Note: Please disregard the message below if you have already submitted your fiscal status report, or if you have been in touch with MVCAC staff regarding your fiscal status report.

New this year, we are collecting all fiscal status information online through the MVCAC member portal.  Instructions on how to login to your district's portal account are below.  Once this updated fiscal information is received, we will send you your 2015-16 dues invoice.

1. Login using your district login information.  This is the main login that was provided to managers a couple of months ago, if you need it resent please email us at mvcac@mvcac.org.
2. Once logged in, please click the link titled: "Create Corporate Members Fiscal Status Report 2015-2016"
3. Enter the information requested: Total Actual Expenditures, Capital/Fixed Asset Expenditures, Operational Expenditures, and your name.
4. You will then see a confirmation page, please review the information you entered and then click "Save Changes"
5. After clicking "Save Changes" you should receive a confirmation email.  A dues invoice will be mailed to you by the MVCAC staff shortly after you submit your information.

We know many districts have not closed their books yet, so please submit your fiscal status reports when you are able.  We're hoping to have all dues payments received by September 1, 2015.
 

Please feel free to contact the office if you have any questions or if you need any assistance logging in to or navigating the portal.  Thank you for supporting MVCAC!

Hello, Everyone, 

With the season in full throttle, we are once again sharing our professional photos with you. Our goal is to promote mosquito and vector control everywhere. Please feel free to use the photos at your discretion. They are also available to media to use as well so feel free to share with them. 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/126180823@N06/sets

There is no password; you need only this link to access the photos. Once there just click on a category and then the picture. Then right-click to save the photo to your computer. That's it!

We have photos regarding these categories and more: mosquitoes, ticks, yellowjackets, neglected swimming pools, rodents, mosquitofish, laboratory, dead birds, traps, mosquito control in cemeteries and agricultural areas, catch basin treatments, sentinel chickens and blood sampling, and skunks. 

There are lots of reasons to use images, especially quality ones, in your communication. Here are four:

1. Articles with images get 94% more total views.
2. Including a Photo and a video in a press release increases views by over 45%.
3. 60% of consumers are more likely to consider or contact a business when an image shows up in local search results.
4. The engagement rate on Facebook for photos has a 37% higher level of engagement for photos over text.

Enthusiastically,

Deborah Bass

Public Affairs Manager

The District, using its new in-house testing facilities, has found 78 mosquito samples and 2 dead birds positive for West Nile virus throughout the entire District (Chino, Chino Hills, Montclair, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga). The District also received word this week that there has been a confirmed human neuroinvasive infection from Ontario.  

On August 5th legislation that has been a top priority for the AMCA for several years passed through the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee.  Senate bill S. 1500 clarifies that pesticides used for an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved purpose do not require Clean Water Act permits because the pesticide labels already include environmental protections under another law, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).  Bills with similar language have passed the House of Representatives with bipartisan support twice in years past, but action had not been taken in the Senate EPW Committee- until now.   

Green swimming pools like this one in Lake County, Calif., can be a breeding ground for mosquitoes. Homeowners are urged to completely drain such pools. Photo courtesy of Lake County Vector Control District.

LAKEPORT, Calif. - Two mosquito samples and two sentinel chickens in Lake County tested positive for West Nile virus this week. 

This year, 10 mosquito samples, two dead birds, and two sentinel chickens have tested positive for West Nile virus in Lake County, according to the Lake County Vector Control District.

West Nile virus activity has been detected in Clearlake, Clearlake Oaks, Lower Lake, Kelseyville, Middletown and Upper Lake this year, officials said.

Vector Control said no human cases of West Nile virus illness have been reported in Lake County in 2015. 
 
"We're finding more mosquitoes in backyard swimming pools this year," said Jamesina Scott, Ph.D., district manager and research director of the Lake County Vector Control District. "With the drought, people have stopped maintaining their swimming pools to conserve water, and when a pool is not chlorinated and filtered it can produce thousands of mosquitoes every day. Those mosquitoes are the vectors of West Nile virus and fly up to five miles away."  

Cathedral Rocks and Bridalveil Falls reflecting in the Merced River at sunset in Yosemite National Park, California (Photo by Nickolay Stanev via Shutterstock)

A young child visiting Yosemite fell ill with the bubonic plague, making it the first human case in California in nine years.

The child, who's from Los Angeles County, is now recovering after catching the disease after a mid-July trip in Yosemite. Public health officials are now looking for the source of the infection in Yosemite National Park, Stanislaus National Forest and surrounding areas after the child's family went on a camping trip to the Crane Flat Campground inside the national park. The disease is typically not contagious between humans, and the rest of the family has not shown any symptoms, according to the L.A. Times.

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West Nile virus dead bird testing and the WNV Dead Bird Hotline began on April 15, 2015. 

Live calls are being answered (1-877-WNV-BIRD) and online reports are being responded to (www.westnile.ca.gov). 

Agencies can bypass the message options by calling the agency line at (510-412-4601). This will connect you to the hotline operators. If you need to enter a dead bird report and obtain a dead bird number, please use the Gateway.