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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
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united states of america and to the
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republic for which it stands, one nation,
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under god, indivisible, with liberty and
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justice for all.
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>> what was the other item?
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>> 15g and h.
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>> okay.
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>> and then 20c.
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>> is there anyone else who would like to
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have a item pulled from consent and please
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come forward and make your request,
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please.
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>> I like to have 15a pulled-removed,
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please. Thank you.
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>> anyone else? Or-
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>> I move approval of whatever is
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remaining.
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[laughter]
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>> I second.
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>> probably should list those but I'm not
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going. Is there a second? Motion
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gustafson, second holmes for the few
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remaining items on consent. Roll call,
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please.
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[roll call]
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>> so we will-have to help me through
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this.
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>> [inaudible comments]
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>> item 11 and all of those, correct?
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>> I can speak to this. So, annually
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contractual agreements between each of
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your individual district aids for each of
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the supervisorial districts come before
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your board towards the end of the year.
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each of these contracts are general in
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nature for each of your individual
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district directors. Happy to answer any
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questions that might come about as a
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result of that but these are the annual
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contracts.
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>> thanks todd. Are there any questions
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by board members? Any questions or
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comments from the public?
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>> michael. Go ahead and give your
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comments.
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>> okay. Yes, sure. So, I just noticed
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the pay varied a little bit. It seemed
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the average pay was $44.30 per hour plus
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benefits. It seems kind of high to me. I
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did a search on glass door on like a admin
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assistant and that was 44k per year and
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this is base salary looks more around $92
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thousand if I calculated correctly, plus
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benefits. I guess-I'm always looking for
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lower taxes I guess and I was wondering
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like why is the pay so high? That's all.
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>> anyone else from the public wish to
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address this item? Seeing none, what is
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the pleasure of the beard?
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>> I think it would be good to clarify or
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answer the question because these are
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at-will employees so they are not like the
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rest of our employees that have the
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opportunity of being in the employee union
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and their jobs are at will. The other
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thing is, they are not -even though it
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says [inaudible comments] they are not
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administrative assistant. The do the bulk
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of our work, they help us analyze the
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board packets, they help address
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constituent issues. They are basically
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our right hand person because in addition
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to our board meetings we have a multitude
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of issues to address and other committee
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assignments so this is really a higher
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level position. I certainly understand
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your question michael and appreciate it,
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but actually some of these folks are close
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to making more then the supervisors.
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>> some of them are making more then the
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board of supervisors and I can do 5 or 6
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hours on that, but I'm not going to
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because I'm in a good mood today so far.
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>> you want to add anything else todd?
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>> I will say when we do these pay scales
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h r actually does analysis and looks at
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comparable positions and again I think as
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you alluded to, a lot of diversity and
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variety and honesty the skill sets are
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different then maybe what we have been
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looking for in a normal administrative
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position in the county and so, they are
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utilized in various fashions the
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complexity of job duties [inaudible
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comments] we do look at job complexity and
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classifications when we look at
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compensation for these positions.
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>> chip.
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>> additionally, particularly during the
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last two years, the administrative aids or
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district directors spend inordinate amount
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of time going through all the e-mail we
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received, returning calls, explaining what
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the county's position is on issues and
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putting them in touch with departments
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that they need referrals from or help with
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like building department or planning
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department or health and human service.
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they are able to connect these folks with
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the people that can help them with what
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their issue is. I don't know about the
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rest of my colleagues, but I spend about
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45 minutes every morning going over my
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e-mails and many times it is most of the
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time it is deleting and if there is a
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issue that needs to be addressed right
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away I make sure my district director
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knows about it. Right now we are in this
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board meeting and she can respond to the
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issue in question so they dedicate a lot
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of time throughout their job work day but
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also many times after work.
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>> bonnie, your light is still on.
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suzanne.
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>> yes, good morning everyone. I also
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wanted to add in there that our district
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directors are-they are way more then just
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an assistant. They doa lot of things for
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us. They represent us. They deal with
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our constituents first hand. They call,
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they return calls. In fact they accompany
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us everywhere. I have gone on many
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walking tours in my district. My district
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director goes with me everywhere. They
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are responsible for our mac meetings for
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the mac board members, the mac agendas.
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they are responsible for articles our news
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letters online, and they also work-we work
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way more then 40 hours a week. They
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accompany us everywhere, nights, evenings,
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weekends, so they kind of give up their
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family life just like we do. I just
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wanted to let you know that that we-they
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carry a big load. In fact what you see up
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here is each of us and we have a district
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director, that is our entire staff. I
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think we all do pretty good job. Anyway,
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they work very hard for us. Thanks.
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>> cindy.
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>> I just can't go without saying
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something since everybody-I agree with
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everything that everyone else has said.
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our district aids and district directors
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are essential to getting back to
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constituents, and are solving problems
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with our county staff knowing who to know
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to, who to ask the questions, so they are
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invaluable, they have great abilities and
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also to speak on our behalf at times when
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we cant be everywhere everyone wants us so
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I guess it is our morning to thank our
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incredible staff that work for us and all
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the work they do.
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>> I'll just add one short thing which is
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my view in placer county is that I always
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wanted to try to attract the best and
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brightest. Pretty simple. You try to
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figure what that market cost is like any
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other job and we have a h r department who
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does that for us and I think the rest is
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logically just follows from that. So, is
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there anyone from the public who would
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like to address this issue?
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>> go ahead and unmute your mic and give
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your comments. Vinny, can you unmute your
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mic and give your comments? Sheryl, go
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ahead and unmute your mic and give your
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comments.
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>> hi, good morning, sheryl [inaudible
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comments] granite bay. I had a question
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about-there seemed to be a it related item
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under one of the district I believe it was
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district 1 position. It seems to be not
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in the correct place. I believe that it
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has a budget and that would have been an
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it budgeting item. Not sure why district
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1 has a greater need for website and it
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related expenses so if someone can answer
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that I would appreciate it.
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>> [inaudible comments]
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>> I actually don't see that. We'll have
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somebody take a look at that and see if
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they can-none of us can see any
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difference. Anyone else? Okay. I'll
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bring it back to the board and if somebody
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would make a motion-
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>> move a-
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>> specifically item 11a through g then
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we'll be compliant.
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>> as corrected, mr. Chair.
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>> thank you. Motion gustafson, second
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holmes, all in favor say aye. Opposed?
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motion carries. And now we'll go to 15a.
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I'm not familiar with this item. Could
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you-
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>> [inaudible comments]
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>> my understanding is we were up here to
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respond to questions but as the board
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member and viewing public are aware, this
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is culmination of the year long
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redistricting effort both with follow on
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to the november 30 and december 7 board
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discussion at which we had hours of public
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input and testimony that culminated with
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the action to approve redistricting hybrid
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map alternative 2.0 option 1.
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>> clayton you do this bert then me.
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>> I also note the request is to adopt
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resolution approving that alternative
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hybrid 2.0 option 1 and there are findings
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contained in the resolution and the second
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action item is to adopt the ordinance
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introduced by your board and oral reading
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was waved at the last meeting.
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>> and therefore required a second reading
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the first of which occurred a week ago
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last tuesday?
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>> correct.
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>> thanks. Anyone from the public wish to
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address this item?
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>> thank you chair and supervisors. Funny
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I get nervous talking to you but can pitch
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in front of 5 thousand people. Again, my
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name a anthony [inaudible comments]
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resident of placer conte since [inaudible
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comments] 4 years ago I bought [inaudible
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comments] and farming it ever since. I
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wanted to pull this map because I believe
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this map was not truly wanted by all of
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you and pushed by a small group of people
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that did not truly represent the majority
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of 400 thousand residents. Shows
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segregation between cities and rural
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communities especially district 3. As
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resident of rockland and farmer in penryn
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this gives close connection to the
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ag community and [inaudible comments]
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along are resident in rockland. I feel
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this is happening because days after the
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map was voted on by all you pleny with
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reservation I had many resident of the
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ag community approach me public places
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like the post office or stopping by
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[inaudible comments] to say thank you for
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standing up for us. We feel like we were
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separated in the loomis basis for gain of
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rockland city council. A few who spoke in
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from rockland do not represent all
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district 3 but seem to have the loudest
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voice. I have spoken to many resident
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some knowing about redistricting and many
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who had no idea. But when I asked would
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you rather have one supervisor or two the
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answer I heard the most is it it not
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better to have two sets of eyes looking
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out then one? I noticed those who pushed
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to have rockland as a whole by themselves
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do not live in district 3. Now with this
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map it places those who spoke the loudest
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in district 3. It seems this is a
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political move by the city council to have
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all of their homes in district 3 giving
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the opportunity to run for supervisor in
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next election for district 3. Looking
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like it was the best interest of them and
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not the people of district 3. But the
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only way to prove this is to see in the
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future if these council members run for
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this position. Now this map continues to
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go forward this takes jim holmes out of
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his district. That being said, if he is
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no longer able to run I announce today I
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will run for his position. Thank you.
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>> thank you. Anyone else from the
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public?
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>> good morning chairman weygandt.
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supervisors. Karen and todd. I didn't
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have prepared remarks because I was hoping
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this was going to pass on through but that
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isn't happening. I want to tell how
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grateful I am the decision you made last
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time. You were listening to the public.
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now, is the map perfect? None of them
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were, but what we were trying to do and
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think all of you were trying to do as well
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as the staff is at the end of the process
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we had as few unhappy as we can get and
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think we did with the public map put
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together. I appreciate-anthony's
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comments. I understand that placer county
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is changing. The dynamics are changes,
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particularly in the western part of the
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county. Agricultural is getting small,
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but I'm thankful for the pccp you passed
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earlier that is going to protect a lot of
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that agricultural ground in the western
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part of the county so I think that going
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forward agricultural will always have a
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pretty good place at the table here in
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placer county. I can speak as one who
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grew up in agricultural in placer county.
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I'm nearly a 70 year resident of placer
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county and I'm honored to be here. I'm
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honored to be fighting for what is right
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for this county and so again I am very
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grateful for your decision and thank you
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for what you have done and what you
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continue to do for the residents of placer
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county.
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>> thank you. Anyone else from the public
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like to address this item? With that ill
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bring it back to the board.
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>> I'll certainly second that unless
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there's any other conversation but happy
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to second the item.
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>> motion jones, second gore. Cindy has
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her light on.
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>> thanks mr. Chair. I want to say to
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both gentlemen who spoke to us today, your
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service to placer county residents is
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greatly appreciated. There was no
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perspective solution here and as you know,
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I was not supportive of our final action.
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I stand unified with my board because I
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think that is the right thing to do when
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majority rules we come together to
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represent the people of this county and
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just want to assure you that while I may
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agree or disagree with the map our job is
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to representative of all the constituents
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in the best way possible and know and said
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at both of the previous meetings all our
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board members do that with all their good
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intentions and I-there was no perfect map
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that didn't have some level of separating
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communities or putting them together, and
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I sitting in district 5 I can tell you, we
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heard the least from my district because
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we were all aware. The 5th district was
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growing and going down the hill and I only
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see that happening further in the future.
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it's incumbent on all of us to make sure
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we represent all the great interest of
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this county because that is what makes it
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such a great county. Thank you.
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>> all those in favor say aye. Opposed?
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motion carries. Thank you. We'll now
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take up I think item 15c.
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>> good morning chair weygandt members of
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the board. Vanessa ceo office. This is
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my first item pulled so I prepared a brief
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overview of your item and then we have
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department representation here to answer
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any questions you have. Background on the
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item the item is a resolution to accept
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and make findings per government code 66
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thousand on our annual development impact
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fee report. So, ceo takes this
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consolidated item annually in december on
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behalf of our department impact fee
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programs as well as the programs we manage
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here in the ceo office. Something to note
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is that this does not increase any of our
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impact fees, this is just reporting and
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those increases come as separate items
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from this report. Per government code 66
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thousand the annual report must contained
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specified information that includes the
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type and fee amount, the beginning and
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ending balance, fees collected, interest
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earned, improvements funded as well as
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anticipated start date of construction.
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our impact fee program is being reported
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that meet the definition per government
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code 66 thousand are the followings: our
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capital facilities impact fee, fire
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facility impact fee, parks and
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recreational facilities impact fee, county
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wide traffic fee program, city county
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traffic fee program, riolo vineyard
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specific plan fee program, placer vineyard
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specific plan, placer conservation program
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[inaudible comments] affordable housing
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fee and employee accommodation fee
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program. That concludes the background.
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we have department representatives on
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zoom, here in person and happy to answer
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questions you have.
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>> thanks vanessa. First time you get
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consent item pulled and this is my last
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meeting at the board of supervisors.
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>> I love it. I feel very special.
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>> both happy. Any board members-suzanne.
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>> yes. Good morning vanessa. Thank you
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for coming. I had some concerns not my
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concerns but constituents concerns and
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they were wondering what is the difference
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between the impact fees and tree
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mitigation fees? Ej.
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>> going to bring up my subject matter
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expert.
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>> that was way too easy. Ej [inaudible
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comments] planning service division.
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placer county conversation plan is adopted
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fee program. We also have the oak
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woodland ordinance, which was previously
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our tree preservation ordinance and upon
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adoption of the placer county conservation
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plan that moved to chapter 19 of county
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code. So we have a oak woodland ordinance
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that applies to tree permits discretionary
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permits outside the pccp area, but it is
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not a adopted fee program. It provides
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for on-site tree replanting, market rate
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mitigation. We are going to update that
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ordinance hopefully next year, probably
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take the better part of next year. There
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will be a robust outreach component as
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part of that so that will obviously go to
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the mac, planning commission, board of
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supervisors, so hopefully that answers
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your question.
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>> that does. That helps a lot. Could
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you just give a little more information,
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what is a impact fee? I know this is all
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dictated by government code 66,000.
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>> I'm not sure I'm the best person to
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answer that. Development impact fee for
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transit, transportation, infrastructure
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associated associated with development
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projects. Capital facilities. Park and
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recreation facilities.
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>> so that means the development whatever
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we are developing is the impact that is
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going to have on these various things?
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>> and guaranteeing the county will get
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comp compensated for those facilities.
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>> how and when are they updated? Are
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they updated annually?
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>> they are updated annually. Each
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program we adopted has some sort of
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coordinating cci or cpi so that-so for the
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capital facilities impact fee I brought
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that the end of september and goes into
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effect 60 days after adoption so those are
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brought separately. Some of the programs
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we also take a consolidated item around
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april. This is a fire facility fee and
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specific plan fee programs. It just are
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depends on how the ordinance is written on
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when those come back annually but we also
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do another consolidated item for those.
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>> okay. And are then this talks about
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the fees that the actual fees that are
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collected and then how they are spent and
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handled. Is that all for the public to
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review and look at?
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>> absolutely. So, we have the report as
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an attachment to this which also includes
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the reporting of fees, the items I listed
[41:25]
that have to be included per government
[41:26]
code but also on file we have the fee
[41:28]
program information, so that is the actual
[41:31]
fee program that we brought for adoption
[41:34]
that we maintain.
[41:35]
>> okay.
[41:37]
>> our department maintains.
[41:39]
>> great. Thank you so much.
[41:42]
>> absolutely. Thank you.
[41:44]
>> anyone from the public wish to comment
[41:47]
on this item?
[41:51]
>> sheryl, please unmute your mic and give
[41:54]
your comments.
[41:55]
>> thank you very much. Thank you suzanne
[41:57]
jones for bringing this up. We actually
[42:00]
brought this up for many years in district
[42:03]
4. I am not sure I agree with the
[42:07]
assessment of the fees. The pccp not only
[42:12]
does it not cover in land mass other areas
[42:15]
so the fact that you are collecting
[42:17]
mitigation fees for pools and tree and oak
[42:23]
woodlands and only doing it within a
[42:25]
certain area of land it is still the same
[42:28]
thing. Also, projects approved prior to
[42:35]
2020 when the pccp was approved are not
[42:44]
covered. Yearly there is a cadence where
[42:46]
I believe it was last week the developer
[42:48]
fees were increased. I didn't see the
[42:50]
tree mitigation fees increased. Housing
[42:54]
fees are increased. I see no reporting.
[42:58]
I would suggest this report is incomplete.
[43:01]
it does not cover tree mitigation for
[43:05]
anything not in the pccp and many of the
[43:09]
development agreements that have been
[43:10]
reached prior to 2020. Every time a
[43:14]
development goes in, there was a nexus
[43:17]
study that was done that clearly shows
[43:20]
there was an appeal with rancho [inaudible
[43:23]
comments] with 4 thousand oak trees that
[43:25]
should have been covered by increased
[43:28]
fees. Those fees have not been increased
[43:30]
I believe for years and years and years.
[43:38]
well beyond what steve pedretti was
[43:40]
charged with managing so I think it is a
[43:42]
incomplete report. I think it should have
[43:44]
a line item just like pccp. There should
[43:47]
be a tree ordinance and there also was-the
[43:54]
nexus study shows those fees are
[43:57]
insufficient so hope you will consider
[44:00]
actually looking at those fees not a year
[44:01]
from now. Every time trees are taken out
[44:05]
it is actually encouraging trees to be
[44:07]
taken out. I also like to point out that
[44:10]
at the legal of women voters when cindy
[44:15]
gustafson and suzanne was there and
[44:20]
supervisor uhler was there there was a
[44:22]
system that kept track of all these tree
[44:24]
mitigation fees, we asked for this
[44:28]
multiple times. We don't know where the
[44:30]
tree mitigation fees are going and why
[44:32]
they are so low so hope you will please
[44:37]
address this as incomplete item and
[44:39]
something that needs to be taken care of
[44:41]
because it is state law that this is
[44:43]
managed yearly and I believe that you are
[44:45]
breaking the state law by not providing
[44:48]
those fees. Thank you.
[44:50]
>> county counsel.
[44:52]
>> there seems to be some confusion here
[44:55]
and hopefully I don't make it more
[44:57]
confusing. But there is a difference
[44:59]
between a impact development impact fee,
[45:03]
which is governed by government code 6600,
[45:08]
and those impact fees are developed and
[45:12]
adopted by this board after public
[45:15]
hearings in which a nexus study must be
[45:17]
prepared and it must be established that
[45:21]
the fee relates to the impact. That is
[45:26]
why they are called development impact
[45:27]
fees.
[45:28]
[streaming cut out]
[45:31]
you will often see in eir or deg dec
[45:38]
payment of a impact fee will in fact
[45:40]
mitigate a particular impact. We see that
[45:42]
quite a bit for transportation, however,
[45:45]
you can't confuse that with mitigation.
[45:48]
in some instances we do have fees for
[45:50]
mitigation and one of them is ej mentioned
[45:53]
is the oak tree or pardon me, the tree
[45:56]
ordinance. That's a mitigation fee, it is
[45:58]
not a development impact fee, so I
[46:01]
respectfully disagree with mrs. [inaudible
[46:03]
comments] that there is anything that is
[46:05]
incomplete about this particular study.
[46:07]
the study took everyone of the development
[46:10]
impact fees this county implemented and
[46:13]
reporting as required under the government
[46:16]
code.
[46:18]
>> thanks karen. Going to add clarity,
[46:23]
there is a huge amount of
[46:26]
miscommunication, but the tree ordinance
[46:30]
and mitigation that started in placer
[46:33]
county-got to back 20, 25 years as I
[46:37]
recall, the pccp of course is a completely
[46:42]
different animal and we adopted it about a
[46:44]
year ago, and it essentially shifts
[46:51]
federal and state authority for green
[46:53]
field impacts on protected environmental
[46:59]
properties from the federal state
[47:01]
government down to the local level. A
[47:03]
part of our program includes an in lieu
[47:08]
fee so somebody going through that
[47:09]
application process will have the
[47:11]
flexibility to provide mitigation that is
[47:14]
required or they can pay a fee or they can
[47:20]
do a combination of these things so it is
[47:21]
unique in the country. Has to be done in
[47:25]
placer county and those fees are reviewed
[47:27]
annually in their looked at in 5 year
[47:33]
windows and that is a part of the contract
[47:34]
we have with the state and federal
[47:36]
agencies in that regard. I think that is
[47:39]
really important for the public to
[47:41]
understand generally. Suzanne, do you
[47:46]
have something?
[47:47]
>> make a motion for approval.
[47:48]
>> okay.
[47:49]
>> second.
[47:50]
>> motion and second. All in favor say
[47:52]
aye. Opposed? Motion carries. And now
[47:59]
15e.
[48:00]
>> 15e chairman is just being moved off
[48:02]
the agenda to a future meeting date.
[48:04]
>> that's right. 15e is being-going to be
[48:07]
put back on future agenda under consent
[48:11]
and so that takes us to 18a I think.
[48:18]
>> no, we have 15g and h both requested to
[48:23]
be pulled by michael.
[48:24]
>> 15g, thanks megan.
[48:26]
>> of course.
[48:27]
>> good morning members of the board.
[48:30]
stephanie holloway with your tahoe ceo
[48:33]
office to talk to you about the two items
[48:36]
that were pulled from consent. So, both
[48:38]
of these items are resolution for renaming
[48:41]
of [inaudible comments] in the olympic
[48:45]
valley area so squaw valley municipal
[48:48]
advisory committee and design review
[48:51]
committee. We have been working with the
[48:53]
washoe tribe in the area and private and
[48:58]
federal entities to rename assets that
[49:02]
contain the word squaw. I will mention
[49:06]
just a track record here, the olympic
[49:09]
valley public service district so the
[49:11]
squaw valley public service district as
[49:14]
previously named did rename their
[49:16]
organization back in august of 2020 as
[49:19]
well as the ski resort in this area now
[49:23]
named palisades tahoe has adopted the
[49:26]
olympic valley base area as their name, so
[49:30]
this is just two committees of your board
[49:32]
we like you to consider. I will mention
[49:35]
we are working with the washoe tribe as
[49:37]
well as the community on a number of
[49:39]
additional assets. Three public roads in
[49:42]
the area as well as the public park
[49:45]
considering renaming of those assets as
[49:48]
well and those will be hopefully coming
[49:50]
before your board early next year. Happy
[49:52]
to answer any questions.
[49:54]
>> thanks stephanie. Anyone from the
[49:56]
public?
[50:00]
>> [inaudible comments]
[50:04]
>> he did.
[50:05]
>> [inaudible comments]
[50:09]
>> michael, did you have any comments you
[50:11]
wanted to give on these?
[50:15]
>> no, I think I understand.
[50:17]
>> okay.
[50:19]
>> [inaudible comments]
[50:20]
>> motion gustafson, second gore. All in
[50:25]
favor aye. Opposed? Motion carries. If
[50:28]
my notes are correct that takes to 18a.
[50:30]
>> can we clarify on the prior motion it
[50:32]
was for both items 15g and 15h?
[50:36]
>> yes, thanks megan. Yeah. So, 18a,
[50:43]
placer housing authority.
[50:47]
>> chairman, because it is removed off
[50:51]
consent the board needs to adjourn as the
[50:53]
board of supervisors and convene as the
[50:55]
placer county housing authority.
[50:57]
>> thank you. So, the board adjourns as
[51:00]
placer county board of supervisors and
[51:02]
reconvenes as the housing authority and is
[51:07]
someone here to present that or on zoom or
[51:11]
somewhere?
[51:12]
>> [inaudible comments]
[51:13]
>> thanks.
[51:20]
>> good morning.
[51:21]
>> good morning.
[51:22]
>> greg dicer, placer county deputy
[51:26]
director of health and human services and
[51:28]
housing authority executive director. I
[51:33]
am here for your board today to request
[51:36]
that the board adopt resolution approving
[51:39]
the temporary policy supplement for
[51:43]
emergency housing vouchers to accept and
[51:46]
distribute the vouchers and sign related
[51:49]
documentation and submit to the u.s.
[51:51]
department of housing and urban
[51:53]
development, hud, and accepting
[51:55]
distribution of 9 family unification
[51:58]
program vouchers and 26 emergency housing
[52:02]
vouchers, ehv. The background on the
[52:05]
item, on april 27 earlier this year the
[52:09]
placer county housing authority accepted
[52:14]
the updated placer county housing
[52:16]
authority annual administrative plan
[52:17]
update and signed civil rights
[52:20]
certification of compliance with the
[52:23]
housing authority plans and related
[52:26]
regulations and submitted all documents to
[52:30]
hud. In july of this year a temporary
[52:33]
policy supplement was released which made
[52:36]
available additional vouchers available
[52:39]
under the placer county housing
[52:42]
authority's plan adopted earlier in april
[52:44]
and hud also in july of this year awarded
[52:47]
the housing authority 9 family unification
[52:54]
vouchers to serve parents with children to
[52:58]
child welfare and former foster youth.
[53:00]
the placer county seeks [inaudible
[53:06]
comments] to distribute grant vouchers
[53:09]
under this program. The housing authority
[53:11]
is partnering with the children system of
[53:14]
care to distribute these vouchers. All is
[53:17]
no fiscal impact in the matter because the
[53:20]
vouchers are already available from hud
[53:23]
and hud provides funding for
[53:25]
administration of the program. And I'll
[53:30]
be happy to answer any questions.
[53:32]
>> thank you. Suzanne.
[53:34]
>> yes, good morning. Thank you for that
[53:36]
report. I wanted a little bit of
[53:40]
clarification for my constituents on the
[53:42]
housing vouchers. This is not related to
[53:45]
any of our covid programs in the past, is
[53:48]
it?
[53:49]
>> no. You might be referencing the
[53:52]
emergency rental assistance. These two
[53:56]
programs are--the vouchers existed before
[54:02]
and before covid came into being. The
[54:06]
emergency housing vouchers are for
[54:09]
specific populations, but they are not
[54:14]
specifically related to covid.
[54:17]
>> so, how does the program work then?
[54:20]
>> so, the fup vouchers they serve
[54:23]
families that are in reunification through
[54:28]
child welfare and or that might be at risk
[54:32]
of having children removed due to housing
[54:38]
instability. And they work just like our
[54:41]
normal housing choice vouchers accept for
[54:45]
they are specific to that population, so
[54:47]
the household receives a voucher if they
[54:51]
are determined to be eligible and able to
[54:53]
go out into the community and rent an
[54:58]
apartment or home much like any of us
[55:00]
would and we supplement their rent through
[55:05]
the voucher. It also serves former foster
[55:08]
youth, so former foster youth under the
[55:12]
age of 25 that are determined eligible
[55:16]
essentially can do the same thing, take
[55:19]
the voucher to any landlord that rents out
[55:22]
a unit and take-and move into the unit
[55:28]
with having that supplemented. The
[55:31]
emergency housing voucher are specific to
[55:34]
populations such as those escaping
[55:37]
domestic violence and are trafficking and
[55:40]
that are at risk of homelessness or are
[55:44]
homeless, and those vouchers we work
[55:48]
through the-a number of our community
[55:51]
partners and through the continuum of care
[55:54]
to receive referrals, both programs come
[55:58]
with some supportive services and case
[56:01]
management.
[56:02]
>> okay, so that means most of these
[56:05]
people eligible that already are working
[56:08]
with the system here in placer county?
[56:11]
>> correct.
[56:12]
>> if there are people out there who would
[56:15]
qualify who don't know about the program
[56:17]
is it something where they can contact the
[56:19]
county? Maybe adult system of care or
[56:24]
something like that sph
[56:25]
>> they are welcome to contact us in
[56:28]
essence. The referrals for the emergency
[56:31]
housing vouchers go through 211, so the
[56:35]
place for anyone to start would be 211.
[56:40]
>> okay. Great.
[56:42]
>> with regard to the fup voucher more
[56:46]
specific because a family has to be
[56:47]
working with child welfare or former
[56:49]
foster youth would have to be verified as
[56:52]
being a former foster youth through
[56:55]
children system of care.
[56:58]
>> thank you for the information. Very
[56:59]
helpful.
[57:00]
>> anyone from the public wish to address
[57:02]
this item?
[57:05]
>> stephen, go ahead and unmute and give
[57:09]
your comments.
[57:12]
>> good morning this is stephen pres
[57:14]
caught from kings beach. Just curious how
[57:17]
much is in that program for housing
[57:19]
vouchers of placer county and what is the
[57:22]
average amount of the voucher per person?
[57:26]
>> are you asking how many vouchers? We
[57:29]
have 26 of the emergency housing vouchers
[57:32]
and 10 of the-sorry, 9 of the fup
[57:37]
vouchers. I am sorry I don't know
[57:39]
off-hand the average amount used per
[57:46]
voucher, but those are the number of
[57:51]
vouchers that we have.
[57:52]
>> so, that is only for 35 families?
[57:55]
>> correct.
[57:56]
>> okay. Okay. What's the average amount
[58:00]
per voucher that they get to pay
[58:03]
landlords?
[58:04]
>> again, I don't have the average amount.
[58:07]
I can see if I can find that but generally
[58:10]
speaking the amount that is paid towards
[58:12]
landlords first and foremost the rents are
[58:19]
set through hud so in other words the
[58:24]
maximum that can be paid is set through
[58:26]
hud but the rents or amount of vouchers is
[58:29]
specific to that family income, so if a
[58:32]
family has no income what so ever, the
[58:37]
voucher will supplement all most all of
[58:41]
it. If the family has significant income
[58:45]
they might not be eligible to it, but if
[58:49]
they are somewhere between, the supplement
[58:54]
will reflect that.
[58:55]
>> okay, sounds good. Thank you.
[58:57]
>> welcome.
[58:59]
>> anyone else? What is the pleasure of
[59:01]
the board?
[59:02]
>> [inaudible comments]
[59:03]
>> motion jones, second holmes, all in
[59:06]
favor say aye. Opposed? Motion carries.
[59:10]
I think last from consent-
[59:13]
>> we have to reconvene as the board.
[59:16]
>> thank you. Need to have good staff for
[59:18]
people like me. We are adjourning as the
[59:21]
placer housing authority and reconvening
[59:23]
as the placer county board of supervisor
[59:27]
and think taking up consent item 20c.
[59:35]
>> good morning supervisor. Brett wood
[59:38]
the purchasing manager here for item 20c
[59:42]
which is several action items. First to
[59:45]
approve increase to existing contract with
[59:48]
mobile med work health solutions san jose
[59:51]
california for covid-19 testing for county
[59:54]
staff through the end of this fiscal year
[59:56]
in the amount of-through the end of the
[59:59]
calendar year, in amount of $270 thousand
[1:00:01]
for new total of $300 thousands. Asking
[1:00:05]
for the board to approve the renewal of
[1:00:08]
the contract and maximum annual amount of
[1:00:10]
$375 thousand. As over the past year
[1:00:15]
there have been multiple changes from cal
[1:00:18]
osha with respect to county staff and
[1:00:20]
testing requirements there of. Human
[1:00:23]
resources has been tasked with the
[1:00:25]
responsibility to implement those and
[1:00:26]
manage those processes. During this year
[1:00:30]
with those new instructions human
[1:00:33]
resources went out and solicited quotes
[1:00:37]
from 3 different firms to determine who
[1:00:39]
could provide the testing services for the
[1:00:41]
county employees required. At the
[1:00:43]
conclusion of that we awarded two
[1:00:45]
different contracts for $30 thousand each
[1:00:47]
to mobile med health solutions of san jose
[1:00:51]
as well as collection plus of sacramento
[1:00:54]
california. Unfortunately the contract
[1:00:57]
with mobile med has been prematurely
[1:01:00]
exhausted due to changes in cal osha
[1:01:02]
requirements resulting in a need to come
[1:01:04]
here to your board to ask for additional
[1:01:06]
funding. With that, happy to answer any
[1:01:08]
questions your board may have.
[1:01:09]
>> thanks brett. Any questions of board
[1:01:11]
members? Seeing none, anyone from the
[1:01:15]
public?
[1:01:18]
>> michael, go ahead and unmute your mic
[1:01:22]
and give your comments.
[1:01:23]
>> thank you. So, I am very much against
[1:01:28]
further testing. The covid testing is so
[1:01:34]
fraudulent. Every time they test that
[1:01:43]
counts as a new case and they are testing
[1:01:44]
for the corona virus not covid-19. There
[1:01:49]
is a cycle threshold that can be adjusted
[1:01:51]
to make the test more sensitive and these
[1:01:54]
tests are being used to institute these
[1:01:59]
mask mandates for example and are to put
[1:02:01]
further restrictions on the people. The
[1:02:06]
person that created the pcr test carrie
[1:02:10]
mullis said himself the test was never
[1:02:14]
designed as diagnostic tool, and there's a
[1:02:20]
dr., dr. Peter mccullough, I would really
[1:02:28]
recommend you look him up because he talks
[1:02:30]
about the pc r test and how fraudulently
[1:02:34]
it is being used. You might have to
[1:02:37]
search for him on duck duck go because
[1:02:40]
google is scrubbing anything that is
[1:02:43]
negative against the vaccine or against
[1:02:45]
the testing for covid protocols in
[1:02:49]
general. One other thing is, the covid
[1:02:57]
cannot be spread asystematically and many
[1:03:04]
doctors talked about that including peter
[1:03:06]
mccullough. So, I'm against spending more
[1:03:09]
money to put more restrictions on the
[1:03:14]
people. Thank you.
[1:03:17]
>> anyone else on zoom, megan?
[1:03:21]
>> we have one more on zoom.
[1:03:22]
>> one more.
[1:03:26]
>> go ahead and unmute your mic and give
[1:03:28]
your comments.
[1:03:29]
>> hi there. I would-my name is
[1:03:32]
jacqueline and I would like to ditto
[1:03:36]
michael's comments as far as no more money
[1:03:41]
should be spent on testing or vaccines in
[1:03:45]
our county. It is all fraudulent and
[1:03:55]
honesty all evil and we should not be
[1:03:57]
spending taxpayer dollars on more
[1:04:04]
fraudulent testing to increase case
[1:04:07]
numbers and that is all I have to say.
[1:04:16]
>> tina, go ahead and unmute your mic and
[1:04:19]
give your comments.
[1:04:21]
>> hi. My name is tina. I want to
[1:04:30]
reiterate what was said. It is waste to
[1:04:32]
continue with testing, especially the-if
[1:04:36]
we are following science why hasn't anyone
[1:04:39]
showed what the science is? Here in
[1:04:41]
california the science supposedly tells us
[1:04:44]
that we have to mask no matter what but in
[1:04:47]
new york you only have to mask if you are
[1:04:49]
not vaccinated and are in florida they
[1:04:51]
don't mask at all so which science are we
[1:04:55]
following? Please stop wasting the
[1:04:59]
taxpayer money.
[1:05:00]
>> no further on zoom.
[1:05:01]
>> brett-behind-
[1:05:07]
>> hi. My name is jennifer and I think-I
[1:05:12]
like some information on just two aspects
[1:05:14]
of this. Number one, the pc r test is
[1:05:18]
like no longer valid at the end of this
[1:05:21]
year so what test are you going to be
[1:05:23]
using to run these mobile clinics? And if
[1:05:26]
you are going to continue using the pc r
[1:05:29]
test what cycle per threshold are you
[1:05:31]
using because I believe it is anything
[1:05:33]
over 26 is basically able to give a false
[1:05:37]
positive. I are am not sure which staff
[1:05:42]
is included in this for testing, but I
[1:05:47]
think if you look at what's happened in
[1:05:49]
the u k they test 3 times as much as we do
[1:05:54]
on a smaller population and their cases
[1:05:57]
keep going up and up and up, and the
[1:06:00]
patterns that are showing and coming
[1:06:02]
across are the vaccinated people are the
[1:06:04]
ones now with this new variant like 80
[1:06:07]
percent that are becoming positive are
[1:06:12]
vaccinated and so I think if we really
[1:06:17]
want to do this heard immunity thing that
[1:06:21]
keeps the number keeps getting raised
[1:06:23]
higher and higher and higher and it
[1:06:26]
doesn't really make too much sense to me
[1:06:28]
personally, I don't-I think people are
[1:06:32]
just going to be getting sick if they have
[1:06:34]
the vaccines the vaccines dont protect.
[1:06:38]
that was really what the vaccines are just
[1:06:41]
to reduce symptoms, right? So, if you are
[1:06:45]
vaccinated you will get it. You will have
[1:06:47]
your symptoms reduced if that's what it
[1:06:50]
does, and if you had it you are not going
[1:06:53]
to keep getting it, so I'm not really sure
[1:06:55]
what the urgency is to do all this testing
[1:06:59]
all the time, because I do think it is
[1:07:02]
bringing up a false positive and I think
[1:07:05]
we are starting to see too we are having
[1:07:07]
more positive cases in areas where there
[1:07:09]
is more vaccinations, so if you wouldn't
[1:07:13]
mind just explaining how will the pc r
[1:07:16]
test is utilized in these testings that
[1:07:18]
you are mobily going around, what
[1:07:22]
threshold because I don't know why we
[1:07:24]
never ever really gotten that information
[1:07:26]
publicly. Our town hall was canceled for
[1:07:30]
our covid discussion, and I can't
[1:07:33]
understand that. And then what test you
[1:07:36]
are going to be using and can you explain
[1:07:38]
in detail why and how it actually shows a
[1:07:44]
test is positive and not a false positive,
[1:07:46]
because at the end of the year the pc r
[1:07:49]
tests are no longer valid. Thank you.
[1:07:53]
>> thank you. Why don't you go ahead.
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>> with respect to those questions I don't
[1:08:03]
have that information at this time. These
[1:08:05]
est tests are dictated or testing
[1:08:07]
requirements are dictated from cal osha.
[1:08:15]
we work with our providers to determine
[1:08:17]
that they can meet those requirements.
[1:08:20]
>> thanks, brett. That is helpful.
[1:08:25]
>> john, please unmute your mic and give
[1:08:28]
your comments.
[1:08:29]
>> alright. Thank you very much. John
[1:08:31]
falk speaking as a individual at this
[1:08:34]
time. As someone who would disagree with
[1:08:38]
the lion share of the people that spoke on
[1:08:40]
this issue, someone who is severely immuno
[1:08:44]
compromised and are also understand
[1:08:47]
medicine by having been a medic over 27
[1:08:49]
years, I can tell you that one, yes there
[1:08:53]
are break-through virus occurrences now
[1:08:59]
but it is because the virus shifts and
[1:09:00]
mutates. First, there is viral drift then
[1:09:03]
viral shift have the shift creates a new
[1:09:07]
strain which may be less protective when
[1:09:12]
you had the former vaccine. That does not
[1:09:15]
mean the vaccine is ineffective and the
[1:09:18]
vaccine does not lower your chance of
[1:09:21]
being hospitalized or dying. What it does
[1:09:24]
mean is vaccination is a key important
[1:09:27]
first step towards getting back to normal
[1:09:31]
and getting where the nob nab needs to be
[1:09:33]
and it is absolutely critical people
[1:09:35]
disregard the disinformation that is out
[1:09:38]
there. Any time you have to go through a
[1:09:41]
web search and then by-pass the scrubbers
[1:09:44]
that get through the disinformation I
[1:09:47]
think that you already told yourself
[1:09:49]
something. I would say go to the cdc, go
[1:09:52]
to the nih, go to dr. Fauci and find out
[1:09:56]
what the real truth is and you'll find
[1:09:58]
just like with the flu it changes from
[1:10:00]
year to year. It is deadly from year to
[1:10:03]
year, especially among those immuno
[1:10:05]
compromised or elderly so please do not
[1:10:08]
out of hand just dismiss this as a
[1:10:12]
non-issue or asystematic people can't
[1:10:15]
transmit. Scientifically untrue. The
[1:10:19]
first 5 days you are infected even if
[1:10:26]
asymptomatic you are most susceptible to
[1:10:30]
[inaudible comments] I would just say
[1:10:33]
masks are important, vaccines are
[1:10:36]
important, testing is important. Thank
[1:10:39]
you.
[1:10:41]
>> chairman and see no further public
[1:10:45]
comment.
[1:10:46]
>> suzanne.
[1:10:47]
>> my question would be, this program
[1:10:48]
here, this is only for testing of county
[1:10:51]
employees?
[1:10:54]
>> yes, ma'am;
[1:10:56]
>> that is what is mandated to us by the
[1:10:58]
state?
[1:10:59]
>> yes, ma'am.
[1:11:00]
>> okay.
[1:11:02]
>> what is the pleasure of the board.
[1:11:05]
motion gustafson, second holmes. All in
[1:11:08]
favor aye. So, if my notes are correct
[1:11:10]
that completes our consent agenda. Now is
[1:11:14]
the time for public comment. This is time
[1:11:16]
when anyone from the public can address
[1:11:19]
the board on something that is not on the
[1:11:21]
agenda. Keeping in mind we can take no
[1:11:24]
action. Anyone who would like to address
[1:11:32]
us under public comment? Jennifer, why
[1:11:42]
don't you start. We have somebody on zoom
[1:11:44]
I'm assuming? Okay. Welcome to proceed.
[1:11:48]
>> jennifer. I'm back. So, I saw that
[1:11:52]
california is doing the statewide mask
[1:11:54]
requirements and I was wondering if you
[1:11:58]
can speak how that is going to impact
[1:12:00]
placer county. I am not really sure why
[1:12:03]
we are being forced to wear masks. There
[1:12:06]
is high level of bad air we are breathing
[1:12:11]
all day to make our brains not work and I
[1:12:13]
think we are seeing that on a large scale
[1:12:15]
in general. There is bacteria harbored on
[1:12:19]
them. They are not being worn properly.
