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Pros & Cons of a 9/80 Work Schedule

For districts that want to move away from the traditional “9-to-5” the 9/80 work schedule is a popular alternative. While it has its benefits, there are also a number of pitfalls that can inadvertently trigger overtime liability.

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How the Manager's Performance Evaluation can Improve the Entire District

The General Manager's performance evaluation should be an element that helps the Board and Manager be a better team. Here's how.

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Succession Planning for Special Districts

Focus on addressing hiring challenges while ensuring the public has confidence that the best available candidates are considered for the role.

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What Your Board Needs to Know About Financing

Adapted from the General Manager Leadership Summit 2022, this article highlights the type of content the Summit provides: Relationships between the Board and the General Manager and how to increase communication and understanding.

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Building a Risk Management Culture

Recognizing everyone in an agency is a Risk Manager is the key to increased safety on the job.

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Learn About Special Districts

Special districts are local governments created by the people of a community to deliver specialized services essential to their health, safety, economy and well-being, that the local city or county do not provide.

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Reclamation District Dives into Public Outreach

How Reclamation District 1000 uses public outreach for emergency preparedness

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CSDA Communities

RE: District-Issued Cell Phones

By: Tomas Mattusch , an hour ago

Posted in: Open Forum

Remind folks their personal phones and personal laptops become searchable if there is a PRA or similar request. Keep Brown Act issues in mind for communications. Having a District Phone and District ...
RE: Question about not doing audits in 2013-2014

By: Maureen Elliott , 4 hours ago

Posted in: Open Forum

I would doubt that a missing audit can be "forgiven" but possibly the next audit done can include a review of the missing years. Our district is allowed to do a full Audit every 5th year but the other ...
RE: Vehicle Purchases Tax Exempt?

By: Cynthia Allen , 5 hours ago

Posted in: Open Forum

Special districts are not sales tax exempt except for specific purchases (such as chlorine delivered with water). See CDTFA Sales and Use Tax Annotation 275.0280(b) Water Additives . Sales tax exemptions ...
RE: Question about not doing audits in 2013-2014

By: Cynthia Allen , 5 hours ago

Posted in: Open Forum

I would contact the State Controller's Office and your County Auditor-Controller to see if they require those missing audits be filed. Local Government Programs and Services Division (916) 445-8717 ...
RE: District-Issued Cell Phones

By: Cynthia Allen , 5 hours ago

Posted in: Open Forum

We used to have a District cell phone that was passed onto the on-call person each Friday. Over time, we phased out the two-way radios in our service vehicles and started to exclusively use our personal ...
RE: Organizational Efficiency Help

By: Sarah Jones , 6 hours ago

Posted in: Open Forum

We used Amy Stork Consulting for an organizational assessment, staffing analysis and strategic plan. She did a fantastic job! https://www.amystork.com/ ------------------------------ Sarah Jones ...
RE: Organizational Efficiency Help

By: James Wheeler , 6 hours ago

Posted in: Open Forum

Hi Scot, we are currently using Mike Shellito to develop functional organization charts for our agency, org charts with all of the functions of the person(s). Mike is a past City Manager for the City ...
RE: Organizational Efficiency Help

By: Pete Kampa , 6 hours ago

Posted in: Open Forum

Scot, CPS HR prepared for us at Groveland a very comprehensive proposal to conduct an organizational evaluation and to update our org chart and position descriptions, certification and license requirements, ...
RE: Organizational Diversity

By: Kim Seney , 7 hours ago

Posted in: Open Forum

This is a wonderful addition of content to the Board Secretary / Clerk Conference Rachael! I am excited to see how it goes and how we can extend the topic into workshops and training at future conferences. ...