>> good morning, everyone, it is 9:01
on august 11, 2026 and I'm calling
this regular meeting of the san mateo
board of supervisors is called
to order.
the clerk will provide instructions on
how the public can participate.
>> they can be found on published
agenda, they provide information
on how to submit written comments and
how to participate in zoom.
live interpretation will be provided
in spanish, to the access live
interpretation services in zoom via
laptop or computer, click the
interpretation globe icon and select
the spanish language.
please locate the three dot menu,
select interpretation menu, select
spanish and click done.
victor hernandez will provide these
instructions in spanish.
>> thank you very much, kim.
good morning, president corzo and
honorable supervisors, mr. Callagy,
mr. Nibbelin, all county staff, member
of the public, victor hernandez,
spanish interpreter.
( interpreting in spanish ).
>> thank you very much.
>> thank you, kim and victor.
we will now move on to the pledge of
allegiance.
please join me in the pledge.
>> I pledge allegiance to the flag of
the united states of america and to
the republic for which it stands one
nation under god, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for all.
>> thank you, we will now take roll
call.
>> supervisor speier?
>> here.
>> supervisor mueller?
>> here.
>> supervisor gauthier?
>> here.
>> supervisor canepa?
>> here.
>> president corzo?
>> here.
>> all present.
>> thank you, we'll move on to
honoring the life of and board member
remarks.
do any of my colleagues have remarks
to share this morning?
supervisor speier?
>> thank you, madam president, we
haven't had an official board meeting
which we acknowledge those who have
passed for six weeks, but I'm stunned
frankly by larger than life lives that
we lost in the last six weeks.
let me start by asking that we
remember the life of peter
ramus, he had his story game
at cappuccino high school as a
phenomenal coach, he was known simply
as coach.
coach ramus attended cap high in san
bruno and attended san francisco state
university playing basketball and
baseball.
he returned to his high school as head
coach of the boy's basketball team in
1980 where he coached for 19 seasons.
at cappuccino, he was the three scored
coach serving as the offensive
coordinator of varsity football and
managing baseball team.
he led the mustangs to the state
finale for boy's basketball
coming within one point of the
tapscott at the oakland coliseum.
he coached varsity bas can kel bat at
burlingame high and program's first
coast section championship.
coach ramus was noun for his volume
and he was on the sidelines born of
his enthusiasm for his team and for
his remarkable accuracy for chalk
throwing, he obviously had great
enthusiasm and passion for his work.
after retiring, coach decided to
dedicate himself to a new passion,
painting, talented artist specializing
in historical landmarks, he displayed
his work a at multiple art galleries
at half moon bay.
more importantly, coach ramus modeled
his own hard work, integrity, respect and
team work, he loved to hear from
former player over the years and
provide them with guidance through
life's many challenges.
a weeded husband to tammy who is here
this morning along with his two
sisters, he was dedicated to his
family including his children thai and
breath, his grandchildren, kathleen
and debra, his nieces and nephews, he
served the people of san mateo county
and he led an extraordinary life.
tammy and kathleen and debra, if you
are here and would like to say a few
words, you're welcome to but at least
stand so we can recognize you.
thank you.
[applause].
>> do you want to say a few words?
>> second person to recognize is clint
riley, anyone who's been in politics
for more than a nano second in the bay
area knew the name clint riley, he was
a political giant and philanthropist
and died quite suddenly just a few
weeks ago at the age of 79.
he was one of the smartest political
consultants I have met in all my years
in politics and he was a dear and
close friend.
my thoughts are with his beloved wife
janet and their daughters jill and
ava, clint ran campaign for the most
recognizable names including nancy
pelosi, dianne finestine, he owned
the san francisco examiner and the
knob hill gaz seth.
he was born in oakland, he ran for
class president in the fifth grade and
ran.
his sister came up with take a hint,
vote for clint.
he spent 9 years in the seminary here
and his political views were heavily
influenced by eugene boyle, a liberal
activist, he's left a lasting mark on
san francisco and california, our
thoughts are with his family and loved
ones and then two more, we would like
to honor the life of jeff little
field, I would like to say a few words
a about a man who left us way too soon.
jeff little field, the chief operating
officer at sfo, joie sfo in 2008 as
the airport duty manager will you his
work and leadership, he earned
promotions including deputy airport
manager and director over operations
and security.
ten years ago, he became the chief
operating officer.
I had the great pleasure of working
with him in times in his year of
caring for the people in operations of
sfo.
he led sfo through unprecedented
challenges through health and safety
through covid-19, he had the daunting
task of overseeing operations,
security, facilities and maintenance,
customers and guests, staff and
employees, the sfo museum, dei and the
first responders and law enforcement.
jeff did so much more than keep
employees, travelers and facilities
safe and secure at all times of day
and night, and the sfo community with
the culture, heart and soul that it is
known for, from his ambassador ship,
daily engagement, unwavering
dedication, mentorship, commitment to
racial equity, he was nothing less
than the manifestation and model of a
true leader.
my heart goes out to his mother, his
siblings and other family members in
the entire sfo family, he will be
deeply missed.
I believe supervise or mueller is
going to talk about [inaudible].
okay.
and finally honoring the life of
fatima demeso, it was my great honor the
observe her unwavering dedication to
the coast side community, as the
director of coastside hope, I was
impressed with a variety of products
residents could pick up but was
shocked to hear from the fatima she
couldn't afford to buy pondered milk
which was in high demand, I
visited the pantry as the same day as
the farm day lunch, knowing how
generous the community, I asked for
support to buy pondered milk for
coastside hope by passing around
cowboy hats within the audience, he
donated 6 thousand dollars for
pondered milk.
I had the privilege of inducting her
into the women's county hall of fame,
she was truly inspiring during her 42
year of dedicated public services,
from her years of social work to
coastside hope to volunteering at
non-profit organize sashes.
I admired those she served, with
respect and heart counting touches
lives, her zest for life and love for
family was a model for all of us and
she will be deeply missed.
>> thank you, supervisor speier.
so, I have a confession that I never
knew fatima, I never met her and as
the supervisor for the district, I was
at a town hall for congressman licardo
when the news of her death hit the
coastside and they told me and I went
o go share it with sam and he shared
it with the room and a hush dropped
over the room, a silence, it just
happened, and that's the -- it was a
reminder to me of having served the
coast and watching the work that
coastside work does impacting so many
families, her legacy is felt and
she will be dearly missed.
>> thank you.
seeing no other comments, I will share
a few quickly.
I wanted to take a moment to
acknowledge the six alarm fire at
815 sesbray lane in foster city that
displaced families a week and a half
ago, the foster city community has
come together quickly and with great
energy to support those affected, I
want to thank the pjcc, red cross,
the city of foster city and every
community member who has put their
little grain of sand to help the
families displaced.
there are multiple go fund me's that
we have been sharing on our online
social medians to support these
families as well as a beautiful
community of buy nothing members who
have given their own possessions to
help families recover some of what was
lost.
my team has compiled a list of
resources available to support
impacted families.
the it is a living document and we'll
continue to update it with more
information and resources and it can
be accessed at
tinyurl.com/sesbraysupport.
if you need specific assistance,
contact my office, we are happy to
help connect community members to any
support they need.
with that, I will move on to reading
our county's land acknowledgment.
we honor and affirm the rights of a
ohlone and the other indigenous
peoples who call the unscreened
territories of the san francisco bay
area their traditional homeland.
we pay respect to the ancestors, elders
and relatives of indigenous people for
their historic and current
contributions to san mateo county and
we commit to an ongoing partnership to
bring about healing, inclusivity and
deeper collaborative partnerships.
and I'm going to add a couple of lines
here inspired by another land
acknowledgment that I heard this past
week and then we'll move on to
public comment.
we hob nor people of the african
diaspora recognizing the profound
impact of enslavement and systemic
injustice as well as their enduring
contributions, resilience and
leadership in shaping our communities.
we honor immigrants, past and present,
whose cultures, experiences and
contributions have enriched our
communities and continue to strengthen
our shared society.
thank you, with that, we'll move on to
public comments.
this is a portion of the agenda
that is set aside for members of the
public to comment on matters that are
within the subject matter jurisdiction
of the board of supe sores but that
are not on the agenda for today's
meeting.
for matters that are listed on the
consent agenda and for matters that
are set for closed session.
we'll be keeping public comments to
two minutes.
if a speaker goes over time, we'll
give them a single warning and then
we'll ask the clerk to cut the mic.
and this is to ensure equity of voice
for all public commenters.
let's begin.
>> we received written means that were
presented to the board members.
I have 11 speaker cards for chambers.
we'll start with beth eggers and jim
lawrence.
>> good morning, my name's beth, I
live in redwood city.
as a former casa special advocate,
I've had experience with juvenile
experiences around california.
and the juvenile hall in san mateo
county is sub par and we all know this.
it can be exhausting to fix every
problem but how about a few?
those computers that were promised or
the study session for food to improve
the food, these boys as we know will
be entering back into society.
let's make them less angry, less
bitter, let's convince that the
justice system is stacked against them.
let's treat them as our children who,
yes, need consequences but also need
compassion and love.
thank you for listening.
>> jim lawrence and then martha
beatley.
>> good morning, jim lawrence as she
indicated.
members of the board, I'm here today
with some deep concern about the
repeated cancellations of proposed
study session regarding juvenile hall.
people are our future, it is more than
just concern, they deserve our
priority these issues have been
discussed and documented for years,
yet the study session continues to
get pushed out.
every day there is a delay, financial
costs to the county, but more
importantly it's the impact on these
young people and their families who
depend upon this system that put them
back on the right track, so today I'm
asking the board to do one thing, a
simple request, schedule the board
session, give it priority.
your committee, jjdpc, has done the
work, the recommendations are there,
we just need the take a look at it and
decide how we move forward, so please
no further studies, no more
postponements, let's act.
our young people can cannot put their
lives on hold.
in closing, remember, the opportunity
is yours to act, so please act.
thank you.
>> alright, next we have martha
beatley and katie goats.
>> good morning, my name is martha
beatley, a retired public school
teacher of 40 years and live in
redwood city, I'm concern about the
board's cancelled study session for
hillcrest juvenile hall, I heard about
poor conditions in the hall, poor
health conditions and for paod and I
-- food and I think you heard those
same reporters and I urge you to
investigate and implement improvements
for your youth.
as an educator and a parent, all
people need good role models,
nutritious food, consistent health
care and dignified treatment to
develop into healthy, productive
adults.
when children make mistakes and
enter into the juvenile just system,
those needs don't change, the needs
are greater so that our young people
can turn their lives around.
the children need our help to face
their challenges and grow to become
the very best versions of themselves.
I'm asking you to learn into these
serious reports and use your platforms
to demand improved treatment for our
young people.
thank you.
>> next we have katie and then jenny
crones.
>> good morning, board of supervisors,
my name is katie gets, I'm a redwood
city resident and parent to a
couple of teenagers.
through the work of the peninsula
solidarity cohort, I have learned
about the work of in our care and all
of the way they advocate
for young people who are in our
juvenile justice system.
one of the ways we can all support
young people in our system is through
public accountability.
I am asking for the county to create a
community dashboard sharing data on
youth incarceration, both short and
long term incarceration, the care the
youth receive while they are in county
care as well as post release
information around recidivism and long
term outcomes.
we want all young people to thrive in
san mateo county, tracking outcomes is
one of the ways to assure our most
vulnerable young people are cared for.
in my faith tradition, we follow
jesus, he said a couple of things I
think apply to the way we care for
young people in this community,
particularly those facing
incarceration.
one of the things he said at the
beginning of his public ministry is he
had come to bring release to the
captives, what a neat thing we could
all be working on together, right, and
then at the end of his public
ministry, he said whenever you have
done it to the least of these, you
have done it to me.
so let's treat each other with that
human dignity and respect and let's do
that for our young people who are
incarcerated.
thank you.
>> thank you.
alright, next we have jenny and then
evan.
>> good morning, my name is jenny, I'm
a resident of san mateo and a
supporter of local activist groups.
my concern is about the hillcrest
juvenile hall, first I would like to
thank supervisor corzo for focusing on
some of the conditions at the facility.
but I have more questions than
comments for all of you.
the residents of our county deserve to
know why this board has cancelled the
study session on the conditions our
youth live under in juvenile hall.
do you not believe taxpayers should be
allowed to trust the corrective
actions can be and should be taken to
to improve conditions in this facility?
if your child or grandchild or
relative were in this facility, would
you not want to know if poor
conditions for these kids were being
corrected?
why not address hunger and
malnutrition for kids held at this
facility?
why do we not have means of reporting
sexual abuse or staff misconduct?
why would we not want an al terp tif
for kids who have short stays?
do we ngo not know the risks of
recidivism for minor offenses, why
don't we ensure adequate health care
be provided to these kids, why not
support language support for children?
we all need responses to these
questions and we ask you to
reschedule the study session on
juvenile hall immediately.
>> we'll have evan and then bill nuell.
>> good morning.
board of supervisors, my name is
evan, I'm here to expose institutional
corruption in the sheriff's office.
on may 31, deputy antonio [inaudible]
stopped my for expired tags without
identifying himself, he ordered me out
and questioned me about illicit
activity, my hands were visible the
entire time, I was talking normal and
doing nothing threatening, his casual
tone exhibited that I was not
[inaudible].
sneaking up behind someone for a
physical search is dangerous, human
instinct triggers a reaction creating
a severe risk that leads innocent
people for bonus arrests.
he said I do not consent, he said I do
not need consent.
he wrote nothing in the police report
regarding suspicion.
despite this, internal affairs white
washed my complaint for the search and
for violating 118 .1 for admitting
material fatsoes and accepting
indefensible post talk justification
invented 45 days later, had demands
answers.
why write nothing in the report after
a two hour stop, why accept a 45 day
late excuse.
how many people are in jail on bogus
resisting charges for these tactics, I
am ensuring -- pursuing all legal
avenues, oversight groups and media
officials that look the other way will be
held accountable.
if you want to look into this case
further, I urge you to take a look at the
pattern and practice of illegal search
but more importantly if white washing
ia investigations with no transparent
reason at all.
to speak to me more about this, call
me at (650) 339-5893 or e-mail me at
evanlaney22@gmail.com.
>> we'll have bill nuell and melissa
wilson.
>> good morning, members of san mateo
county board.
I'm bill, a member of iber care fixing
san mateo, I'm a retired public high
school teacher of 20 years and I'm a
parent, grandparent, teacher and I
believe every child including our
children in custody deserve to be
treated with the dignity they serve.
as a longtime county resident
taxpayer, I want our children, our
youth to get what they need to
return to our community as healthy,
productive people.
currently there's no independent way
to report sexual abuse or other staff
misconduct.
the county has not fully implemented
the med ral prison rate elimination
act at the juvenile hall.
at the last inspection, there was a
voice monitored by the same probation
staff our youth would need to report
on.
our youth need a truly independent,
confidential way to report abuse.
the hall has a well documented and
shameful history of our sexual abuse
that compels us as a community to do
everything possible to prevent future
sault.
hillcrest has a prison like atmosphere
by locked cells, toilets, the
mattresses, concrete floors, no
personal storage, direct advocacy to
soften the space for example ordering
storage units so our youth don't have
to pile up hygiene products and school
supplies has been stalled by
bureaucratic institutions since 2022.
I wake up in the morning to a moral
nightmare of what's going on in our
country and the way people are treated
had in containment centers around our
country, I hope within your powers in
this county, you can do something
more for our own youth, thank you.
>> next we'll have melissa wilson and
mike swire.
>> hi, good morning, I have been
engaged with the juvenile hall for
18 years, 7 as a juvenile justice
commissioner and the rest as a
volunteer working with youth there.
I'm asking the board to act on two
issues, pria implementation and also
food quality, prea, the prison
rape elimination act, probation
announced the prison rape elimination
act would be fully implemented at
juvenile hall and six months later, I
would expect to see evidence of
progress as we see at the sheriff's
website where prea has been
implemented since 2012.
given the history of sexual abuse
allegations including the recent
allegations, I would ask the board to
inquire about probation's timeline for
full implementation.
second, food, the formerly
incarcerated youth spoke to this board
about food quality and hunger has that
quality causes youth in juvenile hall.
the chief of probation has said only
this board can change the vendor and I
ask you to exercise that authority.
one option is san mateo county health
which provides cost effective
appetizing meals to the youth at
canyon ranch.
these are issues of health, safety and
dignity to the children in san mateo
county custody.
when court ruled in loco parentis
responsible was for the county,
please prioritize these and other
issues at study session.
we connectedly or dismiss our
collective children.
thank you.
>> we'll have mike and then rebecca.
>> thank you, president corzo, members
of the board, thanks for your service
to the community.
a month ago, a resident, jacob,
died while riding his bike on skyline
when a driver hit him head on in the
opposite direction of traffic.
we lost numerous residents on skyline
in the past months and years.
I want to thank president corzo,
please let how the -- us now how we
can help the cycling community.
we have people shooting youtube
videos, people sitting on the side of
the road with cameras of drivers
speeding because situation is so bad.
I hope the board will support this
initiative if it comes before them.
also I want to remind everybody
today is back to school day.
three years ago, I came to the board
asking the county to lower speed
limits around schools, almost every
city in the county the has already
done so, it's cheap, fast and easy.
supervisors canepa and mueller jumped
on the idea and directed staff to make
this happen.
I'm not sure that we have done this
anywhere.
I believe there was a trial
potentially proposed but this is
something safe, fast and there's
really no reason not to move forward
with this aggressively across the 20
schools so I ask the board the push on
public works to make this happen as
soon as possible, we don't want
another tragedy and this is taking too
long.
thanks so much.
>> thank you, next is rebecca and
johanna.
>> good morning, president corzo,
honorable board and county executives,
my name is rebecca keeler, I want to
applaud the proclamation for
international youth day you're going
to be making today but I want to ask
that it please include all of our
youth and that would include our youth
in the juvenile legal system.
I remain deeply concerned about the
longstanding issues within the
juvenile hall including allegations
that have been mentioned already of
sexual abuse and misconduct.
in november of last year, allegations
surfaced again of sexual abuse and --
of multiple youth in the hall that
were having sexual relationships with
a staff member.
probation confirmed that the it wass
conducting an internal investigation.
the county has not publicly
reported the outcome of that
investigation and it's also something
to be of mote that there is no
independent way for these youth to
report any misconduct or abuse that
might be going on except to the
staff themselves.
over the past 8 months, the
juvenile hall study session has been
cancelled, I respectfully ask that the
board reschedule and prioritize that
study session to that these concerns
can be addressed publicly and
collaboratively.
I think many of these issues can be
resolved outside of a study session.
these are not throw-away kids, will
return to our communities and the
important question that we want to ask
is how do we want that to look, how we
treat these children makes a big
difference.
I ask you please to reschedule, we
care about our youth, thank you.
>> thank you the.
johanna and then nancy goodman.
>> good morning, my name is johanna
rasmussen, the chair of the
delinquency prevention commission, we
understand that there are pressing
issues happening at the state that are
outside of your control that must be
dealt with but we did receive word in
june that the board was losing
interest in this topic.
if this is the case, we'd like to know
because we've spent over 40 hours in
the last two months accommodating
board's request for work plans and
surveys and we just need to know
which direction to go because it's
been over 8 months.
we're community members who care
deeply about our kids and trying to
do the best we can to carry out the
mandates and responsibilities of the
commission, so please let us know how
we move forward and how we can do this
together.
thank you.
>> our last speaker from chambers is
nancy goodman.
>> thank you and good morning and
welcome back to the august, I know
it's a rough august.
I'm nancy goodman, I'm within our care
which is a coalition of people who
feel that the juvenile hall kids are
in our care, we are responsible for
them.
I'm also a mother and a grandmother of
-- mother of two mixed race kids can
and a grandmother of two mixed race
kids and these are kids of color who
end up in juvenile hall, 99 per in
juvenile hall are people of color.
the study session is still so
important because I think you can fix
it and have been working on it, the
food is inedible, it's prepared at the
redwood city adult jail, sent over the
next day and reheated with cellophane
topic, this has been commented on in
the last five jjdpc inspection reports
and even the sheriff people want to
give it up, there is a perfectly good
commercial kitchen at the ysc and it's
a matter of bureaucratic will I think
to make the food there, it would make
a lot of difference.
it isn't healthy for the kids and you
heard in december at that presentation
that commissioner rasmussen mentioned,
one of the kids that was there said I
was there and I was hungry a lot, I
was there for two and a half years and
I was hungry and so were other kids.
you hear children that they are hungry
at juvenile hall, we can fix this, we
are a smart county and have good
leaders, I think we can fix it and we
owe it to the kids.
the other thing, I know we're in
fiscal trouble, on top of that, we
have kafrn that's empty, it's
beautifully set up if it were to be
like a foster home, a group home type
thing or kids who had substance abuse
issues, it's ready for residents and
we also have 150 empty kids at the
youth service center and we're
spending money on those.
try to save that money, thank you.