[1:12:22]
everything escapes out the sides and the
[1:12:24]
tops, people are wearing them below their
[1:12:27]
noses, so I really like to know why we are
[1:12:30]
doing it, and if we are going to be doing
[1:12:34]
it in placer county if next meeting we are
[1:12:38]
here we all have to have our masks on
[1:12:41]
sound like and I really just like to
[1:12:44]
understand a little bit more how that is
[1:12:47]
going to effect us. If we are going to
[1:12:50]
have to start wearing masks and continue
[1:12:54]
to comply with something that to me
[1:12:56]
doesn't make sense and a lot of other
[1:12:59]
people doesn't make sense, I really think
[1:13:01]
we should really think about
[1:13:04]
constitutionalizing our sheriff. Placer
[1:13:07]
county can lead the way. People are not
[1:13:10]
dropping dead in florida, people are not
[1:13:12]
dropping dead in other states that are not
[1:13:14]
wearing masks and I think we have to stop
[1:13:19]
living in fear because fear is driving our
[1:13:23]
economy into the ground as well as a lot
[1:13:25]
of other things. It is causing a lot of
[1:13:27]
divide and it's creating children with
[1:13:33]
lower motor skills, less speech, less comp
[1:13:38]
tense because they can't go to school,
[1:13:40]
they are having higher suicide rates. All
[1:13:45]
kinds of stuff, and I know masks are just
[1:13:48]
like a symptom of this, but I really think
[1:13:51]
we need to consider what these masks are,
[1:13:55]
because to me they are a silencer.
[1:13:59]
anything that is not going with what is
[1:14:00]
said by the cdc or nih, which continually
[1:14:04]
changes. Diseases continually change. It
[1:14:07]
isn't going it go away. We have to accept
[1:14:09]
that and move forward. Just a change of
[1:14:15]
shift from my last 30 seconds. I would
[1:14:18]
also really like placer county to consider
[1:14:23]
5g placement as it is going up. We are a
[1:14:26]
huge agricultural area as we discussed
[1:14:28]
earlier through the redistricting, and
[1:14:32]
there is a lot of studies showing 4g
[1:14:35]
effects bees and other things like that
[1:14:38]
are pollinators, and I think that is
[1:14:42]
something to consider. There is no
[1:14:43]
long-term studies on 5g or 4g and it
[1:14:47]
destroys the cells in the body. Thank
[1:14:49]
you.
[1:14:50]
>> thank you, jennifer.
[1:14:55]
>> michael go ahead and unmute and give
[1:14:58]
your comments.
[1:15:01]
>> hi. Yes, I'm very much against mask
[1:15:05]
mandates and I will not comply with the
[1:15:07]
mask mandate. I'm curious to hear what
[1:15:12]
you as a board plan to do with this. You
[1:15:16]
know, there is other counties that have
[1:15:22]
pushed back against these mandates but I
[1:15:24]
haven't seen it from placer county. San
[1:15:29]
joaquin and el dorado have resolutions
[1:15:33]
against vaccine mandates. And then again
[1:15:37]
I want to-another thing I like to talk
[1:15:39]
about is the covid-19 dashboard for placer
[1:15:44]
county. To me it seems it is just
[1:15:46]
propaganda. 39.200 cases. Okay. So, and
[1:15:51]
then 56 average daily cases. Huh. Likely
[1:15:58]
37.723 likely recovered. 483 deaths. So,
[1:16:03]
what does that mean? Is that this month?
[1:16:08]
is that this year? Is that ever? And
[1:16:12]
then, it looks like the cases are going
[1:16:15]
down but yet now we have this mask mandate
[1:16:18]
for all of california. On the covid-19
[1:16:24]
dashboard could you put some information
[1:16:26]
on the vaccine like adverse reactions?
[1:16:31]
can we have listings how many people have
[1:16:35]
been adversely effected from the vaccine?
[1:16:40]
how many died from the vaccine? What
[1:16:44]
about just general we never followed this
[1:16:47]
before. What about general deaths,
[1:16:49]
automobile accidents, deaths from
[1:16:53]
automobile accidents, cancer, other
[1:16:56]
medical conditions. That might be
[1:16:59]
interesting to put on there. As it stands
[1:17:01]
it seems like it is just propaganda and
[1:17:04]
promoting fear. We really need you
[1:17:12]
supervisors to lead and stop promoting
[1:17:15]
fear and then I think that the main thing
[1:17:17]
I hear from you folks is that well, the
[1:17:22]
state mandates it and we don't have power
[1:17:25]
to do it. Then why are the other counties
[1:17:29]
doing it? Did they have more power then
[1:17:32]
you guys? I'm just curious to hear your
[1:17:34]
response. Thank you.
[1:17:36]
>> thank you.
[1:17:38]
>> I see no further comments.
[1:17:40]
>> okay. Next is the time for board and
[1:17:44]
the county executive reports and todd you
[1:17:47]
want to lead?
[1:17:48]
>> yeah. Couple things and then dr.
[1:17:51]
oldham is on the call to answer a couple
[1:17:54]
questions about most recently this
[1:17:56]
mandate. The first one I wanted to share
[1:17:59]
we are getting to the end of the year and
[1:18:01]
think it is really important we reflect on
[1:18:03]
just the important stuff our staff has
[1:18:06]
done. We have a lot of projects and will
[1:18:08]
be remiss not to say between public health
[1:18:11]
staff recollect public safety folks those
[1:18:12]
are directly impacted and helping address
[1:18:14]
just the challenge over the last 2 years.
[1:18:17]
I would be remise not to say thank you to
[1:18:20]
them. I think we also have a number of
[1:18:22]
projects from the corner facility online
[1:18:26]
in february, mercy housing project we are
[1:18:28]
just completing right now. Our housing
[1:18:31]
programs and all the diversity of trying
[1:18:33]
to get affordable housing for residents I
[1:18:37]
think is not to go unnoticed and I also
[1:18:40]
think homelessness and conversation around
[1:18:44]
regional discussion are important. So, I
[1:18:46]
just wanted to give a quick thank you to
[1:18:48]
our staff that have just worked tirelessly
[1:18:51]
over the last year. Also wanted to talk
[1:18:54]
about some highlights and going to try to
[1:18:58]
more as we get to the new year but we had
[1:19:00]
two challenge awards. Csac had a winter
[1:19:05]
conference and 433 entries from all the
[1:19:09]
counties, the 58 counties around the
[1:19:12]
state. Our county received two of those
[1:19:14]
awards. One a challenge award around
[1:19:16]
dispersement for emergency rental
[1:19:19]
assistance funding. You as a board
[1:19:20]
supported having our internal staff run
[1:19:23]
that program in partnership with the city
[1:19:26]
of roseville. We were able to distribute
[1:19:29]
over $8.1 million for rental assistance
[1:19:34]
which allow the residents to stay in their
[1:19:36]
homes. We had a merit award that was a
[1:19:39]
virtual format and I talked about this
[1:19:42]
individually I think collectively as a
[1:19:45]
organization there is silver lining we
[1:19:47]
have to look at and part of it is how we
[1:19:49]
utilize technology to provide a service to
[1:19:51]
our residents and this award was a virtual
[1:19:56]
format for cal works participants and
[1:19:58]
recipients to work in a virtual resource
[1:20:01]
huddle format and allowed those folks to
[1:20:04]
come in and are speak to us if they didn't
[1:20:06]
feel comfortable coming into provide those
[1:20:09]
services and think the success of that
[1:20:11]
program will probably take place and
[1:20:14]
continue long after we moved through the
[1:20:16]
pandemic work. Really good work in that
[1:20:19]
arena. The last thing I say, [inaudible
[1:20:22]
comments] she is a program manager in hhs.
[1:20:25]
she last week was recognized through the
[1:20:28]
community collaborative in tahoe truckee
[1:20:30]
as the partner of the year award. She's
[1:20:33]
just a outstanding employee. Partners
[1:20:35]
between nevada and placer county. Provide
[1:20:38]
service to our residents so she was
[1:20:42]
recognized and want to say thank you to
[1:20:44]
that for her. The last thing I served
[1:20:47]
this last year as chairman for the
[1:20:49]
[inaudible comments] regional manager
[1:20:51]
association. This is the county and the
[1:20:53]
city managers, we get together on a
[1:20:56]
quarterly basis talk about transportation,
[1:20:59]
green means go, housing, infrastructure
[1:21:02]
funding, I think it is always important to
[1:21:05]
work regionally on issues, we do that at
[1:21:07]
the county level and think it serves well
[1:21:10]
to be partners around the region as well.
[1:21:12]
I just wanted to say thanks for the
[1:21:14]
support for me serving in that capacity
[1:21:17]
the last year. Finally I will turn it to
[1:21:20]
rob oldham. Rob is here-we heard most
[1:21:24]
recently about the state mask mandate and
[1:21:27]
I thought it was important you to hear
[1:21:29]
directly from him what this means and
[1:21:32]
clarity about what's coming down from the
[1:21:36]
state here starting tomorrow. Rob, I'll
[1:21:38]
turn it over to you.
[1:21:39]
>> great thanks todd and thanks for giving
[1:21:43]
props to our hhs program with the csac
[1:21:47]
award and [inaudible comments]
[1:21:48]
congratulations everyone. So, good
[1:21:50]
morning chair weygandt and members of the
[1:21:51]
board. Rob oldham. Recent development
[1:21:59]
with statewide mask mandate discussed this
[1:22:01]
morning. Asked to provide a brief covid
[1:22:05]
update. As you recall, my last report to
[1:22:08]
your board on covid was really back when
[1:22:10]
our schools and hospitals and other
[1:22:13]
critical infrastructure were being
[1:22:16]
stretched very thin by the delta variant
[1:22:20]
surge. Since then our case rate and
[1:22:23]
hospitalizations have dropped
[1:22:26]
significantly, especially from their highs
[1:22:28]
back in august and september. They have
[1:22:32]
not yet returned to their pre-delta
[1:22:35]
variant lows and also sense then many more
[1:22:39]
people have been vaccinated or received
[1:22:41]
boosters and new promising therapeutics
[1:22:44]
have also been introduced that can
[1:22:46]
dramatically decrease severe illness,
[1:22:49]
hospitalization and death from covid, so
[1:22:51]
over all news on the covid front is
[1:22:55]
relatively good. But late last month we
[1:22:58]
began to hear about a new variant
[1:23:01]
beginning to spread in other countries and
[1:23:04]
just last week the variant started showing
[1:23:07]
up in california. While we haven't had a
[1:23:11]
case of the variant identified in placer
[1:23:14]
county yet, it has been found in the
[1:23:19]
sacramento area and reasonable to expect
[1:23:23]
we will find it here in placer very soon.
[1:23:25]
while we are still very early in our
[1:23:28]
process of learning about omicron. It is
[1:23:31]
very new in the world stage. What we know
[1:23:34]
is omicron has a large number of mutations
[1:23:38]
compared to other variants and those
[1:23:42]
appear to decrease the ability of ant
[1:23:44]
bodies in the flood which come from
[1:23:48]
vaccine or previous infection so can
[1:23:50]
decrease the ability of the ant bodies to
[1:23:53]
neutralize the virus and recently released
[1:23:57]
data seemed to suggest vaccines
[1:24:00]
effectiveness may be significant lower
[1:24:02]
against omicron, but vaccine boosters
[1:24:06]
still appear to be quite effective at
[1:24:08]
preventing illness, especially severe
[1:24:11]
illness. What will omicron mean? It is
[1:24:17]
too early to tell exactly. It is quite
[1:24:20]
possible that omicron will become the
[1:24:25]
dominant variant later this winter and
[1:24:27]
reasonable to expect we'll see a winter
[1:24:29]
surge both in covid cases but also in
[1:24:32]
other respiratory illness. We already
[1:24:35]
have seen recent surges in respiratory
[1:24:38]
illnesses and uptick in the last couple
[1:24:42]
weeks of covid cases and hospitalization,
[1:24:44]
since the thanksgiving holiday. Not at
[1:24:47]
the same rates that we saw this time last
[1:24:50]
year. In addition, we talked about the
[1:24:57]
statewide masking mandate that will go
[1:25:02]
effective tomorrow in addition to the
[1:25:04]
statewide indoor masking mandate yesterday
[1:25:07]
the state tightened up guidance for so
[1:25:10]
called mega events so events more then a
[1:25:12]
thousand indoor attendees or more then 10
[1:25:15]
thousand outdoor attendees and now are
[1:25:18]
requiring all attendees to show proof of
[1:25:21]
vaccination or a negative test within one
[1:25:23]
day for ant jen test and 2 days for pc r
[1:25:30]
test. Placer count y impact, we don't
[1:25:33]
have many venues that can hold over a
[1:25:35]
thousand people indoors in placer county
[1:25:37]
but certainly in other counties that will
[1:25:40]
have a significant impact. Yard the state
[1:25:44]
the issued a new travel advisory
[1:25:46]
recommending all travellers arriving in
[1:25:49]
california test for covid-19 within 3 to 5
[1:25:53]
days after arrival regardless of
[1:25:55]
vaccination status. Lots of people are
[1:25:56]
asking if we anticipate a return to
[1:25:59]
lock-downs or limits on business capacity
[1:26:02]
or operations like we did under the state
[1:26:04]
blue print for healthier economy. I think
[1:26:07]
it is notable it has been all most exactly
[1:26:10]
since month since the blue print retired
[1:26:13]
back in june so I would be very surprised
[1:26:15]
if we back to anything like those levels
[1:26:19]
of restrictions. I have been surprised
[1:26:21]
before and can be again but we are in
[1:26:24]
really good shape relative to where we
[1:26:26]
were last year at this time or back in
[1:26:29]
june. We now have over 60 percent of our
[1:26:31]
population in placer county fully
[1:26:34]
vaccinated about 90 pert of the seniors
[1:26:36]
are fully vaccinated and now with the
[1:26:39]
vaccine available to children and large
[1:26:41]
numbers of people getting boosters much
[1:26:43]
wider availability of testing and
[1:26:45]
effective therapeutics and high quality
[1:26:47]
masks we are in much better position then
[1:26:49]
we were earlier in the pandemic. With
[1:26:51]
that, happy to answer any questions you
[1:26:54]
may have and once again thanks and
[1:26:56]
appreciate todd's word on the staff. It
[1:26:59]
is a long haul both this year and with the
[1:27:03]
pandemic throughout the county and in hhs
[1:27:06]
and say thank you to the staff and great
[1:27:08]
work you have done. Thanks.
[1:27:09]
>> thanks rob and back to you for the
[1:27:14]
same-want to build on todd comments by
[1:27:17]
thanking all our staff regardless of how
[1:27:22]
good or bad the board's ideas are or
[1:27:25]
successes can never be achieved without
[1:27:28]
excellence in staff and committed and hard
[1:27:30]
work so great time of year to technology
[1:27:32]
we have many standards setting programs
[1:27:35]
and specifically rob again you guys have
[1:27:38]
done well at health and human services and
[1:27:41]
don't want to put pressure on you but come
[1:27:44]
to expect that now over the last 27 years
[1:27:46]
so next year just looking forward to
[1:27:49]
whatever fabulous achievements you have
[1:27:51]
out there. Health and human subs
[1:27:55]
recognized across the country and
[1:27:56]
particularly in the state of california
[1:27:58]
and it does not go unnoticed. With that
[1:28:01]
I'll open up for questions. Cindy.
[1:28:05]
>> I didn't have any questions, just had
[1:28:07]
reports to give,
[1:28:10]
>> any covid related or specific comments
[1:28:12]
for rob?
[1:28:14]
>> I do have to ask one question. I had a
[1:28:19]
couple of restaurant owners contact me
[1:28:22]
last night-the height of holiday season
[1:28:26]
for our restaurants who have been severely
[1:28:29]
impacted this last year. I know they have
[1:28:32]
to worry about state abc, but as far as
[1:28:36]
our own county staff, we got folks who
[1:28:40]
have to do the environmental health checks
[1:28:43]
at our restaurants, do you anticipate
[1:28:44]
those folks going out and closing down our
[1:28:47]
restaurants?
[1:28:48]
>> I really am not hearing about
[1:28:53]
enforcement even from the state so that is
[1:28:55]
a question we are getting a lot about-by
[1:28:57]
the way on restaurants there are a number
[1:28:59]
of exceptions on the statewide indoor
[1:29:03]
masking mandate and you can go to the
[1:29:05]
state website and see that but while
[1:29:07]
eating and drinking. A lot of the same
[1:29:11]
things I think people are accustom to but
[1:29:16]
as far as enforcement of those I'm not
[1:29:19]
really hearing a lot across the state
[1:29:23]
about that. Really the hope-people are
[1:29:30]
asking why now, why is this coming. The
[1:29:34]
state website speaks why the timing for
[1:29:37]
this. I mentioned the omicron variant and
[1:29:47]
up take in cases statewide. Masking
[1:29:50]
mandates are in the places that had them
[1:29:54]
already we have seen minimal enforcement
[1:29:56]
and the idea is they are try to change
[1:29:59]
perception of masking and social norms in
[1:30:04]
communities making masking more common,
[1:30:06]
but as far as--the influence of or the
[1:30:11]
enforcement I think that will be minimal.
[1:30:14]
also in addition we talked about one the
[1:30:17]
quality of masking being really important
[1:30:19]
and then masking relative to some of the
[1:30:22]
other interventions I think vaccinations
[1:30:24]
in particular probably being a more
[1:30:29]
effective strategy but combining
[1:30:32]
interventions has shown to be the most
[1:30:35]
impactful but there are probably other
[1:30:38]
intervention like vaccination that are
[1:30:43]
more effective then masking.
[1:30:44]
>> thank you, I appreciate that and know
[1:30:45]
folks are asking when or not the sheriff
[1:30:48]
will enforce and I haven't heard from the
[1:30:50]
sheriff but he hasn't enforced in the
[1:30:53]
past. I don't certainly cant see him
[1:30:55]
choosing to do that again and I want to
[1:30:58]
let residents know that. We want to be
[1:31:01]
concerned about people getting sick and
[1:31:04]
probably the best thing about this is that
[1:31:06]
it is taught people to stay home if they
[1:31:08]
are not feeling well, which is a really
[1:31:11]
good thing and I really want to encourage
[1:31:13]
people to do that. There are other things
[1:31:16]
of washing hands if you are sick just are
[1:31:19]
please stay away from all the rest of us.
[1:31:23]
thank you dr. Oldham.
[1:31:26]
>> thanks again rob. Cindy. This is the
[1:31:30]
time again for board members reports and
[1:31:33]
we heard from county exec so now going to
[1:31:37]
cindy for board member report.
[1:31:39]
>> I had a quick report tomorrow the tahoe
[1:31:42]
regional planning agency will be meeting
[1:31:43]
and later today we'll be talking about our
[1:31:46]
placer county transportation fees for
[1:31:49]
tahoe. Tomorrow the tahoe regional
[1:31:52]
planning agency will be voting on mobility
[1:31:56]
fee that is somewhat similar to vmt
[1:32:00]
reductions we have been talking about here
[1:32:02]
and what is important for the board to
[1:32:03]
know is our staff has worked tirelessly.
[1:32:07]
stephanie as well as katie jackson
[1:32:10]
[inaudible comments] to make sure these
[1:32:11]
two programs do not compound on each other
[1:32:15]
for a new development in the tahoe basin
[1:32:17]
which could have occurred. There is a lot
[1:32:19]
to still work out to make sure our
[1:32:21]
projects are done. Will collect that fee
[1:32:25]
and then make sure that our projects our
[1:32:33]
portion the regional transportation fund
[1:32:35]
are funded. I wanted to thank staff
[1:32:37]
publicly for all their efforts to make
[1:32:39]
sure that we safeguard our tahoe
[1:32:42]
businesses and residents on that to make
[1:32:45]
sure they are not paying double fees
[1:32:48]
within the basin. And then obviously
[1:32:51]
wanted to say great job on bringing us a
[1:32:53]
lot of snow. We need snow for a lot of
[1:32:56]
good reasons for most important it is
[1:33:00]
essential for our water resources. Headed
[1:33:03]
into the holidays we couldn't have asked
[1:33:05]
for a better economic boost for many ski
[1:33:08]
areas who hadn't been able to open or
[1:33:10]
barely opening. It is going to be a great
[1:33:16]
white christmas for the ski areas. And
[1:33:18]
then finally, today robert if I'm numbers
[1:33:22]
are right this is your 5th time concluding
[1:33:25]
your 5th time as chair of this board, and
[1:33:30]
I could couldn't let it go unnoticed
[1:33:34]
because of such a year you had. Between
[1:33:39]
everything you had to deal with,
[1:33:41]
continuing the legacy with covid but into
[1:33:45]
vaccination and vaccination requirements
[1:33:46]
and all the public testimony and then
[1:33:50]
redistricating of course. Few little hot
[1:33:53]
buttons along the way but you have done a
[1:33:55]
excellent job and I know that you can't
[1:33:57]
open this now, but on behalf of all the
[1:33:59]
board, we have a little something that
[1:34:01]
will ease the pain for the holidays.
[1:34:04]
[laughter]
[1:34:07]
can't open it here on the county grounds,
[1:34:10]
but hopefully you can enjoy that and just
[1:34:15]
wanted to thank you for your great
[1:34:18]
leadership. It has been a tough year,
[1:34:20]
probably the toughest you had as a chair,
[1:34:22]
at least that is what you said.
[1:34:24]
>> thank you. Depending how the meeting
[1:34:25]
goes today I might defy county rules and
[1:34:28]
regulations I might need to call the
[1:34:33]
sheriff. Thank you very much. I
[1:34:36]
appreciate it. Thank you.
[1:34:37]
(applause)
[1:34:39]
>> suzanne.
[1:34:40]
>> yes. I wanted to just mention that I'm
[1:34:44]
also rounding out my first year on the
[1:34:46]
board and it's been quite a experience. I
[1:34:50]
enjoyed it working with all of you and all
[1:34:52]
of my constituents and wanted to tell
[1:34:55]
everybody thanks especially to my
[1:34:56]
constituents for your continued support
[1:34:58]
and I appreciate everybody that reaches
[1:35:00]
out to me with concerns that we can
[1:35:03]
attempt to resolve here at this level and
[1:35:06]
so with that, thank you robert for-you
[1:35:10]
have been a great mentor for me for the
[1:35:12]
future even though your year was hard. It
[1:35:16]
was good for me.
[1:35:17]
>> can only get easier, right?
[1:35:19]
[laughter]
[1:35:22]
>> I just want to end by wishing everybody
[1:35:25]
a happy holiday, merry christmas if you
[1:35:27]
observe christmas and wish everyone the
[1:35:29]
best in the new year.
[1:35:32]
>> I'll finish by saying, cindy it is all
[1:35:36]
most certain you will be our new chair and
[1:35:38]
you will have some incredibly good support
[1:35:40]
megan and todd and county counsel office
[1:35:42]
and other executive staff and it makes all
[1:35:46]
the difference in the world so I just want
[1:35:48]
to publicly acknowledge that and express
[1:35:51]
my appreciation. Okay, with that and
[1:35:55]
seeing no other lights I'm going to take
[1:35:58]
the chair prerogative and bounce around.
[1:36:00]
we'll take up because of timing our 9:30
[1:36:04]
item and after that take the then 1035
[1:36:08]
item compared to the 915 item we should be
[1:36:13]
taking now. The next item is our placer
[1:36:16]
county 2022 legislative advocacy platform.
[1:36:22]
joel.
[1:36:26]
>> good morning chair members of the
[1:36:28]
board. Todd karen. County executive
[1:36:31]
office. I should be joined today on zoom
[1:36:34]
by rich gold and michael gullano of
[1:36:38]
holland and knight and paul yoder and
[1:36:41]
karen lang with syasl partners.
[1:36:46]
additionally, besides them giving a update
[1:36:49]
to the board today you have before you a
[1:36:52]
draft legislative platform which serves as
[1:36:55]
the basis for county advocacy efforts with
[1:36:58]
executive and legislative branches of
[1:37:00]
federal government to support sponsor and
[1:37:01]
oppose legislation address policy rules
[1:37:04]
laws regulations as well as defend county
[1:37:08]
local authority and resources. Placer
[1:37:11]
county with contractor advocates and
[1:37:14]
member associations have been successful
[1:37:15]
over the past few years advancing county
[1:37:18]
priorities and protecting the county
[1:37:20]
ability to have local control over our
[1:37:22]
governance and land use decisions. While
[1:37:25]
placer county or any county have not won
[1:37:28]
every battle placer county does continue
[1:37:30]
to mitigate some of the more problematic
[1:37:32]
provisions in various pieces of
[1:37:36]
legislation over the years. With the
[1:37:37]
board's work we continue to have a
[1:37:40]
more-take a more proactive approach in dc
[1:37:44]
and sacramento. 2021 saw record
[1:37:46]
investments on many county priorities from
[1:37:48]
dc and sacramento. Infrastructure funding
[1:37:52]
reach historic levels over the next 5
[1:37:54]
years competing for roads bridges water
[1:37:58]
sewer and electric vehicle infrastructure.
[1:38:00]
broadband received historic funding with
[1:38:03]
$6 billion from the state and $65 billion
[1:38:06]
from the federal government of which the
[1:38:08]
state should see $6 billion of the $65
[1:38:11]
billion. Staff continues to work hard to
[1:38:15]
make sure every resident and business that
[1:38:17]
wants to receive high-speed internet will
[1:38:21]
receive high-speed internet at reliable
[1:38:24]
and affordable cost. Wildfire risk
[1:38:28]
reduction continue to be top priority of
[1:38:31]
the board and county staff. Investment in
[1:38:33]
that front has-in the billions of dollars
[1:38:36]
range which michael and rich from holland
[1:38:39]
and knight will discuss in a minute to
[1:38:42]
really try to reduce fuel load in the
[1:38:44]
local forest. Going into 2022, which is
[1:38:48]
setting up to be a fairly unique year for
[1:38:50]
me working with this job on a state level
[1:38:53]
you have redistricting which is yet to be
[1:38:55]
settled. Today is the self imposed
[1:38:58]
deadline. The additional deadline is
[1:39:01]
later this month. You also have back in
[1:39:04]
2012 the voters approved term limit
[1:39:07]
initiative which you will see the effect
[1:39:10]
of the term limit as folks expire for the
[1:39:15]
seats in 2024. Many members are looking
[1:39:17]
for other jobs at this point. You have a
[1:39:20]
gubernatorial this fall, senate election,
[1:39:23]
various statewide offices and what is
[1:39:25]
setting up to be a pretty large ballot.
[1:39:27]
as of this point you have up to 4
[1:39:29]
initiatives just on legalizing sports
[1:39:32]
gambling in the state. So, with that I
[1:39:34]
will turn over to rich gold and michael
[1:39:37]
gullano to kick off the presentation and
[1:39:41]
following up with paul yoder and rich
[1:39:43]
[inaudible comments]
[1:39:44]
>> mr. Chair, I have a question. I want
[1:39:47]
to clarify. You said members expire. The
[1:39:50]
term expires?
[1:39:51]
>> the term limits-I should clarify-
[1:39:57]
>> the more seasons joel the more you pay
[1:40:00]
attention to the distinction.
[1:40:04]
[laughter]
[1:40:05]
>> if it please your board my name is rich
[1:40:07]
gold. I appreciate the opportunities to
[1:40:12]
speak with you all today along with my
[1:40:14]
colleague mike gullano. I wanted to start
[1:40:17]
out just by thanking you all for all the
[1:40:19]
good work you as the board did this year
[1:40:22]
advocating for the county federal
[1:40:24]
priorities. It was obviously a challenge
[1:40:26]
with limited capability to have personal
[1:40:29]
interaction with members of congress and
[1:40:32]
members of the executive branch but we got
[1:40:35]
a lot done and I think we are rounding the
[1:40:38]
corner and hoping that congress will be
[1:40:40]
back in business taking personal meetings
[1:40:43]
as well as the executive branch and first
[1:40:45]
quarter of 2022. I also just want to tip
[1:40:49]
my hat as well supervisor weygandt. We
[1:40:52]
worked together what seems over a hundred
[1:40:55]
years. He's been a great elected official
[1:40:58]
to work with and shown true leadership on
[1:41:00]
so many issues from water to
[1:41:03]
transportation and look forward to this
[1:41:06]
final lap here robert.
[1:41:07]
>> thanks rich.
[1:41:09]
>> sure. Just wanted to give a brief
[1:41:12]
overview here and we can go to the next
[1:41:15]
slide. With regard to where things stand.
[1:41:20]
obviously at the federal level we have a
[1:41:23]
very closely divided congress with the
[1:41:26]
senate tied 50/50, the house only a few
[1:41:30]
seats apart. That makes getting
[1:41:32]
legislation through the process very
[1:41:34]
difficult. On the other hand it also
[1:41:37]
produced bipartisan infrastructure bill
[1:41:40]
this summer which required the margins
[1:41:42]
required a very bipartisan effort for that
[1:41:45]
legislation. I think we had a very
[1:41:49]
productive year. We started out in
[1:41:52]
february moving the american rescue plan
[1:41:55]
through congress and providing lead
[1:42:00]
funding for covid and economically
[1:42:02]
impacted interests like restaurants and
[1:42:05]
other community facilities that had really
[1:42:08]
suffered economically during the shut down
[1:42:12]
from the pandemic. That legislation lead
[1:42:16]
us into discussion around the bipartisan
[1:42:19]
infrastructure bill which started in april
[1:42:22]
and we were successful passing that bill
[1:42:25]
into law in august, and had good
[1:42:28]
bipartisan support in both the senate and
[1:42:31]
house for that legislation. And while it
[1:42:35]
passed-while that bill passed through the
[1:42:39]
senate in august, it only finally passed
[1:42:43]
here in november through the house of
[1:42:45]
representatives and we will be talking
[1:42:47]
about the programs included in that bill
[1:42:49]
and in 2022 a lot of those programs will
[1:42:52]
be pumping money through the system for
[1:42:55]
everything as joel referenced from
[1:42:57]
transportation to water infrastructure and
[1:43:03]
broadband. We are working on the current
[1:43:05]
reconciliation bill entitled build back
[1:43:08]
better and that bill likely will go into
[1:43:12]
2022. We will not finish before christmas
[1:43:15]
as senators had hoped would be the case,
[1:43:18]
so we are likely going to take up that
[1:43:20]
bill again when we come back in january.
[1:43:25]
in addition in january we need to finish
[1:43:26]
up the fy22 federal appropriation bills
[1:43:30]
which also provide significant funding for
[1:43:32]
county priorities, and move forward then
[1:43:36]
into the new cycle for fy23. So, mike let
[1:43:40]
me kick it over to you for the next slide.
[1:43:44]
>> thanks rich. I'll do a lilt deeper
[1:43:46]
dive on topics that rich mentioned. So,
[1:43:50]
really the past year, year and a half have
[1:43:54]
been focused on covid response. At the
[1:43:58]
federal level. Next slide. So, to date
[1:44:06]
congress has enacted 5 major covid relief
[1:44:11]
packages to the tune of $5 trillion over
[1:44:15]
the next decade. The most well known of
[1:44:17]
those 5 are really the third, which is the
[1:44:21]
cares act, which was enacted in march of
[1:44:24]
2020 and then the american rescue plan act
[1:44:30]
arpa enacted in march of 21. So, one of
[1:44:35]
the flaws of the cares act even at $1.8
[1:44:39]
trillion was that at least from a local
[1:44:41]
government perspective, it didn't get
[1:44:44]
money directly to most counties and cities
[1:44:48]
across the country. It was well
[1:44:51]
intentioned but in the response to get the
[1:44:54]
money out the door quickly the governor
[1:44:57]
got most of those dollars to allocate to
[1:45:00]
the local governments and that took longer
[1:45:04]
then it should have. Coming into 21 one
[1:45:08]
of the goals for the next package, the
[1:45:10]
arpa plan was to insure that local
[1:45:13]
governments got that funding directly.
[1:45:16]
next slide. So, arpa was passed in march
[1:45:22]
of 21. It provided $360 billion directly
[1:45:28]
to local and state governments and the
[1:45:32]
good news one of the big victories from
[1:45:34]
earlier this year was that it provided
[1:45:37]
directed funding to local governments of
[1:45:39]
all sizes including placer county which
[1:45:44]
received $77 million from the local
[1:45:48]
government relief fund on top of the other
[1:45:51]
monies related to rental assistance and
[1:45:56]
money through hud and other departments.
[1:45:58]
so, that really was the response phase for
[1:46:02]
covid, which just ended over the summer of
[1:46:06]
21. Once those bills got done, congress
[1:46:12]
attempted to pivot to from recovery from
[1:46:17]
response to recovery, so that was when the
[1:46:20]
infrastructure package started to pick up
[1:46:23]
speed. Initially the president had hoped
[1:46:28]
to pass a package in the neighborhood of
[1:46:31]
$4 trillion, which even in dc is a lot of
[1:46:35]
money, so realizing that was not going to
[1:46:39]
be possible they decided to bifurcate the
[1:46:43]
package to create a traditional
[1:46:45]
infrastructure package and then a social
[1:46:48]
infrastructure package. Next slide. So,
[1:46:55]
on a parallel track, congress also as rich
[1:47:00]
noted proceeding with the annual
[1:47:03]
appropriations process and one new
[1:47:07]
development on that front, it was the
[1:47:10]
return of congressional earmarks. The
[1:47:13]
board will recall earmarks at the federal
[1:47:16]
level went away in fiscal year 10 so after
[1:47:20]
a 11 year hiatus, congress when the
[1:47:26]
democrat said won the house and senate
[1:47:29]
decided to bring back the earmark process
[1:47:31]
really on a trial basis for fy22, and we
[1:47:37]
are pleased to report the county has one
[1:47:39]
project pending in those fy22 bills, which
[1:47:43]
were not completed by october 1 when they
[1:47:47]
should have, but we are hopeful to get
[1:47:49]
these bills done before the end of
[1:47:53]
february, and there is $580 thousand
[1:47:56]
pending for a body worm camera program at
[1:48:03]
the sheriff office. Next slide. As rich
[1:48:06]
noted, the infrastructure bill enacted on
[1:48:11]
november 15. It's $1.2 trillion for
[1:48:15]
traditional infrastructure. We are
[1:48:17]
working with staff to identify the various
[1:48:21]
programs of interest to the county. Joel
[1:48:24]
noted that there is $3 billion included in
[1:48:28]
there for wildfire related activities.
[1:48:35]
also importantly new policy changes on the
[1:48:38]
wildfire front included including creating
[1:48:41]
a new categorical exclusion under neppa
[1:48:44]
for fuel reduction and fuel break
[1:48:47]
activities, which is welcome change. Not
[1:48:50]
a pant sia but a step in the right
[1:48:53]
direction. That was signed into law
[1:48:57]
november 15. We expect most of the
[1:49:02]
formula dollars from this $1.2 trillion
[1:49:06]
package to start to flow to the states
[1:49:10]
during the first quarter of 2022 for all
[1:49:13]
the traditional infrastructure funding
[1:49:16]
from roads and bridges and to safe
[1:49:20]
drinking water and stormwater projects.
[1:49:22]
the other part of that funding package is
[1:49:25]
the competitive programs which were
[1:49:27]
created. Those are going to take longer
[1:49:29]
to get out the door. The various agencies
[1:49:33]
and jurisdictions have to hire up and
[1:49:36]
write the notice of funding availability,
[1:49:38]
so on the competitive side we expect to
[1:49:41]
see over the summer of 22. Next slide.
[1:49:50]
>> so, the second piece to the
[1:49:55]
infrastructure package is social spending
[1:49:56]
which is called the build back better
[1:49:59]
program here in dc. 24 the house enacted
[1:50:09]
a package over $3 trillion. That wasn't
[1:50:12]
going to pass in the senate for ez reasons
[1:50:16]
you have probably seen in the press so the
[1:50:18]
senate is attempting to draft a more
[1:50:20]
modest size package to the tune of $1.7
[1:50:22]
trillion. Leader schumer and the senate
[1:50:28]
told his caucus he is hoping to have a
[1:50:30]
vote on the package before they leave for
[1:50:33]
christmas. That is unlikely but that is
[1:50:36]
their goal. And should that pass we will
[1:50:39]
get with your staff to make sure that they
[1:50:42]
are aware of what's in it and so woe can
[1:50:47]
compete for the social dollars in addition
[1:50:49]
to the traditional infrastructure dollars.
[1:50:51]
next slide. So, what's left to do over
[1:50:58]
the next couple weeks in dc. Rich
[1:51:02]
mentioned government funding. We are
[1:51:03]
operating under our second continuing
[1:51:06]
resolution to keep the federal government
[1:51:08]
open through february 18. Congress will
[1:51:12]
use these next 6 weeks to finish those
[1:51:15]
fy22 spending bills that include the
[1:51:18]
funding for the sheriff body worn camera
[1:51:22]
program. In addition, the second item
[1:51:24]
congress needs to raise the federal debt
[1:51:27]
limit which is the government ability to
[1:51:30]
barrow. According to the treasury
[1:51:33]
secretary we will be up against that limit
[1:51:35]
on december 15, which according to my
[1:51:38]
calendar is tomorrow, so the senate is
[1:51:41]
expected to pass a debt limit increase
[1:51:45]
this afternoon and the house will attempt
[1:51:47]
to pass that this evening. The third item
[1:51:50]
the social spending is again the build
[1:51:53]
back better plan that was mentioned on the
[1:51:55]
prior slide. The democrats want to get
[1:51:59]
that done before christmas. Unlikely it
[1:52:02]
is more likely to slide into the end of
[1:52:04]
this year or early next year, so stay
[1:52:08]
tuned on that. So, in terms of looking
[1:52:10]
forward to 2022, next slide--there is a
[1:52:19]
lot of federal money coming down the pike
[1:52:23]
and we have been working with staff to get
[1:52:25]
up to speed on the different programs.
[1:52:29]
so, really it is 3 legs of a federal
[1:52:31]
funding platform. That is the way we like
[1:52:35]
to think about it. There are competitive
[1:52:38]
federal grants the county will apply for
[1:52:40]
and has done very well historically
[1:52:43]
including earlier this year a $5 million
[1:52:45]
grant for the western placer county hcp.
[1:52:50]
those will come out in the spring time.
[1:52:53]
there is the annual congressional federal
[1:52:57]
appropriation process which will good
[1:53:02]
begin in february which is 12 month
[1:53:04]
process and then the-special funding
[1:53:09]
opportunities and in our case that is the
[1:53:11]
federal infrastructure package which is
[1:53:13]
already enacted and then the
[1:53:17]
reconciliation bill which may or may not
[1:53:19]
be enacted later this year. That is a
[1:53:22]
good way to organize our thoughts on that
[1:53:24]
and we already had a number of planning
[1:53:26]
meetings with your staff to walk through
[1:53:28]
the various opportunities for 2022 and
[1:53:31]
beyond. With that, thank you and happy to
[1:53:35]
take any questions.
[1:53:36]
>> thanks mike and rich. Good seeing you
[1:53:39]
guys again. Hope next time in person, but
[1:53:42]
are there any questions from mike and rich
[1:53:44]
federal advocacy at this time by my
[1:53:46]
colleagues? Cindy.
[1:53:47]
>> hi, thanks so much for the report and
[1:53:50]
all the efforts going into this. I was at
[1:53:53]
a luncheon on saturday in which members
[1:54:00]
the u.s. Forest service of the percentage
[1:54:05]
of the budget that changed to I believe 9
[1:54:08]
percent of firefighter to over 55 percent
[1:54:10]
of fire fighting and I want to again
[1:54:14]
emphasize I know you know this
[1:54:16]
representing us in the western states as
[1:54:18]
well that we need more money to stop fires
[1:54:21]
from starting and being able to fight them
[1:54:23]
with our fuel suppression, especially in
[1:54:26]
our national forest; so any efforts we can
[1:54:30]
do to continue to highlight this issue on
[1:54:34]
forest fuel reduction on federal lands
[1:54:36]
because we have the forest service, we
[1:54:38]
have the bureau of land management, bureau
[1:54:44]
of reclinations, around the auburn and
[1:54:48]
foothill area and up through the sierra
[1:54:50]
are our main partners and are there any
[1:54:55]
insights you have how we can get more
[1:54:57]
funding to the forest service for that
[1:54:59]
early fuel reduction work to avoid
[1:55:03]
spending 55 percent of their budget on
[1:55:05]
fire fighting?
[1:55:12]
>> mike you want to-
[1:55:14]
[laughter]
[1:55:16]
>> that is a great observation supervisor,
[1:55:19]
and those discussions are ongoing and have
[1:55:23]
been occurring over the past year. There
[1:55:26]
is a lot of good in this in the
[1:55:33]
infrastructure bill that money will be
[1:55:35]
flowing in the first quarter in terms of
[1:55:37]
dollars. In addition to policy change for
[1:55:41]
categorical exclusion for fuel break
[1:55:43]
activities which will speed up things on
[1:55:46]
federal lands. There is also policy
[1:55:48]
changes in there, such as historically
[1:55:52]
when the fire service hires firefighters
[1:55:56]
to fight wildfires they are considered
[1:55:59]
seasonal employees and that is just-that
[1:56:02]
is a challenge to find those folks at any
[1:56:05]
time but when we are dealing with covid
[1:56:08]
situation and labor shortages around the
[1:56:11]
country, the forest service really
[1:56:14]
struggled to find the right type of people
[1:56:17]
this past cycle, so what they have done is
[1:56:20]
created a new employee category at the
[1:56:24]
forest service to bring those folks on as
[1:56:27]
full-time employees so they have them in
[1:56:30]
reserve when these fires do occur across
[1:56:33]
the country. So, those are just a few
[1:56:36]
things I would note. Really placer county
[1:56:39]
speaks with a large voice on these issues
[1:56:43]
because of its success on the pccp. Your
[1:56:48]
county has a credibility here in town that
[1:56:52]
most counties do not, particularly on
[1:56:55]
resource issues, so we look forward to
[1:56:57]
continuing to work with you on that this
[1:57:01]
coming year.
