Two coverage programs

Meetings that only get recorded if someone is in the room.

California groundwater agencies we attend every month, and a national set of county boards that publish no video at all. Everything Robert Half needs to staff a meeting — date, time, address, and what the recorder does — lives on this page.

Agencies

11 Groundwater agencies and irrigation districts

Meetings to cover

51 Scheduled instances through December 2026

Busiest single day

4 Meetings in 4 towns, second Wednesday, every month

Region

SJV San Joaquin Valley, plus quarterly Santa Rosa

How this has to be staffed

The cadence collides by design — most of these boards meet on the same days.

Every month needs four recorders on one day, not one recorder on four days

On the second Wednesday, Shafter–Wasco (9:00 AM, Wasco), Semitropic (12:30 PM, Wasco), Central Kings (1:00 PM, Selma) and Chowchilla (1:30 PM, Chowchilla) all meet. Selma and Chowchilla are roughly an hour apart and start thirty minutes apart, so no one person can cover both.

On the second Thursday, Pixley (9:00 AM, Tipton), Delano-Earlimart (4:00 PM, Delano) and Fresno ID (Fresno) meet. Tipton and Delano are far enough apart in time that one recorder could take both, but Fresno needs its own.

Bakersfield corridor

Wasco, Shafter, Delano, Tipton, Bakersfield. The Robert Half Bakersfield branch covers most of the monthly load.

Fresno corridor

Selma, Fresno. Fresno ID hosts both its own board and North Kings GSA at 2907 S Maple Ave.

Madera County

Chowchilla only. Separate sourcing — it collides with the Selma meeting each month.

Sonoma County

Santa Rosa Plain GSA, quarterly. Next is 8 October — the only agency outside the Valley.

Who covers what

Route the assignment to the branch that owns the region — no need to ask first.

How a meeting gets covered

Four steps with an owner for each, so nothing waits on an email.

1 week out — Robert Half: Open Confirm agenda on the meeting row. If the date or time moved, or the meeting is cancelled, tell WaterOne before staffing.
3 days out — Robert Half: Assign the recorder and send them the brief. Open the meeting's Brief and print or forward it — nothing to request.
Day of — Recorder: Arrive 15 minutes early, record the full meeting on a phone, stay until adjournment.
Same day — Recorder: Upload the file and quote the assignment reference from the top of the brief so it lands against the right meeting.

Upcoming schedule

Confirm against the agency's posted agenda about a week out — cadences shift for holidays and special meetings.

Two entries were corrected against the agencies' own websites

North Kings GSA was listed as third Tuesday in Bakersfield. It actually meets the fourth Thursday at 6:00 PM at Fresno Irrigation District, 2907 S Maple Ave, Fresno. Dates below are rebuilt accordingly. Chowchilla Water District carried Central Kings' Selma address; the correct location is 327 South Chowchilla Blvd, Chowchilla.

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Agency

Date	Time	Agency	Location	Brief

Cadence by agency

Standing pattern for each board, with the next scheduled date.

Agencies

22 County governments across 16 states

Combined budget

$2.93B Annual direct expenditure, 2022 Census

Residents represented

4.69M Population inside these jurisdictions

Screened to get here

174 Checked individually; 135 turned out to be online

Where one trip covers more than one meeting

Three states carry a cluster. Sourcing near these seats yields repeat assignments rather than one-offs.

Pennsylvania · 3

Westmoreland (Greensburg), Cambria (Ebensburg), Mercer. Greensburg and Ebensburg are about an hour apart in the Pittsburgh corridor.

Ohio · 3

Wood (Bowling Green), Allen (Lima), Columbiana (Lisbon). Bowling Green and Lima sit close together in the northwest.

Illinois · 3

St. Clair (Belleville), Rock Island, Macon (Decatur). Spread across the state — treat as three separate sources.

Single-agency states · 13

NJ, MI, WI, SC, MO, MS, ID, OR, NH, IA, TX, LA, MA. Each needs its own local recorder.

The roster

Gold marks an agency whose lack of coverage is corroborated by an independent source, not just an absence of search results.

Sort

What is deliberately not on this list

Full audit of all 174 screened agencies is available on request.

Verified in-person, but low yield — 14

Confirmed to have no capture path, but small budgets and agendas that rarely touch water or infrastructure. Worth taking only if a recorder is already local.

Needs one more check before staffing — 3

The evidence that these have no coverage is not airtight. Each has an ambiguity worth resolving before anyone is dispatched.

What the assignment involves

Same for both programs. One meeting, one recorder. No writing, no summarizing, no speaking on WaterOne's behalf.

Arrive fifteen minutes early and sign in if asked
These are open public meetings; anyone may attend. If someone asks who you are, the answer is that you're taking notes for WaterOne.
Record the whole meeting on a phone
Voice memo on the table, Do Not Disturb on. Meetings usually run one to two hours, sometimes longer — there's no hard stop, so keep recording until adjournment.
Sit through it without disrupting it
Pay attention, stay for the full session, and don't participate. Public comment is not part of the assignment.
Upload the same day and confirm with the coordinator
The upload link comes with each assignment. Confirm receipt so we know the meeting is captured. A recording upload built into this page is the next thing being added.