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estoy Welcome Coach Bailey,
Director de Training and Technical Assistance LGB TQ Connection
to receive the proclamación.
And this one, I wanted to have a read one by one
because I know we all support it so much.
So I'll just start on the side of the dice.
Supervisor Ramos, whenever you're ready.
I thank you, Chair, and thank you to all joining us.
LGB TQ Pride Month June 26,
whereas LGB TQ plus Pride Month commemorates
a history of courage, resilience, and collective action,
honoring those who have advocated for dignity, equality,
and the right to live openly and authentically
while recognizing the ongoing work to ensure
LGB TQ plus individuals are seen, valued, protected,
and celebrated in every community.
And whereas, for more than two decades,
NAPAPRIED has served as a cornerstone of visibility,
celebration, and connection for LGB TQ plus people
in Episcalming, cultivating in the inclusive community,
grounded in resilience, mutual care, and a sense of belonging.
And whereas NAPAPRIED, 2026, taking place June 7th through 2026,
with a theme love out loud, stands as both a celebration
and a declaration, encouraging individuals
and communities to show up visibly, support one another,
and create spaces where LGB TQ plus people, families,
and allies can experience joy, safety, and belonging together.
Whereas every June residents from up and down the valley,
unite in celebration of Pride Month,
honoring the resilience, achievements, and aspirations
of LGB TQ plus individuals, while affirming
an ongoing commitment to justice and equality.
Efforts also contribute meaningfully
to the cultural and economic vitality of NAPAPRIED,
by welcoming thousands of participants, supporting local businesses,
and reinforcing NAPRIED as an open and welcoming community for all.
And whereas, at a time, when communities across the country
continue to face rising discrimination, violence, censorship,
and efforts to diminish heart, fought rights, and visibility,
Pride Month serves as a powerful affirmation
that LGB TQ plus people belong in every neighborhood, school, workplace,
and public space openly, safely, and without fear.
And that NAPAPRIED community remains committed to fostering a community
where all people are treated with dignity, respect, and humanity.
Now, therefore, let it be proclaimed that this Board of Supervisors County
of NAPAPA, State of California,
on the second day of June 2026, does hereby recognize June 2026
as LGB TQ plus Pride Month in NAPAPRIED County,
and encourages all residents, businesses, and visitors
to participate in Pride events, and to support
and uplift LGB TQ plus individuals, and communities.
Yay.
And I welcome you to make any comments,
and then I think, after that, we'll join you
and anyone else who wants to participate in the Well for a photo.
That sounds great.
Thank you so much.
Good morning, supervisors, community members, friends,
and neighbors.
Thank you.
Supervisor Gallagher, maybe remember that seven years ago,
a small group of LGB TQ plus residents, and allies,
came together with a simple, but ambitious school,
that every municipality in NAPAPA County
would recognize Pride Month with a proclamación,
and a Pride Flag Raising.
At that time, we were not asking for anything extravagant.
We were asking to be seen.
In 2019, we were still building visibility from the ground up.
Today, Pride Flag's Fly across NAPA Valley.
Proclamations are issued throughout the county,
businesses, nonprofits, schools, faith communities,
public agencies, volunteers, families, elders, young people,
and thousands of residents now participate in Pride Month.
That did not happen by accident.
It happened because ordinary people decided their LGB TQ
plus neighbors mattered.
My name is Bailey.
I am a NAPA resident, an emerging leader at on-the-move,
a Violence Prevention Educator, Community Organizer,
and Former Director of LGB TQ Connection NAPA.
Founder at LGB at Founder at Career Leaders Coalition,
and for the past three years, I've had the honor of sitting
as a chair of NAPA Pride.
Underneath all of that, I am a late-bloomer, non-binary, trans-gender person
whose life has been changed by access to gender-affirming care.
And I stand here today because that care exists.
And I also stand here knowing that too many people in our community
still have to leave NAPA County to find a firming health care,
culturally responsive support, mental health services,
and basic resources that should be available close to home.
That should concern all of us.
Because Pride is not only about celebration,
Pride is about whether people can survive here,
access care here, go to school here, work here, grow old here,
and be treated as fully human here.
In 2024, shortly before leaving the training space,
I facilitated a training in another county
where I was interrupted during my introduction,
called an abomination and told I did not exist.
And I often wonder, when was the last time being told you should not exist
was a part of your workday?
The misinformation, disinformation, and hostility
directed towards LGBTQ plus people today,
it's exhausting, everybody, it really is.
And yet, that's not the whole story.
Yesterday, I watched people gather beneath the rising sun,
wearing pride shirts, carrying rainbow flags,
hugging old friends, and introducing themselves to new neighbors.
Have been out for decades. Some are still figuring it out. Some came because they love someone who needed to know they are not alone. As a newly transgender, as a newly out transgender person, I do not take any single second of that for granted. That is what pride means.
This year's Napa Pride theme is love out loud. It's a celebration, yes, but it's also an invitation to choose courage over silence, visibility over fear, community over division, and real belonging and affirmation over polite tolerance.
This year, Napa Pride runs from June 7th through June 20th, where events across Napa Valley include our first Thursday event at Oxford Commons, our opening key dance that on does.
The Pride Pet Parade in Block Potty at Duce's Market, Yonfield's Pride in the Park, and the Day of Solidarity in Collaboration with the newly formed St. Helena Pride team.
The Pride Car Parade is coming back to downtown and celebrations that bring togetherness and people of all ages to downtown to celebrate.
Because joy matters, but joy cannot be the only thing that we ask of pride, because the era of performative ally ship is over.
A rainbow logo on a brochure in June is not enough. A Pride Proclamation while important is not enough. The way that Napa County Health and Human Services has prior to prioritize LGBTQ plus inclusion is a great first step.
Our community needs organizations where staff are trained, trauma informed, and ready to serve LGBTQ plus people, and all of the beautiful intersections of our identity with dignity.
We need healthcare systems where transgender and gender diverse people can access care close to home.
We need schools, workplaces, nonprofits, businesses, and public institutions where people do not have to make themselves smaller to be safe.
That's why this year Napa Pride and the Care Leaders Coalition created our community agreements and business and hospitality pride guide to help organizations move beyond symbolism and toward meaningful inclusion.
And this is our invitation. Respect people's names and pronouns assume good intent but take responsibility for impact.
Interrupt harm when you see it. Use your privilege in the service of community care and not saviourism.
Make mistakes. Leave room for repair, learning, and accountability. And remember that belonging is not just a statement or words on paper. It is a practice every single day.
Because none of this happens alone. I want to recognize the sponsors and partners helping make pride possible this year, including the DAPA Tourism Improvement District.
Napa hotels, North Bay Health, our official healthcare partner, Napa Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Foundation.
And Napa dooses market the garden, the Napa Pride Planning Committee who are seated here today.
LGBTQ Connection, local businesses, volunteers, the donors who are given to us generously and the community members who continue to show up for one another.
Lastly I want to close with this.
Love has always been one answer to fear.
Community has always been one answer to isolation.
Visibility has always been one answer to shame.
Maybe love out loud, maybe protect one another out loud.
Maybe we become the neighbors we needed when we were younger.
Every LGBTQ plus person in Napa County know you are here, you matter you belong.
Thank you so much. Go to napapride.com for more follow at napapride or at napapride or at napapride or queer leaders coalition.
And thank you so much happy pride.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Okay, thank you all.
Our next proclamation is for elder independent adult abuse awareness month.
And I would like to invite Vice Chair Lassio to present that.
Thank you chair for this opportunity for elder and dependent adult abuse awareness month June 2026.
Whereas Napa' County's older adults deserve to be treated with respect and dignity as valued leaders, mentors, volunteers and community members who contribute greatly to the vitality and strength of our county.
And whereas elder abuse is a silent epidemic with one intended adults over the age of 60, it's experiencing some form of abuse in the United States with cases still widely underreported and whereas elder abuse can occur in public spaces or private homes.
Addressing elder abuse requires bringing it into the light raising awareness and sharing older adults and depends adults can age with dignity, respect and grace.
And whereas on June 15, 2026, we joined communities around the globe and recognizing world elder abuse awareness day reaffirming our commitment to understanding, preventing and responding to the mistreatment of older adults.
And whereas in 2025 Napa' County Health and Human Services Agency received 1,508 reports of elder and dependent adult abuse and neglect through its adult protective services program with self neglect and financial exploitation being the most frequent reported concerns.
And whereas Napa' County, along with its extensive network of government and community-based organizations, offers a comprehensive range of service designed to proactively address risk factors.
And as you can see, it's a new partner such as the Napa' County Health and Human Services Agency, APS Program, the District Attorney's Office and the Sheriff's Office collaborate closely to investigate abuse, advocate for victims and pursue justice on their behalf.
And now, there it be proclaimed that this Board of Supervisors County of Napa' State of California, on the second day of June 2026, does hereby recognize June as elder and dependent adult abuse awareness month in Napa' County.
We urge all community members to unite and strengthen partnerships, developing innovative strategies for prevention and response, and reporting any suspected abuse or neglect to ensure that all older adults residents of Napa' County can live and age and safety, health and dignity.
And so on that, I will let Erin you want to say a few words and maybe a few words. Thank you.
Thank you Vice Chair Lesio.
So good morning, Chair Manfree, Vice Chair Lesio, Honorable Board, my name is Erin Kudor, and I'm the A-2 to say Deputy Director for the Comprehensive Services for older adults division, and that's a pleasure to be here this morning.
I want to thank the Board for making the time and the space to recognize elder abuse awareness month.
I started as an adult protective services social worker, then became a supervisor and Deputy Director, and I still remember being a social worker and responding to financial abuse cases, sitting at the kitchen table with an older adult client.
And that client realizing that a scammer stole portion of their life savings.
I also remember responding to physical abuse cases and talking to an older adult client at the door or in the living room, and the client having bruises that they never should have had.
I also remember helping those same older adult clients secure their accounts to prevent future financial abuse and secure their home environment to prevent future physical harm.
The older adults I described could easily be our parents, our grandparents, or that kind neighbor who always looked out for us when we were kids.
Elder abuse is a complex problem that requires complex solutions, and I'd like to thank the Board for investing in those solutions.
They include but aren't limited to HHSA and adult protective services, the District Attorney's Office, the Sheriff's Office, and our many community partners, several of whom are here today.
Together, we form a safety net that addresses elder abuse and even more importantly, prevents elder abuse.
And so with that, I'd like to hand it over to Devros Smith, the Executive Director of Molly Sanjals, to talk a bit more about the upcoming safe conference, which focuses on financial abuse prevention for older adults in that county.
Thank you.
Thank you, Erin. Thank you, supervisors for having us here, and for continuing to work to amplify the voices and concerns of older adults. It couldn't be more important.
I'm here just to talk briefly about the safe conference. The safe conference, meaning seniors against financial exploitation, is an important community event focused on increasing awareness, education, and prevention efforts surrounding scams for odd and elder abuse.
Approximately, a supervisor, Leslie Osad, one in ten older adults experience some form of abuse each year, yet experts estimate that only one in 24 cases are ever reported.
Abuse can include financial exploitation, neglect, emotional abuse, and physical abuse with social isolation significantly increasing vulnerability.
Consistent connection, transportation access and wellness check-ins are proven ways to reduce isolation and help identify concerns before crises occur.
At Molly Sanjals, we work to keep our eyes and ears open for signs that an older adult may need support.
Sometimes concerns surface through casual comments such as I want to give my caregiver a gift, or I've met a new friend online, or other conversations that may raise questions about possible financial exploitation or undo influence.
Those moments can create opportunities to connect individuals with resources and when appropriate reach out to the Napa County District Attorney's Office for Guidance and Assistance.
The 2026 safe conference will take place on June 23 at the Napa Valley College Performing Arts Center. This is a free event that features a morning session targeted for older adults and an afternoon session targeted towards professionals in the financial industry.
Transportation assistance to the conference is always available through Molly Sanjals.
The safe conference is spearheaded by the Napa County District Attorney's Office and supported by Molly Sanjals Monarch Justice Center, the Napa County Commission on Aging, Napa County Health and Human Services Agency and Providence, along with community volunteers and representatives from the financial industry, including,
to door a capital and FNM bank. We are especially grateful for the continued leadership and hard work of the District Attorney's Office in addressing these crimes supporting victims and helping protect vulnerable older adults throughout our community.
We have many members of the very amazing elder abuse task force here, and I hope you've joined me in thanking them for their hard work.
Thank you.
OK, thank you all so much for being here this morning. Before we move on to regular business, I would like to know that public hearings today will be taken up in the afternoon.
After our close session, so that is items 11A through 11E. So if you are here specifically for those items, just be aware that we won't hear them until after the lunch break or close session break in our case.
Our next item on the agenda is item 5 consent calendar, including special districts items A through AA.
Do we have any board comments or items pull off of the consent calendar today? Not seeing anyone. Is there anyone wishing to make a public comment in the room on any item on consent?
Not seeing anyone is there anyone on the phones? OK, then may I have a motion and a second to approve consent calendar items A through AA.
Second, by control. OK, I have a motion by alesio and a second by control, all those in favor.
I, that passes unanimously. Our next item is item 6 public comment. So at this time we'll take public comment for anyone wishing to speak on any item not on today's agenda and or on the closed session item on today's agenda.
Welcome. Whenever you're ready three minutes.
Patricia Damry from Napa, California, I mean, dry creek road.
I have communicated to some of you about an incident around AB 720 and the self reporting of the width of the road in which I think is really critical because this area in particular is in
a high fire zone and a lot of Napa County is in high or very high fire zone. So it feels to me really important that when we are getting possibly more people into the vineyards that we also really check not just self reporting.
But check that it's true that the roads are the driveways are wide enough for a fire truck to pass an exiting vehicle.
But this comes this idea of self reporting and self monitoring or
and voluntarily reducing our water consumption by 10% I think we have to take another stance on this particularly as things get tighter as there is less water.
And I know today when I came I passed my neighbor getting water a water truck was backed up.
I know that I had to pull my well recently and the level of water is lower than has ever been.
There is a problem and I think we have some of the best farmers in this state I really do.
I think the kind of technology that's been using to monitor the dryness how much water we need is good but it's not completely working.
We are going to have to meter and monitor the water and I think the only way people are going to use less is to have to pay for how much we use.
Because when I think that if you're paying more you think more about how much you're using.
So I really encourage us to use the government in a way that takes care of the larger county.
I think that includes our water situation and fire fire and water United is how we're connected with each other.
Thank you.
Are there any other public comments in the room on items on the agenda?
Is there anyone on the phones?
Okay, then we are going to move along to agenda item number seven Board of Supervisors reports and announcements and before we start with our individual announcements.
I'd like to invite agricultural commissioner Tracy Cleveland to give us a brief update on the glass ceiling sharp shooter situation in Napa County, which I know is on a lot of people's minds.
Good morning, Chair Manfrey members of the Board, Tracy Cleveland, Napa County ad commissioner and sealer of weights and measures.
I wanted to provide the board with an update on the status of the glass ceiling sharp shooter issue that we've been dealing with since last week.
So just a quick recap, county ad commissioners across the state were made aware of multiple shipments of nursery stock that came from a Fresno nursery.
Beginning on April 21st, and then continuing through May 21st.
These plant shipments were delivered to Costco throughout California, including Napa County, and for Napa it was over a four separate shipments.
All life stages of glass ceiling sharp shooter, so egg masses and imps adults have been detected on some of those shipments across multiple counties.
The shipments were required to be shipped under blue tag certification, so for us that means that the blue tag is an indicator to county ad commissioners that are receiving nursery stock that you.
That it could be coming from an infested area and so you have to look at it 100%.
We didn't receive that notification.
And so they weren't inspected in all of the counties, unfortunately.
So there are a total of 23 counties with Costco's that received material.
There are additional neighboring counties that do not have Costco's that also are are concerned.
It's not unusual for people to leave one county and to go to a neighboring county to shop at Costco.
And then come back to their home county with things that they've purchased.
So we're talking about 23 counties that received shipments, but really that number is larger because there are at least 15 or more counties.
Without Costco's that also received material.
So my team is taking calls from the public.
We're gathering data.
We're heading into the field to do site inspections at caller locations.
We're inspecting the vines, plants, and then we're surveying the surrounding area.
And we're focusing on host material, which is quite a large list.
Favorite host material would be citrus.
Great fines.
And most cases were taking the vines and we're destroying them after we've inspected.
Like I said, we're surveying the entire yard.
We're providing notices of destruction for residents so they can show Costco that their plants were taken by my department.
Except that you don't necessarily need that Costco is willing to reimburse residents that purchase fines.
And that's really a paperwork thing for us that's tracking Costco has your records so they know we've purchased.
And then we're also placing additional detection traps up at those sites to continue to monitor for the presence of ghosts.
So today we've had one egg mass confirmation and then two other samples that we've submitted to the state lab but have not heard back on.
So we're waiting for identification from the California Department of Food and Ag.
We've tracked down 92 vines so far, which leaves about 128 that are unaccounted for.
Since our press released last week in additional messaging we've had an amazing response from the community which has been great.
We've gotten over a hundred calls over the course of the last week.
30 plus emails and a lot of social media sharing.
So Costco is also helping with our messaging.
They're contacting customers directly through emails.
And then they're interacting with county with local CAC's county commissioners.
They've been a great partner and they've been very engaged with our office and frankly they're not at fault in the scenario.
They've been very supportive.
So here's our ask to the public.
Please share our messages on your social media accounts on your next or accounts with your neighbors.
If you have questions call us.
I can't say that enough call us if you have questions.
If you're not sure when you purchase plans.
Call us.
If you know that it was an April or May call us if you purchased them in a neighboring county.
You don't know who you should be contacting.
Please call us.
We'll direct you to the appropriate county if it's not us.
So if you purchased any plans from Costco and April or May give us a call.
Our number is 7072534357.
The other thing we're asking the public.
If you purchase plans keep them as isolated as possible.
Keep them in the original container.
If you haven't planted them yet.
Don't plant them.
If possible.
Place them in secure trash bags.
One inside of the other.
Seal the trash bags.
Call us.
It's ideal.
If you do not take it back to Costco several folks have.
And while that's, you know, you're getting it back to the place of origin.
Costco does have a mechanism for destruction.
You're potentially spreading pests if you're moving it.
And so that's less than ideal.
So it's well-intentioned but there's still a risk.
Don't place them in the trash or the compost bin.
We want to make sure that we're collecting any insect samples and we're able to have a chance to look at it.
And destroy any life stages that might be present.
And then that also helps us keep track of an account for any plants.
If you give us a call, we'll send an inspector out the same day to inspect vines, fruit trees, any host plants.
We're placing traps at the sites, at least two per site.
And then we're monitoring those traps.
So we're going to be checking those traps two times for the, for the initial couple of weeks.
And then once a week after that.
We've added about a hundred and additional glass-ywing sharpshooter traps since last week.
And so we'll continue to check those in addition to the existing traps that we have.
So a little bit about glass-ywing sharpshooter, why should we care?
It's, it's not just an industry issue.
Sharpshooter's feet on grapefines, they spread a bacteria called siloethicideosa.
