Dear Executive Challenge Members,

It’s hard to believe the 2017 Central Valley Heart Walk is already here! As Chair of the inaugural City Wide Executive Challenge, THANK YOU for your hard work and commitment to raise significant funds for research and community programs in the Central Valley. Collectively our group of 10 raised $16,960.00, over 6 weeks!

A BIG CONGRATULATIONS to Karen McCaffrey and Mike Vartanian who surpassed their $3,000 goal during the challenge. Also, great job to our other Top Walkers, Michael Goldring, Michael Helsley, and Paulo Soares who raised $1,000 or more!

Although our challenge is complete, there still time to contribute and help the American Heart Association reach their overall goal of $280,000 to help fund research and prevent heart disease and stroke in our community.

Thank you all again for stepping up to the challenge and making a difference in our community! I look forward to seeing you all Saturday at the 2017 Central Valley Heart Walk.

FINAL STANDINGS

First Name	Last Name	Company Name	Total Amount
Karen	McCaffrey	McCaffrey Group	$5,000
Mike	Vartanian	BSK Associates	$3,300
Michael	Goldring	Valley Children’s Healthcare	$2,600
Paulo	Soares	Camarena Health	$1,850
Michael	Helsley	Wanger Jones Helsley	$1,835
Shannon	MacAdam	American Heart Association	$750
Dr. Jesus	Rodriguez	Kaiser Permanente	$500
Jessup	Wiley	Rabobank	$125
Brett	Frazier	Madera County	$0
Todd	Suntrapak	Valley Children’s Healthcare	$0

 

With gratitude,

Brett F. Frazier

Supervisor, District 1, Madera County

Kevin Grove, Staff Professional receives APWA award.

“Congratulations! You have been selected to receive APWA Sacramento Chapter’s 2017 Award for Professional Manager of the Year – Young Leader. Your selection puts you in a very elite group of winners since the inception of the program. Our Chapter is proud to have you represent the public works profession and our association!”  Richard Liptak, P.E.

Anna Rikkelman, Business Development Associate receives high praise from APWA President:

“As President of the Northern California Chapter of APWA for 2016, I want to share my sincere appreciation for Anna Rikkelman’s involvement in our Chapter during the last year.  Her commitment, energy and participation in our Chapter as Director of Special Events has helped make the Chapter a success and provided our membership with many fantastic opportunities to learn, grow and network with others in the public works profession.”      Brian Balbas.

CSD Fresno was recently awarded another PO modification with CH2M for its testing services working on the City of Fresno’s multiple water pipeline projects.  The contract amount for the new fiscal year is $1,748,000.00, bringing the total contracted amount to $2,958,774.00.  Fresno will continue to provide testing services for the 4 current Recycled Transmission Mains being constructed and will be working on 4 new projects in the coming year.

Gino Rapagna, Senior Program Manager with CH2M, stated in negotiations that his team and Mike Carbajal (City of Fresno Water Division Manager) wanted to retain BSK for another year due to the professionalism of our staff and prompt response in reporting and resolution of problems that arise.