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>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

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PRES.: Good morning, everyone.

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What a happy crowd we have here.

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All right. I'd like to call to

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order the Marin County Board of

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Supervisors meeting of December

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12, 2023. I will ask the clerk

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to take the roll and tell us how

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to participate remotely.

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>>CLERK: Thank you. Supervisor

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Rice.

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>>KATIE RICE: Here.

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>>CLERK: Supervisor Lucan.

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>>ERIC LUCAN: Here.

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>>CLERK: Supervisor Sackett.

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>>MARY SACKETT: Here.

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>>CLERK: Supervisor Rodoni.

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>>DENNIS RODONI: Here.

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>>CLERK: Supervisor

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>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

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>>CLERK: If you are joining us

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participate, please use the

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screen. If you are

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participating by land line,

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please press* 9 to raise your

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hand. When it's your turn to

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speak, your name will be called

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and you will be asked to unmute

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and I will pass the meeting back

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to President Moulton-Peters.

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>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

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PRES.: Thank you. We have the

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pleasure of starting this

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morning's meeting honoring a

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very special person, Director

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Benita McLarin, Health and Human

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Services, who is retiring from

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public service after 43 years of

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exemplary public service.

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We have a little resolution that

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we'd like to start with. Then

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officials in our different

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offices. Then Benita will have

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a chance to comment, followed by

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her Health and Human Services

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executive team. We'll have

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public comment, and then the

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Board of Supervisors will get

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one more opportunity to thank

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So with that, I want to start

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with the resolution, and we're

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going to share it up on the dais

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as we have come to do. So I

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have the first paragraph and

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some intervening paragraphs, and

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here we go.

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Whereas, the Board of

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Supervisors wishes to recognize

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and honor Dr. Benita McLarin,

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PhD, SM, MHA, AB, FACHE who has

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served as Marin County Director

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of Health and Human Services

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since 2019; and.

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>>ERIC LUCAN: Whereas,

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Dr. Benita McLarin began her

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government career in 1980 as a

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private in the United States

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army reserve and completed over

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career, which included several

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overseas assignments to Germany

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and Korea, deployments to

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Arabia for the first Gulf War.

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college and air war college.

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States army medical service

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corps was as battalion commander

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for the 168th medical battalion

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area support in Daegu, Korea.

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>>DENNIS RODONI: Whereas,

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Dr. Benita McLarin was selected

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in 2019, and immediately

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fire events, neighboring county

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evacuations, and a historic

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coronavirus disease pandemic.

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department leaders and staff to

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an overall successful response

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of the pandemic, including

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and Recovery Services, expanded

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resulting in the county having

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the highest number of residents

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vaccinated, the lowest number of

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first strategic plan to achieve

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health and wellness equity

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leading with race equity and.

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>>MARY SACKETT: Whereas,

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Dr. Benita McLarin has extensive

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education and training -- we'll

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define all those letters we

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heard earlier -- receiving a

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doctor of philosophy in health

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services leadership from Walden

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University, a masters of science

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of public health, a masters of

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health administration from

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Chapman University, and a

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bachelor of arts with a major in

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psychology and a minor in

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women's studies from Washington

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University.

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>>KATIE RICE: And whereas

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Dr. Benita McLarin has worked

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tirelessly to ensure the health

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and well-being of the safety net

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population in Marin County and

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throughout the Bay Area. She is

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well known for being a positive

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communicator, an excellent

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collaborator, and a

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kind leader, and.

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Dr. McLarin has served in so

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many Northern California

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counties, and I want to direct

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everyone to read the full

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resolution that you can find

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also in the packet, but I am

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going to add that Benita has

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mentor and primary instructor,

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adjunct instructor, and guest

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lecturer for over 20 years in

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various educational

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institutions. She's been a

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mentor in the County of Marin

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mentor program, college

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executive health care and

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contributions, professionally

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its sincere gratitude for the

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many contributions she has made

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to the Department of Health and

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Human Services and to making

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Marin a healthier and safer and

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more equitable community.

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So we will pass the resolution

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so I'm going to invite our

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elected officials to come up

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Damon. Well, it's part of the

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hometown team. Come on.

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>>DAMON CONNOLLY: I know. Maybe

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this morning I can go back to

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this morning. Good morning,

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community. I'm Damon Connolly,

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your state assemblymember. Just

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really honored to be here this

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morning to recognize an

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extraordinary person and also

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public servant. As we celebrate

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the remarkable career of the

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county's director of Health and

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Human Services, Benita McLarin,

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on her well-deserved retirement

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after 43 years of dedicated

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public service, including four

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years of exemplary leadership in

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the County of Marin, and I was

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happy to actually participate in

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hiring Benita and just can

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attest how much she stood out

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with her commitment and her

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background, and it certainly

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panned out where you were

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literally the right person for

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the job in what turned out to be

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extraordinary times.

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service has left an indelible

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mark on our community, and her

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resolution that you wrote a

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number of specific situations,

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public safety power shutoffs,

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and what really struck me is the

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level to which Benita was so

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hands on at all times, and all

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emergency operation center. She

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pulled out the cot, slept down

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there for, like, three or four

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nights in a row. It's as if she

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needed to kind of relive her

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army days as she was doing this

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job, and I think it really set

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the tone for the approach that

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a warmup to the pandemic, and I

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think that really tested all of

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us. It tested the county. It

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tested our community, and

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Benita, it was really your

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leadership and steadfastness

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throughout that that I think

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that extraordinary time.

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working closely with you on

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homelessness, the mental health

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crisis that our communities are

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now facing, and as was

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bringing an equity approach,

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elevating all of us in what

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residents will not be forgotten.

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decisions, coupled with her

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compassionate approach, ensured

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care they needed during these

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As we bid farewell to Benita

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McLarin, I take a moment to

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express our profound gratitude

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for her four decades of service

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to the public and her four years

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to the County of Marin. Her

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impact on the health and

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well-being of our community is

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immeasurable, and her legacy

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will undoubtedly endure for

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years to come.

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Benita, your retirement is

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richly deserved, and we wish you

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all the joy, relaxation --

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hopefully -- and fulfillment

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that this new chapter in life

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brings. May your future

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endeavours be as rewarding and

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inspiring as the incredible

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career you have left behind.

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Congratulations, Benita. Thank

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you for 43 years of selfless

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dedication to the betterment of

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the North Bay and beyond.

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And so it's my distinct honor,

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with California State Senator

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Mike McGuire, to present a

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resolution -- and we always get

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to make it really big, which is

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cool. I like that part of this

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gig. And Summer Cassel is here

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for Senator McGuire, and again,

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with sincere appreciation and

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congratulations. Thank you.

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All right.

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Do we get a photo op later?

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Let's go to that.

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>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

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PRES.: Very good, and I'm going

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to go ahead and read the

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certificate of special

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congressional recognition from

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our Congressman Jared Huffman.

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Presented to Dr. Benita McLarin,

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in recognition of outstanding

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service to the residents of

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Marin County as Marin County

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Health and Human Services

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Director. Dr. McLarin led the

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county's largest department

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through three challenging years

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of the pandemic. Dr. McLarin

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drew on her extensive education,

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as well as her more than 20

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years as a medical services

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corps officer with the U.S. army

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to benefit her staff and the

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residents of Marin County.

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Among her many contributions is

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the implementation of the Health

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and Human Services strategic

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plan to achieve health and

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wellness equity, recognizing the

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severity of institutional racism

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as a public health crisis,

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Dr. McLarin prioritized

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equity-driven initiatives,

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including training staff on how

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to lead an anti-racist

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organization. As director, she

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assisted in the establishment of

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three new Homekey sites and

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continued the implementation of

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Marin's housing first policy.

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I join with her colleagues in

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extending deep appreciation to

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Dr. McLarin for outstanding

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public service to the Department

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of Health and Human Services and

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to the County of Marin. Jared

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Huffman, our Congressman.

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Congratulations, Benita.

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[ Applause ]

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Benita, we'll turn to you now

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for some comments.

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>>BENITA McLARIN: First of all,

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I want to say thanks be to God

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for the opportunities I've had

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over the last 43 years to serve

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the public of the United States

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of America. I'm very thankful

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for my family and the support

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they have given me during this

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time. I have a wonderful

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mother, Ethelene McLarin who has

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just been a tremendous support

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for all these 43 years, and I

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couldn't have done it without

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her support.

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I also want to thank my family,

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brothers and sisters represented

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by my sister Michelle Lafaleice

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who is here today, and all my

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other siblings, Benjamin,

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Melinda, and Kimberly, who have

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just been tremendous support

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over this time.

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I also want to thank the many

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friends that I've had over the

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years who have gotten me through

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some tough times, and one of

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them is represented today with

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Julie Block who is here, and she

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represents my many friends and

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colleagues.

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I also want to thank my pastor,

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Bishop J.W. Macklin who has just

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been an awesome leader in the

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State of California and

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throughout the world. He is the

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First Presiding Bishop of the

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Church of God and Christ

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International, and a tremendous

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leader, one that I have tried to

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emulate in terms of caring,

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compassion and dedication.

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Thank you, Bishop Macklin.

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I want to say thank you to the

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Board of Supervisors for the

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opportunity I've had over the

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last four years to serve here in

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Marin. It's truly been an

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experience, and it's always an

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honor to serve. I especially

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want to thank Supervisor Rice

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and Supervisor Moulton-Peters

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for their support, and

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Supervisor Rodoni, Supervisor

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Sackett and Supervisor Lucan.

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All of them for supporting the

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best department in the county,

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Health and Human Services.

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[ Applause ]

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I also want to thank Matthew

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Hymel, county executive officer,

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for his support during my tenure

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as HHS Director. His support on

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our equity agenda has been

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nothing but stellar. Thank you,

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Matthew.

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I also want to thank my fellow

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department heads. They have

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just been great. The women

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senior leaders in Marin and the

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COMAEA affinity group for all

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their support. Although it's

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been a tumultuous and never dull

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last four years, including the

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COVID response, I can truly say

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that I'm glad that this is how I

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ended my career, fighting for

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equity and change wherever

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possible.

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I'm proud of our work providing

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benefits to those in need and

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feeding the hungry, improving

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the lives of foster children,

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fighting for homeless, reducing

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suicides and addiction, caring

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for families and newborns,

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reducing isolation for older

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adults, improving our systems

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with performance improvement

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work, with new electronic health

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systems and social services and

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behavioral health, starting

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veterans corps, and so much

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more.

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There are so many

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accomplishments, and I'm

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grateful for the work that I've

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had the opportunity I've had to

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work with such smart and

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dedicated people in Health and

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Human Services and throughout

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the county.

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It's hard to believe that a

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young 17-year-old from Memphis,

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Tennessee who joined the army

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just to get a high school class

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ring is now completing 43 years

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of public service.

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[ Applause ]

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I am humbled by the thousands of

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people that we've been able to

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help and support, not just

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clients and patients but also

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great soldiers, employees,

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community members, and partners.

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I want to say a special

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shout-out and thank you to my

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military family represented by

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Colonel Jim Myers who is here

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today, and the great folks that

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I have --

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[ Applause ]

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And the great folks that I've

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had the great opportunity to

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serve with in the last 43 years.

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I've been in multiple countries

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and states and five counties

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that I've served within these 43

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years, and it's been an honor in

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every place.

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To the employees of Marin Health

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and Human Services, thank you

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for your hard work and

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dedication and commitment to the

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people of Marin and to -- and

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for your support during my

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tenure. You have been an

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awesome team, and I love you. I

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want to especially thank my

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executive team in HHS. They are

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tremendous leaders, and you're

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very fortunate to have them to

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continue here doing great work

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and leadership. I'm very proud

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of them.

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I want to say thank you all for

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a job well done, for your

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loyalty and your dedication and

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your great leadership. Keep up

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the good work. Keep moving

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forward. And just remember, if

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you remember who you are, listen

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to your heart, always do the

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right things, then you will

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thrive and excel and so will the

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community. Thank you for today.

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[ Applause ]

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>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

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PRES.: I'd like to invite

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members of the executive team in

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HH & S to come up and give some

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comments.

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>>SPEAKER: At this time we would

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like to ask all employees of the

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Health and Human Services

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department who are present here

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today to please stand.

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[ Applause ]

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>>BENITA McLARIN: Oh, I love it!

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>>SPEAKER: This is but a small

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portion of our 800-plus-strong

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staff. We are here to read the

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letters of Dr. McLarin's name

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that shows our creativity, and

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creativity, and what each letter

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means to us and how Dr. McLarin

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has impacted each of us

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individually. I get the

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privilege to say dedicated for

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Dr. McLarin. For more than 43

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years, you have been

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dedicated -- you have dedicated

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your life to serving the public

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with passion and integrity. You

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embody dedication. You have

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shown your commitment to our

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mission, especially in times of

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crisis. You showed up. I

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admire and appreciate your

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leadership. Thank you,

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Dr. McLarin.

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[ Applause ]

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>>SPEAKER: Hello, Kari Beuerman,

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social services director, and I

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have the honor to

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read "responsive."

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Dr. McLarin embodies

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responsiveness as a leader. She

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is not only in the office five

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days a week but some weeks

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seemingly 24/7. She can switch

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effortlessly from macro to micro

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and back again. Whether she is

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responding to the community or

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to your board regarding the

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COVID pandemic or doing an

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entrance or exit interview with

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every single person who joins

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our 800-person department,

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responsiveness is a quality that

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Benita successfully models for

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all of us. Thank you so much.

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[ Applause ]

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>>SPEAKER: Benita, I get to --

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Benita stands for "B" is brave.

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A few short months into your

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00:21:01,595 --> 00:21:03,630
role here we were hit with a

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00:21:03,630 --> 00:21:04,498
global pandemic, and soon after

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00:21:04,498 --> 00:21:07,498
that George Floyd was murdered.

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00:21:07,801 --> 00:21:09,536
Your four years have spanned one

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00:21:09,536 --> 00:21:11,204
of the most turbulent chapters

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00:21:11,204 --> 00:21:12,906
in recent history. In times of

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00:21:12,906 --> 00:21:15,308
uncertainty and fear, you led us

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00:21:15,308 --> 00:21:17,708
with courage and conviction.

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00:21:18,110 --> 00:21:19,680
Leading us towards equity,

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00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:22,800
social justice, anti-racism, and

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00:21:23,149 --> 00:21:25,850
anti-oppression is hard for

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00:21:25,850 --> 00:21:27,554
anyone. Carrying that work as a

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00:21:27,554 --> 00:21:30,223
Black woman in Marin County

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takes super human courage.

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[ Applause ]

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Whether you know her or not, if

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you're part of this community,

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you've benefited from the fact

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that Benita is one of the

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00:21:44,738 --> 00:21:47,138
bravest leaders I've known.

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[ Applause ]

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>>SPEAKER: Good morning. Todd

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Schirmer, director of Behavioral

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Health and Recovery Services.

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My letter is "E" for empowering.

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Through her words and actions,

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00:22:01,588 --> 00:22:03,890
Dr. McLarin has taught me what

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it means to be a leader. This

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00:22:04,958 --> 00:22:06,259
includes simple day-to-day

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leadership, like setting an

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agenda and running a meeting,

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and complex tasks, like

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articulating a long-term vision

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for the department and the

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county.

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She has seen it all and always

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00:22:15,636 --> 00:22:17,437
knows what is going on behind

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00:22:17,437 --> 00:22:20,600
the scenes. She entrusts and

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00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:22,406
empowers others to make

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00:22:23,900 --> 00:22:23,977
difficult decisions and then

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00:22:23,977 --> 00:22:25,111
stands by them. Thank you.

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[ Applause ]

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>>SPEAKER: Good morning. Amit

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Rajparia, medical director for

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Behavioral Health and Recovery

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Services, and I get to talk

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about the letter "N," noble.

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Dr. McLarin leads from a place

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of moral principles, both in the

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big moments and the little ones.

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Even when these principles mean

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doing the difficult thing, and

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she's willing to put in the hard

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work to back it up. Her style

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00:22:51,204 --> 00:22:53,973
of leadership naturally draws in

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00:22:53,973 --> 00:22:56,420
followers and engenders great

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respect. She's a tremendous

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00:22:57,210 --> 00:22:59,479
role model for all of us.

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[ Applause ]

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00:23:00,380 --> 00:23:02,780
>>SPEAKER: Hi, Benita. Lisa

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00:23:05,819 --> 00:23:07,530
Santora, deputy health officer

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00:23:07,530 --> 00:23:07,987
in public health.

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I have inclusiveness.

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Benita has been a role model for

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00:23:12,292 --> 00:23:13,593
inclusive leadership. She has

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00:23:13,593 --> 00:23:15,963
ensured that every volunteer,

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00:23:15,963 --> 00:23:17,531
intern and employee is treated

644
00:23:17,531 --> 00:23:20,990
fairly and respectfully and is

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00:23:20,990 --> 00:23:22,680
fully accepted for all they are

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00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:25,238
and all they bring to team HHS.

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See, I care forever. Hua!

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00:23:32,145 --> 00:23:32,946
[ Applause ]

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00:23:32,946 --> 00:23:35,346
>>SPEAKER: Good morning. Gary

650
00:23:36,316 --> 00:23:37,170
Naja-Riese, director for

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00:23:37,170 --> 00:23:38,284
homelessness, and my letter is

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00:23:38,284 --> 00:23:39,553
"T" for transformative.

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00:23:39,553 --> 00:23:41,388
Dr. McLarin, through your

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00:23:41,388 --> 00:23:44,388
unwavering focus on our HHS

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00:23:44,791 --> 00:23:47,191
mission, you've transformed our

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00:23:47,394 --> 00:23:49,290
approaches to behavioral health,

657
00:23:49,290 --> 00:23:50,997
social services, homelessness,

658
00:23:50,997 --> 00:23:53,397
aging, and public health,

659
00:23:53,967 --> 00:23:55,569
literally saving -- excuse me --

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00:23:55,569 --> 00:23:57,360
hundreds of thousands of lives

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00:23:57,360 --> 00:23:58,972
and making things better for

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00:23:58,972 --> 00:24:01,972
every resident of this county.

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00:24:02,275 --> 00:24:04,745
In making our county a leader in

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the Bay Area and across

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00:24:08,114 --> 00:24:08,915
California. Thank you.

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00:24:08,915 --> 00:24:09,883
[ Applause ]

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>>SPEAKER: Good morning.

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00:24:14,955 --> 00:24:16,957
Niccore Tyler, chief strategy

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officer for Health and Human

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Services, and I have the

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00:24:19,292 --> 00:24:20,493
pleasure of presenting "A" for

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00:24:20,493 --> 00:24:22,493
advocate.

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00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:24,598
Actively supporting and

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representing the interests of

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00:24:25,933 --> 00:24:28,333
others, Benita, you've always

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00:24:28,936 --> 00:24:29,970
prioritized the needs of others

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00:24:29,970 --> 00:24:32,305
and this community. I admire

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00:24:32,305 --> 00:24:34,107
your consistency and always

679
00:24:34,107 --> 00:24:35,308
standing firm and doing the

680
00:24:35,308 --> 00:24:37,744
right thing. Sometimes this may

681
00:24:37,744 --> 00:24:40,146
not always be the popular thing,

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00:24:40,146 --> 00:24:42,716
but you always continued your

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00:24:42,716 --> 00:24:43,850
advocacy for the right thing.

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So thank you for that.

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[ Applause ]

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00:24:52,292 --> 00:24:54,940
Benita, we appreciate the legacy

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00:24:54,940 --> 00:24:57,330
you are leaving us with and will

688
00:24:57,330 --> 00:24:58,298
continue as a department to do

689
00:24:58,298 --> 00:24:59,566
the work that you have reminded

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00:24:59,566 --> 00:25:02,135
us is so important. I hope you

691
00:25:02,135 --> 00:25:04,638
see just a fraction of the

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00:25:04,638 --> 00:25:06,940
people in this department who

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00:25:06,940 --> 00:25:09,750
admire you and love you dearly.

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00:25:09,750 --> 00:25:10,577
And as a token of our

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00:25:10,577 --> 00:25:11,979
appreciation, we want to present

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00:25:11,979 --> 00:25:14,714
you with the departmental award,

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00:25:14,714 --> 00:25:16,149
as well as this wonderful

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00:25:16,149 --> 00:25:18,149
bouquet of flowers.

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[ Applause ]

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Thank you, Dr. Benita, for being

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00:25:42,542 --> 00:25:44,144
such an inspirational leader,

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00:25:44,144 --> 00:25:45,478
and we wish you all the best in

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00:25:45,478 --> 00:25:47,880
your next phase. Thank you.

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00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:49,880
[ Applause ]

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00:26:09,736 --> 00:26:10,370
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

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PRES.: I'd like to invite

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members of the public now to

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00:26:12,500 --> 00:26:14,574
come up, and I do want to

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00:26:14,574 --> 00:26:16,376
acknowledge team HH & S for your

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00:26:16,376 --> 00:26:17,877
blue suits that you all wore

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00:26:17,877 --> 00:26:19,877
today.

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All right, if there's anyone who

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00:26:22,949 --> 00:26:24,951
hasn't spoken yet, would like to

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00:26:24,951 --> 00:26:27,220
make some remarks, now is the

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00:26:27,220 --> 00:26:28,955
time. We will take people in

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00:26:28,955 --> 00:26:30,223
the chamber first, starting with

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00:26:30,223 --> 00:26:31,558
the Bishop, and then we'll go

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00:26:31,558 --> 00:26:33,960
online. So please come on up

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and give your name.

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>>SPEAKER: Thank you very much

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for allowing Alameda County to

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be represented here at Marin

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County. Thank you very much. I

724
00:26:43,369 --> 00:26:46,969
am bishop Jerry Macklin at Glad

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00:26:48,608 --> 00:26:49,576
Tidings Church International

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00:26:49,576 --> 00:26:51,976
there in Hayward, California.

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00:26:52,790 --> 00:26:53,479
Ms. Benita has been a phenomenal

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00:26:53,479 --> 00:26:55,882
member of our church and a great

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00:26:55,882 --> 00:26:58,510
contributor to the better health

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00:26:58,510 --> 00:27:01,654
of not only our City of Hayward,

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00:27:01,654 --> 00:27:03,322
but throughout our county.

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00:27:03,322 --> 00:27:05,920
There are a few things that I

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00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:06,860
have said over the years that I

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00:27:06,860 --> 00:27:09,729
see her embody, and so from now

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00:27:09,729 --> 00:27:11,980
on I just need to point people

736
00:27:11,980 --> 00:27:12,632
to her and I won't have to say

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00:27:12,632 --> 00:27:16,232
it. One has been anyone wrapped

738
00:27:16,269 --> 00:27:17,971
up in themselves makes a small

739
00:27:17,971 --> 00:27:20,971
package. You have not done

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00:27:21,108 --> 00:27:22,809
that. You have been larger than

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00:27:22,809 --> 00:27:24,809
life.

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00:27:25,511 --> 00:27:27,680
He that aims at nothing seldom

743
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,800
misses. Benita, you have

744
00:27:31,451 --> 00:27:33,319
constantly kept the goal in

745
00:27:33,319 --> 00:27:33,987
mind, and you have accomplished

746
00:27:33,987 --> 00:27:35,222
so very much.

747
00:27:35,222 --> 00:27:37,224
It begins with you, but it's not

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00:27:37,224 --> 00:27:39,826
about you. That has been your

749
00:27:39,826 --> 00:27:42,162
lifestyle and your life mission.

750
00:27:42,162 --> 00:27:44,397
And then finally, it makes no

751
00:27:44,397 --> 00:27:45,698
difference who gets the credit

752
00:27:45,698 --> 00:27:47,734
as long as God gets the glory,

753
00:27:47,734 --> 00:27:51,171
and God has received much glory

754
00:27:51,171 --> 00:27:52,239
as a result of your service.

755
00:27:52,239 --> 00:27:53,673
Thank you not only on behalf of

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00:27:53,673 --> 00:27:54,908
Marin but on behalf of your

757
00:27:54,908 --> 00:27:56,409
church and the kingdom of our

758
00:27:56,409 --> 00:28:00,900
Lord. Thank you so very much.

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00:28:00,790 --> 00:28:02,790
[ Applause ]

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00:28:07,620 --> 00:28:10,200
>>SPEAKER: Good morning, board,

761
00:28:12,959 --> 00:28:15,359
Latoya Webb, HHS. COMAEA

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00:28:16,329 --> 00:28:17,396
president. I'm going to do my

763
00:28:17,396 --> 00:28:19,232
best to keep it together.

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00:28:19,232 --> 00:28:23,432
Dr. Benita, you are a light. So

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00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:27,406
COMAEA is here today to present

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00:28:27,406 --> 00:28:29,776
you with these four dozen yellow

767
00:28:29,776 --> 00:28:31,278
roses because you are a light.

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00:28:31,278 --> 00:28:32,545
As a reminder to you how much of

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00:28:32,545 --> 00:28:34,313
an impact that you've had here

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00:28:34,313 --> 00:28:36,149
and that you are leaving a

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00:28:36,149 --> 00:28:38,251
long-lasting legacy. I do have

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00:28:38,251 --> 00:28:39,719
a few words, so I'll make it

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00:28:39,719 --> 00:28:41,521
quick.

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00:28:41,521 --> 00:28:43,823
Dr. Benita McLarin, since you

775
00:28:43,823 --> 00:28:45,250
stepped foot into the county,

776
00:28:45,250 --> 00:28:46,559
you have been a light. Before

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00:28:46,559 --> 00:28:48,695
even getting the job, being

778
00:28:48,695 --> 00:28:50,695
disregarded, disrespected and

779
00:28:51,430 --> 00:28:52,699
counted out for a position that

780
00:28:52,699 --> 00:28:54,634
you would have that would impact

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00:28:54,634 --> 00:28:57,370
many. The odds were stacked

782
00:28:57,370 --> 00:28:59,500
against you. You've held your

783
00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:01,141
head high and continue to be a

784
00:29:01,141 --> 00:29:02,475
light, shining, pressing

785
00:29:02,475 --> 00:29:04,475
forward. Publications

786
00:29:05,511 --> 00:29:06,245
discrediting your ability to do

787
00:29:06,245 --> 00:29:08,314
the job, yet being

788
00:29:08,314 --> 00:29:10,250
overqualified, you pressed

789
00:29:10,250 --> 00:29:13,850
forward. I think we have the

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00:29:14,587 --> 00:29:16,956
definition of light all wrong.

791
00:29:16,956 --> 00:29:19,159
In my opinion, light is not the

792
00:29:19,159 --> 00:29:21,360
absence of darkness. It is the

793
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:22,695
unstoppable force that exists

794
00:29:22,695 --> 00:29:24,197
even when surrounded by

795
00:29:24,197 --> 00:29:26,532
darkness. Thank you for being a

796
00:29:26,532 --> 00:29:28,932
light and unknowingly planting

797
00:29:29,569 --> 00:29:30,904
seeds, providing inspiration for

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00:29:30,904 --> 00:29:33,573
us to grow and become stronger

799
00:29:33,573 --> 00:29:35,408
and rooted. Thank you for being

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00:29:35,408 --> 00:29:37,810
a light that always showed up

801
00:29:37,810 --> 00:29:39,412
authentically. Thank you for

802
00:29:39,412 --> 00:29:41,480
not allowing anyone or anything

803
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:43,716
to dim who you are or your

804
00:29:43,716 --> 00:29:47,316
impact. We see you. We support

805
00:29:47,420 --> 00:29:49,589
you and your next phase of your

806
00:29:49,589 --> 00:29:51,910
journey. We also appreciate

807
00:29:51,910 --> 00:29:54,691
you. So today we honor you,

808
00:29:57,130 --> 00:29:58,231
reminding you that you have not

809
00:29:58,231 --> 00:30:00,499
only impacted HHS but an entire

810
00:30:00,499 --> 00:30:02,235
community. Thank you for being

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00:30:02,235 --> 00:30:04,635
a light. God bless.

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00:30:05,104 --> 00:30:07,104
[ Applause ]

813
00:30:14,347 --> 00:30:16,249
And really quickly, sorry, got

814
00:30:16,249 --> 00:30:18,649
emotional. Before Kianna Davis

815
00:30:21,321 --> 00:30:22,488
speaks, on behalf -- this is

816
00:30:22,488 --> 00:30:23,990
from the COMAEA board and

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00:30:23,990 --> 00:30:25,758
community, these roses, as well

818
00:30:25,758 --> 00:30:27,860
as this spa gift certificate.

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00:30:27,860 --> 00:30:29,562
We want you to enjoy yourself

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00:30:29,562 --> 00:30:31,430
and kick this retirement off

821
00:30:31,430 --> 00:30:33,660
right, so we love you.

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00:30:33,660 --> 00:30:35,660
[ Applause ]

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00:30:42,275 --> 00:30:43,442
>>SPEAKER: I'll try to hold it

824
00:30:43,442 --> 00:30:45,111
together also. Good morning,

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00:30:45,111 --> 00:30:47,511
Board of Supervisors, my

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00:30:47,713 --> 00:30:49,713
co-workers, teammates and

827
00:30:51,284 --> 00:30:52,652
partners in public service, and

828
00:30:52,652 --> 00:30:55,355
to you, my queen. I am Kianna

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00:30:55,355 --> 00:30:56,689
Davis with Public Works and a

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00:30:56,689 --> 00:30:59,250
proud member of COMAEA's board.

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00:30:59,250 --> 00:31:02,625
Today we as COMAEA are feeling

832
00:31:03,596 --> 00:31:06,799
bittersweet. As much as we are

833
00:31:06,799 --> 00:31:08,401
excited about Dr. Benita's

834
00:31:08,401 --> 00:31:11,401
retirement, it stings a little

835
00:31:12,205 --> 00:31:14,407
because it feels like we are

836
00:31:14,407 --> 00:31:15,975
losing such an exceptional

837
00:31:15,975 --> 00:31:17,510
leader. I mean, we heard the

838
00:31:17,510 --> 00:31:21,110
words today. Dr. Benita is one

839
00:31:22,315 --> 00:31:25,915
that is consistent and one that

840
00:31:25,952 --> 00:31:28,952
COMAEA could count on always.

841
00:31:29,456 --> 00:31:31,657
Your encouraging words, your

842
00:31:31,657 --> 00:31:32,925
absolutely beautiful smile, that

843
00:31:32,925 --> 00:31:36,950
famous thumbs up as she walks

844
00:31:36,950 --> 00:31:39,332
by, and your honesty. And to

845
00:31:39,332 --> 00:31:41,501
get all of that, to get all of

846
00:31:41,501 --> 00:31:43,203
that from a department head such

847
00:31:43,203 --> 00:31:46,672
as Dr. McLarin set the tone for

848
00:31:46,672 --> 00:31:48,841
greatness here in this county.

849
00:31:48,841 --> 00:31:50,743
So we as COMAEA had a chance to

850
00:31:50,743 --> 00:31:53,313
talk with Dr. Benita recently,

851
00:31:53,313 --> 00:31:54,847
and none of those in the room

852
00:31:54,847 --> 00:31:56,582
wanted to even leave your

853
00:31:56,582 --> 00:31:59,582
presence. We soaked up every

854
00:31:59,986 --> 00:32:02,986
second, every minute to do

855
00:32:03,456 --> 00:32:06,759
nothing but glean from you. We

856
00:32:06,759 --> 00:32:08,794
gathered your words, and we

857
00:32:08,794 --> 00:32:10,430
stored them in our hearts.

858
00:32:10,430 --> 00:32:11,931
Dr. McLarin, you are an example

859
00:32:11,931 --> 00:32:14,331
of exemplary leadership, a

860
00:32:14,334 --> 00:32:15,935
pillar in the community with the

861
00:32:15,935 --> 00:32:18,804
ability to be honest. You are a

862
00:32:18,804 --> 00:32:20,773
problem solver, focused on

863
00:32:20,773 --> 00:32:22,975
solutions, a forward thinker and

864
00:32:22,975 --> 00:32:26,279
a hard worker, a game changer

865
00:32:26,279 --> 00:32:29,215
and an influencer. And yet, you

866
00:32:29,215 --> 00:32:31,351
always still find a way to

867
00:32:31,351 --> 00:32:34,351
provide words of strength, to

868
00:32:35,488 --> 00:32:37,290
continue to help us to push

869
00:32:37,290 --> 00:32:39,625
forward to our greatness. Today

870
00:32:39,625 --> 00:32:41,394
we want you to know just how

871
00:32:41,394 --> 00:32:43,796
amazing of a light that you are

872
00:32:43,796 --> 00:32:46,399
to us and to this county. You

873
00:32:46,399 --> 00:32:48,734
have the ability to shine no

874
00:32:48,734 --> 00:32:51,734
matter where you are. You

875
00:32:52,171 --> 00:32:53,672
showed up with intentions to

876
00:32:53,672 --> 00:32:56,209
make it better and to make it

877
00:32:56,209 --> 00:32:59,112
brighter than what you found it.

878
00:32:59,112 --> 00:33:01,180
As we all wish you well and we

879
00:33:01,180 --> 00:33:04,117
stand here to salute you, we are

880
00:33:04,117 --> 00:33:05,684
grateful to be able to see you

881
00:33:05,684 --> 00:33:07,954
take a position in this county

882
00:33:07,954 --> 00:33:10,256
and to be successful at it

883
00:33:10,256 --> 00:33:12,992
during the toughest of times.

884
00:33:12,992 --> 00:33:14,561
And as we stand on your

885
00:33:14,561 --> 00:33:15,962
shoulders, we want you to know

886
00:33:15,962 --> 00:33:18,364
that you are the light that we

887
00:33:18,364 --> 00:33:20,764
carry. Michelle Obama authored

888
00:33:21,301 --> 00:33:23,536
a book titled "The Light We

889
00:33:23,536 --> 00:33:25,936
Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain

890
00:33:28,740 --> 00:33:29,375
Times." There's a part in the

891
00:33:29,375 --> 00:33:31,444
book that says: I believe that

892
00:33:31,444 --> 00:33:33,413
each of us carries a bit of

893
00:33:33,413 --> 00:33:35,281
inner brightness, something

894
00:33:35,281 --> 00:33:37,681
entirely unique and individual,

895
00:33:38,251 --> 00:33:41,251
a flame that's worth protecting.

896
00:33:42,210 --> 00:33:43,423
When we are able to recognize

897
00:33:43,423 --> 00:33:45,425
our own light, we become

898
00:33:45,425 --> 00:33:47,726
empowered to use it, and when we

899
00:33:47,726 --> 00:33:49,496
learn to foster what is unique

900
00:33:49,496 --> 00:33:51,831
in the people around us, we

901
00:33:51,831 --> 00:33:54,434
become better able to build

902
00:33:54,434 --> 00:33:56,202
compassionate communities and

903
00:33:56,202 --> 00:33:58,371
make meaningful changes. Today

904
00:33:58,371 --> 00:34:01,140
we stand here shining, and we

905
00:34:01,140 --> 00:34:03,476
shine bright. As members of

906
00:34:03,476 --> 00:34:04,577
COMAEA, we thank you,

907
00:34:04,577 --> 00:34:06,245
Dr. McLarin, for believing in

908
00:34:06,245 --> 00:34:08,140
us. We thank you for showing us

909
00:34:08,140 --> 00:34:10,416
how to carry inner brightness

910
00:34:10,416 --> 00:34:12,385
first within ourselves, even

911
00:34:12,385 --> 00:34:14,420
when others try to dim out our

912
00:34:14,420 --> 00:34:16,556
light or snuff it out. You have

913
00:34:16,556 --> 00:34:18,191
showed us that. You have kept

914
00:34:18,191 --> 00:34:21,191
our light brightly shining. As

915
00:34:21,661 --> 00:34:22,562
a matter of fact, our light is

916
00:34:22,562 --> 00:34:24,297
burning bright, and you have

917
00:34:24,297 --> 00:34:26,320
modeled behavior that showed us

918
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:27,967
how to allow our light to touch

919
00:34:27,967 --> 00:34:30,303
others, and to make a positive

920
00:34:30,303 --> 00:34:33,172
impact. So you encouraged us by

921
00:34:33,172 --> 00:34:35,508
standing as individuals. We

922
00:34:35,508 --> 00:34:37,377
have something in us worth

923
00:34:37,377 --> 00:34:38,611
protecting. That's what you

924
00:34:38,611 --> 00:34:39,845
have taught us. That's what we

925
00:34:39,845 --> 00:34:40,846
have watched. You have helped

926
00:34:40,846 --> 00:34:43,490
us to recognize our own light.

927
00:34:43,490 --> 00:34:46,649
We watched you empower others to

928
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:48,754
use their light more than

929
00:34:48,754 --> 00:34:50,689
anything. We watched you take

930
00:34:50,689 --> 00:34:52,925
your light to ignite others,

931
00:34:52,925 --> 00:34:56,229
which led us all to build, to be

932
00:34:56,229 --> 00:34:58,231
compassionate, and to never

933
00:34:58,231 --> 00:34:59,798
forget the communities that we

934
00:34:59,798 --> 00:35:02,134
serve. So Dr. Benita, we stand

935
00:35:02,134 --> 00:35:04,637
here as your lights. Look

936
00:35:04,637 --> 00:35:07,840
around the room. Take it in.

937
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,840
Look around. We proudly salute

938
00:35:11,944 --> 00:35:14,800
you for making meaningful change

939
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:16,882
for COMAEA and for the overall

940
00:35:16,882 --> 00:35:18,384
County of Marin. May your light

941
00:35:18,384 --> 00:35:20,553
continue to burn bright and

942
00:35:20,553 --> 00:35:22,922
ignite goodness and blessings in

943
00:35:22,922 --> 00:35:24,957
your next chapter. We wish you

944
00:35:24,957 --> 00:35:26,192
the absolute best.

945
00:35:26,192 --> 00:35:28,192
Congratulations.

946
00:35:32,998 --> 00:35:34,998
[ Applause ]

947
00:35:41,340 --> 00:35:44,110
>>SPEAKER: That is one tough act

948
00:35:44,110 --> 00:35:46,510
to follow. From everyone's

949
00:35:48,114 --> 00:35:49,616
heart here, anyone with a dry

950
00:35:49,616 --> 00:35:50,916
eye here, you know, check

951
00:35:50,916 --> 00:35:51,884
yourself, because there's

952
00:35:51,884 --> 00:35:53,884
something wrong.

953
00:35:53,886 --> 00:35:55,921
For those that don't know me,

954
00:35:55,921 --> 00:35:57,220
I'm Lori Frugoli. It's my honor

955
00:35:57,220 --> 00:35:59,626
to serve as your District

956
00:35:59,626 --> 00:36:00,660
Attorney, and I don't want to

957
00:36:00,660 --> 00:36:01,927
repeat what everyone has said

958
00:36:01,927 --> 00:36:03,963
here. I just want to say from

959
00:36:03,963 --> 00:36:07,166
my heart as a newer department

960
00:36:07,166 --> 00:36:09,680
head, I have seen your

961
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:10,369
brilliance, that you are truly a

962
00:36:10,369 --> 00:36:12,538
servant. That's one common term

963
00:36:12,538 --> 00:36:14,390
that we hear about you, and it's

964
00:36:14,390 --> 00:36:16,242
from your heart and your soul.

965
00:36:16,242 --> 00:36:19,646
And you are so humble. In our

966
00:36:19,646 --> 00:36:21,180
department meeting heads you

967
00:36:21,180 --> 00:36:22,114
have led with equity and your

968
00:36:22,114 --> 00:36:24,751
heart and wisdom. You rarely

969
00:36:24,751 --> 00:36:26,519
wag your own tail or talk about

970
00:36:26,519 --> 00:36:27,553
your accomplishments, which is

971
00:36:27,553 --> 00:36:30,690
such a rare quality in a leader.

972
00:36:30,690 --> 00:36:32,570
And when I first learned that

973
00:36:32,570 --> 00:36:33,580
you were a veteran, it was when

974
00:36:33,580 --> 00:36:34,393
I came to a veterans ceremony,

975
00:36:34,393 --> 00:36:35,628
and there you were in your

976
00:36:35,628 --> 00:36:37,196
uniform. I'm like, what do I

977
00:36:37,196 --> 00:36:39,565
not know about this woman? A

978
00:36:39,565 --> 00:36:40,733
million things. You've done so

979
00:36:40,733 --> 00:36:42,401
many things. You never talk

980
00:36:42,401 --> 00:36:43,603
about your own accomplishments

981
00:36:43,603 --> 00:36:45,700
and what you've done. You just

982
00:36:45,700 --> 00:36:48,700
keep leading. You just keep

983
00:36:48,974 --> 00:36:50,209
working, and for that we honor

984
00:36:50,209 --> 00:36:52,211
you, and I just want to thank

985
00:36:52,211 --> 00:36:53,279
you personally on behalf of our

986
00:36:53,279 --> 00:36:54,547
gun safety collaborative where

987
00:36:54,547 --> 00:36:55,715
you have stepped up and been a

988
00:36:55,715 --> 00:36:57,550
leader. You have helped with

989
00:36:57,550 --> 00:36:59,418
our veterans support and

990
00:36:59,418 --> 00:37:00,653
supported our veterans, and I

991
00:37:00,653 --> 00:37:02,870
want to tell one story that

992
00:37:02,870 --> 00:37:04,357
really to me I exemplified -- I

993
00:37:04,357 --> 00:37:05,891
shared this with you last night,

994
00:37:05,891 --> 00:37:07,760
that we were at a meeting with a

995
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:08,728
lot of county leaders from

996
00:37:08,728 --> 00:37:10,329
different county entities, and I

997
00:37:10,329 --> 00:37:12,264
won't say how many people --

998
00:37:12,264 --> 00:37:14,467
many -- were criticizing the

999
00:37:14,467 --> 00:37:16,502
policies in place during COVID

1000
00:37:16,502 --> 00:37:19,104
and masking and shutdowns, and

1001
00:37:19,104 --> 00:37:20,839
just the meeting was getting

1002
00:37:20,839 --> 00:37:22,975
almost out of control, and

1003
00:37:22,975 --> 00:37:25,100
people were, when are we going

1004
00:37:25,100 --> 00:37:26,713
to open up, when are we going to

1005
00:37:26,713 --> 00:37:28,800
do this, and you handled it with

1006
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:30,983
grace and wisdom and all you

1007
00:37:30,983 --> 00:37:33,720
said, which stopped everybody in

1008
00:37:33,720 --> 00:37:36,355
their tracks, was: We are saving

1009
00:37:36,355 --> 00:37:39,355
lives. And it shut everybody

1010
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,280
up, for lack of a better term,

1011
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:44,196
and it really brought everybody

1012
00:37:44,196 --> 00:37:45,398
back to the reality of what we

1013
00:37:45,398 --> 00:37:47,199
were facing at that moment in

1014
00:37:47,199 --> 00:37:49,101
time and our world and in our

1015
00:37:49,101 --> 00:37:50,969
county, and how you were

1016
00:37:50,969 --> 00:37:54,600
leading. I so honor you for

1017
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:55,541
that moment. You didn't have to

1018
00:37:55,541 --> 00:37:57,376
say that, but you did, and I

1019
00:37:57,376 --> 00:37:58,944
just wish you well and also

1020
00:37:58,944 --> 00:38:01,213
honor you. I know you spend a

1021
00:38:01,213 --> 00:38:02,248
lot of time taking care of your

1022
00:38:02,248 --> 00:38:03,716
mother. You've made so many

1023
00:38:03,716 --> 00:38:04,917
sacrifices for our county. It's

1024
00:38:04,917 --> 00:38:05,918
time that you really take this

1025
00:38:05,918 --> 00:38:07,152
time for yourself, and we wish

1026
00:38:07,152 --> 00:38:08,287
you all the best and hope to see

1027
00:38:08,287 --> 00:38:10,687
you around the community.

1028
00:38:12,124 --> 00:38:14,124
[ Applause ]

1029
00:38:20,990 --> 00:38:22,499
>>SPEAKER: Good morning. Ida

1030
00:38:24,303 --> 00:38:26,839
Times Green, and Dr. McLarin, I

1031
00:38:26,839 --> 00:38:28,641
am just so grateful and proud to

1032
00:38:28,641 --> 00:38:30,420
get to know you in the capacity

1033
00:38:30,420 --> 00:38:30,976
that I have over these years.

1034
00:38:30,976 --> 00:38:32,745
You deserve your flowers on

1035
00:38:32,745 --> 00:38:34,120
today, and in this chamber it's

1036
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:36,348
so fitting that we are here to

1037
00:38:36,348 --> 00:38:39,840
wish you well and for your next

1038
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:41,220
journey because it was here,

1039
00:38:41,220 --> 00:38:43,956
four years ago, that the board

1040
00:38:43,956 --> 00:38:46,525
introduced you as a new HHS

1041
00:38:46,525 --> 00:38:48,961
director, and the proud moment,

1042
00:38:48,961 --> 00:38:50,262
I have to say, because here

1043
00:38:50,262 --> 00:38:52,298
stood this beautiful Black woman

1044
00:38:52,298 --> 00:38:53,900
who was getting ready to lead

1045
00:38:53,900 --> 00:38:55,301
one of the largest departments

1046
00:38:55,301 --> 00:38:58,270
here in the county where we only

1047
00:38:58,270 --> 00:39:00,573
represent 2% of the county, and

1048
00:39:00,573 --> 00:39:03,175
you have forged on, and on that

1049
00:39:03,175 --> 00:39:05,110
day, when we met, I was here

1050
00:39:05,110 --> 00:39:07,510
with my mentor, Alberta

1051
00:39:08,881 --> 00:39:10,917
Erickson, God rest her soul, and

1052
00:39:10,917 --> 00:39:12,351
I took your business card. And

1053
00:39:12,351 --> 00:39:14,153
when I got home, I put it in my

1054
00:39:14,153 --> 00:39:17,550
Bible because I said: You must,

1055
00:39:17,550 --> 00:39:18,658
you must pray for her because

1056
00:39:18,658 --> 00:39:20,827
this county can be tough.

1057
00:39:20,827 --> 00:39:22,728
Believe me. My mother sat in a

1058
00:39:22,728 --> 00:39:23,696
director position in this

1059
00:39:23,696 --> 00:39:25,932
county, and so I appreciate the

1060
00:39:25,932 --> 00:39:28,267
county for its boldness, for

1061
00:39:28,267 --> 00:39:29,769
putting someone like yourself in

1062
00:39:29,769 --> 00:39:31,604
place, and believe that we

1063
00:39:31,604 --> 00:39:33,500
continue to edge a little

1064
00:39:33,500 --> 00:39:35,975
further in the equity part of

1065
00:39:35,975 --> 00:39:37,710
what's happening in the lives of

1066
00:39:37,710 --> 00:39:40,646
so many. You have made such a

1067
00:39:40,646 --> 00:39:42,181
difference. So yes, shed your

1068
00:39:42,181 --> 00:39:44,350
tears, smell your flowers, enjoy

1069
00:39:44,350 --> 00:39:45,583
your massage. You deserve it

1070
00:39:45,583 --> 00:39:46,818
all.

1071
00:39:46,818 --> 00:39:48,818
[ Applause ]

1072
00:39:56,940 --> 00:39:57,964
I am so proud to be able to

1073
00:39:57,964 --> 00:40:00,633
stand here as an employee in the

1074
00:40:00,633 --> 00:40:02,802
Department of Health and Human

1075
00:40:02,802 --> 00:40:04,637
Services and social services

1076
00:40:04,637 --> 00:40:06,305
because of your leadership. The

1077
00:40:06,305 --> 00:40:08,400
services have been expanded to

1078
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:09,575
southern Marin. That is a part

1079
00:40:09,575 --> 00:40:11,610
of your legacy, something that

1080
00:40:11,610 --> 00:40:13,312
this county has been working

1081
00:40:13,312 --> 00:40:14,947
towards for years. You made

1082
00:40:14,947 --> 00:40:16,549
that happen, and so we must

1083
00:40:16,549 --> 00:40:18,484
continue the work.

1084
00:40:18,484 --> 00:40:20,519
We shall fight the good fight.

1085
00:40:20,519 --> 00:40:22,855
You have challenged us, and we

1086
00:40:22,855 --> 00:40:24,289
are going to do it. Thank you,

1087
00:40:24,289 --> 00:40:26,358
Dr. McLarin. Love you so much,

1088
00:40:26,358 --> 00:40:28,358
my God.

1089
00:40:35,501 --> 00:40:36,769
[ Applause ]

1090
00:40:36,769 --> 00:40:37,803
>>SPEAKER: Good morning, board,

1091
00:40:37,803 --> 00:40:40,600
and good morning, Benita. This

1092
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:41,273
is horrible following up on some

1093
00:40:41,273 --> 00:40:43,409
of these speeches. Mine is not

1094
00:40:43,409 --> 00:40:45,277
going to be so impressionable,

1095
00:40:45,277 --> 00:40:46,746
but Benita, I wanted to just

1096
00:40:46,746 --> 00:40:48,140
recall the time when you and I

1097
00:40:48,140 --> 00:40:49,749
first met. It was a phone call

1098
00:40:49,749 --> 00:40:51,851
on the weekend. I think it was

1099
00:40:51,851 --> 00:40:53,519
March whatever, when you said,

1100
00:40:53,519 --> 00:40:56,154
Liz Darby, report to duty at the

1101
00:40:56,154 --> 00:40:58,257
EOC at 9:00 in the morning, and

1102
00:40:58,257 --> 00:40:59,926
I'm like, what? And I learned

1103
00:40:59,926 --> 00:41:01,827
from that, that when Benita says

1104
00:41:01,827 --> 00:41:03,328
do something, I just needed to

1105
00:41:03,328 --> 00:41:04,663
show up.

1106
00:41:04,663 --> 00:41:06,980
While I was working with you in

1107
00:41:06,980 --> 00:41:09,100
COVID, I had the fortune and the

1108
00:41:09,100 --> 00:41:10,402
honor, of course, of working in

1109
00:41:10,402 --> 00:41:12,400
communities in our underserved

1110
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:12,939
communities, and that's when I

1111
00:41:12,939 --> 00:41:15,274
got to know you as a person,

1112
00:41:15,274 --> 00:41:17,674
your leadership, your integrity,

1113
00:41:17,676 --> 00:41:20,676
your caring, your genuineness to

1114
00:41:21,580 --> 00:41:23,582
support our residents and our

1115
00:41:23,582 --> 00:41:24,951
communities, particularly those

1116
00:41:24,951 --> 00:41:26,619
in our underserved communities,

1117
00:41:26,619 --> 00:41:28,387
particularly those of color.

1118
00:41:28,387 --> 00:41:30,389
Yes, we knew the data about the

1119
00:41:30,389 --> 00:41:32,357
health outcomes. You expanded

1120
00:41:32,357 --> 00:41:34,426
that, and you made sure that

1121
00:41:34,426 --> 00:41:36,495
equity was first and center in

1122
00:41:36,495 --> 00:41:38,300
all of the work that we did

1123
00:41:38,300 --> 00:41:40,432
together. And you took my calls

1124
00:41:40,432 --> 00:41:42,680
in the morning, late at night,

1125
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:43,502
when we were texting, when I was

1126
00:41:43,502 --> 00:41:44,937
having those challenges to

1127
00:41:44,937 --> 00:41:47,306
figure out how to do this, you

1128
00:41:47,306 --> 00:41:49,742
led and you taught me. And for

1129
00:41:49,742 --> 00:41:51,243
that I will always be grateful,

1130
00:41:51,243 --> 00:41:52,711
and our communities should

1131
00:41:52,711 --> 00:41:54,212
always be grateful, and I know

1132
00:41:54,212 --> 00:41:55,948
it's been a tough road, but I

1133
00:41:55,948 --> 00:41:57,950
hope today you have gotten a

1134
00:41:57,950 --> 00:42:00,118
chance to see just a glimmer of

1135
00:42:00,118 --> 00:42:02,540
how much we've respected and

1136
00:42:02,540 --> 00:42:03,656
cared for you and supported you

1137
00:42:03,656 --> 00:42:05,123
all the time, and we wish you

1138
00:42:05,123 --> 00:42:06,558
only the best. Thank you so

1139
00:42:06,558 --> 00:42:07,726
much, Benita.

1140
00:42:07,726 --> 00:42:09,726
[ Applause ]

1141
00:42:17,870 --> 00:42:19,710
>>SPEAKER: Good morning,

1142
00:42:19,710 --> 00:42:20,238
supervisors. Good morning,

1143
00:42:20,238 --> 00:42:22,638
Benita. Jason Balderama, the

1144
00:42:24,109 --> 00:42:25,477
chief security information

1145
00:42:25,477 --> 00:42:27,877
officer in our security

1146
00:42:28,180 --> 00:42:28,781
Information Services Technology

1147
00:42:28,781 --> 00:42:30,781
department. Liza Massey,

1148
00:42:31,150 --> 00:42:32,384
unfortunately, could not make it

1149
00:42:32,384 --> 00:42:34,520
today. Thinking of what you

1150
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:37,255
said earlier, she too would say

1151
00:42:37,255 --> 00:42:38,156
she has the best department in

1152
00:42:38,156 --> 00:42:38,824
the county.

1153
00:42:38,824 --> 00:42:40,260
I just want to say what a

1154
00:42:40,260 --> 00:42:41,270
pleasure it's been to work with

1155
00:42:41,270 --> 00:42:42,940
you and to help support your

1156
00:42:42,940 --> 00:42:43,950
department, particularly with

1157
00:42:43,950 --> 00:42:45,970
the COVID response. I think

1158
00:42:45,970 --> 00:42:47,399
that it showed that we really

1159
00:42:47,399 --> 00:42:49,201
did our best there, whether it

1160
00:42:49,201 --> 00:42:51,670
be supporting the various pop-up

1161
00:42:51,670 --> 00:42:53,338
sites or facilities needs,

1162
00:42:53,338 --> 00:42:55,738
getting new applications online,

1163
00:42:56,375 --> 00:42:57,910
putting up new websites, doing

1164
00:42:57,910 --> 00:42:59,111
public communications, and even

1165
00:42:59,111 --> 00:43:00,880
just getting on the front lines,

1166
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:04,449
serving as DSWs, being able to

1167
00:43:04,449 --> 00:43:05,617
serve the community, and all

1168
00:43:05,617 --> 00:43:06,919
that was made possible by your

1169
00:43:06,919 --> 00:43:08,187
leadership and your department,

1170
00:43:08,187 --> 00:43:09,521
so just want to say on behalf of

1171
00:43:09,521 --> 00:43:11,790
IST, truly thank you. I wish I

1172
00:43:11,790 --> 00:43:13,458
had had more time to get to know

1173
00:43:13,458 --> 00:43:14,493
you better and work with you,

1174
00:43:14,493 --> 00:43:16,562
but I can see from all the

1175
00:43:16,562 --> 00:43:19,562
comments and everything that I

1176
00:43:19,598 --> 00:43:20,566
think the presence in this room

1177
00:43:20,566 --> 00:43:22,768
is just a testament to what

1178
00:43:22,768 --> 00:43:24,269
you're leaving behind. So

1179
00:43:24,269 --> 00:43:25,771
anyway, thank you so much.

1180
00:43:25,771 --> 00:43:27,771
[ Applause ]

1181
00:43:29,341 --> 00:43:31,741
>>SPEAKER: Rollie Katz, Marin

1182
00:43:33,812 --> 00:43:34,546
Association of Public Employees.

1183
00:43:34,546 --> 00:43:36,182
All the departments are the best

1184
00:43:36,182 --> 00:43:37,160
departments because they all

1185
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:40,160
have MAPE members working in

1186
00:43:40,452 --> 00:43:41,286
them.

1187
00:43:41,286 --> 00:43:42,688
People have been far more

1188
00:43:42,688 --> 00:43:43,956
eloquent than I will be, but I

1189
00:43:43,956 --> 00:43:46,225
just wanted to also add on

1190
00:43:46,225 --> 00:43:48,761
behalf of MAPE our appreciation

1191
00:43:48,761 --> 00:43:50,362
for your service to the county

1192
00:43:50,362 --> 00:43:52,765
and your time here, and public

1193
00:43:52,765 --> 00:43:54,332
service, as I often say, is an

1194
00:43:54,332 --> 00:43:56,350
honorable calling, and you've

1195
00:43:56,350 --> 00:43:57,970
had a very, very long history of

1196
00:43:57,970 --> 00:43:59,105
answering that call, and I do

1197
00:43:59,105 --> 00:44:01,473
want to add that I have to think

1198
00:44:01,473 --> 00:44:03,876
back about the worst time during

1199
00:44:03,876 --> 00:44:07,120
the COVID shutdown and all the

1200
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:08,747
work the county did, but your

1201
00:44:08,747 --> 00:44:10,348
department in particular and

1202
00:44:10,348 --> 00:44:13,219
your leadership for that was

1203
00:44:13,219 --> 00:44:14,586
critical because lots of people

1204
00:44:14,586 --> 00:44:17,586
were getting lots of malarky

1205
00:44:18,657 --> 00:44:20,425
when we were just out trying to

1206
00:44:20,425 --> 00:44:21,393
make sure people were healthy.

1207
00:44:21,393 --> 00:44:23,393
Thank you.

1208
00:44:25,630 --> 00:44:26,198
[ Applause ]

1209
00:44:26,198 --> 00:44:27,265
>>SPEAKER: I want to say I thank

1210
00:44:27,265 --> 00:44:28,567
the board for having this

1211
00:44:28,567 --> 00:44:30,736
resolution. I want to thank

1212
00:44:30,736 --> 00:44:31,937
Damon Connolly for coming and

1213
00:44:31,937 --> 00:44:33,472
showing up, and Matthew Hymel,

1214
00:44:33,472 --> 00:44:35,741
and everyone for selecting

1215
00:44:35,741 --> 00:44:37,143
Benita for the position because

1216
00:44:37,143 --> 00:44:40,143
we know the systemic challenges

1217
00:44:40,980 --> 00:44:42,810
at the director position and

1218
00:44:42,810 --> 00:44:44,810
dealing with community-based

1219
00:44:44,583 --> 00:44:46,983
issues. It's challenging, and

1220
00:44:47,352 --> 00:44:50,355
because you didn't waver from it

1221
00:44:50,355 --> 00:44:51,824
and you were transformative,

1222
00:44:51,824 --> 00:44:53,358
because you inspired everybody,

1223
00:44:53,358 --> 00:44:56,950
and knowing that I'm an HHS guy,

1224
00:44:56,950 --> 00:44:57,362
and I always say that to you,

1225
00:44:57,362 --> 00:44:58,730
you give me the thumbs up, and

1226
00:44:58,730 --> 00:44:59,999
let's give a round of applause

1227
00:44:59,999 --> 00:45:02,434
for HHS and the departments for

1228
00:45:02,434 --> 00:45:04,202
selecting Benita.

1229
00:45:04,202 --> 00:45:05,570
[ Applause ]

1230
00:45:05,570 --> 00:45:07,606
And before I end, I just want to

1231
00:45:07,606 --> 00:45:09,474
say that, you know, when we talk

1232
00:45:09,474 --> 00:45:11,874
about transformative, it's about

1233
00:45:12,770 --> 00:45:13,745
not dividing but bringing

1234
00:45:13,745 --> 00:45:15,614
everybody together, and when you

1235
00:45:15,614 --> 00:45:18,170
look at Benita, her tenure for

1236
00:45:18,170 --> 00:45:19,785
the four years, she brought

1237
00:45:19,785 --> 00:45:21,653
people together, and when we saw

1238
00:45:21,653 --> 00:45:24,653
those informations being in the

1239
00:45:25,991 --> 00:45:29,128
IJ, we know when you're at the

1240
00:45:29,128 --> 00:45:30,428
apex of your career people are

1241
00:45:30,428 --> 00:45:31,864
going to try to tear you down

1242
00:45:31,864 --> 00:45:32,965
because they are afraid, because

1243
00:45:32,965 --> 00:45:34,833
they know what you bring and

1244
00:45:34,833 --> 00:45:36,135
influence you have, and

1245
00:45:36,135 --> 00:45:37,703
influence you brought to Marin

1246
00:45:37,703 --> 00:45:39,400
County is bringing people

1247
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:40,472
together and not dividing

1248
00:45:40,472 --> 00:45:43,750
people, and everybody needs to

1249
00:45:43,750 --> 00:45:43,876
respect that and understand

1250
00:45:43,876 --> 00:45:45,544
that, you know, the challenges

1251
00:45:45,544 --> 00:45:46,745
that come with that, and because

1252
00:45:46,745 --> 00:45:48,814
we know it's optics, you're

1253
00:45:48,814 --> 00:45:49,781
dealing with public, you're

1254
00:45:49,781 --> 00:45:51,160
dealing with the board, you're

1255
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:52,117
dealing with the administration.

1256
00:45:52,117 --> 00:45:53,451
You're dealing with a whole

1257
00:45:53,451 --> 00:45:55,851
breakdown of procedures and

1258
00:45:56,454 --> 00:45:59,454
protocols, and you overcame that

1259
00:45:59,558 --> 00:46:01,393
and brang everybody together

1260
00:46:01,393 --> 00:46:04,393
shows your perseverance and your

1261
00:46:04,529 --> 00:46:07,529
tenacity. So I appreciate you.

1262
00:46:08,330 --> 00:46:09,935
[ Applause ]

1263
00:46:09,935 --> 00:46:12,935
>>SPEAKER: Hey, I'm the short

1264
00:46:13,138 --> 00:46:14,706
one here. Good morning,

1265
00:46:14,706 --> 00:46:17,106
everyone. I'm Jamie, Jamie

1266
00:46:18,770 --> 00:46:21,770
Enfaro. I'm a volunteer. I

1267
00:46:21,113 --> 00:46:24,113
like all of you have

1268
00:46:24,616 --> 00:46:25,483
[indiscernible] behind your

1269
00:46:25,483 --> 00:46:27,319
name, I don't. I'm just a

1270
00:46:27,319 --> 00:46:28,587
simple person, and I come before

1271
00:46:28,587 --> 00:46:32,224
you, Benita, you know, I came in

1272
00:46:32,224 --> 00:46:33,658
and I see you coming through the

1273
00:46:33,658 --> 00:46:36,658
door and together with everyone,

1274
00:46:40,565 --> 00:46:42,368
the totem pole watching the

1275
00:46:42,368 --> 00:46:44,169
leaders in the making and the

1276
00:46:44,169 --> 00:46:47,390
leaders in the shaping, so it

1277
00:46:47,390 --> 00:46:49,208
was a very humbling experience

1278
00:46:49,208 --> 00:46:52,744
to be able to see and watch

1279
00:46:52,744 --> 00:46:55,744
leadership taking shape, and in

1280
00:46:56,282 --> 00:46:57,449
the voice of equity I'm speaking

1281
00:46:57,449 --> 00:46:59,251
today because there's so much

1282
00:46:59,251 --> 00:47:02,251
need for us, the segregated

1283
00:47:02,388 --> 00:47:04,356
society and people who actually

1284
00:47:04,356 --> 00:47:06,392
are so far apart, but yet today

1285
00:47:06,392 --> 00:47:08,327
I'm very influenced because of

1286
00:47:08,327 --> 00:47:10,829
Health and Human Services. Just

1287
00:47:10,829 --> 00:47:13,829
FYI, I recently took some

1288
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:16,835
courses in Health and Human

1289
00:47:16,835 --> 00:47:18,270
Services. I'm now pursuing a

1290
00:47:18,270 --> 00:47:20,872
degree in it, yeah. I just

1291
00:47:20,872 --> 00:47:21,873
finished my --

1292
00:47:21,873 --> 00:47:23,873
[ Applause ]

1293
00:47:26,745 --> 00:47:30,345
With Contra Costa college. I am

1294
00:47:33,885 --> 00:47:34,753
pursuing three more in the

1295
00:47:34,753 --> 00:47:36,422
spring. But it's all because of

1296
00:47:36,422 --> 00:47:37,823
the leaders in the Health and

1297
00:47:37,823 --> 00:47:38,556
Human Services, what we are

1298
00:47:38,556 --> 00:47:41,293
doing, and I want to say under

1299
00:47:41,293 --> 00:47:44,293
the extreme leadership of Benita

1300
00:47:44,863 --> 00:47:48,463
and my professor, but I'm not

1301
00:47:49,268 --> 00:47:50,936
going to digress on that.

1302
00:47:50,936 --> 00:47:53,500
I want to say, Benita, your

1303
00:47:53,500 --> 00:47:55,774
example, showing in what you do,

1304
00:47:55,774 --> 00:47:57,276
not just talk the talk but walk

1305
00:47:57,276 --> 00:47:58,910
the talk, to be able to show us

1306
00:47:58,910 --> 00:48:01,910
in leadership, in equity, with

1307
00:48:02,547 --> 00:48:03,915
Jamillah under her belt of

1308
00:48:03,915 --> 00:48:06,352
equity as well. Because we are

1309
00:48:06,352 --> 00:48:08,752
so marginalized in Marin.

1310
00:48:09,288 --> 00:48:10,655
Despite that, we have so many

1311
00:48:10,655 --> 00:48:13,292
colors and spectrum, there's no

1312
00:48:13,292 --> 00:48:16,395
one size that fits all, so I'm

1313
00:48:16,395 --> 00:48:17,863
humbly coming before you to

1314
00:48:17,863 --> 00:48:19,198
thank you from the bottom of my

1315
00:48:19,198 --> 00:48:22,134
little heart to say that there's

1316
00:48:22,134 --> 00:48:23,668
so much that we need to do

1317
00:48:23,668 --> 00:48:25,371
collaboratively, especially

1318
00:48:25,371 --> 00:48:29,808
Damon you -- to see how we can

1319
00:48:29,808 --> 00:48:31,810
build Marin. Because there's so

1320
00:48:31,810 --> 00:48:34,846
much of us that we need help, I

1321
00:48:34,846 --> 00:48:36,148
mean what you do with mental

1322
00:48:36,148 --> 00:48:39,148
health, together with Todd and

1323
00:48:39,284 --> 00:48:41,653
Matt, what you do with Health

1324
00:48:41,653 --> 00:48:42,654
and Human Services of COVID and

1325
00:48:42,654 --> 00:48:43,889
everyone, the leaders in the

1326
00:48:43,889 --> 00:48:45,357
room. You guys are the

1327
00:48:45,357 --> 00:48:47,192
expertise in the room.

1328
00:48:47,192 --> 00:48:48,526
Can we find a way to work

1329
00:48:48,526 --> 00:48:50,926
together, put our petty

1330
00:48:52,497 --> 00:48:53,865
differences aside, but let

1331
00:48:53,865 --> 00:48:55,834
Benita show as an example to us

1332
00:48:55,834 --> 00:48:57,836
where she has undertake so

1333
00:48:57,836 --> 00:49:00,506
many -- so much under her belt.