That bacteria causes pierces disease, which impacts great quality and fruit production.
Eventually pierces disease will kill the grapefines.
So that's an important impact to our local wine grape industry and economy.
But it also has a huge host list, so it, it, it loves to live on citrus.
It can create issues with citrus, almonds, olive stone fruits, and then a lot of ornamental plants that we all have planted in our gardens.
So it's important for everyone.
Finished with the fact that we're working very closely with our industry partners.
They've been very communicative and supportive.
We're working with our state and federal partners, including CVFA and USDA, as well as other local partners and legislators.
And of course, all of the county ad commissioners have an open line of communication.
So this is a statewide issue.
It's not specific to Napa, which is, I think, what is even more concerning.
So this is a, it's a big lift, but with community supports.
I'm hopeful that we can track down all of the plants in question.
And that is the end of my report.
Thank you for the opportunity to talk about it and then I'm happy to answer any questions.
Thank you so much for being here.
Question?
Yeah, go ahead.
Thank you for that reporter, appreciate it.
And great job in terms of getting the word out and reaching out and thank your staff for for us too.
Can residents purchase a glassy sharpshooter trap for their own place?
If they have great numbers or is that just not needed or would that be helpful?
Because I think we have such an engaged community.
They can purchase something and put something up.
I think that many people would.
I, you know, that's a great question.
I don't know if it's readily available to the public.
But they can certainly contact our office and that's something we can talk about and see if we have additional supplies.
More than willing to come out and place traps if people have concerns.
Okay.
We can kind of walk them through without looks like.
Thank you.
Yes.
Yeah.
Supervisor Control.
Yeah.
Thank you so much, Ms. Cleveland, for all your work and all your stuff work.
I wanted to share a couple of examples.
And then I had a question for you too.
So I heard from one resident in Calestoga who said,
They, I just cut and pasted what you shared and put it out in newsletter.
They read it.
They called your office.
Your team was out there and helped them through it and destroyed the, they did have great fines.
And then in Angwin this weekend, I met a resident who had purchased citrus trees.
And he pointed to the two traps that your team got out there and put up.
So it's visible out there.
And for both of those residents, they felt like they got good education on the ground from your team.
So thank you for that.
So my question is with the traps.
What is the lifespan of those traps?
They'll be there for six months.
You'll check them every, or tell us a little about that.
Typically.
So the traps that we're adding to residents is those will, it's unknown how long we'll keep them up.
I think for probably quite a while, honestly.
There's, there's seasonality to it.
So it kind of depends on the season and the weather.
So we'll follow the guidance of UC and CDFA.
But initially we'll, we'll check them twice a week.
And then we'll transition to once a week and, in a typical rotation would be every two weeks.
So we'll continue to monitor them to make sure that we're not missing anything.
Or there's not a lot of time in between.
You know, checking to make sure if there are populations we're noticing it right away.
Got it. Thank you. And those bright yellow traps. I think are a good reminder for the community to that we're on high alert. Yes. Thank you. Yes.
Okay. I think well said we're on high alert. And I know that your office has been all over the center of everybody's been working extra.
So thank you for being very conscientious and I'm working so hard on addressing this emerging situation.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you for all your support. Yes. Great. Thank you for the update.
Okay. So I welcome updates from my colleagues at the DIS. Is there anyone wishing to speak?
Okay. Super Vice Chair, Lesia.
Thank you. Just a couple of things I thought might highlight that might be beneficial to the public and to the board here.
I attended a PG&E training center tour in Winters. I recommended it. I was actually very impressed.
And I think it's the main center for all training for PG workers and all elements of the work that they do. So if you get it in bite is worthwhile.
Also in that note last week can probably read in the paper about PG&E did a tour of Mt. Beater regarding the undergrounding project.
And we had supervisors from all over that drove that came here to an epic county to see this.
And I thought that was also worthwhile and an informative for supervisors that work has started as people know and will continue this year.
The majority of the work we've done this year and then we'll be wrapping up the work next year for the undergrounding along Mt. Beater.
On that note, the federal grant called the B program, which is broadcast.
I talk to Comcast because Comcast representative because for Mt. Beater and District 2, Comcast is going to be the carrier to receive the federal funding for this.
And the latest news is that they're still expecting the funding to arrive any day.
My understanding according to her is that just California and Illinois are the only two states left that have not received funding.
So once that funding, they receive the funding. I think that we can ask about face and talk about planning in the different areas for people who are receiving the B funding.
And that would be true for AT&T and other carriers who are receiving the B funding.
Let's see here tonight. I'll be at the Napa Valley College Hospitality ribbon cutting program. I'm not sure if any other supervisors will be there, but I want to thank our local college for the continued expansion program set.
Connect with our community and help provide professional jobs.
Let's see here. Oh, this Saturday, just ahead. I was hiking at Skyline on Sunday and for each of the youth groups are doing a horse show at Skyline Park this Saturday from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m.
So if anybody wants to see the kids in action, they were practicing and looks great.
And then just a couple of things coming up for people I mentioned this, but I'll share again.
Operation with them home. We're the community gets together to donate.
They'll care packages for service members that goes overseas.
That's free enough into the public. It's going to be Saturday, June 13th at Crosswalk Church in the gymnasium from 10 until noon.
So invite people to attend that. Rock the ride is coming up. And that's a great event, great community event and for a great cause.
And I just want to congratulate all the high school graduates this year and in college graduates.
Have fun and be safe. Thank you.
Thank you. Supervisor Elasio. I see.
Supervisor Gallagher and then supervisor Ramus after that.
Thank you. I just wanted to make one announcement.
We are going to have a air district presentation at our next climate action committee meeting, which is Friday, June 26th and that starts at 930.
I believe the agenda will be on the County website week before.
We are going to be discussing actually going to get an informational presentation on rule 9.6.
The regulation for knocks emitting appliances, specifically water heaters.
And that will actually be a presentation and informational educational presentation for the Climate Action Committee.
The Climate Action Committee doesn't take any formal action on this particular rule.
It's an informational only, but I know this is something that we're talking about a lot in the public.
And so please know that if you want to know more, or you'd like to see the presentation tune in or come to the Climate Action Committee on June 26th.
And I think that's it for today. Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you so much. I was absent at the last board meeting because I was in D.C. so I have a number of regional committee assignments to report on.
So first my apologies for that, but supervisor Manfrey will appreciate that I'm taking care of some of them for you.
The first was on May 5th. I attended the Bay Conservation Development Commission in which we approved the Bay Permit for the first phase of the serious point.
To Mayor Island Improvement Project on Highway 37, which is incredibly significant in what I can say is this phase one, although temporary nature.
This phase one is actually in environmentally superior project to what we have right now with removal of concrete and allowing for better fish passage.
So I'm very happy about that.
On May 8th, I attended the ABIG and T.C. Administration and Legislative meetings where we talked about electric bike safety and length and there will be more to come on that.
On May 13th, I attended the Bay Area Tol Authority, Oversight Committee, the M.T.C. Administration Committee, the Program and Allications Committee.
And the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority, Oversight and ABIG Housing committees. We did have a proposed amendment to original measure three.
And then we made a contribution into the BAFA Housing Program from M.T.C. Now, sort of outdated program.
On May, as you know, with, I was absent because I was in D.C. from May 17th to May 20th, I was an advocacy trip.
And I was very delighted that we received incredible support on what is the adapt bill that was introduced by congressman scare M.T. and Thompson for treating Highway 37 as a pilot infrastructure project that addressing climate change.
And so, very, very excited about that. And also did advocacy for surface transportation reauthorization.
And I can say that it was, although the scenery was on.
We were received, we had warm reception this year as opposed to last year, which was not very positive being a California representative.
From the 20th to the 21st, I attended the C.C.C.C. legislative conference as my colleagues, no, I served in a treasurer.
So I had many budgets to present from foundation to the C.C.C.C.C.C. Proper Board, but also for our historic building remodel.
And exciting news, we have transferred title into the nonprofit.
And, and the groundbreaking will be in two weeks, so we're moving forward on that.
I did attend on May 21st, and also on last Wednesday, a special meeting of a back executive board meeting.
It is my last, they were my last meetings as president after six and a half years in leadership.
A back, I'm moving on to the best title, which is the immediate past president.
And our new president for a back will be well represented in the North Bay.
Our present incoming president that will be to be ratified by the general assembly is two atoms from runner park.
And the vice president will be one of Williams from Solano County.
We alternate between cities and counties.
On the 27th, I attended the M.T.C.C. the Bay Area Tol Authority.
Also, the housing finance authority.
Safe, baffa, baffa, and baffa, and regional Tol Authority.
We were all reviewing our budgets.
So, yeah, seven, seven meetings on that day.
And then on Friday, thank you to Supervisor Katra who was able to join us.
I hosted the Bay Area Latino elected officials conference here in Napa County.
And it was a great convening of about 80, 80 Latino elected and appointed officials from the Bay Area.
And we talked about leadership and advocacy, especially in these difficult moments.
Yesterday, I did have the opportunity to attend our airport advisory commission meeting.
Our airport will be launching the community engagement website.
Which is where we're going to, we're going to shepherd all information regarding that.
What I will say is, we do have, we have really engaged residents that are continuing to inform us of the impacts.
And we're taking that into consideration as we're presenting the possible alternative paths with coffman and associate.
And then, one of two things, one by way of referral to the CEO.
We, many of us, all of us, attended generation housing solutions summit.
And there is going to be a report back in collection of what some thoughts are coming out for some possible housing solutions.
And instead of it just being dropped on us, I think it would be, it would be, it would be who best for the CEO's office to engage and figure out how we receive a presentation of what comes up.
It was really done in more of a think tank style, which I think is great.
But I think it also understanding that with where we're at and taking our state of housing report and bringing it back as a presentation, I think, would be good.
And lastly, I am happy election day to my colleagues who are on the ballot today and to many others, and I just want to say to everyone who appears on the ballot, I think it takes tremendous courage to place yourself there.
And I am grateful for every person that does put their name there yesterday last week, I had the opportunity to talk to four government classes.
I took a straw pool on the governor's race, that was very, very interesting.
And as far as our budgets go, I will just share that I pulled all four classes and I said if there is something that the county can do better.
They all said the same thing and it's roads, so still.
Thank you.
Does that conclude your remarks?
Yes.
Thank you.
I think it's still Tuesday.
Okay.
Supervisor control.
Thank you and thanks everyone for the updates.
I first just wanted to flag.
We have.
We're fortunate to have many different memorial days services and weekend services in the county.
And thanks to supervisor LSEO for your work with the one in the out bill.
And thank you chair man free for traveling to Calistoga's Pioneer Cemetery.
And my idea for next year is that we can ask our aids to work together.
Because there are so many we can't all be at them.
Vice chair LSEO, I am looking at you to see if you would be willing to help me with some of the value ones too.
That would be great.
And then I also wanted to let the community know every year at the veterans home.
Not only do they have a memorial day ceremony on Monday, but they have an opportunity for the community to come up to a beautiful veteran cemetery there and place flags on Saturday.
But more needed is flowers on Sunday.
And I want to give a shout out to the new folks at Grocery Outlet and also Sal the Flower Guy for donating quite a few flowers.
But they're always looking for more there.
And then in my capacity as the board representative for CSAC and RCRC, I wanted to give an update on the status of the state response to HR1.
And just to remind people, HR1 also known as the big beautiful bill.
Shifts responsibility for things like CalFresh funding and also significantly reduces federal funding available for Medicare medical to the states and to the counties.
So counties including organizations like CSAC and RCRC and other agencies, including the county medical services.
The county medical services program, which director Yasamoto serves as a director on, which we are very fortunate for.
Those groups formed a coalition to respond to what they saw in the original state budget as a real lack of funding and support for particularly.
Indigenous care and eligibility work and to just explain a little bit of what that means.
Large numbers of Californians will lose medical eligibility and those folks will likely seek county.
And that term is a little tricky. It doesn't make it clear that many, many of those folks have jobs. They're employed. And they don't have access to insurance through their employer. So medical was a real has been a real key support line for them. So it's important that we understand what that term means.
But so in the first budget revise, as I mentioned, there were no dollars for indigent care for counties.
And the good news is that this coalition has worked with the both houses of the legislature and the assembly package in terms of indigent care does now provide some funding for it.
So we're encouraged to see that. And we also hope that our state senator who's been very supportive of the need and the ask here can work with his colleagues to bring the senate side on board so that we can make sure we have funding for indigent care as well.
And then the final thing I just wanted to mention was that I did not, I was not able to attend the housing summit. So I'm happy that folks hear where this is a great thing about being part of a team.
Because I was talking to a lot of people about the glassy wing sharpshooter. And thanks again to Tracy and her staff on that.
That's all. Okay. That's all. Okay. That's a lot. That's plenty.
So I will just say, did I on the MTC updates from supervisor Ramos because we are on the same committees.
And note that I attended Napa Valley Transportation Authorities meeting and our topics were the Highway 29 American Canyon corridor improvements.
And in that supervisor Ramos and I both attended a community meeting about that in American Canyon.
And there's another one coming up and I'm sorry I don't know the date, but you can check NVTA's website about that that one will be here in the city of Napa, I believe.
So anyone concerned about Highway 29 improvements along American Canyon strongly encouraged you to go to that and have your input because they are accepting public input at those meetings.
So it's a great way to make sure your voice is heard.
We also talked about our budget and the work plan ahead programming for the Silverado 5-way intersection and the vine up Valley link.
So making sure we have transportation in difficult to serve areas.
And I attended Bay Conservation and Development Commission on May 21 on supervisor Ramos this behalf because she was in another meeting we learned today.
And at that meeting we talked about the transmission cable which is having it delivers 40% of San Francisco's energy from the city of Pittsburgh and it is laid across the bottom of the bay.
So it goes through Carcina Street and through the Bay to San Francisco, carrying a huge amount of electricity.
And it's having some problems with erosion notably for us at the outlet of the Napa River.
And so there was an interesting discussion about that.
And the actions of the engineers are proposing to shore it up so that it doesn't have too much tension on it as there's a erosion below it.
And then we also discussed sea level rise funding and investment strategies and the strategic plan for BCDC in the year ahead.
And yeah and I'll just close by saying vote please vote is the last day to do so you have until 8 p.m. this evening to get your ballots in.
It is too late to put them in the mailbox and have them postmark today most likely because of is John Tudor explained in our last meeting the way the post office is now sending mail to.
I believe the Oakland before it gets postmarked and so it won't necessarily I see you nodding thank you won't necessarily get postmarked here in Napa right away at 5 p.m.
Like it might have years ago.
So please turn your ballots in directly to the drop boxes which are located all throughout our communities and the locations are posted on the on the elections website.
And you can also go directly to elections which is in the former hall of justice building right next door to this one to turn in your ballot.
And that concludes my remarks so we will move on.
Okay.
Is there anyone from elections in the room?
And I don't know if this is or I want to ask a question of John Tudor maybe.
Our CEO can realize this.
I'm wondering this is really disturbing to me this issue of.
No hand cancellation unless you you know bring your ballot right into the post office.
We talked to a lot of people this past weekend who were who had given their ballot to.
They're male carrier and likely they will not be can't this will not be canceled or this is a good chance they won't be.
So I want to know if we get a report and if not if we can get a report after the election of the number of ballots that.
Our received but are not counted because they are not was quite correctly.
Okay. Good question. Thank you for raising that.
We will move on to nothing was pulled from the consent calendar so we're going to move on to item nine which is administrative items.
Item nine A is a presentation from behavioral health services act integrated plan.
And and also consideration of a resolution for the board of supervisors to approve the plan and authorize the director of health and human services agency to make non substantive revisions to the plan.
If further revisions. Okay.
I requested by the department of health care services so I welcome a staff report from Jennifer Yosemoto director of our health and human services department.
Agency Chelsea Soner.
And Jenna.
And please correct me in full yard if I if I pronounce it wrong please correct me yes welcome and you may begin whenever you're ready.
Good morning chairman free and members of the board of supervisors. I'm Jennifer Yosemoto.
Naphika County Health and Human Services Agency director.
And I am joined here by the two individuals that you mentioned Chelsea Soner and Jenna Boyarty and we are pleased to present on this monumental behavioral health services act and just in terms of navigation here we're going to kind of divide up the presentation.
It is oh well let's see.
Okay. Here we go.
So we have our presentation overview and our presentation is really designed to kind of explain what is one of I want to say the most but one of the many complicating funding streams and
that we have in the behavioral health system at the county level so our presentation consists of 24 slides we are goal is 20 minutes so we're going to keep this moving along and really this is you have attached to the agenda item a behavioral health services plan integrated plan that is
about a hundred and over a hundred and sixty pages so this presentation is designed to really distill this down there to its very very basics.
So to make sense of this all we are starting off with background in context we'll kind of go over how the behavioral health services act fits into the overall ecosystem of county behavioral health system.
What is required of counties the process that we have to follow and then we'll delve into our local behavioral health services act integrated plan walk your board through the new funding components the percentages and our plan for how we navigate one of our funding streams among many.
And this is on the path to submitting our integrated plan by the state deadline of June 30 of this year.
So the first slide here slide two is really designed to highlight the behavioral health services act and how it fits into a myriad of California's major initiatives as your board knows since.
2022 the state of California has been really aggressively looking to change the behavioral health system at the local level and that happens through many initiatives.
The main ones are there and there is a host of others but those are the big ones and your board is familiar with them of course.
Calam is a big one that was supposed to launch in 2021 and it was delayed a year because of the pandemic so we started implementing Calam in 2022.
Your boards aware of course of our medical mobile crisis and our mobile response team.
You'll hear a little bit about the behavioral health connect initiative.
You are also familiar with 988 expansion and the children's youth and behavioral health initiative and you're very familiar with the circle up there in the left top which is the behavioral health continuum infrastructure program.
Also known as beach ship and your board is familiar with that because we have actually received to beach of grants.
One of the grants was pre proposition one and that is for our crisis stabilization unit and the other is a post prop one and that is for our behavioral health treatment center.
So this is just putting behavioral health services act into the broader context of what is happening statewide in this landscape.
Highlighting all of those initiatives this date actually has 14 statewide behavioral health goals and they fall into sort of seven goals for improvement and seven goals for adoption.
So in the prior slide when I highlighted just some of the initiatives in the state of California all of those initiatives are really designed to move the needle in the positive or the reduction direction on these 14 statewide goals.
Additionally there's health equity that's embedded across all of those 14 statewide goals.
In particular there are priority goals for every county because some of those goals sit at the statewide level and of course some are more directly at the county level but the county work is helping to move the needle statewide.
Here are the six statewide priority goals for every county and then nap has a seventh goal so walking through those just really briefly.
Some of them are going to be very familiar to you and sure as issues but also because some of these goals actually directly relate to our community health assessment and our community health improvement plan.
Access to care that is a metric in a goal that sits on I think every single community health improvement plan whether it's the counties or whether it's our hospital partners.
We also have institutionalization that is lowering institutionalization and providing treatment and services for people at the lowest level possible and in their communities.
Of course homelessness sits in every county's priority areas as well and tied to that is our housing and our housing initiatives that you'll hear about in this presentation.
