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    • Home
    • About AHIA
    • Membership
    • Resources
      • NEW Green Bins/Carts
      • LBPD East Division
      • Magnolia Trees
      • There's an App for That
      • Open Channel Project
      • The Shell @ Rec Park
      • District 3 Website
      • Community Watch Group
      • 6th Street Traffic Report
      • Public Notice Application
    • Event Calendar
    • Our Supporters
    • Scrapbook
    • Contact Us
    • Newsletter Archive
    • 2025 Board Members
Alamitos Heights Improvement Association
  • Home
  • About AHIA
  • Membership
  • Resources
    • NEW Green Bins/Carts
    • LBPD East Division
    • Magnolia Trees
    • There's an App for That
    • Open Channel Project
    • The Shell @ Rec Park
    • District 3 Website
    • Community Watch Group
    • 6th Street Traffic Report
    • Public Notice Application
  • Event Calendar
  • Our Supporters
  • Scrapbook
  • Contact Us
  • Newsletter Archive
  • 2025 Board Members

About AHIA

It All Started in 1923!

When Getty Oil, horse head pumping jacks, and oil derricks dotted the Alamitos Heights landscape 35 Alamitos Heights neighbors formed the Alamitos Heights Improvement Association. Today AHIA is organized as a 501 (c) 4 nonprofit organization.

Building Community Together

We are a neighborhood organization of volunteers focused on Building Community Together. This begins with social events focused on building relationships and communication between neighbors. 

AHIA Social Events Include:

  • Annual Easter Egg Hunt in Spring
  • Annual Neighborhood Picnic in Summer
  • Summer Concert Series 
  • Goblins On the Green Belt in Fall
  • Annual Colorado Lagoon Holiday Tree Lighting in Winter
  • Community Meetings with Local Officials Biannually
  • Wine Down Fridays 
  • Neighborhood Beautification Projects
  • Toss-Shred-Recycle Event

Event Calendar

Membership Matters Thank You

Your membership matters. Your dues, donations and time supports our events and efforts to build a strong community here in Alamitos Heights.  Please consider paying your annual dues, volunteering your time and recruiting your neighbors to join AHIA. Many hands make light work. We can't accomplish our goals without the help of members like YOU. 

Membership

Our Mission

Creating Community Together

Our Objective are threefold:

RESIDENT ADVOCACY

Facilitates two-way communication between residents and city officials.

  • Community meetings, bi-annual printed community newsletter, & bi-monthly emails communication.
  • Neighborhood Watch and National Night Out.
  • Other common concerns; traffic, safety, infrastructure, & Colorado Lagoon restoration.


FOSTER COMMUNITY SPIRIT

Sponsor dozens of social, service & holiday events values at over $200 per person.

  • Summer Picnic including Naples Rib Co. catering
  • 'WineDown' Friday neighborly gatherings twice a month from Spring - Fall.
  • 9 Colorado Lagoon Christmas Trees...Colorado Lagoon Tree Lighting, Halloween, Toss-Shred-Recycle Events & MORE.


NEIGHBORHOOD BEAUTIFICATION 

Continuous improvements of ou neighborhood.

  • AHIA sponsored trees for the first 25 members to request. Choice of two varieties of your median planted by Conservation Corps of Long Beach.
  • Ongoing maintenance of the Manila median, traffic circles and alley clean-up.




A Bit of History & What We Do

  

Alamitos Heights Improvement Association 


The Alamitos Heights Improvement Association is a volunteer organization made up of homeowners and residents dedicated to maintaining and improving the quality of life in our neighborhood. Alamitos Heights is a beautiful, safe, friendly, and well-established neighborhood with a strong sense of community. This association was formed by the residents to provide leadership, resources, and a common voice to assure that Alamitos Heights continues to be a great place to live. 


AHIA is a voluntary organization that exists to promote, develop, and protect the interests and welfare of the property owners and residents of Alamitos Heights while fostering community spirit, maintaining the quality of the neighborhood, and engaging in activities of civic and public benefit.  


There are no covenants, conditions, or restrictions, and the Association does not own any common areas. Membership is open to all residents of Alamitos Heights. 


What Your Membership Supports


AHIA benefits the residents of Alamitos Heights in many ways. The Association acts as a forum for two-way communication between our residents and our city government. AHIA meets with our 3rd District Councilperson, as well as local police, fire and safety personnel. Information on issues affecting our neighborhood is passed on to residents through our newsletter, website and community meetings. Feedback, comments, and requests from our neighborhood are fed back up to our city officials.


AHIA sponsors social events for the entire neighborhood. Our annual meeting doubles as a picnic in June. The picnic brings out many members and it is a great way to meet more of our neighbors.


AHIA sponsors the Colorado Lagoon Christmas Trees and a Tree Lighting ceremony that is fun for everyone. 


AHIA publishes our newsletter containing articles written by your neighbors and we maintain this website to promote communication between neighbors.  


AHIA supports tree planting and traffic signals, neighborhood safety with community watch and National Night Out, and sidewalk and street repair and we look for new ways to make Alamitos Heights an even better neighborhood to live in. 

Our most cherished Event

Thank you to our neighbor and board-member, Craig Wallace for making this fun video documenting our most cherished AHIA Event, the Colorado Lagoon Tree Lighting.  A wonderful example of how membership drives our community non-profit. 2025 will mark the 37th Annual Colorado Lagoon Tree Lighting

2025 AHIA Board of Directors

  • Dan Ornelas, President
  • Craig Wallace, Vice President
  • Melissa Mihalik-Sipowicz, Treasurer
  • Annette Dhein, Secretary 
  • Barbara Geortner, Membership Chair, Community Events Chair
  • Janine Ransom, Wine Down Friday Chair
  • Lee Ostendorf, Annual Picnic Chair
  • Maria Kisska, Grants / Sustainability Chair
  • Catherine Grace, Neighborhood Beautification Chair
  • Jeannine Saucedo, Communications Chair
  • Naomi Hyland, Board Member
  • Lori Hess, Board Member
  • Charlie Nicholas, Board Member

More About AHIA

2021 AHIA By-Laws (pdf)

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Current Articles of Incorporation 9/5/1980 (pdf)

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3/29/1937 Articles of Association precurser to Articles of Incorporation (pdf)

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3/29/1975 By-Laws Amended the 3/26/1937 By-Laws (pdf)

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Alamitos Heights Improvement Association (AHIA)

5318 East 2nd Street, #263, Long Beach CA 90803

501 (c) 4 non profit organization--EIN #95-3537230

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