1334
00:49:00,506 --> 00:49:04,609
I'm not going to take up the

1335
00:49:04,609 --> 00:49:06,578
time of the board, but I'm just

1336
00:49:06,578 --> 00:49:08,613
wanting to say you all have so

1337
00:49:08,613 --> 00:49:10,982
many districts, but can we come

1338
00:49:10,982 --> 00:49:12,817
together with one common goal,

1339
00:49:12,817 --> 00:49:14,819
with compassion in our hearts,

1340
00:49:14,819 --> 00:49:16,955
especially in these times of

1341
00:49:16,955 --> 00:49:20,555
need, with kindness and an act

1342
00:49:21,293 --> 00:49:24,293
of spontaneity, can we do

1343
00:49:25,163 --> 00:49:26,432
something different this time,

1344
00:49:26,432 --> 00:49:27,699
instead of segregation, but link

1345
00:49:27,699 --> 00:49:28,934
with our hearts so that we can

1346
00:49:28,934 --> 00:49:30,735
have a little bit cheer, so that

1347
00:49:30,735 --> 00:49:33,972
we can give a little way of this

1348
00:49:33,972 --> 00:49:36,841
time to give, you know, Benita,

1349
00:49:36,841 --> 00:49:39,311
you have so big footprint that

1350
00:49:39,311 --> 00:49:40,912
you left behind. I don't know

1351
00:49:40,912 --> 00:49:43,882
how to refill in your roles, you

1352
00:49:43,882 --> 00:49:46,918
know. I hope we can, but it is

1353
00:49:46,918 --> 00:49:50,422
a tall order, and being a

1354
00:49:50,422 --> 00:49:51,656
volunteer, I learn so much

1355
00:49:51,656 --> 00:49:53,959
through your work. I have not

1356
00:49:53,959 --> 00:49:55,193
directly had a chance to work

1357
00:49:55,193 --> 00:49:57,695
with you, but I'm sure when we

1358
00:49:57,695 --> 00:49:59,898
meet each other in the world or

1359
00:49:59,898 --> 00:50:00,999
somewhere along the line I can

1360
00:50:00,999 --> 00:50:02,234
hear about your experiences and

1361
00:50:02,234 --> 00:50:06,434
how to set example in the Health

1362
00:50:06,972 --> 00:50:09,408
and Human Services, because in

1363
00:50:09,408 --> 00:50:10,842
the world I learn that's where

1364
00:50:10,842 --> 00:50:12,744
the heart is, right? So how do

1365
00:50:12,744 --> 00:50:14,879
you embody that, and you said to

1366
00:50:14,879 --> 00:50:17,416
serve our community better, to

1367
00:50:17,416 --> 00:50:19,351
be of servitude, to be better

1368
00:50:19,351 --> 00:50:21,751
representation of the community

1369
00:50:22,854 --> 00:50:24,722
and be a better person, I guess.

1370
00:50:24,722 --> 00:50:25,657
Thank you.

1371
00:50:25,657 --> 00:50:27,657
[ Applause ]

1372
00:50:40,839 --> 00:50:43,239
>>SPEAKER: Assistant director of

1373
00:50:45,611 --> 00:50:46,744
Marin County free library, and I

1374
00:50:46,744 --> 00:50:48,213
just want to take this moment to

1375
00:50:48,213 --> 00:50:50,810
thank you, Benita, for your

1376
00:50:50,810 --> 00:50:52,984
leadership. As a Black woman in

1377
00:50:52,984 --> 00:50:54,653
executive leadership in Marin

1378
00:50:54,653 --> 00:50:56,788
County, it's not easy. Seeing

1379
00:50:56,788 --> 00:50:58,690
you in every meeting, the

1380
00:50:58,690 --> 00:51:00,225
management council, other

1381
00:51:00,225 --> 00:51:01,426
assistant department heads, has

1382
00:51:01,426 --> 00:51:04,426
really transformed my life and

1383
00:51:04,496 --> 00:51:06,298
influenced -- and influenced me

1384
00:51:06,298 --> 00:51:07,799
in such a way that I think I

1385
00:51:07,799 --> 00:51:09,635
can't even articulate the words

1386
00:51:09,635 --> 00:51:11,102
very well, but you've showed me

1387
00:51:11,102 --> 00:51:13,171
strength. You've helped me

1388
00:51:13,171 --> 00:51:14,739
through some of my hardest times

1389
00:51:14,739 --> 00:51:16,408
being a Black woman in executive

1390
00:51:16,408 --> 00:51:18,977
leadership at the county. You

1391
00:51:18,977 --> 00:51:21,279
really -- you listen to me. You

1392
00:51:21,279 --> 00:51:24,883
heard how difficult it can be at

1393
00:51:24,883 --> 00:51:27,850
the top, and you really have

1394
00:51:27,850 --> 00:51:29,485
just poured yourself into

1395
00:51:30,210 --> 00:51:31,256
demonstrating the type of

1396
00:51:31,256 --> 00:51:32,190
servant leadership that I think

1397
00:51:32,190 --> 00:51:34,192
we all aspire to in public

1398
00:51:34,192 --> 00:51:36,328
services, and I just want to

1399
00:51:36,328 --> 00:51:38,363
say, you know, the lies that

1400
00:51:38,363 --> 00:51:39,598
have been said about you are

1401
00:51:39,598 --> 00:51:42,568
very untrue, and I want to go on

1402
00:51:42,568 --> 00:51:43,968
the record with that, and I'm

1403
00:51:43,968 --> 00:51:46,171
sorry that, you know, it's not

1404
00:51:46,171 --> 00:51:47,805
my role to apologize, but I want

1405
00:51:47,805 --> 00:51:49,608
to say and acknowledge that I'm

1406
00:51:49,608 --> 00:51:50,775
sorry that you were treated in

1407
00:51:50,775 --> 00:51:53,440
such a way with all of the

1408
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:54,413
leadership you've demonstrated

1409
00:51:54,413 --> 00:51:56,415
in this county over the past

1410
00:51:56,415 --> 00:51:57,749
four years through some of the

1411
00:51:57,749 --> 00:51:59,384
darkest and most difficult

1412
00:51:59,384 --> 00:52:01,286
times, you have been the light,

1413
00:52:01,286 --> 00:52:03,255
as COMAEA said, for us, and I

1414
00:52:03,255 --> 00:52:05,123
want you to know that we see

1415
00:52:05,123 --> 00:52:07,926
you. We support you, and we

1416
00:52:07,926 --> 00:52:10,828
love you. And thank you for

1417
00:52:10,828 --> 00:52:11,863
everything you've done for the

1418
00:52:11,863 --> 00:52:15,133
county, for the leaders, and for

1419
00:52:15,133 --> 00:52:16,568
all of the departments. You

1420
00:52:16,568 --> 00:52:18,136
have been nothing but a light,

1421
00:52:18,136 --> 00:52:19,904
as COMAEA said, and I want you

1422
00:52:19,904 --> 00:52:21,273
to remember that, so thank you.

1423
00:52:21,273 --> 00:52:23,273
[ Applause ]

1424
00:52:32,183 --> 00:52:34,819
>>SPEAKER: Hi, my name is Robin

1425
00:52:34,819 --> 00:52:37,623
Berren, and I am a department

1426
00:52:37,623 --> 00:52:39,157
analyst with our HHS department

1427
00:52:39,157 --> 00:52:41,250
with our strategy team. I'm

1428
00:52:41,250 --> 00:52:42,628
equity branch of that strategy

1429
00:52:42,628 --> 00:52:43,962
team, and I just want to say,

1430
00:52:43,962 --> 00:52:46,632
Benita, you have never made my

1431
00:52:46,632 --> 00:52:49,401
job hard. You have made my job

1432
00:52:49,401 --> 00:52:50,802
easy. You have given me access

1433
00:52:50,802 --> 00:52:54,402
to people and positions of power

1434
00:52:54,872 --> 00:52:56,742
to make decisions about equity

1435
00:52:56,742 --> 00:52:58,810
and inclusion and belonging.

1436
00:52:58,810 --> 00:53:00,779
You have given me space to

1437
00:53:00,779 --> 00:53:03,779
challenge people, to really look

1438
00:53:04,182 --> 00:53:07,619
at how we are addressing equity,

1439
00:53:07,619 --> 00:53:08,754
and to know the difference

1440
00:53:08,754 --> 00:53:11,154
between equality versus equity,

1441
00:53:11,757 --> 00:53:12,757
and you have never been ashamed

1442
00:53:12,757 --> 00:53:14,125
of that.

1443
00:53:14,125 --> 00:53:16,161
And I also want to say that one

1444
00:53:16,161 --> 00:53:17,262
of the things that a lot of

1445
00:53:17,262 --> 00:53:19,130
folks have said here is that

1446
00:53:19,130 --> 00:53:21,700
it's really been meaningful for

1447
00:53:21,700 --> 00:53:23,168
you to be a Black woman in this

1448
00:53:23,168 --> 00:53:24,436
position, and what they are

1449
00:53:24,436 --> 00:53:25,637
saying is representation

1450
00:53:25,637 --> 00:53:28,540
matters, and to have a woman of

1451
00:53:28,540 --> 00:53:31,777
color here in this position has

1452
00:53:31,777 --> 00:53:34,777
been so meaningful because your

1453
00:53:34,912 --> 00:53:36,114
lived experience has been

1454
00:53:36,114 --> 00:53:37,315
meaningful, and regardless of

1455
00:53:37,315 --> 00:53:39,817
what people have said to you,

1456
00:53:39,817 --> 00:53:41,687
your position has been

1457
00:53:41,687 --> 00:53:43,988
meaningful to me and to everyone

1458
00:53:43,988 --> 00:53:47,225
at HHS, and I want you to know

1459
00:53:47,225 --> 00:53:50,225
that Barack Obama was criticized

1460
00:53:50,495 --> 00:53:53,310
for wearing a tan suit, so . . .

1461
00:53:53,310 --> 00:53:54,866
you know, like, I mean, I just

1462
00:53:54,866 --> 00:53:56,234
feel like a lot of Black folks

1463
00:53:56,234 --> 00:53:57,769
in positions of power get

1464
00:53:57,769 --> 00:53:59,304
criticized for every little

1465
00:53:59,304 --> 00:54:01,807
thing because of who they are,

1466
00:54:01,807 --> 00:54:03,941
and so I want you to know, and I

1467
00:54:03,941 --> 00:54:06,440
want you to know that God sees

1468
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:08,279
you and that we all see you as a

1469
00:54:08,279 --> 00:54:11,150
beloved woman of God and as a

1470
00:54:11,150 --> 00:54:12,884
Black woman who has led our

1471
00:54:12,884 --> 00:54:15,353
department with power and grace

1472
00:54:15,353 --> 00:54:17,355
and has spoken truth to power,

1473
00:54:17,355 --> 00:54:19,457
and we bless you in your

1474
00:54:19,457 --> 00:54:20,358
retirement and thank you for

1475
00:54:20,358 --> 00:54:21,993
your leadership.

1476
00:54:21,993 --> 00:54:23,993
[ Applause ]

1477
00:54:31,135 --> 00:54:33,535
>>SPEAKER: Thank you, Eva

1478
00:54:34,606 --> 00:54:35,774
Chrysanthe. I want to recognize

1479
00:54:35,774 --> 00:54:38,643
all the appreciation of Benita

1480
00:54:38,643 --> 00:54:39,778
McLarin and her hard work for

1481
00:54:39,778 --> 00:54:41,646
the county. I also think it's

1482
00:54:41,646 --> 00:54:42,881
important to recognize that

1483
00:54:42,881 --> 00:54:44,549
Benita was limited in what she

1484
00:54:44,549 --> 00:54:45,650
could do because of the

1485
00:54:45,650 --> 00:54:48,500
leadership in this county.

1486
00:54:48,420 --> 00:54:50,355
While representation matters, it

1487
00:54:50,355 --> 00:54:53,191
is also worth noting that this

1488
00:54:53,191 --> 00:54:54,659
Board of Supervisors is entirely

1489
00:54:54,659 --> 00:54:56,428
White, and their decisions -- I

1490
00:54:56,428 --> 00:54:57,495
note that Damon Connolly is

1491
00:54:57,495 --> 00:54:59,895
here, assemblyman Damon Connolly

1492
00:55:00,998 --> 00:55:02,300
is here. It was Damon Connolly

1493
00:55:02,300 --> 00:55:06,500
and Kate Colin and -- I'm sorry,

1494
00:55:06,671 --> 00:55:09,671
state senator Mike McGuire who

1495
00:55:10,700 --> 00:55:11,276
put together that internment

1496
00:55:11,276 --> 00:55:12,611
camp under the freeway. One

1497
00:55:12,611 --> 00:55:14,780
person who is not here even to

1498
00:55:14,780 --> 00:55:17,480
see this event is Jimmy Sanders,

1499
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:20,510
a Black marine corps veteran who

1500
00:55:20,510 --> 00:55:22,353
died on the street last July.

1501
00:55:22,353 --> 00:55:23,755
He was remanded into that camp

1502
00:55:23,755 --> 00:55:25,457
because law enforcement in this

1503
00:55:25,457 --> 00:55:27,859
county decided to take his RV

1504
00:55:27,859 --> 00:55:30,228
improperly, and so he was made

1505
00:55:30,228 --> 00:55:32,564
homeless, and this is someone

1506
00:55:32,564 --> 00:55:34,232
who was already made sick by his

1507
00:55:34,232 --> 00:55:36,200
military service. He was

1508
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:37,402
[indiscernible].

1509
00:55:37,402 --> 00:55:39,700
I just think it's important, we

1510
00:55:39,700 --> 00:55:40,338
have a lot of work to do, and I

1511
00:55:40,338 --> 00:55:41,306
understand the political purpose

1512
00:55:41,306 --> 00:55:42,908
of the county congratulating

1513
00:55:42,908 --> 00:55:45,543
itself, but it's also -- it's

1514
00:55:45,543 --> 00:55:48,313
not okay when the people who

1515
00:55:48,313 --> 00:55:50,148
need to be here, who need to be

1516
00:55:50,148 --> 00:55:53,685
heard, are not really made to

1517
00:55:53,685 --> 00:55:54,653
feel welcome in the room. Thank

1518
00:55:54,653 --> 00:55:55,854
you, Benita, for your service.

1519
00:55:55,854 --> 00:55:57,422
I think you did a good job by

1520
00:55:57,422 --> 00:55:59,624
the county. The issue is really

1521
00:55:59,624 --> 00:56:01,927
what are the county's goals.

1522
00:56:01,927 --> 00:56:03,528
Damon Connolly has provided no

1523
00:56:03,528 --> 00:56:05,928
explanation for his putting

1524
00:56:06,665 --> 00:56:08,299
together that camp. It was a

1525
00:56:08,299 --> 00:56:10,836
majority Black and Latino camp,

1526
00:56:10,836 --> 00:56:12,938
and they were treated horribly.

1527
00:56:12,938 --> 00:56:15,173
It was the worst-treated group

1528
00:56:15,173 --> 00:56:16,842
of unhoused people in the entire

1529
00:56:16,842 --> 00:56:18,543
county. There was no lawyer to

1530
00:56:18,543 --> 00:56:21,145
come to their aid. I asked for

1531
00:56:21,145 --> 00:56:22,881
a health inspection many times.

1532
00:56:22,881 --> 00:56:25,160
I contacted Damon Connolly's

1533
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:28,160
office many times, Mary Sackett

1534
00:56:28,152 --> 00:56:29,287
remembers this. We must

1535
00:56:29,287 --> 00:56:31,220
remember the people we are here

1536
00:56:31,220 --> 00:56:33,422
to serve. Thank you.

1537
00:56:34,825 --> 00:56:36,825
[ Applause ]

1538
00:56:38,463 --> 00:56:41,463
>>SPEAKER: Hi. My name's Amy

1539
00:56:41,833 --> 00:56:44,680
Dietz. I'm a senior program

1540
00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:44,803
coordinator for Health and Human

1541
00:56:44,803 --> 00:56:46,103
Services, and I just want to say

1542
00:56:46,103 --> 00:56:47,372
how impressed I was that you

1543
00:56:47,372 --> 00:56:50,942
just show up. I've had the

1544
00:56:50,942 --> 00:56:52,430
opportunity to volunteer at some

1545
00:56:52,430 --> 00:56:53,478
of our overnight shelters during

1546
00:56:53,478 --> 00:56:57,582
the storms, and you show up at

1547
00:56:57,582 --> 00:56:59,718
six in the morning with a hot

1548
00:56:59,718 --> 00:57:00,952
chocolate bar to serve the

1549
00:57:00,952 --> 00:57:02,153
homeless, right? Like, we're

1550
00:57:02,153 --> 00:57:03,870
not expecting you to be there.

1551
00:57:03,870 --> 00:57:05,323
You just show up. At the

1552
00:57:05,323 --> 00:57:07,692
softball games, you show up, and

1553
00:57:07,692 --> 00:57:08,960
you're distributing chips to

1554
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:11,960
everyone, like Cracker Jacks to

1555
00:57:13,398 --> 00:57:15,400
the stands, and just how

1556
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:16,434
impressed I've been that you

1557
00:57:16,434 --> 00:57:20,340
show up for your Health and

1558
00:57:20,672 --> 00:57:21,573
Human Services employees when

1559
00:57:21,573 --> 00:57:22,841
they're not expecting it.

1560
00:57:22,841 --> 00:57:24,475
You're just there in support,

1561
00:57:24,475 --> 00:57:27,412
and I think that's emblematic of

1562
00:57:27,412 --> 00:57:31,120
everything you are and how much

1563
00:57:31,917 --> 00:57:33,840
I've appreciated seeing that, so

1564
00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:35,840
thank you.

1565
00:57:37,689 --> 00:57:38,623
>>SPEAKER: Greetings to the

1566
00:57:38,623 --> 00:57:39,824
board and hopefully I guess

1567
00:57:39,824 --> 00:57:41,292
maybe I'll be the last one, and

1568
00:57:41,292 --> 00:57:42,930
maybe appropriate.

1569
00:57:42,930 --> 00:57:45,430
I am Michelle Lafalez. I am

1570
00:57:45,430 --> 00:57:46,798
Benita's oldest sister. I am

1571
00:57:46,798 --> 00:57:48,566
the first born, and I know her

1572
00:57:48,566 --> 00:57:52,166
very well. I could tell laugh

1573
00:57:53,337 --> 00:57:53,705
little secrets.

1574
00:57:53,705 --> 00:57:55,705
[ Laughter ]

1575
00:57:56,207 --> 00:57:57,542
But I just want to stand and

1576
00:57:57,542 --> 00:57:59,611
represent our family. Our

1577
00:57:59,611 --> 00:58:01,446
parents are very proud of you.

1578
00:58:01,446 --> 00:58:03,214
We come from a humble

1579
00:58:03,214 --> 00:58:05,216
background, as Benita has said.

1580
00:58:05,216 --> 00:58:06,952
There were times when as

1581
00:58:06,952 --> 00:58:09,454
children we had to heat up our

1582
00:58:09,454 --> 00:58:11,456
bath water on the stove to take

1583
00:58:11,456 --> 00:58:14,793
baths, so when you see Benita

1584
00:58:14,793 --> 00:58:16,661
and all her accomplishments, and

1585
00:58:16,661 --> 00:58:18,296
all her sacrifices, they are

1586
00:58:18,296 --> 00:58:20,331
real, and they are from the

1587
00:58:20,331 --> 00:58:23,267
heart. We are so proud of you,

1588
00:58:23,267 --> 00:58:25,169
Benita. We graduated from

1589
00:58:25,169 --> 00:58:26,604
Washington University, which is

1590
00:58:26,604 --> 00:58:29,604
the Harvard of the Mideast.

1591
00:58:31,309 --> 00:58:33,277
Then she went to Harvard and

1592
00:58:33,277 --> 00:58:34,412
graduated from there, so that

1593
00:58:34,412 --> 00:58:36,147
just -- you know, and it just

1594
00:58:36,147 --> 00:58:38,449
goes on and on, but just as you

1595
00:58:38,449 --> 00:58:40,485
see her at work, she is at home

1596
00:58:40,485 --> 00:58:43,254
too. Let me tell you, she's a

1597
00:58:43,254 --> 00:58:44,522
soldier over us, and she

1598
00:58:44,522 --> 00:58:46,925
commands us just as much as she

1599
00:58:46,925 --> 00:58:48,660
commands you all. But we love

1600
00:58:48,660 --> 00:58:50,929
her dearly, and she has set the

1601
00:58:50,929 --> 00:58:52,296
example, and I'm so proud to

1602
00:58:52,296 --> 00:58:53,531
hear all of your testimonies

1603
00:58:53,531 --> 00:58:56,467
about her. It really is

1604
00:58:56,467 --> 00:58:59,236
important, and it really is

1605
00:58:59,236 --> 00:59:00,471
valuable, what you all have done

1606
00:59:00,471 --> 00:59:01,973
and what you all have said, and

1607
00:59:01,973 --> 00:59:03,407
I'm going to take it back to my

1608
00:59:03,407 --> 00:59:04,542
family. We're very proud and we

1609
00:59:04,542 --> 00:59:05,510
love you.

1610
00:59:05,510 --> 00:59:07,510
[ Applause ]

1611
00:59:31,335 --> 00:59:32,370
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

1612
00:59:32,370 --> 00:59:33,270
PRES.: We have I believe one

1613
00:59:33,270 --> 00:59:36,870
speaker online. We have two I

1614
00:59:37,274 --> 00:59:39,878
see. So this is for

1615
00:59:39,878 --> 00:59:41,878
Dr. McLarin's retirement.

1616
00:59:43,648 --> 00:59:44,810
>>MODERATOR: The first speaker

1617
00:59:44,810 --> 00:59:46,810
is Musa Tariq.

1618
00:59:52,123 --> 00:59:53,491
>>SPEAKER: I realize this is for

1619
00:59:53,491 --> 00:59:54,358
the commendation, so I'll raise

1620
00:59:54,358 --> 00:59:55,393
my hand for the next round of

1621
00:59:55,393 --> 00:59:56,270
public comments.

1622
00:59:56,270 --> 00:59:56,627
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

1623
00:59:56,627 --> 00:59:57,795
PRES.: Okay, thank you.

1624
00:59:57,795 --> 00:59:58,863
>>MODERATOR: The next speaker is

1625
00:59:58,863 --> 01:00:01,263
Ken Shapiro. Please unmute.

1626
01:00:03,434 --> 01:00:04,690
>>SPEAKER: Hi, everybody. Can

1627
01:00:04,690 --> 01:00:05,570
you hear me? I don't see a

1628
01:00:05,570 --> 01:00:06,237
picture of myself, but that's

1629
01:00:06,237 --> 01:00:07,805
okay.

1630
01:00:07,805 --> 01:00:08,406
>>MODERATOR: We can hear you.

1631
01:00:08,406 --> 01:00:09,507
Go ahead.

1632
01:00:09,507 --> 01:00:10,207
>>SPEAKER: I was going to show

1633
01:00:10,207 --> 01:00:11,709
you all the gray hairs on my

1634
01:00:11,709 --> 01:00:15,113
beard, and it's my time with you

1635
01:00:15,113 --> 01:00:16,114
that I say are responsible for

1636
01:00:16,114 --> 01:00:17,314
them, but there are -- I

1637
01:00:17,314 --> 01:00:19,170
wouldn't trade it for a minute,

1638
01:00:19,170 --> 01:00:20,651
for anything. Every minute with

1639
01:00:20,651 --> 01:00:22,887
you was a joy. I miss you so

1640
01:00:22,887 --> 01:00:24,122
much. I think about you every

1641
01:00:24,122 --> 01:00:26,958
day. Every little lesson you

1642
01:00:26,958 --> 01:00:29,293
taught me I'm applying to my

1643
01:00:29,293 --> 01:00:30,695
life every single day. You're

1644
01:00:30,695 --> 01:00:33,231
an amazing leader. You're an

1645
01:00:33,231 --> 01:00:36,101
amazing mentor, and I miss your

1646
01:00:36,101 --> 01:00:37,535
laugh so much, especially at the

1647
01:00:37,535 --> 01:00:39,170
end of the day when we go

1648
01:00:39,170 --> 01:00:40,605
through all the stuff that was

1649
01:00:40,605 --> 01:00:43,741
so difficult and the problems we

1650
01:00:43,741 --> 01:00:45,576
didn't have a solution for. You

1651
01:00:45,576 --> 01:00:47,845
still find a way to make me

1652
01:00:47,845 --> 01:00:49,480
laugh every single evening, and

1653
01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:52,830
I'm so happy to dip my toe back

1654
01:00:52,830 --> 01:00:53,317
into Marin for a couple minutes

1655
01:00:53,317 --> 01:00:54,786
and see all these people

1656
01:00:54,786 --> 01:00:56,687
honoring you, and I'm just so

1657
01:00:56,687 --> 01:00:59,870
proud of you. Congratulations.

1658
01:00:59,557 --> 01:01:00,225
>>MODERATOR: President

1659
01:01:00,225 --> 01:01:00,858
Moulton-Peters, there are no

1660
01:01:00,858 --> 01:01:03,258
additional speakers in the

1661
01:01:05,630 --> 01:01:06,263
queue.

1662
01:01:06,263 --> 01:01:07,565
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

1663
01:01:07,565 --> 01:01:09,333
PRES.: Yes, Matthew Hymel,

1664
01:01:09,333 --> 01:01:11,350
please.

1665
01:01:11,350 --> 01:01:11,702
>>MATTHEW H. HYMEL: Well, good

1666
01:01:11,702 --> 01:01:13,404
morning and I think everybody

1667
01:01:13,404 --> 01:01:14,806
has said it better than I can

1668
01:01:14,806 --> 01:01:16,841
say it, but I did want to add my

1669
01:01:16,841 --> 01:01:19,577
personal thanks to Benita. When

1670
01:01:19,577 --> 01:01:21,378
we first interviewed Benita, I

1671
01:01:21,378 --> 01:01:22,847
just couldn't think how

1672
01:01:22,847 --> 01:01:23,982
fortunate we were to have

1673
01:01:23,982 --> 01:01:25,683
someone with her character, her

1674
01:01:25,683 --> 01:01:27,819
intellect and her caring nature,

1675
01:01:27,819 --> 01:01:28,953
and we couldn't have seen what

1676
01:01:28,953 --> 01:01:30,421
we were going to be in store for

1677
01:01:30,421 --> 01:01:31,555
over the next four and a half

1678
01:01:31,555 --> 01:01:33,570
years, but all of those were

1679
01:01:33,570 --> 01:01:36,570
tested, and you, you know,

1680
01:01:36,460 --> 01:01:37,795
stepped up even more than we

1681
01:01:37,795 --> 01:01:38,963
could have imagined, so I want

1682
01:01:38,963 --> 01:01:40,364
to thank you for that.

1683
01:01:40,364 --> 01:01:42,100
And I know you're a religious

1684
01:01:42,100 --> 01:01:43,668
person. I'm not particularly a

1685
01:01:43,668 --> 01:01:46,437
religious person, but I think

1686
01:01:46,437 --> 01:01:47,939
there was a little divine

1687
01:01:47,939 --> 01:01:49,607
intervention here to bring you

1688
01:01:49,607 --> 01:01:50,975
to our community when we needed

1689
01:01:50,975 --> 01:01:52,243
you most, and so thank you for

1690
01:01:52,243 --> 01:01:55,243
that service. I can't imagine

1691
01:01:56,714 --> 01:01:58,883
anyone who deserves a more, you

1692
01:01:58,883 --> 01:02:00,918
know, wonderful retirement, and

1693
01:02:00,918 --> 01:02:02,520
so thank you so much, and we

1694
01:02:02,520 --> 01:02:03,688
wish you nothing but the best

1695
01:02:03,688 --> 01:02:05,857
from the county family, and I

1696
01:02:05,857 --> 01:02:07,925
hope to continue to learn from

1697
01:02:07,925 --> 01:02:10,161
you and work with you as I take

1698
01:02:10,161 --> 01:02:12,697
my transition as well. Thank

1699
01:02:12,697 --> 01:02:13,330
you. There we go. All right.

1700
01:02:13,330 --> 01:02:15,330
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

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01:02:25,576 --> 01:02:26,610
PRES.: I want to bring it back

1702
01:02:26,610 --> 01:02:27,879
to the board now for some

1703
01:02:27,879 --> 01:02:29,180
closing comments and then we'll

1704
01:02:29,180 --> 01:02:31,149
pass that resolution. Vice

1705
01:02:31,149 --> 01:02:33,149
President Rodoni?

1706
01:02:34,518 --> 01:02:35,419
>>DENNIS RODONI: Wow. What a

1707
01:02:35,419 --> 01:02:36,888
morning. Congratulations,

1708
01:02:36,888 --> 01:02:40,124
Benita. You know, I don't know

1709
01:02:40,124 --> 01:02:41,592
if you could have packed

1710
01:02:41,592 --> 01:02:43,610
anything more into four years.

1711
01:02:43,610 --> 01:02:45,290
I think we probably maxed you

1712
01:02:45,290 --> 01:02:46,597
out, but I'm sure if we had

1713
01:02:46,597 --> 01:02:47,798
something else, you would have

1714
01:02:47,798 --> 01:02:49,867
handled it really well.

1715
01:02:49,867 --> 01:02:51,236
You know, a couple people talked

1716
01:02:51,236 --> 01:02:53,104
about showing up, walking the

1717
01:02:53,104 --> 01:02:55,673
talk today, and I think that's

1718
01:02:55,673 --> 01:02:58,109
what I like the most about you.

1719
01:02:58,109 --> 01:03:01,709
As supervisors, we're out in the

1720
01:03:01,746 --> 01:03:03,214
community a lot, and almost

1721
01:03:03,214 --> 01:03:04,648
always Benita would be at those

1722
01:03:04,648 --> 01:03:06,550
events. I could remember

1723
01:03:06,550 --> 01:03:08,253
several times you coming to

1724
01:03:08,253 --> 01:03:10,788
Bolinas at night, knowing you've

1725
01:03:10,788 --> 01:03:12,890
had a long ride home, but

1726
01:03:12,890 --> 01:03:14,425
showing up there was so

1727
01:03:14,425 --> 01:03:16,227
important to that community, and

1728
01:03:16,227 --> 01:03:18,495
I have to confess to you that

1729
01:03:18,495 --> 01:03:20,231
recently, two or three months

1730
01:03:20,231 --> 01:03:21,933
ago we were there and a

1731
01:03:21,933 --> 01:03:22,934
gentleman came up to you and

1732
01:03:22,934 --> 01:03:25,770
told you how the social worker

1733
01:03:25,770 --> 01:03:27,838
had saved his life, basically,

1734
01:03:27,838 --> 01:03:30,208
by getting him a surgery he

1735
01:03:30,208 --> 01:03:33,440
needed, and I have to confess, I

1736
01:03:33,440 --> 01:03:34,712
sent him up to you that night,

1737
01:03:34,712 --> 01:03:38,415
but I'm glad I did now that

1738
01:03:38,415 --> 01:03:39,250
[indiscernible] retirement,

1739
01:03:39,250 --> 01:03:40,318
because I think that's a moment

1740
01:03:40,318 --> 01:03:40,918
you'll remember. Thank you so

1741
01:03:40,918 --> 01:03:42,918
much.

1742
01:03:48,425 --> 01:03:50,261
>>MARY SACKETT: Dr. McLarin,

1743
01:03:50,261 --> 01:03:51,695
we've heard so many wonderful

1744
01:03:51,695 --> 01:03:54,999
things about you today. One of

1745
01:03:54,999 --> 01:03:56,301
the numbers that just jumps out

1746
01:03:56,301 --> 01:03:57,434
to me is that under your

1747
01:03:57,434 --> 01:03:59,434
leadership 150 units of

1748
01:03:59,670 --> 01:04:00,972
permanent supportive housing

1749
01:04:00,972 --> 01:04:03,972
were created in Marin County.

1750
01:04:08,579 --> 01:04:10,982
That -- there's no small feat

1751
01:04:10,982 --> 01:04:14,319
there, and that was due to your

1752
01:04:14,319 --> 01:04:15,552
unabashed leadership of a great

1753
01:04:15,552 --> 01:04:17,322
team who then took that and ran

1754
01:04:17,322 --> 01:04:18,356
with it and knew that you

1755
01:04:18,356 --> 01:04:19,757
supported them through all that

1756
01:04:19,757 --> 01:04:21,392
work, so many generations to

1757
01:04:21,392 --> 01:04:22,793
come are grateful for those

1758
01:04:22,793 --> 01:04:24,793
units of housing.

1759
01:04:25,229 --> 01:04:27,432
I have really appreciated our

1760
01:04:27,432 --> 01:04:29,832
monthly discussions where your

1761
01:04:29,900 --> 01:04:31,302
frank honesty breaks through

1762
01:04:31,302 --> 01:04:33,702
from your always professional

1763
01:04:33,704 --> 01:04:36,107
decorum. You've pointed so many

1764
01:04:36,107 --> 01:04:37,708
things out to me that I don't

1765
01:04:37,708 --> 01:04:39,430
experience in this county, and I

1766
01:04:39,430 --> 01:04:40,711
really appreciate that. I know

1767
01:04:40,711 --> 01:04:42,460
one of your concerns when you

1768
01:04:42,460 --> 01:04:44,315
talked about retiring was will

1769
01:04:44,315 --> 01:04:46,684
your -- will all the work you've

1770
01:04:46,684 --> 01:04:48,520
done on equity be carried

1771
01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:49,820
forward, and I think this room

1772
01:04:49,820 --> 01:04:51,389
is a testament that you've

1773
01:04:51,389 --> 01:04:53,570
touched so many people deeply

1774
01:04:53,570 --> 01:04:55,426
and internally that there's a

1775
01:04:55,426 --> 01:04:56,660
lot of us to carry your work on,

1776
01:04:56,660 --> 01:04:58,328
so thank you so much. Enjoy

1777
01:04:58,328 --> 01:05:00,328
your retirement.

1778
01:05:08,806 --> 01:05:11,420
>>KATIE RICE: Benita, what a

1779
01:05:11,420 --> 01:05:12,643
wonderful morning, and I know

1780
01:05:12,643 --> 01:05:14,979
it's -- I know this is what the

1781
01:05:14,979 --> 01:05:17,315
Bishop said, things shouldn't be

1782
01:05:17,315 --> 01:05:17,948
about, but this is all about

1783
01:05:17,948 --> 01:05:19,948
you.

1784
01:05:24,955 --> 01:05:26,657
I am just really going to miss

1785
01:05:26,657 --> 01:05:28,426
you so much. Benita does show

1786
01:05:28,426 --> 01:05:30,826
up everywhere, unbelievably so,

1787
01:05:32,630 --> 01:05:33,630
and she was also at every single

1788
01:05:33,630 --> 01:05:36,630
Tuesday meeting, right? We have

1789
01:05:39,737 --> 01:05:41,380
spent a lot of time together in

1790
01:05:41,380 --> 01:05:42,373
different ways, and I'm going to

1791
01:05:42,373 --> 01:05:44,800
miss those monthly calls and the

1792
01:05:44,800 --> 01:05:45,376
frankness, but also all the

1793
01:05:45,376 --> 01:05:47,376
other interactions, like

1794
01:05:47,478 --> 01:05:48,779
everyone else in this room who

1795
01:05:48,779 --> 01:05:50,381
has stood up and spoken and

1796
01:05:50,381 --> 01:05:52,160
those who haven't and the many,

1797
01:05:52,160 --> 01:05:55,253
many folks on your HHS team and

1798
01:05:55,253 --> 01:05:58,253
beyond, you have inspired me.

1799
01:05:58,256 --> 01:05:59,990
You have bolstered me, and I

1800
01:05:59,990 --> 01:06:01,692
think you have made me a better

1801
01:06:01,692 --> 01:06:03,627
person and a better leader, and

1802
01:06:03,627 --> 01:06:05,162
hopefully -- and it doesn't

1803
01:06:05,162 --> 01:06:08,762
sound like that -- maybe I'll

1804
01:06:09,333 --> 01:06:10,901
move forward with more humility

1805
01:06:10,901 --> 01:06:12,437
and more conviction for having

1806
01:06:12,437 --> 01:06:13,271
worked with you during these

1807
01:06:13,271 --> 01:06:15,271
last four years.

1808
01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:17,508
It has been just something to

1809
01:06:17,508 --> 01:06:20,508
hear everybody, all your people

1810
01:06:22,780 --> 01:06:25,516
speak today, and I'm so glad

1811
01:06:25,516 --> 01:06:27,318
they have had the opportunity,

1812
01:06:27,318 --> 01:06:29,420
not only to share with you their

1813
01:06:29,420 --> 01:06:32,490
experience with you, but also so

1814
01:06:32,490 --> 01:06:35,560
that the entire county can hear

1815
01:06:35,560 --> 01:06:37,328
how much you have meant to us as

1816
01:06:37,328 --> 01:06:40,331
individuals and to the health of

1817
01:06:40,331 --> 01:06:42,699
this county and community and to

1818
01:06:42,699 --> 01:06:43,667
the betterment of this place

1819
01:06:43,667 --> 01:06:45,503
going forward, so thank you so,

1820
01:06:45,503 --> 01:06:48,239
so much for your service here

1821
01:06:48,239 --> 01:06:50,274
and for being such an incredibly

1822
01:06:50,274 --> 01:06:52,674
wonderful colleague. Thank you.

1823
01:06:52,843 --> 01:06:54,843
[ Applause ]

1824
01:06:57,810 --> 01:06:59,160
>>ERIC LUCAN: Thank you very

1825
01:06:59,160 --> 01:07:00,585
much, Benita. First and

1826
01:07:00,585 --> 01:07:01,785
foremost, please don't teach

1827
01:07:01,785 --> 01:07:05,189
anybody else how to retire. You

1828
01:07:05,189 --> 01:07:06,657
even do this with such

1829
01:07:06,657 --> 01:07:07,825
excellence, you're making it

1830
01:07:07,825 --> 01:07:09,793
look so appealing. No, really

1831
01:07:09,793 --> 01:07:11,262
congratulate you and thank you

1832
01:07:11,262 --> 01:07:12,830
for everything. Just a couple

1833
01:07:12,830 --> 01:07:14,131
quick words at the end here.

1834
01:07:14,131 --> 01:07:16,300
Thank you for choosing Marin.

1835
01:07:16,300 --> 01:07:17,901
With all of your experience,

1836
01:07:17,901 --> 01:07:18,769
with everything that you've done

1837
01:07:18,769 --> 01:07:19,903
in your career, with all the

1838
01:07:19,903 --> 01:07:21,339
letters after your name, you

1839
01:07:21,339 --> 01:07:23,140
could have gone anywhere, and

1840
01:07:23,140 --> 01:07:25,242
you chose to spend these past

1841
01:07:25,242 --> 01:07:26,710
four years here in the County of

1842
01:07:26,710 --> 01:07:28,120
Marin. We can't thank you

1843
01:07:28,120 --> 01:07:29,480
enough, and boy did we need you

1844
01:07:29,480 --> 01:07:31,282
during that time. Thank you for

1845
01:07:31,282 --> 01:07:32,916
loving Marin, for living out

1846
01:07:32,916 --> 01:07:36,387
your faith each and every day in

1847
01:07:36,387 --> 01:07:37,688
serving those and putting others

1848
01:07:37,688 --> 01:07:38,689
above yourself.

1849
01:07:38,689 --> 01:07:41,292
And lastly, as you're leaving,

1850
01:07:41,292 --> 01:07:42,259
you're not just leaving the

1851
01:07:42,259 --> 01:07:43,528
county. You're leaving a

1852
01:07:43,528 --> 01:07:44,795
legacy, and thank you for

1853
01:07:44,795 --> 01:07:46,300
leaving something behind that we

1854
01:07:46,300 --> 01:07:47,298
can continue to build off of.

1855
01:07:47,298 --> 01:07:48,899
My only regret was that I only

1856
01:07:48,899 --> 01:07:51,100
got to spend one year of your

1857
01:07:51,100 --> 01:07:53,204
tenure here with you, but I

1858
01:07:53,204 --> 01:07:54,710
thank you for everything that

1859
01:07:54,710 --> 01:07:55,272
you've left here and wish you

1860
01:07:55,272 --> 01:07:56,673
the very best in your

1861
01:07:56,673 --> 01:07:58,673
retirement. Thank you.

1862
01:08:00,544 --> 01:08:02,544
[ Applause ]

1863
01:08:03,680 --> 01:08:04,382
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

1864
01:08:04,382 --> 01:08:06,384
PRES.: You are leaving a legacy,

1865
01:08:06,384 --> 01:08:07,951
Benita. I hope you know that.

1866
01:08:07,951 --> 01:08:11,880
And I want to thank you for

1867
01:08:11,880 --> 01:08:12,289
prioritizing health and wellness

1868
01:08:12,289 --> 01:08:14,825
for all people, and also for

1869
01:08:14,825 --> 01:08:16,727
your work in elevating the needs

1870
01:08:16,727 --> 01:08:19,330
of Marin City and southern

1871
01:08:19,330 --> 01:08:22,330
Marin, and persevering with your

1872
01:08:27,804 --> 01:08:29,340
vision of the health and

1873
01:08:29,340 --> 01:08:32,243
wellness hub in southern Marin.

1874
01:08:32,243 --> 01:08:34,579
And for bringing in the mobile

1875
01:08:34,579 --> 01:08:37,181
services and Ida Green in the

1876
01:08:37,181 --> 01:08:39,816
meantime in helping out down

1877
01:08:39,816 --> 01:08:41,285
there and all of your staff

1878
01:08:41,285 --> 01:08:43,820
helping out. That has been so

1879
01:08:43,820 --> 01:08:45,856
meaningful for southern Marin.

1880
01:08:45,856 --> 01:08:47,425
I want to thank you for the

1881
01:08:47,425 --> 01:08:48,926
homeless and the encampments and

1882
01:08:48,926 --> 01:08:50,827
the anchor outs on Richardson

1883
01:08:50,827 --> 01:08:52,290
Bay. That was a tough

1884
01:08:52,290 --> 01:08:53,330
situation, and we were making it

1885
01:08:53,330 --> 01:08:55,433
up all the time, as Gary and Ken

1886
01:08:55,433 --> 01:08:56,867
have said, and it worked out

1887
01:08:56,867 --> 01:08:59,736
very well, and we have set

1888
01:08:59,736 --> 01:09:00,871
[indiscernible] that I'm very

1889
01:09:00,871 --> 01:09:01,639
proud of.

1890
01:09:01,639 --> 01:09:02,773
I want to thank you for your

1891
01:09:02,773 --> 01:09:05,173
personal warmth and compassion

1892
01:09:06,377 --> 01:09:07,678
and the way you build

1893
01:09:07,678 --> 01:09:08,713
relationships with all of us. I

1894
01:09:08,713 --> 01:09:09,880
think every one of us in this

1895
01:09:09,880 --> 01:09:11,248
room has been touched by you,

1896
01:09:11,248 --> 01:09:13,284
and you've made a difference in

1897
01:09:13,284 --> 01:09:17,121
our lives. So I just on behalf

1898
01:09:17,121 --> 01:09:19,590
of our community and all of us

1899
01:09:19,590 --> 01:09:21,240
here, thank you from the bottom

1900
01:09:21,240 --> 01:09:23,227
of our hearts for choosing Marin

1901
01:09:23,227 --> 01:09:24,595
and for everything you've done

1902
01:09:24,595 --> 01:09:26,797
for us. Have a great

1903
01:09:26,797 --> 01:09:28,797
retirement.

1904
01:09:31,402 --> 01:09:33,237
[ Applause ]

1905
01:09:33,237 --> 01:09:34,838
Okay, did you move the

1906
01:09:34,838 --> 01:09:36,838
resolution?

1907
01:09:37,541 --> 01:09:38,208
>>KATIE RICE: I'd like to move

1908
01:09:38,208 --> 01:09:40,208
the resolution commending

1909
01:09:41,245 --> 01:09:44,470
Dr. Benita McLarin for her four

1910
01:09:44,470 --> 01:09:45,882
years of service here at the

1911
01:09:45,882 --> 01:09:47,840
County of Marin and her 43 years

1912
01:09:47,840 --> 01:09:49,386
of exemplary service to the

1913
01:09:49,386 --> 01:09:50,453
people of the United States of

1914
01:09:50,453 --> 01:09:51,121
America.

1915
01:09:51,121 --> 01:09:52,356
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

1916
01:09:52,356 --> 01:09:53,557
PRES.: All right.

1917
01:09:53,557 --> 01:09:54,191
>>MARY SACKETT: Second.

1918
01:09:54,191 --> 01:09:54,858
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

1919
01:09:54,858 --> 01:09:55,526
PRES.: Okay. A motion and a

1920
01:09:55,526 --> 01:09:56,860
second. All in favor?

1921
01:09:56,860 --> 01:09:58,262
Aye.

1922
01:09:58,262 --> 01:09:59,830
That motion carries. Thank you,

1923
01:09:59,830 --> 01:10:01,830
Benita.

1924
01:10:07,737 --> 01:10:09,737
[ Applause ]

1925
01:10:20,250 --> 01:10:21,818
Benita, if you and Matthew would

1926
01:10:21,818 --> 01:10:23,153
join us for a photo up front

1927
01:10:23,153 --> 01:10:24,888
here with the board, and Damon,

1928
01:10:24,888 --> 01:10:26,888
come join us.

1929
01:18:20,630 --> 01:18:21,331
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

1930
01:18:21,331 --> 01:18:22,833
PRES.: We are going to reconvene

1931
01:18:22,833 --> 01:18:25,169
now as the Board of Supervisors.

1932
01:18:25,169 --> 01:18:26,569
We're going to have public open

1933
01:18:26,569 --> 01:18:31,369
time, and I am going to read our

1934
01:18:31,741 --> 01:18:33,209
admonishment to the community

1935
01:18:33,209 --> 01:18:34,711
about open time.

1936
01:18:34,711 --> 01:18:37,140
The Marin County Board of

1937
01:18:37,140 --> 01:18:37,681
Supervisors encourages the

1938
01:18:37,681 --> 01:18:39,820
respectful dialogue that

1939
01:18:39,820 --> 01:18:40,884
supports freedom of speech and

1940
01:18:40,884 --> 01:18:43,187
values diversity of opinion.

1941
01:18:43,187 --> 01:18:44,988
The board, staff and members of

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the public are expected to be

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civil and courteous and to

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refrain from questioning the

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character or motives of others.

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The county requests that

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speakers not use threatening,

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profane or abusive language

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which disrupts, disturbs or

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otherwise impedes the orderly

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01:19:03,307 --> 01:19:05,242
conduct of the board meeting.

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Members of the public may

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01:19:06,743 --> 01:19:08,110
comment on any item on the

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agenda during the board

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consideration of the item, and I

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will invite public comment

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following the staff presentation

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on each item, generally giving

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two minutes, unless we have a

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large crowd.

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I also want to take a moment to

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observe the expressions that we

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just heard about Marin County

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and what we value, which is

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coming together rather than

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divisiveness, and that is the

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hallmark of Marin County, is to

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come together to solve the

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issues that are before us here

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in the county. So with that,

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I'm going to open now to public

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open time, and I'm going to ask

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people to line up in the

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chambers, please, so I can see

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how many are here that wish to

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speak. If you wish to speak

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01:19:56,326 --> 01:19:57,894
online, please raise your hand

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now. We will have 45 minutes

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this morning for public comment,

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and anyone who doesn't have the

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opportunity to speak can speak

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at the end of today's business

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meeting.

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I will do what I did last week,

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which was to invite five

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speakers in the chambers and

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then we'll go five speakers

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online, so -- and I'm going to

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look at how many speakers we

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have. I'm seeing . . .

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Matthew, are you able to get a

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count for how many we have in

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the chambers, speakers?

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Okay, yeah, okay, I'm going to

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ask everyone, because if

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we're -- I'd like to hear

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everyone this morning, and so

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I'm going to -- in order to do

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that within 45 minutes, I'm

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going to ask everyone to just

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make your comments brief, one

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01:21:00,190 --> 01:21:01,825
minute, please. Please give

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your name and make your comment,

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and we'll, again, take five

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speakers in the chamber, then

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we'll go online, come back to

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the chamber.

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So please, if you'd like to

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start.

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>>SPEAKER: Hello. My name is

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Ava. I grew up on a boat in

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Richardson Bay and I'm a student

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at College of Marin, and I'm

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here to ask you to please put

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forth a resolution for a

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ceasefire and to please pass a

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01:21:23,479 --> 01:21:25,879
resolution and follow suit

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Oakland and Richmond have

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already passed ceasefire

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resolutions, and I really

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01:21:30,120 --> 01:21:31,855
shouldn't have to say stop

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01:21:31,855 --> 01:21:33,890
bombing children, and that

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01:21:33,890 --> 01:21:35,425
shouldn't be a controversial

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01:21:35,425 --> 01:21:37,760
opinion. The government should

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01:21:37,760 --> 01:21:40,630
stop bombing children, and you

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01:21:40,630 --> 01:21:41,664
know, there are several

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01:21:41,664 --> 01:21:43,133
genocides going on in the world,

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and I think we need to recognize

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that we are the benefactors of

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01:21:46,803 --> 01:21:48,438
the systems that allow for us to

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be so privileged at the expense

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of millions of other people

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01:21:51,741 --> 01:21:53,477
around the world who literally

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die so we can have strawberries

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year round, even when they are

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not in season.

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We have surpassed the numbers of

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the original 1948 nakba where

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Palestinians were murdered and

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displaced, and there has been an

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01:22:08,525 --> 01:22:10,427
ongoing genocide, much like the

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01:22:10,427 --> 01:22:11,394
genocide that happened here in

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01:22:11,394 --> 01:22:13,696
America at the Native

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Americans --

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>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

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01:22:15,650 --> 01:22:15,732
PRES.: Thank you. Thank you so

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01:22:15,732 --> 01:22:18,132
much. Next speaker, please.

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>>SPEAKER: Hi, my name is Tyler.

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01:22:27,411 --> 01:22:29,645
I go to Terra Linda. I'm urging

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01:22:29,645 --> 01:22:30,847
the Marin County Board of

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01:22:30,847 --> 01:22:32,315
Supervisors to propose and pass

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01:22:32,315 --> 01:22:34,684
a ceasefire resolution. How

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01:22:34,684 --> 01:22:37,921
many people is it gonna take to

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01:22:37,921 --> 01:22:39,589
come and demand a ceasefire

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01:22:39,589 --> 01:22:41,858
resolution for you to do it?

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01:22:41,858 --> 01:22:43,226
400 signatures on the petition

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01:22:43,226 --> 01:22:44,461
online. How many people, dozens

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01:22:44,461 --> 01:22:45,695
of people have come and made

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01:22:45,695 --> 01:22:46,963
public comment, and no action

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01:22:46,963 --> 01:22:50,267
has been taken. The Gaza health

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01:22:50,267 --> 01:22:52,502
system, all the hospitals are in

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01:22:52,502 --> 01:22:54,938
disrepair. It's -- the doctors

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01:22:54,938 --> 01:22:56,139
there said the medical system

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01:22:56,139 --> 01:22:59,139
has collapsed. There's a large

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01:23:00,243 --> 01:23:02,879
breakout of hepatitis A across

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01:23:02,879 --> 01:23:05,681
Gaza, and the UNRWA says that

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this will only grow in number

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and severity if there is not an

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immediate permanent ceasefire

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for the entirety of Gaza. Our

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government funds this genocide

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and killing and bombing of

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civilians. Israel's bombed

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schools, UN workers, children,

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01:23:21,498 --> 01:23:23,166
hospitals. They are shooting

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01:23:23,166 --> 01:23:24,367
people who tried to leave a

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01:23:24,367 --> 01:23:26,169
hospital to get dead people.

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They are piling bodies in the

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hospital --

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>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

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PRES.: Thank you. We're at

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time. Next speaker, please.

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>>SPEAKER: When will you call

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01:23:31,741 --> 01:23:32,375
for a ceasefire?

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>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

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01:23:33,410 --> 01:23:35,810
PRES.: Next speaker, please.

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01:23:37,581 --> 01:23:40,581
>>SPEAKER: Hi. Roger Stohl, San

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Rafael, speaking for a

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01:23:44,321 --> 01:23:45,855
unilateral permanent ceasefire

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resolution. I'm going to talk

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01:23:48,570 --> 01:23:51,570
about a particular issue. Yom

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01:23:51,161 --> 01:23:53,296
Kippur happened to come before

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01:23:53,296 --> 01:23:54,764
Israel stepped up killing of

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01:23:54,764 --> 01:23:56,433
Palestinians, but when I was in

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01:23:56,433 --> 01:23:57,733
synagogue chanting and fasting

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01:23:57,733 --> 01:23:58,868
this year, a thought crossed my

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01:23:58,868 --> 01:24:00,868
mind, any synagogue's

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01:24:01,871 --> 01:24:02,939
congregation might be targeted

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01:24:02,939 --> 01:24:04,841
by someone who linked Jewish

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identity to Israel and was

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01:24:06,343 --> 01:24:07,444
outraged by Israel's treatment

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01:24:07,444 --> 01:24:08,612
of Palestinians. They might

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01:24:08,612 --> 01:24:10,480
know of the British Israeli and

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01:24:10,480 --> 01:24:12,449
American project to rid historic

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01:24:12,449 --> 01:24:13,550
Palestine of its Indigenous

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01:24:13,550 --> 01:24:15,685
people in a protracted and now

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01:24:15,685 --> 01:24:17,454
rapid ethnic cleansing and

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genocide. It's hard to blame

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01:24:19,155 --> 01:24:22,155
any gentile for this confusion.

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01:24:22,225 --> 01:24:23,426
Zionism has been a tenet of

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01:24:23,426 --> 01:24:24,660
every Jewish institution I've

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grown up with, including

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01:24:26,596 --> 01:24:27,564
synagogues, religious schools

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01:24:27,564 --> 01:24:29,299
and summer camps, so there is

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01:24:29,299 --> 01:24:32,168
some logic in Israel's policies

2116
01:24:32,168 --> 01:24:33,703
conflating anti-Zionism with

2117
01:24:33,703 --> 01:24:35,138
anti-Semitism, but because of

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01:24:35,138 --> 01:24:37,307
their insistence on identifying

2119
01:24:37,307 --> 01:24:39,609
Judaism with Zionism, as do the

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mainstream Jewish institutions,

2121
01:24:41,378 --> 01:24:42,712
they have amplified the risks

2122
01:24:42,712 --> 01:24:43,980
from anti-Semitism, and you

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01:24:43,980 --> 01:24:44,614
should not listen to them.

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01:24:44,614 --> 01:24:45,415
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

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01:24:45,415 --> 01:24:46,583
PRES.: Thank you, we're at time.

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01:24:46,583 --> 01:24:46,949
>>SPEAKER: You should not listen

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01:24:46,949 --> 01:24:47,584
to them.

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01:24:47,584 --> 01:24:48,385
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

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01:24:48,385 --> 01:24:50,385
PRES.: Thank you.

2130
01:24:55,191 --> 01:24:57,627
>>SPEAKER: Hello. My name is

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01:24:57,627 --> 01:25:00,270
Janine Herron. I'm 87 years

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01:25:00,564 --> 01:25:02,131
old, and I started my teaching

2133
01:25:02,131 --> 01:25:05,731
career in Ramallah at a Quaker

2134
01:25:06,403 --> 01:25:08,803
friends school in Ramallah.

2135
01:25:11,341 --> 01:25:14,341
We protested against the Vietnam

2136
01:25:14,877 --> 01:25:18,810
War because we felt America was

2137
01:25:18,810 --> 01:25:21,810
doing immoral and illegal things

2138
01:25:22,118 --> 01:25:24,518
against another nation. After

2139
01:25:26,789 --> 01:25:29,789
9/11, we rushed into action with

2140
01:25:32,728 --> 01:25:35,128
improper information, and we

2141
01:25:35,298 --> 01:25:36,399
should have learned a lesson

2142
01:25:36,399 --> 01:25:39,999
from that. Right now America is

2143
01:25:40,690 --> 01:25:42,690
supporting an incredibly

2144
01:25:42,572 --> 01:25:44,972
horrible war against the

2145
01:25:47,110 --> 01:25:49,510
Palestinians. We were not

2146
01:25:51,615 --> 01:25:54,150
anti-American when we protested

2147
01:25:54,451 --> 01:25:57,451
the Vietnam War. We loved

2148
01:25:58,288 --> 01:26:00,390
America, and we are not

2149
01:26:00,390 --> 01:26:02,390
anti-Israeli or anti-Semitic

2150
01:26:04,127 --> 01:26:04,760
now.

2151
01:26:04,760 --> 01:26:05,495
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

2152
01:26:05,495 --> 01:26:07,330
PRES.: We're at time, thank you.

2153
01:26:07,330 --> 01:26:09,299
>>SPEAKER: When we protest the

2154
01:26:09,299 --> 01:26:10,866
horrible and illegal and immoral

2155
01:26:10,866 --> 01:26:11,501
actions of Israel.

2156
01:26:11,501 --> 01:26:12,135
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

2157
01:26:12,135 --> 01:26:12,434
PRES.: Thank you. We're at

2158
01:26:12,434 --> 01:26:13,603
time.

2159
01:26:13,603 --> 01:26:14,237
>>SPEAKER: Thank you.

2160
01:26:14,237 --> 01:26:14,937
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

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01:26:14,937 --> 01:26:15,338
PRES.: Okay, we're going to go

2162
01:26:15,338 --> 01:26:16,205
online.

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01:26:16,205 --> 01:26:16,939
>>MODERATOR: The first speaker

2164
01:26:16,939 --> 01:26:19,939
is Laurie Dubin. Please unmute.

2165
01:26:23,713 --> 01:26:25,381
Laurie, I think you lowered your

2166
01:26:25,381 --> 01:26:26,849
hand. The next speaker is

2167
01:26:26,849 --> 01:26:27,250
Rodrigo Izquierdo. Please

2168
01:26:27,250 --> 01:26:29,250
unmute.

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01:26:31,200 --> 01:26:32,622
>>SPEAKER: Hi. I'd like to talk

2170
01:26:32,622 --> 01:26:35,570
about the United Nations. The

2171
01:26:35,570 --> 01:26:37,727
United Nations, they have a

2172
01:26:37,727 --> 01:26:39,195
Human Rights Commission, and

2173
01:26:39,195 --> 01:26:42,195
it's pretty much ignored by

2174
01:26:43,299 --> 01:26:46,299
countries who have -- who

2175
01:26:48,400 --> 01:26:51,400
violate it. Okay, so that's

2176
01:26:52,676 --> 01:26:54,243
just what you expect from

2177
01:26:54,243 --> 01:26:56,879
countries like that that have no

2178
01:26:56,879 --> 01:26:58,214
democracy, so the question is:

2179
01:26:58,214 --> 01:27:00,983
Why is it that we have a Human

2180
01:27:00,983 --> 01:27:03,386
Rights Commission here in Marin

2181
01:27:03,386 --> 01:27:05,786
supposedly a very outstanding

2182
01:27:06,322 --> 01:27:08,722
county, but your commissioners,

2183
01:27:10,260 --> 01:27:12,295
they don't go by the Brown Act.

2184
01:27:12,295 --> 01:27:14,664
They don't go by their own

2185
01:27:14,664 --> 01:27:17,767
bylaws. They don't go by the

2186
01:27:17,767 --> 01:27:18,301
Robert's Rules of Order, and

2187
01:27:18,301 --> 01:27:19,969
they actually attack

2188
01:27:19,969 --> 01:27:22,706
journalists. They want to --

2189
01:27:22,706 --> 01:27:24,173
they don't want any kind of

2190
01:27:24,173 --> 01:27:27,773
participation, so in a way, why

2191
01:27:28,978 --> 01:27:30,513
don't you start doing something

2192
01:27:30,513 --> 01:27:31,514
about the Human Rights

2193
01:27:31,514 --> 01:27:34,283
Commission in your own backyard.

2194
01:27:34,283 --> 01:27:36,820
>>MODERATOR: The next speaker is

2195
01:27:36,820 --> 01:27:39,220
Lesley Savelli. Please unmute.

2196
01:27:45,270 --> 01:27:45,829
>>SPEAKER: I'm going to read

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01:27:45,829 --> 01:27:46,563
really quickly because I need

2198
01:27:46,563 --> 01:27:47,564
the whole minute.

2199
01:27:47,564 --> 01:27:49,965
As an Armenian Jew that is a

2200
01:27:49,965 --> 01:27:52,340
direct descendant of genocide on

2201
01:27:52,340 --> 01:27:53,770
both sides, the lack of a stance

2202
01:27:53,770 --> 01:27:55,705
is beyond offensive. The lack

2203
01:27:55,705 --> 01:27:57,607
of outcry is what has allowed

2204
01:27:57,607 --> 01:27:59,475
and contributed to every past

2205
01:27:59,475 --> 01:28:01,778
genocide in history. As I said

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01:28:01,778 --> 01:28:04,113
after the last board meeting to

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01:28:04,113 --> 01:28:06,783
Ms. Sackett, the woman who

2208
01:28:06,783 --> 01:28:09,285
attacked people for and said

2209
01:28:09,285 --> 01:28:10,286
their children should be raped

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01:28:10,286 --> 01:28:11,987
and murdered, that should have

2211
01:28:11,987 --> 01:28:13,723
been a hate crime, and if that

2212
01:28:13,723 --> 01:28:15,658
had been said to Jewish people,

2213
01:28:15,658 --> 01:28:16,860
that would have been a hate

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01:28:16,860 --> 01:28:18,661
crime. If this were happening

2215
01:28:18,661 --> 01:28:21,364
to the Jewish community, that

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01:28:21,364 --> 01:28:22,732
would -- there would be a

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stance. Just as Huffman

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01:28:27,103 --> 01:28:29,138
immediately came out and on

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01:28:29,138 --> 01:28:31,538
Facebook spoke after 10/7. You

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01:28:32,542 --> 01:28:34,711
don't have the ability for a

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01:28:34,711 --> 01:28:36,979
ceasefire, but you do have the

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01:28:36,979 --> 01:28:39,140
ability to serve your public and

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01:28:39,140 --> 01:28:40,749
take a stance against a clear

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01:28:40,749 --> 01:28:42,749
genocide.

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>>MODERATOR: The next speaker is

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01:28:45,388 --> 01:28:47,788
Musa Tariq. Please unmute.

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01:28:50,192 --> 01:28:51,327
>>SPEAKER: Hi. Before I start

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01:28:51,327 --> 01:28:53,329
I'd like to commend Health and

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01:28:53,329 --> 01:28:54,630
Human Services director Benita

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01:28:54,630 --> 01:28:55,865
McLarin on her retirement and

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01:28:55,865 --> 01:28:58,670
service. My name is Musa. I'm

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01:28:58,670 --> 01:28:59,235
speaking on behalf of the

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01:28:59,235 --> 01:29:01,571
council on Islamic America

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01:29:01,571 --> 01:29:03,372
relations. We propose and pass

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01:29:03,372 --> 01:29:04,908
a ceasefire resolution and call

2236
01:29:04,908 --> 01:29:07,610
for a hostilities following suit

2237
01:29:07,610 --> 01:29:09,178
with Richmond and Oakland.

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01:29:09,178 --> 01:29:10,246
20,000 Palestinians have been

2239
01:29:10,246 --> 01:29:12,181
killed by Israel, nearly half of

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them being children. The

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01:29:13,282 --> 01:29:14,751
average age of those killed is 5

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01:29:14,751 --> 01:29:16,385
years old and 99% of the

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01:29:16,385 --> 01:29:17,553
casualties have been innocent

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01:29:17,553 --> 01:29:19,689
civilians and Israel is using

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01:29:19,689 --> 01:29:20,657
dehumanizing language to justify

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01:29:20,657 --> 01:29:22,291
this genocide by using phrases

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01:29:22,291 --> 01:29:23,526
such as human animals and

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01:29:23,526 --> 01:29:24,560
children of the darkness, and

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01:29:24,560 --> 01:29:25,895
that language has repercussions

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here at home. Many Muslims in

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01:29:28,531 --> 01:29:32,131
the Bay Area -- death threats

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01:29:33,937 --> 01:29:35,471
and more, and by now we have all

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01:29:35,471 --> 01:29:36,806
heard about the 6-year-old

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01:29:36,806 --> 01:29:38,700
Palestinian boy in Chicago who

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was fatally stabbed 26 times,

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01:29:39,943 --> 01:29:42,311
and the language our electives

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01:29:42,311 --> 01:29:43,713
use matters. This is horrifying

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01:29:43,713 --> 01:29:45,348
and won't end there. We need to

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01:29:45,348 --> 01:29:46,649
consider Palestinian people as

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01:29:46,649 --> 01:29:47,517
human beings with hopes and

2261
01:29:47,517 --> 01:29:48,751
dreams, so we urge you to stay

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01:29:48,751 --> 01:29:50,486
on the right side of history and

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01:29:50,486 --> 01:29:52,886
support a ceasefire resolution

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01:29:52,922 --> 01:29:54,656
in the city of Marin. Thank you

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01:29:54,656 --> 01:29:55,892
so much.

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01:29:55,892 --> 01:29:57,590
>>MODERATOR: The next speaker is

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01:29:57,590 --> 01:29:59,459
Clayton Smith. Please unmute.

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01:30:02,431 --> 01:30:03,700
>>SPEAKER: Notwithstanding the

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01:30:03,700 --> 01:30:06,100
cause and motivations, all

2270
01:30:07,637 --> 01:30:09,637
actions have consequences,

2271
01:30:12,341 --> 01:30:13,609
actions and reactions to events

2272
01:30:13,609 --> 01:30:15,344
are often judged on the basis of

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01:30:15,344 --> 01:30:16,846
their proportionality, being a

2274
01:30:16,846 --> 01:30:19,782
question of scale. They are

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01:30:19,782 --> 01:30:21,417
also judged on the basis of the

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01:30:21,417 --> 01:30:23,786
appropriateness of their focus.

2277
01:30:23,786 --> 01:30:25,354
Self-destruction is the means to

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01:30:25,354 --> 01:30:27,623
the downfall not just of

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01:30:27,623 --> 01:30:29,859
individuals but of nations as

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01:30:29,859 --> 01:30:34,590
well. That is why we have the

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01:30:34,898 --> 01:30:36,265
admonitions against vengeance

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01:30:36,265 --> 01:30:38,265
and vindictive hotheadedness.

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01:30:38,835 --> 01:30:41,303
In the Torah is the statement:

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01:30:41,303 --> 01:30:42,338
The sins of the father will be

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01:30:42,338 --> 01:30:43,673
visited on to the third

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01:30:43,673 --> 01:30:46,242
generation, so here we are.

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01:30:46,242 --> 01:30:48,678
It's time to remind ourselves

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01:30:48,678 --> 01:30:51,514
that we are not helpless in our

2289
01:30:51,514 --> 01:30:53,783
choices. Had the events of

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01:30:53,783 --> 01:30:56,183
October 7 been treated properly

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01:30:56,252 --> 01:30:58,688
as a crime scene, the

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01:30:58,688 --> 01:31:00,389
opportunity for a measured

2293
01:31:00,389 --> 01:31:01,891
response would have been

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01:31:01,891 --> 01:31:03,459
possible. This was not the

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01:31:03,459 --> 01:31:05,459
case.

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>>MODERATOR: The next speaker is

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01:31:07,764 --> 01:31:10,164
Guila Rice. Please unmute.

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01:31:15,137 --> 01:31:15,738
>>SPEAKER: Good morning and

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01:31:15,738 --> 01:31:17,440
thank you. Calls for a

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01:31:17,440 --> 01:31:19,542
ceasefire here in Marin, the Bay

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01:31:19,542 --> 01:31:20,843
Area, or across the country will

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01:31:20,843 --> 01:31:22,111
not end what is happening in the

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01:31:22,111 --> 01:31:23,880
Middle East. What it will do,

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01:31:23,880 --> 01:31:25,581
and does, is flame the fire of

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01:31:25,581 --> 01:31:27,981
anti-Semitism. Jew hatred here

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01:31:28,350 --> 01:31:29,852
in Marin, the Bay Area and

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01:31:29,852 --> 01:31:31,120
across the country. This is not

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01:31:31,120 --> 01:31:32,889
a fight against the people of

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01:31:32,889 --> 01:31:34,991
Gaza or the Palestinians but a

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01:31:34,991 --> 01:31:36,325
fight against Hamas, which is

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01:31:36,325 --> 01:31:39,595
not just -- which not just

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01:31:39,595 --> 01:31:41,640
Israel but Australia, Canada,

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01:31:41,640 --> 01:31:43,464
Japan, Paraguay, New Zealand,

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01:31:43,499 --> 01:31:44,567
the U.K., the United States and

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01:31:44,567 --> 01:31:46,302
the European Union have all

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01:31:46,302 --> 01:31:47,303
designated as a terrorist

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01:31:47,303 --> 01:31:49,303
organization. This conflict,

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01:31:49,505 --> 01:31:51,540
this war could and would end

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01:31:51,540 --> 01:31:53,375
today if Hamas only did one

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01:31:53,375 --> 01:31:56,790
thing, hand over all of the

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01:31:56,790 --> 01:31:57,580
kidnapped victims, men, women,

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01:31:57,580 --> 01:31:59,949
children, babies, and sadly hand

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01:31:59,949 --> 01:32:02,451
over any bodies of murdered

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01:32:02,451 --> 01:32:04,253
victims. The loss of life in

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01:32:04,253 --> 01:32:05,788
the region is tragic and

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01:32:05,788 --> 01:32:07,423
heartbreaking, but let us not

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01:32:07,423 --> 01:32:10,559
forget one basic thing, that the

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01:32:10,559 --> 01:32:12,950
death, the suffering and war is

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01:32:12,950 --> 01:32:14,196
the root of Hamas. They are

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01:32:14,196 --> 01:32:15,431
evil and they are the ones that

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01:32:15,431 --> 01:32:17,199
need to be end, and they must be

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01:32:17,199 --> 01:32:18,334
eliminated. Thank you to the

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01:32:18,334 --> 01:32:18,968
board for this time.