Just as involvement your board is also very familiar with that that is directly tied to initiatives like.
Under Calam having justice involvement and having medical services start in the jail that are now actually billable in institutional settings that they were not previously.
And then statewide goals also removal of children from home right and that also directly ties to a lot of our work in our community health improvement plan.
Or you can provide services to the ports for families the less likely are you have removal of children from the home and so your board heard about that.
Specifically even during child abuse prevention week and then untreated behavioral health conditions getting people involved in treatment at the earliest possible point intervening sooner so that we avoid some of the downstream not only more costly but just more acute behavioral health conditions.
And then Napa has every county is required to select a seventh goal so for Napa County through our community planning process we had our community providers and stakeholders of vote and quality of life came in as Napa's selected goal.
There are not metrics for a lot of these yet but those are all in development by the state and I'll talk a little bit later about the state's vision and goals for these outcomes locally and also at the statewide level.
Okay, so your board is very familiar because for two plus decades we've had the mental health services act that became effective in 2005 so here we are now over two decades later and the voters in March of 2024 voted for proposition one.
Proposition one did two things one of the things I had mentioned before which is continuing and expanding upon the beach ship grant program.
The other piece of prop one is reimagining the mental health services act modernizing it and it becoming the behavioral health services act that happens in a couple of significant ways which is changing the focus to the most acute population.
as well as adding options for funding substance use treatment services under the behavioral health services act as well as housing interventions.
So this is a fun slide whenever you see coins there. So the slide is titled no new money in BHSA and actually what is probably more accurate is if we put a big x through no new and put less.
And the reason for that is because in the right corner we have a little flag that says 10% to state and contextually what that means is it's actually more money going to the state.
So under the mental health services act it was 5% that the state took off the top that is now increased to 10% so it is very accurate to say it is less money in BHSA and I think that's really important because I think not only to manage.
Expectations, but just to explain what behavioral health services act. In different groups, sometimes people think this is brand new money that counties are getting. It is not brand new money.
And I think that although it's designed to be administratively simpler, I think by the time we're done with this, but also in reading 161 page integrated plan, it is not actually administratively simpler.
It is becoming increasingly more complex layered into an increasingly complex behavioral health landscape for counties to navigate. So just making that point out the gate. The other point that this slide really nicely does is highlight the fluctuations over time.
And I think those coins kind of do a good job at explaining the volume and magnitude of the fluctuation.
But the reality is that the fluctuations that counties have seen, including Napa, if you look over the last six years, we've had a low of 6.2 million and a high of 12 million.
That is a catastrophic change when you think year to year, and you're trying to build a stable funding source.
Stable programs not have these ebs and flows where you're gutting programs, standing them up, gutting them again.
That's just not practical and realistic. So the challenge for all counties including Napa has always been in continues to be how to build sustainable programs.
And right out the create an even steady kind of flight pattern as you have a bunch of turbulence injected into the system.
One question that I think has as at least come up before has been.
The state trying to address the issue of volatility of the funding and the realities that has not been addressed.
We are still dependent. This is still the 1% tax on income over million. The funding source has not changed.
The other thing that I think your board is a cutely aware of and supervisor.
I could tell you talked about it just in terms of HR1. Because of this funding stream is dependent on the economy and the economy is very much not going in the positive direction.
The other thing that we will be anticipating is actually a decrease in the revenue.
So again, you take the decrease because the state is taking 5% you take the volatility in funding and then you take the trajectory of a downward cycle.
If you will in what we're projecting this revenue, but also the lack of ability to truly predict and tell the books close. So that is the landscape in which all of this gets navigated is creating stability in the system and right-sizing the system.
As we have a lot of headwinds not just coming in from the behavioral health services act funding, but really from all of our funding sources.
So this slide here, I think nicely displays what we're talking about when you get from that sort of macro what's going on with this funding, its volatility and then you bring it down to what is the shift that the behavioral health services act is really bringing in terms of what counties are allowed to do with the money and how we are required to spend it in very categorical.
We call them funding buckets, but categories. So this also I think makes the point that if you look on the left side in that pie chart, that was your mental health services act.
There are actually five categories but two of them we kind of noted below because they are discretionary and you source them from the big pie, but they are not the lion share of the programming.
So under the mental health services act, we have those three categories.
Community services and supports prevention and early intervention which is probably the one that you've heard about the most because we historically done RFPs related to our PEI contracts and then innovations.
But if you look at the percentages in that pie chart, the 76 plus than 19 which is 95% that part of the pie, the 95% part of the pie was really what was devoted to treatment programs.
So that's most of the pie. Now when you move over to the behavioral health services act, the shift that we're making there is that pie gets divided up at the state level by requirement into 35% for the behavioral health services and supports 35% for full service partnership programs and then 30% for housing interventions.
So right out the gate, we've gone from 95% on the left side to 70% for treatment programs because the treatment programs live in the BHSS and the FSP buckets.
So another key component of the shift is sort of the breaking apart of what we've known as PEI.
So primary prevention now has gone has been removed from, I would say, control at the local level and has gone from DHCS over to CDPH.
And the state takes as part of that 10% that they're now taking 4% comes off the top as part of that 10% and it has been delegated over to the California Department of Public Health for them to manage and develop strategies that are prevention at the population level.
So that's broad prevention programs.
That leaves for counties the early intervention components.
And so early intervention, again, used to have its own category under MHSA under BHSA, it comes out of that bucket called behavioral health services support.
So you fund early intervention programs through that 35% within the 35% that is the BHSS funding, 51% of that is early intervention and that is a requirement by the state.
And then the other 49% are for behavioral health services and supports.
So getting to the kind of process that the state has laid out.
And this is in some respects does mirror MHSA because right now in MHSA your board receives three year MHSA plans.
They come to your board or they're open for public comment and then we come annually with annual updates to that plan.
So this process is very similar to that process.
The big shift of course is because we're making this behemoth transformation effective July 1.
But we continue to have the same community planning process which is shown in the first step there.
We have a draft integrated plan that has been submitted to the state.
It was due by March 31st that contained all of the year plus long community planning process input input from our behavioral health board.
And then our processes that we have to submit that to the Department of Health Care Services and then there's a process of getting feedback and comments from the department.
At the state level which we have gone through.
And then there is the public hearing and the public hearing is preceded by a period of public comment so the integrated plan was actually posted for public comment.
For the 30 days required and then we held the public hearing before the behavioral health board and in a special meeting called on May 13th.
And we are sort of sitting between steps four and five on our road to submitting our final IP by June 30th.
So just a little bit more on the public comment period our public comment ran from April 1 to May 1.
And I'm going to tell you we received no public comments.
I attribute that in part to the fact we've had a lot of meetings around the behavioral health integrated plan.
A lot of really engaged CBO partners and stakeholders were able to ask questions at different meetings that we've held.
I think we had a couple meetings with the behavioral health board where questions and input could be provided.
And I also think that the plan represents a good balance of how we continue to sustain this part of our behavioral health system.
A period of time where I know not just counties, but our CBO partners are very concerned about funding.
I'm also sure a little bit more of that.
Let me get to that slide and now we're going to move from sort of the theoretical.
How does this map out? What are the requirements that the state is imposing and finding counties and what is the process to get to the point that we're at today.
So our integrated plan of course sets forth our priorities.
It's designed to also there's a portion of the integrated plan that goes through the budget and funding and so that's always kind of I think a part that people are maybe most interested in.
The funding that we have budgeted each year across the three year integrated plan ranges from 13.6 million a year to 14.1 million a year.
And I will tell you and I just I will credit all the people in the room who were here who were in health and human services because this has been.
It's a continuous and iterative process that's what we set forward right now and it consists of a really planful and strategic approach to how we're using the fund balance and the reserves that we had built up.
So probably not uncommon in counties.
Because of the volatility that you know exists in the behavioral well the formerly the mental health services act funding stream.
Counties did build up reserves and so we have reserves of about just sort of 16 million for behavioral health services act.
That is a really good thing because it allows us during this three year integrated plan.
To continually right size as the rest of the system is going through really a metamorphic increasingly pushing providers and everyone into the medical system.
So when we look at our budget over those three years we're actually projecting revenue to come in at much lower than the 13.6 to 14.1.
We're projecting revenue at 11 million a year and that might even be too high.
So when we look at the way we're approaching our use of fund balance we are braiding in and bringing in fund balance and again we'll know with the end of years as each budget progresses.
Bringing in about 50% of the fund balance using it during this first three year plan.
And of course we also hope that during that three year plan while we're supporting the system using the behavioral health services act dollars very strategically.
We are also continuing to push the system.
Thoughtfully gingerly into the medical system because the reality is this is one piece of a much bigger puzzle and you have to understand how the rest of the pieces and the levers you can pull.
To make the use of these funds strategic as they need to be and so that we're drawing down all the other revenue that is available.
So that's where of course where our partners come in.
We work with a wide variety of our partners not just the partners that we contract with but the partners the ecosystems getting larger and larger.
And that's because under all of the behavioral health transformations and all those circles that were in the very first slide.
More and more we have the role of our managed care plans and by that we mean for not the county partnership health plan and Kaiser.
They are also medical providers and entirely separate books of revenue that they can draw down and providers can seek reimbursement for different services through our MCPs.
So what that really means is counties have to be really skilled at how you draw down and really push your system to maximizing both the draw down that you can pull down through our managed care plans while also creating it with funding sources like behavioral health services act.
And I will just say the behavioral services act is about 17% of the entire behavioral health budget.
So again that just kind of highlights that this is one really complex funding stream that exists in a really complex funding stream within the county that exists within a really complex funding stream that is far outside the county but impacts the county by what you can bring into it.
And then of course all of this is designed to drive outcomes that the state can see at the county level and in order for the state to do that it is requiring more data to be reported.
And I will say I think we're at the brink of maybe taxing our system and what it can actually digest and implement but I have great empathy for for for our agency but also our partners because it is pushing more and more everybody into the medical world.
But it's also pushing everybody into very much a world of being able to track down to the individual level who's getting what and how much resources are coming into provide services to that individual.
So that is why we've actually met fairly recently with our CBO partners to really just explain even our early intervention contracts those are requiring individual service level data.
But the why behind all of that is exactly.
The state wants to get to outcomes so they could see what's being spent in each county and what are the outcomes in each county and what are the dollars essentially per person that you're serving.
And if you don't have that individual service level data, you are unable to arrive at the outcomes that the state is looking for.
This is an overview of what's inside our 161 page integrated plan. Obviously all of those six sections are really laid out nicely in that plan.
I'm not going to go into it because I think we're trying to do a summary here and hit the really high points.
So this is probably the area of maybe of most interest and that is how are we proposing to use our behavioral health services act funding here in Napa County.
So you saw the prior slide for all counties, the sort of the starting point is 35% for BHSS, 35% for FSP and 30% for housing interventions.
Counties can and we have taken advantage of the flexibility within the structure to deviate from those percentages with justification and with the approval of the state.
I can tell you this is where the sausage making, but the teams were to really hard to arrive at a percentage and distribution that does not gut treatment.
While housing interventions, nobody can disagree with that. The objection that counties had when problem was first on the ballot had everything to do with the fact that this isn't new money.
So how are counties going to not gut treatment?
Because you're robbing from Peter to PayPal with even less dollars. So for small counties and Napa County qualifies as a small county, we can actually ask for an exemption and a deviation from the housing interventions to a lower number.
All counties can move 7% from the categories. We've gone another, I guess, 6% beyond the 7.
And the state is satisfied. They see what we're doing and they've approved this funding distribution. This funding distribution though is not sort of optional.
It kind of is where you back into for the county, because if we're not able to put additional funding into behavioral health services, the port and full service partnership, we will be guiding treatment.
And again, we have less money. So the state has approved that.
I think in the next several slides that I'm going to turn over to my colleagues here, they'll kind of go over in more detail what we're funding under the behavioral health services and supports the FSP and the housing interventions.
And I think you'll also see that we have been laying the foundation for being ready for this for a couple years now.
And it's because of the infrastructure and the investments and the other dollars that we have pulled in many of them grant dollars that were able to kind of make this glide path from current day to the behavioral health services act, which is exactly what the system was hoping we would do.
I'm going to turn it over to Chelsea Stoner.
There we go. Good morning. Okay. I am going to walk the board through the service components that are outlined in the BHSA and the first bucket.
If you will is behavioral health support services and supports or BHSS and we have allocated 45% of our budget to BHSS.
BHSS is really around connection and support and designing and utilizing programs that promote access that support navigation through the system and ensure that people stay connected to care once they enter services.
We prioritized in BHSS outreach and engagement, our children and adult systems of care and early intervention.
And to support this, we prioritized programming the first of which is the system navigation.
System navigation connects people to behavioral health services, provides referrals, connection to resources, helping people apply for mental health services, substance use disorders services, medical and really works to link people and help them navigate the system to get the help that they need.
We also use BHSS funding to support our behavioral health treatment center, which as the sports very well aware is designed to expand access to residential treatment with your all management.
So bring services and really offering that step down here and ensuring people get the right level of support at the right time.
BHSS also will continue to support our hospital transition program for both adults and children.
And this program supports people during and after psychiatric hospitalization providing really intensive care coordination during psychiatric hospitalization and up to 30 days post discharge, focusing on discharge planning, follow up care and connection to community base services.
And the goal around this program is to ensure that there are safer transitions back into the community.
We also will continue to support the Innovation's Community Center, which is a peer staff community based mental health program that focuses on wellness, recovery, connection and belonging for people who experience mental illness in the community.
I want to highlight that system navigation, our hospital transition program and innovation community center are all currently funded under MHSA and it was a priority to make sure that this was continued to be funded as be transition to BHSA.
As mentioned earlier, 45% of our funding under BHSS needs to go 51% of that 45 needs to go to early intervention services.
So in order to fulfill this, we prioritized our continuing to fund our mobile response team, which is a 24-7 mobile behavioral crisis program that deploys out into the community and helps stabilize individuals who are experiencing a behavioral health crisis with the focus on safety planning and linking it to ongoing care.
We also will continue to support our coordinated specialty care for first episode psychosis program.
This also is a required evidence-based practice in BHSA under early intervention.
And the goal of the early psychosis program is to intervene early, reduce disruption, life disruptions, and support long term recovery for people that are experiencing psychosis.
This is a very rigorous and prescribed evidence-based program that has proven to be highly effective for individuals experiencing psychosis.
And finally, we have prioritized ensuring that early intervention services continue to be offered throughout our community.
And we issued an early intervention RFP, which is intended to support continue to support brief, low barrier community-based services to help with navigating the system identifying mental health issues early, screening for mental health challenges and linking to, especially mental health services for long term care.
Our priority populations for this RFP were children, youth and older adults in our underserved communities with a focus on culturally responsive services as well as bilingual services.
And moving over to the next service category, which is full service partnership.
Our highest intensity level of support that we offer and 30% of our funding will be going to full service partnerships.
It is intended for individuals and families with significant behavior health needs and supports people who may be at risk of homelessness and institutionalization who are involved in the justice system and have untreated behavior health conditions.
FSP is not one single program, rather it is a continuum of intensive services and support, which I will jump into in detail in just a minute, but do you want to highlight the areas that we will focus on an app accounting under full service partnership.
The first of which is act in fact, which stands for assertive community treatment and forensic assertive community treatment.
That is a program that is designed for adults.
We also will provide high fidelity wraparound, which is an intensive wraparound service for children and youth.
And we will have a lower level of FSP programming called intensive case management for children and youth, which is designed to really be a bridge between traditional treatment and that higher level of service outlined by act in fact and high fidelity wraparound and I'll jump into those in just a minute.
I do want to highlight that we will be initiating assertive field-based substance use disorder treatment through a program called Rise.
Rise provides low threshold field-based substance use disorder support for people who are connected to traditional services in the community.
And this program will deploy substance use disorder clinicians out into the field to help provide engagement, counseling, coordination, connection, and linkage to medication assisted treatment.
I want to highlight under the kind of the umbrella of FSP, the BHSA requires us to implement evidence-based practices and we have three years to implement these practices to fidelity in our monitored closely by the state and provided technical assistance to implement these programs to fidelity.
The first is act in fact, which is a team-based approach that coordinates care on a very small case load.
Our clinicians have approximately 20, about 20 clients on a case load and it is staffed by a team of clinicians that include mental health support, substance use disorder support, peer partner and psychiatric support.
We also will be needing to implement high-fidelity wrap around, which is a program that is designed for children in use with a goal of keeping kids in the community where the lowest level of care with home with our families.
It really have federally wrapped around does just that it wraps the family with support and services to help a child reach their behavioral health goals.
We believe that we are very well positioned to meet this requirement and will continue to work with our contracted provider to provide this service.
And then there is intensive case management, which is the lower level of care within the full service partnership umbrella and that provides really that bridge to traditional treatment as a person works towards their recovery goals and into a more traditional outpatient setting.
So we will be working the next three years to implement these programs to fidelity as required by the BHSA and I'm going to turn it over to Jenna to talk about our housing intervention program.
So housing interventions is the newest component of BHSA and it's housing but it's nothing new to behavioral health, behavioral health has been doing a housing for quite a while it just looks a little different from traditional housing as we know it.
In our housing interventions bucket we have rather than duplicate services have really worked to understand the landscape of housing in Napa so that we are adding to the continuum rather than you know like I said duplicating services.
So we have added to the system recovery and shared housing models in a formal capacity so we're able to find recovery residences and and other shared housing models.
We have added interim housing which is a completely new housing definition that California has created.
And our investments in Griggs Lane and a couple other properties have added to that we have housing placement supports now we're utilizing community supports which are coming through Calame and we have our higher acuity housing which has not traditionally been.
Broadcasted so we those of us outside of behavioral health have not had insight into the system of care.
So it really has been an amazing and eye opening experience to join behavioral health from the housing world and to really see how far the continuum actually goes because outside of behavioral health.
You know, there's one continuum, but it goes for another six or seven types of housing.
Napa is ahead of the game. Behavioral health decided to hire a housing program manager, two years ahead of implementation of BHSA.
And so, and they hired somebody from the housing world.
So, somebody who was familiar with what happens in the other systems of caring Napa.
So, in the last couple of years, we've created housing infrastructure added an internal housing manager, expanded housing tools,
and really strengthened partnerships so that we're making sure to not duplicate services.
We are utilizing infrastructure that's in place in the housing and housing and community services realm,
and we are partnering with them to really access already existing contracts and processes that exist with MCPs managed care plans.
And BHSA is how we are planning on sustaining that.
Okay, turn back to Jennifer.
So, when Janet just referred to the housing manager, that's of course, Jenna.
So, we're fortunate to have to.
Okay, what is next?
Well, next is we submit the IP by June 30th.
That's our three-year plan.
As your board knows, we'll keep it current.
We'll continue to iterate.
We'll do the annual updates.
Intermittent updates as well need to be made, particularly as we write size.
As I said before, that's our plan budget.
The goal for the three-year plan is to really increase the or decrease the reliance on behavioral health services act funding while we're increasing what we can pull in across the system of care,
working with other partners such as our managed care plans.
