Board of Directors

Members
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Meetings
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Members

Elected Board Members

Michael Frantz President
David J. Yonan Vice President
Joe Alamo Secretary
Becky Hackler Arellano Director
Ron Macedo Director

Michael Frantz

President

Director Frantz represents Division 1 and has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2009 and is current President. His current term of office expires in December 2028. He is President of Frantz Wholesale Nursery, LLC, a position he took over from his father in 1998. His 600-acre family farm employs more than 200 people and is a premier supplier of containerized trees and shrubs to the landscape and retail nursery industry in the Western United States. Director Frantz is active on local, statewide, and national boards, including the Nursery Growers Association Board, the Farm Bureau, AmericanHort and the Board of Sustainable Conservation. He serves as TID’s representative for the District’s Power Supply Risk Committee, Investment Committee, and a representative to the San Joaquin Tributaries Authority.

David J. Yonan

Vice President

yonandj@gmail.com

Director Yonan represents Division 2 and was elected to the board in November 2022 and is the current Vice President. His current term of office expires in December of 2026. Director Yonan received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from California State University, Stanislaus. Director Yonan had a 37-year career in Agribusiness banking with Bank of America’s and was head of their Modesto office for the last 15 years before retiring in 2020. Director Yonan is a lifelong Ceres resident and 3rd generation farmer. He serves as TID’s representative on the Investment Committee, the Power Supply Risk Committee, and an alternate for the Don Pedro Recreation Agency Board of Control.

Joe Alamo

Secretary

tidjoealamo@aol.com

Director Alamo represents Division 3 and has been a member of the Board of Directors since December 2009. His current term of office expires in December 2026. In addition to the TID Board, Mr. Alamo serves as a Board of Director for American AgCredit. Director Alamo received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Agribusiness from California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo and currently owns and operates a dairy and farming operation with his two brothers. He is a current member and past president of the Central Counties Dairy Herd Improvement Association. He has served as Director of the Turlock Pentecost Association and Director of the Board of the Cal Poly AGR Alumni Association. Director Alamo is also a member of Western United Dairyman and Stanislaus County Farm Bureau. He is a representative on the TID’s Pension Investment Committee. In addition, he is the District’s representative for the West Turlock Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Agency, the Pension Investment Committee, and the alternate representative to the San Joaquin Tributaries Authority.

Becky Hackler Arellano

Director

beckyarellano@TID.ORG

Director Arellano represents Division 4 and has been a member of the Board since 2024. Her term of office expires in December 2028. Director Arellano is a former Turlock City Councilmember and a current business partner in Reliable Property Management, LLC and Little Red Door, LLC. She comes from a third-generation farming family and currently farms corn and alfalfa. Director Arellano is the past President of the Pitman FFA Boosters and past Board Member of the Letters to Santa Charity. Director Arellano serves as TID’s representative for the West Power Authority, California Farm Water Coalition, Pension Investment Committee, and an alternate on the Groundwater Committee and West Turlock Subbasin Sustainability Agency.

Ron Macedo

Director

rmac100@aol.com

Director Macedo represents Division 5 and has been a member of the Board of Directors since December 2009. His current term of office expires in December 2026. He is also a past Director for the Stanislaus County Fair Board. He owns R.A.M. Farms in Turlock, CA and was the past President of Stanislaus County Farm Bureau. Previously, Director Macedo was the State Director for the California Farm Bureau Federation, District 13. Director Macedo serves as TID’s representative on the Don Pedro Recreation Agency Board of Control.

Division Map

TID Director Division Map

Print Map

Meetings

Board Meetings

TID is governed by a five-member, locally elected Board of Directors that meets Tuesdays at 9 a.m. in the TID Board Room at 333 E. Canal Drive, Turlock. Explore the work the TID has been performing via the documents listed below. (meetings are subject to cancellation; cancellations are posted prior to the scheduled meeting – please check the Board meetings page)

At each Board of Directors meeting time is allotted for public comments – typically this occurs at the beginning of the meeting. The Board will hear any comments that fall under the District’s jurisdiction but no action will be taken at the meeting. Please be advised that the meetings start promptly at the stated time and public comment is early on the agenda.

If you would like documents or information from a Board of Directors meeting that occurred more than twelve months ago, please submit a Public Records Request here.

TID Board Meetings

Documents