Purpose of the Board of Directors Meetings. The Board of Directors (BOD) Meeting is a formal meeting of CAPS Board Members to conduct routine business of the Board. This meeting is usually held quarterly to discuss current challenges and address policy issues within the organization. The Board of Directors conducts the meetings according to the rules and procedures contained in its governing documents, the CAPS Bylaws and Policy Manual.

August 22 Board of Directors Meeting. The Executive Committee of the CAPS BOD has determined that, for the health and safety consideration of the participants of the Board meeting, all remaining meetings for 2020 will be held virtually. This will mean a shift in established protocols. The CAPS Board of Directors and staff have developed the following to help ensure that members have the ability to participate and provide comments to the Board:

• Member Comment Collection. In order to allow for efficient use of time, live member comments will not be enabled. Because of this, ahead of the meeting, the CAPS Board of Directors will be collecting member comments for inclusion in the meeting. You can submit your comments here.
• Open and Closed Sessions. As a result of the sensitive nature of some of the items discussed at board meetings, the first half of the meeting will be an open session, and the second half will be closed session. You can view the draft agenda here.

Multiple Worksite Meetings. At the February Board of Directors Meeting, members brought up a desire to have more interaction with their elected Board. As such, the Board has committed to holding regularly scheduled worksite meetings to allow members an “in person” (currently web-based, as a result of the novel coronavirus) forum to hear from and talk to their Board Members. Due to scheduling considerations for members, and software limitations allowing a maximum of 1,000 attendees, multiple worksite meetings will be held during the week leading up to the board meeting on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, August 19-21 at noon. Members will need to pre-register to attend. Pre-registration instructions will be released in August.

CAPSule on the Website. The July issue of CAPSule is posted on the CAPS Website. Access it on the CAPS Website here. If you’d prefer to go green, you can opt-out of receiving an in-print copy of the CAPSule here.

News Briefs. 

Potential cure for citrus disease heartens farmers’ hopes – After years of research, a potential cure for a deadly citrus plant disease may be on the horizon, though it will take some time to get a product to farmers.  The University of California, Riverside, announced last week its scientists have found a new treatment that shows promise for controlling citrus greening, also known as huanglongbing or HLB, which has severely damaged many trees in Florida and other citrus-growing regions.

California has too many COVID-19 cases to trace each new infection, Newsom administration says – California has too many COVID-19 cases to realistically investigate and trace each new infection, Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said Tuesday.  The state has trained about 3,600 state workers to help counties with their contact tracing programs, which aim to reach every infected person and their contacts and convince them to quarantine.  But the California Department of Public Health said nearly two-thirds of those state workers had not yet been assigned to do that work as of last week.

California Settles Fight Over Hoarded Dam Water – Resolving an environmental lawsuit hatched during the state’s recent historic drought, California regulators on Tuesday promised new actions intended to ease the demise of endangered salmon populations.