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[5:46] What's called as meeting to order? Is there any additions to the agenda?
[5:52] Chairman, we don't have any additions. However, I need to alert you that we do have two items being
[5:56] pulled for staff request. Item 2, be is in boy existing litigation.
[6:01] Is that number 3, 5, 1, 5 under closed session? And the other item is 7, D is in dog,
[6:07] which is that that number 3, 5, 4, 0, which is your special district's Board of Directors for
[6:14] Thank you.
[6:15] Thank you.
[6:17] Copy Council.
[6:18] Would you read off the items to be discussed in full session?
[6:20] Sure, Chairman.
[6:24] There are five items for closed sessions today.
[6:26] The first is conference with Labor negotiators, pursuant to government code section 54957.6.
[6:31] Accounting negotiators are Adrian Caleb and the employee organizations are all unit.
[6:36] There are two existing three existing litigations.
[6:41] Presidents government code 54956.9 subsection D1, the names of the cases are ACLU of Northern
[6:47] California versus the county of Modera.
[6:50] The second case name is county of Modera versus Hintin and the final case is an administrative
[6:59] case, EEOC charge, J Baker versus Modera County District Attorney.
[7:04] From the last item is a public employment, a point meant, Presidents government code 54957,
[7:09] the title of the position is Director of Water and Natural Resources. Thank you.
[7:17] Very comment from the public on the items as mentioned.
[7:22] If not, we'll go into closed session.
[8:51] Got to control. I think you'll report out of closed session.
[8:54] Chairman, there are no report of elections at this time.
[8:58] Okay.
[8:58] The location will be provided by Roger Leach and Pledge of Allegiance by thank you.
[9:10] Thank you.
[9:12] This by honor to be here again this morning to again open an invocation and to again look
[9:17] at the wording underneath your county crest of in God we trust.
[9:22] And so with that, let's open and prayer.
[9:24] Heavenly Father, we thank you to stay that we can bring your blessings into this chamber.
[9:30] We ask that you continue to bless the employees and the Board of Supervisors.
[9:35] They continue to do the work.
[9:37] Lord, I'm reminded of the words that are found in Proverbs chapter 13,
[9:41] about that there's abundance that follow ground of the poor.
[9:46] Lord, all we have to do is start to change things around a little bit
[9:49] and we'll find the richness in that soil.
[9:52] I thank you that there's never an ending in the beginnings of you.
[9:57] There's always creation.
[9:59] And I thank you that we don't live in the echoes of yesterday.
[10:03] But in the freshness of a new word, a new voice that will continue to go forward.
[10:09] Lord, I thank you for the destiny of Medira County.
[10:12] I pray you're blessing over it and the blessing of this meeting.
[10:15] We pray that in your name, amen.
[10:20] Please join me in food in our fight, ready to sew it.
[10:24] I'd like to introduce you to the fight of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.
[10:32] One nation and another God, the individual with liberty and justice for all.
[10:59] Folks, we're not opening clothes and memory of Vincent Gonzalez, which is my chief of staff's brother.
[11:09] I believe he was 43 years old. Vince was born April the 28th, 1975, in the Gerard
[11:17] California, and was raised in South Carolina, California. He was a devoted family man. He
[11:24] most enjoyed spending time with his wife, and he had five children. He spent a lot of time
[11:30] traveling to visit family in the year and far. He was incredibly funny. Always looking
[11:37] ways to make those around him laugh. He was also very thoughtful. He always took the time to
[11:43] help those in need. He left the scene. He left the dance. He also enjoyed barbecue and
[11:51] maintain in his yard and working on his truck and spending time with his friends.
[11:58] This station will be Tuesday, December 12, 2017, from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.
[12:06] with this station of the Rosary beginning at 7 p.m. at Jay's Chapel in Madera.
[12:12] In mass of Christian burial will be Wednesday, December 13, 2017, and Sam Joke from the Catholic Church of Madera.
[12:21] In turn, I'm going to follow it, Arbor Bita, Cemetery in there.
[12:33] I knew that it was quite a bit.
[12:35] He used to come up to my cabin with these kids and stuff.
[12:38] Not only a great guy, it was really hard work or two, but I also have one.
[12:42] We lost a great lady up at the O'Neill's Pat Washburn.
[12:47] Ryan actually has a maiden name.
[12:49] The Ryan Ranch and Hodoris has been there for a couple hundred years, probably.
[12:53] 150 anyway, and she was 91 years old and she passed away a couple weeks ago, and she was a great lady
[13:01] She had done so much for 4-H and FFA kids that you can't even believe, so we're going to miss her and gifts it very much
[13:09] Thank you
[13:16] Public comment
[13:17] The first 15 minutes of each regular session is set aside for members of the public to comment on any item within the jurisdiction of the board
[13:23] but not appearing on the agenda. I was presented under public comment may not be discussed or acted upon by the board at this time.
[13:30] For items appearing on the agenda, the public is invited to comment at the time the item is called for consideration by the board.
[13:36] Any person addressing the board under public comment will be limited to a three-minute presentation to ensure that all interests are parties have an opportunity to speak.
[13:43] Any handouts for the board must be submitted to the chief clerk of the board for distribution to the supervisors.
[13:47] Anyone addressing the board is asked to print their name clearly on this speaker sheet at the podium. Also all persons addressing the board
[13:54] May state their name and county residents for the record.
[13:59] Good morning. Good morning. Todd Bellar Auditor controlor. Nice tie. Thank you. Show yours.
[14:11] I
[14:14] do it on purpose, I celebrate Christmas all the time.
[14:20] Supervisor C.A.O. and Residence Medare County.
[14:24] After a year of hard work by the staff of the other controller's office, I am pleased to deliver 125 certified
[14:31] of special districts of Medera County.
[14:41] Special districts are the road districts, water districts,
[14:45] and lighting districts owned by the residents within those districts and managed by the county.
[14:53] But assuming the office of water controller, I was surprised to learn that we were
[15:00] We're not had not, and I don't know if we ever had, done the state mandate and certified audits for all of these
[15:07] special districts. Without reliable financial information, the residents within these special
[15:14] districts, the employees who are tasked with carrying out work in those special districts, and the
[15:20] managers of those special districts, which is the Board of Supervisors did not have the proper
[15:26] information to make informed and rational decisions, that era is over.
[15:32] I would like to acknowledge these systems received from public works and the independent
[15:37] auditorium of Moss Adams L.O.P.
[15:42] Further, I want to acknowledge the staff of the order to control their bottles, who, in addition
[15:48] to their regular work, took on this task and got it done.
[15:55] Specifically,
[15:57] the one who started managing this project was
[15:59] dire, a wiser who had since retired, and I'd like to ask them to
[16:03] stand. They have, in their possession, that those reports, all 125, I'd
[16:08] like to ask them to stand, as I read their name. The person who took over and
[16:12] manages project was Elaine Coe, Sharon Briscov, who could not be here today,
[16:19] our Chief Accountant, Roger Cardosa, who's on assignment and our Chief Internal Auditor and
[16:25] also cannot be here, Assistant Joint Jim Boyazian, and Accountants Meli Bright, Navdip Singh,
[16:34] Sabrina Rodriguez, Sherry Davis, and Victoria County.
[16:39] Let me tell you guys, not only do this project for me, but also are the ones responsible
[16:46] for getting the financial statements done for the county on time.
[16:51] Thank you.
[16:58] Finally, I need to acknowledge you, Board of Supervisors and CAO, who have seen the need
[17:06] and provided the auditor control office with the resources to get this job done.
[17:11] The financial papers will be posted to our website and will be available to all,
[17:21] including
[17:21] special districts. Thank you. We have to stand up one more time. We have a picture.
[17:38] I just want to thank all of you and Todd for doing this.
[17:43] This is in December. I don't know if I'm a nerd because of this, but thank you for the best Christmas present right now.
[17:51] We go through the end of the year every year and in June looking at our budgets and we don't know how much money
[17:58] kind of I guess I just want to thank you for actually looking into this and providing us with
[18:04] the information that we're going to need and public worship has done a good job. I trust
[18:14] them with the numbers but it's just nice to have this part of it so that we know where we're going
[18:20] because without proper information we're never going to get out of some of these problems and issues
[18:25] that we're having.
[18:26] And so the fact that we can now point to them
[18:29] to say, no, this is actually an audited statement.
[18:33] It says a lot to the residents where we're going out there
[18:35] and talking with them at their meetings.
[18:41] And so I just want to thank you.
[18:43] This special district has been the vein of my existence.
[18:46] And this is a step to making it a lot better.
[18:50] So thank you very much.
[18:52] Thank you.
[18:57] I just wanted to add to what Brett said, you know, you can't make decisions on finances
[19:03] if you don't know how much money you can't spend more than you have, and if you don't
[19:07] know what you're taking in, that's kind of hard to spend.