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01:32:18,968 --> 01:32:20,269
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

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01:32:20,269 --> 01:32:21,136
PRES.: We're going to go back

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01:32:21,136 --> 01:32:22,204
into the chambers now for the

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01:32:22,204 --> 01:32:24,406
next five speakers. Go ahead

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and introduce yourself.

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01:32:25,808 --> 01:32:28,577
>>SPEAKER: Hi, my name is Arian

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01:32:28,577 --> 01:32:31,577
Schneider Stalking. I have been

2341
01:32:32,414 --> 01:32:33,149
horrified by what has been

2342
01:32:33,149 --> 01:32:34,851
happening in Gaza, in Ramallah,

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01:32:34,851 --> 01:32:36,986
in Palestine. We know that more

2344
01:32:36,986 --> 01:32:39,386
than 17,400 Gazans have been

2345
01:32:40,289 --> 01:32:42,689
killed, 1.8 million Gazans have

2346
01:32:44,270 --> 01:32:45,260
been displaced, tens of

2347
01:32:45,260 --> 01:32:47,129
thousands are at risk of

2348
01:32:47,129 --> 01:32:49,129
imminent death. Gutierrez

2349
01:32:50,299 --> 01:32:52,768
warned Gaza is becoming a

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01:32:52,768 --> 01:32:54,537
graveyard for children. Israel

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01:32:54,537 --> 01:32:55,471
pushed the population from

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01:32:55,471 --> 01:32:57,573
northern Gaza to the south, then

2353
01:32:57,573 --> 01:32:59,973
invaded the south. Israeli

2354
01:33:00,543 --> 01:33:02,111
authorities told Gazans to flee

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01:33:02,111 --> 01:33:03,779
for their lives to zones within

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01:33:03,779 --> 01:33:06,782
the south, and then bombed these

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01:33:06,782 --> 01:33:09,618
places to which the Gazans had

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01:33:09,618 --> 01:33:12,618
been directed. I am absolutely

2359
01:33:13,589 --> 01:33:16,158
opposed to these actions that

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01:33:16,158 --> 01:33:18,995
are supported by the United

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01:33:18,995 --> 01:33:20,930
States with our military aid

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01:33:20,930 --> 01:33:22,965
that we give every second to

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01:33:22,965 --> 01:33:26,168
Israel. I want my county and my

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01:33:26,168 --> 01:33:28,168
county representatives to

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01:33:28,303 --> 01:33:30,272
support an immediate permanent

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01:33:30,272 --> 01:33:30,907
ceasefire in Gaza now.

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01:33:30,907 --> 01:33:32,307
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

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01:33:32,307 --> 01:33:33,900
PRES.: Thank you. We're at

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01:33:33,900 --> 01:33:35,409
time. Next speaker, please.

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01:33:36,645 --> 01:33:38,480
>>SPEAKER: Over 17,000 dead, a

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01:33:38,480 --> 01:33:39,782
Palestinian child is killed

2372
01:33:39,782 --> 01:33:41,817
every 10 minutes, a thousand

2373
01:33:41,817 --> 01:33:43,285
limbs lost on the children who

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01:33:43,285 --> 01:33:45,285
survive. Operations without

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01:33:45,320 --> 01:33:46,555
anaesthesia, no food, no water,

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01:33:46,555 --> 01:33:48,240
no sanitation. People who

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01:33:48,240 --> 01:33:49,224
survive the bombings are dying

2378
01:33:49,224 --> 01:33:51,224
disease and infection,

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01:33:51,260 --> 01:33:52,561
starvation, exposure to the

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01:33:52,561 --> 01:33:54,961
elements. White phosphorus. A

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01:33:55,531 --> 01:33:56,532
ceasefire is an immediate need

2382
01:33:56,532 --> 01:33:59,202
to save anybody that we can that

2383
01:33:59,202 --> 01:34:00,502
is left alive, as well as an

2384
01:34:00,502 --> 01:34:01,336
immediate stop to the millions

2385
01:34:01,336 --> 01:34:02,939
of dollars Marin County sends to

2386
01:34:02,939 --> 01:34:04,939
Israel. Palestinians-Americans

2387
01:34:06,420 --> 01:34:07,743
in Marin deserve to feel safe,

2388
01:34:07,743 --> 01:34:08,778
not know their neighbors chose

2389
01:34:08,778 --> 01:34:10,245
to fund the murder of their

2390
01:34:10,245 --> 01:34:12,181
relatives. Last few weeks of

2391
01:34:12,181 --> 01:34:14,817
watching a genocide in real time

2392
01:34:14,817 --> 01:34:17,352
has changed us. We will not

2393
01:34:17,352 --> 01:34:19,321
forget, we will not stop

2394
01:34:19,321 --> 01:34:20,355
demanding justice, and we will

2395
01:34:20,355 --> 01:34:22,910
remember everybody that led to

2396
01:34:22,910 --> 01:34:24,259
us as a county being complicit

2397
01:34:24,259 --> 01:34:26,129
in this genocide and all of

2398
01:34:26,129 --> 01:34:28,898
these deaths. It is entirely

2399
01:34:28,898 --> 01:34:30,133
preventable and we can be a part

2400
01:34:30,133 --> 01:34:31,300
of the change. We are giving

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01:34:31,300 --> 01:34:33,201
money to the bombing of these

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01:34:33,201 --> 01:34:34,570
children, these innocent

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01:34:34,570 --> 01:34:35,938
families. We would never

2404
01:34:35,938 --> 01:34:37,873
conflate terrorist groups with

2405
01:34:37,873 --> 01:34:39,410
civilians here if they bombed

2406
01:34:39,410 --> 01:34:40,643
the hospital with my families.

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01:34:40,643 --> 01:34:42,177
That would never be accepted.

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01:34:42,177 --> 01:34:42,812
Never.

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01:34:42,812 --> 01:34:43,445
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

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01:34:43,445 --> 01:34:44,147
PRES.: Thank you. We're at

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01:34:44,147 --> 01:34:46,547
time. Next speaker, please.

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01:34:47,250 --> 01:34:48,170
>>SPEAKER: Good morning. My

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01:34:48,170 --> 01:34:51,200
name is Cecelia Avilar and I'm

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01:34:51,200 --> 01:34:52,210
speaking to you as an educator

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01:34:52,210 --> 01:34:53,322
here in Marin County. I also

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01:34:53,322 --> 01:34:55,958
want to commend the board for

2417
01:34:55,958 --> 01:34:56,892
recognizing Dr. Benita this

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01:34:56,892 --> 01:34:58,127
morning. I think we all

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01:34:58,127 --> 01:34:59,962
spoke -- or many people spoke

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01:34:59,962 --> 01:35:01,831
about how she led with heart and

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01:35:01,831 --> 01:35:03,199
equity, and I'm turning that now

2422
01:35:03,199 --> 01:35:04,233
on to you, Board of Supervisors,

2423
01:35:04,233 --> 01:35:05,534
to also lead with heart and with

2424
01:35:05,534 --> 01:35:07,934
equity. UNICEF recently called

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01:35:08,337 --> 01:35:10,206
Gaza the most dangerous place to

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01:35:10,206 --> 01:35:12,175
be a child, and our tax dollars

2427
01:35:12,175 --> 01:35:13,776
directly fund that danger for

2428
01:35:13,776 --> 01:35:15,911
children. So the global is

2429
01:35:15,911 --> 01:35:17,579
local, so I'm calling on you to

2430
01:35:17,579 --> 01:35:19,348
adopt a ceasefire resolution.

2431
01:35:19,348 --> 01:35:21,450
Those tax dollars could instead

2432
01:35:21,450 --> 01:35:23,286
fund the lives of children here,

2433
01:35:23,286 --> 01:35:24,453
the Health and Human Services

2434
01:35:24,453 --> 01:35:25,988
departments here in Marin

2435
01:35:25,988 --> 01:35:27,156
County, and instead that money

2436
01:35:27,156 --> 01:35:29,125
could be used to fund life and

2437
01:35:29,125 --> 01:35:30,993
not destruction halfway across

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01:35:30,993 --> 01:35:32,328
the world, so lead with equity,

2439
01:35:32,328 --> 01:35:33,829
lead with heart, and call for an

2440
01:35:33,829 --> 01:35:34,997
immediate and permanent

2441
01:35:34,997 --> 01:35:36,632
ceasefire resolution here in

2442
01:35:36,632 --> 01:35:37,266
Marin County. Thank you.

2443
01:35:37,266 --> 01:35:37,967
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

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01:35:37,967 --> 01:35:39,350
PRES.: Okay. Thank you. Next

2445
01:35:39,350 --> 01:35:40,669
speaker, please.

2446
01:35:40,669 --> 01:35:42,338
>>SPEAKER: Hi, my name is Chin.

2447
01:35:42,338 --> 01:35:45,474
I was born and raised in China,

2448
01:35:45,474 --> 01:35:48,443
but I grew up in Marin, and I

2449
01:35:48,443 --> 01:35:50,279
urge the board to please adopt a

2450
01:35:50,279 --> 01:35:51,981
permanent ceasefire resolution.

2451
01:35:51,981 --> 01:35:54,160
I would like to bring specific

2452
01:35:54,160 --> 01:35:55,417
attention to the statistical

2453
01:35:55,417 --> 01:35:56,351
disproportion of deaths in

2454
01:35:56,351 --> 01:35:58,751
regards to the Palestinians.

2455
01:35:59,788 --> 01:36:01,790
70% are women, elderly and

2456
01:36:01,790 --> 01:36:03,559
children, 50% of which are

2457
01:36:03,559 --> 01:36:05,427
children. This is the most

2458
01:36:05,427 --> 01:36:06,662
documented crime against

2459
01:36:06,662 --> 01:36:10,262
humanity and yet we are failing

2460
01:36:11,670 --> 01:36:14,667
them by not doing enough. And

2461
01:36:16,371 --> 01:36:17,840
you cannot call this a war

2462
01:36:17,840 --> 01:36:20,209
because they don't have an army,

2463
01:36:20,209 --> 01:36:24,847
and they -- if you compare it to

2464
01:36:24,847 --> 01:36:27,847
Ukraine, Iraq and the Syrian

2465
01:36:29,551 --> 01:36:32,355
war, the casualties in children

2466
01:36:32,355 --> 01:36:34,755
do not compare. 500 children

2467
01:36:35,910 --> 01:36:36,926
have died in 21 months in

2468
01:36:36,926 --> 01:36:39,326
Ukraine, 3,000 died in 14 years

2469
01:36:40,263 --> 01:36:43,263
in Iraq, 7,000 children died in

2470
01:36:43,498 --> 01:36:44,133
seven weeks in Gaza.

2471
01:36:44,133 --> 01:36:44,867
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

2472
01:36:44,867 --> 01:36:45,634
PRES.: Thank you. We're at

2473
01:36:45,634 --> 01:36:46,769
time. Thank you.

2474
01:36:46,769 --> 01:36:48,303
Okay, one more speaker here and

2475
01:36:48,303 --> 01:36:50,390
then we'll go online.

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01:36:50,390 --> 01:36:52,275
>>SPEAKER: Hi, Eric, Katie,

2477
01:36:52,275 --> 01:36:54,643
Stephanie, Dennis, hey, Mary.

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01:36:54,643 --> 01:36:57,846
My name's Miche. I'm a first

2479
01:36:57,846 --> 01:37:00,246
generation Jewish American. My

2480
01:37:00,482 --> 01:37:02,417
family came here from Ukraine

2481
01:37:02,417 --> 01:37:03,986
because of the rampant

2482
01:37:03,986 --> 01:37:05,388
anti-Semitism that exists in

2483
01:37:05,388 --> 01:37:06,722
Ukraine. I'm grieving with and

2484
01:37:06,722 --> 01:37:09,558
more Palestine. In just six

2485
01:37:09,558 --> 01:37:11,260
weeks Israel was able to drop

2486
01:37:11,260 --> 01:37:14,163
over 22,000 U.S.-provided bombs

2487
01:37:14,163 --> 01:37:17,320
on Gaza. That is the equivalent

2488
01:37:17,320 --> 01:37:20,469
of two nuclear bombs. And the

2489
01:37:20,469 --> 01:37:22,905
U.S. dollars we are funding

2490
01:37:22,905 --> 01:37:26,410
this. It is a genocide, an

2491
01:37:26,410 --> 01:37:28,441
ethnic cleansing, and collective

2492
01:37:28,777 --> 01:37:30,946
Jewish trauma is being used to

2493
01:37:30,946 --> 01:37:33,215
enable this. Biden has already

2494
01:37:33,215 --> 01:37:35,615
given Israel $14 billion, and

2495
01:37:35,751 --> 01:37:37,119
he's working with Congress to

2496
01:37:37,119 --> 01:37:39,519
give them another $106 billion,

2497
01:37:41,857 --> 01:37:44,360
but the U.S. has only given $100

2498
01:37:44,360 --> 01:37:46,862
million to the them in aid this

2499
01:37:46,862 --> 01:37:48,630
year. As of October 7, over

2500
01:37:48,630 --> 01:37:50,565
17,000 Gazans have been killed

2501
01:37:50,565 --> 01:37:51,200
by Israel, 25,000 are children.

2502
01:37:51,200 --> 01:37:52,501
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

2503
01:37:52,501 --> 01:37:53,402
PRES.: Thank you. We're at

2504
01:37:53,402 --> 01:37:54,536
time. Thank you. We'll go

2505
01:37:54,536 --> 01:37:56,536
online now. Thanks.

2506
01:37:56,638 --> 01:37:57,306
>>MODERATOR: The first speaker

2507
01:37:57,306 --> 01:38:00,306
is Isa P. Please unmute.

2508
01:38:04,913 --> 01:38:05,881
>>SPEAKER: I'm just here to say

2509
01:38:05,881 --> 01:38:07,216
that it is urgent that the

2510
01:38:07,216 --> 01:38:10,353
council adopt an put forth a

2511
01:38:10,353 --> 01:38:11,553
resolution for ceasefire now.

2512
01:38:11,553 --> 01:38:13,550
Biden was quoted as saying if

2513
01:38:13,550 --> 01:38:14,756
Israel did not exist the U.S.

2514
01:38:14,756 --> 01:38:15,958
would have to invent one in

2515
01:38:15,958 --> 01:38:17,826
order to keep our interests in

2516
01:38:17,826 --> 01:38:19,895
the region current, and I think

2517
01:38:19,895 --> 01:38:21,797
that is the only statement we

2518
01:38:21,797 --> 01:38:25,000
need to listen to. Zionism is

2519
01:38:25,000 --> 01:38:26,768
fascism. Zionism is an

2520
01:38:26,768 --> 01:38:27,870
extension of the U.S.'s

2521
01:38:27,870 --> 01:38:28,737
interests in the region, and

2522
01:38:28,737 --> 01:38:30,206
what we need now is for the U.S.

2523
01:38:30,206 --> 01:38:33,206
to end its accomplice. It's

2524
01:38:33,509 --> 01:38:35,444
just support of what is just a

2525
01:38:35,444 --> 01:38:37,246
genocide. One child every ten

2526
01:38:37,246 --> 01:38:39,246
minutes, unimaginable suffering.

2527
01:38:39,614 --> 01:38:41,550
The only nation to vote against

2528
01:38:41,550 --> 01:38:42,651
ceasefire is the U.S., and this

2529
01:38:42,651 --> 01:38:44,186
is not a controversial opinion.

2530
01:38:44,186 --> 01:38:45,321
Polls are saying that the

2531
01:38:45,321 --> 01:38:46,722
majority of Americans support a

2532
01:38:46,722 --> 01:38:48,724
ceasefire in order to stop

2533
01:38:48,724 --> 01:38:50,826
anti-Arab hate at home, it's

2534
01:38:50,826 --> 01:38:52,561
important that our county stand

2535
01:38:52,561 --> 01:38:55,640
true to its values and support

2536
01:38:55,640 --> 01:38:56,832
ceasefire abroad. It's time for

2537
01:38:56,832 --> 01:38:58,300
you to take a stand, use your

2538
01:38:58,300 --> 01:39:00,702
power, don't let the Zionist

2539
01:39:00,702 --> 01:39:01,937
lobby buy your vote. This is

2540
01:39:01,937 --> 01:39:04,337
not controversy. This is

2541
01:39:04,806 --> 01:39:05,841
popular opinion. Vote for

2542
01:39:05,841 --> 01:39:06,742
ceasefire now.

2543
01:39:06,742 --> 01:39:09,440
>>MODERATOR: The next speaker is

2544
01:39:09,440 --> 01:39:12,440
Cev he/him. Please unmute.

2545
01:39:12,781 --> 01:39:14,830
>>SPEAKER: Hi, I'm a lifelong

2546
01:39:14,830 --> 01:39:15,984
resident. I live and work in

2547
01:39:15,984 --> 01:39:19,521
Terra Linda. I am hear to speak

2548
01:39:19,521 --> 01:39:21,623
today to ask you to use the

2549
01:39:21,623 --> 01:39:22,624
platform that you have been

2550
01:39:22,624 --> 01:39:24,993
given to, as was said before,

2551
01:39:24,993 --> 01:39:27,196
lead with your heart and listen

2552
01:39:27,196 --> 01:39:28,931
to your constituents who are all

2553
01:39:28,931 --> 01:39:32,531
asking for you to use your

2554
01:39:33,680 --> 01:39:34,270
platform to call for a

2555
01:39:34,270 --> 01:39:36,270
ceasefire. Call for

2556
01:39:37,473 --> 01:39:39,841
non-military aid. Whatever is

2557
01:39:39,841 --> 01:39:41,310
in your power, which you do

2558
01:39:41,310 --> 01:39:42,445
have. This is relevant to our

2559
01:39:42,445 --> 01:39:44,780
county. Our tax dollars fund

2560
01:39:44,780 --> 01:39:46,780
this, and disproportionately

2561
01:39:47,416 --> 01:39:49,218
Marin is extremely wealthy, much

2562
01:39:49,218 --> 01:39:50,786
of our money, particularly from

2563
01:39:50,786 --> 01:39:52,154
this area, is going to fund

2564
01:39:52,154 --> 01:39:55,424
this. It's not a war. It is an

2565
01:39:55,424 --> 01:39:57,293
assault, a crime against

2566
01:39:57,293 --> 01:39:58,794
humanity. Please use your

2567
01:39:58,794 --> 01:40:00,528
platform to call for a ceasefire

2568
01:40:00,528 --> 01:40:02,528
now. Thank you.

2569
01:40:02,598 --> 01:40:04,600
>>MODERATOR: The next speaker is

2570
01:40:04,600 --> 01:40:07,000
Rebekah Collins. Please unmute.

2571
01:40:09,138 --> 01:40:10,172
>>SPEAKER: I want to say thank

2572
01:40:10,172 --> 01:40:13,772
you to the Board of Supervisors.

2573
01:40:14,143 --> 01:40:15,944
Children need clean water. They

2574
01:40:15,944 --> 01:40:17,879
need good food. They need the

2575
01:40:17,879 --> 01:40:19,415
warm arms of a mother and

2576
01:40:19,415 --> 01:40:22,384
father, a safe place to learn to

2577
01:40:22,384 --> 01:40:25,530
crawl, to talk, to walk, to run,

2578
01:40:25,530 --> 01:40:27,389
to hop, to skip, to climb a

2579
01:40:27,389 --> 01:40:29,492
tree, to follow a butterfly, to

2580
01:40:29,492 --> 01:40:31,393
listen to birds, to watch

2581
01:40:31,393 --> 01:40:34,620
clouds, to hold a sister's hand,

2582
01:40:34,620 --> 01:40:36,332
to eat ice cream, to make a

2583
01:40:36,332 --> 01:40:38,667
castle, to splash in waves.

2584
01:40:38,667 --> 01:40:40,603
This is not just a nice thing

2585
01:40:40,603 --> 01:40:42,771
for children to do. This is how

2586
01:40:42,771 --> 01:40:45,700
a child's brain properly

2587
01:40:45,700 --> 01:40:47,407
develops. Without these types

2588
01:40:48,100 --> 01:40:49,978
of activities, without feeling

2589
01:40:49,978 --> 01:40:52,548
safe, the frontal lobes of the

2590
01:40:52,548 --> 01:40:54,948
child's brain cannot develop

2591
01:40:55,250 --> 01:40:57,286
properly. They are left with

2592
01:40:57,286 --> 01:40:59,686
lifelong trauma. The children

2593
01:40:59,921 --> 01:41:02,191
of Gaza need all the adults who

2594
01:41:02,191 --> 01:41:04,659
are witnessing them to come

2595
01:41:04,659 --> 01:41:07,659
together and make a permanent

2596
01:41:08,163 --> 01:41:10,563
ceasefire happen. Thank you.

2597
01:41:10,899 --> 01:41:12,567
>>MODERATOR: The next speaker is

2598
01:41:12,567 --> 01:41:14,567
Elias. Please unmute.

2599
01:41:16,771 --> 01:41:19,771
>>SPEAKER: Hi. I am a

2600
01:41:19,908 --> 01:41:21,908
Palestinian-Israeli citizen and

2601
01:41:21,910 --> 01:41:23,546
resident of Marin County for 30

2602
01:41:23,546 --> 01:41:26,546
years. I support a permanent

2603
01:41:26,848 --> 01:41:29,248
ceasefire resolution by the

2604
01:41:30,319 --> 01:41:31,353
Marin County Board of

2605
01:41:31,353 --> 01:41:34,353
Supervisors. I would like to

2606
01:41:35,230 --> 01:41:36,191
bring the Marin County

2607
01:41:36,191 --> 01:41:37,326
supervisors' attention to the

2608
01:41:37,326 --> 01:41:39,328
fact that Palestinians living in

2609
01:41:39,328 --> 01:41:40,329
Marin County live under a

2610
01:41:40,329 --> 01:41:42,764
climate of fear that is fueled

2611
01:41:42,764 --> 01:41:46,535
by the U.S.'s funding of Israeli

2612
01:41:46,535 --> 01:41:49,535
war crimes. We have hundreds,

2613
01:41:50,573 --> 01:41:51,973
maybe thousands, of Palestinians

2614
01:41:51,973 --> 01:41:54,973
here living in Marin County,

2615
01:41:55,411 --> 01:41:57,246
many of whom are afraid to be

2616
01:41:57,246 --> 01:41:59,881
here speaking right now. I

2617
01:41:59,881 --> 01:42:02,281
myself am risking my

2618
01:42:03,850 --> 01:42:04,587
citizenship, my ability to go to

2619
01:42:04,587 --> 01:42:06,821
my home country, by speaking

2620
01:42:06,821 --> 01:42:09,221
right now. People don't

2621
01:42:09,425 --> 01:42:11,425
understand this. Palestinians

2622
01:42:11,493 --> 01:42:13,962
living in Marin County have been

2623
01:42:13,962 --> 01:42:16,965
living in fear for decades, and

2624
01:42:16,965 --> 01:42:18,800
you need to make a ceasefire

2625
01:42:18,800 --> 01:42:20,800
resolution right now.

2626
01:42:22,104 --> 01:42:25,104
>>MODERATOR: The next speaker is

2627
01:42:25,407 --> 01:42:27,242
Christina Amoroso. Please

2628
01:42:27,242 --> 01:42:29,242
unmute.

2629
01:42:30,450 --> 01:42:31,790
>>SPEAKER: Hi, I'm a nurse at

2630
01:42:31,790 --> 01:42:33,248
UCSF medical center and I live

2631
01:42:33,248 --> 01:42:34,849
in Bolinas. I've grown up in

2632
01:42:34,849 --> 01:42:37,849
Marin, and I also strongly

2633
01:42:37,852 --> 01:42:39,888
support the Board of Supervisors

2634
01:42:39,888 --> 01:42:41,423
passing a resolution for

2635
01:42:41,423 --> 01:42:43,158
ceasefire. Anything that we can

2636
01:42:43,158 --> 01:42:45,927
do to stop the senseless killing

2637
01:42:45,927 --> 01:42:48,290
of people that cannot defend

2638
01:42:48,290 --> 01:42:50,429
themselves and did nothing,

2639
01:42:50,765 --> 01:42:53,165
nothing, and 60% of the

2640
01:42:55,671 --> 01:42:57,306
aggregate 18,000 people who have

2641
01:42:57,306 --> 01:42:58,807
been killed in Palestine are

2642
01:42:58,807 --> 01:43:00,942
women and children, children who

2643
01:43:00,942 --> 01:43:03,942
have died most likely painfully.

2644
01:43:04,246 --> 01:43:06,315
All of these people bombs

2645
01:43:06,315 --> 01:43:08,150
falling, shredding them apart,

2646
01:43:08,150 --> 01:43:10,510
are dying painfully, and we are

2647
01:43:10,510 --> 01:43:12,254
doing nothing but providing

2648
01:43:12,254 --> 01:43:14,956
Israel with the warheads and

2649
01:43:14,956 --> 01:43:17,259
funding them to do this. It is

2650
01:43:17,259 --> 01:43:19,894
shocking that I cannot believe

2651
01:43:19,894 --> 01:43:22,364
that the U.S. voted against that

2652
01:43:22,364 --> 01:43:24,366
and Marin County please pass a

2653
01:43:24,366 --> 01:43:25,934
measure, anything, any voices

2654
01:43:25,934 --> 01:43:28,537
that we can add for a ceasefire

2655
01:43:28,537 --> 01:43:30,539
is something that we can do. We

2656
01:43:30,539 --> 01:43:31,740
have a little bit of power.

2657
01:43:31,740 --> 01:43:32,907
Please, Board of Supervisors,

2658
01:43:32,907 --> 01:43:33,542
please do this.

2659
01:43:33,542 --> 01:43:34,276
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

2660
01:43:34,276 --> 01:43:35,377
PRES.: We're at time. We're at

2661
01:43:35,377 --> 01:43:36,378
time.

2662
01:43:36,378 --> 01:43:38,480
Okay, we're coming back into the

2663
01:43:38,480 --> 01:43:39,381
chambers now for the next five

2664
01:43:39,381 --> 01:43:41,381
speakers.

2665
01:43:42,317 --> 01:43:43,485
>>SPEAKER: Hello. I've lived in

2666
01:43:43,485 --> 01:43:44,953
San Rafael most of my life, and

2667
01:43:44,953 --> 01:43:46,755
I echo the sentiment of those in

2668
01:43:46,755 --> 01:43:48,990
front of me, in the line, and

2669
01:43:48,990 --> 01:43:50,892
behind me as well, that I would

2670
01:43:50,892 --> 01:43:53,261
ask the Board of Supervisors to

2671
01:43:53,261 --> 01:43:54,496
propose and pass an immediate

2672
01:43:54,496 --> 01:43:56,310
and permanent ceasefire

2673
01:43:56,310 --> 01:43:58,330
agreement. The atrocities there

2674
01:43:58,330 --> 01:44:01,330
cannot be overstated, and I

2675
01:44:01,690 --> 01:44:03,639
refuse to let my tax dollars and

2676
01:44:03,639 --> 01:44:06,842
my county to be a part of the

2677
01:44:06,842 --> 01:44:08,430
people that are helping to fund

2678
01:44:08,430 --> 01:44:10,679
it and are standing by the

2679
01:44:10,679 --> 01:44:13,480
wayside as it happens. I have

2680
01:44:13,480 --> 01:44:17,520
heard it said that how we are

2681
01:44:17,520 --> 01:44:19,187
acting now is how we would be

2682
01:44:19,187 --> 01:44:20,889
acting in the holocaust, and I

2683
01:44:20,889 --> 01:44:22,457
refuse to be a bystander. Thank

2684
01:44:22,457 --> 01:44:23,910
you so much.

2685
01:44:23,910 --> 01:44:25,910
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

2686
01:44:25,260 --> 01:44:27,329
PRES.: Next speaker, please.

2687
01:44:27,329 --> 01:44:30,131
>>SPEAKER: Hi, my name is Presh.

2688
01:44:30,131 --> 01:44:31,667
I was born and raised in Marin

2689
01:44:31,667 --> 01:44:32,934
County. In fact, I went to high

2690
01:44:32,934 --> 01:44:34,969
school just down the street. I

2691
01:44:34,969 --> 01:44:38,674
would ask the board to pass a

2692
01:44:38,674 --> 01:44:40,342
permanent ceasefire resolution.

2693
01:44:40,342 --> 01:44:42,100
There are atrocities being

2694
01:44:42,100 --> 01:44:44,847
committed in Palestine that have

2695
01:44:44,847 --> 01:44:46,548
only been echoed by genocides in

2696
01:44:46,548 --> 01:44:49,284
the past. Many of the people

2697
01:44:49,284 --> 01:44:51,186
killed are civilians. In fact,

2698
01:44:51,186 --> 01:44:53,586
the majority are civilians.

2699
01:44:55,758 --> 01:44:58,590
Sorry, I'm bad at public

2700
01:44:58,590 --> 01:44:59,600
speaking.

2701
01:44:59,600 --> 01:45:01,764
In fact, in doctors, from

2702
01:45:01,764 --> 01:45:03,331
Doctors Without Borders have

2703
01:45:03,331 --> 01:45:04,433
been killed, many journalists

2704
01:45:04,433 --> 01:45:05,534
have been killed. Many, many,

2705
01:45:05,534 --> 01:45:07,736
many, many non-combatants have

2706
01:45:07,736 --> 01:45:09,538
been killed in this genocide,

2707
01:45:09,538 --> 01:45:12,173
and I think you should use your

2708
01:45:12,173 --> 01:45:13,975
power to pass a resolution to

2709
01:45:13,975 --> 01:45:14,610
put a stop to this. Thank you.

2710
01:45:14,610 --> 01:45:16,610
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

2711
01:45:16,779 --> 01:45:17,412
PRES.: Thank you. Next speaker,

2712
01:45:17,412 --> 01:45:19,412
please.

2713
01:45:21,149 --> 01:45:23,251
>>SPEAKER: Thank you. I'm Eva

2714
01:45:23,251 --> 01:45:24,419
Chrysanthe, and I write a lot

2715
01:45:24,419 --> 01:45:26,221
about what local media doesn't

2716
01:45:26,221 --> 01:45:28,924
report in this county, and so I

2717
01:45:28,924 --> 01:45:30,191
recently have been writing a lot

2718
01:45:30,191 --> 01:45:32,728
about the Marin County response

2719
01:45:32,728 --> 01:45:35,630
to the crisis, the ongoing

2720
01:45:35,630 --> 01:45:37,630
crisis.

2721
01:45:37,332 --> 01:45:38,766
You can read more details about

2722
01:45:38,766 --> 01:45:40,766
that at

2723
01:45:42,337 --> 01:45:42,971
MarinCountyconfidential.substack

2724
01:45:42,971 --> 01:45:44,306
.com. It's a totally free

2725
01:45:44,306 --> 01:45:46,675
service. I do want to point out

2726
01:45:46,675 --> 01:45:49,750
that yesterday the "Washington

2727
01:45:49,944 --> 01:45:52,344
Post" reported that white

2728
01:45:52,481 --> 01:45:54,881
phosphorus, the white phosphorus

2729
01:45:55,830 --> 01:45:56,952
used on civilians by the Israeli

2730
01:45:56,952 --> 01:45:58,186
military was proved to have come

2731
01:45:58,186 --> 01:46:01,389
from the United States. As I

2732
01:46:01,389 --> 01:46:04,559
always do, I beg the Board of

2733
01:46:04,559 --> 01:46:06,127
Supervisors to consider and pass

2734
01:46:06,127 --> 01:46:08,620
a ceasefire resolution because

2735
01:46:08,620 --> 01:46:11,333
it protects us. We are at

2736
01:46:11,333 --> 01:46:14,333
serious risk of blowback, both

2737
01:46:14,870 --> 01:46:16,438
blowback in terms of physical

2738
01:46:16,438 --> 01:46:17,572
threat, but also economic

2739
01:46:17,572 --> 01:46:19,341
threat.

2740
01:46:19,341 --> 01:46:21,341
Economic retaliation, potential

2741
01:46:21,777 --> 01:46:23,779
boycotts that the U.S. could

2742
01:46:23,779 --> 01:46:25,781
withstand for its incredibly

2743
01:46:25,781 --> 01:46:28,781
bizarre ongoing funding of this

2744
01:46:28,883 --> 01:46:29,551
genocide. Thank you.

2745
01:46:29,551 --> 01:46:31,551
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

2746
01:46:35,190 --> 01:46:36,224
PRES.: Okay.

2747
01:46:36,224 --> 01:46:37,158
>>SPEAKER: Hello. My name is

2748
01:46:37,158 --> 01:46:39,260
Laura and I'm a resident in

2749
01:46:39,260 --> 01:46:41,296
District 2. Today I'm here to

2750
01:46:41,296 --> 01:46:42,997
urge you to pass a ceasefire

2751
01:46:42,997 --> 01:46:43,998
resolution, and I hope that

2752
01:46:43,998 --> 01:46:45,300
you've heard all of the

2753
01:46:45,300 --> 01:46:46,535
statistics and things that

2754
01:46:46,535 --> 01:46:47,669
people have been bringing to you

2755
01:46:47,669 --> 01:46:49,504
today. Today I'd like to read

2756
01:46:49,504 --> 01:46:50,572
you some words from people in

2757
01:46:50,572 --> 01:46:52,572
Gaza.

2758
01:46:52,808 --> 01:46:54,743
I pray that they can look at us

2759
01:46:54,743 --> 01:46:57,312
as humans, not just political

2760
01:46:57,312 --> 01:46:58,847
situations and political

2761
01:46:58,847 --> 01:47:00,847
conflicts. We're humans. 2

2762
01:47:02,283 --> 01:47:04,419
million people trapped with

2763
01:47:04,419 --> 01:47:06,154
nowhere to go. We should be

2764
01:47:06,154 --> 01:47:08,560
more valuable to the world than

2765
01:47:08,560 --> 01:47:11,359
this. We have lives. We should

2766
01:47:11,359 --> 01:47:15,559
be able to live our lives. This

2767
01:47:15,931 --> 01:47:18,800
is a poem by someone who died

2768
01:47:18,800 --> 01:47:22,704
recently in Gaza. If I die, you

2769
01:47:22,704 --> 01:47:24,472
must live to tell my story, to

2770
01:47:24,472 --> 01:47:26,800
sell my things, to buy a piece

2771
01:47:26,800 --> 01:47:28,142
of cloth and some strings. Make

2772
01:47:28,142 --> 01:47:30,378
it white with a long tail. I

2773
01:47:30,378 --> 01:47:32,313
won't be able to finish the

2774
01:47:32,313 --> 01:47:34,482
poem, but I hope you look it up

2775
01:47:34,482 --> 01:47:35,751
because it's very powerful and

2776
01:47:35,751 --> 01:47:38,151
please pass a ceasefire

2777
01:47:38,420 --> 01:47:39,530
resolution.

2778
01:47:39,530 --> 01:47:39,755
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

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01:47:39,755 --> 01:47:40,455
PRES.: Thank you. Okay, one

2780
01:47:40,455 --> 01:47:41,222
more speaker and then we'll go

2781
01:47:41,222 --> 01:47:42,925
online.

2782
01:47:42,925 --> 01:47:43,625
>>SPEAKER: Thank you. Good

2783
01:47:43,625 --> 01:47:44,893
morning, Board of Supervisors.

2784
01:47:44,893 --> 01:47:46,962
My name is Joe McGarry and I

2785
01:47:46,962 --> 01:47:49,970
live in Fairfax, and I'm an

2786
01:47:49,970 --> 01:47:51,497
organizer with Ceasefire Now

2787
01:47:52,567 --> 01:47:54,335
Marin. We will be re-submitting

2788
01:47:54,335 --> 01:47:55,804
the petition we sent you last

2789
01:47:55,804 --> 01:47:57,390
week later this week as there

2790
01:47:57,390 --> 01:47:58,840
are now close to 500 signatures

2791
01:47:58,840 --> 01:48:00,809
of people in Marin calling for

2792
01:48:00,809 --> 01:48:02,377
you to adopt a permanent

2793
01:48:02,377 --> 01:48:04,377
ceasefire resolution.

2794
01:48:05,480 --> 01:48:08,450
Today or yesterday there were

2795
01:48:08,450 --> 01:48:09,618
reports that came out that

2796
01:48:09,618 --> 01:48:12,180
25,000 children in Gaza have

2797
01:48:12,888 --> 01:48:14,888
been orphaned. 20,000

2798
01:48:16,491 --> 01:48:17,893
Palestinians have been

2799
01:48:17,893 --> 01:48:19,893
slaughtered, 10,000 will soon

2800
01:48:21,429 --> 01:48:24,198
hit -- about 10,000 of those

2801
01:48:24,198 --> 01:48:25,801
being children. Nine out of ten

2802
01:48:25,801 --> 01:48:29,337
people in Gaza don't eat every

2803
01:48:29,337 --> 01:48:32,337
day. How much more punishment

2804
01:48:32,607 --> 01:48:35,744
of civilians is enough? I ask

2805
01:48:35,744 --> 01:48:38,179
you to put Marin County on the

2806
01:48:38,179 --> 01:48:39,748
right side of history, and I

2807
01:48:39,748 --> 01:48:42,170
urge you to bring forward and

2808
01:48:42,170 --> 01:48:42,651
adopt a ceasefire resolution.

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01:48:42,651 --> 01:48:44,651
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

2810
01:48:46,521 --> 01:48:48,230
PRES.: Okay. We're going to go

2811
01:48:48,230 --> 01:48:49,457
online now. We have four

2812
01:48:49,457 --> 01:48:51,457
speakers remaining.

2813
01:48:51,593 --> 01:48:52,327
>>MODERATOR: The first speaker

2814
01:48:52,327 --> 01:48:55,327
is Laurie Dubin. Please unmute.

2815
01:48:57,198 --> 01:48:58,466
>>SPEAKER: Good morning. I'm

2816
01:48:58,466 --> 01:49:01,690
Laurie Dubin, and I've lived in

2817
01:49:01,690 --> 01:49:02,637
Larkspur for 25 years. We have

2818
01:49:02,637 --> 01:49:03,905
raised three children here and

2819
01:49:03,905 --> 01:49:05,707
our family is hoping that this

2820
01:49:05,707 --> 01:49:08,707
board will not consider a

2821
01:49:09,477 --> 01:49:10,378
resolution on the Middle East.

2822
01:49:10,378 --> 01:49:11,913
We have mourned too many deaths

2823
01:49:11,913 --> 01:49:13,815
since October 7. It's been a

2824
01:49:13,815 --> 01:49:15,350
devastating period for our

2825
01:49:15,350 --> 01:49:17,919
Jewish community, and we've also

2826
01:49:17,919 --> 01:49:19,855
been heartbroken over the

2827
01:49:19,855 --> 01:49:21,389
devastation of Gaza and the

2828
01:49:21,389 --> 01:49:24,389
deaths of Palestinians. But as

2829
01:49:25,360 --> 01:49:27,428
gold to my ear, Israel's former

2830
01:49:27,428 --> 01:49:28,897
Prime Minister said in 1969,

2831
01:49:28,897 --> 01:49:30,932
when peace comes, we will

2832
01:49:30,932 --> 01:49:32,634
perhaps in time be able to

2833
01:49:32,634 --> 01:49:34,369
forgive the Arabs for killing

2834
01:49:34,369 --> 01:49:35,570
our children, but it will be

2835
01:49:35,570 --> 01:49:37,405
harder for us to forgive them

2836
01:49:37,405 --> 01:49:40,108
for forcing us to kill theirs.

2837
01:49:40,108 --> 01:49:42,144
Over 50 years later, Israel is

2838
01:49:42,144 --> 01:49:43,712
again being forced to defend

2839
01:49:43,712 --> 01:49:45,981
itself against jihadist groups

2840
01:49:45,981 --> 01:49:47,682
who use their own people as

2841
01:49:47,682 --> 01:49:49,651
human shields and block their

2842
01:49:49,651 --> 01:49:51,352
citizens from leaving when

2843
01:49:51,352 --> 01:49:52,887
Israel gives them advance

2844
01:49:52,887 --> 01:49:54,288
warning.

2845
01:49:54,288 --> 01:49:56,288
Repeating falsehoods of

2846
01:49:56,558 --> 01:49:58,958
genocide, apartheid and ethnic

2847
01:49:59,594 --> 01:50:00,628
cleansing over and over again

2848
01:50:00,628 --> 01:50:02,731
does not make them true. Thank

2849
01:50:02,731 --> 01:50:04,731
you.

2850
01:50:04,966 --> 01:50:06,100
>>MODERATOR: The next speaker is

2851
01:50:06,100 --> 01:50:08,100
Maggie. Please unmute.

2852
01:50:11,730 --> 01:50:12,674
>>SPEAKER: Good morning. I am

2853
01:50:12,674 --> 01:50:16,440
Maggie Daws. I am a former San

2854
01:50:16,440 --> 01:50:17,779
Rafael city schools public

2855
01:50:17,779 --> 01:50:20,882
teacher, and in the spirit of

2856
01:50:20,882 --> 01:50:23,282
coming together rather than

2857
01:50:24,520 --> 01:50:27,520
living in divisiveness, I want

2858
01:50:27,550 --> 01:50:30,550
to please, please, please, for

2859
01:50:30,825 --> 01:50:31,893
the children who are being

2860
01:50:31,893 --> 01:50:34,293
murdered and slaughtered and

2861
01:50:34,796 --> 01:50:37,796
disfigured, ask the Board of

2862
01:50:39,300 --> 01:50:41,703
Supervisors to pass -- well,

2863
01:50:41,703 --> 01:50:44,703
propose and pass a permanent

2864
01:50:46,410 --> 01:50:49,410
resolution. You know, an eye

2865
01:50:49,844 --> 01:50:51,446
for an eye makes us all blind.

2866
01:50:51,446 --> 01:50:53,715
That's what Gandhi said, and I

2867
01:50:53,715 --> 01:50:56,451
hear that many of our Jewish

2868
01:50:56,451 --> 01:50:59,353
friends are very, very afraid

2869
01:50:59,353 --> 01:51:03,553
right now, but I think they need

2870
01:51:03,925 --> 01:51:06,600
to examine their faith. Thank

2871
01:51:06,600 --> 01:51:07,280
you very much.

2872
01:51:07,280 --> 01:51:08,163
>>MODERATOR: The next speaker is

2873
01:51:08,163 --> 01:51:10,563
Susan Hopp. Please unmute.

2874
01:51:12,266 --> 01:51:13,501
>>SPEAKER: Yes, good morning,

2875
01:51:13,501 --> 01:51:15,501
supervisors. Yes, these

2876
01:51:16,871 --> 01:51:18,807
statistics are just so shocking.

2877
01:51:18,807 --> 01:51:20,807
Over 20,000 civilians

2878
01:51:20,875 --> 01:51:22,875
slaughtered, 87 journalists

2879
01:51:23,645 --> 01:51:26,114
killed, records set for the

2880
01:51:26,114 --> 01:51:28,150
number of hospitals bombed and

2881
01:51:28,150 --> 01:51:30,185
destroyed, the number of aid

2882
01:51:30,185 --> 01:51:32,200
workers killed, and then the

2883
01:51:32,200 --> 01:51:34,420
disease that is rampant.

2884
01:51:34,656 --> 01:51:36,658
This is not the time to be

2885
01:51:36,658 --> 01:51:39,761
timid, nor to allow or tolerate

2886
01:51:39,761 --> 01:51:42,761
what Hannah Errant termed the

2887
01:51:43,832 --> 01:51:46,234
banality of evil. We in Marin

2888
01:51:46,234 --> 01:51:48,469
County can at the very least not

2889
01:51:48,469 --> 01:51:52,690
look away from this evil, insane

2890
01:51:52,507 --> 01:51:54,209
slaughter perpetrated and

2891
01:51:54,209 --> 01:51:57,712
enabled by our country. We can

2892
01:51:57,712 --> 01:52:00,712
state our horror through calling

2893
01:52:00,982 --> 01:52:04,582
for a ceasefire now. Thank you.

2894
01:52:06,554 --> 01:52:07,622
>>MODERATOR: The next speaker is

2895
01:52:07,622 --> 01:52:10,220
Nathan Durwood. Please unmute.

2896
01:52:12,660 --> 01:52:13,962
>>SPEAKER: Hello, my name is

2897
01:52:13,962 --> 01:52:15,363
Nathan Durwood, long-time

2898
01:52:15,363 --> 01:52:17,232
resident of Marin. Marin's long

2899
01:52:17,232 --> 01:52:18,533
taught its children in schools,

2900
01:52:18,533 --> 01:52:19,834
particularly its large -- given

2901
01:52:19,834 --> 01:52:21,803
its large Jewish population, the

2902
01:52:21,803 --> 01:52:22,871
horrors of the holocaust, and

2903
01:52:22,871 --> 01:52:24,906
right now in Gaza,

2904
01:52:24,906 --> 01:52:26,407
indiscriminate and deliberate

2905
01:52:26,407 --> 01:52:29,407
slaughter of Gaza children --

2906
01:52:34,820 --> 01:52:35,282
>>MODERATOR: Mr. Durwood, we

2907
01:52:35,282 --> 01:52:37,282
lost your audio.

2908
01:52:37,819 --> 01:52:38,920
>>SPEAKER: Can you hear me?

2909
01:52:38,920 --> 01:52:39,220
>>MODERATOR: We can hear you

2910
01:52:39,220 --> 01:52:40,354
now.

2911
01:52:40,354 --> 01:52:41,956
>>SPEAKER: Okay. I'm saying

2912
01:52:41,956 --> 01:52:45,193
that the -- yeah, we have long

2913
01:52:45,193 --> 01:52:46,394
professed the horrors of the

2914
01:52:46,394 --> 01:52:47,495
holocaust and have taught our

2915
01:52:47,495 --> 01:52:48,663
children to find it horrifying

2916
01:52:48,663 --> 01:52:50,531
and to act against it, and I

2917
01:52:50,531 --> 01:52:52,267
think in order to prove whether

2918
01:52:52,267 --> 01:52:53,367
or not those statements were

2919
01:52:53,367 --> 01:52:56,370
hollow, were true, we have to

2920
01:52:56,370 --> 01:52:57,380
consistently apply those values

2921
01:52:57,380 --> 01:52:59,241
to now where genocide is

2922
01:52:59,241 --> 01:53:01,609
occurring on the largest open

2923
01:53:01,609 --> 01:53:03,780
air prison on the planet, and if

2924
01:53:03,780 --> 01:53:06,380
we wish to walk the walk, the

2925
01:53:06,380 --> 01:53:09,150
bare minimum we can do, being

2926
01:53:09,150 --> 01:53:10,318
the country that's supplying

2927
01:53:10,318 --> 01:53:11,753
almost all of Israel's weapons,

2928
01:53:11,753 --> 01:53:14,256
is to pass a ceasefire

2929
01:53:14,256 --> 01:53:15,556
resolution. Thank you.

2930
01:53:15,556 --> 01:53:16,224
>>MODERATOR: President

2931
01:53:16,224 --> 01:53:16,858
Moulton-Peters, there are no

2932
01:53:16,858 --> 01:53:17,191
additional speakers in the

2933
01:53:17,191 --> 01:53:17,825
queue.

2934
01:53:17,825 --> 01:53:18,526
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

2935
01:53:18,526 --> 01:53:19,194
PRES.: Okay, we're going to can

2936
01:53:19,194 --> 01:53:20,128
come back to the chambers for

2937
01:53:20,128 --> 01:53:23,128
the last two speakers. Three.

2938
01:53:24,632 --> 01:53:26,234
>>SPEAKER: Hello, my name is Pat

2939
01:53:26,234 --> 01:53:27,802
Murphy from Terra Linda. Thanks

2940
01:53:27,802 --> 01:53:30,171
for having me today. I'm here

2941
01:53:30,171 --> 01:53:32,907
today, supervisors, to plead to

2942
01:53:32,907 --> 01:53:34,375
you to pass a permanent

2943
01:53:34,375 --> 01:53:36,375
ceasefire resolution. Over

2944
01:53:37,478 --> 01:53:39,414
15,000 Palestinians have died

2945
01:53:39,414 --> 01:53:41,916
since October 7, many are women

2946
01:53:41,916 --> 01:53:44,485
or children, and as Joe said,

2947
01:53:44,485 --> 01:53:46,485
25,000 Palestinian children are

2948
01:53:47,755 --> 01:53:48,923
orphans now as a result of the

2949
01:53:48,923 --> 01:53:50,858
mass indiscriminate bombing

2950
01:53:50,858 --> 01:53:52,858
campaign by Israel.

2951
01:53:53,228 --> 01:53:55,663
The Palestinian people not only

2952
01:53:55,663 --> 01:53:57,665
have Israel's constant bombing

2953
01:53:57,665 --> 01:53:59,901
threatening their lives each and

2954
01:53:59,901 --> 01:54:01,936
every day, but now starvation,

2955
01:54:01,936 --> 01:54:03,671
dehydration, lack of shelter,

2956
01:54:03,671 --> 01:54:05,106
lack of proper sanitation, and

2957
01:54:05,106 --> 01:54:06,607
dead bodies rotting in the

2958
01:54:06,607 --> 01:54:09,277
rubble all leading to disease

2959
01:54:09,277 --> 01:54:12,460
and death. With the bombing of

2960
01:54:12,460 --> 01:54:13,380
so many hospitals and the lack

2961
01:54:13,380 --> 01:54:15,160
of medical aid and basic

2962
01:54:15,160 --> 01:54:16,840
necessities being allowed in

2963
01:54:16,840 --> 01:54:18,920
Gaza, so many more Palestinian

2964
01:54:18,920 --> 01:54:20,920
lives will die.

2965
01:54:21,923 --> 01:54:23,758
There are no easy solutions to

2966
01:54:23,758 --> 01:54:24,892
this long-standing conflict

2967
01:54:24,892 --> 01:54:26,727
between Palestine and Israel,

2968
01:54:26,727 --> 01:54:27,728
and that's not for us to figure

2969
01:54:27,728 --> 01:54:28,363
out.

2970
01:54:28,363 --> 01:54:29,164
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

2971
01:54:29,164 --> 01:54:29,497
PRES.: Thank you. We're at

2972
01:54:29,497 --> 01:54:31,497
time.

2973
01:54:31,732 --> 01:54:32,367
>>SPEAKER: Thank you.

2974
01:54:32,367 --> 01:54:33,340
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

2975
01:54:33,340 --> 01:54:33,367
PRES.: Mm-hm. Next speaker,

2976
01:54:33,367 --> 01:54:35,367
please.

2977
01:54:36,437 --> 01:54:39,107
>>SPEAKER: Hi. My name is

2978
01:54:39,107 --> 01:54:40,741
Nicole, and I'm a

2979
01:54:40,741 --> 01:54:42,143
Palestinian-American living in

2980
01:54:42,143 --> 01:54:44,112
Novato. And when I saw the

2981
01:54:44,112 --> 01:54:45,546
photos yesterday of men being

2982
01:54:45,546 --> 01:54:46,948
kidnapped, stripped of their

2983
01:54:46,948 --> 01:54:48,749
clothes, blindfolded and bound

2984
01:54:48,749 --> 01:54:50,718
and paraded around, it reminded

2985
01:54:50,718 --> 01:54:52,387
me of when they did this to my

2986
01:54:52,387 --> 01:54:54,422
own great-grandfather in a town

2987
01:54:54,422 --> 01:54:56,570
called Ramallah, which is now

2988
01:54:56,570 --> 01:54:58,193
part of Tel Aviv, but to be more

2989
01:54:58,193 --> 01:54:59,827
recent, there's a short story I

2990
01:54:59,827 --> 01:55:00,761
want to share of something that

2991
01:55:00,761 --> 01:55:02,563
happened only yesterday.

2992
01:55:02,563 --> 01:55:04,699
The IDF committed a military

2993
01:55:04,699 --> 01:55:06,234
raid of a UN school where

2994
01:55:06,234 --> 01:55:07,635
thousands were displaced. A

2995
01:55:07,635 --> 01:55:10,138
child was shot by the IDF,

2996
01:55:10,138 --> 01:55:11,706
filmed briefly as getting help,

2997
01:55:11,706 --> 01:55:13,441
and then when the cameras were

2998
01:55:13,441 --> 01:55:15,900
turned off, forced to bleed out

2999
01:55:15,900 --> 01:55:17,278
as people watched. They then

3000
01:55:17,278 --> 01:55:19,247
kidnapped dozens of Palestinian

3001
01:55:19,247 --> 01:55:21,150
civilians for use as human

3002
01:55:21,150 --> 01:55:22,160
shields, something the U.S.A.

3003
01:55:22,160 --> 01:55:24,416
and Israel falsely accuses

3004
01:55:25,220 --> 01:55:26,120
Palestinians of doing. There

3005
01:55:26,120 --> 01:55:27,355
was a story of a child as young

3006
01:55:27,355 --> 01:55:29,357
as 15 being forced to wear an

3007
01:55:29,357 --> 01:55:30,892
explosive vest and enter tunnels

3008
01:55:30,892 --> 01:55:32,626
before the IDF. That all

3009
01:55:32,626 --> 01:55:34,562
happened yesterday. Each day

3010
01:55:34,562 --> 01:55:36,331
things like this happen, and we

3011
01:55:36,331 --> 01:55:37,665
need to call for a ceasefire

3012
01:55:37,665 --> 01:55:38,666
today, showing we don't support

3013
01:55:38,666 --> 01:55:40,666
that.

3014
01:55:44,672 --> 01:55:46,473
>>SPEAKER: Hello, my name's ace

3015
01:55:46,473 --> 01:55:49,473
Dillon. I live in forest

3016
01:55:52,313 --> 01:55:54,516
knolls. I spoke here about the

3017
01:55:54,516 --> 01:55:55,950
colonial roots of Israel as a

3018
01:55:55,950 --> 01:55:58,860
state, creating a majority

3019
01:55:58,860 --> 01:55:59,487
Jewish democratic state in a

3020
01:55:59,487 --> 01:56:00,988
major Arab country has always

3021
01:56:00,988 --> 01:56:02,390
been the fundamental

3022
01:56:02,390 --> 01:56:05,390
contradiction to Zionism. So in

3023
01:56:06,160 --> 01:56:09,160
1948, the UN, which is what

3024
01:56:11,866 --> 01:56:13,368
Israel claims its legitimacy

3025
01:56:13,368 --> 01:56:15,368
from, partitioned historic

3026
01:56:15,770 --> 01:56:17,472
Palestine. The partition never

3027
01:56:17,472 --> 01:56:19,573
went into effect. The Israel

3028
01:56:19,573 --> 01:56:22,573
took 78% of the land, killed

3029
01:56:23,111 --> 01:56:25,111
15,000 Palestinians, and

3030
01:56:25,413 --> 01:56:26,781
displaced half the population,

3031
01:56:26,781 --> 01:56:28,781
750,000 Palestinians. That

3032
01:56:29,984 --> 01:56:32,686
historic crime has never been

3033
01:56:32,686 --> 01:56:34,355
addressed, so it's continued for

3034
01:56:34,355 --> 01:56:37,355
75 years, and Israel is an

3035
01:56:39,260 --> 01:56:41,162
apartheid state. We need a

3036
01:56:41,162 --> 01:56:43,562
one-state solution in Palestine,

3037
01:56:43,898 --> 01:56:45,300
and to start that we need an

3038
01:56:45,300 --> 01:56:45,933
immediate ceasefire. Thank you.

3039
01:56:45,933 --> 01:56:47,933
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

3040
01:56:48,690 --> 01:56:49,700
PRES.: Okay, with that I'm going

3041
01:56:49,700 --> 01:56:52,700
to close public open time.

3042
01:56:52,706 --> 01:56:54,142
Thanks, everyone, for remaining

3043
01:56:54,142 --> 01:56:55,543
civil. We're going to take a

3044
01:56:55,543 --> 01:56:58,112
two-minute break to let people

3045
01:56:58,112 --> 01:56:59,581
leave the chambers before we

3046
01:56:59,581 --> 01:57:01,916
finish -- continue on with our

3047
01:57:01,916 --> 01:57:03,916
business. Thank you.

3048
02:01:23,877 --> 02:01:24,579
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

3049
02:01:24,579 --> 02:01:25,479
PRES.: Okay, everyone, I'm going

3050
02:01:25,479 --> 02:01:26,714
to call our meeting back to

3051
02:01:26,714 --> 02:01:28,482
order now, and we are on agenda

3052
02:01:28,482 --> 02:01:30,951
Item No. 3. This is Board of

3053
02:01:30,951 --> 02:01:32,286
Supervisors matters and

3054
02:01:32,286 --> 02:01:33,621
informational updates, as well

3055
02:01:33,621 --> 02:01:35,256
as the county administrator's

3056
02:01:35,256 --> 02:01:37,656
report. So Supervisor Rodoni,

3057
02:01:39,326 --> 02:01:40,928
would you like to start?

3058
02:01:40,928 --> 02:01:41,629
>>DENNIS RODONI: Yeah, thank

3059
02:01:41,629 --> 02:01:42,363
you. Good morning, everyone.

3060
02:01:42,363 --> 02:01:43,997
Just a couple small

3061
02:01:43,997 --> 02:01:46,200
announcements. I've been to a

3062
02:01:46,200 --> 02:01:49,690
couple toy giveaway events, and

3063
02:01:49,690 --> 02:01:50,471
I just wanted to mention them,

3064
02:01:50,471 --> 02:01:52,239
and one is coming up Saturday.

3065
02:01:52,239 --> 02:01:54,639
The Center for Independent

3066
02:01:55,777 --> 02:01:58,777
Living in matrix, their company

3067
02:01:58,813 --> 02:02:01,649
in Sonoma County had a nice

3068
02:02:01,649 --> 02:02:03,284
event on Saturday, December 2,

3069
02:02:03,284 --> 02:02:05,185
and I was able to attend that

3070
02:02:05,185 --> 02:02:07,154
with my grandson, including

3071
02:02:07,154 --> 02:02:08,756
Santa and the horse-drawn

3072
02:02:08,756 --> 02:02:09,823
carriage, so it was kind of a

3073
02:02:09,823 --> 02:02:10,891
fun event.

3074
02:02:10,891 --> 02:02:13,891
And then parent voices last

3075
02:02:14,610 --> 02:02:17,610
Saturday had a Christmas present

3076
02:02:17,197 --> 02:02:19,500
giveaway for 35 families at the

3077
02:02:19,500 --> 02:02:21,335
parking lot of the center for

3078
02:02:21,335 --> 02:02:22,870
domestic peace, and Santa was

3079
02:02:22,870 --> 02:02:24,739
there with the San Rafael fire

3080
02:02:24,739 --> 02:02:27,141
department, and the event was

3081
02:02:27,141 --> 02:02:28,843
supported by San Rafael Santa

3082
02:02:28,843 --> 02:02:30,578
cops. I want to thank hem.

3083
02:02:30,578 --> 02:02:31,679
Next Saturday the voices of the

3084
02:02:31,679 --> 02:02:32,880
Canal will have an annual

3085
02:02:32,880 --> 02:02:35,149
present giveaway in the Canal.

3086
02:02:35,149 --> 02:02:36,684
They are still looking for

3087
02:02:36,684 --> 02:02:38,285
donations if anyone is thinking

3088
02:02:38,285 --> 02:02:39,820
of someone to donate to. They

3089
02:02:39,820 --> 02:02:41,455
would welcome those.

3090
02:02:41,455 --> 02:02:42,824
And then I want to adjourn in

3091
02:02:42,824 --> 02:02:45,580
memory of Jane Garfield

3092
02:02:45,580 --> 02:02:48,580
Livingston who passed away at

3093
02:02:49,630 --> 02:02:51,599
her home in Corte Madera at the

3094
02:02:51,599 --> 02:02:54,802
age of 93. She was active in

3095
02:02:54,802 --> 02:02:57,202
the prison educating inmates.

3096
02:02:57,839 --> 02:02:59,373
She left a message on the fridge

3097
02:02:59,373 --> 02:03:01,676
for her family, and it said: Who

3098
02:03:01,676 --> 02:03:03,177
will take care of the world when

3099
02:03:03,177 --> 02:03:04,745
I'm gone? So quite a question

3100
02:03:04,745 --> 02:03:05,379
she left us all, so thank you.

3101
02:03:05,379 --> 02:03:07,379
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

3102
02:03:09,416 --> 02:03:10,451
PRES.: Supervisor Sackett?

3103
02:03:10,451 --> 02:03:11,510
>>MARY SACKETT: Yeah, just

3104
02:03:11,510 --> 02:03:12,620
quickly I want to second

3105
02:03:12,620 --> 02:03:15,620
Supervisor Rodoni's plug for the

3106
02:03:16,423 --> 02:03:17,792
Canal event. It's always a

3107
02:03:17,792 --> 02:03:19,393
really neat event and

3108
02:03:19,393 --> 02:03:20,561
opportunity to engage with the

3109
02:03:20,561 --> 02:03:22,530
community with gifts. I had the

3110
02:03:22,530 --> 02:03:23,631
opportunity to spend Saturday

3111
02:03:23,631 --> 02:03:26,310
with Homeward Bound unpackaging

3112
02:03:27,368 --> 02:03:29,403
and matching up clothes for

3113
02:03:29,403 --> 02:03:31,710
folks in all of our shelters,

3114
02:03:31,710 --> 02:03:34,710
and it was really nice

3115
02:03:35,877 --> 02:03:37,344
opportunity with seven or eight

3116
02:03:37,344 --> 02:03:38,813
of us to just share our

3117
02:03:38,813 --> 02:03:41,813
gratitude and be thankful and

3118
02:03:42,182 --> 02:03:42,817
share a little joy. Thank you.

3119
02:03:42,817 --> 02:03:44,817
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

3120
02:03:47,421 --> 02:03:48,522
PRES.: Supervisor Rice?

3121
02:03:48,522 --> 02:03:49,156
>>KATIE RICE: Nothing.

3122
02:03:49,156 --> 02:03:49,957
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

3123
02:03:49,957 --> 02:03:51,893
PRES.: Okay, Supervisor Lucan?

3124
02:03:51,893 --> 02:03:52,693
>>ERIC LUCAN: Just real quick,

3125
02:03:52,693 --> 02:03:53,895
last Wednesday along with

3126
02:03:53,895 --> 02:03:56,597
Supervisor Sackett, we got to

3127
02:03:56,597 --> 02:03:58,699
celebrate with the Marin Foster

3128
02:03:58,699 --> 02:03:59,533
Care Association on the ribbon

3129
02:03:59,533 --> 02:04:02,436
cutting of their new ten-unit

3130
02:04:02,436 --> 02:04:04,939
building in Novato that they are

3131
02:04:04,939 --> 02:04:07,274
going to be making available for

3132
02:04:07,274 --> 02:04:09,510
aging out foster youth. It was

3133
02:04:09,510 --> 02:04:10,912
a project supported through our

3134
02:04:10,912 --> 02:04:12,914
housing trust fund here at the

3135
02:04:12,914 --> 02:04:14,381
county, community foundation,

3136
02:04:14,381 --> 02:04:16,417
the city of Novato. It was a

3137
02:04:16,417 --> 02:04:17,785
wonderful ribbon cutting. We

3138
02:04:17,785 --> 02:04:18,953
got to tour one of the units

3139
02:04:18,953 --> 02:04:21,355
that has recently been furnished

3140
02:04:21,355 --> 02:04:22,957
by make it home, another great

3141
02:04:22,957 --> 02:04:24,358
local non-profit, an great to

3142
02:04:24,358 --> 02:04:26,193
see these units coming online to

3143
02:04:26,193 --> 02:04:27,261
support the aging out foster

3144
02:04:27,261 --> 02:04:28,362
youth.

3145
02:04:28,362 --> 02:04:29,263
Secondly I would like to request

3146
02:04:29,263 --> 02:04:31,331
that we adjourn in memory of

3147
02:04:31,331 --> 02:04:33,731
Nick Zoli. Nick unexpectedly

3148
02:04:34,134 --> 02:04:35,569
passed away after recently

3149
02:04:35,569 --> 02:04:37,204
retiring from the Novato police

3150
02:04:37,204 --> 02:04:38,873
department as a police corporal.

3151
02:04:38,873 --> 02:04:41,475
He spent 16 years as an officer,

3152
02:04:41,475 --> 02:04:42,944
a corporal, a field training

3153
02:04:42,944 --> 02:04:44,845
officer, a peer support team

3154
02:04:44,845 --> 02:04:45,947
member and a mental health

3155
02:04:45,947 --> 02:04:47,548
liaison. In 2019 he received

3156
02:04:47,548 --> 02:04:49,617
the medal of merit award after

3157
02:04:49,617 --> 02:04:51,619
talking to suicidal individual

3158
02:04:51,619 --> 02:04:53,587
off an overpass in Novato, and

3159
02:04:53,587 --> 02:04:55,856
our hearts go out to the family

3160
02:04:55,856 --> 02:04:57,758
and those around Nick on his

3161
02:04:57,758 --> 02:04:58,392
unexpected passing.

3162
02:04:58,392 --> 02:05:00,392
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

3163
02:05:00,494 --> 02:05:01,896
PRES.: Okay. Nothing from me

3164
02:05:01,896 --> 02:05:03,464
today. We'll go to our county

3165
02:05:03,464 --> 02:05:04,531
administrator.

3166
02:05:04,531 --> 02:05:05,165
>>MATTHEW H. HYMEL: Good

3167
02:05:05,165 --> 02:05:06,300
morning, supervisors. Just

3168
02:05:06,300 --> 02:05:08,368
briefly I wanted to point a few

3169
02:05:08,368 --> 02:05:11,138
amendments to our agenda. Three

3170
02:05:11,138 --> 02:05:14,410
items are going to be removed in

3171
02:05:14,410 --> 02:05:16,209
the housing authority. It's the

3172
02:05:16,209 --> 02:05:18,846
closed session item 13a, as well

3173
02:05:18,846 --> 02:05:23,460
as 13g, and then on your Consent

3174
02:05:23,116 --> 02:05:26,116
Calendar A, the sheriff has

3175
02:05:27,154 --> 02:05:30,570
requested we remove item CA-12.

3176
02:05:30,570 --> 02:05:31,458
I also wanted to point out that

3177
02:05:31,458 --> 02:05:32,827
we have updated three items on

3178
02:05:32,827 --> 02:05:34,227
our agenda, and they include

3179
02:05:34,227 --> 02:05:37,827
item 12e, consent item CA-7e,

3180
02:05:39,633 --> 02:05:42,336
and item 10d. And that's my

3181
02:05:42,336 --> 02:05:42,970
report.

3182
02:05:42,970 --> 02:05:44,605
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

3183
02:05:44,605 --> 02:05:46,974
PRES.: Okay. Matthew, would you

3184
02:05:46,974 --> 02:05:49,750
remind, going over those changes

3185
02:05:49,750 --> 02:05:50,911
to the agenda again?

3186
02:05:50,911 --> 02:05:52,613
>>MATTHEW H. HYMEL: Sure. We're

3187
02:05:52,613 --> 02:05:53,981
removing two items from the

3188
02:05:53,981 --> 02:05:54,815
afternoon session of the housing

3189
02:05:54,815 --> 02:05:56,170
authority. The first one is

3190
02:05:56,170 --> 02:05:57,451
13a, and then the second one is

3191
02:05:57,451 --> 02:05:59,451
13g.