[1:57:04]
>> thank you. I appreciate that. I know
[1:57:06]
that we are all anxious to see more
[1:57:09]
funding to take care of our forests a
[1:57:12]
quickly as possible and sometimes that can
[1:57:14]
see seen in infrastructure and it is also
[1:57:18]
a ongoing process we need for decades to
[1:57:21]
come.
[1:57:22]
>> great comments. No other questions
[1:57:29]
from the board so appreciate it, look
[1:57:31]
forward continuing to work together. It
[1:57:32]
has been great.
[1:57:33]
>> paul and karen you can take it away on
[1:57:35]
the state side.
[1:57:36]
>> good morning supervisors. Thank you for
[1:57:38]
having us this morning. Karen lang with
[1:57:40]
[inaudible comments] I'm going to recap
[1:57:44]
how the year went and hand it off to paul
[1:57:47]
for a good forecasting what we are looking
[1:57:51]
at.
[1:57:56]
>> [inaudible comments] very much
[1:57:57]
incorporated.
[1:57:58]
>> okay to keep going? I like to start
[1:58:02]
with the budget looks like. We are in the
[1:58:05]
enacted 21-22 budget going into
[1:58:10]
constructing our budget we are in now. It
[1:58:13]
actually took a about 4 budget cycles this
[1:58:16]
year. There were 4 separate main budget
[1:58:19]
bills passed and dozens and dozens and
[1:58:23]
dozens of trailer bills to support the
[1:58:25]
spending plan that evolved over time since
[1:58:29]
we didn't know what was going to happen
[1:58:31]
with the state budget. California general
[1:58:35]
fund relies very heavily on the wealthiest
[1:58:39]
californians personal income tax
[1:58:42]
withholdings and capital gains and if you
[1:58:44]
have been following the stock market and
[1:58:46]
sure you have, the stock market has done
[1:58:52]
wonderful during the pandemic and as a
[1:58:54]
result the revenue in california general
[1:58:56]
fund even in addition to what came from
[1:58:58]
the federal relief package was levels we
[1:59:01]
have never seen before particularly
[1:59:03]
capital gains revenues that were realized
[1:59:06]
in the state budget in the 10s of billions
[1:59:08]
of dollars. As a result of that there was
[1:59:11]
much more money to spend then I think we
[1:59:12]
probably all thought we would have to
[1:59:14]
spend in january. The enacted budget has
[1:59:19]
a $47 billion with a b surplus built into
[1:59:24]
the budget. We have $21 billion reserve.
[1:59:27]
I do want to point out about 75 percent of
[1:59:30]
the surplus in this budget are in now was
[1:59:34]
devoted to 1 time spending and that was a
[1:59:36]
result of the fract that as californians
[1:59:40]
budget might correct itself a bit if the
[1:59:43]
stock market corrects it is a lot easier
[1:59:45]
to not spend one time money then to take
[1:59:49]
down a new program that relies on ongoing
[1:59:53]
funding. 75 percent of the 1 time dollars
[1:59:58]
were spent on 1 time expenditures. We did
[2:00:03]
get $25 million in the rescue plan and
[2:00:07]
alabama california has [inaudible
[2:00:09]
comments] to spend the dollars on
[2:00:10]
specified allocations. We do have-I
[2:00:13]
wanted to point out a couple things
[2:00:15]
specifically that are of interest to the
[2:00:17]
county. There was about $3 billion for
[2:00:21]
job emergency and increased water
[2:00:24]
resiliency and think there will be more of
[2:00:26]
that in 22. $31 million goes to protect
[2:00:30]
fish and wildlife from the changing
[2:00:32]
conditions. There is also a special set
[2:00:34]
aside for a new type of way to deal with
[2:00:38]
bio mass and in the budget itself it is
[2:00:40]
$50 million the department of conservation
[2:00:44]
will allocate once they build the program
[2:00:46]
it will be allocated through, but when you
[2:00:48]
peal the union in what is called the
[2:00:51]
budget change proposal which is what the
[2:00:52]
state department of finance like a book
[2:00:56]
report why they want to spend this money,
[2:00:58]
placer county were identified by name as
[2:01:03]
locations for which the bio mass money
[2:01:07]
might be spent in. They want to find
[2:01:10]
different ways to use the energy that is
[2:01:13]
created out of bio mass. As you are
[2:01:17]
painfully aware it is very difficult to
[2:01:19]
interconnect to the grid for electricity
[2:01:21]
that would be generated from the bio mass
[2:01:23]
and they are looking for other ways to
[2:01:25]
create energy sources that don't
[2:01:26]
necessarily connect to the grid. One of
[2:01:29]
the things mentioned in the bcp is a bio
[2:01:32]
oil or hydrogen based fuel so we have been
[2:01:38]
following with the department of
[2:01:41]
conservation, their plan to allocate the
[2:01:42]
money, they have to set up the application
[2:01:44]
process but we are certainly working to
[2:01:47]
position placer in a competitive position
[2:01:49]
for the dollars and it is very clear the
[2:01:51]
state would like to see you get it. There
[2:01:53]
is also funding in what is called the
[2:01:56]
climate catalyst fund to deal with funding
[2:02:00]
projects that alleviate wildfire risk and
[2:02:04]
prevent wildfire again to supervisor
[2:02:07]
gustafson's point, there is also funding
[2:02:09]
to cal recycle to deal with the organic
[2:02:13]
waste infrastructure. For those that
[2:02:16]
follow along [inaudible comments] waste
[2:02:18]
management authority, there is clearly a
[2:02:21]
problem with organic diversion in the more
[2:02:23]
rural parts of the state because you don't
[2:02:26]
necessarily have a way to separate that
[2:02:28]
out and have it collected. There is
[2:02:30]
funding through cal recycle to assist with
[2:02:33]
that. In addition on wildfire piece, not
[2:02:36]
to jump around too much, we are talking
[2:02:38]
about budget just just in the last week
[2:02:41]
the board of forestry moved to put forward
[2:02:43]
a set of regulations that are the fire
[2:02:46]
safe regulations that came out of sb901
[2:02:49]
from a couple years ago. They were trying
[2:02:51]
to pursue it in calendar 21 but the
[2:02:55]
regulations were incredibly controversial
[2:02:58]
and so much opposition the board pulled it
[2:03:01]
back and recrafted them and they just put
[2:03:03]
them out. I want to commend r c r c, they
[2:03:10]
have been a great partner. The public
[2:03:12]
comment starts in january and only a 15
[2:03:14]
day public comment period. This has
[2:03:16]
enormous implication on your land use
[2:03:19]
anywhere where you interact with the wild
[2:03:22]
land urban interphase which you have a lot
[2:03:24]
of in placer county so believe your
[2:03:27]
planning staff is very well aware the
[2:03:29]
regulations are going to be going back out
[2:03:32]
for public comment. I feel it is really
[2:03:35]
incumbent on individual counties to raise
[2:03:37]
their concerns with the board as far as
[2:03:40]
the feasibility of some of the components
[2:03:42]
of the regulations. Certainly the
[2:03:45]
regulations are intended to enhance public
[2:03:47]
safety during a wildfire, but there are
[2:03:50]
some things that would be very challenging
[2:03:52]
I think for local governments to comply so
[2:03:54]
I wanted to make sure you are aware.
[2:03:56]
there is also a significant amount of
[2:03:58]
money in the existing budget for
[2:04:00]
transportation. There is $4.5 billion new
[2:04:05]
and discretionary that went to one time or
[2:04:07]
temporary transportation infrastructure.
[2:04:10]
certainly with the federal report you just
[2:04:12]
heard there is more money coming on the
[2:04:15]
federal side. I also wanted to note the
[2:04:18]
broadband piece as you told me a year ago
[2:04:22]
I get to tell you there was $7 billion in
[2:04:25]
the budget for broadband I would be
[2:04:29]
confused, but the legislature did a
[2:04:33]
wonderful job with the administration of
[2:04:36]
setting aside a large amount of fund to
[2:04:38]
really make a difference and huge bite at
[2:04:40]
the apple for broadband deployment. The
[2:04:43]
regulatory process how that will work is
[2:04:46]
playing out at the puc. Want to commend r
[2:04:50]
c r c making sure the rural count ies who
[2:04:53]
residents struggle the most with access to
[2:04:56]
broadband during the shelter at home
[2:04:59]
order, there is set asides for rural areas
[2:05:01]
and there are real set asides. It is not
[2:05:04]
just a small percentage, it is big chunk
[2:05:06]
of money to invest in the middle mile.
[2:05:09]
moving to housing and homelessness, about
[2:05:13]
$7.4 billion across 30 programs are in the
[2:05:22]
state budget and think you will see more
[2:05:23]
investment in 22 with those programs. Our
[2:05:26]
funding cycles are a little different then
[2:05:28]
the federal government. Frankly about
[2:05:34]
every week we send out an announcement on
[2:05:36]
a chance to comment on new regulations for
[2:05:39]
a grant program or announcing that a new
[2:05:42]
grant program is out, so it is happening
[2:05:45]
very quickly at hcd. They are pushing out
[2:05:47]
money as fast as they can and programs as
[2:05:50]
fast as they can to support the
[2:05:53]
development of housing in california.
[2:05:56]
been trying to send out fast as they come
[2:05:58]
in. Finally, before I hand it to paul the
[2:06:04]
legislature has been working to transition
[2:06:07]
away from fines and fees are collected
[2:06:11]
from folks interacting with the criminal
[2:06:15]
system. However the program is built
[2:06:19]
based on fines and fees and there is a buy
[2:06:23]
out of fines and fees included in the
[2:06:25]
enact 21-22 budget. It is about $125
[2:06:28]
million and then going forward it will be
[2:06:31]
hundred million. Csac is working with the
[2:06:34]
administration on developing how the funds
[2:06:36]
will flow and I would-we just pay close
[2:06:41]
attention to how it effects your budget.
[2:06:43]
I'm sure your budget folks are watching
[2:06:45]
directly as well, but that is a big piece
[2:06:47]
and I think those that participate through
[2:06:50]
the csac policy committee will hear about
[2:06:53]
the development of the applications to
[2:06:54]
make sure everybody got what was needed to
[2:06:57]
not hold you in harms way as the
[2:07:00]
legislature moved away from the fines and
[2:07:02]
fees for the sort of lower level
[2:07:05]
infractions. With that, I'll hand it over
[2:07:08]
to paul.
[2:07:09]
>> thanks. Paul, are you there? Looks
[2:07:19]
like you are muted.
[2:07:21]
>> how is this?
[2:07:24]
>> much better we can hear you.
[2:07:26]
>> I want to apologize are on that note I
[2:07:28]
have a typical zoom setup that I use and I
[2:07:31]
came in to the office this morning and it
[2:07:34]
didn't-it was not working. On the up
[2:07:37]
side, I am able to get my giant gnome into
[2:07:40]
the picture behind me so I got that going
[2:07:42]
for me. Good morning. Thank you karen.
[2:07:45]
couple things very very quickly. First of
[2:07:47]
all covid tomorrow we enter back into
[2:07:51]
indoor mask mandate per the governor.
[2:07:54]
that is expected right now to extend
[2:07:56]
through january 15. I know there was
[2:07:58]
comments earlier today on that. Similarly
[2:08:02]
just to make sure for the public's
[2:08:05]
benefit, we are in a state of emergency
[2:08:08]
per the governor through march 15.
[2:08:11]
hopefully that will be the end. But both
[2:08:14]
of those are in effect as of-one currently
[2:08:18]
and one as of tomorrow. So, the
[2:08:23]
legislature has a couple more pieces of
[2:08:25]
business before they shut down in
[2:08:29]
december. Most notably for a lot of
[2:08:31]
counties will be informational hearing
[2:08:32]
tomorrow on possibly reform of the
[2:08:37]
[inaudible comments] lps act as it is more
[2:08:41]
commonly referred to. That has to do with
[2:08:44]
the circumstances under which folks who
[2:08:47]
are incapable of taking care of themselves
[2:08:51]
can be taken in and detained for at least
[2:08:55]
72 hours as the board is aware. We do
[2:08:58]
think there may be additional reform in
[2:09:01]
the area in 2022 and there is one bill to
[2:09:04]
watch, senate bill 516 by senator eagleman
[2:09:08]
who will be up on the dais tomorrow with
[2:09:10]
the chairs of the assembly held judiciary
[2:09:14]
committee as they discuss reform so we are
[2:09:18]
making the counties very aware of those
[2:09:20]
activities. We'll continue to track that
[2:09:22]
for you. They will come back, take a
[2:09:25]
break and come back monday january 3.
[2:09:28]
especially for the public benefit I want
[2:09:30]
to make sure folks know the capital
[2:09:34]
essentially won't be open not because of
[2:09:37]
covid but because it is being redone,
[2:09:40]
remade. There is now a 10 story so called
[2:09:43]
swing space office space into which the
[2:09:46]
legislature is moving as I speak.
[2:09:50]
hearings will be conducted there, so they
[2:09:52]
will be open we hope, coming out of covid
[2:09:57]
but on the other hand if you are used to
[2:09:59]
coming to the capital you will not go
[2:10:01]
there, you will go to a different building
[2:10:02]
across the street and will be very very
[2:10:07]
different then usual. You have to be
[2:10:08]
badged up from the first floor. The
[2:10:11]
offices are smaller, only legislatures and
[2:10:15]
chief of staff have doors, and a lot of
[2:10:17]
conversations are going to occur out in
[2:10:21]
the open. Just when you think advocacy
[2:10:24]
can't get stranger in california, in fact
[2:10:28]
it probably will for the next couple
[2:10:30]
years, because of the capital rebuild.
[2:10:33]
the next budget and think karen mentioned
[2:10:35]
will be out january 10. One thing we want
[2:10:40]
to make sure the board staff are aware of
[2:10:42]
and the public, we do think the governor
[2:10:44]
is going to propose to do more with
[2:10:46]
respect to homelessness. We think the
[2:10:49]
emphasis going into 22, 23 will be on
[2:10:51]
mental health and substance abuse and
[2:10:55]
trying to bolster programs in those
[2:10:58]
regards. We are hopeful governor newsom
[2:11:03]
will propose funding to the counties for
[2:11:05]
those purpose. This is a very educated
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guess and we know where some of the
[2:11:11]
governor staff have been making visits
[2:11:16]
around the state the last couple months.
[2:11:19]
folks may want to google hummingbird sf.
[2:11:25]
humming bird san francisco a program
[2:11:28]
already in effect with a relatively high
[2:11:30]
success rate and we know for a fact the
[2:11:32]
governor's staff is enamored of that so we
[2:11:35]
may see in the january temp proposal very
[2:11:38]
specifically encouragement if not
[2:11:41]
additional funding to the counties to
[2:11:44]
develop and sustain programming along
[2:11:46]
those lines of hummingbird san francisco.
[2:11:51]
january the second year of the two year
[2:11:54]
session because we do have two year
[2:11:56]
sessions in california. January is the in
[2:11:59]
second year are different. Bills
[2:12:00]
introduced last year can and will move the
[2:12:05]
instance the legislature comes back and it
[2:12:08]
is very important to underscore that to
[2:12:12]
you and the public that a bill you might
[2:12:15]
have thought was on ice or had died in
[2:12:19]
2021 by virtual of two procedural actions
[2:12:24]
in january can be heard on the floor.
[2:12:27]
taken off the enacted file and heard on
[2:12:30]
the floor and some instances sent
[2:12:32]
immediately to the governor. That is very
[2:12:33]
very different then what can occur in the
[2:12:36]
first year of a 2 year cycle and we want
[2:12:39]
to make sure everyone is aware of that.
[2:12:41]
we think because of the state surplus
[2:12:43]
estimated currently by the legislative
[2:12:45]
analyst at $31 billion but buried in the
[2:12:49]
same report the analyst says it can go as
[2:12:52]
high as $60 billion. We think the
[2:12:55]
legislature is going to start budget
[2:12:58]
subcommittee hearing sooner then they
[2:12:59]
typically would. We are hearing february.
[2:13:02]
we actually would not be surprised if
[2:13:05]
there is budget action taken by the
[2:13:07]
legislature in january. Again,ing I think
[2:13:09]
that is just a function of the money and
[2:13:12]
also the fact they have legislative
[2:13:13]
vehicles again since we are in second year
[2:13:17]
of the two year cycle bills are in the
[2:13:19]
second house and can be quickly amended
[2:13:22]
and sent to the governor just like that so
[2:13:24]
we may see state budgeting in january.
[2:13:27]
possibly drought relating and fire related
[2:13:30]
would be the two at the top sof of the
[2:13:33]
list joel mentioned redistricting. In two
[2:13:38]
minutes the california redistricting
[2:13:43]
commission will begin the hearing today.
[2:13:44]
he was correct saying they are probably
[2:13:47]
going to wrap up the work very very
[2:13:49]
quickly. I listened to most of the
[2:13:51]
hearing last night. For those that are
[2:13:52]
not aware there is a back and forth with
[2:13:56]
respect to the mountain counties and where
[2:13:59]
they get population for certain
[2:14:01]
congressional seat and the decision before
[2:14:03]
the commission is really a lot of
[2:14:05]
roseville or a lot of modesto. We don't
[2:14:10]
know where they will land. I done know
[2:14:11]
where they will land after listening to 7
[2:14:14]
hours of testimony yesterday, but we
[2:14:16]
probably will know that very very shortly
[2:14:22]
here. Joel mentioned initiatives and glad
[2:14:24]
he did. Do want to underscore one
[2:14:27]
initiative that legalize sports wager in
[2:14:30]
california is expected to produce if it
[2:14:31]
passes hundreds of million dollars of
[2:14:34]
dollars annually for the counties to
[2:14:37]
combat mental health and substance abuse
[2:14:39]
issues in the homeless population. That's
[2:14:44]
not only something that could be dealt
[2:14:46]
with the governor and legislature, it is
[2:14:51]
something that will be pushed on the
[2:14:53]
statewide ballot and have competing
[2:14:55]
measures as mentioned. On redistricting
[2:14:59]
and going back to the chaos possibly of
[2:15:03]
2022, we are not just going have a new
[2:15:05]
building within which the legislature will
[2:15:07]
work, we are losing legislators at a rate
[2:15:11]
of about one a week. They are not just
[2:15:13]
noticing they won't run for reelection.
[2:15:16]
some are resigning and taking other jobs.
[2:15:19]
I are think by the end of this week karen
[2:15:22]
can correct me, there may be as many as 5
[2:15:25]
or 6 vacancies in the assembly. That will
[2:15:27]
make things pretty interesting as the year
[2:15:30]
unfolds. We also have the circumstance
[2:15:32]
where members of the legislature depending
[2:15:35]
on where the redistricting decide to draw
[2:15:40]
the lines members of the legislature
[2:15:43]
living in the same district with one
[2:15:46]
another. One example in la I can give and
[2:15:49]
wrap up quickly and happy to take
[2:15:51]
questions of course is that right now in
[2:15:53]
la there is a proposed district within
[2:15:57]
which 4 incumbent assembly members of the
[2:16:00]
same party currently reside. How that
[2:16:04]
shakes out-I don't to be in that room. It
[2:16:09]
will be very interesting discussions as
[2:16:11]
the members decide who is running for what
[2:16:13]
going forward. That will in fact impact
[2:16:22]
legislation in 2020. We will be ready as
[2:16:24]
we can for citizens of placer. I will
[2:16:27]
wrap up there. I want to say likewise it
[2:16:30]
is heck of a ride and look forward to one
[2:16:33]
more year working with you and other 4
[2:16:37]
board members so thank you, we'll take
[2:16:39]
questions now.
[2:16:40]
>> thanks paul. Questions of karen and
[2:16:42]
paul by board members. I see none.
[2:16:47]
thanks to you two both. Look forward
[2:16:49]
working with you further. It has been
[2:16:51]
great long relationship for me personally,
[2:16:54]
so I think we are doing great work and
[2:16:57]
great to hear a lot of [inaudible
[2:17:01]
comments]
[2:17:02]
so thanks. Anyone from the public wish to
[2:17:04]
address this item? Seeing none, I'm going
[2:17:09]
to change my mind again and skip to item-
[2:17:11]
>> we still have to discuss the platform.
[2:17:15]
>> sorry.
[2:17:16]
>> in the second part of today's
[2:17:19]
presentation is for the board to discuss
[2:17:22]
and possibly approve the legislative
[2:17:24]
platform for 2022. The platform is proved
[2:17:29]
near the beginning of each year and a
[2:17:32]
culmination of hard work by county staff
[2:17:35]
department heads and contracted lobbyist.
[2:17:37]
the platform is intended to be a living
[2:17:39]
document and not always possible for staff
[2:17:43]
and others to anticipate any additional
[2:17:45]
legislative regulatory or budget issues
[2:17:49]
that may arise. The board may review this
[2:17:52]
document on a periodic basis modify the
[2:17:53]
document however they please. It also
[2:17:57]
provides direction to myself county staff
[2:17:59]
county executive office departments and
[2:18:03]
legislative advocates on positions that
[2:18:05]
the board may take public support
[2:18:08]
positions opposition positions and key
[2:18:11]
policy initiatives that county staff works
[2:18:14]
on. Among some the bigger changes in this
[2:18:17]
year's platform is detailed version to
[2:18:21]
forest management and wildfire risk
[2:18:23]
reduction issues. More detailed housing
[2:18:26]
the homeless issues in key policy areas
[2:18:29]
surrounding that. And then one major
[2:18:31]
focus this year on the staff side would be
[2:18:34]
really focusing on the regulatory rule
[2:18:37]
making process at the state level. It is
[2:18:39]
not a convenient process. On the federal
[2:18:42]
level they do have the federal register
[2:18:44]
which is a one stop shop on the state side
[2:18:46]
they don't have that. They have a small
[2:18:48]
little office of administrative law which
[2:18:51]
reviews everything after the fact. It is
[2:18:53]
a big priority on the staff side to really
[2:18:55]
keep your board apprised of any rules and
[2:18:58]
regulations that may arise throughout the
[2:19:01]
year through state agencies. Lastly,
[2:19:06]
staff will continue to provide the board
[2:19:09]
formal positions the county takes on
[2:19:11]
legislation through periodic updates and
[2:19:16]
board reports and information and continue
[2:19:18]
to update the website for public knowledge
[2:19:21]
for formal positions the board may take.
[2:19:23]
with that, I'm happy to take questions or
[2:19:26]
have discussion on the platform.
[2:19:28]
>> thanks joel and sorry I jumped ahead.
[2:19:31]
bonnie.
[2:19:32]
>> thank you joel and thank you for the
[2:19:33]
in-depth briefing you gave probably all of
[2:19:37]
us this past week. Appreciate the work
[2:19:41]
you have done. Really important we focus
[2:19:43]
on fire and forest management as we know
[2:19:46]
as supervisor gustafson has said. I'm
[2:19:50]
certainly supportive of the platform you
[2:19:52]
worked really hard this last year. I like
[2:19:54]
to ask my colleagues one question
[2:19:56]
something I like to include in our
[2:19:58]
advocacy. We as a board have discussed
[2:20:02]
that we don't like state mandates. We
[2:20:05]
have shown our frustration and quite
[2:20:09]
frankly definitely frustration about the
[2:20:12]
state mandates they continue to hand down.
[2:20:14]
we really believe in local control and I
[2:20:19]
believe in personal choice so I would like
[2:20:21]
our board to consider including in our
[2:20:23]
advocacy platform that we would oppose any
[2:20:27]
legislation or regulation that mandates
[2:20:30]
vaccination or proof of vaccination.
[2:20:34]
>> I think joel just to frame up for
[2:20:38]
discussion we have a element that emphasis
[2:20:43]
local control and long had so anticipate
[2:20:45]
this will be a embellishing and grating
[2:20:48]
level of specificity for that. Probably
[2:20:52]
need guidance what that verbiage would
[2:20:56]
look like.
[2:20:57]
>> for the specificity purposes, for staff
[2:21:00]
to work best I would need a little more
[2:21:02]
detail around that whether it's just the
[2:21:05]
broad vague opposing vaccine mandates or
[2:21:09]
just on the private sector, public sector?
[2:21:11]
how do we see fit? Local control is
[2:21:14]
typically related to our own governance as
[2:21:17]
it is currently written so typically
[2:21:19]
surrounding the land use side of things.
[2:21:23]
but if the board is so willing to take a
[2:21:25]
formal position to oppose vaccine mandates
[2:21:28]
for not only county employees and county
[2:21:31]
operational aspects but for the private
[2:21:33]
sector as well I would need that
[2:21:37]
specificity.
[2:21:38]
>> procedurally thinking we can consider
[2:21:40]
and adopt what we have in front of us
[2:21:42]
today if three want to do that and then
[2:21:44]
consider perhaps a modification to come
[2:21:48]
back based on general direction you hear
[2:21:50]
today as a pathway forward.
[2:21:54]
>> I agree with that approach. I think it
[2:21:57]
needs more discussion as to what we are
[2:21:59]
opposing and why and how it would be
[2:22:01]
worded.
[2:22:02]
>> maybe kind of just go around and we can
[2:22:06]
chime in and that's the commonalty among 3
[2:22:09]
or 5 hopefully we can clarify that and
[2:22:13]
take that approach, but just I support
[2:22:16]
what you are saying bonnie. Personally I
[2:22:20]
haven't seen anything after having studied
[2:22:23]
the issue quite a bit that wants me to
[2:22:26]
mandate anything with regards to covid and
[2:22:31]
I can talk about that at nauseam I guess
[2:22:33]
but that is my bottom line so if partially
[2:22:38]
related to employment private public
[2:22:40]
sector it is easier. I certainly am
[2:22:43]
comfortable with our health department
[2:22:45]
talking about recommendations for vaccines
[2:22:47]
and boosters and those kinds of things,
[2:22:50]
but where I am personally is I do not
[2:22:53]
support any of the mandates that have thus
[2:22:56]
been dictated or brought forward under
[2:22:59]
emergency orders either at the state or
[2:23:02]
federal level and I much prefer all of
[2:23:05]
that activity being done locally with the
[2:23:08]
county public health. Jim you want to add
[2:23:11]
to that? Go around that way.
[2:23:13]
>> I have no objection to bringing it
[2:23:16]
back. -
[2:23:17]
>> bring it back but with direction based
[2:23:19]
on what the 5-
[2:23:20]
>> I think we can all meet with joel
[2:23:23]
individually.
[2:23:24]
>> yeah.
[2:23:25]
>> give our perspective to him so have no
[2:23:28]
objection.
[2:23:30]
>> suzanne.
[2:23:31]
>> yes. I am in agreement that I'm
[2:23:34]
against and opposed to all mandates. Be
[2:23:38]
vaccine mandates, passport mandates, even
[2:23:43]
mask mandates so in agreement with bonnie
[2:23:46]
and robert in that we do what we can.
[2:23:50]
>> bonnie.
[2:23:51]
>> thank you and I think is worthwhile
[2:23:54]
advocating for especially for our own
[2:23:57]
employees number one. I do not want to
[2:24:00]
see us mandating something where people
[2:24:02]
should have a personal choice as well as
[2:24:05]
they have options. We really been working
[2:24:08]
with our staff to give them options. At a
[2:24:11]
broader level, I think that we can support
[2:24:16]
no vaccinations allowing people have to
[2:24:18]
personal choice. There are folks who
[2:24:21]
wanted us to mandate mandates or mandate
[2:24:24]
no mandates. I want us to not have a
[2:24:26]
mandate and want to encourage our
[2:24:28]
residents to let them know that we don't
[2:24:30]
want to see mandates handed down from the
[2:24:34]
state or federal government for our
[2:24:36]
residents. If we have to find a balance
[2:24:38]
of that where we are advocating I'm okay
[2:24:43]
but I do think we need to stand strong and
[2:24:45]
just say we-this is not appropriate for us
[2:24:51]
as americans and I'm so very distressed
[2:24:58]
about what these vaccine mandates are
[2:25:00]
doing to our law enforcement to our
[2:25:04]
healthcare workers, to our military. We
[2:25:07]
are losing people in occupations right and
[2:25:10]
left because they are making a choice for
[2:25:13]
themselves and our government is saying
[2:25:15]
well, your choice doesn't matter and you
[2:25:19]
lose your job. I certainly do not want
[2:25:21]
that to hap in in placer county.
[2:25:25]
shouldn't happen anywhere. And I do
[2:25:27]
believe that local businesses also have a
[2:25:30]
choice. A local business owner can make a
[2:25:33]
choice for what's best for them and I
[2:25:35]
don't want to as a local entity tell them
[2:25:41]
they can't have something in their local
[2:25:44]
business. If we say local control we want
[2:25:46]
local businesses to have their choice
[2:25:47]
about what works for them as they try to
[2:25:51]
navigate staying open and taking care of
[2:25:53]
their employees, so I appreciate you all
[2:25:56]
hearing what I have to say and looks there
[2:25:58]
are a couple more lights on again.
[2:26:01]
>> so, suzanne did you have something more
[2:26:04]
to add?
[2:26:05]
>> yeah, I just are wanted to add that
[2:26:09]
the-my voicing against mandates for all I
[2:26:12]
include county employees and private
[2:26:14]
sector as well. Our businesses and
[2:26:17]
restaurants are just now in the process of
[2:26:19]
recovering and I think I know our own
[2:26:22]
economic interests are the upmost
[2:26:24]
importance for all those working living
[2:26:27]
working in-I include schools if we could,
[2:26:30]
but we don't have that control and
[2:26:32]
authority. Thank you.
[2:26:35]
>> cindy.
[2:26:36]
>> I just wanted to clarify, we know the
[2:26:40]
public is very engaged and want to come if
[2:26:43]
they knew we would take a position such as
[2:26:45]
this so I want to make sure that we open
[2:26:47]
that up and I understand who will be
[2:26:49]
chairing that meeting if things go in a
[2:26:52]
normal rotation, and so thank you merry
[2:26:57]
christmas.
[2:26:58]
[laughter]
[2:27:03]
it is very controversial item and would be
[2:27:07]
specific which vaccines. There are many
[2:27:10]
vaccines mandated in a variety of existing
[2:27:12]
professions and other inoculations
[2:27:18]
required so we need to be very specific
[2:27:20]
about this vaccine I think is what you are
[2:27:23]
talking about and make clear what we are
[2:27:24]
going to have for the public to discuss on
[2:27:27]
mandates in general.
[2:27:28]
>> so, why don't we consider our existing
[2:27:31]
legislative platform. I think staff heard
[2:27:33]
some notions and of course we individually
[2:27:37]
are available to get together with joel to
[2:27:40]
provide clarity and take it from there.
[2:27:43]
is there anyone else from the public who
[2:27:46]
would like to address this item? So,
[2:27:52]
before us-pardon?
[2:27:59]
>> so, I'm jennifer again still. My
[2:28:04]
question is, do we have to have cal osha
[2:28:08]
regulations in our county? Because I
[2:28:10]
would like to see my understanding is the
[2:28:15]
osha regulations and I'm not a law person,
[2:28:17]
but just my understanding is it is a
[2:28:20]
mandate so it isn't a law necessarily, so
[2:28:23]
can we somehow include not having the osha
[2:28:27]
regulations in placer county as well and
[2:28:32]
either leave it up to businesses as they
[2:28:33]
see fit, or maybe that's not a option.
[2:28:37]
>> thanks.
[2:28:45]
>> michael go ahead and unmute your mic
[2:28:47]
and give your comments.
[2:28:49]
>> yeah. Hi. Very encouraged by this
[2:28:53]
conversation. I appreciate you guys
[2:28:56]
bringing this up. I would say that there
[2:28:59]
is a question about well, do we oppose a
[2:29:03]
mandate for private businesses as well. I
[2:29:07]
would say yes, because it is a
[2:29:09]
constitutional freedom. We should have
[2:29:11]
our right to make our decision.
[2:29:15]
regardless of what the employer thinks.
[2:29:20]
and there-I don't know if you aware and
[2:29:24]
don't know if I can recall off the top,
[2:29:26]
but there is many laws, federal laws
[2:29:28]
against mandating vaccines. So, there is
[2:29:34]
also the nuremberg study for the employer
[2:29:41]
to mandate it in a lot of cases employees
[2:29:44]
don't feel they have a choice. They
[2:29:46]
either take a chance on a experimental
[2:29:49]
emergency authorized wonder jab or they
[2:29:55]
lose their job, so I would say yes, extend
[2:29:59]
that to private as well. Thank you.
[2:30:04]
>> chairman I see no others.
[2:30:06]
>> is there a motion to approve-
[2:30:08]
>> yes, move approval.
[2:30:09]
>> second.
[2:30:10]
>> motion gustafson, second holmes, all in
[2:30:14]
favor aye. Opposed? Motion carries. In
[2:30:16]
light of our time and how horrible the
[2:30:22]
chair is doing, we will take up our 1015
[2:30:25]
timed item so michelle can leave because I
[2:30:27]
understand that needs to be continued.
[2:30:35]
>> [inaudible comments] make it quick.
[2:30:40]
michelle kingsbury. Staff is requesting
[2:30:45]
continuance of 5a. We did not receive the
[2:30:48]
ballot and been notified by the engineer
[2:30:55]
there is a change of ownership so pull off
[2:30:57]
the calendar to a later date as we clean
[2:31:01]
up the documentation.
[2:31:02]
>> move approval of the continuance of
[2:31:04]
this item.
[2:31:06]
>> motion gore, second gustafson. Anyone
[2:31:09]
from the public who would like to address
[2:31:10]
the item? Seeing none all in favor aye.
[2:31:14]
opposed? Motion carries. Thank you
[2:31:16]
michelle. Now we'll jump to the 1035
[2:31:20]
item, which is health and human services
[2:31:22]
homekey round 2 program application and is
[2:31:29]
rob going to kick it off? Y rob is
[2:31:31]
kicking it off.
[2:31:40]
>> thank you chair weygandt and members of
[2:31:43]
the board. Rob with hhs. Very grateful
[2:31:46]
to amy ellis and her team who have done
[2:31:49]
most of the heavy lifting on this item and
[2:31:51]
will hand over to amy to present on the
[2:31:53]
item in just a minute. But before I do
[2:31:55]
hand it over to amy I wanted to take a few
[2:31:58]
minutes to provide your board and our
[2:32:00]
community with a bit of context on how
[2:32:03]
this proposed homekey application fits
[2:32:06]
into the bigger picture of how we are
[2:32:08]
addressing homelessless in placer county.
[2:32:11]
as you know, we have been working hard to
[2:32:13]
address homelessness in placer now for
[2:32:16]
many years and in 2015 your board
[2:32:18]
contracted with dr. Robert marbit a
[2:32:21]
nationally recognized expert on
[2:32:23]
homelessness to help us evaluate and
[2:32:25]
improve our homelessness continuum of
[2:32:27]
care. Dr. Marbit's report had several
[2:32:30]
recommendations for us and since 2015 we
[2:32:33]
made good progress on most of those
[2:32:37]
recommendations including created
[2:32:39]
coordinated intake for all unhoused people
[2:32:42]
seeking services, coordinating information
[2:32:45]
sharing between the homeless services
[2:32:47]
providers making improvements to the
[2:32:49]
homeless management information system,
[2:32:51]
targeting programs like whole person care
[2:32:53]
to address chronic homelessness surging
[2:32:56]
back in 2015 and adding resources that
[2:32:59]
addressed our critical gap in emergency
[2:33:01]
and transitional houses and services for
[2:33:04]
single adults identified in the report.
[2:33:08]
in the last 6 years since the report
[2:33:11]
homelessness has surged dramatically
[2:33:13]
across california and in the sacramento
[2:33:16]
region yet we have seen much more modest
[2:33:18]
increases here in placer. Placer now has
[2:33:22]
the lowest rate of homelessness in
[2:33:24]
northern california and the lowest rate of
[2:33:26]
unsheltered homelessness in the state.
[2:33:29]
none the less, homelessness is a serious
[2:33:32]
problem and increasingly visible in
[2:33:35]
certain areas, particularly the homeless
[2:33:39]
encampments on public property like at the
[2:33:41]
placer conte government center. In
[2:33:44]
addition some of the long standing
[2:33:46]
approaches to addressing homelessness in
[2:33:48]
placer county have been called into
[2:33:49]
question recently and we have seen
[2:33:51]
increasing interest in the issue of
[2:33:53]
homelessness from our cities and some
[2:33:55]
other stakeholders who have not
[2:33:57]
historically participated in our continuum
[2:34:00]
of care. Earlier this year your board
[2:34:02]
director staff to organize regional
[2:34:05]
homelessness action plan that involved our
[2:34:07]
cities. That planning process kicked off
[2:34:09]
with the placer county regional
[2:34:11]
homelessness summit june 30 and for the
[2:34:14]
past 5 months county and city staff have
[2:34:19]
and elected officials have been working
[2:34:21]
together to learn more about our existing
[2:34:22]
continuum of care and been exploring how
[2:34:25]
to work more effectively together to
[2:34:32]
better prevent homelessness. The initial
[2:34:34]
phase of the planning process will come to
[2:34:35]
the end later this month. The
[2:34:38]
participants hope to bring recommendation
[2:34:42]
to this board city council and community
[2:34:44]
for input early next year. While the
[2:34:46]
regional action planning process includes
[2:34:48]
a set of structured and sequential steps
[2:34:51]
it remained flexible enough to take
[2:34:55]
advantage of time limit and competitive
[2:34:59]
opportunities that emerged during the
[2:35:00]
process and the process recognizes these
[2:35:02]
opportunities may require action before
[2:35:04]
the plan is complete. Today's item is one
[2:35:07]
such opportunity. Homekey 2.0 released in
[2:35:12]
september and represent a highly
[2:35:13]
competitive process with applications due
[2:35:15]
in january. Not only is the application
[2:35:18]
process extremely competitive applications
[2:35:21]
are being considered on a rolling first
[2:35:23]
time first serve basis thus making it
[2:35:26]
necessary we gain board support for as
[2:35:28]
many elements of the application as
[2:35:30]
possible to insure we are viable. The
[2:35:33]
recommendations from the regional planning
[2:35:35]
process have not been finalized it is
[2:35:38]
understood our continuum of care is in
[2:35:39]
need of more housing resources. And
[2:35:42]
particularly more permanent supportive
[2:35:44]
housing. For many year our continuum of
[2:35:48]
care has been providing financial support
[2:35:50]
to non-profit to purchase and operate
[2:35:53]
permanent supportive housing.
[2:35:55]
historically most residents of permanent
[2:35:57]
supportive housing have been very
[2:35:59]
successful and not had many issues with
[2:36:01]
the neighbors. In the last couple years
[2:36:05]
there is concern expressed by a few of our
[2:36:07]
newer sites particularly in communities
[2:36:11]
that did not have much previous experience
[2:36:13]
with permanent supportive housing. As a
[2:36:17]
matter that concern and desire to work
[2:36:18]
more closely with our cities on
[2:36:20]
identifying potential permanent supporting
[2:36:23]
housing sites the county hasn't funded any
[2:36:26]
new [inaudible comments] over a year now.
[2:36:30]
given our collective commitment to
[2:36:32]
strengthen our partnership the county has
[2:36:34]
been working very closely with the
[2:36:36]
potentially impacted jurisdictions on this
[2:36:38]
homekey application and we look forward to
[2:36:40]
beginning the process of adding permanent
[2:36:44]
supportive housing and much needed
[2:36:46]
elements to our continuum of care in close
[2:36:48]
collaboration with our cities and other
[2:36:51]
jurisdictions. Before I hand it over to
[2:36:53]
amy ellis I wanted to publicly thank amy
[2:36:56]
and her team for the tremendous passion
[2:36:58]
knowledge and effort they brought to this
[2:37:00]
very challenging homekey application
[2:37:02]
process. I also like to thank our
[2:37:05]
partners internal partners like facility
[2:37:07]
management county counsel [inaudible
[2:37:12]
comments] who have done an amazing job to
[2:37:16]
pull challenging pieces together and what
[2:37:18]
has been a short response window. Without
[2:37:21]
further ado amy please take it away.
[2:37:24]
>> thank you.
[2:37:28]
>> just to congratulations again to rob
[2:37:30]
you and your team for the grants and
[2:37:31]
success we are having. A lot of this is
[2:37:34]
new territory and we are all trying to
[2:37:36]
figure the best path and it isn't easy, it
[2:37:39]
is quite difficult so congratulations for
[2:37:41]
the achievements you have gotten so far.
