The Seascape
Newsletter of the CLCA
Central Coast Chapter
October 2023
Events Calendar
November 14, Tuesday
Central Coast Chapter Annual Planning Meeting/Board Meeting
Time: 9 am - noon
Location: Graniterock headquarters, 350 Technology Dr, Watsonville, CA 95076
Everyone is welcome. Come and let’s make a plan for 2024.
Contact Phil Dundas (831) 750-0447 or phil@thelandscapecompany.com or Regan Barry (831) 212-0344or rbarry@coastalevergreen.com
Mid-December Holiday Party
TBA, Details coming soon.
Contact Scott Long (831) 462-3726 or slong@centralcoastlandscape.com
October 2023 Central Coast President’s Message
by Phil Dundas, Chapter President, The Landscape Company
Hello Landscape Community,
The leaves they are a fallin’.
Thanks to everyone who participated in the Annual Liar’s Cup Golf Tournament at Delaveaga Golf Club. Another beautiful way and day to be outside! Read the article to see who the winners were, though, of course we all were, but mostly Matt Gomez!
Hope to see all local members at the CLCA Annual Convention in Monterey, November 8-ll. https://clca.org/events/2023-annual-convention/ Take advantage of how easy it is to get there, right in our backyard, in beautiful Monterey.
Call for Nominees. Make sure to consider getting involved with your local chapter this year. Central Coast Chapter is a great vibrant group, full of networking possibilities for you and your company. We’re always looking for new faces and ideas, want to be on our board? Please nominate yourself for a position. Our elections are coming up this November. If you are interested in any of the positions please contact me. We encourage you to come to one of our monthly board meetings and get involved with the Central Coast Chapter.
Central Coast Board Positions:
President (open)
Membership Director (Terri Baker)
Secretary (Julie Zuckerman)
Director of Events (Scott Long)
Director of Education/Treasurer (open)
Associate Member Director (open)
Legislation Director (open)
We look forward to seeing all of you at our upcoming events and hope you encourage others to join us.
Phil Dundas
President, The Landscape Company
phil@thelandscapecompany.com
C: (831) 750-0447 │ O: (831) 476-7070
Everyone here’s your easy link to the 2023 CLCA Convention in Monterey! This is happening close to home, let’s all go!
Flash from the past. A lovely bunch of coconuts: left to right: Dinah, Katia, Phil, Ki, Craig, John, Tish, Elise, Justin, Regan, Michael, Cathy and Andrew. Planning meeting 2018
Photo by Andrew Tuckman
Central Coast Chapter Board of Directors Upcoming Election
Our CLCA Central Coast Chapter board elections are held each November and are advertised in our chapter newsletter. Newly elected officers of our chapter will be announced at our annual Holiday Party in December.
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.
2023 Board of Directors
President: Phil Dundas—The Landscape Company
Membership Director: Terri Baker—Graniterock
Secretary: Julia Zuckerman—Delta Bluegrass
Director of Events: Scott Long—Central Coast Landscape
Director of Education/Treasurer: Shane White—K&D Landscaping
Associate Member Director: Bill Bruce—B&B Small Engine Repair
Legislation Director: Regan Barry—Coastal Evergreen
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 current president at: phil@thelandscapecompany.com.
Central Coast Chapter Partners for Success Program
It’s that time of year 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 Phil Dundas phil@thelandscapecompany.com
register NOW for 2024!
WE love our 2023 partners
With much appreciation Our Partners in Success 2021.
PaRTNER’S CORNER
Central Home Supply, Santee Family Business
Santa Cruz County’s largest and Friendliest Landscape and Building Supply
Read more about this family and their long history on the Central Coast. 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.
Advertise in the Central Coast Seascape Newsletter!
It’s always a great time to Advertise in this newsletter! Reach your target audience monthly. Sign up for large, medium, or small ads. For specs and pricing contact: clcaccc.editor@gmail.com. OR sign up online next week, we’re setting up the pages online. Sign up info for 2024 coming soon!
recent EVENT
Liar’s Cup Golf Tournament 2023
Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023
The Tournament was a big success in large part due to the tenacious work of our events director Scott Long. He was our Swiss army knife connecting all of us with critical tasks for the golf event. Great work Scott. Of course there is an equal amount of gratitude and thanks we want to everyone that signed up and played on what turned out to be a beautiful day for golf at Delaveaga Golf Course in Santa Cruz. We had 45 golfers, not gophers, playing in the tournament.... although I do believe that a few sacrificed their lives for sure on some of my shots, not the golfers thank goodness. I love golf but I suck at it.