3192
02:05:59,453 --> 02:06:02,523
And then on Consent Calendar A

3193
02:06:02,523 --> 02:06:05,523
we're removing item CA-12. So

3194
02:06:05,726 --> 02:06:06,861
those are the complete removals

3195
02:06:06,861 --> 02:06:08,495
from the agenda.

3196
02:06:08,495 --> 02:06:09,797
And then I was just pointing out

3197
02:06:09,797 --> 02:06:11,665
that we have updated some

3198
02:06:11,665 --> 02:06:13,670
existing items, which include

3199
02:06:13,670 --> 02:06:17,267
12e, CA-7e and 10d, and those

3200
02:06:21,876 --> 02:06:22,776
are all posted online and

3201
02:06:22,776 --> 02:06:23,844
updated online. I just wanted

3202
02:06:23,844 --> 02:06:24,478
to point it out for folks.

3203
02:06:24,478 --> 02:06:26,478
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

3204
02:06:27,414 --> 02:06:28,448
PRES.: Okay, very good. Thank

3205
02:06:28,448 --> 02:06:29,516
you. We'll open to public

3206
02:06:29,516 --> 02:06:31,516
comment now.

3207
02:06:36,657 --> 02:06:37,357
>>SPEAKER: That you received an

3208
02:06:37,357 --> 02:06:40,270
email from me last week

3209
02:06:40,270 --> 02:06:42,427
regarding Curtis Aiken's role

3210
02:06:43,300 --> 02:06:45,699
within the county as an

3211
02:06:45,699 --> 02:06:48,201
appointee both on the sheriff

3212
02:06:48,201 --> 02:06:49,302
civilian's oversight working

3213
02:06:49,302 --> 02:06:50,637
group. He's also been serving

3214
02:06:50,637 --> 02:06:53,340
on the HRC. I want to correct

3215
02:06:53,340 --> 02:06:55,740
some of the information.

3216
02:06:56,770 --> 02:06:57,912
Curtis Aikens did not disclose

3217
02:06:57,912 --> 02:07:00,114
that his son is a law

3218
02:07:00,114 --> 02:07:01,949
enforcement officer. He did not

3219
02:07:01,949 --> 02:07:03,984
disclose that until June of this

3220
02:07:03,984 --> 02:07:07,584
year. He had been appointed to

3221
02:07:07,955 --> 02:07:09,356
multiple boards and commissions

3222
02:07:09,356 --> 02:07:10,991
in that capacity. He defended

3223
02:07:10,991 --> 02:07:12,325
law enforcement. He defended it

3224
02:07:12,325 --> 02:07:13,393
against questions about what was

3225
02:07:13,393 --> 02:07:15,529
happening, especially in the

3226
02:07:15,529 --> 02:07:16,663
county with regard to the county

3227
02:07:16,663 --> 02:07:20,263
jail. I do want to correct

3228
02:07:21,680 --> 02:07:24,105
something I wrote. I said that

3229
02:07:24,105 --> 02:07:27,105
Curtis Aikens' son, I correctly

3230
02:07:28,109 --> 02:07:29,276
called, had been an officer with

3231
02:07:29,276 --> 02:07:30,410
the San Francisco police

3232
02:07:30,410 --> 02:07:32,446
department. I was incorrect in

3233
02:07:32,446 --> 02:07:36,117
saying that he had moved on to

3234
02:07:36,117 --> 02:07:37,510
San Francisco sheriff rather

3235
02:07:37,510 --> 02:07:39,286
than Sonoma County sheriff, and

3236
02:07:39,286 --> 02:07:40,487
that is a very important

3237
02:07:40,487 --> 02:07:41,388
distinction, because it turns

3238
02:07:41,388 --> 02:07:44,388
out that Curtis Aikens' son,

3239
02:07:46,260 --> 02:07:48,395
while in the employ of Sonoma

3240
02:07:48,395 --> 02:07:49,262
County sheriff, was involved in

3241
02:07:49,262 --> 02:07:51,231
a very serious use of force

3242
02:07:51,231 --> 02:07:53,500
incident, and that was not

3243
02:07:53,500 --> 02:07:55,769
disclosed to anyone. What's

3244
02:07:55,769 --> 02:07:58,500
unbelievable to me is that no

3245
02:07:58,500 --> 02:08:00,405
one on sheriff civilian

3246
02:08:00,707 --> 02:08:02,242
oversight, that incredibly

3247
02:08:02,242 --> 02:08:04,611
secretive and conflict of

3248
02:08:04,611 --> 02:08:05,545
interest laden group, knew about

3249
02:08:05,545 --> 02:08:07,815
that, because you also had Heidi

3250
02:08:07,815 --> 02:08:09,683
Merchant on that group, and

3251
02:08:09,683 --> 02:08:12,153
Heidi was not only a sheriff

3252
02:08:12,153 --> 02:08:14,221
deputy, undisclosed to the

3253
02:08:14,221 --> 02:08:15,889
public, by the way, not only a

3254
02:08:15,889 --> 02:08:17,158
sheriff deputy here in Marin

3255
02:08:17,158 --> 02:08:18,292
County and in Sonoma County, but

3256
02:08:18,292 --> 02:08:21,950
she is married to the assistant

3257
02:08:21,950 --> 02:08:22,329
sheriff of Sonoma County. I

3258
02:08:22,329 --> 02:08:25,329
mean, it's . . . you know, that

3259
02:08:25,699 --> 02:08:27,699
whole sheriff's civilian

3260
02:08:28,200 --> 02:08:29,236
oversight working group was a

3261
02:08:29,236 --> 02:08:31,380
disaster. It did nothing but

3262
02:08:31,380 --> 02:08:32,372
provide cover for the additional

3263
02:08:32,372 --> 02:08:35,475
$3 million to the sheriff, so I

3264
02:08:35,475 --> 02:08:36,777
really ask that you review the

3265
02:08:36,777 --> 02:08:37,711
entire package and start over.

3266
02:08:37,711 --> 02:08:38,345
Thank you.

3267
02:08:38,345 --> 02:08:40,214
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

3268
02:08:40,214 --> 02:08:41,315
PRES.: Okay, seeing no more

3269
02:08:41,315 --> 02:08:42,482
speakers in the chambers, we'll

3270
02:08:42,482 --> 02:08:45,850
go online. I see one hand.

3271
02:08:45,850 --> 02:08:45,752
>>MODERATOR: The first speaker

3272
02:08:45,752 --> 02:08:46,687
is Rodrigo Izquierdo. Please

3273
02:08:46,687 --> 02:08:48,687
unmute.

3274
02:08:52,259 --> 02:08:54,161
>>SPEAKER: Hi. I want to add to

3275
02:08:54,161 --> 02:08:56,561
everything that Ms. Chrysanthe

3276
02:08:58,365 --> 02:09:00,201
said, and that is the lack of

3277
02:09:00,201 --> 02:09:02,435
transparency with the Human

3278
02:09:02,435 --> 02:09:04,835
Rights Commission. You have

3279
02:09:04,905 --> 02:09:05,539
commissioners who basically

3280
02:09:05,539 --> 02:09:06,573
don't participate in any

3281
02:09:06,573 --> 02:09:09,573
community events. You have a

3282
02:09:10,978 --> 02:09:13,680
nun who doesn't go to any place.

3283
02:09:13,680 --> 02:09:17,280
You have a resident from Marin

3284
02:09:17,484 --> 02:09:20,687
City who doesn't want to be

3285
02:09:20,687 --> 02:09:23,687
chair of the commission because

3286
02:09:24,158 --> 02:09:27,158
there's so many absences. You

3287
02:09:27,194 --> 02:09:31,980
have a chair of -- the present

3288
02:09:31,980 --> 02:09:32,733
chair who is up for -- well,

3289
02:09:32,733 --> 02:09:35,569
they are going to elect a new

3290
02:09:35,569 --> 02:09:38,438
chair, but right now the last

3291
02:09:38,438 --> 02:09:40,607
two months they have not had a

3292
02:09:40,607 --> 02:09:42,409
meeting, so in other words,

3293
02:09:42,409 --> 02:09:43,710
their performance is horrible.

3294
02:09:43,710 --> 02:09:45,979
They hardly have any meetings.

3295
02:09:45,979 --> 02:09:47,714
They don't follow their own

3296
02:09:47,714 --> 02:09:49,283
bylaws. They don't have their

3297
02:09:49,283 --> 02:09:52,883
annual report. They do zero, so

3298
02:09:53,120 --> 02:09:55,756
in a way they are not vetted.

3299
02:09:55,756 --> 02:09:57,424
You don't vet them. You just

3300
02:09:57,424 --> 02:09:59,226
get them in there and they just

3301
02:09:59,226 --> 02:10:01,728
stay there forever. And the

3302
02:10:01,728 --> 02:10:03,130
less that they do is the better

3303
02:10:03,130 --> 02:10:07,330
they are. They don't go to the

3304
02:10:08,535 --> 02:10:10,371
Dolores event. They don't pass

3305
02:10:10,371 --> 02:10:12,771
a Palestine resolution. You

3306
02:10:13,640 --> 02:10:15,642
just don't see them. In other

3307
02:10:15,642 --> 02:10:17,878
words, you know, the less you

3308
02:10:17,878 --> 02:10:20,614
see of them the better, but you

3309
02:10:20,614 --> 02:10:22,316
use them. You use them to

3310
02:10:22,316 --> 02:10:24,385
actually rubber stamp any kind

3311
02:10:24,385 --> 02:10:27,985
of some kind of program, like

3312
02:10:28,622 --> 02:10:31,220
especially with the police

3313
02:10:31,125 --> 02:10:33,525
action, like 1187, you have

3314
02:10:35,462 --> 02:10:37,664
Heidi Merchant who doesn't do

3315
02:10:37,664 --> 02:10:40,867
anything in her own county. She

3316
02:10:40,867 --> 02:10:42,869
has a county job in Napa, and

3317
02:10:42,869 --> 02:10:44,271
she doesn't do anything. She

3318
02:10:44,271 --> 02:10:45,672
doesn't -- they don't have a

3319
02:10:45,672 --> 02:10:46,373
Human Rights Commission. They

3320
02:10:46,373 --> 02:10:49,209
don't -- she doesn't do anything

3321
02:10:49,209 --> 02:10:51,245
in Sonoma where her husband

3322
02:10:51,245 --> 02:10:52,746
works, but she's very available

3323
02:10:52,746 --> 02:10:56,950
for Marin to tell us what to do.

3324
02:10:56,950 --> 02:10:57,617
>>MODERATOR: President

3325
02:10:57,617 --> 02:10:58,252
Moulton-Peters, there are no

3326
02:10:58,252 --> 02:10:58,551
additional speakers in the

3327
02:10:58,551 --> 02:10:59,186
queue.

3328
02:10:59,186 --> 02:10:59,886
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

3329
02:10:59,886 --> 02:11:00,620
PRES.: Okay, thank you. We'll

3330
02:11:00,620 --> 02:11:03,490
bring it back and close --

3331
02:11:03,490 --> 02:11:06,226
>>DENNIS RODONI: I move Consent

3332
02:11:06,226 --> 02:11:08,626
Calendar A less CA-12.

3333
02:11:08,628 --> 02:11:09,296
>>ERIC LUCAN: Second.

3334
02:11:09,296 --> 02:11:09,997
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

3335
02:11:09,997 --> 02:11:10,664
PRES.: Okay, very good. Before

3336
02:11:10,664 --> 02:11:12,499
we vote on that, I'd like to

3337
02:11:12,499 --> 02:11:15,869
pull CA-8, and this is from

3338
02:11:15,869 --> 02:11:17,371
human resources. It's a

3339
02:11:17,371 --> 02:11:19,771
resolution to recognize the 2023

3340
02:11:21,275 --> 02:11:22,142
Marin County employee of the

3341
02:11:22,142 --> 02:11:26,342
year class, and so I can go

3342
02:11:27,781 --> 02:11:29,490
ahead and read the names on

3343
02:11:29,490 --> 02:11:30,984
that? Great. All right, so I

3344
02:11:30,984 --> 02:11:32,719
want to acknowledge all the

3345
02:11:32,719 --> 02:11:33,820
employees who have received

3346
02:11:33,820 --> 02:11:36,820
awards this year for the 2023

3347
02:11:36,990 --> 02:11:39,759
employee of the year, and they

3348
02:11:39,759 --> 02:11:41,759
include: Dann Walters,

3349
02:11:43,300 --> 02:11:43,930
Agricultural Weights and

3350
02:11:43,930 --> 02:11:46,330
Measures, Martha Martinez, UC

3351
02:11:47,567 --> 02:11:48,168
Cooperative Extension Marin,

3352
02:11:48,168 --> 02:11:50,168
Emilee Bozzard, Assessor,

3353
02:11:50,937 --> 02:11:52,937
Recorder, County Clerk,

3354
02:11:53,600 --> 02:11:54,475
Stephanie Reed, Child Support

3355
02:11:54,475 --> 02:11:56,875
Services, Genevieve Hahn Kerr,

3356
02:11:58,345 --> 02:12:00,345
Community Development Agency,

3357
02:12:02,149 --> 02:12:04,510
Josh Swedberg, County

3358
02:12:04,510 --> 02:12:04,751
Administrator's Office, Rachel

3359
02:12:04,751 --> 02:12:07,151
Porter, County Counsel, Marleny

3360
02:12:08,788 --> 02:12:11,240
Heitz, Cultural Services, Tony

3361
02:12:11,240 --> 02:12:11,858
Aquilino, Elections, Bevin

3362
02:12:11,858 --> 02:12:13,593
Gardner of finance, Marshall

3363
02:12:13,593 --> 02:12:15,262
Briggs, Public Works, Rob

3364
02:12:15,262 --> 02:12:17,662
Carson, Public Works, Rosemary

3365
02:12:17,998 --> 02:12:19,266
Slote, District Attorney's

3366
02:12:19,266 --> 02:12:21,666
office, Pat Terstegge, fire

3367
02:12:24,104 --> 02:12:25,939
department, Sarah Githens,

3368
02:12:25,939 --> 02:12:27,874
Health and Human Services,

3369
02:12:27,874 --> 02:12:29,743
Krista Hopper-Pasillas, Health

3370
02:12:29,743 --> 02:12:32,143
and Human Services, Juan

3371
02:12:32,346 --> 02:12:33,414
Jiminez, Health and Human

3372
02:12:33,414 --> 02:12:35,414
Services, Vicki Nightingale,

3373
02:12:35,582 --> 02:12:38,552
Health and Human Services, Tara

3374
02:12:38,552 --> 02:12:40,952
Clark, Human Resources, Delvon

3375
02:12:41,321 --> 02:12:41,988
Mitchell, Information Services

3376
02:12:41,988 --> 02:12:42,923
and Technology, Ann Bertucci,

3377
02:12:42,923 --> 02:12:44,923
library, Craig Richardson,

3378
02:12:45,459 --> 02:12:47,660
Parks, Karen Brard, Public

3379
02:12:47,660 --> 02:12:49,162
Defender and Michael Thompson,

3380
02:12:49,162 --> 02:12:50,497
Sheriff's Office.

3381
02:12:50,497 --> 02:12:52,497
Congratulations to everyone.

3382
02:12:57,303 --> 02:12:58,380
[ Applause ]

3383
02:12:58,380 --> 02:12:59,506
And with that, we'll take public

3384
02:12:59,506 --> 02:13:01,541
comment on Consent A if there is

3385
02:13:01,541 --> 02:13:03,541
any.

3386
02:13:06,846 --> 02:13:08,715
Okay, I'm not seeing anybody in

3387
02:13:08,715 --> 02:13:10,160
the chambers and I'm not seeing

3388
02:13:10,160 --> 02:13:11,418
anybody online. We'll bring it

3389
02:13:11,418 --> 02:13:12,852
back. We've had a motion and a

3390
02:13:12,852 --> 02:13:14,121
second. All in favor?

3391
02:13:14,121 --> 02:13:15,389
Aye.

3392
02:13:15,389 --> 02:13:18,158
Okay. Consent B, would somebody

3393
02:13:18,158 --> 02:13:21,395
move B if there's no changes?

3394
02:13:21,395 --> 02:13:21,928
>>KATIE RICE: I'll move Consent

3395
02:13:21,928 --> 02:13:22,562
B.

3396
02:13:22,562 --> 02:13:24,640
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

3397
02:13:24,640 --> 02:13:25,980
PRES.: Is there a second?

3398
02:13:25,980 --> 02:13:25,765
>>ERIC LUCAN: Second.

3399
02:13:25,765 --> 02:13:26,467
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

3400
02:13:26,467 --> 02:13:27,134
PRES.: Thank you. Is there any

3401
02:13:27,134 --> 02:13:30,134
public comment on this item?

3402
02:13:35,142 --> 02:13:36,109
>>SPEAKER: I just want to

3403
02:13:36,109 --> 02:13:37,344
recognize how little discussion

3404
02:13:37,344 --> 02:13:40,280
there was on amongst the

3405
02:13:40,280 --> 02:13:43,280
supervisors on this consent CB-4

3406
02:13:44,418 --> 02:13:46,753
and CB-12. And I don't know if

3407
02:13:46,753 --> 02:13:48,489
those are items that Matthew

3408
02:13:48,489 --> 02:13:50,591
pulled, but those are pretty

3409
02:13:50,591 --> 02:13:53,591
serious issues. The first was

3410
02:13:53,693 --> 02:13:56,693
with a sheriff justice benefits

3411
02:13:58,231 --> 02:14:00,631
for funding for housing

3412
02:14:01,100 --> 02:14:01,935
incarcerated undocumented

3413
02:14:01,935 --> 02:14:04,935
criminal aliens. And then the

3414
02:14:05,872 --> 02:14:08,872
other issue is probation, to

3415
02:14:10,710 --> 02:14:11,878
increase baseline appropriations

3416
02:14:11,878 --> 02:14:15,478
by $1.730 million, and I just --

3417
02:14:16,583 --> 02:14:18,285
I think unfortunately we're not

3418
02:14:18,285 --> 02:14:20,354
really looking at how much law

3419
02:14:20,354 --> 02:14:22,754
enforcement is actually growing.

3420
02:14:23,957 --> 02:14:26,759
It's alarming when you see the

3421
02:14:26,759 --> 02:14:27,961
breadlines, the lines to get

3422
02:14:27,961 --> 02:14:29,129
into the food banks in this

3423
02:14:29,129 --> 02:14:30,497
county, that you guys are giving

3424
02:14:30,497 --> 02:14:33,200
ever more money to law

3425
02:14:33,200 --> 02:14:36,800
enforcement and then you see how

3426
02:14:37,404 --> 02:14:38,638
booked up -- I was really

3427
02:14:38,638 --> 02:14:40,574
surprised when you did the

3428
02:14:40,574 --> 02:14:42,974
probation presentation to see

3429
02:14:42,976 --> 02:14:45,376
how probation is actually

3430
02:14:46,246 --> 02:14:48,810
addressed. Like you know, a lot

3431
02:14:48,810 --> 02:14:50,450
of heavy armor and stuff, it

3432
02:14:50,450 --> 02:14:53,820
just seemed odd, so I think, you

3433
02:14:53,820 --> 02:14:57,690
know, maybe what needs to go on

3434
02:14:57,690 --> 02:14:58,892
the agenda for next year is a

3435
02:14:58,892 --> 02:15:00,360
serious discussion about the

3436
02:15:00,360 --> 02:15:03,360
proportion of money that is

3437
02:15:03,863 --> 02:15:05,932
going into additional law

3438
02:15:05,932 --> 02:15:08,332
enforcement services over time,

3439
02:15:09,102 --> 02:15:10,703
benefits, yadda yadda, versus

3440
02:15:10,703 --> 02:15:13,703
actually getting food on the

3441
02:15:15,609 --> 02:15:18,780
tables of the poor in this

3442
02:15:18,780 --> 02:15:21,780
county, because those lines are

3443
02:15:21,814 --> 02:15:23,917
severe, and I know Katie was

3444
02:15:23,917 --> 02:15:25,485
concerned in that private

3445
02:15:25,485 --> 02:15:28,422
meeting about people not getting

3446
02:15:28,422 --> 02:15:30,990
benefits, and that's got to be a

3447
02:15:30,990 --> 02:15:32,158
priority as winter's coming.

3448
02:15:32,158 --> 02:15:32,792
Thank you.

3449
02:15:32,792 --> 02:15:34,792
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

3450
02:15:37,397 --> 02:15:38,665
PRES.: Okay, we'll close public

3451
02:15:38,665 --> 02:15:39,933
comment in the chambers. I'm

3452
02:15:39,933 --> 02:15:42,636
not seeing anyone online, so

3453
02:15:42,636 --> 02:15:44,370
we'll bring it back now for a

3454
02:15:44,370 --> 02:15:45,338
vote. Did we do a motion and

3455
02:15:45,338 --> 02:15:46,906
second? Sorry, folks.

3456
02:15:46,906 --> 02:15:47,607
>>KATIE RICE: I moved it and

3457
02:15:47,607 --> 02:15:48,241
Eric seconded it.

3458
02:15:48,241 --> 02:15:48,942
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

3459
02:15:48,942 --> 02:15:50,143
PRES.: Okay, all in favor?

3460
02:15:50,143 --> 02:15:51,211
Aye.

3461
02:15:51,211 --> 02:15:52,479
Thank you. That passes and

3462
02:15:52,479 --> 02:15:54,881
we'll go on to our next agenda

3463
02:15:54,881 --> 02:15:57,281
item. Okay, Binford Road.

3464
02:16:11,698 --> 02:16:12,566
>>DAN EILERMAN: Good morning,

3465
02:16:12,566 --> 02:16:14,167
board members, Dan Eilerman,

3466
02:16:14,167 --> 02:16:16,102
assistant county executive, and

3467
02:16:16,102 --> 02:16:17,638
while some colleagues are

3468
02:16:17,638 --> 02:16:19,380
joining me here, I wanted to

3469
02:16:19,380 --> 02:16:20,340
note for Al that we have a

3470
02:16:20,340 --> 02:16:21,575
presentation, if he could load

3471
02:16:21,575 --> 02:16:24,745
that. Sitting to my left we

3472
02:16:24,745 --> 02:16:26,120
have Gary Naja-Riese, director

3473
02:16:26,120 --> 02:16:28,281
of whole person care and

3474
02:16:28,281 --> 02:16:29,115
homelessness with Health and

3475
02:16:29,115 --> 02:16:30,283
Human Services, and to my right

3476
02:16:30,283 --> 02:16:33,283
is deputy Michael Thompson with

3477
02:16:33,520 --> 02:16:35,255
the Marin County's sheriff's

3478
02:16:35,255 --> 02:16:38,855
office, and behind him is Greg

3479
02:16:39,192 --> 02:16:41,661
Pirie who is the deputy EHS

3480
02:16:41,661 --> 02:16:42,528
director in community

3481
02:16:42,528 --> 02:16:43,163
development.

3482
02:16:43,163 --> 02:16:45,265
And so, Al, if you're able,

3483
02:16:45,265 --> 02:16:47,167
thank you, for bringing up the

3484
02:16:47,167 --> 02:16:49,402
PowerPoint. I'm going to start

3485
02:16:49,402 --> 02:16:52,402
off and we'll have some

3486
02:16:52,439 --> 02:16:53,473
opportunity for questions at the

3487
02:16:53,473 --> 02:16:56,473
end. But next slide, please,

3488
02:16:56,709 --> 02:16:58,311
Al.

3489
02:16:58,311 --> 02:16:59,646
You'll recall that we provided

3490
02:16:59,646 --> 02:17:01,114
an initial update to your board

3491
02:17:01,114 --> 02:17:03,514
on August 22. It's about 101

3492
02:17:03,717 --> 02:17:05,552
days, actually, from today.

3493
02:17:05,552 --> 02:17:07,554
Actually from December 1 when

3494
02:17:07,554 --> 02:17:09,289
our metrics really stopped.

3495
02:17:09,289 --> 02:17:11,224
We promised at that time to

3496
02:17:11,224 --> 02:17:12,626
provide an update to your board

3497
02:17:12,626 --> 02:17:13,960
every three to six months with

3498
02:17:13,960 --> 02:17:15,495
an initial goal to facilitate

3499
02:17:15,495 --> 02:17:17,630
and to accelerate intermediate

3500
02:17:17,630 --> 02:17:19,299
term options while making

3501
02:17:19,299 --> 02:17:20,433
visible short-term progress.

3502
02:17:20,433 --> 02:17:22,350
This is largely funded with a

3503
02:17:22,350 --> 02:17:24,350
$1.6 million state Encampment

3504
02:17:26,707 --> 02:17:27,407
Resolution Fund grant that the

3505
02:17:27,407 --> 02:17:28,908
county received, which requires

3506
02:17:28,908 --> 02:17:31,578
us to resolve the camp within a

3507
02:17:31,578 --> 02:17:33,847
period of three years, but we

3508
02:17:33,847 --> 02:17:34,447
are accelerating that effort as

3509
02:17:34,447 --> 02:17:35,649
best as we can.

3510
02:17:35,649 --> 02:17:37,551
What you see there are some

3511
02:17:37,551 --> 02:17:38,851
general guidelines that we have

3512
02:17:38,851 --> 02:17:39,786
been operating with for these

3513
02:17:39,786 --> 02:17:41,655
past 100 or so days. What we

3514
02:17:41,655 --> 02:17:43,390
want to do is to identify safe

3515
02:17:43,390 --> 02:17:44,491
permanent housing destinations

3516
02:17:44,491 --> 02:17:46,891
for all individuals, no

3517
02:17:47,160 --> 02:17:48,428
relocation of occupants in need

3518
02:17:48,428 --> 02:17:50,597
to other jurisdictions, we want

3519
02:17:50,597 --> 02:17:52,332
to protect the sensitive habitat

3520
02:17:52,332 --> 02:17:54,100
of the Rush Creek reserve and

3521
02:17:54,100 --> 02:17:56,202
slough, and we also want to

3522
02:17:56,202 --> 02:17:58,171
continue with enforcement

3523
02:17:58,171 --> 02:17:59,573
compliant with all legal and

3524
02:17:59,573 --> 02:18:01,573
regulatory requirements. Next

3525
02:18:02,576 --> 02:18:03,309
slide, please.

3526
02:18:03,309 --> 02:18:05,445
And our goals, as we outlined in

3527
02:18:05,445 --> 02:18:07,614
August, were to achieve a 50%

3528
02:18:07,614 --> 02:18:10,614
reduction in the population via

3529
02:18:10,950 --> 02:18:13,854
housing or through incentives by

3530
02:18:13,854 --> 02:18:16,254
August 2025, and 100% by August

3531
02:18:16,623 --> 02:18:18,925
of 2026, which represents that

3532
02:18:18,925 --> 02:18:21,925
three-year period. And we had

3533
02:18:22,228 --> 02:18:23,229
organized our strategies into

3534
02:18:23,229 --> 02:18:25,629
three broad and comparing

3535
02:18:25,632 --> 02:18:26,767
strategies. One is supportive

3536
02:18:26,767 --> 02:18:28,535
services. That's led by Health

3537
02:18:28,535 --> 02:18:29,335
and Human Services, enforcement

3538
02:18:29,335 --> 02:18:31,370
and regulation, which is a team

3539
02:18:31,370 --> 02:18:34,207
effort, probably led most by the

3540
02:18:34,207 --> 02:18:35,174
Marin County sheriff's office,

3541
02:18:35,174 --> 02:18:36,342
and then environmental

3542
02:18:36,342 --> 02:18:37,977
protection, another team effort,

3543
02:18:37,977 --> 02:18:40,213
but led principally by the

3544
02:18:40,213 --> 02:18:40,914
Community Development Agency,

3545
02:18:40,914 --> 02:18:41,748
and particularly environmental

3546
02:18:41,748 --> 02:18:43,748
health services staff.

3547
02:18:44,651 --> 02:18:45,786
Next slide, please.

3548
02:18:45,786 --> 02:18:48,722
This briefly outlines the at

3549
02:18:48,722 --> 02:18:50,223
least six departments that have

3550
02:18:50,223 --> 02:18:51,230
been coordinating for the past

3551
02:18:51,230 --> 02:18:54,230
100 days on this project, of

3552
02:18:54,260 --> 02:18:54,761
course Health and Human

3553
02:18:54,761 --> 02:18:55,796
Services, the sheriff's office,

3554
02:18:55,796 --> 02:18:56,529
Public Works, community

3555
02:18:56,529 --> 02:18:58,529
development, the County

3556
02:18:59,232 --> 02:18:59,933
Administrator's Office, and

3557
02:18:59,933 --> 02:19:01,802
county counsel, of course, and I

3558
02:19:01,802 --> 02:19:03,804
think last week we actually had

3559
02:19:03,804 --> 02:19:05,710
Marin County fire pitch in for

3560
02:19:05,710 --> 02:19:06,640
some additional work, so the

3561
02:19:06,640 --> 02:19:06,939
effort is growing. Next slide,

3562
02:19:06,939 --> 02:19:08,939
please.

3563
02:19:10,644 --> 02:19:12,579
So approximately 100 days later

3564
02:19:12,579 --> 02:19:15,582
we do have some achievements to

3565
02:19:15,582 --> 02:19:17,116
articulate. There is work to

3566
02:19:17,116 --> 02:19:20,587
do, but in those first 100 days,

3567
02:19:20,587 --> 02:19:21,254
Health and Human Services

3568
02:19:21,254 --> 02:19:22,989
identified all individuals at

3569
02:19:22,989 --> 02:19:24,724
the encampment, 69% of them have

3570
02:19:24,724 --> 02:19:25,926
been assessed for coordinated

3571
02:19:25,926 --> 02:19:28,428
entry. We have launched the ERF

3572
02:19:28,428 --> 02:19:30,963
grant that I mentioned. This

3573
02:19:30,963 --> 02:19:32,640
supplies additional staffing,

3574
02:19:32,640 --> 02:19:33,733
client supports and cleanup. We

3575
02:19:33,733 --> 02:19:35,502
have hired a new dedicated

3576
02:19:35,502 --> 02:19:37,838
senior social services worker

3577
02:19:37,838 --> 02:19:40,239
with a focus on Binford. She

3578
02:19:40,239 --> 02:19:41,407
actually just started yesterday.

3579
02:19:41,407 --> 02:19:43,643
And then the sheriff's office is

3580
02:19:43,643 --> 02:19:45,345
inventoried all vehicles, not

3581
02:19:45,345 --> 02:19:48,345
just RVs, and we have

3582
02:19:48,815 --> 02:19:50,815
implemented biweekly

3583
02:19:51,317 --> 02:19:53,553
recreational pumpouts, as well

3584
02:19:53,553 --> 02:19:55,254
as installing additional

3585
02:19:55,254 --> 02:19:57,654
portable washrooms or hand

3586
02:19:58,900 --> 02:20:00,159
washing stations roughly every

3587
02:20:00,159 --> 02:20:02,159
ten RVs.

3588
02:20:02,228 --> 02:20:04,197
Again, continuing with some more

3589
02:20:04,197 --> 02:20:05,732
accomplishments or progress, we

3590
02:20:05,732 --> 02:20:08,668
have established a new 35 miles

3591
02:20:08,668 --> 02:20:09,469
an hour speed limit effective

3592
02:20:09,469 --> 02:20:11,771
December 28, so Public Works

3593
02:20:11,771 --> 02:20:12,806
will be working on installing

3594
02:20:12,806 --> 02:20:14,730
the signs. I think the

3595
02:20:14,730 --> 02:20:15,107
sheriff's office will probably

3596
02:20:15,107 --> 02:20:17,243
start with more of an

3597
02:20:17,243 --> 02:20:18,144
educational campaign, but the

3598
02:20:18,144 --> 02:20:19,779
effort is to lower the speed for

3599
02:20:19,779 --> 02:20:23,182
what is right now a 55 miles per

3600
02:20:23,182 --> 02:20:24,217
hour road. We will continue

3601
02:20:24,217 --> 02:20:25,351
enforcement to remove

3602
02:20:25,351 --> 02:20:26,820
non-occupied vehicles in the

3603
02:20:26,820 --> 02:20:28,588
right-of-way considered

3604
02:20:28,588 --> 02:20:29,856
abandoned, excess or

3605
02:20:29,856 --> 02:20:31,856
non-compliant. Enforcement will

3606
02:20:31,892 --> 02:20:34,227
continue to ensure no new

3607
02:20:34,227 --> 02:20:36,763
arrivals not in accord with

3608
02:20:36,763 --> 02:20:38,297
regulations. That includes new

3609
02:20:38,297 --> 02:20:41,670
restrictions such as fencing of

3610
02:20:41,670 --> 02:20:42,769
vacated spaces. Either through

3611
02:20:42,769 --> 02:20:46,369
incentives for folks who -- or

3612
02:20:47,306 --> 02:20:49,475
placing people in safe housing.

3613
02:20:49,475 --> 02:20:50,976
And we'll also be talking today

3614
02:20:50,976 --> 02:20:52,512
about a couple of new

3615
02:20:52,512 --> 02:20:53,780
authorities that we've asked

3616
02:20:53,780 --> 02:20:55,749
your board to adopt. One is a

3617
02:20:55,749 --> 02:20:58,749
new pilot vehicle buy back

3618
02:20:59,519 --> 02:21:00,854
incentives program, and Gary

3619
02:21:00,854 --> 02:21:02,220
will walk through that in a

3620
02:21:02,220 --> 02:21:03,523
couple of minutes, and by virtue

3621
02:21:03,523 --> 02:21:05,910
of adoption of your consent

3622
02:21:05,910 --> 02:21:06,760
calendar today, your board

3623
02:21:06,760 --> 02:21:08,828
approved a no overnight parking

3624
02:21:08,828 --> 02:21:10,329
resolution. We will initially

3625
02:21:10,329 --> 02:21:11,197
enforce that on the business

3626
02:21:11,197 --> 02:21:13,299
side or the west side of Binford

3627
02:21:13,299 --> 02:21:14,534
Road, and we will come back to

3628
02:21:14,534 --> 02:21:17,403
your board in coming weeks and

3629
02:21:17,403 --> 02:21:19,372
move that on to the west side

3630
02:21:19,372 --> 02:21:21,841
or -- yeah, the east side of the

3631
02:21:21,841 --> 02:21:23,843
road as well, once we vacate

3632
02:21:23,843 --> 02:21:24,143
some more spaces. Next slide,

3633
02:21:24,143 --> 02:21:26,143
please.

3634
02:21:26,813 --> 02:21:29,813
The population of individuals at

3635
02:21:30,283 --> 02:21:31,350
December 1, that's our

3636
02:21:31,350 --> 02:21:33,530
point-in-time where we marked

3637
02:21:33,530 --> 02:21:35,453
our metrics was 101 individuals.

3638
02:21:36,255 --> 02:21:37,857
Some have simply been harder to

3639
02:21:37,857 --> 02:21:40,693
reach, and HHS has put in a lot

3640
02:21:40,693 --> 02:21:41,895
of effort the last couple of

3641
02:21:41,895 --> 02:21:43,396
months to do extended outreach,

3642
02:21:43,396 --> 02:21:45,966
on evenings, on weekends. A

3643
02:21:45,966 --> 02:21:47,500
number of people work, and so if

3644
02:21:47,500 --> 02:21:49,636
you're there at, say, 2 p.m.,

3645
02:21:49,636 --> 02:21:51,404
the population is lighter, but

3646
02:21:51,404 --> 02:21:53,473
if you're there at 5:30 or 6,

3647
02:21:53,473 --> 02:21:54,540
people are coming back from work

3648
02:21:54,540 --> 02:21:55,708
and there's more people there,

3649
02:21:55,708 --> 02:21:57,420
but we've identified those

3650
02:21:57,420 --> 02:21:59,646
people, some of whom were

3651
02:21:59,646 --> 02:22:00,847
doubled up or just hard to find

3652
02:22:00,847 --> 02:22:02,148
for various reasons, and that's

3653
02:22:02,148 --> 02:22:03,483
been reconciled after that

3654
02:22:03,483 --> 02:22:05,351
extended outreach.

3655
02:22:05,351 --> 02:22:07,351
85% qualify for permanent

3656
02:22:07,453 --> 02:22:09,388
supportive housing through

3657
02:22:09,388 --> 02:22:10,690
coordinated entry. That's more

3658
02:22:10,690 --> 02:22:12,191
than we initially expected, so

3659
02:22:12,191 --> 02:22:13,693
that's a larger subset of that

3660
02:22:13,693 --> 02:22:14,861
population than we initially

3661
02:22:14,861 --> 02:22:16,729
expected. But the good news is

3662
02:22:16,729 --> 02:22:18,464
ten have been housed, ten

3663
02:22:18,464 --> 02:22:19,231
individuals have been housed

3664
02:22:19,231 --> 02:22:21,167
since August. Three through

3665
02:22:21,167 --> 02:22:22,435
permanent supportive housing,

3666
02:22:22,435 --> 02:22:24,403
five through the CalWORKs rapid

3667
02:22:24,403 --> 02:22:26,205
rehousing program, and two

3668
02:22:26,205 --> 02:22:28,605
additional via other means.

3669
02:22:28,708 --> 02:22:32,679
And we have 19 more folks on a

3670
02:22:32,679 --> 02:22:34,114
pathway to housing. That's some

3671
02:22:34,114 --> 02:22:35,782
pretty visible progress in just

3672
02:22:35,782 --> 02:22:36,215
this first 100 days. Next

3673
02:22:36,215 --> 02:22:38,215
slide, please.

3674
02:22:38,885 --> 02:22:41,320
Before I turn it over to Gary,

3675
02:22:41,320 --> 02:22:43,880
in terms of vehicles, we have

3676
02:22:43,880 --> 02:22:45,157
132 vehicles there as of

3677
02:22:45,157 --> 02:22:47,157
December 1. That includes

3678
02:22:48,940 --> 02:22:51,694
57RVs, but also other types of

3679
02:22:52,320 --> 02:22:54,320
vehicles. This includes

3680
02:22:54,467 --> 02:22:56,636
everything from RVs to cars,

3681
02:22:56,636 --> 02:22:59,360
trucks, vans, motorcycles, even

3682
02:22:59,438 --> 02:23:01,374
utility trailers for example.

3683
02:23:01,374 --> 02:23:03,209
The sheriff has a good inventory

3684
02:23:03,209 --> 02:23:04,443
on what vehicles are there and

3685
02:23:04,443 --> 02:23:05,344
have been there, and the

3686
02:23:05,344 --> 02:23:06,345
sheriff's office has been able

3687
02:23:06,345 --> 02:23:08,345
to remove 18 vehicles,

3688
02:23:08,614 --> 02:23:09,749
unoccupied vehicles, including

3689
02:23:09,749 --> 02:23:12,749
five RVs, nine vehicles, three

3690
02:23:13,386 --> 02:23:16,386
trailers and one sailboat, and

3691
02:23:16,455 --> 02:23:18,591
their expectation is they will

3692
02:23:18,591 --> 02:23:21,127
be able to remove one additional

3693
02:23:21,127 --> 02:23:22,929
unoccupied RV per week until all

3694
02:23:22,929 --> 02:23:25,398
that are abandoned or considered

3695
02:23:25,398 --> 02:23:26,799
excess are removed. With that

3696
02:23:26,799 --> 02:23:28,668
it's a brief introduction. I

3697
02:23:28,668 --> 02:23:30,300
want to turn it over to Gary

3698
02:23:30,300 --> 02:23:31,171
Naja-Riese, our director of

3699
02:23:31,171 --> 02:23:32,505
homelessness and whole person

3700
02:23:32,505 --> 02:23:34,340
care at HHS, and he will talk

3701
02:23:34,340 --> 02:23:36,760
about the first of the three

3702
02:23:36,760 --> 02:23:37,243
strategies I outlined earlier,

3703
02:23:37,243 --> 02:23:38,511
which includes now supportive

3704
02:23:38,511 --> 02:23:39,278
services. So next slide,

3705
02:23:39,278 --> 02:23:41,278
please.

3706
02:23:42,448 --> 02:23:43,382
>>SPEAKER: Thank you, so we can

3707
02:23:43,382 --> 02:23:45,118
move to the next slide. And

3708
02:23:45,118 --> 02:23:46,652
first I just want to start by

3709
02:23:46,652 --> 02:23:47,787
saying thank you to the Board of

3710
02:23:47,787 --> 02:23:49,455
Supervisors for their leadership

3711
02:23:49,455 --> 02:23:51,855
in helping address Binford,

3712
02:23:52,959 --> 02:23:55,359
especially Supervisor Lucan, and

3713
02:23:55,862 --> 02:23:56,963
thank you to all the other

3714
02:23:56,963 --> 02:23:57,830
departments who have come

3715
02:23:57,830 --> 02:23:59,632
together. We at Health and

3716
02:23:59,632 --> 02:24:00,366
Human Services greatly

3717
02:24:00,366 --> 02:24:01,868
appreciate the collaboration and

3718
02:24:01,868 --> 02:24:03,803
coordination with our fellow

3719
02:24:03,803 --> 02:24:05,504
departments, and it truly has

3720
02:24:05,504 --> 02:24:08,504
made a difference at Binford.

3721
02:24:08,541 --> 02:24:09,776
Finally I want to thank our team

3722
02:24:09,776 --> 02:24:12,745
in the division of homelessness

3723
02:24:12,745 --> 02:24:14,480
and whole person care, a number

3724
02:24:14,480 --> 02:24:15,949
who are here today, and their

3725
02:24:15,949 --> 02:24:18,517
work in financing and grants to

3726
02:24:18,517 --> 02:24:19,786
programs and other supports

3727
02:24:19,786 --> 02:24:21,220
ensuring that everything that we

3728
02:24:21,220 --> 02:24:22,755
can possibly do through our

3729
02:24:22,755 --> 02:24:24,824
division is being done, and I

3730
02:24:24,824 --> 02:24:27,460
especially want to point out

3731
02:24:27,460 --> 02:24:31,600
Barber from our team who has

3732
02:24:31,464 --> 02:24:33,365
been serving as our lead point

3733
02:24:33,365 --> 02:24:35,434
person at Binford and doing an

3734
02:24:35,434 --> 02:24:36,502
incredible job to get everything

3735
02:24:36,502 --> 02:24:39,705
from the ERF stood up to all of

3736
02:24:39,705 --> 02:24:42,642
these initial successes and the

3737
02:24:42,642 --> 02:24:44,644
development and expansion of our

3738
02:24:44,644 --> 02:24:46,445
Binford service fair. Enormous

3739
02:24:46,445 --> 02:24:47,180
appreciation.

3740
02:24:47,180 --> 02:24:49,820
Also to as you see on the slide

3741
02:24:49,820 --> 02:24:51,820
our community partners,

3742
02:24:51,918 --> 02:24:52,852
specifically through Downtown

3743
02:24:52,852 --> 02:24:55,354
Streets who have hired two new

3744
02:24:55,354 --> 02:24:56,656
outreach workers and a case

3745
02:24:56,656 --> 02:24:58,624
manager under the ERF project

3746
02:24:58,624 --> 02:25:00,593
and our continued partnership

3747
02:25:00,593 --> 02:25:02,610
with Community Action Marin and

3748
02:25:02,610 --> 02:25:03,462
their efforts up there as well,

3749
02:25:03,462 --> 02:25:06,132
and welcoming to our division

3750
02:25:06,132 --> 02:25:08,168
Andrea O'Malley who is with us

3751
02:25:08,168 --> 02:25:09,769
also this morning as our new

3752
02:25:09,769 --> 02:25:11,400
Binford point person and staff

3753
02:25:11,400 --> 02:25:13,840
member joining to be the

3754
02:25:13,840 --> 02:25:14,841
coordination for everything

3755
02:25:14,841 --> 02:25:17,143
happening up there at Binford.

3756
02:25:17,143 --> 02:25:19,120
As well, through our partners we

3757
02:25:19,120 --> 02:25:22,120
have expanded hours of outreach

3758
02:25:22,314 --> 02:25:23,749
through there being there

3759
02:25:23,749 --> 02:25:25,151
evenings and weekends, and also

3760
02:25:25,151 --> 02:25:26,552
finally appreciation to all of

3761
02:25:26,552 --> 02:25:28,821
our HHS divisions who stood up

3762
02:25:28,821 --> 02:25:31,324
in rapid response effort during

3763
02:25:31,324 --> 02:25:33,590
October and November to assure

3764
02:25:33,590 --> 02:25:34,894
that we reached 100% of all

3765
02:25:34,894 --> 02:25:37,300
residents who live at Binford,

3766
02:25:37,300 --> 02:25:39,132
and again, the incredible work

3767
02:25:39,132 --> 02:25:41,134
of so many county and community

3768
02:25:41,134 --> 02:25:44,370
partners at the weekly -- or

3769
02:25:44,370 --> 02:25:46,437
monthly, sorry, Binford service

3770
02:25:46,873 --> 02:25:48,374
support fair which provides

3771
02:25:48,374 --> 02:25:50,374
essential medical, harm

3772
02:25:51,277 --> 02:25:53,790
reduction services, Clean Slate,

3773
02:25:53,790 --> 02:25:56,490
food, water, and all of our

3774
02:25:56,490 --> 02:25:58,918
social services, and even things

3775
02:25:58,918 --> 02:26:01,200
through the Humane Society. So

3776
02:26:01,200 --> 02:26:03,256
caring for our residents up

3777
02:26:03,256 --> 02:26:04,900
there with their day-to-day

3778
02:26:04,900 --> 02:26:06,900
needs. Next slide.

3779
02:26:06,458 --> 02:26:07,894
I wanted to especially point out

3780
02:26:07,894 --> 02:26:09,862
and thank Department of Public

3781
02:26:09,862 --> 02:26:11,862
Works, Community Development

3782
02:26:11,898 --> 02:26:14,298
Agency, our community agencies

3783
02:26:14,400 --> 02:26:16,302
and division staff who helped

3784
02:26:16,302 --> 02:26:18,702
organize cleanup efforts at

3785
02:26:18,771 --> 02:26:20,439
Binford. You can see with the

3786
02:26:20,439 --> 02:26:22,750
slides some of the distinct

3787
02:26:22,750 --> 02:26:23,542
differences that have been made

3788
02:26:23,542 --> 02:26:26,846
in how the road looks currently.

3789
02:26:26,846 --> 02:26:28,846
Next slide.

3790
02:26:29,314 --> 02:26:32,285
And referring back to the

3791
02:26:32,285 --> 02:26:33,485
numbers that Dan was talking

3792
02:26:33,485 --> 02:26:35,321
about earlier, so the number of

3793
02:26:35,321 --> 02:26:36,155
clients who have been assessed

3794
02:26:36,155 --> 02:26:38,224
for our coordinated entry

3795
02:26:38,224 --> 02:26:39,625
system, we gave you a midpoint

3796
02:26:39,625 --> 02:26:41,594
here as well as the current

3797
02:26:41,594 --> 02:26:43,495
since the last August update, so

3798
02:26:43,495 --> 02:26:46,498
in October we were at about 64

3799
02:26:46,498 --> 02:26:48,400
folks assessed, and now we are

3800
02:26:48,400 --> 02:26:51,304
up to that 69 number, and

3801
02:26:51,304 --> 02:26:52,538
continue to make progress with

3802
02:26:52,538 --> 02:26:53,906
that through our community

3803
02:26:53,906 --> 02:26:55,906
partners. Next slide.

3804
02:26:57,377 --> 02:26:59,845
The number of clients engaged,

3805
02:26:59,845 --> 02:27:01,948
this means, you know, do we know

3806
02:27:01,948 --> 02:27:03,515
everyone who's up there. Have

3807
02:27:03,515 --> 02:27:05,251
we met everyone? So as you can

3808
02:27:05,251 --> 02:27:07,320
see, at that midpoint, as of

3809
02:27:07,320 --> 02:27:08,955
October 1 there were still about

3810
02:27:08,955 --> 02:27:11,924
35 clients for us to meet, and

3811
02:27:11,924 --> 02:27:12,992
through that coordinated effort

3812
02:27:12,992 --> 02:27:14,860
that happened across HHS

3813
02:27:14,860 --> 02:27:15,928
divisions and our community

3814
02:27:15,928 --> 02:27:18,928
partners, we're able to reach

3815
02:27:19,165 --> 02:27:20,666
all 101 by today. And next

3816
02:27:20,666 --> 02:27:21,533
slide.

3817
02:27:21,533 --> 02:27:25,133
And then finally, diving in a

3818
02:27:25,305 --> 02:27:27,640
little bit to our exits from

3819
02:27:27,640 --> 02:27:29,108
Binford and housing successes,

3820
02:27:29,108 --> 02:27:30,376
so five individuals have been

3821
02:27:30,376 --> 02:27:31,577
housed through a partnership

3822
02:27:31,577 --> 02:27:32,745
with our social services

3823
02:27:32,745 --> 02:27:34,480
division under a program called

3824
02:27:34,480 --> 02:27:36,249
CalWORKs, which focuses on

3825
02:27:36,249 --> 02:27:38,318
families. Three through our

3826
02:27:38,318 --> 02:27:39,819
permanent supportive housing

3827
02:27:39,819 --> 02:27:41,530
system through coordinated

3828
02:27:41,530 --> 02:27:43,453
entry. Three individuals have

3829
02:27:44,357 --> 02:27:46,192
left Binford on their own which

3830
02:27:46,192 --> 02:27:47,927
sometimes happens with

3831
02:27:47,927 --> 02:27:50,462
encampments, and two have been

3832
02:27:50,462 --> 02:27:52,398
housed in other ways or have

3833
02:27:52,398 --> 02:27:53,565
found connections themselves

3834
02:27:53,565 --> 02:27:57,165
through family or friends for a

3835
02:27:57,270 --> 02:27:58,236
permanent housing destination.

3836
02:27:58,236 --> 02:27:59,105
Next slide.

3837
02:27:59,105 --> 02:28:00,473
So what we're proposing to your

3838
02:28:00,473 --> 02:28:02,541
board today is a new incentive

3839
02:28:02,541 --> 02:28:04,910
to continue to help accelerate

3840
02:28:04,910 --> 02:28:06,145
transition similar to a model

3841
02:28:06,145 --> 02:28:07,790
that was used with the

3842
02:28:07,790 --> 02:28:08,614
Richardson Bay regional

3843
02:28:08,614 --> 02:28:11,451
authority is a pilot buyback

3844
02:28:11,451 --> 02:28:12,718
program. So for eligibility for

3845
02:28:12,718 --> 02:28:13,886
that program, individuals will

3846
02:28:13,886 --> 02:28:16,856
have to be present on Binford as

3847
02:28:16,856 --> 02:28:19,192
of or before October 1 this

3848
02:28:19,192 --> 02:28:22,192
year. The highest priority will

3849
02:28:23,463 --> 02:28:25,398
be unoccupied vehicles, whether

3850
02:28:25,398 --> 02:28:28,100
that be RVs or some other type

3851
02:28:28,100 --> 02:28:29,335
of occupied vehicle that a

3852
02:28:29,335 --> 02:28:31,871
person is living in at $175 per

3853
02:28:31,871 --> 02:28:34,340
linear foot, and part of that

3854
02:28:34,340 --> 02:28:35,607
eligibility will be the

3855
02:28:35,607 --> 02:28:38,700
individual documenting that they

3856
02:28:38,344 --> 02:28:39,450
are exiting to a permanent

3857
02:28:39,450 --> 02:28:41,450
housing destination.

3858
02:28:42,482 --> 02:28:44,317
This can apply to additional

3859
02:28:44,317 --> 02:28:46,520
vehicles that a person owns as

3860
02:28:46,520 --> 02:28:47,520
well, but priorities will be on

3861
02:28:47,520 --> 02:28:48,954
the vehicle that they are living

3862
02:28:48,954 --> 02:28:50,789
in. And again, you know, as we

3863
02:28:50,789 --> 02:28:51,991
talked about back in August,

3864
02:28:51,991 --> 02:28:53,792
sometimes, you know, when folks

3865
02:28:53,792 --> 02:28:55,828
become unhoused and we told a

3866
02:28:55,828 --> 02:28:57,290
few of those stories and

3867
02:28:57,290 --> 02:28:58,497
circumstances back in August,

3868
02:28:58,497 --> 02:29:00,400
sometimes the RV and their

3869
02:29:00,400 --> 02:29:01,767
vehicles are the final things,

3870
02:29:01,767 --> 02:29:02,902
besides personal possessions,

3871
02:29:02,902 --> 02:29:05,370
that they possess. And as they

3872
02:29:05,370 --> 02:29:06,939
go back into a permanent housing

3873
02:29:06,939 --> 02:29:08,874
destination, being able to

3874
02:29:08,874 --> 02:29:10,410
convert some of those

3875
02:29:10,410 --> 02:29:12,611
possessions that may not be

3876
02:29:12,611 --> 02:29:14,914
needed anymore into supports to

3877
02:29:14,914 --> 02:29:16,150
assist them with their housing

3878
02:29:16,150 --> 02:29:17,483
and securing that housing

3879
02:29:17,483 --> 02:29:18,250
destination can be of great

3880
02:29:18,250 --> 02:29:19,518
value.

3881
02:29:19,518 --> 02:29:21,918
Second priority, at $50 per

3882
02:29:22,988 --> 02:29:24,230
linear foot will be some of

3883
02:29:24,230 --> 02:29:25,824
those other vehicles that Dan

3884
02:29:25,824 --> 02:29:28,294
talked about, things like maybe

3885
02:29:28,294 --> 02:29:29,695
trailers or boats that folks may

3886
02:29:29,695 --> 02:29:30,930
have up there as well. Next

3887
02:29:30,930 --> 02:29:32,930
slide.

3888
02:29:32,965 --> 02:29:34,267
And the second part of our

3889
02:29:34,267 --> 02:29:36,680
incentives program, which we

3890
02:29:36,680 --> 02:29:38,371
believe we have the eligibility

3891
02:29:38,371 --> 02:29:40,206
and authority to already do but

3892
02:29:40,206 --> 02:29:41,573
we're going to be using the same

3893
02:29:41,573 --> 02:29:44,573
fund for are some temporary

3894
02:29:45,511 --> 02:29:47,646
supports really to assist,

3895
02:29:47,646 --> 02:29:48,847
again, individuals with anything

3896
02:29:48,847 --> 02:29:50,582
they might need in that

3897
02:29:50,582 --> 02:29:51,917
transition to a permanent

3898
02:29:51,917 --> 02:29:52,818
housing destination.

3899
02:29:52,818 --> 02:29:54,287
So again, the eligibility is

3900
02:29:54,287 --> 02:29:56,755
that they are present on Binford

3901
02:29:56,755 --> 02:29:58,824
as of or before October 1.

3902
02:29:58,824 --> 02:29:59,992
Again, you need to have a

3903
02:29:59,992 --> 02:30:01,992
permanent housing destination

3904
02:30:02,361 --> 02:30:05,264
identified, an exit day, and

3905
02:30:05,264 --> 02:30:07,233
this is limited-term assistance.

3906
02:30:07,233 --> 02:30:09,268
It can include, you know, for

3907
02:30:09,268 --> 02:30:10,303
example vehicle and repair

3908
02:30:10,303 --> 02:30:12,370
maintenance, transportation,

3909
02:30:12,370 --> 02:30:14,740
et cetera, any small expenses

3910
02:30:14,740 --> 02:30:15,874
that might be standing in the

3911
02:30:15,874 --> 02:30:17,810
way of a person successfully

3912
02:30:17,810 --> 02:30:20,210
transitioning. And that there's

3913
02:30:23,582 --> 02:30:24,950
abidance by all the county

3914
02:30:24,950 --> 02:30:26,152
vehicle codes and regulations

3915
02:30:26,152 --> 02:30:28,187
for all the eligibility program.

3916
02:30:28,187 --> 02:30:30,555
And finally, on the next slide,

3917
02:30:30,555 --> 02:30:32,524
we propose that this can

3918
02:30:32,524 --> 02:30:33,625
administered through a

3919
02:30:33,625 --> 02:30:34,793
third-party fiscal agent,

3920
02:30:34,793 --> 02:30:35,828
similar to how these programs

3921
02:30:35,828 --> 02:30:37,796
have run before to facilitate

3922
02:30:37,796 --> 02:30:39,640
the speed of doing this and

3923
02:30:39,640 --> 02:30:41,334
really not hold folks up in

3924
02:30:41,334 --> 02:30:42,701
this. This really simplifies

3925
02:30:42,701 --> 02:30:44,970
the process and expedites the

3926
02:30:44,970 --> 02:30:46,710
administration of it. It allows

3927
02:30:46,710 --> 02:30:47,106
our department to respond

3928
02:30:47,106 --> 02:30:49,410
quickly. There's really a

3929
02:30:49,410 --> 02:30:50,876
nominal administrative fee, and

3930
02:30:50,876 --> 02:30:52,645
there is a precedent that this

3931
02:30:52,645 --> 02:30:53,979
has worked well before in other

3932
02:30:53,979 --> 02:30:56,979
circumstances. So back to Dan.

3933
02:30:57,283 --> 02:30:58,250
>>DAN EILERMAN: Thank you. Next

3934
02:30:58,250 --> 02:30:58,984
slide, please.

3935
02:30:58,984 --> 02:31:01,621
So I will move into enforcement

3936
02:31:01,621 --> 02:31:03,489
and regulation. First I want to

3937
02:31:03,489 --> 02:31:04,923
thank Gary and his team for all

3938
02:31:04,923 --> 02:31:06,959
the effort, the stepped up

3939
02:31:06,959 --> 02:31:07,660
outreach.

3940
02:31:07,660 --> 02:31:08,594
It's really made a difference,

3941
02:31:08,594 --> 02:31:09,962
and I also want to thank the

3942
02:31:09,962 --> 02:31:11,697
sheriff's office. Deputy Mike

3943
02:31:11,697 --> 02:31:13,299
Thompson has just been a hero,

3944
02:31:13,299 --> 02:31:15,501
working full-time on that for

3945
02:31:15,501 --> 02:31:17,269
the past year, developing a lot

3946
02:31:17,269 --> 02:31:18,604
of relationships, and being part

3947
02:31:18,604 --> 02:31:20,640
of us making connections with

3948
02:31:20,640 --> 02:31:22,508
those folks. So enforcement and

3949
02:31:22,508 --> 02:31:24,908
regulation is really a

3950
02:31:25,844 --> 02:31:27,460
combination of several

3951
02:31:27,460 --> 02:31:28,981
departments. It's the sheriff,

3952
02:31:28,981 --> 02:31:31,981
CEA, DPW, county counsel, HHS

3953
02:31:32,385 --> 02:31:34,860
and the administrator's office

3954
02:31:34,860 --> 02:31:35,488
all working together. As I

3955
02:31:35,488 --> 02:31:36,822
mentioned, deputy Thompson is

3956
02:31:36,822 --> 02:31:39,822
out there every day full-time,

3957
02:31:40,326 --> 02:31:42,726
conducting daily patrols, taking

3958
02:31:43,662 --> 02:31:45,931
a weekly census, tagging of

3959
02:31:45,931 --> 02:31:47,900
non-operable vehicles and

3960
02:31:47,900 --> 02:31:49,435
removing previously tagged

3961
02:31:49,435 --> 02:31:49,868
vehicles and other debris. Next

3962
02:31:49,868 --> 02:31:51,571
slide, please.

3963
02:31:51,571 --> 02:31:53,372
This is a quick chart that

3964
02:31:53,372 --> 02:31:55,707
illustrates the 18 vehicles that

3965
02:31:55,707 --> 02:31:57,276
were removed that I mentioned

3966
02:31:57,276 --> 02:31:58,644
earlier. You can see that nine

3967
02:31:58,644 --> 02:32:00,779
of them were cars or trucks,

3968
02:32:00,779 --> 02:32:03,779
five were RVs, three were

3969
02:32:03,882 --> 02:32:04,950
trailers and there's one

3970
02:32:04,950 --> 02:32:06,586
additional vehicle, and the

3971
02:32:06,586 --> 02:32:07,953
sheriff anticipates to continue

3972
02:32:07,953 --> 02:32:09,488
removing at least one vehicle

3973
02:32:09,488 --> 02:32:11,957
per week as we go forward that

3974
02:32:11,957 --> 02:32:13,459
is unoccupied and otherwise not

3975
02:32:13,459 --> 02:32:15,227
compliant with California

3976
02:32:15,227 --> 02:32:16,762
vehicle code or county

3977
02:32:16,762 --> 02:32:17,620
regulations. Next slide,

3978
02:32:17,620 --> 02:32:19,620
please.

3979
02:32:19,265 --> 02:32:21,434
This is a quick chart that shows

3980
02:32:21,434 --> 02:32:22,602
some of the trending on

3981
02:32:22,602 --> 02:32:25,371
vehicles. So we go back to

3982
02:32:25,371 --> 02:32:27,771
about 160 vehicles. Think back

3983
02:32:28,374 --> 02:32:30,800
on October 1 when our

3984
02:32:30,800 --> 02:32:31,410
enforcement program really

3985
02:32:31,410 --> 02:32:32,844
kicked into high gear, and

3986
02:32:32,844 --> 02:32:34,580
that's after we did an extensive

3987
02:32:34,580 --> 02:32:36,515
amount of work developing

3988
02:32:36,515 --> 02:32:38,515
possessions, storage, protocols,

3989
02:32:39,418 --> 02:32:42,418
noticing protocols, and came up

3990
02:32:42,455 --> 02:32:44,890
with a program that we felt was

3991
02:32:44,890 --> 02:32:46,425
sustainable. And so those

3992
02:32:46,425 --> 02:32:47,593
vehicles have been reduced to

3993
02:32:47,593 --> 02:32:49,495
about 132, and it's been a mix

3994
02:32:49,495 --> 02:32:51,330
of, you know, lived-in vehicles

3995
02:32:51,330 --> 02:32:53,730
through success or folks

3996
02:32:53,799 --> 02:32:55,834
leaving, vehicles that are

3997
02:32:55,834 --> 02:32:57,737
considered daily drivers, and

3998
02:32:57,737 --> 02:33:00,239
kind of other types of vehicles.

3999
02:33:00,239 --> 02:33:01,173
Next slide, please.

4000
02:33:01,173 --> 02:33:02,908
To illustrate some of the

4001
02:33:02,908 --> 02:33:03,909
success we're talking about,

4002
02:33:03,909 --> 02:33:05,210
it's really important one of the

4003
02:33:05,210 --> 02:33:07,610
lessons learned from the

4004
02:33:08,213 --> 02:33:08,914
Richardson Bay Regional Agency

4005
02:33:08,914 --> 02:33:11,450
was ensuring that we don't have

4006
02:33:11,450 --> 02:33:12,551
backfill when we do have

4007
02:33:12,551 --> 02:33:13,919
success, whether it's through

4008
02:33:13,919 --> 02:33:15,421
removing unoccupied vehicles or

4009
02:33:15,421 --> 02:33:16,622
finding safe housing for

4010
02:33:16,622 --> 02:33:19,240
individuals, but what you see on

4011
02:33:19,240 --> 02:33:20,760
the left there is an example of

4012
02:33:20,760 --> 02:33:22,127
some of the fencing that is put

4013
02:33:22,127 --> 02:33:25,727
up in vacated areas. In behind

4014
02:33:25,897 --> 02:33:27,433
that, that concrete bar is

4015
02:33:27,433 --> 02:33:29,835
called K rail, and so a

4016
02:33:29,835 --> 02:33:32,237
combination of K rail, concrete

4017
02:33:32,237 --> 02:33:34,239
bars, in some cases berms. You

4018
02:33:34,239 --> 02:33:35,341
can see that a little bit in the

4019
02:33:35,341 --> 02:33:37,109
photo to the right. So you see

4020
02:33:37,109 --> 02:33:39,440
a couple of vacated spaces there

4021
02:33:39,440 --> 02:33:41,246
with fencing that inhibits

4022
02:33:41,246 --> 02:33:42,581
anybody from coming to reoccupy

4023
02:33:42,581 --> 02:33:44,550
that space, and kind of to the

4024
02:33:44,550 --> 02:33:45,818
right of that small truck you

4025
02:33:45,818 --> 02:33:48,287
see an example of a berm. So we

4026
02:33:48,287 --> 02:33:49,655
are transitioning from kind of

4027
02:33:49,655 --> 02:33:52,424
those earthen berms to more the

4028
02:33:52,424 --> 02:33:54,560
sustainable fencing given the

4029
02:33:54,560 --> 02:33:56,428
coming winter season, but that's

4030
02:33:56,428 --> 02:33:58,464
one example of some of our

4031
02:33:58,464 --> 02:34:00,864
progress. Next slide, please.

4032
02:34:02,868 --> 02:34:04,704
And that's another example of,

4033
02:34:04,704 --> 02:34:06,710
you know, more of the fencing in

4034
02:34:06,710 --> 02:34:08,340
a different area, so as we

4035
02:34:08,340 --> 02:34:09,908
achieve success, that is our

4036
02:34:09,908 --> 02:34:11,744
primary goal, to coordinate as a

4037
02:34:11,744 --> 02:34:13,379
team and ensure once a vehicle

4038
02:34:13,379 --> 02:34:15,180
is removed the fencing is put in

4039
02:34:15,180 --> 02:34:15,480
right afterward. Next slide,

4040
02:34:15,480 --> 02:34:17,480
please.

4041
02:34:18,830 --> 02:34:20,786
So in terms of next steps, your

4042
02:34:20,786 --> 02:34:22,722
board today on the consent

4043
02:34:22,722 --> 02:34:24,456
calendar, again, under Public

4044
02:34:24,456 --> 02:34:25,825
Works, you adopted a new

4045
02:34:25,825 --> 02:34:27,959
overnight parking regulation, so

4046
02:34:27,959 --> 02:34:31,963
from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. this will

4047
02:34:31,963 --> 02:34:33,198
be initially on the business

4048
02:34:33,198 --> 02:34:34,900
side of Binford Road, that's to

4049
02:34:34,900 --> 02:34:36,402
achieve more turnover and to

4050
02:34:36,402 --> 02:34:37,737
ensure parking for the business

4051
02:34:37,737 --> 02:34:39,104
employees, and staff plans to

4052
02:34:39,104 --> 02:34:41,473
return in coming weeks,

4053
02:34:41,473 --> 02:34:42,675
potentially a couple of months,

4054
02:34:42,675 --> 02:34:44,176
with some additional measures to

4055
02:34:44,176 --> 02:34:46,110
address other community business

4056
02:34:46,110 --> 02:34:47,879
environmental concerns as more

4057
02:34:47,879 --> 02:34:49,515
spaces are vacated, and those

4058
02:34:49,515 --> 02:34:50,783
will probably be focused on the

4059
02:34:50,783 --> 02:34:52,418
east side, on the water side.

4060
02:34:52,418 --> 02:34:53,952
We want to achieve some more

4061
02:34:53,952 --> 02:34:56,352
success, some more vacated

4062
02:34:56,555 --> 02:34:58,424
spaces along that east side of

4063
02:34:58,424 --> 02:34:59,558
the corridor before we start

4064
02:34:59,558 --> 02:35:00,826
putting up the no overnight

4065
02:35:00,826 --> 02:35:03,462
parking signs, and again, as we

4066
02:35:03,462 --> 02:35:05,597
vacate spaces, putting up more

4067
02:35:05,597 --> 02:35:06,231
fencing.

4068
02:35:06,231 --> 02:35:07,633
So our principal goal is to

4069
02:35:07,633 --> 02:35:09,769
ensure no new arrivals to the

4070
02:35:09,769 --> 02:35:10,936
corridor that are not in accord

4071
02:35:10,936 --> 02:35:12,705
with county ordinances or state

4072
02:35:12,705 --> 02:35:14,506
vehicle code regulations, and we

4073
02:35:14,506 --> 02:35:16,410
will continue removing

4074
02:35:16,410 --> 02:35:17,242
unoccupied vehicles in the

4075
02:35:17,242 --> 02:35:19,478
right-of-way that are considered

4076
02:35:19,478 --> 02:35:20,546
abandoned, excess or

4077
02:35:20,546 --> 02:35:22,648
non-compliant. So next slide.

