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New facility helps RTD prepare for future
Rather than cut a ribbon to celebrate the opening of its new regional transportation center, the San Joaquin Regional Transit District opted to start the festivities with a bang Thursday evening.  Placing a large makeshift dynamite plunger in front of the new facility's front doors, RTD Chief Executive Officer and General Manager Donna DeMartino opened the center by pushing down on a large red button, causing ribbons to explode out of cannons that lined the structure's exterior walls. The $51.1 million facility was completed three months early and under budget, DeMartino said. Construction on the 153,993-square-foot facility located at 2849 E. Myrtle St. in Stockton began in March 2014. "The RTC truly is about serving the entire community," DeMartino said. "It's about future transit needs and how we can start planning to address them." The regional transportation center consists of a 91,000-square-foot maintenance building; an 18,620-square-foot fuel, brake and tire building; a 36,000-square-foot operations building; and an 8,373-square-foot wash building.  The maintenance building will be able to house 200 of the agency's 40-foot buses and 50 of its 60-foot vehicles, along with 18 repair bays. The fuel/brake/tire repair building includes fueling inspection equipment to service four buses at a time across four bus servicing lanes, and the wash building includes bus washers, water reclamation equipment and reverse osmosis water system to keep buses clean. Gary Giovanetti, chairman of the RTD Board of Directors, said the facility will be able to accommodate as many as 500 buses in the future as the project expands over the years. Read more Photos courtesy RTD
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H2O Hackathon 2015 - Winners Announced
 An engaged crowd of young geniuses took on California's Drought at the "H2O Hackathon - A Water Challenge" was held on October 9.
The H20 Hackathon brought together a creative community of programmers and problem-solvers
to address California's statewide drought problems. The San Joaquin Partnership was a sponsor of the event which sought to stimulate innovations in water technology and policies that will help solve water management challenges in both the urban and agricultural sectors through new applications and systems. Representatives from Google, IBM and other leading technology organizations attended the event.
All the teams were comprised of local students and professionals including University of the Pacific alum.
Cash prizes were awarded to the winning solutions, selected by an expert panel of judges which included: Mark Dixon, IBM Smarter Cities & Safer Planet; Pam Eibeck, President, University of the Pacific; Brent Holtz, University of California, Davis; Margot Jacobs, Senior Associate, Mia Lehrer & Associates; Claire Latane, Senior Associate, Mia Lehrer & Associates; and Jeff Shields, South San Joaquin Irrigation District.
The Winners of the H2O Hackathon 2015 are:
The Cal Water Golden Spigot Award of $3,000 for best technical solution was presented to a team of young hackers ranging from 10 to 16 years old
who had attended the IBM/Bluemix Learnathon.
The team "Sprinkles, Inc." included: Sher Gil, Jefferson Leiva, Richard Maes, Luis Moreno, Citalli Sanchez, Alberto Valencia and Andres Vivano.
Most Awesome Hack Award
for $2,500 went to the "Pipe Dream" team: Kristine Gali, Paul Sukhanov and Minh Tran.
Most Creative Hack Award
for $2,500 went to the "Shower Power" team:
Elizabeth Diaz, Robin Shum, Walter Sorenson and Gabriel Marrujo.
Most Thoughtful Hack Award for $500 (created by Judges at the Hackathon) was awarded to:
Allen Ries-Knight
Every participant also received a swag bag valued at $50 for attending and working on the hackathon.
"The answers to our water management challenges are out there and what better place to work on it than in the Delta. This is a statewide effort and drawing from water hackathons in LA we are excited to see the solutions for the 21st century," said Conner Everts of the Environmental Water Caucus. University of the Pacific President Pamela Eibeck said, "As California struggles with this historic drought, it is important that educational institutions in the State do their part in preparing students - our future leaders - to be part of the water solution.The H20 Hackathon was an extraordinary opportunity in rethinking how we use water in California." "We are very excited about the new partnership between iHub San Joaquin, UOP and Delta College.
Their sponsorship of the H20 Hackathon helps to expand awareness of the Hackathon at our college
campuses and we anticipate will assist in recruiting a larger student constituency to participate," said
David Nelson, Chairman, iHub San Joaquin.  "We are thrilled that some of the hacks most needed in this era of drought will come from Stockton,
in the San Francisco Bay-Delta, the largest estuary on the West Coast of the Americas, a special place worth protecting," said Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, executive director of Restore the Delta, a Hackathon co-sponsor. The H20 Hackathon - A Water Challenge was conceived by the San Joaquin iHub, San Joaquin County entrepreneurs, business leaders, government officials, and environmental leaders who saw a need for the development of new water technology in order to contend with the impacts of severe drought.
