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1. March 2015
A VCEDA Sponsored Supplement
Building on the Past, Looking to the Future
It is my privilege to serve
as the 2015 Chairman of the
Board of Directors for the
Ventura County Economic
Development Association.
This year, VCEDA celebrates
66 years defending Ventura
County’s economic vitality –
as advocate, as educator, and
as facilitator.
Though I have served on
VCEDA’s Board for some time,
it wasn’t until my recent elec-
tion as Chair that I took the
time to explore our organi-
zational history through re-
search and meetings with
individual Board members –
several of whom have served
for decades.
Since VCEDA’s inception in
1949, our community has
changed drastically. Thou-
sand Oaks has evolved from
an unincorporated town of
fewer than 1,200 to a City of
128,000, and Ventura County
has grown from a popula-
tion of 114,647 to 839,620.
The City of Oxnard is now the
19th largest City in the State
of California with 204,000
residents.
Over this time, VCEDA has
watched an economy that was
primarily based on oil and ag-
riculture transform into one
where those two sectors find
themselves at the bottom of
the top ten list measuring
jobs and salaries within our
local economy, below Leisure
and Hospitality (tourism).
For six decades, VCEDA’s
advocacy has accomplished
great things, from founding
HOME (Housing Opportuni-
ties Made Easier), to leading
the effort to locate a State
University in the County, to
spearheading the response to
the 2005 Defense Base Clo-
sure and Realignment (BRAC)
Commission’s efforts to close
Naval Base Ventura County,
ensuring that our local Naval
Base and the thousands of
private sector jobs associat-
ed with it remain in Ventura
County.
It is my goal to build upon
the lessons learned from our
past to help navigate the
changing landscape ahead.
2015 will be a transitional
year for VCEDA. Over the past
few months, VCEDA’s Execu-
tive Committee has set in mo-
tion a process to marshal the
organizational elements that
will support continued and
nimble growth for another
66 years. Our more active, en-
gaged Board of Directors will
build focus around the issues
and opportunities
most critical to our
membership, includ-
ing:
• Building a stron-
ger working rela-
tionship with the
Economic Devel-
opment Collab-
orative of Ventura
County (EDC-VC);
• Streamlining the process for
identifying and responding
quickly to critical issues that
impact our regional economy;
• Proactively “getting out in
front” on issues that will play
out over the decades ahead,
like supporting the growth of
our local universities, and ad-
dressing our aging infrastruc-
ture, particularly as it impacts
transportation; and,
• Facilitating ongoing dia-
logue and communication
amongst all the other region-
al groups and organizations
that represent or influence
our local economy.
As we look to the future,
we are excited to continue
to partner with our members
as business and economy ad-
vocates. Together, we can
generate, analyze, develop,
and promote a collective vi-
sion for a stronger Ventura
County. By working closely
with local and regional orga-
nizers, government and mili-
tary stakeholders, education
leaders and economic devel-
opment professionals, we
can continue to create posi-
tive economic opportunities
for our members and Ventura
County at large.
Sandy Smith
2015 Chairman, VCEDA
Board of Directors
A third generation resident
of Ventura County, Sandy
is a former Mayor and
Councilmember for the
City of Ventura. Sandy
is currently employed as
a Land Use Consultant
for Sespe Consulting, an
engineering firm based in
Ventura. Sandy is also a
member of the graduate
faculty in Public Policy and
Administration at California
Lutheran University.
what’s inside
• Valuing Professional Services in the App Age
• VCEDA Board of Directors
• Setting the 2015 VCEDA Agenda
• The Business Times celebrates 15 years
• Winning is Better than Fighting
• Board News
• VCEDA Membership Application
• About VCEDA
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2. 2 VCEDA News A VCEDA Sponsored Supplement March 2015
VCEDA Chairman’s Circle Members
Valuing Professional Services in the App Age
For twenty years, people
have been saying that the In-
ternet would change every-
thing. It may be a stretch to
say “everything” has changed,
but the way we utilize a vari-
ety of goods and services is
definitely different. Those of
us who are professionals have
seen some change, which for
now remains at the margins
of our practices. However, lit-
tle by little, the age of Google
and smartphones is chang-
ing the fundamental rules of
what it means to be a profes-
sional service provider.