So, that nicely gets to this slide.
So, Jenna had sort of talked about the housing interventions and one of the really critical ways in which we're planning to use the behavioral health services act dollars
is to partner with our managed care plans and our providers.
So, I sort of think of it as a three-legged stool and two legs of it or the government and the third is our non-profit partners.
To breed in the funding from behavioral health services act and also what's known as the Calam housing trio,
and bring those both together to provide the funding needed to operationalize both the housing, the cost of the housing,
the operations of any housing facility from the provider's standpoint and also the supportive services that need to be in there.
So, we've, I think, done a really good job of laying the foundation of either pulling in what we'll call the community supports,
and in other cases, drawing into our specialty mental health system where we can tap into treatment support for more acute needs.
Part of that is of course encouraging our providers to use or calling the MCP funding.
We have been long having conversations for the last two years about all of our providers needing to tap into the community supports,
enhanced care management, community health workers, all of these are services and funding streams that come through a different system.
But we have to through our contracts hold accountability, so our providers are pulling in the revenue from that,
because that actually leaves more revenue for the things that still need to be done in counties,
for which there's no medical revenue, medical is a great but it doesn't fit everything that we need to do.
So, the more we can push providers who can draw down those other funding sources, it frees up the funding that we have to do the other work
for which there is no medical dollar.
And of course, we're going to continue our coordination with our managed care plans.
I think there's a total of 24 MOUs that are in the process of being executed across our two managed care plans.
Some are mandatory and some are discretionary, but they all seek to work to coordinate care together and better.
And I can tell you that we're on a regular basis, particularly with partnership health plan,
because they have a lion share of our clients that we serve who are medical covered,
working with them closely, of course, not just to keep people on medical, which is sort of a separate issue from,
now that you have your medical, how are you going to use the benefit?
So we continue to work with partnership health plan very closely.
There's also not to overcomplicate it, but there's other revenue streams that are also going to be made available to counties,
and so we intend to use our broad-based approach where we're marrying both our behavioral health services plan
and our community health improvement plan and creating that alignment.
And I think we're really lucky because two years ago, and I came to your board,
to share that we were planning to use three different funding sources to operationalize our community health improvement plan.
That really sets the stage for us to be well positioned for other revenue that is coming available,
and now we have a process and an infrastructure and a method.
So it minimizes the chaos, and I do say that because a lot of the funding that we're seeing coming available to us,
three weeks, put together your plan and have an umbrella stakeholder and put process.
That is not possible to digest that money that quickly and do it well.
So we are as well positioned, I think, as a county can be, because of the approach that we've taken,
because we can sort of dump it into the machine and we have it operationalized.
So I feel really lucky to that we have a very good working relationship with partnership health plan,
who we're coordinating, we've got some other projects sort of in the queue now,
we're figuring out how to operationalize different opportunities to bring those to our clients.
So we are working hard to build a better continuity of care,
realizing what the opportunities are within our behavioral health system.
But again, we've got prevention coming through the California Department of Public Health,
and we've got our managed care plans who are mandated to make investments back in their communities.
There are new future drops of funding that are coming and so we are figuring out how to operationalize those pieces
and bring them all together through our behavioral health services plan,
but also our community health improvement plan.
So our goals for the behavioral health system are the goals that I'm sure every logical human wants for a behavioral health system,
which is the people are getting their help sooner, we're helping people stay housed in stable,
which helps them to sustain their treatment goals and actually seek recovery and wellness that we hope.
And then reducing the crisis and system of cycling, your board support and investment in projects like the behavioral health
treatment center or part of that to intervene and create referral pathways,
but also engage in opportunities with clients at the earliest possible points.
Jenna had referred to our RISE program, which I think is going to really help us engage with people who have substance use disorders
that are not necessarily ready for engagement into services,
but with our help hopefully they can be.
We have a lot of other initiatives that we are working on all in further ends of reducing crisis and system cycling,
but showing up to the crisis stabilization in trying to engage somebody who's seeking a psychiatric assistance,
but their underlying root cause may be substance use, but also looking at ways that we can engage our substance use clients
through other incentives through programs like Continuity Management and that's pulling in from another funding source we have available to us.
But all of this is part of the ecosystem that the behavioral health services act fits into.
And our goal and hope is to have community health and well-being, which I know is also your boards hope.
It's our public health hope, it's really the hope for all of our community.
And so thank you very much for the opportunity to shed a little bit light on what we're trying to accomplish and one piece of it that is a very important piece,
but it's one piece of a bigger puzzle and a bigger picture.
I just want to also say thank you to the Health and Human Services team. We are all pinch hitting right now.
We have some critical vacancies in the behavioral health space part of why I'm here.
And every single one of these funding streams again, you can take it and you can look at it in an isolation or you can take it and you can figure out how to braid it across the system and really look at the most strategic use of resources and where you know you can.
I get more bang for your bucks, so to speak. So I just really want to thank the behavioral health team, the fiscal team and administration.
There are people like Joe Hall at our assistant agency director who's also our interim behavioral health director who is getting pulled six ways to Sunday as well.
We have our chief fiscal officer Kimberly Danner and Susan Kingsford our deputy CFO in the room here as well.
We have Marle of Simmons who's an assistant deputy director in behavioral health along with Chelsea and of course we have Chelsea and Jenna here and there are countless other people in behavioral health and fiscal who are not here today who've been a part of this but also stuck with it and seeing the vision about how you can.
And dumps this piece of funding and not just make it a funding source but make it an opportunity for how we can improve the whole system. So thank you.
Thank you so much. At this time, I welcome public comment on this topic. Is there any one of the room, which is because come on up to the podium. You'll have three minutes.
Sorry.
Seems like he's kind of the funny okay. Anyone else?
That's so you get anyone. Is there anyone on the phones?
Okay. Then I'll bring you back to the board for comments and questions.
Anyone.
Go ahead. Supervisor Olesia.
Well, first of all. Thank you.
That was a lot.
I'm not the watch of a couple times over and I think I'm in kind of a no in some ways right.
Because I've just been around this for a while on the behavioral health board family has lived experience in this area to some respect to.
So I've seen it from different angles but this is a lot and you did a really good job kind of giving us the foundation of where we've been and how we're shifting.
Or you're shifting your team of shifting and turn what in terms of what has been and is required in a very short time frame.
In a big load and a very short time frame and I can't emphasize that enough.
And I'm not here. I'm not where you are. So thank you to you and your team for rolling so hard and just keeping at it. So this is going to be ready in time.
You know, as you were talking initially, I'm thinking about how we used to have hope for some care.
And we got that in debt. We got that down here and you know, with community based organizations, the hospital health health and services and then they shifted to the county and everybody's like,
Oh, we just got hope for some care. We're excited and it's running and now we've got kelaine.
So, and then we see the shift from MHA say to be, it's just say and you know, we get the MHA say running and everybody's like running because it's not just our county.
This impacts every community based organization, every hospital, every are, every family, every client that's trying to seek help and navigate and how to do it.
It's, it's a lot. So I just want to share that perspective with others from what I've seen and experienced.
You know, we didn't talk about how many individuals at county actually cares for in this, in this area. Do you have a rough count of individuals that we care for and potentially like how many occurrences because there's this heavy administrative side, which you talked about.
So I think frankly, I know this is a lot of tracking. I think we need to track the tracking.
We need to track how many hours it takes a administratively to do all the tracking for the outcomes which outcomes are important.
Supporting that we show outcomes. So we've been doing that here in the county for a long time.
But, you know, you can kind of, so on side note, track the tracking the administrative lift and the cost of that. I think we need to monetize that. We need to have it.
We really need to daylight that ourselves and back to the state. So they understand that impact.
But in terms of really individuals in our communities and our families and neighborhoods, do you have a rough idea how many we're serving in this whole spectrum.
So I think that's, it's a complex answer only because we have individuals that hit our system and they are hitting our contract providers and sort of to the point around the state making the shift under EI.
To have individual service level data, what we don't have that right now. So currently under our PEI contracts, we don't necessarily know how many individuals are being touched.
We will have better data when we get to collecting the ISL data that starts January 1 of 2027.
And then the first time the state is publishing, they're calling it the voter, which there's a long acronym for it, but it's basically accountability outcomes and transparency.
The first time I think that's going to be published will be June 30 of 2029.
So this data collection is pretty heavy and weighty. It's also why we made a shift to a different electronic.
Health record within the last 12 months to be able to have a system that actually could collect the data and then report it out without having, you know, manual little spreadsheets.
I want to say off the top of my head that if we looked at our annual ATHS report, we try to do an annual metric of how many individuals served in our different systems.
I want to say for a behavior that was around 2000.
And I think on the said side, if you add that, it gets us to about 2,500.
And that's just, again, that's not full line of sight across the whole system.
Right. Right. So really, we're serving more.
The need continues to increase for many reasons.
Generally, and yeah, you know, what I'm seeing here and hearing is that there's less funding and we have to be far more creative.
But there's going to be negative impact.
The money is not coming out there. And there have been extremely creative in terms of how we seek that funding.
And as smart in terms of how we draw it down, whether it's funding or available, whether it be medical.
And then you test on that with, you know, just having the eligibility that's now by annual versus annual and keeping people.
You know, eligible. So yeah, it's, it's a lot.
In terms of your connection and I love the broad base network of connection, does that include our correctional facility?
And people are transitioning out of the correctional facility because that wasn't that wasn't mentioned.
And then anything in terms of like, you know, a local hospitals and health clinics that are also test points.
Yes. So that, that's a complex one. So they would sort of under justice involvement or one of the state schools.
So as your board knows, we have our behavioral health clinicians are co-located in the jail.
The old jail and the new beautiful jail. So they're co-located there.
And they do partner with our sort of outside the four walls of the jail clinicians to ensure that they're good transitions to care from in the jail to outside the jail.
Under Calame, one of the many initiatives, of course, the medical provider in the jail will be able to draw down medical dollars.
We also have a piece of that because we're in the jail and we provide the behavioral health linkage, which is the piece back into the community.
So that's sort of one really specific way.
The other things you mentioned hospitals, we spend a lot of time coordinating with our hospitals.
And our CSU provider, right, Chris would be here for health in the county around how we support our emergency departments when we have people who are having psychiatric crisis there.
That, of course, ties to our CSU expansion, which is one of the beach of grants to increase capacity.
That also ties to the behavioral health treatment center because we'll create additional capacity in having the sobering center, so we don't have people hitting the emergency department.
So this is where you start to draw the lines of connection and all of these are very much designed to support our hospitals.
But more importantly, support the people who are in need of care and getting to them to the right level of care.
And the thing is important that we also talk about this spectrum of need on the people where they are on the behavioral health.
Journey, if you will, and you know, the EI early intervention leaves out the P, which is prevention, which if you ask me is the best and most economic approach and most dignity dignified approach in terms of caring for people in need.
But we'll go, yes, we'll stick with the EI for now and hope for the people to come back at a later date.
Another, I know there's this is a whole another topic with a state hospital.
You know, people say there's a state hospital here, how are they partnering with us?
Is there is there any potential opportunity to work with a state hospital system and I know that's a whole complex issue too.
But there are questions about that in confusion on the access.
So we actually do partner with the state hospital system and we partner with them when it comes to conservatorships.
So we have clients who are actually placed in a state hospital.
But we get in line sort of with everybody else around placements into state hospital systems.
It is true that they are not a designated facility for taking people in psychiatric crisis, which at one point many decades ago they were.
But we are using the state hospital system, I would say, to the same extent and very much need those beds to stay online because we have a statewide hospital bed shortage.
Yeah, I certainly do. Okay, well, that's I mean, we can talk more about any more questions, but thank you again. This is an excellent presentation and appreciate all the hard work.
Thank you. I'm not seeing anyone else.
I'm letting a supervisor Gallagher.
Thank you and thank you for the presentation.
I'm very complicated and complex issues and I know that you know, this isn't what we wanted to do.
It's what we're doing because of the decision around prop one and attempting to be creative.
And I'm also concerned about the prevention services that we are likely not going to fund through this mechanism will have to find some other way.
Because, you know, population population health prevention is really different and I don't know if the public understands the differences maybe could touch a little bit on what that looks like at a state level versus the kind of prevention that we have been able to do locally.
But I wanted to ask also with our contracted partners.
Pulling the individualized service level data.
Is that something that we or the state or anyone is helping with in terms of technical assistance?
How are we making sure that is consistent across our our contracted agencies?
Speak a little, dive a little bit more into that and how we're going to both collect and present that data.
Yeah, you're right. That is a big shift which is why we have specifically had discussions and meetings with our CBO partners because this Chelsea mentioned we did the EIRFP.
In December and in part our timing was a couple of reasons one it takes a long time to get through the contracting process but really we wanted our providers to also.
I think at this time when we're reading headlines from other counties that are not great about contracts being canceled.
We wanted people to know that although we had to sunset contracts because they were MHSA funded and that's going away that we very much intended to continue and have that sort of transition and sort of offboarding and onboarding so we are actually working right now on finalizing and drafting those contracts.
We're probably coming to your board after the first start of the fiscal year but we're working with our providers to make it as painless as possible to collect the data and then we will be in putting the data into our system in a way so we can get it digested and reported that ultimately.
We have the first sort of six months of the contract is sort of not required because it's a launch of one one of twenty seven so it's a calendar launch versus our fiscal year contracts but we are absolutely working on supporting our contractors.
And that's really why we started the process so early so that everybody could get educated to the new way of being.
I think that you know in terms of prevention a lot I think we've been having these conversations for a couple years now with our CBO partners and they've just done a really good job.
Also figuring out how to modify programs so they are EI focused but still prevention focused at the same time.
So I really commend them for their partnership and their work because it has been a journey and I feel like in our county it's a journey we're doing together.
It remains to be seen the California Department of Public Health has issued their draft guidelines for other prevention.
What they plan to do is have a third party vendor run an RFP process and then our CBO partners can apply think there's going to be some challenges just because they're looking at regional approaches to.
So I would say some funding is coming back down through the counties not through a process that we manage which would have been lovely because we we know what we do and we can align it better locally.
But it's unfortunate because we actually haven't seen that RFP come out yet and we were expecting it would be out because many people are looking to which a lie one fiscal year so we'll do our best to also support our CBOs is as that RFP comes out.
There are also just under county they're they had mentioned community health workers there are also other opportunities where you can do prevention work.
It just looks different and you'd have to structure your sort of line of business differently and you're you're staffing differently.
But I know our CBOs are all working really hard in making that transition so that's why I say they're transitions within transitions within transition.
So this is a really complicated time I think in my 23 years in this county the last three or four years have been the most wicked.
Fair behavior health and I think that's going to continue honestly into the next three or four years at minimum but there are a lot of things that play including 1115 waivers at the state level.
We have a lot pending with CMS as well so I think we're all being as well educated as we can and also paying attention to what the changing ecosystem is going to bring because what's today is not going to be what's in three months and that's just the reality of it.
Thank you supervisor.
Control.
Thank you chair.
And thank you.
Director Yasamoto and the team everyone in the room for the presentation today and all the work that you do and I just wanted to compliment you on this slide deck.
I think it's very as so much information there but it's very well laid out.
So I think my suggestion is when we hear from you again and we'll you'll know more about actual numbers of clients you'll know more about how the spend went will know something about.
Hopefully the efficacy of the states prevention work but I'm hoping that because we now have some familiarity with this layout I think it would be a great overlay on what you bring back and to your very point you know things will be different in three months.
And so to be able to say here's the playbook that we had here's the brand new things that we have I think that'll that'll be a nice anchor for us but thanks again.
Okay thank you for the comments and questions from my colleagues in for your outstanding presentation I would just like I can't I mean these are great questions I don't have any to add really on questions but I just want to recognize the tremendous work involved in preparing this integrated plan.
And I'll the good it's going to do for the community to have your attention to detail and really thinking through these issues from a systems perspective so carefully it's it's really wonderful.
So thank you so with that may have a motion to the second.
I'll move to approval with that welcome to gender to the team.
Second.
Okay I have a motion from Vice Chair Lessia second from Supervisor Ramos all those in favor.
I all right the resolution is approved. Thank you so much for being here today.
Our next item is nine B adopt a resolution amending section eight of the map with oh could we just take breaks is needed because we have about an hour and yeah just go.
Okay thank you yeah I think we just need to take breaks is needed because we have a lot to get through still.
And that that goes for anyone joining us in the room as well.
So item nine B adopt a resolution amending section eight of the map accounting policy manual to reflect three sets of administrative changes related to electronic signatures disruptions to remote access to meetings of the board of supervisors and budgeting for attendance at the great wine capitals general assembly.
I welcome legislative and policy analyst and roomized to present on this item.
Members board morning. My name is Andrew Mice. I'm the legislative and policy analyst for an Apple County.
I am also here today because of changes to California's law.
I'm before you today with three sets of administrative changes to board policies for conducting business the first set of changes relates to law passed last year that amended the brown act.
These statutory changes set up in SB 707 require local governments to provide two way telephonic or internet audio visual services like zoom for remote speakers at open and public meetings.
SB 707 also requires that local governments adopt a policy regarding disruption of these telephonic or audio visual services.
That policy must by law be adopted prior to July 1 to 26 at a regular notice public meeting in open session and cannot be adopted via the consent calendar that is all in the law.
Thus I am here at a notice public meeting in open session on your board's regular calendar to outline plans in the event of disruption.
Thank you to the California legislature.
By law if there is a disruption to telephonic or internet audio visual service that prevents members of the public from attending or observing the meeting.
By a two-way telephonic service or two-way audiovisual service, your board must now recess the open session of the meeting for at least one hour.
And make a good face attempt to restore the service. Your board may elect to meet in close session during that time.
Your board is not permitted to reconvene open session until at least one hour following the disruption, or until telephonic or internet audiovisual services restored,
whichever is earlier. These statutory mandated changes are encompassed in a new appendix D to section eight.
The changes proposed by staff and appendix D are sourced largely from council for the world can represent it as a California who put together a model policy for use by member counties.
Procedurally, here's an overview of what's staying the same and what's changing.
Your board already offers telephonic remote access public for two-way remote participation.
The clerk of the board already continuously monitors the meeting to ensure that remote access is functional.
And the clerk already notifies the chair if remote access is disrupted.
Now some new things.
If telephonic remote access is disrupted, the chair will now be required to pause the proceedings.
The chair will then have discretion to wait for a brief period during which no discussion or action may occur to determine if remote access can be reestablished without taking an hour long recess.
If not, the chair shall then recess the meeting for one hour while staff attempt to restore remote access.
Under the law, the meeting may resume once remote access is restored or one hour is elapsed, whichever is earlier.
The board may elect at this time to go into closed session while the meeting is in recess.
And then you've got kind of a binary. If remote access is restored, the clerk will so announced to remote attendees.
If the board is in closed session when access is restored, the clerk will additionally so announced to remote attendees.
If remote access is not restored after one hour lapses, the board may reconvene into open session subject to two certain conditions.
In order to reconvene without remote access, the chairs shall make an initial, make an initial verbal note of the following findings of fact, which can be subject to later legal challenge.