>> okay, no further comments from
chambers.
this is general public comment, we'll
be going to zoom, I currently have ten
hands raised.
I'll do a final call after the first
speaker.
pips, go ahead and begin.
>> my name is julia rapoza, I worked
as a substitute teacher, I don't make
enough money to afford rent in this
county.
over a dozen of us have signed to form
a homeless union so that our voices
are sought on decisions about our own
lives.
we ask that the board of supervisors
formally recognize this union, seek
our input and meet with us on the hate
crimes and safety threats we're facing.
rv dwellers and the safe parking
program, most of them resilient and
latino families are targeted weekly,
bb gushes, flaming oil, one member was
shot by a bb gun by juveniles,
another filmed his attackers
and formed a report with vandalism and
graffiti, the police came back that
night but not for the attackers, but
to ticket his rv.
this is retaliation and intimidation.
I have spoken to many
members of the community who have been
suffering from these attacks who were
afraid to make reports to the police.
and this type of retaliation suppresses
the rights of vulnerable populations
of immigrants and also of the homeless.
the rv dweller who was shot by the bb
gun by juveniles kindly asked to not
press charges so it won't ruin the
life of a young person but they
continued.
another rv, weekly he suffer paint
balls, flaming hot oil, knocks on the
doors in the middle of the night.
some of these families have children,
a new baby, adolescents, there's
nothing safe about safe parking.
>> that is your time, thank you.
>> treatment at these agencies that
serve the homeless are not --
>> thank you, next we have emilio --
amelia, please unmute and begin.
I'll do a final call while we wait for
the emilio.
the last speaker will be elsa shaffer.
>> yes, good morning, my name is
emilio moreno, a former engineer and
computer expert.
I now reside in my rv and on the night
of december 1 or the morning,
early morning of december 2, somebody
spray painted the
window of my rv.
on december 4 when I reported it to
the police around 5 p.m., they took
the report but then the next morning,
I woke up to see a ticket that was
given to me.
I felt that was retaliation, I did not
feel that I was safe.
I did go to the police station to talk
to them to say why did I get a ticket
after I made -- and they said it was
not the same officer, it felt that
way, around june of this year, I
started getting knocks on my door,
eggs thrown, street cones thrown at
the back of my camper waking me up at
all hours of the day, screaming, I
have film, I have videos, it's -- I
did not realize, you know, this was
going to happen but I'm requesting --
this was many the lindemar parking lot
by the taco bell, I request there's
more patrols and things like that.
I did not expect to be treated this
way.
I help everyone that I come across, it
doesn't matter who you are, what you
look like, anything, and this is not
-- I was not expecting this.
I just want to bring this to your
attention, thank you.
>> thank you, next we have daria and
then kathy.
please unmute and begin, daria.
>> good morning, members of the board,
my name is darya, a resident of east
palo alto and the director of
california youth justice policy and
capacity building, I request the study
session to address conditions in
juvenile hall that was scheduled
today and has been rescheduled
multiple times be rescheduled as soon
as possible because the issues
impacting youth in our locked
facilities and those reentering our
communities are urgent and cannot wait.
youth who go into juvenile hall will
return to our local communities and
more reentry support is needed for
them including housing,
transportation, connections to
employment and other basic
necessities, it's unacceptable we have
youth whose basic needs are not met in
silicon valley.
we are not setting up youth for suck
and he is we are undermining public
safety.
this wednesday is international youth
day a day recognized throughout the
world to the draw attention to youth
around the world.
I want you to reschedule the juvenile
hall study session as soon as possible
and ensure youth voices are heard.
our young people cannot wait any
longer.
thank you.
>> thank you.
next we have kathy and then pat
willard, kathy, please unmute and
begin.
>> my name is kathy, I live in san
carlos, thank you for the opportunity
to speak.
I'm here to ask you to address the
longstanding challenges at hillcrest
juvenile hall, I am a mother and a
grandmother and I believe that every
child in our county's custody deserves
to be treated with dignity.
I'm disappointed and frustrated that
the follow-up to the last december's
presentation about hillcrest has been
delayed again and again.
it is painful to think of kids going
hungry because the reheated food is
inedible.
chronic hunger is not good for body,
emotional wellbeing or growth.
in addition, the children need to
receive timely treatment for vision
and dental problems as well as reentry
support.
I want these kids to get what they
need to return to our community as
healthy, productive people.
thank you .
>> thank you, next we have pat willard and
then beth, pat, please unmute and
begin.
>> hello, members of the board of
supervisors, I'm pat willard, I have
lived in redwood city for over two
decades.
sorry.
I'm asking you to hire a permanent
full time inspector general of the
sheriff's department.
the objective here is to have the
inspector general attend all of the
meetings with the oversight committee
to give them advice and for them to
get his advice.
it's erroneous that people have
asserted that this is about telling
police what to do, it's not.
many people have posted public
comments today who remind me that a
permanent inspector general needs to
be hired.
also the current oversight committee
is not about giving advice, the board
of supervisors, you all have quite
enough to do, but as I said, to give
advice to the permanent inspector
general.
thank you.
>> thank you.
we have 8 remaining hands.
beth and then [inaudible], beth,
please unmute and begin.
>> good morning, I'm beth, aclu san
mateo county chapter co-chair,
resident and district 3 constituent.
I hope you will reschedule the
juvenile hall study session.
the current conditions at the hall are
harsh and a poor reflection on our
county's values, the same as they were
last december when you heard briefly
about them from the jjdpc and you
collectively were moved to call for a
study session.
the children are kept in prison like
cells, the food is inedible and they
have to store their belongings on
concrete cell floors among other grim
conditions for children as young as 13.
it doesn't have to be that way.
later today, you'll be voting on an
international youth day proclamation
in which you'll recognize the
importance of youth in san mateo
county.
and allowing their voices to be heard
especially on issues of social justice.
incarcerating our youth certainly is
an issue of social justice and hearing
from those children and the adults
close to them is imperative to
ensuring a humane system of
confinement.
the conditions can be addressed if we
put our collective minds to it.
let's have a session in which we hear
about the problems and potential
solutions.
thank you.
>> thank you, next is [inaudible] and
then alexis, please unmute and begin.
macarena, you're unmuted.
>> good morning, my name is macarena,
I'm a physician and I collaborate with
mr. Paul, one issue that needs to be
addressed and has been talked about
already is the food at the juvenile
hall.
it is prepared at redwood city adult
jail and transported the next day to
the juvenile hall where it is reheated
at the housing units, degrade thing
the quality, the texture of the food,
the kids report that it's inedible and
they go hungry.
for growing teenagers, nutrition can
[inaudible] their behavior and
learning capable and their development.
as you know, some of these kids are
not for a short time at hillcrest,
they may be for several years
exacerbating the detrimental effects
of malnutrition.
the commission has made this the top
concern for several years in a row.
supervisor corzo has been focusing her
attention on this issue but she needs
the support of the rest of this board
and the will of senior county staff to
get this problem fixed.
thank you very much.
>> thank you.
next we have alexis lewis and then
anne, alexis, please unmute and begin.
>> good morning, president corzo,
vice-president mueller and the
honorable members of the board, my
name is alexis lewis, I live in san
mateo, I'm actively involved in
community and civic organizations
throughout san mateo county, today I'm
speaking as a concerned citizen.
I'm asking you the act now to address
the serious longstanding challenges at
hillcrest juvenile hall that have been
documented for years.
every child in our county's custody
deserves basic dignity, safety
and healthy and nutritious food,
dental care, appropriate education and
rehabilitative services.
one of my particular concerns is the
lack of public transparency and
accountability regarding the
conditions and outcomes at hillcrest.
I urge the board to require the
creation of a public accountability
dashboard has that regularly reports
the number of youth incarcerated and
their length of stay, staffing levels
and vacancies, use of force
incidences, grievances and their
resolutions.
access to the health, dental and
vision care, educational and
rehabilitative services and the true
cost of operating hillcrest juvenile
hall.
we're legally permissible and
appropriately protected, this information
should be broken down by race,
ethnicity, age and other relevant
demographics so the community can
address the disparities.
transparency should not be optional,
accountability should not require a
public records request.
I respectfully ask you to exercise
your oversight, responsibility and
require meaningful public reporting
and act on the longstanding concerns of
hillcrest.
our children deserve better and the
public deserves to know they are doing
better, thank you.
>> thank you, next we have anne and
then julianna, anne, please unmute and
begin.
>> good morning, I am requesting that
this board designates cypress point
tolerable housing in moss beach at
senior 55 and older housing, our
seniors are livening below the poverty
line by 66% of all county the
residents.
the need to evacuate quickly, having a
large portion of our coastside seniors in
this location will help this
evacuation effort.
having seniors, many with mobility
issues scattered across the coast
makes it very difficult to get this
vulnerable population out of harm's
way quickly.
many of our seniors suffer food
insecurity and loneliness, they
deserve dignified living has senior
housing can provide.
their nutritional needs can be with
community meal service and ols their
health care needs can be met with a
mobile health care coming to the site
and it's very necessary as there is no
health care on the coast.
because the coast side hospital
closed, theres no assisted living.
all of these needs can be met by
establishing cypress point as senior
housing, allowing seniors and their
care takers to be able to live at this
moss beach location, you will be
providing meaningful senior living.
thank you for your consideration of
this request.
>> thank you, ann.
next is julianna and then danielle,
julianna, please begin.
>> thanks, all, for your service and the
opportunity to speak, I also want
to call out the jacob on skyline at 84
known as four corners, skyline is the
only north/south cycling route in this
area, the proximate cause of jacob's
death was out of control drivers, they
must be accountable, it's often
excused as an accident rather than a
choice to drive dangerously, has said,
the actual cause of this crash was the
lethal design and engineering of
skyline that's killed before, it will
kill again.
enforcement is nice but officers have
many responsibilities and cannot be
present at every dangerous location
24/7.
only engineering, only design is
present every minute of every day of
the year.
every road like skyline in other
countries, it can be done.
please, we must fission the design of
skyline and four corners, we
must fix all of skyline, we must fix
every cycle route and make them all
safe because cyclists deserve to enjoy
the outdoors, cyclists deserve to be
able to do transit.
we need more people to be cycling
rather than making local trips in
their cars, enjoying the outdoors in
their cars, it's much more beautiful,
much more enjoyable riding through the
santa cruz mountains than driving
through them, please, I hope you guys
can help us.
thank you, all.
>> thank you, next is danielle and
then [inaudible], danielle, please
unmute and begin.
>> good morning, I'm danielle, a
longtime resident of menlo park, like
many of the people who have spoken
before me, I'm disappointed that the
board of supervisors cancelled today's
study session to address the issues
presented to the board on december 9
by the juvenile justice and
delinquency prevention commission, at
that meeting, I was very pleased that
the board by their comments seemed
very interested and willing to invest
the time and resources to help resolve
the challenges and having all these
study sessions cancelled in the past
year, it just means that there has not
been the attention paid to these very
urgent issues including sexual
misconduct and I can't help note at
this time that in the past almost one
hour that we've spent with the people
talking about disappointment in the
lack of a study session, the time
spent here could have been spent in
the study session, so that's very
frustrating.
before I retired, I worked for decades
providing services for adults in the
behavioral health system.
my last position was in an employment
services program servicing justice
seekers who had criminal justice
involvement and in many cases, it was
clear to me if they had gotten the
support they needed as young people,
that that they wouldn't be facing the
current obstacles that I was seeing.
and so I really urge you to please do
everything in your power to implement
the recommendations of the jjdpc in
its presentation, so I appreciate the
time, thank you.
>> thank you, next we have paul and
elsa, paul, please begin.
>> thank you for this opportunity to
speak and thank you to all those who
have shown up for our youth today.
I am dumbfounded by the support we
have, today I'm here to speak on the
juvenile conditions, as a survivor
serving over 25 years
from the juvenile cages to the
adult cages, I know what happens in
these cages.
today we have no prea which saved
lives in adult prison, we have no prea
at juvenile hall, we have no
working body cams, we have a
non-working x-ray machine, we have
empty camps spending millions of our
tax dollars on absolute nothing.
we have half empty juvenile hall
spending millions of dollars, tax
dollars on a half empty juvenile hall.
we don't serve any jail food to any
people in the county the other than
those kids that are in incarcerated,
haid to start with that.
so, improving the conditions at the
juvenile hall is not something we can
continue to put off.
delaying this study session for two
mothers sends a message that the young
people in these facilities are
underserved and their needs are not a
priority.
we are talking about young people
being served food, about young people
being served food, unacceptable youth
on probation who are experiencing
homelessness and they were ready to
come today but this was cancelled, a
inadequate storage for their personal
belongings, dirty carpets,
deteriorating carpets in the
facility.
I am running out of time, thank
you to the community, let's get this
done, our youth are depending on us
adults to make the best decisions for
them, thank you.
>> thank you, paul.
>> I'm about to go to our last
speaker, we had one additional hand
raised, do we want to take that?
okay.
next is elsa and we'll finish with cid
young.
elsa, please begin, please unmute and
begin.
alright.
>> thank you so much.
can you hear me now?
>> yes, I can hear you, go ahead.
>> thank you so much, I'm elsa
shaffer, vice chair of the democracy
for america, live in menlo park and
have lives in san mateo county for 40
years, I am a mother and a grandmother,
as are many of you on the board.
thank you for listening to us this
morning.
I know you are not supposed to comment
immediately at the end of this but I
really hope that you take all this
commentary to heart.
I was here at your december meeting
and heard along you the litany of
amazing -- one of you called them
appalling and embarrassing conditions
and situations at the juvenile hall.
you had such humane, admirable and
heartfelt reactions to all the data
you heard and the individual stories.
we walked out so impressed with our
board and grateful that you had those
reactions and were going to the look
for computers for them and look into
reimbursing one person's 70 thousand
dollars spent to try to make their
conditions better like getting them
pillows and things like that and that
you also yourselves volunteered to
have this study session which I heard
this morning has now be cancelled four
times.
we in the audience and so much further
than the people here today ask you
please, please to come back and
remember those reactions and to take
this situation seriously.
I don't know who else has been talking
with you since then but if there are
other people who say different things,
please put us in the same room.
thank you so much.
>> thank you.
cid young, please unmute and begin.
>> thank you, this morning I'm calling
from the coastside.
I live in moss beach, in
2001, they brought up the coastside
mid coast alignment for the trails
plan on devil's slide if for the
bypass and it's been sitting in a
drawer for a long time and now because
of a local group called red alert moss
beach montera, caltrans is finally
taking down the trees in the bypass
that have been growing all that time
and I would like the county to finally
take the ltp overlay and pull it out
of the drawer and it's in the lcp, and
make the trails plan a reality.
we have enough money in the mid coast
-- sorry, -- mid coast park mitigation
fund to have the county make that
trails plan happen and that's the only
thing really holding it up now and
it's supposed to be a passive park,
not a highly built thing like don
horsley park down there at the creek,
so I would like to ask the board of
supervisors to go ahead with that plan
since it's been lingering since 2001.
thank you.
>> thank you.
and that concludes general public
comment.
>> president corzo?
>> thank you, go ahead, supervisor
mueller?
>> so, I know it's unusual and we
haven't set the agenda yet, we have
congressman licardo, I know his time
is important so I would like to move
up item 8 to right now and if my
colleagues would be amenable to that.
>> so, I would like to propose that we
take the action to set the agenda,
we move item 8 and then item 150 --
10 before item 1.
>> which one is item 10.
>> I'm the 10 is the agenda builder.
we had a significant amount of public
comment about study sessions and I
want to the address that, so sorry to
our folks that are waiting for
presentations.
>> if we're going to set the agenda, I
would like to move items 9 I believe
it is and 2 to consent.
>> okay, so just for clarity, we would
be moving items -- I already got
confused.
can you restate.
>> we're going to move items 9 and 2
to consent and move 8 and 10 to the
front of the agenda.
>> okay, is there a second?
>> second.
>> I just want to note, madam
president, that the members of the
public may not have understood they
should have addressed items 2 and 9
prior to now, you probably want to
take public comment on these items
before you adopt them.
>> that's fair.
so, we want to go ahead and reopen
public comment real quick on items 2
and 9.
>> or the agendized items.
>> so, item 2 and 9, we should reopen.
so, item 9 is the resolution directing
the county executive's office to
do work on the humanoid robots.
item 2 is a proclamation designating
purple heart date which was already
presented.
I want to thank shannon bennett from
her office who is a summer intern,
that was her project, we were happy to
see that come to fruition.
>> just for sake of making things more
complicated, we have a correction we
need to make to the item 25 which is
on the consent agenda, I'm going to
state that now if my colleague will pass
it to me so I can read it here.
so, we'd like to include an
administrative correction to the item
25 to reflect an initial partial term
end date of december 31, 2028.
yup, that's it.
>> if there's any public comment on 9
and 2.
>> we will reopen public comment for
items 2 and 8 --
>> 9.
>> 2 and 9.
>> do we want to do a roll call on
that motion?
>> is the motion to approve the
consent agenda as well?
I think we would want to take the
comment before --
>> we have one public speaker card for
item 9, so rich sugy.
>> thank you, board of
supervisors, my name is rich, a
vice-president with local 2400
representing firefighters in san mateo
county the.
speaking on behalf of the humanoid
robots resolution and potential
funding sources, in recent years,
we've seen an uptick in lithium watery
fires, they burn hotter and more toxic
than any structural fire we respond
to.
we now will be adding humanoid robots
to homes and potentially a
manufacturing facility in the county.
the as union representation, one of my
jobs is to protect our
firefighters while performing the duties
to keep our public safe.
this can be used to purchase
necessarily specialized equipment that
we need the safely do this in san
mateo county.
so, with that being said, I want to
give our support for the resolution to
create a mechanism of funding to deal
with the challenges of lithium ion
batteries many this county.
thank you.
>> thank you, we'll go to zoom.
>> yes, alright.
>> this is again for commenting on
items 2 and 9 for purple heart
proclamation and the humanoid robots,
so julie, please we -- begin.
>> julie lind, we're in support of
this resolution, government has an
important responsibility to make sure
guardrails and protections around has
technology keep pace.
this resolution is an important
continuation of work this board has
already undertaken.
in 204, supervisor mueller led a
resolution committing the county to
maintaining county job as artificial
intelligence advances through
retraining, redeployment and
collaboration with workers, last year
the board built on that requiring
departments to ases the workforce
impacts of ai and identify impacts to
how to address technology.
these actions establish an important
principle, this resolution carries
that principle into the broader
community as humanoid row bort blots
address commercial deployment.
putting semi-autonomous machines in
workplaces and other spaces where
they interact directly with the public
raises legitimate questions about
accessibility, emergency response,
fire and hazardous materials risk and
who's accountable when something goes
wrong?
requiring appropriate safety
standards, trained human oversight and
a meaningful permit and enforcement
process is a reasonable approach to
reasonable invasion.
workforce protections need to be part
of those guardrails.
businesses should understand and
account for the human consequences of
deploying this technology including
potential job losses and workers
should have meaningful protections
such as opportunities for
redeployment, retraining or other
mitigation when their jobs are faked.
the future of work must remain
centered on human beings, their
safety, their skillets, their dignity,
the value of the work they perform.
we appreciate your continued
leadership on these issues and urge
your support, thank you.
>> thank you, julie.
that concludes public comment for
items 2 and 9.
>> thank you, I will now -- I think we
can move on to roll call the for
setting the agenda.
>> supervisor speier?
>> aye.
>> supervisor mueller?
>> yes.
>> supervisor gauthier?
>> yes.
>> supervisor canepa?
>> aye.
>> president corzo?
>> yes.
>> motion passes to set the agenda
moving 8 and 10 before 1 and --
>> the motion was to set the agenda
and to approve the consent agenda,
both those things.
>> yes.
>> item 8?
>> yes.
>> I want to thank my colleague,
item 8 is adopt the resolution
directing the county executive
officer to work with appropriate staff
to develop an ordinance to prohibit,
restrict and otherwise regulate the
siting and operation of detention
facilities and other similar
institutional land uses within
unincorporated san mateo county.
I want to thank president corzo for
bringing this item.
this all stems from the efforts of the
federal government to build a mass
detention immigration facility in
gilroy, in response to that, our
esteemed congressman licardo
and his office did the work in responding
to see how we could go ahead and work
in concert regionally to respond to
this effort which frankly has been
undertaken in a manner which is
rushed, hap-hazard and puts people's
safety in jeopardy.
we all want families to be able to
feel secure and thrive, that's the
foundation of having resilient
communities.
as discussions continue across the bay
area about the potential construction
or conversion of sites, the mass
immigration detention facilities, it's
important that any such proposal be
considered through public safety,
infrastructure, environmental impacts
and appropriate land use.
these aren't just simply discussions
of policies, these are discussions
about how people will be treated and
live in such a facility should they
end up in one.
this is about recognizing our shared
responsibility to make thoughtful
decisions that protect the wellbeing
of residents and preserve strength
and character of communities, less we
repeat the tragedies of what the
japanese experienced in the intern
camps back in word war ii.
when families feel safe, neighbors
feel connected and they feel their
voices are heard, communities become
stronger and more resilient.
