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Building a Risk Management Culture

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Reclamation District Dives into Public Outreach

How Reclamation District 1000 uses public outreach for emergency preparedness

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What Your Board Needs to Know About Financing

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Mastering the Hybrid Work Environment

Cultivating Culture and Overcoming Challenges.

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Turlock Irrigation District's Solar-Over-Canals Tackles the Food-Water-Power Connection

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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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    Hello Athena – To your request for information on adding a 401 option to your benefit package, I'd be happy to provide you with information on the STARS Retirement program which is exclusive to government ...

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    Hi, I'm wondering if anyone knows what types of grants or other funding might be available to a CSD located in an unincorporated County that's looking to purchase a downtown lot to construct a town square? ...

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    Hello Athena, We process payroll in house. As far as a 401k, we do not have one either, but we have the option with CalPERS and another 457 plan with Voya Financial. ------------------------------ ...

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    While we don't have a resolution in place or a policy that covers this, I obtain a copy of every charge on all of the credit cards.....for recurring charges, I get an email for those, so I just print the ...

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    We use Tyler Technologies and they have a payroll module. The time entry component is very easy to use and uploads directly into the payroll system. We don't have a 401k, but we do have a 457 plan through ...

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    Thank you Denise and Nadia for the great information. ------------------------------ Lynn Rowe Executive Assistant Fresno Irrigation District Fresno, CA 559-233-7161 lrowe@fresnoirrigation.com ----- ...

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    Hello all,  We are currently reviewing our options for outsourced Payroll companies for enterprise payroll, any recommendations?  I am interested in a platform that makes it easy for employees to enter ...

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    We adopted the policy that CSDA sent out as it does a good job of clearly defining how to follow AB 2449. We also created a form for Board Members to submit if they wish to utilize AB 2449. Both documents ...

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    No the Board does not adopt a resolution since it is not a blanket coverage for all board members but rather as individuals they may be able to attend remotely in very limited circumstances without meeting ...