[19:10] But thank you Todd, since you've been here, it's just a pleasure to look at the budgets to
[19:16] do the job that we have to do because you made it easy for us by knowing what we've got
[19:21] deal with. And we've got a great team. I've got to say from the auditor's office all
[19:27] the way up to the CAO and our budget directors and everybody, the people of Medira County
[19:34] need to know that this team has achieved amazing things. When I came in 2011 we were
[19:41] $12 million in debt. We no longer have that debt. We achieved a plus rating a couple of years
[19:47] for Standard and Pores, which we'd never had or rating,
[19:51] we were so bad off.
[19:53] And now we have a double A rating, so we've been bumped up.
[19:57] And we're getting better and better.
[19:59] Our financial houses in order folks.
[20:01] And that's awesome.
[20:02] Thank you, Todd.
[20:03] Next year will be better yet.
[20:05] Todd is a chairman here.
[20:06] I also want to add my opinion on that.
[20:09] Thank you for clarifying the financial condition of Maduro County.
[20:12] It makes our job a lot easier.
[20:14] Thank you very much.
[20:20] Good morning Mr. Chairman members of the board. I'm out of the public works director.
[20:25] I just want to be here on the record to thank Todd Miller and his team.
[20:29] I mean, we had a, of course, they're always there when we needed them, but especially these last two to three weeks.
[20:37] I would say they literally had a drop everything in the public works on two issues, which funding was in jeopardy.
[20:46] So, I thank you for that and thank all of you for everything.
[20:50] Job will come and thank you.
[20:52] Yeah, well done.
[20:53] Thank you.
[21:05] Good morning.
[21:06] Good morning.
[21:07] Good morning.
[21:07] Good morning.
[21:07] Good morning.
[21:07] Sarah Bosk, public health director, and.
[21:10] Good morning, Medira County Sheriff.
[21:12] We're here to share with you a new service.
[21:15] We've been collaborating to write a new service in Medira County.
[21:19] And as you all know, the opioid crisis is really becoming an issue in the United States.
[21:24] of overdoses or the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States causing
[21:29] more deaths than car accidents.
[21:33] And opioids are responsible for these deaths.
[21:35] As you may know, it includes heroin, fentanyl, prescription painkillers, such as morphine,
[21:41] methadone, hydrocodone, noxiecodone.
[21:44] And in Medare County, we have been affected by this epidemic.
[21:47] The highest number of opioid deaths is in course-gold with 13 deaths per 100,000 people, followed
[21:53] by Chao Chilla with eight deaths per 100,000 in the city of Madera with six deaths per
[21:58] 100,000.
[21:59] This is a serious issue.
[22:01] So there's a really good option for us to be able to use.
[22:05] You might have heard of Narcan.
[22:08] Naloxin is the actual name of that drug.
[22:11] Narcan is the brand name.
[22:13] It works almost immediately to reduce an opiate overdose.
[22:17] And it has nearly no known adverse side effects, no potential for abuse and can be rapidly administered.
[22:25] So it's a great option.
[22:26] Most healthcare providers, first responders, are equipped with in the lockson, but unfortunately
[22:32] due to the size of our county, many emergency providers are not able to arrive on time in order
[22:39] to administer it.
[22:40] However, trained in equipped non-health care providers can effectively respond and reverse
[22:46] an opiate overdose using nooxin.
[22:49] So Medary County Public Health and the Sheriff's Office are working together through a grant
[22:53] from the California Department of Public Health.
[22:56] And under this grant, we are provided with 330 doses of nooxin, saving the county $12,400.
[23:03] And we have received so far, 186 doses, we get them in two shipments, and they were received
[23:09] this month, giving nooxin to the sheriff's deputies' increases chances of reversing an
[23:15] at overdose and potentially saving the lives of county residents, as well as law enforcement
[23:20] who have also been exposed to fentanyl in particular.
[23:24] So Sheriff Staff have been trained to administer in the lockson and have participated also
[23:29] in a train the trainer program to be able to provide training to other law enforcement agencies
[23:34] in the dirt county.
[23:35] Yesterday Public Health transferred 146 doses to the Sheriff's Department, 40 doses have been
[23:41] observed as we are planning to train the Churchill Police Department as well.
[23:47] And the grant will end in June of 2018 when we receive our second shipment of 144 doses,
[23:53] and it is unlikely to repeat.
[23:55] So we will be working together to be able to identify ways to sustain this service to
[23:59] the dirt county.
[24:02] Excellent.
[24:02] So the only thing I had is we're seeing fentanyl use more and more in conjunction with
[24:07] other drugs, even including marijuana.
[24:10] It's a very small amount created in overdose for you.
[24:14] So once you're opioid and faced overdoses that the public's having
[24:18] are probably more prescription-based or heroin-based.
[24:21] But what?
[24:22] As fentanyl becomes more popular, which I don't know why you would
[24:24] take something that can kill you if you get the dose of job by that much.
[24:28] But we're really concerned about the health of our county employees
[24:32] and our public safety employees.
[24:33] Especially if we go out to these places who want to be equipped
[24:37] So, one of the people that we're honoring today here, from my shop, is a can-and-hander,
[24:41] we can even give it to the dog if needed.
[24:45] So, we really appreciate public health of helping push this through and it's a big, we'll
[24:50] continue to be a big safety issue as long as this epidemic goes on.
[24:54] Thank you.
[24:55] Thank you, guys.
[24:56] So much.
[24:57] Thank you very much.
[25:06] Good morning.
[25:07] Brittany Dyer, District Chief of Staff to Supervisor Tom Wheeler, District 5.
[25:11] I just wanted to let you guys know that Medare County participated yesterday in a meeting in Sacramento with the Governor's
[25:17] Tremor Taldi Task Force, where they released the new number of dead trees.
[25:21] This was a release from the Forest Service, the Governor's Tremor Taldi Task Force in Calfire.
[25:26] The new number is 129 million. So that's an increase of 27 million trees, dead trees in the last eight months.
[25:35] They also released a number we've been able to calculate our combined efforts among all the land managers, counties, community groups, and we have been able to take down a total of 1 million trees, which has been a huge effort, but as you can tell with the scale and the scope, it's really just the tip of the iceberg.
[25:54] So those numbers were released in conjunction with the task force yesterday. Any questions?
[26:03] Was that count before some of the wildfires that came through or any of those removed from the count went through October of this year?
[26:13] They in fact be a original fly over that took place. There was still snow on the ground. So we were able to get some extra dollars and count fire supported a later fly that ended in October.
[26:23] Do they have any estimate of how many trees were taken out during those wildfires left there?
[26:31] Thank you, Brittany.
[26:32] We have any secrets.
[26:32] It's just a reminder, Wheeler.
[26:34] Thank you.
[26:36] On the same subject, I've had a lot of people in last three years come up to me and say they're
[26:42] Home insurance got canceled or a double triple in what Agua.
[26:47] Last weekend I got my mail and I got my notice from the Hartford insurance.
[26:52] So if you guys have heart for dump them, they dump me, my home insurance.
[26:57] So I have no insurance now, and it says no longer qualified for coverage under this program
[27:02] due to the wild fire exposure, like we have a choice on this.
[27:09] And so my insurance is dumped, and my agents trying to find me some, but I got to have it
[27:14] by it.
[27:15] It runs out in January, otherwise I don't know what to do with my loan on my house even
[27:20] So, because I got to have insurance, but that's what's happening to us up there because
[27:24] of this, the fires and all of our dead trees.
[27:28] So, I felt so sorry for some of the people who's done it, and I got the same notice.
[27:33] And as you know, many people are going through that, we do have an insurance working
[27:36] group that's trying to tackle that issue, we're, you know, able to discuss that with the
[27:41] governor's office and some of the insurance groups.
[27:43] I will say one of the if there is a pro in some of the fire activities that have happened
[27:48] Napa happening in October and then now with the Southern fires we have a lot more support from decision makers than we've had in the past
[27:55] It's not just the Sierra's saying hey, we need this. We need this
[27:59] So we are trying to build off that momentum and get recognized and her husband Gilbert's a four-sures firefighter
[28:06] He had to go down. I went to first start then you piling in the home before Christmas
[28:10] So
[28:11] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
[28:14] Yeah, such a huge issue.
[28:16] I was up in near the fish camp,
[28:18] I had a sugar pine mountain railroad area.
[28:21] And observed that portion of that burn up there.
[28:25] And I noticed all along the way.
[28:27] A lot of logging has been done through move dead trees.
[28:33] But it's like the state needs to learn that old adage
[28:38] and also preventions worth the pound of cure.
[28:40] We should have been managing these forests better a long time
[28:43] go and putting their dollars into cleaning the forest week. Actually we could do that by
[28:52] reasonable logging and grazing and all the things we used to do. So we need to bring
[28:58] those practices back and I'm not speaking to you. You get it. You're one of the people
[29:03] get it. But just for the public to keep educating the public. We're also losing water as
[29:09] the result of the overdraft and the worrisome.
[29:11] It's all these to be taken care of before we spend billions of dollars in catastrophic
[29:18] fires and lose the ability to ensure our homes in the hills.
[29:24] That's just, that's kept, that would be in and of itself.
