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Fifth, this is also, start again. Good morning. Like to officially call to order the Board of Supervisors meeting. Also, the Marine County Flood Control and Water Conservation District and the Marine County Open Space Conservation District.

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It's Tuesday, August 25th. Our meeting is called to order, would you all please rise and join us for the pledge of allegiance.

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pledge

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allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for

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which it stands, one nation, undergone, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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Would the clerk, please call the roll?

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So, provide the molten Peter's here.

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So, provide the Colbert.

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Here.

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So, provide the Second.

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We are all present.

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Thank you.

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I'm going to suggest for today.

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that we reordered make a slight reorder to the agenda and actually start with Board of Supervisors

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matters and informational updates and the county executives report after which we'll take

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public comment. As we move into the Board of Supervisors matters, I'm going to just open briefly

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with a common statement on behalf of the Board of Supervisors and then we're going to go to our

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county executive and hear from some other county employees, community leaders and co-man.

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As many of you know last week, we gathered to honor Chief Marlon Washington and reflect on the extraordinary impact he had on this county.

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I speak for the entire board in thanking the Washington family, friends, and colleagues in the probation department,

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the county staff who spoke and attended a beautiful moment, which celebrated a life dedicated to family, to community, and to service.

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Following many speakers in the chambers on online who spoke of Chief Washington's legacy

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and impact, we were confronted with deeply hateful language that had no place in that moment

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or in our community.

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But these comments were targeted, and it's important that we call it what it is, anti-black,

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and it was specifically directed towards our black leaders, employees, and the broader community.

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What happened was painful, offensive, and completely at odds with who we are as a community.

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We also know that this incident didn't occur in isolation.

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Across the country, there's a growing pattern of individuals using public forums and remote access

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to spread hate, provoke fear, and disrupt the work of our local government.

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Here in Marin, we will do everything we can to deny anti-blackness the power it seeks.

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We will not allow it to intimidate our community or silence the participation in our public spaces.

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And what we saw last week in the county and the community's response gave us great confidence in that.

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I saw a board, county staff, community members who responded with solidarity, care and resolve.

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We know the work is not finished.

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We will keep working to build a community where every person feels respected, valued, and a true sense of belonging.

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With that, I'd like to turn it over to our county executive, Derek Johnson, for his report,

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and then we will also be hearing from Komea, some county employees and community leaders

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County executive.

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Thank you, President Luke, and members of the board.

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I just want to echo your comments this morning that last year, last week, during the meeting,

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we did have an individual who was participating remotely, who used racist anti-black and

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deeply offensive language during public comment on the ceremonial resolution.

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I just wanted to just give a little peek behind the scenes,

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and the work that was done by our team,

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and through your leadership and through the boards leadership,

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those comments were immediately stopped and condemned.

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Since that meeting, there has been some thoughtful discussion

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about the county's response, including how we should address public recording

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of what occurred.

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After constructive and at times, very vigorous internal conversations with team members who brought a variety of different perspectives, we came back with an important distinction.

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There is a difference between amplifying hate and documenting what had occurred.

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Preserving an accurate record allows us to confront what happened honestly.

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Removing it could have the unintended effect of sanitizing the moment, minimizing the harm that occurred or obscuring the reality that

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racism is still present in our community. Last week was an unfortunate and painful reminder

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that racism, hatred, anti-black speech, intimidation and dehumanizing language have no place in

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our public meetings, our workplace or in our community. It is also a reminder that while progress

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has been made, there is still so much work to do. I want to thank the board and the county staff

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who have responded to the incident with click.

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Relarity, conviction and care, and I'm especially grateful for the way our team using this difficult moment, not to not simply react, but to listen to one another, challenge one another, and think seriously about the long-term way that our organization can continue to confront racism and inequities.

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We can not always prevent hateful acts from occurring, but we are clear about who we are, what

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we stand for, and how we respond.

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With that, I'd like to invite up the team from a command, the county employees, and community

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leaders, as an extension of this update.

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Good morning, Board.

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Good morning, Derek.

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who's also the CEO. My name is Robin Darin and I am a county employee but also a leader in

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Komea. I was online last week and I have a few words that response to what you all have just shared.

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But first I want to address my dear Black community.

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I want to address you first because I want to

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center, how last week's hateful and cowardly words impacted, not just you, but all of us who carry

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this history together. Maybe you were at last week's meeting for work, have wonderful

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clerk employees over here. Maybe you are here as family of our brother, chief Marlon Washington.

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Maybe you were a community member representing your community. Whatever role you had,

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I know that when anti-blackness entered that room, you felt something, the people who love you and who love black bodies felt something too.

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I wish we were gathering under different circumstances and yet here we are.

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I want to say plainly, you are beautiful. You are beautiful. You are beautiful.

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Black bodies are beautiful.

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I know last week brought up a lot of feelings for some of you, which, for some, was ancestral.

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And I blackness is a pain long endured, not just by our generation, but by our parents, our grandparents, and those before them, and many more.

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To say, it doesn't affect you would be a lie, it doesn't consume you, but it is pain on the

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And for that, I agree with you.

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I want to be clear about something.

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There are many forms of hatred, many isms that cause harm in this world.

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All of them deserve to be named and confronted.

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But the word that was used last week was not generic hate.

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It was anti-black, it was chosen specifically to harm people who looked like me, to reach back through centuries of hatefulness, and to try and make it hurt all over again.

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I will not soften that truth.

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And I will not let it be folded into a general category of hate.

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That erases who it was aimed at.

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I also want to name this, it was cowardly.

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To call someone names period is cowardly.

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But it is especially cowardly to do it anonymously

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to hide behind a screen and a fake name and still try to strip someone of their dignity.

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That person knew exactly what they were doing.

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They knew that to say that, hey, we're about a person who has left this earth unexpectedly with his parents,

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His wife, his brother, and his daughter in the room, they wanted to inflict the most amount of pain.

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If they believe what they said was righteous, then they should have said it with their face showing.

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They should have said it to our faces.

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They should have said it with their name attached, and they should have said it with their chest.

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The fact that this person did not is not a sign of conviction. That is not a sign of strength. That is cowardness and hate wearing a mask.

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The fact that this happened just reminded me of

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Thinking about my engine moves on, answering back, did you want to see me broken,

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bowed head and lower dyes, shoulders falling down my tear drops, weakened by my soulful cries,

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but still like air, I'll rise, and still like air we rise. I think of my

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and her wonderfulness of Black Beauty and Black Resilience that refuses to be diminished

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no matter how many times the world tries. That spirit lives in this realm today. It lives in our

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county. It lives in our departments. It lives in our communities.

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It lives in the spirit of chief

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Washington and his legacy and the way he mentored young people, the way he showed up for our

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community again and again, the way he led with compassion instead of fear and it lives in every one

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of you all. To my non-black community, I want to say thank you for those who checked in with your black

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colleagues, your friends and your community members this week. That mattered more than you may know

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I also want to speak to those who felt like they didn't know what to say or what to do.

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Silence is violence.

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And showing up doesn't have to be perfect.

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What I ask of you today is to embrace being imperfect.

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And to show up anyway.

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In ways that feel deep and meaningful, even when it's uncomfortable,

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even when you're afraid of getting it wrong.

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To this board.

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I want to say thank you for condemning what happened for acting quickly, for calling me as I'm

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clicking night. I appreciate that. But I say to you this clearly, the statement is a first step.

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Words, the words spoken in this room today cannot be where this ends. So I'm asking you directly

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what comes after this? What are you all going to do both individually and as a board to address

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anti-blackness and marine county? Not just in your communities but also in our employees.

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I ask that you put more resources to racial equity positions in this county so that this work does not depend on

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I also asked the UMVess in counting white training so that employees in every community member knows how to address anti-blackness in this community and how to respond to it with courage instead of avoidance.

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So that someday people will feel ashamed to use that word ever in public or in private.

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We will remember this day not for the words spoken in this room before what this board

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does in the weeks to follow. This in the asks for the counting to match his values with

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this budget, it's policy and it's followed through. Hate tried to still a moment that

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belonged to Chief Washington and his family and those who loved him. It did not succeed.

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We are still here, we are still rising, and we will keep showing up from one another, honestly and in perfectly together.

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And if you feel that to sing, I want to sing a verse from a song during the times of resistance against anti-blackness during my mother's generation.

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We shall overcome.

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We shall overcome.

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We shall overcome.

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Thank you so much.

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President Lincoln, board members, and our county executive. I'm

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Ray Mona Little Taylor, Assistant Director of Marine County Free Library, and a proud member of

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Maya. I'm also a District 2 resident. I stand before you today because of the strength, power,

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resilience, and faith in my ancestors, including my parents, Ruby and Raymond El Shabaz, my grandparents,

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Ruby and Willie Woods, Margaret Bernie and Willie Little, and my great-grandparents, Willie

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May, William Allen, Jim, and Jesse.

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After start by stating that the racial slur that was used last

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week. Again, Chief Washington was reprehensible,

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a poor ant and a form of hate speech.

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Chief Washington's legacy cannot be tarnished,

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will not be tarnished,

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but Chief shots hurled through the cloak of anonymity

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and voice altering software. He lived by the epic values

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that he led in his department.

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Excellence, professionalism, integrity, and community.

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that is as legacy.

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But where do we go from here? We cannot hide or ignore or hide from the ugly

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truth that racism and hate have been allowed to thrive and grow and spread like weeds, like

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a disease. Where do we go from here? We have to identify the cause so we can treat it. We

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have to name it what it is, which is anti-blackness.

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Throughout history, that particular racial slur

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has been used as a weapon, and it's

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been used against black people.

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The racial slurs, the symptom, anti-blackness, is the cause.

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Where do we go from here?

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We have to recommit to the cause of being anti-racist.

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Where do we go from here?

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We have to invest in the board's priority

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of building racially equitable communities

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and investments in supporting work that advances racial equity.

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The race counts report on racial disparities in California notes that across all indicators, education, income, healthcare,

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life outcomes that Marin County's Black residents are the most impacted by racial disparities.

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Where do we go from here?

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We need more education, more trainings, more capacity building that addresses combating explicit and implicit forms of racism and anti-blackness.

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Where do we go from here?

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We ask you to listen and respond with tangible actions to address racism and anti-blackness and marine county.

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Thank you.

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I'll lower this. Good morning, everyone. Good morning to the board. Good morning to Derek, our county executive.

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Komeya, all of our members here, all the community of Marin.

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My name is Natalie McCall. I'm, I'm Marin County resident. I grew up in Sicily, though, spent my first 18 years there.

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And I have lived in Novato since 2009. Marin County is my home. It's beautiful. I love it.

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And I have known, since I was a child, that there is racism here, particularly anti-black racism,

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that was clear as a resident of Sossolio with this segregation between Sossolido and Marin City.

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I never understood why that wasn't one community growing up.

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And when we say there's anti-black racism in Rene County, we're also saying there's white supremacy in Rene County.

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They're the same thing.

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And that's the part that hasn't been addressed to the white supremacy.

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What happened at the board meeting last week was horrible and racist, that person, I believe, has been my notice, they're not what's important here.

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What's important to me is why they felt comfortable saying that in one of our board meetings here.

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And I believe that's because an environment has been created, that is made that person feel comfortable being openly racist and using racial slurs in our meetings.

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Last September, the county made the decision to lower flags to honor Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk was a white supremacist to incited violence against black people and other marginalized communities with his words.

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To me, that was more helpful than what happened last week, because that wasn't done by a stranger on the Internet that was done by the organization that I work for, that made me feel unsafe, that made me feel uncared for, and I know many of my colleagues felt the same way when they found out about that.

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And I wonder why that, for the board,

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for county leadership, why that was different than

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this situation.

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Why Charlie Kirk's racism was something that should be honored and, well, racial slurs are

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not okay.

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To me, it's all the same thing.

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It's all violence, anti-black racism.

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My colleagues of in command have asked, you know, what happens next?

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What I propose is that the county reflects, and is accountable for the anti-Black

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racism that exists, like people said, in our organization, in our departments, in our

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board meetings everywhere, because it is here, we do see it.

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And I hope that the board commits funding to it,

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like Robin proposed, creates a plan for it,

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and also creates a system of accountability

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so that the community both inside the organization

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and in our county knows that it's serious.

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I believe that the people of Marin

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don't want racism to flourish in our communities.

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You know, over five years ago,

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I was working for City of Mill Valley

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and I led a series of book club groups on racism.

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We read the book again, again, by Eddie Glowd.

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And I spoke to almost 100 community members in that town,

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who were cognizant of the racism in their communities.

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About the lies they've been told when they were younger people

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in the 70s, about how scary the Black Panthers were.

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And that is a civic center history, too.

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You know, that's in that existence building,

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the history of Angela Davis.

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So I know that our community members don't want anti-Black

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our white supremacy to flourish in our communities, but we need a clear path forward, we

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funding for it and resources, we need accountability, and we need a system of ethics that

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we actually stick to. Thank you.

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This does go up. Yes. Good morning board members. Good morning

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County Executive Director. My esteemed colleagues and my fellow community members. My name is Robin

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I'm the Learning and Organizational Development Manager here for the county and I'm also one of the co-leads of

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prism or LGBTQ if you're an affinity group.

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And I stand before you today as an employee of the county of Marin, a resident of the county,

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but most importantly as a white person dedicated to interrupting cycles of harm perpetuated by racism and anti-blackness.

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I also stand here as yet another in the long line of people who was personally impacted by

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Chief Washington, his presence, his grace, his kindness, and I like many of you stood in

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this room one week ago in dismay when someone took advantage of a moment of communal vulnerability

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to denigrate such a beautiful person with hate and vitriol.

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Yet unlike many of my fellow white attendees, I was not in shock.

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You see, we white folks like to move through the world believing that because the most

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atrocious and obvious forms of anti-blackness aren't in our faces that racism is a thing

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of the past.

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Yet nearly every day, I hear stories from my beloved black friends and colleagues of the

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the limital, the covert, the unassuming ways, they are reminded that the belief that they are less than human is alive and well.

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I'm not here to speak to the black experience that is not my work that is not my role.

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I'm here to speak to the white folks in the room.

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It's in moments like these that were confronted with a reality that we work tirelessly to ignore.

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It takes the most egregious expressions, the most outward displays of hate, the most obvious forms of harm for us to be alarmed.

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We clutch our pearls, and we turn to each other with tears in our eyes, but by the end of the week we have moved on.

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Because that was an isolated, rogue, one-off experience that does not represent me.

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We go back to the comfort of our ignorance, we take solace, and our momentary outrage, and we

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retreat to our individual.

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A realistic world view that blocks out a collective reality and in doing so our silence becomes

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complicity. Our paralysis becomes maintenance and our ignorance sustains the divide between

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these versions of the world. You see, as white folks, we think we have to know all the answers. We

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think we have to do it right, and while we're caught in these beliefs, we fail to even try.

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We fail to truly listen with our hearts to the stories of harm.

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We fail to understand the experiences of those who are most desperately impacted.

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We fail to build relationships that build bridges across the divide.

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At the words of Adrian Marie Brown, perfection is a commitment to perpetual self-doubt, and this is where we live as white people.

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In a perpetual spiral of self-doubt that distracts us from a liberated future, one that includes our own liberation.

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So, I call on every white person who is uncertain of how to move forward, hold this mantle

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and do not let it go.

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Each day ask yourself, what am I doing to stand against anti-blackness, read the books, have

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the conversations with friends, family, and colleagues, look to our black leaders, they've

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been telling us long enough, we must do our work.

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But do not stand idle, awaiting your turn to rise because it will never come.

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The moment is now.

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It is always now.

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To our Marine County leaders,

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we have the resources, but do we have the will.

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Is Marine County willing to be an example of what it looks like to acknowledge the

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wrongs of the past and work to make things right?

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If what you heard last Tuesday shocked you to your core, then I urge you to never accept a world in which those we love, respect, honor and support have to endure this pain, that we work tirelessly toward a better future, because as white people, it costs us nothing to stand with our Black siblings.

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But our presence, our solidarity, our accomplish ship, our required to continue bending the moral

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arc of the universe towards justice.

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I'll leave you with these words from Lilawatson and Indigenous

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Australian activist speaker who presents an aboriginal understanding. If you have come here

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to help me. You're wasting my time. But if you have come here because your liberation is bound up

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with mine, then let us get to work. My liberation is bound with yours. My liberation is bound with

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yours. I stand with you. Will you stand with us? Thank you.

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Or someone I just think to come

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a family, let's give them a round of goals.

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I'll come to you as a community leader, I'll come to you as a county employee, senior program

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coordinator would public works, and I just want to say this, the N-word, everybody understand

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and knows the Black experience has American, and I don't, I'm not going to go too much

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into that but I just want to say this. When an inward inward with you was used towards

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my culture, that means the black woman were going to get raped. The black man were going

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to get lynched, hung, castrated, burned alive. So that was what comes with that inward.

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So, when you go back in history, and you saw when the N.W. were used, people were comfortable

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to degrade us, call us three-fifths of the human being, now look at all this black experience

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right here, three-fifths of a human being so we can be enslaved.

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So understanding that message and using it against my brother, cheap Washington, that was

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very despicable. And reason, and I just want to clarify something, when he here, we say,

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brother, a sister, that's the highest form of respect. Okay, so...

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going to push to it. Because I just want to thank you, Doug, for reaching out to Kamaya.

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And the O.C. team, Paula, I appreciate you. I'll stop

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in into the spaces. And this is directed to the president when

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our HSS former director, Anita McClaren,

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But through her resolution, she was belittled to me and degraded.

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And I challenged the board to not be a bystander.

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And the President, Mr. President, you stood up and said she would not be a bystander.

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And I appreciate you for shutting down that hate speech.

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You know, I saw the video and you shut it down.

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So now, what I want to go into is the same scale of emotions and what that says is the highest

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frequency you can have is authentic authenticity and limiting your truth and standard

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by your truth and we use the word solidarity.

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So, what I'm proposing is creating a system web of solidarity and standing beside us and creating a plan of action.

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That's going to make sure that these hateful people do not disrupt and make us feel like we're about to be lynched.

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And how you lent your person into today's society, you restrict them, you take away the resources,

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and you make them feel like their marginalization is no hope. So when we're talking about hope and

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power structures, let's make sure we implement a system web of solidarity that protects us against

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anti-blackness and promote a culture of understanding. And I want to say this to the rest of the board,

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It's okay not to have the answers, but just like when we strategically plan, we listen to the feedback from the community,

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and we take the data, then we create a structure and we implement.

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And what we're talking about sustainable solutions and policy that protects us from filling marginalize and making sure that people they're going to use hay speech, living your truth and show your faith.

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and stand by it. I just want to say thank everybody and I love

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working with a county. I raised my kids in the county and I'm a district

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three person and I love my district. Thank you.

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Good morning to the board to our

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leadership to everyone in the room and listening online. My name is Jimmy

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Jordan, you share pronouns, and I am the director of the Office of Equity, and I would be

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remiss to not stand here and to acknowledge the labor that is required of my beautiful colleagues,

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who had to give voice, who had to continually stand up, and now who have to clean up the mess that

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this is caused.

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Tony spoke about our brother.

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So I wanted to use my voice today to speak very clearly

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that I was deeply impacted and hurt.

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And what's so important as we move forward is how do we continue

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to resource racial equity work in the county? How do we continue to invest in this work?

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So that it is embedded in the DNA of our organization. So regardless of who sits up there at the

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is that the work continues because it's a black woman.

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The work always continues for me.

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So I appreciate the time today.

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And again, I want to just acknowledge the bravery that is required.

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And I want to thank my colleagues and my friends who have stood up here today

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and given voice to all that this is resulted in.

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So thank you to the board.

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I appreciate you and I look forward to walking alongside you

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as we continue to do this important work. Thank you.

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Thank you, everyone. I want to appreciate all those who spoke from Kameh, our county employees, as an extension of our county executives report here. Thank you all.

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I think in incidents like this, there is no perfect response, but we need to lean into the imperfect and because the other option is silence.

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And thank you for for that space as we all kind of continue to lean into this together.

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So thank you with that. We are going to go and come back and continue on with Board of Supervisors

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Matters. So we'll go to my colleagues and we'll go back to our county executive for the remainder.

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Why don't we before we do that? We're going to just take a quick break and we'll be back.

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We'll start up again with the county. Sorry, Supervisors Matters in just a couple minutes.

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it's about about three five minute break. Thank you.

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Thank you everyone.

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We are returning back.

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We're going to continue on with Board of Supervisors reports and the remainder of the county executives report.

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Supervisor Sackett, do you want to start? Yes. Thank you, President Luke in.

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Just to take a moment to say to Robin to Ramona to Natalie to Robin to Tony,

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Jamila and so many others.

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Who have spoken, reached out and are leading us through and supporting the county organization.

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Thank you for speaking up for continuing to educate us.

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And I just will close and same. Thank you to Chief Washington for continuing to and center and guide us through this conversation.

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additional supervised reports or

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supervised redone.

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Just first of all I want to thank all the speakers this morning.

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I think it's important me personally to learn and be educated.

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I have other comments and I have been

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asking for more investment in our race equity

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and training programs and I think this is a chance for us to double down a little bit on that

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and really move forward with some more of that work.

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Obviously, we have more work to do.

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But thanks to everyone that spoke this morning,

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I was very meaningful and I am sorry that you had to listen

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to this hate speech.

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I wanted to give an update this morning on O'Kill.

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As you may know, may not know, I service the chair

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of the JPA board, and I wanted to make sure

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that everyone was up to speed on what was going on.

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The process has been much slower

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than we had hoped. There's been a lot of obstacles along the way. The interest rates have not been

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favorable. Construction costs have been driven up, and this past weekend I'm fearful that they'll

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continue to go up with the absence of the federal government and the Canadian government.

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The Oak Hill site is a unique opportunity to provide affordable workforce housing for public

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school and county workers.

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The JPA remains committed to two fundamental principles.

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We will not move forward without a clean site,

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and we will not move forward without a balanced budget.

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The current workforce housing financing plan

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is facing challenges to the delays

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in environmental mitigation work,

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and due to the later construction costs,

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our updated performer currently shows

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an increase of $10.6 million in the construction cost, resulting in a potential funding gap of

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$12.5 million. These are preliminary numbers and there's still work to do before we know

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the final cost and the funding gap. But we have moved forward on our next steps. The first step

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is refined to project budget and over the next few weeks we will continue to drill down on the

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working with this contractor to refine costs, identifying savings through value engineering,

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and we anticipate the gap to be reduced as we work through these details. There's also

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a dual evaluation process going on, including an afternoon affordable house housing pathway.

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At the same time, as we evaluate our JPA workforce housing project, education housing partners,

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the HP is evaluating an alternate affordable housing approach that would preserve pursue a more

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traditional housing project using low-income tax credits and that financing. Similar to the

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Eden project that's already happening at O'Kill. This would provide another path to affordable

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housing on the site if the current workforce housing financing model cannot be balanced. I will continue

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provide updates on Oak Hill to the board as we know more. I don't view the current financing

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challenge as the end is affordable housing opportunity at Oak Hill. We are pursuing both paths

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so that we can determine the most financially viable way to afford affordable housing on this site.

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Again, repeating there will be affordable housing built on that site. It just matters what kind of

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MCOE with some state funding, and in kind support it spent a little over $294,000.

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That's of an investment in the future housing there.

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It's $2,200 per door that we've invested today.

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That's a pretty good investment if we end up with 135 units of affordable housing in conjunction

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with the 115 units of Eden affordable housing on that site.

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250 units will meet and not a lot to our housing element needs, so thank you, and that's my report.

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Thank you, supervisor Colbert.

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Yeah, thank you.

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I want to echo my colleagues and direct comments. What happened last week with deeply disturbing, and I would like to thank everyone who came and spoke from Komiya.

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With that, I want to turn to the work ahead and give one quick update.

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We're taking thoughtful and intentional steps to prepare for the winner. We are staffing up and investing in the equipment we need.

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And making sure we're ready for the potential impacts of an e-new and we're in a storm weather.

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I want to especially thank County D.P.W. and my colleagues on the board for their coordination and assistance in this.

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We can't control it when it rains, but we can control how prepared we are.

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And that's it.

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Thank you, Supervisor Colbert.

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Supervisor Molten Peters.

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Yeah, thank you.

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I'm going to join my colleagues in our county executive and express my sadness over what happened last week.

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my disgust, really. My appreciation for Colmea and our speakers today, and I want to join

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Tony Swan in creating a system of a web of solidarity with our black leaders who I value

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very much and I'm very proud to work with. And I think that I'll leave it at that for now.

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Great, and Supervisor Sackage, you have a couple updates?

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Yeah, a couple of updates.

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The California State Association of Counties C-SAC Board of Directors met last week and took positions on the state propositions that will be on the November ballot.

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If anybody's interested in those, I'm happy to share it.

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Really exciting on August 19, along with President Luke in on the smart board of directors.

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we adopted a resolution, approving the Geyserville station, and this was really in response to

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overwhelming support from that community asking for a smart stop, so it's really exciting

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to see that move forward. And then to note, this Thursday at 6 p.m. in these chambers,

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the transportation authority of Marin Board is meeting, and we're going to have a presentation from

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I'm Maria Larson, from Marin Public Health, from the County Public Health team on E-Bike Safety

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data.

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Looking at this one year after the implementation of AB 1778, the Marin's E-Bike pilot,

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and we'll look at that data a little bit closer.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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I'm going to go to our kind of executive for the remainder of his report.

445
00:47:23,310 --> 00:47:28,570
Good morning, President Luke, and members of the board, just a few items to discuss this

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last week I was fortunate to be able to attend a biennual meeting with county executive

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administrators throughout the greater bay area, including the City Administrator of

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San Francisco and county executives from Sonoma, Santa Clara, San Mateo and Alameda

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County.

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We discussed a range of topics to strategize on implementation of HR-1.

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I think that is a common struggle across our region advancing how we use technology in local

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government there is a huge transformation underway and I would say every

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facet in every county in the Bay Area how we're approaching hybrid and in

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person work and also recruiting and retaining our workforce. I want to

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thank San Mateo for hosting this gathering and our regional collaboration and

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best practice sharing and it was a really important opportunity to really

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and Glean some information inside from Bay Area colleagues.

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More locally, shifting to San and Somo,

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I want to talk a little bit about our partnership

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with the town of San and Somo and Building Bridge 2,

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and the County Flood Control District

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and the town and Somo are working together.

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That is important step towards a community's long-term

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vision for Creek Park Plaza.

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The agencies are working on agreement to rehabilitate

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the district of Bridge 2 known as BB2,

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so that it can safely support future public use and help reconnect the Creek Park.

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The town will continue leading the broader Plaza Project while the district anticipates

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supporting structural repairs subject to future board approval. It is an exciting milestone

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after years of community planning and partnership and a meaningful step towards creating a welcoming

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downtown in place for residents, businesses, and visitors. As promised, this is your update on

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County Wides strategic plan, and it continues to move forward and the Center for Organizational

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Effectiveness is beginning individual board member interviews this past week, additional

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interviews with also assistant county executives are scheduled throughout September and October,

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and staff has also scheduling regular strategic planning subcommittee meetings throughout

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through January to keep the board closely connected to the process and emerging themes.

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Parallel, our team is building out the fall, community engagement effort, including district workshops,

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targeted stakeholder conversations and focus groups, and launching our engagement digital platform.

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There is a lot happening to say the least.