4078
02:35:22,648 --> 02:35:24,216
So I'm going to transition here

4079
02:35:24,216 --> 02:35:25,384
to cover environmental

4080
02:35:25,384 --> 02:35:26,819
protection, the third of our

4081
02:35:26,819 --> 02:35:29,219
three strategies. Sarah Jones

4082
02:35:29,988 --> 02:35:31,256
wanted to be here today. She is

4083
02:35:31,256 --> 02:35:34,590
in our department head interview

4084
02:35:34,590 --> 02:35:37,659
panel, and so Greg Pirie from

4085
02:35:37,663 --> 02:35:39,465
environmental services is with

4086
02:35:39,465 --> 02:35:41,320
us here today, but I also want

4087
02:35:41,320 --> 02:35:42,968
to commend CDA for really

4088
02:35:42,968 --> 02:35:44,336
stepping up, so they are not

4089
02:35:44,336 --> 02:35:46,736
only involved with the

4090
02:35:47,139 --> 02:35:48,273
environmental preservation

4091
02:35:48,273 --> 02:35:49,475
aspect, but they have been

4092
02:35:49,475 --> 02:35:51,209
heavily involved in helping us

4093
02:35:51,209 --> 02:35:53,145
to set up the protocols around

4094
02:35:53,145 --> 02:35:55,145
noticing, personal possessions

4095
02:35:55,213 --> 02:35:56,381
storage and protocols,

4096
02:35:56,381 --> 02:35:58,381
identifying personal possessions

4097
02:35:58,984 --> 02:36:00,885
and methods of retrieving them

4098
02:36:00,885 --> 02:36:01,720
when necessary.

4099
02:36:01,720 --> 02:36:03,880
So to the left you'll see an

4100
02:36:03,880 --> 02:36:05,488
example. That's Gnoss Field

4101
02:36:05,825 --> 02:36:06,792
Airport in the back, but an

4102
02:36:06,792 --> 02:36:07,860
example of the environment that

4103
02:36:07,860 --> 02:36:10,610
we want to make sure we protect.

4104
02:36:10,610 --> 02:36:11,196
To the bottom right is a

4105
02:36:11,196 --> 02:36:12,865
picture. I believe that's from

4106
02:36:12,865 --> 02:36:14,633
May of 2023, an example of what

4107
02:36:14,633 --> 02:36:16,268
we're trying to mitigate with a

4108
02:36:16,268 --> 02:36:17,503
lot of these efforts that we've

4109
02:36:17,503 --> 02:36:17,936
been talked about. So next

4110
02:36:17,936 --> 02:36:19,936
slide, please.

4111
02:36:20,972 --> 02:36:23,308
We have established pumpout

4112
02:36:23,308 --> 02:36:25,708
services for 19 of the 57

4113
02:36:25,978 --> 02:36:27,646
recreational vehicles so far.

4114
02:36:27,646 --> 02:36:29,515
We want to see that increase.

4115
02:36:29,515 --> 02:36:31,350
CDA, environmental health

4116
02:36:31,350 --> 02:36:33,118
services, has assessed the RVs

4117
02:36:33,118 --> 02:36:35,253
out there. Some RVs are simply

4118
02:36:35,253 --> 02:36:36,655
not suitable for the service.

4119
02:36:36,655 --> 02:36:38,624
It would be dangerous or create

4120
02:36:38,624 --> 02:36:41,624
more damage to do pumpout

4121
02:36:41,727 --> 02:36:44,727
services for those RVs. Some

4122
02:36:45,430 --> 02:36:46,932
are vacant and others have been

4123
02:36:46,932 --> 02:36:48,600
non-responsive to surveys. For

4124
02:36:48,600 --> 02:36:50,335
those we are exploring other

4125
02:36:50,335 --> 02:36:51,570
enforcement options with

4126
02:36:51,570 --> 02:36:53,400
community development and with

4127
02:36:53,400 --> 02:36:55,404
county counsel, which could

4128
02:36:55,874 --> 02:36:57,142
include, for example,

4129
02:36:57,142 --> 02:36:58,430
decommissioning some of those

4130
02:36:58,430 --> 02:36:59,511
toilet facilities that are not

4131
02:36:59,511 --> 02:37:01,946
working in those RVs. That is a

4132
02:37:01,946 --> 02:37:02,981
continuing effort.

4133
02:37:02,981 --> 02:37:04,750
We have also installed

4134
02:37:04,750 --> 02:37:06,451
additional sanitary stations,

4135
02:37:06,451 --> 02:37:09,154
total of 12, one restroom, one

4136
02:37:09,154 --> 02:37:10,550
handwashing station roughly

4137
02:37:10,550 --> 02:37:13,458
every ten RVs, and as I

4138
02:37:13,458 --> 02:37:14,626
mentioned we've been installing

4139
02:37:14,626 --> 02:37:16,628
fencing. So next slide, please.

4140
02:37:16,628 --> 02:37:20,228
So again, 19 out of 57 RVs being

4141
02:37:21,330 --> 02:37:22,334
pumped out thus far. This is a

4142
02:37:22,334 --> 02:37:25,437
picture of a contractor doing a

4143
02:37:25,437 --> 02:37:25,870
pumpout service for an RV. Next

4144
02:37:25,870 --> 02:37:27,870
slide, please.

4145
02:37:29,400 --> 02:37:32,440
This is a picture of new

4146
02:37:32,440 --> 02:37:33,311
sanitary stations being dropped

4147
02:37:33,311 --> 02:37:34,847
in, and you can see kind of in

4148
02:37:34,847 --> 02:37:36,810
the middle to the right there,

4149
02:37:36,810 --> 02:37:38,481
the handwashing station, so

4150
02:37:39,150 --> 02:37:40,953
again roughly one of these every

4151
02:37:40,953 --> 02:37:43,923
ten RVs. Next slide, please.

4152
02:37:43,923 --> 02:37:47,192
This will be an example -- yeah,

4153
02:37:47,192 --> 02:37:49,394
next slide, please. Thank you.

4154
02:37:49,394 --> 02:37:50,696
An example of the fencing that

4155
02:37:50,696 --> 02:37:53,498
you see along the water. It's

4156
02:37:53,498 --> 02:37:55,100
one of the big areas and we're

4157
02:37:55,100 --> 02:37:56,802
doing more of this, and one of

4158
02:37:56,802 --> 02:37:59,237
the goals is as wind blows

4159
02:37:59,237 --> 02:38:00,906
things around trying to inhibit

4160
02:38:00,906 --> 02:38:03,108
it from blowing into the water,

4161
02:38:03,108 --> 02:38:04,309
and also just otherwise trying

4162
02:38:04,309 --> 02:38:06,780
to mitigate any environmental

4163
02:38:06,780 --> 02:38:08,480
damage, and so then next steps,

4164
02:38:08,480 --> 02:38:09,381
and we're coming up to the end

4165
02:38:09,381 --> 02:38:10,549
here.

4166
02:38:10,549 --> 02:38:11,984
So environmental protection, we

4167
02:38:11,984 --> 02:38:13,852
want to increase pumpout

4168
02:38:13,852 --> 02:38:15,687
services wherever feasible. We

4169
02:38:15,687 --> 02:38:16,956
are exploring enforcement to

4170
02:38:16,956 --> 02:38:17,990
decommission some of those

4171
02:38:17,990 --> 02:38:19,124
toilets that are not suitable

4172
02:38:19,124 --> 02:38:21,627
for pumpout services. We want

4173
02:38:21,627 --> 02:38:23,462
to consider potentially some

4174
02:38:23,462 --> 02:38:25,196
supports for basic sanitary

4175
02:38:25,196 --> 02:38:26,331
repairs to make some of those

4176
02:38:26,331 --> 02:38:28,600
RVs suitable for pumpout

4177
02:38:28,600 --> 02:38:30,435
services. We want to enhance

4178
02:38:30,435 --> 02:38:31,937
and continue to maintain the

4179
02:38:31,937 --> 02:38:33,939
sanitary stations and explore

4180
02:38:33,939 --> 02:38:35,240
new restrictions, such as

4181
02:38:35,240 --> 02:38:37,242
fencing where spaces are

4182
02:38:37,242 --> 02:38:38,376
vacated, either due to

4183
02:38:38,376 --> 02:38:39,812
enforcement or placement of

4184
02:38:39,812 --> 02:38:41,680
folks into safe housing.

4185
02:38:41,680 --> 02:38:44,483
So final slide, please, we do

4186
02:38:44,483 --> 02:38:46,551
know there's a lot of work to

4187
02:38:46,551 --> 02:38:47,886
do. There has been some visible

4188
02:38:47,886 --> 02:38:49,755
progress, and particularly the

4189
02:38:49,755 --> 02:38:51,890
last 100 days. Staff are really

4190
02:38:51,890 --> 02:38:52,992
coming together. I really want

4191
02:38:52,992 --> 02:38:54,559
to thank all the departments who

4192
02:38:54,559 --> 02:38:55,661
have been a big part of this

4193
02:38:55,661 --> 02:38:57,529
effort. It really has been a

4194
02:38:57,529 --> 02:38:59,598
big lift. Everybody's really

4195
02:38:59,598 --> 02:39:01,700
committed, though, and there are

4196
02:39:01,700 --> 02:39:02,901
additional ideas that we are

4197
02:39:02,901 --> 02:39:04,302
thinking of as we go forward,

4198
02:39:04,302 --> 02:39:06,380
but at this time we're open to

4199
02:39:06,380 --> 02:39:07,539
any questions your board might

4200
02:39:07,539 --> 02:39:08,173
have.

4201
02:39:08,173 --> 02:39:10,173
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

4202
02:39:10,742 --> 02:39:11,610
PRES.: Thank you, everyone, for

4203
02:39:11,610 --> 02:39:12,410
the report. Are there any

4204
02:39:12,410 --> 02:39:14,410
questions?

4205
02:39:15,447 --> 02:39:16,181
>>MARY SACKETT: Yeah, I have two

4206
02:39:16,181 --> 02:39:19,181
quick questions. Thank you. So

4207
02:39:20,352 --> 02:39:22,654
it shows the -- or this report

4208
02:39:22,654 --> 02:39:25,290
gives us the vehicle buyback

4209
02:39:25,290 --> 02:39:27,126
program, how the owner of the

4210
02:39:27,126 --> 02:39:29,728
vehicle is compensated. How are

4211
02:39:29,728 --> 02:39:32,728
we funding the actual disposal?

4212
02:39:33,198 --> 02:39:34,499
Is that on us or is there

4213
02:39:34,499 --> 02:39:38,990
another funding source to -- I

4214
02:39:38,269 --> 02:39:40,205
notice that it was like we don't

4215
02:39:40,205 --> 02:39:41,506
want to keep these in

4216
02:39:41,506 --> 02:39:42,741
circulation, so I'm just

4217
02:39:42,741 --> 02:39:43,675
wondering how that is being

4218
02:39:43,675 --> 02:39:45,410
funded.

4219
02:39:45,410 --> 02:39:46,111
>>DAN EILERMAN: Right, that's a

4220
02:39:46,111 --> 02:39:47,379
good point, supervisor. One of

4221
02:39:47,379 --> 02:39:49,180
our efforts to ensure just like

4222
02:39:49,180 --> 02:39:51,783
with our BRA, the buyback a

4223
02:39:51,783 --> 02:39:53,385
vessel it doesn't end up back in

4224
02:39:53,385 --> 02:39:55,721
the same place, so anybody who

4225
02:39:55,721 --> 02:39:57,656
participates has to sign a legal

4226
02:39:57,656 --> 02:39:58,557
binding agreement that they will

4227
02:39:58,557 --> 02:39:59,725
otherwise abide by all

4228
02:39:59,725 --> 02:40:01,250
California vehicle code and

4229
02:40:01,250 --> 02:40:03,250
county ordinances.

4230
02:40:03,294 --> 02:40:04,663
And yes, that's probably going

4231
02:40:04,663 --> 02:40:06,765
to be the case in most of these

4232
02:40:06,765 --> 02:40:08,800
cases where we will pursue

4233
02:40:08,800 --> 02:40:10,335
destruction of the vehicle.

4234
02:40:10,335 --> 02:40:12,104
That would be an additive cost

4235
02:40:12,104 --> 02:40:14,339
to the actual incentive. We

4236
02:40:14,339 --> 02:40:16,141
have $100,000 available for the

4237
02:40:16,141 --> 02:40:18,643
incentive program, but at the

4238
02:40:18,643 --> 02:40:19,945
end of the day it's probably

4239
02:40:19,945 --> 02:40:21,312
going to be more cost effective

4240
02:40:21,312 --> 02:40:23,148
to have people voluntarily turn

4241
02:40:23,148 --> 02:40:25,250
in a vehicle and then, you know,

4242
02:40:25,250 --> 02:40:27,186
we will decommission it to

4243
02:40:27,186 --> 02:40:28,119
ensure it doesn't return to the

4244
02:40:28,119 --> 02:40:30,890
site, or another site.

4245
02:40:30,890 --> 02:40:30,889
>>MARY SACKETT: Okay, and then

4246
02:40:30,889 --> 02:40:33,759
the Marin link piece I think

4247
02:40:33,759 --> 02:40:36,160
makes sense. Do we -- does

4248
02:40:36,160 --> 02:40:37,796
county staff retain the

4249
02:40:37,796 --> 02:40:39,364
discretion of who gets that

4250
02:40:39,364 --> 02:40:41,433
funding? Or is that decision

4251
02:40:41,433 --> 02:40:43,268
making, does that also go with

4252
02:40:43,268 --> 02:40:46,268
the funds with Marin link?

4253
02:40:46,571 --> 02:40:48,874
>>DAN EILERMAN: I'll let Gary

4254
02:40:48,874 --> 02:40:50,776
chime in if he wants to add, but

4255
02:40:50,776 --> 02:40:51,676
the director of Health and Human

4256
02:40:51,676 --> 02:40:52,343
Services has discretion. The

4257
02:40:52,343 --> 02:40:53,812
way the policy is written, we

4258
02:40:53,812 --> 02:40:55,380
have a preference for

4259
02:40:55,380 --> 02:40:56,347
recreational vehicles and for

4260
02:40:56,347 --> 02:40:58,683
lived-in vehicles for folks who

4261
02:40:58,683 --> 02:41:01,830
have an identified housing

4262
02:41:01,453 --> 02:41:02,687
destination, but then the second

4263
02:41:02,687 --> 02:41:03,855
priority is a registered

4264
02:41:03,855 --> 02:41:05,724
vehicle, that could be a second

4265
02:41:05,724 --> 02:41:07,292
or third vehicle, for example,

4266
02:41:07,292 --> 02:41:10,862
but the Director of HHS or

4267
02:41:10,862 --> 02:41:11,830
designee will have the ability

4268
02:41:11,830 --> 02:41:13,331
to evaluate those options. I

4269
02:41:13,331 --> 02:41:14,900
think from what we've heard

4270
02:41:14,900 --> 02:41:15,667
there is interest in the

4271
02:41:15,667 --> 02:41:17,302
program, and so if it's

4272
02:41:17,302 --> 02:41:19,171
effective immediately tomorrow

4273
02:41:19,171 --> 02:41:20,939
we anticipate getting some

4274
02:41:20,939 --> 02:41:23,410
interest relatively early, but

4275
02:41:23,410 --> 02:41:24,142
the director will have the

4276
02:41:24,142 --> 02:41:26,542
ability to make those

4277
02:41:26,678 --> 02:41:27,512
prioritizations and I think will

4278
02:41:27,512 --> 02:41:29,810
probably work with a team and

4279
02:41:29,810 --> 02:41:30,682
county counsel regarding

4280
02:41:30,682 --> 02:41:32,151
individual buyback agreements as

4281
02:41:32,151 --> 02:41:33,217
some situations may be different

4282
02:41:33,217 --> 02:41:34,252
than others.

4283
02:41:34,252 --> 02:41:35,587
>>MARY SACKETT: Thank you.

4284
02:41:35,587 --> 02:41:36,421
>>DAN EILERMAN: Mm-hm.

4285
02:41:36,421 --> 02:41:37,122
>>DENNIS RODONI: Yeah, thank you

4286
02:41:37,122 --> 02:41:38,890
for the update. Really exciting

4287
02:41:38,890 --> 02:41:41,459
to see what's happening up there

4288
02:41:41,459 --> 02:41:43,859
and improvements. I'm wondering

4289
02:41:44,997 --> 02:41:46,464
about the pilot buyback program.

4290
02:41:46,464 --> 02:41:48,100
It seemed like such an important

4291
02:41:48,100 --> 02:41:50,269
tool. I know this is focused on

4292
02:41:50,269 --> 02:41:53,172
Binford, but I'm sure Mike might

4293
02:41:53,172 --> 02:41:54,840
like to have this tool in his

4294
02:41:54,840 --> 02:41:57,609
tool chest for other places too,

4295
02:41:57,609 --> 02:41:58,476
so I hope you take a look at

4296
02:41:58,476 --> 02:41:59,744
that or see if there's

4297
02:41:59,744 --> 02:42:01,245
opportunity to have that in our

4298
02:42:01,245 --> 02:42:02,547
tool box for other uses.

4299
02:42:02,547 --> 02:42:05,150
And then on slide 15, the

4300
02:42:05,150 --> 02:42:07,452
October 1 date, I know that's

4301
02:42:07,452 --> 02:42:09,221
probably something you've

4302
02:42:09,221 --> 02:42:10,689
already established, but with

4303
02:42:10,689 --> 02:42:13,689
the new information, number one

4304
02:42:13,925 --> 02:42:15,160
information, is there any reason

4305
02:42:15,160 --> 02:42:17,160
to change [indiscernible].

4306
02:42:26,400 --> 02:42:26,671
>>GARY NAJA-RIESE: That is a

4307
02:42:26,671 --> 02:42:27,372
great question and I believe

4308
02:42:27,372 --> 02:42:28,173
that we have full knowledge of

4309
02:42:28,173 --> 02:42:29,774
all 101 individuals who are

4310
02:42:29,774 --> 02:42:31,743
there as of October 1, so that

4311
02:42:31,743 --> 02:42:33,444
date makes the most sense.

4312
02:42:33,444 --> 02:42:33,712
>>DENNIS RODONI: Okay, thank

4313
02:42:33,712 --> 02:42:35,547
you.

4314
02:42:35,547 --> 02:42:36,248
>>DAN EILERMAN: Yeah, and

4315
02:42:36,248 --> 02:42:37,282
supervisor, I think I would add

4316
02:42:37,282 --> 02:42:39,918
to that, yeah, the December 1

4317
02:42:39,918 --> 02:42:41,820
count we're confident in, the

4318
02:42:41,820 --> 02:42:43,454
October 1 count we're confident

4319
02:42:43,454 --> 02:42:45,900
in, but I think the reason we

4320
02:42:45,900 --> 02:42:46,858
have chosen October 1 is so that

4321
02:42:46,858 --> 02:42:49,995
we can ensure that we are

4322
02:42:49,995 --> 02:42:51,960
dealing with vehicles that were

4323
02:42:51,960 --> 02:42:52,998
there and not in any way

4324
02:42:52,998 --> 02:42:54,166
incentivizing any new vehicles

4325
02:42:54,166 --> 02:42:56,235
to arrive. The sheriff will

4326
02:42:56,235 --> 02:42:58,469
have a solid inventory on those

4327
02:42:58,469 --> 02:42:59,437
vehicles to ensure they are

4328
02:42:59,437 --> 02:43:01,139
applicable.

4329
02:43:01,139 --> 02:43:02,140
>>ERIC LUCAN: I just want to

4330
02:43:02,140 --> 02:43:03,275
quickly commend the team and all

4331
02:43:03,275 --> 02:43:04,976
the work you're doing at Binford

4332
02:43:04,976 --> 02:43:06,780
across all different

4333
02:43:06,780 --> 02:43:07,412
departments. This is really

4334
02:43:07,412 --> 02:43:08,580
exciting progress that we made

4335
02:43:08,580 --> 02:43:10,980
to date. Housing ten

4336
02:43:11,149 --> 02:43:12,284
individuals in just the past

4337
02:43:12,284 --> 02:43:13,752
month or so, which is I think

4338
02:43:13,752 --> 02:43:16,421
what our team normally houses

4339
02:43:16,421 --> 02:43:18,230
countywide sort of to do in

4340
02:43:18,230 --> 02:43:19,557
addition to that ten from

4341
02:43:19,557 --> 02:43:20,625
Binford is really remarkable,

4342
02:43:20,625 --> 02:43:22,294
and just the tenor and the

4343
02:43:22,294 --> 02:43:23,728
relationship we've had with the

4344
02:43:23,728 --> 02:43:24,596
individuals that we're serving

4345
02:43:24,596 --> 02:43:26,640
out there is so key to this

4346
02:43:26,640 --> 02:43:28,533
work. The individuals we are

4347
02:43:28,533 --> 02:43:29,601
serving might not love

4348
02:43:29,601 --> 02:43:30,735
everything we're doing out

4349
02:43:30,735 --> 02:43:33,272
there, but they don't hate it.

4350
02:43:33,272 --> 02:43:34,405
They are not pushing back.

4351
02:43:34,405 --> 02:43:36,208
There's a really good

4352
02:43:36,208 --> 02:43:36,875
relationship that have been

4353
02:43:36,875 --> 02:43:38,900
built, and that's really a

4354
02:43:38,900 --> 02:43:38,843
credit to the whole team here on

4355
02:43:38,843 --> 02:43:39,811
this.

4356
02:43:39,811 --> 02:43:41,213
Just one question with regards

4357
02:43:41,213 --> 02:43:42,814
to the pumpout services. It's

4358
02:43:42,814 --> 02:43:45,417
great to see 19 of 57 that we've

4359
02:43:45,417 --> 02:43:47,219
gotten to. Granted we're never

4360
02:43:47,219 --> 02:43:49,221
going to get to 57 of 57 because

4361
02:43:49,221 --> 02:43:50,688
of the points that you mentioned

4362
02:43:50,688 --> 02:43:52,490
there. What would be some

4363
02:43:52,490 --> 02:43:53,825
realistic goals over the next

4364
02:43:53,825 --> 02:43:57,425
few months in terms of either

4365
02:43:58,463 --> 02:44:00,399
decommissioning additional ones

4366
02:44:00,399 --> 02:44:01,866
or getting the ones that are

4367
02:44:01,866 --> 02:44:03,100
eligible to pump out to pump

4368
02:44:03,100 --> 02:44:04,803
out? Is it going to be slow

4369
02:44:04,803 --> 02:44:05,904
moving from here? Maybe just a

4370
02:44:05,904 --> 02:44:07,204
goal we can put out for

4371
02:44:07,204 --> 02:44:08,974
ourselves.

4372
02:44:08,974 --> 02:44:09,674
>>DAN EILERMAN: Sure. I will

4373
02:44:09,674 --> 02:44:11,876
see if Greg has anything to add,

4374
02:44:11,876 --> 02:44:13,780
but definitely we want to

4375
02:44:13,780 --> 02:44:15,447
increase that number of vehicles

4376
02:44:15,447 --> 02:44:19,470
being pumped out. In some cases

4377
02:44:19,818 --> 02:44:21,686
we expect some of them may move

4378
02:44:21,686 --> 02:44:24,686
away via successes and other

4379
02:44:28,930 --> 02:44:29,394
ways, but I would like to see us

4380
02:44:29,394 --> 02:44:30,962
in the next three months having

4381
02:44:30,962 --> 02:44:33,865
a solid plan for if vehicles are

4382
02:44:33,865 --> 02:44:36,265
not being cooperative with

4383
02:44:37,302 --> 02:44:40,272
attempts to assess the RVs and

4384
02:44:40,272 --> 02:44:42,174
capacity for services, I

4385
02:44:42,174 --> 02:44:44,900
mentioned some have just been

4386
02:44:44,900 --> 02:44:46,409
non-respondent, we need to

4387
02:44:46,477 --> 02:44:47,712
figure out how we're going to

4388
02:44:47,712 --> 02:44:48,847
deal with those.

4389
02:44:48,847 --> 02:44:51,582
One of the efforts to follow up

4390
02:44:51,582 --> 02:44:52,951
on going forward is to ensure

4391
02:44:52,951 --> 02:44:54,419
the appropriate authority to

4392
02:44:54,419 --> 02:44:55,620
actually decommission those

4393
02:44:55,620 --> 02:44:56,721
toilets, to make sure that they

4394
02:44:56,721 --> 02:44:57,689
are not polluting the

4395
02:44:57,689 --> 02:45:00,689
environment, but yeah, Greg may

4396
02:45:01,193 --> 02:45:04,620
have some more to add.

4397
02:45:04,620 --> 02:45:05,163
>>GREG PIRIE: Yeah, one thing to

4398
02:45:05,163 --> 02:45:06,898
add, Supervisor Lucan. One

4399
02:45:06,898 --> 02:45:09,340
thing to consider is that we

4400
02:45:09,340 --> 02:45:11,203
have different types of RVs out

4401
02:45:11,203 --> 02:45:13,603
there. Some have started

4402
02:45:13,671 --> 02:45:15,773
pumpout service. Some don't

4403
02:45:15,773 --> 02:45:18,843
have water now so you're not

4404
02:45:18,843 --> 02:45:20,178
going to have a lot of pumpouts

4405
02:45:20,178 --> 02:45:21,946
if they don't have water in the

4406
02:45:21,946 --> 02:45:24,946
RVs, and some are going

4407
02:45:24,983 --> 02:45:26,451
out-of-county for their

4408
02:45:26,451 --> 02:45:27,719
services. We can continue to

4409
02:45:27,719 --> 02:45:29,687
identify what RVs are possible

4410
02:45:29,687 --> 02:45:32,290
and can use it, and also Dan

4411
02:45:32,290 --> 02:45:34,226
mentioned also the RVs that can

4412
02:45:34,226 --> 02:45:35,600
be repaired. We can also look

4413
02:45:35,600 --> 02:45:36,428
at that too.

4414
02:45:36,428 --> 02:45:38,696
Even though we have 57, there

4415
02:45:38,696 --> 02:45:39,931
may be only a certain amount

4416
02:45:39,931 --> 02:45:41,299
that could actually handle the

4417
02:45:41,299 --> 02:45:42,267
service. We're going to be

4418
02:45:42,267 --> 02:45:44,169
reviewing that as we go.

4419
02:45:44,169 --> 02:45:44,969
>>ERIC LUCAN: Sounds good. I

4420
02:45:44,969 --> 02:45:46,238
think that's great. There's the

4421
02:45:46,238 --> 02:45:47,439
ones that can't handle the

4422
02:45:47,439 --> 02:45:48,873
service. Let's do what we can

4423
02:45:48,873 --> 02:45:50,108
to get them to handle the

4424
02:45:50,108 --> 02:45:51,910
service, and then I think

4425
02:45:51,910 --> 02:45:53,978
individuals just flat out refuse

4426
02:45:53,978 --> 02:45:56,581
the service, there are some

4427
02:45:56,581 --> 02:45:57,615
approaches that we can take that

4428
02:45:57,615 --> 02:45:58,716
might be a little more on the

4429
02:45:58,716 --> 02:45:59,784
enforcement side, especially

4430
02:45:59,784 --> 02:46:00,919
since we're providing the

4431
02:46:00,919 --> 02:46:02,320
service at no cost. I think

4432
02:46:02,320 --> 02:46:03,988
that's one where we might maybe

4433
02:46:03,988 --> 02:46:05,223
shouldn't be afraid of stepping

4434
02:46:05,223 --> 02:46:07,920
up the enforcement to get some

4435
02:46:07,920 --> 02:46:08,559
compliance and protect the

4436
02:46:08,559 --> 02:46:09,761
natural resources and the

4437
02:46:09,761 --> 02:46:10,561
environment in that area. Thank

4438
02:46:10,561 --> 02:46:12,330
you.

4439
02:46:12,330 --> 02:46:14,330
>>DAN EILERMAN: Mm-hm.

4440
02:46:14,766 --> 02:46:16,000
>>KATIE RICE: Yeah, thank you.

4441
02:46:16,000 --> 02:46:19,000
Appreciate the report and all

4442
02:46:19,904 --> 02:46:21,940
the progress that is being made,

4443
02:46:21,940 --> 02:46:24,940
and the creativity also and

4444
02:46:26,111 --> 02:46:27,245
these items that you're bringing

4445
02:46:27,245 --> 02:46:28,780
today to us to approve.

4446
02:46:28,780 --> 02:46:31,950
I just have a question slash

4447
02:46:31,950 --> 02:46:34,819
concern around just given the

4448
02:46:34,819 --> 02:46:37,922
high number of folks who have

4449
02:46:37,922 --> 02:46:39,857
been sort of -- have been

4450
02:46:39,857 --> 02:46:42,257
assessed as eligible for

4451
02:46:42,394 --> 02:46:43,694
permanent supportive --

4452
02:46:43,694 --> 02:46:44,762
qualifying for permanent

4453
02:46:44,762 --> 02:46:46,931
supportive housing through our

4454
02:46:46,931 --> 02:46:48,699
coordinated entry process, and

4455
02:46:48,699 --> 02:46:52,337
as you all well know, that is a

4456
02:46:52,337 --> 02:46:54,839
big list including those folks

4457
02:46:54,839 --> 02:46:57,342
as well, and so I'm just

4458
02:46:57,342 --> 02:46:59,710
thinking about the timeline to

4459
02:46:59,710 --> 02:47:01,712
getting these folks on the path

4460
02:47:01,712 --> 02:47:03,248
to housing and into housing,

4461
02:47:03,248 --> 02:47:06,751
given that they may require --

4462
02:47:06,751 --> 02:47:07,919
likely require permanent

4463
02:47:07,919 --> 02:47:09,488
supportive housing which is

4464
02:47:09,488 --> 02:47:10,788
supplied through the county.

4465
02:47:10,788 --> 02:47:14,388
I guess my question is have

4466
02:47:15,760 --> 02:47:17,362
there been targets sort of

4467
02:47:17,362 --> 02:47:19,362
established for actually

4468
02:47:19,764 --> 02:47:21,866
improving the health and

4469
02:47:21,866 --> 02:47:24,266
economic status, frankly, in

4470
02:47:25,236 --> 02:47:26,505
terms of having folks getting

4471
02:47:26,505 --> 02:47:28,720
signed up for whatever support

4472
02:47:28,720 --> 02:47:30,442
they may be qualified for,

4473
02:47:30,442 --> 02:47:32,677
CalFresh, SDI, what have you,

4474
02:47:32,677 --> 02:47:35,246
that they might not be now. I'm

4475
02:47:35,246 --> 02:47:36,747
thinking of this coordinated

4476
02:47:36,747 --> 02:47:37,682
entry population, because it is

4477
02:47:37,682 --> 02:47:39,184
going to be -- it is going to

4478
02:47:39,184 --> 02:47:40,785
take some time as this plan maps

4479
02:47:40,785 --> 02:47:43,540
out to really move everyone in

4480
02:47:43,540 --> 02:47:44,822
to housing or into the situation

4481
02:47:44,822 --> 02:47:46,558
that they need, and I'm thinking

4482
02:47:46,558 --> 02:47:47,959
that there's an opportunity to

4483
02:47:47,959 --> 02:47:49,760
actually really improve the

4484
02:47:49,760 --> 02:47:52,160
overall financial and medical

4485
02:47:54,980 --> 02:47:55,867
and physical and mental health

4486
02:47:55,867 --> 02:47:57,350
of some of the individuals that

4487
02:47:57,350 --> 02:47:58,403
are there.

4488
02:47:58,403 --> 02:48:00,271
So I'm just curious as to sort

4489
02:48:00,271 --> 02:48:02,400
of targets towards improving

4490
02:48:02,400 --> 02:48:05,400
people's status as things go

4491
02:48:06,177 --> 02:48:08,446
along over time and, frankly, is

4492
02:48:08,446 --> 02:48:09,847
there even an opportunity to --

4493
02:48:09,847 --> 02:48:12,247
for some folks conditions

4494
02:48:13,784 --> 02:48:14,752
economically and otherwise to

4495
02:48:14,752 --> 02:48:16,540
improve enough so that maybe

4496
02:48:16,540 --> 02:48:18,390
they won't need full-on

4497
02:48:18,390 --> 02:48:19,257
permanent supportive housing

4498
02:48:19,257 --> 02:48:21,257
over time. Long-winded

4499
02:48:21,826 --> 02:48:24,462
question, but I think you . . .

4500
02:48:24,462 --> 02:48:25,930
get where I'm getting at.

4501
02:48:25,930 --> 02:48:26,598
>>GARY NAJA-RIESE: Thank you,

4502
02:48:26,598 --> 02:48:27,265
supervisor, for the question,

4503
02:48:27,265 --> 02:48:30,301
and you know, although we use

4504
02:48:30,301 --> 02:48:31,503
what folks are familiar with,

4505
02:48:31,503 --> 02:48:34,372
the housing first model in our

4506
02:48:34,372 --> 02:48:35,806
county, I think the caveat we

4507
02:48:35,806 --> 02:48:37,375
give to that all the time is

4508
02:48:37,375 --> 02:48:38,843
that does not mean housing only.

4509
02:48:38,843 --> 02:48:40,679
All that model means is that

4510
02:48:40,679 --> 02:48:43,248
there are just no conditions on

4511
02:48:43,248 --> 02:48:44,715
someone before they are able to

4512
02:48:44,715 --> 02:48:46,384
get successfully connected to

4513
02:48:46,384 --> 02:48:47,919
housing. But I think what we

4514
02:48:47,919 --> 02:48:49,387
often leave out of that equation

4515
02:48:49,387 --> 02:48:50,888
and conversation is the

4516
02:48:50,888 --> 02:48:52,457
tremendous amount of work that

4517
02:48:52,457 --> 02:48:54,125
outreach workers and case

4518
02:48:54,125 --> 02:48:55,427
managers do on a daily basis

4519
02:48:55,427 --> 02:48:58,620
with folks across our county and

4520
02:48:58,620 --> 02:48:59,197
specifically the ones that are

4521
02:48:59,197 --> 02:49:00,665
dedicated to Binford.

4522
02:49:00,665 --> 02:49:02,333
So those outreach workers, those

4523
02:49:02,333 --> 02:49:03,668
case managers are working daily

4524
02:49:03,668 --> 02:49:05,370
with folks on their medical and

4525
02:49:05,370 --> 02:49:07,770
behavioral health needs, on

4526
02:49:08,720 --> 02:49:09,941
ensuring they get transportation

4527
02:49:09,941 --> 02:49:11,443
to critical appointments,

4528
02:49:11,443 --> 02:49:13,443
helping them locate

4529
02:49:13,945 --> 02:49:14,879
documentation that they may have

4530
02:49:14,879 --> 02:49:17,480
lost that they need in the

4531
02:49:17,480 --> 02:49:19,384
paperwork process for things

4532
02:49:19,384 --> 02:49:21,180
like section 8, helping them to

4533
02:49:21,180 --> 02:49:22,387
get ready for those

4534
02:49:22,387 --> 02:49:23,321
applications, connecting them

4535
02:49:23,321 --> 02:49:26,321
with CalFresh and Medi-Cal and

4536
02:49:26,491 --> 02:49:28,491
other temporary financial

4537
02:49:31,896 --> 02:49:33,398
supports and services.

4538
02:49:33,398 --> 02:49:34,499
Assisting them with their

4539
02:49:34,499 --> 02:49:35,600
banking and their shopping and

4540
02:49:35,600 --> 02:49:36,867
their spending and locating food

4541
02:49:36,867 --> 02:49:38,200
and water and everything that it

4542
02:49:38,200 --> 02:49:40,805
takes for day-to-day. So really

4543
02:49:40,805 --> 02:49:42,873
those outreach workers and case

4544
02:49:42,873 --> 02:49:44,476
managers carry a tremendous

4545
02:49:44,476 --> 02:49:46,244
amount of activity with the

4546
02:49:46,244 --> 02:49:48,450
clients that are engaged with,

4547
02:49:48,450 --> 02:49:49,914
and although ten may have been

4548
02:49:49,914 --> 02:49:52,250
housed although 19 are on an

4549
02:49:52,250 --> 02:49:53,718
identified housing pathway,

4550
02:49:53,718 --> 02:49:56,454
these outreach workers and case

4551
02:49:56,454 --> 02:49:58,256
managers are engaged with 101

4552
02:49:58,256 --> 02:49:59,290
individuals at Binford and their

4553
02:49:59,290 --> 02:50:00,492
needs, and that's also the

4554
02:50:00,492 --> 02:50:02,460
benefit of this service fair

4555
02:50:02,460 --> 02:50:04,629
that is up there monthly, and I

4556
02:50:04,629 --> 02:50:06,665
think the beauty of what's

4557
02:50:06,665 --> 02:50:08,166
happened through that service is

4558
02:50:08,166 --> 02:50:10,100
seeing folks connect directly

4559
02:50:10,100 --> 02:50:11,536
with medical appointments

4560
02:50:11,536 --> 02:50:13,237
through the street medicine van,

4561
02:50:13,237 --> 02:50:16,730
get signed up for Medi-Cal and

4562
02:50:16,730 --> 02:50:18,343
CalFresh right on the spot, be

4563
02:50:18,343 --> 02:50:19,810
able to tell us that their cards

4564
02:50:19,810 --> 02:50:20,978
have been misplaced and they

4565
02:50:20,978 --> 02:50:24,315
need replacement ones so that we

4566
02:50:24,315 --> 02:50:26,830
can get that out to them, but

4567
02:50:26,830 --> 02:50:27,385
whatever it might take in their

4568
02:50:27,385 --> 02:50:29,860
day-to-day lives to help with

4569
02:50:29,860 --> 02:50:31,220
any immediate needs, and so know

4570
02:50:31,220 --> 02:50:32,256
that all of those things are

4571
02:50:32,256 --> 02:50:34,492
happening every single day, not

4572
02:50:34,492 --> 02:50:36,327
only with residents at Binford

4573
02:50:36,327 --> 02:50:38,530
but through everyone else that

4574
02:50:38,530 --> 02:50:40,970
our many outreach workers and

4575
02:50:40,970 --> 02:50:41,599
case managers have contact with

4576
02:50:41,599 --> 02:50:43,599
across our county.

4577
02:50:43,934 --> 02:50:45,269
>>KATIE RICE: And so I'm

4578
02:50:45,269 --> 02:50:48,269
assuming that given what is

4579
02:50:48,540 --> 02:50:50,940
happening there in Binford,

4580
02:50:51,108 --> 02:50:52,577
especially, that -- I mean, my

4581
02:50:52,577 --> 02:50:54,646
question is: Can I assume, can

4582
02:50:54,646 --> 02:50:56,147
we assume that actually folks

4583
02:50:56,147 --> 02:50:58,883
will over time be in a much

4584
02:50:58,883 --> 02:51:00,785
better state financially,

4585
02:51:00,785 --> 02:51:02,554
health-wise, what have you, than

4586
02:51:02,554 --> 02:51:03,988
they would have been without all

4587
02:51:03,988 --> 02:51:06,570
this and, therefore, maybe a

4588
02:51:06,570 --> 02:51:09,570
need of less support in

4589
02:51:09,694 --> 02:51:11,128
permanent supportive housing or

4590
02:51:11,128 --> 02:51:12,463
in a different state as we move

4591
02:51:12,463 --> 02:51:13,431
along over the next couple of

4592
02:51:13,431 --> 02:51:14,532
years? I think it's really

4593
02:51:14,532 --> 02:51:17,680
important, because you know we

4594
02:51:17,680 --> 02:51:19,360
depend on vouchers and other

4595
02:51:19,360 --> 02:51:21,439
funding in order to establish

4596
02:51:21,439 --> 02:51:22,674
permanent supportive housing and

4597
02:51:22,674 --> 02:51:24,642
make it real for the long term,

4598
02:51:24,642 --> 02:51:26,911
and those vouchers, that flow of

4599
02:51:26,911 --> 02:51:29,547
vouchers is not this big wide

4600
02:51:29,547 --> 02:51:31,449
thick stream ongoing. We don't

4601
02:51:31,449 --> 02:51:33,518
have a local source of vouchers.

4602
02:51:33,518 --> 02:51:34,485
It's something we need to be

4603
02:51:34,485 --> 02:51:36,120
talking about, but it is a

4604
02:51:36,120 --> 02:51:37,988
challenge. Permanent supportive

4605
02:51:37,988 --> 02:51:39,724
housing and how much we're able

4606
02:51:39,724 --> 02:51:41,959
to create is dependent on how

4607
02:51:41,959 --> 02:51:42,627
much vouchers are available

4608
02:51:42,627 --> 02:51:43,862
here, and in the meantime we

4609
02:51:43,862 --> 02:51:45,697
need to be helping people as

4610
02:51:45,697 --> 02:51:47,198
much as we can in the interim

4611
02:51:47,198 --> 02:51:49,233
before housing becomes available

4612
02:51:49,233 --> 02:51:50,935
and, frankly, I just would like

4613
02:51:50,935 --> 02:51:53,700
to know that maybe we're using

4614
02:51:53,700 --> 02:51:55,390
this time and these situations

4615
02:51:55,390 --> 02:51:57,700
in order to potentially create

4616
02:51:57,700 --> 02:51:58,409
situations in which some folks

4617
02:51:58,409 --> 02:52:00,478
may not need, ultimately,

4618
02:52:00,478 --> 02:52:02,478
permanent supportive housing.

4619
02:52:02,547 --> 02:52:02,813
>>GARY NAJA-RIESE: Absolutely,

4620
02:52:02,813 --> 02:52:03,548
yes.

4621
02:52:03,548 --> 02:52:04,181
>>KATIE RICE: Thank you.

4622
02:52:04,181 --> 02:52:04,883
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

4623
02:52:04,883 --> 02:52:06,785
PRES.: Great. I want to add my

4624
02:52:06,785 --> 02:52:08,753
support for the vehicle buyback

4625
02:52:08,753 --> 02:52:10,521
program. I certainly saw how

4626
02:52:10,521 --> 02:52:12,323
this worked at Richardson Bay,

4627
02:52:12,323 --> 02:52:13,725
largely with the sailboats we

4628
02:52:13,725 --> 02:52:15,794
had there, but it was -- motor

4629
02:52:15,794 --> 02:52:16,693
boats. It was the same

4630
02:52:16,693 --> 02:52:17,395
situation.

4631
02:52:17,395 --> 02:52:19,630
I want to appreciate and

4632
02:52:19,630 --> 02:52:20,197
acknowledge the comprehensive

4633
02:52:20,197 --> 02:52:22,366
approach you've taken here again

4634
02:52:22,366 --> 02:52:26,237
at Binford. I was able to tour

4635
02:52:26,237 --> 02:52:29,237
with Supervisor Lucan and my

4636
02:52:30,740 --> 02:52:31,576
observation a few weeks ago is

4637
02:52:31,576 --> 02:52:33,711
that things were organized and

4638
02:52:33,711 --> 02:52:35,580
there was increasing safety out

4639
02:52:35,580 --> 02:52:39,180
there. I'm glad that the speed

4640
02:52:39,350 --> 02:52:40,518
reduction has occurred.

4641
02:52:40,518 --> 02:52:41,952
The sanitation services and

4642
02:52:41,952 --> 02:52:43,200
pumpout and everything you're

4643
02:52:43,200 --> 02:52:44,422
working on I think are really

4644
02:52:44,422 --> 02:52:46,230
key, and I want to appreciate

4645
02:52:46,230 --> 02:52:48,726
the sheriff's office for his

4646
02:52:48,726 --> 02:52:50,361
work out there.

4647
02:52:50,361 --> 02:52:52,530
My experience in Richardson Bay,

4648
02:52:52,530 --> 02:52:54,432
as we made slow and steady

4649
02:52:54,432 --> 02:52:55,967
progress in moving people off

4650
02:52:55,967 --> 02:52:58,269
the water into housing, and that

4651
02:52:58,269 --> 02:53:00,471
also you start to get to a point

4652
02:53:00,471 --> 02:53:02,173
where you've got critical mass

4653
02:53:02,173 --> 02:53:03,474
where enough people are moving

4654
02:53:03,474 --> 02:53:05,750
on with their lives it

4655
02:53:05,750 --> 02:53:06,760
encourages more people to do the

4656
02:53:06,760 --> 02:53:07,512
same, so I think we'll see

4657
02:53:07,512 --> 02:53:09,380
things pick up, notwithstanding

4658
02:53:09,380 --> 02:53:11,480
the need for housing, but people

4659
02:53:11,480 --> 02:53:13,830
start to sort it out and figure

4660
02:53:13,830 --> 02:53:16,683
it out, so anyway, thank you,

4661
02:53:16,921 --> 02:53:21,121
and I'd be prepared to take a

4662
02:53:21,459 --> 02:53:23,327
motion to approve the buyback

4663
02:53:23,327 --> 02:53:24,629
program, and then we'll go to

4664
02:53:24,629 --> 02:53:26,629
public comment.

4665
02:53:29,333 --> 02:53:30,134
>>ERIC LUCAN: I'll move such

4666
02:53:30,134 --> 02:53:30,768
action.

4667
02:53:30,768 --> 02:53:31,369
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

4668
02:53:31,369 --> 02:53:32,303
PRES.: Okay, very good.

4669
02:53:32,303 --> 02:53:32,937
>>MARY SACKETT: Second.

4670
02:53:32,937 --> 02:53:33,604
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

4671
02:53:33,604 --> 02:53:34,305
PRES.: Thank you. We have a

4672
02:53:34,305 --> 02:53:35,105
motion and second. Is there any

4673
02:53:35,105 --> 02:53:35,806
public comment in the chambers

4674
02:53:35,806 --> 02:53:37,806
on this?

4675
02:53:51,188 --> 02:53:53,491
>>SPEAKER: Thank you. You guys

4676
02:53:53,491 --> 02:53:54,992
mentioned environmental health

4677
02:53:54,992 --> 02:53:57,392
and you've mentioned safe

4678
02:53:57,461 --> 02:54:00,461
sanitary housing. I remind you

4679
02:54:00,765 --> 02:54:02,660
the community should be made

4680
02:54:02,660 --> 02:54:05,660
aware that in 2011 or '12,

4681
02:54:06,604 --> 02:54:07,605
environmental health made a

4682
02:54:07,605 --> 02:54:10,500
decision to stop taking

4683
02:54:11,108 --> 02:54:13,508
complaints from Golden Gate

4684
02:54:14,245 --> 02:54:16,800
Village in Marin City. 296

4685
02:54:16,800 --> 02:54:19,483
units all of a sudden, suddenly,

4686
02:54:19,483 --> 02:54:22,353
were denied the availability to

4687
02:54:22,353 --> 02:54:24,288
call the department in the

4688
02:54:24,288 --> 02:54:26,900
county to work with them

4689
02:54:26,900 --> 02:54:28,900
regarding unsanitary living

4690
02:54:28,960 --> 02:54:31,360
conditions. Everywhere else in

4691
02:54:31,629 --> 02:54:32,830
the county, you can call them.

4692
02:54:32,830 --> 02:54:33,464
Golden Gate Village residents in

4693
02:54:33,464 --> 02:54:35,864
Marin City, they can't.

4694
02:54:40,380 --> 02:54:42,400
In the IJ you all went to -- and

4695
02:54:42,400 --> 02:54:44,241
yourself, Greg and Sarah, went

4696
02:54:44,241 --> 02:54:46,911
to the IJ just in July and said,

4697
02:54:46,911 --> 02:54:48,112
and we're going to work with

4698
02:54:48,112 --> 02:54:51,181
them. It's in the IJ. We're

4699
02:54:51,181 --> 02:54:54,351
going to do better. In August

4700
02:54:54,351 --> 02:54:57,688
the IJ editorial said it's a

4701
02:54:57,688 --> 02:54:58,790
great thing they are working

4702
02:54:58,790 --> 02:55:00,570
together. Yes, they are all

4703
02:55:00,570 --> 02:55:01,225
working together, getting

4704
02:55:01,225 --> 02:55:02,126
together to serve a population

4705
02:55:02,126 --> 02:55:03,928
that's underserved. In the

4706
02:55:03,928 --> 02:55:06,697
meeting a month ago Greg was

4707
02:55:06,697 --> 02:55:08,800
present, face-to-face with me

4708
02:55:08,800 --> 02:55:10,969
and many others, Sarah was on

4709
02:55:10,969 --> 02:55:12,570
Zoom, they said, no, that's not

4710
02:55:12,570 --> 02:55:13,871
true. We're not there yet.

4711
02:55:13,871 --> 02:55:16,740
That's not true. You all did a

4712
02:55:16,740 --> 02:55:19,900
PR stunt to make it seem like

4713
02:55:19,900 --> 02:55:19,911
you're working with the

4714
02:55:19,911 --> 02:55:21,612
residents of -- so you're going

4715
02:55:21,612 --> 02:55:22,947
to turn the tide. That was a

4716
02:55:22,947 --> 02:55:25,149
lie, a stunt. You lied to the

4717
02:55:25,149 --> 02:55:28,149
community. Racism. Why did you

4718
02:55:29,520 --> 02:55:30,955
lie? Stephanie, this is your

4719
02:55:30,955 --> 02:55:33,955
district. Greg, you quoted in

4720
02:55:33,958 --> 02:55:35,392
the IJ of saying we're going to

4721
02:55:35,392 --> 02:55:36,527
do better, and then months

4722
02:55:36,527 --> 02:55:38,562
later, face-to-face, you say

4723
02:55:38,562 --> 02:55:42,162
it's not true. I remind you,

4724
02:55:45,300 --> 02:55:48,300
this population in Marin City,

4725
02:55:48,606 --> 02:55:49,406
Golden Gate Village, it used to

4726
02:55:49,406 --> 02:55:50,675
be a higher number of

4727
02:55:50,675 --> 02:55:52,110
African-American people,

4728
02:55:52,110 --> 02:55:54,311
families, but -- I'll finish in

4729
02:55:54,311 --> 02:55:56,714
a second. But because Marin

4730
02:55:56,714 --> 02:55:59,114
Housing has hidden Black

4731
02:55:59,316 --> 02:56:01,485
applicants, it's on the record,

4732
02:56:01,485 --> 02:56:03,454
Black applicants at Golden Gate

4733
02:56:03,454 --> 02:56:04,880
Village thrown in the garbage.

4734
02:56:04,880 --> 02:56:04,689
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

4735
02:56:04,689 --> 02:56:05,322
PRES.: Thank you for your

4736
02:56:05,322 --> 02:56:06,657
comments, Damien. We're at

4737
02:56:06,657 --> 02:56:08,657
time.

4738
02:56:09,930 --> 02:56:10,227
>>SPEAKER: Less African-American

4739
02:56:10,227 --> 02:56:11,729
families in Golden Gate Village

4740
02:56:11,729 --> 02:56:12,897
now. You need to answer to the

4741
02:56:12,897 --> 02:56:14,866
people why you put a false

4742
02:56:14,866 --> 02:56:15,499
article in the IJ.

4743
02:56:15,499 --> 02:56:16,701
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

4744
02:56:16,701 --> 02:56:19,300
PRES.: Damien, we're at time.

4745
02:56:19,300 --> 02:56:21,171
I'm going online according to

4746
02:56:21,171 --> 02:56:21,806
him, it's not true. Racism.

4747
02:56:21,806 --> 02:56:23,700
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

4748
02:56:23,700 --> 02:56:23,741
PRES.: Thanks for your comments

4749
02:56:23,741 --> 02:56:25,175
on Binford Road. Next to

4750
02:56:25,175 --> 02:56:26,243
online, please.

4751
02:56:26,243 --> 02:56:26,944
>>MODERATOR: The first speaker

4752
02:56:26,944 --> 02:56:28,445
is Johnson Reynolds. Please

4753
02:56:28,445 --> 02:56:30,445
unmute.

4754
02:56:31,716 --> 02:56:32,884
>>SPEAKER: Yeah, Johnson

4755
02:56:32,884 --> 02:56:34,284
Reynolds. I'm currently in Maui

4756
02:56:34,284 --> 02:56:35,653
with my sister who has

4757
02:56:35,653 --> 02:56:39,123
short-term memory loss, but I am

4758
02:56:39,123 --> 02:56:41,625
resident of Marin County and the

4759
02:56:41,625 --> 02:56:44,625
Canal. I'm part of Marin

4760
02:56:44,662 --> 02:56:46,662
organizing Committee. I'm

4761
02:56:51,101 --> 02:56:52,670
concerned the Marin

4762
02:56:52,670 --> 02:56:54,670
environmental housing committee

4763
02:56:54,839 --> 02:56:55,907
notified me it was on the agenda

4764
02:56:55,907 --> 02:56:56,908
today. I appreciate that you're

4765
02:56:56,908 --> 02:57:00,508
doing work to deal with people

4766
02:57:01,378 --> 02:57:03,915
that are in Binford in vehicles

4767
02:57:03,915 --> 02:57:05,816
and RVs and that kind of thing.

4768
02:57:05,816 --> 02:57:07,418
It sounds like you're really

4769
02:57:07,418 --> 02:57:09,253
moving forward on that. I

4770
02:57:09,253 --> 02:57:12,253
really appreciate that there are

4771
02:57:12,256 --> 02:57:13,891
case workers and counselors that

4772
02:57:13,891 --> 02:57:16,891
are working with all the 101

4773
02:57:17,950 --> 02:57:19,730
people there to move them

4774
02:57:19,730 --> 02:57:21,498
forward towards the possibility

4775
02:57:21,498 --> 02:57:23,898
of permanent supportive housing.

4776
02:57:24,268 --> 02:57:26,300
If that's possible. There's

4777
02:57:26,300 --> 02:57:28,272
still lack of housing even that

4778
02:57:28,272 --> 02:57:31,272
there's the Homekey options, but

4779
02:57:32,210 --> 02:57:34,612
other options where they have to

4780
02:57:34,612 --> 02:57:36,247
have vouchers to get into those

4781
02:57:36,247 --> 02:57:38,649
housing and doing what we can do

4782
02:57:38,649 --> 02:57:40,317
to do that is what we need to

4783
02:57:40,317 --> 02:57:41,619
do, but there are still going to

4784
02:57:41,619 --> 02:57:42,987
be a lot of people that continue

4785
02:57:42,987 --> 02:57:45,823
to live in their vehicles or RVs

4786
02:57:45,823 --> 02:57:49,423
and decide to do that, and

4787
02:57:50,494 --> 02:57:51,695
providing sanitation services is

4788
02:57:51,695 --> 02:57:52,897
really important for them as

4789
02:57:52,897 --> 02:57:55,733
they still live there, so we

4790
02:57:55,733 --> 02:57:59,269
need to accommodate if you have

4791
02:57:59,269 --> 02:58:01,772
a buyback for the RVs, that's

4792
02:58:01,772 --> 02:58:04,374
fine, but they need to have

4793
02:58:04,374 --> 02:58:07,778
other places they can go if they

4794
02:58:07,778 --> 02:58:11,115
are going to be reimbursed for

4795
02:58:11,115 --> 02:58:12,616
the buyback, we need places for

4796
02:58:12,616 --> 02:58:13,818
them to go immediately, and then

4797
02:58:13,818 --> 02:58:15,520
the people that are still in

4798
02:58:15,520 --> 02:58:17,255
their vehicles need to have the

4799
02:58:17,255 --> 02:58:19,123
sanitation services to sustain

4800
02:58:19,123 --> 02:58:21,892
that as they live there. That's

4801
02:58:21,892 --> 02:58:23,995
an option for people. Let's

4802
02:58:23,995 --> 02:58:26,395
consider these people, really

4803
02:58:27,165 --> 02:58:28,699
supporting the people who are

4804
02:58:28,699 --> 02:58:30,601
homeless to live productively

4805
02:58:30,601 --> 02:58:32,300
and quality lives wherever they

4806
02:58:32,300 --> 02:58:33,137
are, whether they are in

4807
02:58:33,137 --> 02:58:34,438
permanent supportive housing

4808
02:58:34,438 --> 02:58:35,372
and/or their vehicles, so thank

4809
02:58:35,372 --> 02:58:37,372
you.

4810
02:58:37,741 --> 02:58:38,709
>>MODERATOR: The next speaker is

4811
02:58:38,709 --> 02:58:39,176
Rodrigo Izquierdo. Please

4812
02:58:39,176 --> 02:58:41,176
unmute.

4813
02:58:43,714 --> 02:58:45,283
>>SPEAKER: I would like to know

4814
02:58:45,283 --> 02:58:46,784
after listening to your great

4815
02:58:46,784 --> 02:58:48,953
presentation on the situation at

4816
02:58:48,953 --> 02:58:51,889
Binford and all the efforts that

4817
02:58:51,889 --> 02:58:55,489
all the county is spending on

4818
02:58:55,826 --> 02:58:59,300
them to take care of them, why

4819
02:58:59,300 --> 02:59:02,630
is it that the Marin Human

4820
02:59:02,666 --> 02:59:03,534
Rights Commission is not

4821
02:59:03,534 --> 02:59:06,534
involved? Of all people they

4822
02:59:08,706 --> 02:59:11,706
have a former homeless person

4823
02:59:13,440 --> 02:59:15,279
who ran for supervisor, Jason

4824
02:59:15,279 --> 02:59:18,849
Serres. What more of an expert

4825
02:59:18,849 --> 02:59:21,351
can you possibly need to talk

4826
02:59:21,351 --> 02:59:24,188
about the situation? I mean,

4827
02:59:24,188 --> 02:59:25,990
the last meeting that they had

4828
02:59:25,990 --> 02:59:27,391
for the Human Rights Commission,

4829
02:59:27,391 --> 02:59:28,392
which was in September since

4830
02:59:28,392 --> 02:59:30,694
they canceled October and

4831
02:59:30,694 --> 02:59:33,694
November, and plus others, was

4832
02:59:34,565 --> 02:59:38,165
talking about maybe putting up a

4833
02:59:39,670 --> 02:59:42,700
porta-potty in Fairfax. That

4834
02:59:43,440 --> 02:59:44,708
was pretty much it, and they

4835
02:59:44,708 --> 02:59:47,110
were spinning their wheels

4836
02:59:47,110 --> 02:59:47,811
talking about how much it was

4837
02:59:47,811 --> 02:59:50,811
going to cost, $700 for one

4838
02:59:50,948 --> 02:59:52,382
porta-potty, can we get more

4839
02:59:52,382 --> 02:59:54,252
from the county. In other

4840
02:59:54,252 --> 02:59:55,619
words, that's pretty much it.

4841
02:59:55,619 --> 02:59:57,454
And then again, then you have an

4842
02:59:57,454 --> 02:59:59,623
absence of two months, two

4843
02:59:59,623 --> 03:00:01,725
months, and just like, you know,

4844
03:00:01,725 --> 03:00:03,294
the homeless people, they have

4845
03:00:03,294 --> 03:00:04,929
got nothing better to do, so

4846
03:00:04,929 --> 03:00:06,264
they will just wait around for

4847
03:00:06,264 --> 03:00:08,320
them to reconvene and see what

4848
03:00:08,320 --> 03:00:09,166
they're going to do about it,

4849
03:00:09,166 --> 03:00:10,268
whether they're going to take it

4850
03:00:10,268 --> 03:00:11,635
up again and see if they're

4851
03:00:11,635 --> 03:00:13,437
going to get a porta-potty,

4852
03:00:13,437 --> 03:00:15,873
which is -- I mean, how minimal

4853
03:00:15,873 --> 03:00:17,674
can you possibly get? And then

4854
03:00:17,674 --> 03:00:19,760
even let's say in the previous

4855
03:00:19,760 --> 03:00:21,845
month they talked about putting

4856
03:00:21,845 --> 03:00:24,845
up three refrigerators and they

4857
03:00:26,683 --> 03:00:29,830
allocated $1500 for that without

4858
03:00:29,353 --> 03:00:31,989
asking the public to participate

4859
03:00:31,989 --> 03:00:33,390
and the legality of who is going

4860
03:00:33,390 --> 03:00:35,626
to provide the PG&E, who is

4861
03:00:35,626 --> 03:00:37,194
going to provide the food, what

4862
03:00:37,194 --> 03:00:38,528
locations. So in other words,

4863
03:00:38,528 --> 03:00:40,464
they just spin their wheels and

4864
03:00:40,464 --> 03:00:42,633
talk about it and then do

4865
03:00:42,633 --> 03:00:45,350
nothing, and you don't want to

4866
03:00:45,350 --> 03:00:46,170
count on them because you know

4867
03:00:46,170 --> 03:00:46,804
they are not dependable.

4868
03:00:46,804 --> 03:00:48,804
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

4869
03:00:49,600 --> 03:00:49,974
PRES.: Okay, we're going to

4870
03:00:49,974 --> 03:00:51,742
close public comment now and

4871
03:00:51,742 --> 03:00:53,577
bring it back to the board.

4872
03:00:53,577 --> 03:00:54,812
Eva, you didn't get to the

4873
03:00:54,812 --> 03:00:57,781
podium. You were way over

4874
03:00:57,781 --> 03:00:59,350
there. No, I'm sorry. I'm

4875
03:00:59,350 --> 03:01:02,350
closing public comment. We had

4876
03:01:02,920 --> 03:01:05,156
a motion by Rice, a second by

4877
03:01:05,156 --> 03:01:07,556
Lucan. All in favor?

4878
03:01:08,391 --> 03:01:09,260
[Indiscernible].

4879
03:01:09,260 --> 03:01:09,726
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

4880
03:01:09,726 --> 03:01:10,127
PRES.: Thank you. This matter

4881
03:01:10,127 --> 03:01:11,395
has passed.

4882
03:01:11,395 --> 03:01:11,929
>>SPEAKER: It is not appropriate

4883
03:01:11,929 --> 03:01:12,562
for you to do that.

4884
03:01:12,562 --> 03:01:13,597
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

4885
03:01:13,597 --> 03:01:14,310
PRES.: It is appropriate for me

4886
03:01:14,310 --> 03:01:15,666
to do it.

4887
03:01:15,666 --> 03:01:16,100
>>SPEAKER: No, it is not

4888
03:01:16,100 --> 03:01:16,733
appropriate.

4889
03:01:16,733 --> 03:01:17,435
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

4890
03:01:17,435 --> 03:01:18,135
PRES.: We're going to move on

4891
03:01:18,135 --> 03:01:19,603
now to Item No. 8. We have to

4892
03:01:19,603 --> 03:01:21,710
take this up because our speaker

4893
03:01:21,710 --> 03:01:23,307
cannot be with us noon hour, and

4894
03:01:23,307 --> 03:01:26,307
then we'll take a break.

4895
03:01:31,715 --> 03:01:33,351
No, we're going to go out of

4896
03:01:33,351 --> 03:01:35,286
order. We've got to get this

4897
03:01:35,286 --> 03:01:36,820
done, and we've got to get to

4898
03:01:36,820 --> 03:01:38,289
lunch and then we've got to come

4899
03:01:38,289 --> 03:01:41,889
back and we'll take 7 and 9 as

4900
03:01:42,426 --> 03:01:46,626
soon as I can figure that out.

4901
03:01:57,641 --> 03:01:59,760
Hi, Jillian.

4902
03:01:59,760 --> 03:01:59,776
>>JILLIAN ZEIGER: Good morning,

4903
03:01:59,776 --> 03:02:01,745
board members. We're here today

4904
03:02:01,745 --> 03:02:04,681
to receive a presentation from

4905
03:02:04,681 --> 03:02:06,583
Scott Johnson. He's the

4906
03:02:06,583 --> 03:02:09,583
executive director of the Napa

4907
03:02:10,754 --> 03:02:11,889
Sonoma ADU Center, and staff

4908
03:02:11,889 --> 03:02:14,758
recommend that the Napa Sonoma

4909
03:02:14,758 --> 03:02:16,394
ADU Center merge with Marin

4910
03:02:16,394 --> 03:02:17,861
County and its participating

4911
03:02:17,861 --> 03:02:19,796
cities and towns.

4912
03:02:19,796 --> 03:02:21,198
The contract for the merger

4913
03:02:21,198 --> 03:02:23,200
would initiate a three-year

4914
03:02:23,200 --> 03:02:24,168
pilot program to support the

4915
03:02:24,168 --> 03:02:26,700
development of accessory

4916
03:02:26,700 --> 03:02:27,905
dwelling units, also known as

4917
03:02:27,905 --> 03:02:30,241
ADUs, and implement Housing

4918
03:02:30,241 --> 03:02:31,108
Element programs for Marin

4919
03:02:31,108 --> 03:02:32,876
County and the participating

4920
03:02:32,876 --> 03:02:34,780
cities and towns.

4921
03:02:34,780 --> 03:02:35,346
We have a program in our Housing

4922
03:02:35,346 --> 03:02:36,180
Element to foster the

4923
03:02:36,180 --> 03:02:38,180
development of ADUs.

4924
03:02:39,616 --> 03:02:41,651
And I am going to pass it off to

4925
03:02:41,651 --> 03:02:42,953
Scott to give a presentation

4926
03:02:42,953 --> 03:02:45,322
about the services that would be

4927
03:02:45,322 --> 03:02:47,624
provided for the merger and the

4928
03:02:47,624 --> 03:02:49,126
successes of the Napa Sonoma ADU

4929
03:02:49,126 --> 03:02:50,928
Center.

4930
03:02:50,928 --> 03:02:51,728
>>SCOTT JOHNSON: Good morning.

4931
03:02:51,728 --> 03:02:53,730
Thank you for having me. As she

4932
03:02:53,730 --> 03:02:54,998
said, I'm the director of the

4933
03:02:54,998 --> 03:02:55,832
Napa Sonoma ADU Center, and

4934
03:02:55,832 --> 03:02:57,234
we're very excited to be able to

4935
03:02:57,234 --> 03:02:58,769
present here today. I want to

4936
03:02:58,769 --> 03:03:00,471
give a quick background of who

4937
03:03:00,471 --> 03:03:02,406
we are and the services that we

4938
03:03:02,406 --> 03:03:03,807
are providing to homeowners and

4939
03:03:03,807 --> 03:03:06,760
jurisdictions across Napa and

4940
03:03:06,760 --> 03:03:06,977
Sonoma, and what we can offer

4941
03:03:06,977 --> 03:03:08,450
for Marin.

4942
03:03:08,450 --> 03:03:09,413
The history of our organization

4943
03:03:09,413 --> 03:03:11,382
started when the -- well,

4944
03:03:11,382 --> 03:03:14,651
frankly, with the Tubbs Fires in

4945
03:03:14,651 --> 03:03:15,752
Sonoma County where we lost

4946
03:03:15,752 --> 03:03:17,354
almost 6,000 homes, and the

4947
03:03:17,354 --> 03:03:18,688
community foundations of Napa

4948
03:03:18,688 --> 03:03:20,791
and Sonoma County looked for new

4949
03:03:20,791 --> 03:03:22,592
ways to rebuild and encourage

4950
03:03:22,592 --> 03:03:23,294
affordable housing across the

4951
03:03:23,294 --> 03:03:25,662
two counties. After about two

4952
03:03:25,662 --> 03:03:27,931
years' worth of work, they came

4953
03:03:27,931 --> 03:03:29,366
up with the idea for the ADU

4954
03:03:29,366 --> 03:03:31,100
center. Because what we heard

4955
03:03:31,100 --> 03:03:32,636
from a lot of homeowners and

4956
03:03:32,636 --> 03:03:34,238
planners and architects was that

4957
03:03:34,238 --> 03:03:36,773
building ADUs, while it was

4958
03:03:36,773 --> 03:03:38,410
viable, it was very, very hard

4959
03:03:38,410 --> 03:03:39,343
to get started. That was

4960
03:03:39,343 --> 03:03:40,311
sometimes the hardest part of

4961
03:03:40,311 --> 03:03:41,812
the whole project.