[2:37:46]
>> yes, thank you supervisor weygandt and
[2:37:51]
dr. Oldham. I want to agree our county
[2:37:54]
team here and partner agencies have been
[2:37:58]
amazing to collaborate with as typical
[2:38:00]
placer is a really special place to work
[2:38:02]
and be able to get complicated things
[2:38:05]
done. They are capability passionate and
[2:38:09]
creative problem solvers. Members of the
[2:38:12]
beard I am bringing two actions forward.
[2:38:15]
the first is adoption resolution regarding
[2:38:17]
the implementation of the homekey program
[2:38:19]
to first a, award the request for
[2:38:23]
proposal, rfp 20229 for mentally ill
[2:38:28]
housing incorporating for the operation
[2:38:30]
rehabilitation acquisition and transition
[2:38:32]
services stemming from projects roomkey
[2:38:34]
and homekey. B, to approve an agreement
[2:38:37]
with advocates for mentally housing
[2:38:39]
incorporated for operation rehabilitation
[2:38:42]
acquisition and transition services
[2:38:44]
stemming from as a result of rfp 20229 not
[2:38:52]
to exceed 4 million 692 thousand 845
[2:38:55]
dollars from december 14, 2021 through
[2:38:58]
june 30, $2023 and authorize health and
[2:39:03]
human subs to execute the agreement with
[2:39:05]
risk management and county counsel and
[2:39:07]
sign subsequent amendments up to hundred
[2:39:10]
thousand. The second would be to adopt
[2:39:16]
resolution authorizing the director of
[2:39:18]
health and human services or designee to
[2:39:21]
apply for a grant from california housing
[2:39:23]
and community development for homekey
[2:39:25]
round two in the amount not to exceed $25
[2:39:29]
million and to sign the resulting
[2:39:31]
agreement and all related documentation
[2:39:35]
and forms with risk management and county
[2:39:37]
council concurrence. As dr. Oldham
[2:39:40]
mentioned thee items come forward on a
[2:39:42]
expedited timeline to insure the best
[2:39:45]
chance of being successful in the grant
[2:39:46]
application for homekey round two. In
[2:39:49]
order to potentially bring a new project
[2:39:51]
to the south placer region. On september
[2:39:54]
9, 2021 the department of housing and
[2:39:57]
community development issued a notice of
[2:40:00]
funding available for the round two
[2:40:02]
funding of homekey. This $1.45 billion of
[2:40:07]
funding is meant to build on the project
[2:40:10]
of roomkey and first round of homekey.
[2:40:14]
our first program was the brown bear stew
[2:40:18]
studios in king's beach. In the past few
[2:40:21]
years placer county has been able to seek
[2:40:24]
state funding to add additional units of
[2:40:26]
permanent supportive housing for
[2:40:28]
renovating apartment buildings and or
[2:40:30]
hotels and motels. By renovating existing
[2:40:34]
structures we have been able to add
[2:40:37]
additional units of very low housing
[2:40:39]
income housing for roughly 175 to 250
[2:40:43]
thousand per unit. These types of
[2:40:45]
projects create studio and small 1 or 2
[2:40:48]
bedroom apartments often with a small
[2:40:52]
kitchenette. This allows individuals who
[2:40:55]
would be more successful in non-shared
[2:40:57]
housing get out of shelters and out of
[2:40:59]
homelessness. Residents typically pay
[2:41:02]
about 30 percent of their income and
[2:41:04]
receive on site services geared
[2:41:07]
maintaining the housing and accessing
[2:41:09]
needed support. Placer county staff have
[2:41:12]
been working to prepare a home key
[2:41:13]
application for funding toward the
[2:41:15]
acquisition renovation and operation of a
[2:41:19]
project with potential to house between 75
[2:41:22]
and 90 individuals and families. It is
[2:41:25]
estimated that the county application will
[2:41:27]
request up to $25 million towards this
[2:41:30]
project
[2:41:31]
[streaming cut out]
[2:41:33]
fund the acquisition. Specific details
[2:41:39]
and public notice would be provided before
[2:41:41]
any acquisition of property from homekey
[2:41:44]
grant funds and brought to your board for
[2:41:46]
authorization at a later date. As a
[2:41:48]
result of the identified community need
[2:41:50]
and potential availability of state
[2:41:52]
funding rfp 20229 [inaudible comments] a
[2:41:58]
hotel or motel conversion to permanent
[2:42:01]
site in the south placer region.
[2:42:04]
additionally, in march of 2020, the state
[2:42:07]
launched project roomkey. This is a time
[2:42:10]
limited funding for cities and counties to
[2:42:12]
operate non-congregate shelter for people
[2:42:17]
experiences homelessness infected with
[2:42:19]
exposed or high risk of complication from
[2:42:22]
covid-19. While expected to be short-term
[2:42:24]
funding for project roomkey is anticipated
[2:42:26]
to continue and carry on into fiscal year
[2:42:29]
2022, 23 budget. Because of its extension
[2:42:35]
within that same rfp we sought a
[2:42:39]
organization to assume the operation of
[2:42:42]
placer project roomkey and the transition
[2:42:45]
of the program when funds no longer
[2:42:47]
continue. Finally within the same rfp a
[2:42:51]
solicitation made for technical assistance
[2:42:53]
to support the application of funds and
[2:42:55]
for moving forward new opportunities for
[2:42:57]
additional affordable and permanent
[2:43:03]
supporting housing. Advocates for
[2:43:06]
mentally ill housing has served as a
[2:43:08]
provider in placer county since august
[2:43:11]
2003. Since then [inaudible comments]
[2:43:14]
grown to offer an array of housing
[2:43:15]
supports. For both placer and nevada
[2:43:18]
county. They specialize in supporting the
[2:43:20]
housing needs of very low income residents
[2:43:22]
with mental health and substance use
[2:43:25]
disorders. Amy housing renovated and
[2:43:28]
operate placer first homekey project
[2:43:30]
located in king's beach and another main
[2:43:33]
street plaza apartment in downtown
[2:43:37]
roseville. Renovating and [inaudible
[2:43:43]
comments] as a result of the track record
[2:43:44]
and response to the rfp they were selected
[2:43:46]
to contract for all four components within
[2:43:49]
the rfp. The acquisition and renovation
[2:43:53]
if successful with the homekey operation
[2:43:55]
homekey program operation, program roomkey
[2:43:59]
program operation and technical
[2:44:01]
assistance. The purchase price majority
[2:44:03]
of renovations and some operating costs
[2:44:06]
would be paid by through the homekey round
[2:44:09]
2 funding. And the balance would be paid
[2:44:12]
with federal state and local funds. No
[2:44:14]
county general fund are required. We will
[2:44:17]
come back to update your board to the
[2:44:19]
status of this very highly competitive
[2:44:22]
application and hopefully with some good
[2:44:25]
news. I want to thank your board for
[2:44:29]
listening to this and let you know we also
[2:44:31]
have jennifer price from amy housing,
[2:44:34]
procurement and facility staff needed to
[2:44:36]
answer questions and rob and myself of
[2:44:38]
course.
[2:44:39]
>> thank you. Any questions from board
[2:44:41]
members? Jim.
[2:44:43]
>> thank you amy. I'm right here.
[2:44:48]
[laughter]
[2:44:49]
no, I really appreciate bringing this
[2:44:53]
forward. It is a excellent opportunity to
[2:44:55]
move forward to find more housing for
[2:44:57]
folks and I toured the amy housing
[2:45:00]
programs. They have been very successful.
[2:45:03]
not much-not many people critical of the
[2:45:09]
program. It works really well so I thank
[2:45:12]
jennifer for her work on this over the
[2:45:13]
years and then I'm very supportive of
[2:45:16]
moving forward with this.
[2:45:17]
>> thank you. Cindy then suzanne.
[2:45:20]
>> thank you. I too am really supportive
[2:45:23]
and pleased with amy housing and the
[2:45:25]
programs that we already have gotten going
[2:45:28]
in king's beach and where we are headed.
[2:45:31]
I had one question today from a
[2:45:33]
constituent about the continuation of this
[2:45:38]
opportunity with homekey versus maybe
[2:45:41]
other efforts with the campus of hope and
[2:45:43]
the gathering in. Could you speak to that
[2:45:46]
issue because I like to have a good
[2:45:48]
response to our constituents on how many
[2:45:51]
do we need and how many-
[2:45:54]
>> I will let rob--
[2:45:56]
>> okay.
[2:45:57]
>> thanks supervisor gustafson. That
[2:46:03]
relates to the discussion about the larger
[2:46:05]
process of this homelessness action plan
[2:46:09]
involving our cities and so that work is
[2:46:12]
not complete yet. I think we'll be the
[2:46:14]
purview of that group when they come
[2:46:17]
together with some recommendations and
[2:46:19]
actually I think the next phase of that
[2:46:21]
process will be getting specific about
[2:46:23]
implementation ideas which includes actual
[2:46:28]
locations and specifics of projects, I
[2:46:30]
think the work right now of the process is
[2:46:37]
really working. As I mentioned working
[2:46:39]
with the cities and others to understand
[2:46:42]
what resources are available right now.
[2:46:45]
looking at continuum of care. Getting all
[2:46:47]
on the same page and then thinking about
[2:46:50]
big picture strategies of what we want to
[2:46:53]
together and how to work more effectively
[2:46:55]
together and getting to specific project
[2:46:58]
ideas. There is nothing in this homekey
[2:47:01]
application that would prevent moving
[2:47:05]
forward on the campus for hope is a idea I
[2:47:09]
know pretty well, but other potential
[2:47:12]
projects as well. Amy, anything else you
[2:47:14]
like to say about that?
[2:47:15]
>> just two. Just to highlight what rob
[2:47:18]
is saying. We know from just doing the
[2:47:20]
work and how many vouchers and how many
[2:47:23]
people we are working with ready for
[2:47:25]
housing that if we are successful with
[2:47:27]
receiving these funds and able to pull off
[2:47:29]
a project roughly the size I mentioned
[2:47:34]
there needs to be continued opportunities
[2:47:36]
and projects in the future that it won't
[2:47:38]
meet all of the needs, so I think this is
[2:47:41]
one step that is taking some-it is taking
[2:47:45]
opportunity of the timeline of this
[2:47:47]
funding that is coming down to help
[2:47:50]
communities solves these issues and there
[2:47:52]
will be more opportunities.
[2:47:53]
>> great. With this money is available
[2:47:55]
right now we are ready to go, we have
[2:47:58]
potential project and we want to move on
[2:48:01]
this, but at last count our census far
[2:48:05]
exceeded this. This is only a 10th of the
[2:48:08]
folks we need to help so there is plenty
[2:48:10]
room for growth.
[2:48:11]
>> one more thing just to add is that
[2:48:12]
these competitive funds require a very
[2:48:15]
fast timeline on completion and being able
[2:48:19]
to move folks in. So, we already talked
[2:48:23]
about we know more funds will be coming
[2:48:25]
and we need to get those plans together
[2:48:27]
and get our projects together sooner so we
[2:48:29]
are ready to go because by the time they
[2:48:33]
come out we have to pretty much they have
[2:48:36]
to be ready to roll.
[2:48:37]
>> great. Thank you.
[2:48:39]
>> suzanne.
[2:48:40]
>> hi, amy. Thank you. I have a question
[2:48:43]
for my constituents as well on any time
[2:48:46]
they see money going to omni housing or
[2:48:49]
gathering in they wonder will the funds be
[2:48:53]
used for individual permanent supportive
[2:48:56]
housing homes?
[2:48:58]
>> so, yes. This will, but it is
[2:49:02]
different strategy then we used prior. We
[2:49:05]
have very limited supply related to this
[2:49:08]
type of housing. I mentioned them, the
[2:49:13]
king's beach project which is small in the
[2:49:16]
tahoe region is one, and then we do have a
[2:49:19]
couple of others smaller projects, but it
[2:49:23]
is not the same model as some of your
[2:49:26]
constituents expressed concerns about
[2:49:28]
related to homes or in neighborhoods or
[2:49:32]
things like that. This is not new
[2:49:35]
approach, but it is different and we have
[2:49:38]
taken in a lot of that community feedback
[2:49:41]
into our planning and our thoughts related
[2:49:43]
to this this potential project.
[2:49:45]
>> okay.
[2:49:46]
>> and rob sorry, did you want to add to
[2:49:49]
that?
[2:49:50]
>> just to say I think we've supervisor
[2:49:54]
thank you for the question. We talked
[2:49:55]
with some of your constituents about these
[2:49:57]
concerns and one of the big concerns is
[2:49:59]
around communication and around again
[2:50:01]
engagement with our cities and other
[2:50:03]
partners and so I think that is our
[2:50:06]
commitment including on this application
[2:50:08]
as I mentioned we have been working very
[2:50:10]
closely with the jurisdictions about the
[2:50:13]
potential for this project and so I think
[2:50:15]
that is maybe what is different or going
[2:50:19]
forward what we will commit to on any
[2:50:22]
permanent supportive housing before we at
[2:50:25]
least from the county perspective we fund.
[2:50:27]
there are other potential funders of
[2:50:29]
permanent supportive houses. Lesson
[2:50:35]
learned we need to do a better job of
[2:50:39]
communication and coordination
[2:50:40]
specifically on the location is a concern.
[2:50:42]
I think in general there is strong support
[2:50:46]
for the idea of more housing resources and
[2:50:49]
more permanent supportive housing but it
[2:50:53]
is about the implementation and where
[2:50:54]
those go and how so that is what we are
[2:50:56]
working closely with the jurisdictions on
[2:50:59]
on this case of getting that right.
[2:51:02]
>> okay. And then lastly, my constituent
[2:51:06]
would like a better understanding of how
[2:51:08]
you select the particular individuals and
[2:51:12]
how you decide where they are going to be
[2:51:16]
placed.
[2:51:18]
>> the actual people who get in?
[2:51:21]
>> the criteria.
[2:51:22]
>> yeah, some of that is dependent on the
[2:51:25]
fund utilized for the project. Homekey
[2:51:29]
funds actually you have to kind of-they
[2:51:33]
require us to use our coordinated entry
[2:51:36]
process, so which is what all our housing
[2:51:39]
providers these days are using which is
[2:51:41]
nice. Individuals who are on our what we
[2:51:44]
call a by name list are screened for their
[2:51:49]
vulnerability, their income levels and
[2:51:56]
many other factors. In fact we have amy
[2:52:00]
housing here if we have specifics to the
[2:52:04]
question because the operators make the
[2:52:06]
final determination so she is better to
[2:52:08]
answer specifically. In general we look
[2:52:11]
at the criteria and make the best
[2:52:16]
determination like any landlord. There is
[2:52:19]
a interview process for these units and
[2:52:23]
they are selected after that rigorous
[2:52:25]
application process and interview process.
[2:52:27]
>> okay. That would be great if she could
[2:52:31]
chime in a little bit.
[2:52:33]
>> sure.
[2:52:42]
>> good morning. Jennifer price ceo for
[2:52:47]
amy housing. We will select individuals
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off the coordinated entry list so we will
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look for folks with the highest need in
[2:52:55]
our community but then we also have to use
[2:52:58]
the state policy of housing first, so we
[2:53:01]
can't deny them for any reason that would
[2:53:03]
go against housing first. So, what we
[2:53:06]
will be doing is looking for folks who we
[2:53:09]
think need the housing the most but won't
[2:53:12]
take folks who are on megan's law or who
[2:53:15]
have a serious violent felonies or issues
[2:53:19]
of that nature, so we are trying to house
[2:53:22]
the people most in need but who don't
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wouldn't put your-the other tenants in
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danger.
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>> do some of your tenants have mental
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issues they are recovering from?
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>> could be, yes.
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>> okay. That's good enough.
[2:53:43]
>> I wanted to speak to that really quick.
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we also depending on who entered we create
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those services and support plans for each
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individual and for the facility as a
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whole, so there would be staffing
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available onsite and then in addition each
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individual with additional needs such as
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that would have case management usually
[2:54:03]
often times from my team intensive case
[2:54:05]
management helping to have individual
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plans and keeping-some goals maintained at
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to support their housing and some goals to
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continue their progression on the mental
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health or substance use needs.
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>> that leads to another question then.
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it was my understanding the state with the
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permanent supportive housing is that they
[2:54:25]
won't allow 24/7 type supervision, so like
[2:54:30]
in the permanent supportive housing
[2:54:32]
individual homes that there are no
[2:54:35]
supervisor type folks on the premises.
[2:54:39]
>> living there, right. You are right,
[2:54:41]
there are different types of programs,
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different funding, different
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circumstances, but with these homekey
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funds with a larger project such as this
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there would be onsite support.
[2:54:52]
>> okay, great. Thanks so much.
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>> jim.
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>> amy, main street plaza and roseville
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they have a manager on site?
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>> yes.
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>> that is 19 units?
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>> I believe that one has day time staff
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not sure if 24/7. I'm getting a nod. But
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this one we are projecting to have 24/7
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support on site.
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>> they have 24 hour on site person who
[2:55:23]
lives there as well as day time staff.
[2:55:26]
>> good. Thank you.
[2:55:32]
>> okay. Is there anyone from the public
[2:55:34]
who would like to address this item?
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>> michael go ahead and unmute your mic
[2:55:43]
and give your comments.
[2:55:46]
>> thank you. So, when someone gets
[2:55:50]
access to the housing do they have it
[2:55:55]
indefinitely or temporary or is-
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>> this is permanent if they get access to
[2:56:03]
the housing, so long as they are paying
[2:56:05]
their rent and keeping the rules of their
[2:56:09]
lease then this would be their home until
[2:56:11]
they chose to leave.
[2:56:14]
>> okay. Okay. So, do you work with any
[2:56:19]
churches at all with placing and
[2:56:24]
counseling stuff like that?
[2:56:25]
>> so, yes. We have many partnerships
[2:56:28]
with faith based organizations and other
[2:56:31]
service providers who all put use 211 to
[2:56:37]
put any individual in need on a
[2:56:38]
coordinated entry list which then they are
[2:56:41]
given a vulnerability scale, so their need
[2:56:44]
level and a screening process through a
[2:56:46]
application for rental.
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>> okay, thank you.
[2:56:52]
>> okay, with that, I'll bring it back to
[2:56:56]
the board. We have two items in front of
[2:57:00]
us. The resolution regarding the
[2:57:01]
implementation of homekey and the
[2:57:03]
resolution authorizing the director to
[2:57:07]
apply for a new grant.
[2:57:08]
>> move approval.
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>> second.
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>> motion holmes, second gore. All in
[2:57:13]
favor say aye. Opposed? Motion carries.
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thank you.
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>> thank you.
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>> our agenda is really gotten kind of
[2:57:32]
tripped up and keeping in mind be have a
[2:57:35]
12:30 item come back to that is timed but
[2:57:38]
we will be late for that because we are
[2:57:40]
late so we are late. Let's accept that.
[2:57:43]
we will take item 4a which is
[2:57:45]
transportation fee capital improvement
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program update.
[2:58:00]
>> good morning chairman weygandt, members
[2:58:03]
of the board. Katie jackson and I'm a
[2:58:05]
senior engineering with the placer county
[2:58:07]
department of public works. I'm here
[2:58:09]
today with a overview of proposed update
[2:58:12]
to the tahoe transportation fee program
[2:58:16]
and joined on the zoom call by our
[2:58:19]
consultant team matt [inaudible comments]
[2:58:23]
gordon shaw. Today we seeking adoption of
[2:58:30]
the update to the tahoe fee district
[2:58:32]
program, tahoe capital improvement program
[2:58:35]
and nexus study and seeking direction for
[2:58:37]
update to the transit project list for
[2:58:39]
establishing future zones of benefit in
[2:58:41]
the tahoe fee district. Next slide,
[2:58:44]
please. So, today I'll provide a brief
[2:58:51]
overview of our existing program. I'll
[2:58:54]
talk about the proposed updates to the fee
[2:58:57]
program and discuss associated changes to
[2:58:59]
the the zone of benefit project list and
[2:59:02]
open up to questions or comments. Next
[2:59:06]
slide, please. So, our transportation fee
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program or traffic fee program is a
[2:59:11]
funding mechanism applied to new
[2:59:13]
development both residential and are non
[2:59:15]
residential and the fees along with other
[2:59:17]
funding sources are used to fund
[2:59:21]
improvements to transportation network
[2:59:22]
needed as a result of new development.
[2:59:24]
the tahoe fee district is one of 11 fee
[2:59:27]
districts in our county wide traffic fee
[2:59:32]
program started in 1996 and you see the
[2:59:36]
geography on the slide. It includes
[2:59:40]
unincorporated area. Currently the fee is
[2:59:43]
$5440 per dwelling unit equivalent and the
[2:59:47]
fee program is governed by placer county
[2:59:50]
code as well as state law including the
[2:59:52]
mitigation fee act. Next slide, please.
[2:59:57]
so, typically our fees are used in cun
[3:00:01]
junction with other funding sources to
[3:00:02]
build projects. Often our fees are local
[3:00:05]
match to leverage grant funding. Placer
[3:00:08]
is successful securing grant funding here
[3:00:10]
so between 2008 and 2018 there were 10
[3:00:14]
projects that were funded by traffic fees
[3:00:16]
in the tahoe fee district. Over that 10
[3:00:19]
year period fees funded in average of 7
[3:00:22]
percent of project costs. The fee
[3:00:25]
contribution on any individual project
[3:00:27]
ranged from 2 percent to 65 percent of
[3:00:29]
project costs with that overall average at
[3:00:32]
7 percent. Of course our other funding
[3:00:34]
sources include federal and state grant
[3:00:36]
programs as well as tot funds and other
[3:00:39]
sources. Next slide, please. Our fee
[3:00:42]
programs updated periodically to insure
[3:00:44]
they align with the latest agency
[3:00:47]
priorities funding levels and development
[3:00:49]
projections. The tahoe fee district last
[3:00:54]
updated in 2017 with adoption of the tahoe
[3:00:56]
basin area plan. Since then sb743 has
[3:01:00]
gone into effect. It requires all lead
[3:01:03]
agencies under ceqa including the county
[3:01:05]
shift from analyzing automobile delay or
[3:01:08]
level of service to analyzing vehicle
[3:01:10]
miles traveled or vmt in the ceqa
[3:01:13]
documents. This change is prompting local
[3:01:16]
agencies to evaluate the need capacity
[3:01:19]
increasing project and look for additional
[3:01:21]
funding for bicycle pedestrian and transit
[3:01:23]
projects. Additionally, the resort
[3:01:26]
triangle transportation plan adopted by
[3:01:28]
your board in 2020 and that plan
[3:01:31]
establishes the long range vision for the
[3:01:33]
transportation network in the tahoe fee
[3:01:36]
district and so looking to incorporate
[3:01:40]
many of them projects identified in that
[3:01:43]
plan. Next slide, please. So, very
[3:01:49]
simply, the amount of the fee is
[3:01:51]
established through a series of technical
[3:01:52]
calculations in the nexus study. Develop
[3:01:57]
a project list and associated cost
[3:01:59]
estimate, then estimate the portion of
[3:02:00]
cost that are attributable to new
[3:02:03]
development, and then allocate those costs
[3:02:05]
over the projected development in a
[3:02:07]
specific area. Next slide, please. So
[3:02:11]
our project list was developed based on
[3:02:14]
adopted plans in the area including the
[3:02:16]
resort triangle transportation plan, the
[3:02:18]
tart system plan, the tahoe basin area
[3:02:22]
plan and other approve environmental
[3:02:24]
documents. With this update we propose to
[3:02:26]
shift the focus of the fee district from
[3:02:28]
level of service to reduction of vehicle
[3:02:31]
miles traveled. This slide shows a sample
[3:02:34]
of the project list, the projects span
[3:02:36]
these 4 major categories including bike
[3:02:39]
and pedestrian infrastructure, transit
[3:02:42]
expansion, parking management and fuel
[3:02:46]
level of service or safety projects.
[3:02:48]
because we shift the focus toward vmt we
[3:02:51]
move away from capital intensive projects
[3:02:57]
towards a capital component and operating
[3:02:59]
cost like transit expansion. The fee
[3:03:01]
program can only pay for the capital
[3:03:04]
component of the projects and because of
[3:03:06]
that we propose a funding strategy that
[3:03:08]
includes both the fee program update as
[3:03:10]
well as updates to future zones of benefit
[3:03:13]
so we have a ongoing local funding source
[3:03:16]
that can provide a portion of our
[3:03:17]
operating costs as well. Next slide,
[3:03:20]
please. So, as part of the update we
[3:03:24]
estimated the vmt reduction for projects
[3:03:27]
on the cip list as well as other vmt
[3:03:30]
reducing programs. In total vmt can be
[3:03:34]
reduced by about $4.7 million annually.
[3:03:37]
the majority of the reduction as you see
[3:03:39]
on the slide comes from transit expansion
[3:03:41]
projects. All most 20 percent come from
[3:03:44]
parking management and travel demand with
[3:03:48]
remaining 7 percent coming from bicycle
[3:03:50]
and pedestrian infrastructure. Next
[3:03:53]
slide, please. So, with this proposed
[3:03:57]
update the fee amount would be reduced.
[3:03:59]
the current fee is $5440 per dwelling unit
[3:04:04]
equivalent and with this update the fee
[3:04:06]
would be $3528 per dwelling unit
[3:04:09]
equivalent. While the project list is
[3:04:12]
expanding the cost of attributing to new
[3:04:14]
development is decreasing and that is due
[3:04:16]
in part to the shift in methodology to
[3:04:19]
vmt. New development is not fully
[3:04:22]
responsible for reducing our vmt and
[3:04:24]
therefore only a portion of the costs are
[3:04:28]
attributable to the new development
[3:04:29]
through the fee program. Other components
[3:04:31]
of this update include refinement to the
[3:04:34]
dwelling unit equivalent factors with the
[3:04:36]
proposed update the amount of the fee
[3:04:39]
would vary by land use type. We are also
[3:04:42]
proposing a fee for deed restricted
[3:04:46]
affordable housing in half. Proposing to
[3:04:48]
rename the fee district from the tahoe
[3:04:50]
traffic fee to the tahoe transportation
[3:04:53]
fee to better reflect the variety of
[3:04:55]
projects on the list. And as I mentioned
[3:04:57]
earlier the project list has a both
[3:05:00]
capital cost which can be partially funded
[3:05:02]
through the fee program and those ongoing
[3:05:04]
operational expenses which we propose-why
[3:05:08]
we are proposing of the joan zone of
[3:05:12]
benefit project list which I'll go over in
[3:05:14]
a second. Next slide, please. So, this
[3:05:18]
slide illustrates the fee amount for
[3:05:21]
common land use types. As mentioned
[3:05:23]
earlier the updates to the dwelling unit
[3:05:25]
equivalent factor result in varying
[3:05:27]
changes in the fee by land use type which
[3:05:29]
is illustrated on this slide. We looked
[3:05:33]
at about 38 different land use types and
[3:05:35]
there is one land use that would see a
[3:05:38]
slight increase in the fee with this
[3:05:40]
proposal and that is the gas station with
[3:05:43]
convenience market. That land use would
[3:05:45]
see increase by about $235 per fueling
[3:05:49]
position under this update. Next slide,
[3:05:52]
please. So, of zone of benefit is another
[3:05:57]
common funding mechanism and this could be
[3:06:00]
used to fund ongoing expenses associated
[3:06:04]
with a development. We are talking
[3:06:07]
transit service expansion. With the zone
[3:06:09]
of benefit we can establish assessment the
[3:06:11]
property owner would pay annually with
[3:06:13]
their taxes. With their property taxes.
[3:06:15]
we do have a handful of existing zones of
[3:06:18]
benefit in this area, those would not be
[3:06:20]
subject to the update. We are talking
[3:06:23]
proposing this for new growth only. The
[3:06:26]
transit zones of benefit that have been
[3:06:29]
established have a fee that range from $50
[3:06:32]
to $70 per developing unit per year but
[3:06:36]
the proposed update we look at expansion
[3:06:39]
of the project list and future growth
[3:06:41]
would have assessment between $150-250 per
[3:06:48]
year. Those are preliminary estimates and
[3:06:50]
the amount depends how much other funding
[3:06:52]
is dedicated to transit. The funds would
[3:06:54]
be used for transit expansion meaning
[3:06:57]
increasing the frequency of the transit
[3:06:59]
service, expanding the hours or days of
[3:07:02]
operation and implementing new transit
[3:07:04]
lines. We can also provide a permanent
[3:07:06]
funding source for current pilot programs
[3:07:08]
like our fare free tart service and tart
[3:07:13]
connect micro transit service. With
[3:07:15]
adoption of the fee program today we are
[3:07:17]
also seeking direction to expand the
[3:07:20]
project list for future development to
[3:07:23]
fund these ongoing operational components.
[3:07:26]
next slide, please. So we started this
[3:07:31]
program update about a year ago and over
[3:07:34]
the last month we have been working on
[3:07:36]
outreach with our stakeholder group as
[3:07:38]
well as the public and as well as
[3:07:41]
finalizing our nexus study. If the
[3:07:45]
program is adopted today it will go into
[3:07:48]
effect 60 days from now feb 14 and as
[3:07:51]
supervisor gustafson mentioned we are
[3:07:54]
working closely with the t r pa to the
[3:07:58]
mobility mitigation program. Next slide,
[3:08:00]
please. So, this is the action requested
[3:08:03]
today. I can read it if you like but in
[3:08:06]
essence we are proposing an adoption of
[3:08:09]
the capital improvement program the tahoe
[3:08:12]
transportation fee district, the nexus
[3:08:14]
study and as well as direction to staff
[3:08:17]
for expanding our zone of benefit project
[3:08:20]
list for future growth.
[3:08:25]
>> thank you. Any questions from board
[3:08:29]
members at the time? Cindy.
[3:08:31]
>> first off thanks to staff. Richard,
[3:08:34]
kim, katie, especially for all your hard
[3:08:35]
work on this and I just wanted to the rest
[3:08:37]
of the board to hear the numbers we are
[3:08:39]
talking about within the basin in
[3:08:41]
comparison because again, the
[3:08:45]
disproportionate hit in the basin for new
[3:08:48]
development through t r pa mobility fee is
[3:08:51]
much greater then what we will be
[3:08:53]
proposing in the areas outside of the
[3:08:54]
tahoe basin lines. For a home a single
[3:09:00]
family home our new fee in placer county,
[3:09:04]
$3528 within the basin it could range
[3:09:08]
anywhere from $3700 up to $13 thousand.
[3:09:15]
potentially based on where it is located
[3:09:17]
whether in a what they call a low vmt area
[3:09:20]
close to is a town center where they can
[3:09:22]
bike and walk versus a high vmt area, so
[3:09:26]
very very significant cost differential.
[3:09:30]
on a-
[3:09:31]
>> I know, I will get to you.
[3:09:32]
>> I want to understand that. Can you
[3:09:37]
reexplain that? I'm trying to get-
[3:09:39]
>> katie is probably better explaining it
[3:09:41]
but the fees within a tahoe basin for
[3:09:45]
mobility and vmt reduction within the
[3:09:47]
basin under t r pa are higher then what
[3:09:51]
placer county is looking at outside of the
[3:09:55]
basin that would have been proposed had
[3:09:58]
there not been a bistate agency overseeing
[3:10:01]
the basin.
[3:10:02]
>> got it.
[3:10:04]
>> so what I been arguing throughout and
[3:10:09]
why I seem crazy because I go to way too
[3:10:12]
many meetings on transportation, I want to
[3:10:15]
get credit as placer county from our
[3:10:18]
businesses generating money and reinvest
[3:10:21]
ing in micro mass transit, transportation
[3:10:23]
solutions with tot and t bid money I want
[3:10:27]
to make sure our businesses or new growth
[3:10:30]
we can offset some of the higher fees they
[3:10:35]
want to charge because we will go back not
[3:10:37]
seeing new development redevelopment. The
[3:10:41]
single family homes are probably less a
[3:10:43]
concern because anybody building
[3:10:46]
affordable housing gets a waver, reduced
[3:10:49]
fee, but for the mega mansions, they will
[3:10:52]
pay a pretty significant fee for those.
[3:10:55]
so, this is-staff brought it to me
[3:10:59]
attention. We have been trying to work
[3:11:01]
through it. We are continuing our efforts
[3:11:03]
with t r pa to credit placer county
[3:11:06]
because we are the only jurisdiction in
[3:11:08]
the basin supplementing transportation
[3:11:11]
services at this level, and because of
[3:11:14]
that our businesses in our town centers
[3:11:18]
need to get credit for that.
[3:11:20]
>> can I clarify. In addition to the fee
[3:11:25]
charged we are reducing, there is also
[3:11:27]
going to be a t r pa fee which is even
[3:11:31]
higher so this is helpful to a certain
[3:11:35]
extent because it reduces the fee on our
[3:11:37]
end, and are then we are the only
[3:11:40]
jurisdiction that has a fee like this.
[3:11:42]
>> that is higher actually--yes. Not
[3:11:48]
only-his is for new development but we are
[3:11:50]
already supplementing transportation out
[3:11:52]
of our general fund to the tune of several
[3:11:56]
millions a year in transit operations
[3:12:02]
including what we supported with micro
[3:12:03]
mass transit so we have a complicated
[3:12:06]
agreement to work out with trpa and I
[3:12:09]
appreciate your support working with them.
[3:12:11]
they assured me there are ways to credit
[3:12:13]
our business community with the tbid and I
[3:12:16]
was going to also ask our staff a question
[3:12:18]
that on the zones of benefit and in our
[3:12:22]
discussions there can we hold until we see
[3:12:25]
what is going to happen in agreement with
[3:12:28]
the t r pa because the tbid to me is what
[3:12:31]
we campaigned for and supported in order
[3:12:34]
to supplement our transportation funding
[3:12:36]
to turn around ask those people to pay a
[3:12:40]
zone of benefit charge, I would hope the
[3:12:43]
county we can see the wisdom of the
[3:12:46]
collective good on a tbid versus
[3:12:50]
individual zones of benefit for small
[3:12:55]
redevelopment project. There is a
[3:12:56]
question among my education be it very
[3:13:00]
weak how to explain the t r pa element of
[3:13:03]
this.
[3:13:04]
>> so, I think the first-there was several
[3:13:07]
questions. I think the first question is
[3:13:09]
can we-your board has great flexibility on
[3:13:14]
how we do our program both the zone of
[3:13:17]
benefit as well as the fee program. It
[3:13:19]
can be changed at any time. We are
[3:13:22]
convinced and I think absolutely necessary
[3:13:25]
that as we understand trpa program no one
[3:13:28]
can be first off double charged. We have
[3:13:31]
ultimate flexibility but it cannot double
[3:13:35]
charge anybody for any sort of fee. So,
[3:13:37]
as we understand t r pa program we'll make
[3:13:40]
adjustments there. We will have to come
[3:13:42]
back to the board. As far as the zone of
[3:13:44]
benefit goes, the action today really sets
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up a policy framework saying as people or
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new development comes onboard they also
[3:13:53]
participate in the ongoing operation and
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increment of it. Every project is
[3:14:02]
evaluated on its merits so there may be
[3:14:05]
reasons not charging individual projects
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and may take out a whole class of your
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project. That is up to your board and at
[3:14:14]
the appropriate time can have the
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discussion.
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>> on a statewide basis what we have done
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in north lake tahoe and similar to mammoth
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with a tbid that effects so many types of
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businesses and supplements what we would
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see in a sales tax initiative or just a
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tot, is incredible resource and we need to
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be thoughtful in seeing a success for the
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businesses to keep that assessment going,
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because that as long as we are working on
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transportation solutions I think we want
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to encourage that because it goes much
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further then we can go as a county on the
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revenues. We need the businesses to
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support.
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>> I think we will also be able to show or
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at least various instances that different
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types of particularly non residential
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development will have different impacts on
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potential different impacts on vmt. Some
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are actually very good. The more locally
[3:15:13]
serving businesses we have that isn't
[3:15:16]
sending people down to reno or sending
[3:15:18]
people to truckee to provide the services
[3:15:20]
we hope to provide within the community.
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that's a positive. That's not a impact,
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that is a benefit.
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>> right.
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>> we definitely need to be able to
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recognize that. It is very complicated
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and we are learning as we go along. I
[3:15:33]
think the whole state will learn as we go
[3:15:35]
along. Making sure each and every project
[3:15:42]
gets evaluated on its own merits. The
[3:15:47]
board provided resources outside normal
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local government provided for transit
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operations we do a lot more then that.
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>> absolutely.
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>> we do need to be recognized for that.
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the businesses and your board investment
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there should be able to be recognized by
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someone and some of those that will be up
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to the board who gets recognized for that
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or not.
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>> right. Thank you. I appreciate that
[3:16:07]
flexibility and as projects come forward
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I'm sure that you'll be thinking about how
[3:16:13]
this can all meld together and pay one fee
[3:16:16]
and get as much credit for these and
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support for continuation of the tbid and
[3:16:25]
enhance transportation solutions. Thank
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you.
[3:16:29]
>> so, this is a public hearing, so I'll
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open up the hearing to the public. There
[3:16:37]
is no one from the public so close the
[3:16:39]
public hearing and bring it back to the
[3:16:42]
board for consideration.
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>> I will move approval.
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>> I'll second.
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>> motion gustafson, second gore. All in
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favor say aye. Opposed? Motion carries.
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thank you very much.
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>> thank you.
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>> and so for all of us and the public in
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my last meeting as chair it has been such
[3:17:01]
a management disaster. I'm going to
[3:17:06]
announce we are going to break for lunch
[3:17:08]
now and then we are going to come up and
[3:17:12]
take up our 915 a.m. Timed item fallowed
[3:17:16]
by our 1020 timed item then department
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items and then we will start the hearing
[3:17:22]
on str which was schedule to be 12:30 and
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during lunch we'll take up closed session.
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>> the board will be adjourning to closed
[3:17:33]
session considering the following items of
[3:17:36]
existing litigation. County placer versus
[3:17:39]
matthew [inaudible comments] the third
[3:17:48]
item is being dropped from the agenda.
[3:17:53]
[closed session]
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>> the board returned to closed session.
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>> the board met in closed session to
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consider the following: county of placer
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versus matthew[inaudible comments] the
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board heard a report and provided
[3:19:35]
direction. [inaudible comments] the board
[3:19:40]
heard oo report and authorized settlement.
[3:19:43]
that concludes the report.
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>> the board will take up the 1020 timed
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item which is library service update.
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>> [inaudible comments]
[3:20:07]
>> good morning everyone or good afternoon
[3:20:09]
now right? Thank you very much chair
[3:20:14]
weygandt for inviting to come to your
[3:20:16]
board to give a little service update on
[3:20:19]
library service. Thank you for all you do
[3:20:23]
for library service as you now come into
[3:20:25]
your last board meeting as the chair.
[3:20:30]
anyway, we are going to give a brief
[3:20:33]
overview of library mobile service. We
[3:20:36]
will talk a little about virtual
[3:20:39]
programming. We are going to talk about
[3:20:41]
the resumption of service coming in
[3:20:45]
january. Give update on the strategic
[3:20:49]
planning initiative and library service
[3:20:51]
study at the end. I'm mary george direct
[3:20:56]
of library subs and next to me is
[3:20:59]
assistant director sophie bruno and the
[3:21:02]
two of us will be presenting. I have the
[3:21:04]
first piece which is about our mobile
[3:21:07]
service. Library mobility service book
[3:21:12]
mobile service reimagined in a much
[3:21:15]
smaller van for efficient and stable
[3:21:19]
sustainable outreach opportunity to some
[3:21:21]
of most rural communities. Library mobile
[3:21:24]
service positions the library in the
[3:21:26]
communities where people naturally gather
[3:21:28]
to offer core library services that are
[3:21:32]
professional and convenient. Current
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stops include the popular coffee spot the
[3:21:36]
perky peacock in sheridan. The iowa hill
[3:21:40]
and alta stores, and the dutch flat
[3:21:44]
community centers. Visitors have access
[3:21:46]
to a small curated browsing collection.
[3:21:50]
can get a library card place items on
[3:21:53]
hold, pick up the holds and also have the
[3:21:56]
benefit of knowledgeable staff to meet
[3:21:59]
their information needs. Mobile staff
[3:22:01]
promote also in-person programming at the
[3:22:04]
brick and mortar locations closest to the
[3:22:07]
stops including the lincoln library and
[3:22:09]
roseville library. So that helps in our
[3:22:12]
partnership throughout library service.