Remote access was unable to be restored despite good faith efforts having been made in accordance with the board's policy for no less than one hour.
Number two, provision of a description in full of the efforts taken by the clerk to restore remote access in accordance with the board's policy and a characterization that those efforts are the full extent of our good faith effort.
And finally, a statement that government code section 54953.4 and this policy allow the board to resume open session without remote access upon making both of the following specific findings by roll call vote, which is requires the majority vote of the board.
First, that good faith efforts to restore the telephonic or internet service have been made in accordance with this policy and to that the public interest in continuing the meeting outweighs the public interest in remote meeting access.
Those are required by law specifically those two findings.
Following these statements, any member of the board may move to adopt these findings and resume the open session of the meeting following a second on the motion.
A roll call vote with the majority voting to resume the meeting is required.
Should the motion not pass, your board's open session will immediately conclude.
If the board met and closed session, any report of election must be announced as otherwise required by the Brown Act.
That's the precipitating change. That's really why I'm here.
We also have a staff to set of recommended changes, which are really administrative cleanup.
Staff first recommended changes related to the use of the chair's electronic digital or facsimile signature.
California law authorizes the use of the chair's electronic signature on official documents, including those resulting from the board's meetings.
And position letters transmitted by county legislative staff on behalf of the board, pursuant to a prior action of the board.
This change outlines that the chair may delegate the affixing of his or her electronic signature to the clerk of the board to deputies of the clerk and to the county's legislative staff by executing a document or documents.
Provided by the county council, setting the delegation and setting forth what shall be considered the chair signature.
Finally, a third change staff recommend consolidation of the language relating to budgeting for great wine capitals that is currently in section two of the board's policy manual.
That's the agricultural commissioners policy into this section eight of the board's policy manual.
Staff recommend this consolidation to keep all language related to great wine capitals in one policy section eight.
Staff will be bringing a project forward to the board in the future to clean up and modernize the board's other administrative policies, which will include consolidation or elimination of some unnecessary policies, updating out of date policies and improving public access to the board's policy manual.
I am now happy to answer any clarifying questions and board in advance of public comment and subsequent motion and if needed discussion on that motion, thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Mizer, there are any questions or comments from the board.
I'm not seeing any is there anyone in the room wishing to speak in public comment on this item.
Not seeing anyone is there anyone on the funds.
No, okay, great. Well, I would like to thank the state legislature for bringing us and remise today. Thank you and also for the additional topics that the staff have added to this.
I think it's it's all good updates and I welcome a motion to adopt the resolution.
So moved.
Second.
Okay, I have a motion by Supervisor Custrell, a second by Vice Chair, Alessia, all those in favor.
I pass this unanimously and thank you so much for that presentation.
We'll move on to item nine C approval and authorization for the chair to sign a letter requesting waiver of repayment of loans made by the map economy.
Let very as a resort improvement district or end bread in the amount of five million dollars pursuant to government code section two five two one four four.
And I have a staff report from engineering manager Chris silk welcome Mr. silk.
Go ahead when you're ready.
Okay, good morning.
Good morning to the county board of supervisors.
We're here.
Since where I get to issue dual salutations.
So as you saw in your packet today, we have before you.
What I'm calling milestone number two for the Renaissance of MBR ID utilities.
milestone one was passed earlier this year and that was measure A and that was a 72% yes vote by the residents of the community to enact a 1560 dollar parcel tax to which that revenue would augment our user rate and other minority revenue sources to balance the budget.
MBR ID as I presented before the board for several years has been in financial turmoil with a series of loans issued to the utilities that began in 2008.
I'm not going to go through the chronology of the loan issuance and the consolidation.
I would just note that at least as it stands now we have an aggregate.
A cruel of loans promissari notes issued to the district from Napa County that amount to five million dollars.
The individual amounts are stated in the board letter that are just to both the governing board of the resort district as well as the county board of supervisors.
The actions that are sought today are sequential the first of which is a letter.
That would be signed by the chair of the governing board of Napa area so resort improvement district.
I'll read the specific actions after we have an open discussion related to the waiver of repayment of five million dollars that is.
That is in a conference to the utilities at the district.
The one thing that I will say is that you know as a result of this being miles to two.
If in fact this passes this sets the stage for staff to pursue what we foresee is twenty million dollars in capital improvements accessing.
Grim monies issued either by the state or the federal government.
We do have a precedent at various states to which we campaigned rigorously over goodness.
Almost a 16 year period through era and various federal legislative programs.
And we did so successfully bringing in twenty two million dollars.
The other thing that I also wanted to mention as a prelude to our discussion is that back in December of 2013 I do have with me.
The board letter to which an action was sought relieving various states of 1.67 million dollars in a debt in this to the county.
So there is a precedent for this type of action.
We do want to continue.
You know, our mission here to fortify the infrastructure.
The treatment plants are weak as I've indicated before.
I just learned last night that there potentially could be an algabloom episode emerging.
That's still Kenyan.
So the treatment process that is there now is generally concerned me since I arrived as an employee and being the engineering manager.
For the county. So we want to switch out that process.
We want to have something that's more adaptable to climate and you know,
and provides for a better barrier of algae if this were to persist.
And then also we just we need to do capital improvements to the wastewater side of the utilities to expand our treatment capacity and be prepared for reserve development.
If and when not you come and we simply want to design these improvements so that they're turkey.
They're nothing more than pipes that are stubbed with blind flanges,
instrumentation conduits electrical conduits.
So it's virtually plum plug and play.
So that's our vision.
We see this playing out over the next three to five years.
We do have the rural community assistance corporation that has offered there.
Their labor assistance at no charge to us put together these grain applications which is a heavy lift.
So it seems like we're moving in the right direction,
but we do need to get through the bad here to get to the good.
And so with that I think of what I'd like to do is pause and open it up to a general discussion amongst the board and myself and then I can read to you the sequential recommended actions that would be taken at that time.
Okay, thank you.
Our I see supervisor Ramas.
Yes, thank you.
Thank you for the presentation and the little brief recap.
We have found ourselves similarly in a position with the like various,
a resort improvement district of having to forgive loans that had previously been issued by the county in order to enable them to receive other other funds.
So not unusual in this sense, but I kind of want to take a step back and say that there's there's a greater discussion here that needs to happen and I mentioned this two meetings ago.
And that is this board has to have a serious look at the development or proposed development desire development whatever whatever is going on at like various at this point because there are a couple of things that this system.
Notwithstanding the the prior the prior failings to have a capital fund to invest in that got this system and these residents into this situation it is what it is right now and we we have to help position that area to be able to be sustainable.
I'm very much questioning that right now of what that looks like.
The costs continue to increase and I think we we owe it to ourselves and to the residents to have a dual.
Discussion about development at various and what that those impacts may have especially here to end bread because the truth is we've we've gone out with we have hired staff to go out and reprint we have this plan and.
We have some.
Luke War Ventress I guess it seems I don't know I have many next week I'll find out more on still gang in so if that does not happen.
We've been saying to ourselves we've got to get the system ready for that development and and it's almost starting to.
If we look at the numbers and a forgiveness of five million dollars, it's not insignificant, like a, it don't want to at all minimize what that means.
When we look at that type of a contribution into this system, because at this point that's what it is, it's an expenditure and contribution into the system, they're not paying us back.
Things like we're starting to treat still canyon, like it's going to be some savior.
And I'm concerned about that. I'm concerned about how this all is going to pencil out, so I understand the timing wise that we do need to do this.
But I also think that, physically, we need to look at what our policy is going to look like.
This should, in fact, run like an enterprise system. It should pay for itself, just like the airport.
It is not. It never has. And so we, we need to start really looking at what, what comes next after that.
This isn't this, this is a water system like many other water systems and maybe this in fact comes to a next step referral, perhaps at the board makes after looking at the sustainability of this.
When we look at the county time that has been spent and managing this and what that looks like maybe it's a referral for a second, second step supplemental report to last co on water services and how we look at management of small water services and water companies.
But this does not look sustainable. This is not my first time for giving loans. This is the largest loan. I think I've forgiven at this point, whether it's Elbred or Enbridge.
But I also say this in the sense that, you know, we are, we are getting to a place and we heard public comment earlier this morning about, you know, paying paying for water that abuse and how that, how that.
How that goes into someone's calculation. I also say it's, it's necessary for life, right? That it most definitely is water is life.
But this is coming at an incredibly high cost and we need to make sure that we are looking to how do we reduce the cost, but also what comes next.
Because when I look at the amount of county time that is spent by staff managing this, it's starting to really be a lot and I don't see an end insight.
So I just want to say, I think that's the referral. I'm going ahead and say it. Bring all things like Barriesta with water and the water systems included for us to look at what does that look like.
And to start looking at how do we transition this into truly an enterprise fund that it's paying for it. So thank you.
Yes, thank you.
Okay, madam chair. Before we take for the board comment. Can we take public comment?
Sure.
Okay, skipped over public comment.
Is there anyone in the room wishing to speak on this subject?
And not seeing anyone is there anyone on the phone? No.
Okay.
Then we will continue with board comments. Supervisor Katrell.
Thank you. And thank you, Mr. Silk, for the presentation. Totally support.
Supervisor Ramos's referrals. I think just having more discussion about what comes next here makes sense.
And at the same time remembering that we have an opportunity here.
And I think you've spoken to us before about the need to to take this, this, you know, extreme step.
But, but what that does is set this community up for being able to access grants that it could not do if it had this.
And conference this outstanding.
That is correct. Yes.
And so the program, the funny programs that we intend to apply for.
When we submit the financial package either at the onset or prior to notice of intent to obligate money.
Obviously, the finances were reviewed and it would show heavy debt and comments to which they would not issue grant monies until such time that that the debt ratio was reduced.
So that that's what became a prerequisite for LBRD to secure its CWS are a funding agreement.
And then I just wanted to also point out that the voters in and bridge service area approved attacks on themselves measure a for 10 years to provide something here.
So and I'm an agreement that that having a board wide discussion and overview of.
Various I think makes sense. So I'm supportive of this section.
Okay.
Supervisor LSE.
Yeah, just real quick. I'll chime in also.
Yeah, looking at the history of this. This has been an ongoing area of concern and financial concern with the old system that needs treatment.
I think that the voters there's the district stepping up and saying yes, you know, we will, you know, they're not most of those folks aren't.
I mean, you know, this is not a very rich community, if you will, well, wealthy community, but they approved measure a I think that that's there's their part saying hey we're in in this too.
So I think that's a great sign.
We have to set ourselves up for being able to be eligible for other funding to address the issue.
I also think ideally, boy, if we can create this as an enterprise fund is supervisor Ramos said,
I mean, to me, that just kind of rings true. It feels true based on other enterprise funds. I've known and been involved in.
That would be the ideal.
I do still have hope and for the vision of that area and all the the time and energy and planning for the different parks and having some kind of economics stimulus out there.
It takes one take try to get it going for another to bring more income into that area to help offset the different areas in the cost out there.
It's a very interesting area just historically the interesting area before it was even, you know, like, very yes, but it's, I mean, I support this moving forward.
Well, it caught my eye when we first looked at the board packet and I'm like, whoa, you know, it's a lot.
But I understand that I understand the thought behind it and so therefore I also support this.
And just continued efforts with what's going on out there with bringing in some kind of an economic anchor or some kind of vitality out there.
I think it's good to be really important. So I want us to continue to do that and hopefully we'll see some something come out of that, but thank you for your presentation.
Sure. Thank you.
Thank you. Supervisor Gallagher.
I'm just going to make a motion that we approve and authorize the chair to sign a letter requesting favor of repayment of loans made by Napa County to Napa very as a resort improvement district, the amount of five million.
We're so into government code section two five two on four point four second.
Okay. I would like to also make comments go for it.
And it's my district.
I'll keep it quick.
I know that things are going on this morning, but I see this for long forgiveness is a way of cutting losses for the county and way of helping position this community to
receive grants successfully because they to my knowledge cannot receive grants while they have debt.
So that's a very important step for and they've also taken the very admirable step of increasing the fees on their parcels to move the whole process forward.
And so I think they're doing the right things. This is a way for us to help them continue getting the resources they need to upgrade the systems and make sure they're working.
And I am less confident about an enterprise fund being the right solution, but I would very much like to discuss it. So I absolutely support, you know, a discussion about.
Like various broadly and what the vision is for that area, I think it's it's high time we we have a close look at that.
This is an area that's been dealing with a lot of homes lost in fire recovery and that is in fact part of this problem here, which is there's less revenue to support the system because there's so many fewer homes.
You know, from the people who are still there, their property values are very important to them because, you know, as Supervisor, unless you have this tends to be a less wealthy community.
So, you know, it's not something that we just get to walk away from and we have to work.
And so, you know, you know, I'll just say I support for giving the loan as well. So I have a motion by Supervisor Gallagher and a second by was it control.
It was around a second by Ramas, my mistake.
But just if I could interject, there are two requested actions on behalf of the governing board.
In addition to the author's authorized submission of the attached letter, there's also authorized the auditor controller to make necessary budget area adjustments.
Sorry, amendments in accounting transactions to clear the outstanding loan liability with a corresponding revenue for the forgiveness in the amount of five million dollars plus a crude interest.
So just wanted to clear.
Chair, man, brief.
And I don't know if Mr. Silk was going on to the next item, but we purposely separated the county's action from in bread.
So in bread's action is to approve the letter and then we'll move on to the next one and do the county's piece.
Thank you. That was my understanding. So right now we're looking at approval and authorization for the chair to sign a letter requesting waiver of repayment loans made by an applicant.
A county to end bread in the amount of five million dollars pursuant to government code section 25214.4 and that's a motion by Gallagher second by Ramas.
All those in favor.
I.
Passes unanimously and now we have item 90 consideration impossible adoption of a resolution waving the repayment of loans made to the map of various a resort improvements district in the amount of five million dollars pursuant to government code section 25214.
And for this one, I have a staff report by Michael Climin listed. I don't know if.
If we've already discussed it thoroughly enough, but okay, welcome, Michael.
And I welcome your report.
I don't have anything additional to report, but we are obviously here to take the if we're moving forward. There's two additional actions by the Board of Supervisors.
And I can read that to you.
Okay, so the requested action as county border supervisors is adopt the resolution.
Waving repayment of the outstanding loans to the district in the amount of five million plus a crude interest.
And authorized the auditor controller to make the necessary budgetary amendments and accounting transactions to clear the outstanding loan receivable.
And with the corresponding expenditure for the forgiveness in the general fund in the amount of two million four hundred forty nine thousand.
And in the capital projects fund accumulated the capital out late in the amount of two million five hundred fifty one thousand plus interest.
Thank you. Do we have any public comment on this item.
Not seeing anyone in the room approaching the podium. Is there anyone on the funds? No. Okay, then.
Are there any additional. Okay, I have an additional.
I have something to.
I'm just procedural. I don't see that second part on the agenda.
Nor is it in the staff report. I don't think the only thing on the agenda is resolution waving the repayment of loans.
So you know what it showed up at this.
It's at the end of it. It's not in request to the action.
Yeah, at the end of the staff agenda.
It just didn't make it into the recommendation.
Make sure everything's on.
Yeah.
Thanks.
Thank you. Good point for clarity.
Supervisor. All right, I'll make that motion.
Supervisor, Leslie, did you have a comment?
No, I just thought you might want to make the motion. I want to make sure that Gallagher was had our question.
Answer.
Because I see that you're focused in Gallagher had questions.
Just think of ice chair.
Thank you, vice chair.
All right. I have a motion by control.
Do I have a second?
What?
I'll second. Okay. Motion by control.
Second, vice supervisor, Leslie. All those in favor.
I.
Thank you.
Okay. Thank you very much.
Yes. I can tell. We've been.
Having a long warning.
Okay.
So let's just check in about time here.
We have item nine items nine E and nine F nine E is possibly a 30 to 40 minute item and the same for nine
F and it is 1145. So.
We also have a closed session and numerous public hearings this afternoon, which will probably go fairly quickly.
Maybe 20 minutes after that.
So we could take the public hearings now.
No.
We don't have a lot of it.
Public here for E.
Yeah, I think we should do that.
Okay.
So.
What?
Yeah.
Yeah. Okay.
We're going to go to item ninety proof chance middle of the proposed response to the 2526 grand jury report.
Fear of ice in the valley.
Mappacani law enforcement's response to the presiding judge of the Nappacani superior court as prescribed by section 933 of the penal code.
And for this one, we have a staff report from legislative and policy analyst Andrew Mice.
Whenever you're ready.
Members of Board, thank you for your time today. My name is Andrew Mines. I need legislative and policy analyst for NAPA County.
I am before your Board today to provide the proposed response of the Board's ad hoc committee on inclusivity to the April 13, 2020-26. NAPA County civil grandeur report, fear of ice in the valley, NAPA County law enforcement's response.
Should your Board approve these recommendations, staff will transmit the proposed response to the presiding judge of the NAPA County Superior Court, as prescribed by section 933 of the California penal code.
I want to pause for a moment to thank the members and four person of the civil grand jury for their time and attention in researching and producing this report.
It is cogent and pertinent and reflects careful attention to detail.
The matter hand is emotionally charged and complex.
Further California law on local government interactions with federal immigration enforcement authorities is ever shifting and subject to frequent litigation.
The substance of the proposed response reinforces this organization's compelling and narrowly tailored interest in public safety as the bottom line purpose of local law enforcement.
This compelling local interest frames the decisions proposed in the response.
The proposed response lays out three operational changes of which the CEO will direct immediate implementation if approved by the Board today.
The first policy change of your Board's ad hoc committee is to no longer exercise the full extent of the county's statutory authority to respond to federal detainant requests based on prior misdemeanor convictions that could have been charged as a felony or misdemeanor.
These kinds of crimes are known as wobbler offenses because they can wobble between felony and misdemeanor based on prosecutorial judicial and jury discretion.
Although responses to detainant requests based on misdemeanor wobbler offenses are permitted by California law the proposal prescribes future responses to detainant requests that could otherwise be made using a misdemeanor wobbler offense as a qualifying charge.
The second policy change is a restriction on the felony wobbler look back period.
California law permits local personnel to look back 15 years on felony wobbler convictions for qualified charges.
However, the proposal prescribes future responses to detainant requests for felony wobbler convictions older than 10 years.
This proposed change recognizes that it is appropriate to respond accordingly and proportionally to broader societal changes.
In this moment, the proposal acknowledges that the maximum allowable look back period permitted by California law no longer furthers the original purpose of this policy.
Finally, the grand jury recommended that the board conduct more frequent and evening truth act hearings and also disclose additional categories of information about individuals, including age, gender, country board and recidivism.
As to more frequent hearing, the ad hoc committee recommends and staff have in the interest of responsiveness and transparency already developed and executed a real time dashboard with information about responses to detainant requests.
This goes above and beyond the grand jury's recommendation to hold more frequent hearings and exceeds any of our sister counties in the Bay Area in terms of its transparency.
The dashboard is publicly available on the Napper County website and reinforcing our interest in transparency is easily accessed by clicking the dedicated permanent California values act link on the Department of Corrections in custody menu.
