CALlFORNlA RURAL LEGAL ASSlSTANCE, lNC.

Dear Friend of CRLA:

As we approach our 40th Anniversary of rural legal service, we recognize the very basic

responsibility of bringing equal justice and legal access for those most in economic need. At the same time, the Federal government's promise of providing "equal access to the system of justice in our Nation for individuals who seek redress of grievances" must mean a "justice for all" not just some.

This annual report presents you with CRLA's efforts to put this promise into practice in communities that are among the most impoverished in the nation. In the Central Valley

of California, some of these communities have come to be known as "unincorporated labor camps" or referred to as an "Appalachia of the West". Litigation is now being

brought to remedy the economic discrimination that keeps very basic public services from reaching these "colonia" communities spread throughout the rich central valleys of

the state.

At the same time, this report speaks to advocacy on behalf of the working poor and their

right to decent living and working conditions be they farm workers, dairy workers, hotel

maids or day laborers. State census indicates that 26 percent of working Californians still earn poverty wages. Among them are rural workers whose hard labor feeds us­

providing milk, vegetables and fruit for our daily table. Like all other workers, they should enjoy all labor entitlements- minimum wage, break and rest periods, overtime,

health and safety protection. In this annual report we present CRLA's work in two impor­tant areas- pesticides and dairy. Agriculture in general, and dairy in particular, must

continue to be a focus of CRLA legal resources because the injustices demand it. In this

regard the Dairy Industry statewide feels at liberty to reward hard work with an almost full scale denial of basic worker rights. Their practices appear comparable to the more urban garment industry. CRLA must not relent.

Justice, to exist, needs our hard labor, our personal commitments, its partners and vigilance. The financial generosity of friends allows CRLA's neighborhood office network to remain a strong advocate in these rural places. Equal Justice needs its Justice Partners.

JOIN.

Thank you for your continued support. Adelante hacia la luz. Forward toward light.

Adrian Andrade, CRLA Board Chairman

Jose R. Padilla, CRLA Executive Director

MILLIONAIRE LANDLORD AND ~iOUSING NEGLECT

'l 1 has lived in Morro Bay for five years. She, along with her husband and two children have occupied an apartment unit 12B at the Belvedere Apartments since June 2001. Maria works as a hotel maid just a few blocks from where she lives. However, Maria's living arrange­ment is far from ideal. Since she moved in, the apartment has been unsafe and uninhabitable. And despite Maria's efforts to fix and repair the unit on her own, the conditions have worsened. The faucets leak. The oven door is broken. The roof leaks, which has caused mold to spread across the ceiling and down the walls. The electrical wiring is faulty and the wall outlets do not work. The windows are broken and are missing locks. The heater has never worked and is falling from the wall to which it is installed and the apartment often smells of gas leaking. Cockroaches infect the unit. Paint is chipping from the walls and the car­pet is so old that no scrubbing can remove the grime from years of use without replacement.

In the winter, Maria uses tarps to cover the leaking roof and wraps her children in blankets to keep them warm. Despite the horrific conditions, Maria and her family have no other place to go. Both she and her husband need to be close to work and this apartment is all they can afford.

Since Maria and her neighbors have lived in the apartment complex, the conditions have been haz­ardous and unsanitary. For months, the tenants have requested that their landlord, multimillionaire Lee Brazil, repair the problems, but their requests have all been ignored. Instead, Brazil harasses them, states that their issues are a result of their own wear and tear and demands that their rent be paid on time.

In late 2004, CRLA learned of the problems and became involved. CRLA made formal requests on behalf of the tenants that the landlord fix the problems. With no response from Brazil, CRLA has been collecting rent from the tenants until the landlord fixes the problems. After months of withholding their rent and still no response from Brazil, CRLA filed a lawsuit against the property owner for allegedly violating Morro Bay's fire, health, housing, and safety codes.