It used to be that one of the
advantages professionals en-
joyed was access to informa-
tion not generally available to
the public. Whether a lawyer,
financial advisor, stock broker,
accountant or doctor, each of
us had information that cus-
tomers did not. As profession-
als, we offer expertise and
experience, but in many cases,
our clients simply saw us as
the gatekeepers to informa-
tion and our fees were merely
the price of admission.
Ready access to information
changes things. Each one of
our clients now carries the
world’s greatest encyclopedia
with them at all times. Even
calling it an encyclopedia is
too limiting; to the complete
library of human knowledge
fits in our client’s pockets. If
our profession is simply about
access to information, we are
in trouble.
However, we can compete
because information is only
one piece of the puzzle:
• Once you have the informa-
tion, what do you do with it?
• What are the risks of your
proposed transaction?
• How will others react?
• Is any information missing?
• What is the best way to uti-
lize the information you do
have?
Level of Acceptable Risk – Risk
assessment involves not just
an objective analysis of prob-
able outcomes (something a
computer can do if provided
with enough data) but also
the more subjective analysis
of how much risk is acceptable
based on the situation.
The Human Element – How
will other parties react to
something? Does what you
are asking for seem fair or
reasonable in this particular
instance? What subjective cri-
teria might cause a change in
the future?
As most of us know, the re-
actions of real people can
be inconsistent, illogical and
sometimes unpredictable.
Smartphones might be great
for checking email or Face-
book or looking up basic in-
formation, but they don’t
anticipate the actions of a dis-
gruntled or unhappy human;
nor do they handle surprises
very well.
Identifying omissions – As
anyone with spellcheck knows,
computers can be brutally ef-
fective at spotting errors on
the printed page. What they
can’t do is evaluate a document
and recognize the absence of
important terms. Spellcheck
can tell that you misspelled
“eggs” on your shopping list,
but it has no idea that you also
wanted bacon.
Individualized Solutions – Cli-
ents are paying for solutions to
their problems, not just infor-
mation. A prescription is a tiny
piece of paper with the name
of a drug which the patient
takes to the pharmacy; what
the patient is actually buying
is the medicine prescribed by
the healthcare professional
to treat that patient’s current
health issue.
An agreement drafted by a
knowledgeable attorney will
be much more expensive than
a computer-generated form.
If the client is looking for a
piece of paper, the computer
will always win. But if the cli-
ent wants a thoughtful and
appropriate document that
weighs risks, considers situa-
tion specific issues, and accu-
rately reflects their needs, a
human being is best able to
provide that.
Professional services have
never really been about con-
trol of information, but rather
determining what to do with
the information once you have
it and how best to use it to fit
the client’s particular needs.
••••
Melissa H. Sayer is a member
of the Business Law Group at
Arnold LaRochelle Mathews
VanConas & Zirbel LLP in Ox-
nard (www.atozlaw.com). She
is actively involved in the com-
munity and serves as a direc-
tor on the VCEDA board. She
and her husband own a ranch
just outside of Santa Paula
with their family where they
grow avocados and specialty
citrus and enjoy spending time
with their dog, cats, goats and
chickens. She can be reached
at msayer@atozlaw.com.
Melissa Sayer
3. March 2015 VCEDA News A VCEDA Sponsored Supplement 3
VCEDA Board of Directors
Executive
Committee:
Sandy Smith
Chair
Sespe Consulting, Inc.
Joe Gibson
Vice President & Policy
Committee Chair
Meridian Consultants
Ellen Brown
Secretary
Volt Workforce
Solutions
Mike Silacci
Treasurer
AT&T
Bill Camarillo
Agromin
Marc Charney
Law Office of Marc
L. Charney
Kristin Decas
Port of Hueneme
Nan Drake
E.J. Harrison & Sons, Inc.
Joseph Kreutz
County Commerce Bank
Kerby Lecka
Westlake Marketing
Works
Stacy Roscoe
Vlad Vaiman, Ph.D.
California Lutheran
University
Directors:
Michael Cardona
Stay Green, Inc.