The Department of Corrections staff have populated the database back to January 1 to 2026 and continue to update the page in ongoing fashion, including if applicable, the charge qualifying and individual fur response to detainant requests.
I am happy to answer any clarifying questions from the board in advance of public comment and subsequent motion and as needed discussion of that motion. Thank you.
Mr. Mays, do we have any, I'm sorry, I'll take public comment first, is there anyone in the room wishing to comment welcome.
I feel have three minutes.
Still morning. Good morning, everyone. My name is Adrian Maldonado and I'm the director of the Community Leaders Coalition and a partner of the Napper Valley together collaborative.
First, I just want to say thank you to all of you and your staff.
Also, Sheriff Ortiz and the County Department heads for taking the time to engage in conversations and recognizing community based organizations like our collaborative Napper Valley together as partners in this work.
I acknowledge the board for being thoughtful, getting clear and aligned on their policy.
It is not easy, it's not an easy decision or easy conversations to have, but we're really shines through as the importance of having open lines of communication.
It is important that together we work to be to be a Napper that is safe for all residents and ensure makes that as an immigrant neighbors feel welcomed and like they belong unconditionally.
The issues raised in the grand jury report touch on important questions around public safety, transparency, trust and belonging.
So thank you again to all the members and advocates who share their experiences and their expertise throughout that process.
Community knowledge is an important part of understanding how policies are experienced on the ground.
Through our work in the strengthening immigrant families.
Committee, we have heard from many residents across an IP County that they are retreating from public life avoiding services and becoming increasingly isolated out of concern and fear for themselves and for others.
When people retreat into the shadows our entire community loses our opportunities for connection, trust and participation.
We're also hearing our community wants to trust our elected officials and law enforcement.
But would like clear and concise communication in order to feel supported and better understand the law.
Information that is lengthy, fragmented or not in their primary language is often bypassed and seen as unreliable.
That is why transparency and communication and community engagement matters so much.
So I encourage the board to revisit the recommendations provided by the Napper Valley together team.
In addition to providing clarity on SB 54, how it will be enforced locally and suggestions for collective way forward to our organizations for the benefit of our larger community.
I am also grateful for the work that the language access committee and all of the progress that has been made.
So thank you for for that work. However, the constant change and policy environment creates an environment of confusion.
So I believe there's still an opportunity to strengthen language justice by continuing to partner with community organizations and residents to co create solutions that are accessible culturally responsive and grounded and lived experience.
Hello. Good morning, supervisors and county staff. My name is Madeline Hernandez and I am the directing attorney for IBA partner in Napper Valley together and member of the CLC.
I would like to thank the supervisors, Sheriff and Department of Corrections for your partnership.
Thank you for taking the time to thoughtfully respond to the grand jury report.
We applaud your response and agree with the proposed implemented changes.
We encourage the county to consider aligning its practices even more with other Bay Area counties that place a greater emphasis on due process rehabilitation and the passage of time since a criminal conviction.
Our first recommendation is to consider the amount of time that has elapsed since an individual's criminal conviction, not just for the wobblers, but also for the violent felonies and serious felonies.
A conviction that has occurred many years ago does not accurately reflect a person's current relationship to public safety.
Incorporating the age of a conviction into policy and decisions promotes fairness, supports evidence-based correctional practices and principles of rehabilitation and allows resources to be focused on cases involving recent serious criminal conduct.
Our second recommendation is that ice notification requests not be honored when an individual has pending charges only and no qualifying criminal conviction.
This recommendation is grounded in the principle that individuals facing pending charges are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.
A policy that distinguishes between pending charges and qualifying criminal convictions would promote fairness, consistency, and public confidence in the administration of justice.
We must respect and uphold our court procedures and processes and Napa County should not hold non-US citizens to a higher or different standard than others.
Our last recommendation is to have an immigration attorney within the Napa County Public Defender's office.
Sonoma Contra Costa, Alameda San Francisco, Marin, and Santa Clara counties have recognized that immigration consequences are often among the most serious outcomes a person can face after a criminal case.
These counties have invested in specialized immigration expertise to ensure that non-citizen residents received constitutionally effective representation.
Napa County has a diverse immigrant community that contributes significantly to our economy, our workforce, and our culture, yet individuals facing criminal charges here may not have access to the same level of specialized immigration defense support available in neighboring counties.
A dedicated immigration attorney would provide expert guidance on immigration consequences and representation in immigration court because there are no court appointed attorneys for those who cannot afford one in immigration court.
This assessment would promote fairness improve the quality of representation and bring Napa County into alignment with neighboring jurisdictions.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Thank you.
Welcome.
Good morning Board of Supervisors and community members.
My name is Esmeral DeGale, I am the Executive Director of Portasavieta's Community Resource Center.
We are also in Napa Valley together, part and organization and member of the Community Leaders Coalition.
And I also want to say thank you for your thoughtful attention that you have given to the grants or a report and for continuing to engage with the community and these important conversations.
Portasavieta as we spend every day listening to community members and what we continue to hear from many immigrant and mixed status families is uncertainty and fear.
Not because they have done something wrong or because they are threat to anyone but because they are trying to understand what comes next in an environment where policies, information and rhetoric seem to be changing constantly.
We hear from parents wondering whether it's safe to attend community events or take their kids to the park from older adults who are hesitant to seek services.
So they don't draw attention to themselves and for families who are unsure where to turn to for information they can trust.
What concerns us most is not simply the fear itself, but it's what happens because of it.
People be entered with draw from community life become isolated and disconnect from the resources and relationships that are helping them thrive.
That is why belonging matters.
immigrant families are deeply woven into the fabric of Napa County.
They are neighbors, co-workers, student, business owners, volunteers, friends and parents.
They make Napa what it is.
Every person deserves to feel safe and know that they belong not simply because of the labor they provide.
The language they speak or the documents they carry, but because they are human and part of this community.
Over the past year, Portasavieta as our partners in Napa Valley together have worked tirelessly to be visible and available.
To provide accurate information, trusted resources and safe spaces that our immigrant community can turn to during these times.
We know that trusted relationships matter and we are already seeing what is possible when people come together.
Hundreds of community members have stepped forward to become legal observers.
Neighbors have volunteered to accompany families to appointments and court hearings.
Organizations have come together to share information and resources and build strategies that protect our community.
People have asked not only how do I protect myself, but how do I support my neighbors.
That is a solid area we are talking about the community action we need and that is the Napa that we are.
That is also why decisions made in rooms like this matter.
The way we talk about our community, the partnerships we build, the investments we make and the messages we send.
All help shape whether people feel welcome to valued and connected.
So I just want to reiterate how important it is for our Board of Supervisors to connect.
Continued creating compassionate spaces for dialogue engagement and partnership with the community, because
the community does want to continue hearing from you. And I'll just end with a we all share responsibility
for shaping the kind of nappa that we want to live in and a nappa where people don't have to earn their
belonging or prove their worth where every person is treated with humanity and a nappa rooted in dignity,
people longing, safety and care for one another. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Gill. Is there a welcome?
Yeah. Morning, Chris Keely, nappa county public defender. And I don't think it comes to any
one surprise that I would like none of our clients turned over dice. That being said, I am very
grateful that you all were willing to go over policy 604 with a fine tooth comb and really
analyze, which offenders and which offenses really should be reported to ICE so that ICE will
come to our community and potentially pick them up. I have two suggestions, the first and it
piggybacks on Ms. Hernandez's statement. When it comes to people who have only how to preliminary hearing
or only been indicted by grand jury, if they are taken into ICE custody and remain in ICE custody,
you are inadvertently thwarting their criminal justice rights. They have a right to have a
jury trial, a speedy jury trial. In front of it, the where jurors determine their guilt, where
their attorney can advocate for their innocence, where witnesses will testify before guilt is determined.
If they remain in ICE custody, they can't have that. Pits go on. And justice delayed can be justice denied.
So I would ask that you reconsider the policy per bidding disclosure when there is only a preliminary
hearing or indictment. And the second suggestion I have is to supplement the disclosure so that
the attorney who was in criminal court with the offender who was convicted of a crime would be notified.
People don't understand their due process rights. If we can assist them, even though we will not
defend them in immigration court because we don't have this staffing, we would like to do that.
The current policy I believe is that either family or the attorney can be notified. I would like to be
notified. I have never been notified. Thank you.
Okay, thank you for those very helpful comments. Is there anyone else in the room?
I'm not seeing anyone is there anyone on the phone?
No? No? Okay. Then I will bring this back to the board for questions.
Is there anyone on the board with questions or
I guess comments at this time? Supervisor control? Well, I first I want to thank you to everyone who
came today in spoke and also thanks to our board colleagues who are serving on the
ad hoc on this. So I would love to hear from them. We've heard a couple of new ideas.
My first thought honestly is to say, do you want some time to consider those suggestions and come back to us?
But I'd love to hear from them. Supervisor almost. Thank you. I'm happy to respond and to
provide some insight into how we went through this. In addition to my thoughts and
Supervisor Gallagher, we've had a number of meetings. First meeting with the
Napa Valley Together group and to understand some of the concerns, but also we lived in staff and we had
the sheriff. We had our director of corrections. We had the CEO at times we had Mr. Mise at times
and we really did look at the implications, I guess, to provide a little background. When SB
54 came about originally, a prior board, a predecessor for one that I was not a part of,
a swung the pendulum very, very light, I would say, on very light responses in terms of what is
allowable in the spectrum that is SB 54. When we had an officer involved shooting that
involved a probationer, that was undocumented in that moment where our community was coming
out and coming together and to meet that moment at that time, understanding what immigration
enforcement was at that moment. We moved on the spectrum and I would say probably on the more
conservative side that we had moved and what I really see us doing at this moment is to look at
how do we respond to the current moment and what is happening as requested by the grand jury.
When it comes to, I'll touch upon a couple of the things and the changes that we have made
and when we look at the misdemeanors, this change really comes about because of changes in Prop 36.
So the last time that we had reviewed this policy in regards to responses and there's some
language that I've heard and it's interactions, cooperation I've heard should be reported.
None of that is happening. We respond to requests from immigration and what we are doing here is
narrowing the scope of what that permissible response is and providing certainty to our
correctional officers so that everyone knows how to accurately respond to these requests.
And when we look at what happened from a timing standpoint, Prop 36 has been a big shift in criminal justice.
And when SB 54 was originally put on the books, there were prior iterations of what were misdemeanors
were actually felonies and so this wobbler idea really comes about from we've had shifts in criminal justice
log through initiative that have happened in California that it really did cover that well if Prop
and Sheriff 45 was it was what was the prior iteration 47. Thank you. Prop 47 made some felonies,
misdemeanors and this is where this wobbler language came up and it was like well a year ago it was something
it was a different categorization of crime. Prop 36 then has another shift and Prop 36 has these
great language complications that frankly as a committee we looked and decided that it would be
it would be difficult and I will say on my part I would say overly burdensome for our staff to try and
interpret what in fact meets that standard and so aided by the Jim Grandjuries recommendation the wobblers
are out so that there is it's literally wobbler being in that great area there's no great area.
When we look at the the prior iteration of our policy had a look back on felonies not the there's
felonies on the appendix one on appendix two had a look back 15 years and when we when we kind
of discuss as a committee we we we we had less that untouched after having an opportunity to meet with
advocates from from the Napa Valley together group supervisor Gallagher and I've caucused a bit and
we looked at where where we could find where we could find a middle ground and one of the things
that where we we relied upon is in immigration when you're applying for adjustment and citizenship there's a
there's a question in regards to crimes of moral turpitude and that's a 10 year look back and so we
utilized that that's that's standard again it's it's not anything anything that is set in stone
SB 54 allows us to go to 15 we're recommending that we that we come down in regards to
the preliminary here and we've had many discussions about this with the sheriff with corrections
with with council as well I don't see Cory in the room but is she in the room I don't know
Cory in the room I don't think so and we've had many many discussions in regards to to preliminary hearings
ultimately what what you have before you is the is the is the result of our our group thinking
and what we what we do believe is a best practice at this moment the preliminary hearing process
doesn't fact already have a hearing by a judicial officer it is not just a holdover on on a on a
declaration of an officer there there is in fact a hearing and so from our perspective looking at SB 54
what is allowable in SB 54 and trying to balance the interests that have been raised as as concerns
with some slight modifications we do feel that they that we haven't reached a and what we are referring
for your approval is a middle of the road in regards to the other question was council
we acknowledge that in fact other counties are unable to provide council
at this moment you know as we see our budget and revenue standpoint that is a restraint on us to be
able to make that recommendation if certainly if that is what the board wishes you know see here
in two weeks we could talk we could talk about it then with that big budget but that you have but you know
we've we've and if if the board is interested in knowing that I think then we need to make a referral
the CEO to tell what that cost would be but I will say we do not have a a structure in place right now
to provide legal services beyond those that are required right this is not just adding an attorney to
the public defender's office is actually looking at scope of work as well and to provide some
parameters and policies to support that not something that we we felt at this moment we were able to
to recommend for for your consideration what I will say in that regard and supervisor Galger and I have
talked a little bit you know through various grant programs we have in fact done this before through initiatives
to support greater expansion efforts through the probation department right if someone is able to
clean up their their record when allowable by by law that can also provide a protection for them as
well and so that is something that we can look at separately and work in a coordinated fashion with the
public defender probation and and the district attorney's office to make that happen I think that there are
other steps that we are able to take before we go through a full fledged really bringing in and in
house legal aid and regards to the question posed by our public defender Miss Kelly for the form
notification I the I hesitate and and there was discussion about automatic notification that I think is
a troublesome part if the the person that is in custody does not choose to have you notified
that we struggle with we did provide a form and and to ensure that there is a notification and
opportunity but also making sure that it's not an elaborate list that is the recommendation that we're
making at at this time I think I answered the questions and concerns and I'd be happy to answer
anything else that you want my favorite tellers purple thank you to illuminating to hear some of the
background conversations for a supervisor Gallagher thank you so yes we have a lot of meetings
and we worked hard to get this to a place where we felt we could bring it to the board and I am actually
still very interested in hearing what my colleagues think of our recommendation
I actually agree with a lot of what Mr. Hernandez and Ms. Kaley have suggested. I do have a problem. I have had these concerns within our meetings and I express those concerns. Again, we were trying to weave a lot of things together and get it to a place where we could get our colleagues to weigh in as well.
I do believe that Ms. Kaley is very thoughtful in saying that, you know, if we have if someone who has had a preliminary hearing ends up in ice custody, there is a big question about whether we are thwarting that due process and allowing that person to actually go through our criminal justice system.
And be held to account for the crime they committed in our community.
So I am definitely open to looking at that. I also think that it's really important that people understand that they can make a disclosure to their attorney.
I think that it is not unreasonable to say, you know, here's the form. Who would you like notified family friend and what attorney would you like notify?
I don't think that that would be difficult or excessive in any way.
I also I brought this up probably at least a year ago or more.
I'm very interested in continuing to look at opportunities to bring an immigration attorney into our public defender's office.
I think it's very, very important.
And we have a lot of examples in neighboring counties as Ms. Hernandez mentioned and I think it's a really important service and we should continue to look at that.
I understand we don't have the budget currently for that, but you know a budget is stating our priorities and I think we should have a discussion about what those priorities are and how we might go about providing that service.
Let's see what else.
I think that might be most of what was asked for.
So I am happy to have participated in the process.
I worked with everyone and I'm happy to bring this to our board.
I want to thank the sheriff. I want to thank our corrections director.
Everyone was extremely collaborative and transparent and we had excellent many, many hours of discussion.
And I think I just want to remind everybody that unlike anywhere else in California.
The Board of Supervisors in this county has responsibility for the policies of corrections.
And so we take those responsibilities very, very seriously and we need to make sure that those policies reflect our values.
So thank you.
Okay, thank you here comments and I guess I don't know if this is a question or just a comment but what we're looking at right now is improving the transmittal of the proposed response and I do think there's you know there's some room for future discussion.
I don't, you know, but maybe as a more as a referral and coming back, so supervisor Lesio.
Thank you.
I appreciate everybody listening to everybody first on this and thank you.
Supervisor Ramles and director for your work on the ad hoc with everybody.
I do think it's important well two things I'd like to know really if staff knows and I'd like to bring call the sheriff out.
Listen listening and partaking in this entire meeting today.
Is the number of detainees that we've seen last year and this year versus prior years because I'm just kind of wanting to get in terms of the number of.
That has potentially increased because I think that's important.
I think it's because for me it's it allows me to see what what we're doing is.
If you will not calling too much attention to our self and therefore maybe because we've been taking small moves that are still progressive and still trying to get to the goal has allowed.
For us a for community for everybody in this community versus some that make a big swing and call attention.
If you will.
And then the distinction of hope in this year can provide this distinction in terms of what is our local authority.
What can we do locally and what's beyond our authority that's really federal.
And I think is the sheriff still here.
Okay, if I can ask the sheriff to kind of help us with that I don't know which part you can answer but.
Okay, thank you and do we need to pause for a minute.
Could I see that we've got work over here with the clerk.
Yeah, yeah, go ahead to chair.
I am asking stop to pull up our live tracker to answer your question is to the number.
I think that that will be helpful for you to see and then go.
I'm very helpful to have a done.
Okay, so the maybe didn't just kind of discuss the distinction between our authority and federal authority this beyond what we.
The scope of what we can.
Well, yeah, but first off, I just want to shout out not to value together in the group of we met with just fantastic people very.
Since here concern and since and a lot of empathy for the community which I share not empathy and that concern and we had very productive meetings with them.
And they've been wonderful for the last year and a half and we've had to go back and forth.
My concern is also sincere and I also empathetic to this community is my community is by lots of friends in this community.
And really, you know, the suggestions may today or I can totally understand and as you read your Gallagher pointed out to your jail, to your policy, you guys get to make the decision.
However, I just want to throw a little warning light out there that sometimes decisions have unintended consequences.
And what I mean by that is regardless of what decision you make today and I mean I'm here to support whatever decision you make.
If what we do know is then when federal ice agents when you end up on their list of somebody that they want to get when everything they've done this far has been targeted.
We've learned that their persistent if they don't get you the first time to come to Napa they'll come and find you again two or three days later.
And what that looks like is if somebody's on their list and they're at the jail it's two ice agents one car and they pick up the person on those rare occasions where it qualifies under Senate bill 54.
If they're not in the jail and it's underless it's four or five cars and eight or ten agents wearing masks in the parking lot of the apartment complex with the person lives.
So it's a very very different operation and that is the operation that really creates a lot of disruption in the community and that.
I don't I that I'm of I'm afraid of because my phone blows up on those and people get very scared and kids don't go to school and and people don't need their house.
So whatever decision you make this look at it for the lens of.
You know are we pushing ice to go do and find the people they want to find in the community versus the rare occasion and AJ can speak to the number of occasions when they can just pick somebody up with the jail which is two ice agents in one car.
So again, it's your decision to make but just there could be some unintended consequences depending on where you land and I think that answers your question.
Any of the any other requests from net life or together, sorry, definitely together.
And Chris Keeley are you know public defender director.