The landlord in this lawsuit, Lee Brazil, is no stranger to city and housing citations. He has been cited previously for multiple code violations at the same building. Between 1995 and 1998 the city pursued criminal charges against Brazil. At that time, he copped a plea and was ordered to pay a fine and one-year probation. The city has been prepared to file charges again, but is waiting the result of this case brought by CRLA hoping that the tenant's suit would bring a more perma­nent and substantial change. According to the city police department, Brazil's apartment complex is a public nuisance and needs to be completely demolished or rehabilitated at the owner's expense.

For now, Maria and her family await the outcome of the lawsuit.

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I speak~ and not English or Spanish. I invoke my right to remain

silent and to have an attorney appointed to represent me. If you question me in

English or Spanish, I will not understand What You are sayin~

CRLA TARGETS THE INJUSTICES OF LANGUAGE BARRIERS

0 priority-setting conference, CRLA staff, clients, and boards identified language access as a critical issue, in part, because of regional demographics. California has a large number of people with limited English proficiency. According to the 2000 census, 12.4 million persons in California (age 5 or older) speak a language other than English at home. This is over 26 percent of the population with limited English proficiency.

The numbers and percentages in California are growing. Last year, the number of children with limited English proficiency in California public schools rose to approximately 1.6 million students, a significant increase from the 1.3 million in 1995. The percentage of people speaking a language other than English at home in California has grown from 31.5 percent in 1990 to 39.5 percent in 2000, from 8. 7 million people to 12.4 million people.

Those with limited English proficiency suffer grave consequences when agencies do not provide appropriate interpretation and translation services. For example, insufficient interpretation and trans­lation is a significant barrier to the provision of health care. A lack of linguistic and cultural competence led to the illegal imprisonment of a Laotian woman in the Fresno County jail for over 10 months when she supposedly was "recalcitrant" in her participation in the County's Health Department's tuberculosis control program.

The CRLA Civil Rights Strike Force had significant advocacy on these issues in 2004. For instance, Cha v. Community Medical Centers, a suit in state court in Fresno County was partially settled. The suit was filed after a mono-lingual Hmong man alleged that he had an amputation without being informed in Hmong that the operation was going to take place. Instead, he thought he was going to have a minor operation cleansing his foot, based on an interpretation he had received earlier. The hospital claimed an interpreter was provided but could not find the employee who supposedly inter­preted prior to the amputation. The suit was set­tled against the hospital. During the course of the litigation and accompanying administrative com­plaint, the hospital chain (the largest in the Central

Valley and the provider for indigent health care in Fresno County) changed its policy and procedures for identifying non-English speakers and providing interpretation to them. It is hoped that the new policy will result in better access to health care for speakers of all languages.

Working with Hmong groups in Chico, in connec­tion with a housing suit filed by the Fair Housing group, we also met with the Chico Housing Authority concerning their steadfast refusal to pro­vide interpretation to Hmong speakers, despite the fact that approximately 200fo of their tenants were Hmong speaking. After intense community pres­sure, the Authority agreed to hire a full time inter­preter and allowed the community to have input into the hiring decision.

Working with individual clients, the strike force has also caused school districts in Kern County and the Salinas area to overturn expulsion deci­sions because the parents received no notices or information in their home language, Spanish.

We have also filed suit against the state Employment Development Department (Mata v. EDD) and one of its sub-contractors for failure to provide Spanish interpretation during the medical evaluations for the state disability program. That suit is on-going.

We are involved in precedent setting judicial deci­sions in Mata and CCCI (See article about CCCI v. Modesto for further details). In both those cases, trial judges have ruled for the first time that plaintiffs did not need to exhaust administrative remedies in order to go to court - agreeing with CRLA's position.

We are also publishing articles about this work and the strategies for it. The September-October 2004 Clearinghouse review featured a story co-authored by the task force, Enforcing Language Access Rights: Trends and Strategies. In addition, task force mem­bers began work as co-authors on the national NAACP Legal Defense Fund upcoming "Civil Rights Strategies Handbook." The CRLA portion of the publication will involve the strategies used in the language access cases in state and federal court.

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THE PROBLEM WITH UNDERBOUNDING

families living on the south side of Robertson Road can see what it means to live on the wrong side of town.

