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Impact Report

For plan Integrated Pest Management Systems (Bernalillo County)
Date October 27, 2009, 4:31 pm
For Objective Long-term Show long-term objectives
Impact Report Under the Integrated Pest Management system, there are hundreds of Pest Control business in the State of New Mexico and all of these Pestcide license holders must have 4 hours of continuing education units (CEU's) to re-certify each year. The farmer / rancher Private Applicators must have 5 CEU's every five years to re-certify. It has been my objective to provide the workshops to facilitate these applicators earning their CEU's. This agent has held several different workshops, both for a fee in a public rented facility, or presenting workshops at their places of business or facilities to which they had free access. There were no fees for those workshops. NMSU Specialists were utilized for some of the workshops, and some were presented by this agent alone. Those workshops presented were: December 6, 2008 - Private Applicator training for 5 CEU's. 15 applicators. December 11, 2008 - City of Albuquerque grounds crew workshop for 4 CEU's. 62 applicators. February 10, 2009 - Bernalillo County Grounds Maintenance for 4 CEU's. 29 applicators. June 18, 2009 - UNM Grounds Crew for 4 CEU's. 35 participants. There were a total of 141 Certified Pesticide Operators provided with the necessary CEU's to re-certify their licenses. For most, their jobs depended upon them having the licenses for employment. If the salaries averaged $35,000 per year, the economic impact of employment dollars would total $4,935.000.00. There was also a lot of valuable rapport with the interaction of the City, County, and UNM networking to achieve these results. This County Agent is retiring in three days and plans to continue to provide these educational services for a fee. This program is vital to the licensees and they have demonstrated a willingness to pay for the training.