John Chamberlain
Limoneira Company
Henry Dubroff
Pacific Coast Business
Times
Mike Durocher
Scanlon Guerra Burke
Amy Fonzo
California Resources
Corporation
Randall George
Myers Widders Gibson
Jones & Feingold LLP
Lorena Gomez
Coastal Occupational
Medical Group
Rudy Gonzales
Southern California
Edison
Susan Hersberger
Aera Energy LLC
John Krist
Farm Bureau of Ventura
County
Neil McMillan
Express Employment
Professionals
Jim Meaney
CBRE
Phil Nelson
Amgen
Dawn Noorda
Boldrin
ITT Technical Institute
Kara Roeder
Procter & Gamble
Melissa Sayer
A to Z Law
Mark Sellers
Jackson DeMarco
Tidus Peckenpaugh
David Shore
TWIW Insurance
Services, LLC
Mike Smith
Waste Management
Douglas Tapking
Area Housing Authority
of Ventura County
Celina Zacarias
CSU Channel Islands
Lifetime:
Suzanne Chadwick
Marc Charney
Mitchel Kahn
Ed Lyon
Stacy A. Roscoe
Ex-Officio:
William Buenger
World Affairs Council
Darren Kettle
Ventura County
Transportation
Commission
Captain Scott
Loeschke
Naval Base Ventura
County
Bruce Stenslie
EDC-VC
Dick Thomson
Ventura County
Taxpayers Association
Organizational
Support provided by:
Emily Barany
Consulting
Emily Barany
Owner
Susie DiMauro
Project Coordinator
VCEDA’s Mission Statement:
To advocate for policies, legislation and programs that stimulate busi-
ness and a vital economy as the foundation for a vibrant quality of life
in Ventura County.
As part of its mission
to advocate for policies,
legislation, and programs
that stimulate business
and a vital economy as
the foundation for a
vibrant quality of life in
Ventura County, VCEDA
facilitated a conversation
between Ventura County
business and community
leaders on Friday, March
6, 2015 at 7:30 AM. The
event, called “VCEDA:
Setting the Agenda for
2015,” was held at the
Ventura County Commu-
nity Foundation Nonprof-
it Center in Camarillo.
Spearheaded by Joe
Gibson, VCEDA Policy
Committee Chair, and
Sandy Smith, Board
Chair, the event provided
a forum for leaders with-
in the Ventura County
business community.
Attendees shared their
perspectives on the most
critical issues that impact
regional businesses, and
identified opportunities
for VCEDA to provide
advocacy, education,
networking, and support
that might encourage a
more sustainable region-
al economy.
Sandy Smith launched
the meeting with a brief
discussion of the orga-
nizational goals set in
place by VCEDA’s Execu-
tive Committee. He rec-
ommended that VCEDA
seek opportunities to
collaborate and part-
ner with other regional
groups and organiza-
tions; take proactive ac-
tion on short- and long-
term issues affecting the
regional economy; and
strive to understand the
business community’s
needs in order to foster
and advocate for sustain-
able economic develop-
ment.
After individually brain-
storming issues that pose
opportunities and threats
to business in Ventura
County, event partici-
pants discussed their
thoughts in small groups,
presenting their findings
to the group.
Through a dynamic
discussion, participants
identified seven key is-
sues affecting the Ventu-
ra County business com-
munity:
• Land Use Planning and
No-Growth: Attendees
described possible modi-
fications of SOAR, the
“Save Open-Space and
Agricultural Resources”
ordinance, and presented
the need to consider the
interactions between
resistance to change and
regional infrastructure,
transportation, natural
resources, and agricul-
ture.
• Water: California com-
munities, including Ven-
tura County, continue
to respond to ongoing
drought conditions. VCE-
DA members highlighted
opportunities to provide
education, advocacy, and
possible solutions for the
management of scarce
Re-envisioning a Sustainable Regional Economy:
Setting the 2015 VCEDA Agenda
4. 4 VCEDA News A VCEDA Sponsored Supplement March 2015
When you look at the mast-
head of this issue of Pacific
Coast Business Times, you will
notice something new.
This is Volume 16 No. 1 and
it is the beginning of our 15th
anniversary year.
The special banner at the
top of Page One signifies
that for 780-plus consecutive
weeks, we’ve been offering
our subscribers an in-depth
look at business and econom-
ic issues on the Central Coast.
During the past decade-
and-a-half, we’ve helped the
region develop an economic
identity, providing a way
to ride the economic waves
through recession and recov-
ery.
