On October 28, 29 and 30, Director of Finance & Administration Rita Goal participated in the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) Educational Forum in Oakland. The education forum is an annual event designed to educate employer representatives on how CalPERS invests retirement dollars, impacts on retirement contribution rates, payroll compensation issues for public agencies, current state and federal legislative issues, actuarial basics, health care issues, workplace wellness, nuts and bolts of administering CalPERS benefit programs and more.
On November 1st, Transportation Planners Stefania Castillo and Madilyn Jacobsen attended the 2019 Essentials California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Workshop at the Santa Clara Valley Water District Offices in San Jose. The workshop was hosted by the Association for Environmental Professionals, which is an association of public and private sector environmental planning professionals. Transportation projects implemented by the Transportation Agency for Monterey County, as well as partner agencies’ non-transportation land use developments reviewed by the Transportation Agency frequently require compliance with CEQA.
Summaries for each of these events are attached.