[29:28] And Chairman, if you don't mind, I just also like to thank the public, our road's department
[29:34] and OES and Cal Fire on Monday night, we had a large wind event that came around the lake
[29:38] where over 60 trees fell, you know, that's also a concern in and around
[29:42] tree mortality. And everybody came out in the middle of the night and took care of
[29:46] it and cleaned it up and worked collaboratively. So I think that really speaks a
[29:49] lot for the collaborative work that we're doing on this effort.
[29:52] Give our road crew a heck of a handy, we're out for our road and oh yes, and by home God
[29:57] hit and one trader house got hit.
[30:00] Home was completely destroyed by one of the fallen trees. But the road crew worked all night, getting dead trees out of our roads. Anybody hurt? No, nobody got hurt, but they were, I talked to them, they were so scared because when you had dark time, you're trying to clean out a tree off of the road. And all you could hear is other trees falling around, and you have no idea if they're going to fall here.
[30:18] There's a late night. So you are a road crew of big hands.
[30:26] Thank you.
[30:30] Good morning Mr. Chairman, Members of the Board, Eric Fleming County Administrator. This morning it's my pleasure to introduce Tristan Shamp.
[30:36] He is Madeira County's first grant services manager. He'll be working in conjunction with all of the
[30:42] departmental people that go after grants. He'll be filling in gaps where we don't have
[30:46] grant writers in. We'll be coming before you're bored in the very near future with some
[30:51] grant opportunities. He comes to us with a great deal of experience from a private firm,
[30:55] mainly writing grants for cities, counties, and schools, so I'm actually just a gentleman. Welcome.
[31:00] Welcome.
[31:02] Thank you.
[31:04] And I look forward to working with the Board of Supervisors and as well as the part of the head for the county and going after grant funding.
[31:12] We're already after the start.
[31:14] I've got several applications in the works and I think you guys will be seeing me probably beginning to January.
[31:20] I'm going to have several programs going forward at the end of that month.
[31:24] Excellent.
[31:25] We like people who bring money in.
[31:29] Yeah, that's what's going to pay for you jobs, even if you did.
[31:34] Thank you so much.
[31:35] Welcome, Kristen.
[31:36] Thank you.
[31:41] I appreciate it.
[31:42] Well, I figured I better not waste the opportunity.
[31:44] Tracy Kennedy, the Derrick County treasure tax collector.
[31:47] And if you love what he'll bring in, you're going to love what I have to say.
[31:51] Yesterday was a deadline for your property taxes.
[31:53] So if you didn't get a man, you're too late.
[31:56] at 10%.
[32:00] We collected 86 million up through yesterday.
[32:04] We're still posting, probably another 4 million.
[32:06] We'll be posted today.
[32:09] So in total about 90 million, we'll be collected first and second.
[32:14] So 84% of the people have paid their first installments,
[32:19] and almost 20% of the people have already paid their second installment.
[32:23] So they're hoping for their tax deduction, I guess.
[32:26] In credit cards, we received 4.7 million, that is the highest ever, almost 2,000 transactions
[32:34] that paid in credit card.
[32:35] The beauty of credit card is that, once you paid by the credit card at post-sautomatically,
[32:41] there is a fee, there's a convenience fee, the county doesn't get any it at, that 2.35
[32:45] goes direct to the third party vendor, it doesn't come to the county, but it is there
[32:52] for a convenience.
[32:52] Now, each checks are free.
[32:54] We do absorb the 50 cents for the E-checks,
[32:58] and we collect two million in E-checks free,
[33:04] and 800 transactions.
[33:08] So we're still posting, posting away.
[33:11] And we have Fraser, Fraser, Fraser, Mail,
[33:13] but I want to all give you the breakdown next week
[33:16] credit cards walk in.
[33:17] Probably since we've been here in this building 10 years,
[33:20] We had the most walk-in traffic that I've seen in 10 years.
[33:26] Yeah.
[33:26] The credit card, how much was it five meters in?
[33:28] Almost, yeah, 4.7 million in credit cards.
[33:35] So, and most of it was Echex.
[33:39] Free Echex or free.
[33:40] I know it takes a little time to do it, but it's still worth it.
[33:44] It's free.
[33:45] And it posts immediately.
[33:46] That way, we don't have to.
[33:48] How much does it cost for Echex?
[33:50] Fifty cents.
[33:51] But it, but it's just some pain with it. How much is it? We have zorbit. It's free.
[33:57] It's free.
[33:58] Did you get that?
[33:59] For each of you.
[34:00] Was it good?
[34:00] For each of you.
[34:02] Takes a little time, but it's worth it.
[34:04] Anyway, so about 90 million for this.
[34:06] What's for settle?
[34:09] Tracy, I just want to let you know that I meet up with all the people going up to your
[34:12] office to feed your taxes and they're all opposite.
[34:17] Oh, come on, you know what they say.
[34:19] There's only two things you can count on and I say aren't you glad I'm the other one.
[34:25] Thank you, President.
[34:31] You know, on the covers side of that, your people are great about receiving the money and they're very good with the public.
[34:38] I mean, I go out there and I feel good about paying my taxes.
[34:41] You know, this time we'll want to thank the committee that decorated our coaches for you and the people that did it was Veronica Ramirez.
[34:52] Kenia Ashavara, Tanya Kemp, Cherry Peters, Inoscio Magos, Jennifer Garcia, Linda, and Erika
[35:03] Figueroa.
[35:05] Thank you very much.
[35:13] Mr. Chairman before we close the public comment.
[35:15] I'd like to announce again that item 7D as in dog, it's special district maintenance district
[35:22] Reportin was pulled from the agenda today for staff's request.
[35:26] Okay.
[35:34] There was no public outreach that was done on it, so we're pointing right now to not go forward with it.
[35:49] Yeah, and that's why it's being pulled so that it did not move forward with it until we
[36:00] and talks to you about it so that you know exactly what's going on.
[36:04] Your voice is, I've heard loud and clear.
[36:15] If you can, excuse me, sir, revise Mr. Sherman.
[36:19] First of all, thank you for the committee of represent for showing up.
[36:22] And I apologize for the confusion.
[36:26] We do have new information about a grant that we need to secure for this water system.
[36:32] And I would like to start community outreach, and meeting with all of you, if available, very shortly, to discuss the next step forward regarding water and source system.
[36:44] So this is where here to say that there is more we need to do, and there is more information that we just got from this thing.
[36:53] And at the same time, you are the same. No, no change in your rate. The only way we can do it changes is via Prop 2 8.
[37:00] Great. And we're taking that off of the table right now, so your rates will not increase.
[37:06] So it's still fairly long. Until we meet.
[37:09] If you can give some of your contact information, I'd like to set up a meeting with myself and your community.
[37:22] within the next week or so.
[37:24] Thank you, that is, that is key supervisor.
[37:27] We really need all your contact information if we can.
[37:30] And we coordinate with Melissa and also Mohamed
[37:33] is our specialistic manager.
[37:35] We'll make sure that we'll do this proper.
[37:38] Thank you.
[37:39] Your voices were heard loudly.
[38:15] I am number five, county administration department, human resources, operations division,
[38:21] presentation of service credit awards to employees who have retained 20 or more years
[38:25] of county service.
[38:29] Good morning, Chairman members of the Board, Adrian and Caleb reporting this morning
[38:33] on behalf of human resources. Each December, the Board of Supervisors gives special recognition
[38:39] to employees who have reached milestones of 20 or more years of public service.
[38:44] In addition to today's public recognition by the Board,
[38:47] Department Head will be provided with certificates to provide to their employees
[38:51] who have attained 10 and 15 years of service.
[38:56] This year, Department Head will be recognizing 154 additional employees,
[39:01] 46 with five years of service, 85 with 10 years of service,
[39:05] and 23 with 15 years of service.
[39:08] This morning, you'll be recognizing 19 employees who celebrate 20, 25 or 30 years of employment with Medare County.
[39:17] Our office is very proud to have played a role in this presentation, and I want to share with the employees as well as with any of their family members who may be here.
[39:28] After the last presentation, they're welcome to go to the back. We will have cake and cupcakes and things and refreshments for you all to enjoy.
[39:37] I want to also share that the board meeting will continue to move forward during that time so please feel free to join us in the back.
[39:47] At this point in time I'm going to ask Kim Brooks, who actually is the newly appointed analyst in my office to make all of the presentations and call the names and invite people up.
[40:00] So Kim, can you please come up?
[40:10] Good morning.
[40:11] Kim Brooks from Department of Human Resources.
[40:15] First off, we would like to recognize employees for 30 years of service.
[40:19] I'm going to start off with an employee that is unable to attend today.
[40:23] And we would like to recognize from the Department of Corrections, Mark Clark,
[40:28] Correctional Officer, too.
[40:31] Next, we would like to recognize for 30 years of service from the Department of Behavioral
[40:36] services, Melissa Nelson. She's unable to attend, but Dennis Cook, director of behavioral
[40:43] health, to say a few words, and we see her work.
[40:48] The morning, Dennis Cook Department of Behavior Health. Yeah, Melissa can't be here this morning.
