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SAN MARCOS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT 215 Mata Way,Bldg #5,San Marcos CA 92069

Dear Parent, Guardian or Staff:

At your request, we are writing to notify you about specific pesticide application(s) at your school. Please see below for detailed information. If you would like to see the Material Safety Data Sheet for these listed chemicals, it is available at, Grounds Department (Maintenance & operations), 215 Mata Way, Building #5, San Marcos, CA 92069. If you have any questions pertaining to this notice, please feel free to contact Martin Leon (Grounds Manager) at (760) 290-2644.

Sincerely,

Martin Leon Grounds Manager

Notice of Pesticide Application

Date Form Completed: May 21, 2012

School Year and School Site: 2012-2013 – All School Sites

Location of Pesticide Application:  Fence lines, flowerbeds and pavement cracks  Open and active gopher and ground squirrel burrows on banks and lawn areas  Around Buildings  Trees, shrubs, groundcover and turf that is infested with insects and other plant pests

NAME OF PESTICIDE ACTIVE INGREDIENTS

1) Roundup Pro Max- weed control………………..Glyphosate 2) Reward- landscape/aquatic………………………..Diquat dibromide weed control 3) Enforcer and Spectracide- bee, wasp………..Tetramethrin and yellow jacket aerosol 4) Bayer Tree/ Shrub-systemic insecticide…….Imidacloprid 5) Metaldehyde-granular snail bait…………………Metaldehyde 6) Ramik Green - rodent bait pellets………………Diphacinone 7) Garden Tech Sevin- lawn insecticide…………Carbaryl 8) Contrac Blox- Rat bait blocks & pellets………Bromadiolone 9) Giant Destroyer- gopher smokers………………Sodium Nitrate 10) Terro- granular ant control………………………Lambda-cyhalothrin 11) Terro- spider control aerosol…………………….Pyrethrins 12) Terro- ant control aerosol…………………Permethrin,Sodium Borate 13) Speckoz and Wisdom- ant, spider…………..Bifenthrin and cockroach control 14) Hot Shot fogger- termite, bedbug…Cypermethrin, tetramethrin and flea control 15) Advion- ant and cockroach gel baits…………Indoxacarb

16) Precor 2000 Plus- insect and flea………………Methoprene control aerosol 17) Turf Renu -for artificial turf…………………Enzyme, bacterial cleaner 18) Terad3 Blox – Rodent Bait Blocks……………Cholecalciferol 19) Wilco Gopher Getter AG –Gopher Control……Strychnine Alkaloid 20) Suspend SC – Insecticide…………………………… Deltamethrin 21)Tim-bor – Insecticide…………..Disodium Octaborate Tetrahydrate CNS contracts with Orkin for these chemicals 1)Borid- ants, cockroaches, silverfish Orthoboric Acid 2)PT 565 Plus XLO- ants, bedbugs, flies Pyrethrins 3)PT 515 Plus Wasp Freeze- bees and D-trans Allethrin Yellowjackets 3 Phenoxy banzyl 2, 2 Diartayl/cyclopropane 4) Tempo SC Ultra - ants, cockroaches, Z-dimethylcyclopropane silverfish 5) Talstar PL - granular ant control Bifenthrin 6) Talstar - flowable ant control Bifenthrin

Planned Dates of Pesticide Application(s) July 1st – Sept 30th 2012 Nov 1st – Jan 31st 2013 March 1st – June 30th 2013

For more Info regarding these pesticides and pesticide use reduction, visit the Department of Pesticide Regulation’s web site (http://www.cdpr.ca.gov) and click on School IPM program