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And staff is coordinating with other planning efforts underway to make sure we minimize duplication and make sure the community engagement is thoughtful, meaningful, and is accessible as possible.

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Shifting gears to a future part of our organization in internships, the schools went back into sessions.

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This concludes the end of our student summer of internship program and the completion of the program for this year and the Office of County Executive and the Board of Supervisors since June 20 interns worked in divisions throughout the Office of County Executive Board offices and offered meaningful contributions to work on projects.

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As one in turn set upon the completion of the internship throughout my internship with Marin County, I've had the opportunity to work across a wide range of departments and government offices and really get first hand understanding of how different parts of government come together to serve our community.

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They went to meetings across our state, including Sacramento and San Francisco, witnessed and had the opportunity to participate in discussions on and gain new perspectives on sea level rise down in the San Rafael canal.

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And as one intern put it, thank you to all the staff members who made the program possible this year and I want to thank the board members for hosting in terms of this past year.

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they are our future staff and leaders in this organization.

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Next, shifting to safety. This is the 15th year that the Marine County sidewalk CPR event brought

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life-saving skills into the community on August 15th, 1000 and 94 people received free hands-on

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training at 13 locations across Marin, including shopping centers, parks, and transit hubs.

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Participants learn simple skills, anyone can use an emergency, including hands on CPR and how to stop severe bleeding and how to use a defibrillator or AED and how to administer naloxone to reverse an opioid overdose.

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More than 700 doses of naloxone were also distributed at no cost and more than 100 volunteers help make the event possible.

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So, thank you to everyone who volunteered, participated, and helped make our community and communities beyond

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Marin safer.

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Shifting to just the latest scam alert, unfortunately I want to alert

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Marin County residents to a scam that's emanated as occurring in affecting our Marin County

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Sheriff's Office.

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I did the Sheriff's Office has received multiple reports of college demanding payments for

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proposed that missed court appearances or warrants, sometimes threatening a rest of payment

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isn't made.

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Please remember the sheriff's office will never call and demand payment for a criminal or

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civil matter.

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If you receive one of these calls, do not provide payment or personal information.

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If you believe you've lost money or shared confidential information, please contact the sheriff's

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non emergency line at four one five four seven nine two three one one. And as we wrap up our regular schedule meetings for August just a reminder of the Labor Day observance with the county offices will be closed on Monday September 7th and observance of Labor Day. While most county offices will be closed just a reminder our first responders and many of our field staff will continue serving the community throughout the holiday and that concludes my report for this morning.

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Thank you county executive. As we, we're now going to move into a public comment. This is for the county executive support for the supervisors matters or also if you have public comment on items not on today's agenda. As we move into public comment, I do want to make a note and remote public comment to remind everyone of our meeting rules.

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While the board strongly supports the public's first and minute rights and welcomes different and sometimes strongly express points of view.

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But a board meeting is a form for conducting the public's business and the board has the authority and responsibility to maintain an orderly meeting and prevent disruption.

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Comments on the agenda must relate to the agenda item during open time comments must concern matters within the board's jurisdiction.

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I may also address conduct that disrupts or impedes the orderly conduct of the meeting, including

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conduct and following comments that are profane or abusive.

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These rules will be applied without regard to a speaker's viewpoint.

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If necessary, we may briefly mute a speaker, explain a concern, and provide an opportunity

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to continue.

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Repeated failure to remain within the permissible subject matter, or repeated disruptive

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conduct may result in the termination of the comment, and if it continues exclusion

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from further remote comment during the meeting. With that, I'll open up to any public comment here

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in the room for items of...

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Board of Supervisors, updates, or non-agenda items, please come on up.

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00:55:13,100 --> 00:55:18,860
The name is Jack Bristol. I've appeared in front of you in the past. And this is regarding

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El Nenew. And in the damage that it will cause, as we know, it can hardly be reversed.

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But I'm here to ask you with your ability to request help and more than anything else

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00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:54,540
CalTrans and the areas that are located in Tam Valley, Manzanita, Marin City, and asking you

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But remind you, there are areas there.

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As one example, I would want, like we know, will be flooded.

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We also know that human beings in arguing with El Nino, will be damaged.

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00:56:13,420 --> 00:56:19,260
We will not be able if they have a sickness to get out, to come back.

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There are gates that haven't been functioning.

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I understand, for years now, the Cal Trust,

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together with the assistance of the county,

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installed years ago, and do have something

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that has a purpose and not have it maintained,

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and it's observed.

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So please help the people, the human beings,

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that will be affected by non-linear and whatever influence you're able to bring in the forces,

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call trans, yourself, others that can correct this urgent situation before it will not be

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to be able to remedy a while ago.

537
00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:16,480
Would you like to get wrap up, please?

538
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May I go on for just a minute?

539
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Not a minute. You're at time right now.

540
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Okay. Thank you.

541
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Thank you.

542
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:34,620
Hi. Good morning. Thank you for hearing us today.

543
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I'm so sorry. I was not here this week,

544
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so I did not hear those comments,

545
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but I am so sorry for the pain that people experienced.

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I can only hope that the report.

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about to submit to you will answer at least maybe in some tiny way the inequities that were mentioned

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by the people who spoke. My report is from the Health Council of Marin. I'm Roberta Antis the

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current chair and the report is on the lack of access to healthcare in Marin. It was already formally

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submitted but you won't see it until after our sunset review and the council would like a fair review

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and we can only have that I think if you see our work. So I have a hard copies for everyone. Big packets.

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Anyway, the council attempted to give you a fairly comprehensive overview of the lack of access to care.

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We cited over three dozen very well researched articles and sources.

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And we tried to consolidate that in one place so that you don't have to read over three dozen of these over the last months that we've been doing this.

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Our first part covers the shortage of primary care doctors and the various factors driving that shortage.

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The second part covers the effects of HR1 and how these measures reduce access to health care,

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which I'm sure you're all aware of.

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In both cases, report covers what the federal government has done, both good and sometimes

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very bad.

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And also, it covers what the state, the county and private entities have done to try to help mitigate

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the issue.

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Dr. Lisa Santoro's instrumental in helping us identify some of the state and county initiatives

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and we're very grateful for that.

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The report includes testimony from members of the public, a whole packet of letters, and including some from next door, which I put in because I thought you'd be interested to see how prevalent the issue is.

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We also offer some suggestions at the end that we think fall within the scope of the Board's authority.

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And I hope that you find it informative and I hope that you strongly consider it when you evaluate whether or not the health council should be sunsetted.

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So we hope that you don't sunset us. I'm going to hand this to the clerk. Thank you so much.

568
00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:44,210
Thank you so much. I'm not seeing any additional public comments here. We will go online. I see two hands up

569
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rolling cats. You may now unmute.

570
00:59:51,760 --> 00:59:59,920
Good morning. We're all a cast member in the Association of Public Employees. I want to add my voice and comments that I was made earlier day. First I just want to say.

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I don't have much to add to what all the very thoughtful, well-conspeakers said this morning, but I wish I could be there in person was there last week.

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I found a glaring and horrifying, and in shock even though I'm not naive at all about racism, it still exists.

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01:00:18,310 --> 01:00:27,070
Those were my reactions. I agree with Ms. Baron, it was an act of cowardice for somebody who had made those comments the way he did.

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01:00:27,930 --> 01:00:34,950
I also want to note that I too was dismayed by the town of the decision to find a fight

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01:00:34,950 --> 01:00:40,290
that has to have, if Mr. Kirk was assassinated, of course we all condemned that kind

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01:00:40,290 --> 01:00:45,390
of violence, but it doesn't mean he was, that a life worth honoring, but back to the point

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01:00:45,390 --> 01:00:51,790
of last week, I preached years again all the comments in your action, and I'm behalf of

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I simply want to say we stand in solidarity with all employees in the county, but particularly

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01:00:58,050 --> 01:01:01,970
our African American members and all African American employees.

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As horrifying as I found it to be, I know that it will never use that file term.

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We'll never vet me as deeply as the effects of the white person in this country.

582
01:01:16,870 --> 01:01:17,710
Thank you very much.

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01:01:21,670 --> 01:01:24,690
Erica B. C. P. U. You may now unmute.

584
01:01:27,690 --> 01:01:28,350
Good morning.

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01:01:28,850 --> 01:01:30,150
What is the supervisor's?

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01:01:30,150 --> 01:01:34,730
My name is Erica Butler and I am an employee here at this kind.

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01:01:35,530 --> 01:01:37,170
I'm also.

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The president of mate, which is the unit represents majority of the kind of authors.

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And I wanted to say this morning.

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a stand-in solidarity with all the economists that have been made with millions of bomb

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that come out rather than sisters. It was pretty horrific to learn the events that

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had happened last week. And to also know that there are so many members here with

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the county employees and committee members who had to, you know, just experience the

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I said we also in the hurtful paper language that was used by the cowardice made on behalf of Chief Washington.

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I think that also to say that I was forward to this kind of management, putting forward those resources to help develop resources when materials for all of us to stand and answer that.

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this and

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I appreciate the opportunity to

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it, we're right to attend with some

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ones that we could address this and

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on. And so thank you for your time.

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01:03:00,610 --> 01:03:02,550
Susan Canner, you may now unmute.

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01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:08,460
Good morning. I'm Susan Canner.

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01:03:09,960 --> 01:03:13,200
The chair of the Alcohol and Drug Advisory Board

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is this the time I should speak on the

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sunset review of our board or will it

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01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:20,420
come up later? Susan, that will come

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01:03:20,420 --> 01:03:25,280
later in the agenda and they'll be on an opportunity to speak specifically to that item.

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01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:27,060
Thank you. I'll speak later.

609
01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:32,700
Thank you. We're going to end closed public comment. Thank you all. We're going to move on with

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our agenda. We have several consent calendars, consent calendar A, B, the open space consent,

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and the flood control consent. Any colleagues wish to pull anything or questions on any?

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01:03:45,360 --> 01:03:49,960
I'm not putting anything present, Luke, and just to recognize the University of California

613
01:03:49,960 --> 01:03:56,560
Ren Master Gardner Program 40-year of service resolution, so thank you for that.

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01:03:57,080 --> 01:03:58,060
Thank you, supervisor.

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01:03:58,900 --> 01:03:59,640
Not seeing any others.

616
01:03:59,780 --> 01:04:02,780
Is there any public comment on any of these poor consent calendars?

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01:04:03,800 --> 01:04:05,020
I don't see any in the room.

618
01:04:06,600 --> 01:04:07,320
We'll look online.

619
01:04:07,680 --> 01:04:09,500
Also not seeing any hands go up online.

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01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:11,660
We're going to close public comment on all of these.

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01:04:11,660 --> 01:04:14,440
do we have a motion on consent calendar A?

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01:04:16,270 --> 01:04:18,170
I'll move consent calendar A.

623
01:04:19,840 --> 01:04:20,320
Well second.

624
01:04:20,660 --> 01:04:22,100
Motion by Supervisor Colbert.

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01:04:22,280 --> 01:04:23,740
Second by Supervisor Molten Peters.

626
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:24,720
All those in favor.

627
01:04:26,620 --> 01:04:28,740
I'm going to pose that passes consent B.

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01:04:29,020 --> 01:04:34,300
I'll move consent B with appreciation for the Marin City Summer Program.

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The funding for the concept designed for a Southern Ren bicycle facility and gratitude to Rachel Calvert

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01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:45,620
for the Lumida rehab projects.

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So I make that motion with appreciation.

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01:04:50,220 --> 01:04:52,780
Motion by Supervisor Molten Peters with appreciation.

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01:04:53,760 --> 01:04:56,680
And a second from Supervisor Rodoni, all those in favor.

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01:04:57,520 --> 01:04:57,640
Hi.

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01:04:58,600 --> 01:04:59,980
Now I'm going to pose that passes as well.

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01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:02,500
The open space consent calendar.

637
01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:07,500
I'll move adoption of the open space calendar. Second.

638
01:05:07,880 --> 01:05:11,460
Motion by supervisor Sackett, second by supervisor Rodoni, all in favor.

639
01:05:12,800 --> 01:05:18,120
Aye, none opposed. That also passes five zero and then lastly the flood control consent calendar.

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01:05:19,320 --> 01:05:21,080
I'll move the flood control calendar.

641
01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:23,860
All second. Motion by supervisor.

642
01:05:24,040 --> 01:05:27,200
Second by supervisor Colbert, all those in favor.

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01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:29,540
Aye. Aye. Also passes.

644
01:05:29,540 --> 01:05:35,040
We'll move on to item 9A, Martin's landing easements with an option to purchase agreement.

645
01:05:35,660 --> 01:05:41,740
I'd like to invite up the team from Parks, quoting our Director Chris Chamberlain.

646
01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:44,640
I see Carl Summers and the team all coming up.

647
01:05:45,300 --> 01:05:47,900
I'll let Chris introduce the group.

648
01:05:52,460 --> 01:05:53,980
Good morning, Mr. President.

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Supervisor Chris Chamberlain, Director Marine County Parks.

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Yeah, the item before you this morning.

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really is the next step in really important process and our long-term work to protect the

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the marsh down both in marsh and a really critical section of the Bay Trail segment in southern

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Marin at the time in the junction area.

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I just, as we facing this changing climate and sea level rise, we're seeing a lot of impacts

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there.

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I'm going to turn it over to staff here momentarily for a presentation, but I just wanted to

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really reiterate to your board as we go into this presentation.

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The both in March evolving shorelines project, the presentation you're about to get is really

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kind of honing in on an important real estate transaction, the acquisition of an easement

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or the right to acquire an easement.

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And it really doesn't dive into the breadth of this project.

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We'd certainly welcome the opportunity to come back to your board at a future date to really

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take that deeper dive.

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But we will highlight the general overview of the project and really hone in.

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But I just wanted to kind of lay that framework

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as we head into this presentation.

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And with that, I'll turn it over to Tara McIntyre from our team.

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OK, good morning.

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There we go.

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Let's see if the clicker works.

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Quicker works.

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Good morning, President Luke in and supervisors.

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My name is Tara McIntyre.

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Projects and Design Manager.

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And I'm here with my colleague, Carl Summers,

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who's a chief of planning and real property.

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And on behalf of Marin County Parks,

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an open space district, we're here to provide a brief presentation and answer any questions

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on the Martin's Landing easement for what you were asking for your approval and authorization.

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So the staff report covers really all the details as real properties often very complex. I

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am always challenged to understand all the legalese. However, in simple terms, we're asking

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for your approval and authorization to have an option to purchase easements for Martin's Landing

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and related budget actions, which are specifically tied to as Chris mentioned, the advancement

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of both the involving shorelines plan and the relocation of the Mil Valley, Sossolido

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Multis Pathway. And I'd like to pause here briefly to acknowledge that the evolving shorelines

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effort has been implanting and designed for nearly 10 years and has been through an intensive

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public outreach process. And at the core of this action, our design changes that could make

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potential future project more feasible and less expensive.

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Those are two really important elements when we're trying

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to deliver a major undertaking like this with significant

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implementation costs and complexity.

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So your board's six county priorities really provide a

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focused framework for how to best allocate resources.

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And this action before you today plays a key supporting role

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and, again, the both in evolving shorelines adaptation effort, which meets four of the six priorities shown.

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And, and I want to point out a company this image of our sea level rise marker, right there on the Mill Valley,

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Sossilu, pathway.

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This is from the King Tides, from January.

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I'm sure everybody remembers, and it speaks volumes to setting the why.

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The stage for why we are here today and the critical work that we're already undertaking to adapt to climate change and sea level rise.

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So, both in March, for folks who don't know, it's located on the northern end of Richardson Bay.

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It's near Cam Junction and Melvalley.

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The March itself is a biologically important title wetland within the larger Richardson Bay ecological system.

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It supports rare, threatened and endangered species, and it really serves as a key migration stop along the Pacific Flyway.

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The Mill Valley Sossolita Multis Pathway, which by Sexton March, as you can see here, is an important section of the Bay Trail system, and one of the most...

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Public comment, motion,

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second,

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vote, vote, vote, vote, vote,

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It points to really a serious issue, the pathway in the marsh are already vulnerable and that vulnerability will continue to increase with sea level rise and without intervention both are at risk.

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So this rendering here, this shows the proposed conceptual path alignment for the evolving shorelines effort.

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And this, the idea is to shift the path to the edge of the marsh while preserving the shoreline experience with everybody loves who uses that pathway and create a more space for restoration and long-term marsh resilience.

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This concept also reflects the community priorities through that outreach process, including improved neighborhood connections, additional trailheads, formalized parking amenities and separation from El Monte Boulevard.

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And the existing path through the marsh would then be removed once a new alignment is fully operational.

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So now we're going to focus on exactly where these easements that we're here today to discuss is our located in relationship to both in marsh.

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the red square is what to kind of keep your eye on.

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So on the left, as a full view of the marsh,

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Tam Junction, again, to the south,

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Al-Monkey, to the west, and 101,

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Richardson Bay Bridge to the east.

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And then the zoomed image on the right

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shows the general location known as Martin's Landing,

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which is north of Highway 1.

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It's really the heart of Tam Junction,

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and which shares a property boundary with both the in marsh.

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So now we're going to talk about the core details here.

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These next two slides will break out the specific easements, but for this slide's important,

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only to note that the open space district is the upper green partial and the lower

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martin's landing parcel is in red and which shares the border.

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Sorry, I just clicked too far.

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So, there we go. The shoreline's pathway alignment is currently shown as

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on the UCL on the plan, so it's out in the marsh.

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So as we have been progressing design,

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we identified challenges related to wetland impacts

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long-term maintenance and implementation costs,

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because really when you're building a massive structure

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on a sponge, it's really heavy,

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which is essentially what that is doing.

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So, and it's not impossible, it's just really costly

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and problematic.

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So an opportunity emerged to potentially acquire an easement

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across a privately owned Martins landing property

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that could potentially solve many of these issues.

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So by shifting the current conceptual alignment,

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there are several benefits.

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First, it allows us to move the trail onto land

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that has already been disturbed for decades

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and reduced wetland impacts,

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and then also provide more room for habitat.

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It could also help with permitting, simplify construction,

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reduce settlement concerns, and allow for greater flexibility

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for sea level rise and future shoreline protection.

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So there's three main easements.

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The first two A and B, which you can see is like click the thing often on, easement A would

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grant an easement to Martin's landing from MCOSD for vehicular access to the property from

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Almondi Boulevard.

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easement B would grant an easement from Martin's landing to the county for the purpose of

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potentially constructing the proposed trail as part of the botheen evolving shorelines.

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So here, just to clarify, the county is not proposing to purchase anything today.

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Today's action is merely proposing to secure the right to purchase the easements later.

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This one sure that Martin's landy property remains available, allowing for us to do a thorough evaluation

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as a potential alternative during the environmental compliance process

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for the both-eane evolving shorelines.

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So if Martin's landing alignment alternative,

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which you see here, is selected at that point,

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and then subsequently certified by your board,

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would we also exercise that option

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to purchase the process, the easements?

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So one additional easement,

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which does not hold permanent transfer,

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such as A and B.

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This is a temporary construction easement that would be granted by Martin's landing to the county. And that would be for the purpose of constructing the proposed pathway. And again, this is only if Martin's landing, trail alignment is selected as a preferred alternative.

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So inevitably we're going to have to talk about real estate terms.

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And these next two slides attempt to capture in the simplest manner.

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The first two easements A and B, again, this is an option

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Agreement legally securing the rights to purchase easements,

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pending environmental review, which we expect to take two to three years.

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Because it comes down to, like, without having

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SITE control through this option, we cannot legally consider this as an alternative

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as part of the environmental compliance process of sequence.

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So, as negotiated with Martin's Landing, there are also three non-refundable payments, as you

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can see here, with allowances for three extensions, and this totals approximately $115,000.

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And if the option is exercised, they amount to be credited towards the purchase.

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Additionally, your board just approved the option that easement for A under the previous

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action and under the open space district. And then finally just before we finish the temporary construction easement has been a praise and a monthly rate with the duration of any future construction.

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So, in closing, as recommended by staff, we ask you to prove and authorize this option to purchase the agreement, as well as the budget adjustments between the county marine county

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County Open Space District and Martin's Landing, and we're here to answer any questions.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Tara.

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I'll go and see if there are any questions on this one.

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01:16:58,460 --> 01:17:00,120
Not seeing any from the board.

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We'll quickly go to public comment.

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Is there any public comment on this here in the chambers?

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Please come on up.

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Thank you.

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My name is Jack Crystal.

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And we are supportive of this proposed plan.

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We need to, and you need to keep in mind the after effect effects of what is being considered,

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which includes a bridge nearby that is going to be elevated, a pathway that has been used heavily.

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No valley, so Salito, portions of Marin City, and taking in mind that, look at the fact

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that, instead of being walking areas, and the foresight of sea level rise that should

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be dealt with El Nino in the future, and now that the rest of the pathway will also

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have to be taken care of by elevating it and then adjoining properties that will have to

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then to be protected so that they will not be flooded as a result of elevating the pathway.

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Any questions? Happy to give them to you. Thank you, Jack.

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I don't see any other public comment. Any online?

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No hands online.

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We'll go to bring it back for comments and or action.

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I'll start with supervisor Milton Peters.

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Thank you.

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I want to thank Tara and our whole county team for this.

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You know, this is a very meaningful step forward for both

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scene.

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It's also a superb example of multi benefit planning and cooperation with

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landowners.

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And I want to thank Martin's landing.

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They have been generous and cooperative and they are really helping

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us do a much needed sea level rise project less expensively and to address flooding sooner.

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So I want to thank them, Jan and Bimbo and I walked the whole site.

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We've seen what's intended here.

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We like it a lot.

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So thank you and to the whole Martin's Landing team for the work you've done to get us here.

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I would move approval of this motion of this item.

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I'd be happy to second this just with my appreciation. This really feels like a generational

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improvement to a very complicated area and such an important part of our bicycle infrastructure.

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So thank you for working through all of the not minor details to bring this forward.

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All right, so we have a motion by Supervisor Moldem Peters, the second by Supervisor Sackett, any additional

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01:20:00,940 --> 01:20:08,000
Not seen any, all those in favor. Aye, not opposed. That passes. Thank you so much.

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Move on to item 9B, which is the 2025 crop and livestock report and sheep and wool market assessment.

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I'll welcome up Joe and the team. Good to see you.

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Welcome everybody.

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Yes, thank you. Nice to see you.

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Good morning, President Luke and members of the board and Chief Executive Johnson.

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My name is Joe DeVany, and I serve as the Agricultural Commissioner here for Marine County,

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and it is our pleasure to present the 2025 Crop Report, Crop and Livestock Report.

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So I'm going to provide a few overarching comments, and then I'll hand my the mic over to Allison Klein,

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who is the Agricultural Arts and Advisors Inspector who did a lot of the work putting this together.

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So, overall, the 2025 season really benefited from a lot of above average rainfall,

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which supported exceptional range land growth, and lowered the feed and operating pressures

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for all of our local producers.

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And at the same time, the beef prices reached record highs statewide and nationwide,

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creating one of the most, I guess, financially positive cattle seasons and in a recent history for sure.

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To together, these conditions provided a lot of stability and improved our livestock health

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and supported the economic resilience of Marin's ranching community, letting them build back up from those years of drought we had.

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So next slide, please. This slide is just kind of a reminder that this,

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commission or must do every year annually, so we just are asking for acceptance of this report

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today on the agenda. So with that, I'm going to hand the microphone over to Allison to provide

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an overview of this statistics.

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Good morning. I'm Allison Klein, and inspector with the department,

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and I'm pleased to help present the 2025 crop in livestock report to you today. This first slide

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shows the gross production values of the major agricultural commodity groups that I'll go

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into some more detail in following slides. The most important takeaway that I want to share with

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you is that the gross value of all agricultural production in Marin County in 2025 was $94.1 million.

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That's a 12% increase from the year prior 2024 and then some group updates.

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The value of livestock and aquaculture increased 21% livestock products decreased to 2%.

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Field crops increased 12% and fruit vegetable and nursery crops decreased 12%.

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Cattle and Caves, which was valued at $23 million, was the top-grossing commodity in 2025.

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It's value increased 43% from 2024.

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The 2025 beef market reached unprecedented levels nationwide, driven by limited herd recovery from prior drought years,

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high input costs and high consumer demand.

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And then poultry, which ranked second-in-value, increased about 2% from the year prior.

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On the livestock products group, organic milk continues to remain the highest valued livestock product

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at $21.4 million.

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Production drops lately in 2025, but the higher price largely offset the 1% decline in total value.

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The total growth value of field crops increased 12%, early season rains came consistently

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in 2025, supporting strong, forage germination and growth, as evidenced by the increase in

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value of pasture and silage.

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And then taking a look at fruit vegetable and nursery crops, while the total growth value

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fruits and vegetables decreased 13% in 2025 from 2.4 to 2.1 million dollars, it's worth noting

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that Planet Acreage actually increased and harvested Acreage held steady. This was a

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You're continuing to grow in the...

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Come more diverse. The 2025 wine grape harvest delivered higher than expected yields in Marin, even though fewer

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acres were harvested. However, grape prices were lower, and that's partly because California continues

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01:25:16,580 --> 01:25:24,580
to have an over supply of wine grapes. As a result, the total value of Marin's wine grapes fell by 10%.

874
01:25:25,280 --> 01:25:35,100
We would like to express our gratitude to all the growers, producers, processors, government agencies, and others who contributed information to make this report possible.

875
01:25:36,620 --> 01:25:38,680
And now I'll hand the mic back to Joe.

876
01:25:39,700 --> 01:25:40,440
Thank you, Allison.

877
01:25:42,300 --> 01:25:45,660
You guys might remember, every year we try to do something special in the corporate reports,

878
01:25:46,020 --> 01:25:48,400
just show really what's happening in Marin specifically.

879
01:25:48,400 --> 01:25:53,960
So last year we did by local and we did a new map how to do that and but you brought for that

880
01:25:53,960 --> 01:25:56,520
We really focused on climate and all the wonderful things that

881
01:25:57,480 --> 01:26:04,640
Agriculture does to the climate well this year we um you might have noticed in the crop report it's very small item but wool

882
01:26:06,900 --> 01:26:09,140
It's interesting though. I mean

883
01:26:09,140 --> 01:26:14,980
There was I think 10,000 sheep this year but there has been up to 50,000 sheep here

884
01:26:14,980 --> 01:26:19,120
There's been up to 300,000 pounds of wool in some years.

885
01:26:19,740 --> 01:26:21,720
So there's potential here, people always ask me,

886
01:26:22,060 --> 01:26:24,600
what else can we do? What's the future of agriculture in Marin?

887
01:26:25,340 --> 01:26:30,080
So there's a lot of interest in wool and natural fibers, as we did in,

888
01:26:30,080 --> 01:26:37,780
that the July plastics, plastic for each July, wool has a lot of new textile

889
01:26:37,780 --> 01:26:45,500
opportunities in acoustics in, of course, clothes and different types of textiles.

890
01:26:46,140 --> 01:26:49,820
So there seems to be a lot of interest and some momentum there.

891
01:26:50,340 --> 01:26:52,700
So I was asked to, let's look into this a little bit further.

892
01:26:53,500 --> 01:26:55,000
So we focused on wool this year.

893
01:26:55,520 --> 01:26:57,760
So just run through these slides real quick.

894
01:26:58,220 --> 01:27:01,520
Rebecca Burgess is up there on the left-hand side of the screen.