[3:22:15]
and since the van rolled out september 16
[3:22:18]
we had 89 new library card users and we
[3:22:21]
checked out 295 items. What is ahead for
[3:22:28]
mobile library service is adding stops and
[3:22:31]
extending time as staffing allows. For
[3:22:34]
example, we currently park in the meadow
[3:22:38]
vista community center parking lot, and we
[3:22:40]
welcome a steady stream of folks walking
[3:22:42]
around the park walking their dogs and
[3:22:45]
what happened is the staff noticed that
[3:22:47]
the afternoons are quite busy because
[3:22:50]
folks are picking up from the elementary
[3:22:54]
school adjacent to the park so may have a
[3:22:55]
morning stop there and come in the
[3:22:58]
afternoon where we hit people are where
[3:23:01]
their destinations are and we'll continue
[3:23:03]
to evaluate where people are naturally
[3:23:07]
gathering. Evaluate how people use the
[3:23:12]
stops and scout new locations. For
[3:23:14]
instance, in january we are going change
[3:23:16]
our stop at the alta store to coincide
[3:23:19]
with a non-profit thrift store that opens
[3:23:23]
in the afternoon called the attic so there
[3:23:28]
is a colocation between the thrift store
[3:23:32]
and grocery store. We like to participate
[3:23:34]
at more community event. We had a
[3:23:37]
successful event at colfax railroad days
[3:23:40]
so will look for opportunities to add book
[3:23:42]
clubs or storey times at the stops and
[3:23:44]
also to participate at fair farmers
[3:23:48]
markets and other community events
[3:23:50]
including events in tahoe. And then we
[3:23:53]
like to assist those unable to travel to
[3:23:55]
the library as soon as safe to do so by
[3:23:58]
entering senior facilities care facilities
[3:24:01]
and schools so we can provide book talks,
[3:24:07]
kids can check out items, we can do book
[3:24:11]
clubs and senior centers and promote the
[3:24:16]
level of reading to folks who can't reach
[3:24:18]
us. Finally, the near future including
[3:24:22]
now we started working with fleet to put
[3:24:25]
together a permanent vehicle. Now we are
[3:24:27]
using a temporary vehicle but we are
[3:24:28]
watching it carefully to insure we know
[3:24:31]
which modifications to the vehicle so it
[3:24:36]
is easy for the staff to move and be
[3:24:39]
nimble and get the items in and out. Now
[3:24:43]
I like to turn it over to sophie.
[3:24:46]
>> good afternoon chair. Sophie bruno
[3:24:51]
assistant director of library service and
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I'm honored to share today some of the
[3:24:56]
talented work our library specialists have
[3:24:58]
been able to do over the last 6 months or
[3:25:01]
so. I never had have a problem bragging
[3:25:05]
about staff skill sets and dedication to
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our communities and certainly it isn't
[3:25:10]
more true then during the pandemic and all
[3:25:13]
we asked staff to do and how we asked them
[3:25:15]
to pivot and how they go from in-person
[3:25:19]
library service to something other and
[3:25:21]
particularly wanted to highlight today the
[3:25:23]
ways they have-I want to highlight their
[3:25:27]
work doing in-person-sorry, virtual
[3:25:31]
programming offerings for the families
[3:25:33]
that we sever. Essentially the charge we
[3:25:37]
gave our team was to design a virtual
[3:25:39]
program that families could easily access
[3:25:41]
and want to participate in and that would
[3:25:45]
call upon all the elements that library
[3:25:47]
staff use to great effect for our
[3:25:49]
in-person programs. So, what elements
[3:25:51]
could we pull through and condense into 5
[3:25:55]
minutes or less online to connect with
[3:25:59]
those families. Essentially what looked
[3:26:02]
like is one of our team shared a digital
[3:26:05]
recording on library social media sharing
[3:26:08]
a book or story and families come to the
[3:26:12]
library each week and pick up a bag that
[3:26:14]
had all the materials to create a craft or
[3:26:19]
activity that correspond to that week book
[3:26:21]
or story. Here is a thing about library
[3:26:25]
staff is they make it look easy and they
[3:26:28]
make it look amazing. It is amazing
[3:26:33]
because 5 minute or less sharing a story
[3:26:37]
or using a flannel to share a folk tale
[3:26:42]
from a country half way across the world
[3:26:45]
and combine with [inaudible comments] on
[3:26:48]
the surface it looks easy. Reading a book
[3:26:56]
and making paper dolls. I want to
[3:26:59]
highlight what is below the surface and
[3:27:01]
that benefit to the community because we
[3:27:04]
really take our charge as librarians
[3:27:07]
seriously and we when we talk early
[3:27:13]
literacy we recognize we are entrusted
[3:27:15]
with the care of youngest and most
[3:27:18]
impressionable in our communities and so
[3:27:21]
what we do each week how we connect young
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minds, how we build their skills study
[3:27:28]
after study shows us that all those skill
[3:27:31]
sets we are developing are directly tied
[3:27:34]
to school readiness with children ability
[3:27:36]
to succeed in school to know how to read
[3:27:38]
to take joy and delight in literacy and
[3:27:44]
reading and their own success in doing so
[3:27:45]
which are really critical markers to their
[3:27:50]
journey to adult hood. Intentionality is
[3:27:54]
woven into all these steps from the
[3:27:55]
selection of the story, age appropriate is
[3:27:58]
it relevant? We use a metaphors for
[3:28:05]
mirrors or windows so it is a mirror they
[3:28:09]
can see reflected back or a window they
[3:28:11]
can peak into another world and compare to
[3:28:14]
their own. Specific to sharing a stor y
[3:28:16]
virtually staff had to be following pretty
[3:28:18]
specific copy right rules to do so so that
[3:28:22]
was a new challenge for them. And then
[3:28:24]
the take home activity itself, created
[3:28:27]
kind of a virtual or habit to bring
[3:28:29]
families back into the libraries after so
[3:28:32]
long. Had to am up and to the service
[3:28:35]
desk themselves, speak to a grown up, use
[3:28:38]
their manners. The child is developing
[3:28:47]
sequencing skills as they follow each
[3:28:49]
directional step. Scissor skills even.
[3:28:52]
kindergarten teachers told us so often it
[3:28:55]
is a advantage when kids learned to use
[3:29:01]
fine motor skills and you get the play
[3:29:04]
with this thing you created so you are
[3:29:07]
building your narrative as you talk about
[3:29:10]
it and telling mom and dad about it so it
[3:29:12]
could be a spider web or finger puppet or
[3:29:15]
a lady bug crown like my little one is
[3:29:20]
wearing. Okay, the charge we gave for our
[3:29:24]
team in preparing for our flag ship summer
[3:29:28]
at your library program had a little bit
[3:29:31]
of added weight so we asked staff to pivot
[3:29:37]
to offer a hybrid virtual in person
[3:29:41]
offering that offered safe but dynamic and
[3:29:44]
fun ways to access the resources the
[3:29:46]
library offered during the summer months
[3:29:48]
and the significant increase we saw and
[3:29:50]
participation on the digital platform
[3:29:52]
helps tell the story of their success in
[3:29:56]
meeting that challenge. Summer
[3:29:59]
programming is such a draw and so popular
[3:30:02]
with families and the intentionality here
[3:30:04]
is that we are keeping young people
[3:30:07]
engaged with these reading challenges,
[3:30:09]
with take home activities we develop
[3:30:12]
following for with performers and reducing
[3:30:18]
the negative effect of the summer slide
[3:30:20]
when student are not in school and their
[3:30:24]
skill sets are regressing because they are
[3:30:29]
on home on break. We are looking for ways
[3:30:31]
to nurture the connections staff has with
[3:30:34]
the families we know so well that come to
[3:30:37]
our locations. I want to highlight the
[3:30:40]
department's commitment to supporting
[3:30:42]
local talent for our summer performers so
[3:30:46]
that is gabe cristner out of wild things.
[3:30:55]
they worked so well with our team to be
[3:30:57]
able to adapt their talent to online venue
[3:31:01]
to reach families and we have really built
[3:31:05]
a nice community of practice there and
[3:31:07]
really proud to support their work. Okay,
[3:31:11]
finally, I am happy to share the library
[3:31:14]
service department continues to move
[3:31:17]
forward and starting january preschool
[3:31:22]
story times and book clubs will resume and
[3:31:25]
meeting rooms available for community use
[3:31:27]
in january. With that I'll turn it back
[3:31:29]
to mary to give a update on the library
[3:31:32]
strategic plan.
[3:31:33]
>> so, we have 4 primary goals in the
[3:31:36]
strategic plan. All of the library teams
[3:31:39]
and divisions are working towards
[3:31:40]
completing the goals and they are doing a
[3:31:42]
excellent job. We have a number of work
[3:31:47]
going on in each one of these areas but I
[3:31:51]
wanted to highlight one in each.
[3:31:53]
innovative service delivery, the automated
[3:31:58]
handling and book drop installed in
[3:32:00]
february. Should be up and running for
[3:32:02]
customers in march and we are planning for
[3:32:04]
but don't expect any interruption in
[3:32:06]
service to our customers. Under community
[3:32:09]
engage. We'll be contracting a marketing
[3:32:12]
consultant to assist in developing a
[3:32:14]
strategies to advertise library services
[3:32:17]
and increase our use more broadly.
[3:32:20]
strategic partnerships, we have developed
[3:32:23]
a wonderful partnership with the tahoe
[3:32:26]
truckee unified school district. One of
[3:32:28]
the capstones goals end goals in the
[3:32:34]
strategic plan is to get a library card
[3:32:36]
into the hand of young school age child so
[3:32:41]
tahoe truckee unified school district
[3:32:44]
reached out to us and we used a mou from
[3:32:49]
nevada county library and that has been
[3:32:51]
vetted by council and we will be before
[3:32:53]
your board for your consideration in the
[3:32:55]
coming weeks. We hope to use that mou as
[3:32:59]
a starting place for future mou that will
[3:33:03]
develop throughout placer county schools
[3:33:07]
and reach that capstone goal. Under
[3:33:10]
service oriented workforce developed and
[3:33:12]
training a set of customer service
[3:33:14]
standard we annually evaluate to guarantee
[3:33:18]
excellent service. These standards also
[3:33:21]
emphasize the unique public service nature
[3:33:23]
of librarianship and offer a blue print to
[3:33:27]
build upon the staff skill set. Staff
[3:33:30]
training seek opportunity to acknowledge
[3:33:31]
and train to staff and customer safety
[3:33:34]
while out on the public service floors.
[3:33:37]
finally, I like to tell you about the
[3:33:40]
library services study. Your board and
[3:33:42]
the ceo office initiated a study and hired
[3:33:45]
a consultant to provide best practices for
[3:33:49]
optimal library service moving forward.
[3:33:51]
we are pleased to support that effort.
[3:33:54]
the study is in its initial gathering
[3:33:57]
phase and look outward to community input
[3:34:00]
holding many virtual town hall meetings
[3:34:05]
early january and in-person regional
[3:34:08]
meetings the end of january so please stay
[3:34:10]
tuned as the meeting will be broadly
[3:34:12]
publicized. Thank you so much for your
[3:34:14]
time and for your support of our libraries
[3:34:17]
always. Sophy and I are happy to address
[3:34:20]
your questions and wish you all a happy
[3:34:22]
holidays.
[3:34:23]
>> thanks mary and sophie. Any questions
[3:34:26]
or comments from board members? Jim.
[3:34:29]
>> thank you mr. Chair. As you know I'm a
[3:34:33]
big library fan. You can put a book on
[3:34:36]
that. Sorry.
[3:34:38]
[laughter]
[3:34:39]
>> punt intended.
[3:34:41]
>> which of our libraries is the most
[3:34:44]
active, the busiest?
[3:34:46]
>> auburn. Auburn does about 35 percent
[3:34:51]
for the system. Rockland is close second
[3:34:53]
with about 25, 26 percent.
[3:34:56]
>> I kind of assumed that. Because it is
[3:35:00]
the oldest library been there since the
[3:35:06]
70?
[3:35:07]
>> 1973, yep.
[3:35:08]
>> a lot of people know where it is at.
[3:35:12]
I'm pleased at the innovative services you
[3:35:14]
are bringing forward are being utilized in
[3:35:16]
the rockland library. Is that correct?
[3:35:19]
because it is up scale more newer library
[3:35:22]
facility and more upscale so they are able
[3:35:25]
to do that. I remember when I first took
[3:35:28]
office I went down to rockland and looked
[3:35:32]
at their library, springview park. It was
[3:35:36]
very disappointing and it was important-I
[3:35:39]
worked with supervisor weygandt. We went
[3:35:42]
to the rockland city council, worked
[3:35:45]
together with them and came up with a plan
[3:35:48]
to they were able to buy that building but
[3:35:52]
working with them we got the new library
[3:35:56]
in rockland. It has been now 11 years in
[3:35:58]
service.
[3:35:59]
>> yep.
[3:36:00]
>> and that was one of the most important
[3:36:02]
things in my career that I was able to do
[3:36:06]
and just hope citizens of rockland
[3:36:09]
understand that the role of board of
[3:36:14]
supervisors had in that is instrumental.
[3:36:16]
again, great job. The numbers at the
[3:36:19]
auburn library are probably-I'm over there
[3:36:22]
about once or twice a day. My last
[3:36:26]
question is, can you recommend any good
[3:36:28]
books?
[3:36:30]
[laughter]
[3:36:32]
>> you can?
[3:36:33]
>> I'm reading a biography about the doors
[3:36:37]
right now. Robby creiger, the guitarist
[3:36:40]
for the doors just published his biography
[3:36:43]
so that is what I'm reading. Sophie.
[3:36:46]
>> I have a 6 year old so we read a lot of
[3:36:49]
children books. Not sure that would fit
[3:36:51]
your needs.
[3:36:55]
>> that would be a good fit for me if you
[3:36:57]
can keep the 6 year old recommendations.
[3:36:59]
>> sure, sure. I'll reach out.
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>> I'm hoping to get the fun little kids
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activities to give me something to do when
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I want to--do something mindless after
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crazy days so I was really excited to see
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that and sure it is a great hit for the
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kids and thank you for the update.
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>> cindy.
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>> thank you and thanks for your service
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and dedication, especially I know it has
[3:37:25]
been a very challenging year for all of us
[3:37:27]
to deliver public services during covid.
[3:37:31]
two questions on the mobile library you
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made a point you visited colfax with the
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vehicle and thinking colfax has a fixed
[3:37:41]
library. Shouldn't we focus those
[3:37:44]
energies-you were trying to promote but
[3:37:46]
shouldn't we focus the energies on the
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communities that don't have libraries?
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that was just to promote it is
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>> we just started mobile services on
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september 16 so it was really to support
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the colfax library staff and they were
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giving away things, railroad books and
[3:38:04]
doing event so it was more a literacy
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promotion of library services in general.
[3:38:09]
we probably should have been in colfax for
[3:38:11]
the holiday parade this weekend. We
[3:38:15]
should always be in tahoe for snow-fest
[3:38:20]
and hot car or cool car hot chilly in
[3:38:23]
rockland so we probably will do a little
[3:38:27]
of that but I hear you we will be
[3:38:30]
supporting the rural and remote areas
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farthest away from the brick and mortar.
[3:38:37]
>> community events versus visitor events
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are important to build support for the
[3:38:42]
libraries. Secondly, on the community
[3:38:45]
engagement you talked hiring a consultant.
[3:38:48]
I hope you are working with our pio who
[3:38:50]
has tremendous social media skills because
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I think if people got a most in next doors
[3:38:58]
the mobile library was visiting their
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community today at noon come out you would
[3:39:04]
get a lot more response and same with
[3:39:06]
social media on hours and closures and
[3:39:08]
those sorts of things because it has been
[3:39:10]
challenging in some of the branches.
[3:39:13]
>> thank you.
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>> otherwise it looks like a great plan
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and thanks for the report.
[3:39:18]
>> yeah, thanks to both. Look forward to
[3:39:23]
the updates going forward and been amazing
[3:39:26]
how technology has changed with library
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service and look forward hearing more
[3:39:32]
about that and how we do reach out more
[3:39:34]
effectively to the community so thank you.
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now we are going to go sorry, public
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comment, please.
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>> dave, go ahead and unmute your mic and
[3:39:52]
give your comments. Dave. Can you unmute
[3:40:00]
your mic and give your comments? Jeffrey
[3:40:14]
can you unmute your mic and give your
[3:40:17]
comments? Jeffrey are you unable to
[3:40:26]
unmute your mic?
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>> thank you.
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>> okay.
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>> okay, so now thank you we'll take up
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our 915 timed item, which is-
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>> are we in hawaii?
[3:41:12]
>> I know. The 915-
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>> I just said in hawaii.
[3:41:18]
>> 915 in the morning timed item which is
[3:41:22]
deferral program extension and by the way
[3:41:23]
it is on page 1 of the agenda item.
[3:41:27]
claudia.
[3:41:28]
>> thank you good afternoon chair members
[3:41:30]
of the board. Claudia wade engineering
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manager with community development
[3:41:34]
resource agency. We asking the board
[3:41:36]
introduce and wave the oral reading of
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ordinance to amend placer county code
[3:41:40]
chapter 15 article 15.70 to extend the
[3:41:44]
existing fee deferral program until
[3:41:47]
december 31, 2023. Brief background in
[3:41:51]
response to statewide slowing of the
[3:41:53]
housing market economy the board adopted a
[3:41:55]
fee deferral program in 2008. Fees are
[3:41:58]
typically due at building permit issuance
[3:42:02]
allows for fees to be paid early of final
[3:42:06]
inspection or 2 years. Impact fees
[3:42:09]
associated with the fee deferral program
[3:42:10]
are county traffic fee, the capital
[3:42:13]
facility impact fee, parks fees and sewer
[3:42:16]
connection fees. This short-term deferral
[3:42:19]
program allows fee payment closer to the
[3:42:22]
time impacts occur on associated
[3:42:26]
infrastructure. The program helps make
[3:42:27]
projects more feasible which can stimulate
[3:42:30]
economic development while still requiring
[3:42:33]
fee collection in time to fund needed
[3:42:36]
improvements. As well as provide cash
[3:42:39]
flow flexibility at the onset of the
[3:42:41]
project. Examples of projects that take
[3:42:44]
advantage of the program include the hill
[3:42:46]
top hotel in auburn, most affordable
[3:42:48]
housing projects of which this program is
[3:42:50]
a benefit due to the timing of
[3:42:53]
reimbursement from the state. As well as
[3:42:55]
individual property owners building their
[3:42:57]
homes. This fee program expires december
[3:43:00]
31 this year. By approval of the item the
[3:43:02]
program will be extended 2 years. This
[3:43:09]
concludes my presentation and available
[3:43:10]
for questions.
[3:43:11]
>> thanks claudia. Cindy question or
[3:43:15]
comment?
[3:43:16]
>> no.
[3:43:17]
>> seeing no questions from board members
[3:43:18]
at this time anyone from the public who
[3:43:20]
would like to address the item?
[3:43:22]
>> we have a few on. Jeff, can you unmute
[3:43:27]
your mic and give your comments?
[3:43:29]
>> yes, thank you. This is jeff short
[3:43:31]
north state building industry association,
[3:43:35]
thank you for the opportunity to comment
[3:43:37]
on the very important item. This program
[3:43:40]
fee deferrals began back because of the
[3:43:44]
construction slow down associated with the
[3:43:46]
recession in 2008 but that is-the
[3:43:49]
ramifications of the slow down are still
[3:43:52]
dealt with today. As you know, we have a
[3:43:55]
long way to go to build whether the
[3:43:57]
housing we need in the state in the county
[3:43:59]
and in the unincorporated portion of the
[3:44:01]
county so we very much appreciate your
[3:44:04]
board continuing this fee deferral program
[3:44:06]
and allowing these incentives for housing
[3:44:08]
construction to continue, especially right
[3:44:11]
now the timing is right building is really
[3:44:13]
just starting to take off in
[3:44:16]
unincorporated placer so this extension
[3:44:20]
could not come at a more opportune time.
[3:44:23]
thank you so much.
[3:44:24]
>> thanks jeff.
[3:44:27]
>> veronica, can you unmute your mic.
[3:44:30]
>> good afternoon this is veronica blake
[3:44:33]
ceo placer county foundation. Just wanted
[3:44:36]
to give a quick comment. Given the cost
[3:44:38]
barriers for the development of projects
[3:44:41]
we want to encourage your board support of
[3:44:43]
the fee deferral program for affordable
[3:44:45]
housing projects. This is one of many
[3:44:48]
strategies we need to employ to achieve
[3:44:50]
housing for all our residents and with
[3:44:52]
that that's just all of our comments for
[3:44:54]
today.
[3:44:55]
>> thanks veronica.
[3:45:01]
>> jeffrey can you unmute your mic and
[3:45:03]
give your comments? Jeffrey, can you
[3:45:11]
unmute your mic and give your comments?
[3:45:17]
>> it's not our end, sir.
[3:45:20]
>> okay. Thanks for that. I'll bring it
[3:45:23]
back to the board.
[3:45:24]
>> I'll move approval of the item.
[3:45:26]
>> second.
[3:45:27]
>> motion gore, second gustafson. All in
[3:45:30]
favor say aye. Opposed?
[3:45:33]
>> I wanted to ask some questions, but-
[3:45:36]
>> I'm sorry. Go ahead.
[3:45:39]
>> okay. Okay. Who will answer my
[3:45:43]
questions? Okay. I was just curious
[3:45:47]
about a couple things since I'm new. Has
[3:45:50]
this been-is this reviewed every 2 years
[3:45:54]
for renewal?
[3:45:58]
>> that's correct. Claudia you want to
[3:46:00]
confirm?
[3:46:01]
>> sure, this fee program has been
[3:46:05]
extended 4 times prior and in 2 years we
[3:46:09]
can review the program again.
[3:46:11]
>> okay, I was curious as to what
[3:46:15]
determines the rate the housing market, it
[3:46:16]
is good, not good? I thought the housing
[3:46:19]
market caught on fire but can be wrong.
[3:46:22]
is there some measuring gauge we use for
[3:46:25]
that determination?
[3:46:29]
>> can you repeat your question, sorry?
[3:46:32]
>> how do you gauge whether the market has
[3:46:35]
picked up or it has not?
[3:46:38]
>> it is picked up the fees have also
[3:46:43]
increased with it and this is a mechanism
[3:46:45]
just to assist for a cash flow
[3:46:53]
perspective. Deferral is until final
[3:46:55]
inspection or occupancy or 2 years. After
[3:46:58]
2 years of building permit issuance these
[3:47:00]
are due.
[3:47:01]
>> okay, because like I said, what is your
[3:47:04]
gauge as far as everybody is saying the
[3:47:07]
housing market has not picked up in the
[3:47:09]
last 13 years--it was 2008 when this was
[3:47:17]
started so 13 years have gone and say is
[3:47:20]
the housing market in a similar situation
[3:47:22]
as it was in 2008?
[3:47:23]
>> it has improved, but at this point it
[3:47:26]
is being used more so as a cash flow and
[3:47:29]
economic development. Sean I see sean at
[3:47:33]
the podium. I'll let her speak.
[3:47:36]
>> good afternoon sean [inaudible
[3:47:38]
comments] community development resource
[3:47:40]
agency. The housing market picked up as
[3:47:43]
far as sales of housing that was on the
[3:47:45]
market, we are just now starting to see
[3:47:48]
the construction, so the new permits
[3:47:49]
picking up. Generally on average the
[3:47:52]
unincorporated area placer county see 300
[3:47:56]
single family new starts per yearment we
[3:47:58]
are anticipating closer to 500 maybe a
[3:48:01]
little more this year and see the
[3:48:04]
trajectory go up but the construction side
[3:48:06]
is just now picking up in response to the
[3:48:09]
demand we saw in the retail side of the
[3:48:11]
for sale.
[3:48:12]
>> great. Thank you shana. And thank you
[3:48:16]
claudia. Appreciate it. Okay, I'm good.
[3:48:19]
>> do you want to reconsideration or-
[3:48:21]
>> no, no, I'm good-just had questions.
[3:48:23]
>> sorry I didn't catch your light quickly
[3:48:26]
enough. We have a vote, right?
[3:48:30]
>> yes.
[3:48:31]
>> now we'll take up our 920 timed item,
[3:48:35]
920. Item number 2. I just asked the
[3:48:41]
same question.
[3:48:42]
>> you have a motion [inaudible comments]
[3:48:46]
>> we haven't voted? Okay. All in favor
[3:48:49]
say aye. Opposed? Motion carries.
[3:48:52]
thanks. Thank you bonnie and megan. On
[3:48:59]
my last meeting. 920 timed item is the
[3:49:02]
placer vineyard specific plan fee schedule
[3:49:05]
annual adjustment. Claudia.
[3:49:07]
>> good afternoon once again. Chair
[3:49:09]
members of the board. Claudia wade.
[3:49:15]
today we are asking to conduct a public
[3:49:17]
hearing adopt resolution to adjust the
[3:49:19]
placer vineyard specific fee schedule for
[3:49:23]
fiscal year 2021-22. A clerical
[3:49:25]
correction was made on the map shown in
[3:49:28]
exhibit b. Exhibit b has been provided to
[3:49:31]
the board and public. Staff request the
[3:49:33]
board adopt the resolution with amended
[3:49:36]
exhibit b. A brief background.
[3:49:41]
[inaudible comments] add article 15.85
[3:49:43]
which established the placer vineyard fee
[3:49:46]
program. The county code requires this
[3:49:49]
program be adjusted annually using the
[3:49:52]
average of the change from the most
[3:49:54]
currently available index for the same
[3:49:57]
month of the previous year using the
[3:49:59]
average percent change in the san
[3:50:02]
francisco and [inaudible comments] average
[3:50:04]
construction cost index reported in
[3:50:05]
engineering record. The calculated
[3:50:08]
average of the change from november 2020
[3:50:11]
to november 21 resulted in increase of
[3:50:14]
8.64 percent. Attachment one provides the
[3:50:18]
updated cost to the fee schedule. This
[3:50:21]
concludes my presentation and available
[3:50:22]
for any questions.
[3:50:24]
>> thanks claudia. Any questions
[3:50:26]
by-bonnie?
[3:50:27]
>> no questions, but interesting I thought
[3:50:29]
I would point out it is a 8.64 percent
[3:50:33]
increase so we are definitely
[3:50:35]
unfortunately seeing the effect of
[3:50:37]
inflation, especially on our building
[3:50:41]
industry, the construction industry.
[3:50:43]
>> thanks. Any other questions? Seeing
[3:50:46]
none, this is a public hearing so open up
[3:50:50]
the public hearing. Anyone from the
[3:50:51]
public wish to comment on this item?
[3:50:56]
>> [inaudible comments]
[3:50:57]
>> seeing none, we'll close the public
[3:50:59]
hearing and bring this back to the board
[3:51:00]
for consideration. Motion holmes, second
[3:51:07]
gustafson. All in favor aye. Opposed?
[3:51:10]
motion carries. Now we'll take up the
[3:51:12]
first department item which is amend
[3:51:14]
placer county code chapter 2 regarding
[3:51:17]
compensation reimbursement for grand
[3:51:19]
jurors.
[3:51:20]
>> alright. Good afternoon chair weygandt
[3:51:23]
members of the board. Mr. Leopold
[3:51:26]
[inaudible comments] I where am amanda
[3:51:30]
flow here today to request change to the
[3:51:33]
placer county code to update the grand
[3:51:35]
jury meeting limit. Also here with me
[3:51:38]
today waiting very patiently is lor ina
[3:51:44]
sims the grand jury foreman. Chapter 2 of
[3:51:52]
the placer county code provides
[3:51:54]
regulations for compensation and
[3:51:56]
reimbursement for grand jurors. Following
[3:51:58]
a recent review of section 2.112.060 the
[3:52:03]
county executive office identified the
[3:52:05]
need to update language related to
[3:52:07]
compensation for attendants by grand
[3:52:10]
jurors at committee and subcommittee
[3:52:12]
meetings. Current code states each member
[3:52:15]
of the grand jury receive $10 for
[3:52:19]
attendance at each committee or
[3:52:20]
subcommittee meeting up to a limit of 2
[3:52:22]
meetings per day. In recognition that
[3:52:26]
very duties of the grand juries may
[3:52:30]
require attendance of 3 or meeting in a
[3:52:32]
day especially with zoom and special
[3:52:34]
back-to-back meetings and less driving,
[3:52:37]
the proposed ordinance removes this daily
[3:52:39]
limit of 2 meetings per day for the
[3:52:43]
committee and subcommittee meetings for
[3:52:45]
members of the grand jury. The proposed
[3:52:47]
amendment to this county code is not
[3:52:49]
expected to result in any fiscal impact.
[3:52:52]
the action requested today is introduce
[3:52:55]
ordinance, wave oral reading, amending
[3:52:58]
chapter 2 article 2.112 [inaudible
[3:53:02]
comments] of the placer county code to
[3:53:04]
remove the daily limit for committee
[3:53:07]
subcommittee meeting attendants for the
[3:53:09]
placer county grand jurors. With that,
[3:53:11]
I'll open for any questions.
[3:53:13]
>> thank you. Any questions by board
[3:53:15]
members at this time? Seeing none, is
[3:53:18]
there anyone from the public who would
[3:53:19]
like to address this item? Seeing none,
[3:53:23]
bring it back to the board.
[3:53:28]
>> I move approval and my goodness I think
[3:53:30]
it is probably worth giving more then $10
[3:53:33]
for just two meetings. Wow! When you
[3:53:36]
realize what that is it is a active
[3:53:38]
community service that our jurors are
[3:53:41]
doing.
[3:53:42]
>> [inaudible comments]
[3:53:45]
>> motion gore, second gustafson. All in
[3:53:48]
favor say aye. Opposed? Motion carries.
[3:53:50]
>> great. Thank you.
[3:53:52]
>> and now we'll take up our second
[3:53:55]
department item which is critical success
[3:53:57]
factors progress report. Jane
[3:54:02]
christensen.
[3:54:12]
>> good afternoon board chair supervisors.
[3:54:17]
jane christensen from the ceo office here
[3:54:20]
today along with ben mills who is our new
[3:54:22]
process and program administrator to
[3:54:25]
essentially provide a 2021 progress report
[3:54:27]
year end review. You may recall we do
[3:54:31]
this quarterly. The beginning of the year
[3:54:34]
in march to kick off what we anticipate to
[3:54:36]
be the work ahead for the coming year and
[3:54:39]
embedded update in both the proposed
[3:54:41]
budget in june and the final budget in
[3:54:43]
september and here in december for what I
[3:54:48]
call the victory lap, the year end review
[3:54:50]
on all things we have accomplished, you
[3:54:53]
have accomplished together with our county
[3:54:56]
staff over the intervening or preceding
[3:54:59]
year. Critical success factor timeline.
[3:55:02]
you recall we then had a new ceo todd
[3:55:05]
leopold in 2018 who initiated the
[3:55:10]
strategic planning effort. From 2019 to
[3:55:15]
2021 I and others provided progress
[3:55:20]
reports to advance the critical success
[3:55:23]
factors and will turn the page in 2022
[3:55:27]
over to ben to take to the next level with
[3:55:29]
performance metrix on those mentioned
[3:55:32]
initiatives. Tracking progress. As I go
[3:55:37]
through each of the critical success
[3:55:39]
factors you heard highlights from todd
[3:55:41]
this morning but this is some of the same
[3:55:44]
highlights but in the critical success
[3:55:46]
factors context that the board outlined at
[3:55:50]
february 2021 retreat. We know a
[3:55:54]
potential for under consideration a
[3:55:56]
calendar for item coming soon to a board
[3:55:58]
meeting near you, arrows for work in
[3:56:04]
progress moving ahead and check for
[3:56:05]
completed and pleased to say there is
[3:56:07]
quite a few checks as we look back on
[3:56:12]
2021. Strategic relationship and
[3:56:17]
community engagement. What a year had t
[3:56:19]
has been. Executing the 2021
[3:56:24]
redistricting process. We'll look for
[3:56:28]
volunteers in 10 years time so mark your
[3:56:30]
calendar. Also we are at work now with
[3:56:33]
interdisciplinary team of ceo, council,
[3:56:37]
the board of supervisors staff and sedra
[3:56:40]
to examine mac process improvements and
[3:56:43]
revisions for 2022 to expand the menu of
[3:56:47]
board outreach alternatives to reflect a
[3:56:50]
number of the lesson learned for what
[3:56:52]
works over the many months of covid. Also
[3:56:56]
coming in 2022 is your action plan on the
[3:56:59]
homeless services infrastructure needs
[3:57:02]
based on the regional effort begun this
[3:57:04]
past june in partnership with our city
[3:57:06]
elected's. Also too, the board number one
[3:57:11]
priority from the february 2021 retreat
[3:57:14]
was to really move the needle when it
[3:57:16]
comes to forest health and wildfire
[3:57:21]
management. We were successful hiring
[3:57:26]
kerrie [inaudible comments] and done great
[3:57:28]
things engaging regional partners on bio
[3:57:31]
mass work groups, completed the work done
[3:57:34]
under brett storey's leadership on french
[3:57:37]
meadows and advance our efforts and
[3:57:40]
hopefully secure federal and state funding
[3:57:42]
referenced earlier in the meeting today.
[3:57:45]
also too as mary just noted we have begun
[3:57:48]
our library service study. Really to look
[3:57:51]
at the library system as a whole as well
[3:57:53]
as to optimize service in eastern placer
[3:57:56]
exploring service alternatives with
[3:57:59]
potential partners in the eastern region
[3:58:01]
of nevada county in partnership with our
[3:58:04]
eastern region of placer county.
[3:58:10]
achievable housing. Again, another board
[3:58:13]
priority. Great credit is due here to
[3:58:17]
shana pervines updating the housing
[3:58:19]
element together with partners in the
[3:58:23]
state cog region which is something to be
[3:58:25]
proud of particularly given it is foremost
[3:58:29]
among board priorities. We moved
[3:58:33]
workforce housing preservation programs
[3:58:35]
and supporting partnership with supportive
[3:58:38]
how housing with mercy and meadow view
[3:58:41]
opening january 2022, hawkins village
[3:58:44]
april of 2022 so achievable progress
[3:58:47]
coming soon. Also too we continue to
[3:58:52]
expand programs and projects to provide
[3:58:53]
affordable housing through regional
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partnerships pictured here was the recent
[3:58:58]
event we attended and participated in
[3:59:01]
partnership with truckee for 5 affordable
[3:59:04]
housing projects in the eastern placer
[3:59:05]
region two of which in placer county.
[3:59:09]
pursuing the deed restriction program.
[3:59:12]
promoting adu. Here is where I need to
[3:59:16]
give a shout out to the pio team. They
[3:59:18]
developed a booth they have taken to the
[3:59:21]
home shows, they hope to take to the
[3:59:23]
county fair next year promoting adu as
[3:59:27]
alternative for affordable housing. Also
[3:59:30]
the housing code amendment workshop. That
[3:59:35]
actually is now scheduled for february 8
[3:59:38]
your housing workshop follow-up with
[3:59:41]
actions to follow for board action again
[3:59:43]
to keep moving forward on affordable
[3:59:45]
housing. Public serving infrastructure
[3:59:51]
and amenities. Many who have heard todd
[3:59:54]
speak out and about in the region know he
[3:59:56]
speaks often about how you are moving from
[3:59:59]
a period of planning in placer county to
[4:00:03]
implementation. That implementation
[4:00:05]
doesn't happen without the infrastructure
[4:00:08]
to support growth. We have adopted parks
[4:00:11]
master plan, updated the capital impact
[4:00:13]
fee program, advancing transportation
[4:00:16]
funding in the basin and invest in
[4:00:19]
infrastructure to serve as economic and
[4:00:20]
land use leveraging federal fund available
[4:00:24]
earlier this year. Funding for [inaudible
[4:00:33]
comments] advance the new health and human
[4:00:35]
service building for early 2022 ground
[4:00:38]
breaking february 23 to be specific if you
[4:00:40]
want to mark your calendars and we also
[4:00:42]
through our work with pc ad-hoc
[4:00:47]
incorporated placer county fire facility
[4:00:50]
in the maintenance plan. Outcome focused
[4:00:58]
economic development. Here is a area
[4:01:01]
where the county excelled over the last
[4:01:03]
year. Many recall we had weekly meetings
[4:01:05]
at the onset of covid with all our county
[4:01:08]
cities county chambers as we tried to
[4:01:11]
navigate the beginning early days of
[4:01:14]
[streaming cut out]
[4:01:16]
crisis. Those weekly meetings biweekly
[4:01:21]
meetings and now monthly meetings as
[4:01:24]
hopefully on the path of recovery but the
[4:01:26]
partnerships were forged during that time
[4:01:28]
and continue to be built upon. Just last
[4:01:31]
month we finalized the csus placer center
[4:01:35]
master plan which is a game changing
[4:01:37]
development. I know from prior experience
[4:01:40]
that educational institutions are just an
[4:01:43]
incredible nucleus for growth and economic
[4:01:49]
development. We have another [inaudible
[4:01:53]
comments] we also continue to evolve our
[4:01:55]
business retention strategy which is a
[4:01:56]
work in progress right now by the economic
[4:01:59]
development staff. Also under outcome
[4:02:03]
focused economic development we are in the
[4:02:05]
process of assessing eastern placer tot
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renewal in 2022. I understand for
[4:02:11]
election that it tent atively planned for
[4:02:14]
june next year to continue to extend that
[4:02:16]
2 percent tot for improvements in the
[4:02:19]
basin. Lastly, I really want to call if
[4:02:21]
you have not seen it in our efforts to
[4:02:23]
enhance placer county ag sector marketing.
[4:02:28]
this was the top 10 of projects the board
[4:02:29]
wanted to highlight in february 2021 and
[4:02:32]
if you haven't had a chance I encourage
[4:02:34]
you to go to the ag commissioner web page
[4:02:38]
which highlights the diversity of the crop
[4:02:41]
portfolio across the country. They have a
[4:02:43]
story map tour of placer county
[4:02:45]
agricultural and you can essentially
[4:02:47]
scroll through to view areas all across
[4:02:49]
the county. Crop information all across
[4:02:52]
the county and it really again shout out
[4:02:54]
to not only josh hutchinson the ag
[4:02:57]
commissioners but the pio team for
[4:03:00]
developing a really incredible story of
[4:03:03]
agricultural in placer county so please
[4:03:05]
check it out if you haven't already.
[4:03:10]
prudent and comprehensive financial
[4:03:12]
planning. As you all know, we have been
[4:03:14]
well served by those who have gone before
[4:03:16]
in placer county for the resources we
[4:03:20]
enjoy today. Ment those efforts continued
[4:03:22]
in 2021 with the refresh of the community
[4:03:25]
budget guide, again the leverage of the
[4:03:27]
federal and state covid assistance to
[4:03:29]
advance county needs, in 2020 all about
[4:03:32]
cares, in 2021 it was all about arpa and
[4:03:37]
putting the $77 million to work.
[4:03:46]
integrated financing plan something you
[4:03:49]
hear about and continue to hear about as
[4:03:51]
budgets move. We continue to explore
[4:03:54]
health benefit alternatives, enhance
[4:03:57]
funding of pension trust fund, optimizing
[4:04:01]
the use of cash reserves debt financing to
[4:04:03]
achieve county and city infrastructure
[4:04:06]
goals. Ongoing work of the county finance
[4:04:09]
committee comprised of ceo the auditor and
[4:04:12]
the treasurer working together. Fiscally
[4:04:20]
sustainable public safety service. It has
[4:04:22]
been a year for that. November 9 we were
[4:04:26]
before this board with our placer county
[4:04:28]
fire sustainable blue print. Actions will
[4:04:33]
be coming in the first 5 months of 2022 to
[4:04:37]
essentially execute those various actions
[4:04:39]
we said improve the long-term fiscal
[4:04:42]
health of placer county fire. We also
[4:04:44]
revamped probation programs. The van you
[4:04:47]
see here I believe was one that marshal
[4:04:49]
hopper might have previewed last month.
[4:04:52]
this is your purposed book mobile which is
[4:04:54]
now our mobile outreach community court
[4:04:57]
homeless service van which is actually
[4:04:59]
proven to be very successful and to
[4:05:02]
marshal's credit now a model that 4 other
[4:05:05]
counties are looking into because of the
[4:05:06]
efficacy and reaching out to had the hard
[4:05:08]
to reach populations with probation
[4:05:10]
services. Work is ongoing with supervisor
[4:05:14]
holmes and supervisor jones on the cjc
[4:05:18]
priorities in the context of state
[4:05:20]
legislation and funding challenges. Also,
[4:05:24]
on the public safety front shout out to
[4:05:27]
our district morgan guyer for efforts to
[4:05:31]
implement the community prosecution to
[4:05:33]
manage those quality of life crimes so
[4:05:37]
often go underserved. We established a
[4:05:40]
new model for competitive sustainable pay
[4:05:43]
for dsa and expanded the pipe line with
[4:05:46]
actions by the board to add intro-level
[4:05:50]
law enforcement positions to start the
[4:05:52]
career with the sheriff cadet program.
[4:05:57]
innovative integrated county services. I
[4:06:00]
thought we had quite a year in 2020, but
[4:06:04]
our staff only raised the bar in 2021 with
[4:06:07]
our continued adaptation to covid telework
[4:06:11]
approach while still getting the job done
[4:06:14]
via cloud technology and hard work of it
[4:06:17]
team under jared [inaudible comments]
[4:06:19]
expanding online service offers. In my
[4:06:22]
other job as interim [inaudible comments]
[4:06:24]
I was advised 80 percent of the activity
[4:06:27]
occurs online versus over counter which
[4:06:32]
was a shocking figure in terms of money
[4:06:35]
well spent and investing in technical
[4:06:47]
infrastructure. [inaudible comments]
[4:06:49]
moving our agenda process into the 21
[4:06:52]
century also partners with county
[4:06:55]
department on information and data
[4:06:56]
security e. Deborah curtis and it is doing
[4:06:59]
amazing work and continuing to test the
[4:07:01]
waters with our county teams on fishing
[4:07:04]
and other efforts so we are not in the
[4:07:06]
boat many other public agencies found them
[4:07:09]
in in terms of hacks, ransom ware and
[4:07:13]
other things that can make county life
[4:07:16]
quite unpleasant. Also on the innovation
[4:07:18]
front we advanced rural broadband needs.