[40:52] We're hoping even this morning that she was feeling better when they were able to be here, but
[40:56] she can't. And Melissa, to me, her, she is such a pleasant and delightful person. I go
[41:01] actually known for a few months when I was at public health for a little bit, I met her
[41:07] over there and that was in between it. She was transferring to behavioral health. So it was
[41:11] kind of odd. I was sad for her to leave there and what a gap to fill and not when I was over
[41:17] there but when I was back at behavioral health I was very happy to see such a good employee coming
[41:22] and I didn't realize how long she worked here. But a little bit about Melissa, she gave me some
[41:26] information I wanted to read it. Melissa is a lifelong resident of
[41:31] Madera County. In fact, she was even born at the Health Department
[41:34] building, where then it was in Madera County, General Hospital.
[41:39] She started her career here at Madera County, 30 at age 19 on December 21,
[41:50] 1987.
[41:50] So, in a week, it would be exactly 30 years. And if you were to see her,
[41:54] you would have thought she started at age five.
[41:58] In her 30-year career, Melissa has held various positions in different departments in the county.
[42:05] She started at the Department of Social Services in 1987 and continued to advance her career
[42:11] over the years.
[42:12] She has had many years of service and desire for professional growth allowed her to gain
[42:18] experience in the departments of correction, probation departments, sheriff's office, district
[42:23] attorney, health department, and now behavior health where she's an administrative analyst
[42:28] too.
[42:29] I just want to thank you on behalf of Melissa and really glad that she is now in our department.
[42:34] Thank you, sir.
[42:51] Next, we would like to recognize for 30 years of service from the Tax Collector's Office,
[42:57] Tracy Kennedy Desmond, Tax Collector Treasure.
[43:00] Her award will be presented, presented by Rebecca Martinez, the county clerk recorder.
[43:13] She's coming, she's coming, she's coming.
[43:19] It's crazy you're here.
[43:23] Sorry.
[43:25] 39 and a half years.
[43:28] Good morning.
[43:29] Rebecca Martinez, quick recorder, registered our vetters.
[43:33] Tracy asked me to present to her her 30-year plaque, and I asked her for her bio.
[43:45] I promise that I've cut it down.
[43:53] She asked me to make the presentation today, and I frankly think that the other reason
[43:59] she did that is because I'm the only one that's been here long enough to remember 30 years
[44:04] ago.
[44:06] So, a little bit about Tracy, prior to working for the county, which was in the Tax
[44:12] Collector's Office, she worked for the City of Medira and the Finance Department for
[44:17] approximately eight years.
[44:19] She has a degree in accounting, as well as a Certificate in Public Treasury Management from
[44:24] the University of Southern California School of Public Administration.
[44:28] And because I placed my hand in seal to her Certificate of Election, I can attest to the fact
[44:34] that she was elected for the first time in 1990.
[44:37] And assumed office in 1991 as the Traeger Tax Collector.
[44:44] Not long after Traeger was elected,
[44:46] we became fast friends and confidence to the point
[44:48] where to this day, we are always mistaken for one another.
[44:53] I get shocked when people have paid their taxes
[44:56] and asked me if I'm happy about that.
[44:58] And she gets questions like, where's my money?
[45:00] My ballot, and I guess it must be our long-long hair that makes it look a lie about her.
[45:06] Tracy is one of the two longest serving female county-wide elected officials and in her seventh term.
[45:16] Most people don't grow up wanting to be elected or to be an elected official. There's not many things that are gratitude that come with that job.
[45:25] And Tracy has had her shared adversity, but she persevered and continues to be a loyal, dedicated public servant.
[45:35] It is truly a personal pleasure and a professional privilege to present to you in your 30 year plot.
[45:51] Well, they haven't the right name on there.
[45:54] Do you want to?
[45:57] Hold ease.
[45:59] There's another sign to it.
[46:01] Are you all paying?
[46:12] Yeah.
[46:14] How long is your hair minted?
[46:15] Since Wednesday.
[46:15] Oh, okay.
[46:20] Thirty years, I think the math is wrong, but I can't believe it's thirty years at the
[46:25] end you know on Facebook I just turned 17.
[46:29] So, you've read everyone kindergarten.
[46:30] I know!
[46:32] And really my anniversary date is April Fool's Day oddly enough, and so I've been here 30 and a half or so years.
[46:42] Anyway, thank you to Becky.
[46:44] Thank you very much.
[46:45] That's very sweet.
[46:46] And to this board and all the boards that have been before you, that put up with, I mean that we're here in city,
[46:54] at the Dallas and for my seven terms, like I said 30 years long time, not as long as Becky,
[47:00] so I have something to aspire to. One thing I know for sure is we have plenty of work
[47:07] in our office. We have a lot of work that has lasted the last 30 years and that will
[47:12] last for the next 30 years and on into perpetuity. You know, one thing about it, it won't
[47:17] away we will still be collecting taxes, hopefully not me in 30 more years, but somebody will
[47:24] be even if it's on your telephone or by credit card. I have met some really great people
[47:32] along this journey and I have made some amazing friends and kept some other friends that I always
[47:40] had, so for that I'm very grateful to the county for this long career. In the audience I need
[47:49] I think that I thought I had some staff here but you know of course I'm not anything without good staff.
[47:56] Again the ones that were there when I started in 1987 and the ones that are there today.
[48:01] So we have only one more full-time equivalent person than I had when we started.
[48:07] When I started and I, so we've really held the numbers don't cry, Rhonda, it'll be fine, it'll be fine, really.
[48:17] in the audience I want to introduce my husband,
[48:22] bravest man in the world, John Smith is here,
[48:25] bravest, bravest, bravest.
[48:30] And my dad, Patrick Kennedy,
[48:36] who's been there for me through thick and thin.
[48:41] I had to say, when I was first going to run for office, I asked him, you know, it was kind
[48:47] of a family meeting and I said, so do you think I should or do you think I shouldn't?
[48:52] And he said, yeah, you should, and we'll find out if we have any skeletons in our closet.
[48:59] Anyway, thank you, board, and thank you everyone, that was here, and thank you back
[49:03] you.
[49:03] Thank you.
[49:08] Tracy, when I got to vote in my very first election, it was my honor to vote for your third term.
[49:26] Okay,
[49:30] next, we would like to recognize those employees with 25 years of service.
[49:35] I'm going to start off by the employees that unfortunately are not able to attend today.
[49:39] And first off is from the Department of Corrections, Fred Masiel, he's a correctional sergeant,
[49:47] and next from the Health Department, Alicia Melinda, she's a Public Health Education Assistant.
[49:54] And moving on, we would like to recognize 25 years of service from the Information Technology Department,
[50:01] Tonya Sae, Chief Information Officer, and her award will be presented by Eric Flimming, the CAO.
[50:12] Thank you.
[50:14] Tonya, Tonya started with the county in September of 1992.
[50:20] After working in her way up the ranks, she became the child support services director in November of 2002.
[50:26] She was one of the first department heads that I worked with when I came to the county in 2005.
[50:32] She was a pleasure to work with and we quickly developed an excellent working relationship.
[50:37] During her time as the Child Support Services Director, the county went from a ranking of
[50:41] 44th in the state to a ranking of 19th in the state.
[50:45] In 2014 her department received an award for increasing collections by the highest percentage
[50:50] for all small counties in the state of California.
[50:54] She also led her department through three office-wide conversions to new systems mandated
[50:58] by the federal government.
[51:00] When the county needed a new department head in our IT department, your board had an interest in looking at internal candidates.
[51:07] Tony was a logical choice since she had managed child support services very well over the years and was respected by the county's management team.
[51:15] She was hired as our chief information officer over IT in February of 2016 and in my opinion has made a very successful transition.
[51:24] This year, her IT team is working on over 40 projects, including the county's new website,
[51:29] which should go live in early 2018, new audio equipment for the board chambers in early 2018,
[51:36] and the new one's solution financial system implementation in 2018 as well.
[51:41] And I believe that the best is still to come.
[51:44] So, Tony, thank you for your dedication and your career to be there, county.
[51:54] And I just want to thank your board for all your support of the department and of me throughout
[52:00] the years.
[52:00] It's been my pleasure to serve a Derek County, the constituents of my Derek County and serve
[52:05] your board and the board to be for you.
[52:07] I'd also like to thank Bruce Lormer, my deputy CIO because without him we would not be
[52:14] making it very far at all.
[52:16] And I'd also, I would back at Child Support,
[52:18] like to thank Sarah Honeycutt.
[52:20] She's now the Director of Child Support Services,
[52:23] as well as the last Director of Child Support Services
[52:26] at Fiki West, because without them,
[52:28] I would not be here today.
[52:30] So thank you very, very much.
[52:31] Thank you.
[52:40] Also, for 25 years of service,
[52:42] we would like to recognize from the Probation Department,
[52:45] Naomi Salvador Wyatt, Deputy Probation Officer
[52:48] Supervisor.
[52:50] Her award will be presented by Chris Chilters,
[52:53] Deputy Chief for Probation Officer.