On the north side of their street there is a concrete sidewalk complete with curbs and gutters. There are streetlights and the houses, apartments, and public facilities are all connected to city water and sewer. On the south side, a narrow dirt path between the street and gated front yards stands in place of what would be a concrete sidewalk with curbs and gutters. There are no streetlights and the houses are all on septic systems. When it rains, the streets in the neighborhood to the south flood, dirt paths turn to mud so that pedestrians must take to the poorly maintained, dimly lit and under patrolled streets to get around.

This neighborhood without sidewalks or street lights to the south of Robertson Road is what is known as a "county pocket" - an essentially urban neighborhood nearly or entirely surrounded by the city but remaining within the jurisdiction of the county and therefore without city services. Not coincidentally, the residents of this neighborhood and other such "pockets" are primarily poor and almost uniformly minority. Such "pockets" are typically created over decades as cities like Modesto often avoid the annexation of certain predomi­nately poor, minority neighborhoods viewed as economic drains while annexing surrounding wealthier, whiter neighborhoods or vacant lands.

In reaction to more than a decade of false starts on the parts of the city and county to provide servic­es, residents of Robertson Road and several other predominately Latino "pocket" neighborhoods in Modesto eventually began meeting to advocate for municipal improvements. Their meetings resulted in the August 2004 filing of CCCI v. Modesto, a civil suit filed with the assistance of the San Francisco Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights in partnership with CRLA and several private firms providing pro bono representation including Heller Ehrman White Et McAuliffe, Covington Et Burling and Coblentz, Patch, DuffY Et Bass. The suit charges that for several decades Modesto has annexed lands in an uneven and discriminatory manner and thereby exposed residents of excluded

neighborhoods including "Bret Harte," "No Man's Land," "The Garden," and "Robertson Road" to deplorable conditions resulting in severe harm to their health, safety and dignity. The resident­plaintiffs' stated aim is to end their race and wealth based exclusion and to win for themselves and their neighbors the essential though basic municipal services of which they have been too long wrongfully deprived. The case is proceeding in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California in Fresno.

CCCI v Modesto is a direct legal foray into the larger rural issue of colonia poverty north of the U.S.-Mexico border region. Colonias are marginalized communities characterized by sub­standard living conditions including but not limited to the lack of adequate water and waste­water systems and decent, safe and sanitary hous­ing. This case represents the first step in a devel­oping litigation strategy aimed toward eliminating the grave municipal disparities caused by race and wealth-based segregation in rural California.

CCCI has created an opportunity for broad coali­tion development, laying the foundation for what has become a groundbreaking experiment in inter­state rural community building. As a result of our involvement in the case, in November 2004 CRLA and the plaintiffs in CCCI were invited to partici­pate in the University of North Carolina Center for Civil Rights' third annual conference, Invisible Fences: Municipal Underbounding and Minority Exclusion. The conference was convened to explore a historic phenomenon whereby cities and towns throughout the South have excluded and continue to exclude minority communities from municipal boundaries (and thereby services), a phenomenon known as "municipal underbound­ing," and the very same is at work in Modesto. In North Carolina, the Modesto plaintiffs were able to meet with black residents of southern Moore County, NC who were similarly being excluded from towns in their county and to tour their communities. In April 2005, the two groups again met, this time in Modesto, California. They are now in regular communication and are work­ing together to solve the problem of underbounding. 7

PESTICIDE HARMS FOUGHT L 1

MULTIPLE FORMS

r staff and supporters are

well aware of the horrific effects of the massive quantities of pesticides used in California's agri­cultural industry. Literally MILLIONS of pounds of active ingredient of toxic pesticides are used in California each year. Some of the largest agricultural counties, including Fresno, Kern, and Monterey, have more than a million pounds of pesticides applied within the County each year. Hundreds of thousands of pounds of these pesti­cides are known to cause either cancer or repro­ductive harm.

Farmworkers bear the heaviest brunt of exposure to these dangerous pesticides. The fields where they work are literally toxic oceans. Workers often return home carrying the pesticides they have come in contact with at work into their homes, exposing family members to the risk as well. Additionally, farmworkers frequently live near agricultural fields, so the risk of exposure to pesticides continues even after work hours.

