Beautification Awards Program

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Volume 25, Issue 5

May 2015

Board Meetings

Chapter Board Meetings are typically held on the third Wednesday of the month at 5 p.m. at Ewing Irrigation, 1175 Prospect St., San Luis Obispo. Upcoming meetings:

• May 20 • June 17 • July 15

In This Issue:

•Find my SLO Contractor Search •2015 CLCA Legislative Conference • Chapter Represents at Inspired Home

Expo in May • Board Minutes • CLCA Summer Camp •Calendar of Events

Join us for the

Beautification

Awards Program

Beautification

Awards Program

Friday, June 19, 2015

6:00 p.m.

Madonna Inn

100 Madonna Road

San Luis Obispo, CA 93405

Join the CLCA San Luis Obispo Chapter as we recognize the wonderful work being done by our chap-ter members. The annual Beautification Awards Program will be held on Friday, June 19, 2015 in the “Garden Room” at the Madonna Inn, 100 Madonna Road in San Luis Obispo. The evening will begin at 6:00 pm with a cocktail reception, followed by dinner and the presentation of awards. Please call David Brown to RSVP at (805) 835-2498 or email (david@marilandscaping.com) by Friday, June 12, 2015. The cost is $50 per person and a table of eight for the same company is $350. Please specify the type of dinner you prefer when making your reservations: Beef, Chicken or Vegetarian. Watch your email for more information and online registration.

Chapter Outreach at Inspired Homes Expo May 2-3

On May 2 and 3, the San

Luis Obispo Chapter hosted a booth at the Inspire Homes Expo in San Luis Obispo. Members greeted the public and answered questions regarding how to hire a land-scape contractor and general landscaping concerns. See page 6 for more photos.

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2015 San Luis Obispo Chapter Officers

President ... Mike Kneeskern,

Central Coast Landscape Products ... michael@cclandscapeproducts.com . 805-595-3478 Immediate Past President ... David Brown, Mari Landscaping ... david@marilandscaping.com ...805-226-9787 VP, Membership / PR ... Evan Moffitt, KD Janni Landscaping, Inc. ... evanmoffitt@kdjanni.com ...805-748-8931 VP Programs ... Levi Marks, Ewing Irrigation ... levimarks@ewing1.com ...805-598-7291 Secretary... Brandon Delon, Leftside Landscape ... leftsidelandscape@gmail.com ... 805-440-7051 Treasurer ... David Brown, Mari Landscaping ... david@marilandscaping.com ...805-226-9787 Associate Member Rep... Jonathon Araya, Ewing Irrigation ... jaraya@ewing1.com ...805-598-7291 Board Member ... Pat Connelly, St. Francis Landscape ... stflandscape@gmail.com ...805-235-1859 Editor ... Jerrie Beard, Beard & Associates ... info@beardassociates.com ... 530-621-1701

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CLCA Board of Directors

President ...Javier Lesaca ... (661) 836-0229 President-Elect ...Steve Jacobs ... (760) 945-4321 Immediate Past President Chuck Carr ...(818) 388-0214 Secretary/Treasurer ...Ted Sandrowski ...(530) 345-6101 Executive Director ...Sandra Giarde ...(916) 830-2780 DIRECTORS

Communications ...Jerrie Beard ...(530) 621-1701 Chapter Services ...Richard Sheffield ... (661) 245-1147 Legislation ...Pete Dufau, CLT ...(805) 642-1239

SLO CLCA Past Presidents

2014 Mike Kneeskern Central Coast Landscape Products 2012-13 David Brown Mari Landscaping 2011 Aaron Huxley Hunter Industries 2009-10 Erik Wolting All Seasons Gardening &

Landscaping

2007–08

Jim Trask California Water Shapes

2005-06

Erik Wolting All Seasons Gardening &

Landscaping 2004 John Doyle J Doyle Landscaping 2002–03 Pat Connelly St. Francis Landscape 1998–2001 Bruce Courter Day Star Enterprises, Inc.

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Lloyd Gracey Pacific Coast Landscapes

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Danté D’Alfonso D’Alfonso’s Landscape

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Chapter Pres. Council ...Tim Hendricks, CLT (415) 892-7710 Co-Director

Chapter Pres. Council ...Ed Wallace ...(562) 755-9914

1994

Duane Morris Duane Morris Landscape

Designer/Contractor 1993 John Ruggiero Arcadian Gardens 1991-92 Bruce Courter Day Star Enterprises

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The San Luis Obispo chapter has added a new feature to our website -- Find My SLO Chapter Contractor at: http://clcas-lo.org/j_ho/search-for-local-contractor.

