About Membership, Dues & Member Benefits

Pay dues, become a member
Where else can you get a voice that’s 1200 households strong for $20 per household per year? At the October 2004 annual meeting, members approved the Board’s proposal to restructure Association dues from $10 per adult member to a flat fee of $20 per household. If there are two adults in the house, each is allowed one vote.

This is the first dues increase in decades, and we hope you’ll agree, is still an amazing bargain considering all the work (see Local Issues and Accomplishments and Strategic Plan) managed under the Piedmont Pines banner.  Perhaps the single most important benefit to membership is clout with government officials that would be hard to muster household by household.
Here are some typical expenses covered by dues payments:

• Newsletters, signs, website, meetings and other community outreach. This is our biggest expense category.
• Reserve fund for professional fees. Recent expenses included facilitation for our strategic plan and legal retainer fees to preserve Castle Canyon as open space.
• Beautification projects, such as plants and supplies for Marj Saunders Park
• Production of materials to favorably influence public policy decisions. For example, while lobbying to retain acreage in Castle Canyon, we produced information packets and posters to help educate councilmembers unfamiliar with the beauty of the acreage.

We encourage your involvement in PPNA by paying your dues, and by helping out when and how you can. There is no substitute for involved citizens pitching in to maintain the high quality of life and beauty that surrounds us. Join today.

Help us keep our roster updated
It’s also important that we keep an accurate database of who’s who inside our boundaries.  This helps us get mail properly delivered, and increasingly, helps us get flash notices out via e-mail.

If you're not already on our roster, click here to fill out the roster form electronically.  Or mail us your  name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and the year you moved to Piedmont Pines. Send to:
Piedmont Pines Neighborhood Association
9301 Skyline Blvd
Oakland 94611

Contact Us
Here are ways to give and get information about what's going on in Piedmont Pines:

E-mail
We’re using e-mail more and more as a way to communicate with our members quickly and economically. If you haven’t given us your e-mail address, sign up here. Send questions, concerns, information: info@piedmontpines.org

Website
As news develops, we’ll update our website. In 2002, we gave birth to Open Forum, a place where you can talk to us and to each other, on any topic you choose (try to keep it of interest to neighborhood as a whole). We've set up some "starter topics" but your imagination, passion and energy is what will determine the usefulness of this forum. The most-visited section of Open Forum is recommendations for service providers and contractors. Check it out.

Talk to the Board
If you want to talk to a Board member you can do so directly. Or, send a message to info@piedmontpines.org and we'll get your message to them.

Mail
We publish a newsletter in the first quarter of each year and then as needed throughout the year. We send postcards to announce meetings. To review past issues, click here.
And of course, you can always write to us at:

Piedmont Pines Neighborhood Association
2120 Mastlands Dr.
Oakland, CA 94611

Volunteer
The number and scope of issues facing Piedmont Pines ebbs and flows. Our most pressing on-going need is help implementing our Strategic Plan. Send an e-mail with your area of interest to info@piedmontpines.org. We'll have the committee chairperson contact you.

Sister Organizations
Piedmont Pines works to corral the concerns and opinions of its members into one strong voice. In 2003, an additional voice was added to the Montclair "chorus" with the formation of the Montclair Safety and Improvement Council. MSIC includes representatives from all of Montclair’s neighborhood associations and takes on issues that are of broad interest. Mail Theft, Crime Prevention, Traffic and Pedestrian Safety and Blight, Trash and Dumping, Beautification and Emergency Preparedness are MSIC’s current project teams. Piedmont Pines residents are active on all teams. Visit MSIC's website to learn more: www.montclairsic.org.

Piedmont Pines also keeps in close touch with other Hills neighborhood associations, since many of the issues we face are concern to our neighbors as well.