[4:07:21]
in october the board took action for
[4:07:23]
county specific programs but as noted in
[4:07:26]
the morning legislative update we are also
[4:07:28]
partnering with r c r c golden state
[4:07:32]
connect jpa to try to access some of
[4:07:35]
that-what was the figure? $7 billion in
[4:07:40]
state money for broadband in the new year.
[4:07:44]
and the idea which you heard about in 19
[4:07:48]
and 20 will also be launching again. 2.0
[4:07:54]
under ben's leadership in 2022. Land use
[4:08:01]
planning and environmental stewardship.
[4:08:04]
these efforts are ongoing. The update on
[4:08:07]
the general plan our participation in the
[4:08:09]
water form renegotiation and next month
[4:08:14]
see the groundwater sustainability plan.
[4:08:17]
also too I'm pleased to highlight in the
[4:08:20]
chair year of bord service the culmination
[4:08:26]
of decades of placer conte conservation
[4:08:29]
program work with multiple partner signing
[4:08:32]
ceremony earlier this year. I mentioned
[4:08:34]
continue to advance forest health and
[4:08:36]
wildfire prevention and water should
[4:08:38]
management efforts and as I are mentioned
[4:08:41]
todd continued emphasis on transitioning
[4:08:45]
from land use plan to implementation net
[4:08:48]
will continue in earnest in 2022. Lastly
[4:08:52]
I want to highlight for you again these
[4:08:54]
were the 10 initiatives the board
[4:08:57]
highlighted back in february 2021. The
[4:08:59]
critical success factors are areas of
[4:09:06]
emphasis. Many of these are ways of doing
[4:09:09]
things rather then discreet projects but
[4:09:12]
all ongoing. As you note here with the
[4:09:14]
homeless action plan, with our cities
[4:09:17]
coming before you on january 11, but these
[4:09:19]
efforts as I noted are well underway. So,
[4:09:23]
with that, I will turn it over to ben to
[4:09:25]
talk about what to expect in 2022.
[4:09:28]
>> thank you. Good afternoon chairman and
[4:09:31]
supervisors. Ben mills processing program
[4:09:35]
administrator. As we look forward to 2022
[4:09:38]
the platform implementing tools will be
[4:09:41]
updated including a overhauled version of
[4:09:44]
the work plan the document that incompass
[4:09:48]
the board strategic plan process. It will
[4:09:51]
contain new information for funding and
[4:09:54]
future needs staffing and at a glance
[4:09:56]
symbols to track progress. The work plan
[4:09:59]
is a living document with new initiatives
[4:10:05]
added and completed initiatives removed.
[4:10:10]
other update said include a new
[4:10:11]
organizational monitoring report. Which
[4:10:13]
provide you metrix and benchmarks to
[4:10:16]
measure progression of the critical
[4:10:18]
success factors. These items will be
[4:10:21]
regularly updated and presented to your
[4:10:23]
board and also be added to a new county
[4:10:26]
strategic plan website under development.
[4:10:28]
beginning in the new year our team will
[4:10:30]
meet with each of our offices to discuss
[4:10:33]
in detail and priorities what types of
[4:10:36]
metrix you like to see for our office to
[4:10:38]
report out to your board. And to better
[4:10:41]
define success as far as implementation of
[4:10:43]
the strategic plan. So with that I look
[4:10:46]
forward working with you all and
[4:10:48]
appreciate it. Thank you.
[4:10:49]
>> thank you.
[4:10:51]
>> that concludes our progress report. If
[4:10:54]
there are any questions both ben and I are
[4:10:57]
here.
[4:10:58]
>> thanks to both of you for the update
[4:11:01]
and preview into our next steps. I have
[4:11:03]
to say I'm exhausted hearing all of the
[4:11:06]
work going on to live through the part you
[4:11:09]
played. It tires you out when you have
[4:11:11]
been around for a while. When I came here
[4:11:15]
the budget was a quarter of the size it is
[4:11:17]
currently and a lot less sophisticated and
[4:11:20]
there was always a appetite by the board
[4:11:23]
to have more measurable performance
[4:11:27]
standards and a place by which the board
[4:11:29]
can actually measure its impact on the
[4:11:31]
budget because so much of what we do is
[4:11:34]
prescribed state and federal law and it is
[4:11:37]
easy in any organization just to keep
[4:11:39]
doing things we have been doing rather
[4:11:43]
then shake things up and think
[4:11:45]
differently. But those that elected want
[4:11:48]
to come on board and shake things up a bit
[4:11:50]
so I want to thank todd particularly for
[4:11:53]
from the time I have been here 27 years
[4:11:55]
the process now by which we are going
[4:11:57]
forward that you brought forward with the
[4:12:00]
first workshop 3 or 4 years ago by far the
[4:12:03]
best I have seen and think we are pointed
[4:12:05]
in the right direction as it relates to
[4:12:08]
having bord members engage on the parts of
[4:12:10]
our expenditures that can be flexible and
[4:12:13]
creative. Having staff listen to that.
[4:12:16]
the 5 fight it out among ourselves what
[4:12:19]
direction gets settled abon but think we
[4:12:22]
are well positioned to be far more
[4:12:25]
entrepreneur and innovative then thing
[4:12:28]
last 27 years I have been around. Just a
[4:12:34]
shout out and thanks. Todd.
[4:12:36]
>> first thanks. I know you have done
[4:12:39]
this for a while. Trying to get more
[4:12:41]
quarterly update of what is going on so
[4:12:44]
thank you for doing this. Ben, I know you
[4:12:46]
will take pieces and build off of it and I
[4:12:48]
think as we is seen over the last 3 or 4
[4:12:51]
years take and put baselines in place and
[4:12:54]
building off those so I think we have a
[4:12:56]
good financial model to do and obviously
[4:12:59]
it comes down to projects and it is
[4:13:03]
interest to look back and I'm like did
[4:13:05]
that happen last year? That seemed 2 or 3
[4:13:08]
years ago. Things just fly by but think
[4:13:12]
we are just really positioned well not
[4:13:15]
only operation about financially and think
[4:13:18]
we have amies amazing staff. Appreciate
[4:13:22]
the update. Good for you all to hear.
[4:13:25]
what are the policy decisions you put in
[4:13:27]
place and how they come to materialize and
[4:13:29]
there is a lot gone on this year even with
[4:13:33]
interesting pandemic that plagued us for a
[4:13:35]
while.
[4:13:45]
>> I'll open up to the public if there is
[4:13:48]
any.
[4:13:49]
>> trudy please unmute your mic and give
[4:13:52]
your comments.
[4:13:53]
>> thank you. My name is trudy gardener,
[4:13:55]
can you hear me okay?
[4:13:56]
>> yes.
[4:13:57]
>> great. I was wondering, I wanted to
[4:14:01]
step back a little bit to talk about the
[4:14:03]
affordable housing just mentioned. I was
[4:14:08]
wondering approximately how much money
[4:14:12]
have you put towards achievable community
[4:14:15]
housing programs in the tahoe area? Say
[4:14:21]
since 2010.
[4:14:26]
>> jane, do-we can get you specific
[4:14:29]
information on that for sure which we
[4:14:31]
probably will have to do as it relates to
[4:14:33]
detail, but jane, I think can give you
[4:14:35]
some perspective.
[4:14:37]
>> we can absolutely follow-up. I believe
[4:14:40]
the request was back to 2010 which
[4:14:43]
predates my time with the county so I can
[4:14:45]
work with sean and others who are leads on
[4:14:48]
housing to get the number.
[4:14:49]
>> I will say I think [inaudible comments]
[4:14:52]
we acquired the dollar hill property in
[4:14:55]
the process of identifying the land use
[4:14:58]
and layout for affordable and workforce
[4:15:01]
housing. I think there is a lot of
[4:15:04]
investment made and continue to be made
[4:15:06]
with the approval of the tbid it is able
[4:15:09]
to reallocate dollars to both housing and
[4:15:12]
transportation. This was the board
[4:15:14]
directive for those what we call freed up
[4:15:17]
tot dollars are used for those specific
[4:15:20]
purposes, so we are more then happy to get
[4:15:22]
you more information. I know 10 years,
[4:15:26]
now 11 years of funding is quite a bit but
[4:15:30]
in the last 2 or 3 years this is a
[4:15:33]
concerted effort by the board.
[4:15:35]
>> good.
[4:15:36]
>> thank you. Yes, the chairman did
[4:15:39]
mention the measurable spending and was
[4:15:43]
just wondering would there be a way of
[4:15:46]
providing that by next month's meeting?
[4:15:49]
it shouldn't take long.
[4:15:51]
>> I don't have to do the work but will
[4:15:55]
say sure.
[4:15:56]
[laughter]
[4:15:57]
>> we'll do a quick update.
[4:15:59]
>> we are both looking for the same thing
[4:16:01]
mr. Chairman.
[4:16:04]
>> we'll get that for you for sure within
[4:16:08]
a month.
[4:16:09]
>> thanks so much.
[4:16:10]
>> thank you. Thank you again and with
[4:16:14]
that, we have to do a little cleanup on
[4:16:18]
another issue county counsel advices me
[4:16:21]
and so I'll turn it over to karen.
[4:16:28]
>> mr. Chair, members of the board it has
[4:16:31]
come to our attention that we had a-this
[4:16:35]
is a procedural glitch in our consents
[4:16:38]
calendar and as a result what I like to
[4:16:41]
ask the board to do is reconsider items
[4:16:44]
19a and 20a and I'll explain why. If I
[4:16:49]
can have a motion for that.
[4:16:50]
>> so moved.
[4:16:51]
>> second.
[4:16:52]
>> motion and second. All in favor say
[4:16:53]
aye. Opposed? Motion carries.
[4:16:56]
>> great. For 19a, I would now like the
[4:17:00]
board to adjourn as the county and to
[4:17:06]
reconvene as the placer vineyard park and
[4:17:11]
recreation district.
[4:17:14]
>> adjourn as placer county board of
[4:17:18]
supervisors and reconvene as placer county
[4:17:20]
parks district?
[4:17:21]
>> yes, park district. As such I like to
[4:17:24]
request that you move to approve once
[4:17:29]
again the adoption for resolution to
[4:17:31]
approve a joint community facilities
[4:17:37]
district.
[4:17:38]
>> move approval.
[4:17:39]
>> second.
[4:17:40]
>> motion and second. All in favor say
[4:17:41]
aye. Opposed? Motion carries.
[4:17:43]
>> like you to adjourn as the park and rec
[4:17:46]
district and reconvene as the bord.
[4:17:48]
>> placer county parks district is
[4:17:53]
reconvening as the placer county board of
[4:17:56]
supervisors.
[4:17:57]
>> to take up consideration of 20a as the
[4:18:00]
placer county board of supervisor,
[4:18:03]
assessment work flow software.
[4:18:04]
>> so moved.
[4:18:05]
>> second.
[4:18:06]
>> motion and second. All in favor say
[4:18:07]
aye. Opposed? Motion carries.
[4:18:09]
>> thank you very much.
[4:18:10]
>> thank you. And now we will take up our
[4:18:14]
1230 timed item which is short-term rental
[4:18:17]
ordinance update so this is a update that
[4:18:20]
I want to say from the beginning that
[4:18:24]
staff definitely is looking for
[4:18:26]
specificity and direction from the board
[4:18:28]
in terms of the comments and hopefully
[4:18:30]
consensus so if we can keep that in mind I
[4:18:32]
think it will be helpful as we move
[4:18:34]
forward. Stephanie.
[4:18:35]
>> good afternoon stephanie holloway with
[4:18:37]
the tahoe [inaudible comments] chairman
[4:18:40]
weygandt members of the board mr. Leopold
[4:18:43]
mrs. Schwab. I lost my cohort. She will
[4:18:47]
be back. Here this afternoon to really
[4:18:49]
kick off a presentation on short-term
[4:18:53]
rentals and convene workshop with your
[4:18:55]
board to seek further direction so I'm
[4:18:57]
joined by a diverse team here-not here but
[4:19:01]
will be here really working diligently for
[4:19:06]
the options around short-term rentals and
[4:19:09]
really bringing that before your board for
[4:19:10]
consideration hopefully early in january
[4:19:14]
before the end of had moratorium. Crystal
[4:19:19]
jacobson deputy director and aaron
[4:19:23]
[inaudible comments] with bay area
[4:19:25]
economics and going to copresent the item.
[4:19:28]
aaron is on zoom with us this afternoon.
[4:19:32]
also I didn't to mention nick martin in
[4:19:34]
the and emily setzer are also available
[4:19:40]
via zoom for technical questions that may
[4:19:42]
come up. So, I am going to advance our
[4:19:47]
slide here. Okay. So, let me start with
[4:19:50]
brief history around the short-term rental
[4:19:53]
ordinance. Your board is familiar with
[4:19:54]
this but will go back through. The
[4:19:56]
ordinance was first considered by your
[4:19:58]
board at the end of 2019, and really to
[4:20:03]
address some nuisance and growing safety
[4:20:05]
concerns within the community. The
[4:20:07]
adoption of article 19.42 january 2022
[4:20:11]
included a list of operational standards
[4:20:14]
focused on noise, trash, fire and building
[4:20:17]
code compliance as well as parking
[4:20:20]
concerns brought up tie buy the community.
[4:20:22]
your board recently adopted urgency
[4:20:24]
ordinance and extension in july and august
[4:20:26]
of the past summer which established a
[4:20:28]
moratorium for the increase on the
[4:20:31]
increase of new short-term rentals within
[4:20:34]
the community until march 31, 2022 so the
[4:20:39]
purpose is to create a pause and give
[4:20:41]
staff time to really dig if had to some of
[4:20:43]
the concerns related to increase usage of
[4:20:48]
second homes and around the short-term
[4:20:52]
rentals and think concern the effects of
[4:20:55]
the demand for these homes on workforce
[4:20:57]
housing specifically availability and the
[4:20:59]
potential for price escalation. So, just
[4:21:05]
a timeline here from the adoption of the
[4:21:07]
urgency ordinance back in july and august.
[4:21:10]
staff quickly appreciated the very short
[4:21:12]
window of time we had to engage the
[4:21:15]
community to really dig in on a number of
[4:21:17]
issues around housing to crunch some the
[4:21:20]
data that we were still working on
[4:21:23]
acquiring and really kind of come up with
[4:21:26]
some options to bring forward to your
[4:21:29]
board. It has been about 3 months since
[4:21:32]
then. I will say we really set to work
[4:21:35]
initially by listening doing large
[4:21:37]
stakeholder meetings as well as a number
[4:21:40]
of different focused stakeholder
[4:21:42]
discussions to really dig in and
[4:21:45]
understand the big picture, understand
[4:21:46]
every voice. The issue of short-term
[4:21:50]
rental touches so many different community
[4:21:53]
members in different ways so we wanted to
[4:21:55]
make sure we understand the full depth of
[4:21:57]
the issue. We are here today to really
[4:22:00]
give you a update on the progress. We
[4:22:02]
promised we would do that this summer so
[4:22:05]
here before the end of the year to do that
[4:22:06]
and also engage with the board on
[4:22:08]
potential options around str restrictions.
[4:22:16]
so just to talk briefly on the outreach
[4:22:18]
efforts, county staff lead two larger
[4:22:21]
stakeholder workshops really like I said
[4:22:25]
kind of coming together with a multitude
[4:22:27]
of voices really seeking some community
[4:22:30]
lead solutions around str. From that
[4:22:33]
initial brainstorming we did dig in on a
[4:22:37]
number of focus groups having deeper
[4:22:40]
discussions and identifying more detailed
[4:22:43]
concerns. So, overall we held 12
[4:22:47]
stakeholder meetings targeted discussions
[4:22:50]
over the last 12 months. And then
[4:22:53]
additionally just to mention stakeholder
[4:22:55]
outreach really once we felt we had
[4:22:58]
refined the issues and are formulated
[4:23:01]
options for the community to consider, we
[4:23:04]
did launch a larger online survey, which
[4:23:08]
resulted in over 1500 direct responses so
[4:23:12]
we felt that was a pretty good
[4:23:14]
representation of the community. I will
[4:23:17]
say that the survey was provided through
[4:23:22]
three different delivery method. We
[4:23:25]
contracted with a contractor to do a
[4:23:28]
initial blast to people within the
[4:23:31]
community that were sort of signed up to
[4:23:34]
give feedback around community issues. We
[4:23:37]
also specifically sent that survey out
[4:23:39]
through our pio office to our str owners
[4:23:43]
and operates and then thirdly just a
[4:23:46]
general public getting on next door to get
[4:23:48]
it out to the greater community. We
[4:23:52]
really felt this method provided us with
[4:23:55]
some understanding of where the potential
[4:23:57]
biases may be within different groups
[4:23:59]
within the issue. So, I'll mention there
[4:24:02]
is a detail on that survey in the results
[4:24:04]
are contained in your packet and I'll
[4:24:07]
highlight I think of importance here
[4:24:09]
really is that there is a
[4:24:10]
significant-maybe not significant but a
[4:24:14]
variation in the response between the
[4:24:16]
flash vote and open survey and then also
[4:24:18]
the survey that we sent out specifically
[4:24:20]
to our str owners and operators. So,
[4:24:26]
boiling it down the issues we heard from
[4:24:30]
the community outreach, really around
[4:24:32]
workforce housing I think your board heard
[4:24:34]
those concerns previously this summer.
[4:24:38]
neighborhood character around nuisance
[4:24:39]
issues, trash, noise, parking. Fire life
[4:24:43]
safety, we did talk to the fire districts
[4:24:46]
specifically. Them having concerns about
[4:24:48]
just consistency of inspections, making
[4:24:53]
sure the units were inspected before the
[4:24:55]
permit was issued. Also heard from them
[4:25:00]
just overall desire for potentially
[4:25:03]
folding into defensible space inspection
[4:25:07]
so a number different issues we talked to
[4:25:09]
the fire districts about. Also of note
[4:25:12]
just really the connection with the
[4:25:15]
potential for impact on our hotel economy.
[4:25:20]
I think the discussion here is really just
[4:25:21]
the equity between hotels and second homes
[4:25:26]
used as tourist accommodation, so that
[4:25:29]
conversation seemed to boil up to the
[4:25:31]
surface as well over and over. Lastly,
[4:25:34]
I'll mention staff has been really focused
[4:25:39]
on the effectiveness of the ordinance as
[4:25:41]
far as enforcement and making sure that we
[4:25:46]
are being purposeful and removing any
[4:25:49]
barriers for implementation of the
[4:25:51]
ordinance so you will see that in
[4:25:53]
crystal's presentation. Just to mention
[4:25:56]
our vision I think like I said we did a
[4:25:58]
lot of listening tried to boil down these
[4:26:01]
issues and come up with a vision to move
[4:26:03]
forward striving for a balance of housing
[4:26:06]
between housing in the residential
[4:26:08]
community potentially but also our tourist
[4:26:12]
housing accommodation within the town
[4:26:14]
centers creating a balance there. And
[4:26:17]
then also creating a balance and
[4:26:19]
supporting our economy in eastern placer
[4:26:22]
which is predominantly tourism allowing
[4:26:26]
workforce housing and incent vising
[4:26:28]
workforce housing. Lastly achieving code
[4:26:31]
compliance and maintaining our community
[4:26:32]
character so I think this boils it down to
[4:26:35]
the three big issues that seem to come out
[4:26:38]
of all the engagement. Our team did
[4:26:43]
perform additional research. We mentioned
[4:26:46]
this to you last time over the summer that
[4:26:48]
we started research on other jurisdictions
[4:26:51]
and really what they were doing to sort of
[4:26:54]
solve some of the challenges they were
[4:26:55]
having around destination stewardship and
[4:26:59]
tourist mitigation on the screen here is
[4:27:01]
just a few of those common actions that
[4:27:04]
other areas are taking to address these
[4:27:06]
concerns. There is a more detailed
[4:27:10]
breakdown in attachment d in your packet.
[4:27:12]
so, from this we took clues of some
[4:27:15]
practices that we might think are valuable
[4:27:18]
and viable within our communities in
[4:27:21]
eastern placer and kind of started vetting
[4:27:24]
those with the community and stakeholders.
[4:27:27]
so we did review approximately 20s
[4:27:31]
different jurisdictions in the local
[4:27:34]
areas. There are a number of counties
[4:27:35]
that have taken action in the area around
[4:27:38]
str and targeting other tourist economy
[4:27:41]
mountain towns to really look for common
[4:27:44]
practices. So, these areas included
[4:27:47]
summit county, avon, steam boat springs,
[4:27:51]
crest butte in colorado and jackson
[4:27:57]
wyoming and moab utah. I will sort of
[4:28:03]
highlight the prevalence and you will see
[4:28:05]
that in the packet of options related to
[4:28:13]
zoning. It is not something we are
[4:28:15]
bringing forward today and it is mostly
[4:28:17]
because our area of eastern placer is
[4:28:20]
really pretty diverse. The zoning
[4:28:23]
district and the zoning area is very
[4:28:27]
complex, especially when we start
[4:28:29]
considering the tahoe basin and the
[4:28:31]
overlay of the zone districts from t r pa,
[4:28:34]
so you will see that in the packet. It is
[4:28:37]
very common around cities opposed to
[4:28:40]
counties that have a different
[4:28:42]
jurisdictional structure. I'll note the
[4:28:47]
uniqueness and inconsistency of
[4:28:50]
application of some of these options
[4:28:52]
within different areas. I think we were
[4:28:55]
really looking for a tool box of best
[4:28:57]
practices. I think we found there are a
[4:29:00]
lot of practices, but they are applied
[4:29:02]
very uniquely for different jurisdictions
[4:29:05]
and so I think our charge was to find the
[4:29:07]
right tool box and right options for
[4:29:10]
placer that we wanted to bring forward for
[4:29:12]
you today. Crystal will dive into this a
[4:29:17]
little deeper but this is a preview of
[4:29:19]
options that we vetted. So before she
[4:29:23]
does that I wanted to introduce aaron new
[4:29:26]
sane again from bay area urban economics.
[4:29:30]
aaron was instrumental in digging in on
[4:29:33]
the tot and str data he'll walk through
[4:29:37]
and coming up with initial findings around
[4:29:42]
the economic questions raised earlier this
[4:29:44]
year. So, I'll mention his full report is
[4:29:47]
available as attachment b in your packet
[4:29:51]
and just sort of to report out again there
[4:29:56]
is a very short timeline we asked aaron to
[4:29:58]
pull this information together and to have
[4:30:00]
this packet ready for you, so it was
[4:30:03]
available online on friday for your
[4:30:06]
consumption as well as the public. So,
[4:30:08]
with that I'll hand it over to aaron.
[4:30:19]
>> we had the privilege working with the
[4:30:22]
county to pull together information a
[4:30:25]
relatively short-term prime with the
[4:30:28]
associations between short-term rentals
[4:30:30]
and the availability and pricing of
[4:30:32]
long-term housing and then also dug into
[4:30:35]
some of the available data on the str
[4:30:41]
market in eastern placer county specific.
[4:30:45]
in terms of the data we looked at specific
[4:30:47]
to eastern placer county, the primary data
[4:30:50]
source we ended up relying was county
[4:30:54]
inventory of tot certificates that is any
[4:30:57]
property that collects and remits
[4:30:58]
transient occupancy tax as well as the
[4:31:01]
county inventory of permitted str. Looked
[4:31:04]
at data from a couple private data
[4:31:11]
vendors. The data coverage was pretty
[4:31:13]
subpar so did not rely on the data
[4:31:15]
particularly heavily. We also looked at
[4:31:17]
census data with regard to the housing
[4:31:20]
inventory and the placer county assessor
[4:31:23]
parcel data with regard to home owner
[4:31:26]
exemption. The first main phase of the
[4:31:31]
research was to do a review of the
[4:31:35]
contemporary academic literature with
[4:31:37]
regard to relationship with regard to str
[4:31:40]
and availability of pricing of long-term
[4:31:42]
housing. We also looked at studies and
[4:31:45]
specifically spoke to relationship between
[4:31:48]
str and hotel viability in particular
[4:31:50]
looking at occupancy, average daily rates
[4:31:54]
and revenue per available room night. We
[4:31:56]
looked at total of about 23 articles about
[4:31:59]
16 of those specifically spoke to the
[4:32:01]
relationship between str and housing. 4
[4:32:04]
looked at relationship between str and
[4:32:08]
hotels and had a handsful of others more
[4:32:11]
focused on the regulatory responses to str
[4:32:18]
markets. The scope of the current
[4:32:20]
academic literature mostly focus on large
[4:32:23]
urban tourist destinations. Places like
[4:32:26]
new york, san francisco, barcelona,
[4:32:29]
london. We found study that -looked at a
[4:32:36]
variety of communities across oregon
[4:32:40]
including larger and smaller rural
[4:32:43]
destinations. So, with those caveats in
[4:32:49]
mind, the literature on str consistently
[4:32:53]
found a significant relationship between
[4:32:57]
the prevalence of str in a certain
[4:33:00]
residential market and the availability
[4:33:01]
and pricing of long-term housing.
[4:33:04]
generally speaking the effect seem to be
[4:33:08]
stronger between str and for sale housing
[4:33:10]
compared to pricing of rental housing.
[4:33:15]
the logic is str effect the pricing
[4:33:20]
rational for for sale housing where they
[4:33:22]
effect pricing for rental housing more in
[4:33:25]
terms of reduction in the available
[4:33:27]
supply. The literature found that in
[4:33:30]
general str do incentivize conversion of
[4:33:33]
long-term housing and a number of studies
[4:33:36]
specifically identified increase trend
[4:33:39]
toward investor activity. That is a
[4:33:43]
effecting housing pricing. In terms of
[4:33:46]
the document relationship between the str
[4:33:49]
and hotel market, it is much less well
[4:33:52]
studied and the results are somewhat
[4:33:54]
inconsistent, however there is a handful
[4:33:56]
of studies that did document relationships
[4:33:59]
in particular on hotel pricing and result
[4:34:03]
higher str in the market correlating to
[4:34:08]
less aggressive pricing for hotel
[4:34:10]
properties. As a general indication those
[4:34:13]
effects may effect mid-tier and lower tier
[4:34:18]
properties more compared to higher tier
[4:34:20]
properties. The research seems to suggest
[4:34:23]
hotels across the spectrum are more or
[4:34:27]
less equally impacted. Studies also
[4:34:31]
specifically noted that while some of the
[4:34:33]
coefficients of impact and magnitude of
[4:34:37]
str 1 percent increase in str may appear
[4:34:41]
relatively modest the rapid growth in the
[4:34:44]
str market can have a significant
[4:34:47]
cumulative affect on the markets. Next
[4:34:49]
slide. So, I want to change gears and
[4:34:54]
talk about the
[4:34:56]
[audio cut out]
[4:34:58]
according to data provided by the county
[4:35:01]
there are about 15600 total housing units
[4:35:06]
in the eastern county. Of those about 12
[4:35:08]
percent are owner occupied but 9 percent
[4:35:12]
are estimated to be long-term rented with
[4:35:15]
just under 80 percent being second homes.
[4:35:19]
based on the tot certificate data we have,
[4:35:24]
it appears as of the 2020-2021 fiscal year
[4:35:28]
there are about 4420 residential units
[4:35:31]
that were submitting tot. That represents
[4:35:35]
about 28 percent of the total housing
[4:35:38]
stock. There were additional 1445
[4:35:41]
residential unit that were registered,
[4:35:45]
they had tot certificates about not
[4:35:47]
actively generated tot to the county.
[4:35:49]
that represents 9 percent of the housing
[4:35:51]
stock. To be more specific, we were
[4:35:54]
looking at single family units,
[4:36:00]
condominium, townhomes, plex units, mobile
[4:36:02]
homes and apartments as being
[4:36:03]
representative of short-term rentals. We
[4:36:06]
are categorizing hotel motel property bed
[4:36:09]
and breakfast condo hotel and time share
[4:36:12]
property as part of the long-term lodging
[4:36:14]
market so those units are not included in
[4:36:17]
the totals. Next slide. So, this figure
[4:36:25]
illustrates growth in a number of active
[4:36:27]
revenue generated tot certificates by unit
[4:36:30]
type. So, the orange line essentially
[4:36:33]
shows the inventory of hotel motel b & b
[4:36:38]
over time shows that inventory being
[4:36:41]
relatively stable. The blue line shows
[4:36:43]
residential units, again single family,
[4:36:46]
plex, condo, etcetera. And it shows
[4:36:50]
fairly consistent growth over time among
[4:36:52]
the short-term rental market. Next. Here
[4:36:59]
we are layering in an additional line in
[4:37:02]
gray that specifically shows the inventory
[4:37:04]
of condo hotel and time sharing units and
[4:37:07]
we see a significant increase and
[4:37:12]
volatility. We are still working to
[4:37:17]
identify [inaudible comments] next slide.
[4:37:22]
here we show the same data but in a
[4:37:24]
slightly different format and you see the
[4:37:27]
cumulative inventory of overnight visitor
[4:37:31]
accommodations. You can see the single
[4:37:36]
family plex and apartment inventory of
[4:37:38]
short-term rentals along the bottom in
[4:37:45]
increase. Gradual increase in condo unit.
[4:37:49]
increase in hotel motel properties and
[4:37:52]
significant increase but volatility in the
[4:37:55]
condo hotel and time share. Next slide.
[4:38:02]
this data shows the total number of str in
[4:38:05]
a couple different buckets as a percentage
[4:38:08]
of the housing stock. The most recent
[4:38:11]
numbers there were about 2510 total
[4:38:14]
permitted str in eastern placer county
[4:38:16]
that represented about 16 percent of the
[4:38:18]
total housing stock. If you look more
[4:38:20]
broadly include unit excluded from the
[4:38:26]
current permit regulations that total
[4:38:28]
increases to just over 4400 units total
[4:38:31]
which is about 28 percent of the total
[4:38:33]
housing stock. If you also layer in other
[4:38:39]
tot certificates associated with
[4:38:41]
residential units not generating revenue
[4:38:44]
but have the potential to do so, that
[4:38:47]
percentage increases to about 30 percent
[4:38:48]
the total housing stock that could
[4:38:51]
potentially engage short-term rental
[4:38:55]
activity. This shows a slightly different
[4:38:59]
percentage looking at just single family
[4:39:02]
inventory both within the str inventory
[4:39:08]
and total housing stock. Just under 2600
[4:39:14]
units generating revenue that represented
[4:39:17]
about 21 percent of the total single
[4:39:19]
family inventory. If you are in the unit
[4:39:24]
not generating revenue about the tot
[4:39:27]
certificate it increased it 3800 or 31
[4:39:32]
percent of inventory. This figure shows
[4:39:37]
the distribution of active revenue
[4:39:41]
generating tot certificates that were
[4:39:44]
joined with the county parcel inventory
[4:39:46]
and the reason we did that was to identify
[4:39:50]
which revenue generating str were
[4:39:54]
associated with properties that had
[4:39:56]
claimed the state and federal home owner
[4:39:59]
exemption on the taxes and we are using
[4:40:02]
that essentially as the proxy for
[4:40:04]
full-time occupancy. The data generally
[4:40:08]
indicate units with home owner exemptions
[4:40:12]
represent 3 percent of all revenue
[4:40:14]
generating residential units that have tot
[4:40:17]
certificates. About 133 units in total
[4:40:21]
and most of the units are second family.
[4:40:24]
the remainder of the inventory is presumed
[4:40:26]
to be second homes as well as investor
[4:40:28]
owned properties. Next slide. On the
[4:40:34]
left here we can see information that was
[4:40:36]
pulled from the county's permitted str
[4:40:40]
inventory so this is just permitted str
[4:40:43]
and among those properties about 62
[4:40:47]
percent were professionally managed while
[4:40:49]
38 percent were owner managed. On the
[4:40:52]
right we see data for all revenue
[4:40:57]
generated units and from that we see 57
[4:41:03]
percent of the total active str inventory
[4:41:05]
was permitted under the county existing
[4:41:08]
regulations. Next slide. This figure
[4:41:14]
illustrates distribution of revenue
[4:41:18]
generating tot certificates by type
[4:41:22]
throughout the county. Generally speaking
[4:41:23]
we see significant clustering of
[4:41:26]
short-term rental properties in proximity
[4:41:28]
to major tourist destinations in
[4:41:31]
particular you have olympic valley alpine
[4:41:35]
meadows north star and north and west
[4:41:41]
shores of lake tahoe and [inaudible
[4:41:45]
comments] this figure illustrates the
[4:41:49]
distribution of revenue generating str by
[4:41:52]
bedroom size. We can see the majority of
[4:41:55]
units have between 2 and 4 bedrooms with
[4:41:58]
only about just under 6 percent of the
[4:42:01]
total str inventory having 5 or more
[4:42:04]
bedrooms and this generally suggests the
[4:42:06]
majority of rental properties in eastern
[4:42:09]
placer county are of a size functionally
[4:42:11]
appropriate for long-term housing as well.
[4:42:14]
next slide. Now we will talk about the
[4:42:20]
availability of occupancy of revenue
[4:42:22]
generating short-term rental properties.
[4:42:27]
this slide in particular is illustrating
[4:42:28]
for the most part short-term rental
[4:42:31]
properties are making available for
[4:42:34]
occupancy for very large segments of the
[4:42:36]
year. You can see the largest cohort is
[4:42:39]
271 nights per year. The general thinking
[4:42:43]
is most property owners are making their
[4:42:45]
property available for large portions of
[4:42:47]
the year so they can take advantage of
[4:42:50]
peak in demand as they materialize within
[4:42:53]
the market and they really only intend to
[4:42:56]
rent the unit for smaller amounts of time.
[4:42:59]
next slide. Here we see the distribution
[4:43:05]
of occupancy by number of nights. All is
[4:43:09]
a large clustering around hundred nights
[4:43:12]
and less and then a tale going off with
[4:43:17]
fewer and fewer properties being rented
[4:43:22]
throughout the year. Here we have the
[4:43:25]
average and median availability and
[4:43:28]
occupancy for revenue generating
[4:43:31]
residential properties with tot
[4:43:32]
certificates. You can see that on average
[4:43:36]
units are being made available of about
[4:43:40]
250 nights per year and occupied 103
[4:43:44]
nights average. There is about 104
[4:43:48]
weekend nights per year. So, we can see
[4:43:52]
units are occupied for significant
[4:43:54]
portions of the year and we also have to
[4:43:56]
acknowledge that it may not be every
[4:43:58]
weekend but you may have certain times of
[4:44:00]
year that have concentrations of demand
[4:44:04]
and a unit may be vacant for other
[4:44:06]
portions of the year. In general this
[4:44:08]
equals out to be average occupancy rate of
[4:44:11]
about 41 percent based on the available
[4:44:14]
self reported dat aa. In terms of the
[4:44:17]
average price paid per occupied night, we
[4:44:20]
are seeing total of about $344 per night
[4:44:25]
per unit. Based on average occupancy that
[4:44:28]
averages out to total gross revenue of
[4:44:32]
little over $35 thousand per year and if
[4:44:34]
we break that down into monthly average
[4:44:37]
that total is about $2900 per month. We
[4:44:41]
are recognizing the revenue may accrue in
[4:44:45]
lumps throughout the year and may not be
[4:44:47]
evenly distributed [inaudible comments] we
[4:45:03]
also compare that gross revenue generating
[4:45:07]
potential that is equal a little over 50
[4:45:10]
percent of the total debt service payment
[4:45:12]
for medium priced home. If you like at
[4:45:17]
sales between january and september this
[4:45:19]
year. Next slide. So while we don't
[4:45:24]
necessarily have a direct sufficient data
[4:45:29]
to substantiate direct relationship in
[4:45:32]
eastern placer county between str and
[4:45:35]
long-term pricing availability the
[4:45:37]
available literature suggests there is
[4:45:39]
likely some possible relationship.
[4:45:45]
[audio cutting out]
[4:45:47]
showing the average occupancy and vac ancy
[4:45:54]
between the 2006, 2010 community survey.
[4:46:03]
[inaudible comments] increase in the
[4:46:04]
number of units or percentage of units
[4:46:06]
held vacant for seasonally occasional use,
[4:46:09]
decrease in percent on units that are
[4:46:13]
full-time occupied. Next slide. So, one
[4:46:18]
other piece of the analysis we were
[4:46:20]
charged evaluating what the relationship
[4:46:23]
between str and the hotel and motel
[4:46:32]
overnight accommodations market. We are
[4:46:34]
doing this in order to essentially better
[4:46:38]
understand the extent to which regulating
[4:46:43]
str constrain the ability of tourist
[4:46:46]
accommodation recognizing eastern placer
[4:46:48]
county is a tourist driven economy. We
[4:46:52]
initially did that looking at the 2016
[4:46:55]
dean ronion visitor demand economic impact
[4:47:00]
study and we updated the numbers to get a
[4:47:03]
sense of the total number of visitor days
[4:47:05]
and or overnight-demand for overnight
[4:47:13]
accommodations and seen a significant
[4:47:15]
increase. There is insufficient data at
[4:47:18]
this time to fully assess the extend to
[4:47:20]
which the current inventory of overnight
[4:47:23]
accommodations is adequate. That said,
[4:47:26]
additional data that summarized in the
[4:47:28]
report attached to your packet suggests
[4:47:31]
that occupancy among hotel and motel
[4:47:34]
properties has been decreasing moderately
[4:47:37]
over the last handful of years which
[4:47:40]
corresponded with increase in occupancy
[4:47:42]
among short-term rental properties. This
[4:47:46]
suggests that perhaps the regulation of
[4:47:49]
short-term rental properties might result
[4:47:55]
in increased occupancy among hotel motel
[4:47:58]
properties. However, we also acknowledge
[4:48:00]
that demand among tourists for overnight
[4:48:05]
accommodations tends to occur in an uneven
[4:48:10]
way, so additional research may be
[4:48:14]
necessary to assess the balance of demand
[4:48:16]
and supply between tourists overnight
[4:48:19]
stays and the lodging industry. Next
[4:48:22]
slide. So, again in summary, the
[4:48:26]
literature review we prepared as part of
[4:48:29]
the research generally indicated str do
[4:48:31]
have a significant relationship between
[4:48:34]
the availability and pricing of long-term
[4:48:36]
housing as well as occupancy and pricing
[4:48:38]
for hotel motel properties. About 28
[4:48:42]
percent of the current housing stock is
[4:48:45]
actively used for short-term rental
[4:48:49]
purpose. Since 2010 we have seen 43
[4:48:52]
percent increase in the number of str
[4:48:55]
units that are active in eastern placer
[4:48:57]
county. We have seen 47 percent increase
[4:49:00]
in the number of condo hotel and time
[4:49:05]
share property and virtually no change in
[4:49:08]
hotel motel units. In general there is
[4:49:11]
str properties are generating average of
[4:49:13]
around $35 thousand per year in gross
[4:49:16]
revenue and occupied for average around
[4:49:19]
103 nights per year. The current average
[4:49:22]
gross revenue generated by short-term
[4:49:28]
rental property is competitive for
[4:49:30]
long-term rental housing and that gross
[4:49:34]
revenue is sufficient to offset
[4:49:37]
significant portion of the holding cost
[4:49:39]
for second home owners and residential
[4:49:44]
property in eastern county. Next slide.
[4:49:47]
I think with that I'll hand it back to
[4:49:49]
stephanie. Thank you very much.
[4:49:54]
>> thank you aaron. And good afternoon
[4:49:56]
everyone. Crystal jacobson with the
[4:49:59]
community development resource agency and
[4:50:01]
so I am going touch on-I will walk you
[4:50:06]
through some of had amendments we have
[4:50:09]
been framing up for the board
[4:50:11]
consideration but before I do that, I want
[4:50:13]
to touch on our overall housing and
[4:50:16]
economic development strategy because with
[4:50:18]
this effort we are working on right now
[4:50:21]
updating our str ordinance, it is
[4:50:25]
important to look what we are doing
[4:50:27]
overall. This is just the ordinance
[4:50:30]
update is one piece of the puzzle to
[4:50:34]
address housing and increase tourism and
[4:50:36]
impact tourism bring to the region so we
[4:50:40]
want to think what we are doing on the
[4:50:41]
incentive side and regulatory side.
[4:50:44]
carrot and stick approach. On the housing
[4:50:46]
side we have been focusing on the
[4:50:48]
development of workforce housing in the
[4:50:49]
tahoe region. Celebrating the
[4:50:53]
construction of hundred units in placer
[4:50:55]
with meadow view and hopkin village
[4:50:58]
projects which jane touched on earlier.
[4:51:02]
and then we also have other housing
[4:51:03]
projects in the works namely the dollar
[4:51:07]
creek crossings and orts looking at the
[4:51:09]
development of construction both in and
[4:51:12]
out of the basin. We also freed up tot
[4:51:16]
dollars from the tbid dedicated to housing
[4:51:20]
and transportation. The workforce housing
[4:51:32]
preservation program is a great example of
[4:51:34]
your board's commitment to incent vising
[4:51:38]
home ownership to the local workforce in
[4:51:40]
the county. In addition your board
[4:51:43]
involvement and contribution to the the
[4:51:44]
truckee tahoe workforce housing agency is
[4:51:47]
just another example of how we are
[4:51:50]
addressing housing needs in our region.