This search engine localizes the Find My Contractor Search on CLCA’s website to the San Luis Obispo chapter area. Because the state search engine is up-dated in “real time,” the information is accurate and up-to-date.

CLCA’s Chapter Presidents Council has requested that the Find My Contractor Search be an “opt in” member benefit. You can request to be listed (or unlist-ed), or update or modify your listings at http://member-clca.org/max/4DCGI/com-pany/Detail.html.

Don’t know your company log in? You can request it at

http://member-clca.org/max/4DCGI/log-on/forgotc.html.

UPDATING YOUR LISTING

To update your company listing, click the EDIT link in the green bars. To get the most from your listing, you will want

to review/edit the following sections: •Contact Information

•CLCA Directories

•Services and Service Cities •General Information

You can also upload your company logo or other image to enhance your listing. Supported file types are: JPEG, GIF, TIF, PNG, and BMP. Limit image size to 500K.

If you update your information, be sure to click the Submit Changes button.

Frequently Asked Questions

If you have a question that is not ad-dressed below, please contact CLCA HQ at (800) 448-2522.

Q. I’m no longer a member of CLCA ... A. Profiting from this and other CLCA member benefits is only a click and a credit card away: www.clca.org/renew

Q. I’m a Life Member, and I’m not listed. Why not?

A. The Chapter Presidents Council notes that Life Membership recognizes individuals -- not companies. The Find My SLO Contractor Search lists

compa-Find My San Luis Obisbo Contractor Search

nies. As such, the search engine does not

list individuals.

Q. I’m an Associate Member, and I’m not listed. Why not?

A. CLCA Associate Members are listed in the Supplier Listing on the state web-site at http://member-clca.org/max/4DC-GI/directory/supplier/index.html

Q. I’d like to talk to someone about my membership.

A. Membership Manager Joseph Davis [(800) 448-2522 or josephdavis@clca.org] looks forward to working with you.

Q. My company focuses on malacolo-gy, but that service option is not listed. Who do I talk to?

A. Contact Communications Manger John Sassaman at CLCA HQ, [(800) 448-2522 or johnsassaman@clca.org]

Q. My company is a member of the North Valley chapter, but does a lot of work in the SLO area. How do I get listed?

A. Membership Manager Joseph Davis [(800) 448-2522 or josephdavis@clca.org] can help you set up a satellite member-ship in the SLO Chapter.

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Have you ever been asked to make due with less? It’s not always such a bad thing.

That’s where we were a few months ago when the state legislative committee was asked to put on a legislative confer-ence with significantly less funds. In the past, CLCA would have a two day event inviting about 30 or so member represen-tatives from around the state to attend. With a one day grass roots training to get representatives up to speed on the issues, the second day was alloted to meeting with legislators to urge support or opposition on impending legislation. Given the downturn in the economy and therefore membership, the legislative committee did not have a legislative con-ference in 2013 or 2014. To make ends

meet, the 2015 conference would need to be done on a much stricter budget.

This year the group attending the legis-lative conference was limited to 8 mem-bers of the legislation committee and CLCA state President Javier Lesaca. We were accompanied by CLCA Executive Director Sandra Giarde, CLCA Assistant Executive Director Larry Rohlfes, Com-munications Director John Sassaman and our political consultant with Greenburg Traurig Maria Garcia.

On Tuesday, March 24, the group first met briefly at the office of Greenburg Traurig to go over the legislative bills that we were to discuss with our local Assemblymember and State Senator that afternoon.

The focus of the group was on three

topics:

1. Water Conservation - Four legisla-tive bills dealt with this issue. Two of the bills dealt with tax rebates for converting existing landscapes into drought tolerant landscapes. The last two bills dealt with requiring govern-ment owned properties to abide by the same water restrictions that the public is being asked to adhere to. CLCA is supporting all four of these bills. 2. Excavation (SB 119) - This bill deals

with the protection of subsurface installations. Although CLCA appre-ciates the spirit of the bill, CLCA is opposed to the bill unless it is amend-ed. The bill indicates that DigAlert or 811 must be called prior to excavation so that existing utility pipes and lines can be located and marked off. Howev-er, the definition of “excavation” as per the bill is any penetration of the ground plane. This would include routine maintenance activities, such as weeding, aeration, planting flats of annual color, and so on. CLCA felt that this was not the intent of the bill and is urging that an exemption be made for most landscape maintenance activities. CLCA is trying to negotiate a depth that is acceptable to all parties when non-power tools are being used to do the digging. Early talks with utility companies appear to be going well, with both sides being willing to establish a happy compromise. 3. Underground Economy - CLCA is in

favor of legislation that battles the un-derground economy because it creates an uneven playing field for those who play by the rules. Unlicensed parties have a definite advantage in being able

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Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla, Michael Martin, Steve Jacobs, Javier Lesaca, Jim Rios and Nikos Lynch visited the Assembly floor at the state capitol during CLCA’s Legislative Conference on March 24 and 25.

