police Department has invited us to attend its fall Community Police Academy. Its mission is to strengthen community partnerships by offering the opportunity to interact with PSPD professional staff, increase their understanding of police operations and become ambassadors to the community.

The free, interactive course is designed to acquaint adults who live or work in the Greater Palm Springs community who are not sworn police officers with the activities of the Police Department.

The Community Police Academy will run twice annually for 12 sessions in the winter and fall of each year. The classes starting September 20, 2022, will meet on select Tuesday nights from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Along with the classroom sessions, participants will have the opportunity to attend one ride-along session.

Classes fill up quickly and applicants are accepted on a first come, first served basis. For more information, visit:

https://www.palmspringsca.gov/government/departments/police/community-policing/community-police-academy