Farmworkers who directly apply pesticides to the fields face the greatest risks of all. But farm­workers get exposed to pesticides in many other ways. For example, one CRLA client did not apply pesticides himself, but instead cut and removed the plastic tarpaulins designed to keep the methyl bromide in the soil. Harvesters are also exposed to pesticides when they are fo rced to enter fields before the re-entry interval period expires or when pesticides applied to nearby fields drift into the fields in which they are working.

But even people who don't labor in the fields are at risk of pesticide exposure. Rural residents who live or work near fields applied with pesticides, children who attend schools near agricultural fields, and even people who eat produce that contains remaining traces of pesticides all face risks of harm. At the same time, pesticides con­taminate water sources and the air, affecting humans and the environment in general.

What is CRLA doing to address the problems with pesticides?

CRLA engages in a very wide range of advocacy to confront and change the numerous problems caused by pesticide use and exposure. CRLA has been involved in this work for nearly 40 years. Recently, CRLA's efforts have been enhanced by additional funding from the California Endowment as part of the CRLA Agricultural Worker Health Project- the project focuses on farmworker occupational health and safety.

In the largest sense, the only truly effective way to stop these harmful consequences is to dramatically reduce the quantity of toxic pesti­cides used in Califo rnia agriculture. The aggre­gate of CRLA's advocacy is aimed at achieving this reduction in use.

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CRLA advocates work extensively, to the maximum extent allowed by the Legal Services Corporations regulations, with the CRLA Foundation on legislative proposals related to pesticides. With CRLA's assistance, the Foundation helped enact an important new law in 2004 that expands the rights of Californians to be compensated for medical expenses caused by non-occupational exposures to pesticides.

EPA's failure to fully consider the harmful effects of pesticides. In Fernandez v. Zesati, an action filed in Monterey County, CRLA seeks to improve the working conditions of methyl bromide tarp pullers as well as to recover unpaid wages owed to these workers. CRLA is also co-counseling with the McNicholas 8: McNicholas law firm in the Kern County case of Gomez, et al. v. Western Farm Service, Inc, in which Plaintiffs seek recovery for

"It smelled like chlorine ... our eyes became imtated and the gas would burn

our throats. Sometimes, the odor was so strong that I had to run out of

the field and gasp for fresh air."

CRLA farmworker client, Jorge Fernandez, descnbrnq the health effects he suffered from continuous exposure to methyl bromide.

As a law firm, CRLA litigates significant pesticide­related cases. In Fernandez v. Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR}, filed in San Francisco Superior Court, CRLA is challenging the state's inad­equate regulation of methyl bromide. CRLA alleges that methyl bromide is not sufficiently protective of farmworkers and the public at large since it is not based on the sound scientific recommendations of DPR's sister agency, the Office of Environmental Health Hazards Assessment. If CRLA prevails, less methyl bromide will be used in California and the methyl bromide that is used will be regulated more closely. In UFW, et al. v. USEPA, an action filed in federal court in Seattle, Washington, CRLA is appearing on behalf of a California farmworker. Along with co-counsel from the Farmworker Justice Fund and Earth Justice, this lawsuit challenges the

harm caused by two incidents of drift of the toxic pesticide Chloropicrin (the active ingredient in the production of tear gas) over two apartment com­plexes and a neighboring school.

CRLA also represents numerous farmworkers in more individualized service cases related to pesti­cides. For example, whenever clients inform us of potentially unsafe conditions involving pesticides, CRLA files complaints with local County Agricultural Commissioners to insure that thorough investiga­tions and appropriate enforcement actions occur. Further, CRLA community workers and attorneys regularly conduct community education presenta­tions where farmworkers are informed of their rights and risks and know that CRLA can defend their interests when they choose to demand their justice .

