News Briefs
May 15, 2015
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Jobs

Interested in a career in mosquito and vector control? Check out the MVCAC Job Board at www.mvcac.org

 

Have a Job or RFP to post to MVCAC.org?  

Requests to post job listings (no more than 500 words in length) should be submitted to the webmaster at kandosca@amgroup.us.

 
Do you have important news to share about your district or mosquito and vector issues?

If you would like your news to be included in the MVCAC News Briefs, please send press releases and/or links to relevant news articles to mvcac@mvcac.org
Mailing Address:
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Suite 800
Sacramento, CA 95814

MVCAC Corporate Member Fiscal Status Reports

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!

Call for Proceedings Papers

Click here to view the guidelines for contributions

 

It is time to begin preparation of the Proceedings and Papers of the 83rd annual conference of the Mosquito and Vector Control Association of California. There were many excellent presentations at the annual meeting in January in Monterey, and I am hopeful that the authors will choose to submit their presentations for publication in the Proceedings. Attached to this e-mail are the guidelines for submitting manuscripts; please read and follow these instructions in preparing your papers. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically and simultaneously to me (janwash@berkeley.edu) and Rachel Hickerson (RHickerson@amgroup.us). The deadline for manuscript submission is July 31, 2015.

MVCAC Summer Meeting

July 23rd, 2015

Sheraton Grand Sacramento 1230 J St Sacramento, CA 95814

 

Click here to book a room

or call 800-325-3535

Rate $149, until 6/28/2015

**The group rate cutoff is June 28th, 2015, book your room ASAP!

 

Schedule coming soon!

 

MVCAC Archive

Formerly hosted within the MVCAC Dropbox account, these files are available on the members-only side of MVCAC.org.  


 

If you have files you would like to submit (ex. salary surveys) to be added to the archive on MVCAC.org, simply email them over to mvcac@mvcac.org.

New CEU Sign-in Scanner UPDATE 

The MVCAC staff recently processed the scanned "sign in's" from our Spring meeting and we were able to upload them very easily!


 

Here are some items of note:

  • The system adds a "g" at the end of some card numbers when the cards are scanned in.
    • This is not a huge issue, as we are able to just run a find and replace to eliminate the "g" before uploading the ID numbers to the course.
    • Once the "g" was eliminated, the attendee's information (associated with their card number) displayed within the spreadsheet. 
  • Some cards had trouble reading on the scanner or pulled up the wrong numbers all together.  This is more than likely an issue from the barcode not being correct or from the card being worn down being a wallet, etc.
    • Solution: Always have the person scanning attendee cards quickly verify the number displaying within the spreadsheet is accurate.  If not, the attendee (or person scanning cards) can manually type in the ID number of the attendee and their information should pop-up.

In short, this system is very easy to use!  The MVCAC staff will work on writing up instructions on how to use the scanners, but beyond that the files will just need to be sent to Sarah at the MVCAC office to clean up and do a simple copy and paste into the calsurv database!
West Nile Virus Dead Bird Testing and Hotline - Now Live!

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.