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CFCA members have always been contributors to their communities among the first to step up in times of strife.
The time during this ongoing crisis is no different. Members across the state are doing what they can to help those on the front lines and help employees make it through this challenging time. Our industry is continuing to provide vital fuel supplies for medical personnel and first responders, keeping our state running.
One member has transitioned a portion of their business to producing sanitizer for medical personnel in their area, while also donating all proceeds from sanitizer sales to medical personnel and first-responders.
That same member has also sent care packages to their employees with sanitizer, toilet paper, and cookies as a way of letting them know they care during this uncertain time.
Another CFCA member is paying the difference out of pocket for employees whose shifts have been slashed due to the slowed demand for fuel products.
These are just a few ways member businesses are helping others, and we'd love to hear your story. If your company is giving back to your employees or your community during the COVID crisis, please send your story our way, we'd love to hear it.
Reach out to james@cfca.energy to learn more.
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Internet of Things Technology leader Kii is proving to be a lifesaver for petroleum marketers during the COVID-19 crisis. Kii’s real-time full featured Tank Monitoring Solution allows companies to view oil and gas levels and alarms from afar, on both the web and the mobile, keeping employees out of harm’s way. And Kii’s managed services approach proactively identifies and resolve issues before a customer even is aware there is an issue. For example, Kii’s remote diagnostic tools monitors performance and trouble shoots so that operations are uninterrupted. This allows petroleum marketers to focus on operations which is essential during labor constraints caused by COVID-19 crisis.
Director of Retail Dealers at Colonial Oil Industries, Inc., Ray Bordeaux, adopted Kii’s tank monitoring solution last December, and as a result has not had his business impacted from the need to isolate due to COVID-19. Using the Kii system, Bordeaux’s dispatchers can work from home, something which never would have been feasible before implementing Kii’s real-time monitoring. “There is much less worry and stress, thanks to Kii’s software,” says Bordeaux. “The app and webbased programs allow us to view customers’ inventory and alarms from absolutely anywhere. In this case, our living rooms.”
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Over the last month, CFCA has been sending updates as part of its COVID-19 Update series. We send these updates Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at the close of business to provide you with the latest on the ongoing crisis.
CFCA is also sending resources for your business as they become available. Whether these resources are for securing emergency funding, employee paycheck assistance, or compliance, CFCA is your resource as they happen.
CFCA has also compiled a resource page on our website with our updates archived for your reference, and our resources categorized by the area that you need them. Visit the page at https://www.cfca.energy/covid.html
If you are not already receiving our updates, contact james@cfca.energy.
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CFCA has recently secured a vendor for fabric facial coverings.
As part of a number of county orders, retailers are required to provide their employees with face masks if they interact with customers.
A huge issue that a number of retailers are facing is that vendors nationwide are experiencing shortages and members have expressed that they are unable to secure reliable sources for masks.
As of today, CFCA has entered a partnership with Simple Fabric Masks, a provider of, as their name implies, Simple Fabric Masks.
Click the link below to access their online store.
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The CIOMA Memorial Scholarship Fund provides scholarship awards to deserving students attending college or vocational programs at any accredited postsecondary institution.
Head to our website now to check and see elligibility requirements and to submit an application today!
For more information about the scholarship, or to apply, visit www.cfca.energy/cmsf.
PFCS 2020 is still scheduled as planned! Despite current events being postponed, we are still preparing for a PFCS coming up this September you will never forget!
Last year, PFCS booths sold out, be sure to get yours early!
Our online reservation portal is now open!
We can't wait to see you for PFCS 2020, so make sure you're ahead of the curve and reserve your booth space now! Spaces are already filling up quickly, so you won't want to wait for your chance to secure a spot for your business!
Hotel and attendee registration will open soon, so make sure you check back in on the PFCS website regularly to beat the crowd.
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iRely is a premier, global provider of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Commodity Trading and Risk Management (CTRM) business software. Our solutions help companies manage core business processes within a single, fully integrated system called i21.
i21 covers Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Order to Cash Cycle, Procure to Pay Cycle, Trading and Risk Management, Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing, Financials, Business Intelligence, Web Portal, Customer Support and more.
A broad range of industry-specific solutions for Agriculture and Petroleum markets are built on top of this comprehensive, core i21 platform, and are designed to work the way your business operates.