895
01:27:01,840 --> 01:27:06,820
And we're very lucky to have a global presence here for with fiber shed.

896
01:27:06,820 --> 01:27:19,440
And all the wonderful things that natural fibers can provide and all the beneficial use of the land with the sheep and how the ecosystem services benefit from their presence.

897
01:27:20,540 --> 01:27:22,220
So they're based out in Black Mountain.

898
01:27:22,900 --> 01:27:25,020
So that's something very special that we have here in Marin.

899
01:27:25,780 --> 01:27:30,720
And then on the right-hand side is a Libby Patterson who owns a store called the Woolshed,

900
01:27:30,720 --> 01:27:39,900
which is a very appropriately named, like the milk shed, the wool shed is a lot of the local producers are able to sell right at her shop there.

901
01:27:40,180 --> 01:27:47,800
So if you go into that shop, you'll see a lot of our local wool producers with a very wonderfully artistic and well done type of products.

902
01:27:48,080 --> 01:27:48,920
So next slide, please.

903
01:27:50,900 --> 01:27:56,360
And then here we have two of our multi-generational farmers, ranchers in Marin.

904
01:27:56,360 --> 01:28:03,440
And we have Joe Posey on the left who was early on really trying to promote and get wool

905
01:28:03,440 --> 01:28:11,760
more products into marketing and working with other folks and Sonoma County regionally

906
01:28:11,760 --> 01:28:17,220
and he's also on the American wool and she association at the national level.

907
01:28:17,640 --> 01:28:24,420
Jim Jensen on the right, another very specific type of thing, he sells his wool to Franklin

908
01:28:24,420 --> 01:28:29,000
move, which is a pillowmaker, so there's these relationships that are pretty neat that we have

909
01:28:29,000 --> 01:28:34,360
built in our county. And then we'll next slide, please. And then in the corporate report,

910
01:28:34,380 --> 01:28:40,460
we also wanted to round it out with, we have Mimi Luberman on the left there. And she does a

911
01:28:40,460 --> 01:28:45,180
lot of work at farmers markets and educating everything from, you know, the different types of

912
01:28:45,180 --> 01:28:51,100
wool, the different types of fibers and felting and carding and spinning all the way through

913
01:28:51,100 --> 01:28:55,900
a great educator and as a lot of exposure to a lot of young kids.

914
01:28:56,500 --> 01:29:00,680
And then on the right we have Marsha Baranaga who is quite an artesian with her wool.

915
01:29:00,980 --> 01:29:04,340
She has different jackets, she puts on them to really make the highest quality.

916
01:29:04,420 --> 01:29:08,060
She's a ward-winning type of wool and you can see you're there with her bags.

917
01:29:08,940 --> 01:29:15,660
She actually has the individual animals with their wool that it's maintained all the way

918
01:29:15,660 --> 01:29:20,820
through the process and you can buy socks or whatever from, for instance, there's cracker

919
01:29:20,820 --> 01:29:24,040
is the sheep there on the left at the bottom.

920
01:29:24,500 --> 01:29:26,740
You could get some socks made from his wool,

921
01:29:26,840 --> 01:29:28,300
or her wool, or, yeah.

922
01:29:28,560 --> 01:29:30,460
Anyway, thank you for that, look quick.

923
01:29:30,800 --> 01:29:33,700
And then in addition to the focusing on the crop report,

924
01:29:33,700 --> 01:29:36,740
we were allowed to do a special sheep

925
01:29:36,740 --> 01:29:38,160
and wool assessment.

926
01:29:38,240 --> 01:29:39,940
Is there really some kind of traction here

927
01:29:39,940 --> 01:29:40,900
we can get for the future?

928
01:29:41,440 --> 01:29:43,500
So we have a Duncan McEwen over here

929
01:29:43,500 --> 01:29:46,340
with ERA economics who put together

930
01:29:46,340 --> 01:29:48,420
an assessment of our local industry

931
01:29:48,420 --> 01:29:50,240
with some constraints and opportunities.

932
01:29:50,240 --> 01:29:51,720
So I'll pass the mic over to Duncan.

933
01:29:53,660 --> 01:29:53,840
Awesome.

934
01:29:53,960 --> 01:29:54,440
Thank you, Joe.

935
01:29:55,440 --> 01:29:56,960
Good morning, President, Supervisor.

936
01:29:57,240 --> 01:29:57,700
Duncan McEwen.

937
01:29:57,820 --> 01:29:59,720
We should have a bit, another.

938
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:07,400
Presentation. Okay, give them a second to pull that up. Duncan McEwen, with the RA economics, and I should acknowledge

939
01:30:07,400 --> 01:30:13,500
the work of some of my colleagues, Tory Laird, and Ashley Spalding, that worked on this assessment

940
01:30:13,500 --> 01:30:22,160
with us. I also wanted to thank Joe for his, as you know, Joe's creativity and interest and enthusiasm

941
01:30:22,160 --> 01:30:27,140
for this type of agricultural work is always fun to work around. And we really appreciate his partnership

942
01:30:27,140 --> 01:30:30,320
and the county's partnership on this effort.

943
01:30:31,340 --> 01:30:33,240
So what we were asked to do is put together

944
01:30:33,240 --> 01:30:35,240
what we would call a kind of a reconnaissance level

945
01:30:35,240 --> 01:30:39,040
overview of the sheep industry and that's from sheep

946
01:30:39,040 --> 01:30:41,200
through wool production focusing on marine

947
01:30:41,200 --> 01:30:43,120
county but we also want to zoom out a little bit

948
01:30:43,120 --> 01:30:45,480
and just figure out and show how marine county fits

949
01:30:45,480 --> 01:30:49,940
into the global trade and global markets for wool.

950
01:30:50,780 --> 01:30:53,880
So we pulled industry data together, economic data,

951
01:30:54,240 --> 01:30:55,760
and importantly worked with a bunch

952
01:30:55,760 --> 01:31:01,280
of your local producers and experts both here in Marin County and then regionally across

953
01:31:01,280 --> 01:31:06,060
Northern California and Joe went through a number of those in his prior slides and

954
01:31:06,060 --> 01:31:11,440
a lot of that feedback and insights into the current industry is reflected in the report

955
01:31:11,440 --> 01:31:12,540
that we've put together.

956
01:31:13,240 --> 01:31:18,460
So the figure here shows you the overall kind of supply chain going from the sheep enterprise

957
01:31:18,460 --> 01:31:23,720
through wool processing and final products and for wool it's kind of going two directions

958
01:31:23,720 --> 01:31:33,840
depending on its quality, you know, finished into consumer goods and textiles like Joe was talking about or other like soil amendments that the tag wool would go to.

959
01:31:34,100 --> 01:31:43,160
And that all starts with the sheep and the sheep enterprise, which is really built on three things here in the county, the economics that are driven by meat and grazing opportunities.

960
01:31:44,160 --> 01:31:52,500
And then fiber or wool is kind of the third component. And it's typically a smaller component currently of the economics of sheep production at the farm.

961
01:31:53,720 --> 01:32:05,180
So zooming out a little bit, the U.S. wool industry, it's a global industry, and over the last several decades has generally declined and stabilized over the last handful of years.

962
01:32:05,900 --> 01:32:14,280
But in general, as you can see on the table on the right, the U.S. is a net exporter of raw wool and a net importer of finished wool.

963
01:32:14,280 --> 01:32:19,000
And in short, the economics are such that it's generally cheaper currently to export

964
01:32:19,000 --> 01:32:24,380
and have wool processed and turned into other products that we then import back to the United

965
01:32:24,380 --> 01:32:30,120
States. But what we're looking at US trade data and the market for wool that masks some

966
01:32:30,120 --> 01:32:37,000
of the important regional differences in some of the local niche markets that like those that are

967
01:32:37,000 --> 01:32:41,540
available here in Rain County. And so that's part of what we want to look at in this study.

968
01:32:42,660 --> 01:32:47,740
And then these trends have been driven by largely changes in consumer demand, you know,

969
01:32:47,900 --> 01:32:49,360
trends towards synthetic fibers.

970
01:32:49,660 --> 01:32:53,860
But as Joe mentioned, that's kind of reversed in recent years with more attention on microplastics

971
01:32:53,860 --> 01:32:55,820
and more interest in natural fibers.

972
01:32:55,960 --> 01:32:57,760
So that supports markets like wool.

973
01:32:58,840 --> 01:33:04,460
So if we drill down into the Marin County wool industry, this graph is shown in trends over time,

974
01:33:04,580 --> 01:33:09,440
and total production, and then inflation adjusted prices, you can see peak wool production

975
01:33:09,440 --> 01:33:15,820
and the county was in the early 1960s and declined pretty steadily through the early 2000s.

976
01:33:15,860 --> 01:33:21,040
And then price fell with it and has stabilized in more recent years over about the last 15 years.

977
01:33:22,020 --> 01:33:27,440
And then the table on the right is showing where wool produced within Marin County is typically going.

978
01:33:27,560 --> 01:33:35,140
So you'll notice that a lot of the processing aggregation processing facilities are outside of Marin County.

979
01:33:35,140 --> 01:33:36,960
And the question is, what are the opportunities here

980
01:33:36,960 --> 01:33:39,100
to capitalize on some of that economic value

981
01:33:39,100 --> 01:33:41,960
and keep that local and help grow this industry?

982
01:33:43,820 --> 01:33:46,900
So look again, Marine County agriculture,

983
01:33:47,160 --> 01:33:50,760
the graph on the figure on the right is showing the distribution

984
01:33:50,760 --> 01:33:54,960
of irrigated crop acreage as of 2024 and grazing land.

985
01:33:55,420 --> 01:33:56,760
And it shows a couple of things.

986
01:33:57,000 --> 01:33:59,640
That there's a relatively small irrigated footprint

987
01:33:59,640 --> 01:34:01,100
for agriculture in the county,

988
01:34:01,240 --> 01:34:02,860
but a substantial amount of grazing land.

989
01:34:02,880 --> 01:34:04,600
And as I'll talk about in a second,

990
01:34:04,600 --> 01:34:15,020
A lot of that land is under easements, agricultural easements or other open space easements that can work well with grazing opportunities for sheep and other livestock.

991
01:34:16,320 --> 01:34:22,200
As of 2024, the wool industry was about 24,000 pounds and the gross value of that industry was about $40,000.

992
01:34:22,540 --> 01:34:30,040
So again, it's a relatively small component currently of those three things that drive the sheep enterprise in addition to meat and grazing opportunities.

993
01:34:30,680 --> 01:34:34,320
So, looking ahead, what are the opportunities here in Marin County?

994
01:34:34,640 --> 01:34:37,800
And there's additional detail on the report.

995
01:34:37,920 --> 01:34:39,760
We've got some listed on the slides here.

996
01:34:39,760 --> 01:34:42,600
I want to focus on four key things.

997
01:34:43,940 --> 01:34:49,460
So, the first is, and this was supported by feedback from the industry folks that we worked

998
01:34:49,460 --> 01:34:53,040
with and interviewed, you know, the initial opportunities are for aggregation.

999
01:34:53,360 --> 01:34:59,820
So that, you know, smaller scale producers can have the ability to access and compete in a broader

1000
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:13,740
So aggregation opportunities locally. The second, and this is clear from the businesses that Joe is highlighted, the success of those depend on access to kind of what I would call niche markets that, you know, are kind of creative.

1001
01:35:14,540 --> 01:35:24,520
Can maybe tap into the demand from the greater bay area and some of the opportunities for natural fibers that have come up and consumer demand for those items.

1002
01:35:25,680 --> 01:35:31,560
And then the third thing is working, not not viewing Marin as like an island in the sheep

1003
01:35:31,560 --> 01:35:36,700
and wool industry, but working regionally, as part of the work that we did, there's other

1004
01:35:36,700 --> 01:35:41,360
research efforts and industry efforts going on in Lake County and other areas around Northern

1005
01:35:41,360 --> 01:35:45,920
California and there can be value in participating in those regional initiatives, both from

1006
01:35:45,920 --> 01:35:50,780
a research perspective and for identifying markets and market opportunities.

1007
01:35:50,780 --> 01:35:57,560
And the last thing I think is the most important, the figure shows the areas in various agricultural

1008
01:35:57,560 --> 01:35:59,460
or open space easements.

1009
01:35:59,820 --> 01:36:05,460
You know, Marin County has a, you know, a beautiful, you know, rural character and landscape

1010
01:36:05,460 --> 01:36:08,980
that's supported by these areas under easement.

1011
01:36:09,160 --> 01:36:13,900
Economically viable opportunities for those lands include grazing opportunities for livestock

1012
01:36:13,900 --> 01:36:20,220
like sheep that provides other co-benefits for, you know, vegetation management, wildfire,

1013
01:36:20,220 --> 01:36:25,320
risk mitigation and other habitat and environmental benefits from the

1014
01:36:25,320 --> 01:36:25,540
lands.

1015
01:36:26,320 --> 01:36:30,040
So those are the four things that I wanted to highlight, there's a number of other

1016
01:36:30,040 --> 01:36:34,780
opportunities that are laid out in the report, but the key thing is the, is the

1017
01:36:35,640 --> 01:36:40,220
aggregation access to local markets and then opportunities within coordinating

1018
01:36:40,220 --> 01:36:44,420
within the broader regional economy for cheap and more production.

1019
01:36:45,460 --> 01:36:48,180
Joe, if I missed anything, please let me know if I missed an important

1020
01:36:48,180 --> 01:36:53,560
stuff from our folks that we spoke with, you did a great job, you did a great job,

1021
01:36:53,740 --> 01:36:57,980
condensing a lot of the detailed work and the will report into just some slides here

1022
01:36:57,980 --> 01:36:58,300
today.

1023
01:36:58,400 --> 01:37:03,680
We needed to move to keep our time limit there so thank you very much for all your hard

1024
01:37:03,680 --> 01:37:07,680
work and working with me so closely and I want to thank UC Cooper to be extension also

1025
01:37:07,680 --> 01:37:12,360
they did some quite a bit of a review of the documents and some of the economic components

1026
01:37:12,360 --> 01:37:16,980
of it they were very supportive of that so I think with that I think I'll close and see if

1027
01:37:16,980 --> 01:37:19,940
any questions that you might have for us.

1028
01:37:20,500 --> 01:37:21,480
Thank you for the report.

1029
01:37:21,640 --> 01:37:22,440
I'll look to my colleagues.

1030
01:37:22,840 --> 01:37:25,880
Any questions or comments, supervisor, co-bar.

1031
01:37:26,800 --> 01:37:27,080
Yeah.

1032
01:37:27,240 --> 01:37:28,020
Thanks for the report.

1033
01:37:29,040 --> 01:37:34,800
So on table three in one of the attachments, you talked about the representative of

1034
01:37:34,800 --> 01:37:36,560
wool prices along the value chain.

1035
01:37:37,060 --> 01:37:44,680
So the Marin Farmgate is $1.20 and then it goes up to the direct market of $24.

1036
01:37:45,140 --> 01:37:52,800
So I guess my question is, like, how much of the marin vol will it can move up to that

1037
01:37:53,940 --> 01:37:58,020
24 dollars, right? Like, like, in terms of the value chain and capture, I'm curious you

1038
01:37:58,020 --> 01:38:02,340
have any thoughts on that? Yeah, thank you supervisor Colbert. So yeah, you got right down to the

1039
01:38:02,340 --> 01:38:06,720
the art of it, and that is, you know, there's the value at the farm, and then capturing the

1040
01:38:06,720 --> 01:38:13,060
value added beyond the farm all the way up to the fire consumer retail price. And so it depends

1041
01:38:13,060 --> 01:38:20,000
on what the product is. I think there's competition in a global industry for wool and the wool

1042
01:38:20,000 --> 01:38:24,600
products. As I explained, when you look at the US in total, a lot of that wool is moving

1043
01:38:24,600 --> 01:38:29,620
overseas. It's cheaper to process than bring it back in. So the ability to capture some of that

1044
01:38:29,620 --> 01:38:36,600
value added and then keep the jobs and economic activity that go with it is really dependent on

1045
01:38:36,600 --> 01:38:40,320
what you're producing and what the market opportunities are. So one of the things that we heard

1046
01:38:40,320 --> 01:38:46,140
that I mentioned as an opportunity is the aggregation or the ability to have a bit of

1047
01:38:46,140 --> 01:38:52,620
power to compete in those markets and so local aggregation of wool, which is then

1048
01:38:52,620 --> 01:38:57,880
can be marketed and processed. Maybe that happens within the county, maybe not, but that would

1049
01:38:57,880 --> 01:39:02,740
be an initial step within the supply chain that you can pick up some additional value added.

1050
01:39:03,560 --> 01:39:09,040
But I can't tell you that you can go pick up all $23 of that immediately. It's going to depend

1051
01:39:09,040 --> 01:39:10,640
and what the products are.

1052
01:39:10,980 --> 01:39:11,440
All right, thanks.

1053
01:39:11,540 --> 01:39:13,460
So can I ask one quick follow questions?

1054
01:39:13,960 --> 01:39:14,420
Yeah, sure.

1055
01:39:15,220 --> 01:39:18,920
So the answer to me, the answer to the question may

1056
01:39:18,920 --> 01:39:22,120
you just offered, but I was curious.

1057
01:39:22,980 --> 01:39:25,120
So given the disparity in trying to move,

1058
01:39:25,160 --> 01:39:28,000
figure out how to move, is that the smallest intervention

1059
01:39:28,000 --> 01:39:31,880
that could maturely increase the average rent price?

1060
01:39:32,240 --> 01:39:34,500
Was there any other options, anything else?

1061
01:39:35,080 --> 01:39:38,560
I think it's difficult to move the needle on an average

1062
01:39:38,560 --> 01:39:44,840
will price. It's identifying those the markets that you can sell and the consumers that have those

1063
01:39:44,840 --> 01:39:49,580
demands. And we did go through and identify some of those in the report. But there are these

1064
01:39:49,580 --> 01:39:54,100
kind of niche industries. But there are some opportunities in the industrial space like Joe was talking

1065
01:39:54,100 --> 01:39:59,980
about where more of the natural fibers are being demanded there. So are there opportunities to capitalize on

1066
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:05,820
Some of those local markets, that's where you can get better price than what you're getting in the global market.

1067
01:40:07,620 --> 01:40:08,580
Thank you.

1068
01:40:08,780 --> 01:40:09,720
Supervisor Molten Peters.

1069
01:40:10,400 --> 01:40:11,660
Yeah, thank you very much.

1070
01:40:11,680 --> 01:40:17,420
Joe, every time you come and bring us something new, I always want to counter with, I have an idea for that.

1071
01:40:17,920 --> 01:40:20,020
So your local, your local markets.

1072
01:40:20,900 --> 01:40:29,060
I wonder if we could talk a little more about, you've got some wonderful women in the business of wool products.

1073
01:40:29,060 --> 01:40:34,840
And that's where I was going, is we, you know, Marin County has marine layer that started

1074
01:40:34,840 --> 01:40:41,900
here and we've got Margaret O'Leary that started in the city, but here and they all focus

1075
01:40:41,900 --> 01:40:43,880
on organic wool products.

1076
01:40:44,000 --> 01:40:51,080
And so I'm just wondering how are we cultivating just the local companies to purchase the

1077
01:40:51,080 --> 01:40:51,340
wool?

1078
01:40:52,660 --> 01:40:52,900
Yeah.

1079
01:40:55,400 --> 01:40:59,760
When I started working on this project, it just more and more was opening up about opportunities

1080
01:40:59,760 --> 01:41:04,620
and traction and things that we can do, and other partners and collaborations that could happen.

1081
01:41:05,340 --> 01:41:07,440
And then I have to bring up Rebecca Burgess again.

1082
01:41:07,720 --> 01:41:13,620
She's very connected with a lot of the local people that you described.

1083
01:41:14,260 --> 01:41:20,000
So to build those connections and I think the hardest part for me though is

1084
01:41:20,460 --> 01:41:26,220
the infrastructure that's needed to bring it more locally or regionally is just expensive.

1085
01:41:26,220 --> 01:41:30,420
The infrastructure that exists in the United States is in other states.

1086
01:41:30,900 --> 01:41:35,260
So anyway, to have something here, Rebecca and I were dreaming of like a campus where

1087
01:41:35,260 --> 01:41:39,860
we could have a scour and a Carter and some research and development and you write all

1088
01:41:39,860 --> 01:41:44,940
those connections of local producers with some organic, wonderful, high quality things.

1089
01:41:45,800 --> 01:41:51,240
There's so much excitement and opportunities, but it's just harder to put together because

1090
01:41:51,240 --> 01:41:58,460
of the expense of the equipment, and it would not be a marine island as Duncan was saying.

1091
01:41:59,120 --> 01:42:04,820
A really good set of infrastructure, I could really turn around all of California.

1092
01:42:05,360 --> 01:42:10,920
I think the most wool in the United States, the Texas, so the wool is here.

1093
01:42:11,260 --> 01:42:15,520
The quality is wonderful. We have lots of different types that could do different things.

1094
01:42:15,520 --> 01:42:22,260
So, with that interest in organic, with that interest in natural fibers, with interest in green

1095
01:42:22,260 --> 01:42:28,400
textile type of things are building. I see so much there, but it's just getting it moving, getting

1096
01:42:28,400 --> 01:42:33,900
it lifted and getting the funding to build the structure in the right place, and then not having

1097
01:42:33,900 --> 01:42:41,820
people duplicate things, but to work with other regional partners to build all those steps and pieces.

1098
01:42:41,820 --> 01:42:45,780
So we could grow it here, reduce it here, process it here,

1099
01:42:46,060 --> 01:42:48,740
keep it here, and turn it into really high quality things,

1100
01:42:48,840 --> 01:42:53,020
which is $24 a pound that Mr. Supervisor Colbert just brought up.

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01:42:54,020 --> 01:42:57,260
So the potential is there, but I keep, we need to keep talking

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01:42:57,260 --> 01:42:58,540
about this as well.

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01:42:59,140 --> 01:43:00,580
I'm going to just hop in here.

1104
01:43:00,860 --> 01:43:05,120
Yes, I think there's an element here when I want to appreciate our colleagues

1105
01:43:05,120 --> 01:43:08,720
this morning coming from the cooperative, and we have some good conversations this morning

1106
01:43:08,720 --> 01:43:13,540
at the reception about this exact nature of how can we really capture that

1107
01:43:13,540 --> 01:43:18,400
value at and I just remind both the team here today in the board that we have

1108
01:43:18,400 --> 01:43:21,940
an economic vitality roadmap that's going to be underway and this is going to be

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01:43:22,240 --> 01:43:28,160
a central part of the work is ultimately looking at the report that Joe and the

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01:43:28,160 --> 01:43:32,660
team produced this morning the boards accepting receiving and then looking at

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01:43:33,940 --> 01:43:39,020
specifically Westmaren and Ag communities and what can we do to really help lift up

1112
01:43:39,680 --> 01:43:46,260
where there's value added opportunities may be, whether it's wool or cheese or dairy or

1113
01:43:46,260 --> 01:43:52,100
other fiber, you know, or the ways that we can work on that and so Joe and Team are part of

1114
01:43:52,100 --> 01:43:57,860
that group and my conversation this morning with the UC Cooper of Team is, you know, is there

1115
01:43:57,860 --> 01:44:02,640
any further in-depth case studies we can look at other communities throughout the United

1116
01:44:02,640 --> 01:44:08,020
states that is looking to do some of this work where we can make sure that this industry thrives.

1117
01:44:09,340 --> 01:44:15,380
That makes a lot of sense, Derek. I mean, we're talking about potentially a premium product here.

1118
01:44:15,420 --> 01:44:20,400
I come from a consumer district in Western Rune. There's a producer district, so I'm always thinking

1119
01:44:20,400 --> 01:44:28,180
how can we be better consumers locally. It reminds me a little of organic daring that came in

1120
01:44:28,180 --> 01:44:32,080
And I would be interested in how that whole industry took off.

1121
01:44:32,280 --> 01:44:34,120
They needed different equipment and practices.

1122
01:44:34,420 --> 01:44:35,880
But somehow we got that going.

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01:44:36,960 --> 01:44:38,900
So I hope we can look into it.

1124
01:44:39,040 --> 01:44:40,860
It seems like it's got potential on.

1125
01:44:40,860 --> 01:44:43,480
Thank you both, Alison, and Duncan for your report.

1126
01:44:45,480 --> 01:44:46,260
Supervisor Rodoni?

1127
01:44:47,640 --> 01:44:47,960
Thank you.

1128
01:44:47,960 --> 01:44:49,200
Thank you for the report.

1129
01:44:50,240 --> 01:44:55,060
I was wondering if you could comment on, if you're able to determine the scale

1130
01:44:55,060 --> 01:44:57,640
that we need to actually build the wool industry.

1131
01:44:57,640 --> 01:44:59,680
Is there some magic number?

1132
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:04,820
As I know we're competing on the world market and when you look at Australia and New Zealand, for

1133
01:45:04,820 --> 01:45:11,260
an example, a huge number of sheep on the ground there. Just wondered from Marin and Sonoma,

1134
01:45:11,420 --> 01:45:18,720
if anyone could take a look and say you need to be this big to be functional and start manufacturing

1135
01:45:18,720 --> 01:45:26,880
your own products here. I did have a conversation with Rebecca early on and to have a scour and

1136
01:45:26,880 --> 01:45:29,320
and to have a more processing happen here,

1137
01:45:29,440 --> 01:45:31,040
you're exactly right as a redone.

1138
01:45:31,640 --> 01:45:37,320
You need to have 400,000 pounds of bull to move through that.

1139
01:45:37,940 --> 01:45:41,420
So we used to do 330,000 pounds here in Marin alone,

1140
01:45:42,060 --> 01:45:46,320
but even in a lot of the other North Bay through Mendocino

1141
01:45:46,320 --> 01:45:50,240
and further, there's plenty to take care of that.

1142
01:45:52,320 --> 01:45:53,800
So yeah, that's the magic number.

1143
01:45:54,140 --> 01:45:56,620
And if it were here, it would probably take 15 full time

1144
01:45:56,620 --> 01:46:02,140
equivalent people with special trained type skills, and then there is a water component

1145
01:46:02,140 --> 01:46:06,180
that you need to wash the wool, that takes electricity, but we could do solar.

1146
01:46:06,900 --> 01:46:12,560
There's some beautiful kind of poster-gile things in my head, but it's potentials there,

1147
01:46:12,640 --> 01:46:14,900
but that's the number. Maybe Duncan has some others.

1148
01:46:16,260 --> 01:46:23,680
I think you hit the important points, and the cost of running goes down with the larger facility

1149
01:46:23,680 --> 01:46:25,300
and more throughput through it.

1150
01:46:25,820 --> 01:46:27,660
So that's back to this aggregation concept.

1151
01:46:27,700 --> 01:46:29,720
As looking at Marin as an island,

1152
01:46:30,000 --> 01:46:31,480
is probably not the right way to think about it.

1153
01:46:31,540 --> 01:46:33,000
It's thinking about those specialty markets

1154
01:46:33,000 --> 01:46:34,760
and then how to partner more broadly

1155
01:46:34,760 --> 01:46:36,160
with some of the regional opportunities.

1156
01:46:36,460 --> 01:46:38,360
And as part of this work, we did get out and meet

1157
01:46:38,360 --> 01:46:40,420
with work that's going on in Lake County

1158
01:46:40,420 --> 01:46:42,620
and other areas that you see is engaged in.

