A Neighborhood Fire Safe Council

Pepperwood Springs Road Maintenance Association is now recognized by the Mendocino Fire Safe Council as a Neighborhood Fire safe Council

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Pepperwood Springs Road Maintenance Association is a long-established cooperative landowners association dedicated to the active management and repair of our neighborhood road network.

Volunteer maintenance and management maintain a road that is renowned

for its superior quality. Regular maintenance with contracted

grading, and rocking is funded by landowners dues calculated by mileage to each of the 19 parcels included. Volunteer work parties periodically manage vegetation, drainage and hazards.

Start a NFSC - go to www.firesafemendocino.org/nfsc

Neighborhood Fire Safe Councils (NFSCs) provide a foundation for wildfire preparedness in our communities. If there is not yet an NFSC where you live, we can help you start your own.

Benefits include:

• Support from MCFSC staff in launching your NFSC, finding speakers, and helping get your initial projects going

• Eligibility to apply for MCFSC Micro-Grants to fund your wildfire-preparedness projects

• Information and networking opportunities through our newsletter and regular meetings for NFSC leadership – these meetings are a great source of ideas and inspiration from other NFSCs

• Access to our highly discounted nonprofit bulk rates with DialMyCalls to start your own NFSC automated emergency alert system – a big improvement over manual phone trees

• Access to nonprofit rates for services like Zoom accounts

• Early information about and priority access to training and other opportunities such as free Community Chipper Days

• The potential for MCFSC to be your fiscal sponsor to fundraise and apply for grants as a nonprofit

And … it does not cost anything. Any group organizing for wildfire preparedness in their community can be a Neighborhood Fire Safe Council. We appreciate it when participants in our affiliated neighborhood groups choose to become dues-paying MCFSC members in support of our work, but it is not required.