The document provides important safety and crime prevention resources for a neighborhood in Saratoga, including links to safety tips, the city's safety page, a neighborhood safety video, and information on starting a neighborhood watch program. It also includes lists of current neighborhood safety captains and block captains, as well as actions neighborhood leaders should take like registering with the city and applying for a grant.

2. Important Reference Links for our
neighbors
• Top 25 Safety Tips and your path to adopting safety best practice click here or
visit http://www.RishiKumar.com/tips
• City of Saratoga Safety page http://www.saratoga.ca.us/stayingsafe
• Watch the Neighborhood Safety Video click here
or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHBBZ8XVIHU
• Your chance to collaborate, innovate, stimulate safety best practices for Saratoga...Join the Safe
Saratoga Citizen's Collaboration Forum https://www.facebook.com/groups/safesaratoga
• The 10-step process to establishing Neighborhood Safety Watch programs www.RishiKumar.com/NSW
• The Saratoga crime spreadsheet (by Fred Burger) http://tinyurl.com/SaratogaCrimeSpreadsheet
• Subscribe to free crime reports from your neighborhood https://www.crimereports.com/
• Weekly crime summary http://www.saratoga.ca.us/cityhall/sheriffs_office/weekly_activity_summary.as
• Neighborhood Safety Watch program explained
- How to start a neighborhood Safety Watch for your neighborhood? Watch the video here
or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVKX_W6iQfI
- What is a Neighborhood Watch program, Role of a Neighborhood Watch Captain/Coordinator,
Role of a block captain are all explained here http://www.RishiKumar.com/nsw
- Presentation on Neighborhood Safety Watch http://tinyurl.com/PrezSafetyWatch

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LIST OF NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY CAPTAINS
a.k.a NEIGHBORHOOD COORDINATORS
Note: Most neighborhoods have 2-3 Safety Captains
Name
Sarang Kirpekar
Phone
408 921 0020
Address
20319 Kirkmont
Avenue
Email
sarang.kirpekar
@gmail.com
Mike Ziegel 408-396-1732 20254 Kirkmont mike@ziegel.us

4. Map

5. Map

6. THE NEXT FEW SLIDES ARE
OPTIONAL IN YOUR
CERTIFICATION PROCESS
(They are useful from a neighborhood due diligence
perspective, to ensure the neighborhood derives
benefits from rolling this program and more)

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LIST OF NEIGHBORHOOD BLOCK CAPTAINS
NOTE: It is OK to have zones that are still awaiting to be filled
ZONE Number of homes
in the zone
Name Block Captain resides on
…(street name only, house
number not needed)
1
6 Alex Wong Natoma Ct
2
10 Jack Wong
Radha Varadachari
Covina Ct
Covina Ct
3
8
4
8
5
10 Vasu Deshpande
Andy Means
Carol Lane
Carol Lane
6
7
7
5
8
6
9
6
10
9 Paul Smart
Bill Benovoot
Elaine Chan
Kirkdale Drive
Kirkdale Drive
Knollwood Drive

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LIST OF NEIGHBORHOOD BLOCK CAPTAINS
NOTE: It is OK to have zones that are still awaiting to be filled
ZONE Number of homes
in the zone
Name Block Captain resides on
…(street name only, house
number not needed)
11
8 Stefani Burge
Suman Kuppahally
Carol Ln
Carol Ln
12
8 Sudha Mani Kirkbook Drive
13
6 Eddie Yang Kirkmont Drive
14
8 Bela Khetan Knollwood Drive
15
5
16
8
17
9 Susan Rosenzdeig Marilla Drive
18
6 Kate Lin Kirkbrook Drive
19
6
20
7 Sybil Wolden Marilla Drive

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LIST OF NEIGHBORHOOD BLOCK CAPTAINS
NOTE: It is OK to have zones that are still awaiting to be filled
ZONE Number of homes
in the zone
Name Block Captain resides on
…(street name only, house
number not needed)
21
6
22
5
23
6
24
6 Henry Mei-Ling Marilla Dr
25
6 Gary Aslanian
Oscar Huang
Sarang Kirpekar
Kirkmont
Kirkmont
Kirkmont
26
5 Mike Ziegel Kirkmont
27
6

10. WHERE WOULD YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
LIKE TO PLACE THE SIGN(S)?
• Please specify 2 to 3 locations in your neighborhood where you are
interested in having a sign like this placed??
• NOTE: Once your neighborhood is certified, city of Saratoga staff will confer with
the Neighborhood Safety Captains to decide upon location(s). Perhaps you can
bring this up as a topic on the neighborhood email group now to get feedback from
the neighborhood
• Our recommended locations are the following

11. WHAT ELSE IS IN PLACE FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD?
NOTE: These below are nice to have. We would like you to be thinking
about these too, now that you have galvanized the neighborhood … but
the important first step though is to get the Neighborhood Safety Watch
established, leading to a connected, safer neighborhood
• NEIGHBORHOOD EMAIL GROUP
– Established? blossomview@googlegroups.com
• NEIGHBORHOOD PREPAREDNESS
– Identified a lead? NO
• ANNUAL NEIGHBORHOOD BLOCK PARTY
– Is it planned? YES
– Identified a lead? YES
– Quarterly Zone parties are happening? No

12. ACTION REQUIRED BY
NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERS
• Register with the city of Saratoga
– http://conta.cc/2gmbCx2
• Specify locations for your Neighborhood Safety
Watch sign
– Pick locations within your neighborhood closest to
arterial streets
– Pick a few internal streets as well
– Let Crystal know
• Apply for grant money from the city of Saratoga
– http://conta.cc/2h3ruRL