PUBLIC INTEREST FELLOWSHIPS MAKE SIGNIFICANT CONTR T

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MODESTO, CA

Maria Jaime, Lincoln Law School, Class 2003

Concluding her 2003-2004 BLF Year-Long Fellowship, Maria Jaime spent the past year launching the Kinship Caregivers Advocacy Project through California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA). CRLA is an organization with almost two-dozen offices throughout the state, committed to provid­ing legal assistance in areas such as housing, employment, and environmental justice to farm­workers and the rural poor. Maria's project filled a major gap in legal services, providing advice and advocacy to grandparents or other relatives who have assumed the role of caring for a minor child whose parents cannot or will not care for the child. These kinship caregivers face difficulty enrolling the children in school and obtaining public benefits and medical care needed to provide essentials for the children in their care.

Through the help of a BLF Fellowship, Maria pro­vided legal counseling to caretakers and advocated on their behalf with local welfare departments. Maria helped caretakers file guardianship petitions in probate court to ensure stability for children and prepared written materials and brochures to inform potential clients of the available services. Although Maria was based out of CRLA's Modesto office, all of the CRLA offices statewide have implemented some aspect of the project, thus expanding the number of clients who are benefit­ing from Maria's work.

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Alegria de Ia Cruz, Boalt Hall School of Law, Class of 2003

Also finishing up her 2003-2004 BLF Year-Long Fellowship, Alegria de la Cruz has spent the past year adding a much-needed litigation component to the Indigenous Farmworker Project of California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA) in their Fresno office. Alegria 's clients come mostly from the state of Oaxaca, Mexico and speak a variety of diverse regional languages, making communication with governmental agencies and service providers very difficult.

With the help of the BLF fellowship, the project's liti­gation arm swung into action, filing three lawsuits during the past year on behalf of the indigenous farmworker community. One lawsuit seeks injunctive relief and unpaid wages against a grower in Fresno County who has refused to pay wage judgments already levied against him. Another lawsuit seeks redress from a grower for negligent application of pesticides that resulted in a pesticide drift affecting over 200 residents of a small, rural residential com­munity near Bakersfield. In conjunction with this lawsuit, Alegria has engaged in talks with local legis­lators and agencies to address language access issues prevalent with emergency and medical responses to pesticide poisoning in the indigenous communities.

Alegria filed the third lawsuit against a farm labor contractor who forced his workers to taste the grapes they picked for sugar content, resulting in a consump­tion of over 1500 unwashed, pesticide-laden grapes per day for two weeks. The same contractor also acted as an unlicensed immigration consultant who charged recently-arrived farmworkers $1,600 each, falsely promising documentation and work visas in exchange. At he end of her BLF project year, Alegria will contin­ue her litigation work with CRLA as a staff attorney.

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DAIRY WORKERS FACE INJUSTICES

, one of the wealth­iest industries in California, treats dairy workers with little respect, if any at all. Dairy workers are exploited daily, typically earning less than minimum wage. Whether small or large, dairies continue to violate wage and hour laws, housing laws and health and safety laws with little consequence. In response, CRIA is increasingly bringing litigation for minimum wage and overtime violations, failure to provide rest and meal periods, failure to keep time records, and failure to provide itemized deductions.

In November 2004, CRLA filed Ibarra v. Bento Dairy in Stanislaus County on behalf of Agustin Ibarra, a milker for Luis T. Bento Dairy in Modesto. Ibarra and his family lived at the dairy in employ­er-provided housing. Agustin worked at Luis T. Bento Dairy for approximately 5 months, until he was fired. His family was immediately ordered off the dairy. He worked 12 to 14 hours a day, seven days a week with no rest or meal periods. The fixed monthly salary did not meet the California minimum wage and/or overtime require­ments. The company never provided a record of the hours worked or his hourly pay rate, as required by California and federal law. The suit was also brought on behalf of the general public: Trial is set for September 2005.

