How Convenient!

S pecial Events Program Receipts are Fill-in-Able Online! And credit cards are accepted for coverage payment.  

The Special Events Program Receipt is Fill-in-Able Online!  

Save time when filling out Special Events Program receipts by filling them out and submitting them online. You'll find a fill-in-able form on CFSA's website:    www.cfsa.org/cms/special-events-coverage-receipt/ 

Type in the required event and vendor/facility user's information, click the  Submit button at the bottom of the screen and it's done. Your form is automatically delivered to Mario Castagnola, CFSA's risk analyst. When Mario receives your completed form, he will review it and then promptly send you a copy with a receipt Control number. 

To print a copy of the receipt at the time you fill it out, you must print it BEFORE submitting it to CFSA, otherwise you will have to wait for your copy from Mario. If you need an immediate copy or if you would like any additional copies of the receipt, contact Mario and he can email them to you.

CFSA also accepts credit cards for Special Events coverage payments. Offer your clients the convenience of paying with a credit card - all you need to get started is to call Raechelle Gibbons, CFSA's controller, to set up your account. Then, when it's time to collect a payment, log into your fair's account, type in the purchaser's credit card information and you're done. (Raechelle will give you step-by-step instructions to follow.) You can reach her at 916/263-6143 or [email protected]. 

Short on time? You can also call Mario and read him the credit card information over the phone. You can reach him at 916/263-6145.  

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Group Long-Term Disability Insurance is Available to Eligible Excluded* DAA Employees  

• an active, excluded employee in a permanent half-time or greater position. 
• a citizen or resident of the United States or Canada.
• in an eligible constitutional officer, managerial, supervisorial, confidential or excluded/exempt job classification. 

*  Excluded employees are permanent or probationary employees excluded from collective bargaining, have a time base of half-time or greater and meet certain designation criteria. You'll find full details online:  http://www.calhr.ca.gov/employees/Pages/long-term-disability-(LTD)-insurance.aspx Represented (rank and file) and excluded employees who are appointed to permanent-intermittent positions are not eligible for LTD.   

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By providing the coverage, you've ensured that the animal's owner and family are covered, as is your fair in the event that an exhibited animal injures a fair visitor or damages someone's property,  And, if there's an incident and your fair is a member of the General Liability Pool program, your General liability loss history (and annual fee) isn't affected. 

For more information about this coverage, please contact Mario Castagnola, CFSA risk analyst, at 916/263-6145 or [email protected].

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Entry Form Double Check for General Liability Pool Participants:

Does Your Fair's Exhibitor Entry Form Include the Required Liability Release Language? It is for Your Own Benefit.  

To help ensure that all CFSA pool member fairs are adequately indemnified from any losses connected to livestock and/or other exhibitor participation at your fair, CFSA fully endorses the entry form liability release language included in the 2019 State Rules for California Fairs publication issued by the California Department of Food & Agriculture. 

In fact, this liability release language is required on all livestock and/or other exhibit/exhibitor entry forms used by fairs participating in CFSA's General Liability Pool program (effective January 1, 2015). Your support and compliance with this requirement provides an additional layer of liability protection for your fair and for the General Liability Pool, and in addition, it provides state-wide consistency of entry form liability release language. If your fair's entry form needs updating to include this liability release language, feel free to send a copy of the revised entry form to CFSA's risk analyst, Mario Castagnola. He will serve as a second set of eyes to ensure your form is ready to go. 

Please check your fair's entry forms for the following language (from the 2019 State Rules publication, Section II Eligibility, Item 16):

"16. The exhibitor agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Fair, the county and the state of California from and against any liability, claim, loss or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of any injury or damage, which is caused by, arises from or is in any way connected with participation in the program or event, excepting only that caused by the sole active negligence of the Fair. The Fair Management shall not be responsible for accidents or losses that may occur to any of the exhibitors or exhibits at the Fair. The exhibitor (or parent or guardian of a minor) is responsible for any injury or damage resulting from the exhibitor's participation in the program or event. This includes any injury to others or to the exhibitor or to the exhibitor's property."

If you have any questions about this indemnification language or if you would like a free review of your current or revised entry form, please contact Mario Castagnola at 916/263-6145 or [email protected]. 

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