I would like to offer president corzo
the opportunity to speak and then
we'll invite congressman licardo to
join us.
>> thank you, I will be brief.
I just want to thank congressman
licardo for keeping in mind san mateo
county and making sure we are a part
of being able to move this forward.
I want to thank supervisor mueller for
seeing a need, seeing a way we can be
proactive to make sure that we are
planning to fence and not just
defense here in this county.
this is the type of situation that
demands that we use every single tool
at our disposal and so I'm grateful
for this resolution to be able to move
this forward and I want to address
the communities across the country
that have not had the benefit of
having a protection like this.
there are communities across our
country that already have detention
facilities, that have had them for
decades who have really born the brunt
of ice raids and family separations
and great trauma to not just immigrant
community but the entire community at
large and it is through those
tragedies that we are able to learn
from that and learn about how we can
prevent that from making it here to
our county to the bay area and I also
want to just shout-out santa clara
county for being a leader in the bay
area and making sure that we are
organized as 12 bay a area counties to
make sure that we are being proactive
and preventing any detention
facilities from opening here and we
have a coalition called bay area
belonging, our county will be hosting
the next convening and I'm grateful to
be a part of that coalition and
there's a lot of work we're doing that
is not always very public but is very
important, urgent and has to be done
in a timely way.
so, thank you.
with that, I'll wrap it up.
I don't know if my colleagues want to
say anything before we hand over the
mic. To congressman licardo.
okay, go ahead, congressman licardo.
>> thank you, president corzo, and to
the board, and the thank you,
president, for your leadership and
supervisor mueller, for your
leadership, your partnership as well
on this.
I know that the board is very familiar
with these issues, you have been
leading in these areas for many, many
years, particularly as I look at
supervisor speier and her longstanding
leadership on issues of health and on
immigration.
this is the confluence of those issues
of course, the tenth amendment
provides you and local countess and
cities the ability to protect health
and safety of your residents through
land use.
that's an important mechanism and I
come to you in the spirit of
partnership to ask the county of san
mateo to consider becoming the
first jurisdiction of the region to
deploy its land use authority to
impose conditions and reasonable
restrictions that will prohibit unsafe
ice detention facilities, limit
their locations and ensure that you
have the legal control over any
facilities, operations and
characteristics to protect the health
and safety of san mateo county
residents.
I would point out that president corso,
you thanked me for including you,
I should thank you because you are in
fact leading the effort, like city of
san jose will be having a public
hearing tomorrow.
we have other cities that are quite
interested in jumping in as well and
we thank you very much for being
willing to go first.
the state recently issued a report
that is the department of justice did
here in california declaring many of
the factual conditions that provide
you the legal basis for moving forward
around health and safety concerns, the
state doj's report this year
detailed overcrowding, lack of abscess
to medical care, inadequate food and
water, unsanitary can concerns and
alarming increase in fatalities in
those ice facilities here in
california.
we have 7 detention facilities in
southern california, no large
detention facilities in northern
california.
I would like to keep it that way.
we've seen six deaths in those 7
facilities in a period of just half a
year.
we understand, I know you understand
well what that means for our
communities.
of course my motivations may expand
beyond mere health and safety.
I'm deeply concerned about how these
detention facilities enable ice to
conduct large scale operations that
severely disrupt our communities, our
neighborhoods, our families, and I
know that many of you may have those
concerns as well but I will -- I won't
play the role of recovering attorney,
I know your counsel will ensure you
stay focused on health and safety
issues.
there is a gap, I should note, and
it's important to attend to between
intention and action.
you are considering a resolution today
and I'm grateful for that.
it will be several months before you
have an ordinance and your planning
staff need time to return to you with
a final ordinance.
in that period of time, a detention
facility could move forward in this
county.
california law, that is government
code section 65858 does provide local
communities with the [inaudible] enact
urgency ordinance, these are
moratoriums that can last between
45 days and a year that enables you to
have the time to do the work as well
as the outreach that is required, I
would request that you consider doing
so and that enables you to return for
board consideration with an urgency
ordinance in a much more abbreviated
timeline than with a typical matter.
with that, I'm happy to answer any
questions but I want to thank you for
your tremendous leadership and
partnership.
>> thank you, supervisor mueller?
>> so I'm perfectly open and
supportive of amending the proposal
to have an urgency ordinance brought
back to us at our next board meeting,
so that we could go ahead and enact an
urgency ordinance for the time staff
is working up towards the urgency
ordinance.
>> supervisor speier?
>> thank you, madam president.
to congressman licardo, I want to
compliment you because in a setting
today where the administration is more
than antagonistic, a department of
justice is ready to trample on state
and constitutional law, you have taken
your role as congressman to find way
to serve your district and your
counties that will provide the
protection necessary, at least slow
down their efforts to try and trample
once again on all of these rights, so
you've done what I think is absolute
some of the finest work and I want to
compliment you on that.
>> thank you, supervisor, I want to
thank our team for their efforts.
>> supervisor gauthier?
>> I want to say to councilman
licardo, thank you for your leadership and
your work and to the our colleagues,
thank you for responding so quickly on
this issue.
this was brought to my attention late
last week but to have this on the
agenda today, it say as lot and it
makes me proud to be in san mateo
county where we're demonstrating that
all of our residents matter and they
all belong and they can count on this
county to protect them.
so I'm excited to see had this moving
forward to ensure that residents are
safe here in san mateo county.
>> thank you, supervisor.
>> I just want to echo my
colleagues' comments, thank you so
much.
I have a quick question, in terms of
just so the public knows, in terms of
ice detention centers that are sort of
being constructed, do you have any
background on where those are taking
place and sort of the scale of that?
>> sure, thank you, supervisor canepa.
we know that certainly from public
information, a facility was planned if
gilroy, another one in dublin, both of
those projects are uncertain in terms
of their timeline and I think you know
because the county I believe this
county is involved in support through
amicus of the litigation on that site
on gilroy.
we know that delay is something that
dhs has typically responded to by
looking for other sites.
and they have a 38 billion dollars in
last year's budget which I opposed to
go find other sites and pay other land
owners whatever they want to be able
to build other facilities so we expect
they'll be looking to low kayoing, so
that is one reason why I'm so
appreciative the county of san mateo
is can considering moving forward now
to provide a role model for other cities
and counties, if we can get
everybody to move together, that could
keep us all much safer.
>> that sounds fantastic.
one of the things I was thinking about
and I don't know if it's for this
specific piece of legislation as
specially for us to move forward
through a potential urgency ordinance,
but -- and I don't know the
conversations that have been taking
place with your colleagues in congress
but any sort of ice detention center
moving forward through the united
states of america, it is a serious
issue.
I really think -- so, what I would
just offer is to kind of understand
what we can do to make sure that there
isn't an ice detention if in gilroy,
dublin, but there isn't one in
charlotte, north carolina, so I think
to me and I think a lot of
folks, that's just critically
important, so I know this conversation
will continue but I really want to the
thank both the authors of the
legislation and particularly you for
your leadership.
it's hard to put your neck out there
on an issue that may be
divisive, thank you for your efforts.
>> thank you, supervisor.
I should note you're the ones showing
the leadership and taking action, I'm
the cheer leader, so thank you.
>> keep cheering.
>> thank you for taking action.
>> thank you, supervisor mueller?
>> yes, while we're spreading the
thanks, I want to express our gratitude
to our county counsel's office and our
county executive's office, we come
with them with being the first and
they always rise to the occasion,
so thank you.
with that I would like to move the
item and move the item also with the
direction that it come back with an
urgency ordinance at our next meeting.
>> we'll work with planning staff and
with your staff to identify the
relevant findings of imminent harm,
etc., we'll bring it back.
>> second.
>> roll call, please.
>> supervisor speier?
>> aye.
>> supervisor mueller?
>> yes.
>> supervisor gauthier?
>> yes.
>> supervisor canepa?
>> aye.
>> president corzo?
>> yes.
>> motion passes unanimously.
>> we'll move on to item 10 which is
our agenda builder and I will be
introducing the this item, give me one
second to get to my notes.
so, I wanted to just give some
background here, our agenda
builder is meant to help us as a board
be clear and in agreement on what our
priorities, what issue areas we would
like to spend our time studying, when
and also to provide clear information
to the community on what they can
expect as well.
being that we are making some changes,
I wanted to make sure we had a
conversation to update this and so for
the sake of transparency here, I want
to say that in terms of the juvenile
justice study session, I frankly felt
like it would be a little too much to
do two study sessions in one week for
staff and the board, so that is why
this study session was postponed.
I also know that it is a hot topic of
concern for the community.
I'm going to address that and share
some background because I am the
liaison now to the juvenile justice
and -- juvenile justice and the
delinquency prevention commission.
first and foe most, I want to say I'm
grateful for all the attention of this
topic.
I think I can hands down say every
single member of our board and every
single county employees care about our
young people.
some of information that is shared
publicly is frankly misinformation,
some of it -- there are always
areas to improve but I can understand
why some of what is shared founds very
alarming and like it's crisis level
worthy.
for example, the prea concerns, we
have -- and this is something I worked
on I want to say two years ago.
on the probation department website,
there is information on how a family
or a young person, how anyone can file
a complaint or a grievance, there is
information for the office of youth
and community restoration ombudsman
unit, there is information on how to
file a facility grievance, there's
information on how to the file a
citizen complaint and so the assertion
that there's no way for anyone or a
young person to make a complaint is
simply not true.
there can be improvements made, I do
think for example if there's specific
prea information, we can add that and
we should but this is available
publicly, it is available in
multiple languages and I also want to
share that while almost every single
juvenile hall across the
state, across the country has had in
decades past cases of, you know, I'm
not going to sugar coat it, sexual
assault and rape of young people, it's
a really hard topic to wrap your mind
around and that is absolutely wrong
and all of those people deserve
justice.
our chief of probation, chief john
keen took this concern very seriously.
he can tell you exactly how long ago,
I want to say like ten years ago at
least and he fought with the union to
make sure that every single employee
and every single space in the juvenile
hall currently has both video and
audio recording to make sure that no
young person is ever in jeopardy of
that kind of abuse.
and so some of the concerns -- I
understand because I have most of my
family have been incarcerated here in
san mateo county in the past and
frankly conditions were very
concerning in the past and I think all
of us take that very seriously.
but we do have to -- I do think it's
important that we clarify what changes
have been made to the address those
concerns of the past and that we are
all having the same conversation about
what our starting place is.
in terms of the food, I know several
of us have gone to the juvenile hall,
have had the food, the food is
regulated by the state.
all of the flooded that young people
get many the juvenile hall is planned
and approved by a dietitian for every
single young person and they are given
extra paod when they want it.
I have to admit, it's not mcdonalds,
it's not like home cooking, it's not
what young people probably crave or
what they're used to when they're out
and they're at home, but I don't think
that it is inedible, and I have gone
and tried it myself.
I'm more than willing to go again.
I've met with the chefs that prepare
the food for the young people.
many of them worked at the juvenile
hall when they handed a functioning
kitchen at the juvenile hall and they
care about those young people.
so, I'm not saying that the food is
perfect, but I don't think that the
assertions that it's inedible are fully
true.
and I want to -- I also want to
address that I heard that the study
session has been postponed or
cancelled four times.
I think it's been twice from my
recollection, I don't think it's been
four times, and the last thing I will
say is that we have in this community
many people on all sides of -- on all
sides wanting to help young people.
I love the idea of a dashboard, I
think that's a great idea.
I think there are improvements that
can be made.
one of them that is already being
implemented is that young people now
have more services being offered to
them in the juvenile hall than they
ever had before and that should be
acknowledged.
and we approved that I want to say two
months ago at this dais and -- so,
ascetically, you know, as a liaison,
I'm going to be a little honest here
right now, I heard someone I respect
dearly give a public comment and say
we should all get in the same room and
have the same conversation.
I have been in that room and I can
tell you that it is hard to have the
same conversation when folks seem to
have other motivations for what
they're coming in for.
I have been to the juvenile justice
and delinquency prevention commission
meetings several times.
I will tell you as someone that cares
deeply about young people, I have seen
staff and I myself have felt like I am
being interrogated by commissioners
and disparaged at times and that is
not a collaborative space.
we created a survey that was mentioned
earlier that supposedly there was 40
hours of preparation for and for the
study session, I have not seen that
collaborative spirit personally and
neither have my staff.
we shared a survey for every
commissioner to respond to, to talk
about where they're supported, where
they could get more support, do they
understand their role, a very
objective, fair survey.
I got an e-mail back from the
commission saying they want to have a
meeting so they can respond one time
to the survey.
I don't understand what that's about.
it's odd to me.
it's odd to me there is not like a
feeling of safety that every
individual commissioner can respond
individually, so I'm just going to
wrap up, but basically I think we need
to be in the same room having the same
conversations, it is the hard to do
that when the tone in that space is
not mutually respectful to everyone
that is there and I can also tell you
that I have known group supervisors
that have worked in the juvenile hall
for decades that bring formally
incarcerated individuals to bring
back to mentor people who are
incarcerated in the juvenile hall.
people in the juvenile hall care
deeply about the people will, they are
not there to harm them, so it is hard
for staff to be in a space where they
are constantly attacked and not --
they don't feel like they're part of
-- rowing in the same direction and
working together to better serve young
people so I'm going to end it there
and happy to pass it over to my
colleague, supervisor mueller?
>> thank you, president corzo.
I want today share with folks about
the background about what happened
here because sometimes it's not always
apparent and I heard a few people talk
about when they came to the podium the
fact that, well, there might be
something going on with budget the
fourth time, so I think it's fair to
both president corzo and for all of
you to understand what happened was
that about three weeks ago, we
received the calculation that our
vehicle license fee shortfall for next
year is going to be close to the
quarter of a billion dollars, 230
million dollars potentially unfunded
by the state which has devastated
consequences for county services and
for all of our cities.
it could put every city budget in san
mateo county into the red.
it will have devastating impacts
across all of our social services in
the county.
so, with that news, we had to go into
high gear in the county to go ahead
and respond to that as quickly as
possible and will have been ongoing
discussions taking play across all of
our cities, across our county
executive's office and in sacramento,
everyone's entirely engaged in this
process.
we have a very short window to the end
of august with the legislature will be
engaged this year to address this
issue.
it is imminent and could not be more
urgent.
and in all of that, what ended up
happening is -- and supervisor --
president corzo didn't know it, she
had probably the largest most
complicated study session dropped in
her lap last week to have to run a
study session this week not only with
all of us which as you can imagine can
be unwieldly at times and all of the
public but every city in the county
also participating in the study
session.
so, with all of that, you can now
understand why the prospect of having
o do two study sessions in the same
week this complicated could be
daunting.
while I understand folks came today
looking at this from the lens that
there might be something, it's been
cancelled so many times, is it
personal to us, it was tent personal
to you, we're just trying to solve a
problem right now that's incredibly
imminent and urgent.
thank you.
>> thank you, supervisor speier?
>> thank you.
now, I think there's some lessons
learned here.
one is to the greatest extent possible
when we schedule a study session, we
should do everything in our power to
retain it.
I had requested this study session
last december for lots of important
reasons, it got postponed, but today's
a good example of what happens
when you postpone a study session,
people are very concerned about it,
they come and they speak and frankly
if we had the study session, we could
have addressed a lot of these issues,
so far on this particular issue, we
have heard from one side.
it's an important message but it's one
side and we need to hear from both
sides.
I have been up to juvenile hall, I
have had the lunch there, I encourage
my colleagues to try and make time to
do it.
it is an impressive facility and I
haven't met with the juveniles yet,
but I could think that there's lots of
positive elements to the program
there, it's a beautiful outdoor
facility.
it's important to remember that those
who are there and there are close to
30 or 32 juveniles, they are will
because they have been convicted of
very serious crimes, crimes like
murder, attempted murder, sexual
assault, and they're spending their
time there -- anywhere from 8, 10
years until they're 25, plus we have
some since the closure of the state
facility that have now been moved to
our juvenile site.
so, the issue about ipads, that's
something I was going to take action
on immediately and then I found out,
they do have access to ipads, they do
have access to the computers.
one of the reasons why they lose
access to computers is because they
are looking at prostitution or
pornographic sites.
so, there are two sides to the story,
we want to the hear both sides.
a great lesson though, as much as
possible, we should try and keep those
dates.
e-bikes is another one where we've had
to have that tech neck -- technically
two or three times and I think we
should to the greatest extent possible
retain the dates that we had for them.
and finally there's one other issue I
want to bring up that we should
consider, it's as urgent as the
detention facilities and that is to
have our elections department director
meet with us, whether it's -- it
doesn't necessarily have to be a study
session but a presentation, we have
to make sure our sites are going to be
secure for our elections, these
mid-term elections could be impacted
by ice and others coming in to try and
scare people away from election
sites.
so, there's lots of lessons
learned on all sides and I hope we
will take it into can account in the
future.
>> supervisor gauthier?
>> I want to say thank you for that
comment and I do agree, we keep things
on par.
there are two sides to every story and
I'm so glad that chief keen is here in
the room.
we have sat down and had some of these
conversations as well and I know there
is an opportunity to really address
some of the comments and the
commentary that's in the public.
I'm looking forward to sitting down
with everyone to have that conversation on
both sides and I'm hopeful we'll walk
away knowing we all care about the
youth in our county.
and we want them to be safe.
I have not gone to have good will but
I will plan to have a meal at the site
as well so that I can know firsthand.
I sit on the jjcc, so working with
chief keen and all those who are
interested, let just continue to have
conversations about what's important
to us.
>> thank you, supervisor canepa?
>> I think dialogue and discourse are
extremely important.
I don't know what the schedule is, you
know, this is supervisor corzo's
committee and oversight, I trust
supervisor corzo's judgment, I used to
serve on the jjdpc, you know, that
being said though, I think we're all
sort of -- we have an interest.
the interest is making sure that we do
our best for those children who are
within the facility and I just think
as we move forward and I don't know
what the schedule is, maybe it's this
year, maybe it's next year.
I think a convening is important from
the staff perspective as well as the
members who sit on the commission.
I'll just speak to the membership a
little, I had the opportunity to work
with them, no different than with the
youth commission, I think you have
people who are extraordinarily earnest
in their work, people who really do
want to make a difference and I think
on both sides, I think chief keen's
side as well as this side, I think we
all want to make sure we're able to
help our children, provide them the
resources they need to be successful
and make no mistake about it, they are
young people and they are children and
we are a county that believes in
rehabilitation and so I do think
moving forward, I think a convening or
a study session would be important so
that both sides could really have a
discussion, so I appreciate the
opportunity, madam chair.
>> thank you.
so, with that, I do want to invite
chief keen to give some brief comments
and then we can get to the agenda
builder and talk about dates and
whatnot, so welcome, chief keen.
>> good morning, supervisors, thank
you very much for the opportunity to
speak.
I'll be brief because I understand we
will certainly have an opportunity to
speak to these things further.
you know, I want to say to the public
has I completely understand the
interest and the issues and if
I were in their shoes and heard some
of the things that were represented,
I would be concerned as well but I
think theres an important kind of
measure that comes from this which is
the importance of people who are given
positions to ensure they provide
accurate information, intentionally
misleading comments can lead to I
think unfortunate situations where we
have to address things in a way that
seems combative because that's no the
intention, the intention has always
been for our department to be
collaborative with groups that we
work with, collaborative with the
community as a whole and transparent
in the way we do our work.
I look forward to the opportunity to
speak to all these issues in detail
because frankly many of them are
completely false.
typically people who know me well know
that I tend to be very collegial and
will step to a mic. And find ways
to find middle grounds on issues and
speak to things in a way that doesn't
seem as if we're putting one side
against another and I want to maintain
that decorum here today, but I want to
be clear that a large percentage of
what's been said is either flat out
untrue or has been misrepresented many
such a way that the general public who
do not work in our space who have the
opportunity to see what we do are
being misled and I want to address
those things, I want to reassure the
public so they have confidence in the
work that we do.
we are certainly by no means perfect,
this is an imperfect business meaning
that continuous improvement is always
our goal, there is no finish line
when it comes to serving young
people, it gives us an opportunity to
improve and be better and be as
collaborative as can be, so I look
forward to the opportunity for us to
get in the room and unpack
these things that are meaningful and
respectful and most importantly
earnest, thank you very much.
