Northern California Cities Walk the Walk with Wellness

While some people dream of success, others wake up and work hard for it. In that spirit, NCCSIF—a consortium of Northern California Cities with wellness provider ACI Specialty Benefits, recently completed its highly successful month-long Walking Challenge. Employees logged hundreds of hours of walking, and the winner completed nearly 5,000 minutes of exercise in the challenge.

City of Rocklin Senior Human Resources Analyst, Patty Tash explains, “The NCCSIF Walking Challenge gave our employees a great ‘excuse’ to either start a walking program or really enhance their current one. The competition really motivated employees to go all out. Not only are we looking forward to the next NCCSIF sponsored challenge, but I’ve been getting input from employees regarding fitness competitions we can conduct amongst ourselves. The challenge has really gotten our employees thinking about physical fitness in a whole new way.”

The NCCSIF Walking Challenge took place from October 1st to 29th and included 15 Northern California cities: Auburn, Dixon, Gridley, Ione, Marysville, Nevada City, Placerville, Red Bluff, Rio Vista, Rocklin, Willows, Town of Paradise, Yuba City, and Galt. Literally hundreds of employees represented dozens of departments. ACI Specialty Benefits is the Wellness provider for all NCCSIF cities and many local concerns such as Teleplan, Diocese of Stockton, Jackson Rancheria, and City of Roseville. Prizes were awarded with the City of Rocklin recording an average of 1,200 minutes per employee and Claudia Contos of Rocklin leading all individuals with 4,873 minutes.

“The walking challenge gave Rocklin the opportunity to take on something as a team so I stepped up my routine with things that I enjoy doing,” proclaims winner Claudia Contos. “It was a great time to do this too with the beautiful weather! I’m looking forward to the next one!”