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- Information on the constituent size of Contractors State License
Board C-27 licensed landscape contractors
As of 4:00 p.m. today, California has 11,424 active licensed C-27
landscape contractors. There are other C-27 license holders who
currently have their license in "inactive" status, meaning that
they cannot currently contract at this time. 

- Information on the constituent size of sole-proprietor gardeners
and income estimates
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics
(https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes373011.htm) the average income
for a landscape worker is under $40,000. The exact number of
sole-proprietor gardeners, who are overwhelmingly latino, is harder
to establish as they do not have to hold a C-27 license and many do
not even have local business licenses. A recent article from
CalMatters puts the estimated number of sole-proprietor gardeners
at 60,000.
(https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/11/a-50-coupon-for-one-tool-gardeners-call-californias-subsidy-inadequate/)

- Calculation on funds needed if licensed landscape contractors and
sole-proprietor gardeners were to have ZEE transition funding under
the San Joaquin Valley Air District funding model
As we discussed, if the San Joaquin Valley Air District's
commercial Clean Green Yard Machines funding limits ($25,000 per
applicant) were applied to the C-27 landscape contractors and
unlicensed sole-proprietor gardeners that would necessitate
$1,785,600,000.00 in assistance funds.
(https://www.valleyair.org/grants/cgym-commercial.htm)