1159
01:46:42,760 --> 01:46:45,560
And so there is work on some of those next steps

1160
01:46:45,560 --> 01:46:48,360
about what's the return on investment from a facility

1161
01:46:48,360 --> 01:46:49,720
like that, where would it be?

1162
01:46:49,840 --> 01:46:51,320
Is it a good business opportunity?

1163
01:46:51,320 --> 01:46:55,740
And that ultimately comes back to questions that we were just discussing, which is really like what

1164
01:46:55,740 --> 01:47:00,860
consumers want, and you know, can you produce the products that they're willing to pay a premium

1165
01:47:00,860 --> 01:47:03,520
for to support the growing industry?

1166
01:47:04,200 --> 01:47:04,340
Here.

1167
01:47:06,080 --> 01:47:06,160
Okay.

1168
01:47:06,160 --> 01:47:13,920
One last little element to is that third revenue stream of sheet grazing for grazing contract,

1169
01:47:14,580 --> 01:47:17,940
that really makes it a very successful type of business.

1170
01:47:17,940 --> 01:47:34,080
So if we could I think we could work there with the need for a fire fuel reduction, there's so many places that need it cheaper, easy to move in those areas, that I see I see some early wins on, but that'll take some my efforts with the industry folks in the fire folks, I think.

1171
01:47:34,700 --> 01:47:40,320
I guess in this question for you, Joe, how can we help you take the next steps in this process?

1172
01:47:40,800 --> 01:47:43,600
I appreciate this first step allowing me to do this study.

1173
01:47:44,320 --> 01:47:46,880
And it did reveal some some some opportunities.

1174
01:47:48,540 --> 01:47:54,580
So just know I won't drop it from here and I've become friends with all the wool industry.

1175
01:47:55,200 --> 01:47:57,200
Please know I haven't lost track of the deiries.

1176
01:47:57,960 --> 01:48:00,140
I would love to see more deiries come in too.

1177
01:48:00,240 --> 01:48:02,260
And I just saw Andy, nausea, Reese walk in.

1178
01:48:02,280 --> 01:48:07,100
We'd love to see more fruit vegetable and all those kind of upper crores in too.

1179
01:48:08,020 --> 01:48:09,940
So, and then I just see Vince Trotter over there.

1180
01:48:09,940 --> 01:48:13,580
He's been helping me quite a bit about identifying what can we do and where can we do?

1181
01:48:13,580 --> 01:48:19,660
it and is that work that so all of these are exciting new things that I just need to keep working on

1182
01:48:19,660 --> 01:48:25,860
and I'll let you know when I need the next economic vitality strategic plan bit of money to work on

1183
01:48:25,860 --> 01:48:32,840
something that is to make sure that agriculture is robustly included in that report. It's definitely not

1184
01:48:32,840 --> 01:48:43,560
the top 10 economic drivers in Marin, but it's such a part of our identity, it's such a part of our

1185
01:48:43,560 --> 01:48:48,900
culture. So we have to connect a few dots here. And this is one of them I think that has potential.

1186
01:48:49,060 --> 01:48:55,020
That's why I kind of started to run on that treadmill. And a lot of people have joined me. So

1187
01:48:55,020 --> 01:48:59,820
I'll let you know when I need my next little help but I'm working on it. And a lot of people already

1188
01:48:59,820 --> 01:49:05,800
want this report too. And I think there'll be a lot of interest in it. There are some constraints, no doubt,

1189
01:49:06,660 --> 01:49:12,100
but it's exciting to think about natural fibers and set of plastics. And other really more natural

1190
01:49:12,100 --> 01:49:17,660
more suited to Marin type of identity. Yeah. Supervisor

1191
01:49:17,660 --> 01:49:21,040
second. Yeah, who do comments? Yeah, and then we'll go to public

1192
01:49:21,040 --> 01:49:25,920
comment. Thank you so much for this report, all of you, and I, you

1193
01:49:25,920 --> 01:49:28,700
know, I think it's so important to talk about the diversity and the

1194
01:49:28,700 --> 01:49:33,520
niche part of it and how the wolf it's into with the grazing and with

1195
01:49:33,520 --> 01:49:38,340
the meat. And it brings to mind earlier in August, I had the opportunity to

1196
01:49:38,340 --> 01:49:59,260
I was in Iowa and had the opportunity to attend a clean water festival with music with family activities and with a lot of speakers talking about the monoculture environment there and how to break that apart to address the highest cancer rates in the nation because of water issues and so I mean I think I appreciate

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01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:14,760
That you bring these niche projects forward and really highlight them, because once you lose them, it's insurmountable to bring back that diversity and those smaller projects that come together.

1198
01:50:14,900 --> 01:50:27,280
And we hear about the importance of this from, you know, from our ranchers on our cattle farms as well of like, what are the other products that they can sell in addition to the grazing and to be a visit.

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01:50:27,280 --> 01:50:32,980
You know, is it tourism, is it experiences, is it can't be an opportunities,

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01:50:35,340 --> 01:50:37,220
it all is required

1201
01:50:37,220 --> 01:50:43,620
in order to make agriculture economically viable, so thank you so much for bringing

1202
01:50:43,620 --> 01:50:49,480
this forward and for raising the consciousness about the opportunities to purchase

1203
01:50:49,480 --> 01:50:59,280
will to support our local shops and agricultural vendors who are really trying to make West

1204
01:51:00,220 --> 01:51:06,560
Marin sustainable, not only environmentally, but financially sustainable as well, so thanks

1205
01:51:06,560 --> 01:51:07,680
so much for all of you.

1206
01:51:08,160 --> 01:51:09,640
Thank you, Supervisor Sackett.

1207
01:51:09,780 --> 01:51:12,880
I am so glad I wore my 100% wool suit today.

1208
01:51:13,940 --> 01:51:17,500
Without we're going to open it up for a public comment, thank you for the great report.

1209
01:51:17,500 --> 01:51:20,120
Is there any public comment here in the chambers?

1210
01:51:22,040 --> 01:51:24,300
Not seen any, we'll go ahead and go online.

1211
01:51:32,750 --> 01:51:34,690
Stephanie Wilkins, you may now unmute.

1212
01:51:36,370 --> 01:51:40,150
Hi, thank you for this presentation and for giving me a moment.

1213
01:51:41,350 --> 01:51:42,570
My name is Stephanie Wilkes.

1214
01:51:42,910 --> 01:51:46,370
I was graciously invited to give input on this report.

1215
01:51:46,790 --> 01:51:51,030
I'm a local sheep share, a hoof trimmer, and an independent researcher and consultant.

1216
01:51:51,090 --> 01:51:53,890
And I am working with the group in Lake County that was referenced.

1217
01:51:53,890 --> 01:52:06,650
I just want to thank you for bringing this up, but also to point out that counties can really be life-changing in the role of a rancher's bottom line.

1218
01:52:06,950 --> 01:52:20,650
So in addition to consumer materials, counties actually consume a lot of weed mats, air filters, and 95 materials that are increasingly made with combustible renewable fibers like wool.

1219
01:52:20,650 --> 01:52:25,830
And our state, with SB 707, starting to roll out,

1220
01:52:25,890 --> 01:52:28,470
that's our extended producer responsibility legislation,

1221
01:52:28,910 --> 01:52:33,070
which also has MGHD, a mission, stuff coming in round two,

1222
01:52:33,810 --> 01:52:36,810
that kind of supports more local manufacturing is important.

1223
01:52:38,250 --> 01:52:41,290
And so, to Supervisor Covera at talking about prices,

1224
01:52:41,390 --> 01:52:44,330
that demand pull from the county side could be huge.

1225
01:52:45,150 --> 01:52:47,070
And to Supervisor Multon Peters,

1226
01:52:47,330 --> 01:52:50,110
I wanna say that I can't speak about all of the work

1227
01:52:50,110 --> 01:52:54,870
We're doing with local brands, but I can assure you that we are definitely working with some

1228
01:52:54,870 --> 01:52:57,650
of the local brands that you mentioned to increase the demand poll.

1229
01:52:57,950 --> 01:52:59,770
So thank you, Joe, for doing this work.

1230
01:53:00,270 --> 01:53:04,610
Thank you for elevating this topic, and I appreciate you all.

1231
01:53:04,830 --> 01:53:05,730
Thank you.

1232
01:53:08,520 --> 01:53:09,760
Call and user, too.

1233
01:53:09,880 --> 01:53:11,180
You may now unmute.

1234
01:53:15,060 --> 01:53:16,420
Please, mute the speaker.

1235
01:53:17,820 --> 01:53:23,000
To the call and user, it sounds like you're using a voice distortion or voice alteration tool.

1236
01:53:23,540 --> 01:53:31,660
If that is needed for appropriate accommodation, such as text to speech, I encourage you to reach out to our clerk so we can make sure that.

1237
01:53:32,320 --> 01:53:39,660
I'm going to give you one more second. If you can turn off whatever voice alteration tool you're using, as long as it's not necessary.

1238
01:53:40,300 --> 01:53:46,940
But if you continue to use it, we find that disruptive to our meeting and we'll not be allowed to continue. We're going to go and give you one more chance.

1239
01:53:50,080 --> 01:53:52,240
Call in user too. You may now unmute.

1240
01:53:57,590 --> 01:53:59,210
All right. We're going to go ahead and move on.

1241
01:53:59,210 --> 01:54:01,390
Thank you.

1242
01:54:01,870 --> 01:54:03,850
We'll go ahead and close public comment.

1243
01:54:04,770 --> 01:54:10,250
With that, may I have a motion to accept the 2025 crop and livestock report and the

1244
01:54:10,250 --> 01:54:12,610
accompanying sheep and wool market assessment?

1245
01:54:13,130 --> 01:54:14,870
I saw a move.

1246
01:54:14,930 --> 01:54:15,730
Back at?

1247
01:54:15,910 --> 01:54:20,550
We've motion by Supervisor Rodoni, a second by Supervisor Molten Peters, all those in favor.

1248
01:54:21,350 --> 01:54:21,430
Hi.

1249
01:54:22,350 --> 01:54:23,490
Thank you so much for the report.

1250
01:54:27,300 --> 01:54:32,280
We're going to move on to item 9c, which is a sunset review of boards, commissions, and

1251
01:54:32,280 --> 01:54:33,020
committees.

1252
01:54:33,540 --> 01:54:39,240
We've got our team here with Carla Omar and several interns that worked on this.

1253
01:54:39,420 --> 01:54:44,180
Before we go to staff for the presentation, a supervisor, Rodoni, and I have been serving

1254
01:54:44,180 --> 01:54:45,760
on this subcommittee.

1255
01:54:46,360 --> 01:54:50,940
Working through this review and like to turn over to supervisor Rodoni, provide some opening

1256
01:54:50,940 --> 01:54:51,440
remarks.

1257
01:54:52,460 --> 01:54:57,040
Thank you, President Luke, and the two of us have been working with staff on this review.

1258
01:54:57,040 --> 01:54:59,980
And I think the most important thing the emphasize is that

1259
01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:07,900
This is really about good governance and making sure our advisory bodies continue to serve the county and our communities effectively.

1260
01:55:08,580 --> 01:55:14,660
Marine has a long history of community participation through boards, commission committees, and other advisory bodies.

1261
01:55:15,220 --> 01:55:22,760
They provide important expertise, community perspective, and opportunities for residents to participate directly in their government.

1262
01:55:22,760 --> 01:55:32,400
At the same time, these bodies have been created at a different point of time for different purposes and under different operating structures.

1263
01:55:33,220 --> 01:55:42,940
One of the things this process has shown us is the value of periodically stepping back, asking questions whether those structures still make sense.

1264
01:55:43,580 --> 01:55:48,400
This review is not simply about reducing the number of commissions or commit committees.

1265
01:55:48,400 --> 01:55:52,960
It's about, is the body still serving a clear and necessary purpose.

1266
01:55:53,600 --> 01:55:57,140
Does it currently, because the current structure support that purpose?

1267
01:55:58,040 --> 01:56:03,380
Our members, responsibilities, and staff support, and reporting relationships clear.

1268
01:56:04,080 --> 01:56:08,320
Are there opportunities to strengthen participation, transparency, and effectiveness?

1269
01:56:09,560 --> 01:56:16,840
And where circumstances have changed, is there a better way to accomplish the original purpose?

1270
01:56:16,840 --> 01:56:23,660
The process also also gives us an opportunity to establish clearer and more consistent expectations going forward,

1271
01:56:24,140 --> 01:56:28,880
so that periodic view becomes a part of how we manage our advisory body system,

1272
01:56:29,240 --> 01:56:32,140
rather than something we only undertake after many years.

1273
01:56:32,800 --> 01:56:37,140
Ultimately, we ask our members of the public to volunteer their time and expertise.

1274
01:56:37,780 --> 01:56:41,320
I think we have responsibility to make sure they are serving with the infrastructure

1275
01:56:41,320 --> 01:56:48,420
It is a clear purpose, clear expectations, meaningful connection to the work of the county and the board.

1276
01:56:49,060 --> 01:56:53,020
I also want to recognize the significant staff work that has gone into this review.

1277
01:56:53,560 --> 01:56:59,460
Omar and our interns, Hylene, Alexander and Jackie have done tremendous amount of work.

1278
01:56:59,780 --> 01:57:02,820
Friendship amount of the research and detail work behind the effort.

1279
01:57:03,340 --> 01:57:10,860
I want to thank them along with the Commissioners, Liseons, County staff, and community members who participated and provided input.

1280
01:57:10,860 --> 01:57:16,140
I now would like to turn it over to Carla to introduce this and then she'll pass it on to the team.

1281
01:57:16,860 --> 01:57:17,520
Thank you Carla.

1282
01:57:19,460 --> 01:57:20,480
Good morning board members.

1283
01:57:21,640 --> 01:57:27,960
Today we are presenting the findings and recommendations from the county sunset review of boards, commissions and committees.

1284
01:57:28,860 --> 01:57:31,760
This is part of the broader work of the Clerk of the Board office.

1285
01:57:32,880 --> 01:57:36,720
What we've been doing to strengthen how divisor bodies operate.

1286
01:57:37,340 --> 01:57:43,380
The bigger goal is the effectiveness, sustainability, governance, and good administrative support.

1287
01:57:44,340 --> 01:57:49,880
As Supervisor Rodoni mentioned, this is not simply deciding whether a commission stays or goes.

1288
01:57:50,880 --> 01:57:56,760
Omar and our interns were deeply involved in this work, and will present several portions of the analysis today.

1289
01:57:57,460 --> 01:58:00,900
I'll start briefly with the action before the board. Next slide, please.

1290
01:58:02,440 --> 01:58:07,680
Today we are asking the board to receive the Sunset Review and provide direction on the

1291
01:58:07,680 --> 01:58:09,460
bodies identified in the report.

1292
01:58:10,380 --> 01:58:15,220
The recommendations are not all the same, depending on the body's staff may be recommending

1293
01:58:15,220 --> 01:58:21,460
continuation, governance improvements, restructuring or consolidation, additional analysis

1294
01:58:21,460 --> 01:58:23,200
or potential sunset.

1295
01:58:23,960 --> 01:58:30,040
The important point is that some board direction today would begin additional work, not complete

1296
01:58:30,040 --> 01:58:36,300
it. Restructural change is contemplated. Staff may still need to work through legal requirements,

1297
01:58:37,060 --> 01:58:43,380
fiscal impacts, operational considerations, and stakeholder input. Staff would return to the board

1298
01:58:43,380 --> 01:58:49,520
with the appropriate implementation action. We are also recommending the staff return with an

1299
01:58:49,520 --> 01:58:55,900
updated resolution establishing an ongoing sunset review cycle. So this becomes a regular

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government's practice rather than a one-time exercise to get some contacts on the scope of the review

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alternative to Alexandria.

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Thank you, Carla. I'll briefly provide an overview of the purpose and scope

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of the review before we discuss how the project evolved. The review applied the sensor review framework

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that the board received and approved on May 19. The framework was designed to consider two things

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together. First, whether an advisory body continues to provide value and second, whether its

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current structure allows it to operate effectively.

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19 bodies were formally scheduled for sunset review and 20 bodies were ultimately examined

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through the process because of the relationship between stern advisory functions. These bodies

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vary considerably in their purpose, legal authority, membership and departmental support.

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So the goal was not to evaluate them as though they were identical.

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Instead we applied a common set of governance questions while considering

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Each body's unique role. I'll now turn it over to Carla to provide some background on how this work developed.

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The sets of review is not a standalone initiative. It grew out of the county's broader boards and commissions equity and modernization work, which began in 2024.

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Over time that work expanded from looking at recruitment and participation, looking more broadly at how the entire advisory body system functions.

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The easiest way to understand that is to the phases at the project.

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This is the five phase structure that was approved back in 2024.

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Phase one was to understand our current system.

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We did a need assessment, we did data collection, and we looked at where the gaps existed.

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Then there was Phase two, which was reviewing the existing boards and commissions themselves.

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Essentially, on May 19th, with the approval of the sunset review structure, we were able to close out phase two because now we have a framework to work with.

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For phase three, which is largely where we're at now, we're focusing on training, governance standards onboarding and role clarity for commission commissioners and staff liaison.

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And our future phases look more at stronger feedback loops, outreach, and broader community engagement.

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So what changed on May 19th?

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At the May 19th board meeting, the board expanded this work by approving the formal sunset review framework.

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The board also directed staff to return our findings and recommendations, so we could complete the remaining phase two review work.

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Why this matters is that that direction allowed us to connect the sunset review to all of the other improvements already underway, which is by-laws modernization, recruitment improvements, commissioner and liaison training.

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So this is really about creating a more coherent system, rather than looking at each commission and isolation.

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While today's presentation includes recommendations about individual bodies, the

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larger goal is to strengthen the overall advisory body system.

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I'll now turn it over to Eileen to work through how the review itself was conducted.

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Thank you.

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Our goal was to use a consistent evidence informed process while still recognizing the differences

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among the bodies being reviewed.

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We began with a pre-interview survey competed by staff liaison to establish baseline information

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information about each body. We then review available bylaws and enabling documents, membership

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rosters, vacancies, agendas, minutes, and meeting activity. From there we conducted structured

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structured interviews with staff liaisons using a common interview protocol. The interviews

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are specifically important because they gave us context that was not always apparent from

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the documents alone. The three interns partner directly with the clerk of the board staff

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on background research, interviews, synthesis, and development of recommendation options.

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Across the review, we considered legal authority, activity, and quorum,

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public engagement, potential overlap, operational burden, alignment with county priorities,

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and governance effectiveness. We also considered equity throughout the process,

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including whether existing or proposed structured support meaningful community representation.

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I'll turn it over to Jacqueline Do Matt to highlight some of what we heard and found.

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Thank you.

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One of the clearest findings from the review was that the value of these bodies cannot be measured

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simply by how frequently they meet or how many members of the public attend each meeting.

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The interviews and the document review identified several examples of continuing public

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and advisory value.

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The Library Commission provides oversight or related to measure A and measure B funding,

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while connecting library branches with their communities, the Parks and Open Space Commission

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advises on parks, open space, trails, grants, acquisitions, and related county programs.

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02:04:11,650 --> 02:04:15,670
The Behavioral Health Board provides community input, identify service gaps,

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conduct site visits, and develop system of care recommendations.

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02:04:19,870 --> 02:04:24,470
The Baliness Lagoon Advisory Council provides a form for Interagency Coordination,

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Environmental Stewardship, Climate Resilience, and Stewardship of an important county-owned coastal resource.

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And the Fish and Wildlife Commission and Women's Commission provide value through grants, scholarships, advocacy, outreach, partnerships, and community-focused initiatives.

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These examples helped reinforce an important theme. Most reviewed bodies continue to provide an identifiable benefit, even when opportunities exist to improve how they operate.

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With that important context, I'll turn it over to Omar to walk through the recommendations

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requiring structural action or additional review.

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Thank you.

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The first structural recommendation concerns the alcohol and drug advisory board. Staff recommends developing a consolidation plan with the behavioral health board while preserving substance use expertise and community representation.

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The review found that the behavioral health board already has a subcommittee performing similar functions, which creates an opportunity to better integrate alcohol and other drug responsibilities.

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with in the county's broader behavioral health structure.

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If the board supports this direction,

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staff and county council would develop the details of the transition,

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including membership statutory requirements,

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and how existing responsibilities and community representation

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could be preserved.

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For the health council of Marin staff recommends evaluating the legal

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and fiscal feasibility of sunset and returning to the board

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with an implementation and transition plan.

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The review identified recurring quorum and meeting challenges, as well as very broad

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scope that make it difficult for the council to establish priorities and sustain a focus

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work program.

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At the same time, the council has served as an important public health advisory role.

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For that reason, the recommendation is not simply to discontinue the council without further

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work, additional analysis would identify how meaningful public health input and community

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02:06:30,380 --> 02:06:35,500
parts of the patient could be preserved through an appropriate structure as a console

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sunset.

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For CSA-20, Indian Valley, Domingo Canyon, staff recommends evaluating the legal and

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02:06:45,060 --> 02:06:51,480
fiscal feasibility of sunset and returning with an implementation plan. The review indicates

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that the CSA's original purpose appears to have been substantially fulfilled, recent advisory

1385
02:06:57,480 --> 02:07:04,460
activity has been limited, and there may be overlap with existing parks and open space functions.

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Before any sunset action could occur, however, staff would need to address restricted funds,

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reserves, assets, service obligations, and any applicable legal and special district requirements.

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Integrated Pest Management Commission for the Integrated Pest Management Commission, the recommendation is to further evaluate the legal and fiscal feasibility of sunsetting or consolidating the body and return with an implementation plan.

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The review identified questions about whether the Commission's current structure remains the most effective model and whether some functions may overlap with existing county operations.

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Any future recommendation would need to identify how transparency, public participation,

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and the county's integrated as management responsibilities would continue under a different model.

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For six additional bodies, CSA's 1618-33, the Kentfield Planning Advisory Board,

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the strawberry design review board and the Tamil Pai's design review board, we are not recommending an immediate consolidation or sunset.

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Instead, the staff recommends additional analysis of restructuring or shared advisory models, including potential alignment with other governing bodies.

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02:08:37,120 --> 02:08:47,700
The review identified opportunities to streamline certain advisory functions, but these bodies also provide localized community knowledge and participation.

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Further analysis were therefore considered legal discourse requirements, operational impacts, and most importantly, how localized community representation would be preserved.

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Recommendations to continue, and important takeaway from this review is that most of the bodies we examined are recommended to continue.

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The Library Commission and the Women's Commission are recommended for retention.

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Seven additional bodies are recommended to continue with targeted governance improvements.

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The Baleena Lagoon Advisory Council, Civic Center, Conservancy, CSA-6, CSA-29, Fish and Wildlife Commission, Parks and Open Space Commission, and the County of Marin Youth Commission.

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When we refer to governance improvements, we mean targeted changes that strengthen how a body operates.

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For example, updated bylaws, clear membership, or attention provisions, stronger onboarding,

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improved public engagement, or more consistent work planning and reporting.

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The recommendation is to preserve the core purpose of these bodies while addressing the operational issues identified through the review.

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The review also highlighted an opportunity to move away from evaluating over advisory bodies only when a problem arises.

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Staff recommends establishing a recurring sunset review cycle and a regular work plan reporting cadence.

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A recurring process would allow the county to periodically confirm legal authority, purpose, activity,

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vacancies, alignment with county priorities and continuing community value.

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It would also create an opportunity to identify governance concerns earlier and connect the review process

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with recruitment by laws modernization and commissioner and staff liaison support.

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The goal is to make sunset review part of an ongoing governance practice rather than a one-time

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exercise.

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Recommendation and next steps I'll close with the action we are requesting today

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and what would happen following board direction. Staff recommends that the board receive the sunset

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review and provide direction regarding the continuation,

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modification, restructuring, consolidation, further review,

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or sunset of the bodies identified in the report.

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We are also asking the board to direct staff

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to return with an updated resolution,

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establishing an ongoing sunset review schedule

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for all county advisory bodies.

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The recommendations requiring additional analysis.

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Today's direction would authorize staff

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proceed with that work and return to the board before final implementation actions are taken.

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Next steps, following today's direction, staff will translate the board's decision into

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body-specific implementation plans. We will continue coordinating with affected department,

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excuse me, county council, advisory body leadership, and stakeholders where appropriate.

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At the same time, we will continue the broader governance modernization work already

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underway, including by-laws modernization, staff liaison support, commission or training,

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recruitment, improvements, and stronger reporting practices where formal action is required

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staff will return to the board with the appropriate resolutions, ordinances, transition, plan,

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and progress updates. Ultimately, the goal is to preserve meaningful civic participation while

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improving clarity, accountability, equity, and long-term sustainability across the county's advisory

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body system. That concludes our presentation and we are available for questions. Thank you.

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Thank you so much, Carla Omar and the whole team. We'll start with just some questions from

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the board who wants to go first.

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Questions and then we'll go to public comment and have

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everyone has done on this. A question regarding CSA-29 for Paradise K and perhaps also CSA-6

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in Mary's District, Billionist Creek. But I see that you've held those out separate from the

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other CSAs. And as I look up the mission, Paradise K is largely a CSA for dredging for their

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involved other properties. And so the reason I'm asking this question is that the suggestion

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has been made to, I think, appropriately to suggest that the other CSAs, as well as some of our

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design review boards, be viewed potentially for linkage to our planning commission because of

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the land use issues that they address. And so I just wondered if you could explain why the other two

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CSAs were held out separate from that.

1446
02:14:11,760 --> 02:14:14,060
I'll just add that CSA6 is a dredging.

1447
02:14:14,260 --> 02:14:15,380
Is it only dredging?

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Okay, right now.

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And so is that the reason they would be suggested

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to go to Parks and Open Space?

1451
02:14:21,520 --> 02:14:23,040
And maybe I'm getting too into the weeds.

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This is all part of the future review.

1453
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But I'm just looking at the way you group them.

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So, okay, Omar, I want to give it a shot.

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02:14:31,360 --> 02:14:33,560
Or should I just not ask that question.

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We were looking to merge them into Parks and Open space.

1457
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However, during the review process, we defined that they have very specific functions.

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So that's why we're also recommending that we review them even further and coordination with Parks and Open space.

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The staff liaison and county console.

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Okay. Okay. I accept it.

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Is a good answer. And would just also comment that I appreciate the designer viewboard discussion also. They are certainly valued sources of local input and perspective, as you said. So I think they're valuable to maintain in some fashion.

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Last question has to do with the health council. And I know I'll look forward to reading their report and how we end up evaluating them because I do think they've surfaced some emerging issues.

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And I don't know that we have another mechanism for that although we might in public health anyway, I appreciate your value and want to know more. Thank you.

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Additional questions.

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Not seeing you right now. I know we'll certainly have some comments and maybe some deliberations comes back. So we're going to go to public comment on this.

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We'll start here in the chambers. Is there any public comment on this?

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and said, are you a police?

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02:15:54,200 --> 02:15:55,060
Come on up.

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I Roberta Antis from the Health Council of Marin, like a bad penny, you can't get rid of.

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I've looked over the evaluation criteria, and I know that one of the issues for the

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health council was quorum.

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02:16:13,070 --> 02:16:17,750
We have had quorum issues, and that was because, in a very short period of time, we lost

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four members.

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Unfortunately, our founder, Cindy Ross, passed away, then we lost two people who termed out

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and another person to health issues.