[53:05] Good morning, Chris Chilers, Probation Department.
[53:08] I'm here today to present Naomi Wyatt her 25-year years of service, and I want to say that Naomi
[53:17] came to us originally before she went to Probation.
[53:21] I wasn't even there when she came there, but I heard that she came from victim services
[53:25] before that she was the social worker.
[53:27] So she's got a lot of years in the business, unfortunately the 25 years over the last 25 years
[53:34] she's been at with that probation.
[53:36] So in looking at a back on a anniversary, it's a good occasion to really look back and reflect
[53:42] on all the accomplishments that one person has done.
[53:46] Naomi, I can tell you that you can really look back in a lot of satisfaction and say that
[53:52] you've accomplished a lot.
[53:53] We're going to give you a good example.
[53:54] The Board of Supervisors likes to save money.
[53:58] 20 years ago, Naomi Wyatt applied for a grant.
[54:01] It was called the Young Minnesota's.
[54:03] That grant was ultimately awarded
[54:05] and the Probation Department received quite a bit of money.
[54:10] And over the course of the last 20 years,
[54:12] we've been writing the tell of that application
[54:14] that Naomi Wyatt wrote the grant
[54:17] that over the course of the last 20 years
[54:20] has probably provided about 2 million
[54:22] maybe a little bit more over the last 20 years, we're still using that money today every
[54:27] year we reapply for it, but she paved the way so that I really want to say that was probably
[54:34] one of those shiny moments in Naomi's career, we really appreciate it. I want to say you've
[54:41] always been one of the best colleagues of mine and I know for the others that work with you,
[54:45] they would say the same thing. This one of which you've happy 25 years and just to let you know
[54:50] little secret Naomi is going to be retiring soon so this is kind of in a per career and
[54:57] she won't be up here again for 30 unfortunately but we really want to thank her for being
[55:02] a part of the team and probation and it wouldn't have been possible to all of our success
[55:08] of the chief that we have without her be in it so I want to say thank you very much.
[55:25] First of all, I want to thank you all.
[55:29] I feel so thankful and grateful to have spent the last almost 26 years of probation.
[55:38] How often does the person give to you?
[55:41] To not only work for the department like probation,
[55:46] but to actually be able to accomplish the things that were set for them.
[55:53] I felt like I've been able to do my colleagues, I've always loved working with kids.
[56:03] And I feel like I've had to give an opportunity to give something to my community.
[56:14] This is my home town.
[56:15] I was Majaea and I was serving the people of Majaea and I felt like I got an opportunity to serve the youth of its community and how often do you get to work with some really wonderful people.
[56:32] my own supervisor here and I want to thank him. I want to stand up, have a say, can
[56:37] to him.
[56:39] Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. He's a wonderful person and definitely
[56:47] still cool.
[56:51] But one of my first two providers and any time I would do a grant work, she
[56:57] always encouraging me, and I really appreciate that,
[57:05] and I'll call.
[57:12] He was always there for me,
[57:14] when he was my supervisor, always encouraging me, giving me credit for what he believes.
[57:22] I have done and done, and then lastly, but not least, I have told him he's
[57:35] been my supervisor for almost three years, and I really appreciate that he lets me work outside the box, and I will never forget the last almost 26 years.
[57:55] Thank you.
[58:08] Also for 25 years from the Sheriff's Department, we would like to recognize Susan
[58:13] No.
[58:14] Sheriff's Business Manager and her award will be presented by Sheriff J. Barney.
[58:28] She's going to take the long way to get down here.
[58:33] We're
[58:43] going to give you most of the speaking time anyway.
[58:46] So Susan's a native Moder and she's worked for the county.
[58:49] Obviously for 25 years she's worked for three different departments.
[58:52] your word for an extended period, county council, and then for kind of did like a quick
[58:57] stint over a public health for a few years. It has been with the Sheriff's Office for about
[59:02] nine years now. As mentioned by your job title, she's the Sheriff's Business Office Manager,
[59:06] which encompasses a whole lot of stuff you can't even believe some of these grants they
[59:10] have to deal with. And we've also moved payroll historically has always been done by my
[59:15] admin assistant and we moved Regina who's here as one of the employees to honor Susan today,
[59:21] into the business office because it just made a whole lot more sense that if the person that was
[59:25] figuring out how much money we had worked with the person who was doing the payroll. So
[59:30] Susan's a great mentor probably why Julia and Regina both here today to honor her and Susan also has
[59:36] her mom and dad here and I will turn the mic over to you. I just like to thank you for the opportunity
[59:44] of the Emperor which sort from a dairy county for the last 25 years. It's been a great ride coming to work
[59:51] I enjoy my job. I enjoy working for the great man. It makes it easy when your department cares about the counting that you work in.
[1:00:01] Thank you to the Board for having me. I just hope to keep you around for a few more years. And if I also would like to thank my parents, Mario and Jeanette, for giving me the work ethic that they taught me as a young, and are still teaching me, actually, every day. But thank you, Mom and Dad, I love you. And thank you for supporting me every step of the way. And thank you, Sheriff.
[1:00:37] And lastly, for 25 years of service, we would like to recognize from the Department of Social
[1:00:43] Services, Brandy Current, Social Workers 3, her award will be presented by Deborah Martinez,
[1:00:50] the Director of Social Services.
[1:00:55] Good morning, Supervisors.
[1:00:57] Good morning.
[1:00:58] Can you hear me?
[1:00:59] I'm here with Brandy Current.
[1:01:02] Brandy began with the Department of Social Services, I'm sorry, I'm stating all of our
[1:01:07] face.
[1:01:07] In March of 1992, as an eligibility worker, in 1998, she promoted to Social Worker throughout
[1:01:13] her career in, as she's been assigned to Welfare to Work, Child Welfare, and is currently
[1:01:18] serving as a social worker too in adult protected services.
[1:01:22] She has performed numerous special assignments such as Foster Parent, Raleigh Sons, court officer
[1:01:29] for the Child Welfare Department, and she has also served as the DSF Activity Committee
[1:01:34] Board Member.
[1:01:35] and she was named employee of the year in 2008.
[1:01:38] She has been in her 25 years with a department
[1:01:40] and asked it to the department to the clients
[1:01:44] and to the public that we serve.
[1:01:47] And we appreciate very much respect, thank you.
[1:01:55] I just want to say that I love working with community
[1:01:59] that we all serve and every day is an adventure.
[1:02:03] Yeah, thank you, that's the truth.
[1:02:05] Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
[1:02:18] And next, we'll be recognizing the employees that have worked 20 years, and have 20 years of service.
[1:02:27] And first, I'd like to start off by announcing the individual that unfortunately could not attend today.
[1:02:34] And first off, from General Services Building Maintenance, Dennis Kidwell, Building Crafts and Maintenance Worker 2.
[1:02:41] From the District Attorney's Office, David Inkstrom, supervising D.A. Criminal Investigator.
[1:02:50] From Probation, Richard Golindo, Deputy Probation Officer Supervisor.
[1:02:56] From the Public Works Department, Edward Alvarez, Road Construction and Maintenance Worker 2.
[1:03:02] And, from, sorry, also from Public Works,
[1:03:10] the Soil Hillerman Road Construction
[1:03:12] and Maintenance Worker Supervisor,
[1:03:15] from the Sheriff's Office, Robert Molot, Sheriff Sergeant,
[1:03:20] and lastly, Valerie Rutherford,
[1:03:22] Social Worker 3.
[1:03:25] So next for 20 years of service,
[1:03:27] We would like to present Elizabeth co-synth key.
[1:03:32] She's a senior program assistant.
[1:03:35] And her award will be presented by Dennis Cook.
[1:03:44] Oh, Debbie Dinnado.
[1:03:53] Good morning, board members.
[1:03:54] I'm Debbie Dinnado, division manager with Medare County Behavioral Health Services.
[1:04:00] Thank you so far away. Come up here.
[1:04:04] Okay, I'm going to read what Beth wrote about her employment since she's been here with
[1:04:09] Madera County, 20 years, pretty amazing.
[1:04:14] She was hired on 121997 as a program assistant for the Madera County Mental Health Department,
[1:04:22] which later changed its name to the Madera County Behavioral Health Department.
[1:04:27] She started in the Children's Services, Children's System of Care Program, located in one
[1:04:34] half of the Health Department building. During her years there, she learned and grew so
[1:04:40] much. Some areas she worked in was with the Access Case Management Team and saw how mental
[1:04:47] health services were provided at court day school, boot camp, group homes, foster care, school
[1:04:54] districts and more. Several years later, she moved to the Lake Street Center and joined the
[1:05:00] foster care program working closely with the Department of Social Services. This was a whole
[1:05:06] new world of learning for her. Her next opportunity in challenge was moving over to the main clinic
[1:05:14] on Ben Road 28 at the Medare Counseling Center. This was where she was trained in medical records
[1:05:21] and began working closely with our psychiatrists.
[1:05:25] The world of privacy and mental health and alcohol
[1:05:27] and drug programs was amazing to her.
