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Vehicle-related sales and broader retail development create different bookkeeping questions.
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Automotive sales and a proposed retail marketplace
Vehicle-related sales and broader retail development create different bookkeeping questions. An operating retailer needs gross receipts, refunds, inventory and financing activity reconciled to the sales system. A development proposal belongs in planning context; use actual leases, orders and purchase commitments when deciding what the business can spend or staff.
- About 42 percent of Selma's taxable sales come from automotive-related sales, making it a regional auto sales destination (HdL calendar 2025 analysis).
- Marketplace at Selma: about 540,000 sq ft of retail on 53 acres near Floral Ave, DeWolf Ave and Highway 99, with a ~50,000 sq ft grocer and ~140,000 sq ft national retailer planned.
Sources: cityofselma.com: automotive sales and a proposed retail marketplace; cityofselma.com: automotive sales and a proposed retail marketplace
Federal bike routes and alley improvements
The bike-route and alley notices carry different federal project identifiers. Retain those numbers on time records and payment applications rather than grouping all city street work together. Tidwell can help reconcile costs and discuss payroll reporting for each contract, including how approved changes affect the job ledger.
- Rose Avenue and Mitchell Avenue Bike Routes, federal project CRPL-5096(048). Source status (2026): Notice inviting bids; bids due Oct 1, 2026. Agency: City of Selma.
- Merced-Stillman-Tulare Alley Improvements, federal project CML-5096(044). Amount recorded: $580,000 (CIP total project cost, PE). Source status (2026): Bids closed Aug 13, 2026. Agency: City of Selma.
Sources: cityofselma.com: federal bike routes and alley improvements
Food processing employers and production records
A processing supplier may invoice a manufacturer while paying transport, storage or outside labor providers on different schedules. Reconcile those balances by counterparty and keep production-related purchases separate from overhead. An employer listing provides economic context without implying that any listed organization uses Tidwell's services.
- EDD's Fresno County major-employer list places Harris Ranch Beef Co (meat packers) and Lion Dehydrators in Selma (EDD Major Employers list, ALMIS Employer Database 2026 2nd Edition).
Sources: labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov: food processing employers and production records
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Selma's population is 24,659 (ACS 2024). Census PEP records population change of -0.3% from 2020 to 2025; this uses a different Census series from the ACS count.
Selma is about 95.3 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 community and capital work
- cityofselma.com: automotive sales and a proposed retail marketplace
- cityofselma.com: automotive sales and a proposed retail marketplace
- cityofselma.com: federal bike routes and alley improvements
- Census ACS 2024: population
- Census Gazetteer 2025: straight-line distance
- Census PEP 2025: change since 2020
- labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov: food processing employers and production records
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