General Membership Meeting

9-11 a.m., November 6, 2026
The Westin Carlsbad Resort & Spa
5480 Grand Pacific Drive
Carlsbad, California

All members are invited to attend the 2026 General Membership Meeting.

President Alex Salazar, CWM will update attendees on the state of the association, and then open the floor to questions and input from members of the audience. Voting will follow.

Who May Attend?

All CLCA members are invited to attend the General Membership Meeting. One representative from each Regular and Associate member company may vote, as can each Life Member-Retired.

If you would like to attend the General Membership Meeting but are unable to attend the convention, please contact Micheyl Barnett at CLCA HQ, (916) 830-2780.

Candidates

President: Andrew Johnson
President-Elect: Ana Cooper
Secretary-Treasurer: Paul Hansen
Director of Events: Bronwyn Miller
Director of Resource Management: Chris McNairy, QWEL

Statements from candidates are posted here (PDF).

Bylaws

The Board of Directors recommends the association’s bylaws be amended as follows. Proposed new text is underlined; text to delete is in strike out:

ARTICLE IV: Membership Dues, Rights, Duties, Restrictions

4.02 Delinquency
Any member of the Association who is 60 days 30 days past their due date for dues, fees or assessments will be considered delinquent and may be suspended or have their member­ship terminated as provided above.

ARTICLE III: Classes of Membership

3.01 Classes of Membership
The Association has twelve (12) classes of membership: Regular, Contractor, Premier, Associate, Regular Satellite, Associate Sat­ellite, Inactive, Affiliate, Sustaining, Life, Student, Honorary and At-Large. Applications for At-Large Membership shall be submitted to the Association for action by the Executive Committee.

3.02 Regular Contractor Membership

(a) A Regular Contractor Member is any person, firm, partnership, or corporation, holding an active C-27 landscape contractor’s license issued by the Contractors State License Board of the State of California, whose dues are not delinquent. Regular Contractor Members must agree in writing that they will abide by the Code of Ethics.
(b) A Regular Contractor Member shall have only one principal rep­resentative to the Association and such membership shall be assigned to a base chapter of the member’s choice.
(c) Each Regular Contractor Member shall have one vote, and shall be eligible to hold chapter and state office.
(d) A Regular Contractor Member shall not sell or promote a prod­uct or service, other than the service covered by the C-27 license and/or services not in competition with Associate supplier members, within the confines (i.e., all activities, programs, publications, etc.) of the Asso­ciation, unless such member also holds an Associate Membership in the Association.
(e) Any Regular Contractor Member may add companies to its exist­ing membership provided:

(1) All companies listed have common ownership.
(2) Sustaining Regular Contractor Membership is maintained.
(3) Additional dues (as established in the Standing Rules) are paid for each company listed.
All other provisions of Section 3.02 apply regardless of the number of companies listed.

Note: If the membership approves this amendment to the bylaws, all references to Regular Member in the bylaws will be renamed to Contractor Member.