Elvehjem Neighborhood Association's Echo newsletter is now available for download. Please use the following link to access the newsletter: http://www.elvehjemneighborhood.org/echo/2010-02echo.pdf

For Additional Information See Madison Streets Dept

Beginning Monday January 4, 2010 the Streets Division large item collection will switch from a weekly service to one offered every other week. The change was part of the 2010 City of Madison Operating Budget. “The change in large item collection frequency will begin on Monday,” Madison recycling coordinator George Dreckmann said. “Details on the program changes and a new collection calendar were mailed to all Madison residents in the 2010 Recyclopedia”

Residents who have not received a Recyclopedia should be getting it in the next few days. You can also find all the information on line at www.cityofmadison.com/streets.

“The Streets Division will continue to collect regular refuse weekly,” Dreckmann said. “Residents are encouraged to fit large items such as vacuum cleaners, lamps, and small chairs in their refuse carts. This will allow them to get rid of materials in a more timely basis and help our large item crews stay on schedule.”
Residents will notice that their new collection calendars show the dates for both large item and recycling collections. Theses services will occur on the same day as your regular trash collection. Recycling will be collected one week and large items the next.

“Large item service will be subject to suspension during snow and ice operations as we have done in the past,” Dreckmann said. “The service could also be delayed during weeks with holidays and during peak leaf season.”
In addition to the every other week collection service, Madison residents can also bring large items to the self-help drop off sites at 1501 W. Badger Rd or 4602 Sycamore Av. These sites are currently open winter hours M-F form 7:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. Additional information on the drop off sites is also available at www.cityofmadison.com/streets and in the 2010 Recyclopedia.........City of Madison Streets Dept

Because a particular road or street seems wider, busier, or just more important in our opinion, doesn't exclude it from the right of way law set forth by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. At any intersection where there are no signs or traffic lights, you must yield to vehicles coming from the right. http://www.dot.state.wi.us/drivers/docs/e-handbook.pdf (Sec1:24)

See Madison Parks Newsletter.Sign up today for one of many classes at Warner Park Community Recreation Center. Learn about many other great oppurtunities at many parks in Madison. .(Warner Park Community Recreation Center 1625 Northport Drive, Madison. 608.245.3690 www.wpcrc.com)

Starting November 20, 2009, the Telecirc ("Harriet") phone number will change to 608-242-4700.You may want to note this change if you call Harriet to renew items, or to review your list of holds, items checked out, or items overdue.

The alternate side parking rules require that vehicles must be parked on the even house numbered side of the street from 1:00a.m. until 7:00 a.m. on even numbered days and on the odd house numbered side of the street from 1:00 a.m. until 7:00 a.m. on odd numbered days. Madison’s alternate side parking rules are in effect from November 15th through March 15th. These rules are in effect for most of Madison seven days a week regardless of weather conditions.

And for those of you who like to plan ahead, our annual neighborhood meeting will be held on March 13 at the East District Police Station community room. A couple board members and I will be leaving the board at that time, so we hope to add a few new faces that day, too! If you're thinking about joining but have some questions, please contact any board member for information.

All households in the Elvehjem neighborhood receive a monthly newsletter, the Echo. Our newsletter has been printed for more than 39 years and is distributed by mail and online. ENA makes no profit from it. ENA welcomes businesses that wish to advertise in the Echo. Advertisements help pay the printing and distribution costs of the Echo.
To learn more about advertising in the Echo
http://www.elvehjemneighborhood.org/echo/PricePolicy-10.pdf

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Officer Adria Ehly is our neighborhood’s Community Policing Team Liaison Officer and can be contacted at 209-8553 or aehly@cityofmadison.com Taya Dolsen is a patrol officer assigned to the East Police District and is available to discuss general questions or concerns about on-going problems and advise about ways the Department can help find a positive resolution. Contact Officer Dolsen at 266-4887 or tdolsen@cityofmadison.com

 

NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH Officer Frank Chandler, fchandler@cityofmadison.com