The Seascape
Newsletter of the CLCA
Central Coast Chapter
June 2021
Upcoming Events Calendar
June 18, Friday
2021 Beautification Awards Entries Due
We are holding our annual Beautification Awards Event! This event showcases outstanding local work in the green industry, and gives you a chance to participate. Join us for the fun and recognition! For more information or to download entry forms click here. Entries should be mailed or delivered to Ewing in Santa Cruz or Monterey by June 18, 5:00 p.m. On August 26th we’ll celebrate the winners with an outdoor event/award presentation/BBQ at beautiful Dream Inn Santa Cruz. More details coming soon, or contact Justin White or Katia Velasquez.
June 24, Thursday, 10:00 am
Drip Irrigation Workshop—Free to members/$10 non-members
Katia Velasquez, irrigation expert for Netafim USA will give a workshop on how to calculate, install, and troubleshoot drip irrigation systems. Workshop will be delivered via zoom. Contact Katia Velasquez for details: katia.velasquez@netafim.com information and registration here, until June 24th.
July 29, Thursday, 10:00 am
Firescaping Workshop—Free to members/$10 non-members
Join Phil Dundas, and other industry leaders in this workshop about wildfire mitigation in the wildland urban interface, a topic we are all concerned about. Here’s a chance to learn ways to help reduce risks related to low intensity wildfires. More information and registration here. Or contact Phil directly: phil@thelandscapecompany.com
August 26, Thursday
2021 Beautification Awards BBQ
Outdoor Awards Ceremony and BBQ at the Dream Inn, Santa Cruz
Mark your calendars and join us for a wonderful day of fun at our Beautification Awards BBQ! We’ll be meeting outdoors at the Dream Inn, showcasing outstanding local work in the green industry, and celebrating Central Coast Winners of 2021. We’ll get information to you soon about how sign up for the Awards Ceremony/BBQ, meanwhile download entry forms soon to participate in the event: ENTRY FORMS.
We’ll be posting information, and emailing invitations, to register to attend the award ceremony event and BBQ. Stay tuned for more info soon!
June 2021 Central Coast President’s Message
by Justin White, Chapter President, K&D Landscaping Company
Events are back!
We are gearing up for a busy summer over here on the central coast. We have the golf tournament just a few days away and then Beautification Award entries that are due in a few weeks with an award banquet/bbq planned for late August. I am beyond excited to get together with everyone and see all your smiling faces. The fact that our chapter stayed strong through the last 18 months is a testament to the great volunteer board we have. I want to thank all of our board members who take time out of their busy schedules to make these events happen, attend our board meetings, and put together these great newsletters!
We are beginning our search for 2022 board members, so if you are interested in getting involved with our local chapter we would love for you to attend one of our upcoming board meetings and see what all the fun is about. It’s a great way to network, give back to our industry, and create progress in our community. Please feel free to email me at any time so I can get you information on our next board meeting and answer any questions you may have.
In case you missed it, we had two great educational events in May. One on creating a profitable landscape company and the other on controller programming and education. If there is a topic you are interested in please drop me a line so we can help fill that need. Our goal is to provide education for your entire company, from the front-line workers all the way up to the owners. A big shout out to Michael Johnson for providing us with a controller programming class at a time when irrigation management is becoming a hot button issue, not only locally, but industry-wide. If you are interested in getting the recording from these events please email me directly and I will share them with you!
I know everyone is in the middle of their busiest time of the year so I will keep it short and leave you with this inspiring quote: “Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities” —Robert H. Schuller.
To our success,
Justin White
CEO, K&D Landscaping Inc.
justin@kndkandscaping.com
C: (831) 331-3476 │ O: (831) 728-4018
2021 Central Coast Chapter Partners for Success Program
There has never been a better time to support Central Coast’s Partners for Success Program. Joining provides an opportunity to increase your visibility in the community, to be seen as a leader in the green industry by helping sustain the many educational and enrichment offerings of our association. For more information, contact Justin White justin@kndkandscaping.com. Or, better still, go directly to our online registration! Join us!
WE love our partners!
With much appreciation Our Partners in Success 2021.
PaRTNERS CORNER
Travis Evans of Davey Tree Services
This month Travis Evans is featured in our “Partner’s Corner.” Read more here.
Mark your calendars! Coming soon…BEAUTIFCATION AWARDS 2021
ENTER BY JUNE 18TH TO PARTICIPATE!
Beautification Awards 2021
All are encouraged to join the friendly competition. Many categories to submit for judging. Simply fill out the forms and share your work, find entry forms here.
Links to register to attend, for the really fun part, the Awards Presentation Event & BBQ at the Dream Inn will be available soon.
Note the wonderful artwork on our materials this year. Graciously shared by Peter Loftus. Peter is known throughout the world for his large landscape paintings of the Central Coast of California, and other California locations. To learn more about Peter’s work visit www.artsy.net/artist/peter-loftus
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Education Corner
Presented by the Central Coast Chapter of the California Landscape Contractor’s Association (CLCA)
Workshop: What You Should Know About Drip Irrigation
Thursday, June 24, 2021 10:00-11:00am (Zoom) FREE to Members, $10 non-members
Katia Velasquez, CLCA Central Coast Chapter’s vice president and events coordinator, irrigation expert for Netafim USA, will give a workshop on how to calculate, install, and troubleshoot drip irrigation systems. Katia is winner of two public innovations technologies awards in the construction industry in Mexico. She’s an architect with an MBA in international business, a landscape contractor, an irrigation designer, golf superintendent, as well as the host of the “VIVA Garden” radio show on KSCO. She is a knowledgeable and dynamic public speaker, don’t miss her workshop.