We’ve created by far the
largest news operation for
business and financial news
between Los Angeles and the
Bay Area. We’ve helped train
a new generation of business
journalists, and we’ve hon-
ored hundreds of companies
and individuals through our
highly successful awards pro-
grams.
This has not always been
an easy task. I got a chuckle
this week when the NASDAQ
stock index briefly broke
through the 5,000 barrier for
the first time in 15 years — it
has been a fascinating ride.
We’re going to celebrate our
15th Anniversary with a Gala
Celebration at the Bacara
Resort & Spa on May 14, and
inaugurate five business lumi-
naries into our Hall of Fame.
To make it official, this year’s
honorees are:
• Brooks Firestone, the pio-
neering entrepreneur who
put Santa Barbara County’s
wine industry on the map,
sparking a revolution up
and down the Central Coast.
Along the way, he found time
to serve as an assembly mem-
ber and county supervisor.
• Angel Martinez, CEO of
Deckers Outdoor Corp. and
the person most responsible
for transforming the South
Coast into the Milan of Amer-
ica’s footwear business.
• Clint Pearce, the son-in-law
of the late Alex Madonna and
CEO of Madonna Enterprises.
He has brought the Madonna
family’s crown jewel, the
Madonna Inn, into the 21st
Century and restructured the
family holdings to focus on
real estate in San Luis Obispo
County.
• Lynda Weinman, co-found-
er and executive chair at
Lynda.com, the world’s big-
gest online training academy.
Her company made news
recently with a $186 million
capital raise, furthering the
distance between Lynda.com
and its competitors.
• And finally, the late Alan
Teague, longtime chairman
of Limoneira Co., one of the
world’s largest producers of
lemons and avocados. Teague
passed up a chance to suc-
ceed his late father in the U.S.
House of Representatives in
order to focus on the things
he loved most: his family, the
city of Santa Paula, Ventura
County and his beloved Limo-
neira.
We launched the Business
Hall of Fame five years ago in
honor of our 10th anniversa-
ry. We’re delighted that these
five will join our previous
honorees, Oracle Corp. Vice
Chairman Jeff Henley, Jorda-
no’s President Peter Jordano,
labor and workplace leader
Hank Lacayo, Sage Publica-
tions’ co-founder Sara Miller
McCune, consumer research
pioneer J.D. “Dave” Power,
retired banker Carrol Pru-
The Business Times celebrates 15
years with a Hall of Fame gala
Agenda
continued from page 3
water resources.
• Government: Reflecting
VCEDA’s goals of collabo-
ration and responsiveness,
members underlined the
importance of minimizing
delay and uncertainty in
official messaging and of
facilitating and participat-
ing in dialogue about on-
going policy formulation.
• Agriculture: Agriculture
is a powerful economic
driver in Ventura County,
and attendees advanced
the need to define and
promote the qualities that
make the region’s agri-
culture unique. They also
noted opportunities to
connect local businesses,
the biotechnology indus-
try, and universities in
Ventura County.
• Business Regulation:
Members acknowledged
that local businesses re-
quire consistency and pre-
dictability in their commu-
nications with regulatory
agencies, and suggested
that VCEDA continue to
seek integrated dialogue
in discussions on business
regulation.
• Education: Participants
addressed the need to
build and reinforce part-
nerships between educa-
tion, businesses, munici-
palities, and the military.
They highlighted the
interconnected nature
of Ventura County’s cost
of living, job opportuni-
ties, and transportation
infrastructure, mention-
ing opportunities to keep
students and graduates in
Ventura County, reduce
the out-commute rate,
and address talent gaps
by building skills desired
by employers.
• Military: Attendees
proposed increased vis-
ibility of the military’s real
economic impacts on the
region and opportunities
to foster communication
and partnerships between
education and the mili-
tary.
The priorities identified
during the Setting Our
Agenda event were in-
corporated into an online
survey distributed to all
VCEDA members. Out-
comes from the event and
subsequent survey will be
used to refine VCEDA’s
priorities for discussion
and consideration, and
to encourage collabora-
tive dialogue at both the
Board and Policy Commit-
tee levels throughout the
year and beyond.