Full details about the event at www.H2Ohackathon.org Hackathon Photos courtesy Cim Medriano
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New Investor - Stockton Ports
 The Stockton Ports, represented by recently appointed General Manager Bryan Meadows, is the newest investor in the San Joaquin Partnership!
During the 2016 season, the Partnership and the Ports will be offering special game night mixers for Partnership Investors!
Looking for a family-friendly and affordable source of entertainment in Stockton or the greater San Joaquin Valley? Look no further than the Stockton Ports who play 70 games at Banner Island Ballpark between the months of April and September. Come see the future stars of the Oakland Athletics as they make their way up to Major League Baseball. 
Although baseball has been played in Stockton for over 100 years, the Stockton Ports didn't come into play until 1941 as the Ports were one of the founding members of the California League. The Ports gained their unique name from the cities own rich history and strong resource as the states only inland Port.
After playing at Billy Hebert Field in Oak Park since 1950, the Stockton Ports moved into their new waterfront home at Banner Island Ballpark in 2005.
The ballpark features 4,200 fixed seats, four luxury suites, three picnic areas, an elevated club seating area, and over capacity of 5,200. The Ports are a great avenue if you are looking to entertain clients, reward employees, promote your business plus you are able to support your hometown team.
Photos courtesy Stockton Ports
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North Valley: Building a regional identity
Regional divisions based on politics and geography long have linked the eight California counties from San Joaquin to Kern as the San Joaquin Valley.
But economic and demographic facts provide a strong argument to identify San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Merced counties as a separate North San Joaquin Valley region, increasingly tied to each other by economics and trade, as well as being part of a larger Northern California "megaregion" that includes the San Francisco Bay and greater Sacramento areas.
That was the message delivered October 13th by University of the Pacific economists, as well as government and economic development leaders from the three counties at the inaugural "State of the North San Joaquin Valley" conference. 
Jeffrey Michael, director of Pacific's Center for Business and Policy Research, (pictured above) said that the three counties are only loosely tied to Valley areas farther south, such as Fresno and Bakersfield.
(Photo courtesy UOP) "That's not where the future is," he said.
Michael suggested following the lead of the U.S Office of Management and Budget, which in 2012 named San Joaquin County as part of the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland combined statistical area (a larger region compared to a metropolitan statistical area). Stanislaus County might well be added to the combined region at its next update as well.
Perhaps the most dramatic example of those megaregion ties is commute patterns reported by the U.S. Census Bureau. They show the three-county North Valley region exchanges more than 72,000 commuters daily with the Bay Area and 22,000 with the Sacramento area. Only about 8,700 workers commute across the Merced County line to and from the south Valley.
Those and other regional characteristics, including economic, demographic, environmental and transportation data, are detailed in the North San Joaquin Valley Index, a Pacific report released at the conference. Its publication was underwritten by JP Morgan Chase.
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ATTENTION
Food Manufacturers
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The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) legislation was updated on September 10, 2015.
Implementation begins JANUARY 2016.
Are you prepared?
Who must comply?
A facility that manufactures, processes, packs, or holds food and that is required to register with the FDA is required to comply with the
requirements for hazard analysis and risk-based preventive controls unless it is covered by an exemption.
Food manufacturers are required by the FDA to implement the following:
- A written food safety plan (re-analyze at least once every three years or when changes are implemented)
- Hazard analysis (biological, chemical, physical hazards, as well as economically motivated adulteration)
- Preventive controls to mitigate hazards
Monitoring (risk-based environmental monitoring, product testing)
Corrective actions and corrections
Verification (validation, verification of monitoring, verification of corrective actions, verification of implemention and effectiveness, and re-analysis)
Gary J. Panepinto
Regional Manager
The Corporation for Manufacturing Excellence
direct: 925.807.5117
mobile: 916.765.4279
[email protected]
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October Investor Anniversaries
The San Joaquin Partnership would like to recognize and thank our investors who are celebrating their anniversaries with us in October!
17 YEARS - 1998
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2015
Project Wins
9
Jobs:
964 - 1258 New
(incl. seasonal)
267 retained
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CALENDAR
OCTOBER
1-7
IEDC Annual Conference
Anchorage, AlaskaChicago, Illinois 13 2015 State of the North San Joaquin Valley Conference: Issues for Regional Economic Integration & Growth 8:00 AM - 12:30 PM University Plaza Waterfront Hotel, Stockton
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Partnership Board of Directors Meeting
8:00 AM Partnership Conference Room NOVEMBER
11 Veterans Day 19 Partnership Board of Directors Meeting 8:00 AM Partnership Conference Room 26-27 Happy Thanksgiving Offices of the Partnership will be closed
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SIgn Up now! 
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San Joaquin Partnership Annual Report online The 2014-2015 Annual Report is available on the San Joaquin Partnership web site. Click here.
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