>> thank you so much, chief keen.
with that, I believe that we would
like to have our juvenile justice
study session at the next board
meeting which is the 25th, so for the
public, that is how we will be
updating our agenda builder, we're
also be making the update to include
the vlf study session
which will be happening on thursday,
and then I'm open to any other
discussion regarding future agenda --
future study session topics, if any of
my colleagues would like to raise any.
no?
no senior housing?
>> you know, I'll operate at the
purview of the board chair, if we
could move forward with the senior
housing, I do think it's important in
light of data that has come out
recently from our housing department.
but I'll leave that at your pleasure,
madam chair, where you feel the best
-- where you feel that's appropriate.
so, I know you might have issues of
urgency, so we'll work around your
schedule, your calendar.
>> so, are we able to pull up the
agenda builder?
I want to have the visual so we can
all look at the same thing here.
so, we had senior housing slated for
the 25th.
so, we will now -- sounds like we'll
be doing juvenile justice.
to we want to do senior housing, we
could do it -- we have shared
prosperity for september 15, so we
could do it -- I frankly think two
study sessions in one month is a lot
especially when we have longer
meetings, but -- and mind you, I want
to just remind us that we did not have
one study session every single month
last year, I think we had four total
last year if I'm correct.
so, I think we could do senior housing
october.
>> yeah, why don't we find time to do
it in october, maybe the third or
fourth week, if there's anything that
comes up, do you have anything
scheduled for the first and second
week?
>> we have department presentations
in october.
>> we do, okay.
>> we could do september because the
end of the year gets a little busy.
the second meeting in september.
>> it's also a budget meeting.
>> oh.
>> maybe we could take the
conversation off-line, supervisor
corzo, I can work with you and your
staff or my staff can work with your
staff, we'll find a date appropriate.
>> we'll put tbd for senior housing
and 8/25 for probation and juvenile
justice and any additions from the
rest of my colleagues, or edits?
okay.
>> did we not take public comment on
this item already?
>> we took public comment all at the
beginning.
>> on these two items.
we did not take public comment on the
rest of the agendized items?
>> we took it for public comment but
not for the agendized items.
>> are we doing public comment now?
>> we have not taken public comment --
we should take it now.
>> okay, so let's move on to public
comment.
>> I do not have speaker cards in
chambers for item 10.
if there's anybody online.
okay, go ahead, chair rasmussen.
>> if we could get more information on
what would be asked of us for the
juvenile justice study session as far
as the time and then we can prepare,
we'll certainly answer all the
questions that came up in comments but
if we could have a little bit more
information as to what time and what
our role would be, that would be
helpful, thank you.
>> alright, and if there's any public
comment for online for item number 10,
please raise your hand at this time.
seeing no hands raised, public comment
is done for item 10.
>> okay.
thank you.
let me see, do we need -- let's --
okay, I think I can take a motion to
update the agenda builder.
thank you.
roll call.
>> supervisor speier?
>> aye.
>> supervisor mueller?
>> yes.
>> supervisor gauthier?
>> aye.
>> supervisor canepa?
>> yes.
>> president corzo?
>> yes.
>> thank you, we are now moving on to
item 1.
>> we have to take public comment on all
agendized item.
>> that was going to be my suggestion,
except the one item that is set for
public hearing which I think is item 5.
>> I'm out of practice, we're doing
public comments differently now, so,
apologies for that, so let's go ahead
and take public comment on all
agendized items now.
>> madam president, I have a
question.
>> yes?
>> so, number 6 which is the
introduction of an ordinance, is that
going to be a separate hearing or are
people expected to speak now?
>> I think the thought was that people
could speak now unless the board
president, yourselves wanted to go
ahead and hold public comment on item
6 until that time.
>> I would like to hold comments
until we take up the item because
some people I don't think are here yet.
>> understood, so the motion at your
pleasure, president, would be public
comment on all items except
items 5 and 6.
>> okay, sure.
I do want to share though that I think
this was my concern when we moved this
new way of doing public comments and I
think we need to pick one way, we
either have all of public comments at
the beginning of the meeting or we
have public comments during the items.
I think both is very confusing can and
it's also hard to manage from my
perspective, so, yeah.
I think going forward, I would prefer
that we go back to how public comment
was originally and yeah, we will do
that at the next meeting.
okay, let's move on to public comment
for all agendized items.
>> we have three speaker cards in
chambers, freda and then michelle yee,
are they there?
alright.
they're comments are for item number 3.
>> that's a fun surprise.
good to see everyone, members of the
board, my name is freda ajet, a proud
mother first and foremost, behavioral
health commission, an
intergenerational governance
initiative with young people
complaining community decision making.
thank you so much for proclaiming
international youth day, last
december, this board made history with
its resolution supporting the
wellbeing of current and future
generations by affirming the human
declaration on future generations
making us the first u.s. Adoption, we
like to be the first as I learned
yesterday.
with genz, trust in government,
today's proclamation is meaningful.
we have a pretty simple theory of
change, we empower young people of
becoming cocreates of the policies
they have, more innovative solutions
that reduce future disruptions.
everyday behind this is very clear,
when people genuinely co-design
decisions, trust rises in government,
in each other and in societies.
so, over the past six months with the
board's landmark resolution as our
guide, more than 700 young people
alongside peer and adult coaches in
daly city, in redwood city, east palo
alto have shared the futures they want
and initial steps to make them real.
flipping the career ladder where life
skills are built into community to
serve community.
wellness community hubs, we're in
every neighborhood, delivering shared
service models of financial plan,
health care, intergenerational health
care, building stronger connections
amid rising temperatures.
so, just leaving you with an anecdote
a youth told me just the other day,
we're not the leaders of tomorrow,
we're the leaders of today so the
invitation is how might we acknowledge
its promise with this proclamation,
yes, absolutely el viking youth
programs and initiatives and also
truly partnering across generations.
thank you.
>> thank you.
>> michelle yee and karen cunningham.
>> good morning, board of supervisors,
I'm michelle yee, a senior in high
school.
I've been recognized by the board of
supervisors and the county twice.
I appreciate this proclamation
recognizing international youth day
and the importance of recognizing
youth voices.
advocacy started
when I realized there were not enough
youth speaking about youth struggling
with eating disorders.
the experience has shown me that youth
can change the world, we can identify
problems, bring new perspectives and
create solutions.
that's why I believe youth are trusted
leaders and are valuable many decision
making spaces.
I hope san mateo county continues to
create meaningful opportunities for
youth the participate.
thank you for recognizing this day and
for giving us the opportunity to
be heard today.
thank you.
>> thank you.
next we'll have karen cunningham.
>> good morning, madam president and
board of supervisors, I'm here to
speak very briefly on item 12, the
measure k funds relative to cafe,
when cafe approached brisbane, my
name's karen cunning home, a former
mayor of brisbane, when cafe first
approached brisbane right after we had
gone through the horrors of covid,
there was very little energy left in
brisbane for people to take on new
projects, but the presentation that
was brought to me by ann made me think
it's not just about the seniors, it's
about all of us and how that
connection works, I took on the
project to get brisbane cafe certified
and they were certified in 2023.
I think you're going to see a one
minute video of the last presentation
that was done in brisbane for the
county and how well received it was by
the seniors in our county, so, I
really urge you to really think hard
about putting a little extra money in
to make sure we have the rest of
cities and I think there's only three
more cities in san mateo county the
that are not cafe certified.
what that happened as a result of that
certification is it has brought the
seniors, the youth advisory committee
and everybody in between together to
look at a community perspective as a
whole, very holistic collaboration
happened as a result of that and the
it is something that I think the
brisbane people are proud of.
I think when you see this video and
I'll make sure you get the full five
minute copy to look privately after
this, it was an absolutely phenomenal
event that really brought the entire
community and the people of the county
together, so thank you.
>> alright, we're going to go to zoom,
this is comments for agendized items
except for 5 and 6.
this is a final call.
alright, we have victoria and then
marty, victoria, please unmute and
begin.
>> good morning, I'm victoria, chair
of the san mateo county artistes
commission.
I would like to extend my gratitude to
the board of supervisors for your
support for arts and culture.
you believe in the power that art has
to create positive change.
many, many congratulations to you and
natty, we're honored you have shared
this beautiful moment in your epic
love story with us, thank you.
>> thank you.
and then lastly, marty, please begin.
>> good morning, supervisors, my name
is marty medina, the san bruno city
council member from district 4.
I'm proud to support san bruno's
certification as an age friendly city
through the center for age friendly
excellence cafe.
through community focus groups and the
age friendly task force, we have
listened directly to residents and
identified both our strengths and
areas for improvement.
this certification turns that work
into a long term commitment.
an age friendly san bruno means safer
sidewalks, more accessible public
spaces, reliable trance por --
transportation, recognition for civil
participation, it also manses
recognizing older adults as valued
community members whose experience and
ideas help shape our future.
these improvements benefit everyone,
families, workers and people with
disabilities, our senior center and
senior advisory board have already
established a strong foundation.
I respectfully ask the board of
supervisors to support the
certification and help us continue
building a welcoming and accessible
san bruno for people of all ages and
abilities.
thank you.
>> thank you.
and that concludes public comment.
>> thank you.
now we will move on to item number 1.
and with that, I would like to welcome
our poet laureate, antonio lopez, to
the mic. To share some pretty
beautiful words and I think everyone
should try not to cry because my
understanding is that these are --
these were his wedding vows, so
welcome, come on up.
and I also want to congratulate
antonio for receiving the national
award from the academy of american
poets which I believe less than 25
poets across the nation receive every
year, is that correct, every year?
and you make san mateo county proud and
thank you for being such an important
voice right now.
[applause].
>> emotional morning, very grateful
to be here as always, president corzo,
supervisor gauthier, canepa, mueller,
speier, county executive staff,
everyone in the public, I want to
also commend -- first of all, I
want to comment the arts and culture
for getting me a parking pass so I can
stay here longer, it's good
that I can be here.
that was just banter.
I also want to in words of moody
lift up the words of commissioners
that spoke, I know as a former
elected, this is tough, and I want to
commend everyone, it takes everyone to
get the work done and chief keen said
it best, we're invested many the
welfare of all of our youth, I think
the voices that were heard today, as
you mentioned, president corzo, my work
as poet laureate is going to
incarcerated facilities of our
county, I've had the great pleasure of
working with melissa wagner and going
into maple street, those are adults
but the folks in there, you wouldn't
believe the things that they were
accused of, when you see them, the
reform, the rehabilitation, the time
they've had to reflect and even in my
purview, being able to hear the
stories of these in my case the young
men, the vulnerability, we've had
sessions where they've gotten
emotional in the room on
maple street, so I want to lift
up the power of the arts and culture
because I think there's so much
empowerment that comes into telling
you story and your words and I look
forward to working with hillcrest and
working with the various facilities to
continue the democratize that public
good.
I think we've had over 50 events that
we've created, participated in, from
human services agency to north
fair oaks community center so
everywhere, so we believe in this work
and saying yes to poetry, not just in
april.
a lot of exciting updates in my life,
I graduated from stanford, my ph.d.
in june, I received my doctorate.
>> I forgot about that one,
congratulations, dr. Antonio lopez.
>> I say that because a lot of
professionals -- I'll be going to dc
representing the county, so I'll send
a picture to callagy and the whole
team, we're in san mateo county
looking good, but I think my most
biggest update is I got married two
sundays ago in new york, thank you
very much, marriage is nice,
and as president
corzo suggested, as I come
to the these quarterly meetings, what
words encapsulates e-bikes and
juvenile justice prevention commission
and for me it's like at the end of the
day, we're human beings and so much of
the work we do as dr. King says,
justice and what life looks like in
public, I want to to share with you a
bit of love this morning, so I'm going
the read to you the vows I read to my
wife and obviously there's specific
references but I think you'll get the
spirit of it.
this is just titled vows for madeline,
maybe I'll change it, they're vows for
madeline, imagine like we're at a
park, at a boat house, there's a
mariachi playing.
vows for madeline, madeline, before I
say my vow, I wish to express my
gratitude, gratitude to the almighty,
to the angels in my confiner, the
efficient page hill, were it not for
her and a strong assist from brian
cabral, a stellar recommend daix, we
would not be standing before you on
this evening on this most gorgeous of
sunday surrounded by lof that radiates
around us, for ranking california
third on your regional reference from
preference list and winding up in one
of greatest mexican's capitals, east
san jose, your roommate for tutoring
you on all things rasa, it's going for
the jugular, think about the most
traumatic thing about your childhood,
for always humoring me, for helping me
that love could carry me across a
culture, I vow to vow to you to tend
to you the way my grandmothers tend to
a flame, always and only a few paces
away, there are fewer things more
ancient than learning what it means to
love well on this earth, [inaudible],
the heat, the loved ones that gather
around and sit in plastic chairs,
[inaudible], the crackling, stoke for
being fed, that is how I promise to
love you, like this has always been
yours too, I promise to press news on
my phone at least once a week and see
how the light travels your body, I'm
going to wake you up when I wake up
especially when you need to be awake
to pick up as many large ice skinny
vanilla clatters that they can muster,
o celebrate all your victorious to be
your biggest cheer leader and defender
to the ends of the earth and to the
stanford department of sociology, I
promise in all the business and
business of our days to stop and hold
what needs to be held especially each
other, I swear to sleep on only one
side of the bed even when you're not
there because without you physically
nec to me, I can't.
I will do my very best while you're
away to water the planters the way I
feel watered.
whether it's an apartment in brook
land or whatever we find ourselves in,
o dance until our feet can't and even
then we can wiggle, to the teach our
children spanish, to make sure the
flight you are on is indeed the same
flight I'm on so we don't get to our
gate and realize ten minutes to
boarding, we're in separate seats, in
dallas and we're in standby, the gate
act, a kind arab man puts us together
in the next flight sp we're finally on
the plane together, we're going
the get there, it's hot inside this
plane and we're still on the runway,
why are we still on the runway and the
pilot says we're having trouble with
the ac, after ten men nuts, it feels
like the baptist church, I -- and we
deplane, we wait another three hours
for another plane and I always promise
you that I will watch your stuff, and
finally at 1 a.m., we land.
I vow what your grandmother insisted,
to not be separated from one another
for too long, I never promise to stop
admiring you, your compassion, your
intellect, your smile, I promise to
hold the difficult moments, the curve
balls life will throw at us but also
the frustrating moments, the everyday
moments that will make up our life.
one of my greatest joys in my life is
coming home from work and seeing you
curled on our suede sofa, blue like
the blanket, a carton of costco
grapes, a bag of chocolate chips
in another, one of those quiet
summer nights in california where the
birds are chirping and I say, look,
look, a flock of foos are popping
wheel's of the apartment complex, how
silly, how wild all it took for us
to have met of this beginning blood
line of us, a steam boat growing out
of the caecilian port, I stand by this
dock and amazed at how narrow the
distance between lopez and anderson is
now, for everyone here, I promise you
to look at you across any aisle, a
plane, a boat house, a supermarket and
say I have made it.
thank you.
[applause].
>> I have an important question.
did you really say mike callagy's name
in your vows?
>> no.
>> okay.
>> I was about to say I'm jealous, why
mike.
>> mike callagy, he's doing good work.
>> I'm just kidding.
>> you didn't make the cut in my
vows, mike, that was a curve ball to
keep people animated.
I saw him engaged so I said I'm going
the hit him with that and said I'll
wake him up, not that you needed
waking up.
>> congratulations, you are
excelling, we're proud of you.
anything my colleagues would like to
share?
>> I want to say congratulations
from the young man from east palo
alto who is doing amazing things,
congratulations to the all your
accomplishments, your ph.d., your
marriage and your award for your
poetry we caner are proud to say
you're from this region.
>> thank you, supervisor.
>> thank you, and we can take
scheduling off-line but I would love
to go with you to maple street center
and also the ysc.
>> like I said, stories, I still hear
the poems that those folks read and
there's so much power and some of the
funding that's going to come out of
this fellowship is for an anthology
[inaudible] which is going to be a
publishing forcer currently
incarcerated poets who have gone on to
reenter, it's deeply important has we
hear those voices and give those
testimonials in order to empower them
to be self-determined, in order to
effect change, effect policy and
empower themselves having been through
those institutions, I would be
honored, madam president.
>> thank you.
okay, we're all done.
>> thanks, everybody.
>> moving on to item -- we're going to
take a 5 minute break.
>> the time is 11:18, we're going to
take a 5 minute break, thank you.
( meeting in recess ).
>> the time is 11:32 a.m., all
supervisors are present from break.
>> thank you, we are back in session,
we will be moving on to item number 3,
presentation of a proclamation
designating august 12 as international
youth day, sponsor is supervisor ray
mueller and supervisor david canepa.
who would like to speak first?
supervisor mueller?
>> sure, so thank you, I just -- I'm
proud to be co-sponsor this
proclamation with supervisor canepa
and all the work he's done with the
youth commission.
the united nations has designate add
theme with what we see in this
community, different context, common
aspirations.
what do young people want, they want
dignity, opportunity, a sustainable
future where the climate is secure,
they want meaningful participation,
decisions that shape their lives.
this work really just -- it's funny,
we celebrated youth day but it's work
that really needs to happen every day
and I'm reminded of it just by the
fact we had 7 interns in our office
this summer and the amount of
energy and enthusiasm and zeal for
what the future holds for them has
made a tremendous impact on our work
and on september 2, we are holding a
youth town hall on the coast.
we're -- we're not going to present
the proclamation today, we'll be
presenting it to the youth at the town
hall on that day but I would like to
go ahead and offer the mic. To
supervisor canepa and then I want to
invite one of my interns ashlon butler
up, and the commission chair of the
youth commission to speak with us.
>> thank you, supervisor mueller, for
including me on this pollination, here
in san mateo county, we have 150
thousand young people in this county
and international youth day is
officially recognized on august 12.
our youth commission continues to do
wonderful work and the work that the
youth commission has done spans from
e-cigarettes, it spans to
addressing issues such as mental
health, health care, so this
commission is a commission has
advanced many ideas.
those ideas over a period of years
have seen themselves be adopted by
this board and past boards, so I'm
delighted to co-sponsor this
particular piece of legislation and
just recognize that our youth are
important and if you're a young person
out there listening to this, you
really can change the world, you can
change the county and it's incumbent
upon us as policy makers to ensure we
listen to our young people.
if our young people have ideas that
they want to advance, we should listen
to those ideas and implement them in
policy, and we've done that, so with
that, I will kick it back to you, mr.
mueller?
>> thank you, supervisor canepa, and
I'm reminded of the work that your
team did as well.
addison, if you would like to come
forward.
>> good morning, honorable board of
supervisors, thank you for the
opportunity to speak today, I am
honored to be here to talk about the
international youth day proclamation
that I worked on as an intern in
supervisor mueller's office.
international youth day is meant to
highlight the importance of youth in
our communities and elevate their
voices and perspectives they bring
forward.
this proclamation is meant to
celebrate youth who are the forefront
of creating change within the county
but also those who are not visibly
involved yet who still have an impact
on their peers.
youth from around the county impact
each other by volunteering and singing
their voices to help spark change.
one of the reasons it was important to
bring this proclamation forward is
because we're facing an unprecedented
time in our communities, we are
dealing with a difficult job market,
rapid global warming and ai in the
workforce, in speaking with my
peers, we are looking for opportunities to
help, we are facing a lack of
employability and affordability and
increasing competition when trying to
enter the workforce.
I believe that san mateo county
can be a forward moving county with
the new generation in mind but how are
we going to progress if we don't
prioritize youth.
I want to thank you for planting seeds
of progress in youth's minds to
encourage them to grow within this
county and make this nourish.
I mean hand the floor to ryan child,
the san mateo county youth commission
chair, thank you for your time.
>> thank you for having me.
good morning, president corzo and
honorable members of the board, my
name is ryan ciao, I'm 17 years old,
high school seep yor from western high
cool and servicing chair as the san
mateo county youth commission for the
26-27 year, on behalf of our 34 cohort
of commissioners, thank you for
proclaiming august 12 as international
youth day here in san mateo county.
first I want to introduce the
commission, our commission is coming
from half moon and east palo alto,
we speak different languages at home
and some of us walk ten minutes to a
meeting while others use
transportation.
we represent youth voice and county
the policy, being from daly city, but
cultural and social economic
differences, we all aspire and work
towards the same issues, educational
equity is one of my passions, our
commissioners and the youth we reach
all find encouragement to find seats
at the table and through this, we all
experience a tiny microcosm, this has
given youth people a microphone, so
over these past several years, we've
run immigrant youth scholarships and
passed resolutions on [inaudible] in
unincorporated san mateo county.
we can have a real voice in government
and prepare this next generation of
leaders.
we gain real responsibility and add
our perspectives to have grass
roots movements across the
communities.
we can't wait to see what the future
looks like and how we might have a say
in shaping it.
thank you for your time.