“I thought the event was
worthwhile in identifying
key areas for VCEDA to
concentrate its efforts,”
Ellen Brown, VCEDA Ex-
ecutive Committee mem-
ber and former Board
chair, stated about her
participation in the event.
“Working as a group to
come to a consensus con-
firms the direction we
have and will be going.”
• For more details about
joining VCEDA or getting
involved with VCEDA’s
Policy Committee, contact
Info@VCEDA.org.
5. March 2015 VCEDA News A VCEDA Sponsored Supplement 5
When California’s “Global
Warming Solutions Act” of
2006, also known as AB32,
was first rolled out, it was re-
garded as unfriendly to busi-
nesses. As a result, many busi-
nesses fought the new law
in the hope that they could
change or stop its implemen-
tation. This was an under-
standable response, because
AB32 would add significant
regulations and costs to Cali-
fornia businesses. However,
AB32 is now the law of the
land, and businesses should
look at ways to use AB32 to
actually help their business
grow. In 2015 it is time to shift
from “fighting” to “winning.”
As with many regulations,
there will be winners and
losers. There are more than
360 businesses with over 600
facilities requiring registration
and compliance with AB32.
These businesses have three
options: reduce their CO2
emissions, purchase offsets, or
pay significant fines. Herein
lies the difference between
the winners and the losers in
the world of Cap and Trade.
The California Air Resources
Board (CARB) held their first
“Cap & Trade” auction in
2012, and they continue to
hold four events each year.
These auctions are the sale of
indulgences, allowing busi-
nesses to purchase units of
emissions in order to avoid
fines at a later date. What is
so noteworthy is that busi-
nesses pony up nearly a quar-
ter of a billion dollars each
auction day because they
believed that paying money
to CARB is their best option.
However, it is through the
private version of this pro-
cess that the real winners will
emerge.
Of the three options avail-
able, no business (“covered
entity”) would ever inten-
tionally pay the “stringent
penalties” (fines), as CARB’s
website states that willful
violations can climb to $1
million per day. Rather, the
businesses will purchase these
“allowances” and “offsets”
annually, year after year. They
will become slaves to purchas-
ing their indulgences.
The rules that allow for Win-
ners and Losers occur through
the credits that can be traded
either at the CARB auctions
as “allowances” or between
private parties as “offsets.”
In order to win in this game,
a business should never buy
CO2 credits.
The Winners will be the
businesses that implement a
sustainability program and
reduce their CO2 emissions
beyond what is regulated. A
comprehensive sustainabil-
ity program can successfully
reduce energy usage by 25-
40% and reduce the carbon
footprint by 70%, all with an
attractive ROR. It’s not about
hugging the trees; it’s about
increasing the profits and
growing the business.
The key to doing this is
implementing a sustainabil-
ity program instead of just
executing sustainability proj-
ects. Smart company leaders
already know this. The others
will figure it out too late.
But the real winners will be
the ones with enough vision
to set goals well beyond the
AB32 requirements, and then
monetize the reductions.
Yes, monetize the reductions.
That’s the key to winning.
They will sell the reductions
as offset credits to other busi-
nesses in California to cre-
ate new revenue streams for
themselves. Once they under-
stand how to use this new
revenue stream as part of the
financials in their own sustain-
ability program, the revenues
will be used to fund addi-
tional projects, creating even
more revenue streams. These
businesses will quickly learn
that by executing a successful
program once, they can create
recurring CO2 offsets that can
be monetized year after year.
The Losers will stand in line
to buy these offsets, and once
the game gets going, it will
be too late for them to do
much of anything else. The
Winners will be all too happy
to sell them their salvation.
Legislation and regulations
come and go, but “saving
money never goes out of
style.” The businesses that
choose this strategy are the
real Winners. And you can
take that to the bank.
• Contact Paul Hullar, CEO of
Brightwave Energy, at PHul-
lar@BrightwaveEnergy.com.
Winning is Better than Fighting
ett, real estate and financial
services entrepreneur Mike
Towbes and the late Jack Gil-
bert and Martin V. Smith.
During our 15-year journey,
we’ve been honored with
a number of awards from
the Society of Professional
Journalists, the Society of
American Business Editors &
Writers, the Los Angeles Press
Club and Editor & Publisher.