[4:51:53]
the north lake tahoe economic development
[4:51:55]
incentive program tot rebate program for
[4:51:59]
commercial lodging which your board
[4:52:01]
approved is a example of providing
[4:52:03]
incentives to help get lodging units
[4:52:05]
constructed and on the ground in our tahoe
[4:52:08]
region. And then on the regulatory side
[4:52:11]
we brought forward and continue to work on
[4:52:14]
various code amendments aimed at
[4:52:18]
eliminating barriers to housing and
[4:52:19]
promote redevelopment in our town centers
[4:52:21]
in the tahoe basin area, so in the spring
[4:52:24]
we are going to bring forward another
[4:52:27]
amendment package to the area plan aimed
[4:52:30]
at redevelopment of our town centers. So,
[4:52:32]
while this effort this update to the
[4:52:35]
short-term rental ordinance could result
[4:52:37]
in the potential restriction of str uses
[4:52:40]
it is heavy on the regulatory side. It is
[4:52:43]
important to look at the big picture and
[4:52:45]
what we are doing to address housing and
[4:52:48]
tourism in the region and again, it is
[4:52:50]
that carrot and stick approach. I will
[4:52:55]
touch on some of the str restrictions you
[4:52:58]
board could consider as part of this
[4:52:59]
ordinance update. As you know our current
[4:53:02]
ordinance is intended to address
[4:53:07]
nuisances. We do continue to track the
[4:53:08]
various areas of the code we need to clean
[4:53:11]
up and modify and I will go through those
[4:53:13]
here in a minute. But before I do that, I
[4:53:16]
am going to outline additional policy
[4:53:18]
options that your board could consider
[4:53:21]
with this update. These are more
[4:53:23]
restrictive options that can be considered
[4:53:27]
individually or layered and I'll walk
[4:53:29]
through this list here. I'm one over.
[4:53:35]
are we missing a slide? I think we might
[4:53:45]
be missing a slide or we are having a
[4:53:48]
slide problems. There we go. Okay. So,
[4:53:51]
the first on the list is the establishment
[4:53:53]
of numerical cap on str. There are three
[4:53:57]
options listed here that you could
[4:53:59]
consider. The first option a is taking
[4:54:03]
into consideration the existing str
[4:54:06]
inventory and active tot certificates.
[4:54:09]
so, as aaron reported after fully studying
[4:54:12]
our inventory we know this number is about
[4:54:14]
4400 or so, it is 4420 represents about 28
[4:54:20]
percent of the housing stock. And then
[4:54:23]
again as he indicated these numbers do not
[4:54:26]
include hotel motel units. And then I
[4:54:30]
will skip to the bottom number which is
[4:54:31]
the existing inventory of str plus all tot
[4:54:36]
certificates so this is a larger number,
[4:54:38]
about 5800 and represents 38 percent of
[4:54:42]
our housing stock so again both of the
[4:54:44]
numbers mentioned do not include housing
[4:54:47]
or hotel or motel units. And then option
[4:54:50]
b there in the middle is your board could
[4:54:53]
consider something less then those
[4:54:56]
numbers. You can come in under that.
[4:54:58]
what we did not include here is an option
[4:55:02]
to consider the full inventory, the 5800
[4:55:06]
plus an additional 5 or 10 percent. I
[4:55:08]
know that was discussed at the last
[4:55:10]
hearing we had with the board on the
[4:55:15]
moratorium. We did not include that
[4:55:17]
option for your consideration today
[4:55:18]
because I think the inventory after
[4:55:20]
studying it was much larger then we had
[4:55:22]
anticipated. I remember our permit
[4:55:24]
numbers right now for str are around 2500
[4:55:27]
and so we didn't include that but that is
[4:55:30]
certainly something your board could
[4:55:31]
consider is the full inventory plus in
[4:55:33]
addition. So, the next item is a minimum
[4:55:37]
or maximum night rented per year. This is
[4:55:40]
another item again you could consider this
[4:55:42]
individually or layer it. And for the
[4:55:46]
minimum this is something that could be
[4:55:48]
layered if your board decides to impose a
[4:55:52]
numerical cap and this is a way to incent
[4:55:55]
vise folks that have permits or tot
[4:55:59]
certificates but not been renting, so we
[4:56:01]
know that number is around 1400, folks on
[4:56:07]
a tot certificate or str permit and not
[4:56:10]
renting. By establishing a minimum you
[4:56:12]
would incent vise the folks to rent and by
[4:56:18]
not using it the next person with access
[4:56:21]
the permit and rent it. Establishing
[4:56:24]
maximum standard can do two things.
[4:56:26]
first, is that we got a average number of
[4:56:30]
nights stays around 103 we know per year
[4:56:34]
and then the return on that investment of
[4:56:38]
throwing that into the mix is about 35
[4:56:40]
thousand per year these folks are making
[4:56:43]
on their str. Your board could the
[4:56:53]
maximum. If long-term renting is more
[4:56:55]
profitable they may rethink their strategy
[4:56:57]
and throw their unit into a long-term
[4:57:00]
housing mix. This option may also limit
[4:57:05]
people or corporations from purchasing
[4:57:07]
homes for the sole purpose of short-term
[4:57:18]
renting it. The next item on the list is
[4:57:22]
a waiting period. This could be 6 months
[4:57:25]
12, this is something the town of truckee
[4:57:27]
has been considering so we added it for
[4:57:29]
your board to contemplate on. This would
[4:57:33]
limit new str being rented for certain
[4:57:36]
period of time. It can be 6, could be 12
[4:57:38]
months but the idea is that folks may
[4:57:41]
reconsider purchasing homes for the sole
[4:57:45]
purpose of renting it if they dont have
[4:57:48]
the capital to buy the house and sit on it
[4:57:50]
for 6 or 12 months with that waiting
[4:57:53]
period. Really it would be all extension
[4:57:58]
of moratorium so you can apply for a
[4:58:01]
permit but have to wait. Again, this is
[4:58:03]
something that is being considered in the
[4:58:04]
region so we throw it in here for
[4:58:07]
discussion. The next item is special
[4:58:11]
provisions for primary ownership and
[4:58:14]
hosted str so we know we got locals in the
[4:58:18]
community that rent their units. They may
[4:58:20]
rent to a room or two may rent their unit
[4:58:24]
while on vacation. We included this
[4:58:27]
because this is a response to comments we
[4:58:29]
heard from the community about how renting
[4:58:32]
short-term is a way to locals to off set
[4:58:34]
or supplement their mortgage. Again, we
[4:58:37]
know this is about 3 percent of our str
[4:58:43]
but your board could consider special
[4:58:46]
provisions for local. If you establish or
[4:58:48]
impose a cap on str these folks can be
[4:58:52]
exempt from that cap. Moving on the last
[4:58:56]
one on the list is density or geo spatial
[4:58:59]
limitations. Those are the provisions
[4:59:02]
that limit str per neighborhood. Some
[4:59:05]
folks explain them as clustering
[4:59:09]
provisions where you might have a str
[4:59:11]
every 500 feet for example. We do believe
[4:59:13]
this is a tool that may help address
[4:59:15]
concerns regarding neighborhood
[4:59:17]
compatibility and integrity. Again,
[4:59:21]
essentially limiting how many you can have
[4:59:25]
per neighborhood so you don't is a row of
[4:59:28]
str on any street. We believe this option
[4:59:35]
would require a high demand in terms of
[4:59:39]
staff resources needs to implement
[4:59:40]
something like this. It is labor
[4:59:43]
intensive. We also think there are
[4:59:46]
impacts that need to be analyzed so we
[4:59:48]
think that with this option we need a
[4:59:50]
little more time to analyze this option
[4:59:53]
and thoroughly vet it before the community
[4:59:56]
and your board so for those reasons it
[4:59:58]
isn't something that we are bringing
[4:59:59]
forward at this time for your board's
[5:00:01]
consideration but it is something if your
[5:00:03]
board desires we can bring forward at a
[5:00:06]
later date. So, as I stated earlier we do
[5:00:11]
continue our team continues to track areas
[5:00:14]
of the code that are problematic that we
[5:00:16]
believe are not effective or need to be
[5:00:20]
revisited or cleaned up so this is a list
[5:00:23]
of the items. We were before your board
[5:00:26]
last march with a cleanup effort so these
[5:00:28]
items I will talk about now are really in
[5:00:31]
that same spirit of cleaning it up. The
[5:00:35]
first is to propose to eliminate the
[5:00:38]
exemption provisions or modify them in the
[5:00:41]
ordinance. The ordinance apply to all
[5:00:45]
residential properties. Not apply to
[5:00:47]
hotel motel condo tells or time shares.
[5:00:51]
that function like hotel we say they would
[5:00:56]
be not subject to the ordinance but if
[5:00:58]
they are functioning as residential use
[5:01:04]
they are subject are. This is a gray area
[5:01:06]
in the code. It is hard for staff to
[5:01:09]
implement it. There is a lot of back and
[5:01:11]
forth with property owners a lot time
[5:01:14]
spent reviewing and a lot of folks that I
[5:01:16]
think think they are exempt and don't
[5:01:20]
request exemption and operating without a
[5:01:22]
permit so we know have about 40 percent of
[5:01:25]
our units that either think they are
[5:01:28]
exempt or come for exemption request.
[5:01:34]
because of that then they are also
[5:01:39]
not-don't have the benefit of inspection
[5:01:41]
so not getting the fire life safety
[5:01:43]
inspections and also not being enforced.
[5:01:46]
so, we believe that this eliminating the
[5:01:49]
exemptions would help provide consistency
[5:01:51]
in permitting and inspections and
[5:01:55]
enforcement. The next item on the list is
[5:01:57]
to add or increase fire protection
[5:01:59]
standards. This proposing to require fire
[5:02:02]
inspections at the time of permit
[5:02:04]
application. Currently applicants have 3
[5:02:07]
to 5 years to get inspections so for the
[5:02:09]
privately managed str they have 3 years
[5:02:14]
and professionals have 5 years. What we
[5:02:19]
are finding is that we are two years into
[5:02:22]
the program. This is our second permit
[5:02:24]
cycle and we have only about 8 percent of
[5:02:27]
properties that have been inspected have
[5:02:31]
had the fire inspection. What we know is
[5:02:32]
the current model is really not working
[5:02:35]
and so we are proposing to change that.
[5:02:38]
we are also requiring more frequent fire
[5:02:40]
inspections so currently we have a system
[5:02:44]
where just mentioned every 3 years the
[5:02:47]
private managed folks get inspections and
[5:02:50]
are or supposed to and then every 5 years
[5:02:53]
the profession al folks are and the burden
[5:02:56]
is on the applicant to initiate the
[5:02:58]
inspections. What we are proposing is 1
[5:03:01]
and 3 your model. 1 year for the
[5:03:04]
privately managed folks and 3 for
[5:03:06]
professionals. Also proposing a rolling
[5:03:09]
annual permit model, so changing the
[5:03:12]
permitting to rolling model instead of
[5:03:14]
permits that expire at the same time
[5:03:16]
annually. We believe this would allow
[5:03:19]
applicants would help would be in support
[5:03:23]
of this because they come any time of the
[5:03:26]
year I and get a permit and run the full
[5:03:29]
year instead of expiring every march.
[5:03:31]
this would help our staff to spread out
[5:03:33]
the processing of applications, lesson the
[5:03:37]
demand and resource need at one time every
[5:03:39]
year. The same is true for the fire
[5:03:44]
district. This allows them to continually
[5:03:46]
inspect properties if your board elects to
[5:03:49]
go with a model where fire inspections are
[5:03:51]
required a that time of permit
[5:03:53]
application, the fire districts will have
[5:03:55]
to do those inspections with every
[5:03:58]
application but if you rolled it out
[5:03:59]
through the year it is a little more
[5:04:01]
manageable. Talking with the fire
[5:04:03]
districts they did express they are open
[5:04:06]
to the model. I will say they are
[5:04:08]
currently concerned with how few str units
[5:04:12]
have been inspected and worried about
[5:04:16]
getting big influx within the next year in
[5:04:19]
terms of numbers of units they need to
[5:04:21]
inspect. We have talked to the fire
[5:04:24]
districts about the capacity to handle the
[5:04:26]
type of inspection load. We need to have
[5:04:28]
further discussion there. We have talked
[5:04:31]
about the county could have a inhouse
[5:04:35]
inspector to help with districts that need
[5:04:39]
capacity do inspections. Moving on to the
[5:04:41]
the stricter nuisance standards. We
[5:04:45]
proposing to strengthen noise and
[5:04:48]
occupancy limits. The occupancy standards
[5:04:51]
to bring those in line with industry
[5:04:53]
standard which is 1.5 times the nightly
[5:04:57]
occupancy so if you have a unit that has
[5:05:00]
an occupancy limit of 8 you can have 1.5
[5:05:04]
times that number for day time occupancy.
[5:05:11]
the idea is limit parties. There is
[5:05:13]
provision in the code that allows to get a
[5:05:15]
special use permit. Special event permit
[5:05:19]
for str that is through the planning
[5:05:20]
department, so if you were hosting a
[5:05:23]
larger party there is a avenue for folks
[5:05:25]
to do that. And then for parking we would
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require parking stall counts to be posted
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in the advertisement so folks know what
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the constraints are on a site for parking
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and are for noise propose to increase
[5:05:40]
quite hours and then prohibit outdoor
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amplified sound. Moving on to the next
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one increasing str unit postings requiring
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posting in common places inside the unit
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plus each additional bedroom and outside
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on either a [inaudible comments] or a
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window and it would require the permit
[5:06:00]
number general information about the
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operational stander, warnings about red
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flag days, and again this is really
[5:06:09]
industry standard. It would also have the
[5:06:11]
str hot line and provide a way for folks
[5:06:13]
to understand this is a str unit and know
[5:06:16]
where to call if there are issues.
[5:06:19]
limiting 1 per parcel apply to multifamily
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and single family and not condo units. We
[5:06:26]
believe this alignment with the state
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housing goal if there are two units on a
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property a d ru intended for to be
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available for housing. The other logic
[5:06:39]
behind this is it provides for on site
[5:06:41]
management so if you have two units on a
[5:06:43]
property someone could live there and
[5:06:45]
provide on site management. We'll point
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out we did take a look, we currently have
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four parcels now, so so 4 parcels with
[5:06:59]
active permits 2 permits on a property.
[5:07:01]
three of those are duplexes. Not a lot of
[5:07:05]
units right now where we see two permits
[5:07:07]
on one property. The next on the list
[5:07:11]
here is increased penalty fines. We are
[5:07:15]
prosing to bring up the fines to industry
[5:07:17]
standard in line with senate bill $60,
[5:07:21]
which sets maximum fines for str so we
[5:07:23]
would propose- first under the current
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model we got escalating structure from
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$500 fine that goes to a thousand and we
[5:07:34]
propose to change that from start at $1500
[5:07:38]
go to $3 thousand and go to $5 thousand so
[5:07:42]
escalates up. Also proposing just to
[5:07:44]
change this standard so you got different
[5:07:46]
fines for operational standards and
[5:07:50]
different fine structure for operating
[5:07:52]
without a permit, so a little different
[5:07:56]
fining structure for those two violations.
[5:07:59]
modified appeal process. Currently the
[5:08:03]
penalties are determined by as outlined in
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the code determined by administrative
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hearing office. Those can be appealed to
[5:08:12]
the board. We are just up for the board's
[5:08:17]
consideration is to change that and
[5:08:19]
perhaps have the penalty determined by the
[5:08:24]
sedra director and appeal could go to the
[5:08:26]
administrative hearing office and stop
[5:08:28]
there if your board desires to make that
[5:08:30]
change. Really quick I will touch on some
[5:08:35]
work that ben actually has been doing on
[5:08:39]
the permit system and really the idea here
[5:08:42]
is to align with str permit system with a
[5:08:45]
tot certificate system. So, we have
[5:08:48]
partnered with deckhard technologies for
[5:08:51]
software integration, so as part of this
[5:08:53]
update we are looking to improve the
[5:08:55]
permit system and are align these two
[5:08:58]
processes. Currently we have two separate
[5:09:00]
systems so it causes-I mentioned to the
[5:09:04]
board. We have a lot of confusion delay
[5:09:09]
in permits and inefficiency tracking
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metric. Different data sets and st. Is a
[5:09:17]
challenge to track these as you can see in
[5:09:20]
the report indicates that. It was hard to
[5:09:23]
fully understand the inventory without
[5:09:25]
studying it so we believe that partners
[5:09:27]
with deckard and really aligning these two
[5:09:29]
processes will help us with that data.
[5:09:33]
pulling the data. We also think it will
[5:09:37]
improve the user interface that allow to
[5:09:40]
better serve the customers one stop shop
[5:09:43]
you go for the permit and get the tot at
[5:09:46]
the same time. It also allows better
[5:09:49]
tracking. Also allows to track online
[5:09:52]
listings, fire inspection sign off and
[5:09:54]
just maintain a single database.
[5:09:57]
essentially this will streamline we
[5:09:59]
believe the permit process and help us
[5:10:01]
with reporting and enforcement. So,
[5:10:05]
that's all I have on that. I will toss it
[5:10:07]
to stephanie to wrap up.
[5:10:09]
>> I'll close us out here. Just remind
[5:10:11]
your board we are not asking for action
[5:10:13]
today. This is just to give a update of
[5:10:16]
everything we have been working on since
[5:10:17]
the moratorium and working up towards the
[5:10:20]
deadline of the moratorium. We are
[5:10:24]
prepping to potentially come back to your
[5:10:26]
board with a ordinance consideration in
[5:10:29]
january and as crystal just outlined all
[5:10:33]
the details we are working on specifically
[5:10:35]
cleanup items as a baseline and then
[5:10:38]
asking your board for considerations on
[5:10:41]
potential regulations on top of that those
[5:10:44]
ordinance cleanups. With that, I will
[5:10:48]
just put up this slide. I think this was
[5:10:51]
key areas that staff has identified for
[5:10:55]
conversation with you all today to seek
[5:10:58]
further feedback but obviously open to any
[5:11:00]
questions or any area of feedback. I
[5:11:08]
appreciate your attention and welcome
[5:11:10]
comments.
[5:11:11]
>> start with cindy and then june.
[5:11:14]
>> thank you for all the hard work. Staff
[5:11:19]
has done outreach and spent countless
[5:11:23]
hours in our community because this is so
[5:11:25]
critical to our north shore economy but I
[5:11:28]
did have a couple questions on the data
[5:11:29]
and this might be for you or bae. Did the
[5:11:34]
data for the exempt properties show up in
[5:11:38]
the occupancy numbers and revenue numbers
[5:11:41]
you show in these charts? Do you know?
[5:11:44]
>> I know aaron is on but yes. The
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exempt-
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>> so that included that. And as you know
[5:11:51]
we have gotten tremendous number of
[5:11:55]
e-mails and comments from north star
[5:11:58]
condos I believe were exempted last time
[5:12:00]
and you are suggesting no longer be
[5:12:06]
exempt, is that correct?
[5:12:07]
>> correct, any residential use we are
[5:12:09]
suggesting they be pulled into the
[5:12:11]
ordinance requirements. If it operates
[5:12:16]
like a hotel motel it is assessed as a
[5:12:18]
hotel motel and permitted that way they
[5:12:21]
are not subject to the ordinance.
[5:12:24]
>> great. I want to make sure that is
[5:12:25]
clear because I read all the comments and
[5:12:28]
will have other comments but we received a
[5:12:32]
slug from that group and not other groups
[5:12:35]
because they have already been complying.
[5:12:39]
this group was due to some judgment issues
[5:12:45]
that-anyway, but there is many other
[5:12:47]
condominiums that haven't been exempt we
[5:12:51]
haven't heard as much from.
[5:12:52]
>> just to add more detail to that. As
[5:12:55]
crystal mentioned this is a area of the
[5:12:57]
code that is very gray and the
[5:13:01]
requirements are that if somebody thinks
[5:13:04]
they are exempt from the ordinance they
[5:13:06]
apply for us to verify that and think that
[5:13:08]
is confusing so think there is a lot of
[5:13:10]
properties out there that read the code
[5:13:13]
and believe they are exempt without coming
[5:13:15]
to us for determination. Just to put that
[5:13:17]
out there as well.
[5:13:18]
>> right. Right. And I don't know if all
[5:13:21]
the other ones know that some were exempt
[5:13:25]
and some weren't and [inaudible comments]
[5:13:28]
I just was trying to understand why that
[5:13:31]
particular group and part of it is that
[5:13:33]
you did meet with them in particular and
[5:13:36]
reach out to them but there is other
[5:13:38]
exempted properties that may not have
[5:13:41]
known to write e-mails to us. Set the
[5:13:43]
stage for that. The vacancy data the home
[5:13:48]
owner vacancy data is two years old. How
[5:13:51]
often can we update that data? This will
[5:13:55]
go to some of my later comments. Right
[5:13:59]
now it goes through 2019 and we know the
[5:14:01]
big slug of change happened in the last 2
[5:14:08]
years so when you look at home owner use-I
[5:14:11]
can't remember the title but it is based
[5:14:13]
on the acs data, american community survey
[5:14:17]
data.
[5:14:18]
>> maybe we can look to aaron.
[5:14:20]
>> how often would we get the data to
[5:14:24]
monitor that?
[5:14:25]
>> publications of census based data come
[5:14:29]
out essentially every year, but they are
[5:14:31]
usually
[5:14:33]
[audio cutting out]
[5:14:41]
>> I bet what you are telling me is census
[5:14:44]
data we get a year in delay?
[5:14:48]
>> it takes time for them to collect that
[5:14:51]
data process data and get it summarized
[5:14:54]
for publication.
[5:14:56]
>> but we could start tracking and do some
[5:15:00]
sort of adaptive model to look at
[5:15:06]
occupancy as we build housing-and then
[5:15:12]
quite often I know you mentioned safety
[5:15:14]
but quite often we talk about nuisances
[5:15:17]
but the nuisances also relate to safety
[5:15:19]
for instance the open fire people report
[5:15:22]
on red flag days, are those categorized as
[5:15:28]
nuisance or safety? I want to remind the
[5:15:34]
board we started on real health and safety
[5:15:37]
issues as well as nuisances and those get
[5:15:40]
reported and just not sure how they are
[5:15:43]
categorized like a open fire.
[5:15:45]
>> they are categorized as complaint
[5:15:51]
tracked as a complaint. We lost our slide
[5:16:04]
deck. Sorry about that.
[5:16:07]
>> that's okay. In general I just want to
[5:16:10]
make sure we try to understand that there
[5:16:13]
are health and safety issues that get
[5:16:15]
reported by neighbors concerned about fire
[5:16:18]
pits open fires, people not understanding
[5:16:22]
red flag warnings.
[5:16:25]
>> what I was going to pull up I think is
[5:16:27]
supposed to be hidden in the back here.
[5:16:32]
>> the last slides?
[5:16:33]
>> yeah.
[5:16:36]
>> I think they are in the back if it-
[5:16:40]
>> it isn't important what is important is
[5:16:43]
you hear there are a lot of public safety
[5:16:45]
issues intertwined with nuisance because
[5:16:47]
sometimes nuisance is diminished like it
[5:16:50]
is a subjective call. I think for those
[5:16:52]
of us living in fire prone areas and
[5:16:58]
people not paying attention that is much
[5:17:00]
more then-
[5:17:01]
>> right, and with those complaints we
[5:17:03]
take notes about every complaint so we are
[5:17:05]
tracking what type of complaint we get. I
[5:17:08]
have to look at the slide to see. I'm
[5:17:10]
pretty sure life safety issues is called
[5:17:13]
out in our-yes.
[5:17:17]
>> it doesn't have-
[5:17:20]
>> it has noise is 49 percent. It does
[5:17:24]
not have like fire safety. Probably falls
[5:17:29]
under other, which is 15 percent.
[5:17:36]
>> I heard from a large number of people
[5:17:38]
yesterday I e-mailed you a couple where
[5:17:41]
people dont seem to--they look at the
[5:17:44]
total complaints we received and say that
[5:17:46]
is de minimus, but then I hear from the
[5:17:48]
community there is far more, they don't
[5:17:50]
know who to call, people second home
[5:17:53]
owners don't know who to call. Do you
[5:17:57]
hear that as well or is that my office
[5:17:59]
hearing-
[5:18:01]
>> I do hear that and constantly e-mailing
[5:18:05]
folks with information. What we can do is
[5:18:11]
a campaign to help educate folks. I think
[5:18:13]
there is a need for better communication
[5:18:15]
and pushing stuff out through the pio
[5:18:17]
office to get the word out about our
[5:18:21]
hotline and the resources that are there
[5:18:23]
to respond to these kinds of complaints.
[5:18:26]
>> okay.
[5:18:27]
>> there is a requirement for a point of
[5:18:32]
contact so people may call property
[5:18:33]
managers, they may call specific contacts.
[5:18:38]
the question is does it really get to the
[5:18:40]
county and do we get to tag it.
[5:18:43]
>> right.
[5:18:44]
>> I think a lot of people are weigh in
[5:18:46]
that we only had this many complaints and
[5:18:48]
total there is a very few complaints and
[5:18:50]
yet I think if you walk around our
[5:18:52]
community and talk to individuals they all
[5:18:55]
have stories about even the gentlemen that
[5:18:59]
we tracked down yesterday one licensed one
[5:19:03]
not, how do we make sure that person who
[5:19:05]
was a educated member of our community
[5:19:07]
didn't know or hadn't called and I said
[5:19:10]
why didn't you call? Those are-there is
[5:19:14]
some responsibility there. And then I
[5:19:16]
think another question I had on the data,
[5:19:19]
so in the chart I think that nick prepared
[5:19:24]
to the other jurisdictions. Currently
[5:19:27]
from everything I have seen the only other
[5:19:29]
community with the high percentage of
[5:19:33]
housing stock to str is cresta butte
[5:19:39]
colorado. Everyone else is far below the
[5:19:41]
housing stock being absorbed by short-term
[5:19:44]
rentals.
[5:19:45]
>> correct.
[5:19:46]
>> cresta butte and everyone else is far
[5:19:49]
less from what I can tell from this chart.
[5:19:51]
>> correct.
[5:19:52]
>> the research done. And then in several
[5:19:57]
communities instead of just fines they
[5:19:59]
actually revoked permits immediately or
[5:20:03]
two year suspension, and I just-I'm
[5:20:07]
putting comments out for the public to
[5:20:09]
react to because I do think we heard we
[5:20:11]
want stricter standard. It seems
[5:20:15]
everybody is in agreement bad actors need
[5:20:17]
and when they make $35 thousand if they
[5:20:19]
pay a $5 thousand fine it is not a big
[5:20:22]
deal, but if you're potentially taking
[5:20:25]
away $35 thousand worth of revenue they
[5:20:28]
may do more to address their nuisance
[5:20:30]
issues. I like to hear feedback and staff
[5:20:36]
to look at the suspensions and there's I
[5:20:39]
think santa cruz, and el dorado county.
[5:20:45]
cresta butte and jackson wyoming that
[5:20:50]
proposed 2 up to 5 year suspension because
[5:20:55]
I think the discussion is getting a lot of
[5:20:57]
interest in people finding compliance and
[5:21:00]
being in compliance because they don't
[5:21:02]
want to lose their permit so I urge that
[5:21:03]
and us to continue to track that part of
[5:21:07]
our housing stock. And then another
[5:21:09]
comment for our public to think about is
[5:21:14]
I'm-I have always been open to looking at
[5:21:18]
what's our cap now and how many could we
[5:21:23]
expand that to insure turnover so we start
[5:21:27]
to insure that there is turnover along
[5:21:30]
with that you must use that permit. So,
[5:21:34]
there is minimum number of nights using it
[5:21:37]
you are not sitting on the permit keeping
[5:21:39]
somebody else from having the opportunity
[5:21:41]
while you for more then is that a 1 year
[5:21:44]
or 2 year, I like to hear how other
[5:21:47]
jurisdictions have dealt with that so we
[5:21:48]
insure turn over of these if there is a
[5:21:51]
cap and so I love to hear public comment
[5:21:54]
on that. And I'm not particularly in
[5:22:01]
favor of the waiting period but that is
[5:22:03]
because I think it will be hard to get
[5:22:06]
there. I would be more in favor of trying
[5:22:08]
to find a cap that maybe is adjusted
[5:22:11]
higher but looks at the numbers it is hard
[5:22:14]
to judge. If we have 2500 permitted but 5
[5:22:19]
thousand tot certificates what is the
[5:22:21]
right number? Have none of the 5 thousand
[5:22:23]
come forward to try to get permits?
[5:22:26]
>> probably half are exempt.
[5:22:28]
>> okay.
[5:22:29]
>> exactly. Just explain the difference.
[5:22:31]
the 2500 are the permits we have for str.
[5:22:36]
if you jump to that-let me get this slide
[5:22:39]
back up here. If you jump to the next
[5:22:41]
tier in the slide, those are the 4420.
[5:22:47]
those are incompass the str, the 2500 plus
[5:22:53]
potential exemptions so property-
[5:22:57]
>> 28 percent of the housing market and
[5:22:59]
then when we go to the 38 percent what are
[5:23:01]
those?
[5:23:02]
>> those are tot certificates. So all the
[5:23:06]
certificates whether they are remitting
[5:23:08]
tot so active or have a tot certificate
[5:23:13]
and not active. They can have a
[5:23:15]
certificate and not rent not remit tot but
[5:23:18]
they have the certificate so that last bar
[5:23:20]
shows you the potential that if all of
[5:23:24]
those 5800 were to want to rent they can
[5:23:28]
turn on tomorrow and rent. That is the
[5:23:31]
potential with those tot certificates. I
[5:23:35]
dont know if we have dug into whether all
[5:23:37]
those are exempt or whether they would
[5:23:40]
need a str but the differential between it
[5:23:45]
last 2 are whether they are actively
[5:23:47]
renting or not.
[5:23:48]
>> if we were to set a number that
[5:23:50]
included went to the middle column there,
[5:23:53]
4420, and added a buffer right now I
[5:23:56]
understand there is about 75 on a wait
[5:23:58]
list?
[5:24:00]
>> yeah, 77.
[5:24:01]
>> 77 on a wait list. And so that might
[5:24:05]
be something for the board to consider
[5:24:07]
because I do hear from a lot of people
[5:24:09]
that want the opportunity, caught in the
[5:24:13]
middle. Didn't understand they needed a
[5:24:15]
permit. I want to include all those
[5:24:19]
exempted that get permitted because it was
[5:24:22]
their issue they are exempted and say they
[5:24:24]
are not. Should we have some level to
[5:24:30]
allow people to see that turnover and then
[5:24:35]
finally I want it to be in an adaptive
[5:24:37]
program so we could track how we are
[5:24:39]
delivering on housing. Are we addressing
[5:24:42]
this crisis in our community that we can
[5:24:45]
serve visitors? We hear e-mails about we
[5:24:48]
can rent but if there is no one to serve
[5:24:50]
food or wash dishes or clean or paint
[5:24:56]
condos we can't serve these people and
[5:24:58]
there is frustration and anger that
[5:25:00]
creates a division I have never seen in 40
[5:25:03]
years living there. I like adaptive
[5:25:05]
management and as painful as it is to go
[5:25:08]
through this, it seems like there should
[5:25:10]
be a formula as we deliver housing or see
[5:25:14]
housing changes we adjust whatever cap
[5:25:17]
numbers are set up and we learn as we go
[5:25:19]
because we have been learning every step
[5:25:23]
of the way since we started this. Anyway,
[5:25:25]
I wanted to get that out mr. Chair because
[5:25:27]
the public may have-I love to hear where
[5:25:30]
my colleagues feel but also where the
[5:25:32]
public weighs in. I have been asking some
[5:25:35]
of the properties owners who contacted me
[5:25:37]
how many more? What is the tolerance, 50
[5:25:41]
percent short-term rental, 80 percent?
[5:25:45]
where the balancing act to deliver on
[5:25:47]
services versus allowing short-term
[5:25:50]
rentals? That's the balance I'm
[5:25:53]
struggling with. Love to hear feedback on
[5:25:56]
that.
[5:25:57]
>> jim then suzanne.
[5:26:00]
>> well, thank you for all the hard work
[5:26:04]
on this. I know it has been real
[5:26:06]
challenge. A lot of outreach particularly
[5:26:09]
in the district 5. Is this the end of
[5:26:13]
your public outreach other then people
[5:26:15]
that will start contacting for more
[5:26:19]
information?
[5:26:21]
>> no, this isn't the end of outreach. We
[5:26:28]
are hoping to seek direction from you
[5:26:30]
today and frame up our final
[5:26:32]
recommendations on the ordinances. We
[5:26:35]
will bring that before a number of
[5:26:37]
community groups through january before we
[5:26:40]
come back to your board for action.
[5:26:42]
>> so, you have it down at the next steps
[5:26:45]
is january 2022?
[5:26:47]
>> yes.
[5:26:48]
>> for board action?
[5:26:49]
>> correct.
[5:26:50]
>> do you have time to do that?
[5:26:51]
>> it is a very short window. That is our
[5:26:56]
target at this point but we-we have framed
[5:27:00]
up quite a bit of ordinance modification
[5:27:02]
with the exception of a couple pieces we
[5:27:06]
need to finish up and dig into.
[5:27:09]
>> supervisor gustafson you have been
[5:27:15]
living these 2 years now. You were
[5:27:19]
starting on a call with--so I know it is a
[5:27:23]
really tremendous challenge and I just
[5:27:25]
appreciate your hard work on this because
[5:27:28]
a lot of constituents up there really
[5:27:31]
concerned. Let's hope we get it right.
[5:27:34]
>> suzanne.
[5:27:35]
>> yes, hi. Thanks for the presentation.
[5:27:39]
very good. I wanted to mention a couple
[5:27:41]
of things that I know I did the other day
[5:27:45]
at our briefing, but there was a finding
[5:27:49]
here by your team you hired that shows
[5:27:53]
where there is a move towards increase
[5:27:55]
investor activity, and so for me, I know
[5:28:01]
concerns in the community are your that a
[5:28:04]
lot of those short-term rentals may gobble
[5:28:08]
up your housing availability. And so it
[5:28:12]
is a thought that maybe there's some way
[5:28:15]
of limiting those that can be purchased
[5:28:18]
for investment only. I know I understand
[5:28:22]
people go up and buy a second house
[5:28:24]
because they want to live there eventually
[5:28:27]
retire and move in or whatever, but for
[5:28:32]
investors to move in and think this is a
[5:28:35]
great opportunity buy up everything there
[5:28:37]
you are really going to be in a hurt for
[5:28:40]
availability of housing. I express my r
[5:28:51]
by the 2 tier permitting fees. I think
[5:28:55]
everybody should be on the same footage.
[5:28:58]
I think that in addition to if you have
[5:29:00]
people that violate that maybe there some
[5:29:03]
sort of step where you violate once okay,
[5:29:06]
you get a warning, maybe a fine but step 2
[5:29:10]
you get a warning and fine but now your
[5:29:13]
permitting fees are going up. And have a
[5:29:16]
scaled level for those permitting fees
[5:29:18]
because your violators should pay more in
[5:29:22]
permitting fees. I don't think it should
[5:29:25]
be if you got this person owns a house and
[5:29:27]
they have a property manager and he owns a
[5:29:31]
house and manage themselves to say that
[5:29:33]
one is going to be better then the other
[5:29:36]
we already experienced one of the property
[5:29:38]
management people did not adhere to your
[5:29:42]
regulations several months back, remember?
[5:29:46]
so, they are not always perfect and I
[5:29:49]
understand that regular privately owned
[5:29:53]
property maybe are not perfect either but
[5:29:56]
I don't like the two tier permitting fee.
[5:30:00]
curious about the-I don't really like the
[5:30:05]
2 tier scheduled for fire inspections
[5:30:08]
either. The privately owned versus
[5:30:12]
property managed because I just think fire
[5:30:16]
inspections should be extremely important
[5:30:19]
and make sure everybody has everything
[5:30:21]
that they need whether inside fire
[5:30:26]
hazards, outside fire hazard, smoke
[5:30:31]
detectors and carbon monoxide detectors
[5:30:34]
and all that stuff. So, I just think that
[5:30:38]
everybody should be on the same schedule.
[5:30:41]
maybe every other year or something
[5:30:43]
because how can you say this property
[5:30:46]
doesn't need to be inspected for fire for
[5:30:48]
every 3 or so years but this one needs to
[5:30:52]
be inspected every year? That doesn't
[5:30:54]
seem equitable to me. I then on your
[5:31:00]
postings I don't know you may already do
[5:31:01]
this, but on your postings I'm wondering
[5:31:04]
do you have all the numbers listed for
[5:31:06]
fire, police complaints your hot line
[5:31:10]
etcetera because you have to have it
[5:31:12]
posted on the inside, posted on outside
[5:31:15]
because say someone maybe there is smoke
[5:31:18]
coming from the place and who ever is
[5:31:22]
renting are skiing or at the lake and the
[5:31:24]
neighbor sees it and if they go to the
[5:31:27]
house they see the posting and find the
[5:31:28]
numbers they could call. Easy they don't
[5:31:31]
have to go home google it and do whatever
[5:31:33]
and the same time your renters have it
[5:31:39]
also. You may already do that. And we
[5:31:44]
talked earlier too about penalties and
[5:31:48]
fines, agree they need to have teeth. It
[5:31:52]
has to be something whether you have a
[5:31:54]
tiered fine and fees for complaints
[5:32:00]
etcetera that maybe eventually at some
[5:32:02]
point you have revocations suspension that
[5:32:05]
sort of thing in your tool box as well.
[5:32:10]
do the suspensions work because I mean you
[5:32:12]
probably get some people who are like I
[5:32:14]
paid a lot of money for this place, I
[5:32:16]
don't care if they suspend my permit I
[5:32:19]
will still rent it. Do you get much of
[5:32:21]
that?
[5:32:22]
>> we have not issued suspensions to date,
[5:32:25]
so being a brand new program I don't know
[5:32:27]
I can answer that question, but there is
[5:32:29]
always I think there are always bad actors
[5:32:33]
that are renting without a permit. We
[5:32:36]
know that. It is possible.
[5:32:38]
>> yeah. And so in your rental or
[5:32:45]
permitting documents, do you have
[5:32:47]
somewhere like at the bottom of the thing
[5:32:49]
that says along with this completed rental
[5:32:53]
application includes your tot certificate
[5:32:57]
or this or that fire inspection, is the
[5:33:00]
all in that document so when somebody
[5:33:02]
thinks they submitted their application
[5:33:05]
for a permit it is on there so they can't
[5:33:08]
say I didn't know?
[5:33:10]
>>b it is and actually after the
[5:33:12]
experience we had earlier this year with
[5:33:14]
the appeal that went to your board we
[5:33:16]
updated that document to include
[5:33:20]
additional items as requested by the
[5:33:24]
board.
[5:33:25]
>> since last spring with you first
[5:33:28]
brought this to the board I see a lot of
[5:33:31]
improvement and work you have done so
[5:33:33]
kudos to all you for a job well done.
[5:33:37]
thank you.
[5:33:38]
>> bonnie.
[5:33:39]
>> thank you. Appreciate your work. So,
[5:33:43]
as I have been thinking about this this is
[5:33:45]
really challenging and supervisor holmes
[5:33:48]
said, cindy this is a lot of work and just
[5:33:52]
reading through all the documentation the
[5:33:54]
other day to be a good amount of time. I
[5:33:58]
thought about a couple things. What are
[5:33:59]
we really trying to address it is really
[5:34:02]
clear we have nuisance issues. Concerned
[5:34:09]
about parking and noise and we have to
[5:34:11]
address enforcement and talk about
[5:34:12]
penalties. I think that will go a long
[5:34:14]
way to keep the bad actors in line and
[5:34:17]
think we heard that from our residents a
[5:34:20]
lot of the feedback so I really think that
[5:34:22]
is important. The other reason I think
[5:34:24]
this has come about is because we want to
[5:34:28]
address workforce housing which is why I
[5:34:31]
asked you to know what effort we have been
[5:34:35]
doing to address workforce housing. There
[5:34:37]
is a number of efforts the opportunity to
[5:34:40]
do deed restrictions through our housing
[5:34:43]
program I think is great. The challenge
[5:34:45]
with this is that the properties are
[5:34:49]
already so high. The cost to buy in this
[5:34:53]
area is already so high that a normal
[5:34:58]
working person couldn't afford to buy a
[5:35:01]
home and live in the basin. And so, I
[5:35:05]
look at this and go, how are we going to
[5:35:07]
address workforce housing? I couldn't
[5:35:10]
afford a $900 thousand home, and I don't
[5:35:13]
make a lot of money. I make a decent
[5:35:16]
salary, I don't make a lot of money so the
[5:35:18]
challenge is how do we address this? I'm
[5:35:20]
looking at the needs for long-term or
[5:35:24]
long-term rentals for our ski industry,
[5:35:28]
for the summer time. How do we incent
[5:35:30]
vise that so that people would if they
[5:35:34]
have a second home they could rent out
[5:35:36]
their home for 5, 6 months at a time and
[5:35:40]
let's incentivize some of that. I
[5:35:43]
struggle with caps and saying no to the
[5:35:46]
free market at the same time we supera
[5:35:48]
issue here and how do we balance that? I
[5:35:51]
just think that how do we invent size what
[5:35:55]
we need, which is workforce housing. It
[5:35:57]
is probably the biggest issue and don't
[5:35:59]
know if just stopping short-term rentals
[5:36:02]
is going to accommodate that because I
[5:36:05]
read the study, if prices in the area
[5:36:09]
decline then more people might be able to
[5:36:11]
own a home. The real estate market those
[5:36:18]
prices are not going to be declining in a
[5:36:22]
market like that that is really valuable
[5:36:24]
and desired to purchase in. And then I
[5:36:28]
wanted to ask aaron a question because as
[5:36:30]
I read this it is really not clear the
[5:36:32]
impact that short-term rentals have on
[5:36:37]
long-term housing because I read the study
[5:36:39]
and read key findings because it is just
[5:36:44]
not a strong correlation. It is sort of.