2015 CLCA Legislative Conference

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to outbid licensed contractors who are required to be bonded and insured. Even licensed contractors, who game the system by not reporting employees or under reporting employees so as to avoid paying or paying less for Work-ers’ Compensation Insurance, have an unfair advantage over those who ad-here to the established requirements. CLCA urges that the recommendations contained with the “Little Hoover Commission” report be considered. It is estimated that California loses $8.5 billion in uncollected tax revenue due to the underground economy.

Javier and I had an appointment to meet with Assemblywoman Shannon Grove, however when we arrived at her office, we were informed she had been called away to attend to an urgent matter. Instead, we met with Greg Burt, her Communications Director. Her staff member seemed to be receptive to our points of view on the issues and said that they would look deeper into the bills.

An hour later, we arrived at State

Senator Jean Fuller’s office for another scheduled meeting, We found she had been called onto the senator floor to discuss a water bill. So, we met with the senator’s staff member, Maddie Dunlap. Once again, we made our views known and the staff member seemed to think that our positions on the bills were reasonable. Following our two meetings, Maria Garcia, our lobbyist, arranged for the entire group to be allowed onto the Assembly floor where we met with Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla. After a little tour around the Assembly side of the Capitol, we regrouped at Frank Fat’s for dinner. Assemblywoman Bonilla join us for dinner, and we discussed current and upcoming issues with her.

The next day, March 25, was a very busy day. The CLCA conference mem-bers were divided into two groups of six. Commencing at 9:00 am until 12:00 noon, each group had scheduled meet-ings with different legislators every 30 minutes to discuss the same issues as the previous day. Then we had a two hour lunch break where we met at

Ella’s, a nearby downtown restaurant, accompanied by Cindi Christenson, the Registrar of Contractors with the CSLB. We were able to speak to her over lunch about CSLB’s enforcement efforts on the underground economy. Following lunch we returned to the Capitol for four more appointments with legislators.

This was the third legislative confer-ence that I have had the pleasure to take part in. In my opinion, it was also the most productive of the three. We were able to meet face to face with far more legislators than at previous conferences. Since the members of the legislative committee were more acquainted with the issues, it eliminated the need to dedicate an entire day to the grass roots training. We were able to ask the legisla-tors to allow CLCA to be part of the dia-log in solving some of the problems that affect our industry and businesses. Many thanks go out to Larry Rohlfes and Maria Garcia for doing the upfront legwork needed to coordinate each of the many meetings, meals and lodging for the out of town members. Great job!

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Chapter Represents at

Inspired Home Expo May 2-3

The SLO Chapter of the CLCA was well represented at the Inspired Home Expo at the Alex Madonna Expo Center in San Luis Obispo on May 2-3. Thank you to the following chapter members for their help in building the landscape display at the entrance to the show: KD Janni Landscaping Inc., Air-Vol Block, Central Coast Landscape Products, Rainscape, A Landscape Service Company, and Ultimate Green Lawns. Also, thank you to The Home Depot and Idler's Home for helping with this beautiful display!

The CLCA San Luis Obispo Chapter also hosted a booth in the show geared toward educating homeowners about the benefits of hiring a licensed landcape

contractor and CLCA member. Thank you to our volunteers who greeted the public and answered their questions regarding landscaping their properties. We hope this public outreach will benefit all our members and reinforce the mes-sage that CLCA members are professionals and are the go-to people for

land-scape construction and maintenance projects. Watch for information on chapter involvement in other shows and get involved!

The boys in action, meeting and greeting the public and passing along the CLCA message and member information.

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CLCA SLO: Board Minutes

Wednesday,

March 18, 2015

The Board of Directors for the CLCA San Luis Obispo Chapter met on Wednesday, March 18 at Ewing Irrigation, 1175 Prospect Street in San Luis Obispo.