>> great work, thank you.
with that, I would like to move forward
accepting the proclamation.
>> second.
>> thank you, we have a motion and a
second, roll call vote, please.
>> supervisor speier?
>> aye.
>> supervisor mueller?
>> yes.
>> supervisor gauthier?
>> yes.
>> supervisor canepa?
>> aye.
>> president corzo?
>> yes.
>> motion passes unanimously.
>> congratulations, we are now
moving on to item number 4, acceptance
of the august 2026 informational
report on the 2026 state and federal
legislative sessions and the third
quarter legislative presentation.
welcome, our legislative officer,
connie driscoll watis.
>> good morning, honorable board
members, mr. Callagy I'm the county's
chief legislative officer and
here today with ellie [inaudible] from
the governmental affairs unit of the
county executive's office to provide
you with our third quarterly federal
and state legislative update.
so, today our presentation will be
focused on providing you with the
following updates, a review of the key
legislate dates, a brief overview of
the 2026 state budget act, an update
on state legislation and activity,
again, in the final month of the
session, an overview of the november
2026 ballot propositions, a federal
update and then any questions you may
have.
so, as you're aware, the state
legislature is now in its final month
of legislative session, the following
are the key dates in the final month,
we're all moving towards that august
31 deadline which is the last day for
legislative action this year, so this
would end the second year of the
current two year session.
with regards to the state budget act,
I just want the provide you with a
brief overview of where things landed.
I want to talk the a little bit about
our in lieu vlf funding actions, h.r.1
solutions that were included in the
state budget and other notable
proposals.
so, with regards to the overall state
budget, on june 29, the governor did
sign the 26-27 state budget and the
budget act allocates a total of 351
billion dollars with 251.5 billion
dollars coming from the general fund.
and this is roughly 2 billion dollars
less than the legislature's budget
plan but about 4 billion dollars more
than the administration's may revision
proposal.
and the act sets a record with total
reserves of 35.2 billion dollars.
it balances the general fund for
fiscal years 26-27, 27-28 and reduces
the projected 29-30 structural deficit
from 23 billion dollars to 8.4 billion
compared to the governor's january
budget.
the plan also proposes changes to the
fiscal reserve calculations and
scheduled to boost deposits, while the
budget avoids delays of many safety
net cut proposals talked about last
year in the may revision, it still
does not fully fund all of the county's
priorities.
okay.
so, on to in lieu vlf, to supervisor
mueller's already talked a little bit
about this but I want to level set
here for the public about where we
landed with the vlf.
the following slide provides a summary
of where we are with regards to the
county's efforts to secure our in lieu
vlf funding for the fiscal year 24-25.
the state budget only appropriated 80
million in one-time general fund to
san mateo, mono and alpine counties,
77 million dollars of this 80 million
is designated for san mateo county and
its cities.
the amount that was actually due was
119 million plus approximately 80
million that is due from the past two
prior fiscal years.
so, as supervisor mueller mentioned,
the county the recently learned that
its projected fiscal year 25-26 vlf
shortfall is now approximately 226
million dollars of which 134 million
is the county's share.
so, clearly with a deficit of this
size, this has become our number one
priority to work on this session, the
rest of the session and for the
foreseeable future.
so, you'll be hearing more about this
at your study session on thursday as
well as at the press conference, but I
can assure you that we are spending
quite a lot of time working on this
issue currently.
alright.
now on to the h.r. Related budget
solutions, with regard to h.r.1, the
following adjustment were included in
the recent state budget.
with regards to medi-cal eligibility
work, there was 197 million dollars in
one-time general fund for county
eligibility related to h.r.1
implementation.
so, the human services agency
estimates that a total of 9.9 million
dollars in one-time administrative
funding including approximately 7.4
million for h.r.1 implementation and
2.5 million for cost of doing business
will be received as a result.
as of june 2026, approximately 52
thousand san mateo county medi-cal
beneficiaries may be affected by 6
month redetermination and work
requirements, these changes are to
increase eligibility workload and
activities as clients navigate
renewals and documentation rimers.
with regards to public hospitals, the
budget included 250 million general
fund to support grants to public
hospitals for health care expenditures
and the funding is going to be scribed
through a grant system, however that
methodology hasn't yet been set.
with regards to calfresh county
eligibility work, the budget included
223 million, again, one-time general
.fund for county eligibility work
available for expenditure until june
30, 2029.
so, again, hsa anticipates
approximately 2.5 million in
additional one-time calfresh
administrative funding tied to
able-bodied adults without dependents
h.r.1 work requirement implementation.
the county match waiver provides
partial fiscal relief by capping the
required county contribution at the
fiscal year 24-25 level and still this
does not eliminate all county share
exposure if the allocation is depleted.
with regards to behavioral health,
there was no funding included in the
current state budget, so efforts
continue to attempt to secure funding
for implementation of those changes
and then finally related to indigent
care, no funding was included, county
affiliates and associations are
currently working on an alternative
proposal that would provide 100
million in one-time bridge funding to
counties.
the county's going to be sending a
letter regarding that in the next
couple of days and we're working with
csec on that.
county health originally anticipated
that 36 thousand 2 harbinger to 53
thousand 700 or about 21-31% of san
mateo county residents are currently
enrolled in medi-cal and could lose
their coverage in estimated ongoing
financial losses of 24.9 million for
fiscal year 26-27.
and an additional 19.7 million the
following year for a total of 44.6
million in fiscal year 27-28.
now the that the state budget is
finalized, county health will work
with the county human service agency
to update these numbers, county
affiliated associations are also
currently developing this alternative
indigent care proposal.
alright.
and to close out, the state budget
update, there were a few other notable
proposals that I just want to quickly
review with you this morning.
the first is hhap funding, the homeless
funding and homeless assist pant
program fund, there was 900 million,
this was a top priority for csec, I
should say preliminary hhap round for
san mateo county is expected at 5.6
million over three years compared to
hhap round 6 allocation of around 4
million dollars.
[inaudible].
with allocations to be determined by
the judicial council, 20 million in
one-time general fund of the 50 to the
judicial council to reverse previously
planned reduction to pretrial services
and a 20 million dollars one-time
general fund to county behavioral
health departments for capacity
building centiliters so the health
system predicts that one-time
funding will be available for training
and support for first responders and
homeless outreach workers and the
distribution is still yet to be
determined.
in terms of voca, the victims of crime
act, 50 million dollars in one-time
general fund for counties, this is an
increase of 25 million that was
proposed in the may revision,
distribution detailers -- details
have been released yes, the county
receive as pass through of federal
funds of about 461 thousand dollars a
year, so more details to come on that.
with regards to the elections, there
was a total of 34 million dollars in
one-time general fund for counties
included in the budget to expedite the
vote counting process and for voter
outreach and education, this
includes 29 million to increase the
number of available staff to tabulate
the votes and 5 million to provide
voter outreach and education before
the november 3 election and san
mateo county's allocation of that 34
million is 521 authorization dollars.
and finally other health san mateo
county health county challenges
include the transition of medi-cal uis
population to manage care -- for
managed care to fee for service, so to
comply with federal guidance issued
in september, the department of
health care services proposes
transitioning approximately 2 million
uis enrollees from the mangle care
delivery system to to a fee for
service delivery system effective
january 1, 2027.
an alternative to this proposal was
not included in the final budget.
so the health plan of san mateo
estimates that probability 40
thousand uis persons live in san mateo
county with about half seeking care at
the medical center.
this is a significant concern as it
would likely mean reduced access to
care for the uis medi-cal
beneficiaries and lower reimbursement
for the medical center.
and their current estimates are that a
loss of about 3.6 million dollars in
fiscal year 26-27.
so, with that, I'm going pass it on to
ellie from my team who will review the
legislation.
>> good morning, president corzo,
members of the board, mr. Callagy, mr.
nibbelin,, I'm ellie with the igps
unit, there's a lot happening so I
will be quib, I will be providing an
overview of several new billets the
county has taken action on in
alignment with the county's
legislative session program.
I'll highlight a few key issues we're
tracking during these final weeks of
session as well as several items we'll
watching in the coming months as we
head towards the november general
election.
with that I'll start with the new
bills the county has taking .positions
on, six in support and one in
opposition.
first on the list, sb968, becker, this
bill would make the community college
districts existing authority to use
local unrestricted general funds for
student fee waivers and other
assistance permanent rather than
having the authority sunset on july 1,
2028.
we're happy to report that this bill
has been signed and chattered.
next is ab1838, berman, had this bill
would require contractors bid on
public works contracts to disclose any
history of wage and hour violations
and provide supporting documentation.
this bill is currently on the senate
appropriations suspense file.
next up we have ab762, irwin, which
would prohibit the manufacturer,
import, sale and distribution of
disposable battery imbedded vaping
devices containing tobacco in
california.
ab1448, hart would strengthen
protections of california's coastal
waters by restricting oil and gas
leasing and related infrastructure in
marine protected areas and national
marine sanctuaries and this bill is
on the senate bill floor pending a
floor vote.
gonzales, ab1607, this is the natty
emergency medical services or ems
funds fund that provides funding for
trauma centers and has a $2 penalty
for every 10 dollars of penalties and
fines imposed for criminal offenses so
this bill is on the senate floor.
the last bill in support is sb2465,
ortega, this has tax credits to
taxpayers involved with private
detention facilities or immigration
enforcement contracts.
this bill is on the senate
appropriations suspense file as well.
now moving to opposition, we have one
bill, sb811, caballero, this
establishes a regulatory structure for
metal shredding facilities,
environmental health concerns here as
it does have one of the facilities in
redwood city, this is on the senate
bill suspense file.
we take actions on bills that are
flagged by your board, our state
associations like csec.
last month we reached out to our
county departments to flag additional
bills that may warrant county
engagement, we're reviewing those
bills and we'll be submitting position
letters on the county's behalf
where appropriate.
so during these final weeks of
session, we're continuing to track
several issues, many of which are
still developing.
this thursday, the senate and assembly
appropriations committee wills hold
their suspense file hearings, members
will weigh the fiscal impacts of bills
and determine which measures will
move forward to the floor for a final
vote and which will not.
there are currently 560 assembly bills
on the senate appropriations suspense
file and 290 senate bills on the
assembly appropriations file, so there
is a lot to look out for.
another issue we've been follow is the
potential reform of the wild fire
liability fund which provides a source
of funding to reimburse claims arising
from wild fires caused by utility
companies.
during summer recess, there were
discussions about potential changes to
the fund, however the administration
and legislature have not yet released
a formal proposal.
but we expect to see more on this in
the coming week.
briefly going back to budget related
issues, the final budget agreement
deferred proposition for climate bond
funding, the legislature are
continuing discussions about how those
funds will be allocated so we expect
there will be more information in the
coming weeks as well.
and finally an issue that has been
elevated by several urban counties
relates to recent legislation
concerning juvenile abuse claimers and
settlements, in 2019, legislation
extended the statute of limitations
for juvenile abuse lawsuits
including claims that may have
occurred decades ago.
this has resulted in significant
fnabler exposure for counties and
other public entities, however senate
laird does have a vehicle sb577 which
is intended to strengthen survivor
response, support and reporting while
also ensuring that counties and other
local agencies have the resources and
support needed to implement the law.
so we'll continue to track these
issues and provide updates as more
detailers become available.
while looking ahead to the november
2026 general election, we have a very
a ballot with 14 proposition, I want
to highlight five of those measures
shown in blue.
csec held two policy committees to
review policy measures that
directly affected county government.
these provided an opportunity to
discuss measures and consider
potential recommendations for support,
opposition or no position.
just moving down the list, proposition
1 would authorize the state to borrow
11.25 billion dollars for affordable
housing and to assist veterans with
home ownership.
the recommended position from the
committee was to support.
proposition 2 is a constitutional
amendment that would allow the state
to deposit up to 20% of its general
fund tax revenues and to the state's
rainy day fund each year doubling the
current 10% limit.
the reck edged position here was
oppose.
proposition 3 would make permanent the
temporary income tax on high earners
approved by voters in 2012.
the tax which can be as high as 12%
applies to household incomes over 721
thousand dollars for couples and over
360 thousand dollars for individuals.
the recommended position is also
oppose.
proposition 43 would increase the
threshold for citizen driven special
tax ballot initiative from a simple
majority to two thirds making it more
difficult to impose or increase local
taxes.
the recommended position here is
oppose.
and the last proposition, prop 45
would amend the california
environmental quality act also known
as ceqa to streamline environmental
reviews for certain housing
transportation, water, health and
clean energy projects.
this was presented as an informational
item so no action was taken.
and just to wrap up this portion, the
recommendations from the csec policy
committees will be forwarded to the
full csec board of directors for final
consideration next week so we're happy
to follow up once those positions are
taken, with that, I'll pass it back
for updates.
>> okay, so to wrap up our
presentation today, so over the last
few months, the house of
representatives has made significant
progress on pis cal year 27
appropriation bills, they have moved
all 12 of its 27 spending bills out of
committee to the full house for
consideration and I'm pleased to their
that the transportation, housing and
urban development appropriation bill
contains two county projects, the
first is 750 thousand dollars for the
middle field road improvements by
-- sponsored by kevin mullen and a 250
thousand grant for coastside
generators from congressman licardo.
as a reminder, members of congress
were limited in the number of
community funding projects they could
submit for these bills so it's great
for the county to have two projects
included.
given the upcoming congressional
recess and the november election,
congress is not expected to finalize
the fiscal year 27 appropriation bills
until the end of the year during the
lame duck session.
in june, congress passed and the
president signed into law a second
budget reconciliation package.
the bill provided 69.5 billion dollars
in funding for immigration and custom
enforcement, border protection, it
will fund both ice and vbp during the
month of trump's second term.
there's possibly a third budget
package with the department of defense.
many june, they passed a housing bill
entitled the 21st century road to
housing act, the legislation is a
product of bipartisan negotiations of
the senate, banking and the financial
services committee, it includes updates
to the home investment partnership
program a three year reauthorization
of the community development block
grant disaster recovery program and
additional flexibility of cdbg funds
to be used to fund affordable housing
projects.
turning to the administration on may
29, the office of management and
budget published a proposed that would
represent a significant overhaul of
federal grant regulations.
the proposed rule would give federal
agencies broad authority to terminate
grantees on a basis that they no
longer serve program goals, agency
priorities or national interests.
there's a lot of other elements
included in this proposed rule.
I can say that the proposed rule
public comment period closed on july
13, the county signed on to a
coalition comment letter expressing
our strong opposition to the proposed
changes and our county federal
advocacy team has been actively
engaged on this issue working closely
with nako, the national association of
counties and other organizations to
raise awareness and emg kate members
about the proposed rules, potential
impacts and advocate for
congressional action.
it's also important to note that the
-- there was a delay included in the
current cr that would push this
implementation of this proposed rule
out to december 11.
so, the cr is now before the house for
consideration in september.
and finally both the house and the
senate are now in august congressional
recess and between now and the
november elections, the senate is
scheduled to be in session for only
three weeks and the house is
scheduled to be in session for only
four weeks.
so, and as such, the it is expected
that once congress returns to dc in
september, it will act on a small
number of legislative items before
adjourning until after the election.
alright.
and finally I just wanted to provide
you with a quick update on our
coordinated -- to update your board on
coordinated actions between the county
attorney's office and my unit,
again, several trump administration
actions, so this slide provides you
with an overview of these actions
taken to date which include submission
of public comments on behalf of county
and consistent with your board's
standing federal legislative policy,
so we've been very busy coordinating
with the county attorney's
office to try to keep track of all of
these different proposals coming in
from washington and working closely
together to submit comments as needed,
so -- and my unit will continue to
work closely with the county
attorney's office, our departments and
our federal lobbying team to take
needed actions.
so, with that, I'm happy to take any
questions, I would say that the
current agenda includes our full
report, so for more details, so again
happy to take any questions.
>> thank you for that presentation.
I appreciate how thorough it was, I do
think it's important that we continue
to get these updates so that we are
aware of the broader landscape and the
impacts on the county.
so, any questions or comments from my
colleagues?
okay.
hearing none, I have just a couple
myself.
so, you know, we started the
presentation with an overview of the
vehicle license fee, we'll obviously
go more in depth on that at the study
session on thursday, for the public, I
wanted to reiterate we will be having
a press conference and study session
on this topic thursday at 1 p.m. And I
want to thank supervisor speier and
supervisor mueller for their
efforts on coordinating that.
I also wanted to flag some of the
positives you reviewed.
we are one of the few counties in the
state that still has a county medical
center and the funding for
medi-cal and managed care, fee for
service will be helpful.
it will likely not be enough but the
it is helpful and so -- and supervisor
speier and I are on that, we will
focus on that area.
and lastly I also was happy to hear
the doubling of the voca funds, it's
for this year only but it's helpful
and we look forward to using that
funding in this county and I serve on
the coalition to end abuse, violence
and exploitation in our county and we
are going to be working to review our
county legislative priorities and
see if there are any enfolding dashing
we have for the next round and I
encourage my colleagues to do the same
in their respective committees and
thank you, thank you for the
presentation, helpful information.
>> I have a question.
>> supervisor canepa?
>> thank you so much, connie, I
appreciate the presentation.
can you speak a little, I mean,
obviously protecting our democracy is
paramount and obviously there was an
appropriation given to the county, I
think it was what, 521 thousand
dollars out of the 34 million dollars.
what I didn't see, I saw within your
report but I couldn't find it was the
appropriation at the 521 thousand
dollars, you could appropriate it for
equipment, is that correct and
staffing, those are one-time dollars,
what I would like to understand
clearly is what are the restrictions
relative to spending those dollars
down?
>> sure.
through the chair, supervisor canepa,
so, 34 until one-time general fund for
all the 58 counties and 29 million of
that is to increase the number of
available staff to tabulate votes to
make equipment purchases or technology
upgrades or to acquire space to
accommodate additional staff or
equipment purchases, to expedite the
vote counting process, 5 million
is to provide voter outreach and
education before the november 3
election, I'm happy to provide you
with the details related to that.
>> I guess you may not have the answer
and I may talk with the chief
elections officer about this.
there has been some concerns raised
about -- you know, these concerns go
years around our elections, not only
being unsafe through cyber threat but
in addition to that, the issue of
people, whether it's the national
guard, whether it's ice in our polling
boxes.
I would be curious to know if some of
that money could be designated in that
direction or what your opinion of that
is.
>> I don't have an answer for you,
supervisor canepa, but I can certainly
look into that and get more
information for you about that.
>> great, thank you so much, connie.
>> okay.
hearing no other questions or
comments, thank you and I do believe
we need a motion to accept.
>> so moved.
>> thank you.
>> we have a tie for second, who wants
it?
>> you could have it.
>> okay, so motion by canepa, second
by gauthier, roll call vote, please.
>> supervisor speier?
>> aye.
>> supervisor mueller is absent.
supervisor gauthier?
>> yes.
>> supervisor canepa?
>> yes.
>> and president corzo?
>> yes.
>> motion passes to accept it.
>> thank you, we are now moving to
item number 5, it is a public hearing,
so with that, we will conduct a public
hearing and I'm going to pass it to
director monowitz.
>> thank you, good afternoon,
president corzo, supervisors, mr.
callagy, mr. Nibbelin, I'm here to
present the planning and building
staff's recommendation on an appeal of
the planning commission's decision to
deny the same appeal that was brought
to the planning commission regarding
the staff's approval of a design
review permit and grading permit for a
new home on jefferson avenue in the
emerald lake hills area.
so, this slide shows the location of
the property it's directly adjacent to
o the upper lake in emerald lake hills.
its zoning is residential hillside
design review, the lot size is a
little bit over 21 thousand square
feet.
here's an aerial photo of the property
and the appellant's property behind it.
you'll note that the subject property
currently has a home on it, that
home will be demolished.
the site was subdivided in 2021, so
the project that we'll be talking
about will be the new home on the portion
of the property where the blue arrow
is pointing.
here's the design of the home, you can
see it's a flag lot design, so it's
got a driveway coming off of
jefferson, it leads down to the three
car garage that's in the upper left
corner of the screen and then the
proposed residence is attached.
this floor plan shows the second story
of the proposed home and it indicates
the window that is of concern to the
appellant which I'll be talking about
a little bit more on the next slides.
here's the elevations of the new home.
the elevation on the bottom with the
blue cloud calls out the window of
concern to the appellant.
as reviewed by planning and building
staff and confirmed by the planning
commission, the project is in
conformance with the general plan the
general plan designates this area for
low density residential.
the project also required a staff
level grading permit and it was
determined that the project complies
with all the relevant provisions of
the grading regulations.
this table shows all the zoning
requirements that the development is
subject to, so as you can see the
project complies with setback
requirements as well as height, floor
area ratio and site coverage
limitations.
so, as I noted, the planning
commission heard the appeal
previously, approved the project on
april 8, it was a 3-0 vote and the
planning commission added an
additional condition to try to be
responsive to the concerns of the
appellant regarding the privacy
concerns of the additional window.
the the additional requirement was to
replace the planned pittosporum hedge
trees with a larger hedge to provide
privacy.
to get into the appellant's
contentions here, the concern is about
the second story bedroom which she
feels affects her privacy.
it's because of the elevation change,
the second story window's pretty much
at the same level as the first story
of the appellant's house.