[5:36:49]
the academic literature indicates there is
[5:36:51]
likely a statistically significant
[5:36:54]
relationship between str and availability
[5:36:56]
and affordable long-term housing. But it
[5:37:00]
goes on-none the less represent just one
[5:37:08]
factor influence long-term housing
[5:37:11]
availability and affordability and another
[5:37:13]
time it says it may likely contribute to
[5:37:16]
the increase in demand for second homes.
[5:37:18]
so, it is just not hard and fast. The
[5:37:22]
data-right aaron or not aaron, is it
[5:37:25]
aaron? I think that is his name. Not
[5:37:27]
hard and fast. It might, we don't really
[5:37:29]
know, covid had a impact. I think what we
[5:37:33]
know is we don't know the answer but do
[5:37:35]
know housing prices are really high and we
[5:37:38]
have to do something to address workforce
[5:37:40]
housing. If that is incentivize long-term
[5:37:44]
rents, maybe a cap, I'm not a big fan of
[5:37:48]
caps, but we really have to do something.
[5:37:50]
I know we are doing efforts with the
[5:37:53]
mountain housing council but--we just have
[5:38:00]
to-we need to fix it and at least start
[5:38:02]
providing more ways that we have workforce
[5:38:05]
housing. I think we got tot. We have
[5:38:09]
freed up tot dollars and we need to use
[5:38:11]
those dollars to find some ways to get
[5:38:14]
people housed, so we do have housing to
[5:38:17]
provide for all the services that are
[5:38:19]
needed for the area.
[5:38:26]
>> okay. No further comments by the board
[5:38:29]
at this point we'll open to the public.
[5:38:37]
>> waited a long time.
[5:38:38]
>> I have. Before I get started and not
[5:38:40]
going to be very long. I just want to
[5:38:42]
give you a little background of who is
[5:38:45]
speaking. I have 6 children, I live in
[5:38:48]
auburn but I came from a family of 6 and
[5:38:52]
grew up at lake tahoe. My parents moved
[5:38:55]
there in 1961 and my dad was a realtor and
[5:39:00]
developer. I used to play on the lawn of
[5:39:04]
what used to be a hotel where cobblestone
[5:39:08]
shopping center is. I used to teach
[5:39:13]
sailing and play shuffle board at tahoe
[5:39:16]
marina lodge where condominiums are and
[5:39:21]
there are, notice the occupancy tourism
[5:39:24]
accommodations there is flat line on
[5:39:27]
hotels. I had friends who used to parents
[5:39:32]
ran the hotels and they are now 8 glorious
[5:39:36]
beautiful single family homes and so my
[5:39:40]
parents my dad was a developer he
[5:39:42]
developed star harbor, and he like other
[5:39:48]
developers he put it all in and lost and
[5:39:52]
my mother ran the rentals then for star
[5:39:55]
harbor, and we cleaned the units, and but
[5:39:59]
for those short-term rentals I wouldn't
[5:40:01]
have graduated from north lake tahoe high
[5:40:05]
school. I think they are a blessing and
[5:40:06]
for me I have gone through the struggle, I
[5:40:14]
finally two years ago bought a house in
[5:40:18]
carnelian bay with my son and I'm anxious
[5:40:21]
to be able to short-term rent it. I take
[5:40:24]
pride in the properties I buy. I really
[5:40:26]
want to fix them up and I know that I
[5:40:29]
can't enjoy it all the time and for me I
[5:40:31]
want other people to enjoy it. I want
[5:40:35]
families to go and if you don't have 6
[5:40:38]
children and go to a hotel and you
[5:40:42]
can't-you have to rent multiple rooms.
[5:40:44]
the fire code, you can't go there. And so
[5:40:47]
for me to take my family on vacation is a
[5:40:50]
really hard thing and to me short-term
[5:40:52]
rentals are the blessing for the large
[5:40:54]
family. They provide the opportunity to
[5:40:58]
go and vacation buy food at the grocery
[5:41:03]
store, bbq, enjoy what you can't afford
[5:41:06]
and to me I enjoy tahoe. I saw it through
[5:41:10]
when it on golden pond the old movie, a
[5:41:15]
romantic place of wooden boats, chamber-my
[5:41:19]
brothers went to the high school now
[5:41:21]
chamber landing. My dad put together the
[5:41:24]
land that became home would ski area. I
[5:41:26]
know tay tahoe and me. I drove in my 2001
[5:41:36]
suburban. I barely afford what it and for
[5:41:38]
me that short-term rental is going to help
[5:41:40]
me be able to take my family and enjoy
[5:41:44]
christmas--and so that's the part about
[5:41:50]
short-term rentals. The thing I didn't
[5:41:56]
hear is how many second home owners don't
[5:41:59]
use their property? How many second home
[5:42:02]
owners are just growing? Those people are
[5:42:06]
not in the stats. We need the opportunity
[5:42:08]
for the middle class, the guys who just
[5:42:10]
barely make it to enjoy it and I can't
[5:42:13]
afford it without short-term rental. So,
[5:42:17]
I for me it is blessing. Not just for me,
[5:42:21]
but for the other people who I hope to
[5:42:23]
rent to if I ever get a permit.
[5:42:28]
>> if you can wrap up your comments.
[5:42:30]
>> yeah, yeah, yeah. I think actually
[5:42:35]
supervisor gore made all the comments.
[5:42:38]
exactly I didn't see the correlation and I
[5:42:41]
just hope you leave it open for people
[5:42:43]
like me. Regulate, penalize, make people
[5:42:48]
be civil. Anyway, thank you very much.
[5:42:51]
>> thank you.
[5:42:56]
>> we didn't get your name.
[5:42:57]
>> could you state your frame name for the
[5:43:00]
record.
[5:43:01]
>> chris.
[5:43:02]
>> thank you.
[5:43:03]
>> I got to meet your dad a long time ago.
[5:43:05]
>> you know my dad?
[5:43:08]
>> yeah.
[5:43:10]
>> dave, go ahead and unmute your mic and
[5:43:13]
give your comments.
[5:43:15]
>> hi. Thank you mr. Chairman and members
[5:43:18]
of the board. My name is dave norad just
[5:43:23]
finishing my lunch getting ready to go to
[5:43:26]
work. I would be one of the rare people
[5:43:28]
who are considered a local but also use my
[5:43:32]
property as a short-term rental. Been a
[5:43:36]
resident and owner and taxpayer in placer
[5:43:38]
county tahoe city since 1996. I rent
[5:43:43]
short-term through airbnb and manage
[5:43:48]
myself. I have a one bedroom condo with 2
[5:43:52]
night minimum. I have and continue to
[5:43:54]
work in the area in the service industry
[5:43:56]
in many different aspects ski resort, golf
[5:43:59]
courses restaurants. And just as a point
[5:44:04]
of reference to for today and the meeting,
[5:44:07]
the item regarding the maximum limit on
[5:44:09]
nights for the rentals is something that
[5:44:14]
I'm concerned with. As my property
[5:44:18]
provides me a significant source of my
[5:44:21]
income. In addition to that I support
[5:44:24]
other aspects down stream and up stream
[5:44:28]
with my rental in the community and for my
[5:44:32]
guests. I provide services and
[5:44:35]
suggestions and am in close contact
[5:44:40]
advices my guests on places to go and
[5:44:42]
things to do and places to respond spend
[5:44:47]
their money and as far as employing people
[5:44:50]
in the area to help me clean my condo if
[5:44:55]
work is being done and happen to be out
[5:44:57]
of-work needs to be down and I happen to
[5:44:59]
be out of town I have people that help me
[5:45:01]
with that so I have been in the community
[5:45:03]
for a long time and proud home owner. As
[5:45:08]
I said I'm in a condo and there's-never
[5:45:11]
been any noise safety parking or fire
[5:45:13]
issues in relation to my rental and just
[5:45:19]
one other thing, when I travel which I do
[5:45:22]
frequently when where mainly use my condo
[5:45:25]
as a rental, I prefer to stay in a hotel.
[5:45:29]
I never used airbnb hotels are my
[5:45:33]
preference and for whatever reason that is
[5:45:35]
I don't see those as being in competition.
[5:45:40]
basically so just as noted earlier my
[5:45:45]
objection to the maximum night limit on
[5:45:48]
the short-term rentals is my reason for
[5:45:52]
taking your time today. Thank you very
[5:45:53]
much for your consideration.
[5:45:55]
>> thank you.
[5:45:59]
>> brett unmute your mic and give your
[5:46:04]
comments.
[5:46:05]
>> thank you board of supervisors. I have
[5:46:08]
questions for the bae report. Is the
[5:46:11]
gentlemen still available?
[5:46:13]
>> yeah, if you direct your questions to
[5:46:17]
the board and we'll try to get those
[5:46:19]
answered.
[5:46:20]
>> great. Thank you. It follows with
[5:46:23]
supervisor gore's observation about
[5:46:27]
correlation and on the literature review
[5:46:30]
it says str activity correlate to increase
[5:46:33]
housing cost. But wouldn't that mean that
[5:46:37]
str are more prevalent in resort areas
[5:46:41]
where housing costs of course are more
[5:46:43]
expensive for example str are fewer in
[5:46:48]
modesto then they would be in north lake
[5:46:51]
tahoe? And then, another question that I
[5:47:00]
would have regarding the impacts on hotels
[5:47:03]
and I guess overall supply, has it been
[5:47:06]
taken into consideration that we have a
[5:47:09]
19.5 mile stretch from the state line at
[5:47:15]
[inaudible comments] down to tahoma post
[5:47:17]
office that we haven't built a new hotel
[5:47:19]
or motel since 1962?
[5:47:23]
>> I think that is accurate.
[5:47:25]
>> yeah. I just are wondering if that's
[5:47:27]
taken into consideration when it comes to
[5:47:30]
impacts of hotel and whether it also comes
[5:47:34]
into impacts on these ratios of short-term
[5:47:37]
rentals to the total housing stock?
[5:47:45]
sounds like he is not on the line. I
[5:47:47]
guess another observation in the
[5:47:50]
presentation would be 28 percent the
[5:47:52]
revenue of the housing stock has tot
[5:47:56]
certificate greater then zero, even if
[5:48:02]
that is the amount if the median price is
[5:48:05]
855 and we consider 855 and lower to be
[5:48:10]
achievable community housing, isn't it
[5:48:13]
just 14 percent because we dont need to
[5:48:16]
consider pertains to achievable community
[5:48:18]
housing the properties that are above 855,
[5:48:23]
correct?
[5:48:24]
>> brett, sorry I wasn't clear, what you
[5:48:26]
need to do is sort of make your questions
[5:48:29]
available to the board and we'll ask staff
[5:48:31]
including with aaron to-
[5:48:33]
>> okay.
[5:48:34]
>> to get responses.
[5:48:35]
>> okay. Great. Thank you.
[5:48:39]
>> thanks.
[5:48:40]
>> the last observation would be on the
[5:48:44]
slide that goes over str occupancy and
[5:48:47]
revenue. I are think those are pretty
[5:48:51]
accurate but what stories isn't being told
[5:48:54]
there are the costs associated with
[5:48:58]
short-term rental versus the cost
[5:49:00]
associated with the long-term rental.
[5:49:04]
short term rental needs to be finished.
[5:49:08]
the owner needs to pay for the utilities.
[5:49:10]
owner needs to pay for snow removal. The
[5:49:13]
owner is unable to deprecate the asset
[5:49:16]
over a 28 and a half year time period so
[5:49:21]
when you look at the profitability of
[5:49:23]
short-term rental and long-term rental at
[5:49:26]
855 the profitability for long-term rental
[5:49:30]
is far greater then profitability of
[5:49:32]
short-term rental by the reason people do
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it it is the same thing since people have
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coming here because they want to use it
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and the long-term rental displaces the
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whole purpose of ownership to begin with.
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>> brett, one other thing just to brought
[5:49:52]
to my attention. We are in a process
[5:49:55]
where we are not making any compelling
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decision today but generally provide
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direction, so if we don't get answers to
[5:50:03]
your questions by the end of the hearing,
[5:50:05]
just e-mail us or contact us and we'll get
[5:50:09]
you any information we have and can get
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for you.
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>> great. Thank you. I know you guys are
[5:50:15]
running behind, that's it for me.
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>> thank you.
[5:50:18]
>> thank you.
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>> john, go ahead and unmute your mic and
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give your comments.
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>> thank you john falk legislative
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advocate for board of realtors. Hopefully
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in receipt of 13 december 4 pages in
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length flushes out the [inaudible
[5:50:42]
comments] I did want to drive in on a few
[5:50:44]
specifics and core among them is that I
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served on the stakeholder group and
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attended the larger town hall groups. I'm
[5:50:54]
on the town of truckee stakeholder group.
[5:50:59]
even on t r p when it was looking at str
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and every instance it is a question of
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looking at what we are going to do rather
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then if we should be doing something so
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this is happened in every instance where I
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always start with I think it shouldn't be
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over regulated and definitely artificial
[5:51:24]
scarcity must be avoided because we are
[5:51:27]
tourism based economy. If you want to
[5:51:32]
provide workforce housing first you need
[5:51:34]
jobs to have that workforce. And if you
[5:51:37]
rely on the existing hotels to back fill
[5:51:41]
the loss of str or limiting the str you
[5:51:44]
are going to one, lose economic viability
[5:51:47]
and two, jobs and equally important also
[5:51:51]
going to further widen the chasm between
[5:51:54]
the have and have nots because it is more
[5:51:57]
expensive to come up here whether it is to
[5:51:59]
str or to stay in a hotel or motel. We
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would urge you not to engage-if you are
[5:52:07]
direct to staff in any way to not engage
[5:52:10]
in any activities that involve
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artificially capping or limiting str as a
[5:52:16]
activity. Alternatively you could direct
[5:52:20]
staff to report out every year str usage
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and overall economy and even workforce
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housing shortage and anything done to
[5:52:30]
improve it relieve it or have exacerbate
[5:52:33]
it and that way you would be able each
[5:52:36]
year then to reconsider whether or not you
[5:52:39]
need to do something but at this point you
[5:52:41]
are getting out in front of it and when
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you start to metal with economy as
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delicate as ours because it is tourism
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based and when you try to compare that to
[5:52:55]
urban areas not rural areas, and areas
[5:52:58]
with diverse stable economies rather then
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seasonal economy comprised of primary
[5:53:09]
residents and not second homes and apply
[5:53:10]
restrictive standard you will not end up
[5:53:12]
with the same result, you end up with the
[5:53:16]
potential to do economic damage that take
[5:53:18]
years and years to undo. We urge you not
[5:53:28]
to go down that road and to end please
[5:53:32]
incentives not mandates. There are a
[5:53:35]
number of ways you can truly incentivize
[5:53:38]
people to consider especially those second
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home owners that want to use their home on
[5:53:43]
occasion to lease it out or rent it out on
[5:53:46]
a semi longer term like seasonal workers
[5:53:49]
you have a number of options and have the
[5:53:53]
current suite of options in play. I did
[5:53:57]
want to make the point the county staff
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both tahoe and auburn have been
[5:54:12]
outstanding being accessible responsive to
[5:54:15]
every question comment concern I put
[5:54:16]
forward so our many concerns about the
[5:54:20]
potential moving forward is is no way
[5:54:24]
reflective of any negative appraisal of
[5:54:27]
how it has been pursued in terms of
[5:54:30]
outreach to the community. I think it has
[5:54:32]
been more then outstanding, but at this
[5:54:36]
point if you are asked to give direction
[5:54:38]
as to construction of a ordinance that
[5:54:40]
would be relatively permanent in nature, I
[5:54:43]
would urge you to only do clean up things
[5:54:47]
not add caps or other limitations and ramp
[5:54:53]
up the bad actor enforcement.
[5:54:56]
>> thank you john. If you can wrap up.
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thank you. Reminder we are not adopting
[5:55:02]
any ordinance today or doing anything
[5:55:04]
specific other then giving general
[5:55:06]
direction to staff before we come back in
[5:55:09]
january.
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>> go ahead and unmute your mic and give
[5:55:15]
your comments.
[5:55:16]
>> good afternoon board. Thank you for
[5:55:19]
the opportunity to address this topic and
[5:55:24]
to put down the snow shovel. Dan tester
[5:55:32]
granite peek management home owner
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association condo hotel and individual
[5:55:38]
home rentals through the vacation rental
[5:55:40]
brand all in eastern placer county. We
[5:55:43]
are a local company. Employ local people
[5:55:46]
and face the same challenges with
[5:55:55]
[inaudible comments] I have been involve
[5:55:56]
would the short-term rental ordinance. We
[5:56:04]
have been team players and good stewards
[5:56:06]
of the community. I dismayed when the
[5:56:11]
moratorium enacted and extended as our
[5:56:13]
company have been good citizens and left a
[5:56:16]
fair amount of business on the table as a
[5:56:18]
result. Great presentation today by
[5:56:23]
staff. I am in favor of some of the items
[5:56:27]
presented and have ern cans about other.
[5:56:29]
specific to options being presented today
[5:56:31]
I think I heard condo hotels exempted and
[5:56:38]
should be exempt for several different
[5:56:42]
reason. I think that I heard this bad
[5:56:45]
actors need to be punished. Couldn't
[5:56:47]
agree more. I would support a more
[5:56:49]
aggressive approach to finding bad guest
[5:56:52]
owner and agent behavior. Dwelling repeat
[5:56:57]
offenders should have their permit revoked
[5:57:01]
and rental without a permit should be
[5:57:03]
severe so strongly support increased
[5:57:05]
enforcement. On caps, I would say that I
[5:57:10]
would prohibitively and begrudgingly
[5:57:16]
support a cap. I understand right or
[5:57:19]
wrong this is a hot button issue in the
[5:57:20]
community and we as a industry need to be
[5:57:24]
part of a compromise on this. I think we
[5:57:28]
would all need to agree on the data we are
[5:57:30]
basing these decisions on and cap number
[5:57:35]
so there is a lot of work to be done and
[5:57:37]
has to work for everyone. On the maximum
[5:57:40]
nights rented I don't support a
[5:57:43]
restriction on that. I think most owners
[5:57:45]
will choose to rent during the highest
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[streaming cut out]
[5:57:50]
impact periods because that is when rates
[5:57:55]
are highest so this doesn't make a lot of
[5:57:58]
sense to me. I do support a minimum. I
[5:58:00]
don't think people who have reserved a
[5:58:02]
permit and don't use it should have a
[5:58:04]
permit. I do support different tiers for
[5:58:07]
professional property managers. As a
[5:58:10]
professional property manager we have
[5:58:12]
local staff dedicated to responding to
[5:58:14]
these issues 24/7 of the properties we
[5:58:18]
manage. We are asset managers for our
[5:58:21]
clients homes and we manage them to
[5:58:23]
professional standards. Through all this
[5:58:27]
I understand the challenge and difficulty
[5:58:31]
and finding a balance solution to this for
[5:58:34]
our community. I support reasonable
[5:58:37]
restrictions in the community for
[5:58:38]
short-term rentals. And ask you consider
[5:58:42]
the health of the local short-term rental
[5:58:45]
operating businesses and the process and
[5:58:48]
again I thank you and happy to answer any
[5:58:51]
questions if you have any.
[5:58:52]
>> thank you.
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>> go ahead and unmute your mic and give
[5:58:59]
your comments. Roxy, can you unmute your
[5:59:05]
mic and give your comments?
[5:59:07]
>> hi. I might not be able to talk for
[5:59:10]
long but wanted to say thank you for
[5:59:11]
today. I know it has been long process
[5:59:13]
for you guys. But I just wanted to say
[5:59:20]
that the long-term rental market in lake
[5:59:24]
tahoe has always been very difficult for
[5:59:27]
myself. I started with glen martin at
[5:59:31]
remax property with vicky singleton and
[5:59:36]
renee. We managed over 250 units, and it
[5:59:42]
was very difficult. It wasn't very easy,
[5:59:48]
and I think that the problem with the
[5:59:54]
maintenance on a long-term rental is-I got
[5:59:58]
my little guy here so think I have to wait
[6:00:00]
and talk another time, but I wanted to say
[6:00:04]
that because we dont have the staff up
[6:00:07]
here to maintain the long-term rentals, it
[6:00:11]
is is a difficult proposition I think you
[6:00:14]
will have moving forward to try to talk
[6:00:18]
people into doing long-term rentals. I
[6:00:21]
would love myself to turn my vacation
[6:00:24]
rental into a long-term, but it is really
[6:00:32]
difficult to maintain a long-term rental.
[6:00:38]
so, that's the first thing that I wanted
[6:00:40]
to say. And, the second thing I wanted to
[6:00:47]
say is I'm not in favor of taking away the
[6:00:51]
night-the number of nights that I can
[6:00:55]
rent. Because I donate a lot of my funds
[6:01:02]
to people who can't afford rent in the
[6:01:05]
neighborhood. So, I say like on a nightly
[6:01:10]
basis if I'm able to rent out 22 nights I
[6:01:17]
give about 6 percent of that to charity
[6:01:21]
and I give another 10 percent to people
[6:01:27]
who need to pay rent. To have lost that
[6:01:33]
income would be sad because I have to tell
[6:01:36]
them I'm unable to do that anymore and
[6:01:38]
that is something I have done with my
[6:01:40]
nightly rent for a long time. I have a
[6:01:47]
little one in my lap no I'll let you go.
[6:01:52]
I don't have enough time to talk or pull
[6:01:55]
up my notes but ip wanted to thank you for
[6:01:59]
taking your time moving slowly with the
[6:02:01]
process. I think that is really important
[6:02:03]
is take our time and keep talking about it
[6:02:06]
and try to finds solutions to the
[6:02:10]
long-term housing market. I'm all for
[6:02:13]
change but I think trying to take away
[6:02:16]
from the short-term market might be
[6:02:20]
hurtful to the people that do donate in
[6:02:23]
our community which I know there is a lot
[6:02:25]
of us that do. Thank you so much for your
[6:02:27]
time.
[6:02:28]
>> thank you.
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>> go ahead and unmute and give your
[6:02:34]
comments.
[6:02:36]
>> yes. Thank you board of supervisors.
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to start there is a lot of nuance in the
[6:02:44]
problem. What investment to we encourage
[6:02:48]
as a community? I am speaking to you as a
[6:02:51]
long-term home owner in the eastern part
[6:02:53]
of placer county. Cindy may or may not
[6:02:56]
remember me from the past, but I am a
[6:03:01]
retired or semi retired business owner,
[6:03:04]
and I guess I'm torn-
[6:03:06]
>> I don't know your name so how can I
[6:03:10]
remember you?
[6:03:12]
>> this is charley riley. We know each
[6:03:15]
other from your past more honorable-no,
[6:03:18]
very honorable in what you are doing.
[6:03:23]
what I guess I would say is I have been a
[6:03:25]
landlord for years and years, and this
[6:03:28]
really is a problem but I would share that
[6:03:31]
just recently retired. I had a retail
[6:03:35]
store that was based in truckee but
[6:03:37]
serviced all of the eastern part of
[6:03:40]
placer, and one thing that caused me it go
[6:03:44]
and decide at 66 it was time to retire was
[6:03:48]
that businesses need employees and
[6:03:50]
employees need housing and there is so
[6:03:53]
much cause and effect and nuance in this
[6:03:57]
that I had a quick talk with the truckee
[6:04:01]
town council years ago but I pointed out
[6:04:03]
there is a line of cars every morning from
[6:04:05]
reno going up to north star, and that's
[6:04:10]
because those workers are critically
[6:04:12]
needed but no place for them to live and
[6:04:14]
so I look at this about what we encourage
[6:04:17]
and no I'm not going to go as a $45 hour
[6:04:23]
carpenter buy a $2 million house but I can
[6:04:28]
afford a reasonably priced house but we
[6:04:32]
made those houses too good investment for
[6:04:36]
short-term rental guy and so I'm
[6:04:38]
encouraging a thoughtful balance between
[6:04:42]
not capping stuff but just saying what are
[6:04:45]
we doing what is important? Short-term
[6:04:47]
rentals what I saw from the presentation
[6:04:49]
was it reduces the available housing of
[6:04:55]
low of 28 percent to lot more. If that is
[6:04:59]
the right amount fine but we need to think
[6:05:01]
about the whole thing. I look at safe way
[6:05:03]
in tahoe city and cindy you and I get jobs
[6:05:07]
there for about as much as you are paid
[6:05:09]
for the members of the board as they are
[6:05:10]
so desperate. I am just looking at this
[6:05:14]
thing trying to be what the heck. Anyway
[6:05:17]
I like to suggest that you strongly
[6:05:20]
consider supporting the proposed ordinance
[6:05:23]
changes in your packet. I know those are
[6:05:25]
not final decisions but those are
[6:05:26]
recommendations. I read through
[6:05:29]
attachment c and thought they were fairly
[6:05:31]
reasonable in what they came up with. The
[6:05:34]
next thing I share is I e-mailed all of
[6:05:40]
you with a slight challenge I came up
[6:05:43]
with. I am moving to auburn. I will
[6:05:45]
still be in district 5, so cindy will
[6:05:49]
still hear from me but in trying to sell
[6:05:52]
me house the current moratorium actually
[6:05:54]
gave somebody living in san jose or santa
[6:05:58]
clara when I lived 20 years ago somebody
[6:06:02]
buying a house could go and get a permit
[6:06:06]
and so I had people by-passing my property
[6:06:10]
because my property wasn't as sexy as a
[6:06:12]
permit. I don't want a permit but I want
[6:06:13]
you to treat everybody with parody and
[6:06:17]
equity.
[6:06:18]
>> can you wrap up your comments?
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>> at this point I support what I read in
[6:06:24]
the recommendation. I would point out the
[6:06:26]
businesses in all eastern placer need
[6:06:29]
employees. We got to be there meeting
[6:06:33]
both sides of the problem.
[6:06:37]
>> go ahead and unmute your mic and give
[6:06:41]
your comments hillary.
[6:06:43]
>> hi there. My name is hillary
[6:06:46]
[inaudible comments] I sent an e-mail into
[6:06:49]
the board a few days ago. I am 33. I am
[6:06:55]
a broker in california. Also a consultant
[6:06:57]
with there department of real estate. My
[6:06:59]
mom started property management company
[6:07:02]
over 30 years ago. We manage 3 thousand
[6:07:10]
single family homes. [inaudible comments]
[6:07:15]
I bought it for the sole purpose of
[6:07:17]
bringing my children to truckee because it
[6:07:19]
was a place I grew up and I wanted to
[6:07:22]
expose them to that as well. So, the
[6:07:26]
other thing about that is I rent it out
[6:07:29]
for a living because it is a passive
[6:07:36]
source of income.
[6:07:37]
[captioning will continue in a moment.]
[6:12:48]
>> doesn't have parking spaces to support
[6:12:50]
that and so the rest of the neighborhood
[6:12:55]
gets to participate in that with no
[6:12:58]
accompany profit. Also, the landlord or
[6:13:03]
vrbo enacts a 500 fine for non compliance.
[6:13:09]
that goes to the property owner as profit.
[6:13:13]
>> if you can wrap up your comments.
[6:13:15]
>> I do support the efforts to increase
[6:13:20]
the penalties for non compliance and to
[6:13:25]
increase communication to report non
[6:13:27]
compliance. I would support that and I
[6:13:29]
also support your efforts in trying to
[6:13:32]
look at this problem, see for what it is I
[6:13:35]
make the changes required so we can all
[6:13:37]
live here happily and I appreciate your
[6:13:39]
time.
[6:13:46]
>> brian unmute your mic and give
[6:13:52]
comments.
[6:13:53]
>> this is brian donnelly and own a condo
[6:13:58]
in north star and been [inaudible
[6:14:05]
comments] think north star needs to be
[6:14:07]
[inaudible comments] from these rules
[6:14:10]
thing in north star. Condos single family
[6:14:14]
homes, whether they are managed
[6:14:17]
professionally, whether they are
[6:14:20]
individually or by the owner. I think
[6:14:24]
that it is intellectually dishonest
[6:14:31]
talking about my condo across the street
[6:14:33]
from the fair station as housing stock.
[6:14:36]
it isn't housing stock. It was built in
[6:14:40]
1973. It is pretty poor construction. It
[6:14:42]
was meant to be a second home/ski rental.
[6:14:48]
when it was built. It was built inside a
[6:14:51]
ski resort. It was not built next to
[6:14:54]
elementary school. It isn't a
[6:14:55]
neighborhood. This is a resort and
[6:15:03]
survives on short term rentals to ski
[6:15:08]
[inaudible comments] and so it is really
[6:15:11]
important that we be intellectually honest
[6:15:15]
about the fact I will never rent my unit
[6:15:19]
to a will you local working there because
[6:15:21]
that takes away my ability to use it which
[6:15:26]
is why I bought inside a ski resort in the
[6:15:28]
first place so this is not housing stock.
[6:15:33]
[inaudible comments] coming up and talking
[6:15:37]
about housing stock, I think that there is
[6:15:39]
a desired result by certain staff and then
[6:15:42]
they are working backwards to justify and
[6:15:46]
back fill that result. But if we are
[6:15:48]
going to be honest, my unit is not housing
[6:15:52]
stock, and so I just hope that people are
[6:15:57]
going to acknowledge that one size does
[6:15:59]
not fit all here and that we do need to
[6:16:02]
look at neighborhoods and treat them
[6:16:05]
differently. What might be a nuisance for
[6:16:08]
a family that has school aged children
[6:16:12]
[inaudible comments] up in the north star
[6:16:14]
village. It is the same exact act but it
[6:16:19]
does matter where it occurs and so I hope
[6:16:22]
that we can honest conversation about the
[6:16:25]
fact one size does not fit all the entire
[6:16:30]
eastern placer county. Thank you.
[6:16:36]
>> please unmute your mic and give your
[6:16:39]
comments.
[6:16:42]
>> hi. I lake to say that we own a home
[6:16:45]
in chamberland, our second home and we do
[6:16:50]
not feel that limiting short-term rentals
[6:16:53]
will allow for-
[6:16:55]
>> excuse me, could you state your name
[6:16:57]
for the record, please?
[6:16:59]
>> lisa [inaudible comments] and ed
[6:17:01]
[inaudible comments]
[6:17:02]
>> thank you.
[6:17:05]
>> we don't feel limiting short-term
[6:17:08]
rentals will solve the problem that the
[6:17:11]
board is looking as the major problem
[6:17:13]
which is allowing long-term rentals for
[6:17:16]
workers. The pricing in the neighborhood
[6:17:19]
has gone through the roof and limiting
[6:17:22]
short-term rentals in our view is just
[6:17:24]
going to basically make tahoe a
[6:17:27]
millionaire playground where mow average
[6:17:30]
person can come and rent for a week, and I
[6:17:33]
do support you know, regulations in terms
[6:17:38]
of like non compliance and you know,
[6:17:42]
penalty and you know, fining people that
[6:17:47]
disobey the ordinances like the quite time
[6:17:50]
and the garbage and do feel for the last
[6:17:55]
speaker that says it does rely on the
[6:17:58]
local community to report violators. That
[6:18:02]
seems there could be more outreach so that
[6:18:06]
that could be fixed, but I really don't
[6:18:08]
think that the primary problem of housing
[6:18:13]
workers is going to be solved by limiting
[6:18:19]
short-term rental especially in
[6:18:22]
chamberland and that is all I have to say.
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thank you.
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>> thank you.
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>> go ahead and unmute and give your
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comments.
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>> hi. My name is [inaudible comments] we
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own a place in north star which we bought
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in july. We are in a pretty [inaudible
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comments] we bought our place a week
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before the [inaudible comments] and we did
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not anticipate [inaudible comments] we are
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kind of stuck between a rock and hard
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place because we were working with a
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property manager to figure out how to rent
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it and get a permit and everything and
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then this came in, so what one comment I
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have is to consider people like us who are
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not anticipating this to happen a
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regulation like this doesn't happen over
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night, but while this one did, so I would
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really appreciate if that is considered
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and whether we have a limit or not to have
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exemptions for folks like me who are not
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planning for this. If the str are not
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available and buying a new case I would
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consider this but this is million plus
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dollar properties and it caused a lot of
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hardship for because it happened so
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suddenly.
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>> samir, unmute your mic and give your
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comments.
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>> good afternoon samir north lake tahoe
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resort association. Just want to run
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through points. Over the course of the
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last couple months as the ordinance has
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been being discussed I spent a lot of time
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certainly nothing close to what supervisor
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gustafson spent but spent a lot of time
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talking to different constituents and
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different groups including local
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businesses, community members, str
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operators hotel, the resort association
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board and sometimes getting stopped on the
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street by locals and want to have a chat
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about this. And I just have a few
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observations. I think there is a lot of
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support and a lot of consistent discussion
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regarding the nuisance and public safety
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issue and think a lot of what you focused
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on and talk about needs to be implemented
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and think there is broad support for that.
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there may be tailoring or things that need
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to be done there but I think where the
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real diversity of views shows up is with
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respect to how if at all does this impact
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housing prices and housing availability.
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there is a wide wide range of requests or
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possible solutions here on the one end is
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do nothing change nothing and just allow
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it to function the way it is. On the
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other hand I heard discussion regarding
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voter initiative that would be very
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similar to what happened in south lake
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tahoe and that could be really
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catastrophic for the industry and for the
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community and those types of limitations
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would just create enormous problems and
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the problems everybody has been talking
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about today on both side. Even within the
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various groups I have been talking to for
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example on the resort association board or
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the short-term rental operators there is a
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diversity of views in terms of what if
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anything should be done by way of caps.
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again, some say caps are fine, caps need
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to happen, some say don't cap anything at
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all. So, one thing the resort association
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is doing is convening discussions with
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some of the short-term rental operators
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with county staff with board members and
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other local business owners to try to see
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if there is some middle ground or some
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sort of compromise people can live with.
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I will ask that there was a letter that
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came from the short-term rental operators
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asking for data. I know some of that has
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been provided and I know staff is working
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to respond to other components of the
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letter and really appreciate the
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transparency that comes about with result
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of those disclosure. And then I think
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finally someone made a comment this would
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be permanent and don't think any way shape
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or form it needs to be permanent. I think
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there is a lot of opportunity for it being
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of a fixed period of time analysis and
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review and that sort of thing. I think
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the notion it would be permanent is
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overstated and think what would be
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necessary with any changes here is they be
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evaluated on a regular basis against fixed
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criteria. Thank you very much for your
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time.
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>> unmute your mic and give your comments.
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>> hi. Can you hear me?
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>> yes.
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>> hi. Wonderful. Hi everybody. First
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of all, thank you very much for your time
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and for all the efforts you put into it.
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it is a really complicated issue. My name
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is [inaudible comments] and my family just
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bought second home in dutch flat and we
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experience similar issue. We are not able
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to rent it because we are can't get a
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permit and that is a huge financial
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hardship [inaudible comments] as many
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people say, I want it to be working well
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for everybody for all the neighbors who
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live there so for this reason there needs
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to be regulations, but if we don't get
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permits we won't be renting it long-term.
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we just definitely don't want to do that.
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it isn't something that we envisioned, we
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live in san jose in condo with two kids we
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cant afford a house in our area so that
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was our dream to live in a house and the
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only way to afford it was up there. The
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permits moratorium is not an ideal
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situation. Rather there should be some
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process that you can apply for the permit
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and maybe pass an exam which educate you
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as a property owner how to take care
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of-how to manage your renters. How to
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follow the rules. How to be a responsible
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for community. And also if keep
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moratorium in place people will find ways
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to rent it. I prefer to pay fees to make
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it fully legal and be responsible but not
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being able to rent at all. There is
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something to consider to maybe educate
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those who get permits rather then limit
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permits. That's all I wanted to say.
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thank you very much.
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>> thank you.
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>> cathy please unmite your mic and give
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your comments.
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>> thank you. My name is cathy fairbanks
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and I live in sacramento and in 2019 I
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purchased a condo in tahoe city. I didn't
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start doing short-term rentals until late
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july this year and in october I submitted
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my first payment for the second quarter
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for the transit occupancy tax. I missed-I
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am working so missed the presentation and
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coming into this late but I did want to
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lay out a couple of thoughts that I had
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and things to keep in mind as this process
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moves forward and thank you for giving me
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a opportunity to speak. I agree there
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should be structure around the short-term
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rental permit process and the situation in
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tahoe, but I think what I'm hearing and
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what I'm seeing and experienced is really
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a problem with like three things I would
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say, bad actors who we all attacked about
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and everyone I heard agrees that we need
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to do something to address habitual bad
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actors and I would be in favor of that.
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I'll not in favor of capping the permits
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or capping the number of nights until
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perhaps there is more study and everyone
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is firm on how the market is working in
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tahoe. One thing I haven't heard talked
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about much though is the tax revenue that
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this brings in and maybe I missed this in
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part of the presentation.
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[streaming cut out]
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>> I think that can help alleviate traffic
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and looking forward to using that.
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affordable housing is a huge issue and not
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just in tahoe it is everywhere in
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california. This isn't just because of
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short-term rentals the tahoe area has a
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housing affordability problem. There is a
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problem but it is all over the state.
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developers aren't not incent vised to
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build housing without subsidy from local
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government. It doesn't pencil out and
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that is one thing we need to consider as
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it relates to short-term rentals and to
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the ability to the extent they can help
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subsidize additional affordable housing.
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thank you.
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>> thank you.
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>> go ahead and unmute your mic and give
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your comments.
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>> hi. Thanks. Phillip welch I shared
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last time on this. My family purchased a
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house and hoping to rent it but my
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comments are on the workforce housing
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portion of this. I fully agree with
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supervisor gore that I don't think this is
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going to effect prices. We have a perfect
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case study in south lake study. Measure t
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husband been effect 12 months now and the
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prices haven't gone down if you look at
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zillow it isn't effecting it, so I hate
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for us to be pursuing this as a solution
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for problem and waiting for a couple years
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to see did this fix it, wait it didn't fix
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this at all. So that is one thought. The
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other thought I noticed in the written
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document on the update to the ordinance
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mentioned of future hotel developments and
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economic viability of that being
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challenged by this and I'm concerned we
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are thinking of that instead of thinking
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why can't we build long-term workforce
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housing that isn't rentable? Instead of
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hotels we have small hotels now.
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short-term rentals and people like using
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them. Why worry about the economic
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viability of something not economically
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viable anymore? Thank you. And recollect
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chairman no further public comment.
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>> thanks megan. So, with that, again,
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first thing I want to ask is if there are
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any questions or comments that staff would
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like to address or clarify noting also we
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will be coming back so there's ample time
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to respond to individuals if they get in
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touch with us but might be low hanging
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fruit you want to address before we go
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farther.
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>> I think I would just mention to mr.
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williams a lot of comments to unpack and
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welcome a follow up conversation with him
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and I think to connect with our consultant
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on a more detailed level. That was one
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thing I had written down.
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>> I wanted to respond to the women that
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spoke in dutch plat the ordinance does not
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apply to dutch flat area so welcome
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her-she can e-mail me and further discuss.
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>> generally anyone who wants to remain on
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the board would be happy to get responses
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back to you and help out particularly with
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information as we move to our january
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date. So with that, again keeping in mind
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that staff is seeking from us some
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feedback related to help them craft more
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specifically what will be on the table in
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january and with that I'm going to give to
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cindy and then suzanne.
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>> thank you. I really appreciate the
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time today and I know it is late in the
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day and we spent a lot of time discussing
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this and all staffs work. I would ask
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that bae site the literature on the
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inflation value on the housing. When
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people can earn $35 thousand a average and
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up to hundreds of thousands of dollars on
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short-term rental it is inflating the
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housing market and the evidence is there
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and they mentioned but let's cite those
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that literature. I sent you literature.
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I have been researching there is many
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documents studies on it let's make sure
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all the board members have that and the
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public has that. Option d which I like to
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put forward on the numerical cap would
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mean some level of what we have existing
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plus a small addition and I'm not sure
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what that is to incorporate those on the
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waiting list that were caught in the
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middle of this moratorium and those that
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have who want to rent. I think I want to
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see turnover, I want to see availability
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of thesis and like to consider that
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option. Many other-every other
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jurisdiction in the basin has some of
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restriction and if we lift this with no
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cap I'm concerned and I'll argue about
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that later but concerned as to what then
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continues to happen. I don't care for the
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maximum nights rented I do like minimum
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nights. If be are going to cap we must
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make sure they are used so we can
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immediately take them back and get them
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out into the hands of people waiting for
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them. I told you already about the
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waiting period. I totally agree and
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forgot to mention this earlier on the