[1:05:31] And she learned that she loved medical records right away.
[1:05:34] In 2012, our department moved to our current location
[1:05:38] at 7th Street, and she has continued to grow
[1:05:42] in all aspects of our department.
[1:05:44] She's proud to have been part of the behavioral health
[1:05:48] department for 20 years, and she was recently promoted
[1:05:50] to seeing your program assistant in medical records.
[1:05:54] And I just want to say personally, I get the joy of supervising her, I've had the joy
[1:05:59] of supervising her, she's an amazing employee.
[1:06:03] You ask her to do something, it's done immediately.
[1:06:06] Her work is extremely professional, and I'm just really proud that she's one of my employees,
[1:06:12] so thank you for your time and for your service and congratulations.
[1:06:28] I don't even know what to say to the start except that I have been very happy working for
[1:06:34] Medare County, specifically the behavioral health department.
[1:06:39] But when I started, I knew nothing and I'm very grateful to have worked with the people that
[1:06:48] have given me the opportunity to learn as much as I learned.
[1:06:51] So thank you all so much, and I really appreciate this.
[1:07:04] Next for 20 years of service from General Services Building Maintenance
[1:07:10] is Bryant Torres, Senior Building Crafts and Maintenance Worker,
[1:07:16] and his award will be presented by Raymond Werther,
[1:07:21] Building Crafts and Maintenance Worker, Supervisor.
[1:07:29] Good morning. Good morning. Good morning.
[1:07:33] you know that right now. My name is Raymond Wetta, Billion Maintenance Supervisor with
[1:07:38] Medare County. Right here we have Brian Torres. He was hired 20 years ago and I'll give you
[1:07:45] a little back grab about him. He's a lifelong resident served in the military in the Marines.
[1:07:50] He has a wife, two daughters, have it outdoors and he likes to camp, fish, good man. For a
[1:08:03] out of the jails, a building maintenance worker one has worked his way up to the senior lead work
[1:08:09] position out there, and it takes a special person to work out at the jail. It really does,
[1:08:15] because Brian has been out there for 20 years and he keeps running and maintaining that facility,
[1:08:20] you know, it just keeps rolling. I don't have to worry about that facility because I have him out there
[1:08:25] and he takes care of all the emergencies. If he's surprised how many times you get called out in the
[1:08:33] They're just a great staff out there to have them out there.
[1:08:37] And so I'm privileged to have him work for me.
[1:08:39] He's not just a worker, he's part of our family.
[1:08:43] The people that I have working in our department,
[1:08:45] they're a great bunch of guys.
[1:08:47] And he's one of them, right?
[1:08:48] Of course.
[1:08:52] And he said he wasn't any good at that.
[1:08:55] Yeah, I know.
[1:08:55] I thought I was a great introduction.
[1:08:57] Thank you very much.
[1:08:58] Thank you for your service to our country.
[1:09:00] Thank you, sir.
[1:09:01] 20 years.
[1:09:02] I hope to serve you all another 10.
[1:09:15] Also for 20 years of service, we would like to recognize from Juvenile Hall, Martin Garcia
[1:09:20] Jr., Juvenile Detention Officer II, his award will be presented by Paul De Orient, Deputy Chief
[1:09:28] Probation Officer.
[1:09:29] Good
[1:09:40] morning everybody. It's been a while. Oh, you all do
[1:09:46] Myself I remember not real good at this stuff. I didn't prepare our speed, but I hope I'll do you Raymond. I did
[1:09:52] But
[1:09:54] Martin Garcia, you know start in 1997. I think September
[1:09:59] Solve employee
[1:10:02] Reliable well-liked by everybody and that's hard to say because our clients are
[1:10:08] Not the best
[1:10:10] Not the best kids in our community and but Martin has a special touch with him and
[1:10:18] Good thing about Martin is is he's our longest term
[1:10:21] Line staff employee. He's David one. So that's that's our number one longest term
[1:10:27] Line staff employee
[1:10:29] so he
[1:10:31] That's a lot of history and
[1:10:33] Those were all the skeletons are buried out there in the backyard
[1:10:38] So I go to him quite a bit when I want to know where and when and why that happened or how it came about.
[1:10:47] I do want to tell a quick story before I turn over Martin, just to kind of paint a picture of how he works.
[1:10:56] So doing a hall story, regular morning, Friday morning about a month ago, the emergency call comes over to radio.
[1:11:02] You know, we all go running out of the housing unit.
[1:11:05] I'm up in the admins, so I'm using the last one in the housing unit.
[1:11:08] But that one was a little different, because you could tell by the call from the off-service,
[1:11:12] it was a little more stressful.
[1:11:14] So I get in there and they got a kid out there and they're taking this sheet or sweatshirt
[1:11:20] or something wrapped around the kids and that kid could get a suicide account.
[1:11:24] So first guy I see on seeing is Martin helping the kid and it's always good when you got an
[1:11:29] like that experience telling the kid hey it's gonna be okay we're here to take care of you let us help you so
[1:11:38] I feel really good that morning when I got in there and I saw Martin helping that kid
[1:11:42] that really describes what we do out there and type a person in Martin's officer of Martin Garcia
[1:11:48] So congratulations thank you for taking care of those kids out there and making a safe and keep us out of those
[1:12:05] very good at speeches but I just want to say thank you to the Board of Supervisors 20 years
[1:12:10] go by pretty quick.
[1:12:13] I just want to say thank you to my wife she works for the same
[1:12:17] department for all the support you know working weekends all the days and this business you
[1:12:26] know it's like the DC said it's a service that goes you know you don't get too much of a pat in
[1:12:34] back for all the weekends and the nights and the holidays that you go into work.
[1:12:40] So it's very difficult, it's very difficult 20 years, but thank you to my life for the support.
[1:12:48] And I would like to thank my father, as well, Martin Garcia, I would like to dedicate this to him.
[1:12:58] I would like to dedicate this to him because he showed me what it is for hard work and just
[1:13:04] I'm loving where you work in the support of, you know, everything he's been through.
[1:13:10] So, thanks, Dad.
[1:13:12] Thanks, Dad.
[1:13:12] Great man.
[1:13:24] Now turn to the right.
[1:13:31] Thank you. Thank you.
[1:13:37] Also, for 20 years of service, we like to recognize two employees from the health department.
[1:13:44] First off, I'll call Laura Vera, Senior Nutrition Assistant.
[1:13:49] Her award will be presented by Sarah Boss, the Public Health Director.
[1:13:59] Hello, again.
[1:14:01] Sarah Boss, Public Health Director.
[1:14:05] Last week, we celebrated these employment milestones with our staff and the health department.
[1:14:11] And it had a feeling in the room, much like this morning, my daughter says it's toasty
[1:14:15] warm thoughts.
[1:14:16] But what a lovely morning to celebrate as we see people achieve these milestones.
[1:14:21] It's my honor to represent the health department and talk about Laura and her service to
[1:14:27] look held over the last 20 years.
[1:14:30] She started with Medare County in 1997 as a nutrition assistant for the health department
[1:14:35] with a women, infants, and children program.
[1:14:38] She was promoted to nutrition assistant 2 and 2005, and due to her high level of bilingual
[1:14:44] wick nutrition counseling skills, her unique understanding of state wick policy, which
[1:14:49] is very complicated, and her excellent work ethic, Laura, was promoted to senior nutrition
[1:14:54] system in 2008, 2007. On behalf of the Health Department, we're very proud of you.
[1:15:00] 1 and 1, 2. Thank you for your dedication to the health of families and children. And it is my honor to present you with this welcome serve.
[1:15:13] Well, I didn't have a speech prepared. But I want to thank everybody for taking the time to honor us today.
[1:15:20] And it's been 20 years and they have passed in a blink of an eye.
[1:15:27] I feel can believe that it just seemed like it was yesterday when I started.
[1:15:31] So thank you for the time and I also want to thank my son and my daughter for taking the time to be with me here today.
[1:15:39] Thank you.
[1:15:46] For 20 years of service, also from the Health Department.
[1:15:49] Diana Trinvino Turner, Public Health Education Assistant, and her award will also be presented
[1:15:56] by Sarah Boss, the Public Health Director.
[1:16:09] Diana started also in 1997, 20 years of service as an offices assistant with the Public Health
[1:16:15] Department, and after three years she was promoted to a Public Health Education Assistant.
[1:16:20] For the past 17 years she's been working as a case manager with our maternal child and adolescent
[1:16:24] health program. Diana is culturally sensitive, she's thoughtful, and appropriately applies
[1:16:30] her knowledge and skills to support families in the first parent's program. And I'll be
[1:16:35] happy to have a public health. It's my honor to present you with this recognition. We appreciate
[1:16:39] your service to children and families in the dark.
[1:16:47] I'd also like to thank you for joining
[1:16:49] here today to go by quickly working with the community to be challenging sometimes, but there
[1:16:54] really is a need for home visitation and I really enjoy working with all my families.
[1:16:58] Thank you.