All drip, did you know…?
Do you know what your maximum run is?
Do you know how much drip you can run on a control zone kit?
Do you know how to trouble shoot a drip system?
Do you know what drip system to use for what application?
Katia has great insights on those questions and more. She’ll cover how to get a well-calculated system with plenty of capacity. How to get all this information from the valve to the flush valve, from drip tubing to point source systems.
Who should attend?
• Project managers
• Estimators
• Foremen
• Irrigation techs
• Designers
• Retrofit/installation teams
REGISTER ONLINE
Thursday, June 24, 2021
10:00 – 11:00 am
Zoom Event
All are welcome. The event is free to members/$10 to non-members. Please register below to receive the Zoom URL. Members FREE/non-member cost is $10. Contact Katia Velasquez if you have further questions: katia.velasquez@netafim.com
Mark your calendar for June 24th and join us.
Presented by the Central Coast Chapter of the California Landscape Contractor’s Association (CLCA)
Workshop: Firescaping II
Friday, July 29, 2021 9:00-11:15am (Zoom)
FREE to all
Industry leaders will share what they know about wildfire mitigation in the wildland-urban interface (WUI), an important topic for those of us who live in the rural parts of Santa Cruz County.
Here’s a chance to learn ways to help reduce risks related to low-intensity wildfires. Concepts to be presented include maintenance of vegetation, awareness, and management of combustible materials, thoughtful design, layout, and incorporation of fire and ember-resistant construction materials and plants, fire breaks, firescape designs, and the importance of neighborhood and community involvement.
All are welcome at this online event. Please register below to receive the Zoom URL.
Friday, July 29, 2021
10:00 – 11:30 am
Zoom Event
Mark your calendar for July 29th and join us.
Link to previous workshop here:
https://youtu.be/IYkQrTro8ng
Coming soon…
Employee Culture and Recruitment Workshop: Justin White, Central Coast’s favorite president of 2021 and CEO of K&D Landscaping will be giving a presentation on “employee culture” and recruitment. Workshop delivered via zoom, date TBA.
Start planning your entries now and mark your calendar for June 18th, the entry deadline…and also August 13th for our big event, a BBQ this year, at the Dream Inn. It’s always a lot of fun!
especially for CLCA Members
Board Meeting Minutes
Central Coast Chapter CLCA Board Meeting May 6, 2021
Justin White, Craig Stenehjem, Ki Bowman, Cathleen Quinn, Gregory Miller, David Ventura, Elise Huffman, Phil Dundas attended.
Justin called the zoom meeting to order at 12:00 PM. Everyone delivered their good news for the week. Gregory Miller made a motion to approve the minutes, minutes were approved.
Events Schedule
● Spring Golf Tournament date has been set, Thursday, June 10th
—Sponsorship per hole will go up this year to $300.
—Brickfire pizza will be served at the end of the tournament.
—Still need to find sponsors for every hole.
—We need to decide if we will have a raffle.
● Beautification Event - Thursday, Aug 26th.
—Contractors need to submit photos by June 1st, with possibly extending it to June 13th.
—Location for the event will be the Dream Inn.
—We will hold a spring mixer at Bee 30 on July 8th to turn in Beautification packets.
—Elise to work on packets and get them out.
● Joint golf tournament with Bay Area Chapter in October.
● Justin brought up the State CLCA Convention in Hawaii from Nov 3rd - Nov 5th. Everyone should try and attend.
Education
● Justin will give a presentation on Predictable Profit on May 14th. He will host it himself.
● Matt to give an irrigation presentation on Thursday May 20th. It will be another virtual training session. David Ventura will host the event.
● Still deciding if we should give another training session this summer.
● Justin and Dave will meet with Milena from Rescape to discus
Membership Updates
● The mailers went out to all new C-27 contractors from State Headquarters.
Newsletter and Website Updates
● Elise will be sending out the newsletter this weekend.
● Elise put the fire prevention directory on the website?
● Ki brought up, we need to contact our members individually to signup for fire prevention.
● Ki reported the brochures are reprinted. The brochure will be a two-fold and not a tri-fold after all.
—Brochures will be placed in several landscaping retailer stores, along with A1 Toolsheds, and several nurseries. Justin, Gregory, Dave and a few others will deliver them to the designated places.
—Katia will pick brochures
Treasurer Report
● Cathleen gave the board members the treasurer's report.
● Davey Tree signed up as a Oak Partner
Other Business
● Gregory Miller brought up the CLCA is making a coupon book. We should try to take advantage of it.
● We need to figure out a way to bring in the smaller contractors.
● We need to identify a community event for this year. Board member to come up with some ideas.
● Meeting was adjoined at 1:10