In case you missed it, here are some key takeaways:

• If people are on your (private) property and you don't want them there, inform them they are trespassing and call either your property manager or the police.
• If your property management consistently turns a blind eye to trespassers, contact Code Enforcement with the City of Woodland and they can issue citations.
• A healthy and proactive relationship with your property management is absolutely critical as they are responsible for the maintenance of the property.
• Woodland PD has crime prevention programs that can help you keep your business safe and healthy.
• Contact Woodland PD for advice on crime prevention tools, such as night-time floodlights or noise machines that can prevent people from loitering around your property at night.
• Yolo County Environmental Health is doing everything in their power to keep the consumers of Yolo County as healthy and as safe as possible. However, the complexity of the issues they address and the general dearth of resources and staff mean that progress can feel very slow, patience is key, and ultimately there are no easy solutions.
• Under new state laws, Yolo County is developing a pathway for unpermitted food vendors to gain their permits and licenses. Rather than focus on punishing people for doing the wrong thing, they want to help people do the right thing.

Once again, thank you so much to everyone who attended! We hope that this is the first step in an ongoing conversation that help Woodland restaurants thrive and prosper.