4962
03:03:41,812 --> 03:03:44,812
Next slide, please. Next slide

4963
03:03:47,485 --> 03:03:48,718
after that, thank you.

4964
03:03:48,718 --> 03:03:51,288
And so with all those

4965
03:03:51,288 --> 03:03:52,289
investigations and with our

4966
03:03:52,289 --> 03:03:53,491
three years of experience now

4967
03:03:53,491 --> 03:03:56,460
working at Napa Sonoma, we have

4968
03:03:56,460 --> 03:03:58,895
keyed in on to three primary

4969
03:03:58,895 --> 03:04:01,265
pillars of our work. We provide

4970
03:04:01,265 --> 03:04:03,000
free technical assistance to

4971
03:04:03,000 --> 03:04:05,000
homeowners. We provide

4972
03:04:05,202 --> 03:04:06,570
technical assistance to

4973
03:04:06,570 --> 03:04:08,380
jurisdictions on the subject of

4974
03:04:08,380 --> 03:04:09,573
ADUs, and we provide what we

4975
03:04:09,573 --> 03:04:11,141
call our standard plans program,

4976
03:04:11,141 --> 03:04:13,643
which is similar to a

4977
03:04:13,643 --> 03:04:15,212
pre-approved plans program as

4978
03:04:15,212 --> 03:04:16,380
tried in other parts of the

4979
03:04:16,380 --> 03:04:17,448
state with some key differences

4980
03:04:17,448 --> 03:04:19,249
that we think makes it more

4981
03:04:19,249 --> 03:04:21,118
attractive and viable for both

4982
03:04:21,118 --> 03:04:21,985
homeowners and jurisdictions

4983
03:04:21,985 --> 03:04:23,985
alike. Next slide.

4984
03:04:24,721 --> 03:04:27,570
Our primary tools for

4985
03:04:27,570 --> 03:04:28,825
homeowners, there's -- this is

4986
03:04:28,825 --> 03:04:30,160
just a subset of the tools that

4987
03:04:30,160 --> 03:04:32,429
we offer. We have a number of

4988
03:04:32,429 --> 03:04:34,829
online tools, calculators based

4989
03:04:34,898 --> 03:04:36,300
on location, based on

4990
03:04:36,300 --> 03:04:37,734
jurisdiction, type of ADU to

4991
03:04:37,734 --> 03:04:39,470
help give people a sense of what

4992
03:04:39,470 --> 03:04:41,771
their project is likely to cost.

4993
03:04:41,771 --> 03:04:43,641
We have address lookup tools so

4994
03:04:43,641 --> 03:04:44,841
they can learn what they can

4995
03:04:44,841 --> 03:04:45,909
build and what's appropriate for

4996
03:04:45,909 --> 03:04:46,943
their neighborhood and their

4997
03:04:46,943 --> 03:04:48,945
jurisdiction. We have stories

4998
03:04:48,945 --> 03:04:50,714
of successes and floor plans of

4999
03:04:50,714 --> 03:04:52,182
ADUs that have been built across

5000
03:04:52,182 --> 03:04:54,552
Napa and Sonoma. We have 29

5001
03:04:54,552 --> 03:04:55,952
different webinars on all kinds

5002
03:04:55,952 --> 03:04:57,354
of subjects about getting

5003
03:04:57,354 --> 03:04:58,656
started with your ADU program

5004
03:04:58,656 --> 03:05:01,560
from financing to individual

5005
03:05:01,392 --> 03:05:02,726
webinars with jurisdictions,

5006
03:05:02,726 --> 03:05:04,940
with their planning and building

5007
03:05:04,940 --> 03:05:05,795
staff, to help sort of humanize

5008
03:05:05,795 --> 03:05:07,797
the process and give homeowners

5009
03:05:07,797 --> 03:05:09,366
the confidence to move forward.

5010
03:05:09,366 --> 03:05:13,360
And we have a vendor registry of

5011
03:05:13,360 --> 03:05:14,238
folks that we know are licensed

5012
03:05:14,238 --> 03:05:15,906
and ensured and working in the

5013
03:05:15,906 --> 03:05:18,775
ADU space across Napa and

5014
03:05:18,775 --> 03:05:20,411
Sonoma, and that's one tool that

5015
03:05:20,411 --> 03:05:22,312
we're hoping to grow. We get a

5016
03:05:22,312 --> 03:05:23,681
lot of feedback from homeowners

5017
03:05:23,681 --> 03:05:24,948
that they would like to see more

5018
03:05:24,948 --> 03:05:26,283
contractors, architects and

5019
03:05:26,283 --> 03:05:27,351
engineers on that list.

5020
03:05:27,351 --> 03:05:29,687
The last two are ones I want to

5021
03:05:29,687 --> 03:05:31,488
dive into a little bit more in

5022
03:05:31,488 --> 03:05:32,723
depth. They are kind of the

5023
03:05:32,723 --> 03:05:34,591
crown jewels of our program. We

5024
03:05:34,591 --> 03:05:35,859
have the feasibility

5025
03:05:35,859 --> 03:05:37,428
consultations. Next slide,

5026
03:05:37,428 --> 03:05:38,962
please -- actually, next two

5027
03:05:38,962 --> 03:05:39,729
slides.

5028
03:05:39,729 --> 03:05:41,729
These are one-on-one

5029
03:05:42,266 --> 03:05:44,666
conversations and reports with

5030
03:05:46,437 --> 03:05:47,671
homeowners who want to build an

5031
03:05:47,671 --> 03:05:49,773
ADU. They sign up via our

5032
03:05:49,773 --> 03:05:51,410
website. We do some

5033
03:05:51,410 --> 03:05:52,309
pre-research. They give us

5034
03:05:52,309 --> 03:05:53,577
information about the project

5035
03:05:53,577 --> 03:05:55,479
they want to build, the budget

5036
03:05:55,479 --> 03:05:56,547
they are looking at, the reason

5037
03:05:56,547 --> 03:05:57,881
they are doing it, the concerns

5038
03:05:57,881 --> 03:05:59,816
they have, and then we research

5039
03:05:59,816 --> 03:06:01,118
their property to make sure we

5040
03:06:01,118 --> 03:06:02,419
understand the zoning and the

5041
03:06:02,419 --> 03:06:04,121
ADU rules and, you know, if it's

5042
03:06:04,121 --> 03:06:05,322
sloped or any of the other

5043
03:06:05,322 --> 03:06:06,657
details of their actual site,

5044
03:06:06,657 --> 03:06:08,225
and then we have a one-on-one

5045
03:06:08,225 --> 03:06:09,826
conversation where we can answer

5046
03:06:09,826 --> 03:06:11,194
their questions in real time.

5047
03:06:11,194 --> 03:06:13,163
We can talk them through kind of

5048
03:06:13,163 --> 03:06:15,232
the very early stages of the ADU

5049
03:06:15,232 --> 03:06:17,501
process to give them a framework

5050
03:06:17,501 --> 03:06:18,902
so that they can make an

5051
03:06:18,902 --> 03:06:20,837
informed, intelligent decision

5052
03:06:20,837 --> 03:06:21,938
about their project. Sometimes

5053
03:06:21,938 --> 03:06:23,440
that means the project is not a

5054
03:06:23,440 --> 03:06:24,841
good fit for them. Sometimes it

5055
03:06:24,841 --> 03:06:27,100
needs to be downsized or they

5056
03:06:27,100 --> 03:06:28,245
are looking at issues that they

5057
03:06:28,245 --> 03:06:29,680
hadn't considered, like septic

5058
03:06:29,680 --> 03:06:31,682
or slope or, you know, things

5059
03:06:31,682 --> 03:06:33,416
like that, fire -- potential for

5060
03:06:33,416 --> 03:06:34,251
fire.

5061
03:06:34,251 --> 03:06:35,819
So we talk them through all

5062
03:06:35,819 --> 03:06:37,321
those pieces, and then we give

5063
03:06:37,321 --> 03:06:38,589
them a written report that

5064
03:06:38,589 --> 03:06:40,257
typically runs about 25 to 30

5065
03:06:40,257 --> 03:06:42,657
pages that details their

5066
03:06:42,726 --> 03:06:44,595
property, the rules in their

5067
03:06:44,595 --> 03:06:45,895
jurisdiction, as well as next

5068
03:06:45,895 --> 03:06:48,295
steps, potential budget, things

5069
03:06:48,298 --> 03:06:50,367
to consider, best practices so

5070
03:06:50,367 --> 03:06:52,202
that when they are ready to move

5071
03:06:52,202 --> 03:06:55,138
on a project they have a solid

5072
03:06:55,138 --> 03:06:56,740
set of information that they can

5073
03:06:56,740 --> 03:06:58,108
talk to their jurisdiction about

5074
03:06:58,108 --> 03:06:59,409
the particular issues of their

5075
03:06:59,409 --> 03:07:01,545
site, they can find their

5076
03:07:01,545 --> 03:07:02,979
architect or their contractor or

5077
03:07:02,979 --> 03:07:05,979
their builder and move forward

5078
03:07:06,160 --> 03:07:08,786
quickly with building an ADU. I

5079
03:07:08,786 --> 03:07:09,953
can't tell you how many times

5080
03:07:09,953 --> 03:07:11,888
I've had a conversation with a

5081
03:07:11,888 --> 03:07:13,223
homeowner where they said we've

5082
03:07:13,223 --> 03:07:14,991
wanted to do if for five years,

5083
03:07:14,991 --> 03:07:17,594
or forever, and now we want to

5084
03:07:17,594 --> 03:07:18,828
move forward but don't know

5085
03:07:18,828 --> 03:07:20,300
where to begin. The consults

5086
03:07:20,300 --> 03:07:22,332
are designed to help them get

5087
03:07:22,332 --> 03:07:25,332
moving on their project. Next

5088
03:07:27,270 --> 03:07:28,380
slide.

5089
03:07:28,380 --> 03:07:29,473
And then the next spotlight is

5090
03:07:29,473 --> 03:07:31,508
our standard plans which I

5091
03:07:31,508 --> 03:07:32,509
mentioned briefly earlier. We

5092
03:07:32,509 --> 03:07:34,509
looked at jurisdiction-approved,

5093
03:07:35,879 --> 03:07:37,847
jurisdiction-paid-for ADU plans

5094
03:07:37,847 --> 03:07:39,149
that were in use around the

5095
03:07:39,149 --> 03:07:42,149
state, San Jose, Los Angeles,

5096
03:07:42,319 --> 03:07:43,286
Mendocino County, as well as

5097
03:07:43,286 --> 03:07:45,880
other locations, where

5098
03:07:45,880 --> 03:07:46,289
jurisdictions had paid often

5099
03:07:46,289 --> 03:07:48,892
tens of thousands of dollars to

5100
03:07:48,892 --> 03:07:50,327
commission an architect to draw

5101
03:07:50,327 --> 03:07:53,263
up ADU plans, two or three ADU

5102
03:07:53,263 --> 03:07:54,798
plans for use of homeowners in

5103
03:07:54,798 --> 03:07:57,467
that jurisdiction. Which is a

5104
03:07:57,467 --> 03:07:59,269
great idea. It lowers the

5105
03:07:59,269 --> 03:08:00,270
barrier to entry at the

5106
03:08:00,270 --> 03:08:01,338
beginning of a project where

5107
03:08:01,338 --> 03:08:02,706
that's most important. The

5108
03:08:02,706 --> 03:08:04,400
challenges, the failures that we

5109
03:08:04,400 --> 03:08:05,342
saw in those kinds of programs

5110
03:08:05,342 --> 03:08:07,110
was that they were not often

5111
03:08:07,110 --> 03:08:08,378
used. They were not often --

5112
03:08:08,378 --> 03:08:09,946
they did not turn into ADUs

5113
03:08:09,946 --> 03:08:11,582
built on the ground. A number

5114
03:08:11,582 --> 03:08:12,850
of reasons for this. Some of

5115
03:08:12,850 --> 03:08:14,117
them being that, you know, two

5116
03:08:14,117 --> 03:08:16,119
or three designs is not a very

5117
03:08:16,119 --> 03:08:17,688
diverse set. It doesn't work in

5118
03:08:17,688 --> 03:08:19,523
all locations. Size and need is

5119
03:08:19,523 --> 03:08:22,259
different. And so that limited

5120
03:08:22,259 --> 03:08:23,527
for tens of thousands of

5121
03:08:23,527 --> 03:08:25,529
dollars, that limited spend to

5122
03:08:25,529 --> 03:08:27,230
have two or three ADU designs

5123
03:08:27,230 --> 03:08:28,665
does not turn into ADUs on the

5124
03:08:28,665 --> 03:08:30,667
ground, so we took a hybrid

5125
03:08:30,667 --> 03:08:33,670
approach where we asked

5126
03:08:33,690 --> 03:08:35,606
architects to create designs for

5127
03:08:35,606 --> 03:08:37,608
us. We have 50-plus designs on

5128
03:08:37,608 --> 03:08:38,809
our current website, and then

5129
03:08:38,809 --> 03:08:39,777
the jurisdictions can sign on

5130
03:08:39,777 --> 03:08:41,144
and say we want to pick those

5131
03:08:41,144 --> 03:08:43,280
five or six or eight or ten, and

5132
03:08:43,280 --> 03:08:44,981
we will review those plans for

5133
03:08:44,981 --> 03:08:46,850
code compliance, and then when

5134
03:08:46,850 --> 03:08:48,510
they come through our permanent

5135
03:08:48,510 --> 03:08:50,530
process, we're going to expedite

5136
03:08:50,530 --> 03:08:51,540
them. We're going to reduce

5137
03:08:51,540 --> 03:08:52,210
fees.

5138
03:08:52,210 --> 03:08:54,570
So jurisdictions get what they

5139
03:08:54,570 --> 03:08:57,657
want, ADUs built on the ground.

5140
03:08:58,228 --> 03:08:59,262
Architects get the ability to

5141
03:08:59,262 --> 03:09:02,262
design once and sell multiple

5142
03:09:02,265 --> 03:09:03,400
times across multiple

5143
03:09:03,400 --> 03:09:04,802
jurisdiction, and homeowners,

5144
03:09:04,802 --> 03:09:06,202
the best benefit is for them,

5145
03:09:06,202 --> 03:09:09,500
they get a well-designed ADU.

5146
03:09:09,500 --> 03:09:10,707
We have sizes that range from

5147
03:09:10,707 --> 03:09:13,420
750 square feet to 1200 square

5148
03:09:13,420 --> 03:09:14,411
feet in many different sizes and

5149
03:09:14,411 --> 03:09:16,120
many different styles.

5150
03:09:16,120 --> 03:09:17,981
Actually, next slide you can see

5151
03:09:17,981 --> 03:09:19,382
the web page that we have that

5152
03:09:19,382 --> 03:09:22,382
shows our 50-plus plans, but

5153
03:09:23,954 --> 03:09:26,156
they get to choose these -- the

5154
03:09:26,156 --> 03:09:28,191
right ADU for them, and they pay

5155
03:09:28,191 --> 03:09:29,426
a fraction of the cost that they

5156
03:09:29,426 --> 03:09:31,628
would pay for a new clean sheet

5157
03:09:31,628 --> 03:09:34,280
design with an architect.

5158
03:09:34,264 --> 03:09:36,800
It is up to the homeowner and

5159
03:09:36,800 --> 03:09:38,201
the architect to design the

5160
03:09:38,201 --> 03:09:39,536
plans to coordinate and put

5161
03:09:39,536 --> 03:09:40,938
together the localization

5162
03:09:40,938 --> 03:09:42,172
documents, the site plan, the

5163
03:09:42,172 --> 03:09:43,540
foundation plan, the things like

5164
03:09:43,540 --> 03:09:45,575
that that would need to be for a

5165
03:09:45,575 --> 03:09:47,143
full submittal, but even with

5166
03:09:47,143 --> 03:09:48,244
that work to work for a

5167
03:09:48,244 --> 03:09:49,613
particular property, the

5168
03:09:49,613 --> 03:09:50,647
homeowner is going to pay about

5169
03:09:50,647 --> 03:09:52,315
a third to less than half the

5170
03:09:52,315 --> 03:09:54,551
cost of starting from scratch.

5171
03:09:54,551 --> 03:09:56,586
So we see it as sort of a

5172
03:09:56,586 --> 03:09:57,387
three-way win for the

5173
03:09:57,387 --> 03:09:58,355
jurisdictions, for the

5174
03:09:58,355 --> 03:10:00,223
homeowners and for the

5175
03:10:00,223 --> 03:10:01,191
architects. It's been a

5176
03:10:01,191 --> 03:10:02,910
successful program that we have

5177
03:10:02,910 --> 03:10:03,360
used across the 16 jurisdictions

5178
03:10:03,360 --> 03:10:05,495
in Napa and Sonoma, and we are

5179
03:10:05,495 --> 03:10:06,429
looking forward to bringing to

5180
03:10:06,429 --> 03:10:07,464
Marin.

5181
03:10:07,464 --> 03:10:10,464
Two slides, please. That's the

5182
03:10:10,500 --> 03:10:11,902
gallery plan there. There's six

5183
03:10:11,902 --> 03:10:14,370
of 50 plus, and we've got more

5184
03:10:14,370 --> 03:10:15,710
coming in, and then next slide,

5185
03:10:15,710 --> 03:10:17,710
please.

5186
03:10:17,340 --> 03:10:19,175
And I've been focusing on the

5187
03:10:19,175 --> 03:10:20,610
homeowner benefits of our

5188
03:10:20,610 --> 03:10:21,745
programs, but that is only part

5189
03:10:21,745 --> 03:10:23,946
of what we do. The other part

5190
03:10:23,946 --> 03:10:25,816
is that we work with

5191
03:10:25,816 --> 03:10:28,819
jurisdictions. We look to be a

5192
03:10:28,819 --> 03:10:30,530
partner for jurisdictions to

5193
03:10:30,530 --> 03:10:33,189
help them be effective and look

5194
03:10:33,189 --> 03:10:35,692
for opportunities where ADUs can

5195
03:10:35,692 --> 03:10:38,662
be built. I assume folks out

5196
03:10:38,662 --> 03:10:40,797
there are aware of most of the

5197
03:10:40,797 --> 03:10:43,660
benefits of ADUs, but it can be

5198
03:10:43,660 --> 03:10:44,568
hard to get them to actually be

5199
03:10:44,568 --> 03:10:45,435
implemented. There are still a

5200
03:10:45,435 --> 03:10:46,670
number of roadblocks and

5201
03:10:46,670 --> 03:10:48,710
friction points along the way to

5202
03:10:48,710 --> 03:10:50,273
get ADUs from idea to actually

5203
03:10:50,273 --> 03:10:53,760
built environment, and we work

5204
03:10:53,760 --> 03:10:55,144
with the jurisdictions providing

5205
03:10:55,144 --> 03:10:56,880
updates on ADU rules, both as

5206
03:10:56,880 --> 03:10:59,416
the law changes but as HCD

5207
03:10:59,416 --> 03:11:00,717
provides guidance, we maintain a

5208
03:11:00,717 --> 03:11:03,717
database of all the HCD's

5209
03:11:03,820 --> 03:11:06,220
published guidance on ADU

5210
03:11:06,256 --> 03:11:08,324
implementation. We are an

5211
03:11:08,324 --> 03:11:10,260
on-call domain expert on ADUs

5212
03:11:10,260 --> 03:11:12,395
and ADU resources, as well as

5213
03:11:12,395 --> 03:11:14,264
feedback from homeowners in the

5214
03:11:14,264 --> 03:11:16,800
jurisdictions. If we take the

5215
03:11:16,800 --> 03:11:18,769
issue of a septic policy or

5216
03:11:18,769 --> 03:11:19,903
planning policy that is causing

5217
03:11:19,903 --> 03:11:23,503
a lot of grief with homeowners

5218
03:11:23,640 --> 03:11:27,240
to get their projects done, we

5219
03:11:28,144 --> 03:11:29,713
can sit down with the

5220
03:11:29,713 --> 03:11:31,140
jurisdictions and say if you do

5221
03:11:31,140 --> 03:11:32,415
this it will open the flood

5222
03:11:32,415 --> 03:11:34,815
gates on these projects.

5223
03:11:34,952 --> 03:11:36,386
Homeowners are not developers,

5224
03:11:36,386 --> 03:11:38,789
and we are asking them to be so

5225
03:11:38,789 --> 03:11:40,323
when they go with an ADU. They

5226
03:11:40,323 --> 03:11:42,659
can be kind of a high-touch

5227
03:11:42,659 --> 03:11:43,493
requirement for planners and

5228
03:11:43,493 --> 03:11:44,594
staff at the jurisdictions to

5229
03:11:44,594 --> 03:11:46,296
answer a lot of questions for

5230
03:11:46,296 --> 03:11:47,196
someone who doesn't know

5231
03:11:47,196 --> 03:11:48,970
anything about the planning

5232
03:11:48,970 --> 03:11:49,232
process or the permitting

5233
03:11:49,232 --> 03:11:52,200
process. We have taken all of

5234
03:11:52,200 --> 03:11:53,503
that off of the jurisdictions in

5235
03:11:53,503 --> 03:11:54,437
which we work, and we are the

5236
03:11:54,437 --> 03:11:55,472
first line.

5237
03:11:55,472 --> 03:11:57,307
So if the homeowner comes to a

5238
03:11:57,307 --> 03:11:58,541
jurisdiction, they can -- the

5239
03:11:58,541 --> 03:11:59,743
jurisdiction says talk to the

5240
03:11:59,743 --> 03:12:01,111
ADU center, and we provide them

5241
03:12:01,111 --> 03:12:03,800
the frameworks, the education,

5242
03:12:03,800 --> 03:12:04,414
answer the questions in real

5243
03:12:04,414 --> 03:12:06,716
time for the homeowner so when

5244
03:12:06,716 --> 03:12:07,751
they go back to the jurisdiction

5245
03:12:07,751 --> 03:12:09,419
they are ready to have a serious

5246
03:12:09,419 --> 03:12:11,554
discussion about their project.

5247
03:12:11,554 --> 03:12:12,856
And then I guess the next slide

5248
03:12:12,856 --> 03:12:15,358
I think is the last slide, by

5249
03:12:15,358 --> 03:12:17,127
the numbers, this is what we've

5250
03:12:17,127 --> 03:12:18,595
done over the past three years.

5251
03:12:18,595 --> 03:12:20,196
We've done over 500

5252
03:12:20,196 --> 03:12:21,310
consultations across two

5253
03:12:21,310 --> 03:12:23,310
counties. We've had 700

5254
03:12:23,600 --> 03:12:25,135
inquiries, phone calls, emails

5255
03:12:25,135 --> 03:12:26,536
we've answered directly. We've

5256
03:12:26,536 --> 03:12:28,936
done 29 webinars. We've got 50

5257
03:12:29,205 --> 03:12:30,140
plans in our standard plans

5258
03:12:30,140 --> 03:12:31,875
program and more coming online

5259
03:12:31,875 --> 03:12:34,875
in 2024, and of the homeowners

5260
03:12:35,578 --> 03:12:36,780
who have gone through our

5261
03:12:36,780 --> 03:12:37,914
consultation process, we keep in

5262
03:12:37,914 --> 03:12:39,516
touch with them to hear how it's

5263
03:12:39,516 --> 03:12:41,751
going, and of the 500 that we

5264
03:12:41,751 --> 03:12:43,954
have completed, 73% are moving

5265
03:12:43,954 --> 03:12:45,689
forward with their projects.

5266
03:12:45,689 --> 03:12:47,357
And the flip side of that number

5267
03:12:47,357 --> 03:12:49,258
is also important to me. 27%,

5268
03:12:49,258 --> 03:12:50,360
once they got the information

5269
03:12:50,360 --> 03:12:51,862
they needed realized it wasn't a

5270
03:12:51,862 --> 03:12:53,797
good fit for them, without

5271
03:12:53,797 --> 03:12:54,898
spending tens of thousands of

5272
03:12:54,898 --> 03:12:56,533
dollars on architects and

5273
03:12:56,533 --> 03:12:57,767
permits and everything else.

5274
03:12:57,767 --> 03:12:59,268
So both sides of that number are

5275
03:12:59,268 --> 03:13:00,637
important to us, that people are

5276
03:13:00,637 --> 03:13:01,838
making the right choices for

5277
03:13:01,838 --> 03:13:03,206
their individual needs. Thank

5278
03:13:03,206 --> 03:13:03,840
you.

5279
03:13:03,840 --> 03:13:05,840
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

5280
03:13:05,976 --> 03:13:07,440
PRES.: Thank you, Scott, for the

5281
03:13:07,440 --> 03:13:09,440
information. Questions?

5282
03:13:11,130 --> 03:13:12,448
Supervisor Rodoni?

5283
03:13:12,448 --> 03:13:13,150
>>DENNIS RODONI: Thank you,

5284
03:13:13,150 --> 03:13:14,117
Scott, for the presentation.

5285
03:13:14,117 --> 03:13:15,418
It's really exciting to see this

5286
03:13:15,418 --> 03:13:19,180
come before us. My question is

5287
03:13:19,122 --> 03:13:21,591
really back to staff. I know

5288
03:13:21,591 --> 03:13:23,259
we've been really busy with the

5289
03:13:23,259 --> 03:13:24,940
Housing Element and doing all

5290
03:13:24,940 --> 03:13:25,495
the other work, but we've had

5291
03:13:25,495 --> 03:13:28,165
several starts and stops of ADU

5292
03:13:28,165 --> 03:13:31,100
programs and proposals, and I'm

5293
03:13:31,100 --> 03:13:32,635
just wondering what sort of

5294
03:13:32,635 --> 03:13:34,137
performance goals you might want

5295
03:13:34,137 --> 03:13:36,406
to attach to this, both to make

5296
03:13:36,406 --> 03:13:38,508
sure it is successful for us, or

5297
03:13:38,508 --> 03:13:40,430
a report back period, or

5298
03:13:40,430 --> 03:13:42,443
something. By my calculation,

5299
03:13:42,478 --> 03:13:46,780
we should be being 2.5 to 3 ADUs

5300
03:13:47,316 --> 03:13:50,916
a month to meet our Housing

5301
03:13:51,188 --> 03:13:52,222
Element goals. I think while

5302
03:13:52,222 --> 03:13:53,556
this is a great program and I'm

5303
03:13:53,556 --> 03:13:54,791
willing to spend the money, I

5304
03:13:54,791 --> 03:13:56,260
think there should be some

5305
03:13:56,260 --> 03:13:56,960
expectations coming out of this.

5306
03:13:56,960 --> 03:13:58,327
So maybe you could just talk

5307
03:13:58,327 --> 03:13:59,829
about that.

5308
03:13:59,829 --> 03:14:00,496
>>JILLIAN ZEIGER: Yeah, so we

5309
03:14:00,496 --> 03:14:03,330
have goals in our Housing

5310
03:14:03,330 --> 03:14:04,768
Element for ADU production, and

5311
03:14:04,768 --> 03:14:06,103
I would hope that we would stick

5312
03:14:06,103 --> 03:14:08,972
to those goals, and as part of

5313
03:14:08,972 --> 03:14:11,372
our annual progress report

5314
03:14:15,912 --> 03:14:18,214
updates, we are happy to

5315
03:14:18,214 --> 03:14:19,249
highlight the ADUs that are

5316
03:14:19,249 --> 03:14:20,450
being developed, and I can work

5317
03:14:20,450 --> 03:14:22,752
with Scott on some goals for

5318
03:14:22,752 --> 03:14:23,686
unincorporated Marin County for

5319
03:14:23,686 --> 03:14:24,888
the three-year pilot program,

5320
03:14:24,888 --> 03:14:27,891
but I think that we can come

5321
03:14:27,891 --> 03:14:30,660
back to the board after two

5322
03:14:30,660 --> 03:14:33,429
years just to do a brief

5323
03:14:33,429 --> 03:14:34,798
check-in, and then we'll come

5324
03:14:34,798 --> 03:14:36,566
back after the three-year pilot

5325
03:14:36,566 --> 03:14:38,601
program is over because we might

5326
03:14:38,601 --> 03:14:41,710
tweak our contract just in terms

5327
03:14:41,710 --> 03:14:43,640
of scope of services. Maybe we

5328
03:14:43,640 --> 03:14:45,575
need more. Maybe there were

5329
03:14:45,575 --> 03:14:46,709
specific things that we would

5330
03:14:46,709 --> 03:14:49,479
like from the ADU center.

5331
03:14:49,479 --> 03:14:52,479
>>DENNIS RODONI: And I would

5332
03:14:52,548 --> 03:14:53,984
like to have it sooner. Maybe

5333
03:14:53,984 --> 03:14:56,419
once a year report to see how

5334
03:14:56,419 --> 03:14:57,620
progress is going.

5335
03:14:57,620 --> 03:14:58,200
>>JILLIAN ZEIGER: Sure, yeah,

5336
03:14:58,200 --> 03:14:58,989
that works.

5337
03:14:58,989 --> 03:15:01,389
>>DENNIS RODONI: Thank you.

5338
03:15:03,626 --> 03:15:04,327
>>KATIE RICE: Thank you. I

5339
03:15:04,327 --> 03:15:05,610
appreciate this and appreciate

5340
03:15:05,610 --> 03:15:07,229
the program and think it's a

5341
03:15:07,229 --> 03:15:09,266
good investment and also

5342
03:15:09,266 --> 03:15:10,299
appreciate the partnership of

5343
03:15:10,299 --> 03:15:11,935
MCF and the funds that are

5344
03:15:11,935 --> 03:15:13,436
coming to help get it going.

5345
03:15:13,436 --> 03:15:16,906
I have a -- I do think I want to

5346
03:15:16,906 --> 03:15:20,506
have these report backs. I also

5347
03:15:20,743 --> 03:15:21,911
notice in the staff report, and

5348
03:15:21,911 --> 03:15:23,579
you may have mentioned it but I

5349
03:15:23,579 --> 03:15:24,681
was reading and listening at the

5350
03:15:24,681 --> 03:15:27,383
same time, the forgivable loan

5351
03:15:27,383 --> 03:15:29,552
program that Napa is doing with

5352
03:15:29,552 --> 03:15:31,288
the five-year deed restriction,

5353
03:15:31,288 --> 03:15:33,456
as it were. I have different

5354
03:15:33,456 --> 03:15:35,625
feelings about that, but it

5355
03:15:35,625 --> 03:15:37,930
sounds like it may be something

5356
03:15:37,930 --> 03:15:38,228
we'll be considering, but what

5357
03:15:38,228 --> 03:15:39,896
I'm concerned about in these

5358
03:15:39,896 --> 03:15:42,265
report backs is the degree to

5359
03:15:42,265 --> 03:15:44,301
which we have programs either

5360
03:15:44,301 --> 03:15:46,569
that we're funding or partners

5361
03:15:46,569 --> 03:15:47,871
are funding that are assisting

5362
03:15:47,871 --> 03:15:49,572
folks in developing ADUs, which

5363
03:15:49,572 --> 03:15:51,740
is great for checking off the

5364
03:15:51,740 --> 03:15:53,409
Housing Element numbers box, but

5365
03:15:53,409 --> 03:15:56,813
if it's not being leased out and

5366
03:15:56,813 --> 03:15:57,981
if they are not being rented and

5367
03:15:57,981 --> 03:15:59,415
used for housing and

5368
03:15:59,415 --> 03:16:00,950
specifically if they aren't

5369
03:16:00,950 --> 03:16:02,385
actually coming in as deed

5370
03:16:02,385 --> 03:16:04,387
restricted or naturally more

5371
03:16:04,387 --> 03:16:07,387
affordable housing, I feel like

5372
03:16:08,624 --> 03:16:10,860
it's almost a gift of public

5373
03:16:10,860 --> 03:16:12,528
funds at some level. I don't

5374
03:16:12,528 --> 03:16:14,430
want to be that harsh, but I've

5375
03:16:14,430 --> 03:16:16,966
seen -- I'm seeing work

5376
03:16:16,966 --> 03:16:18,100
happening out in the county, and

5377
03:16:18,100 --> 03:16:19,869
I'm not necessarily seeing ADUs

5378
03:16:19,869 --> 03:16:22,705
being rented out or used for

5379
03:16:22,705 --> 03:16:25,105
residential purposes, and I'm

5380
03:16:25,141 --> 03:16:26,542
concerned about folks taking

5381
03:16:26,542 --> 03:16:28,542
advantage of that.

5382
03:16:29,412 --> 03:16:30,713
So I want to see a report back,

5383
03:16:30,713 --> 03:16:32,548
and I want us to see if there

5384
03:16:32,548 --> 03:16:33,750
aren't some elements we can

5385
03:16:33,750 --> 03:16:35,510
build into our own programs that

5386
03:16:35,510 --> 03:16:37,354
further incentivize and/or

5387
03:16:37,354 --> 03:16:39,754
provide some accountability to

5388
03:16:40,560 --> 03:16:41,524
folks who are taking advantage

5389
03:16:41,524 --> 03:16:42,825
of our programs in a positive

5390
03:16:42,825 --> 03:16:44,825
sense. Thanks.

5391
03:16:45,695 --> 03:16:46,529
>>JILLIAN ZEIGER: Thanks,

5392
03:16:46,529 --> 03:16:47,830
Supervisor Rice, yeah. I do

5393
03:16:47,830 --> 03:16:49,332
want to mention that all of the

5394
03:16:49,332 --> 03:16:51,434
jurisdictions and staff here are

5395
03:16:51,434 --> 03:16:53,200
really interested in the loan

5396
03:16:53,200 --> 03:16:56,500
program. We'll have to try to

5397
03:16:56,500 --> 03:16:58,608
figure out source, et cetera,

5398
03:16:58,608 --> 03:17:00,443
but our goal, and I think all of

5399
03:17:00,443 --> 03:17:01,945
the cities and towns as well

5400
03:17:01,945 --> 03:17:03,346
because some of them are more

5401
03:17:03,346 --> 03:17:05,215
reliant on ADUs as part of their

5402
03:17:05,215 --> 03:17:07,217
affordable housing that we --

5403
03:17:07,217 --> 03:17:08,985
you know, we want affordable

5404
03:17:08,985 --> 03:17:09,518
housing to be built as part of

5405
03:17:09,518 --> 03:17:11,540
it.

5406
03:17:11,540 --> 03:17:12,255
I don't know, Scott, if you want

5407
03:17:12,255 --> 03:17:15,292
to speak to just what you've

5408
03:17:15,292 --> 03:17:17,961
seen in Napa Sonoma in terms of

5409
03:17:17,961 --> 03:17:19,950
affordability, because he and I

5410
03:17:19,950 --> 03:17:21,431
have had this conversation too.

5411
03:17:21,431 --> 03:17:23,366
>>KATIE RICE: Built and used as

5412
03:17:23,366 --> 03:17:25,235
residential housing stock.

5413
03:17:25,235 --> 03:17:26,200
>>SCOTT JOHNSON: I think this is

5414
03:17:26,200 --> 03:17:27,837
where Napa's loan program really

5415
03:17:27,837 --> 03:17:28,972
comes into play, because they

5416
03:17:28,972 --> 03:17:31,474
have a lease-up requirement. If

5417
03:17:31,474 --> 03:17:34,210
these funds are used to build

5418
03:17:34,210 --> 03:17:35,711
ADUs, in order for it to be a

5419
03:17:35,711 --> 03:17:37,280
loan, it has to be leased at the

5420
03:17:37,280 --> 03:17:38,481
affordable rates, and what we

5421
03:17:38,481 --> 03:17:41,884
see in other areas and studies

5422
03:17:41,884 --> 03:17:43,119
aye done around the state for

5423
03:17:43,119 --> 03:17:45,121
ADUs that have been in -- been

5424
03:17:45,121 --> 03:17:46,456
developed for some time, several

5425
03:17:46,456 --> 03:17:51,600
years, that they tend to be -- I

5426
03:17:51,600 --> 03:17:53,196
say tend to be. 93% of them are

5427
03:17:53,196 --> 03:17:55,731
rented at generally low and very

5428
03:17:55,731 --> 03:17:57,934
low rates compared to the

5429
03:17:57,934 --> 03:18:00,334
surrounding jurisdiction, and so

5430
03:18:01,400 --> 03:18:03,720
as ADUs are built and become

5431
03:18:03,720 --> 03:18:04,240
part of the built environment,

5432
03:18:04,240 --> 03:18:05,942
the longer that they are in

5433
03:18:05,942 --> 03:18:07,444
service, the trend is that they

5434
03:18:07,444 --> 03:18:09,245
tend to be more affordable over

5435
03:18:09,245 --> 03:18:10,880
time as well, so there is a

5436
03:18:10,880 --> 03:18:13,416
challenge of getting them built

5437
03:18:13,416 --> 03:18:14,450
because it is a high cost with

5438
03:18:14,450 --> 03:18:15,151
construction and everything

5439
03:18:15,151 --> 03:18:17,520
else, but once they are there

5440
03:18:17,520 --> 03:18:19,255
they are sort of affordable by

5441
03:18:19,255 --> 03:18:20,690
design based on their size,

5442
03:18:20,690 --> 03:18:22,258
based on the amenities they

5443
03:18:22,258 --> 03:18:23,693
typically have. We generally

5444
03:18:23,693 --> 03:18:25,427
see very good outcomes with

5445
03:18:25,427 --> 03:18:26,996
affordability over time.

5446
03:18:26,996 --> 03:18:27,830
>>KATIE RICE: That's exactly the

5447
03:18:27,830 --> 03:18:29,432
data I'd like to hear. How is

5448
03:18:29,432 --> 03:18:30,833
it being used. Is it being

5449
03:18:30,833 --> 03:18:33,435
used, and if it's 93% is getting

5450
03:18:33,435 --> 03:18:34,304
rented out, that would be

5451
03:18:34,304 --> 03:18:36,304
wonderful. Thanks.

5452
03:18:40,276 --> 03:18:40,943
>>ERIC LUCAN: Thank you. Real

5453
03:18:40,943 --> 03:18:42,178
quick, I think this is really

5454
03:18:42,178 --> 03:18:43,746
exciting. Thank you for the

5455
03:18:43,746 --> 03:18:45,781
openness here, the renaming, the

5456
03:18:45,781 --> 03:18:47,917
re-branding, just the ADU center

5457
03:18:47,917 --> 03:18:49,552
to incorporate Marin. I really

5458
03:18:49,552 --> 03:18:51,540
wish some -- I have been through

5459
03:18:51,540 --> 03:18:52,788
the process of an ADU. I wish

5460
03:18:52,788 --> 03:18:53,589
something like this had been

5461
03:18:53,589 --> 03:18:54,891
around when I went through mine.

5462
03:18:54,891 --> 03:18:56,226
It probably would have saved me

5463
03:18:56,226 --> 03:18:57,560
some money and probably a lot of

5464
03:18:57,560 --> 03:18:58,728
headaches, but I'm glad that

5465
03:18:58,728 --> 03:19:00,796
we're here at this point.

5466
03:19:00,796 --> 03:19:02,198
With regards to working with

5467
03:19:02,198 --> 03:19:04,234
local jurisdictions and helping

5468
03:19:04,234 --> 03:19:05,735
them ease some of their things,

5469
03:19:05,735 --> 03:19:07,437
I think our cities and towns in

5470
03:19:07,437 --> 03:19:09,138
Marin are in pretty good shape.

5471
03:19:09,138 --> 03:19:10,273
What successes have you had with

5472
03:19:10,273 --> 03:19:11,974
special districts in Napa and

5473
03:19:11,974 --> 03:19:14,244
Sonoma? Because I think there

5474
03:19:14,244 --> 03:19:15,811
are still some friction here

5475
03:19:15,811 --> 03:19:17,180
locally with regards to that.

5476
03:19:17,180 --> 03:19:18,781
>>SCOTT JOHNSON: Yeah,

5477
03:19:18,781 --> 03:19:19,648
unincorporated areas are

5478
03:19:19,648 --> 03:19:21,217
particularly tricky, and mainly

5479
03:19:21,217 --> 03:19:22,752
because you have a well and

5480
03:19:22,752 --> 03:19:24,587
septic issue in most areas.

5481
03:19:24,587 --> 03:19:25,721
Working with those departments

5482
03:19:25,721 --> 03:19:26,789
and working with planning and

5483
03:19:26,789 --> 03:19:28,525
building in those areas to come

5484
03:19:28,525 --> 03:19:30,159
up with sort of an ADU game plan

5485
03:19:30,159 --> 03:19:31,394
where you have ADU projects come

5486
03:19:31,394 --> 03:19:32,529
across their desks, because

5487
03:19:32,529 --> 03:19:35,998
there are -- ADU development is

5488
03:19:35,998 --> 03:19:37,267
different in that homeowners are

5489
03:19:37,267 --> 03:19:38,401
not developers. They don't

5490
03:19:38,401 --> 03:19:39,202
understand the process

5491
03:19:39,202 --> 03:19:41,700
generally, and it's easier for

5492
03:19:41,700 --> 03:19:42,505
them to not build than move

5493
03:19:42,505 --> 03:19:43,806
forward. There isn't often a

5494
03:19:43,806 --> 03:19:44,974
financial motivation for people

5495
03:19:44,974 --> 03:19:46,543
to build an ADU.

5496
03:19:46,543 --> 03:19:48,100
So by working with jurisdictions

5497
03:19:48,100 --> 03:19:50,246
that we have in Napa and Sonoma,

5498
03:19:50,246 --> 03:19:51,281
particularly in the

5499
03:19:51,281 --> 03:19:52,282
unincorporated areas, and

5500
03:19:52,282 --> 03:19:54,682
finding pathways to reduce

5501
03:19:54,984 --> 03:19:56,319
resistance, to getting permits

5502
03:19:56,319 --> 03:19:58,154
or even just the uncertainty of,

5503
03:19:58,154 --> 03:19:59,622
you know, is a septic thing

5504
03:19:59,622 --> 03:20:00,923
going to be an issue on this

5505
03:20:00,923 --> 03:20:02,459
property, we found that that has

5506
03:20:02,459 --> 03:20:05,940
played out well for seeing ADUs

5507
03:20:05,940 --> 03:20:07,196
actually be put on the ground.

5508
03:20:07,196 --> 03:20:07,797
>>ERIC LUCAN: Yeah, I appreciate

5509
03:20:07,797 --> 03:20:09,132
it. Some of this is with

5510
03:20:09,132 --> 03:20:11,234
regards to connection fees for

5511
03:20:11,234 --> 03:20:12,335
Water Districts, sanitary

5512
03:20:12,335 --> 03:20:14,504
districts. I'll follow up with

5513
03:20:14,504 --> 03:20:15,405
you separately, but I'm glad

5514
03:20:15,405 --> 03:20:16,473
that we're going to be moving

5515
03:20:16,473 --> 03:20:17,106
forward with this. Thank you.

5516
03:20:17,106 --> 03:20:18,408
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

5517
03:20:18,408 --> 03:20:19,476
PRES.: Great, and I just have

5518
03:20:19,476 --> 03:20:21,411
one question. This seems like a

5519
03:20:21,411 --> 03:20:24,800
great thing to do and take

5520
03:20:24,800 --> 03:20:24,613
advantage of what the other

5521
03:20:24,613 --> 03:20:25,381
counties have done.

5522
03:20:25,381 --> 03:20:26,516
Jillian, on the other side of

5523
03:20:26,516 --> 03:20:27,650
the house, do we expect this

5524
03:20:27,650 --> 03:20:29,118
will take some workload off of

5525
03:20:29,118 --> 03:20:30,619
our current planners?

5526
03:20:30,619 --> 03:20:32,688
>>JILLIAN ZEIGER: Yes. And

5527
03:20:32,688 --> 03:20:35,158
myself. So even though I'm not

5528
03:20:35,158 --> 03:20:37,360
in current planning, I receive

5529
03:20:37,360 --> 03:20:39,662
ADU questions at least once a

5530
03:20:39,662 --> 03:20:41,431
week asking things like setback

5531
03:20:41,431 --> 03:20:42,798
and septic requirement,

5532
03:20:42,798 --> 03:20:44,567
et cetera. So yeah, I mean,

5533
03:20:44,567 --> 03:20:48,370
it's going to be a huge burden I

5534
03:20:48,370 --> 03:20:50,340
think lifted for our current

5535
03:20:50,340 --> 03:20:52,410
planning department, but also

5536
03:20:52,410 --> 03:20:53,443
it's great for the cities and

5537
03:20:53,443 --> 03:20:55,244
towns because they have less

5538
03:20:55,244 --> 03:20:57,514
staff and they are also

5539
03:20:57,514 --> 03:21:00,249
receiving a similar volume of

5540
03:21:00,249 --> 03:21:02,510
ADU questions, but yes, we'll be

5541
03:21:02,510 --> 03:21:05,188
linking the ADU center and also

5542
03:21:05,188 --> 03:21:07,223
once we launch our merger we're

5543
03:21:07,223 --> 03:21:09,258
going to have webinars that, you

5544
03:21:09,258 --> 03:21:11,270
know, advertise the services of

5545
03:21:11,270 --> 03:21:12,962
the ADU center, so we're hoping

5546
03:21:12,962 --> 03:21:16,366
that homeowners will go to the

5547
03:21:16,366 --> 03:21:18,000
ADU center directly, but if they

5548
03:21:18,000 --> 03:21:19,902
don't, then our current planning

5549
03:21:19,902 --> 03:21:21,437
division will tell them to start

5550
03:21:21,437 --> 03:21:22,710
with the ADU center.

5551
03:21:22,710 --> 03:21:23,239
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

5552
03:21:23,239 --> 03:21:25,410
PRES.: Super. Have a link on

5553
03:21:25,410 --> 03:21:28,378
our new web page and all that

5554
03:21:28,378 --> 03:21:29,512
kind of thing.

5555
03:21:29,512 --> 03:21:30,146
>>JILLIAN ZEIGER: Yeah.

5556
03:21:30,146 --> 03:21:30,846
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

5557
03:21:30,846 --> 03:21:31,514
PRES.: Great, sounds good. With

5558
03:21:31,514 --> 03:21:32,649
that, I am going to open for

5559
03:21:32,649 --> 03:21:34,250
public comment in the chambers.

5560
03:21:34,250 --> 03:21:35,718
It looks like there is no one

5561
03:21:35,718 --> 03:21:37,619
left in the chambers to do

5562
03:21:37,619 --> 03:21:38,187
comment. Is there anyone

5563
03:21:38,187 --> 03:21:39,788
online?

5564
03:21:39,788 --> 03:21:40,656
>>MODERATOR: Yes, Johnson

5565
03:21:40,656 --> 03:21:42,656
Reynolds, please unmute.

5566
03:21:44,394 --> 03:21:45,328
>>SPEAKER: Yes, thank you. This

5567
03:21:45,328 --> 03:21:47,830
is going to be very helpful.

5568
03:21:47,830 --> 03:21:50,699
Not only to the county but to

5569
03:21:50,699 --> 03:21:51,401
the jurisdictions within the

5570
03:21:51,401 --> 03:21:55,601
county, and take the work off of

5571
03:21:56,472 --> 03:22:00,720
the local staff. I assume this

5572
03:22:01,310 --> 03:22:04,910
includes JADUs as well as ADUs.

5573
03:22:05,147 --> 03:22:07,816
I make an assumption to that.

5574
03:22:07,816 --> 03:22:09,510
And Kate mentioned that they

5575
03:22:09,510 --> 03:22:11,554
make sure that these are

5576
03:22:11,554 --> 03:22:14,554
actually given out to people

5577
03:22:15,391 --> 03:22:19,591
that need low and very low money

5578
03:22:19,729 --> 03:22:23,929
to live in these ADUs and JADUs.

5579
03:22:27,437 --> 03:22:29,710
I appreciate that. Sounds like

5580
03:22:29,710 --> 03:22:32,710
it's a good relationship for

5581
03:22:33,576 --> 03:22:34,644
both the jurisdictions and the

5582
03:22:34,644 --> 03:22:37,644
county itself to proceed and

5583
03:22:39,140 --> 03:22:40,650
move forward to produce the

5584
03:22:40,650 --> 03:22:43,650
JADUs and ADUs. Thank you.

5585
03:22:45,555 --> 03:22:46,589
>>MODERATOR: The next speaker is

5586
03:22:46,589 --> 03:22:47,220
Rodrigo Izquierdo. Please

5587
03:22:47,220 --> 03:22:48,157
unmute.

5588
03:22:48,157 --> 03:22:49,759
>>SPEAKER: Hi. I would like to

5589
03:22:49,759 --> 03:22:53,359
know why Napa Sonoma was picked

5590
03:22:55,998 --> 03:23:00,198
to guide Marin into the use of

5591
03:23:02,905 --> 03:23:05,905
ADUs. Why wasn't San Francisco

5592
03:23:06,375 --> 03:23:09,412
used? Because they kind of seem

5593
03:23:09,412 --> 03:23:11,213
like they have the same -- more

5594
03:23:11,213 --> 03:23:13,416
of the similar problem in that

5595
03:23:13,416 --> 03:23:16,252
it's parking where they might

5596
03:23:16,252 --> 03:23:19,155
have to relax the parking, one

5597
03:23:19,155 --> 03:23:22,124
space per unit. So on a general

5598
03:23:22,124 --> 03:23:25,600
terms, is the County of Marin

5599
03:23:25,600 --> 03:23:28,600
relaxing the parking for an

5600
03:23:29,980 --> 03:23:32,980
additional unit? In which case

5601
03:23:32,134 --> 03:23:36,380
it might be two cars. So it

5602
03:23:36,380 --> 03:23:38,700
seemed like on a general

5603
03:23:38,700 --> 03:23:41,700
statement you should say this

5604
03:23:41,430 --> 03:23:45,243
you are going to relax quite a

5605
03:23:45,748 --> 03:23:47,883
few of the rules for Marin base

5606
03:23:47,883 --> 03:23:50,850
Sonoma, Napa and Sonoma, they

5607
03:23:50,850 --> 03:23:52,655
might simply have more space to

5608
03:23:52,655 --> 03:23:54,990
accommodate a whole bunch of

5609
03:23:54,990 --> 03:23:57,893
cars, trailers, you know, RVs.

5610
03:23:57,893 --> 03:23:59,595
It's not the same thing for

5611
03:23:59,595 --> 03:24:02,595
Marin that has winding roads,

5612
03:24:03,650 --> 03:24:06,135
like you know for Mill Valley.

5613
03:24:06,135 --> 03:24:08,437
It's impossible to have other

5614
03:24:08,437 --> 03:24:09,872
cars. They can hardly manage

5615
03:24:09,872 --> 03:24:11,106
right now with the cars that

5616
03:24:11,106 --> 03:24:13,810
they have when one of them has

5617
03:24:13,810 --> 03:24:17,714
to back up to clear the way, or

5618
03:24:17,714 --> 03:24:19,181
fire engines, and all of a

5619
03:24:19,181 --> 03:24:21,150
sudden you're going to have ADUs

5620
03:24:21,150 --> 03:24:22,752
with an additional car or an

5621
03:24:22,752 --> 03:24:25,152
additional two cars possibly

5622
03:24:26,556 --> 03:24:28,824
straddling the road. Seems like

5623
03:24:28,824 --> 03:24:30,226
you should make a general

5624
03:24:30,226 --> 03:24:33,826
statement on the parking use of

5625
03:24:35,640 --> 03:24:36,932
that aspect. Thank you.

5626
03:24:36,932 --> 03:24:37,600
>>MODERATOR: President

5627
03:24:37,600 --> 03:24:38,234
Moulton-Peters, there are no

5628
03:24:38,234 --> 03:24:38,567
additional speakers in the

5629
03:24:38,567 --> 03:24:39,201
queue.

5630
03:24:39,201 --> 03:24:39,902
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

5631
03:24:39,902 --> 03:24:40,603
PRES.: All right, we'll bring it

5632
03:24:40,603 --> 03:24:41,370
back to the board now. We have

5633
03:24:41,370 --> 03:24:43,770
three recommended actions. I

5634
03:24:45,508 --> 03:24:46,308
would entertain a motion for

5635
03:24:46,308 --> 03:24:48,110
those three, and with a request

5636
03:24:48,110 --> 03:24:49,645
that we return in one year for

5637
03:24:49,645 --> 03:24:51,914
an update on the program.

5638
03:24:51,914 --> 03:24:52,849
>>KATIE RICE: I will move the

5639
03:24:52,849 --> 03:24:53,715
three actions associated with

5640
03:24:53,715 --> 03:24:55,618
item 8.

5641
03:24:55,618 --> 03:24:56,252
>>ERIC LUCAN: Second.

5642
03:24:56,252 --> 03:24:56,919
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

5643
03:24:56,919 --> 03:24:57,620
PRES.: Okay. Motion by Rice,

5644
03:24:57,620 --> 03:24:59,922
second by Lucan. All in favor?

5645
03:24:59,922 --> 03:25:01,230
Aye.

5646
03:25:01,230 --> 03:25:03,250
All righty. Thank you very

5647
03:25:03,250 --> 03:25:05,127
much. Let's get started.

5648
03:25:05,127 --> 03:25:06,610
County administrator, what's

5649
03:25:06,610 --> 03:25:07,697
your suggestion?

5650
03:25:07,697 --> 03:25:08,330
>>MATTHEW H. HYMEL: I'm going to

5651
03:25:08,330 --> 03:25:09,498
suggest, as you know, we're

5652
03:25:09,498 --> 03:25:10,666
behind schedule, so I was going

5653
03:25:10,666 --> 03:25:12,769
to suggest that we break for 45

5654
03:25:12,769 --> 03:25:15,204
minutes, so come back at 1:15,

5655
03:25:15,204 --> 03:25:16,472
where we'll take the remainder

5656
03:25:16,472 --> 03:25:19,108
of the morning agenda, which is

5657
03:25:19,108 --> 03:25:21,210
items 7, 9 and 10, and then roll

5658
03:25:21,210 --> 03:25:23,546
into our afternoon session.

5659
03:25:23,546 --> 03:25:25,214
And then I did want to remind

5660
03:25:25,214 --> 03:25:27,617
folks that the housing authority

5661
03:25:27,617 --> 03:25:29,318
does not start at 2:00 because

5662
03:25:29,318 --> 03:25:31,190
we removed that item from the

5663
03:25:31,190 --> 03:25:31,654
agenda, so it starts at 2:30.

5664
03:25:31,654 --> 03:25:33,654
>>STEPHANIE MOULTON-PETERS,

5665
03:25:35,725 --> 03:25:36,459
PRES.: All right. Thank you.

5666
03:25:36,459 --> 03:25:39,459
We are adjourned for lunch.

5667
03:25:58,567 --> 03:25:58,899
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: Okay.

5668
03:25:58,899 --> 03:26:00,567
Welcome back, everyone. We're

5669
03:26:00,567 --> 03:26:04,167
going to reconvene as the Marin

5670
03:26:04,859 --> 03:26:05,899
County Board of Supervisors.

5671
03:26:05,899 --> 03:26:07,275
We're going to pick up from this

5672
03:26:07,275 --> 03:26:08,983
morning's agenda with agenda

5673
03:26:08,983 --> 03:26:11,383
item number 7. All right.

5674
03:26:12,484 --> 03:26:14,484
Jillian, you're back.

5675
03:26:18,899 --> 03:26:19,692
>>SPEAKER: Good afternoon. So

5676
03:26:19,692 --> 03:26:21,359
today we are here to recommend

5677
03:26:21,359 --> 03:26:23,275
new housing trust fund

5678
03:26:23,275 --> 03:26:25,567
guidelines for adoption. The

5679
03:26:25,567 --> 03:26:27,967
guidelines we currently have

5680
03:26:28,250 --> 03:26:30,425
were originally drafted in 2009,

5681
03:26:30,651 --> 03:26:32,818
and amended in 2012, and since

5682
03:26:32,818 --> 03:26:34,400
then, we've seen changes in the

5683
03:26:34,400 --> 03:26:36,400
needs and requirements of the

5684
03:26:36,400 --> 03:26:38,442
unincorporated county as it

5685
03:26:38,442 --> 03:26:40,250
relates to housing production

5686
03:26:40,250 --> 03:26:41,651
and housing policies of the

5687
03:26:41,651 --> 03:26:44,442
local and state level. And

5688
03:26:44,442 --> 03:26:46,109
staff reviewed the updated

5689
03:26:46,109 --> 03:26:48,150
guidelines with our board

5690
03:26:48,150 --> 03:26:50,150
subcommittee. Next slide.

5691
03:26:54,609 --> 03:26:56,400
First, about the housing trust.

5692
03:26:56,400 --> 03:26:57,942
Some members of the public may

5693
03:26:57,942 --> 03:26:59,818
not know the Marin County

5694
03:26:59,818 --> 03:27:01,734
housing trust was created in

5695
03:27:01,734 --> 03:27:04,134
1980. There's a typo. The

5696
03:27:04,526 --> 03:27:06,899
presentation says 1988. It was

5697
03:27:06,899 --> 03:27:08,899
created at the same time as our

5698
03:27:08,899 --> 03:27:10,400
Inclusionary Housing program.

5699
03:27:10,400 --> 03:27:12,442
And the funding is to be used

5700
03:27:12,442 --> 03:27:13,567
for land and property

5701
03:27:13,567 --> 03:27:15,359
acquisition, development,

5702
03:27:15,359 --> 03:27:16,734
construction, or preservation of

5703
03:27:16,734 --> 03:27:19,134
affordable units. The housing

5704
03:27:19,609 --> 03:27:21,275
trust fund has historically been

5705
03:27:21,275 --> 03:27:23,442
funded through residential in

5706
03:27:23,442 --> 03:27:25,842
lieu fees, commercial linkage

5707
03:27:26,250 --> 03:27:28,425
fees, and since 2009 the

5708
03:27:30,442 --> 03:27:32,818
affordable housing impact fee.

5709
03:27:32,818 --> 03:27:33,942
These are within our building

5710
03:27:33,942 --> 03:27:35,899
and planning department. During

5711
03:27:35,899 --> 03:27:37,567
the budget cycle, your board

5712
03:27:37,567 --> 03:27:39,567
committed $5 million annually

5713
03:27:39,609 --> 03:27:40,900
for the next five years to the

5714
03:27:40,900 --> 03:27:43,400
housing trust fund. Next slide.

5715
03:27:43,400 --> 03:27:45,234
So we wanted to go through some

5716
03:27:45,234 --> 03:27:46,651
of the accomplishments of the

5717
03:27:46,651 --> 03:27:49,899
housing trust fund. And in the

5718
03:27:49,899 --> 03:27:51,899
last 20 years, the housing trust

5719
03:27:51,899 --> 03:27:54,859
fund has been a major funder of

5720
03:27:54,859 --> 03:27:56,859
affordable housing developments

5721
03:27:56,900 --> 03:27:59,900
in unincorporated Marin as well

5722
03:27:59,942 --> 03:28:01,899
as the cities and towns. We

5723
03:28:01,899 --> 03:28:03,275
have some examples on the slide.

5724
03:28:03,275 --> 03:28:04,484
They range from smaller

5725
03:28:04,484 --> 03:28:06,359
developments to land purchases

5726
03:28:06,359 --> 03:28:08,759
to rehabilitation to preserving

5727
03:28:09,899 --> 03:28:11,899
naturally-occurring affordable

5728
03:28:11,983 --> 03:28:13,776
housing. And the developments

5729
03:28:13,776 --> 03:28:14,899
in bold are located in

5730
03:28:14,899 --> 03:28:16,942
unincorporated county, but you

5731
03:28:16,942 --> 03:28:18,776
can see it's a wide range of

5732
03:28:18,776 --> 03:28:21,176
development sizes and locations

5733
03:28:21,899 --> 03:28:25,499
in the county. Next slide. So

5734
03:28:25,526 --> 03:28:27,899
staff reviewed an updated the

5735
03:28:27,899 --> 03:28:29,250
priorities with the help of the

5736
03:28:29,250 --> 03:28:30,567
affordable housing board

5737
03:28:30,567 --> 03:28:32,900
subcommittee, and based on

5738
03:28:32,900 --> 03:28:34,359
direction provided in the

5739
03:28:34,359 --> 03:28:36,400
housing element in state law.

5740
03:28:36,400 --> 03:28:37,899
The trust fund will keep the

5741
03:28:37,899 --> 03:28:39,275
priorities to fund projects

5742
03:28:39,275 --> 03:28:41,675
located in unincorporated areas

5743
03:28:41,900 --> 03:28:43,900
of the county, will keep the

5744
03:28:43,900 --> 03:28:44,818
preservation and

5745
03:28:44,818 --> 03:28:46,818
anti-displacement priority, and

5746
03:28:48,670 --> 03:28:50,467
leveraging other funds through

5747
03:28:51,150 --> 03:28:53,550
or competitive funds. New

5748
03:28:53,899 --> 03:28:55,900
priorities include funding in

5749
03:28:55,900 --> 03:28:58,300
high resource areas, promoting

5750
03:28:59,818 --> 03:29:00,899
furthering our housing, as well

5751
03:29:00,899 --> 03:29:02,899
as home ownership. And the new

5752
03:29:02,899 --> 03:29:04,234
priorities were based on

5753
03:29:04,234 --> 03:29:05,900
analysis we found in the needs

5754
03:29:05,900 --> 03:29:06,899
assessment in the housing

5755
03:29:06,899 --> 03:29:08,400
element, and one of the main

5756
03:29:08,400 --> 03:29:10,609
goals of the policies and

5757
03:29:10,609 --> 03:29:11,983
programs in our housing element,

5758
03:29:11,983 --> 03:29:13,899
which is to affirmatively

5759
03:29:13,899 --> 03:29:16,150
further fair housing, that

5760
03:29:16,150 --> 03:29:17,692
essentially creates housing in

5761
03:29:17,692 --> 03:29:19,776
our high resource areas, our

5762
03:29:19,776 --> 03:29:22,776
high opportunity areas, which is

5763
03:29:23,317 --> 03:29:26,192
a score from the state, and high

5764
03:29:26,192 --> 03:29:27,526
resource areas typically have

5765
03:29:27,526 --> 03:29:29,609
high performing schools, access

5766
03:29:29,609 --> 03:29:32,609
to transit, and amenities. Next

5767
03:29:33,400 --> 03:29:36,234
slide. We also are going to

5768
03:29:36,234 --> 03:29:37,900
continue our local match with

5769
03:29:37,900 --> 03:29:39,899
the cities and towns. So the

5770
03:29:39,899 --> 03:29:41,776
county is contributed housing

5771
03:29:41,776 --> 03:29:43,859
trust dollars to the cities and

5772
03:29:43,859 --> 03:29:45,192
towns for a number of years, and

5773
03:29:45,192 --> 03:29:47,484
will continue to do so. Given

5774
03:29:47,484 --> 03:29:49,317
that several jurisdictions have

5775
03:29:49,317 --> 03:29:50,899
recently adopted or updated

5776
03:29:50,899 --> 03:29:52,359
their inclusionary policies to

5777
03:29:52,359 --> 03:29:54,734
include fees, the county's open

5778
03:29:54,734 --> 03:29:57,859
to different form of match, that

5779
03:29:57,859 --> 03:29:58,942
could include fee waivers from

5780
03:29:58,942 --> 03:30:00,859
the planning and building

5781
03:30:00,859 --> 03:30:01,900
department, it could include

5782
03:30:01,900 --> 03:30:03,609
contribution from the

5783
03:30:03,609 --> 03:30:05,250
inclusionary fee, contributing

5784
03:30:05,250 --> 03:30:07,425
other funds, and potentially

5785
03:30:07,899 --> 03:30:10,299
exploring shared credit which

5786
03:30:10,776 --> 03:30:12,275
we've seen in jurisdictions, I

5787
03:30:12,275 --> 03:30:14,899
believe in Napa has shared

5788
03:30:14,899 --> 03:30:17,899
credit. Next slide. We also

5789
03:30:18,670 --> 03:30:20,467
amended our funding threshold.

5790
03:30:20,900 --> 03:30:23,567
So currently -- or previously

5791
03:30:23,567 --> 03:30:25,899
the housing trust guidelines are

5792
03:30:25,899 --> 03:30:28,899
up to $50,000 per unit, that

5793
03:30:30,692 --> 03:30:32,899
hasn't been updated since 2012.

5794
03:30:32,899 --> 03:30:34,484
We've seen a huge increase in

5795
03:30:34,484 --> 03:30:35,899
the cost of development, and the

5796
03:30:35,899 --> 03:30:36,983
proposed changes to the

5797
03:30:36,983 --> 03:30:39,899
guidelines are going to -- were

5798
03:30:39,899 --> 03:30:42,983
provided to us by our housing

5799
03:30:42,983 --> 03:30:45,983
element, by developers, so where

5800
03:30:47,899 --> 03:30:49,150
appropriate, your board could

5801
03:30:49,150 --> 03:30:50,899
make alternative funding choices

5802
03:30:50,899 --> 03:30:52,776
to reflect high priority

5803
03:30:52,776 --> 03:30:53,942
projects or unusual

5804
03:30:53,942 --> 03:30:55,899
circumstances, but we also think

5805
03:30:55,899 --> 03:30:58,899
that higher funding per unit

5806
03:30:58,899 --> 03:31:00,899
might be necessary in certain

5807
03:31:00,899 --> 03:31:03,299
areas of unincorporated county

5808
03:31:03,442 --> 03:31:04,776
that might have higher land

5809
03:31:04,776 --> 03:31:07,567
value, and also just to promote

5810
03:31:07,567 --> 03:31:09,899
lower levels of affordability,

5811
03:31:09,899 --> 03:31:11,442
more family housing, and new

5812
03:31:11,442 --> 03:31:13,842
construction. If the Bay

5813
03:31:16,609 --> 03:31:20,209
Area -- staff will return to

5814
03:31:20,400 --> 03:31:21,400
your board to consider

5815
03:31:21,400 --> 03:31:23,670
amendments to the guidelines to

5816
03:31:23,670 --> 03:31:24,442
align and leverage those

5817
03:31:24,442 --> 03:31:27,442
dollars. So I think that's the

5818
03:31:27,442 --> 03:31:30,900
end of our presentation. And we

5819
03:31:30,900 --> 03:31:33,300
are open to questions.

5820
03:31:35,899 --> 03:31:35,983
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: Thank

5821
03:31:35,983 --> 03:31:38,383
you, Jillian. Any questions?

5822
03:31:42,317 --> 03:31:42,899
>>DENNIS RODONI: Thank you,

5823
03:31:42,899 --> 03:31:44,192
Jillian. Thank you for the

5824
03:31:44,192 --> 03:31:46,899
update and the committee. We

5825
03:31:46,899 --> 03:31:49,299
have trust priorities being

5826
03:31:49,899 --> 03:31:50,776
preservation and

5827
03:31:50,776 --> 03:31:52,776
anti-displacement. I would

5828
03:31:52,899 --> 03:31:55,400
love -- the funding thresholds.

5829
03:31:55,400 --> 03:31:59,000
I don't see preservation as one

5830
03:31:59,192 --> 03:32:00,567
of the options for increased

5831
03:32:00,567 --> 03:32:01,818
funding. Give that we're

5832
03:32:01,818 --> 03:32:04,218
looking at $1.7 million average

5833
03:32:04,899 --> 03:32:06,734
are real estate price in Marin,

5834
03:32:06,734 --> 03:32:08,899
I think the preservation

5835
03:32:08,899 --> 03:32:10,818
opportunity for higher funding

5836
03:32:10,818 --> 03:32:12,359
should be in there in that

5837
03:32:12,359 --> 03:32:14,776
category, also. It may be

5838
03:32:14,776 --> 03:32:17,192
possible, but it's not this.

5839
03:32:17,192 --> 03:32:18,899
I'm worried about that. And

5840
03:32:18,899 --> 03:32:20,776
because something that we

5841
03:32:20,776 --> 03:32:23,818
preserve could ever get sold in

5842
03:32:23,818 --> 03:32:25,484
a real estate market, it'll

5843
03:32:25,484 --> 03:32:27,317
never ever again be affordable.

