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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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    RE: Funding How To...

    By: Richard Harmon , 12 hours ago
    Posted in: Open Forum

    Chad- The answer to that will really depend on the uses and possible amenities that may be part of that ultimate town square. Relevant grant programs for this type of activity would likely require restrictions ...

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    RE: Payroll-401k-Timekeeping

    By: Richard Averett , yesterday
    Posted in: Open Forum

    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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    Funding How To...

    By: Chad Davisson , yesterday
    Posted in: Open Forum

    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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    RE: Payroll-401k-Timekeeping

    By: Diana Derobertis , yesterday
    Posted in: Open Forum

    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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    RE: Recurring charges policy

    By: Becky Smith , 2 days ago
    Posted in: Open Forum

    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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    RE: Payroll-401k-Timekeeping

    By: Jean Thomas , 2 days ago
    Posted in: Open Forum

    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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    RE: AB2449 Requirements

    By: Lynn Rowe , 2 days ago
    Posted in: Open Forum

    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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    Payroll-401k-Timekeeping

    By: Athena Laroche , 2 days ago
    Posted in: Open Forum

    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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    RE: AB2449 Requirements

    By: Nadia Aguirre , 2 days ago
    Posted in: Open Forum

    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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