I note that the proposed home is 50
feet from the property line, the
appellant's home is about 60 feet from
the property line so you have a
distance of 110 feet between the
window and the appellant's home which
I think greatly defines the
potential of any significant privacy
concerns.
as I noted earlier, the planning
commission did add an additional
addition requiring some tree planting
to try to address the
appellant's concerns.
the appellant's second concern is
regarding drainage.
she's concerned that the project could
contribute to fluid flooding on her
property.
I understand there's been drainage
problems in the area in the past.
however, our assessment of this
situation is that the proposed
development is downhill from the
appellant's property.
jefferson is at a higher elevation so
there will need to be a curb cut for
the driveway.
that's been carefully designed, the
drainage system has been reviewed by
our technical team at planning and
building and we don't believe that
this driveway cut will contribute any
sort of flooding to the neighboring
property.
the project was exempt from
environmental review under the
california environmental quality act
and our recommendation is that the
board of supervisors approve the
design review permit and grading
permit.
and I'm happy to answer any questions
you may have.
>> thank you.
any questions from the board?
then we'll move the open the public
hearing, or do we open it now?
>> madam president, you can take
questions now for sure.
>> okay, questions, supervisor speier?
>> was there any discussion about
somehow frosting those upper story
windows, I guess it's a bedroom, is
that correct?
>> that's correct.
I don't recall a discussion about that.
I do think the applicant is here and
will want to speak toward -- to the
point of the light they hope to get
through that window.
>> okay.
>> any other questions?
okay.
hearing none, I would love to hear
a motion to open the public hearing.
>> thank you, we have a motion and a
second, roll call vote.
>> supervisor speier?
>> aye.
>> supervisor mueller?
supervisor gauthier?
>> yes.
>> supervisor canepa?
>> aye.
>> president corzo?
>> yes.
>> motion passes.
>> it would normally be your practice
to afford the applicant to speak
first and it's your stressing the amount
of time, historically we've allowed
the applicant up to ten minutes and
the ability to reserve some of that
time to respond to comments.
>> yes.
let's go ahead and do that.
we will hear from the applicant.
>> we would start with the appellant
and then the applicant would speak.
>> and how much time did you recommend?
>> I think it's been your historical
practice to the allow up to 10 minutes
total split between the opening and
any rebuttal.
>> okay.
sounds good, we'll do ten minutes, I
would like the appellant to come up.
and let's get the timer up, please.
>> can you speak directly into the
mic., we can't hear you well.
>> I was told ten minutes of the
presentation time and my presentation
is written, but if it will be any
smaller, then I guess I will have to --
>> please use your ten minutes as
best you can.
>> good morning, the board of
supervisors, will you my presentation
today, you will see how the planned
new house on -- how do I move?
okay.
how the they planned the house on 3865
jefferson invades the privacy of my
house and the backyard, how the
commission's decision to enhance the
privacy violates the county fence
ordinance and takes away our light and
air.
it also burdens us with a boundary
visitation, maints nans and that would
likely interfere with the boundary
fence so the grading permit approval
can despite of missing information
bypasses reviews by various
departments such as the parks
department and public works as well as
the public works.
new house plans must follow rules and
I would like you to sit about five
seconds with it because I don't have a
lot of time.
right to privacy and light and air are
supported by county rules, at the
design ve view, the they posed a
significant county issue and we talked
about for and other measures such as
changing the window to a clear story
but it was recommended, the county
reck edged change as a measure of
changing the window to a clear story
but while that reduced the privacy
burden greatly, the reck .ed dashing
will not yield any result, they can
just toss it, it doesn't have any
mandatory enforcement.
to our request to make the privacy
measure mandatory, the commissioner
decided on the 25 feet tree hedge at
the boundary and failed to consider
the consequences, so 25 feet hedge is
bad because it's a -- it poses a big
block of light and air which violate
it is fence rules, 25 feet is for
the prisons to incarcerate people to
separate them from the society, it's
not for the side yard.
we should not be forced to choose
between the privacy and light and air.
and I believe the existing county
rules support that.
the invasion is recognized and I'm not
going to spend a lot of time but this
is kind of -- I'm sorry, this picture
is a composite of rendering of our
view from the deck, I have put markers
to give how this is reasonable, but I
guess the point is that this is how it
would look from our backyard, our
deck, and our living room.
and as you can see, if there was a 25
foot hedge all the way, there's only a
small slice of it that it will do its
job but all the other places is a
boundary will do little for the
privacy but negatively impacts our
light and air.
this, if you look at this, the photo,
the windows are designed just to look
at their driveway and our backyards
and our house, it's directly right
there, and you can see the markers I
placed, if you compare that with the
previously one, then you can see that
my previous composite photo is
reasonable as the rendering and so
what is the commissioners' solution
was, as the director of planning
presented, it is replacing the hedge
with the 25 foot trees.
and located with the pink right there
all the way, like 200 feet of hedges
-- of the 25 feet high trees.
there are all those little doses,
those are the pittosporum that is
recommended to change and where it is
empty is where it is supposed to be
interactive with my trees so they put
the protection plan on them and that's
where the missing tree is, but that's
not where my trees are and it was cut
down three years ago prior to
submitting this plan.
so, what commissioners got wrong is
that condition 6 conflicts with the
county the rules and the vague
language could allow the project owner
to place tree hedges height of 25 and
more to be placed all along the side
yard downed boundary of the 3575
jefferson avenue.
and so what is the fence rule that
commissioners' decision violates, one
of the stated purpose of the county
zoning ordinance is to provide
adequate light and air, privacy and
convenience of access to the property
and some of that purpose is captured
in the fence height ordinance, hedges
not exceed 6 feet in side or rear yard.
the photo is a hedge violation, this
is a boundary between 3875 jefferson
and the boundary the commission
ordered to place a 25 foot hedge.
so, what are we asking, our ask is not
let the new development take away our
privacy nor our light and air, any of
clear story design, reduction of
windows, changing the windows or
relocating behind the mature trees,
any of those will protect privacy of
both bourses and the new house without
needing a 25 visual screening, so we
respectfully ask the board to revise
the condition number 6 to state that
any planned vegetation must comply
with fence hedge height rules and not
interfere with a recorded easement
on the subject property to provide
access to the common light.
if the board does require particular
planting, either provide a specific
plan including locations and require
the applicant to submit such a plan
for the future review, there are
additional issues and I will have
further slides to -- to prove my
points of privacy and the improved
landscaping plan and easements and
other things but in particular, there
are missing information for the
grading and drainage plan and those
information includes mature trees that
require tree protections and the parks
department would need to review and
for these reasons, I would like to ask
for consideration of a de novo hearing.
>> I want to remind you, you have two
minutes left, if you want time to
rebuttal, you will have to save that
time.
>> so, like I said, one thing is this
is like the violation -- I'm sorry,
this is a violation by the 3865 that
was given for the hedges, the owner
planted to block our view of the lake.
this is the easement that the owner
is planning to landscape, this is the
existing conditions, we have a lot of
mature trees.
and -- so, the de novo hearing I'm
asking for is regarding to the missing
information.
the location of the trees of 12 inches
or more of die am the ter within 12
feet of the area is the minimum
required information for the grading
permit.
it's missing.
it's not there at all.
and that tree also needs a tree
protection plan reviewed by the parks
department, so it completely bypassed
the parks department review and also
the culvert ending at the my property
3875 jefferson is within the 50 feet
of the proposed work.
so, with this missing information, how
can the county evaluate even the --
like drain analysis or anything like
that and when they bypassed the review
of the appropriate departments because
--
>> thank you, that's your time.
>> our ask for a grading permit is to
consider all facts of this appeal from
the scratch.
thank you.
>> thank you.
>> I would like to just thank the
county staff of planning for all their
work and I really appreciate and I
think it is our job as an interested
party to provide the missing
information the applicant is
withholding.
>> thank you.
>> we will now put ten minutes on the
clock for the applicant.
>> good afternoon, my name is steve
simpson, I'm the architect for the
project and the applicant for the
project.
I'll be brief.
when we started the design process for
this house over a year ago now, we
were given one clear direction on this
property from our client who lives
next door and has lived next door for
30 years and that was to minimize the
exposure of the second floor to the
lake and to make it as narrow as
possible, to mitigate multiple
neighbors' view of the lake, so the
house is a little unorthodox or ranged
a little different from a assigning
standpoint for that reason.
the second floor is basically one room
wide from front to back and that's to
create a very narrow profile
perpendicular to the lake .
that was done proactively by us.
so, we -- what that did is it resulted
in one window on the first floor, so
we've been reluctant to turn as the
appellant asked, to clear it into a
clear story window, you can see up out
of it but our concern just from an
architectural standpoint is the house
-- because of how it's set up is going
the look like a fortress and just from
a livability standpoint, that's going
to be a kid's bedroom and we don't
want to put a high window up there
they can't see out of.
we feel we've done a lot so far
proactively, we could have designed a
second floor across the whole width of
the house.
we had proposed privacy plantings
around that perimeter with the
appellant initially, the proposal,
when the suggestion came up at the
planning commission to make that more
robust, we thought that was totally
reasonable and agreed to do it
immediately.
we're also agreeable to change that in
a way if we went too far or the kind
of tactically arrange those trees in a
way that helps the neighbor more.
I mean, we're totally flexible on what
we do there.
privacy issue is a two way street.
the appellant's house is uphill, it's
looking down on this property so this
this property is going to want some
privacy from that property as well.
so, I think some kind of screening
mitigation is the right answer here.
we've got 110, 120 feet
between the structures to deal with,
so I think that's the best way to do
it.
again, we're agreeable to do that in a
more tactical way that benefits the
appellant's privacy but we're
reluctant to change the house and the
windows just because we have so very
little window now facing the front.
the drainage issue, I'm puzzled, the
property is completely downhill from
this, we have one of the best caviler
engineers in the peninsula working
on this, we have a complex system of
retention and bioswale planned in this
development, but we're in no way
affecting how the water operates on
the uphill property.
so, with that, I'll leave it at that.
if there's anything I can -- any
questions I can answer, add any
clarity, I'm happy to do that.
>> thank you.
with that, I believe we will open it
up for public comment.
>> I do have one speaker card from
chambers, thomas greenberg.
>> my name is thomas greenberg, I live
on 931 lake view which is abutting on
the appellant's property just on the
left side of all the diagrams, I'm
also on the h-way board for the had
-- hoa that oversees all the homes in
that area that both the appellant and
the [inaudible] are members of.
>> can you speak into the
microphone.
>> I'm very familiar with both
properties, I've spent a great amount
of time on hoa property which abuts
that which is basically upper emerald
hills lake, I also previously helped
out the previous owners of the
appellant's home taking care of their
coy pond.
what the appellant failed to
disclose, they have clear cut their
yard, they have taken out a number of
mature trees, they have taken out a
number of trees that would have
blocked any view of the upcoming
project in an effort to try to create
some type of view that didn't exist
before and have blamed the problem on
the people trying to develop and
create use of the land.
their house, the only windows that
would be affected is their bedroom.
their living space windows and all
other windows in their house look out
in a different direction, they
wouldn't be able to see a new development,
their bedroom is an anything 30, 40
feet past the start of house, probably
50 feet so, when we're talking about
the view, it's well over 100 feet and
altitude, there's almost no privacy
concern, so far you wouldn't be able
to see anything, I don't think the it
will be an issue.
everyone in the neighborhood is well
in favor of the project, it's a
beautiful project and I want to thank
you for your time.
>> alright.
thank you, we'll go to zoom for
comments on sigh -- item number 5, if
you would like to make a comment, raise
your hand at this time.
seeing no hands, no more public
comment.
>> thank you.
with that, I believe we can close the
public hearing.
is there a motion to close the public
hearing.
thank you.
roll call vote.
>> supervisor speier?
>> aye.
>> supervisor mueller is absent.
supervisor gauthier?
>> yes.
>> supervisor canepa?
>> aye.
>> president corzo?
>> yes.
>> motion passes to close the hearing.
>> thank you, bringing it back to the
board for discussion and a motion
potentially.
any comments or a motion?
>> a question of the --
>> supervisor canepa?
>> director monowitz, can you speak a
little bit, I think it was the
applicant who talked about the
screening, maybe the architect would
like to speak to that, sort of what
the benefits are to the adjacent
property owner if it was screened.
>> sure, and I would like to --
>> would you like to come up, sir.
why don't you come up.
>> okay.
we did a little simulation, so you
want to see what it might look like.
>> yes.
>> yeah, we had -- so, this is from
the appellant's property looking at
the house after the trees that we
proposed to plant year one.
they're 12 feet tall or so as they go
in.
year two, about this tall.
again, we're amenable to changing
that or moving those around, and
that's not taking anything into
consideration of what's on the uphill
property but I don't know if that
helps you in any way, but that's kind
of what we would be looking at
immediately -- sorry, I'm not good
with this.
>> the previous speaker had mentioned,
I believe he's the president of the
hoa that the -- her location, that the
trees were allegedly cut down, does
she currently have a view of the lake,
is that her --
>> I imagine, yes.
I haven't been on the property but I
imagine, yeah, one property removed,
yes.
>> if you could follow my line of
questions.
is the proposed project before us,
does that eliminate her view in its
totality or is it 20%?
>> no, it's the width of that second
story over the width of the lake, so
it's a very small percentage I would
imagine.
>> got it.
so, according to you, you're the
architect, she would still have a view
but the it would just be a lesser
portion than what she currently has
now?
>> yes, there are at least three
properties in the same situation, so we
took that into consideration, we
presented the narrowest profile to
that, so yeah, it's just the width.
>> are there any other mitigation you
have thought of relative to --
>> again, we started off with a lot I
think, we're hesitant to make the
window a clear story, I hear you about
the frosted glass, we're hesitant to
did that and this is a fairly
substantial house and a great location
on a lake, we need to do something a
little special there and frosted glass
tends to look like it got fogged up
but I know there will be window
coverings in those rooms, they're not
floor to ceiling, they're three feet
off the ground in the upper floor and
they go up a little high but they're
not floor to ceiling, so, we thought
the screening was the best option.
>> thank you.
>> supervisor speier?
>> to just follow up on the screening,
when you put that simulation up, it
showed that after year two, all of
those trees are much taller.
at some point, doesn't -- can you
put that back up a minute so we can
look at it.
>> yes.
>> so, that's when they're initially
planted, this is year one.
>> this would be about year two, these
trees grow about two to three feet a
year.
>> so, the extent to which these trees
are growing on the other side of the
house where they may be having a view
of the lake, it becomes less viewable
I guess, is that correct?
>> correct.
>> I think your willingness to work
with the appellant and maybe reduce
where those trees are and limit it to
where the bedroom is area, that may
satisfy her privacy concerns and I'm
wondering if it would be appropriate
to postpone taking final action and
allow the parties to get together and
see if they can resolve the issues
around the screening.
>> I would say another option
available would be for us to adjust
the conditions of approval right now
to require that they submit a revised
landscape plan that limits the tree
planting to that necessary to provide
privacy screening between the windows.
>> okay, I'm happy to make that part
of a motion.
>> supervisor mueller?
>> so, I've been up on -- in this
area as you can imagine having
represented, I have been up in this
area and seen this area.
when you live near one of these lakes
at a distance from the other homes
around it, it does not entitle you to
a view of the lake, many of the
homes on the lake like block the view
of the lake from the others.
so, you know, if you wanted a lake
front house, you bought a lake front
house is where I kind of land on
this issue.
I don't -- I really -- I have
difficulty with this one given the
distance from one house to the other
and the distance to the lake to be
making accommodations for someone,
just candidly.
so, our planning commission is pretty
-- I also having been on the board
now, our planning commission is pretty
tight, they're pretty strict and
they approved this one to come
through, so I am fine with letting
this one go.
>> can I just comment on that?
>> yes, supervisor speier?
>> so, what we're base basically doing
is reducing the amount of trees that
are going to be planted by the
applicant, so it's going to reduce
their cost, it's going to create
greater privacy for the appellant and
I don't see any harm to do that
personally.
>> so, can I jump in here now?
so, 100% agree with supervisor
mueller, the planning commission made
their ruling, they are following the
county regulations they have in front
of them.
I think when you buy a property, you
do not control your neighbor's
properties and what that means for you
and I don't think we should be making
accommodations.
I think if the parties waned --
wanted to get together and plant less
trees, that's up to them.
I don't think it's our decision to
make or to mandate.
anyone else want to add anything,
supervisor gauthier?
>> yeah, I have a question for you,
steve.
can you again -- visually I'm trying
to think about what 110 feet looks
like, what are we considering?
because they're not exactly next door
neighbors.
>> no, I'm going to guess wall to
wall perhaps.
>> okay.
>> 50?
>> so double this room.
>> I guess I'm not good at guessing
distances.
>> that's why I asked you.
>> honestly, that would be --
>> I was thinking in nautical terms.
>> so, when you're thinking about the
distance as well, they're not right
next door, so there's going to be some
separation, if there's trees that go
up, that also helps, I'm not
inclined to making people change
things.
I hope you're all going to be
neighborly, there's an hoa, it would
be great the if everybody could get
along.
I'm more concerned about the appellant
talking about missing information.
what is she referencing when she says
missing information?
>> there are specific plan
requirements.
she made certain assertions about
bypassing reviews, that's not the case.
and just with regard to the amount of
information in each plan set, what
we're talking about now is the design
review approval and the grading permit.
the project's going to require a
building permit and at that point,
they submit very detailed construction
plans and that's at the point where
we'll make sure those construction
plans also include all the tree
protection requirements that she
mentioned.
so, at the design review stage, we
don't always ask for people to include
every specific detail because there's
a possibility that the design review
officer or the planning commission
could require revisions to that design
which would then necessitate revisions
to the plan set.
so, the plan certainly included all
the information that we needed to make
a responsible decision on the
application.
>> so, I appreciate that and I agree
with the applicant, if you're downhill
and somebody's uphill, they're looking
down at your window versus most of the
time you're not looking up at someone
else's, with the trees, I think that
would be adequate.
thank you.
>> thank you.
okay.
I will -- is there a motion on this?
>> are we just moving approval of the
planning commission's decision with
this process?
>> yes.
>> okay.
>> I move the motion to deny the
appeal thereby approving the planning
xhis's action.
>> I'll second it.
>> roll call.
>> supervisor speier?
>> no.
>> supervisor mueller?
>> yes.
frns supervisor gauthier?
>> yes.
>> supervisor canepa?
>> aye.
>> president corzo?
>> yes.
>> motion passes.
>> with that, we are moving on to our
next item which is item number 6,
introduction of an ordinance amending
chapter 7.80 of the san mateo county
ordinance related to electric
micromobility devices, the sponsors
are supervisor speier and supervisor
mueller.
do we want to break for lunch and do
closed session?
>> I prefer not, a lot of people have
been waiting for quite a bit and I
don't think it has to take much time.
>> please go ahead and introduce your
item.
>> thank you, madam president.
you know the history, we've had town
halls, we've had a draft ordinance
produced march 10 which we shared with
all the cities, we had a study session
on may 5 and heard from the public
health director, traffic officer,
deputy larson from the sheriff's
office, the county attorney, the
district attorney, several doctors,
youth speakers, bicycle and e-bike
advocates, we've also met consistently
with bicycle and safe street advocates
and local leaders in education to
receive their input and support.
there is a new study that has just
increased the number of tragic
accidents, we've had a number here in
san mateo county, you'll be hearing
from one of the parents of aiden fong,
my office recently spoke with the
redwood city resident about his injury
encountering e-bike.
this was an e-bike injury, but an
e-bike rider was on the sidewalk
coming towards the pedestrian, he was
a teen and riding fast and on his
phone, the elderly pedestrian moved
quickly to evade him, tripped on a
root, fell and broke his hip requiring
a year of recovery.
the teen driver kept going and again
injury occurred and not even
recognized in terms of the data.
we received requests from law
enforcement and the cities to create
this model ordinance.
of course they can amend it locally to
the extent they want.
based on our meetings and the board's
prior discussion, we've revised the
ordinance to be less confusing in its
terminology including the difference
between legal e-bikes and what
amounts to an illegal motorcycle to
the allow sidewalk riding with
conditions, to reduce the fine for
first violations from $100 to $50, the
ordinance continues to allow minors to
attend an education program instead of
a fine for the first offense, it comes
effective january 1, 2027 giving the
sheriff's office more time to create
the education diversion program and
processes.
we're going to the hear from a few
witnesses, sheriff binder and can
deputy larson, ming fong, the father
of the four year-old who died at the
the burlingame accident, but first let
me field to supervisor mueller.
