January 30, 2025, Thursday
Kick Off the New Year Mixer

Time: 5 pm to 7 pm
Location: Bruno’s (230 Mount Hermon Road, Suite G, Scotts Valley, CA  95066)

You’re invited to join us, meet new people, benefit from sending some time with other folks in your field. Learn more about CLCA from one of its most active and dynamic chapters. Toast the new year!

Contact Scott Long at ‭831-332-4565 or slong@centralcoastlandscape.com

February 6, 2025, Thursday
NorCal Landscape & Nursery Show

Time: 8 am to 4 pm
Location: San Mateo Event Center

Come to this trade show for the exhibits, connections, and educational speakers. See below, we will hold our February board meeting at this event. More info…

https://norcaltradeshow.org/ to register and learn more. Call (530) 458-3190 or Email: margoc@frontiernet.net

February 6, 2025, Thursday
Board Meeting at NorCal Landscape & Nursery Show

Time: 11:30-1 pm
Location: San Mateo Event Center, cafeteria
Contact Scott Long at ‭831-332-4565 or slong@centralcoastlandscape.com

Other up-coming events…
Suppliers & New Member Night in March 2025!

Board of Directors Report

News updates from the Board—January 2025
New Year’s Message

Happy New Year! As we welcome 2025, we celebrate the incredible achievements of our members who continue to enhance the beauty and sustainability of the Central Coast. Your dedication to our craft and community inspires us all.

We’re excited for the year ahead, filled with opportunities to grow and connect. From educational events to sharpen our skills, to the camaraderie of our golf outings, and plenty of fun along the way, 2025 promises to be a year of learning, networking, and enjoyment.

This year we’re taking a break from the hard work that is putting on the Beautification Awards Ceremony. It will return again in 2026. This Summer we’ll have a big Family BBQ Event instead. Stay tuned for more on that!

Thank you for your passion and commitment to excellence. Wishing you and your families a year of health, happiness, and success. Let’s make it another extraordinary year together!

Please come join us January 30th at Bruno’s in Scotts’s Valley for our New Year’s Kick-Off Mixer.

Warm regards,
CLCA Central Coast Chapter

Central Coast Board 2025

Voting members:

President: Open
Phil Dundas, The Landscape Company, Immediate Past President

Membership Director  
Julie Zuckerman nominated, Delta Blue Grass

Secretary
Blanca Montes, K&D Landscape, Inc. 

Director of Events
Scott Long, Central Coast Landscaping

Associate Member Director
Francisco Hernandez, Site One

Education Director
Jason Beiley, Water and Stone Natural Landscapes

Legislation Director
Henry Rose, Graniterock

Social Media Networking
Julia Zuckerman, Henry Rose, and Blanca Montes

Non-voting members:

Website Editor: Ki Bowman
Newsletter Editor: Elise Huffman
Bookkeeper: Cathy Quinn

Join Us, the Central Coast Chapter Board of Director

By joining our team of leaders managing the Central Coast Chapter you will be helping us bring awareness to the work we do in our community and as C- 27 professional Landscape Contractors.

If you are interested in any of the positions, or would like to serve on our board as a committee chair, or volunteer to help in any capacity please contact Phil Dundas, our immediate past president at: phil@thelandscapecompany.com.

You may also contact Regan Barry at rbarry@coastalevergreen.com if you are interested in becoming involved with this dynamic group.

Central Coast Chapter Partners for Success Program

Now is the time to RENEW YOUR PARTNERSHIP. Central Coast’s Partners for Success Program 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 Regan Barry at rbarry@coastalevergreen.com

registister now for 2025!

WE love our partners

PaRTNER’S CORNER

ROBERTO MONJES

fall creek landscapes

Read more about Roberto here…www.clca-cc.org/partners

The Partner’s Corner! What a great benefit. Here’s an easy way to let people in your industry know what you’re up to, what’s new, and why you’re the success that you are. We want to see pictures of you, your family, your company’s staff, we want to know what you do in your spare time and what makes you unique. We’re interested. Please contact Elise Huffman, the Central Coast editor, if you are interested in being featured on our website in a future “Partner’s Corner.” Partner’s don’t miss this chance for some FREE advertising.

UpCOMING EVEnt—STARTING THE NEW YEAR RIGHT

Join Us at Bruno’s for Our New Year’s Kick-Off Mixer!

It should go without saying that Central Coast CLCA events are always fun, but pair this group with Bruno’s Bar and Grill and it’s bound to be extra special. You don’t want to miss this. Bring your friends, bring people curious about the CLCA. Bring people who you think might like to get involved and join the 2025 board of directors, getting involved in this local chapter.

Bruno’s does burgers, wings, crispy artichoke hears, prawns, offers local craft beers and award-winning cocktails. Join us Upstairs on the Rooftop Deck. It’s even dog friendly!

Winner: Best Restaurant in Scotts Valley, Best Bloody Mary, Best Burger, Best Wings, Best Place to Watch Sports & More! 

PLEASE join us January 30, 2025! See you there then!

PASSED EVENT

Central Coast Holiday Party 2024

Central Coast’s 2024 Holiday Party

We celebrated 2024 in Central Coast style. Good company, beverages, dinner and our White Elephant Gift Exchange. FUN was had at the The Grille at Delaveaga, Santa Cruz, December 5, 2024

Admission and dinner at this annual celebration is part of your Partnership Fee. So if you are a Partner for Success, at any level, Oak, Redwood, or Maple, you’re always invited (and there is no additional charge for the event or the meal).

One of the most fun parts of the event was the exchange of white elephant gifts. This year’s included various bottled beverages, a plumber’s Christmas tree made out of a toilet plunger, an umbrella, a cute little retro reindeer that did not delight the first recipient…something electronic that everyone wanted, well, a bunch of stuff. Central Coast partiers took their wins and loses in stride. My plumber was amused to see the toilet plunger tree, in the bathroom, as he worked. The retro deer eventually found a forever home.

Special thanks to Terry Baker and Elise Huffman for the photography below! Thanks to Scott Long for pulling together this event at Delaveaga!—Elise the Editor