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In the meantime, we have added two excellent new people, and we have two people who have applied just waiting to see if we still exist.

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So we're reconstituting our council.

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When we feel or kind of having a renaissance just as you're thinking about something else, so we hope you'll keep us.

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One of the other concerns was the broadness of our scope.

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Personally, I've never felt it was a problem.

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02:16:48,110 --> 02:16:52,510
We've always had our biennial goals defined clearly, and we've always met them.

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And but if the council, if the board feels that we should narrow that or change that, we're

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open to any kind of guidance you might have to offer us, we're on that or any other issue.

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We have read written our bylaws to be more consistent with other boards and commissions.

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We've also read written our interview process and we have an excellent staff and liaison support.

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And if you haven't let our minutes by Loretta Rogers, I wish I hope that you do because they're excellent.

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and she's here today, she's an excellent secretary.

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So they're like a little history of our council.

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We're productive.

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In the last two and a half years,

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we have resubmitted three heavily researched papers.

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One of them was on novel forms of air pollution.

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One of them was on the access to health care,

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which you've just got today.

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And the other one was in the form of a letter

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on the cessation of sales for tobacco and nicotine products

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with Dr. Jeremiah Mark is using in his presentations in different municipalities, and he's having

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an effect. So we're one cog in that wheel. If our biennial, oops, I'm sorry, I'm over.

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If our biennial report looks thin, it's because we spent the last two years learning HHS's

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initiatives, and our paper was a byproduct of that.

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You can wrap up, please. Thank you. Okay. Yes. Anyway, I hope that you'll consider us carefully

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in more details so that you can understand us a little bit more than the survey might have

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offered.

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Thank you.

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Any other not seen any here in the chambers?

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We'll go online.

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Suzanne Canner, you may now unmute.

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My name is Suzanne Canner and I'm chair of the Alcohol and Drug Advisory Board.

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First, I'd like to thank the Review Board for its transparency and careful

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consideration of its recommendation.

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As many of you may remember in 2022 there was an effort to consolidate the Behavioral Health Board and the Alcohol and Drug Advisory Board.

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That proposal was strongly opposed by our board and members of the community.

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Our board members bring a unique and important perspective to this work.

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Many have been deeply affected by substance use disorder, including the loss of family members and loved ones.

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They bring lived experience, knowledge, and a deep commitment to improving prevention, treatment, and recovery services in Marin.

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Marin is considered as one of the healthiest counties in California, yet alcohol and drug abuse remain a serious concern.

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We believe that makes it particularly important to preserve a strong and distinct voice for substance use disorder.

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As the same time, we recognize the value of working more closely with the behavioral board,

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and we've already begun to do that. Our two boards are currently working together

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on a countywide summit. The need for the summit grew out of more than a year.

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We invite the behavioral health board to join us, giving our two boards an opportunity to work together and see what we can accomplish. We've also agreed to conduct future site visits together, giving our boards another opportunity to work together, while gaining a better understanding of what we can do.

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programs and resources. We believe this collaboration should be allowed to develop and the

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evaluated before decisions are made about consolidation. Collaboration and integration do not

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necessarily require consolidation. Most importantly, if the county moves forward with further

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analysis or development of a consolidation plan, we ask that the alcohol and drug advisory board

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be actively involved in that process from the beginning.

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We want to be part of the conversation about how best to strengthen services while preserving

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substance use expertise with experience.

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And we need to come in to do rapid analysis.

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Thank you.

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I apologize.

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It did give you an extra time and thank you for your service, particularly as chair of that

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board.

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And feel free.

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If you have not sent those comments in please send those in as well.

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Um, we got, I think, one more online.

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I phone four one five three three six five nine nine four you may now unmute.

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Thank you. My name is John Bill and Riley. I'm a four remember the alcohol

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and drug advisory board for nine years and former chairman and Suzanne is one of my colleagues.

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I'm just calling it in all transparency. She should acknowledge that I no longer live in the

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And I looked at a little bit of mist morn a lot, but this issue has continued to be an area of concern among, particularly because as an old old person, I think about history a lot, and there's a reason why we're in as unique in that, in the counties in California, there are very few that have separate alcohol and drug advisory boards.

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The reason that this board exists, it's not a state-mandered board, it was a county-mandated board,

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is because the city fathers at that time and I believe we go back to the 60s and under

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health and human services at that time.

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We're so concerned about the statistics related to driving deaths to alcohol abuse in the county,

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to drug abuse among teenagers and the various kinds of circumstances related to drug and alcohol abuse.

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This is a board that requires attention to these problems.

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Sadly, in this way, in fact, be part of the problem for our drug advisory board.

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Not be more effective, but sadly, these numbers have not changed.

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As Ms. Canter mentioned already, the statistics, well, Marin is the healthiest county, one of the healthiest counties in California.

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This statistic regarding this area of illness and lack of health, it is visible and they have remained visible.

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So whatever the investigations have been by the special committee and I thank them for their work.

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I think this also needs to be weighed against what the actual situation is in Marin County, and

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the kinds of struggles that our community is facing, and our youth is facing, in terms of this particular set of illnesses.

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Therefore, I think it requires special attention of a separate board.

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Focus on trying to do something about these problems. Let me have it in the entire community. Thanks for your time. Thank you.

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No more hands.

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Oh, it need Friedman. You may now unmute.

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Good morning. Supervisors. Can you leadership and staff. My name is

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E. Ty Friedman. I chair the Tamil Plies Design Review Board, a local resident and I work within

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Marine's built environment ecosystem. First and foremost, I'd like to thank staff, the deputy clerk and

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his team CDA and the executive office for the sunset review. This is hard on glamorous work,

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but it definitely moves us all forward towards something better. I wanted to make a comment not to

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defend the status quo. I'm here to welcome change while being sensitive to how and when changes

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and fold. The structures built for an early marine county deserve honest examinations.

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This is in a risk to good governance, it's good governance unfolding. My one suggestion in the spirit of collaboration, as leadership evaluates, restructures, that it holds onto what actually works. Localized design expertise, community plan, knowledge, and the volunteers who show up meeting after meeting because they truly care about the area they live in.

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improvements and community aren't opposites, they actually work together. As we modernize

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by laws, clarify laws and strength and transparency, we can do all of that while preserving

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the parts that gave these bodies their local voices. None of us honestly know exactly what

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Marin County will look like in decades from now. From sea level rise to housing, wildfire, traffic,

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no single commission or department solves these alone. We solve them together as one team with critical thinking, sound design standards and real stewardship.

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My aim is to be a partner in this work, not to obstruct it. My commitment is simple to do the work in good faith and bring solutions, not just race challenges.

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And to the community members that are listening, today is in a finished line, it's a foundation.

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Something further generations don't just inherit, but build on.

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Thank you very much.

1576
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Thank you.

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Oh, go ahead and close public comment.

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Go ahead and bring it back to the board for some additional comments or direction here.

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I just want to again want to thank the team here for the review.

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You know, the decisions being made today is not to, you know, any of, nothing's being

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sunsetted a day.

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It's really just kind of that next step in terms of additional evaluation, kind of that

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check-in point.

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And I think in fitting work for, we're talking about today, the Board Subcommittee of Supervisor

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Doney and myself, we are sunseting ourselves with this because part of this recommendation

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is to have a more regularly scheduled sunset review to take place, not a one-off, but just something

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we regularly build into our review process moving forward.

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So with that, I'll turn over to my colleagues

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for thoughts, comments, direction.

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Supervisor Colbert.

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Yeah, thanks, Little Work, really appreciate it.

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I just have, I know you're in the process of sun setting,

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but I would just want offer a suggestion.

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I know there's thoughts about the direction

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and purview of the TIB.

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I would just encourage you to think

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their opportunities for this board to engage with the TIP as we sort of move forward in terms

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of our technology. I think as we are working through as a board and a community our data governance

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policies and our use of technology, it would be good for the community to know that this board

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has its eye on and is in communication with the TIP. Just a suggestion.

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Thank you, Supervisor Colbert.

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others supervisor for second. Thank you very much to supervisor Rodoni and President Luke and I really appreciate you serving on this subcommittee President Luke and when you started on this board you took on this project and it's great to see it come to this point where we're really making the hard decisions but not without having a really in depth analysis.

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This we've been talking about looking at the bylaws for our boards and commissions for a long time and I want to think Alexandra I mean in Jacqueline for taking that deep dive by not only looking at the bylaws, but the importance and all the other pieces that bring us to have all these boards and commissions while recognizing I think core issues oftentimes are a reflection of

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02:29:00,060 --> 02:29:04,280
life, but they're also a reflection of people feeling like it's a good use of their time

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and they're actually able to accomplish something and give solid recommendations.

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And I think we heard that in a public comment today that efficiency and effectiveness of

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our boards are really crucial and I appreciate the way that this has been framed and

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forward and I would be happy to move the recommendation of staff to receive the report and provide

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the direction consistent with what it's been recommended to us today. Thank you, supervisor,

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second, supervisor, don't you? Yeah, just that again, thank staff, thanks everyone, it worked on this

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because it's important work because for a long time, I think our commissions and our committees were

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If nothing else and now we've brought them together under the clerk staff, thank you for that.

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And it's a much clearer path forward.

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And I think that ongoing evaluation just totally makes sense.

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And so I appreciate that approach and I appreciate it being part of the committee. They sort of work inside and see what was going on and follow staff's work.

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So I do support your staff's recommendation today. So thank you so much.

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And I'll second that.

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All right. Thank you. So we have a motion from supervisor.

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a second from Supervisor Ridone to just to clarify for the record there, to retain the

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communities as outlined in the staff report, direct staff to continue reviewing the

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communities identified for further evaluation. We have a motion in second, all those

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in favor. I, any opposed, that passes unanimously. Thank you. Thank you for the great work and

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more evaluation in the future.

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We'll go ahead and actually, before you do it,

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just a quick time check looking at the remainder

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of our agenda.

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I think we are going to move forward with

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items 9DE and F, which is a civil

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grand jury response.

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The item 10A, which is the

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offsite objective design and development

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standards workshop.

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I'm going to propose that we hold that

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after lunch at 130.

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And then, but we will want to take item 11, which is the assessment appeals board, we will do that before we break for lunch as well.

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So we're going to do civil grand jury reports, the assessment appeals, and then the off-site design development standards will be at 130.

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With that, I'm going to turn it over to Sophie Helper, our legislative affairs associate, to walk us through the civil grand jury response.

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I know we got one presentation, I think we kind of take these all together with a pause after each one for questions and or public comment and then we can vote on all three at the end.

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Welcome Sophie.

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Thank you so much, Supervisors.

1641
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Good morning.

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As you said, so be helpful, legislative affairs associate.

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And I will be giving an overview of the proposed responses to three of the civil grand jury reports that we received this year.

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So, the first item, as you said,

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is the report is titled, Measure A and Voter Choice,

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Rethinking Parks and Agriculture Funding in Marin. It was released on June 30th, 2026,

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and the report details a number of findings about the current measure and its effectiveness

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and oversight and recommends consideration of changes to a potential future renewal of this measure.

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The report also found that Marine County Parks has successfully administered, measure a funding, and that the measure a oversight committee provides meaningful oversight of expenditures.

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The Board of Supervisors was required to respond to all findings, as well as recommendations R1 through R4 and R6, but you'll note that the proposed response does include a response to all recommendations.

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The

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proposed response in front of you today was drafted by Marin County Parks, the Agricultural

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Commissioner and the Office of the County Executive. We have also included memos from both

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the Measure A over-site committee and the Parks and Open Space Commission as attachments to this item.

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The proposed response references the significant public engagement that Marin County Parks

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led to develop the current measure to reflect the community's priorities. This includes the

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oversight provisions, fixed allocation formulas to cities, towns, and special districts,

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as well as the inclusion of sustainable agriculture funding as part of the measure.

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The proposed response affirms that Marin County Parks works very closely with cities and towns

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for the shared goal of a strong park system throughout the county.

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This respects both local priorities throughout the county, as well as the opportunity for

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collaboration amongst partners.

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The proposed response commits that

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Marine County Parks will implement recommendations

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one through four in the grantories report by

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considering the oversight provisions,

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fix allocation formulas, and the funding priorities

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in future measure A renewals.

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Marine County Parks will conduct extensive public engagement

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with the community funding partners and beneficiaries

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as they did in development of the current measure.

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This process will provide the public with an opportunity to evaluate and provide input on the items raised by the grand jury.

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The proposed response makes it clear, however, that consideration of these elements in a future measure is a regular part of the process that Marin County Parks undertakes.

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It does not presuppose any changes to these elements.

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The measure as currently structured as I noted is the result of public input and engagement with the community, our partners, throughout the county and your board.

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I will also note that Marin County Parks implemented recommendation five in the report to maintain a centralized and publicly accessible.

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Global reporting system, identifying measure a grant recipients, conservation, easements, recipients, and payments mounts on their website.

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We provided a summary of the findings and recommendations in your proposed response, and we thank the grand jury for their work in developing this report.

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We recommend that your board can occur with and adopt the proposed response to the report and authorize the county executive to submit the response to the civil grand jury and presiding superior court judge.

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And then I'm happy to answer any questions.

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Thank you.

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We'll take a pause here.

1683
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Are there any questions?

1684
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Not not seeing any.

1685
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We'll go ahead.

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Just pull that slide back up.

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On F3.

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Am I reading this wrong?

1689
02:35:58,240 --> 02:36:00,200
It looks like the response here says disagree.

1690
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But in the report, it says agree.

1691
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Am I reading that wrong?

1692
02:36:17,580 --> 02:36:19,140
I think the report's accurate.

1693
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I'm not sure this slide is accurate.

1694
02:36:22,380 --> 02:36:26,420
So apologies for that. That's okay. Thanks.

1695
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All right. Is there any public comment on this particular?

1696
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Um, it was beyond 90.

1697
02:36:32,480 --> 02:36:35,080
Don't see any in the room. Any hands online?

1698
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No hands online.

1699
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All right. Any any comments from.

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Board on this particular one?

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Yes. Supervisor Molten Peters.

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I want to thank you for the report.

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And acknowledges is stated in the answers.

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there was extensive public outreach done in the last measure. Chris, you were a big part of that,

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and the voters were very clear about what they wanted in the measure. So it's always good to

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re-evaluate at the appropriate time, but I feel like we're on very solid ground with a decision that

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was made for the measure. Thank you. Any others? All right. Not seeing so if we can go on to the next one?

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So

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the next report is titled the Marin County Civic Center in Need of Love and was released on June 4th, 2026.

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This report detailed a number of findings and recommendations about the current and future state and use of the Civic Center campus.

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This includes ongoing maintenance strategic investments, safety and security and public access throughout the campus for both community use and activation as well as navigation.

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The Board of Supervisors was required to respond to all findings and recommendations in this report.

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The proposed response was drafted for you by the Department of Public Works,

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Marin County Parks, Cultural Services, Risk Management, and the Office of the County Executive.

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The proposed response agrees with several of the grand jury's findings and the overall sentiment of the report.

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In concurring with the belief that the Pacific Center should be maintained and preserved as an important community asset.

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County leadership, as you know, has already begun to address many of the concerns raised by the grand jury, including better mechanisms for county coordination as it relates to the Pacific Center campus,

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02:38:33,700 --> 02:38:40,700
a clear strategy for investments in the facilities, and new programs and events to bring the community to the Southern Center.

1719
02:38:40,700 --> 02:38:44,060
I want to highlight a couple of things that are included in that response.

1720
02:38:45,680 --> 02:38:52,600
The first is the response highlights the civic center working group that includes representatives from the Office of the County Executive,

1721
02:38:53,100 --> 02:39:01,540
Department of Public Works, Marine County Parks, and Cultural Services, and allows for internal coordination of departments contributing to civic center maintenance,

1722
02:39:01,540 --> 02:39:04,380
improvement and use under the board's leadership.

1723
02:39:06,300 --> 02:39:09,620
We also want to highlight recent investments in civic center maintenance

1724
02:39:09,620 --> 02:39:13,360
to address current facility needs, as well as the inclusion

1725
02:39:13,360 --> 02:39:19,080
of almost $130 million in the Capital Improvement Program

1726
02:39:19,080 --> 02:39:24,500
for revitalization of the civic center, including plans for the civic center cafe,

1727
02:39:25,060 --> 02:39:29,800
veterans memorial auditorium, as well as other improvements to enhance visitor experience.

1728
02:39:31,540 --> 02:39:36,220
We also want to highlight the great work being done by cultural services to create more

1729
02:39:36,220 --> 02:39:40,680
place-making opportunities at the Civic Center, such as the successful holiday-light

1730
02:39:40,680 --> 02:39:46,680
spectacular that welcomed 34,000 visitors to the campus between November and January of last

1731
02:39:46,680 --> 02:39:47,620
year.

1732
02:39:48,280 --> 02:39:52,360
As well as the ongoing programming that the department works to manage, including the Marin County

1733
02:39:52,360 --> 02:39:55,980
Fair, that hosted 80,000 visitors this past summer.

1734
02:39:56,980 --> 02:39:59,980
The proposed response also acknowledges the import...

1735
02:40:00,000 --> 02:40:06,580
Work of the Frank Lloyd Wright Civic Center Conservancy. And, as you know, at your meeting last week on August 18,

1736
02:40:07,120 --> 02:40:15,020
your board adopted a resolution to clarify and restate the status, purpose, and membership of the Conservancy to affirm its role.

1737
02:40:16,360 --> 02:40:22,300
The proposed response commits to implementing recommendations 1, 4 and 5 as part of the county's upcoming planning,

1738
02:40:22,300 --> 02:40:34,940
including a county work plan item to develop and refine specifications and a practical implementation approach for a countywide asset management program and life cycle replacement program.

1739
02:40:35,340 --> 02:40:38,720
That is expected to be completed by June 30th, 2026.

1740
02:40:40,480 --> 02:40:46,800
As your board is aware, the countywide strategic plan is scheduled to be completed by April 30th, 2027,

1741
02:40:46,800 --> 02:40:55,400
And that will really serve as the foundation for a lot of the future planning efforts, of course, throughout the county, but specifically here on the Civic Center campus as well.

1742
02:40:57,640 --> 02:41:02,000
Again, we've provided a summary, hopefully this one is correct, of the findings recommendations.

1743
02:41:03,140 --> 02:41:06,220
And we, again, thank the grand jury for their work in developing this report.

1744
02:41:06,720 --> 02:41:18,540
And recommend that your board can occur with and adopt the proposed response to the report and authorize the county executive to submit the response to the civil grand jury and presiding judge of the Marin County Superior Court.

1745
02:41:19,700 --> 02:41:22,180
here any questions on this one

1746
02:41:24,520 --> 02:41:29,260
not seen any any public comment also not

1747
02:41:29,260 --> 02:41:35,100
seen any any here or online no hands online any additional comments or

1748
02:41:35,100 --> 02:41:41,680
direction on this one surprise won't Peters just a brief comment that when

1749
02:41:41,680 --> 02:41:47,260
I was interviewed by the grand jury and their concerns and I thought well we all

1750
02:41:47,260 --> 02:41:52,060
agree we need to do more work on this so the timing was good we were already on

1751
02:41:52,060 --> 02:41:57,760
Derek has this as a huge priority. Chris Blanc has already been marshalling resources

1752
02:41:58,780 --> 02:42:04,320
diligently to do the upgrade. So anyway, we're just in agreement. I think that's a good thing.

1753
02:42:07,310 --> 02:42:12,810
I'm happy to move the item. All right. We're going to do all the motions and at the end there.

1754
02:42:13,330 --> 02:42:15,950
So if there's no additional direction on this one, we'll go on to the third one.

1755
02:42:20,500 --> 02:42:25,580
The third report all summarized for you today is MCE Marine Clean Energy, a series of

1756
02:42:25,580 --> 02:42:29,760
steps highlight need for governance changes, released on June 30th, 2026.

1757
02:42:30,780 --> 02:42:35,660
This report detailed a number of findings and recommendations about the management and oversight

1758
02:42:36,220 --> 02:42:38,560
of MCE for improved governance.

1759
02:42:40,300 --> 02:42:44,480
The board was only required to respond to two findings and two recommendations, so this

1760
02:42:44,480 --> 02:42:46,580
response you'll see in comparison is quite short.

1761
02:42:47,520 --> 02:42:50,320
The proposed response was drafted by the Office of Accounting Executive.

1762
02:42:50,320 --> 02:42:57,000
If it agrees with the two grand jury findings, we responded to regarding participation and expertise

1763
02:42:57,000 --> 02:43:02,500
of MCE Board of Directors members, while acknowledging that elected officials that serve on

1764
02:43:02,500 --> 02:43:07,500
the board bring experience related to their role of oversight of the organization and its management.

1765
02:43:08,820 --> 02:43:15,600
The proposed response also expresses support for the external governance review that the organization

1766
02:43:15,600 --> 02:43:20,620
is currently undertaking and notes that supervisor's packet, your board's designate on the MCE Board

1767
02:43:20,620 --> 02:43:26,480
of Directors is participating both in Board of Directors meetings but also serves on the

1768
02:43:26,480 --> 02:43:32,020
ad hoc governance committee and ad hoc CEO search committee that were established this year.

1769
02:43:33,020 --> 02:43:37,420
The proposed response will not implement the two recommendations because of the boards established

1770
02:43:37,420 --> 02:43:41,540
annual process for appointing designates to external boards and agencies.

1771
02:43:43,480 --> 02:44:01,200
Again, you'll see your short summary table there, and we thank the grand jury for their work and recommend that your board can occur with and adopt the proposed response to this report and author as a county executive to submit the response to the civil grand jury and we're in county superior court.

1772
02:44:01,760 --> 02:44:02,940
Any questions here?

1773
02:44:05,390 --> 02:44:07,390
Thank you, Sophie. Any public comment?

1774
02:44:09,010 --> 02:44:12,410
Not seeing any in the chambers or online, I'll go and bring it back, I'm going to turn

1775
02:44:12,410 --> 02:44:15,250
over to Supervisor Sacket or Representative there.

1776
02:44:15,550 --> 02:44:16,510
Thank you very much.

1777
02:44:17,430 --> 02:44:19,410
It's my pleasure to serve as representative.

1778
02:44:20,350 --> 02:44:26,770
And I appreciate Supervisor Colbert attending when I'm not able to attend.

1779
02:44:26,950 --> 02:44:31,590
There's also been, I think, some changes in Brown Act legislation that will also

1780
02:44:31,590 --> 02:44:32,810
make it easier.

1781
02:44:33,010 --> 02:44:36,890
I know there was one time where I was online, but unable to attend remotely.

1782
02:44:36,890 --> 02:44:44,890
So I think that's going to also help, but I think I appreciate the responses I think from the county's perspective. We have attended a letter.

1783
02:44:45,030 --> 02:44:55,070
Everyone know that at last week the MCE board meeting, we discussed the MCE response to this report over the course of over two and a half hours.

1784
02:44:56,150 --> 02:44:59,870
And I think you will see that published relatively shortly.

1785
02:45:00,540 --> 02:45:16,780
Which goes into a lot more of the substance. I have appreciated serving on the governance assessment. I think really even thinking of what we did just with our boards and commissions, these things need a review. They need a deep look and they need to make some tough decisions.

1786
02:45:16,780 --> 02:45:21,340
but I do feel like the board is aligned.

1787
02:45:22,280 --> 02:45:26,740
Maybe more so than it has been in a long time to make,

1788
02:45:27,200 --> 02:45:30,300
to recognize that governance needs to be reviewed

1789
02:45:30,300 --> 02:45:32,200
and that some changes are afoot.

1790
02:45:33,420 --> 02:45:37,660
We have a report coming on September 17th from the consultant

1791
02:45:37,660 --> 02:45:42,240
that was retained to do that governance assessment for MCE

1792
02:45:43,440 --> 02:46:06,660
And really to line up what needs to be done, they've spent a lot of time interviewing all the board members, past and present, a lot of the stakeholders externally in our community organizations and other CCAs and really looking forward to what they're going to bring forward as far as recommended actions to take.

1793
02:46:06,660 --> 02:46:19,840
And I recognize this is still going to be a really, those actions are really going to be a big lift with the size of the board that we have to make those decisions and move forward, but there is alignment as it goes forward.

1794
02:46:20,520 --> 02:46:25,580
So, thanks for your patience. I agree with the, with the counties responsible issues.

1795
02:46:26,320 --> 02:46:27,520
Great. Any additional comments?

1796
02:46:27,520 --> 02:46:33,520
I did see one hand go up. We did call for public comment, but I'll give an opportunity here for this speaker.

1797
02:46:34,920 --> 02:46:40,700
If this was for this particular item. James Smith, you may now unmute.

1798
02:46:47,660 --> 02:46:48,560
James, are you there?

1799
02:46:52,740 --> 02:47:08,020
All right, we'll go ahead and move on. Thank you, Sophie. Thank you for all of the updates here. So with that,

1800
02:47:08,020 --> 02:47:11,960
on behalf of the Board of Supervisors to submit the responses to the Marine County Civil

1801
02:47:11,960 --> 02:47:15,880
Grand jury and presiding judge of the Marine County Superior Court, honor before their

1802
02:47:15,880 --> 02:47:21,500
respective due dates, which is September 30th for the Measure A report, September 4th

1803
02:47:21,500 --> 02:47:26,760
for the Civic Senate report and September 16th for the MCE report.

1804
02:47:27,360 --> 02:47:37,640
I'm happy to move the recommended action with extreme appreciation to the grand jury for their

1805
02:47:37,640 --> 02:47:42,580
of a motion by supervisor's packet, a second by supervisor moment Peter's all those in favor.

1806
02:47:42,700 --> 02:47:43,220
Hi.

1807
02:47:43,620 --> 02:47:45,040
I'm going to pose that passes.

1808
02:47:45,220 --> 02:47:46,100
Thank you.

1809
02:47:46,460 --> 02:47:52,740
We're going to get one more item here before we break for closed session.

1810
02:47:52,820 --> 02:47:58,780
And that is item number 11A, which is the assessment appeals board appointments.

1811
02:47:59,360 --> 02:48:03,120
Carla Omar, you're going to run us through this real quick.

1812
02:48:20,300 --> 02:48:30,260
Morning, before you is a request from the Office of the County Executive to consider appointments to the Marin County Assessment Appeals Board.

1813
02:48:30,440 --> 02:48:40,700
The Assessment Appeals Board is a state-mandated body that provides property owners with a formal process to appeal property assessments made by the County assessor.

1814
02:48:40,700 --> 02:48:45,560
The board is authorized for six regular members to alternate.

1815
02:48:46,440 --> 02:48:52,060
There are currently four vacancies, two regular member seats, and two alternate seats.

1816
02:48:53,000 --> 02:48:55,600
All appointments are for three years.

1817
02:48:56,400 --> 02:49:01,780
For administrative purposes, the assessment appeals board operates as board one and board two.

1818
02:49:02,000 --> 02:49:07,580
However, the member functions function as a single pull of qualified appointees.

1819
02:49:07,580 --> 02:49:18,140
There is no geographic or policy distinction between the two boards, and the Board of Supervisors has discretion to appoint qualified applicants to either panel.

1820
02:49:18,780 --> 02:49:33,260
Applicants must also meet specific statutory qualifications, including at least five years of qualifying professional experience in California, and may not have worked for an assessor's office during the three years immediately preceding appointment.

