Solano Economic Update: July 23'

JULY 23' UPDATE SPONSORED BY:

CHRIS RICO

President & CEO

Dear Members, Partners, and Friends of the EDC,

I recently had the opportunity to participate in a awarded $500K to develop our 12 priority production areas in Solano County. Our goal is to create the industrial areas of the future to attract high value jobs like advanced manufacturing. We intend to explore how to make these industrial areas energy rich and sustainable. We’re working to ensure that more of our residents can work closer to home at great, high wage jobs. Next, working with Fairfield, Suisun City, and STA, we were awarded $400K to develop the Priority development area around the Fairfield/Suisun train station. We see an opportunity to build dense, inclusionary housing that we need to attract the young professionals we have been losing in droves. This will bring the foot traffic and vibrancy to both of these underutilized downtowns.

Lastly, we had the good fortune to co-host a reception at STA last week for the California Transportation Commission. Giving Suisun City the opportunity to host the CTC was unprecedented and a huge deal. Kudos to Daryl Halls, Robert Guerrero and their team for all of their hard work. Shortly before the reception, the CTC voted to approve a $129 Million overhaul of the westbound truck scales on the 80 near Suisun Valley Road. This will create a safer, more accessible interchange and will support the growth and development of the Suisun Valley. Sincere thanks to both Caymus and True Symmetry for providing Wine and Beer in support of this event.

I hope you had a terrific 4th and wish you all good health and continued prosperity.

Chris Rico President/CEO

CAL MARITIME

AWARDED

$445,000

IN DATA SCIENCE GRANTS

Cal Maritime has been awarded $445,000 in faculty development and interdisciplinary collaboration grants that aim to embrace data science as an opportunity to build new pathways, modernize majors, attract historically underrepresented students into STEM, and deepen both civic and interdisciplinary learning.

VALLEJO HOMELESS NAVIGATION CENTER UPDATE

THE CITY OF VALLEJO AWARDED$1.5MILLION

The City was awarded $1.5 million from the Solano County American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds and $1,082,582 from CAP Solano JPA of Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program (HHAP) funding and Emergency Solutions Grant – CARES Act (ESG-CV) funding.

THE CITY OF VACAVILLE WELCOMES

LIFESPACELABS

The City of Vacaville is excited to welcome LifeSpace Labs to Vacaville, a new life science incubator. The launch of the 10,000 square foot flagship facility providing flexible lab space, shared lab equipment, and growth support, is a welcome addition to the City’s growing bioeconomy. LifeSpace Labs is strategically positioned in Vacaville along the I-80 “Life Science Corridor. "

Mammography AI Can Help Predict Breast Cancer Risk

Artificial intelligence trained to read mammograms was better at predicting a woman’s future breast cancer risk than a commonly used risk assessment tool, a new Kaiser Permanente study found.

“We need to have better ways to assess a woman’s future breast cancer risk and artificial intelligence may be able to help, ” said study lead author Vignesh Arasu, MD, PhD, a research scientist at the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research and radiologist specializing in breast imaging at Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center. “Our study found that the artificial intelligence can see changes in breast tissue on a woman’s mammogram that can help us assess her risk of being diagnosed with cancer in the next 5 years. ”

The study published in Radiology included 324,000 women who had a mammogram at Northern California Kaiser Permanente facilities in 2016 that found no sign of breast cancer. Over the next 5 years, 4,584 of the women had a breast cancer diagnosis.

The researchers had the artificial intelligence read the women’s mammograms from 2016 and produce a 5-year breast cancer risk score. They also had the artificial intelligence read the mammograms and produce 5-year risk scores for 13,435 women who did not have a breast cancer diagnosis.

Dr. Vignesh Arasu

Then, the researchers used a breast cancer risk calculator to create a 5-year breast cancer risk score for both groups of women using information from their medical records at the time of their 2016 mammogram. The calculator creates a risk scored based on a woman’s age, race or ethnicity, first-degree family history of breast cancer, number of prior benign breast biopsies, and mammographic breast density.

The researchers found that the artificial intelligence was better than the risk calculator at predicating which women would be diagnosed with breast cancer over the next 5 years. The team said this suggests that artificial intelligence used alone or with current risk prediction tools could help doctors develop personalized breast cancer screening recommendations for women.

“Right now, we mostly use artificial intelligence to help radiologists identify a visible cancer, ” said Dr. Arasu. “But these algorithms can also see changes in breast tissue in addition to breast density that tell us there are changes happening in the breast tissue that can be used to predict risk. ”

For more information on how Kaiser Permanente is transforming health through research, visit divisionofresearch.kaiserpermanente.org.

NEW VANPOOL INCENTIVES

Solano Mobility offers a subsidy to encourage residents and employees in Solano County to use vanpools to get to work. In partnership with Commute with Enterprise, new, qualifying Vanpools can receive a $200 subsidy from Solano Mobility to help vanpool participants reduce the cost of commuting. Vanpools can apply this subsidy on top of an existing $400 subsidy from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission for a total of $600 in the first two years.

SOLANOCOUNTYSUPERVISORS GIVENEARLY$30,000

TOCOMMUNITYGROUPS

The Solano County supervisors doled out $28,770 to community organizations from the general fund accounts assigned to four of their five districts

READ THE FULL ARTICLE BY THE DAILY REPUBLIC

SOLANO COUNTY TRANSIT AUTHORITY RECEIVES

Congressman John Garamendi announced that Solano County Transit Authority has received agrant from the Biden-Harris Administration’s infrastructure law to put new American-built buses on the road and improve transit service in their community.

TOURO READIES FOR OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE EXPANSION

Touro University will be able to graduate an additional 50 osteopathic doctors each year starting with the Class of 2029! The historic Truett Hall will serve as the new home for the Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, Doctoring, and Ultrasound labs, as well as newly developed Team-Based Learning classroom spaces.

Solano Success Business Accelerator

A six-week training program for Solano County business owners to improve and grow their business - with capital to do it!

Solano Success helps Solano County businesses recover and thrive.

Businesses that complete all components of this six-week program will receive $4,000 in capital for business recovery and growth.

Qualified applicants will be selected in a random lottery. New programs are planned for fall 2023 and winter 2024.

Located/Based in Solano County

No more than 50 employees

Impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic

July

August

DOMINIQUE EAGLIN

CONGRATULATIONS

JASLYN WOODS

EARNSCHOLARSHIPS

TOFOUR-YEARSCHOOLS

THERESA MCCARVER

A trio of Solano women's basketball standouts signed national letters-on-intent with four-year colleges, with Solano College women's basketball coach Matt Borchert

Valero Benicia Community Presentation

Valero recently released its updated community presentation outlining the efforts of Valero and the Valero Benicia Refinery to be a good neighbor to the community.

Please take a look at the presentation on the website linked below to see how Valero offers career opportunities, makes significant investments in habitat conservation, and works with the community to support our local nonprofits.

CONGRATULATIONS

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN SEWER DISTRICT

THE 2022 PLANT OF THE YEAR AWARD

RECOGNIZED AS

The Fairfield-Suisun Sewer District has been recognized for outstanding performance by multiple industry associations. The 2022 California Large Plant of the Year Award, from the California Water Environment Association and the 2022 National Association of Clean Water Agencies Platinum Peak Performance Award. Two staff members also earned individual honors.

These meetings give residents the chance to interact with elected officials more closely, meet department heads and staff, learn about City projects, ask questions, and provide input.

The next session will be held on Saturday, July 8, with Councilmember Rick Vaccaro and District 4, at 3690 Hilborn Rd. from 10 am to 12 pm. For

sessions and meeting notes, visit www.fairfield.ca.gov