Another Stanislaus County case was filed against Bravo v. Soares Dairy on behalf of two dairy work­ers, Lorenzo Bravo and Juan Carrillo. Both worked as milkers at least 69 hours a week, six or seven days a week, while being paid a monthly salary that did not meet California minimum wage or overtime requirements. Their shifts lasted between 11 to 13 hours, with no rest or meal periods. Mr. Bravo is owed at least $17,000 in minimum and overtime wages and Mr. Carillo is owed at least $7,000 in minimum and overtime wages. CRLA has conducted extensive discovery, including depo­sitions and an on-site inspection. CRIA alleges that Soares Dairy failed to pay minimum wage, overtime, allow their workers to take rest and/or meal periods and failed to provide itemized deduc­tion statements. Trial is set for October 2005.

In September 2003, CRLA filed Castro v. VanderEyk in Tulare County. Brothers Refugio

and Jesus Castro worked as milkers at VanderEyk Dairy approximately 12-13 hours per day without receiving overtime pay and without mandated rest and meal periods. They were paid a fixed daily rate. The Castro's also claimed damages for the dairy's failure to provide protective equipment including, boots, aprons, and raincoats. In November 2004, Judge Melinda Reed of the Tulare County Superior Court approved a settlement of $360,000.00 in damages. But, Vander Eyk Dairy also agreed to comply with all labor laws, includ­ing accurately recording all hours worked and meal periods taken by employees, accurately recording hours worked and other required infor­mation on employees' wage statements, providing or reimbursing employees earning less than twice the minimum wage for protective equipment, complying with rest and meal period laws, and timely paying employees all wages due upon ter­mination of employment. As a result, the CRLA Fresno office received calls from dairy workers representing 35 different dairies located in the Central Valley. A majority of the calls were from milkers who experienced similar working condi­tions, sadly reflecting industry wide dairy prac­tices. Since then, CRLA filed Medrano v. Joaquin Toledo Jr. Dairy in Tulare County and Acevedo v. Jesse P. Silva Dairy in Fresno County alleging the same violations found at the operations managed by Bento Dairy, Soares Dairy and VanderEyk Dairy. These cases will likely be set for trial in Mid- 2006.

In February 2004, CRIA filed a lawsuit in Merced County Superior Court - Rodriguez v. Bill Gomes Dairy, a case co-counseled with the Law Offices of Gregory Dahl. The client brought claims for labor law violations and unlawful eviction. He worked as many as 14 hours a day, six days a week, for a salary that did not amount to minimum wage. Rodriguez was fired after missing a day work to be with his wife who was giving birth to their second child. After being fired, the family was moved out of the house that was employer-provided. The lawsuit was filed shortly thereafter. Mr. Rodriguez was murdered in early March, but the case went forward on behalf of Mr. Rodriguez's children and was settled in January 2005. 13

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IC&L Caporicci & Larson Certijled Public Accountants

INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT

To the Board of Directors California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. San Francisco, California

We have audited the accompanying statements of financial position of California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. ("CRLA"), a not-for-profit organization, as of December 31, 2004 and 2003, and the related statements of activities and cash flows for the years then ended. These financial statements are the responsibility of CRLA's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit.

We conducted our audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards in the United States; Government Auditing Standards, issued by the Comptroller General of the United States; the provisions of Office of Management and Budget Circular A-133, Audits of States, Local Governments and Non-Profit Organizations and the provisions of Legal Services Corporation Office of Inspector General's Audit Guide for Recipients and Auditors. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatements. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of CRLA as of December 31, 2004 and 2003, and changes in its net assets and its cash flows for the years then ended in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States.

In accordance with Government Auditing Standards, we have also issued a report dated March 18, 2005, on our consideration of CRLA's internal control over financial reporting and our tests of its compliance with certain provisions of laws, regulations, contracts and grants. That report is an integral part of an audit performed in accordance with Government Auditing Standards and should be read in conjunction with this report in considering the results of our audits.

Our audit was made for the purpose of forming an opinion on the financial statements taken as a whole. The supplemental information on pages 18- 20 is presented for purposes of additional analysis and is not a required part of the financial statements. Such information has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audit of the financial statements. The accompanying schedule of expenditures of federal awards and related information is presented on pages 21 - 27 and is presented for purposes of additional analysis as required by U.S. Office of Management and Budget Circular A-133, Audits of States, Local Governments and Non-Profit Organizations, and is not a required part of the financial statements. In our opinion, the accompanying supplementary information is fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the financial statements taken as a whole.