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Since its inception, Trinity Consultants has been committed to providing superior professional training in environmental topics. Our annual schedule includes more than 200 courses, offered at locations around the country, on timely topics for environmental professionals such as environmental permitting, emissions quantification and reporting, air dispersion modeling, greenhouse gas emissions reporting and permitting, stack testing, and CEMS management.
In addition to our federally-based regulatory courses, we also offer a large slate of state-specific courses, bringing the added value of information on specific state and local programs and insights gained from our experience working with the local regulatory agencies.
Free CARB Regulatory Training in Your Area!
Do you own, operate, or dispatch heavy-duty diesel trucks in or to California? Then you need to know that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) enforces a set of air pollution regulations affecting all types of heavy-duty diesel vehicles operating in the State. If your vehicles are NOT already compliant, you need to know what to do to be compliant for 2019. And if your vehicles ARE compliant, you still may need to report to remain compliant. This course gives you the information you need about how to comply with CARB diesel regulations and how to report to continue operating legally in 2019 and beyond.
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In response to the current state of affairs surrounding the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, CFCA postponed our annual Day at the Capitol event.
We will provide a date for the future event as soon as soon as they are fully secured amid this current crisis.
For those who have already registered, CFCA will issue a full refund for your registration, upon request. For those who have reserved rooms under our block with the Sheraton, we advise you cancel your reservation immediately, and you will be issued a full refund by the hotel.
Updates will be provided as they become available.
We apologize for any inconvenience, but out of an abundance of caution, CFCA is taking these steps to ensure the health and safety of our members.
For any questions regarding current Day at the Capitol registrations or hotel reservations, please contact Amber Palmer at (916) 646-5999 or palmer@cfca.energy.
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Many opponents of the original Proposition 13 have never given up.
The same groups that fought the ballot measure more than four decades ago when 65 percent of the state’s electorate passed it have repeatedly tried to destroy the measure’s important property tax protections.
When Prop. 13 was on the ballot in 1978 I opposed it, but the voters approved it. As chair of the Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee, I had a responsibility for the legislative implementation of Prop. 13 to make it work.
However, in the decades following Prop. 13’s implementation, I’ve come to recognize the law’s many benefits. For homeowners, small business owners and employers – large and small – Prop. 13 has provided stability, predictability and certainty. This certainty is even more important for the 46 percent of California businesses that are owned by racial minorities including African Americans.
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Checking customer identification for age-restricted purchases is typically a high-touch interaction, but the outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States and the ensuing social distancing measures—not to mention customers wearing face masks—has upended that model. Doug Anderson, president of We Card, offers some advice for retailers in a new Q&A.
NACS is a longtime proponent of We Card, a national non-profit organization serving U.S. retailers of alcohol, e-cigarettes, tobacco, vapor products and other age-restricted products. Individual retail establishments as well as large retail chains utilize We Card's educational and training services for their compliance efforts with federal, state and local laws on preventing age-restricted product sales to minors.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday outlined a complex set of circumstances for the state to lift coronavirus restrictions and then described a possible startling new normal: temperature checks for restaurant customers, staggered start times for public schools to keep students separated and no crowds at sporting events, fairs or concerts.
It was a reality check for the state's 40 million residents after days of encouraging reports about the slow growth in new cases that had many hopeful for a reset of public life following a depressing early spring spent mainly indoors.
But Newsom said he won't consider loosening the state's stay-at-home orders until hospitalizations, particularly those in intensive care units, “flatten and start to decline” for at least two weeks. Even then, the governor listed six conditions that must be met, including expanded testing, more protective equipment for health care workers, better treatment and an improved ability to track and isolate those who have been infected — all things the state has struggled to accomplish thus far.
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The California state Legislature adjourned over three weeks ago due to the coronavirus outbreak, but there’s still pressing business to get done at the Capitol.
Legislation needs to be heard, and there’s a constitutional mandate to pass a budget bill by June 15. Gov. Gavin Newsom has said his proposed budget from January is going to need a major overhaul — but specifics are scant on what it will look like.
Late Thursday, state Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins issued a joint statement saying the Legislature will hold hearings about the administration’s response to the outbreak. The two leaders set May 4 as a prospective return date for the full Legislature, but that could be pushed back.
Rendon, who is still working from his Capitol office these days, spoke with CapRadio’s Scott Rodd and Nicole Nixon about lawmakers reconvening, and how the coronavirus outbreak has changed the way they’re conducting the people’s business.
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