5844
03:32:27,317 --> 03:32:29,692
And so I think that preservation

5845
03:32:29,692 --> 03:32:33,292
is so important. We might want

5846
03:32:34,692 --> 03:32:36,442
to consider injecting that into

5847
03:32:36,442 --> 03:32:38,900
the funding threshold, from my

5848
03:32:38,900 --> 03:32:41,300
perspective. Than wasn't a

5849
03:32:46,609 --> 03:32:47,442
question.

5850
03:32:47,442 --> 03:32:48,400
>>KATIE RICE: Can I add on to

5851
03:32:48,400 --> 03:32:52,600
that? I pause on this, as well.

5852
03:32:54,400 --> 03:32:56,776
And I just understand it makes

5853
03:32:56,776 --> 03:33:01,576
sense to have -- I feel this is

5854
03:33:03,400 --> 03:33:05,942
unique depending on, you know,

5855
03:33:05,942 --> 03:33:07,192
the community and opportunities

5856
03:33:07,192 --> 03:33:10,317
for development and so I would

5857
03:33:10,317 --> 03:33:12,526
hate to be -- I would just -- I

5858
03:33:12,526 --> 03:33:14,983
can see having creating some

5859
03:33:14,983 --> 03:33:17,983
thresholds that are set in

5860
03:33:18,234 --> 03:33:19,359
stone. I think it's going to be

5861
03:33:19,359 --> 03:33:21,759
important to preserve some

5862
03:33:23,234 --> 03:33:26,250
discretion and latitude to take

5863
03:33:26,250 --> 03:33:27,484
into account. I agree with

5864
03:33:27,484 --> 03:33:30,983
Dennis that every unit we lose,

5865
03:33:30,983 --> 03:33:33,400
we're barely going to offset

5866
03:33:33,400 --> 03:33:34,818
what we're going to lose anyway.

5867
03:33:34,818 --> 03:33:36,670
We can't afford to lose

5868
03:33:36,670 --> 03:33:38,670
anything.

5869
03:33:38,734 --> 03:33:39,400
>>SPEAKER: Yeah. Thank you for

5870
03:33:39,400 --> 03:33:41,800
that comment and yours,

5871
03:33:43,670 --> 03:33:44,900
Supervisor Rice. I would say

5872
03:33:44,900 --> 03:33:47,109
what we're -- what is in front

5873
03:33:47,109 --> 03:33:49,234
of you today is guidelines, as

5874
03:33:49,234 --> 03:33:50,900
Jillian said, are recommended by

5875
03:33:50,900 --> 03:33:53,818
the subcommittee, and if there

5876
03:33:53,818 --> 03:33:56,776
is other circumstances, and we

5877
03:33:56,776 --> 03:33:58,250
can always present something to

5878
03:33:58,250 --> 03:33:59,442
your board. I mean, the

5879
03:33:59,442 --> 03:34:00,983
reality is, we fund everything

5880
03:34:00,983 --> 03:34:02,899
that comes across our table that

5881
03:34:02,899 --> 03:34:04,983
is any way we can make viable.

5882
03:34:04,983 --> 03:34:06,899
Right. That's our goal. To get

5883
03:34:06,899 --> 03:34:09,899
housing preserve out of, you

5884
03:34:09,899 --> 03:34:11,899
know, that is existing naturally

5885
03:34:11,899 --> 03:34:14,299
occurring affordable housing and

5886
03:34:14,359 --> 03:34:16,899
move it into the affordable

5887
03:34:16,899 --> 03:34:20,275
column. It is helpful to have a

5888
03:34:20,275 --> 03:34:22,526
dollar guideline, and one of the

5889
03:34:22,526 --> 03:34:23,651
things I'm thinking about is

5890
03:34:23,651 --> 03:34:25,484
these big preservation projects

5891
03:34:25,484 --> 03:34:28,109
that we had, you know, the $152

5892
03:34:28,109 --> 03:34:31,859
units we did with the 80 unit in

5893
03:34:31,859 --> 03:34:36,590
San Rafael -- they were able to

5894
03:34:43,567 --> 03:34:45,192
make them work at $50,000. I

5895
03:34:45,192 --> 03:34:47,692
think that, you know, -- if they

5896
03:34:47,692 --> 03:34:49,275
weren't, we would have worked on

5897
03:34:49,275 --> 03:34:50,359
that and come up with a

5898
03:34:50,359 --> 03:34:52,759
different recommendation to you.

5899
03:34:57,359 --> 03:34:58,109
>>KATIE RICE: And I agree with

5900
03:34:58,109 --> 03:35:00,899
that. I also I don't know to

5901
03:35:00,899 --> 03:35:02,899
what degree the landscape might

5902
03:35:02,899 --> 03:35:04,983
change going forward. But we

5903
03:35:04,983 --> 03:35:08,583
have been in recent years, it

5904
03:35:10,317 --> 03:35:11,609
feels like in a position --

5905
03:35:11,609 --> 03:35:14,900
oftentimes being reactive when

5906
03:35:17,484 --> 03:35:18,651
the properties come on the

5907
03:35:18,651 --> 03:35:20,692
market and not planning ahead

5908
03:35:20,692 --> 03:35:22,275
and strategizing. I think it

5909
03:35:22,275 --> 03:35:25,875
puts us in a difficult position.

5910
03:35:28,942 --> 03:35:30,899
Easier to see what is coming in

5911
03:35:30,899 --> 03:35:32,900
years ahead as things go through

5912
03:35:32,900 --> 03:35:34,526
an application process. I don't

5913
03:35:34,526 --> 03:35:35,899
know if there's a way for us to

5914
03:35:35,899 --> 03:35:38,250
be able to predict which

5915
03:35:38,250 --> 03:35:39,275
something is going to come on

5916
03:35:39,275 --> 03:35:41,899
the market. I'm with you in

5917
03:35:41,899 --> 03:35:43,275
terms of the guidelines. And

5918
03:35:43,275 --> 03:35:46,275
signaling a lower threshold when

5919
03:35:50,275 --> 03:35:51,899
there's multiple units but

5920
03:35:51,899 --> 03:35:54,299
maintaining discretion, as well.

5921
03:35:55,567 --> 03:35:57,192
>>ERIC LUCAN: I had a follow up.

5922
03:35:57,192 --> 03:35:59,109
I think the slide here maybe is

5923
03:35:59,109 --> 03:36:00,567
a little bit different than the

5924
03:36:00,567 --> 03:36:01,899
guidelines. And I want to make

5925
03:36:01,899 --> 03:36:03,899
sure -- it says higher funding

5926
03:36:03,899 --> 03:36:05,192
per unit, if new construction

5927
03:36:05,192 --> 03:36:06,899
only. I don't know if it means

5928
03:36:06,899 --> 03:36:08,899
if and only if. I'm looking at

5929
03:36:08,899 --> 03:36:10,899
page 5 of the guidelines, it

5930
03:36:10,899 --> 03:36:13,299
says under circumstances, our

5931
03:36:13,983 --> 03:36:15,899
contribution may increase up to

5932
03:36:15,899 --> 03:36:18,109
$100,000 per unit depending on

5933
03:36:18,109 --> 03:36:19,317
funds available, number of

5934
03:36:19,317 --> 03:36:20,234
bedrooms, level of

5935
03:36:20,234 --> 03:36:21,776
affordability, and term of

5936
03:36:21,776 --> 03:36:23,734
affordability restrictions. I

5937
03:36:23,734 --> 03:36:25,150
think we have the flexibility,

5938
03:36:25,150 --> 03:36:27,651
but I want to clarify.

5939
03:36:27,651 --> 03:36:28,567
>>SPEAKER: Yes. We have the

5940
03:36:28,567 --> 03:36:30,692
flexibility. It was worded a

5941
03:36:30,692 --> 03:36:31,983
little bit differently in the

5942
03:36:31,983 --> 03:36:33,442
slide. Our guidelines do

5943
03:36:33,442 --> 03:36:35,400
provide that flexibility.

5944
03:36:35,400 --> 03:36:36,317
Another reason why we want to

5945
03:36:36,317 --> 03:36:37,484
the have that flexibility is

5946
03:36:37,484 --> 03:36:38,899
because we don't see a lot of

5947
03:36:38,899 --> 03:36:40,359
state and federal dollars for

5948
03:36:40,359 --> 03:36:42,759
preservation. It's something we

5949
03:36:42,899 --> 03:36:45,776
have to use our county funds

5950
03:36:45,776 --> 03:36:47,192
for.

5951
03:36:47,192 --> 03:36:48,250
>>ERIC LUCAN: Yeah. I think

5952
03:36:48,250 --> 03:36:51,250
Supervisor Rodoni, based on what

5953
03:36:51,670 --> 03:36:54,109
is written on page 5, should a

5954
03:36:54,109 --> 03:36:55,109
preservation project come

5955
03:36:55,109 --> 03:36:56,317
through. Maybe there are three

5956
03:36:56,317 --> 03:36:58,670
bedroom units and it's a higher

5957
03:36:58,670 --> 03:36:59,359
cost than that opportunity is

5958
03:36:59,359 --> 03:37:01,359
available.

5959
03:37:01,400 --> 03:37:02,670
>>SPEAKER: Yes. Thank you for

5960
03:37:02,670 --> 03:37:03,234
the clarification. You're

5961
03:37:03,234 --> 03:37:05,234
correct.

5962
03:37:11,234 --> 03:37:11,900
>>KATIE RICE: On the terms

5963
03:37:11,900 --> 03:37:13,359
portion, it says the trust funds

5964
03:37:13,359 --> 03:37:15,442
can be alone or a grant. It

5965
03:37:15,442 --> 03:37:18,776
sounds like generally a load. I

5966
03:37:18,776 --> 03:37:22,376
know it's not the ultimate goal.

5967
03:37:44,275 --> 03:37:46,526
Amount of rent they collect,

5968
03:37:46,526 --> 03:37:47,899
whether they'll be able to repay

5969
03:37:47,899 --> 03:37:49,250
it. That's kind of how we

5970
03:37:49,250 --> 03:37:49,942
decide whether it's going to be

5971
03:37:49,942 --> 03:37:51,776
a grant or a loan. And that we

5972
03:37:51,776 --> 03:37:53,818
look at the amount of funds that

5973
03:37:53,818 --> 03:37:55,651
were investing in a project. If

5974
03:37:55,651 --> 03:37:57,150
it's a smaller project with a

5975
03:37:57,150 --> 03:38:00,150
fewer units, those usually don't

5976
03:38:01,317 --> 03:38:02,899
create enough revenue that we

5977
03:38:02,899 --> 03:38:04,899
can get it back. There are some

5978
03:38:04,899 --> 03:38:05,899
different circumstances. It's

5979
03:38:05,899 --> 03:38:07,275
really we evaluate the specific

5980
03:38:07,275 --> 03:38:09,675
project. Payments back that

5981
03:38:15,692 --> 03:38:16,899
come into the trust fund and are

5982
03:38:16,899 --> 03:38:18,275
available for other funds. And,

5983
03:38:18,275 --> 03:38:20,983
you know, and we generally do a

5984
03:38:20,983 --> 03:38:23,192
loan, which is called a residual

5985
03:38:23,192 --> 03:38:24,899
receipts loan. So they look at

5986
03:38:24,899 --> 03:38:27,234
first they pay off their primary

5987
03:38:27,234 --> 03:38:29,692
mortgage, they set aside funds

5988
03:38:29,692 --> 03:38:31,250
for maintenance and the

5989
03:38:31,250 --> 03:38:33,425
property, and we're down

5990
03:38:33,692 --> 03:38:34,859
farther, you know, in the water

5991
03:38:34,859 --> 03:38:38,317
fall being repaid. So we want

5992
03:38:38,317 --> 03:38:39,234
to, you know, our goal,

5993
03:38:39,234 --> 03:38:41,442
obviously, is the project remain

5994
03:38:41,442 --> 03:38:43,899
affordable. Over time then it

5995
03:38:43,899 --> 03:38:45,150
is serving the population that

5996
03:38:45,150 --> 03:38:46,400
hasn't been identified, that

5997
03:38:46,400 --> 03:38:48,567
it's how the project is healthy

5998
03:38:48,567 --> 03:38:51,670
and well maintained. But then

5999
03:38:51,670 --> 03:38:53,109
if there's funds coming back, we

6000
03:38:53,109 --> 03:38:54,734
think we should be repaid so we

6001
03:38:54,734 --> 03:38:56,526
can use those for another

6002
03:38:56,526 --> 03:38:58,526
project.

6003
03:39:05,734 --> 03:39:06,899
>>KATIE RICE: If we could get a

6004
03:39:06,899 --> 03:39:08,900
sense what anticipate is coming

6005
03:39:08,900 --> 03:39:11,250
in. How much is left is a

6006
03:39:11,250 --> 03:39:12,567
question in evaluating them.

6007
03:39:12,567 --> 03:39:16,167
Kind of the bigger picture. We

6008
03:39:16,899 --> 03:39:17,942
can always say what is

6009
03:39:17,942 --> 03:39:19,150
available. It's a little hard

6010
03:39:19,150 --> 03:39:20,734
to say because of the way our

6011
03:39:20,734 --> 03:39:22,776
loans are structured as residual

6012
03:39:22,776 --> 03:39:25,651
receipts. So it's not just

6013
03:39:25,651 --> 03:39:27,359
we're going to get X amount of

6014
03:39:27,359 --> 03:39:29,109
dollars every year because of

6015
03:39:29,109 --> 03:39:31,275
the project needs, you know,

6016
03:39:31,275 --> 03:39:34,875
some they hadn't planned for and

6017
03:39:35,776 --> 03:39:38,150
maybe some other -- there's some

6018
03:39:38,150 --> 03:39:39,275
variation. And with interest

6019
03:39:39,275 --> 03:39:42,275
rates varying for their primary.

6020
03:39:42,275 --> 03:39:43,192
Sometimes it's not very

6021
03:39:43,192 --> 03:39:45,899
predictable. We could let you

6022
03:39:45,899 --> 03:39:47,526
know kind of what we received in

6023
03:39:47,526 --> 03:39:50,651
the past year, just as a report

6024
03:39:50,651 --> 03:39:52,692
out. It might be a way of

6025
03:39:52,692 --> 03:39:53,900
indicating kind of what we might

6026
03:39:53,900 --> 03:39:56,900
anticipate for the coming year.

6027
03:40:01,400 --> 03:40:01,899
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: Okay.

6028
03:40:01,899 --> 03:40:03,900
Public comment on this item.

6029
03:40:03,900 --> 03:40:05,250
I'm not seeing anyone in the

6030
03:40:05,250 --> 03:40:06,776
chambers. Is there anyone

6031
03:40:06,776 --> 03:40:08,776
online?

6032
03:40:11,776 --> 03:40:11,899
>>MODERATOR: President

6033
03:40:11,899 --> 03:40:11,899
additional speakers in the

6034
03:40:11,899 --> 03:40:11,900
Moulton-Peters, there are no

6035
03:40:11,900 --> 03:40:13,900
queue.

6036
03:40:14,651 --> 03:40:14,900
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: Okay.

6037
03:40:14,900 --> 03:40:18,670
We'll bring it back then for a

6038
03:40:18,670 --> 03:40:21,670
vote to adopt the revise

6039
03:40:21,359 --> 03:40:22,567
guidelines.

6040
03:40:22,567 --> 03:40:23,484
>>DENNIS RODONI: I move we adopt

6041
03:40:23,484 --> 03:40:24,899
the guidelines.

6042
03:40:24,899 --> 03:40:25,859
>>KATIE RICE: Second.

6043
03:40:25,859 --> 03:40:26,317
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: Okay. A

6044
03:40:26,317 --> 03:40:28,609
motion by Rodoni and seconded by

6045
03:40:28,609 --> 03:40:31,609
Rice. All in favor? Aye.

6046
03:40:31,651 --> 03:40:32,609
Thank you very much.

6047
03:40:32,609 --> 03:40:34,609
>>SPEAKER: Thank you.

6048
03:40:41,899 --> 03:40:41,900
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: Okay.

6049
03:40:41,900 --> 03:40:44,900
Lynda, you have been waiting.

6050
03:40:49,234 --> 03:40:49,776
>>LYNDA ROBERTS: Good afternoon,

6051
03:40:49,776 --> 03:40:51,192
Supervisors. Today I'm asking

6052
03:40:51,192 --> 03:40:53,776
the board to consider adopting

6053
03:40:53,776 --> 03:40:56,317
an ordinance -- not today, this

6054
03:40:56,317 --> 03:40:57,899
is the introduction -- which

6055
03:40:57,899 --> 03:40:59,526
would add a new chapter to the

6056
03:40:59,526 --> 03:41:01,899
Marin County code. The new

6057
03:41:01,899 --> 03:41:03,776
chapter would require electronic

6058
03:41:03,776 --> 03:41:05,275
filing of campaign finance

6059
03:41:05,275 --> 03:41:07,234
documents by candidates and

6060
03:41:07,234 --> 03:41:09,234
campaign committees. Today's

6061
03:41:09,526 --> 03:41:10,734
action is the introduction of

6062
03:41:10,734 --> 03:41:12,734
the ordinance, and adoption

6063
03:41:12,734 --> 03:41:13,899
would be scheduled for next

6064
03:41:13,899 --> 03:41:16,899
week. The political reformat of

6065
03:41:17,899 --> 03:41:19,899
1974 requires candidates and

6066
03:41:19,899 --> 03:41:21,859
campaign committees to regularly

6067
03:41:21,859 --> 03:41:22,900
file numerous financial

6068
03:41:22,900 --> 03:41:24,900
statements. Sensitive

6069
03:41:25,317 --> 03:41:26,776
information such as addresses

6070
03:41:26,776 --> 03:41:27,900
and bank account numbers must be

6071
03:41:27,900 --> 03:41:29,900
redacted before forms are posted

6072
03:41:29,900 --> 03:41:32,567
online. When the documents are

6073
03:41:32,567 --> 03:41:34,818
filed electronically, using the

6074
03:41:34,818 --> 03:41:36,250
department's existing filing

6075
03:41:36,250 --> 03:41:38,250
system, the sensitive

6076
03:41:38,275 --> 03:41:39,651
information is automatically

6077
03:41:39,651 --> 03:41:41,651
redacted, required information

6078
03:41:42,670 --> 03:41:43,899
cannot be left blank, and

6079
03:41:43,899 --> 03:41:45,234
documents are immediately

6080
03:41:45,234 --> 03:41:46,899
available to the public, which

6081
03:41:46,899 --> 03:41:48,899
enhances transparency.

6082
03:41:49,651 --> 03:41:51,150
Documents submitted on paper

6083
03:41:51,150 --> 03:41:53,359
require significant staff time

6084
03:41:53,359 --> 03:41:55,275
to manually redact the sensitive

6085
03:41:55,275 --> 03:41:57,234
information. Follow up with

6086
03:41:57,234 --> 03:41:58,818
candidates or committees that

6087
03:41:58,818 --> 03:42:00,859
have incomplete forms, and

6088
03:42:00,859 --> 03:42:03,259
organize, scan, and uploaded

6089
03:42:04,150 --> 03:42:04,899
documents to the electronic

6090
03:42:04,899 --> 03:42:06,899
system within 72 hours, as

6091
03:42:06,899 --> 03:42:08,899
required. The elections

6092
03:42:08,899 --> 03:42:10,250
department is the filing office

6093
03:42:10,250 --> 03:42:13,250
for county, school, and special

6094
03:42:13,150 --> 03:42:15,150
district candidates and

6095
03:42:15,150 --> 03:42:17,670
measures, and workload can

6096
03:42:17,670 --> 03:42:19,467
become significant when manually

6097
03:42:19,609 --> 03:42:21,275
processing paper forms. In some

6098
03:42:21,275 --> 03:42:23,859
instances, we've received up to

6099
03:42:23,859 --> 03:42:25,526
50 pages in one filing for one

6100
03:42:25,526 --> 03:42:27,526
candidate. Electronic systems

6101
03:42:28,651 --> 03:42:30,670
streamlines the process for the

6102
03:42:30,670 --> 03:42:32,670
filing officer, and makes the

6103
03:42:32,670 --> 03:42:33,526
basic review of documents more

6104
03:42:33,526 --> 03:42:35,776
efficient. To become more

6105
03:42:35,776 --> 03:42:36,899
efficient, we need all

6106
03:42:36,899 --> 03:42:37,899
candidates and campaign

6107
03:42:37,899 --> 03:42:38,900
committees to file their

6108
03:42:38,900 --> 03:42:40,900
statements electronically. Let

6109
03:42:41,899 --> 03:42:43,899
me be clear, a lot do already.

6110
03:42:43,899 --> 03:42:45,651
So we just want to make this

6111
03:42:45,651 --> 03:42:47,942
requirement for everybody. So

6112
03:42:47,942 --> 03:42:50,342
adopting the proposed ordinance

6113
03:42:50,359 --> 03:42:53,150
will support a business process

6114
03:42:53,150 --> 03:42:54,734
improvement by standardizing

6115
03:42:54,734 --> 03:42:56,567
procedures and aligning with the

6116
03:42:56,567 --> 03:42:58,567
county's overall continuous

6117
03:42:59,484 --> 03:43:01,776
improvement goals. Will improve

6118
03:43:01,776 --> 03:43:03,359
the process for candidates,

6119
03:43:03,359 --> 03:43:04,651
since electronic filings are

6120
03:43:04,651 --> 03:43:06,692
maintained for easy updates in

6121
03:43:06,692 --> 03:43:09,692
the next filing cycle. Will

6122
03:43:09,900 --> 03:43:11,192
support better use of staff

6123
03:43:11,192 --> 03:43:13,250
time, and will support greater

6124
03:43:13,250 --> 03:43:14,234
transparency by making

6125
03:43:14,234 --> 03:43:16,109
information immediately

6126
03:43:16,109 --> 03:43:18,275
available to the public. Our

6127
03:43:18,275 --> 03:43:20,250
designated filing officer is

6128
03:43:20,250 --> 03:43:21,109
always available to help

6129
03:43:21,109 --> 03:43:23,509
candidates and campaigns with

6130
03:43:25,442 --> 03:43:28,442
his electronic process. So that

6131
03:43:28,484 --> 03:43:31,234
is my overview. So do you have

6132
03:43:31,234 --> 03:43:33,234
some questions?

6133
03:43:33,818 --> 03:43:33,900
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: Are

6134
03:43:33,900 --> 03:43:35,900
there questions?

6135
03:43:36,234 --> 03:43:37,317
>>DENNIS RODONI: Just quickly,

6136
03:43:37,317 --> 03:43:39,776
Lynda. I know there's an

6137
03:43:39,776 --> 03:43:41,442
exception in policy. Maybe you

6138
03:43:41,442 --> 03:43:42,567
can talk about that.

6139
03:43:42,567 --> 03:43:44,234
>>LYNDA ROBERTS: Oh, yes. For

6140
03:43:44,234 --> 03:43:45,776
candidates or campaigns that

6141
03:43:45,776 --> 03:43:47,776
only raise $2,000, spend $2,000

6142
03:43:49,651 --> 03:43:50,899
or less, they wouldn't be

6143
03:43:50,899 --> 03:43:53,275
required to do this. It's a lot

6144
03:43:53,275 --> 03:43:54,651
less work when we're talking

6145
03:43:54,651 --> 03:43:56,651
small dollar amounts.

6146
03:43:57,818 --> 03:44:00,218
>>DENNIS RODONI: Thank you.

6147
03:44:00,275 --> 03:44:02,234
>>KATIE RICE: Lynda, thank you.

6148
03:44:02,234 --> 03:44:03,776
I'm in support of this moving

6149
03:44:03,776 --> 03:44:06,250
forward, but I just want to ask,

6150
03:44:06,250 --> 03:44:08,150
have you provided information

6151
03:44:08,150 --> 03:44:10,550
about this to municipalities,

6152
03:44:11,983 --> 03:44:13,359
other special districts that

6153
03:44:13,359 --> 03:44:15,250
have elected bodies so they can

6154
03:44:15,250 --> 03:44:17,275
share it with those officers,

6155
03:44:17,275 --> 03:44:19,484
and adjust make it publicly

6156
03:44:19,484 --> 03:44:22,670
known -- more broadly known.

6157
03:44:22,670 --> 03:44:22,526
>>LYNDA ROBERTS: Actually for

6158
03:44:22,526 --> 03:44:24,275
the municipalities, their clerk

6159
03:44:24,275 --> 03:44:27,275
is their filing officer. So

6160
03:44:28,250 --> 03:44:29,234
their candidates have to file

6161
03:44:29,234 --> 03:44:31,442
with the city or town clerk.

6162
03:44:31,442 --> 03:44:32,942
>>KATIE RICE: It's only for --

6163
03:44:32,942 --> 03:44:33,818
>>LYNDA ROBERTS: It would be for

6164
03:44:33,818 --> 03:44:35,609
the county officers, school

6165
03:44:35,609 --> 03:44:38,900
districts, and special districts

6166
03:44:39,899 --> 03:44:41,109
where the filing officer for

6167
03:44:41,109 --> 03:44:41,899
those.

6168
03:44:41,899 --> 03:44:42,692
>>KATIE RICE: For special

6169
03:44:42,692 --> 03:44:43,983
districts and school districts,

6170
03:44:43,983 --> 03:44:45,442
have you reached out to let them

6171
03:44:45,442 --> 03:44:47,250
know this ordinance is coming

6172
03:44:47,250 --> 03:44:48,942
forward?

6173
03:44:48,942 --> 03:44:50,192
>>LYNDA ROBERTS: I did not.

6174
03:44:50,192 --> 03:44:50,899
>>KATIE RICE: Could you please

6175
03:44:50,899 --> 03:44:52,899
do that?

6176
03:44:54,983 --> 03:44:56,651
>>LYNDA ROBERTS: Absolutely.

6177
03:44:56,651 --> 03:44:57,317
>>KATIE RICE: Thank you.

6178
03:44:57,317 --> 03:44:58,250
>>ERIC LUCAN: I think this is

6179
03:44:58,250 --> 03:44:59,859
great. I'm curious as we take

6180
03:44:59,859 --> 03:45:03,192
this move and require Net File

6181
03:45:03,192 --> 03:45:04,899
for everyone, what sort of input

6182
03:45:04,899 --> 03:45:07,900
or feedback to we have to Net

6183
03:45:07,900 --> 03:45:09,484
File to making their system a

6184
03:45:09,484 --> 03:45:11,109
little more user friendly -- and

6185
03:45:11,109 --> 03:45:13,670
users are not just professional

6186
03:45:13,670 --> 03:45:14,670
compliance firms that do

6187
03:45:14,670 --> 03:45:15,275
campaign stuff.

6188
03:45:15,275 --> 03:45:15,983
>>LYNDA ROBERTS: Well, I know

6189
03:45:15,983 --> 03:45:18,734
our filing officer, who I'm sure

6190
03:45:18,734 --> 03:45:21,899
you know Dan, Miller has a good

6191
03:45:21,899 --> 03:45:24,818
relationship with Net File. I

6192
03:45:24,818 --> 03:45:26,234
would imagine if we got feedback

6193
03:45:26,234 --> 03:45:28,634
from people requesting something

6194
03:45:28,900 --> 03:45:30,567
needs to be more user friendly.

6195
03:45:30,567 --> 03:45:31,942
We can pass the feedback on to

6196
03:45:31,942 --> 03:45:33,234
them.

6197
03:45:33,234 --> 03:45:33,692
>>ERIC LUCAN: That would be

6198
03:45:33,692 --> 03:45:35,983
great! The two ones -- I'll

6199
03:45:35,983 --> 03:45:38,250
send more details on it. But

6200
03:45:38,250 --> 03:45:39,192
being able to upload

6201
03:45:39,192 --> 03:45:40,150
information. I know the

6202
03:45:40,150 --> 03:45:41,150
professional compliance firms

6203
03:45:41,150 --> 03:45:42,899
have an upload feature, but

6204
03:45:42,899 --> 03:45:44,400
individuals doing their own

6205
03:45:44,400 --> 03:45:45,899
reports have to key it in

6206
03:45:45,899 --> 03:45:48,484
one-by-one, which is a little

6207
03:45:48,484 --> 03:45:50,359
cumbersome. And then secondly,

6208
03:45:50,359 --> 03:45:52,250
because there's some changes in

6209
03:45:52,250 --> 03:45:54,234
state laws, you have to close

6210
03:45:54,234 --> 03:45:56,567
and reopen a campaign committee

6211
03:45:56,567 --> 03:45:59,150
every four years, and all of

6212
03:45:59,150 --> 03:46:01,776
your donors don't transfer when

6213
03:46:01,776 --> 03:46:04,670
you create a new one. So you

6214
03:46:04,670 --> 03:46:06,734
have to re -- since you can't

6215
03:46:06,734 --> 03:46:08,609
upload them, you have to rekey

6216
03:46:08,609 --> 03:46:10,109
them in all over again the next

6217
03:46:10,109 --> 03:46:11,899
time around. I'll share details

6218
03:46:11,899 --> 03:46:13,651
in an e-mail you know, if we can

6219
03:46:13,651 --> 03:46:15,317
get in front of the right people

6220
03:46:15,317 --> 03:46:17,899
at Net File, I think it would be

6221
03:46:17,899 --> 03:46:19,275
beneficial for everybody across

6222
03:46:19,275 --> 03:46:21,567
the state that uses the system.

6223
03:46:21,567 --> 03:46:21,942
>>LYNDA ROBERTS: That would be

6224
03:46:21,942 --> 03:46:22,899
great i appreciate that

6225
03:46:22,899 --> 03:46:23,734
information.

6226
03:46:23,734 --> 03:46:26,134
>>ERIC LUCAN: Thank you.

6227
03:46:26,942 --> 03:46:27,567
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: I don't

6228
03:46:27,567 --> 03:46:28,899
have any questions. We'll open

6229
03:46:28,899 --> 03:46:30,526
for public comment. I'm not

6230
03:46:30,526 --> 03:46:33,526
seeing anybody in the chambers

6231
03:46:33,526 --> 03:46:35,526
who looks they want to comment

6232
03:46:35,526 --> 03:46:37,734
on this. We'll go online to see

6233
03:46:37,734 --> 03:46:39,899
if there's comment there.

6234
03:46:39,899 --> 03:46:40,899
>>MODERATOR: The first speaker

6235
03:46:40,899 --> 03:46:43,299
is Rodrigo, please unmute.

6236
03:46:54,234 --> 03:46:56,734
>>SPEAKER: I wonder why you

6237
03:46:56,734 --> 03:46:58,899
can't expand it to include

6238
03:46:58,899 --> 03:47:00,899
Commissioners for committees.

6239
03:47:02,818 --> 03:47:05,692
Especially when it comes to

6240
03:47:05,692 --> 03:47:06,899
something where they might be

6241
03:47:06,899 --> 03:47:09,899
governing or giving input to

6242
03:47:13,192 --> 03:47:15,899
entities that might be a

6243
03:47:15,899 --> 03:47:17,651
conflict, you know, you heard a

6244
03:47:17,651 --> 03:47:20,899
lot from -- talking about, say,

6245
03:47:20,899 --> 03:47:23,899
a Human Rights Commission and

6246
03:47:24,899 --> 03:47:27,899
Curtis akin and maybe, you know,

6247
03:47:27,899 --> 03:47:30,899
whatever, they they really --

6248
03:47:32,609 --> 03:47:34,109
they had a Conflict of Interest,

6249
03:47:34,109 --> 03:47:35,899
and they had an obligation to

6250
03:47:35,899 --> 03:47:37,400
tell the public that they're

6251
03:47:37,400 --> 03:47:39,609
going to be on committees and

6252
03:47:39,609 --> 03:47:42,609
organizations that, in a way,

6253
03:47:43,250 --> 03:47:44,899
influence -- and they are

6254
03:47:44,899 --> 03:47:46,899
proponents for police

6255
03:47:46,899 --> 03:47:49,250
organizations. So either way,

6256
03:47:49,250 --> 03:47:51,776
you should know as to who is

6257
03:47:51,776 --> 03:47:54,776
actually comprised. Who has an

6258
03:47:56,275 --> 03:47:58,192
interest -- so why -- even

6259
03:47:58,192 --> 03:47:59,484
though they're not running for

6260
03:47:59,484 --> 03:48:01,884
office, even though they

6261
03:48:01,899 --> 03:48:03,818
don't -- they're not meeting the

6262
03:48:03,818 --> 03:48:05,818
$2,000 requirement, why you

6263
03:48:05,900 --> 03:48:08,900
don't have them for committees.

6264
03:48:09,275 --> 03:48:11,400
I think that, you know, Napa has

6265
03:48:11,400 --> 03:48:13,800
form 700, whatever that is,

6266
03:48:14,899 --> 03:48:16,651
financial interest but we're

6267
03:48:16,651 --> 03:48:18,250
talking about, again, their

6268
03:48:18,250 --> 03:48:20,692
ability to be impartial. And

6269
03:48:20,692 --> 03:48:21,818
the County of Marin, you know,

6270
03:48:21,818 --> 03:48:24,275
for these especially the Human

6271
03:48:24,275 --> 03:48:26,526
Rights Commission, that is

6272
03:48:26,526 --> 03:48:28,150
critical. Especially right now.

6273
03:48:28,150 --> 03:48:29,150
And if they're going to be

6274
03:48:29,150 --> 03:48:31,400
biased, that's the worst thing

6275
03:48:31,400 --> 03:48:34,670
you can possibly do. Have

6276
03:48:34,670 --> 03:48:35,899
someone who is biased or simply

6277
03:48:35,899 --> 03:48:37,275
not going to do anything. So,

6278
03:48:37,275 --> 03:48:38,899
again, you should expand it to

6279
03:48:38,899 --> 03:48:41,299
include Commissioners and also

6280
03:48:41,899 --> 03:48:44,109
to make sure that they abide by

6281
03:48:44,109 --> 03:48:47,709
state laws, like the -- Act.

6282
03:48:47,776 --> 03:48:48,734
Thank you.

6283
03:48:48,734 --> 03:48:48,859
>>MODERATOR: President

6284
03:48:48,859 --> 03:48:48,899
Moulton-Peters, there are no

6285
03:48:48,899 --> 03:48:48,899
queue.

6286
03:48:48,899 --> 03:48:51,299
additional speakers in the

6287
03:48:51,692 --> 03:48:51,818
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: Thank

6288
03:48:51,818 --> 03:48:53,899
you. I want to follow up with

6289
03:48:53,899 --> 03:48:56,651
Lynda. This is a campaign

6290
03:48:56,651 --> 03:48:58,651
finance filing, right?

6291
03:48:59,317 --> 03:48:59,983
>>LYNDA ROBERTS: Right. Yeah.

6292
03:48:59,983 --> 03:49:01,899
This is for campaign finance

6293
03:49:01,899 --> 03:49:04,299
filing. For elected officials.

6294
03:49:04,484 --> 03:49:04,899
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: Okay.

6295
03:49:04,899 --> 03:49:05,899
Very good. All right. With

6296
03:49:05,899 --> 03:49:08,234
that, I entertain a motion to

6297
03:49:08,234 --> 03:49:09,818
approve the introduction of an

6298
03:49:09,818 --> 03:49:12,609
ordinance. Direct the clerk of

6299
03:49:12,609 --> 03:49:15,899
the board to place it on the

6300
03:49:15,899 --> 03:49:17,692
December 2023 Consent Calendar

6301
03:49:17,692 --> 03:49:18,776
for adoption.

6302
03:49:18,776 --> 03:49:20,400
>>ERIC LUCAN: So moved.

6303
03:49:20,400 --> 03:49:20,899
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: I have a

6304
03:49:20,899 --> 03:49:24,499
motion by Lucan and seconded by

6305
03:49:26,651 --> 03:49:29,234
Rodoni. All in favor. We'll

6306
03:49:29,234 --> 03:49:32,234
move on to appointments now.

6307
03:49:40,442 --> 03:49:42,842
Supervisor Rodoni reminded me,

6308
03:49:43,776 --> 03:49:44,900
we have four appointments now.

6309
03:49:44,900 --> 03:49:46,275
They're listed on our agenda. I

6310
03:49:46,275 --> 03:49:48,484
want to invite public comment on

6311
03:49:48,484 --> 03:49:50,526
all four -- or any of the

6312
03:49:50,526 --> 03:49:51,609
appointments. This would be

6313
03:49:51,609 --> 03:49:54,900
through the lagoon advisory

6314
03:49:57,670 --> 03:49:59,467
council, the integrated pest

6315
03:49:59,567 --> 03:50:00,859
management commission, and

6316
03:50:00,859 --> 03:50:03,859
measure W west Marin oversight

6317
03:50:04,359 --> 03:50:05,899
committee. So if there's anyone

6318
03:50:05,899 --> 03:50:07,150
now who would like to give

6319
03:50:07,150 --> 03:50:10,734
public comment on any of those

6320
03:50:10,734 --> 03:50:13,651
appointments, now is the time.

6321
03:50:13,651 --> 03:50:15,400
I'm not seeing anyone in the

6322
03:50:15,400 --> 03:50:17,776
chambers. Is there anyone

6323
03:50:17,776 --> 03:50:18,859
online.

6324
03:50:18,859 --> 03:50:18,899
>>MODERATOR: President

6325
03:50:18,899 --> 03:50:18,899
additional speakers in the

6326
03:50:18,899 --> 03:50:18,983
Moulton-Peters, there are no

6327
03:50:18,983 --> 03:50:20,776
queue.

6328
03:50:20,776 --> 03:50:20,899
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: All

6329
03:50:20,899 --> 03:50:22,567
right. We'll close public

6330
03:50:22,567 --> 03:50:24,670
comment and move forward with

6331
03:50:24,670 --> 03:50:26,467
the Bolinas lagoon advisory

6332
03:50:30,983 --> 03:50:32,983
council.

6333
03:50:35,317 --> 03:50:36,567
>>MARY SACKETT: Second.

6334
03:50:36,567 --> 03:50:38,670
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: I have a

6335
03:50:38,670 --> 03:50:40,609
motion by Rodoni and second by

6336
03:50:40,609 --> 03:50:44,209
Sackett. Okay. B is a disaster

6337
03:50:44,818 --> 03:50:46,818
and citizens council.

6338
03:50:47,442 --> 03:50:48,275
>>DENNIS RODONI: I would like to

6339
03:50:48,275 --> 03:50:50,275
nominate Daniel Mahoney.

6340
03:50:54,442 --> 03:50:54,983
>>ERIC LUCAN: Second.

6341
03:50:54,983 --> 03:50:56,317
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: Okay. A

6342
03:50:56,317 --> 03:50:59,899
motion by Rodoni and seconded by

6343
03:50:59,899 --> 03:51:02,734
Lucan. All in favor? Aye.

6344
03:51:02,734 --> 03:51:05,134
Good. C integrated pest

6345
03:51:05,150 --> 03:51:07,150
management commission.

6346
03:51:08,192 --> 03:51:08,899
>>MARY SACKETT: I would like to

6347
03:51:08,899 --> 03:51:12,499
move the appointment of Alice to

6348
03:51:13,526 --> 03:51:15,400
the district vacancy.

6349
03:51:15,400 --> 03:51:15,859
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: We have

6350
03:51:15,859 --> 03:51:17,234
a motion by Sackett. A second

6351
03:51:17,234 --> 03:51:20,359
by Rice. All in favor? Aye.

6352
03:51:20,359 --> 03:51:22,899
And, finally, the west measure W

6353
03:51:22,899 --> 03:51:25,734
west Marin TOT over sight

6354
03:51:25,734 --> 03:51:26,651
committee.

6355
03:51:26,651 --> 03:51:27,109
>>DENNIS RODONI: I would like to

6356
03:51:27,109 --> 03:51:28,900
reappoint Michelle Kline and

6357
03:51:28,900 --> 03:51:33,100
appoint Mike -- to fill the role

6358
03:51:35,899 --> 03:51:37,692
of the oversight committee.

6359
03:51:37,692 --> 03:51:37,942
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: Okay.

6360
03:51:37,942 --> 03:51:40,776
We have a motion by Rodoni and

6361
03:51:40,776 --> 03:51:42,442
second by Rice. All in favor?

6362
03:51:42,442 --> 03:51:44,942
Aye. Very good. We have made

6363
03:51:44,942 --> 03:51:46,942
those appointments.

6364
03:51:53,400 --> 03:51:53,859
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: Time now

6365
03:51:53,859 --> 03:51:56,250
for agenda item number 11.

6366
03:51:56,250 --> 03:51:59,625
Hello, Josh. This is our county

6367
03:51:59,899 --> 03:52:01,899
budget development update.

6368
03:52:17,776 --> 03:52:18,250
>>JOSH SWEDBERG: Good afternoon,

6369
03:52:18,250 --> 03:52:19,250
Board of Supervisors. My name

6370
03:52:19,250 --> 03:52:22,250
is Josh Swedberg. Today we're

6371
03:52:28,567 --> 03:52:29,526
going to talk about and provide

6372
03:52:29,526 --> 03:52:30,899
an update on our budget

6373
03:52:30,899 --> 03:52:32,192
development process, as we gear

6374
03:52:32,192 --> 03:52:35,792
up for the proposed Fy2024-26

6375
03:52:39,192 --> 03:52:40,859
budget. Next slide. In terms

6376
03:52:40,859 --> 03:52:45,590
of the goals of this process, we

6377
03:52:45,609 --> 03:52:46,818
want to provide an update where

6378
03:52:46,818 --> 03:52:48,609
we're at as we start the budget

6379
03:52:48,609 --> 03:52:51,609
cycle. In terms of high-level

6380
03:52:51,776 --> 03:52:53,192
updates, really, we want

6381
03:52:53,192 --> 03:52:54,899
departments to -- and the entire

6382
03:52:54,899 --> 03:52:56,234
process to be about reviewing

6383
03:52:56,234 --> 03:52:58,192
our mission. Each department

6384
03:52:58,192 --> 03:53:00,192
mission, departmental work

6385
03:53:00,317 --> 03:53:02,442
plans, and our baseline budget

6386
03:53:02,442 --> 03:53:04,275
appropriations through an equity

6387
03:53:04,275 --> 03:53:07,275
lens. And Jamillah will talk

6388
03:53:08,609 --> 03:53:11,359
about the county wide rollout to

6389
03:53:11,359 --> 03:53:13,899
help facilitate and fulfill that

6390
03:53:13,899 --> 03:53:15,899
within the organization. We

6391
03:53:15,899 --> 03:53:16,859
want to make sure that we're

6392
03:53:16,859 --> 03:53:18,859
advancing our continuous

6393
03:53:18,942 --> 03:53:19,942
improvement efforts and

6394
03:53:19,942 --> 03:53:22,670
highlight our next steps in

6395
03:53:22,670 --> 03:53:24,442
terms of what we've provided.

6396
03:53:24,442 --> 03:53:25,818
If you recall from last year,

6397
03:53:25,818 --> 03:53:26,899
each department provided a

6398
03:53:26,899 --> 03:53:28,317
high-level continuous

6399
03:53:28,317 --> 03:53:30,526
improvement focus area. It was

6400
03:53:30,526 --> 03:53:31,899
a race equity improvement in

6401
03:53:31,899 --> 03:53:33,234
terms of services, a business

6402
03:53:33,234 --> 03:53:34,983
process improvement, external

6403
03:53:34,983 --> 03:53:37,359
enhancement, in terms of service

6404
03:53:37,359 --> 03:53:39,484
delivery, or cross departmental

6405
03:53:39,484 --> 03:53:40,400
collaboration. We'll be

6406
03:53:40,400 --> 03:53:41,900
returning to your board and

6407
03:53:41,900 --> 03:53:43,400
providing updates or new

6408
03:53:43,400 --> 03:53:45,800
improvement focus areas. We

6409
03:53:46,900 --> 03:53:49,250
want to effectively implement

6410
03:53:49,250 --> 03:53:51,425
our previously approved one-time

6411
03:53:51,859 --> 03:53:53,484
funding sources, and we want to

6412
03:53:53,484 --> 03:53:55,899
update our fees to key these

6413
03:53:55,899 --> 03:53:57,692
costs of providing services

6414
03:53:57,692 --> 03:53:59,109
where applicable. Next slide,

6415
03:53:59,109 --> 03:54:03,309
please. I guess I would add a

6416
03:54:04,900 --> 03:54:06,275
goal throughout the process is

6417
03:54:06,275 --> 03:54:08,250
to establish a collaborative and

6418
03:54:08,250 --> 03:54:09,359
transparent budget development

6419
03:54:09,359 --> 03:54:12,234
process that ensures that we are

6420
03:54:12,234 --> 03:54:13,776
bringing forth to your board

6421
03:54:13,776 --> 03:54:15,899
recommendations that aligns with

6422
03:54:15,899 --> 03:54:17,442
the top community priorities.

6423
03:54:17,442 --> 03:54:18,818
What you see before you, these

6424
03:54:18,818 --> 03:54:20,609
are your board-approved

6425
03:54:20,609 --> 03:54:21,899
priorities. They include

6426
03:54:21,899 --> 03:54:23,651
increasing affordable housing,

6427
03:54:23,651 --> 03:54:24,899
addressing homelessness,

6428
03:54:24,899 --> 03:54:27,250
advancing race equity efforts,

6429
03:54:27,250 --> 03:54:28,670
addressing climate change and

6430
03:54:28,670 --> 03:54:29,900
sea level rise, preparing for

6431
03:54:29,900 --> 03:54:32,300
disasters, enhancing our county

6432
03:54:34,899 --> 03:54:35,899
infrastructure, and addressing

6433
03:54:35,899 --> 03:54:38,234
the maintenance, and addressing

6434
03:54:38,234 --> 03:54:39,899
recruitment and retention. Next

6435
03:54:39,899 --> 03:54:42,859
slide, please. With that, I'll

6436
03:54:42,859 --> 03:54:44,692
pass it over to my colleague.

6437
03:54:44,692 --> 03:54:45,899
Thank you.

6438
03:54:45,899 --> 03:54:46,359
>>JAMILLAH JORDAN: Thank you so

6439
03:54:46,359 --> 03:54:47,734
much, Josh. Good afternoon to

6440
03:54:47,734 --> 03:54:48,899
the board. It's wonderful to be

6441
03:54:48,899 --> 03:54:49,899
here. Good afternoon to

6442
03:54:49,899 --> 03:54:51,400
everyone in the chambers and

6443
03:54:51,400 --> 03:54:53,983
folks joining us online. I'm

6444
03:54:53,983 --> 03:54:55,983
the county's equity director,

6445
03:54:55,983 --> 03:54:59,583
and as Josh pointed out, race

6446
03:54:59,609 --> 03:55:01,442
equity is one of your board's

6447
03:55:01,442 --> 03:55:04,192
top priorities. So we in the

6448
03:55:04,192 --> 03:55:05,317
office of equity have been

6449
03:55:05,317 --> 03:55:06,899
working hard behind the scenes

6450
03:55:06,899 --> 03:55:08,400
and within the community to

6451
03:55:08,400 --> 03:55:10,800
advance our racial equity

6452
03:55:12,150 --> 03:55:13,250
strategies. I want to talk

6453
03:55:13,250 --> 03:55:14,567
about one in particular today.

6454
03:55:14,567 --> 03:55:15,776
Before we start, I want to

6455
03:55:15,776 --> 03:55:17,150
provide a couple of contextual

6456
03:55:17,150 --> 03:55:18,275
slides for everyone. One thing

6457
03:55:18,275 --> 03:55:20,442
we know to be true is race

6458
03:55:20,442 --> 03:55:21,818
matters. And when we look

6459
03:55:21,818 --> 03:55:23,899
across almost every indicater,

6460
03:55:23,899 --> 03:55:25,776
whether it be maternal child

6461
03:55:25,776 --> 03:55:27,567
health, whether it be, you know,

6462
03:55:27,567 --> 03:55:29,567
incarceration rates, income,

6463
03:55:31,317 --> 03:55:33,250
graduation rates. We see these

6464
03:55:33,250 --> 03:55:35,250
troubling disparities along

6465
03:55:35,942 --> 03:55:37,651
racial and equity lines. It's

6466
03:55:37,651 --> 03:55:39,776
important that we center race

6467
03:55:39,776 --> 03:55:42,250
and our strategies of how we

6468
03:55:42,250 --> 03:55:44,250
address these inequities. In

6469
03:55:44,250 --> 03:55:45,899
addition to that, we also know

6470
03:55:45,899 --> 03:55:48,299
these racialized disparities and

6471
03:55:49,651 --> 03:55:51,109
social inequities are not

6472
03:55:51,109 --> 03:55:53,400
natural, they're not inevitable,

6473
03:55:53,400 --> 03:55:55,670
they're not random, either.

6474
03:55:55,670 --> 03:55:57,899
They've been embedded into our

6475
03:55:57,899 --> 03:55:59,670
system over years and years. We

6476
03:55:59,670 --> 03:56:00,899
have to be intentional about our

6477
03:56:00,899 --> 03:56:02,400
approaches to addressing them

6478
03:56:02,400 --> 03:56:06,000
using a race equity lens. Let's

6479
03:56:06,250 --> 03:56:08,692
go to the next slide, please.

6480
03:56:08,692 --> 03:56:10,526
What we also know, disparities

6481
03:56:10,526 --> 03:56:12,899
are often created and maintained

6482
03:56:12,899 --> 03:56:14,818
through policies and practices

6483
03:56:14,818 --> 03:56:17,218
that contain barriers to

6484
03:56:18,150 --> 03:56:19,670
opportunity. It's possible and

6485
03:56:19,670 --> 03:56:20,899
only possible to close the

6486
03:56:20,899 --> 03:56:22,776
equity gaps by using strategies

6487
03:56:22,776 --> 03:56:23,899
that are specifically

6488
03:56:23,899 --> 03:56:25,900
intentional around a racial

6489
03:56:25,900 --> 03:56:27,899
equity focus. And so one of the

6490
03:56:27,899 --> 03:56:28,899
things that we've been doing

6491
03:56:28,899 --> 03:56:30,234
here in the county is shifting

6492
03:56:30,234 --> 03:56:31,692
our approach to the way we do

6493
03:56:31,692 --> 03:56:34,692
business. And that really means

6494
03:56:35,150 --> 03:56:37,692
for us applying resources where

6495
03:56:37,692 --> 03:56:38,899
the needs are the greatest.

6496
03:56:38,899 --> 03:56:40,109
What we found in our research

6497
03:56:40,109 --> 03:56:41,859
and analysis and what the data

6498
03:56:41,859 --> 03:56:44,109
is telling us anecdotally and

6499
03:56:44,109 --> 03:56:45,899
statistically, is that we find

6500
03:56:45,899 --> 03:56:47,400
our communities of color and

6501
03:56:47,400 --> 03:56:50,400
lower end communities of color

6502
03:56:51,109 --> 03:56:53,899
are faring worse than others in

6503
03:56:53,899 --> 03:56:54,942
the county. We're taking a

6504
03:56:54,942 --> 03:56:56,899
race-focused approach, but

6505
03:56:56,899 --> 03:56:59,299
certainly not race exclusive.

6506
03:57:00,942 --> 03:57:02,692
We find we bring an

6507
03:57:02,692 --> 03:57:05,920
intersectionality to the work.

6508
03:57:08,484 --> 03:57:10,670
By focusing on racial equity,

6509
03:57:10,670 --> 03:57:12,942
it's an opportunity to bring

6510
03:57:12,942 --> 03:57:14,651
frameworks, tools, and resources

6511
03:57:14,651 --> 03:57:16,526
that can be applied to other

6512
03:57:16,526 --> 03:57:17,899
areas of marginalization. Talk

6513
03:57:17,899 --> 03:57:19,734
about ableism, talk about, you

6514
03:57:19,734 --> 03:57:22,899
know, sexism, a number of --

6515
03:57:22,899 --> 03:57:24,899
isms can be applied using this

6516
03:57:24,899 --> 03:57:25,900
particular intersectional

6517
03:57:25,900 --> 03:57:28,900
framework. Next slide. So one

6518
03:57:29,899 --> 03:57:31,150
of the things that I wanted to

6519
03:57:31,150 --> 03:57:33,692
be sure to cover here today is,

6520
03:57:33,692 --> 03:57:34,983
you know, as you all mentioned,

6521
03:57:34,983 --> 03:57:36,359
race equity is one of your

6522
03:57:36,359 --> 03:57:38,192
priorities, and so we've been

6523
03:57:38,192 --> 03:57:39,899
thinking how do we

6524
03:57:39,899 --> 03:57:42,192
operationalized the thing called

6525
03:57:42,192 --> 03:57:44,150
race equity. In part, we do it

6526
03:57:44,150 --> 03:57:45,484
through developing tools that

6527
03:57:45,484 --> 03:57:47,884
can drive antiracist outcomes.

6528
03:57:47,899 --> 03:57:49,442
One tools I want to talk about

6529
03:57:49,442 --> 03:57:52,250
today is the race equity budget

6530
03:57:52,250 --> 03:57:54,234
tool. Next slide. Before we

6531
03:57:54,234 --> 03:57:56,670
got started in -- I want to say,

6532
03:57:56,670 --> 03:57:57,567
it's the first time we've done

6533
03:57:57,567 --> 03:57:58,484
something like this in the

6534
03:57:58,484 --> 03:57:59,899
County of Marin. I appreciate

6535
03:57:59,899 --> 03:58:01,609
everyone's willingness to be

6536
03:58:01,609 --> 03:58:04,250
creative, to be innovative, and

6537
03:58:04,250 --> 03:58:06,150
to push. That's what we strive

6538
03:58:06,150 --> 03:58:09,859
to do in the Office of Equity.

6539
03:58:09,859 --> 03:58:10,899
We wanted to learn from other

6540
03:58:10,899 --> 03:58:12,526
communities, learn from other

6541
03:58:12,526 --> 03:58:13,900
jurisdictions. What worked when

6542
03:58:13,900 --> 03:58:15,567
they developed their race equity

6543
03:58:15,567 --> 03:58:17,317
budget tool, what didn't work,

6544
03:58:17,317 --> 03:58:18,651
what are some of the glaring

6545
03:58:18,651 --> 03:58:19,899
omissions that took place. We

6546
03:58:19,899 --> 03:58:21,109
did a bunch of research. We

6547
03:58:21,109 --> 03:58:23,509
talked to over 30 jurisdictions,

6548
03:58:23,899 --> 03:58:25,818
and we focused in on about seven

6549
03:58:25,818 --> 03:58:27,359
of them we felt were closest to

6550
03:58:27,359 --> 03:58:30,359
the Marin county context. From

6551
03:58:30,899 --> 03:58:32,526
there it lead us to the

6552
03:58:32,526 --> 03:58:33,651
development of our own racial

6553
03:58:33,651 --> 03:58:36,651
equity budget tool. Next slide.

6554
03:58:36,899 --> 03:58:38,317
So what is it you might be

6555
03:58:38,317 --> 03:58:40,317
wondering? And essentially,

6556
03:58:40,400 --> 03:58:41,776
everyone, it's a decision making

6557
03:58:41,776 --> 03:58:43,899
model. We encourage our

6558
03:58:43,899 --> 03:58:44,899
departments, as well as our

6559
03:58:44,899 --> 03:58:46,317
elected officials, and our

6560
03:58:46,317 --> 03:58:48,150
community members to think

6561
03:58:48,150 --> 03:58:49,651
critically about their role in

6562
03:58:49,651 --> 03:58:51,900
advancing equity, how can they

6563
03:58:51,900 --> 03:58:53,899
integrate decisions into the

6564
03:58:53,899 --> 03:58:55,250
design of their budgets,

6565
03:58:55,250 --> 03:58:57,425
policies, and practices. And

6566
03:58:57,900 --> 03:58:59,275
ultimately what we hope it will

6567
03:58:59,275 --> 03:59:01,899
do is spark questions on behalf

6568
03:59:01,899 --> 03:59:04,818
of our staff to encourage them

6569
03:59:04,818 --> 03:59:08,442
to think deeper in terms of what

6570
03:59:08,442 --> 03:59:10,899
is their role. Wherever they

6571
03:59:10,899 --> 03:59:12,692
sit in the organization, how can

6572
03:59:12,692 --> 03:59:14,899
they advance Racial Equity.

6573
03:59:14,899 --> 03:59:16,818
Next slide. So it's two parts.

6574
03:59:16,818 --> 03:59:18,899
The first part is equity lens,

6575
03:59:18,899 --> 03:59:20,670
which is basically a set of

6576
03:59:20,670 --> 03:59:21,275
questions, a set of six

6577
03:59:21,275 --> 03:59:22,899
questions we put to our staff

6578
03:59:22,899 --> 03:59:24,651
and our community members. The

6579
03:59:24,651 --> 03:59:26,651
first is "what is the proposal?"

6580
03:59:26,651 --> 03:59:27,692
What is the project or

6581
03:59:27,692 --> 03:59:28,899
initiative that you're seeking

6582
03:59:28,899 --> 03:59:30,776
to start? What do you hope to

6583
03:59:30,776 --> 03:59:32,442
accomplish? From there, it's

6584
03:59:32,442 --> 03:59:34,317
community. We want this to be a

6585
03:59:34,317 --> 03:59:35,234
tool that is rooted in

6586
03:59:35,234 --> 03:59:37,899
community. And so we ask "how

6587
03:59:37,899 --> 03:59:39,670
does the proposal serve or

6588
03:59:39,670 --> 03:59:40,899
impact?" Who is benefiting our

6589
03:59:40,899 --> 03:59:42,400
burdened by this particular

6590
03:59:42,400 --> 03:59:44,484
proposal or initiative? And

6591
03:59:44,484 --> 03:59:46,192
data is so important. We make

6592
03:59:46,192 --> 03:59:47,899
data driven and informed

6593
03:59:47,899 --> 03:59:49,900
decisions. So what information

6594
03:59:49,900 --> 03:59:52,192
do you need? Where are the gaps

6595
03:59:52,192 --> 03:59:53,734
in your analysis? How can we

6596
03:59:53,734 --> 03:59:56,400
support you in unearthing some

6597
03:59:56,400 --> 03:59:57,484
of their information.

6598
03:59:57,484 --> 03:59:59,359
Implementation, "how are you

6599
03:59:59,359 --> 04:00:02,234
going to do this?" What is your

6600
04:00:02,234 --> 04:00:03,234
approach? What is your

6601
04:00:03,234 --> 04:00:05,634
strategy. Analysis? What was

6602
04:00:06,899 --> 04:00:07,900
the result of the good work and

6603
04:00:07,900 --> 04:00:09,776
thinking? What came of it. And

6604
04:00:09,776 --> 04:00:10,983
lastly, accountability, which is

6605
04:00:10,983 --> 04:00:12,526
perhaps the most important one

6606
04:00:12,526 --> 04:00:14,400
to a lot of our constituents.

6607
04:00:14,400 --> 04:00:16,818
It's how did we share the

6608
04:00:16,818 --> 04:00:18,899
information? How did things

6609
04:00:18,899 --> 04:00:19,899
change as a result? How are

6610
04:00:19,899 --> 04:00:21,317
People of Color in this county

6611
04:00:21,317 --> 04:00:23,942
better off as a result of this

6612
04:00:23,942 --> 04:00:24,900
particular initiative. Those

6613
04:00:24,900 --> 04:00:26,484
are questions we put to staff,

6614
04:00:26,484 --> 04:00:28,884
community, et. cetera. The

6615
04:00:29,651 --> 04:00:31,317
second part of the tool is an

6616
04:00:31,317 --> 04:00:33,717
equity data matrix. And

6617
04:00:33,734 --> 04:00:35,670
essentially, you know, this is

6618
04:00:35,670 --> 04:00:36,275
an opportunity for us to support

6619
04:00:36,275 --> 04:00:37,899
the use of the racial equity

6620
04:00:37,899 --> 04:00:40,859
lens, so we provided a set of

6621
04:00:40,859 --> 04:00:42,776
curated data sources for staff,

6622
04:00:42,776 --> 04:00:44,109
as a starting point. And we

6623
04:00:44,109 --> 04:00:45,275
also know that a lot of our

6624
04:00:45,275 --> 04:00:47,317
departments have a wealth of

6625
04:00:47,317 --> 04:00:48,692
information and data sets

6626
04:00:48,692 --> 04:00:49,900
already. So we encourage them

6627
04:00:49,900 --> 04:00:51,734
to tap into that, to better

6628
04:00:51,734 --> 04:00:52,526
understand some of the service

6629
04:00:52,526 --> 04:00:54,899
gaps. But ultimately what is

6630
04:00:54,899 --> 04:00:56,192
important is that these sources

6631
04:00:56,192 --> 04:00:58,592
are disaggregated by race.

6632
04:00:58,776 --> 04:01:00,651
That'll help us prioritize which

6633
04:01:00,651 --> 04:01:02,234
programs and investments we want

6634
04:01:02,234 --> 04:01:04,899
to make in order to reduce the

6635
04:01:04,899 --> 04:01:06,899
disparities. And, you know, my

6636
04:01:06,899 --> 04:01:11,670
hope, and the hope of our team,

6637
04:01:11,670 --> 04:01:13,670
some of the data can spark

6638
04:01:13,670 --> 04:01:14,651
critical awareness on behalf of

6639
04:01:14,651 --> 04:01:15,818
our staff. What are the

6640
04:01:15,818 --> 04:01:16,942
racialized outcomes? What are

6641
04:01:16,942 --> 04:01:18,734
the patterns that exist? They

6642
04:01:18,734 --> 04:01:20,609
are patterns. Right. And how

6643
04:01:20,609 --> 04:01:22,670
do we encourage our staff to

6644
04:01:22,670 --> 04:01:23,734
reflect on some of these

6645
04:01:23,734 --> 04:01:25,484
assumptions that we take for

6646
04:01:25,484 --> 04:01:28,234
granted? And rather root it in

6647
04:01:28,234 --> 04:01:29,900
the data rather than the

6648
04:01:29,900 --> 04:01:31,818
antidotal stories we tell one

6649
04:01:31,818 --> 04:01:32,899
another. That's essentially the

6650
04:01:32,899 --> 04:01:34,776
tool. It's six sets of

6651
04:01:34,776 --> 04:01:36,150
questions, and then a set of

6652
04:01:36,150 --> 04:01:38,526
data resources. Let's go to the

6653
04:01:38,526 --> 04:01:41,983
next slide. So we started off,

6654
04:01:41,983 --> 04:01:44,109
everyone, with a pilot. And

6655
04:01:44,109 --> 04:01:45,250
that was one of the things that

6656
04:01:45,250 --> 04:01:47,609
our colleagues taught us when we

6657
04:01:47,609 --> 04:01:49,442
interviewed and did a bunch of

6658
04:01:49,442 --> 04:01:51,250
research. They said, why don't

6659
04:01:51,250 --> 04:01:53,484
you start with a pilot. Roll it

6660
04:01:53,484 --> 04:01:55,670
out slower. It's a huge change.

6661
04:01:55,670 --> 04:01:56,899
It's a transformational shift in

6662
04:01:56,899 --> 04:01:58,400
the way the county does

6663
04:01:58,400 --> 04:01:59,983
business. We took it to heart.

6664
04:01:59,983 --> 04:02:01,484
We started with five

6665
04:02:01,484 --> 04:02:03,884
departments. HHS, DPW, CDA,

6666
04:02:05,275 --> 04:02:07,250
public defender, as well as our

6667
04:02:07,250 --> 04:02:09,484
friends in Parks. And they were

6668
04:02:09,484 --> 04:02:11,899
willing to try on the tool. So

6669
04:02:11,899 --> 04:02:13,818
they took a particular project

6670
04:02:13,818 --> 04:02:15,150
or initiative, and they went

6671
04:02:15,150 --> 04:02:17,275
through the exercise. Going

6672
04:02:17,275 --> 04:02:18,275
through the equity lens

6673
04:02:18,275 --> 04:02:19,899
questions of using those data

6674
04:02:19,899 --> 04:02:22,234
sources, and what they found is

6675
04:02:22,234 --> 04:02:23,818
that there are often shifts they

6676
04:02:23,818 --> 04:02:25,899
can make in their approach to

6677
04:02:25,899 --> 04:02:27,400
better serve our most impacted

6678
04:02:27,400 --> 04:02:29,250
community members, mainly

6679
04:02:29,250 --> 04:02:32,250
communities of Color. So we

6680
04:02:33,192 --> 04:02:35,150
took the learnings -- next

6681
04:02:35,150 --> 04:02:36,734
slide -- we took the learnings.

6682
04:02:36,734 --> 04:02:38,484
That lead us to where we are

6683
04:02:38,484 --> 04:02:39,899
today. I want to shed light on

6684
04:02:39,899 --> 04:02:41,250
a couple of things that came

6685
04:02:41,250 --> 04:02:42,192
from the pilot. One of the

6686
04:02:42,192 --> 04:02:43,818
things we learned is that our

6687
04:02:43,818 --> 04:02:45,899
departments are at different

6688
04:02:45,899 --> 04:02:47,192
places in their journey of

6689
04:02:47,192 --> 04:02:48,109
understanding this concept of

6690
04:02:48,109 --> 04:02:49,899
equity. Some of them have

6691
04:02:49,899 --> 04:02:51,899
strong equity muscles. Some of

6692
04:02:51,899 --> 04:02:53,484
them are just gifting started.

6693
04:02:53,484 --> 04:02:54,692
And so we in the Office of

6694
04:02:54,692 --> 04:02:56,526
Equity make it a priority to

6695
04:02:56,526 --> 04:02:57,899
meet them wherever they are.

6696
04:02:57,899 --> 04:03:00,899
And so, in part, that relies on

6697
04:03:00,899 --> 04:03:03,299
training and capacity building,

6698
04:03:03,359 --> 04:03:04,899
communication loops, and other

6699
04:03:04,899 --> 04:03:05,942
ways we can support the

6700
04:03:05,942 --> 04:03:08,670
departments in their journey.

6701
04:03:08,670 --> 04:03:09,442
Another thing that we learned is

6702
04:03:09,442 --> 04:03:11,899
the process versus the product.

6703
04:03:11,899 --> 04:03:13,234
And I think it's so important

6704
04:03:13,234 --> 04:03:15,899
for us to think about equity as

6705
04:03:15,899 --> 04:03:19,670
both an outcome and a process.

6706
04:03:19,670 --> 04:03:20,692
And ultimately we hope it

6707
04:03:20,692 --> 04:03:22,109
results in the fair and just

6708
04:03:22,109 --> 04:03:24,317
access to opportunity. So we

6709
04:03:24,317 --> 04:03:26,317
wanted to make sure that staff

6710
04:03:26,317 --> 04:03:27,526
understood that, yes, the

6711
04:03:27,526 --> 04:03:28,609
product is important but it's

6712
04:03:28,609 --> 04:03:30,670
also the journey of how we got

6713
04:03:30,670 --> 04:03:33,667
there. I think the last thing

6714
04:03:34,899 --> 04:03:36,250
to highlight is the importance

6715
04:03:36,250 --> 04:03:37,651
of this consultation and

6716
04:03:37,651 --> 04:03:40,983
support. We want to be a

6717
04:03:40,983 --> 04:03:42,818
friendly coach for our staff and

6718
04:03:42,818 --> 04:03:44,109
our departments. So they can

6719
04:03:44,109 --> 04:03:45,734
come along in this journey with

6720
04:03:45,734 --> 04:03:47,526
us. And what we found is that

6721
04:03:47,526 --> 04:03:48,651
there is a need for that

6722
04:03:48,651 --> 04:03:50,651
consultation, that strategic

6723
04:03:52,359 --> 04:03:53,900
guidance, and advice. We're

6724
04:03:53,900 --> 04:03:56,900
bolstering our resources to best

6725
04:03:58,651 --> 04:03:59,983
support our departments, as

6726
04:03:59,983 --> 04:04:02,359
well. Here we are. I'm excited

6727
04:04:02,359 --> 04:04:04,484
to share we're ready to launch

6728
04:04:04,484 --> 04:04:06,234
this county wide! And our goal

6729
04:04:06,234 --> 04:04:08,900
is to weave this race equity

6730
04:04:08,900 --> 04:04:10,776
analysis into our fiscal year

6731
04:04:10,776 --> 04:04:13,176
2024-26 budget cycle. We've

6732
04:04:13,609 --> 04:04:15,899
been working closely with Josh

6733
04:04:15,899 --> 04:04:17,899
and his team to make sure it's a

6734
04:04:17,899 --> 04:04:19,400
seamless transition for a lot of

6735
04:04:19,400 --> 04:04:21,442
our staff. Some of us have

6736
04:04:21,442 --> 04:04:22,859
been, you know, coming to me and

6737
04:04:22,859 --> 04:04:24,942
saying "how do we use this tool?

