VCHPOA Newsletter June 2007 (5.8 Meg download, 30 minutes on dialup)
	Road Management Guidelines and Road Maintenance Plan The Road Management Guidelines and Road Maintenance Plan is available. The plan includes the "list of annual road repair, restoration and improvements" (LARRRI). It's 31 pages and it's in PDF format. Click here to read the plan in your browser.
	VCHPOA Newsletter June 2006 (5 Meg download, 25 minutes on dialup) The newsletter was included in a mailing to all property owners on Wednesday, June 7, 2006. Included with the newsletter was an advisory ballot on road improvements and on selling the fire station property. (The ballot available here is a sample only and is not valid for voting purposes). Also included was road information and an agenda for the annual meeting, and information on the 2006-2007 Operating and Reserve budgets. Note: these files require the free Acrobat Reader, available at Adobe.com
	Plans for the Virginia City Highlands Park were developed by a volunteer committee made up of residents and chaired by Patti Poston. The committee developed a prioritized list of projects and drew up a schematic plan. The prioritized project list and plans were approved by the VCHPOA board (the 1's) and the HRPOA board (the 10's) in 2001.

Traffic enforcement is provided by the Storey County Sheriff's Department, on both public and private roads. Normally, law enforcement officials in Nevada cannot enforce traffic laws on private roads, but in 1991, the Nevada Attorney General issued an opinion that determines that this arrangement is legal for traffic enforcement purposes. The VCHPOA and HRPOA both dedicated the Highlands roads to the County in July 1991 for purposes of law enforcement, and the County accepted in August 1991.

Utilities

Electric power is supplied by Sierra Pacific Power.

Landline telephone is supplied by SBC Communications (formerly Nevada Bell). Cellular coverage is spotty.

Garbage is picked up by Storey County Sanitation, 202 E Washington St., Carson City, Nevada 89701, (775) 882-3380, fax (775) 882-2826. Normal rate is $42.27 per household, as of 12/1/2003.

Water is provided by YOU! There is no community or municipal water system. Subsurface water is heavily mineralized. Most residents use water filtration of some kind, mostly to reduce hardness, but also to eliminate iron.

Sewer is also provided by YOU! Septic systems are common.

Television is either over-the-air antenna, or digital satellite (Dish Network or DIRECTV).

Internet access is mostly dialup. Broadband wireless access is available from Highlands Wireless, based in the Virginia CIty Highlands. A few residents have satellite "broadband" from HughesNet, StarBand, or WildBlue. For the satellite, you need an unobstructed view of the southern sky.

Heating fuel is either propane, oil, or wood. You can check propane prices of various companies in the database area of the VCH email discussion list. You need to be a member of the discussion list and have a Yahoo! ID to see the prices.

To get a mailbox at the neighborhood mailboxes on Cartwright, you need to visit the US Post Office, Steamboat Station, located at 75 McCabe Drive in south Reno (across from the Indian Smoke Shop). You'll need something proving you have a house at the address. You'll get keys to a box at the Highlands mailbox enclosures. If a medium-sized package is delivered, they'll put a key to one of the parcel boxes in your mailbox. if it's too big or needs a signature, you'll have to go down to Steamboat Station to pick it up.

Useful documents

	Scan of a street map (428K download, 2-3 minutes on dialup)
	Interactive Yahoo! Map of Virginia City Highlands You can pan, zoom in, find an address, etc.
	VCH plat map - For more detail, contact  Wally Corey (206K download, 1 minute on dialup). .
	Flyer on the warning siren, evacuation zones, where to go, front page (217K download, 1 minute on dialup).
	Evacuation Flyer, back page (331K download, 2 minutes on dialup).
	Living with Fire, A Guide to Homeowners Fire dangers, suppression tactics, defensible space, fire-resistant vegetation. Published by the UNR Agricultural Experiment Station/Cooperative Extension and the Sierra Front Wildfire Cooperators. 1998. (4.8 megabyte download, 25 minutes on dialup, PDF document).