Present

Jonathan Araya, Evan Moffitt, Mike Kneeskern, Gina Hall, Tom Outlaw and Brandon Delon

Past Minutes

Jonathan moved to approve the minutes from the January 2015 meeting as presented by Mike Kneeskern. Evan seconded, motion passed.

President's Report

Mike asked the events committee to reach out and inform all contractors about the Zurn Wilkins tour on April 15. He also stated that the member list for the SLO Chapter is finally complete. Scholarship applications need to be printed before the Evening Under the Stars event at Cal Poly.

Treasurer's Report

It was brought to the board's attention that the money for the beautification awards was not allocated correctly. In addition, more money needs to be set aside for the golf tour-nament and dinner.

Brandon moved to approve the revisions to the January Treasurer's report. Jonathan seconded, motion passed.

Evan moved to approve the revised February Treasurer's report. Jonathan second-ed, motion passed.

VP Membership

Evan reported that James Walker, CLCA's Director of Membership, sent a list of all C-27's in the SLO County area to the chapter. There are 12,700 C-27s in California that are not a part of the CLCA. It was also brought to the board's attention that new membership information and packets are being sent to all non-members of the CLCA. CLCA Insurance Solutions and Flyer's Petroleum have also agreed to make a large number of cold calls to recruit new contractor members for the CLCA.

Events Committee

The committee reported that the golf commit-tee needs to meet to decide the location of the 2015 golf tournament.

Old Business

The chapter needs a Beautification Awards committee chair.

The CLCA will have a large and very visible booth at the Inspired Homes Expo on May 2-3. This will provide a good opportunity for the CLCA to get exposure with the general public. Meeting adjourned at 6:15 p.m. Minutes sub-mitted by Brandon Delon.

Interested in Becoming

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For more information about CLCA or to join, visit www.clca.org or call 800-448-2522.

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2015 CLCA San Luis Obispo Chapter Events

June 17

Chapter Board Meeting - 5 p.m.

Ewing Irrigation, 1175 Prospect Street San Luis Obispo.

June 19

Chapter Beautification Awards Program - 6 p.m.

Madonna Inn, 100 Madonna Road, San Luis Obispo.

July 15

July 22-24 CLCA Summer Camp!

Village at Squaw Valley.

August 17-21

Chapter Community Outreach - All day

Veteran's Project. Time and location TBD.

August 19

September 16

Ewing Irrigation, 1175 Prospect Street San Luis Obispo. Planning meeting and nominations for 2016 Board.

October 2

Chapter Golf Tournament - All day.

Elections and dinner to follow golf. Location and cost TBD.

October 3

Landscape Certified Technician Hands-on Testing - All day

American River College, Sacramento, CA Registration due by: September 4, 2015. Check the CLCA website for dates for the written test and to register. clca.org/certification/dates.php.

October 14

Ewing Irrigation, 1175 Prospect Street San Luis Obispo. Develop 2016 events calendar.

November 11-14 CLCA Annual Convention.

Hyatt Regency Indian Wells Resort and Spa, Indian Wells, CA.

November 21

AJ Spurs, 508 South Main Street, Templeton. Develop 2016 budget.

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Water budgeting is an effective way for property owners to man-age their cost of water in a world of tiered-rates from urban water agencies. Becoming a Certified Water Manager through CLCA’s program shows that you are capa-ble of effectively managing water and maximizes the services your business can provide.

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CLCA Summer Camp is all about the drought ... the future ... the solutions ... and, of course, the s'mores. Plan now to join friends and future friends and experience it all at The Village at Squaw Valley July 22-24.

The Drought

You and your employees need to be water experts to successfully compete in today's marketplace. And what better way to be recognized as a water expert than certification as a CLCA Certified Water Manager? CLCA is demonstrating its commitment to this im-portant topic by including Water Management Certification testing and training -- normally priced at $200 -- as part of the CLCA Summer Camp full registration package.

The focus on water will be sharpened at the Breakfast of Champions, where our table hosts will share their water management expertise in round-table discussions. Join us and get information and insights your can immediate-ly put to work in your business.

You can also get updated on the lastest water news from Sacramento. What actions

have state agencies and urban water suppliers recently taken to implement the governor's drought order? What can you expect this sum-mer when water agencies start complying with the new water conservation standard? Get answers to these questions and more during a special CLCA Water Watch presentation.

The Member Forum

All members are invited to attend the Member Forum and Working Lunch. President Javier Lesaca will update attendees on the state of the association, and then open the floor to questions and input from members of the audience.

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