Cynthia Duprey & Patty Romo want to remind everyone that the next CAPPO Conference will be held in the City of Riverside. The March CAPPO meeting will be held at the Santa Anita Race track and the speaker will talk about Contract Law that affects procurement professionals. They also recommend that you check out the new requirements for CPPB & CPPO designations on the CAPPO or NIGP web sites. For those who could not make it to the CAPPO conference this year, they missed out on a spectacular event. However, they wanted to share the attached document on Sales & Use Tax.

Patty Romo wants to thank all of you who shared your uniform bid specifications.

Mark Monforte stated that their payroll program is moving along. They also had 8500 solar arrays installed on his facilities.

Margarita Lee wanted to know if other agencies were cutting back on P-Card usage.

Wilfred Cochico informed us that Costco will be opening their Lakewood store very soon.

Richard Hogate informed us that our contract with Ken Porter Auction expired January 11, 2009. They submitted a new quotation which will be sent to our members. We are contemplating going out to bid again.

Tracy Hamilton wanted to know which agencies have a "bidder preference" to do business with local vendors. Irvine is about to build a new Police Department.

Art Torres drove all the way from Riverside to meet with our LAMPPAC group. He wanted to know if other agencies noticed an increase in office supply purchases after individual end users started using Office Max or Staples on-line ordering.

Our next LAMPPAC meeting will be Wednesday, March 4, 2009 at 2:00 pm at the Lakewood Civic Center. for ideas on up-coming speakers.