Do any of those crossover where we don't have the authority to address those or any of those crossing to the federal.
Where is one make sure we're.
Well, we're the authority is in the bigger the bigger debate is how to get how the people end up on that list right of how ice is prioritizing who they want to find.
How do you end up on that list is an undocumented immigrant and that's really out of all of our hands that's a federal thing, but obviously policy shift administration is shift and then those lists get bigger or shorter by that.
So I don't know that we have any authority on who ice decides to target.
I know we hear the narrative of the worst of the worst.
I think that's debatable.
I think we've seen some low hanging fruit easy to find folks with you know convictions that have made it to their list.
Those aren't really jail transfer, those are some of the ones we've seen in the community, but that is really out of our per view.
Okay, thank you for that.
And then I know AJ did you or we're going to put up the track on terms of just looking at.
I'm just looking at is there a trend is it really everything a big shift in the big increase.
And the county does overall.
At this time, we can show you how what we've done on the take or take.
So if you go to anybody in the public can go to the Department of Corrections website now.
And if you scroll down you can click the in custody button right there and then you look out on the table.
You see one of the bullets right there says California values act SB 54 and members of the public can click on that and see and it's a live ticker tape.
And then they can put the date range in and like we had discussed earlier.
We that we started as January 1st and as of today July 2nd which I put up on the board.
I'm for you. So at this time out of the people ice has taken in three peat has.
There's been three responses and if you scroll to the to the right I think it it'll have yeah minimize it a little bit.
There should be one more.
Yeah.
So like as you can see right there out of the three that that we've complied with.
They've taken two in custody that did not take one in custody.
And we have this time we've had three as of this year that have been picked up by ice.
I see two here but there was one prior to this this like there's there's going to pick up.
There was three that we responded to the request.
Yes.
There and out yeah there was two and they out of the three they did not pick up one.
Correct.
So there's two that they picked up so far and one that they did not.
And how does that how is that really consistent with past years that you write recall.
I think when I do the presentation I think we were about nine last year if I've looked at from my responses with the grand jury when we were.
They were inquiring about that.
I've never felt familiar.
Yeah.
And so at this point we're halfway through the year which you know we're at three.
Yeah.
It's not going to hurt to per se and so it hasn't we haven't seen a huge huge increase in that regard.
Okay.
And thank you for that.
And could as IT and your work with IT to provide this to the public and the new website on the other side.
IT too.
Okay.
You know I'm I'm here as a in and again this is.
I want to do what's right and best for the greater good.
And really appreciate the time that not going forward.
Had with me we.
Not really together forward together go by y'all.
But we had I recently and you know.
I think about this in a couple different ways.
One how do we keep our community safe.
How do we prevent further trauma and injustice in our community.
And that's for folks who live in our community in fear now which if you raise me.
And that includes against the violent crimes.
Child abuse, domestic violence, elder abuse that we know are all way underserved.
And people reacting and retracting.
Also makes it difficult for them to.
Get the help or feel like they can get the help that they need to keep themselves safe to and the system the general justice system to work.
So I'm looking at this.
I don't have a clear view of the best steps forward.
I have on face value.
You know what.
Neppet Valley.
Together's proposed.
I hear you that.
You know that sounds good on face value.
The deputy.
Public defender.
Same thing.
But I'm very concerned about.
Making too big of move.
To draw too much attention to bring more people.
From outside in here to creating more fear in our community.
More fear in the neighborhoods.
The sheriff.
You know.
Described.
And.
And again, the victims.
Of crime in our community.
So I don't have.
I don't have.
I don't have a recommendation much or what to do at this point.
But that's this kind of why I'm not.
Thank you.
Professor.
Thank you.
Again, thanks to.
Neppet Valley together really appreciated that meeting.
And I think one of the things.
Hearing from you about snapshots of what's in the community.
I mean, we are ground level electives.
And so it's really important for us to know what's happening on the ground.
And then we have the opportunity to communicate it up to folks at the state level too.
So thank you for that and know that you're messaging goes all the way up there.
So I want to again, thank you to my colleagues for this recommendation.
And I hear what you're both saying about trying to find the middle line.
And I also, you know, the things that.
I'm wondering about our.
I appreciate the public defender's point about.
Funding an immigration attorney and the notification piece.
Uh, back to supervisor.
Supervisor Romus is point about we're struggling.
We're going to be dealing with the budget in two weeks.
So at this point, I can't support at that.
The new FTE request.
The notification one seems like an easier ask. But then I'm also hearing the sheriff's point about unintended consequences.
So I think where I go here is I want to support the work that the ad hoc is done. So I am willing to make a motion to support what the recommendations as presented.
Thank you for that motion. I see. I hear second. And I see supervisor Gallagher.
Thank you. And I think it helps to frame this. I think it's one of my colleagues.
I see that this is putting this response forward to the grand jury. This is just a piece of what it is we're doing today.
That is important. That's our only action today is to do that.
And I know our discussion has gone beyond that. And I think that it warrants more discussion. So I'm in favor of moving the grand jury response forward.
I do want to point out, though, that I don't believe that any of the recommendations that came from.
Now, the valley together or from our.
Our public defender make our community less safe or make us more visible in some way to the federal government.
The internal policies and they are ways of working with SB 54 and doing what we have to do while not exposing people in a way that could harm them human rights.
And so I don't think that that doesn't connect for me. I don't think that this opens us up to federal scrutiny or anything like that.
So that's just not something that resonates for me.
And I do think that it's incumbent upon us to continue the conversation but also be able to respond to the requests of Napa Valley together and to our public defender and have more discussion about it because it is our duty to do that.
These policies are our policies and so we have to be able to read it and examine those and make decisions about them.
Whether or not we feel you know where the experts we we don't have to be the experts we have lots of people that we can consult with.
But ultimately they land on us.
But I'm happy to move the recommendations forward to the grand jury or responses.
Okay, so similarly I appreciate and support the work of the ad hoc committee and I presume the ad hoc committee is continuing.
You haven't fired us.
Yeah.
Yeah, so great.
Thank you.
I just want to continue.
I just make sure because I think this is not going conversation and that's really what I'm trying to say there which is that I think that this is you know ongoing work things continually change and
and I appreciate the work that's gone on so far and in the points that we're brought forward today.
So I have a motion from supervisor.
Control on the floor with a second by supervisor Ramos.
All those in favor.
Hi.
That passes unanimously and we can continue the conversation and also move on to the next item also.
It's 12 30.
Our next item is receiving.
A presentation for the sheriff's office 2025 annual report so this is probably a 30 minute item.
Are we good pushing through?
Yeah.
Okay.
So take a comfort break if you need one and we're going to go ahead and receive a presentation from sheriff or tease welcome.
Thank you for being with us for this very long morning, which is now the afternoon.
Good morning.
Good afternoon, I guess.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Good morning afternoon chair and supervisor.
Today I'm asking for her.
I'm bringing forth the our annual report something.
I've done since 2021.
Our annual report is there's a lot of work that goes into that so I would want to.
I appreciate you for the under sheriff and all that command staff as well as deputy commons.
We did a lot of the work and together some of the data.
We use this to tell our story to the community from year to year, but we also use it so we can look for trends.
Let's see where we're at and what we need to kind of focus our resources going forward, whether it's training or positions as we kind of see what's happening.
The community is sheriff all off and get asked, you know, how are things looking as crime uppers, crime down those types of questions.
So it's a good opportunity to to publish something, put it out to our community and stakeholder partners up and down the valley and kind of let me look.
People know what their sheriff's office is up to.
So a couple of things, they do want to when we think sheriff's office, we think just traditional law enforcement.
And I think the simple answer is crime is flat, it's not up, it's not really down, we're still going to call for service.
We're definitely we have a lot of what what we describe in an in our vernacular as a ten eight time, which is available time to that we can actually be out there or the head on the swivel.
Well, I don't work great very, very more so what we all sleep at night.
Your deputies are out there looking for nefarious activity so that people aren't breaking into cars or breaking into businesses.
So we have plenty of ten eight time still.
It's been a little challenging with some of the staffing shortage, I'll speak to that in a little bit.
But deputies are really out there doing great work and keeping us all safe.
I do want to point out some statistics that are, so the statistic gathering has changed.
We just caught this this morning, thanks to Mr. Evelyn from the Universal Crime Reporting, which is a catch all under the title rape.
And it includes a lot of other violent sexual assaults that aren't narrow as the narrow definition of what a rape is.
To the nitrogen reporting, which we transitioned to, which is very narrow, narrow definition of what constitutes a rape.
So the actual number, if we were to compare past years, if we're comparing apples to apples, is for 2024, the number should read 24, not nine.
And for 2023, the number should read 19.
So we just caught that error this morning from, we transitioned to neighbors from UCR.
But again, crime is essentially flat.
We also provide services services division that's, you know, restraining orders, serving paperwork and evictions as well as our corners bureau.
So we're still trying to figure out what we're going to land on our evictions number because of little disruption called COVID.
So obviously, evictions were almost non-existent for a while.
And then there was a kind of a true period when we came out of COVID, where we saw an artificial spike in a number of evictions.
And it appears we're kind of settling back into a, you know, 2019 norm 2018 norm numbers of evictions.
I do want to point out a few, there's more highlight, highlighted cases in your annual report publication.
I put one up at the dials for each of you, but the internet crimes against children, I cat cases.
We have specially trained detectives who do this crime fighting from behind a screen, you know, internet crime fighting.
And this is these cases are very troubling when you have people looking to trade child pornography or create child pornography that they can trade, which is even worse, which we had a case in March.
And involving that type of cases kind of one of the worst of the worst of the worst kinds of cases, if you will.
I also want to point out in June of 2025, there's seven hour standoff in England involving our SWAT team and much of our advanced military equipment.
Or what would be described as air quotes military equipment in the prior consent item you had today.
You know, I always say, I say, we don't really have any military equipment all our equipment is law enforcement equipment, but it's all for safety.
And we did have a seven hour standoff with a individual that was armed and shot at a relative and then shot at our deputies and not resulted in a peaceful resolution.
It's making this way through the courts now, so very proud of the team and the assistance we got also from San Alina Police Department on that call for service.
It was a very high stress critical incident that resolved peacefully.
As you all know, August of 2025, we had a depicket fire.
We were fortunate, and that there was a lot of evacuations or populated area.
It was an impact to Calistoga and Pope Valley.
But again, the deputies were going together with our friends at Cal Fire.
I think I had a good response to a very fast growing fire and some rough terrain, and we were able to exercise some of our systems in place.
In terms of evacuation evacuation communication communication, you're going to unify command.
And that is something we continue to work on and train on with our partners at Cal Fire.
And Andy September one that I'm highlighting, and I'll just give you a quick synopsis.
This was an absolute suicide by competence.
We knew that the person had threatened that they wanted law enforcement to kill them.
The person was threatening that they were armed with a firearm, turned out they were unarmed.
And in encounter with with your deputies.
This person very purposely quickly and violently reached for his waistband hoping to elicit a response.
And because in this particular incident, there was time was on our side.
So there was a plan in place.
There were tools in place.
Again, some of the tools that were mentioned in the consent item today were in place.
And the deputies were able to execute that plan.
Take this person into custody without shooting him.
And in that case is working to sway through the courts.
But it was the video actually made me jump when I watched the video because I was really surprised that the shots weren't fired.
But very high level of training from the deputies.
And just excellent job on their part on that September 2025 incident.
We have a sheriff's policy in a search and rescue.
These are community volunteers.
And then what I want to highlight today.
There's other ones mentioned in your report.
Is the community emergency response team.
These green vest teams are up and down.
We have various American canes are very well trained and good participation.
One of the top teams in the county.
But we have one in Napa and Kastoga.
And then we now have one that I'm very proud of and that's a Spanish search bill via.
So we've been offering classes in Spanish for basic search certification.
They've been well attended and then follow up because people go to class and they kind of give up on certain they don't participate anymore.
But our should do a via is quickly becoming one of our top performing cert teams.
There they've been you might see him at a parade doing traffic control or other functions, but they're they need monthly.
And they're just a great group.
We're very proud to bring that program on and it's really grown into a successful Spanish speaking sur program here in Napa County.
This slide I'll go over it quickly.
But you know, I spoke to the September incident with the suicide by cop at Tampa.
I spoke to the pick at fire training training training.
And that's kind of this capturing some of that data of how much training deputies go through.
And to really deliver from a top level of law enforcement to the community we serve.
All of you on the board are familiar with our pop team.
Or probably you're policing team, that's the teams you see at some of the town halls you may host.
Or when you have a quality of life issue in your district.
Whether it's a garbage dump happening somewhere in your district or a particular vandalism.
This really this pop team oftentimes is it's kind of the team that solves these these problems that aren't.
We're certainly responding to a 911 call, but it's more of a it's exactly what the title says.
The problem oriented policing so it's problem solving.
And as you can see the very busy 36 events that might even be an underestimate they might have done more than that.
So staffing that this topic spoke to it a couple weeks ago, but currently we're at 10 vacancies.
That is to in part to retirements, but it's also do we've grown we've got contract American Canyon has grown.
We now have four additional positions to to move incarcerated people from the new jail to court.
So the department is growing the retirements are happening and we've been struggling to keep up.
In 2025 we processed 776 applications.
Four or five years ago we were doing less than 300 so we essentially doubled our numbers for 2025 and we're going to double again thanks to our.
Join up a share of dot gov page.
We just had probably 40 protective perspective candidates show up yesterday.
I was able to meet with several of them to do some of the pre testing the physical agility testing and that is happening about every month.
So our number of applications that the program is working we're getting lots of applications.
We reserved several police academy spots for this summer at three different police academies and we're confident we're going to be fill all the spots that we deserve.
So that is what we plan to continue that that relationship with all start recruiting for at least another year and try to come back next year.
We're currently being used to be well low under this low single digits is my hope so.
The other thing that affects when chill is not just vacancies or injuries but it's somebody's in the academy or somebody's still on training they're not really staffing a shift.
So that so when I say it feels like 19 vacancies.
I mean we have people that are still training or people that are in the academy so they're not really filling a shift yet so that there's still we're still feeling a staffy short it's because they're not on their own.
As to their earlier slide there's a lot of training before somebody to let on their own given a patrol car to work by themselves.
I'm going to report I think I met it under half hour but I'm happy to answer any questions.
Okay so well you're you're a person was okay so I do I let's see.
Are we on my gosh? Is there any public comment on this item on the phones? Because there is no member of public in the room. Okay. Thank you, no one on the phones. Are there any questions or comments from the board related to this item?
See, supervisor Ramos and then after that supervisor Gallagher. Thank you. Thank you, Sheriff, for this report. I really wanted to focus on a couple of things that you've said in terms of I think I saw in the budget book that American King is that in two deputies. Correct. In the contract.
So the way that, no, kind of. And I'll explain. That's another way. The way we we structured this year, this fiscal year of the contract because there's so many edge loans on development and house building. And also on our staffing challenges is we wanted to put language in there that if it works for the city and it works for the county we would add up to two people in this upcoming fiscal year.
We've been talking to city hall in American Canyon. We are adding a plus one effective July one. We were slated to add another plus one at midyear at January and at this time city hall.
Which I appreciate because of where still training people is going to push that off at least until July. So we're going to be plus one for 2627. Not plus two.
The other part is, you know, when you talk about 10 vacancies feels like 19.
I would like I've asked this before. I think we need to start really looking at how we track and maybe it is outside of this.
How the workers' comp changes in regards to safety pepper are affecting that versus, you know, you still have a good chunk of your.
Your rank that is in the retirement at 50 but you're shifting over on the safety pepper side and so I think, you know, it would be helpful for us to kind of make sure.
I can say, you know, back in 2012, one of the warnings that we were given.
That the changes in the retirement age to those that have jobs like deputies and firefighters that are far more taxing on their bodies might not be so much realized if we have a lot of workers' comp issues.
So, I think it would be helpful to understand, you know, how much that might be playing into your windshield and your vacancy factors here.
Yeah, I don't have those specifics for you today, but I can tell you a lot of that windshield is we just had somebody graduate to the academy last Friday.
One, we have three others, they're still in the academy and we have three that are in FTO, so that's what seven quick math in my head of people that are adding to that windshield.
But we do have people out on injury, I don't know, I'll tell my head if they're pepper or classic.
But again, if that windshield includes people that are just unable to staff a shift yet because they're not fully trained.
Okay, and do.
Maybe this one's more HR, I don't know.
See, you can tell me.
Why do we include those that are at academy in your deputy rank and list?
Yeah.
They're not able to staff.
Why are we including that because it feels like we are skewing our own numbers if we know they're not ready to respond?
Yeah, I can speak to that a little bit in starting in fiscal year 2223.
The board authorize an over higher plus three because of that exact issue.
So, you know, while the sheriff's office has allocated 116 sworn positions, we can recruit up to 119.
Those three kind of bonus positions are essentially a limited term trainee position so that they don't count against us.
And that is why we're able to go from 250 applications to 760 is having that over higher by three authorization for the training position.
Okay.
And in terms of, I'll stick on the, it's part first.
So, you said we added four for transportation for movement from the correctional facility and could you, could you speak to that that's the Monday through Friday going to the courthouse?
I'm assuming.
Correct.
So, we already had prior to the move of the new jail.
We already had a team of deputies and they're taking incarcerated people to medical appointments outside of the facility.
They're picking up fugitive people from other jails and bringing it back to an appetite if they snap at charges when they have warrants.
And they're taking people to stay prison on every, every couple of months of busloaded safe prison.
So, with the move of the new jail, not being, you know, one tunnel away from court when it was here in downtown Napa.
We're having to move, we're mourning runs and then midday or midmorning afternoon runs back and forth to to the new facility.
And then, you know, sometimes if court gets late there might be, you know, if a incarcerated person is in court late they might not be getting it back over to the jail till after five o'clock.
So, that constant movement back and forth is the four positions.
Only one of those four is a staff by an FTE.
And I can share that a lot of the work in that space this time and it's not for, it's not a long-term solution.
Is we're using retired in the lieutenant deputy sheriff's deputies that are retired and they're kind of keeping us whole and, you know, plug in those gaps until we get our staffing up.
Thank you.
And I think this is one of the interesting parts of when we relocated our correctional facility, understanding the, the additional impacts that that would occur.
I think it's, I'll just say, maybe I'm going to go ahead and just log this over as a referral.
I think it, it behooves us to look at.
Once we, we're going to get to a year mark here and in August, we'll get to a year mark of of the move in into the correctional facility to understand what those staffing demands are.
Especially on those routine court appearances now that we have the medical clinic and we have providers coming in certainly the transportation on that side has as decreased.
But we've increased it over on the, on the, on the correctional, on, sorry, on hearings and required court appearances.
So I think it would be helpful for us to kind of quantify that and understand it and, and to just say we use to when corrections was that hall of justice, they're actually back in the day there was hearing room inside of the building.
And to be able to handle some of those appearances and this may, in fact, be a moment for us to look at what the demands are for transportation and if it makes sense for us to even.
You even add like a court annex much like we have at juvenile hall and to add a court annex that the correctional facility, we have plenty of space there to be able to address.
