Nov. 21, 2000

Bob Elliott, Contract Manager
Department of Pesticide Regulation
830 K Street Mall
Sacramento, CA 95814

Re: Contract #99-0250

Dear Bob:

In accordance with the terms outlined in the grant awarded in June 2000 to the Almond Pest Management Alliance (PMA), I am enclosing the first quarterly status report on the Alliance’s activities for the period of Aug. 1, 2000 through Oct. 31, 2000.

Under separate cover, I have submitted an invoice in the amount of $4,004.61 for reimbursable expenses incurred by the Almond PMA during this time period.

The Almond PMA Advisory Team met Sept. 7, 2000 at the UC Davis. I have attached minutes of that meeting. The main action items were to review the three county project's activities to date, to plan for the Fall dormant spray field days and to review the proposal to be submitted to DPR for a fourth year of PMA funding.

Status reports have been filed by the Stanislaus, Butte and Kern county projects. I have enclosed copies of those reports. Additionally, those reports are filed on the almond PMA web site.

The almond PMA newsletter was published and distributed to almond growers in the first part of November. I have enclosed a copy of that publication. Additionally, the newsletter has been posted to the PMA website.

Our next PMA Advisory Team meeting is planned for sometime after the first of the year at UC Davis. At this time, a date has not been set but I will notify you as soon as it is scheduled.

Please let me know if I can provide you with any further information.

Sincerely,

Mark Looker, Project Administrator

Almond Pest Management Alliance

Cc: Almond PMA partners, Rodger Wasson, Tom Krugman

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