6738
04:04:24,942 --> 04:04:26,609
We love the idea. We love the

6739
04:04:26,609 --> 04:04:28,400
concept. How do I use it in the

6740
04:04:28,400 --> 04:04:30,484
day-to-day practice?" We've come

6741
04:04:30,484 --> 04:04:32,899
up with a few ideas. We're open

6742
04:04:32,899 --> 04:04:35,899
to staff being creative. One

6743
04:04:36,484 --> 04:04:38,484
around service enhancements,

6744
04:04:38,526 --> 04:04:40,926
funding requests, budget change

6745
04:04:40,942 --> 04:04:42,776
proposals, implementing

6746
04:04:42,776 --> 04:04:45,176
departmental budgets, and equity

6747
04:04:47,899 --> 04:04:48,900
impact statements. Those are

6748
04:04:48,900 --> 04:04:49,899
some of the ways we recommend

6749
04:04:49,899 --> 04:04:50,899
and are asking for our

6750
04:04:50,899 --> 04:04:52,400
departments to use the tool, in

6751
04:04:52,400 --> 04:04:53,776
order to get this additional

6752
04:04:53,776 --> 04:04:56,484
funding they're seeking in terms

6753
04:04:56,484 --> 04:04:59,484
ecps. I've mentioned this, but

6754
04:04:59,484 --> 04:05:02,983
I think it bears repeating, the

6755
04:05:02,983 --> 04:05:04,942
importance of providing training

6756
04:05:04,942 --> 04:05:06,526
and capacity-building supports

6757
04:05:06,526 --> 04:05:08,150
as they go along on the journey

6758
04:05:08,150 --> 04:05:09,526
with us and implementing the

6759
04:05:09,526 --> 04:05:10,899
tool. I want to share a couple

6760
04:05:10,899 --> 04:05:13,567
more slides and will pass it

6761
04:05:13,567 --> 04:05:15,609
back to Josh. But what are the

6762
04:05:15,609 --> 04:05:17,692
things your board asked of me

6763
04:05:17,692 --> 04:05:19,109
is, you know, to make sure that

6764
04:05:19,109 --> 04:05:21,250
our departments are being

6765
04:05:21,250 --> 04:05:22,692
thoughtful in the way the design

6766
04:05:22,692 --> 04:05:24,250
and develop equity impact

6767
04:05:24,250 --> 04:05:26,651
statements. And so we believe

6768
04:05:26,651 --> 04:05:28,275
that the tool can be a template

6769
04:05:28,275 --> 04:05:30,359
for the design of some of those

6770
04:05:30,359 --> 04:05:31,734
statements. And how they go

6771
04:05:31,734 --> 04:05:32,900
through the analysis of thinking

6772
04:05:32,900 --> 04:05:34,400
through who is benefiting and

6773
04:05:34,400 --> 04:05:35,899
who is burdened. How are we

6774
04:05:35,899 --> 04:05:37,899
impacting community members?

6775
04:05:39,442 --> 04:05:41,234
Ultimately, what came of it?

6776
04:05:41,234 --> 04:05:42,899
How are better people better

6777
04:05:42,899 --> 04:05:44,317
off? We hope it's a way for

6778
04:05:44,317 --> 04:05:46,983
them to develop thoughtful and

6779
04:05:46,983 --> 04:05:48,442
intentional equity impact

6780
04:05:48,442 --> 04:05:51,442
statements. Next slide. As I

6781
04:05:51,942 --> 04:05:54,275
wrap it up, everybody, I wanted

6782
04:05:54,275 --> 04:05:56,234
to share a few take aways. Some

6783
04:05:56,234 --> 04:05:58,899
reflections from not only the

6784
04:05:58,899 --> 04:06:00,859
pilot but our process so far.

6785
04:06:00,859 --> 04:06:01,899
The first I want to start with

6786
04:06:01,899 --> 04:06:03,651
is the excellent public service

6787
04:06:03,651 --> 04:06:05,317
means that we are addressing

6788
04:06:05,317 --> 04:06:07,317
these racialized disparities.

6789
04:06:07,359 --> 04:06:08,899
We're addressing the social

6790
04:06:08,899 --> 04:06:10,484
disparities. And that we're

6791
04:06:10,484 --> 04:06:11,899
asking our departments to review

6792
04:06:11,899 --> 04:06:13,651
their missions with that race

6793
04:06:13,651 --> 04:06:15,400
equity lens in mind. Right.

6794
04:06:15,400 --> 04:06:16,899
It's not something additional to

6795
04:06:16,899 --> 04:06:18,818
their work plan. It's embedded.

6796
04:06:18,818 --> 04:06:20,899
It's a part of what we do as

6797
04:06:20,899 --> 04:06:23,299
county service workers. Another

6798
04:06:24,317 --> 04:06:25,983
important part to highlight here

6799
04:06:25,983 --> 04:06:28,567
is that we remain flexible. I

6800
04:06:28,567 --> 04:06:29,692
mentioned it's the first time

6801
04:06:29,692 --> 04:06:30,776
we're doing something like this

6802
04:06:30,776 --> 04:06:32,899
in the county. So we want to be

6803
04:06:32,899 --> 04:06:34,484
sure to be flexible and iterate

6804
04:06:34,484 --> 04:06:36,899
as we go. It's important that

6805
04:06:36,899 --> 04:06:37,942
we recognize we're building

6806
04:06:37,942 --> 04:06:39,317
something new. So we will need

6807
04:06:39,317 --> 04:06:41,442
to adapt and improve the process

6808
04:06:41,442 --> 04:06:43,109
in real time. So we're very

6809
04:06:43,109 --> 04:06:44,359
much looking forward to that

6810
04:06:44,359 --> 04:06:46,759
challenge, and that opportunity.

6811
04:06:47,150 --> 04:06:48,899
Another one to call out to you

6812
04:06:48,899 --> 04:06:50,859
is creating spaces that are

6813
04:06:50,859 --> 04:06:52,859
intentional. To

6814
04:06:53,275 --> 04:06:54,942
institutionalize our approach.

6815
04:06:54,942 --> 04:06:57,692
So whether Matthew is here,

6816
04:06:57,692 --> 04:06:59,651
whether Josh is here, whether

6817
04:06:59,651 --> 04:07:02,359
you all are here. That we bake

6818
04:07:02,359 --> 04:07:03,899
this into the DNA of how we do

6819
04:07:03,899 --> 04:07:05,609
business in the county. And so

6820
04:07:05,609 --> 04:07:06,776
that's something that we're

6821
04:07:06,776 --> 04:07:09,400
seeking to do in this initial go

6822
04:07:09,400 --> 04:07:11,899
around. And, last but not

6823
04:07:11,899 --> 04:07:13,234
least, I would close by saying

6824
04:07:13,234 --> 04:07:14,651
that we want to highlight and

6825
04:07:14,651 --> 04:07:15,983
share the message that equity is

6826
04:07:15,983 --> 04:07:18,859
everyone's job, and that we have

6827
04:07:18,859 --> 04:07:20,234
a part to play in making sure

6828
04:07:20,234 --> 04:07:21,609
this is a county where everyone

6829
04:07:21,609 --> 04:07:23,150
can thrive. So with that, I'll

6830
04:07:23,150 --> 04:07:24,317
pass it over to my colleague

6831
04:07:24,317 --> 04:07:26,317
Josh.

6832
04:07:29,150 --> 04:07:29,275
>>JOSH SWEDBERG: Thank you very

6833
04:07:29,275 --> 04:07:32,275
much. All right. For the next

6834
04:07:32,275 --> 04:07:33,899
few slides, I'm going to talk

6835
04:07:33,899 --> 04:07:35,983
about our economic forecast and

6836
04:07:35,983 --> 04:07:37,651
our budget assumptions that we

6837
04:07:37,651 --> 04:07:38,899
currently have. I would like to

6838
04:07:38,899 --> 04:07:40,150
say we're not providing any

6839
04:07:40,150 --> 04:07:41,983
recommendations today. We're

6840
04:07:41,983 --> 04:07:45,192
just providing an update on the

6841
04:07:45,192 --> 04:07:46,567
current trends. We will return

6842
04:07:46,567 --> 04:07:48,609
back to your board with revised

6843
04:07:48,609 --> 04:07:51,900
projections in 2024. So in

6844
04:07:51,818 --> 04:07:52,942
terms of the economic forecast,

6845
04:07:52,942 --> 04:07:54,400
our economy continues to show

6846
04:07:54,400 --> 04:07:56,800
resilience, how to concerns

6847
04:07:56,900 --> 04:07:58,526
remain. In a moment, I'll talk

6848
04:07:58,526 --> 04:08:00,442
about kind of one of our biggest

6849
04:08:00,442 --> 04:08:01,734
concerns is the state budget

6850
04:08:01,734 --> 04:08:03,150
deficit. But in terms of the

6851
04:08:03,150 --> 04:08:04,150
national economy, it is

6852
04:08:04,150 --> 04:08:06,317
continuing its recent trend of

6853
04:08:06,317 --> 04:08:09,317
growth. Fierce of recession are

6854
04:08:09,899 --> 04:08:12,234
reducing, though are not

6855
04:08:12,234 --> 04:08:14,150
eliminated. We are seeing,

6856
04:08:14,150 --> 04:08:16,109
though, that the national and

6857
04:08:16,109 --> 04:08:18,526
Bay Area level inflation is

6858
04:08:18,526 --> 04:08:19,899
reducing. There has been stock

6859
04:08:19,899 --> 04:08:21,275
market growth over the past six

6860
04:08:21,275 --> 04:08:23,317
months. Then as we've seen in

6861
04:08:23,317 --> 04:08:24,900
the next slide, I'll highlight

6862
04:08:24,900 --> 04:08:26,526
the GDP is growing at

6863
04:08:26,526 --> 04:08:28,526
proximately 5.3%. Actually, can

6864
04:08:28,899 --> 04:08:30,317
you go back one more slide.

6865
04:08:30,317 --> 04:08:31,899
Apologies. Thank you. Where

6866
04:08:31,899 --> 04:08:33,899
one of our concerns is the state

6867
04:08:33,899 --> 04:08:36,899
budget. Just recently the LAO's

6868
04:08:36,983 --> 04:08:39,109
office released the report that

6869
04:08:39,109 --> 04:08:40,692
the state budget is facing

6870
04:08:40,692 --> 04:08:42,900
likely a $68 billion budget

6871
04:08:42,900 --> 04:08:45,400
deficit next year. That's a

6872
04:08:45,400 --> 04:08:47,250
significant amount. That report

6873
04:08:47,250 --> 04:08:50,109
does not indicate, you know, --

6874
04:08:50,109 --> 04:08:52,526
we don't know how the governor

6875
04:08:52,526 --> 04:08:54,442
is planning on addressing those

6876
04:08:54,442 --> 04:08:56,359
deficits. We'll receive the

6877
04:08:56,359 --> 04:08:57,734
update as part of the January

6878
04:08:57,734 --> 04:08:59,899
budget update. We'll have more

6879
04:08:59,899 --> 04:09:01,670
information on what impacts to

6880
04:09:01,670 --> 04:09:02,899
the county, what they will be at

6881
04:09:02,899 --> 04:09:04,942
that time. We are also seeing

6882
04:09:04,942 --> 04:09:06,776
the impacts of increased

6883
04:09:06,776 --> 04:09:08,150
interest rates at our local

6884
04:09:08,150 --> 04:09:11,150
economy. We don't yet know

6885
04:09:11,983 --> 04:09:13,899
exactly when those will end and

6886
04:09:13,899 --> 04:09:17,692
what the end result are, but we

6887
04:09:17,692 --> 04:09:19,150
have been seeing a reduction in

6888
04:09:19,150 --> 04:09:20,899
sales that are impacting the

6889
04:09:20,899 --> 04:09:22,109
projections, as well. Next

6890
04:09:22,109 --> 04:09:25,109
slide, please. So, again, just

6891
04:09:25,317 --> 04:09:26,899
briefly through the charts here.

6892
04:09:26,899 --> 04:09:28,651
As you see here, this is the

6893
04:09:28,651 --> 04:09:30,400
gross domestic product over the

6894
04:09:30,400 --> 04:09:32,234
past few years. Just recently,

6895
04:09:32,234 --> 04:09:35,526
as of Q3, 2023, it grew at

6896
04:09:35,526 --> 04:09:37,526
proximately 5.3%. It's capping

6897
04:09:40,859 --> 04:09:42,359
off five consecutive quarters of

6898
04:09:42,359 --> 04:09:43,526
growth. That's one of the good

6899
04:09:43,526 --> 04:09:45,250
signs we're seeing. Next slide.

6900
04:09:45,250 --> 04:09:46,484
One of the challenges, though,

6901
04:09:46,484 --> 04:09:48,670
is the interest rates, the

6902
04:09:48,670 --> 04:09:49,899
federal interest rates on our

6903
04:09:49,899 --> 04:09:52,299
local housing market, and

6904
04:09:52,526 --> 04:09:54,609
basically we are seeing a

6905
04:09:54,609 --> 04:09:57,609
slowdown in sales. You know,

6906
04:09:57,899 --> 04:10:01,150
part of that, we're revising our

6907
04:10:01,150 --> 04:10:03,250
three-year projected tax growth

6908
04:10:03,250 --> 04:10:06,250
rates from essentially 6% of the

6909
04:10:06,859 --> 04:10:09,859
prior year to 5% for fiscal

6910
04:10:09,899 --> 04:10:12,899
year' 24-' 25. The red line

6911
04:10:16,234 --> 04:10:18,400
indicates our 20-year average.

6912
04:10:18,400 --> 04:10:20,942
It's 5%. So we would currently

6913
04:10:20,942 --> 04:10:22,859
project that to -- we would

6914
04:10:22,859 --> 04:10:24,900
project to go below that 20-year

6915
04:10:24,900 --> 04:10:26,899
average in the second and third

6916
04:10:26,899 --> 04:10:29,899
years. Next slide. So, again,

6917
04:10:31,442 --> 04:10:32,567
in terms of our budget

6918
04:10:32,567 --> 04:10:34,567
projections. We're assuming

6919
04:10:34,567 --> 04:10:36,899
moderate economic growth. Our

6920
04:10:36,899 --> 04:10:38,818
current budget projections --

6921
04:10:38,818 --> 04:10:40,400
I'll say this a few times.

6922
04:10:40,400 --> 04:10:42,275
Apologies for the redundancies.

6923
04:10:42,275 --> 04:10:45,275
Our projections did not assume

6924
04:10:45,899 --> 04:10:47,109
significant state budget cuts.

6925
04:10:47,109 --> 04:10:48,692
If it were to occur, we would

6926
04:10:48,692 --> 04:10:51,109
need to come back and revise our

6927
04:10:51,109 --> 04:10:52,734
projections. We'll be looking

6928
04:10:52,734 --> 04:10:53,899
closely to the state budget

6929
04:10:53,899 --> 04:10:55,983
update in January. Our property

6930
04:10:55,983 --> 04:10:57,899
tax projections, as I mentioned

6931
04:10:57,899 --> 04:10:59,899
earlier, projecting 5%, 4.5%,

6932
04:11:02,609 --> 04:11:04,400
and 4%. We'll be working with

6933
04:11:04,400 --> 04:11:05,899
the assess or so's office and

6934
04:11:05,899 --> 04:11:06,900
department of finance to refine

6935
04:11:06,900 --> 04:11:08,192
those moving forward. Where

6936
04:11:08,192 --> 04:11:09,484
applicable, we're seeing growth

6937
04:11:09,484 --> 04:11:11,884
in departmental fees. We're

6938
04:11:14,670 --> 04:11:15,900
projecting a slight slowdown in

6939
04:11:15,900 --> 04:11:17,250
sales tax. One of the key

6940
04:11:17,250 --> 04:11:19,400
changes that we're considering,

6941
04:11:19,400 --> 04:11:22,317
is revising our assumptions in

6942
04:11:22,317 --> 04:11:24,442
terms of year-end roll over.

6943
04:11:24,442 --> 04:11:26,250
Currently roll over $20 million

6944
04:11:26,250 --> 04:11:28,317
to support the ongoing

6945
04:11:28,317 --> 04:11:29,859
operational budget. We have

6946
04:11:29,859 --> 04:11:32,818
seen over the past few years,

6947
04:11:32,818 --> 04:11:34,899
really, that year-end savings

6948
04:11:34,899 --> 04:11:36,670
tick up. We would consider

6949
04:11:36,670 --> 04:11:38,275
revising that roll over from $20

6950
04:11:38,275 --> 04:11:40,567
million to $25 million. Next

6951
04:11:40,567 --> 04:11:43,567
slide, please. In terms of

6952
04:11:43,942 --> 04:11:45,942
expenditures, we would maintain

6953
04:11:45,942 --> 04:11:47,899
current service levels and

6954
04:11:47,899 --> 04:11:48,818
previously improved

6955
04:11:48,818 --> 04:11:50,651
enhancements. At this time, we

6956
04:11:50,651 --> 04:11:51,776
see the potential for ongoing

6957
04:11:51,776 --> 04:11:53,776
service enhancements, depending

6958
04:11:54,670 --> 04:11:55,734
on the state budget. Previously

6959
04:11:55,734 --> 04:11:58,734
approved COLAs will be retained.

6960
04:11:59,150 --> 04:12:02,750
And we expect to see flat

6961
04:12:02,899 --> 04:12:04,234
pension costs. And where

6962
04:12:04,234 --> 04:12:05,150
applicable, if there are

6963
04:12:05,150 --> 04:12:07,192
savings, we would devote those

6964
04:12:07,192 --> 04:12:10,792
to our retiree health trust, per

6965
04:12:13,899 --> 04:12:15,692
your board's adopted fiscal

6966
04:12:15,692 --> 04:12:17,818
policies. Next slide. What you

6967
04:12:17,818 --> 04:12:20,442
see here is our three-year

6968
04:12:20,442 --> 04:12:21,734
general fund projection. I've

6969
04:12:21,734 --> 04:12:23,899
highlighted in two shades of

6970
04:12:23,899 --> 04:12:24,899
blue what we're currently

6971
04:12:24,899 --> 04:12:26,900
seeing. So the light shade of

6972
04:12:26,900 --> 04:12:28,734
blue is our change in

6973
04:12:28,734 --> 04:12:30,734
assumption. That's that

6974
04:12:30,899 --> 04:12:32,526
increase from $20 million to $25

6975
04:12:32,526 --> 04:12:34,899
million. And then the dark blue

6976
04:12:34,899 --> 04:12:37,275
is where we see our current, you

6977
04:12:37,275 --> 04:12:39,651
know, beyond that assessment.

6978
04:12:39,651 --> 04:12:41,899
Beyond that assumption. The

6979
04:12:41,899 --> 04:12:43,899
challenge with this is, again,

6980
04:12:43,899 --> 04:12:45,317
we assume we're not -- this

6981
04:12:45,317 --> 04:12:47,717
projection assumes no state

6982
04:12:47,983 --> 04:12:50,192
budget cuts. If it were to

6983
04:12:50,192 --> 04:12:52,317
occur, we would have to revise

6984
04:12:52,317 --> 04:12:53,484
this. One of the interesting

6985
04:12:53,484 --> 04:12:54,899
challenges, and I'll talk about

6986
04:12:54,899 --> 04:12:56,442
it in a second. Next year's

6987
04:12:56,442 --> 04:12:57,900
budget, in terms of the state

6988
04:12:57,900 --> 04:12:59,651
might be okay. There might be

6989
04:12:59,651 --> 04:13:01,899
cuts coming in the years. We

6990
04:13:01,899 --> 04:13:02,899
wouldn't necessarily want to

6991
04:13:02,899 --> 04:13:04,818
enhance our budget, if we would,

6992
04:13:04,818 --> 04:13:06,109
you know, expect cuts down the

6993
04:13:06,109 --> 04:13:09,109
line. Next slide, please. All

6994
04:13:11,609 --> 04:13:12,983
right. So, again, as I

6995
04:13:12,983 --> 04:13:15,250
mentioned earlier, the LAO last

6996
04:13:15,250 --> 04:13:16,899
week, on Thursday, released

6997
04:13:16,899 --> 04:13:18,983
their fiscal projections from

6998
04:13:18,983 --> 04:13:20,983
the state budget. They

6999
04:13:20,983 --> 04:13:22,983
identified a $68 billion

7000
04:13:23,818 --> 04:13:25,250
deficit. It's coming from three

7001
04:13:25,250 --> 04:13:26,859
sources, for the most part. One

7002
04:13:26,859 --> 04:13:28,359
is just reduced income tax

7003
04:13:28,359 --> 04:13:30,150
collections. The other, and

7004
04:13:30,150 --> 04:13:31,899
this is the more unique aspect

7005
04:13:31,899 --> 04:13:34,899
of this situation the state

7006
04:13:34,899 --> 04:13:36,526
finds itself is the federal

7007
04:13:36,526 --> 04:13:37,900
postponement of certain income

7008
04:13:37,900 --> 04:13:40,300
tax have reduced prior-year

7009
04:13:40,942 --> 04:13:42,150
revenues. When the state

7010
04:13:42,150 --> 04:13:44,150
adopted the current budget, they

7011
04:13:44,150 --> 04:13:45,670
didn't have a great sense of

7012
04:13:45,670 --> 04:13:47,250
where the revenues were. We're

7013
04:13:47,250 --> 04:13:48,651
seeing a significant reduction

7014
04:13:48,651 --> 04:13:51,651
of prior-year revenues which is

7015
04:13:52,567 --> 04:13:53,983
exacerbating that state budget

7016
04:13:53,983 --> 04:13:56,250
deficit. It assumed a certain

7017
04:13:56,250 --> 04:13:58,250
amount of deficit was baked in.

7018
04:13:58,250 --> 04:13:59,734
It's the combination of those

7019
04:13:59,734 --> 04:14:01,900
three adds up to the $68 billion

7020
04:14:01,900 --> 04:14:04,359
deficit. The state does have

7021
04:14:04,359 --> 04:14:06,317
options, as indicated in the LAO

7022
04:14:06,317 --> 04:14:08,275
report, to address the budget

7023
04:14:08,275 --> 04:14:10,899
concern for next year. The LAO

7024
04:14:10,899 --> 04:14:12,899
does anticipate proximately $30

7025
04:14:13,400 --> 04:14:15,150
billion in annual deficits, if

7026
04:14:15,150 --> 04:14:16,442
the state does not require the

7027
04:14:16,442 --> 04:14:18,192
expenditures. All right. So,

7028
04:14:18,192 --> 04:14:19,899
again, as I mentioned earlier,

7029
04:14:19,899 --> 04:14:20,942
it's one of the concerns that we

7030
04:14:20,942 --> 04:14:22,609
face is that even e if the state

7031
04:14:22,609 --> 04:14:24,275
is able to address the budget

7032
04:14:24,275 --> 04:14:26,250
deficit next year, we might not

7033
04:14:26,250 --> 04:14:29,625
want to be enhancing our budget,

7034
04:14:29,692 --> 04:14:33,892
if a cut is coming in, say,

7035
04:14:34,692 --> 04:14:36,734
2025-2026. The state budget

7036
04:14:36,734 --> 04:14:37,899
will be released in January. It

7037
04:14:37,899 --> 04:14:39,692
will highlight the mechanisms to

7038
04:14:39,692 --> 04:14:42,150
address the -- the variety of

7039
04:14:42,150 --> 04:14:43,899
mechanisms. One of the funding

7040
04:14:43,899 --> 04:14:45,899
to special revenues. Increasing

7041
04:14:45,899 --> 04:14:47,734
revenues or expenditure

7042
04:14:47,734 --> 04:14:49,899
reductions. Your board has been

7043
04:14:49,899 --> 04:14:51,859
prudent in establishing a $7

7044
04:14:51,859 --> 04:14:53,899
million state and federal budget

7045
04:14:53,899 --> 04:14:55,734
reserve that we can use in case

7046
04:14:55,734 --> 04:14:57,734
revenues are significantly

7047
04:14:58,250 --> 04:15:00,526
impacted, and would have to, you

7048
04:15:00,526 --> 04:15:02,442
know, we would use this reserve

7049
04:15:02,442 --> 04:15:05,670
to mitigate any cuts to our

7050
04:15:05,670 --> 04:15:07,609
service delivery while we revise

7051
04:15:07,609 --> 04:15:09,275
our budget. Okay. That's kind

7052
04:15:09,275 --> 04:15:10,899
of our goal. Making sure we

7053
04:15:10,899 --> 04:15:12,899
don't have to make snap

7054
04:15:12,899 --> 04:15:14,400
decisions and revise our

7055
04:15:14,400 --> 04:15:16,800
services to our residents.

7056
04:15:20,192 --> 04:15:21,692
We're in an interesting

7057
04:15:21,692 --> 04:15:22,899
situation. I want to provide

7058
04:15:22,899 --> 04:15:24,526
the slide to talk about why we

7059
04:15:24,526 --> 04:15:26,109
have a state shortfall when we

7060
04:15:26,109 --> 04:15:28,670
see the local situation

7061
04:15:28,670 --> 04:15:29,818
relatively strong. So one of

7062
04:15:29,818 --> 04:15:31,250
the reasons that the county does

7063
04:15:31,250 --> 04:15:33,651
not rely on income tax, the

7064
04:15:33,651 --> 04:15:35,400
state is much more susceptible

7065
04:15:35,400 --> 04:15:36,776
to the volatility of the market

7066
04:15:36,776 --> 04:15:37,983
than we are. Particularly for

7067
04:15:37,983 --> 04:15:40,383
high-income earners and certain

7068
04:15:40,776 --> 04:15:42,234
sectors of the economy. So you

7069
04:15:42,234 --> 04:15:44,400
look at technology, the

7070
04:15:44,400 --> 04:15:45,317
technology sector, in

7071
04:15:45,317 --> 04:15:47,776
particular. To the extent we

7072
04:15:47,776 --> 04:15:49,609
are exposed to market losses, we

7073
04:15:49,609 --> 04:15:50,899
have developed mitigation

7074
04:15:50,899 --> 04:15:53,734
strategies. You see it with

7075
04:15:53,734 --> 04:15:55,899
MCERA and gains and losses in

7076
04:15:55,899 --> 04:15:58,899
the market are amortized over

7077
04:15:58,942 --> 04:16:00,670
five years. Then you have

7078
04:16:00,670 --> 04:16:02,359
adopted fiscal policies ensuring

7079
04:16:02,359 --> 04:16:04,734
that savings and pensions are

7080
04:16:04,734 --> 04:16:06,192
dedicated towards unfunded

7081
04:16:06,192 --> 04:16:08,592
retiree health care liabilities.

7082
04:16:08,776 --> 04:16:09,942
And another factor is that

7083
04:16:09,942 --> 04:16:12,899
property tax is much more stable

7084
04:16:12,899 --> 04:16:14,859
in terms of revenue growth. So,

7085
04:16:14,859 --> 04:16:16,651
again, we are seeing a decline

7086
04:16:16,651 --> 04:16:18,670
in that growth. But as a much

7087
04:16:18,670 --> 04:16:20,275
more stable revenue source all

7088
04:16:20,275 --> 04:16:23,818
together. Where we are is the

7089
04:16:23,818 --> 04:16:25,400
Health and Human Services. In

7090
04:16:25,400 --> 04:16:27,400
particular our public safety net

7091
04:16:27,400 --> 04:16:29,776
programming. So that's where we

7092
04:16:29,776 --> 04:16:32,109
need to plan for uncertainty.

7093
04:16:32,109 --> 04:16:35,109
Next slide, please. So, again,

7094
04:16:35,109 --> 04:16:36,275
if we find ourselves in a

7095
04:16:36,275 --> 04:16:38,670
position in 2024 to enhance our

7096
04:16:38,670 --> 04:16:39,899
budget, we would bring to your

7097
04:16:39,899 --> 04:16:41,899
board recommendations with the

7098
04:16:41,899 --> 04:16:43,942
following categories:we would

7099
04:16:43,942 --> 04:16:45,651
look to provide some type of

7100
04:16:45,651 --> 04:16:47,651
enhancements to enhance

7101
04:16:47,899 --> 04:16:48,776
protection of the county work

7102
04:16:48,776 --> 04:16:50,192
force, we would look to the

7103
04:16:50,192 --> 04:16:51,899
departments and see where we can

7104
04:16:51,899 --> 04:16:54,109
make service enhancements that

7105
04:16:54,109 --> 04:16:55,484
provide the most benefit to our

7106
04:16:55,484 --> 04:16:56,983
residents. We would be

7107
04:16:56,983 --> 04:16:59,192
reviewing the proposals as part

7108
04:16:59,192 --> 04:17:00,859
of that process, as part of the

7109
04:17:00,859 --> 04:17:02,609
budget. Then we would look to

7110
04:17:02,609 --> 04:17:03,899
address your county board and

7111
04:17:03,899 --> 04:17:06,150
community priorities, as well.

7112
04:17:06,150 --> 04:17:09,150
Next slide, please. Later this

7113
04:17:09,317 --> 04:17:10,899
week, we'll be having the budget

7114
04:17:10,899 --> 04:17:12,899
kickoff with departments. Some

7115
04:17:12,899 --> 04:17:13,899
of the highlights I've talked

7116
04:17:13,899 --> 04:17:15,899
about. I won't spend too much

7117
04:17:15,899 --> 04:17:17,359
time on this. Again, it's the

7118
04:17:17,359 --> 04:17:18,651
rollout of the race equity

7119
04:17:18,651 --> 04:17:21,359
budget tool. How we would be

7120
04:17:21,359 --> 04:17:22,734
using that in the tools and

7121
04:17:22,734 --> 04:17:25,899
resources for them, so we can

7122
04:17:25,899 --> 04:17:26,942
review our missions, with

7123
04:17:26,942 --> 04:17:29,526
budgets, and baseline budget as

7124
04:17:29,526 --> 04:17:31,692
well as funding enhancements

7125
04:17:31,692 --> 04:17:32,818
request. We want to continue

7126
04:17:32,818 --> 04:17:33,776
our continuous improvement

7127
04:17:33,776 --> 04:17:35,317
efforts. If the state budget

7128
04:17:35,317 --> 04:17:36,900
allows, we would like to have

7129
04:17:36,900 --> 04:17:39,567
some level of ongoing BCP

7130
04:17:39,567 --> 04:17:41,983
process to provide general fund

7131
04:17:41,983 --> 04:17:44,383
enhancements, if the state

7132
04:17:44,899 --> 04:17:46,484
budget doesn't involve

7133
04:17:46,484 --> 04:17:47,150
significant cuts to the

7134
04:17:47,150 --> 04:17:49,670
services. Next slide. We want

7135
04:17:49,670 --> 04:17:50,899
to em ployment and use our

7136
04:17:50,899 --> 04:17:52,899
previously-approved funding

7137
04:17:52,942 --> 04:17:55,942
sources, and update our fees.

7138
04:17:58,818 --> 04:18:00,567
In terms of next steps, so today

7139
04:18:00,567 --> 04:18:02,967
we're providing an update.

7140
04:18:03,734 --> 04:18:07,934
We'll be hosting the -- we'll be

7141
04:18:07,942 --> 04:18:09,859
meeting with our departments to

7142
04:18:09,859 --> 04:18:10,900
get an update on budget

7143
04:18:10,900 --> 04:18:12,900
concerns, emerging priorities,

7144
04:18:13,818 --> 04:18:14,983
and needs. As I mentioned

7145
04:18:14,983 --> 04:18:16,567
earlier, in January, we expect

7146
04:18:16,567 --> 04:18:17,899
to receive the state budget

7147
04:18:17,899 --> 04:18:20,899
update, which will provide more

7148
04:18:21,651 --> 04:18:23,275
input into the projections. In

7149
04:18:23,275 --> 04:18:25,484
March we'll return to the board

7150
04:18:25,484 --> 04:18:27,884
with an informational workshop.

7151
04:18:27,900 --> 04:18:29,899
To provide an update on budget

7152
04:18:29,899 --> 04:18:31,109
work plans and emerging

7153
04:18:31,109 --> 04:18:32,859
priorities. In April we'll

7154
04:18:32,859 --> 04:18:34,275
revise our projections for our

7155
04:18:34,275 --> 04:18:36,275
next three-year projections and

7156
04:18:36,275 --> 04:18:37,899
the year-end projection. Those

7157
04:18:37,899 --> 04:18:40,299
will instruct the proposed

7158
04:18:41,609 --> 04:18:43,526
budget. Then, finally, in June,

7159
04:18:43,526 --> 04:18:46,150
we'll have our three-day public

7160
04:18:46,150 --> 04:18:48,776
workshop on the proposed budget.

7161
04:18:48,776 --> 04:18:49,983
And with that, I'll close for

7162
04:18:49,983 --> 04:18:52,383
any questions. Thank you.

7163
04:18:53,442 --> 04:18:53,567
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: Thank

7164
04:18:53,567 --> 04:18:56,567
you, Josh. And to Jamillah,

7165
04:18:58,275 --> 04:18:59,899
good report, both of you.

7166
04:18:59,899 --> 04:19:01,899
Questions?

7167
04:19:04,359 --> 04:19:04,818
>>DENNIS RODONI: Thank you,

7168
04:19:04,818 --> 04:19:07,818
Josh, for the report update.

7169
04:19:08,670 --> 04:19:09,942
Just thinking out loud, and

7170
04:19:09,942 --> 04:19:11,317
we're not making any decisions

7171
04:19:11,317 --> 04:19:14,250
today, have we thought about

7172
04:19:14,250 --> 04:19:16,425
increasing the year-end balance

7173
04:19:16,899 --> 04:19:19,442
rollover by $5 million, that was

7174
04:19:19,442 --> 04:19:20,734
before we knew what was going on

7175
04:19:20,734 --> 04:19:22,899
in the State, and, you know, it

7176
04:19:22,899 --> 04:19:24,400
looks like the State is going to

7177
04:19:24,400 --> 04:19:25,776
be in a bit of trouble for a

7178
04:19:25,776 --> 04:19:27,150
couple of years, and may spend

7179
04:19:27,150 --> 04:19:29,942
out their rainy day fund, even.

7180
04:19:29,942 --> 04:19:31,234
So I would hope we would take

7181
04:19:31,234 --> 04:19:32,899
another look at that and see if

7182
04:19:32,899 --> 04:19:34,859
maybe shifting that to this the

7183
04:19:34,859 --> 04:19:36,818
state preserve or part might

7184
04:19:36,818 --> 04:19:38,818
make sense in the future. Just

7185
04:19:38,818 --> 04:19:40,899
your comment on that.

7186
04:19:40,899 --> 04:19:43,299
>>JOSH SWEDBERG: Thank you.

7187
04:19:44,899 --> 04:19:44,983
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: Any

7188
04:19:44,983 --> 04:19:46,983
other comments?

7189
04:19:47,776 --> 04:19:48,651
>>KATIE RICE: I was going to go

7190
04:19:48,651 --> 04:19:51,651
to exactly the same place.

7191
04:19:51,818 --> 04:19:54,109
Thinking about the $7 million in

7192
04:19:54,109 --> 04:19:55,526
the state reserve right now,

7193
04:19:55,526 --> 04:19:57,670
which sounds like a lot, but

7194
04:19:57,670 --> 04:19:58,567
what we know doesn't go that

7195
04:19:58,567 --> 04:20:01,275
far, and so, also, yeah,

7196
04:20:01,275 --> 04:20:02,526
thinking about is there a source

7197
04:20:02,526 --> 04:20:05,670
to beef that up, even, you know,

7198
04:20:05,670 --> 04:20:07,400
just be thinking about beefing

7199
04:20:07,400 --> 04:20:08,692
that up. And we've talked about

7200
04:20:08,692 --> 04:20:12,234
it in the past as mainly reserve

7201
04:20:12,234 --> 04:20:14,651
that allows us to smooth cuts

7202
04:20:14,651 --> 04:20:17,250
over time. So we don't see

7203
04:20:17,250 --> 04:20:18,899
programs fall off cliffs. On

7204
04:20:18,899 --> 04:20:20,670
the other hand, this is my

7205
04:20:20,670 --> 04:20:21,899
question to you, I think if you

7206
04:20:21,899 --> 04:20:23,317
go back historically, we'll see

7207
04:20:23,317 --> 04:20:25,317
over the last 10 to 20 years, I

7208
04:20:25,317 --> 04:20:27,609
guess going back to the Great

7209
04:20:27,609 --> 04:20:30,609
Recession, when big cuts happen

7210
04:20:30,859 --> 04:20:33,234
in the federal/state level in

7211
04:20:33,234 --> 04:20:34,692
two or three years, often they

7212
04:20:34,692 --> 04:20:38,526
came back. And so I would just

7213
04:20:38,526 --> 04:20:42,126
throw out the question or --

7214
04:20:42,818 --> 04:20:44,275
yeah. As to should we be

7215
04:20:44,275 --> 04:20:45,526
thinking about that state

7216
04:20:45,526 --> 04:20:49,126
reserve in terms of doing more

7217
04:20:51,442 --> 04:20:53,400
of creating glide paths but

7218
04:20:53,400 --> 04:20:55,484
bolstering enough to whether two

7219
04:20:55,484 --> 04:20:59,684
or three years of cuts in lieu

7220
04:21:02,692 --> 04:21:04,526
of the funding coming back. I'm

7221
04:21:04,526 --> 04:21:05,899
talking about safety net

7222
04:21:05,899 --> 04:21:07,609
programs. Not general fund

7223
04:21:07,609 --> 04:21:09,609
discretionary programs. What do

7224
04:21:09,609 --> 04:21:12,900
you think about that?

7225
04:21:12,899 --> 04:21:13,526
>>MATTHEW HYMEL: I think the

7226
04:21:13,526 --> 04:21:16,109
idea bolstering the -- is a good

7227
04:21:16,109 --> 04:21:17,899
one. I think the idea of

7228
04:21:17,899 --> 04:21:19,942
whether you take it ongoing

7229
04:21:19,942 --> 04:21:21,317
basis or whether you reduce it

7230
04:21:21,317 --> 04:21:22,900
over time, really, depends on

7231
04:21:22,900 --> 04:21:23,942
the specifics of the state

7232
04:21:23,942 --> 04:21:27,542
budget cuts. It gives us time

7233
04:21:34,942 --> 04:21:36,317
to work with your board and come

7234
04:21:36,317 --> 04:21:37,234
back with recommendations.

7235
04:21:37,234 --> 04:21:38,818
That's the way we will proceed.

7236
04:21:38,818 --> 04:21:40,670
I think we'll try to look at

7237
04:21:40,670 --> 04:21:41,692
opportunities to increase that

7238
04:21:41,692 --> 04:21:43,250
reserve in next year's budget,

7239
04:21:43,250 --> 04:21:44,899
as well. To give your board

7240
04:21:44,899 --> 04:21:47,192
that ability to flex in that

7241
04:21:47,192 --> 04:21:49,192
way.

7242
04:21:55,899 --> 04:21:55,899
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: I

7243
04:21:55,899 --> 04:21:57,899
thought your comment of so you

7244
04:21:57,899 --> 04:21:59,734
or Josh had said -- I don't know

7245
04:21:59,734 --> 04:22:02,899
that you used the words, but

7246
04:22:02,899 --> 04:22:06,499
"back to basics budget" to look

7247
04:22:06,651 --> 04:22:09,651
closely at the fundamentals we

7248
04:22:09,651 --> 04:22:12,526
do and look closely at the BCP.

7249
04:22:12,526 --> 04:22:16,670
I would add the board of

7250
04:22:16,670 --> 04:22:17,692
Supervisorrings initiative, too.

7251
04:22:17,692 --> 04:22:21,292
I looked through the budget. I

7252
04:22:27,734 --> 04:22:28,899
think you have to look at it

7253
04:22:28,899 --> 04:22:30,899
all.

7254
04:22:36,651 --> 04:22:37,275
>>MATTHEW HYMEL: We pride

7255
04:22:37,275 --> 04:22:38,899
ourselves. We don't take on a

7256
04:22:38,899 --> 04:22:39,899
new service we can't sustain.

7257
04:22:39,899 --> 04:22:41,317
That will be our filter as we

7258
04:22:41,317 --> 04:22:42,442
make recommendations coming

7259
04:22:42,442 --> 04:22:43,317
here.

7260
04:22:43,317 --> 04:22:43,899
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: Yeah.

7261
04:22:43,899 --> 04:22:45,859
Great. Okay. We'll open to

7262
04:22:45,859 --> 04:22:47,442
public comment now in the

7263
04:22:47,442 --> 04:22:49,442
chambers.

7264
04:22:55,899 --> 04:22:57,899
>>SPEAKER: In the budget

7265
04:22:57,899 --> 04:22:58,983
projection, there's no

7266
04:22:58,983 --> 04:22:59,899
consideration about the current

7267
04:22:59,899 --> 04:23:02,484
funding for the conflict in

7268
04:23:02,484 --> 04:23:04,884
Israel/Palestine may impact

7269
04:23:08,567 --> 04:23:10,526
revenues. I want to note we're

7270
04:23:10,526 --> 04:23:12,442
losing tech workers to Canada.

7271
04:23:12,442 --> 04:23:14,109
A lot of wealth of the Bay Area

7272
04:23:14,109 --> 04:23:17,709
relies on H1B visa workers.

7273
04:23:17,899 --> 04:23:19,942
Those have become very

7274
04:23:19,942 --> 04:23:22,942
imperilled here. When you see

7275
04:23:25,900 --> 04:23:26,899
three Palestinian college

7276
04:23:26,899 --> 04:23:29,899
students shot simply for being

7277
04:23:29,899 --> 04:23:31,734
Palestinian, a lot of south

7278
04:23:31,734 --> 04:23:35,934
Asians a lot of people can be

7279
04:23:39,776 --> 04:23:40,900
mistaken for looking the wrong

7280
04:23:40,900 --> 04:23:44,500
way. Are going to reconsider to

7281
04:23:45,818 --> 04:23:47,651
try to get a visa. It's not

7282
04:23:47,651 --> 04:23:49,317
just going to impact the

7283
04:23:49,317 --> 04:23:52,317
technology sector. We rely on

7284
04:23:52,818 --> 04:23:53,942
the visas to staff our

7285
04:23:53,942 --> 04:23:56,342
hospitals, including UCSF. So

7286
04:23:59,899 --> 04:24:01,250
that should be considered.

7287
04:24:01,250 --> 04:24:04,567
There could be boycotts of U.S.

7288
04:24:04,567 --> 04:24:05,899
products and U.S. goods, that

7289
04:24:05,899 --> 04:24:07,859
would impact us. It's a

7290
04:24:07,859 --> 04:24:09,692
short-sighted view, not to

7291
04:24:09,692 --> 04:24:10,526
consider these potential

7292
04:24:10,526 --> 04:24:12,926
impacts. As for Jordan's

7293
04:24:16,526 --> 04:24:17,899
presentation the race equity

7294
04:24:17,899 --> 04:24:19,442
aspect of this. I want to point

7295
04:24:19,442 --> 04:24:21,400
out, for those who don't already

7296
04:24:21,400 --> 04:24:25,000
know it, that Jordan and Matt's

7297
04:24:31,484 --> 04:24:33,692
sheriff -- I find disturbing

7298
04:24:33,692 --> 04:24:34,899
conflicts of interest. Most

7299
04:24:34,899 --> 04:24:35,651
recently the Conflict of

7300
04:24:35,651 --> 04:24:38,510
Interest involving Curtis Akins,

7301
04:24:39,567 --> 04:24:42,192
who was the chair of your HRC,

7302
04:24:42,192 --> 04:24:44,609
and the vice chair, and then was

7303
04:24:44,609 --> 04:24:47,609
on the sheriff civilian working

7304
04:24:48,899 --> 04:24:50,983
oversight group. He did not

7305
04:24:50,983 --> 04:24:52,899
disclose that his son was in law

7306
04:24:52,899 --> 04:24:54,899
enforcement, and was involved in

7307
04:24:54,899 --> 04:24:57,317
serious use of force incident.

7308
04:24:57,317 --> 04:24:58,899
So you can do better. Please

7309
04:24:58,899 --> 04:25:00,899
do.

7310
04:25:01,109 --> 04:25:01,359
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: If

7311
04:25:01,359 --> 04:25:03,651
there's no other comments --

7312
04:25:03,651 --> 04:25:05,234
okay. Folks in the chambers,

7313
04:25:05,234 --> 04:25:06,776
please line up, if there's

7314
04:25:06,776 --> 04:25:08,275
anyone else who wants to --

7315
04:25:08,275 --> 04:25:09,651
please don't sit in the back and

7316
04:25:09,651 --> 04:25:12,510
wait until the end.

7317
04:25:28,670 --> 04:25:29,317
>>SPEAKER: Your telling me I

7318
04:25:29,317 --> 04:25:31,234
can't sit down? So that report

7319
04:25:31,234 --> 04:25:34,275
is null and void. It has no

7320
04:25:34,275 --> 04:25:36,675
teeth. The reason? Downstairs.

7321
04:25:38,109 --> 04:25:39,983
The department called

7322
04:25:39,983 --> 04:25:41,983
Environmental Health. 12 years

7323
04:25:44,150 --> 04:25:46,150
ago, proximately, Environmental

7324
04:25:47,734 --> 04:25:49,317
Health suddenly stopped taking

7325
04:25:49,317 --> 04:25:51,192
phone calls or e-mails,

7326
04:25:51,192 --> 04:25:52,899
complaints from Golden Gate

7327
04:25:52,899 --> 04:25:54,899
Village. It houses 700

7328
04:25:56,400 --> 04:25:59,400
residents in Marin City. How

7329
04:26:00,899 --> 04:26:03,609
can you report race matters

7330
04:26:03,609 --> 04:26:05,359
equity in all of those things if

7331
04:26:05,359 --> 04:26:08,526
you've yet to figure this out.

7332
04:26:08,526 --> 04:26:10,926
Stefanie, it's your district.

7333
04:26:12,776 --> 04:26:13,442
Your leadership. You're

7334
04:26:13,442 --> 04:26:16,442
refusing to change that. Office

7335
04:26:17,192 --> 04:26:20,150
of Equity, paid by the county.

7336
04:26:20,150 --> 04:26:21,899
You're refusing to look into

7337
04:26:21,899 --> 04:26:24,299
this matter regarding Golden

7338
04:26:25,670 --> 04:26:27,670
Gate Village residents, 700

7339
04:26:28,651 --> 04:26:30,899
people who cannot call for help.

7340
04:26:30,899 --> 04:26:32,899
Everywhere else, especially

7341
04:26:33,359 --> 04:26:35,484
White people, can call for help

7342
04:26:35,484 --> 04:26:36,899
if they're living in squalor.

7343
04:26:36,899 --> 04:26:38,442
If there's issues. You recall

7344
04:26:38,442 --> 04:26:40,734
in the Marin IJ there was two

7345
04:26:40,734 --> 04:26:42,899
articles that came out. One in

7346
04:26:42,899 --> 04:26:46,499
July and one in August. They

7347
04:26:48,250 --> 04:26:51,250
said things are working. We're

7348
04:26:51,400 --> 04:26:52,776
fixing this. We're moving

7349
04:26:52,776 --> 04:26:54,442
forward. In a meeting last

7350
04:26:54,442 --> 04:26:57,442
month, in Marin City, Sarah

7351
04:27:00,776 --> 04:27:03,776
Jones said "that's not true."

7352
04:27:06,942 --> 04:27:08,734
They both told us in the meeting

7353
04:27:08,734 --> 04:27:10,609
in our faces those articles are

7354
04:27:10,609 --> 04:27:13,609
not true. That was a political

7355
04:27:13,609 --> 04:27:15,234
stunt. You lied to the

7356
04:27:15,234 --> 04:27:16,609
community of Marin City. You

7357
04:27:16,609 --> 04:27:18,250
lied to Golden Gate Village

7358
04:27:18,250 --> 04:27:19,651
residents. You purposefully

7359
04:27:19,651 --> 04:27:21,250
went to the IJ and put that

7360
04:27:21,250 --> 04:27:22,983
article out as a political stunt

7361
04:27:22,983 --> 04:27:24,899
to make the people believe you

7362
04:27:24,899 --> 04:27:26,442
were working with the residents

7363
04:27:26,442 --> 04:27:27,776
to improve what was happening

7364
04:27:27,776 --> 04:27:30,176
down there. Thank you.

7365
04:27:36,899 --> 04:27:36,899
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: All

7366
04:27:36,899 --> 04:27:38,567
right. We'll go online. I see

7367
04:27:38,567 --> 04:27:39,899
four hands.

7368
04:27:39,899 --> 04:27:40,899
>>MODERATOR: The first speaker

7369
04:27:40,899 --> 04:27:43,899
is Roland Katz. Please unmute.

7370
04:27:50,400 --> 04:27:51,942
>>SPEAKER: Good afternoon. I'm

7371
04:27:51,942 --> 04:27:54,942
dumbfounded and taken aback by

7372
04:27:54,942 --> 04:27:55,899
the suggestion you would

7373
04:27:55,899 --> 04:27:58,899
increase your $20 million a year

7374
04:28:00,942 --> 04:28:02,609
rollover, which is a paper

7375
04:28:02,609 --> 04:28:05,900
transaction to $25 million. I

7376
04:28:05,359 --> 04:28:07,317
tend not to be conspiracy

7377
04:28:07,317 --> 04:28:08,899
theorist, but I have to wonder

7378
04:28:08,899 --> 04:28:10,484
if the fact that a few weeks

7379
04:28:10,484 --> 04:28:12,900
back, I pointed out that based

7380
04:28:12,900 --> 04:28:16,250
on your own data you have at

7381
04:28:16,250 --> 04:28:17,275
least every year in the last

7382
04:28:17,275 --> 04:28:19,675
decade $5 million above the $20

7383
04:28:20,899 --> 04:28:22,359
million, which you call one-time

7384
04:28:22,359 --> 04:28:23,776
money, which clearly isn't

7385
04:28:23,776 --> 04:28:26,776
one-time money. Labor costs --

7386
04:28:31,317 --> 04:28:33,317
and $20 million paper

7387
04:28:34,275 --> 04:28:37,250
transaction up to $25 or maybe

7388
04:28:37,250 --> 04:28:38,692
it's a convenient way to say

7389
04:28:38,692 --> 04:28:41,670
"let's not do that. Let's put

7390
04:28:41,670 --> 04:28:43,442
it in State reserves." Remember

7391
04:28:43,442 --> 04:28:45,842
the $20 million primarily comes,

7392
04:28:46,400 --> 04:28:49,442
as I understand it, from the

7393
04:28:49,442 --> 04:28:50,818
discussions with your budget

7394
04:28:50,818 --> 04:28:52,651
people over the last decade, you

7395
04:28:52,651 --> 04:28:54,109
built in your budget a couple of

7396
04:28:54,109 --> 04:28:56,509
assumptions, which are never

7397
04:28:56,899 --> 04:28:59,275
accurate. One is 100% staffing.

7398
04:28:59,275 --> 04:29:01,484
Two is everybody in the top

7399
04:29:01,484 --> 04:29:03,884
step. Nobody ever has 100%

7400
04:29:04,651 --> 04:29:07,109
stashing. If you budget for

7401
04:29:07,109 --> 04:29:09,317
100%, of course you have money.

7402
04:29:09,317 --> 04:29:10,899
And the roll over is not new

7403
04:29:10,899 --> 04:29:12,818
money. It's a paper

7404
04:29:12,818 --> 04:29:14,651
transaction. You would hope you

7405
04:29:14,651 --> 04:29:16,234
would not increase that paper

7406
04:29:16,234 --> 04:29:17,899
transaction from $20 to $25

7407
04:29:17,899 --> 04:29:20,234
million and instead look at that

7408
04:29:20,234 --> 04:29:22,484
money for years you called as

7409
04:29:22,484 --> 04:29:26,840
one-time -- excuse me -- have

7410
04:29:26,442 --> 04:29:28,818
better sense than it is. If you

7411
04:29:28,818 --> 04:29:30,250
want to address retention and

7412
04:29:30,250 --> 04:29:32,317
recruitment, don't spend a lot

7413
04:29:32,317 --> 04:29:34,899
of time on so-called strategies

7414
04:29:34,899 --> 04:29:37,400
like retention or hiring bonuses

7415
04:29:37,400 --> 04:29:40,109
but pay more for people's health

7416
04:29:40,109 --> 04:29:41,150
care, do something about

7417
04:29:41,150 --> 04:29:43,550
retirement for people. Thank

7418
04:29:43,776 --> 04:29:45,776
you very much.

7419
04:29:46,567 --> 04:29:48,275
>>MODERATOR: Next speaker is

7420
04:29:48,275 --> 04:29:50,275
Rodrigo.

7421
04:29:55,651 --> 04:29:58,651
>>SPEAKER: I'm offended by Miss

7422
04:29:59,651 --> 04:30:01,484
Jordan's way of doing surveys.

7423
04:30:01,484 --> 04:30:03,818
I don't know -- that took the

7424
04:30:03,818 --> 04:30:06,250
survey. So she's very selective

7425
04:30:06,250 --> 04:30:08,109
about who she picks. And they

7426
04:30:08,109 --> 04:30:11,275
might be quite jaded people she

7427
04:30:11,275 --> 04:30:12,859
picks for the survey. Let's

7428
04:30:12,859 --> 04:30:15,259
talk about affirmative action,

7429
04:30:16,899 --> 04:30:18,899
and racial equity. You know,

7430
04:30:18,899 --> 04:30:20,317
just the Human Rights

7431
04:30:20,317 --> 04:30:22,717
Commission. You have three

7432
04:30:23,734 --> 04:30:26,526
whites, one Latino, and three

7433
04:30:26,526 --> 04:30:27,900
Blacks. And you're saying that

7434
04:30:27,900 --> 04:30:30,275
is racial equity and you're

7435
04:30:30,275 --> 04:30:33,875
going to be using them to

7436
04:30:33,942 --> 04:30:36,400
support any of your viewpoints?

7437
04:30:36,400 --> 04:30:38,859
I mean, how dare you say that

7438
04:30:38,859 --> 04:30:39,983
when you don't even have it on

7439
04:30:39,983 --> 04:30:41,942
the basic people who are

7440
04:30:41,942 --> 04:30:44,342
supposed to represent people.

7441
04:30:48,692 --> 04:30:50,899
So you're doing your own

7442
04:30:50,899 --> 04:30:53,899
mysterious surveys on where you

7443
04:30:54,899 --> 04:30:58,670
get your support. So you have

7444
04:30:58,670 --> 04:31:01,667
the same people -- who Conflict

7445
04:31:06,609 --> 04:31:07,983
of Interest, and you're going to

7446
04:31:07,983 --> 04:31:11,583
be using that for other purposes

7447
04:31:11,692 --> 04:31:15,292
to represent the county as to

7448
04:31:15,526 --> 04:31:17,734
how to divide up the money. The

7449
04:31:17,734 --> 04:31:19,818
population of Marin for Latinos

7450
04:31:19,818 --> 04:31:23,418
is 20 to 22%, and you only have

7451
04:31:23,899 --> 04:31:24,983
one Latina in the Human Rights

7452
04:31:24,983 --> 04:31:26,900
Commission, and you're okay with

7453
04:31:26,900 --> 04:31:29,567
that. You haven't even gone

7454
04:31:29,567 --> 04:31:31,150
over that to present your

7455
04:31:31,150 --> 04:31:33,899
viewpoint to them. And guess

7456
04:31:33,899 --> 04:31:36,899
what. They are, you know,

7457
04:31:36,899 --> 04:31:39,400
Curtis and Jeremy -- they are so

7458
04:31:39,400 --> 04:31:40,899
supportive of you. And all the

7459
04:31:40,899 --> 04:31:42,234
other ones are just simply

7460
04:31:42,234 --> 04:31:44,899
quiet. Sitting on their hands.

7461
04:31:44,899 --> 04:31:47,899
Listening to Curtis and Jeremy,

7462
04:31:47,899 --> 04:31:49,818
you know, tell you what a great

7463
04:31:49,818 --> 04:31:52,400
job you're doing. What a bunch

7464
04:31:52,400 --> 04:31:54,400
of Baloney.

7465
04:31:56,651 --> 04:31:57,359
>>MODERATOR: Next speaker is

7466
04:31:57,359 --> 04:31:59,109
Johnson Reynolds. Please

7467
04:31:59,109 --> 04:32:00,192
unmute.

7468
04:32:00,192 --> 04:32:01,442
>>SPEAKER: Yes. Here I am

7469
04:32:01,442 --> 04:32:05,420
again. Sorry. I know -- the

7470
04:32:07,150 --> 04:32:09,400
issue about the boards and

7471
04:32:09,400 --> 04:32:12,400
conditions on the meetings, and

7472
04:32:12,899 --> 04:32:16,499
my perspective on that was to

7473
04:32:17,359 --> 04:32:19,250
reach out and put on these

7474
04:32:19,250 --> 04:32:21,670
boards and commissions, People

7475
04:32:21,670 --> 04:32:23,526
of Color, immigrants, and other

7476
04:32:23,526 --> 04:32:25,526
less-privileged persons. This

7477
04:32:27,250 --> 04:32:29,109
same statement that I made at

7478
04:32:29,109 --> 04:32:32,709
that time could affect a racial

7479
04:32:34,899 --> 04:32:36,899
equitable budget. Simply having

7480
04:32:36,899 --> 04:32:38,776
People of Color, immigrants, and

7481
04:32:38,776 --> 04:32:40,109
less privileged persons part of

7482
04:32:40,109 --> 04:32:43,109
the training on racial equity.

7483
04:32:44,192 --> 04:32:47,899
It should be part of what you do

7484
04:32:47,899 --> 04:32:50,359
for a racial equitable budget.

7485
04:32:50,359 --> 04:32:53,959
The other thing is, a reminder,

7486
04:32:56,250 --> 04:32:57,567
and you've said it before, you

7487
04:32:57,567 --> 04:32:58,776
would consider public authority

7488
04:32:58,776 --> 04:33:01,776
and the union represents --

7489
04:33:02,317 --> 04:33:03,942
service workers to consider

7490
04:33:03,942 --> 04:33:07,542
moving the living wage or, you

7491
04:33:09,400 --> 04:33:12,150
know, services or care gives

7492
04:33:12,150 --> 04:33:15,150
beyond the $18 an hour. That's

7493
04:33:15,359 --> 04:33:17,899
a process, I think, as you meet

7494
04:33:17,899 --> 04:33:20,899
with the union for the

7495
04:33:22,250 --> 04:33:23,484
supportive services workers and

7496
04:33:23,484 --> 04:33:25,317
the public authority. That

7497
04:33:25,317 --> 04:33:26,899
matters. So just point that

7498
04:33:26,899 --> 04:33:28,983
out, too, as a reminder. Thank

7499
04:33:28,983 --> 04:33:29,734
you.

7500
04:33:29,734 --> 04:33:30,899
>>MODERATOR: The next speaker is

7501
04:33:30,899 --> 04:33:32,899
Beverly. Please unmute.

7502
04:33:36,526 --> 04:33:38,484
>>SPEAKER: Hi. I just -- I'm

7503
04:33:38,484 --> 04:33:41,192
coming on -- good afternoon,

7504
04:33:41,192 --> 04:33:43,317
everyone. I'm coming on because

7505
04:33:43,317 --> 04:33:47,442
I -- I'm attempting to invite us

7506
04:33:47,442 --> 04:33:49,734
all to just show the residents

7507
04:33:49,734 --> 04:33:50,900
of Golden Gate Village a little

7508
04:33:50,900 --> 04:33:54,192
bit more regard. I just found

7509
04:33:54,192 --> 04:33:58,392
out that a deal was made so

7510
04:34:01,899 --> 04:34:03,484
people can use the tennis court

7511
04:34:03,484 --> 04:34:04,899
for pickle ball for three years,

7512
04:34:04,899 --> 04:34:06,899
but the resident council, the

7513
04:34:06,899 --> 04:34:10,400
resident council can't -- had to

7514
04:34:10,400 --> 04:34:13,400
almost force to sign one-year.

7515
04:34:13,899 --> 04:34:15,109
So the pickle ball people who

7516
04:34:15,109 --> 04:34:16,776
don't live here can use that

7517
04:34:16,776 --> 04:34:19,176
facility. Our facility for

7518
04:34:19,192 --> 04:34:21,859
three years, but we can't use --

7519
04:34:21,859 --> 04:34:23,818
yes --

7520
04:34:23,818 --> 04:34:24,275
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: Beverly,

7521
04:34:24,275 --> 04:34:25,734
would you like to bring it up

7522
04:34:25,734 --> 04:34:26,776
when we do the Marin Housing

7523
04:34:26,776 --> 04:34:28,776
Authority meeting?

7524
04:34:29,942 --> 04:34:31,609
>>SPEAKER: Oh. This wasn't the

7525
04:34:31,609 --> 04:34:32,734
time to talk about that?

7526
04:34:32,734 --> 04:34:32,899
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: We

7527
04:34:32,899 --> 04:34:35,109
haven't gotten there quite yet.

7528
04:34:35,109 --> 04:34:36,234
>>SPEAKER: Oh. I apologize.

7529
04:34:36,234 --> 04:34:38,442
Okay. So you want to do it in

7530
04:34:38,442 --> 04:34:39,734
this meeting?

7531
04:34:39,734 --> 04:34:39,899
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: Just

7532
04:34:39,899 --> 04:34:41,899
come back and join us again in a

7533
04:34:41,899 --> 04:34:42,983
few minutes.

7534
04:34:42,983 --> 04:34:43,900
>>SPEAKER: Oh. In a few

7535
04:34:43,900 --> 04:34:45,818
minutes. I apologize. I don't

7536
04:34:45,818 --> 04:34:46,942
have an agenda. Please forgive

7537
04:34:46,942 --> 04:34:49,342
me. I excuse myself.

7538
04:34:51,250 --> 04:34:51,526
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: Not a

7539
04:34:51,526 --> 04:34:52,109
problem.

7540
04:34:52,109 --> 04:34:54,109
>>SPEAKER: Peace.

7541
04:34:54,150 --> 04:34:54,275
>>MODERATOR: President

7542
04:34:54,275 --> 04:34:54,400
Moulton-Peters, there are no

7543
04:34:54,400 --> 04:34:54,526
additional speakers in the

7544
04:34:54,526 --> 04:34:56,526
queue.

7545
04:34:56,899 --> 04:34:57,150
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: Okay.

7546
04:34:57,150 --> 04:34:59,670
Great. So I just want to

7547
04:34:59,670 --> 04:35:02,670
comment, you know, the budget,

7548
04:35:03,109 --> 04:35:03,899
this presentation was

7549
04:35:03,899 --> 04:35:05,899
preliminary budget presentation.

7550
04:35:07,567 --> 04:35:09,526
Miss Jordan's presentation, the

7551
04:35:09,526 --> 04:35:10,899
race equity budget, she

7552
04:35:10,899 --> 04:35:12,192
acknowledges it's a work in

7553
04:35:12,192 --> 04:35:13,818
progress. We're making this up

7554
04:35:13,818 --> 04:35:16,150
as we go, and we're going to

7555
04:35:16,150 --> 04:35:17,899
change and refine it over time.

7556
04:35:17,899 --> 04:35:19,400
And, so I think it's important

7557
04:35:19,400 --> 04:35:21,484
that we all hold it that way.

7558
04:35:21,484 --> 04:35:23,609
We are creating this and we need

7559
04:35:23,609 --> 04:35:25,359
to work together to create this

7560
04:35:25,359 --> 04:35:26,942
tool that I think will be really

7561
04:35:26,942 --> 04:35:29,609
helpful. It will be very

7562
04:35:29,609 --> 04:35:31,567
helpful over time. But it's

7563
04:35:31,567 --> 04:35:32,859
going to happen with everybody

7564
04:35:32,859 --> 04:35:35,859
working together on it. So,

7565
04:35:37,192 --> 04:35:37,899
please.

7566
04:35:37,899 --> 04:35:39,900
>>KATIE RICE: And I just --

7567
04:35:39,900 --> 04:35:41,899
thank you for the work. But

7568
04:35:41,899 --> 04:35:44,442
specifically to the race equity

7569
04:35:44,442 --> 04:35:46,842
budget tool, and, actually,

7570
04:35:46,859 --> 04:35:49,526
really weaving race equity into

7571
04:35:49,526 --> 04:35:50,734
how we do business here in the

7572
04:35:50,734 --> 04:35:53,250
county, budget and otherwise.

7573
04:35:53,250 --> 04:35:57,225
Just to plug-in to both of your

7574
04:35:59,776 --> 04:36:00,983
staff heads and department

7575
04:36:00,983 --> 04:36:02,776
heads, if we're going into a

7576
04:36:02,776 --> 04:36:04,942
scenario where the budget is

7577
04:36:04,942 --> 04:36:07,942
tightening, that it's not that

7578
04:36:07,983 --> 04:36:09,609
we're actually applying that

7579
04:36:09,609 --> 04:36:10,900
race equity lens and that budget

7580
04:36:10,900 --> 04:36:14,442
tool to developing the budget in

7581
04:36:14,442 --> 04:36:16,670
ongoing programs. Not just for

7582
04:36:16,670 --> 04:36:19,667
those PCPs or sort of special

7583
04:36:20,442 --> 04:36:21,899
projects or new programs, but

7584
04:36:21,899 --> 04:36:22,734
thinking about it in the

7585
04:36:22,734 --> 04:36:25,609
day-to-day as we do our best for

7586
04:36:25,609 --> 04:36:27,275
our most vulnerable in the

7587
04:36:27,275 --> 04:36:29,192
community, and making sure we're

7588
04:36:29,192 --> 04:36:31,400
understanding how our services

7589
04:36:31,400 --> 04:36:34,400
are benefiting and/or burdening

7590
04:36:34,609 --> 04:36:36,250
populations, and if we need to

7591
04:36:36,250 --> 04:36:37,899
make adjustments along the way.

7592
04:36:37,899 --> 04:36:38,899
I wanted to get that thinking to

7593
04:36:38,899 --> 04:36:41,899
be comprehensive in how the

7594
04:36:42,317 --> 04:36:44,899
county does budget. -- does

7595
04:36:44,899 --> 04:36:47,299
its work. Thank you.

7596
04:36:53,651 --> 04:36:53,899
>>PRES. MOULTON-PETERS: And

7597
04:36:53,899 --> 04:36:55,734
we'll be starting Marin Housing

7598
04:36:55,734 --> 04:36:59,334
in just a moment. , you know

7599
04:37:00,776 --> 04:37:02,567
I'm going to ask you hold it.

7600
04:37:02,567 --> 04:37:03,899
We've had public comment on the

7601
04:37:03,899 --> 04:37:05,150
item now. We'll have public

7602
04:37:05,150 --> 04:37:07,550
comment on Housing Authority.

7603
04:37:07,651 --> 04:37:09,670
We'll all be here. You can hear

7604
04:37:09,670 --> 04:37:11,275
it then. So with that, I

7605
04:37:11,275 --> 04:37:12,899
believe there is a

7606
04:37:12,899 --> 04:37:14,692
recommendation to accept the

7607
04:37:14,692 --> 04:37:16,692
county executive report.

7608
04:37:17,692 --> 04:37:18,150
>>KATIE RICE: I'll move

7609
04:37:18,150 --> 04:37:19,442
acceptance of the county