It is hard to believe that my first year back at CILS has already arrived. This past year has been extremely eventful for CILS. We have experienced some major transitions that all of us here at CILS believe will benefit our Native communities in California.

We started off this year by closing our Oakland office so that the Principal office could be relocated to Escondido and so that we could open a new field office in Sacramento. We also closed our Santa Rosa office, which is now served by the Sacramento location. The relocation of the Principal office has proved successful and we have settled in nicely. It is a pleasure working with the Principal office staff and...