[1:17:08] Also for 20 years of service from the Library Department I would like to call Jonathan King Library Assistant.
[1:17:16] His award will be presented by Patrick Fitzgerald, the County Library.
[1:17:28] Good morning.
[1:17:30] Jonathan King has been a permanent employee with this department since 1997,
[1:17:35] but he actually started here at the extra health worker in late 1980s.
[1:17:43] He's actually all total service has been a good one while.
[1:17:49] Over 32 or around 32 years, he's outlasted many county librarians.
[1:17:54] I'm sure he's going to outlast me too.
[1:17:58] John is a thought he's just absolutely reliable in every way.
[1:18:03] We always know that he's as good as his word.
[1:18:06] What he does, what he says he's going to do, if he says he's going to be there, he's going
[1:18:10] to be there.
[1:18:11] There's not much that I can tell him about the library because he knows our building, our facility
[1:18:16] and our department inside and out already.
[1:18:20] In any department, some departments are more challenging than others, but it's still never
[1:18:25] to have a position where you're public facing or working intensely with the public day in
[1:18:31] day out. He always goes about that with an absolute sense of calm and is able to kind
[1:18:37] of bring the blood pressure of any situation back down to a normal rate and that's certainly
[1:18:43] a character that I appreciate. Thank you John.
[1:18:51] Now working with the library all these years has been a huge part of my personal growth and happiness.
[1:18:56] I'd like to thank the Board of Supervisors for recognizing you.
[1:19:10] Also, for 20 years of service, we would like to recognize from the Probation Department, Gloria Garcia,
[1:19:16] Deputy Probation Officer, Supervisor, and her award will be presented by Jose Pantoya,
[1:19:22] Deputy Chief Probation Officer.
[1:19:24] More
[1:19:34] than everyone, I'm Jose Panko, I'm the deputy of Chief of the Medellary County Probation Department, and I would
[1:19:39] a first brief you'd like to thank the Board for allowing us to stop opportunity and knowing the importance of recognizing our staff, so thank you guys.
[1:19:46] Supervisor Gloria Garcia, she's been with our departments since 1997, where she started off as a juvenile detention officer at the boot camp.
[1:19:56] Her dedication, her motivation, her eagerness, she quickly climbed up the ranks there.
[1:20:01] She got promoted to juvenile detention supervisor, and she shifted gears a little bit, and she switched over to the probation side where she became a deputy probation officer.
[1:20:13] And that was in 2001. Again, a commotivation for e-berness or dedication wanted to learn a promote. She became a senior in 2006, and her current role as a supervisor in 2010.
[1:20:26] Gloria is loyal. She's dedicated. She's passionate about her job. She's a great employee.
[1:20:33] She's taken on many tasks, specifically recently the proposition of 63. That's going to take effect.
[1:20:38] It's January. She's really taken on that role in defining and outlying provisions role in that proposition.
[1:20:46] Gloria, thank you for your 20 years of service. We appreciate it.
[1:20:53] Hi. I just wanted to make it clear that I started when I was 10.
[1:20:58] These 20 years have flown by. I want to thank God for allowing me to be here. I want
[1:21:03] to thank my parents for instilling me the work ethic that they did to allow me to be here.
[1:21:11] I want to thank the chief for all his support and encouragement and guidance. Thank you.
[1:21:19] All the DCs for all their guidance as well. I want to thank my husband for being here,
[1:21:24] I'm going to go see it.
[1:21:25] It is my husband.
[1:21:26] We actually share the exact same anniversary date.
[1:21:29] So we both, you know, 20 years together here.
[1:21:34] And then I want to thank my staff that came here to support me today.
[1:21:37] So Fia Barca, Lisa Turner, and Rudy on this.
[1:21:40] So thank you.
[1:21:40] Without them, I can do the job that I do now.
[1:21:44] I'm very grateful to have worked for the county for 20 years.
[1:21:47] It's a great county.
[1:21:48] It's a great department.
[1:21:49] And I thank you so much.
[1:21:50] Thank you.
[1:21:51] It is.
[1:21:51] For
[1:21:59] 20 years from the Public Works Department,
[1:22:02] I would like to recognize I skipped someone on accident.
[1:22:06] I would like to recognize Randy Rosenfeld,
[1:22:09] equipment operator.
[1:22:11] Unfortunately, he was unable to attend today's ceremony.
[1:22:15] So next for 20 years of service is Keith Daniels.
[1:22:18] Special District's electrician.
[1:22:20] His award will be presented by Ahmad Al-Qayat.
[1:22:26] Good morning again.
[1:22:27] Mr. Chairman, members of the Board.
[1:22:29] Keith Daniel started with Medare County in August, 11th, 1997.
[1:22:34] All I can say is that public courts department has been blessed with having Keith Daniels as part of our team.
[1:22:41] Your board knows the state of our special districts and water systems.
[1:22:46] Some of these plants are more than 50 years old.
[1:22:49] Keith can open the control panel at this plant and resolve issues,
[1:22:53] issues, whether it was built to the 1960s code or to the day's code.
[1:22:59] While many of these panels intimidate the average person with thousands of wires rolling
[1:23:03] all over the place, this is what Keith says, if you can read a road map, you can solve this.
[1:23:10] So I forgot those two, remember the folding road maps.
[1:23:13] Although Keith has tossed the toss around the R word, we are proud of him and congratulate
[1:23:19] him for 20 years of service.
[1:23:21] However, we won't give up on trying to get him to stay for another 20.
[1:23:27] Keith, I'm humbled to be handing this to you. Congratulations.
[1:23:38] You know, I had a boss tell me one time that everybody's got to find home.
[1:23:43] And I think I found it here at Madera County.
[1:23:46] Absolutely. And I certainly appreciate this award.
[1:23:50] But it's easy to see why I was able to have this success that I've had here.
[1:23:54] When I have a great boss like a mod and Muhammad, Marty Duval, Chad, all of the operators
[1:24:05] that work in the district, you know, I am team and without their support I couldn't have done my job effectively.
[1:24:14] And so, also I'd like to say thank you to the girls, because in the office, because
[1:24:21] Patty and Sarah, Maria, all of those girls do a great job, and they work overtime,
[1:24:29] even me out of trouble and who would stand outside.
[1:24:34] But I've had a great time here, and I really appreciate you all.
[1:24:39] Thank you very much.
[1:24:48] For 20 years of service from the Sheriff's Department, we would like to recognize Mark
[1:24:54] Schaffer, Deputy Sheriff, Intermediate Post, his award will be presented by Sheriff
[1:24:59] Dave Arne.
[1:25:08] So, Mark is one of those guys that we'd all like to have as an employee, and I've got just
[1:25:12] a couple of quick stories to share, because he'll probably say thank you and walk away
[1:25:17] because he's a man a few words, Mark is super dependable, and he even gives his best
[1:25:22] sometimes when we have unusual things we need him to do, he had an injury that took him off the road last year,
[1:25:28] but he was able to work like duty, so he came into dispatch, and I shouldn't have known,
[1:25:34] but I didn't know, so I'm listening to radio drive around, I'm thinking, who is that guy?
[1:25:38] I have the radio, he's doing a really good job, but I think we didn't hire anybody.
[1:25:42] So even dispatch, which isn't a deputy's favorite assignment, Mark did a really good job in there,
[1:25:48] And then the other thing that Mark is really known for at our agency is, by far, and this
[1:25:52] is saying something, especially since now he's a K-9 handler, he has the cleanest car
[1:25:57] in the whole place.
[1:25:58] And that this car is so clean that at the junction fire, his wife and his son brought us some
[1:26:03] water and his personal truck, and I was a little busy, because we were right there at the fire
[1:26:08] station.
[1:26:08] The fire is right there.
[1:26:09] I was helping him unload the truck, and I didn't recognize his wife, and I was talking
[1:26:14] with his son.
[1:26:14] I had met him before, and I said, oh, you dance a deputy, and I looked at the truck
[1:26:17] said he would dad march safer because that truck was so clean even right next to the fire
[1:26:23] that you could have eaten off it. So Mark has done a wonderful job force for the past
[1:26:28] 20 years. Currently as a canine handler, as a canine apex they've been on the road together
[1:26:33] about 13, 14 months. He is previously been an FTO and a member of the SWAT team in 1952.
[1:26:41] Were you? No, no die. Okay, could be as a new somebody else but Mark is one of the guys who's
[1:26:46] there. He's one of the guys that, you know, what we do in our line of work is when we're driving around,
[1:26:51] we listen to the radio, and that's what I want to say we judge our employees by that, but we get a good
[1:26:56] feel for our employees that way. And Mark's one of those employees that I know when he's working,
[1:27:00] if it calls for holding or ready to go out, I don't have to worry about it, he's just going to take care of it.
[1:27:05] So, Mark, congratulations on 20 years with the Sheriff's Office.
[1:27:13] Well, I would like to say thank you for the opportunity to work from Medare County.
[1:27:17] It's been my privilege. I like to thank God for this opportunity. Over 20 years ago, about 21 years ago, I got out of the army for about four years of service.