>> I want to thank you for your work
on this, you worked incredibly hard on
this, to say I'm a co-sponsor on this
is kind and generous, just tremendous
amount of work and I hope we pass this
today.
>> okay.
>> thank you.
we will now welcome sheriff binder.
>> thank you very much, and just a
brief statement on my behalf, I want
to thank the board for considering
this ordinance.
I believe that it enhances public
safety in the unincorporated areas.
it does a number of good things, it
helps close the gap between what the
the current state law allows for the
vehicle code right now and it also
allows youth to be able to become
educated for first time violations and
it also gives us the ability to take
dangerous devices off of the streets,
so I also believe it's an excellent
model ordinance that other cities
within the county that are looking for
something similar could model their
own muni codes and ordinances after,
for those reasons, I hope the board
will consider adopting the ordinance.
I do think the it is good for public
safety, thank you.
>> deputy larson?
>> madam president, board member,
thank you for having me again, deputy
larson with sheriff's office, I'm one
of the traffic units as well as lead
investigators, here to speak to you in
support of the ordinance.
just last week in my personal
experience, I stopped two kids, one 12
year-old, one 13 year-old, went
about 35, 40 miles an hour on a
freeway overpass, they were on
e-motos, they informed me their
parents bought it for them, they moved
their way up to that, I had a long
conversation with them and the parents
about the education, they're doing an
education first approach helping the
diversion process in the ordinance
which is a great aspect to have.
I continually see this every day when
I'm at work and off work, kids taking
up el camino real going to and from
school, I know school start this is
week, we're going to have an increase
in that, this ordinance only helps
clarify what's in the code.
the accidents that we're also
seeing with this -- with e-bikes at
faster speeds and they're not wearing
proper helmets to go at those speeds
is motorcycle accidents, severe head
trauma, severe bleeding, lacerations,
this is all stuff I see very
consistently in motorcycle accidents
and now we're seeing it with kids in
e-bike accidents quite often so
getting the education out there is
even more important for the parents
and for the kids.
again, this only clarifies everything
and it also helps pedestrians on the
sidewalk, it helps restrict the speeds
on sidewalks which is very important.
I'm a very big advocate of keeping the
speeds lower on sidewalks to help the
pedestrians cross so accidents don't
happen, just background on that, I do
a lot of math with my investigations,
your average e-bike rider, a 200 pound
male on an e-bike, if they're going a
speed of about 5 miles an hour, the he
were to hit a pedestrian at 3 miles an
hour, you're looking at 60.75 pounds
of force.
that's only at 5 miles an hour, due to
physics, if you double that to 10
miles an hour which isn't too much
faster, but even just doubling that,
the pound damage increases to 676
pounds so it substantially quantifies
it and makes it more significant, this
ordinance helps keep those speeds low,
it keep it is public safe.
we want our kids to be safe and we
want the commuters to be safe and the
riders to be safe as well, so thank
you for your time.
.
>> thank you.
>> then county attorney john nibbelin?
>> thank you, supervisor.
I was hoping maybe you could bring up
the presentation that -- do we have a
presentation that got sent to you?
okay, let me spend a few minutes and
just ducktail, I wanted to talk a bit
about the mechanics, the nuts and
bolts of the ordinance, supervisor
speier, supervisor mueller and the
sheriff and deputy larson talked at
the policy level about why this is so
important, but I think one of the
things worth noting is what we're
bringing back is something very
similar to what we had a chance to
talk with the board about in prior
meetings and it does as was noted by
deputy larson, a lot of what the
ordinance does in is in the first
instance sets forth there's already a
body of law here that exists in state
law and the ordinance through its
findings sets forth the county's
and the sheriff's commitment to
enforcement of those laws.
as has been noted as well, a
definition has been added to clarify
what an illegal motorcycle is, an
electric powered motor vehicle
resembling a bicycle that on public
streets doesn't satisfy
specific requirements in the vehicle code
and doesn't satisfy various provisions
of the vehicle code because for
example it doesn't qualify as a
motorcycle, motor driven psych ler or
motorized bicycle for lack of brakes
or lighting or things of that nature,
very clear about what an illegal
motorcycle is and I think that clarity
really elapses to move -- helps to
move the ordinance forward.
there are some local regulations in
this ordinance to address gaps in
state law and we'll talk about what
those are.
there are also some enforcement
provisions, so among the local
regulations that the ordinance
provides for is a prohibition on
operating these vehicles in an unsafe
manner which means that for example
posing a danger to the operator or
others, things like acrobatics, tricks,
stunts that pose body injury or death,
carrying passengers when it's not
designed to carry a passenger,
caring things like a cell phone in
ways that would pose dangers to
others, the ordinance would also
prohibit parking to block a sidewalk
or on a public property where a bike
parking is otherwise prohibited.
and also notably the ordinance would
provide tampering with the serial
number or unique identifier on these
devices.
I think there was some conversation
about riding of e-bicycles on
sidewalks and safe speeds.
so, a couple of things the ordinance
would do, prohibit illegal motorcycles
on the sidewalks and where
e-micromobility devices which is the
term we used in the ordinance for the
various regulated devices, where
they're not otherwise prohibited on
sidewalks, the ordinance would impose
conditions specifically a requirement to
yield to pedestrians and to exercise
due care to avoid collisions.
the requirement to provide clear,
audible signals before passing others
and a speed limit of 5 miles per
hour with reduction to walking speed
or dismounting when overtaking others
or when you're close enough to create
a hazard.
this ordinance would apply only in the
unincorporated areas but the goal is
to create a framework or a model that
cities in the county can draw upon.
with respect to enforcement, violation
of the local regulations that would be
set forth by this ordinance would be
subject to the an infraction on an
administrative fine, it would be ranging
from $50 to $500 depending on how
frequently you would have a violation,
$50 from the first, that was reduced
by $100 from feedback that was
received from this board and from
members of the public.
another thing that was added through
and doing the study session was a
july 1, 2027 effective date to the
afford additional time for education
and outreach .
at a high level, those are the things
contained in this ordinance subject to
any of your questions.
>> thank you, do we want to invite the
next speaker?
>> yes, thank you.
I would like to invite ming fong, he
is the father of little aiden fong who
tragically lost his life in a chain
reaction accident in burlingame, I met
mr. Fong a few weeks ago and he asked
me if she could share his story during
today's meeting and I want to thank
him for both his willingness and
courage in doing so.
>> welcome, and I just want to the
acknowledge that I believe it's been a
little over a year since your son
passed and I just admire you're here
with us just days after that one year
date.
>> thank you, supervisors, for giving
me the opportunity to speak today and
thank you for considering e-bike
regulations here in san mateo county.
we know that counties like marin, san
diego that have e-bike measures in
place, they've seen meaningful
improvements on the ground and here
they deserve that same protection.
we all recognize e-bike require
thoughtful, local, state and national
regulations, while that that work
continues, no more children should be
hurt.
the ordinance that's been discussed
today is the first of many steps
towards that goal, it's an important
step because we have to start
somewhere.
I would like to take a moment to share
our story with you today.
august 8, 2025, a little over a year
ago, an suv was pulling out on to from
a parking lot on to a busy street, her
view was blocked by a parked car, so
visibility was impaired and she had
to edge forward.
on the same street at the same time,
an 11 year-old e-bike rider on a class
2 e-bike going 18 miles an hour was
traveling down the same street with a
ten year-old sister on the back, by
the time he saw the car, it was too
late, he couldn't stop, t-boned the
suv, the suv driver freaked out,
pressed gas instead of brake,
accelerated into a restaurant across
the street.
our son aiden who was four and a half
years at the time died instantly from
a fractured skull and my wife and I
had to witness that.
aiden's death was tragic but more
importantly, it was senseless because
it was fully preventable.
there were multiple responsible
parties and multiple pointers along
that timeline this could have been
stopped.
today I'm asking you to act on just
one of them.
an 11 year-old should not be operating
a motor vehicle that can go up to 20
miles an hour, they do not understand
the traffic rules to the thoroughness
as we all do, they do not have
situational awareness or reaction time.
this is not just common sense, this is
a failure in policy and a failure to
protect the community.
that's why the ordinance that's being
discussed today is an important first
step that is an -- a safe operation
of e-bikes.
aiden, two days before he died, he
built this lego tower with blocks that
say protect our city.
maybe he was [inaudible], I don't
know, but that's all I'm asking you to
do today, to protect our city.
we absolutely need comprehensive state
and nationwide regulation but we
cannot wait, we cannot let another
family suffer and face the same
consequences and the insufferable pain
that me and my wife and the rest of
our families will go through for the
rest of our lives.
so, we must add county level
provisions while all these other
important work is going on in parallel.
this is your opportunity to save lives.
so, I thank you today, I thank you,
supervisor speier, mueller, for
proposing this ordinance.
I thank you, supervisors corzo,
gauthier and canepa for hearing
aiden's call to protect our city and
for taking the action.
>> thank you so much, mr. Fong.
and as we talked before when a family
has this kind of loss, they want the
make sure that their child has not
died in vain and I think to the extent
we will pass this ordinance today on
its first reading, this will be a way
for mr. Fong and the other families
throughout the bay area who have had
to deal with this tragic experience to
know that their child has not died in
vain, so again, my great gratitude to
you for being here today.
>> thank you.
>> and with that, let me just close by
saying that this is about making sure
e-bikes are available to our kids and
to adults but under safe
circumstances, that both -- that we
share the roadway so that people can
walk on streets, on sidewalks as
pedestrians and not be in fear, that
we educate our young people, the
greatest increase in incidents of
e-bike injuries are from children 14
and younger, so this is where the
greatest need is to educate and I
think this particular piece of
legislation will go there and I just
want the also thank deputy larson and
sheriff binder again for recognizing
the importance of educating first and
foremost but also being clear about
what the repercussions are if you fail
in terms of abiding by what is already
existing law.
so, with that.
>> and madam president, I needed to
ducktail something after supervisor
speier finished talking, in the
effective date prosed for this
ordinance is actually january 1 of
2027, I said july, so I wanted to
apologize and correct myself.
>> okay.
thank you.
any questions from the board?
>> supervisor gauthier?
>> I have a question, thank you to my
colleagues for bringing this forward.
how are we going to hold the
manufacturers responsible as well?
>> well, in part, we're in this
position because they frankly got to
the legislature and were able to
create an environment where there was
no responsibility, no information
provided, there is the ability under
certain code sections for us locally
to see practices if they engage in
practices where they're selling an
e-moto which is illegal to be on the
roads that we can take some action
there and I think we had testimony at
our last hearing by the county
attorney staff I believe to talk about
how they can independently move on
those -- not necessarily the
manufacturers but the sellers.
>> and then to the sheriffs, are we
tracking the devices, the names of the
devices ases we're stopping, as you're
stopping, is there a way to track the
manufacturer and keep that information
as well?
>> as the moment we're tracking
e-bikes that are involved in
collisions or e-bikes that we stop,
we're working with the companies such
as ticket pro or turbo date to flag
any bicycle we stop to say it's an
e-bike, when you do make a citation in
there, it does have the brand in
there as well as when we take a police
report for a collision, we have to tag
it as an e-bike.
as the this situation has developed in
the last about I would say year and a
half or so, as it's getting more and
more prevalent, we're
starting to track this data more
accurately.
>> many of these bikes are bought
online and misrepresented online as to
their legality, so, there's a lot of
holes that have to be closed over
time.
>> okay.
I have a couple of clarifying
questions.
I just wanted to check in about the
status of the development of a
diversion program, I know the
ordinance speaks to one and I'm just
wondering if we have an update on that.
>> I could probably say a couple words
about that, we've been at an extensive
conversation at the staff level,
we've worked with legislative staff
and both the sheriff's office and
probation and we are still in
conversation, I believe that we had
identified a program through stanford
hospital system and looking at a means
of bringing that program as a primary
way forward and we've had some
conversations with probation about
things that we would do with the
traffic referee or the traffic hearing
officer who they have with referrals
to that program but it remains a work
in progressing and I should probably
have noted and I appreciate you
raising the question, the ordinance as
drafted focuses diversion on youth
offenders as opposed to -- or hose who
are cited, you know, who are youth as
opposed to adults so that's an
important thing to flag, we are
working that matter.
>> you just answered my next question.
I believe at the last meeting, we
discussed including adults, is that an
amendment that would be acceptable?
>> the -- we want to get this on the
books, we want to have the diversion
program available for youth because
that's where the greatest incidences
are happening, our plan is to come
back at a later date and have a
program for adults as well but we
didn't want to wait until that is
built when we're in a position where
we can --
>> understood.
>> as a factual matter and the logistics
of dealing with the adult side was so
much more complex than youth.
>> okay, no problem.
I just have a suggestion, so, I know
in adult traffic court, they have a long
list of acceptable programs.
>> I know there are existing online
programs, that would make it probably
a little more accessible.
I know if stanford's is online, but I
would suggest that we develop a
similar list as well so that folks are
able to pick from a variety of options
and then my next question was just
about -- are we able to include some
language around prohibiting the
alteration of serial numbers from --
on e-bikes and also banning the
covering of manufacturing stickers?
because I know that often happens
because that is how sometimes they are
easily identifiable as e-moto's, so I
would request that that be included
at either now or at a later date,
whatever is possible.
and I'll just end by thanking my
colleagues for bringing this forward.
I know it has felt like a little bit
of a -- sorry?
yeah, I was going to say a painful
process at times, that's accurate.
but I do think it's important that we
are conscientious of balancing both
safety and also not negatively
impacting people that are using
e-mobility devices safely and in
responsible ways and I feel confident
we're doing that now and I want to
thank my colleagues for their
collaboration that they have been able
to do with some of our community
organizations and, yeah, I'm grateful
for this and yeah, thank you.
>> madam president, I did want to the
flag that the ordinance does already
as drafted and presented to you make
it unlawful to remove, destroy,
mutilate or alter the serial number or
unique identifier on these devices, so
we have that in there.
>> great, perfect.
>> it's kind of the end of the
ordinance probably, probably we might
have -- organizing it is on me, we
could have put it forward, the label
piece we can continue to look at.
>> thank you.
with that, go ahead, supervisor
gauthier?
>> I wanted to make one more comment
and I missed it and to the aiden's
dad, thank you.
as a grandmother, I can't even manage
what you're going through right now
and the fact that you were strong
enough to come and share that
information means so much and I wish
there was a way we could put aiden's
name on this legislation so that we
don't have another aiden in san mateo
county or anywhere else, but god bless
you and your family for all that you
have endured and I'm grateful for
your strength to come and share that
information.
I apologize, thank you.
>> you're good.
is there a motion?
or more comments, please.
>> a comment and a motion.
I didn't know we could name ordinances
after individuals and if that is
possible, I certainly think that would
be an outstanding way of memorializing
aiden and the loss of life associated
with this.
>> I'm not aware of anything that says
we can't.
I think that perhaps if that's a
direction, we'll go ahead and
integrate that into the ordinance.
>> aiden's ordinance.
>> we'll figure out some way of doing
that.
>> with that, I'll make a motion.
>> we can take the motion, second and
do public comment before roll call, is
there a motion?
>> I'll make the motion.
>> okay, public comment, please.
>> alright, we do have a speaker card
from chambers, mike spire.
>> yeah, thank you very much for
supervisor speier, supervisor mueller
and the rest of the board for our
attention to street safety and this
important matter.
I'm thankful we were able to work
together in getting this initiative to
this point, it's much better than
when we first started.
I also want to thank aiden's family
for staying involved during a
difficult time and making sure we make
sure that this doesn't happen again.
I do want to try to think about next
steps however after this great first
step.
first of all, the biggest problem as
we have alluded to is parents are
being duped by manufacturers into
buying illegal e-moto's, 80% of the
bikes on campuses are illegal and are
dangerous.
I don't think parents understand that
and we need to do a better job of
getting the word out.
new york city sent a cease and desist
letter to the wal-mart, amazon and
other retailers.
I want to focus on the larger problem
that is killing many san mateo county
residents, our streets are designed
for speed and not for safety, 250 many
residents have died on our streets, in
the column in today's daily journal,
here is a partial list, a pedestrian
died in el grenada hit by a porsche
suv, 34 year-old cyclist died, june,
an unidentified pedestrian died in
redwood city, maria perez torres died.
75 year homed bicyclist died in wood
side when a driver hit him on portola,
april, 89 year-old pedestrian hit
by a driver in south city, in january,
veronica vasquez was kill million
dollars a crosswalk in san mateo,
let's save lives by making our streets
safer, thank you.
>> thank you, we're going to go to
zoom for comments on item number 6.
I do have one hand raised, this is a
final call.
alright, two hands raised.
first we'll start with giuliano and
then john ma.
>> hello, thank you for your service
and the opportunity to speak, I speak
only for myself, I'm a cycling
instructor, this ordinance is much
better, thank you.
I support it and ask for one change,
we need to get this right, it' a model
ordinance, it needs to strike a good
balance.
we need trips shifted from cars to
e-bikes and be encouraging, not
discouraging them, e-cyclists do not
ride on the sidewalk because it's fun,
they ride on the sidewalk because the
streets are dangerous.
this ordinance needs to be improved by
permitting the safe riding of bikes 5
miles an hour and legal e-bikes on the
sidewalk when no bike is
available on the adjacent roadway.
putting in a safe like lane, why would
people ride on the sidewalk, only
class 4 bike lanes physically are
protected by robust bollards are safe,
the data is clear, there's a lot of
data and a lot of studies.
class 2 the door zone are more
dangerous than no bike lane, 12-20% of
bike crashes occur in them.
I volunteer and work with teens,
cycling instructor, robotics coach, I
find this anti-teen hysteria
deplorable.
I think it was plato who said kids
these days, we need to knock this off.
the anti-e-bike is equally
problematic, where are the
proportionality, cars kill more than
e-bikes and illegal e-moto's
combined, the report shows crash data
rate changes half the crash -- crash
rate is half the rate of the increased
e-bike use, the crash rate is
decreasing.
my sincere condolences to the phong
haley, their suffering is tragic, but
the e-bike rider, another victim, the
driver cut them off, that said, I
support a 12 year-old age limit, we
need to pass sb1167.
>> thank you.
>> that is your time, thank you.
alright, we did have one additional
hand raised, did we want to take that
as well, madam president?
>> yes, we can take it.
>> next is john ma and anya.
>> john, please unmute and begin.
>> good afternoon, my name is john, a
governor with the american college of
surgeons, I worked on e-bike for six
years, I'm grateful, I spoke to the
board of supervisors a year ago at
public comment after aiden's tragic
death and I applaud the introduction
of this ordinance today.
I would like to express my deepest
condolences to his family.
I wanted to share with colleagues
across the state, trauma surgeons, we
polished a paper in acute care
surgery, we noted there's been an
exponential rise in e-bike crashes
over the six years from 2018 to 2024
with children under 14 at the greatest
risk and we showed that e-bike
accidents rose 750 fold from just two
reported in 2018 to over 1566 in
2024.
we've noticed that the risk of death
after an e-bike crash that reached
higher levels in 2024 and I wanted to
share preliminary research that
e-bikes are two and a half times more
likely to be involved in a crash with
a pedestrian because you can't hear
them approaching due to the silent
motors, that's why this proposed san
mateo ordinance to restrict e-bike
speeds on sidewalks is so important.
I would like to thank you and urge
your aye vote.
>> thank you, john.
next and finally is anya, please
unmute and begin.
anya?
alright, it looks like we lost anya.
that concludes public comment.
>> thank you.
with that, I believe we have a motion
and a second.
roll call vote, please.
>> supervisor speier?
>> aye.
>> supervisor mueller?
>> yes.
>> supervisor gauthier?
>> yes.
>> supervisor canepa?
>> aye.
>> and president corzo?
>> yes.
>> the motion passes unanimously.
>> okay, with that, we will move on to
--
>> lunch.
>> closed session, you're right, I was
like let's keep going, no, we are
going to convene to closed session
and we will come back to item number 7
after lunch.
>> the time is 1:23 p.m., thank you.
( meeting recessed to lunch ).
>> time is 2:38 p.m., you may call the
meeting back to order.
all supervisors are present.
>> thank you, welcome back.
we have nothing to report out of
closed session?
>> that's right, madam president,
nothing to report out.
>> we'll be moving on to item number
7, adopting a resolution affirming
county of san mateo's commitment to
advance economic mobility and pathways
to shared prosperity,
myself and supervisor gauthier are the
sponsors, and I'll begin by thanking
sherry, kalima, who couldn't stay any
longer, ariana, I done have your last
name written here, let me backtrack
here.
