August Minutes

 

 

 

 

940th MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE ALAMEDA COUNTY MOSQUITO ABATEMENT DISTRICT
AUGUST 13, 2008

TIME	5:00 P.M.
PLACE	District Office, 23187 Connecticut Street, Hayward
TRUSTEES	James Kohnen, President, City of Dublin William M. Spinola, Vice-president, City of Newark John D. Hughes, Secretary, City of Fremont Dennis Bray, President, County-at-large Edgar I. Centeno, City of Pleasanton James N. Doggett, City of Livermore T. David Edwards, City of Alameda Marisel Brown, City of Oakland Paul T. Garcia, City of Hayward Jim Golden, City of Emeryville Denny McLeod, City of Piedmont Jim Prola, City of San Leandro     Ronald Quinn, City of Union City Jan O. Washburn, City of Berkeley

 

President James Kohnen called the Board meeting to order at 5:02 p.m.

Trustees Brown, Centeno, Garcia, Prola, Quinn and Spinola were absent from the meeting.

The minutes of the 939th meeting held July 9, 2008 were reviewed and approved. (Edwards/Golden – unanimous).

Chairman Denny McLeod provided the report from the Long Range Planning Committee. The committee is moving forward on succession planning. The committee is reviewing the curriculum vitaes of candidates interested in being considered for future promotion.

President Kohnen, Chairman of the West Nile Virus (WNV) Committee, provided an update on WNV activity. West Nile Virus (WNV) activity in Alameda County has been limited to detection in two birds so far in 2008. One bird was a crow found at Merritt College in Oakland and the other a mallard duck found at the Dublin San Ramon Services District Water Treatment facility in Pleasanton. This is a similar amount of activity as that seen in 2007 when there were three WNV positive birds reported for Alameda County by the end of July. There is one human case listed for Alameda County that was an individual who was infected in Mendocino County based on travel history and incubation time.

David Edwards, Chair of the Personnel/Salary Committee reported that he had reviewed the Employee Manual which has recently been updated to include the latest MOU, Organization Chart, PERS Health Rates for 2009 and the VCJPA Driver selection program which includes a District DMV pull program. He also provided a first reading of a new safety boot policy which reads:

"§305.  Safety Boots
The District, in order to reduce injuries to workers,will provide an allowance not to exceed $125.00 $150.00 per fiscal year per employee to purchase safety boots that meet Cal/OSHA standards for toe and penetration protection. Safety shoes are to be above ankle height. Employees are to be reimbursed up to the allowance set by the Board upon presenting a receipt of purchase to the District. Employees may have the option of purchasing safety boots at an approved supplier that will then bill the District."

The first reading of the policy was approved by the Board (Golden/Hughes – unanimous).

Karen Sweet, Executive Officer of the Alameda County Resource Conservation District, provided information on her district and how our two districts interact on rural water sources. ACMAD’s mosquitofish planting protocol was changed to help protect Red-legged frogs and California Tiger Salamander habitat in stock ponds throughout the County. ACMAD no longer plants mosquitofish in stock ponds. There are over 800 stock ponds in the County.

The Board reviewed the warrants dated July 15, 2008 numbering 000109 through 001909 amounting to $66,433.22 and warrants dated July 31, 2008 numbering 002009 through 005509 amounting to $93,309.32.

The manager presented the Monthly Operational Report for July. The District received a total of 187 requests for service during the month. There were 29 mosquito-biting reports. The ten-year average for adult mosquito service requests in July is 47.0. 100 requests for mosquitofish were received and 55 requests for inspections of potential mosquito sources.

The Board received updates from the District Manager on several other outside agencies: The Alameda County Chapter of the California Special Districts Association’s next chapter meeting is scheduled for September 10th at the Zone 7 office at 100 North Canyons Parkway in Livermore. The CSDA annual conference is September 22-25 in Irvine, Jim Kohnen, who is now a CSDA Board Member and Bruce Kirkpatrick will be attending.

The latest Local Agency Investment Fund account statement for June 2008 is included in your packets. The balance is $141,818.16.
The Alameda County Fair ended July 6. We won 2 first place ribbons for Appearance – Invitational Exhibit, and second place ribbons for Best of Class, Educational Value, Adherence to Theme, and Use of Special Effect & Creativity. The District received a check for $1280 for the Alameda County Fair awards. Part of the award was used to purchase a barbeque and food for an employee lunch last week.

The Summer Meeting was held on July 24th at Sac/Yolo MVCD in Elk Grove. The main business action was to approve the annual budget and provide the new management company, Smith Moore Associates with feedback from membership on areas that still need to be improved on as they complete the transition from the Blanning and Baker management. The MVCAC Board did approve the purchase of management software called Affiniscape that should improve the handling of membership information and registration for meetings and conferences. The next quarterly meeting of the association is October 29-31 in South Lake Tahoe.

The District’s Vector Control Joint Powers Authority member contingency and property fund balances for June 30, 2008 were $100,730 and $48,106 respectively. We paid the VCJPA insurance costs of $60,056.00 out of the member contingency fund in July.

Under announcements from the Board:  Jim Kohnen reported that he had already attended three meetings of the California Special Districts Association Board in Sacramento.  Jim Golden and Dave Edwards turned in their certifications for Public Service Ethics Education as required by AB 1234.

President Kohnen asked if there were any items to add to agenda for the next Board meeting in June, hearing none, the meeting was adjourned at 6:02 p.m.