1821
02:49:33,260 --> 02:49:40,620
The county received applications from James McCone, Alexander Kugelman, David Thelander,

1822
02:49:41,260 --> 02:49:47,040
West Maine, and Hayder, Tony Porion, excuse me.

1823
02:49:47,860 --> 02:49:54,520
Staff is requesting that the board consider a point to applicants as regular members and to

1824
02:49:54,520 --> 02:49:59,620
applicants as alternate each for three years as an alternative.

1825
02:50:00,000 --> 02:50:13,680
Board may decline to make appointments at this time and direct staff to continue recruitment. However, continuing vacancies may affect the board's ability to establish quorum and could result in delays in hearing assessment appeals.

1826
02:50:14,440 --> 02:50:15,500
That concludes our presentation.

1827
02:50:16,660 --> 02:50:22,820
Thank you, Omar. So, based on, you know, we have some options today. We could make appointments. We could continue. We can schedule interviews.

1828
02:50:22,820 --> 02:50:25,440
I want to look to my colleagues, Supervisor Sackett.

1829
02:50:26,120 --> 02:50:34,080
Yes, I would make a recommendation regarding the appointments and I would recommend

1830
02:50:34,080 --> 02:50:40,780
that we appoint two new members, James McCan, and heed Artoni Purion as the on those two

1831
02:50:40,780 --> 02:50:41,200
seats.

1832
02:50:41,720 --> 02:50:49,160
And then as the alternates, Alexander Kugelman and David Dlander, who have been serving and

1833
02:50:49,160 --> 02:50:53,300
And there is a need for alternates on these boards, and so would appreciate them serving

1834
02:50:53,300 --> 02:50:53,860
in that role.

1835
02:50:54,000 --> 02:50:55,040
That would be my recommendation.

1836
02:50:56,040 --> 02:50:56,240
Okay.

1837
02:50:56,680 --> 02:50:57,000
A second.

1838
02:50:57,780 --> 02:50:58,220
Okay.

1839
02:50:58,680 --> 02:51:00,560
So, we have a motion, and we have a second.

1840
02:51:00,600 --> 02:51:02,940
Is there any public comment on this one?

1841
02:51:09,850 --> 02:51:12,370
Welcome, our assessor reporter, County Clerk.

1842
02:51:16,400 --> 02:51:16,920
There we go.

1843
02:51:17,280 --> 02:51:17,840
Good morning.

1844
02:51:18,620 --> 02:51:20,740
Shelly Scott, assessor reporter, County Clerk.

1845
02:51:20,740 --> 02:51:25,760
I just wanted to say that I support expanding the assessment appeals board from six to

1846
02:51:25,760 --> 02:51:25,960
eight.

1847
02:51:25,960 --> 02:51:27,700
I appreciate the two alternates.

1848
02:51:27,700 --> 02:51:39,620
I think this will provide better coverage for applications and absences, so I just wanted you to know that I'm in full support of this and I appreciate all that the clerk and the county executive are doing for that.

1849
02:51:39,780 --> 02:51:41,080
So thank you so much.

1850
02:51:42,400 --> 02:51:46,060
I don't see any other public comment here in the room. Is there any online?

1851
02:51:46,560 --> 02:51:47,540
No hands online.

1852
02:51:48,180 --> 02:51:52,120
All right. I'll look to my colleagues for any additional deliberation or discussion.

1853
02:51:54,780 --> 02:52:02,160
So we did not have alternates before. Maybe just reconfirm that.

1854
02:52:05,140 --> 02:52:10,980
Yeah. So we've always had the ability to have alternates. We just realized it this year.

1855
02:52:11,340 --> 02:52:16,840
And so we were happy to find that there were these two alternates that we could start to utilize.

1856
02:52:17,480 --> 02:52:22,360
And so that's why we've put that into play this year.

1857
02:52:22,360 --> 02:52:33,700
This year, we've seen a lot of situations where we, it would have been nice if we had had an alternate in place, and so.

1858
02:52:36,740 --> 02:52:39,740
Okay, so based on that, there's no other discussion.

1859
02:52:39,940 --> 02:52:45,720
We do have a motion from Supervisor Sacket, a second from Supervisor Rodoni, all those in favor.

1860
02:52:46,700 --> 02:52:47,880
Hi, any opposed?

1861
02:52:48,280 --> 02:52:48,860
That passes.

1862
02:52:49,440 --> 02:52:49,880
Thank you.

1863
02:52:49,900 --> 02:52:50,440
Thank you, Carla.

1864
02:52:50,440 --> 02:52:58,900
Thank you, Omar. We are going to now break for closed session before we do so, is there any public comment on closed session?

1865
02:52:59,800 --> 02:53:01,620
Don't see any here.

1866
02:53:01,780 --> 02:53:14,460
Don't see any hands going up. We will return in the afternoon at one 30 with the off site design and development standards. I believe we're going to want to remain in items that we have there. Thank you. We're going to recess into closed session.

1867
04:07:48,460 --> 04:07:49,000
Thank you.

1868
04:15:15,410 --> 04:15:16,250
Thank you.

1869
04:25:01,230 --> 04:25:01,570
Thank you.

1870
04:34:09,210 --> 04:34:11,310
In any case, in any case,

1871
04:34:15,670 --> 04:34:16,190
in any case.

1872
04:41:47,500 --> 04:41:47,960
Thank

1873
04:44:50,620 --> 04:44:56,960
you very much for joining us.

1874
04:45:02,200 --> 04:45:03,600
Thank you for joining

1875
04:45:22,710 --> 04:45:25,810
us.

1876
04:53:00,620 --> 04:53:02,020
Good afternoon.

1877
04:53:05,330 --> 04:53:23,370
Good afternoon. Welcome back. The Board of Supervisors did meet in close session. There was nothing to report out. We have two remaining items before us this afternoon. The next one up is item number 10, which is a off-site objective design and development standards workshop.

1878
04:53:23,370 --> 04:53:31,030
like to bring up our DVW Director Chris Blunk, Sarah Jones, CDA Director, Robin Bartlett,

1879
04:53:31,070 --> 04:53:37,130
here with us, officially as Assistant Director for DVW, congratulations and Bob Brown,

1880
04:53:37,230 --> 04:53:40,730
a Principal Consultant on this project. I'll turn it over to Chris Blunk.

1881
04:53:41,350 --> 04:53:46,390
Thank you so much for President Luchin and Supervisors. We appreciate the opportunity this afternoon

1882
04:53:46,390 --> 04:53:53,010
to meet with you all and host the workshop on the Offsite Objective Design Development Standards

1883
04:53:53,010 --> 04:54:01,410
or the odds. So really our objective here today is to share the work that our team with CDA,

1884
04:54:01,510 --> 04:54:07,010
public works and our consultants, Optikos and Tool have been doing the outreach that they've

1885
04:54:07,010 --> 04:54:13,030
been doing in the community to try to update our objective standards. And really the goal of this

1886
04:54:13,030 --> 04:54:18,730
project is to make the county's development standards super clear to developers who are coming in,

1887
04:54:18,730 --> 04:54:21,430
but also to our partner agencies, utility districts,

1888
04:54:21,590 --> 04:54:25,390
so that we have clarity on what our expectations are

1889
04:54:25,390 --> 04:54:28,230
and that developers contribute their fair share

1890
04:54:28,230 --> 04:54:31,030
toward quality, built environment and infrastructure.

1891
04:54:31,730 --> 04:54:33,910
So that's what we're trying to achieve in this process.

1892
04:54:34,290 --> 04:54:36,410
We have some draft standards.

1893
04:54:36,650 --> 04:54:39,330
We've got a presentation that'll walk through quite a bit

1894
04:54:39,330 --> 04:54:42,110
of the detail and we're looking for your feedback

1895
04:54:42,110 --> 04:54:44,990
and feedback and input that we get from the community today.

1896
04:54:45,130 --> 04:54:46,310
We'll be taking good notes.

1897
04:54:46,450 --> 04:54:47,650
I'm going to sit down in the back here

1898
04:54:47,650 --> 04:54:52,150
start taking notes, and then we'll take that input that we've received today, and put that

1899
04:54:52,150 --> 04:54:56,570
into hopefully a final product to bring back to you within the next couple of months.

1900
04:54:56,930 --> 04:54:59,510
So with that, I'm going to turn things over to my colleague, Sarah Jones.

1901
04:54:59,610 --> 04:54:59,850
Thank you.

1902
04:55:00,810 --> 04:55:12,610
Thank you so much, Chris. Sarah Jones Community Development Director. I think we're going to have a lot of fun today, and I will start with a bold statement which is that streets are public spaces.

1903
04:55:13,810 --> 04:55:26,010
They have as much to do with the feel and the character of a developed place as the buildings, the vegetation, the landscape or the views, and they're experienced by everyone in a community every single day.

1904
04:55:26,010 --> 04:55:36,390
So, for these reasons, it's incumbent on us as the county to do what we can to make streets safe, usable, accessible, and high quality for everyone.

1905
04:55:37,570 --> 04:55:38,030
Okay,

1906
04:55:41,460 --> 04:55:42,180
thank you.

1907
04:55:43,700 --> 04:55:54,720
The intent of our proposal on objective street design standards that you'll see before you today isn't to maintain the status quo of the quality of streets in unincorporated Marin.

1908
04:55:54,720 --> 04:56:06,660
That is because, by and large, the most significant public space in Marin County, our street network is not what it needs to be if it's going to enhance community safety and vitality.

1909
04:56:07,220 --> 04:56:17,200
Many streets that we have are unsafe to walk or ride a bike on or have poor visibility or don't have enough room for all of the people who need to use them.

1910
04:56:17,200 --> 04:56:25,480
And everyone in this room and in Marinette Large grapples every day with the challenges that that brings, especially the members of our public.

1911
04:56:26,080 --> 04:56:30,220
We don't see it because we're so used to it and because we work around it.

1912
04:56:30,800 --> 04:56:34,060
And we are not here today to talk about retrofitting these conditions.

1913
04:56:34,980 --> 04:56:40,540
But what do we do when there's new development and we're making the call about what streets should be going forward?

1914
04:56:40,540 --> 04:56:45,960
We need to move away from the past and see streets as integral to the safety and

1915
04:56:45,960 --> 04:56:49,480
livability of the new places that are being created right now.

1916
04:56:54,000 --> 04:56:58,460
So, our workshop today is about creating regulations that fully reflect policy objectives.

1917
04:56:58,940 --> 04:57:04,460
We're here before you as a multi-departmental team enhanced by additional subject matter expertise

1918
04:57:04,460 --> 04:57:06,720
brought by our consultants on this project.

1919
04:57:07,440 --> 04:57:12,600
The tools that we are developing are designed to reach the outcome of safe and livable streets,

1920
04:57:12,600 --> 04:57:15,700
specifically in connection to private development.

1921
04:57:16,440 --> 04:57:18,360
These are not the streets that the county is building.

1922
04:57:18,780 --> 04:57:21,640
This is what would be incorporated into our codes,

1923
04:57:22,120 --> 04:57:25,440
setting out the standards and rules that developers need to meet.

1924
04:57:26,420 --> 04:57:28,780
The direction that has emerged in state law

1925
04:57:28,780 --> 04:57:31,220
is towards the use of objective standards,

1926
04:57:31,600 --> 04:57:33,740
grounded in clear public purpose,

1927
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rather than the uncertainty of project-by-project negotiation

1928
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as it existed in the past.

1929
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This in turn gives us an opportunity to support more fully what the county wants to achieve in terms of the quality and the character of development.

1930
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We have the latitude to set our standards.

1931
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That is where our local control exists in the planning and in the policy setting.

1932
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So, objective design standards for public streets are one key piece to have in place.

1933
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They will clearly and directly support community and economic vitality by setting and understanding and standard for critical public spaces.

1934
04:58:14,160 --> 04:58:16,180
And they also support other goals.

1935
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A community that doesn't support safe mobility for people using all transportation modes is not a community that could be equitable or accessible or age friendly or family friendly or sustainable.

1936
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And clear standards also support transparency, fiscal sustainability, and the kind of professionalism

1937
04:58:37,600 --> 04:58:39,860
in government service that we owe to Marin.

1938
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So, of course, as you well know, we are taking

1939
04:58:45,180 --> 04:58:50,480
a lot of steps in Marin to incorporate changing state law, but to incorporate the changing

1940
04:58:50,480 --> 04:58:57,000
state law around housing, but in ways that will work for Marin. So for us, this means a move from

1941
04:58:57,000 --> 04:59:02,500
the subjective standards that we have now to objective ones, where there is clarity on what's

1942
04:59:02,500 --> 04:59:07,440
required, and it can be determined during our administrative review if the standard has been

1943
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achieved.

1944
04:59:08,920 --> 04:59:13,400
The proposed standards that you'll see today are indeed objective, and are grounded in

1945
04:59:13,400 --> 04:59:17,380
a lot of research and best practice on achieving safe and usable streets.

1946
04:59:18,100 --> 04:59:23,660
Within that guiding principle of objectivity, we have also identified paths to recognize context,

1947
04:59:24,160 --> 04:59:28,580
site conditions, and the need to have some options for how the outcomes can be achieved.

1948
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So we can enable the various types of development proposals that we see.

1949
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So with that, I'm going to turn it over to Robin Bartlett and he will tell you how we are going to get there.

1950
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Thank you, Robin Bartlett, Assistant Director and Public Works.

1951
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And I'm going to talk a little bit about our process in developing the odds.

1952
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And I'll start with the purpose of this workshop.

1953
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We're here to receive your comments.

1954
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And enter a new conversation with you about the standards, as we move towards finalizing them and presenting them to you again in a hearing.

1955
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So with regard to the key elements in this process, the first one is we have developed proposed street designs with a variety of features incorporated in them.

1956
05:00:27,360 --> 05:00:41,320
And those proposed public streets are intended to provide for safe and flexible design that gives a greater sense of place and comfort for all users.

1957
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Underlying everything that we're doing here is the proposed minimum safety standards.

1958
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So, we have developed those in accordance with state and national guidelines and those are the standards below which developers cannot go and that will be an underlying theme throughout everything that you are hearing for the rest of this presentation.

1959
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Based on those minimum standards and our desired street design features, we've intended to design flexibility into this whole process.

1960
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We are establishing a difference between public and private streets, namely that the public streets will be those that meet our full standards that we desire and based on the principles that have been outlined.

1961
05:01:35,540 --> 05:01:46,320
And private streets will be those that meet the minimum safety standards only, and the intent there is to incentivize developers to build to the higher standards.

1962
05:01:47,140 --> 05:01:51,180
We're also going to be introducing some new low speed streets.

1963
05:01:52,380 --> 05:01:58,160
In addition, we'll be discussing how we accommodate existing conditions into new development.

1964
05:02:01,010 --> 05:02:08,470
So, with this process is a multi-phase process, the first phase is what we are discussing today,

1965
05:02:09,270 --> 05:02:14,930
and that is the development of street design standards for the city-centered and Bayland's corridors,

1966
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that is the salmon and purplish colors you see on the east side of the map of Marin County.

1967
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We will be back for future phases that will include rural street design standards,

1968
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as well as phase three, which will cover all of the various details, including grading and drainage,

1969
05:02:37,990 --> 05:02:43,570
utilities, traffic calming, transit, landscaping, and street lighting.

1970
05:02:47,380 --> 05:02:51,680
So to recap some of the stakeholder engagement that has gone into this process,

1971
05:02:52,600 --> 05:02:58,280
we have engaged with community focus groups, including civil and traffic engineers,

1972
05:02:58,280 --> 05:03:04,440
developers, land use attorneys, utilities, and special districts, and the Marine County

1973
05:03:04,440 --> 05:03:11,560
Bicycle Coalition. In addition, we've had this staff working groups and we've met

1974
05:03:11,560 --> 05:03:15,120
with the Planning Commission for a workshop and hearing.

1975
05:03:18,460 --> 05:03:20,020
Again reiterating the minimum

1976
05:03:20,020 --> 05:03:27,920
safety standards, these have been adopted or will be adopting health and safety

1977
05:03:27,920 --> 05:03:32,080
minimums that are based on those recognized state and national standards.

1978
05:03:33,780 --> 05:03:38,820
Again, developers may decline to follow the county standards or otherwise known as

1979
05:03:38,820 --> 05:03:43,300
waving them, but they may not go below those minimum safety standards.

1980
05:03:47,290 --> 05:03:53,350
With regard to our project objectives, it has been to set clear objective design

1981
05:03:53,350 --> 05:03:55,530
standards for streamlined approval.

1982
05:03:55,530 --> 05:04:00,630
based standards on widely accepted national guidance documents,

1983
05:04:01,810 --> 05:04:05,310
emphasize safety for all users in design standards,

1984
05:04:06,610 --> 05:04:08,550
encourage alternative modes of mobility,

1985
05:04:09,670 --> 05:04:12,870
and incorporate place-making design features for aesthetics

1986
05:04:12,870 --> 05:04:15,910
and utility of the street improvements.

1987
05:04:19,130 --> 05:04:21,010
With that, I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Brown,

1988
05:04:21,150 --> 05:04:26,290
who will go through the individual street standards that we have developed

1989
05:04:26,290 --> 05:04:28,710
and we appreciate your input.

1990
05:04:30,190 --> 05:04:31,230
Thank you so much, Robin.

1991
05:04:32,050 --> 05:04:36,350
Yes, I'll be going over the nitty gritty of the standards that we have developed over

1992
05:04:36,350 --> 05:04:41,210
the past six months, both with involvement of County staff, but also the stakeholder groups

1993
05:04:41,210 --> 05:04:42,490
that Robin mentioned.

1994
05:04:43,130 --> 05:04:47,710
I would note that I'm joined in person today by Onchupalta from Tool Design.

1995
05:04:48,350 --> 05:04:51,750
They are our transportation consultants and two of our colleagues.

1996
05:04:51,750 --> 05:04:58,230
a Malia Layton Cody and Colin Roberts are online and they can be available to answer

1997
05:04:58,230 --> 05:04:59,510
technical questions as well.

1998
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So what I'd like to do is start with a presentation of the residential street standards and I'll go through them as a group and then pause for any questions that the board may have and then I'll transition and talk about the non-residential street standards and do the same calling for questions at that point.

1999
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So our basic residential street design is based on national

2000
05:05:23,880 --> 05:05:27,160
lactose standards for dimensions of the travel lanes,

2001
05:05:27,360 --> 05:05:30,040
the ensuite parking, and the sidewalks.

2002
05:05:30,040 --> 05:05:33,360
It has the same paved curb width to width,

2003
05:05:33,800 --> 05:05:37,340
curb to curve width as your current residential road standards,

2004
05:05:38,040 --> 05:05:42,640
but our proposed standards add a planting strip on either side

2005
05:05:42,640 --> 05:05:45,860
and also six foot sidewalks on either side of the street

2006
05:05:45,860 --> 05:05:48,160
where your current standards are only four feet.

2007
05:05:48,160 --> 05:05:54,860
And we think that's critical for both better pedestrian safety and utility and improved aesthetics.

2008
05:05:55,280 --> 05:05:58,620
We really want to make sure that we are promoting alternative modes of transportation.

2009
05:05:59,460 --> 05:06:07,620
And we think that providing adequate sidewalks that are shaded, protective from the travel lanes is really crucial to making that transition.

2010
05:06:09,680 --> 05:06:15,860
And this is a visual example of what that type of street looks like in terms of its width in terms of amenities.

2011
05:06:15,860 --> 05:06:22,080
I would note this is a new subdivision so the street tree is really haven't had much of a chance to get full-sized

2012
05:06:25,570 --> 05:06:34,750
The next street type that the county currently has is called the limited residential road and it has a narrow right-of-way by eliminating

2013
05:06:34,750 --> 05:06:35,910
on-street parking

2014
05:06:36,630 --> 05:06:39,990
It too has four foot sidewalks in either side

2015
05:06:39,990 --> 05:06:49,050
So our proposed change would add planting strips on either side to protect the sidewalks and again increasing the sidewalk with from four to six feet

2016
05:06:49,050 --> 05:06:55,810
We would propose that this street design be only allowed for retrofits of existing county streets

2017
05:06:55,810 --> 05:07:03,550
where parking doesn't currently exist, so it would not be available for the creation of new streets without parking.

2018
05:07:04,330 --> 05:07:10,030
Again, we're going to have situations where a frontage improvement for a new residential project

2019
05:07:10,030 --> 05:07:13,630
will have to improve an existing street, which may be substandard.

2020
05:07:13,630 --> 05:07:21,310
So again, if the street does not have parking, then this could be a choice the developers could make for a public street without parking.

2021
05:07:23,450 --> 05:07:26,470
And this is an example of what that type of street looks like.

2022
05:07:32,200 --> 05:07:37,800
And the last residential road type that the county currently has is called a minor residential road.

2023
05:07:38,060 --> 05:07:42,060
And it has parking on one side only and again the four foot sidewalks.

2024
05:07:42,060 --> 05:07:49,220
So we propose to allow this design but only for private streets and as the trade-off to

2025
05:07:49,220 --> 05:07:52,840
developers that would want to devote less land area to their roadways.

2026
05:07:53,580 --> 05:07:58,400
Our proposed design, again, adds six foot sidewalks on either side and a planting strip

2027
05:07:58,400 --> 05:08:01,160
protecting that sidewalk on one side.

2028
05:08:01,940 --> 05:08:06,460
And then on the other side that as the parking lane there would be a requirement that street

2029
05:08:06,460 --> 05:08:09,400
be planted in the front setback of the residents.

2030
05:08:13,440 --> 05:08:16,540
And again, a visual example of what that type of

2031
05:08:16,540 --> 05:08:17,900
street would look like.

2032
05:08:23,140 --> 05:08:28,100
And as Robin pointed out, we're trying to be as flexible to

2033
05:08:28,100 --> 05:08:36,440
development trends as we can be, again, without really diminishing the aesthetics and the mobility

2034
05:08:36,440 --> 05:08:42,320
that would be provided with the new standards. But in new proposed street type, this would also

2035
05:08:42,320 --> 05:08:48,100
be a private street, and this design is based on what you might have heard we call auto

2036
05:08:48,100 --> 05:08:54,140
courts, where there's a handful of homes that are accessed from a shared, very low speed

2037
05:08:54,140 --> 05:08:59,780
street, where the pedestrians share the traveling. So there's no sidewalks here. Again,

2038
05:08:59,880 --> 05:09:06,280
these would only be allowed to be private. This would not have on street parking, but there

2039
05:09:06,280 --> 05:09:12,760
be a requirement that driveway aprons be at least 20 feet long so that they would accommodate

2040
05:09:12,760 --> 05:09:17,600
additional uncover parking, which then could not be accommodated in the street itself.

2041
05:09:18,560 --> 05:09:24,140
And we would also limit the maximum length of this type of road again to make sure it is a low speed

2042
05:09:24,140 --> 05:09:31,940
road to 150 feet. And also would require that street trees be planted again in the front landscape area

2043
05:09:31,940 --> 05:09:33,200
for each home,

2044
05:09:36,500 --> 05:09:37,840
and a visual example of this street,

2045
05:09:38,080 --> 05:09:40,200
although this particular example really sort of lacks

2046
05:09:40,200 --> 05:09:41,880
the street trees that we would be proposing.

2047
05:09:46,690 --> 05:09:48,450
And the last residential street design

2048
05:09:48,450 --> 05:09:50,030
would be a new one as well.

2049
05:09:50,130 --> 05:09:52,370
And this would be for a private alley.

2050
05:09:53,310 --> 05:09:56,930
And again, it would be available for rear garage access

2051
05:09:56,930 --> 05:09:58,370
for townhouse developments.

2052
05:09:58,570 --> 05:09:59,970
Again, we see this fairly common.

2053
05:10:00,000 --> 05:10:12,020
And the front axis would be from a major residential street. And then again, the alley would be available just for garage access, not for pedestrian access to the units.

2054
05:10:15,020 --> 05:10:20,780
And with that, I would be happy to stop and we can take any technical questions about the residential street types.

2055
05:10:22,260 --> 05:10:26,540
Right. Thank you. Any questions at this point from any of my colleagues?

2056
05:10:28,860 --> 05:10:29,960
Supervisor Mom Peters.

2057
05:10:31,640 --> 05:10:34,640
Bob, I had a question as I looked at these designs.

2058
05:10:35,180 --> 05:10:36,100
What about bicycles?

2059
05:10:37,860 --> 05:10:39,600
And so, could you explain that?

2060
05:10:40,160 --> 05:10:42,700
In the case of the residential streets again, we're anticipating

2061
05:10:42,700 --> 05:10:46,320
design speeds of 25 miles per hour or less.

2062
05:10:46,980 --> 05:10:51,020
So, in each case, what's called a class 3, which means the bicycles are in the same

2063
05:10:51,020 --> 05:10:54,780
travel lane as the vehicles themselves.

2064
05:10:55,660 --> 05:11:01,020
You'll see when we start talking about the non-residential street types, again higher speeds, more volume.

2065
05:11:01,620 --> 05:11:04,080
In those cases, we will have a separated bicycle facility.

2066
05:11:05,820 --> 05:11:12,460
So then just to nitpick, I would love to see a Sherro in your drawing if you're going to use the street that way.

2067
05:11:12,480 --> 05:11:14,180
And I assume that's what you were going to do.

2068
05:11:14,700 --> 05:11:18,300
But I just think it would be helpful to have that visual too. Thank you.

2069
05:11:18,400 --> 05:11:19,200
Thank you.

2070
05:11:19,760 --> 05:11:20,500
Any other questions?

2071
05:11:21,780 --> 05:11:30,540
I had just one on this shared residential road, one with outside walks, the 150-foot maximum

2072
05:11:30,540 --> 05:11:31,000
length.

2073
05:11:31,720 --> 05:11:37,380
But thinking between having a maximum length or versus maximum homes served on that, kind of

2074
05:11:37,380 --> 05:11:39,720
give me a little more detail there, how did we land on that?

2075
05:11:40,180 --> 05:11:47,140
Currently, the county has a restriction, I think its six homes can access this type of very

2076
05:11:47,140 --> 05:11:48,760
narrow, slow speed street.

2077
05:11:49,660 --> 05:11:55,480
In some cases, that strictly depends upon which orientation the home has from the front door.

2078
05:11:56,420 --> 05:12:02,700
You have a current application where just based upon how the home is oriented, there are eight homes on that street.

2079
05:12:03,100 --> 05:12:08,880
Again, we think that the length is probably a better indicator without trying to dictate unit count.

2080
05:12:09,400 --> 05:12:17,040
But again, the intent is a very short street where vehicles cannot achieve a significant level of speed.

2081
05:12:17,040 --> 05:12:23,160
Got you. And is this new one? I tried looking in the ordinance. Is this the details?

2082
05:12:23,840 --> 05:12:26,300
Are they in the draft ordinance yet or because this is a new type?

2083
05:12:26,460 --> 05:12:29,400
That's one that we will need to put into words. Very much.

2084
05:12:29,760 --> 05:12:33,600
Yes. Okay. I've got a couple of comments. We'll wait till the end of the presentation on that.

2085
05:12:33,960 --> 05:12:34,840
Any other questions?

2086
05:12:36,000 --> 05:12:36,780
All right.

2087
05:12:37,040 --> 05:12:40,140
Okay. Let's turn to non-residential streets.

2088
05:12:43,000 --> 05:12:47,540
And frankly, you probably are not going to see a great number of these as new streets.