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CRLA & IAf I BOARD OF Albino Sanchez Robert Latera Frances Garcia Sylvia Torres DIRECTORS Armando Sanchez Baldwin May Bertha Garza Irma Trejo

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Brian Murtha, CRLA STAFF Lee Pliscou Maria Guerena Gabriela Vega

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Jessica Aguirre

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Rita Luevanos-Castro Donald Hubbard Assistant Controller Mona Badie Laural Johnson

Stella Smith, Blanca Banuelos Irma Luna

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Aurora Macias-Dewhirst Luis Magana

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Javier Maldonado HUMAN RESOURCES Flavia Bautista Carlos Maldonado Abby Lassen

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MODESTO Michelle Morrow, Directing Attorney

Santa Cruz 80 I 15th Street, Suite B Modesto, CA 95354 (209) 577-3811 FAX (209) 577-1098

MONTEREY, BASIC Teri Scarlett, Directing Attorney 21 00 Garden Road #D Monterey, CA 93940 (831) 375-0505 FAX (831) 375-050 I

OCEANSIDE, MIGRANT Dorothy Johnson, Directing Attorney 215 S. Coast Highway, Suite 20 I Oceanside, CA 92054 (760) 966-0511 • FAX (760) 966-0291

OXNARD, MIGRANT Santos Gomez, Directing Attorney P.O. Box 1561 Oxnard, CA 93032 338 S. A Street Oxnard, CA 93030 (805) 486-1068 • FAX (805) 483-0535

OXNARD, BASIC Santos Gomez, Directing Attorney 338 South "A" Street Oxnard, CA 93030 (805) 483-8083 • Fax (805) 483-0535

SALINAS Teri Scarlett, Directing Attorney 3 Williams Road Salinas, CA 93905 (831) 757-5221 • FAX (831) 757-6212

MIGRANT UNIT Daniella Payes, Directing Attorney 3 Williams Road Salinas, CA 93905 (831) 757-5221 • FAX (831) 757-6212

SANTA BARBARA, BASIC KirkAh-Tye 324 E. Carrillo Street, Suite B Santa Barbara, CA 93 I 0 I (805) 963-5981 • FAX (805) 963-5984

SANTA CRUZ, BASIC

Watsonville

Gretchen Regenhardt, Directing Attorney 50 I Soquel Avenue, Suite D Santa Cruz, CA 95062 (831) 458-1089 • FAX (831) 458-1140

SANTA MARIA Jeannie Barrett, Directing Attorney 2050 "G" South Broadway Santa Maria, CA 934S4 (805) 922-4563 • FAX (805) 928-0693

SAN LUIS OBISPO Michael Blank, Directing Attorney I 160 Marsh Street, Suite I 14 San Luis Obispo, CA 9340 I (805) 544-7997 • FAX (805) 544-3904

PASO ROBLES 3350 Park Street Paso Robles, CA 93446 (805) 239- 3708 FAX (805) 239-4912

SANTA ROSA Jeffrey Hoffman, Acting Directing Attorney 725 Farmers Lane,# I 0 Bldg. B Santa Rosa, CA 95405 (707) 528-9941 • FAX (707) 528-0 125

STOCKTON Richard Oliver, Directing Attorney 242 N. Sutter, Suite 411 Stockton, CA 95202 (209) 946- 0605 • FAX (209) 946-5730

WATSONVILLE, BASIC Gretchen Regenhardt, Directing Attorney 21 Carr Street Watsonville, CA 95076 (831) 724-2253 • FAX (831) 724-7530

Credits Annual Report Director

Kim Stuart, RainyDay Ventures Design: Gino Squadrito, Laser. Com, San Francisco Printing: Trade Lithography Photos by: Kristin Madigan, Sabine Schoen bach and CRLA archives.

Contributors

Juan Carlos Cancino Jack Daniel Mike Meuter Blanca Banuelos Kim Stuart

Jose Padilla Melissa Barrios Pat Beardsley Mike Blank