The do process concerns and the holding concerns and also the transportation concerns so I'll just put that out there and then.
On the, all start, you said, all start the contract, we have for at the, not the recruit that the marketing side of it, correct correct.
Well, it's a recruitment and marketing, so they push out our job announcement, you know, they'll invade somebody's cell phone video game or YouTube channel or social media.
And that seems to be, you know, there isn't no newspaper, one adds is not really where it's added anymore.
Sure. And, and use that.
Working and you think that that is positive and I mean, I know you said we've, we've increased this looks like three times our prior applications.
What is the quality of the applications that we are receiving.
The question, it's a big net, so we've get we have had some, some of the academy spots we hope to fill the summer or all coming from that recruitment.
So that recruitment is not reflected in the 2025 annual report because the website didn't go live until January, so it'll be in next year's annual report, but.
The people that were giving job offers to and putting in academies today are coming from those efforts and their quality candidates that that I feel good about, but it is a big net.
And I'll just leave it at that, we're getting some that aren't great, but we're, you know, bigger numbers is good excellent.
And then my, my final question we had four canine retirements.
And, and I was hoping you could talk a little bit about kind of how, how you're going to, you're going to, you're going to scope out building that's more than half, right?
How you're going to look at building the canine program and I know in the past we've, we've, we've discussed gently nodded.
I'll say out loud, you know, if there's that option of adding the canine to the lake after.
After the homicide that took place at the lake certainly it seems from a deputy safety standpoint that that might, might be an enhancement, but that's just peanut gallery over on this side.
I'd love to hear some more about the canine program where that's going to light up these retirements.
Some of those retirements were happened throughout the year and they've already been replaced and we have one handler and dog training as we speak.
So they'll be hitting the street soon and then we have plans to bring on another dog and team in 2627 fiscal year.
I'll probably later this summer, as you may know, it takes about a five week academy for the handler and the dog.
So it's a big commitment, it's a big staffing commitment to send somebody off the train with their dog for five weeks.
So some of that isn't play as well as when we do it, summer can be pretty busy season for us generally between a mortal day and Labor Day.
We have, you know, we have a, you know, bought a rock and Lake Perias and fourth July.
So we try to wait to closer to closer to Labor Day or post Labor Day to send somebody off for five weeks, but we have all those things they're happening as we speak or in the works for later this summer.
Okay, thank you. I have supervisor. Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm, uh, CEO, I'll stop. Go ahead.
Very happy to wait, but thank you for the opportunity.
I'm sure if I just want to say congrats on all the success with your recruitment efforts. That's great.
For the, for the thousands of young men and women tuning in today, who might be looking for a career.
I just wanted to know if you could quickly go over who are, who are you looking for in terms of a, a recruit. Can you describe the, you know, the.
What the restrictions are, the age restrictions anything like that. Can you give a general sense of who you're trying to recruit?
There's no age restrictions. So in case HR is watching, we're not doing age restrictions.
But we are looking for, we like local, but we're not restricted local. We've had people from other counties apply here and do well here.
We want, we hire human beings who can problem solve.
And that's really what we want that, and sometimes that takes life experience. So minimum age is 21.
And then again, there's no maximum age.
But for these 21 year olds, they can actually apply at age 20 and a half because by the time they get through the selection process and get to the academy when they graduate the academy, they'll be 21.
So 20 and a half is kind of when we can start taking applications.
And we've had some success with that, but historically we find through the screening process that a lot of 20 and a half and 21 year olds are not ready to do that level of problem solving that's required of the job.
So oftentimes we just say, hey, come back in a couple of years and I can tell you, I certainly wasn't there when I was 20 and a half myself.
So that's, you know, we want people that want to serve and specifically they want to serve in Napa County.
A very law enforcement supportive community, which is not necessarily true across the country, but Napa County it is.
So we want people that appreciate this community and want to serve in this community.
Okay. Thank you. I also see supervisor Gallagher and then after that supervisor control.
Great. Thanks. And thank you, Sheriff, for the report and I just wanted to comment that I attended the canine unit of the Citizens Academy.
And it was so fun and interesting and I really enjoyed hanging out with a rooker and seeing the incredible work of the of the canine and canines and their handlers.
So it was really, really inspiring and exciting to watch them in action.
And I also wanted to say that there were so many young adults that were in the Citizens Academy.
And I was, I was asking people, you know, how did you hear about this and why are you here? And, you know, they were like, I don't know, I heard about it and social media and it looked cool.
And I just, I thought that was great. I was really, really surprised how many young people there were there.
And I thought this is a such great opportunity for them, whether or not they're looking bad as something they might look toward as a career, just just to learn about law enforcement.
So thank you for that and congratulations.
Yeah, what I'm going to share with you proudly is two of the students in the Citizens Academy used to be at amateur boxers of mine. So it's really cool to see them there.
Historically, the Citizens Academy, we dissuaded people from going through Citizens Academy if their intention is to look into a career in law enforcement.
It's like, this isn't, this isn't the purpose of the Citizens Academy. So we kind of pushed them away and kind of,
Mr. Chairman, a different direction. We did have somebody go through the citizens academy and then decide to apply. And then they're now filling the vacancy. They're on their own, pushing up, you know, striving to black and white. So we shifted for this particular class. It just graduated. It was okay. Whatever, if you're interested, this might be a good way to explore. And that had, I think, the result of a lot of very, to your point, a lot of young people in our class. And it was, it was a fun class to work with.
Thank you. Thank you. It's always great to see this report because I think there's always more stories that you can tell about your team that the community can hear better understand the work you're all doing. So I particularly just want to call out the one that you just mentioned that seven hour standoff in Angwin that really did not get very much coverage because no one was killed.
And so just a shout out to that team. That's what team because that's a long time and it's good to hear about signaling the support. And again, during the pick up fire, saw your deputies everywhere there. So we're so fortunate here to have that unified that quick move to unified command. I think that makes a big difference.
Thank you for explaining the vacancy situation and clearly you're working hard on that one too.
I wanted to flag, I like that you mentioned the cert program and great to hear about cert delvaliate by A2. Oh, yes, is part of your team because we gave them to you. And they are also so critical for community safety. So my, I would love for them to get a picture and I think a lot of what they do in the community, the disaster response is what all of your deputies are working on to.
And I think it's a good way for people to connect with your team through them. So always like seeing them out in the community as well. And I think the other thing I would flag we've talked before about we have done two partner events out at various states.
And I think those are really valuable in building community support and trust for your teams too. So I know we're about to embark into budget season, but I just wanted to flag that.
So and really we're really lucky to have you in the team. Thank you.
Okay, that will bring us to about a half hour. I see. So.
I know you did your part. Yeah, you did your part. So, but you know, I think they're just resounding support here from the board is what you're hearing.
And it's so appreciated all the work that you do and I'll just reflect that I really enjoyed the off highway vehicle cleanup, which I participated in this year at Knoxville.
And I was able to attend a couple of citizens Academy days and one was the graduation and as described it was a wonderful bunch of people and it's a great program for the thousands of people listening. I encourage you to attend.
And and also I wanted to give you a really big shout out for being personally present and bringing people to town halls, which, which you're consistently very available for.
And I see that and I appreciate it and I think it helps a lot to just keep people updated on emergency evacuations and the other good work you're doing in the community. So thank you for that and thanks to your deputies.
Thank you.
Yeah.
And I think that's it because this is just a report. So we are going to break for closed session. We're going to be taking up items 10 a and 10 c and after closed session.
We will return for public hearings and item 11 11 A through 11 E.
Madam chair.
Right.
It's items 10 A through 10 C. So 10 A 10 B and 10 C. And this is expected to take between 60 and 90 minutes. I'm going to for staff listening out there waiting to come back.
I would air on caution of the 90 minutes.
Okay. Thank you. Yes. The closed session items 10 90 minutes.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Madam Vice chair.
We're live.
Yes. Thank you chair.
It's almost indeed equal.
Chair Manfrey was called away to a prior commitment.
And so before we get started with our public hearing. I'd like to ask our county council. Do we have any report from the private session.
Thank you.
The board met in closed session today on item 10 A conference with legal council existing litigation in the name of the case.
Julian contraris versus napkinate department of corrections.
No reportable action was taken.
The board also met in closed session today on item 10 B conference with legal council existing litigation.
The name of the case.
Phillips B county of anapa.
No reportable action was taken.
And the board also met in closed session on item 10 C conference with legal negotiators regarding the napkinate probation professionals association.
Direction was given to the designated agencies designated representative.
No reportable action was taken.
Thank you.
Thank you very much for that.
We'll start the public hearing process.
We have four public hearings.
Let's start with the 11 A.
And that's with the conduct of public hearing to consider any objections or protest with respect to the assessment proposed for the wine great pest and disease control district for fiscal year 2627.
And the doctor resolution authorizing a levy assessment for fiscal year 2627.
On qualifying properties.
Tracy Tracy Cleveland are at commissioner.
And seal our white measures.
Representative is it's here for this presentation.
Perfect.
Thank you.
Good afternoon.
Members of the board.
Tracy Cleveland.
Napkinate commissioner.
Sealer of weeds and measures.
I'm here today to hear any objections about the proposed assessment for fiscal year 2627.
For the napkinate wine great pest and disease control district.
The engineers report recommends the levy of the assessment at $12 per planted vineyard acre totaling 46,039 acres.
The last fiscal year the assessment was set at 1150 per acre.
So this is a 50 cents per acre increase.
As a reminder, the wine great pest and disease control district was reauthorized in 2022 for an additional five year term.
Expiring in 2027, we will begin working on the reauthorization this year.
The pest district was formed in 2002 for the purposes of funding the prevention of pierces disease,
preventing the potential spread of glass healing sharpshooter.
And it was ultimately expanded in 2006 to include activities to control additional wine great pests.
The pest district has a great board of directors with no board vacancies currently.
Some of the good work that the pest district does includes funding various pest trapping programs,
including fine mealy bug, glass healing sharpshooter, spotted lantern fly in a Sentinel trapping pest,
which is intended for early detection of wine great pests that are not known to exist in California.
Early detection allows for immediate response and eradication efforts.
The pest district supports various exclusion activities including nursery plant inspections,
bio-control releases for a vine mealy bug in addition to trapping for a vine mealy bug.
It supports University of California research, headed up by Dr. Cooper of UCCE locally,
and her team and that of course is also related to wine great pests and diseases.
And it also supports outreach and education seminars for growers and growers and industry professionals.
And we actually have a workshop coming up on June 23rd.
Assessment funds are collected and used to support these county specific programs,
as well as enhanced existing state supported programs.
That concludes my brief staff report and happy to hear any comments or questions.
Thank you, Commissioner Cleveland.
Do we have any public comment on the side of?
Not seeing any here, do we have any on the phone?
Not seeing any any, so go ahead and close this public hearing.
Do we have any board comments or questions?
I'm not seeing any there.
Do we have a vote to have a motion to adopt the resolution?
Yes, I will move to adopt a resolution authorizing and living assessments for fiscal year 2627 on qualifying properties.
And a second by anybody.
Second, okay, we have a motion by Catrell, second by Ramos.
All in favor, please say aye.
Aye, aye.
And there's no need, so that was unanimous.
Thank you very much.
Moving on to our next item, 11B.
This is another public hearing.
This is to consider any objections or protests with respect to the proposed assessment for fiscal year 2627 for county services area number four.
And adopt a resolution authorizing and living assessment on qualifying property owners in amounts of $14 per planted acre.
And we have Emma Woier here in our director for the Housing Programs Manager that's going to provide staff report.
Thank you so I'm going to officially open the public hearing.
By the way, thank you.
Awesome.
Thank you so much.
My name is Emma, I'm the interim director at Housing and Community Services.
Before you today is a resolution to levy the county service area agreement number four assessment against grape growers and parcel owners here in the county.
Just as just a quick background, a lot of you, most of you know about this, but it is a really unique public private partnership.
It was established in 2002.
The growers in the valley elected to self assess per acre for every parcel that has a planted that has planted grapes.
Funds raised go back into the community to develop or operate farm worker housing farm worker centers in 2002 when it was originally proposed.
The assessment started at $10 an acre today.
It is $14 an acre.
We are not increasing that.
So it's the same as last year.
It is not a reauthorization year.
That will begin in this new fiscal year.
It's renewed every five years and then the amount of that assessment is actually determined by the engineer's report that was before you in May.
That report looks at the annual operating budget for the centers and then what we anticipate coming in from the assessment.
And that helps us build our budget and understand what the gap funding is to operate the county farm worker centers.
In fiscal year 2627 coming up we see we have an assessment of 46,000 a little over excuse me 46,000 acres assessed.
In this past fiscal year the current fiscal year we're in we saw 47,000 so we did see a little bit of a reduction about 2%.
And just over the past 20 years since it was established more than 11 million dollars has been raised to put back into.
The operation of the three county run farm worker centers that we oversee and just to give you a high level overview of what those centers are.
There are three currently in the county right now that that we oversee.
There are 60 beds each so 180 lodgers reside in those beds at any one time.
There are open 11 months out of the year we do stagger their closure per state regulation but there's always one operating at any time.
We did increase that we we are planning to increase the amount that the lodgers pay so they do pay a nightly rental to stay there.
It comes with their meals they get three meals a day.
and laundry facilities. It's $19.00 a night currently. It will be. Excuse me, this upcoming fiscal year. We also
partner with agencies like the Farm Worker Foundation to provide on-site services for the lodgers, like ESL classes,
public health has come and done screening, so there are services provided on-site. The budget for
these centers to run them is just over $2 million annually. 50% of that is raised through that lodger rent,
so we rely on that and ensuring that we keep occupancy at those centers. 30% of it comes through
this assessment, the CSA4 and the remaining 20% is a mix of donations. The Napa Farm Worker
Centers of Lyons, they rebranded this year but they hosted a golf outing for us every year and that
funding goes back into the centers as well, along with Joe Serena funding that we receive from the state.
We get about $250,000 annually hoping that will increase, though. So that is just a little bit
about CSA4. The item before each day is to love you that assessment and authorize the resolution to
love you. I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you. I appreciate your report. Do you have any
public comment on this item? Not seeing any in the chambers, do we have anybody on the line? All right.
I'll go ahead and close this public hearing and ask the board for any comments, questions or
emotion? I think it comes to a question. I will move that we re-authorize. Yes,
Dr. Resolution, authorizing and loving assessments on qualifying property owners in the amount of $14
per planted acre for the CSA area number four. Okay. Okay. We have a motion by Gallagher. A second by
Ramos. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. No, Nays, that's unanimous. Thank you very much. I think you're
in mind. All right. Moving on to our third public hearing items. I love and see.
Open and move to continue the public hearing for Hugg often sellers, Winery Appeal. I filed by
Area Natural Lot, Weather Vane, Ranch LLC. It was the appellant. And let me know if I mis uh communicated
that or said that. I'm considering the decision made by Navi County Plan Commission on April 1st,
2026 to find the project categorically exempt from the California Environment Quality Act and approved
use permit major modification P19-00121-MOD. So we've got a Michael Parker here. Looks like
from planning. He's can be presenting this item and did I pronounce that correctly? Probably not. The
area in Machuola. Machuola. Okay. Great. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Now, this I'm opening the
public hearing on this. Thank you, Vice Chair, Leslie. I'm members of the board. Today's requested
action is that you open the public hearing except any public comment and then a motion by a board
member second by another and a vote by the board to continue the hearing to a date certain of August 11th,
2026 at 9 a.m. I'm available if there's any questions. Great. Short and sweet. Do we have any public
comment on this item? We don't. Okay. Very good. And then on the phone. So do we have a motion or
any board comments or question? I'll make a motion to continue the public hearing of item 11c to August
11th, 2026. I'll second that. Great. We have a motion by Ramos the second by Catrell. All
I'm favorably say aye. Aye. Aye. And that's unanimous. Thank you very much. Moving on to our last hearing
item. 11d. This is a conduct of public hearing to consider testimony for county services area number three
on fiscal year 2627 assessment of 150,000, 811 dollars and adopt a resolution authorizing the assessment.
Lovey. We've got to look like we've got to our director of public works. And here's the letter.
And so they're from an open the public hearing. Thank you Vice Chair, Elesio. The action we're actually
looking for from the board today has to continue this item to June 16th at 9 a.m. But in difference to any
member of the public who might have turned up for this, we suggest you open the public hearing,
which you already did and ask if there's any public comment before you take the Continuance action.
Thank you for that. Do we have any public comment? Nothing in the room, but now on the phone.
Okay, so we've got staff is requesting the hearing to be continued to the June 16th, 2026.
Board of Advisors meeting. We have no public comment. Do we have any comments or questions or
emotion on the board? I kind of a question as to why are you being continued? Okay.
The item actually there was kind of a little confusion with the noticing. So the item got noticed for today,
but the intention was to do it on the 16th since it was noticed for today. It's on today's agenda.
So we need to formally continue it to the 16th so that we don't break that chain from the
from the notice. And our notice period will, the notification will continue with the Continuance
action for today as long as we open it today. Thank you. I'll make a motion to continue to
June 16th and 90. Okay, we have a motion by Ramas. I will second that. I will also just make a note that
the recommendation doesn't include the Continuance piece. So maybe next time like a correction memo or something.
Thanks. Okay. Thank you for that. So we have a second by Katrell. All in favor, please say aye.
Aye. And that's unanimous. So that concludes our public hearing.
Correct. Oh, we have one more. Oh, look, there's one more. And there's more. Okay,
where we move quickly here. This is item 11 E and this is a conduct a public hearing to consider.
Any objections or protests with respect to special taxes for the subrotic community services
district except the annual special tax report for fiscal year 2627. And the document recommended
maximum special tax totaling $230,000, $26,000 for fiscal year 2627. I'm opening the public hearing
on this and again, we'll receive another report by our staff, public, work structure, save letter. Yes.
Thank you, Vice Chairman. I think you pretty much covered what I was going to say. I'll just mention that
the silver out of community services district does provide services in the silver out of country
club area, primarily landscaping also sidewalk services. They're the engineer report
covered the planned work for for this year and set the assessment. I will
look forward. This district has historically been underfunded on the sidewalk maintenance side.
So one of our goals for this year is to do a analysis of all the sidewalks and the necessary
funding that would be needed to bring all the sidewalks up to speed and then address that with a funding
request. Based on what we find in next year's budget. That's a great idea. Thank you for that.
So then I'll go and ask for a public comment. Anybody in the chambers? Anybody on vote? Okay,
great. So I'll close this public hearing. Do we have any board members with questions or comments?
Do we have any board members who like to make a motion? I will move that we accept the annual special
tax report for fiscal year 2627 and that we adopt the recommended maximum special tax totaling
$230,000 for fiscal year 2627. We have a motion by Catrell and a second by Ramos. All the
favor please say aye. Aye. And that's unanimous. Okay. Now we've finished the public hearings and we are on to
adjournment. We will now adjourn to the next Board of Supervisors meeting which will be Monday June 15th,
2026 at 6 p.m. Is that correct? Okay that is that is correct. Thank you. So we're adjourning
this meeting at 315 p.m. Thank you.