2089
05:12:47,540 --> 05:12:55,740
in the county. But in case you do for mixed use developments that are new, again, probably

2090
05:12:55,740 --> 05:13:00,580
very few, but we have a street type that features 10 foot wide sidewalks to accommodate

2091
05:13:00,580 --> 05:13:06,800
ground floor commercial use, street furniture, decorative lighting, etc. A zone for street

2092
05:13:06,800 --> 05:13:12,280
trees that could be in tree wells. And again, parking on both sides with fairly narrow

2093
05:13:12,280 --> 05:13:17,960
travel lanes for slower speeds. If these, this particular street would be on a bus route, however,

2094
05:13:17,960 --> 05:13:23,100
the lanes would be a bit wider to accommodate bus vehicles. And again, in this case,

2095
05:13:23,420 --> 05:13:28,700
as was questioned, bicycles would share the travel lanes. Again, this is intended to be a relatively

2096
05:13:28,700 --> 05:13:33,480
slow street, probably 25 miles per hour, as you would typically see in a lot of small downtowns.

2097
05:13:36,090 --> 05:13:39,650
And this is an example from Windsor of that type of street design.

2098
05:13:45,740 --> 05:13:47,260
Again, not likely to see

2099
05:13:47,260 --> 05:13:54,300
lot of new collector or arterial streets, but these would also in the new proposals have regular

2100
05:13:54,300 --> 05:14:00,300
eight foot sidewalks on each side. I'm sorry, on one side, and at the very strong recommendation

2101
05:14:00,300 --> 05:14:07,220
from the Brimbison Coalition, it would have a class one shared use path that is off of the pavement

2102
05:14:08,260 --> 05:14:17,240
on the other side of the street. Both would have parking on both sides, and in the case of the

2103
05:14:17,240 --> 05:14:23,060
widely wider lane for the additional traffic volumes, and it would have a center median or

2104
05:14:23,060 --> 05:14:26,560
turn lane, and there would be a pedestrian refuge if it had a center median.

2105
05:14:30,550 --> 05:14:31,010
And these are

2106
05:14:31,010 --> 05:14:36,430
existing examples, again, not entirely consistent with the new design proposal, but you can see

2107
05:14:36,430 --> 05:14:39,550
what a shared use path looks like on either.

2108
05:14:44,770 --> 05:14:47,950
And finally, this is a industrial commercial street type

2109
05:14:47,950 --> 05:14:53,510
the county currently has this in their code, but it's not mapped anywhere in the county. You do

2110
05:14:53,510 --> 05:14:59,970
have a lot of heavy industrial areas or, you know, fulfillment centers, that kind of thing, but if you do have a...

2111
05:15:00,000 --> 05:15:07,080
A future industrial type development, this is the design that we propose. It would have 12 foot travel lanes

2112
05:15:07,080 --> 05:15:13,080
again to accommodate trucks and it would have parking on either side, again, the planting strips

2113
05:15:13,080 --> 05:15:21,380
and sidewalks on both sides, again, to accommodate pedestrians and parking as well. And an example

2114
05:15:21,380 --> 05:15:28,240
from, again, from Windsor of an industrial street. And again, I will stop if there are any questions

2115
05:15:28,240 --> 05:15:30,100
of the boardhouse.

2116
05:15:31,060 --> 05:15:32,020
Supervisor Sackett.

2117
05:15:32,780 --> 05:15:33,440
Thank you.

2118
05:15:33,920 --> 05:15:39,180
On the Main Street public design you mentioned that there would be a width, but then that

2119
05:15:39,180 --> 05:15:42,840
width would be increased to accommodate if it was a bus route.

2120
05:15:43,580 --> 05:15:48,820
Is that going to be part of the code and how is, you know, sort of current versus determining

2121
05:15:48,820 --> 05:15:57,700
versus future bus routes determined on adding that additional width?

2122
05:15:58,180 --> 05:16:17,760
Yes, it would be in the code and again, the time of the application review contact would be made with the transit district to find out if it is a bus route or if it's a planned bus route and the decision we've made at that point based upon, you know, again, they're existing routes or planned routes.

2123
05:16:17,760 --> 05:16:27,880
So you are correct, I think, in your assumption that if it is not a bus route but at some point in the future would be, we are sort of stuck with this street design that we have.

2124
05:16:28,360 --> 05:16:29,700
I think Sarah has something to add.

2125
05:16:30,620 --> 05:16:44,100
Yes, I would just add Mr. Brown's exactly right and, you know, as much as we might have a scenario where we're in transit says, you know, we really would like to have a bus route there someday.

2126
05:16:44,100 --> 05:16:50,020
that really wouldn't be a basis for us to be able to apply the standard, you know,

2127
05:16:50,200 --> 05:16:55,960
a non-planned bus route would not be a basis that we could use to apply a higher

2128
05:16:55,960 --> 05:17:01,560
standard. So we need to stick with what's documented in plans.

2129
05:17:05,530 --> 05:17:07,950
I guess my colleagues

2130
05:17:07,950 --> 05:17:16,630
are also on my own transit, so maybe I've missed it. But I don't know that we

2131
05:17:16,630 --> 05:17:22,970
the county could rely on to look at. So I'm thinking of if we have a planned development and we

2132
05:17:24,090 --> 05:17:27,950
I mean on one hand if you're just going through the development you're probably going to put the bus

2133
05:17:27,950 --> 05:17:31,710
stop on the outside but I'm thinking if you have something that could then

2134
05:17:32,730 --> 05:17:36,070
become a pass through or you're going to want to add that whip.

2135
05:17:40,200 --> 05:17:48,460
These are good questions and one of the outcomes of this work is going to be

2136
05:17:48,460 --> 05:17:50,980
Okay, you know, what's next?

2137
05:17:51,000 --> 05:17:54,360
How do we then use this to leverage

2138
05:17:54,360 --> 05:17:55,680
where we wanna get to go?

2139
05:17:57,480 --> 05:18:01,180
And, you know, there's sort of ongoing discussions

2140
05:18:01,180 --> 05:18:04,000
with Marin Transit at the staff level

2141
05:18:04,000 --> 05:18:07,600
of how do we get better symbiosis

2142
05:18:07,600 --> 05:18:11,200
between what's happening with growth planning

2143
05:18:11,200 --> 05:18:13,880
and what's happening with transit planning?

2144
05:18:14,800 --> 05:18:17,620
So it goes back to that initial question,

2145
05:18:17,620 --> 05:18:26,100
And I think of, you know, when we have adopted standards, we are going to have ongoing work

2146
05:18:26,100 --> 05:18:34,900
to do on the collaboration and coordination with the other agencies that touch and shape

2147
05:18:34,900 --> 05:18:37,040
the streets and public spaces.

2148
05:18:37,620 --> 05:18:42,540
Was more in transit one of the stakeholders in this group?

2149
05:18:43,300 --> 05:18:52,500
Not a direct stakeholder in terms of a formal, focused group meeting, but I have that conversation with the staff there at Tam and the transit district.

2150
05:18:55,380 --> 05:19:10,280
But you know, one thing that we will take away from this workshop is kind of doing a further checkpoint with Marin transit around this process and these standards.

2151
05:19:11,160 --> 05:19:11,740
Thanks.

2152
05:19:12,160 --> 05:19:12,960
Thank you.

2153
05:19:14,460 --> 05:19:15,300
Any others?

2154
05:19:17,140 --> 05:19:17,420
All right.

2155
05:19:19,040 --> 05:19:21,680
Last point I would make has to do with exceptions.

2156
05:19:22,500 --> 05:19:25,320
So these standards are pretty straightforward to apply to new streets.

2157
05:19:26,000 --> 05:19:31,100
However, the county has a myriad of existing conditions out there right now, and in

2158
05:19:31,100 --> 05:19:35,840
many cases, these housing opportunities sites will be making improvement, frontage improvements

2159
05:19:35,840 --> 05:19:40,260
to existing streets which are in compared to the new standards would be substandard.

2160
05:19:40,260 --> 05:19:59,980
So, the question is, how to deal with those situations and what's proposed is for housing sites that have a frontage of 300 feet or less and a consistent non-conforming street design, a thousand feet now, the direction, the developer.

2161
05:20:00,000 --> 05:20:27,380
Our could continue that existing street design. However, to accommodate future needs for widening and improvements, what we would do is we would require that the developer up front dedicated the right away for our ultimate designs and also enter into a deferred improvement agreement with the county. So at some point in the future, if there was a need to improve the frontage, the county would have that ability to require it.

2162
05:20:27,380 --> 05:20:39,620
And then a second exemption would apply in very rare cases where extending an existing collector or a terryl-stree that would not have a JSON development.

2163
05:20:40,880 --> 05:20:48,380
An example might be, for example, if the development of St. Vincent's requires a secondary access, which it will.

2164
05:20:48,380 --> 05:20:53,680
extending, for example, severe a parkway across the undevelopable severe a property.

2165
05:20:54,020 --> 05:20:57,780
There's not really much of a need for parking in those situations.

2166
05:20:58,280 --> 05:21:05,540
And having sidewalk, for example, on both sides, would not necessarily be a good use of the paved area.

2167
05:21:06,160 --> 05:21:08,580
So in these cases, we're calling these connector streets.

2168
05:21:08,960 --> 05:21:14,660
If it is connecting and existing collector or arterial, that has no development along it,

2169
05:21:14,660 --> 05:21:24,200
We have a design that would require no parking, but also a class one shared use path on one side of the street only.

2170
05:21:26,160 --> 05:21:31,780
And with that, I'm going to turn it back over to the Assistant Public Works Director.

2171
05:21:33,420 --> 05:21:33,760
Thank you.

2172
05:21:34,040 --> 05:21:40,340
Are there any questions or comments regarding those items of the exceptions?

2173
05:21:41,540 --> 05:21:47,600
Anything specific to the exceptions or ready to just move on to general feedback or deliberational

2174
05:21:47,600 --> 05:21:47,920
assessment.

2175
05:21:47,920 --> 05:21:49,020
There's additional presentation.

2176
05:21:49,700 --> 05:21:50,600
Just a quick question.

2177
05:21:51,040 --> 05:21:51,420
An obvious question.

2178
05:21:53,280 --> 05:21:56,140
What do we require now on those front-each improvements?

2179
05:21:57,100 --> 05:22:00,360
What's different from the exception or is there a difference?

2180
05:22:02,260 --> 05:22:09,160
I think the key issue there is that this is intended as an exception for the new design standards

2181
05:22:09,160 --> 05:22:15,160
where the new design standards are requiring the parking on the street and we are

2182
05:22:15,160 --> 05:22:19,680
acknowledging that there are locations where that is not necessary or appropriate.

2183
05:22:20,720 --> 05:22:24,900
I think I got to get to that question is how do we handle it now and largely

2184
05:22:24,900 --> 05:22:31,520
through and negotiate a session with the developer to arrive at mutually agreed upon

2185
05:22:31,520 --> 05:22:35,940
improvements. So again, trying to transition to objective standards, we have to be

2186
05:22:35,940 --> 05:22:37,340
So

2187
05:22:42,080 --> 05:22:55,600
wrapping up the key discussion topics that we have, we anticipate that key issues are the introduction of a difference between public and private streets.

2188
05:22:56,100 --> 05:23:03,400
And that's primarily driven by the desire to have public streets and meet the standards that we've outlined.

2189
05:23:03,400 --> 05:23:10,200
and trying to incentivize developers to not just fall back to the minimum safety standards.

2190
05:23:13,320 --> 05:23:19,600
In addition, we've introduced that topic we just mentioned with regard to the frontage improvements

2191
05:23:19,600 --> 05:23:23,440
and how we require those frontage improvements to be made.

2192
05:23:24,300 --> 05:23:29,720
And the other topic that we have anticipated is more of a new issue for us,

2193
05:23:29,720 --> 05:23:36,840
is the introduction of the new low speed street designs that Bob just showed you.

2194
05:23:39,780 --> 05:23:40,640
Is there any further

2195
05:23:40,640 --> 05:23:47,360
discussion on those topics? All right, let's see. I think we could as I conclude the presentation.

2196
05:23:47,920 --> 05:23:55,360
Yeah, other than next steps. Oh, when are you going to go into next step? Yeah, we'll do. So we will

2197
05:23:55,360 --> 05:23:57,600
We'll see if your feedback and comments

2198
05:23:57,600 --> 05:24:02,700
and our next steps following revision of those standards

2199
05:24:02,700 --> 05:24:07,000
as appropriate will be a public hearing to introduce

2200
05:24:07,000 --> 05:24:10,460
the ordinance and the target date for that

2201
05:24:10,460 --> 05:24:12,520
is October the 13th.

2202
05:24:12,520 --> 05:24:15,920
Following that, we are looking for adoption of the ordinance

2203
05:24:15,920 --> 05:24:19,420
on a consent calendar item targeting early November.

2204
05:24:20,880 --> 05:24:22,380
That concludes our presentation.

2205
05:24:23,140 --> 05:24:23,380
All right.

2206
05:24:24,380 --> 05:24:25,260
Thank you.

2207
05:24:25,500 --> 05:24:31,600
I, maybe at this point, we can go to public comment and then I'm sure each of us will have additional comments on this.

2208
05:24:31,700 --> 05:24:35,180
This is just a workshop we're providing direction and shared then it would come back.

2209
05:24:35,960 --> 05:24:39,320
So, maybe that will see is there any public comment here in the chambers on this item.

2210
05:24:41,220 --> 05:24:42,200
There we'll go online.

2211
05:24:42,380 --> 05:24:43,780
I see one hand up.

2212
05:24:46,550 --> 05:24:48,550
Warren Wells, you may now unmute.

2213
05:24:50,660 --> 05:24:54,460
So we're going to look at members of the board, this is Warren Wells with the Miranda Kaye.

2214
05:24:54,460 --> 05:24:59,680
By so coalition, I want to call in and place strong support staffs.

2215
05:25:00,000 --> 05:25:23,960
Recommendations here for the proposed development of design standards. I really do want to express my amortizations appreciation to staff and consulting team on this effort, as well as some conversations they had with the county executive and taking taking feedback from the first, first, past on this, to what you see before you now, particularly on the collector and our tierial cross street sections.

2216
05:25:23,960 --> 05:25:31,180
As I mentioned, those all now include a shared use path above the curb,

2217
05:25:31,640 --> 05:25:39,400
compared a lot to the road, as opposed to painted or flex-post-separated bike lanes in the road way.

2218
05:25:40,900 --> 05:25:45,100
That I know that I took some, some, some, some is going to take a little modifying of the bike

2219
05:25:45,100 --> 05:25:48,940
plan, so I really appreciate the extra going above and beyond to get that in there.

2220
05:25:50,560 --> 05:25:54,980
You know, as I mentioned, these standards may not find that many uses in rent at this point,

2221
05:25:55,420 --> 05:25:57,580
but getting them right now will be critical.

2222
05:25:58,140 --> 05:26:03,860
If the standards were posed, today had been the ones used when building out Marin during the last century,

2223
05:26:04,480 --> 05:26:07,480
my job might not need to exist because we'd already have a complete bite network.

2224
05:26:08,520 --> 05:26:12,980
Critical to most people, choose to get it around by bicycle as they have to feel safe doing so.

2225
05:26:13,260 --> 05:26:16,900
Painted by planes don't always do that, because people in a jam they can be hit from behind,

2226
05:26:16,900 --> 05:26:19,940
physical protection and creates separation like a zebra pose here.

2227
05:26:20,640 --> 05:26:20,800
It does.

2228
05:26:21,320 --> 05:26:22,980
I just do one to make one quick note,

2229
05:26:23,160 --> 05:26:25,080
filling up a comment from Supervisor Morton Peters.

2230
05:26:26,280 --> 05:26:28,040
On those main street standards,

2231
05:26:28,800 --> 05:26:31,900
you know, I really think we need to make sure that the design speed is very low.

2232
05:26:33,420 --> 05:26:37,320
That 10 to 15 mile per hour range to get the interest and,

2233
05:26:37,340 --> 05:26:40,900
but concern writers to actually be comfortable sharing in the roadway

2234
05:26:41,840 --> 05:26:42,720
with motor vehicles.

2235
05:26:43,480 --> 05:26:45,000
So, again, looking forward to seeing

2236
05:26:45,000 --> 05:26:48,920
The next steps on this effort, I appreciate all the work that's going to this day.

2237
05:26:49,060 --> 05:26:50,280
Thanks so much.

2238
05:26:51,040 --> 05:26:51,520
Thank you, Warren.

2239
05:26:51,920 --> 05:26:57,300
We'll close public comment and we'll go to my colleagues for comments direction or feedback.

2240
05:26:57,820 --> 05:27:02,590
Who wants to start a supervisor moment, Peters?

2241
05:27:02,750 --> 05:27:03,690
Be happy to.

2242
05:27:04,070 --> 05:27:09,870
If I might ask a last question, I think supervisor Rodney might have asked you this, Robin.

2243
05:27:09,870 --> 05:27:20,030
but for this exemption for projects with less than 300 feet on the frontage and the non-conforming

2244
05:27:20,030 --> 05:27:24,750
street condition extends a thousand feet in both directions and so I can think of a lot of stretches

2245
05:27:24,750 --> 05:27:30,630
of roadway that meet that right now that might get developed over time. So what's our thought

2246
05:27:30,630 --> 05:27:35,190
about how those will be developed or maybe Bob, that's a question for you. I'm not sure, but

2247
05:27:35,190 --> 05:27:36,990
I didn't understand how we closed the loop

2248
05:27:36,990 --> 05:27:40,230
and get them developed in the future to the standard.

2249
05:27:41,990 --> 05:27:45,650
Well, the basic requirement is that

2250
05:27:45,650 --> 05:27:49,190
the developer developed the frontage to that standard.

2251
05:27:50,030 --> 05:27:53,010
We just anticipate that there will be many conditions

2252
05:27:53,010 --> 05:27:56,870
where it may be mutually advantageous

2253
05:27:56,870 --> 05:28:00,290
that we not develop at that time.

2254
05:28:01,410 --> 05:28:04,170
And perhaps wait until other developments come in

2255
05:28:04,170 --> 05:28:06,230
so that we can have a more continuous improvement.

2256
05:28:07,450 --> 05:28:11,770
So the mechanism would be that the developer would be required

2257
05:28:11,770 --> 05:28:15,030
to provide the right of way to us at that time

2258
05:28:15,030 --> 05:28:16,930
to make the future development possible,

2259
05:28:17,570 --> 05:28:20,610
and would also need to enter into a agreement

2260
05:28:20,610 --> 05:28:22,990
with us to fund those improvements.

2261
05:28:23,250 --> 05:28:23,410
I see.

2262
05:28:24,030 --> 05:28:24,930
Okay, great.

2263
05:28:25,410 --> 05:28:26,650
That's the clarity I needed.

2264
05:28:26,710 --> 05:28:27,550
Thank you for that.

2265
05:28:27,730 --> 05:28:29,650
And just let me thank you all the whole team

2266
05:28:29,650 --> 05:28:31,030
for bringing this to us.

2267
05:28:31,130 --> 05:28:32,170
It has been long needed.

2268
05:28:32,170 --> 05:28:38,170
And I'm glad that we are going to have them going forward for the development that we expect

2269
05:28:38,170 --> 05:28:38,810
to see.

2270
05:28:39,230 --> 05:28:40,630
So thank you very much.

2271
05:28:41,610 --> 05:28:41,910
Others?

2272
05:28:42,750 --> 05:28:42,970
Anything?

2273
05:28:43,830 --> 05:28:44,910
Supervisor Sackett?

2274
05:28:45,290 --> 05:28:46,210
Or, and then, super.

2275
05:28:46,890 --> 05:28:47,330
Yeah.

2276
05:28:48,770 --> 05:28:52,250
So just kind of starting with that connector street.

2277
05:28:52,670 --> 05:28:56,350
And Mr. Brown, I appreciate the example you gave.

2278
05:28:56,350 --> 05:29:03,550
That actually gives me pause to think that we have what could be a connector street

2279
05:29:03,550 --> 05:29:09,170
to St. Vincent's, which is very straight, which I would think would encourage high speeds.

2280
05:29:09,690 --> 05:29:17,530
And we have a parallel street of Silvera Parkway on the other side of the railroad tracks on this side.

2281
05:29:17,550 --> 05:29:20,230
And it just has a sidewalk on one side.

2282
05:29:20,250 --> 05:29:24,510
And I've had two or three community meetings out there saying can you put a sidewalk on the other side.

2283
05:29:24,510 --> 05:29:31,610
So, it makes me think about those connector streets and whether, you know, is there a way to add

2284
05:29:32,670 --> 05:29:38,990
in particular when you have long and straight that is going to encourage us to feed

2285
05:29:40,330 --> 05:29:44,650
any way that, welcome your thoughts on that?

2286
05:29:45,170 --> 05:29:50,610
Well, we certainly can add criteria and other design standards as long as they're objective.

2287
05:29:50,610 --> 05:29:59,870
So if there is, you know, a specified length, there have to be traffic calming, incorporated design features, you know, we can stipulate.

2288
05:30:00,000 --> 05:30:02,900
So, that's something we could definitely look at.

2289
05:30:03,100 --> 05:30:04,840
I would go ahead.

2290
05:30:06,720 --> 05:30:14,920
And the approach that we would take on that would be the same as elsewhere, where, you know, we

2291
05:30:14,920 --> 05:30:24,260
look to identify the specific, the specific demonstrable safety issue associated with it.

2292
05:30:24,260 --> 05:30:30,200
and then develop standards that are going to be able to fall under the threshold of that

2293
05:30:30,200 --> 05:30:37,480
safety issue. That's important for the purpose of making sure that these requirements

2294
05:30:37,480 --> 05:30:47,220
can stick and that they can't be waived out of because we can't connect it to that specific

2295
05:30:47,220 --> 05:30:55,220
safety finding. Okay. In that particular example, I hope we can kind of flush that out a little bit

2296
05:30:55,220 --> 05:31:03,380
more and think through whether we have as strictive safety standards. And then how on all of these

2297
05:31:03,380 --> 05:31:11,520
are you thinking about working with the other municipalities and also the sewer and utility partners so

2298
05:31:11,520 --> 05:31:16,660
that none of this, we are in an island and non-incorporated marine on any of this.

2299
05:31:16,740 --> 05:31:21,780
And so how are you bringing them into this discussion and how do you foresee that going forward?

2300
05:31:21,880 --> 05:31:27,100
Or is this really just marine county ordinance and there won't be any conflicts?

2301
05:31:31,060 --> 05:31:38,420
So, you know, of course streets don't, streets are exist to connect places.

2302
05:31:38,420 --> 05:31:40,740
And so they do cross jurisdictional lines.

2303
05:31:40,880 --> 05:31:44,140
And I think you can think about sort of Francis Drake

2304
05:31:44,140 --> 05:31:45,440
as a really good example.

2305
05:31:45,720 --> 05:31:48,940
How many different jurisdictions does that one street

2306
05:31:48,940 --> 05:31:53,440
go through and you can really feel that you're in a different place

2307
05:31:53,440 --> 05:31:55,980
when you're on different parts of that street.

2308
05:31:56,500 --> 05:32:00,400
And it is more and less safe in some places,

2309
05:32:01,140 --> 05:32:02,880
better and worse traffic flow.

2310
05:32:02,880 --> 05:32:22,780
So, you know, we have been focusing on this top priority issue of getting these design standards in place so that we, so that we have the right tools to accommodate the development that is coming in now.

2311
05:32:24,860 --> 05:32:48,180
That will then expand to further conversations with our partner jurisdictions that we do a lot of our housing planning with, you know, together with and work to get, work to get consistency across jurisdictions maybe not in exactly what the standards are themselves.

2312
05:32:48,180 --> 05:32:53,580
but at least in the concepts and the safety findings behind them.

2313
05:32:53,800 --> 05:32:56,640
So that's an important area for coordination.

2314
05:32:57,440 --> 05:33:00,140
With the utility and sewer districts,

2315
05:33:00,920 --> 05:33:05,660
that will be a critical issue, particularly in phase three,

2316
05:33:05,820 --> 05:33:10,660
when we're addressing the other aspects of our infrastructure standards.

2317
05:33:10,660 --> 05:33:21,180
and coordination with those partner agencies will be a central component of developing that.

2318
05:33:22,180 --> 05:33:29,720
There's also another area which is relevant, regardless of what the standards are,

2319
05:33:30,000 --> 05:33:33,320
which is just how we coordinate during the development review process.

2320
05:33:33,920 --> 05:33:39,460
And that is separate, effort and a separate piece that we're working on because it's really important

2321
05:33:39,460 --> 05:33:47,280
that everybody's needs and requirements are understood at the appropriate stage in development

2322
05:33:47,280 --> 05:33:55,020
approvals. And we still have some work to do together with our partner agencies on that front.

2323
05:33:55,880 --> 05:34:01,960
I would just add if I might that these standards are much more similar to standards in the adjacent

2324
05:34:01,960 --> 05:34:08,160
cities for new developments. So they're less inconsistent than they have been in the past which is good.

2325
05:34:08,160 --> 05:34:11,240
And we did share these with Sarah Fel and their public were

2326
05:34:11,240 --> 05:34:13,920
staffed and appreciate the direction we were going in.

2327
05:34:16,230 --> 05:34:23,130
And then on the, there was a mention of streetscape amenities.

2328
05:34:23,870 --> 05:34:28,570
It were benches, transit stops, street furniture, and having benchmarks.

2329
05:34:29,670 --> 05:34:34,910
And I was trying to understand what are benchmarks in that is,

2330
05:34:34,910 --> 05:34:35,930
is that objective?

2331
05:34:40,180 --> 05:34:45,960
I think a number of those aspects will continue to be refined, particularly in the phase

2332
05:34:45,960 --> 05:34:53,060
three of this process, and we will need to have objective standards and county-wide standards

2333
05:34:53,060 --> 05:34:54,460
for a number of those items.

2334
05:34:58,480 --> 05:34:58,880
Thank you.

2335
05:35:00,000 --> 05:35:13,680
Always, I'm going to just chime in here real quick. I have a child care thing I have to take care of. So I'm going to have to step out hand them, you know, the Super Resumlement Peters, but supervisor, second, giving the opportunity to just get my quick comment and really thank you for all the work on this.

2336
05:35:14,320 --> 05:35:25,780
The additional feedback I have is actually going back to that shared residential road. I know that this phase one applies to all the city center and bail-ins corridor, which is a big chunk.

2337
05:35:25,780 --> 05:35:30,220
actually includes all of the district five I believe in looking at the map in terms of the

2338
05:35:30,220 --> 05:35:37,220
developer world area. I think my feedback around that shared residential road component is we

2339
05:35:37,220 --> 05:35:44,380
have several HOD sites that are sort of on the outskirts of the city of Naudo and Unincorporated

2340
05:35:44,380 --> 05:35:49,340
Nevada that are in areas where there is no existing sidewalk network on the major connections.

2341
05:35:50,140 --> 05:35:56,420
And so I question whether or not 150 feet is the appropriate amount, I mean, I could see it

2342
05:35:57,040 --> 05:36:01,040
incentivizing certain developers to go to private roads, chopping up their streets in

2343
05:36:01,040 --> 05:36:05,940
a way, but they're also not connecting to any existing sidewalk network.