As long as I have been a member of the CLCA and Central Coast Chapter the Liars Cup has always been a great way to gather our landscape community together. I thank Chris Elliott, almost retired, for getting me involved. It is not often enough that we get the opportunity to hang out for the day with other landscape contractors/friends and suppliers/friends to have a fun day off. This along with an opportunity to network in a casual setting and of course share those crazy stories of our favorite customers. Keep reading to see who the winners were.....hint: Matt Gomez.
Many thanks to our Partners for Success who without their yearly support we would be in deep fescue...THANK YOU !!!! Also a BIG thank you to Steve Veltri from Hunter Industries who gave two $100 gift certificates towards the winners. THANK YOU HUNTER INDUSTRIES !!!!...and again Steve, who it must be said, was on Matt Gomez’s winning team, in case anyone missed it. The trophy is sitting on the counter of Ewing Irrigation in Santa Cruz. Next year I am going to choose Matt’s four.some.
You can always count on our chapter to deliver quality event throughout the year that offers our members a variety of opportunities to enroll in educational programs relevant to our industry, participate in our Beautification Awards program mid-summer, our Holiday celebration in December that will introduce our new board members, and of course we have a couple of golf tournaments sprinkled in.
See if you can find yourself among these happy folks on the green! (If not, well attend next year.)
And the winners are…
First place: Matt Gomez , Brian Gates , Steve Veltri , Mike Jones with a Score of 59.
Second place: Scott Long , Greg Bailey , Billy Wadell , Connie Dunn with a Score of 60.
Long drive and closet to the pin both won by Matt Gomez
CLCA resources
Stormwater Regulations
Guidelines on Complying with California Stormwater Regulations for Landscape Contractors
Left to right: Some, but not all, of the many human beings who are gems in the Central Coast CLCA.
Landscape contractors and members of the green industry should have a special connection to water quality. Contractors particularly should be aware of the law, understand the best management practices and how to apply them, know how their operations can contribute pollutants, and be able to manage their activities and employees. Landscape contractors should be proactive, not reactive. Staying in compliance and making a difference doesn’t always mean spending dollars. Sometimes it’s just a matter of having pride in what we do.
These guidelines are intended to provide a range of general information about stormwater quality best management practices and related issues faced by landscape contractors on job sites in California. These guidelines do not address site-specific applications or the entire scope of federal, state and local regulations. Landscape contractors must consult with a stormwater professional to determine the applicability of the information provided for any general use or site-specific purposes.
Comstocks Magazine features a Central Coast Partner: Delta Bluegrass
A Delta Legacy
Showcasing four-generation family businesses in the Capital Region
Back Article Oct 14, 2022 By Jennifer Fergesen
Over 100 years ago, Chicago native Roscoe Zuckerman first saw the labyrinthine waterways and windswept fields of the California Delta. He was there on a sourcing assignment for his cousin Edward Weyl, who ran a produce company in Los Angeles. But as he got to know the still-wild place and the people cultivating it, he realized he didn’t want to be a middleman tethered to the city. He wanted to be a farmer…
Board Meeting Minutes
CLCA Central Coast Board Meeting September 6, 2023
In Attendance: Phil Dundas, Scott Long, Elise Huffman, Cathy Quinn, Regan Barry, Ki Bowman
Call to Order: 12:04 pm
Notes, Old Business:
Treasurer: Discussion about changing signers on SCCB checking account. Agreement reached that, since we’re close to the end of the year, that we should wait until the new board is seated.
Upcoming Events
Liars’ Cup - forty entries so far. We’re hoping to get 60 by game day. Event prizes were decided to be $100 for Closest to the Pin, $100 for Longest Drive and $400 for the winning team. Mulligans will be sold for $20 per team for four. Elise will send a reminder e-blast on Monday.
We need to order a new banner. Someone will contact Andrew Tuckman about artwork from the last order.
Ki asked recently to be relieved of social media duties. She passed around a sheet with the details of the three accounts (Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn) and will send Elise an ad to post in the newsletter for a replacement. It will be a paid position..
New Business
Board nominations: Elise will announce the opening of nominations for the 2024 BOD to the membership in the next newsletter. A vote will be made at the November board meeting.
October board meeting: Phil will be gone. Regan will chair in his place.
Annual Planning Meeting: The date of November 1st was selected and the board will ask Graniterock if we can use their conference room again.
Cathy provided a detailed budget report to show the board where finances stand. We are currently under budget but she pointed out that, with upcoming expenses, we will probably break even at the end of the year, depending on whether the Liars’ Cup brings in revenue.
New venues were discussed for Suppliers Night and the Beautification Banquet. Although everyone likes the Seascape Golf Club, it was determined to be too difficult to get to during commute traffic. We will continue the conversation at the Planning Meeting in November
Meeting adjourned at 1:30