Mosquito District Manager's Report For January 2019

Article Source: San Mateo County Mosquito & Vector Control District

DISTRICT MANAGER’S REPORT for January 2019

SUBJECT: State, Agency and District Activities

National

The Annual Conference of the American Mosquito Control Association will be in Orlando, Florida. February 25 to March 1, 2019. Board Vice President Wade Leschyn will be attending with Assistant Manager Brian Weber and Laboratory Director Angie Nakano.

State

• Mosquito & Vector Control Association of California (MVCAC)
• Vector Control Joint Powers Association Workshop in Santa Cruz. The VCJPA will hold its annual workshop to review insurance programs in March. The VCJPA is a self-insurance group formed by vector control agencies. This workshop provides an opportunity to review the status of insurance programs. This year District Manager Chindi Peavey will attend with Finance Director Richard Arrow.
• March 26, 2019 Sacramento
• April 2, 2019 San Diego
• July 7, 2019 Napa
• ALL NEW BOARD MEMBERS who were first appointed to the Board after November 7, 2015 are required to complete this workshop.

• MVCAC Annual Conference was held in Burlingame February 3-6 2019. Fourteen Trustees attended the conference along with most of the District staff. Staff discussed what they had learned at the conference in a staff meeting on Thursday February 7. Staff enjoyed the opportunity to interact with other districts and learn about innovative techniques and equipment. All agreed it was a valuable learning experience.

District

• The quarterly meeting of the local San Mateo County Chapter of the California Special Districts Association will be held at the District headquarters on February 12, 2019 at 7:30 PM.
• There is also a meeting of the Special District Selection Committee on February 12, 2019 to elect the Special District Representative to the Local Agency Formation Commission for San Mateo County (LAFCO). Board President Joe Galligan will attend and vote.

• The Regional meeting of the MVCAC Coastal Region District Managers was held on February 1 at the Alameda County Mosquito Abatement District office in Hayward. District Manager Chindi Peavey attended.
• Governance Foundations Workshop and the District of Distinction Certificate. Any Board member who was unable to attend the training will need to complete it as soon as possible. The next opportunity will be to attend one of the following:
• Update on the Salary Survey. The survey is complete and available to the Board.
• Government Finance Officers Association. Finance Director Richard Arrow is attending the Annual Conference of the Government Finance Directors this week. The conference provides an opportunity to keep current with the latest information in government finance and network with other public agency finance officers.
• Staff visits to Southern California Districts. We are sending 5 members of the District staff, including people from both Operations and the Laboratory to visit some of the vector control districts in Southern California and exchange information. They will visit the laboratories of Greater Los Angeles MVCD, Orange County MVCD and San Gabriel Valley MVCD. They will talk to staff tour the laboratory, shop and garage at each site and then accompany field staff in their day-to-day work. The purpose of the trip is to exchange ideas on how to deal with Aedes aegypti and other invasive mosquitoes, experience firsthand how different district are conducting surveillance and control, network with their peers and stimulate new ideas in vector control. It will be a valuable learning experience for the staff and an opportunity to showcase what our district does at the same time.

REFERENCE MATERIALS AVAILABLE IN THE OFFICE

The District received the following publications and copies are available in the office for review.

• California Arbovirus Surveillance Bulletins
• Adult Mosquito Collection Reports

ACRONYMS

• ACIP = Alliant Crime Insurance Program
• AMCA = American Mosquito Control Association.
• BMP = Best Management Practices
• Bs = Bacillus sphaericus
• Bti = Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis
• CARMA = California Affiliated Risk Management Authorities
• CDC = Centers for Disease Control
• CDFG = California Department of Fish and Game (old name)
• CDFW = California Department of Fish and Wildlife (new name)
• CDPH = California Department of Public Health
• CDPR = California Department of Pesticide Regulation
• CSDA = California Special District Association
• CEQA = California Environmental Quality Act
• CERT = Community Emergency Response Team
• DPR = “California” Department of Pesticide Regulation
• DSC = Delta Stewardship Council
• EPA = “United States” Environmental Protection Agency
• ERMA = Employment Risk Management Authority
• ESA = Entomological Society of America
• FIFRA = Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
• IPM = Integrated Pest Management
• ISB = Independent Science Board
• LAFCO = Local Agency Formation Commission.
• LAO = Legislative Analyst’s Office
• LEED = Leadership in Energy and Environmental
• MAD = Mosquito Abatement District

AA. MCR = Municipal Service Reviews

BB. MRP = Monitoring and Reporting Program

CC. MVCAC = Mosquito and Vector Control Association of California.

DD. MVCD = Mosquito and Vector Control District

EE. NMFS = National Marine Fisheries Service

FF. NPDES = National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

GG. NWR = National Wildlife Refuges

HH. NRDC = National Resources Defense Council

II. OEHHA = Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment

JJ. PEIR = Programmatic Environmental Impact Report

KK. SDLF = Special District Leadership Foundation

LL. SMCMVCD = San Mateo County Mosquito and Vector Control District

MM. SOVE = Society of Vector Ecology

NN. USEPA = U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

OO. USFWS = U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

PP. VCJPA = Vector Control Joint Powers Agency

QQ. VCD = Vector Control District

RR. VCT = Vector Control Technician

SS. XR-G = Extended Residual Granular (pesticide product - Altosid)

TT. XRT = Extended Residual Tablet (pesticide product – Clarke)

UU. WNV = West Nile Virus

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