2344
05:36:06,520 --> 05:36:11,520
I don't know if there is another objective standard we could introduce where if it is single

2345
05:36:11,520 --> 05:36:17,760
family homes, if it's not connecting to an existing sidewalk network, you know, maybe there

2346
05:36:17,760 --> 05:36:21,780
is some sort of other waiver, not that they would let them off the hook, maybe we can get

2347
05:36:21,780 --> 05:36:23,840
some deeper setbacks in those lots.

2348
05:36:24,500 --> 05:36:30,520
I know it's very hard to make that objective, but I see kind of shoe-harning requirements

2349
05:36:30,520 --> 05:36:35,660
for sidewalks in small, single-family, you know, 10, 20, 30-home developments that are not

2350
05:36:35,660 --> 05:36:43,820
connected to any existing sidewalk network, there might be a better way to cite that project.

2351
05:36:45,240 --> 05:36:50,620
challenges. How do you do it objectively? Is it to give them deeper setbacks? Is the exception

2352
05:36:50,620 --> 05:36:56,020
if it's not connected to an existing sidewalk network? Maybe a little more than just 150

2353
05:36:56,020 --> 05:37:00,260
feet. I don't think we need to come up with that answer right now, but I just want to provide that

2354
05:37:00,260 --> 05:37:03,900
as a comment. If I have additional thoughts, I will send them over as well.

2355
05:37:04,340 --> 05:37:12,000
Thank you, President Leakon. That's really useful feedback. As I was listening to you,

2356
05:37:12,000 --> 05:37:17,080
Well, one possible route to consider on this

2357
05:37:17,080 --> 05:37:20,980
and I'm not certain that it'll be the right way to go,

2358
05:37:21,300 --> 05:37:24,200
but it may be that once we have gone through phase two

2359
05:37:24,200 --> 05:37:25,800
and developed rural standards,

2360
05:37:26,400 --> 05:37:30,880
there might be some locations within phase one

2361
05:37:30,880 --> 05:37:33,600
where the rural standards really make more sense.

2362
05:37:33,840 --> 05:37:39,580
So that's sort of a third option to the two that you just

2363
05:37:40,660 --> 05:37:43,240
of accommodating the kind of situation that you're addressing.

2364
05:37:43,880 --> 05:37:46,500
Yeah, I would hope we can try to accommodate it in this.

2365
05:37:46,540 --> 05:37:49,160
And if we still need to clean it up later, we can do that.

2366
05:37:49,760 --> 05:37:53,140
But, you know, some of these HOD sites are very rural in nature.

2367
05:37:53,200 --> 05:37:57,340
And it would be the first sidewalk that's kind of seen in that whole general area.

2368
05:37:57,560 --> 05:38:01,060
Sometimes there's better ways to make those projects better.

2369
05:38:01,180 --> 05:38:02,920
I mean, most of them, I think we do want sidewalks.

2370
05:38:03,560 --> 05:38:07,700
But if you just discretionally, you'd say, yes, sometimes they don't always make sense.

2371
05:38:07,700 --> 05:38:09,340
and figuring out how do we make that objective.

2372
05:38:10,200 --> 05:38:12,420
So with that, I'm going to turn it over to Supervisor Mollon Peters,

2373
05:38:12,540 --> 05:38:15,040
and I think Supervisor Sacket has some additional questions,

2374
05:38:15,640 --> 05:38:17,800
and apologize for the child care shuffle today.

2375
05:38:17,940 --> 05:38:18,260
Thank you.

2376
05:38:18,380 --> 05:38:22,020
That's okay, because now I can disagree with what you just said.

2377
05:38:25,130 --> 05:38:26,070
Wait, wait until I said that.

2378
05:38:26,190 --> 05:38:28,330
I told you all, we were going to have fun today.

2379
05:38:30,520 --> 05:38:32,500
But Mary, what did you go first?

2380
05:38:33,020 --> 05:38:36,100
Yeah, I might share your sentiment on that.

2381
05:38:36,100 --> 05:38:39,380
And I think we have a couple of projects that are in the pipeline now

2382
05:38:39,380 --> 05:38:44,680
that are trying to avoid sidewalks so we have an opportunity to test that.

2383
05:38:45,300 --> 05:38:52,060
So I want to talk about the dedicated right away easements and if you could explain that to me a

2384
05:38:52,060 --> 05:38:58,740
little bit and for future generations, I always want to ensure that we aren't having like abandon

2385
05:39:00,800 --> 05:39:05,620
or parcels because we have too many of those in this county. So what does it?

2386
05:39:06,600 --> 05:39:13,780
If it's our goal but it doesn't happen for 10, 20, 30 years, who's maintaining it, etc. in the meantime?

2387
05:39:16,700 --> 05:39:24,860
Yes, there's an inherent challenge with those sites because if you require the developer to build everything,

2388
05:39:24,920 --> 05:39:32,020
which is our fundamental standard here, then there is some risk that you have the infrastructure that is constructed,

2389
05:39:32,020 --> 05:39:38,640
get some minimal use and then requires ongoing maintenance of walls not really

2390
05:39:38,640 --> 05:39:45,720
serving it's intended purpose. So we're seeking to strike a balance and of

2391
05:39:45,720 --> 05:39:51,660
course the key if anything is not built at the bare minimum is you've got to

2392
05:39:51,660 --> 05:39:57,940
get the right of way. We don't want to acquire right of way at a later date and

2393
05:39:57,940 --> 05:39:59,960
These are all on locations where

2394
05:40:00,000 --> 05:40:07,860
We have a high degree of confidence that there will be future development and that we really want these improvements that we're describing.

2395
05:40:09,060 --> 05:40:14,840
So we're seeking to find that balance and we also want to make sure that it's not just here's the right of way.

2396
05:40:15,300 --> 05:40:28,180
And then we're scrambling around to find the funding and it remains unimproved because we don't have the funding. So it also goes hand in hand with the funding being provided by the developer.

2397
05:40:29,320 --> 05:40:34,740
And I'll just hop in just to say from, you know, and my experience is that I appreciate

2398
05:40:34,740 --> 05:40:39,480
your point that, you know, part of it is in the subdivision process, you know, for creating

2399
05:40:39,480 --> 05:40:45,400
remnant parcels, you know, how are we forming HOAs or community facilities, districts, you know,

2400
05:40:45,480 --> 05:40:50,360
my preference to make sure that there's the funding source and the responsibility and clarity

2401
05:40:50,360 --> 05:40:55,800
of title moving forward. It's not uncommon, you know, I mean, a good subdivision is going to require

2402
05:40:55,800 --> 05:41:01,860
all that up in the improvements in advance, you know, before finalizing and selling the lots.

2403
05:41:02,460 --> 05:41:08,620
And so we need to have clear standards in our subdivision section of our code as well to

2404
05:41:08,620 --> 05:41:13,700
make sure we have, you know, a plan in place to maintain those improvements both during the

2405
05:41:13,700 --> 05:41:17,000
interim and long-term, ultimately they're conveyed to the county.

2406
05:41:21,340 --> 05:41:24,060
Okay, and so I'm going to make

2407
05:41:24,060 --> 05:41:30,920
my comment in contrast to supervisor Luke and that in Southern Marin, which was also very rural

2408
05:41:30,920 --> 05:41:37,300
at one point in time. We've had a number of small subdivisions, which over time have grown

2409
05:41:37,300 --> 05:41:43,880
into unplanned neighborhoods that lack sidewalks and the subdivisions were not connected initially

2410
05:41:43,880 --> 05:41:50,800
and looked like they were isolated, but over time, by gosh, we filled it up. You have a neighborhood

2411
05:41:50,800 --> 05:41:59,020
Similarly, the horse hill area of Mul Valley, where just today we approved the Lomida street rehabilitation plan.

2412
05:41:59,080 --> 05:42:05,380
That is another neighborhood that does not have sidewalks continuously because of the way it was built out.

2413
05:42:05,780 --> 05:42:07,800
And parts of the neighborhood have sidewalks.

2414
05:42:07,980 --> 05:42:10,980
Others don't. And there's Edna McGuire's school right there.

2415
05:42:11,720 --> 05:42:18,340
So we are spending a lot of money retrofitting neighborhoods that were developed with a lot of planning for being neighborhoods.

2416
05:42:18,340 --> 05:42:28,440
So I'm going to ask us to really think about these areas where infill may happen and that they will fill in over time.

2417
05:42:28,600 --> 05:42:33,620
And we need to make sure they have connected sidewalks or someplace for pedestrians and bikes.

2418
05:42:34,560 --> 05:42:36,940
Even if we don't build them all right away.

2419
05:42:38,180 --> 05:42:40,400
So yes, please supervise every donate.

2420
05:42:40,600 --> 05:42:41,720
Yeah, thank you.

2421
05:42:41,720 --> 05:42:49,640
present on Peter's. I wanted to suggest that maybe we look at putting the maximum length and

2422
05:42:49,640 --> 05:42:57,320
and the speed in the alley category. We didn't do that. We did it in the shared residential

2423
05:42:57,320 --> 05:43:02,840
private road. But just wondering if there's a rationale for that, you can come back and

2424
05:43:02,840 --> 05:43:07,780
rest that later. It just seems like it's an opportunity to look at that and see if there's a rationale

2425
05:43:07,780 --> 05:43:13,040
for a length of that alley, and also that speed, maybe an issue for safety.

2426
05:43:14,260 --> 05:43:20,320
But more generally, when we're dealing with private roads, and this will come up again in

2427
05:43:20,320 --> 05:43:25,720
the rural discussion, but often the developer or the sub-dividers long gone by the time

2428
05:43:25,720 --> 05:43:27,660
maintenance needs to happen on these roads.

2429
05:43:28,400 --> 05:43:36,500
So I would favor a requirement to post a sign, non-county maintain road on every private

2430
05:43:36,500 --> 05:43:43,260
road that's in the development and some required to maintain that, I think would take a lot of

2431
05:43:43,260 --> 05:43:48,360
calls off our desk in the future because that seems to be, but we hear a lot about why

2432
05:43:48,360 --> 05:43:52,340
aren't you maintaining my road and I want to always, it's a non-county maintain road.

2433
05:43:52,720 --> 05:43:56,400
So, anyway, to try and address that early, you may be a way to do that, and if you have

2434
05:43:56,400 --> 05:44:01,900
any other ideas how to do that, but I think remembering to often develop for some dividers

2435
05:44:01,900 --> 05:44:05,840
long gone by the time maintenance is required and that's that choose the

2436
05:44:05,840 --> 05:44:10,300
a problem for the homeowners to live there at that point. So unless they're

2437
05:44:10,300 --> 05:44:14,220
very well organized HOA. Thank you.

2438
05:44:22,420 --> 05:44:27,360
Right, I'm running this meeting. With that, we are, did you, did you, if you got

2439
05:44:27,360 --> 05:44:30,980
enough input or is there anything like, let me just double check with the staff

2440
05:44:30,980 --> 05:44:34,300
to see if we, because I think our next staff has to come back with an

2441
05:44:34,300 --> 05:44:37,800
ordinance. So we'd like to button this up pretty good and make sure we've got

2442
05:44:37,800 --> 05:44:45,200
everything done, and so if we can have Chris and team, if you want to just respond back

2443
05:44:45,200 --> 05:44:48,140
to any of the comments and how we're perceived for the next steps.

2444
05:44:48,640 --> 05:44:56,440
One thing that I wanted to suggest is, you know, we did have some really fruitful discussions

2445
05:44:56,440 --> 05:44:59,820
with the Planning Commission and based on what they said.

2446
05:45:00,000 --> 05:45:09,960
Made some modifications and that's where, you know, these ways to provide flexibility and different approaches on the shared streets.

2447
05:45:10,340 --> 05:45:13,640
You know, that's kind of what precipitated those getting brought in here.

2448
05:45:14,500 --> 05:45:24,060
So if we can find a way to squeeze it in in this timeline, recognizing the importance of moving things along,

2449
05:45:24,060 --> 05:45:48,280
I'm going to look at our new planning director, Julie Crog on this, but we're going to think about trying to bring this back to the planning commission for further discussion on how their input was reflected, what we're now looking to bring forward, letting them know what the boards input was.

2450
05:45:48,280 --> 05:45:55,000
This is not part of the development code, so it's not strictly something that the planning

2451
05:45:55,000 --> 05:46:02,080
commission would is required under code to be providing a recommendation to your board on,

2452
05:46:02,760 --> 05:46:14,000
but they're input and expertise on how to get to good places is really invaluable to us here,

2453
05:46:14,000 --> 05:46:17,900
And I think we'll help advance the ordinance too.

2454
05:46:21,920 --> 05:46:22,520
Thank you.

2455
05:46:23,280 --> 05:46:27,960
And Supervisor Multon Peters, I wanted to just quickly recap the notes and the themes that

2456
05:46:27,960 --> 05:46:32,660
I heard and try to talk a little bit about how I think we can try to address those as we bring

2457
05:46:32,660 --> 05:46:36,660
something back, whether that goes back to the planning commission as a first stop before coming

2458
05:46:36,660 --> 05:46:38,940
back to the board or if we bring an ordinance back here.

2459
05:46:39,660 --> 05:46:44,200
I think it's very easy for us to show and require Sheros and the shared bike examples.

2460
05:46:44,200 --> 05:46:49,600
I appreciate that feedback along the same lines we heard from Mr. Wells with MCBC.

2461
05:46:49,940 --> 05:46:55,500
I think that we can look to design speeds and setting design speeds to something very low,

2462
05:46:55,880 --> 05:46:58,200
10 to 15 miles per hour for those shared facilities.

2463
05:46:59,100 --> 05:47:05,120
I think that's also consistent with Supervisor Rodonis feedback in his comments about the alleyways

2464
05:47:05,120 --> 05:47:09,440
and other streets where we want to make sure that we're really clear with the developers

2465
05:47:09,440 --> 05:47:16,340
as they propose these designs that we have on narrow facilities where we have people and bikes

2466
05:47:16,340 --> 05:47:21,620
and kids like mine riding around, you know, after school, that we have very low speeds

2467
05:47:21,620 --> 05:47:27,880
and that the designs are making sure that those speed stay low. So I appreciate that feedback.

2468
05:47:28,400 --> 05:47:33,420
I think those are things we'll talk with our team with our consultants and with Bob about

2469
05:47:33,420 --> 05:47:37,420
how we can modify what we've proposed to try to incorporate those elements.

2470
05:47:38,860 --> 05:47:44,080
I'm picking up that we're going to need to go back and have more conversations very specifically

2471
05:47:44,080 --> 05:47:51,740
with Marin Transit with the primary sanitary districts as well as with the major water districts

2472
05:47:51,740 --> 05:47:58,840
for water and north for water district. And I think we just need to ask them point blank. How

2473
05:47:58,840 --> 05:48:03,760
would we work with you with these new standards to try to incorporate? And there isn't one over

2474
05:48:03,760 --> 05:48:07,400
arching authority in the county that approves development. We have to work with our partners

2475
05:48:07,400 --> 05:48:13,280
agencies. I think our expectation is that having our standards very clear will probably help

2476
05:48:13,280 --> 05:48:18,680
that moving forward, but I think it's worth us going and asking the question and getting their

2477
05:48:18,680 --> 05:48:22,420
perspective and making sure if there's other opportunities that we can build that into these

2478
05:48:22,420 --> 05:48:27,200
standards and kind of require that coordination that that gets baked in. So thank you for that

2479
05:48:27,200 --> 05:48:28,160
supervisor, second.

2480
05:48:30,480 --> 05:48:34,640
In terms of benchmarks, you know, for the furnishings and things, there's some

2481
05:48:34,640 --> 05:48:42,540
terminology, I think we have room to go through and clean up some terminology. So we'll do a scan of all of this before it comes back and make sure that

2482
05:48:42,540 --> 05:48:51,260
If we're talking about objective standards that we define that and we just use that same term instead of interchanging it with other things to make that more clear.

2483
05:48:53,200 --> 05:48:57,640
In terms of the shared residential roads and

2484
05:48:57,640 --> 05:49:04,900
And some of the supervisor look in suggestion about the number of units, and adjacent sidewalk

2485
05:49:04,900 --> 05:49:09,580
network, and then how that displays the Supervisor Molten Peters comments, kind of looking

2486
05:49:09,580 --> 05:49:15,760
at that same scenario, maybe 30, 40 years later, and how that evolves into what we have

2487
05:49:15,760 --> 05:49:19,060
in more Southern Marin than what we have more in Northern and Western Marin.

2488
05:49:20,600 --> 05:49:23,460
That's a balance that we're going to have to go back and try to strike.

2489
05:49:23,460 --> 05:49:30,260
we're gonna see if we can figure out an objective way to get to yes on all of that because I think

2490
05:49:30,260 --> 05:49:36,780
every situation has requires something a little different and trying to apply a one-size-fits-all

2491
05:49:36,780 --> 05:49:41,900
which is really what we're required to do by the state is very very challenging. So let us go back

2492
05:49:41,900 --> 05:49:48,940
and work with our teams of experts and see maybe what other communities have done and how we

2493
05:49:48,940 --> 05:49:53,060
might be able to take those specific examples and try to apply something to them that works.

2494
05:49:53,060 --> 05:49:59,980
Chris, if I might on that point, it one thing that you could do is just prevent building in the...

2495
05:50:00,000 --> 05:50:17,020
Area that could be succumb a sidewalk in the future, whether it's planting or, you know, a little brick walls. That has been the biggest impediment for us to recover the area to install sidewalks is a fact that people have developed that little strip.

2496
05:50:17,300 --> 05:50:26,960
Or reserve it as a part of the right of way and have some kind of restrictive some kind of restrictions on top of that. I think that's great feedback and suggestion. Thank you.

2497
05:50:28,360 --> 05:50:34,460
I'm getting to my next notes, again, Supervisor Sackett, your comments about dedicated right

2498
05:50:34,460 --> 05:50:39,080
of way and who maintains this and a Supervisor Rodoni mentioned, you know, these developers

2499
05:50:39,080 --> 05:50:43,380
are often long gone by the time we have a project that comes through and puts these in.

2500
05:50:43,640 --> 05:50:45,740
We've had this conversation internally with staff.

2501
05:50:46,040 --> 05:50:52,720
I think there is kind of a spectrum everywhere between the counties entirely, the counties

2502
05:50:52,720 --> 05:50:56,540
responsibility and in some cases and some of our districts where we don't have dedicated

2503
05:50:56,540 --> 05:51:01,480
right lawyer sidewalks. We have projects right now that we're advancing as an agency to try to implement

2504
05:51:01,480 --> 05:51:07,240
that infrastructure. It's very challenging. At the same time, if we don't have thoughtful

2505
05:51:07,240 --> 05:51:12,680
development, as County Executive Johnson mentioned, with a community facilities district,

2506
05:51:13,240 --> 05:51:18,320
established or some other mechanism established where there is funding that's reserved. There's

2507
05:51:18,320 --> 05:51:25,940
very clear expectations that someday this will be developed and there is a border, some governance

2508
05:51:25,940 --> 05:51:31,100
structure to make sure that that happens when it's time, otherwise these things fall back

2509
05:51:31,100 --> 05:51:35,620
onto an HOA that may not have the capacity to be equipped to try to do a sidewalk widening

2510
05:51:35,620 --> 05:51:41,620
project in the future. So we'll go back and have a discussion about how we might be able

2511
05:51:41,620 --> 05:51:48,840
to address some of those concerns with requirements that tie back maybe to maintenance agreements

2512
05:51:48,840 --> 05:51:55,600
or CCNRs or conditions of community facilities districts to try to make sure that that happens.

2513
05:52:01,030 --> 05:52:27,970
And last, common I wanted to address Supervisor Donnie, I appreciate your note about making it really clear when county roads are private or not county maintained our team struggles with that every time we get a call as well, we often have to go look to see is this one of ours or is it not when we visited San Luis Obispo last Monday, as we were driving around I was with my colleagues and

2514
05:52:27,970 --> 05:52:39,100
We were making note of the fact that the colors of the private streets in the unincorporated county were inverted and so it was a white background with brown nuttering and

2515
05:52:39,650 --> 05:52:50,010
All of the public streets were the opposite way around and I think that's a really good clear standard in a way that we could start to implement to just make it clear as folks move on to a new street

2516
05:52:50,010 --> 05:52:54,590
that maybe this is a question they need to ask it would certainly help our crews that get

2517
05:52:54,590 --> 05:52:59,390
callouts to go take care of maintenance. So appreciate always good to get out of dodge and take a

2518
05:52:59,390 --> 05:53:04,130
look to see what others are doing and bring back good ideas. Those were the notes that I had,

2519
05:53:04,390 --> 05:53:08,750
I wanted to make sure is there anything else before we close out today that you have an opportunity

2520
05:53:08,750 --> 05:53:14,590
to provide that input to us? Just as far as the stakeholders engaging with, I do think more

2521
05:53:14,590 --> 05:53:21,170
transit is a good one earlier just to really on the bench on the transit stops but also the

2522
05:53:21,170 --> 05:53:28,150
circulation issues. Have we run this through our county bee packet all or talk to them?

2523
05:53:28,370 --> 05:53:34,770
Throw that out there as an idea. I appreciate the the bicycle coalition I think sometimes

2524
05:53:34,770 --> 05:53:43,630
citizen groups have a slightly different bent on that as well. And then have these have we talked

2525
05:53:43,630 --> 05:53:52,160
the development, the developer community about, you know, are there things here that are going to,

2526
05:53:52,160 --> 05:54:00,160
you know, Bob, you're shaking your head. Yes, indeed some of the proposed changes that we made

2527
05:54:00,160 --> 05:54:06,380
early on were based upon developer input. And so we built in much more flexibility. The idea of

2528
05:54:06,380 --> 05:54:11,980
Connector Rose came from developers narrowing some of the sidewalk requirements for the Main Street.

2529
05:54:11,980 --> 05:54:14,320
Those were all suggestions that they made.

2530
05:54:15,220 --> 05:54:22,880
I really appreciate that this went through the planning commission and that you're suggesting that it go back potentially again for them to review it.

2531
05:54:23,060 --> 05:54:24,540
So thank you very much.

2532
05:54:25,400 --> 05:54:27,480
Chris, would you mind just setting some expectations?

2533
05:54:27,820 --> 05:54:29,620
My hope is to bring this back soon.

2534
05:54:30,160 --> 05:54:30,920
I want to bring this.

2535
05:54:31,240 --> 05:54:34,980
So before I want to just balance out the process, you know,

2536
05:54:35,940 --> 05:54:41,640
desires of the board today with, and then the reality that we want to get something adopted.

2537
05:54:42,660 --> 05:54:47,480
So, I mean, one was our original plan and basically what you're hearing today is that changed anything.

2538
05:54:47,800 --> 05:54:58,320
So, in the presentation, our next steps, we were targeting October 13th to come back for the introduction of the first reading of the ordinance to move this forward.

2539
05:54:59,060 --> 05:54:59,980
I get the sense for

2540
05:55:00,000 --> 05:55:12,920
First to go out and do some additional outreach. It would be helpful for us to have probably a few more weeks, so we had looked at in November 2nd for the planned adoption of the ordinance, and maybe what we'll do.

2541
05:55:13,240 --> 05:55:24,660
And I don't want to fully commit the team without talking to them and understanding that the folks working on this have other commitments, and I don't have a complete understanding of the amount of time that would go into this.

2542
05:55:24,660 --> 05:55:27,360
But I think we could look at bringing this back

2543
05:55:27,360 --> 05:55:30,940
to the meetings in November, give us a little bit more time

2544
05:55:30,940 --> 05:55:32,300
to incorporate this potentially

2545
05:55:32,300 --> 05:55:33,680
get back to the planning commission

2546
05:55:33,680 --> 05:55:34,960
and then come back for adoption.

2547
05:55:36,360 --> 05:55:39,080
I guess I'll just chime in that the other stakeholders,

2548
05:55:39,300 --> 05:55:42,660
I think there's an opportunity when we bring it back

2549
05:55:42,660 --> 05:55:45,900
to ensure that there are aware of and can make comment

2550
05:55:45,900 --> 05:55:47,100
at that time.

2551
05:55:47,260 --> 05:55:49,760
I'm not saying to sort of revise the whole thing,

2552
05:55:49,920 --> 05:55:53,860
but that may be an opportunity to get the feedback

2553
05:55:53,860 --> 05:55:56,160
without slowing it out too much.

2554
05:55:57,520 --> 05:55:59,080
And Chris correct me if I'm wrong.

2555
05:55:59,380 --> 05:56:02,380
We're having this conversation live in front of you.

2556
05:56:02,440 --> 05:56:05,040
Is that it's essentially,

2557
05:56:05,260 --> 05:56:07,840
these are not baked in, you know, sense stone.

2558
05:56:08,520 --> 05:56:10,060
So ultimately, if we adopt something,

2559
05:56:10,060 --> 05:56:12,100
it doesn't work for one of our service providers.

2560
05:56:12,600 --> 05:56:14,000
It's a first and second reading.

2561
05:56:14,760 --> 05:56:17,100
So, you know, I just want to impress upon the board

2562
05:56:17,100 --> 05:56:20,020
at least from my sense of urgency to get something in the books.

2563
05:56:20,340 --> 05:56:23,180
So we have something, so when applications walk in the door,

2564
05:56:23,180 --> 05:56:36,780
And then from there, if we encounter which we will encounter some constructability or other applicability issues that, you know, we're not just too far away from putting an ordinance before the board to make modifications.

2565
05:56:36,780 --> 05:56:43,040
And I just say that just as we, and with the your comments, supervisors, or

2566
05:56:43,040 --> 05:56:46,640
sack it that if we break this forward, if there's substantive input at the meeting

2567
05:56:46,640 --> 05:56:51,940
from the special districts, it's hard to do ordinance changes on the fly and design changes

2568
05:56:51,940 --> 05:56:52,660
on the fly.

2569
05:56:53,040 --> 05:56:55,940
So we'll try to balance that out with the time and then we'll return.

2570
05:56:56,920 --> 05:57:03,460
And we can expect to that when we get to phase three and we're talking about fitting these

2571
05:57:03,460 --> 05:57:12,900
their pieces in likely there will be some there will need to be some reconsideration, you know,

2572
05:57:13,040 --> 05:57:20,700
not of the basic concepts or goals but of exactly how it works in terms of the street profiles

2573
05:57:20,700 --> 05:57:28,580
as you start really getting down to the nitty gritty of how big your pipes have to be and things like

2574
05:57:28,580 --> 05:57:32,080
because it all has to fit and

2575
05:57:35,410 --> 05:57:37,330
so that leaves us where.

2576
05:57:38,330 --> 05:57:44,930
I think director Blunk and director Jones have kind of summarized kind of the next steps.

2577
05:57:45,110 --> 05:57:46,910
We've got copious notes from today.

2578
05:57:47,590 --> 05:57:53,110
We'll go back, we'll work with President Luchin and Vice President Mompeaters

2579
05:57:53,110 --> 05:57:57,350
on the timing of returning this and we'll keep the board informed.

2580
05:57:57,350 --> 05:58:02,650
particularly as we reach out to other stakeholders, but we think we've got enough today to kind of make some

2581
05:58:02,650 --> 05:58:08,250
refinements and appreciate the feedback today. Great, okay, thank you everyone. Good, good report.

2582
05:58:08,570 --> 05:58:09,130
First of all,

2583
05:58:15,290 --> 05:58:21,990
okay, at this time we are going to adjourn as the Board of Supervisors and Reconvene.