I think these are remarks for when
you're done, so supervisor gauthier,
would you like to share any initial
remarks?
>> [inaudible].
thank you for your patience and for
sticking around today.
we look forward to you sharing more
about share prosperity and the work
that's happening.
>> welcome.
>> go ahead.
>> hello, thank you for having us.
good afternoon, honorable supervisors,
county executive callagy, county
attorney nibbelin, mr. My name is
sherry, I use she/her pronouns, I'm
the chief equity officer, I'm joined
today by a member of the shared
prosperity coordinating council,
ariana perez who's the senior
community impact and policy officer at
silicon valley community foundations.
really should showcase the
collaborative nature of this
initiative, we'll be co-presenting
together.
shared prosperity coordinating council
is a group of leaders from county and
local government, non-profits and
private sector organizations that seek
so advance economic mobility and
promote shared prosperity in a county
that sufferers from significant
disparities and income and opportunity.
the council believes owl residents in
san mateo county deserve to have good
career opportunities in thriving
neighborhoods and see a bright future
for themselves in the next generation.
the council is comprised of the groups
shown on this slide here that includes
the public policy institute of
california, samceda, nova work,
daly city partnership, job train and
many others.
the group has been meeting for
three years now and has published the
community dashboard and most recently
the mobility action plan and that will
go into more details about in the
september study session.
thank you to supervisors corzo and
gauthier for serving on the shared
prosperity council with monthly
meetings and all the support you have
given.
the goal for today's presentation is
to provide a brief background as the
board considers this resolution to
commit to affirm economic mobility
and have staff develop an action plan
specific to how the county will
advance economic mobility as an
institution.
the because it's mentioned in the
resolution, I want to make sure to
clarify that the spcc started with a
set of planning principles with this
notion that if the process is
thoughtful and thorough, then the
outcomes will be thoughtful and
thorough.
so, here you see the principles that
the sheared prosperity council
identified including consideration of
representation, integration of data
and community input, equity values and
ensuring that we aren't redundant in
efforts we prioritize while holding
accountability.
and so at this point I'm going to
turn it over to ariana to share the
framework and recommendations.
>> thank you,
shireen, I'm ariana, I'm
the senior impact and policy officer,
so as you see here on the slide, this
is the san mateo county economic
mobility framework that we worked on
as the shared prosperity council and
this came from doing some research and
identifying a national framework for
upward mobility that has been
developed with the input of national
experts and hosted by gates
foundation and the urban institute.
so, this framework you see here
recognizes that economic mobility
requires more than just economic
success but it also must include power
and autonomy and the sense of being
valued in dignity.
this framework identifies five
different pillars achieving these
three goals and numerous different
predictors and indicators to see how
economic mobility is possible within a
certain geography.
this was developed with community
input and analyzing local data and
focus groups and so this shared
prosperity coordinating council
developed this framework to make sure
it was reflective and appropriate to
the reality here in san mateo county
the.
so, this slide after looking at the
data and identifying key challenges,
shared prosperity coordinating council
identified a set of ten
recommendations under each of the
three universal goals so these include
really important strategies such as
career opportunities, housing
stability, diverse leadership and
community resource navigation and
mapping among others.
so, all of this is flushed out in much
more detail in the san mateo county
economic mobility action plan and
we'll share more details in the
upcoming study session as well.
>> thank you.
>> thank you, ariana, the
resolution that's in front of you
today responds to the call to action
that's in the san mateo county
economic mobility action plan for all
local jurisdictions and agencies to
consider.
the resolution includes affirming the
county's commitment to economic
mobility to being part of the solution
and a model for other jurisdictions
and agencies.
to utilizing this collective
framework so that we're all moving
along the same path and applying the
principles for thoughtful action and
therefore tasking staff with
developing an action plan that's
specific to the views of the
county, no the countywide action plan
that is meant for all justice dicks
and all agencies and organizations and
sectors to work towards but really
what can our institution as a county
do to move that forward.
and in here I just wanted to thank
kalimah from, the chair from the reach
coalition, she wanted to be with you
all here today.
I do think that all residents in san
mateo county deserve to have good
career opportunities in thriving
neighborhoods and see a bright future
for themselves in the next generation.
we know this isn't easy work, the
shared prosperity council believes
working across sector, jurs dick and
is agencies, we're stronger together
and can do hard things.
thank you.
>> thank you so much, any questions or
comments from my colleagues, I have
a few.
I wanted to share that I've been a
liaison to the -- to this work, to
shared prosperity community council
for several years now.
I'm not able to attend every single
meeting but I have really appreciated
learning and the passionate debates
because this is a coalition of a broad
group of our community and they do
have different perspectives.
there is not agreement on everything
but we do ultimately get to a
place of mutual understanding and I
feel like that is
powerful because it's a ball lanes
between meaningful discussions about
what opportunity means and not just
giving someone the space to be
somewhere but also ensuring that they
belong and that they can thrive in that
space because those are not
necessarily the same thing.
I think about my personal lived
experience and how I was given
opportunities and pushed to rise to
the occasion and looking back now, I
see that that was kind of my personal
path of like shared prosperity that
kind of led to me being here but it
was a one-off, so we have these
powerful institutions and we have some
powerful programs, I can think of like
jobs for youth being one of them,
right.
but how do we -- how when we more
focused on that, on making sure that
every part of our system has these
really clear pathways and that we give
people ladders to climb.
so, I appreciate this work, I'm
excited to continue the conversation
and to dig into it more at our future
study session.
and yeah, I'll hand it over to
supervisor gauthier.
>> I want to again say thank you, and
ariana, thank you so much, it's so
good to see you and I want to
mention the silicon valley community
foundation and the partnerships you have
demonstrated and continued to
demonstrate within our region, this
reminds me of ek wit I the forward
where you're thinking about how do we
lift everyone at the same time, so I
am so excited for the work that is
happening, thank you, shireen, for
leading this effort, we've been on
some calls prior to this even
happening, but when we think about
economic mobility, it starts with
opportunity and the efforts to build
-- efforts builds off an idea and it
turns into action so, we know the if
we want to make a difference, we have
to be intentional and the work you're
bringing forward is intentional in
thinking about those communities that
are left out of the conversations or
not at the table, so making room at
the table so that everyone can thrive,
I look forward to the work that will
continue and I'm excited to be sitting
at the table you as you develop this
plan.
>> any other questions or comments,
supervisor speier?
>> you know, I rejoined the board, the
first board meeting, I talked about
hoping we can create a county core by
identifying young people in high
school or college, getting them
positions in county government that
would give them a pathway to a viable
job and I don't know if that's part of
what you're looking at but I think
that's one of the ways of dealing with
the fact that this is such a high cost
county.
the jobs are not available for young
graduates from college and they're
living at home and this is an
opportunity for us to take advantage
of a really terrible situation and
help guide them to public service
through the county.
I was talking to our probation
officer, john keen, yesterday.
he was saying it was hard to keep
people, they're getting pregnant and
going on to doing other things.
so, I mean, there's lots of areas
where I think we could start to
identify where there would be great
job opportunities for these young
people.
>>.I could just respond really quickly.
one of the key areas of focus for us
is career pathways into county
positions in particular.
we've been working closely with the
human resources department in looking
at two specific pathways in, one
around stationery engineers with the
department of public works and
another focused on community
assistance across a lot of our health
and social services where we have
front line workers.
it's not the same as what you're
talking about around having our young
people really positioned to take over
the next generation of public servants
but it is a step in that direction.
>> okay.
any other -- no?
I believe we have to take public
comment -- no, we already took public
comment.
okay.
thank you so much.
I appreciate your presence here and
with that, happy to take a motion on
this.
>> I move adoption of the resolution
affirming the county of san mateo's
commitment to advancing economic
mobility.
>> thank you, is there a second?
second from supervisor speier.
roll call vote, please.
>> supervisor speier?
>> aye.
>> supervisor mueller?
>> yes.
>> supervisor gauthier?
>> yes.
>> supervisor canepa?
>> aye.
>> president corzo?
>> yes.
>> motion passes.
>> we are now moving on to item number
11 which is measure k item,
authorizing a one-time discretionary
grant not to exceed 50k to the san
mateo county health foundation for the
caring hands in health program.
this is sponsored by supervisor speier.
>> okay, I have a motion.
is there a second?
>> second.
>> second by supervisor canepa.
roll call vote.
>> supervisor speier?
>> aye.
>> supervisor mueller?
>> yes.
>> supervisor gauthier?
>> yes.
>> supervisor canepa?
>> yes.
>> president corzo?
>> yes.
>> motion passes.
>> okay.
our final item is another measure k
district discretionary grant not to
exceed 145 thousand dollars to the
los altos mountain view community
foundation acting as the fiscal
sponsor for center for age-friendly
excellence for an age friendly action
plan for the city of san bruno.
supervisor canepa?
>> hard to imagine it's been ten
years, madam chair.
I'm proud to bring forward this
measure k grant to support the center
of age friendly excellence or cafe, as
it develops a comprehensive age
friendly action plan for the city of
san bruno.
cafe has become an invaluable partner
to help prepare for one of the most
significant demographic shifts of our
time.
cafe has worked along 14 cities
including belmont, burlingame, daly
city, east palo alto, foster city, half
moon bay, civica, san carlos, san
mateo, south san francisco, brisbane
and colma, to achieve arp age
friendly recognition and develop
evidence based action plans to improve
the quality of life for our older
adults.
this work goes far beyond preparing a
report, cafe brings together older
adults, caregivers, health care
provide and he iser local governments
to understand the needs of each
community.
they facilitate community listening
sessions and town phalluses to
identify gaps in services and develop
a practical measurable strategies to
help older adults remain healthy,
connected, independent and engaged
many their communities.
this investment is important because
san mateo's county's population is
aging rapidly, within the next
decades, nearly one in four of our
residents will be over the age of 60.
preparing our communities now means
ensuring our seniors can continue
living safely, accessing services,
staying socially connected and
canalling with -- aging with dignity
close to family and friends, this is
to complete its age friendly action
plan bringing us one step closer to
bringing every city in san mateo
county an age friendly community.
achiever that milestone would make san
mateo county only the second county in
california to reach this countywide
distinction.
finally I want to address the
fiscal sponsorship arrangement with
the los altos mountain view
community foundation, while the
foundation is located in los altos, it
has served as cafe's fiscal sponsor
since its inception including through
every previous contract cafe has had
with san mateo county.
it's a longstanding trusting
partnership that has supported cafe's
work in our county for years.
the pound dashing provides
comprehensive, administrative services
including accounting, book keep,
payroll, financial reporting,
compliance and accounts payable and
receivables.
as well as independent financial
oversight through the board of
directors.
that additional governance strengthens
accountability and allows cafe to
focus on serving our communities
rather than building and managing cost
back office operations.
the foundation also provides a
critical bridge funding so cafe could
continue meeting payroll and project
allegations while awaiting grant
reimbursements.
the foundation serve as the fiscal
sponsor delivering services if san
mateo county inconcluding camenar,
community legal services in east palo
alto and life moves, this is a measure
k investment in healthy aging through
thoughtful planning and stronger
communities.
cafe has a proven track record of
delivering results for san mateo
county and I ask for your vote.
with that, I would like to welcome
mike king from cafe via zoom to give
a five minute presentation followed by
one minute snippet of a five minute
video.
is mr. King with us?
>> he is.
>> hi, thank you, supervisor canepa,
thank you to the rest of the board,
chairperson corzo, really an honor to
be with you today.
the new executive director of cafe, my
name is mike king, I've taken over
from the founder and long time
director, dr. Annabelle pelham who's
been doing work in gerontology.
so, I will just provide some brief
remarks about cafe, who cafe is, a
little bit about our fiscal sponsor
and supervisor canepa mentioned the
los altos mountain view community
foundation and then talk a bit about
the impact we've had in san mateo
county over the last decade or so.
next slide, please.
so, just a little bit about the center
for age friendly excellence or cafe.
our mission is to improve the health,
wellbeing and quality of life for
older dulls and people with
disabilities and we do that through
community-driven planning, some direct
service provision and lots of cross
sector collaboration.
we work very closely with all of the
communities we partner with to help
them identify and align policies,
programs and infrastructure
that can meet the needs of an
aging and diverse population.
as supervisor canepa mentioned, not
only in san mateo county but across
bay area and across the state of
california and the nation as well as
the globe, adults over the age of 60
is a portion of our population that's
significantly growing and it will
continue to do so over the coming
decades, so this presents challenges
but also tremendous opportunities for
communities who are planning and
thinking about how they make policy,
programmatic and infrastructure
decisions.
cafe was born out of a desire to help
communities prepare for these
demographic shifts.
next slide, please.
cafe started in los altos in los altos
hills, dr. Annabelle pelham wanted to
forward this model of working closely
with cities to plan for the future.
they used those two communities as
study communities to identify what
works or doesn't work in age-friendly
cities and then to extend that
learning and those evidence based
practices out to other communities
around california.
so, we greatly appreciate the los
altos mountain view community
foundation for fiscally sponsoring
cafe since has time, it started in
2015 so it's been over a decade now.
they continue to be a great supporter
of our work and as supervisor canepa
mentioned, they allow us to be able to
focus on our mission while they handle
all of the administrative and
accounting work on the back end that
goes a -- a lot of time and effort
going into keeping a non-profit
status, so it really allows us to use
our small team to the maximum benefit
of the communities we work with.
next slide, please.
and also to support supervisor
canepa's remarks, I just wanted to
provide a list of other non-profit
organizations that the los altos
mountain view community foundation
supports through their community grant
program in san mateo county.
while based in los altos and providing
initiatives to santa clara county,
they're doing great work in the
community beyond the sponsorship of
cafe.
some of these organizations are quite
large but I imagine the board
recognizes many of the great work here.
next slide, please.
okay.
so to look at what we've done to date
in san mateo county over the last 8
years, we sort of have a two-pronged
approach to the age friendly
initiative mr. The way we are building
it out in communities across san mateo
county.
first is to help communities become
age-friendly certified so starting
back in july 2018, we have now worked
with 14 different cities across the
county to get them age-friendly
certified and become members of aarp's
national network of age friendly
states and communities and that is a
foundational process for a lot of
communities where it's really in many
cases the first time they're really
going deep into their demographic
data, understanding disparities and
challenges facing their older adult
population and starting to build that
culture change so that they can work
collaboratively and think about
services, programs and infrastructure
with an age-friendly lens and really
that cross sector collaboration, folks
within governments, across non-profit
and private sector, working together
in ways that they previously hadn't
because that's what being age-friendly
requires in terms of joint planning
and decision-making.
so, that's the first step.
we'll go on to the next slide and look
at the second prong in our approach.
so, after working with communities to
become age friendly certified, we then
go into the deeper planning stage
which is to develop an age friendly
action plan for community.
starting that roughly five years ago
in san mateo county, we've now worked
with 8 different cities to develop
action plans and you can see the nice
colorful covers of those plans at the
bottom of the slide here.
so, working deeply with those
communities through one on one
conversations with stakeholders from
local government officials to
non-profit service providers to faith
based organizations and of course
community members through focus groups
through town hall meetings, right, so
doing that engagement to ensure that
each action plan is focused on the
distinct needs, priorities, challenges
and solutions that will allow that
community to become more livable and
better able to support people of all
ages.
and as an action plan, we really get
down into the detailers working with
all these different stakeholders to
understand what are feasible,
actionable steps in the near term we
can take to start building whether
it's programmatic infrastructure or a
physical built environment
infrastructure, how to make that
changes to make their communities
more age friendly.
over time, these communities will
build the capacity to update those
plans as they achieve their outcomes
to add on goals and little by little
continue to make their communities
more accessible and inclusive for
people of all ages.
next slide, please.
and so in cosigning, I just want dosh
close, -- closing, I want to thank
supervisor canepa, thank you for
having me here today to consider this
discretionary grant so we can continue
our work in san mateo county to make
all communities in san mateo county
more age-friendly, prior to this,
supervisor canepa had talked about san
mateo county being potentially the
second county where all communities
have an age-friendly action plan.
cafe did that first with santa clara
county, we would love for san mateo
county to be the second county with
that distinction so that all of your
communities have very clear action
steps and resources to make the
changes that will make them as
inclusive and accessible as possible.
thank you for the time and I'm happy
to the field any questions that you
may have.
>> thank you so much, mike.
I do want to recognize, former council
member, former mayor of brisbane,
karen cunningham for joining us today
and I want to recognize san bruno city
council, mr. Medina, for joining us,
so with that, colleagues, I know we
have to take public comment, but I
would like to move this item.
>> so, thank you for the motion.
I believe we took public comment
already, so we don't --
>> did you want to show the video?
>> I think we're okay with the video,
I'll move the item.
>> just checking.
>> I believe supervisor speier wanted
to make a comment.
>> I don't know if mike is still with
us --
>> I am, thank you, supervisor.
>> I'm curious of the 14 cities in san
mateo county that are age-friendly,
age family certified, how many of them
participated financially in those
communities?
>> as part of the planning process,
all of those processes have been
supported through san mateo county.
>> so, san mateo county paid for all
these 14 city age certified processes,
is that what you're saying?
>> that's my understanding.
and, mike, if I can add a little
flavor to that, that is correct but
there is something I think that is
worth motioning.
we do work in concert with the staff
so there are staff that are given to
the cities or to the county's work
in collaboration with mike and his
team.
from a city perspective, there is a
lot of resorts in terms of staffing
because this requires coordination and
it requires input and really output
from the staffs of each of the cities
to really make this happen.
if we don't have the participation of
the recreation department or those in
the senior centers, really, we can't
make this happen, so it's a hybrid I
guess you could say, it's a hybrid of
the county giving resources but it's
the hybrid of people power and staff
being put forth by the cities to
execute on its implementation.
>> that's right, yeah, thank you,
supervisor canepa.
well said.
the cities give a lot in ems of person
power and we have to work very closely
with them and typically there's a few
folks who are designated, whether
that's as supervisor canepa said, from
the parses and rec department or from
human services or senior services
department, sometimes even from city
manager's office, we work with them on
a regular basis around goal set,
around decision points and then
ultimately we do interviews and bring
together folks from lots of different
departments because again this
requires a lot of collaboration around
issues ranging from housing to social
participation to transportation, so,
yeah, there's a lot of input and
contributions from folks across the
city.
>> so, I don't want to belabor this
because I know we're all tired.
it looks like we've committed a
million dollars to this effort.
this is another 145 thousand but we
only have 14 of it, 20 cities that
have been age family certified and
only 8 of the 20 cities that have age
friendly action plans, so I would like
to see a countywide but I would also
like to know that the value is there
and I'm not -- we've invested a lot
already.
>> clearly the value is there.
there's communication, there's
collaboration, there's ideas that have
been advanced from a policy
perspective and our best customers are
our residents but I think it's the
cities, I think the cities recognize
the inherent value of this.
as you know we're going to be talking
about vlf on thursday.
a lot of cities, they don't have the
resources and they're challenged, so I
think our role and I think it's been
the board's role over the past ten
years is to support cities in
providing the opportunity to help
them.
several examples of that would be what
we've done around big lift, right.
so, the county continues to make
investments, in fact, the county and
this board and I'm proud of this when
it came to child care and we're
looking at expanding that, I think the
board allocated north of 11 million
dollars.
what study after study has concluded
and has found out, we see this around
housing is that our seniors are being
left behind, so what this does is it
creates the infrastructure,
it creates the framework of
policies, and I think government works
best when it's not top down but really
bottom up and we need to make sure we
advance this item, hopefully it does
get advanced, to make sure we help the
people that need us the most and right
now it's seniors and so one city,
maybe trying to identify the issues
around housing, one city maybe
identifying the issue of
transportation and remember the deep
collaboration that takes place is
annually, so annually there's an event
that takes place, we bring all the
cities together and what each city
does is they share their best
practices and what they've learned and
I think to me, we may be getting a
bargain in this, 1.4 million dollars,
that's -- the taxpayer's getting a
pretty good discount on a lot of
collaboration, a lot of effort, so, I
appreciate the comments.
I know where they're coming from and
they're coming from a good place and I
know you're aligned with me in terms
of solving the senior issue but from
the bottom of my heart, this is a
program I really believe in because I
have seen the good impact it's had on
our seniors.
>> any other comments?
okay.
is there a motion?
>> there was a motion?
>> so moved.
>> and a second from supervisor
gauthier.
roll call vote, please.
>> supervisor speier?
>> aye.
>> supervisor mueller?
>> yes.
>> supervisor gauthier?
>> yes.
>> supervisor canepa?
>> yes.
>> and president corzo?
>> yes.
>> motion passes unanimously.
>> okay.
that is the end of our meeting.
we are ending our meeting.