Our entrepreneurial efforts
have been recognized by the
U.S. Small Business Adminis-
tration, the South Coast Busi-
ness & Technology Awards,
CSU Channel Islands and
many others.
Our successes would not be
possible without the support
of our readers, advertisers
and sponsors. Thank you for
helping us build the region’s
dominant business and finan-
cial news organization.
Look for our Hall of Fame
publication on April 24 and
please join us at Bacara on
May 14. You can find out
more at www.pacbiztimes.
com.
• Reach Editor Henry Du-
broff at HDubroff@PacBiz-
Times.com.
6. 6 VCEDA News A VCEDA Sponsored Supplement March 2015
Board News
NEW BOARD MEMBERS:
VCEDA is pleased to welcome three new directors on the VCEDA Board who have
joined in 2015: Lorena Gomez, Coastal Occupational Medical Group; Phil Nelson,
Amgen; and Dawn Noorda-Boldrin, ITT Technical Institute of Oxnard.
Lorena Gomez has been with
Coastal Occupational Medical
Group as the business manager
since the practice opened its
doors in 2005. She is responsible
for the overall function of the
business and oversees personnel,
customer service, and billing
operations. Lorena has worked in
the occupational medical industry
since 1991, and has functioned in
every aspect of the business from
patient care to administration.
In addition to serving as a
new board member for VCEDA,
Lorena currently serves on
the Board of Directors for
the Western Ventura County
Employers Advisory Council and
is a member of the Society for
Human Resource Management.
She has volunteered for the
California Youth Authority, with
the Catholic Church, and for
Santa Clara’s Catholic Food Bank.
Lorena and her husband, who
served in the U.S. Military, lived
both in Texas and Germany
during their service time. She is
the mother of three beautiful
children. Lorena and her family
have lived in Ventura County for
more than twenty years.
Lorena Gomez
Dawn Elair Noorda-Boldrin has
been with ITT Technical Institute
of Oxnard since 2012. She was
brought on as a Library Assistant
due to her strong educational
background; more recently
she has become a positive
and impactful External Affairs
Representative for ITT Oxnard.
In addition to serving as a new
board member with VCEDA,
Dawn was an active board
member of and is currently
the President of Kiwanis of
Oxnard, the first woman to do
so in over a decade. She serves
on the Oxnard Chamber of
Commerce Educational Task
Force Committee, the Military
Committee, and is seeking to
establish a presence within the
Business Advocacy Committee.
She has been a driving force to
establish and maintain a vocal
and active presence for ITT in
RDP-21, and AUVSCI. She was
also the main reason that ITT
saw, understood, and made the
decision to join and maintain
membership with VCEDA.
Dawn holds a Master’s Degree
in Curriculum Instruction from
Azusa Pacific University, a CLEAR,
and CLAD in Secondary English
Education, as well as a Bachelors
of Arts in English from California
State University Bakersfield, and
a Minor in Political Science.
Dawn has been a resident of
Ventura County for 36 years.
She lives with her husband,
Timothy, and three daughters in
Camarillo.
Dawn Noorda-Boldrin
Phil Nelson is the Director of
Engineering for Global Facilities
Operations at Amgen, where he
is responsible for building and
site infrastructure engineering
and project support for non-
manufacturing facilities in North
America. He joined Amgen in
2013, and was appointed to the
VCEDA Board of Directors in
2015.
A Minnesota native, Phil
graduated from Iowa State
University with a bachelor’s
degree in civil engineering;
he also earned his master’s
degree in civil engineering with
an emphasis in construction
management from the University
of Washington and an advanced
management certification from
the Tench Francis School of
Business in 2004.
Afterearninghisundergraduate
degree, Phil was commissioned
an ensign in the Civil Engineer
Corps of the U.S. Navy and served
for more than 20 years on active
duty in a wide range of leadership
positions in facilities engineering
assignments, including the
Seabees. His background also
includes work with the Public
Works Agency of the County of
Ventura, including as Agency
Deputy Director. While serving in
this position, he was appointed
to the California Uniform
Construction Cost Accounting
Commission as the member
representative for all counties
and served as the President of the
California Counties Architects
and Engineering Association.
Phil is a registered civil engineer
in the State of California. He and
his wife, Mary, live in Ventura
County and have three grown
children.
Phil Nelson
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