Bookkeeping and payroll in Mendota

Produce employment and year-round agricultural operations

A produce business moving between seasonal and recurring activity needs payroll records that identify the assignment and pay period clearly. Reconcile grower or customer settlements to their deductions, and separate crop-related spending from facility overhead. Those records give the owner a practical view of cash needs between production cycles.

• EDD's Fresno County major-employer list places Stamoules Produce Co in Mendota (EDD Major Employers list, ALMIS Employer Database 2026 2nd Edition).
• Fresno COG: Mendota 'has traditionally been almost entirely dependent on agriculture' and aims to move from seasonal crops to more year-round operation.

Sources: labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov: produce employment and year-round agricultural operations; fresnocog.org: produce employment and year-round agricultural operations

• Agricultural books and payroll

Rojas-Pierce Park community center funding

The community center record includes both a project total and a federal funding component, with a release-of-funds process. Keep those amounts and stages distinct. A contractor can use its own executed scope to set job codes, retain approved changes and prepare payroll reporting without assuming the full project budget is an award to the business.

• Mendota Community Center: new 21,012 sq ft center at Rojas-Pierce Park (Sorensen Ave and Smoot Ave) with gym, kitchen, classrooms, inclusive playground and fitness court. Amount recorded: approximately $10,000,000 total; $2,000,000 HUD Economic Development Initiative Community Project Funding (B-26-CP-CA-0199). Source status (2026): FONSI and request for release of funds, Sept-Oct 2026. Agency: City of Mendota.
• HUD Community Project Funding grant B-26-CP-CA-0199 ($2,000,000) toward the Mendota Community Center (2026).

Sources: cityofmendota.com: rojas-Pierce Park community center funding

• Certified payroll for public work

Community size and service arrangements

Mendota's population is 12,577 (ACS 2024). Census PEP records population change of +1.5% from 2020 to 2025; this uses a different Census series from the ACS count.

Mendota is about 89.1 miles from our Atascadero office, measured in a straight line. We work remotely, with meetings at our Atascadero office by arrangement.

Sources: Census ACS 2024: population; Census Gazetteer 2025: straight-line distance; Census PEP 2025: change since 2020

Sources for facilities and service planning

• labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov: produce employment and year-round agricultural operations
• fresnocog.org: produce employment and year-round agricultural operations
• cityofmendota.com: rojas-Pierce Park community center funding
• Census ACS 2024: population
• Census Gazetteer 2025: straight-line distance
• Census PEP 2025: change since 2020