The following is from the Harris County Sheriff’s Office to homeowners concerning the need to obtain a permit for alarm systems installed in their homes.

In order to increase compliance and spread awareness, our office is requesting your assistance in informing residents in your community through your HOA newsletter or your scheduled HOA meetings of the need to obtain a permit for operating an alarm system, residential or business, within unincorporated Harris County.

Many residents and businesses are unaware of the requirement to obtain an alarm permit once an alarm system has been installed and activated by the alarm company. Alarm systems are established and defined in the Local Government Code 233 (subchapter D) as well as the authority to regulate, adopt rules and impose penalties for unpermitted locations. Obtaining the required permit will avoid the issuance of a citation and excessive false alarm fees. The fee for current permit issuance is $35 with a yearly renewal fee of $10. All permit fees are waived for senior citizens 65 years or older. Under current guidelines, a permitted location is allowed five (5) free false alarms annually. Any subsequent false alarms during your permitted year are subject to a $75 fine that is billed to the permit holder’s address. If a site has an active alarm system, yet does not have a permit to operate such alarm, a false alarm may result in a Class C citation which could range up to $500.

Should you or your residents require a copy of the permit application form, or would like to review the regulations regarding permit requirements, you may do so by visiting the Harris County Sheriff’s Office website at www.hcso.hctx./net . The application can be printed from the website, then completed and mailed to our office with the applicable fees. We are currently in the planning stages of making the application and payment process available on-line for the convenience to the public. Should you have any questions, please contact the Harris County Sheriff’s Office Alarm Detail at 713 755 4600 M-F, 8a- 5p. If you would like any of our Alarm Detail personnel to attend one of your HOA meetings, we would be glad to attend and answer as many questions as possible.

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Ehrhardt Elementary needs your help!
6603 Rosebrook Lane
Spring, TX 77379
Located off Stuebner Airline or Louetta.

Donate your gently used unwanted items for our rummage sale.
Tell everyone, friends, family, neighbors and everyone else you meet to gather their unwanted clothing, accessories, toys and kids stuff, furniture, books, household items, tools and anything else they can think of.
Bring your unwanted items to Ehrhardt Elementary on February 26th between the hours of 9 AM and 12 noon or on April 1 between the hours of 5 PM and 7 PM.

RUMMAGE SALE, RUMMAGE SALE, RUMMAGE SALE
Join us at Ehrhardt for shopping at great prices, sno cones and lots of fun.
April 2, 2011, between 7 a.m. – 2 p.m.

If you would like to make a donation but can’t attend our collection dates, or for more info, please contact Chayla at chedding@comcast.net

(Sponsors are A-1 Storage, Our Community Fundraiser & Jeff Byrd’s Shaved Ice.)

HOUSTON, TX — February 17, 2011 Cy-Fair residents are invited to the first Cy-Fair Houston Green Fair, hosted by the Cy-Fair Chamber of Commerce as part of their mission to help the community go green.

The weekend of recycling is in conjunction with the Fourth Annual Cy-Fair Home and Garden Show. Recycling takes place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 26 and from 12 to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 27 at the Berry Center located at 8877 Barker Cypress, Cypress, TX 77433.

This is a great event for Cy-Fair said Mary Evans, president of the Cy-Fair Houston Chamber. We hope people will start gathering their recyclables.

The Chamber is partnering with the Fourth Annual Cy-Fair Home and Garden Show, NuValTech Recycling, The Shred Pro, Fred Haas Toyota Country and The Shred Guy to host the fair. Area residents will have the opportunity to bring plastic bottles, aluminum cans and electronics for recycling, as well as paper and other items for shredding. There is a $10 suggested donation fee per load.

Electronic recyclables include computers and computer parts, printers, mobile phones, copiers, fax machines, remote controls and telephone equipment.

This is a great time to pull out those old electronics you’ve wanted to get rid of for awhile Evans said. Sometimes these items are collected but not properly disposed. We are working with recycling partners who are doing everything the right way.

Evans said that any memory left on electronic devices will be completely wiped out through a process called data sanitization. Our recycling partner, NuValTech, offers a data sanitization process for systems they receive, and they issue a Certificate of Destruction to clients when the data sanitization process is complete.

Data sanitization is the process of completely and permanently removing or destroying data stored on a device, including PC hard drives, network hard drives and memory cards commonly found in personal computers, PDAs and smart phones. A device that has been sanitized no longer has reusable data on it. NuValTech uses a data sanitization process, also referred to as Data Wipes that meets the standard set out by the Department of Defense for data destruction. For more information on data sanitization, visit www.nuvaltech.com.

The Chamber also recently created a Sustainability Committee to research, advise, educate and encourage Cy-Fair businesses to become leaders in sustainable practices.

We want to educate businesses on best practices for initiating programs in their companies, and we want to involve the community and area students in learning and applying these principals where we live, she said.

Evans said that Cy-Fair businesses are becoming increasingly aware of the environment. They live and work in this community and their kids go to school here. They want to take care of the area, she said.

Our community is growing and it’s a good time to get businesses involved in environmental programs, she said. It’s just good for our future.

The event is being held in conjunction with the Fourth Annual Cy-Fair Home and Garden Show, also held on March 26 and 27.

We are proud to be a part of the inaugural Cy-Fair Green Fair said Tony Wood, president of Texwood Shows.

Sustainable building is part of our focus at this year’s show he added. We are offering a number of exhibitors featuring green products, from recycled countertops and alternative energy sources to efficient insulation and innovative skylights.

For more information about the green products that can be found at the Fourth Annual Cy-Fair Home and Garden Show, visit http://www.CyFairHomeAndGarden.com

For a complete list of recyclable electronic items that will be accepted at the Green Fair, visit www.nuvaltech.com.

For more information about the Cy-Fair Houston Green Fair, contact Casey Cargle, marketing manager for the chamber, at 281-373-1390 or casey@cyfairchamber.com.

SUMMARY:
WHEN: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 26; 12 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 27
WHERE: The parking lot of the Berry Center, 8877 Barker Cypress, Cypress, TX 77433
COST: Suggested donation $10.00
ACCEPTING: Aluminum cans, plastic, electronics, paper shredding
CONTACT: Casey Cargle, 281.373.1390, casey@cyfairchamber.com

About the Fourth annual Cy-Fair Home and Garden Show
The Fourth Annual Cy-Fair Home and Garden will be held from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 26 and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday, March 27. Tickets are cash only and are $9 for adults, $7 for seniors and free for children under 12. Parking is free. The event will be held at Berry Center, 8877 Barker Cypress Road, Cypress, TX 77433. More information at http://www.CyFairHomeAndGarden.com