[1:27:29] I decided I was going to be a paramedic until my brother said, come on, right along.
[1:27:34] And that's all it took. He worked for the Fresno County Sheriff's Office.
[1:27:39] ever since been it's been an adventure every day's an adventure you never know what you're
[1:27:43] going to get just like force comes in. I just like the box of chocolates. I've met a lot of
[1:27:49] bit interesting people learned a lot of things and made a lot of friends. The job can be stressful
[1:27:56] at times and it's stressful on the family. I'd like to thank my wife Lisa. She's been Lisa.
[1:28:08] Lisa
[1:28:09] work, no matter how stressful the day is, we'll be between us, our two kids, and our four
[1:28:17] dogs at home. We got a full house. I'd like to say thank you. Thank you for your service
[1:28:24] to our country as well.
[1:28:40] Okay, lastly, for 20 years of service, from the Department of Social
[1:28:45] Services, we would like to award Maria Chappa, Employment Training Workers Supervisor,
[1:28:52] her award will be presented by Deborah Martinez, Director of Social Services.
[1:29:05] Okay, good morning again, supervisors.
[1:29:08] Unfortunately, I just realized I really do need my reading glasses.
[1:29:11] So, this time I bought my light and see if this helps a bit.
[1:29:14] Okay.
[1:29:14] No, by the line.
[1:29:15] Excuse me?
[1:29:16] Oh, well, I know I'm almost far with somebody.
[1:29:19] Okay.
[1:29:19] So, this is Maria Zepapa, the Chapa.
[1:29:21] She joined the Department of the Merit County Department of Services on June 11th and 1990
[1:29:25] as an eligibility worker.
[1:29:27] She quickly promoted an eligibility worker 2 in 1991 and then to a 3 as of April 1995.
[1:29:33] She promoted again to an employment training worker in September 1990 and then an employment training worker 2 in April 2000.
[1:29:42] In January of 2003, Maria has to be certified by a new worker allowing her to serve the Spanish speaking community.
[1:29:49] and in February of 2007, she was promoted as a balanced religious training worker
[1:29:54] three at the lead worker under her most recent promotion in September of this.
[1:30:00] Here, as an employment training supervisor, congratulations to the 20 years of service to the Department of Social Services and the community in Medare County. She is a lovely person.
[1:30:15] I feel like I have grown up in the Department of Social Services. I love my job. I love serving the community and being able to help people overcome barriers and become self-sufficient. So thank you for the opportunity to serve the community.
[1:30:32] And
[1:30:40] also for social services, we would like to recognize Monica Maxwell, administrative analyst
[1:30:45] too, and her award will also be presented by Deborah Martinez Director of Social Services.
[1:30:54] So, Monica, Monica Maxwell joined the County Department of Social Services in April, first
[1:31:03] of 1997 as an office assistant, too, and quickly promoted
[1:31:07] to program manager secretary in November 1st of 1998.
[1:31:10] She remained in this position until September of 2005,
[1:31:14] when she was promoted to a personnel assistant.
[1:31:17] She promoted, again, to administrative assistant,
[1:31:19] July 1st of 2008.
[1:31:21] In this position, she was the assistant to the deputy directors.
[1:31:24] On April 1st, 2012, she promoted to her current position
[1:31:28] as administrative analyst, too, with her primary duties
[1:31:32] resolving around personnel. Monica has been a true asset to the Department in every position
[1:31:37] she has helped, congratulations in the 20 years of service to the County of Mdera.
[1:31:42] Now I am Monica's supervisor as she well knows. And the number of times I say her name on
[1:31:48] any given day is you and believe. It's Monica Monica Monica or email. So I truly appreciate
[1:31:55] all the help Monica, you have a tremendous amount of knowledge and we couldn't do it without
[1:32:00] Thank you.
[1:32:06] I'd like to thank the Board for the recognition.
[1:32:09] I'd also like to thank my staff at DSS without them.
[1:32:12] I couldn't do my job and then my staff, my DSS family.
[1:32:16] Personnel is not always an easy thing and with their support, it's been great.
[1:32:23] Only six years left.
[1:32:34] And lastly, for 20 years of service from the Department of Social Services is Michelle Bennett,
[1:32:41] Employment and Training Worker 2 presented by Deborah Martinez.
[1:32:48] So I'm here with Michelle Bennett.
[1:32:50] Michelle Bennett joined the Department of Services and the Dairy County on August 1st of
[1:32:56] In 1997, as an office of this day, too, and then she promoted to data entry operators to
[1:33:02] NASA.
[1:33:02] On November 1, 1998, she promoted to eligibility worker 1, and a year later, too, too.
[1:33:08] I know it's really worth it too.
[1:33:09] She was then promoted again to employment training worker on August 1, 2005, and her career provision
[1:33:15] of an employment training worker to on April 1, 2006, where she currently worked with employers
[1:33:21] throughout the mid-Arient County, obtaining job services for her wealth of work client.
[1:33:25] She congratulated for her 20 years of service to the Department of Social Services and the Community of the Air County.
[1:33:31] Now, if you look at her, she looks a little petrified.
[1:33:34] I have seen this woman present to employers and to our staff of over 300 staff.
[1:33:39] And she has never looked nervous.
[1:33:43] I actually think she really delayed her return because of her nerves.
[1:33:48] I'm amazed.
[1:33:49] I thought she was just going to be out here so confident.
[1:33:51] I mean, pushing you should, you've done a tremendous job.
[1:33:54] Your work with the Welfare Work client is very much appreciated,
[1:33:57] and I know the employers love you.
[1:34:05] I just want to say thank you very much for the recognition.
[1:34:08] I do have a little bit of a flaw in my character.
[1:34:12] I can sell a stone to someone, but unfortunately,
[1:34:16] I have a difficult time selling myself to others.
[1:34:19] But I do enjoy the opportunities that have been provided
[1:34:22] to me through a welfare work
[1:34:24] and being able to work with our community employers
[1:34:27] and helping our clientele secure and develop employment.
[1:34:34] Unfortunately, they're probably making more money than me,
[1:34:36] but it is a good feeling, okay, it's so very much.
[1:34:39] I've known you 27 years, I have never known you to be nervous.
[1:34:44] So you know what, you do a great job, and thank you.
[1:34:47] It's good to see you.
[1:34:53] This concludes our 2017 Employee Service Credit Awards.
[1:34:58] Again, I would like to invite everybody into our reception area for some refreshments.
[1:35:03] Thank you.
[1:35:12] Mr. Chairman, at this time you wanted to take a break and then break in for lunch until 1 o'clock?
[1:35:17] Come back to 1 o'clock.
[1:35:18] Yes, sir.
[1:35:19] 1 o'clock.
[1:35:20] 1 o'clock.
[1:35:21] 4 o'clock.
[1:46:07] To the dias, David Rogers.
[1:46:45] We're ready for item number 6, Mr. Chairman, consent calendar.
[1:46:48] Members,
[1:47:00] have any questions on a consent calendar?
[1:47:15] I want to speak it out to the public, any comments on the public.
[1:47:20] I move, we are pretty very good. Second,
[1:47:25] good job. I didn't find nothing on the station.
[1:47:28] Okay.
[1:47:29] Call for the vote. Supervisor Wheeler?
[1:47:32] Yes. Supervisor Frazier.
[1:47:33] Yes. Supervisor Rogers?
[1:47:34] Yes. Supervisor Rodriguez?
[1:47:35] bill passes for 01 absent,
[1:47:40] 7A, Community and Economic Development Department Planning Division,
[1:47:45] 2018 agricultural preserves and farmland security zones. One, hearing to consider the proposed
[1:47:50] ordinance for the rezoning lands currently proposed for inclusion in the agriculture
[1:47:54] preserves farmland security zone program for 2018. Two, hearing to consider approval of
[1:48:00] Resolution is established in 2018 agricultural reserves, 16.95, 16.96, 16.98, 16.99, 17.17, 17.17, 17.03, 17.04, and farmline security zones, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, and 289.
[1:48:19] Three discussion and consideration of itering ancient agricultural research and farmline security zones contract for the year 2018 and authorized the chairman to execute the contracts in accordance with this action.
[1:48:29] Thank
[1:48:36] you, Mr. Chairman, Matt Treber planning director here, along with Jamie Bax, who's responsible for our Williams Act program.
[1:48:43] This is our annual item before the board to put properties into the Williams Act and the Farm Alliance Security.
[1:48:49] Jamie has a brief PowerPoint presentation for the board of the public as well.
[1:48:53] Good afternoon, Mr. Chair. Members of the board. Before you are this year's contract.
[1:48:59] So what Ron mentioned was, as part of the program, they have properties have to be zone
[1:49:04] a specific zone district, which is the ARE-40 zone district.
[1:49:08] So this year we received requests by the most session, the Gooding White properties,
[1:49:14] frousing and sing properties to be zone to that zone district because they weren't previously
[1:49:18] zone at before.
[1:49:20] This item is considered exempt under sequa, all new ad preserves are considered exempt under
[1:49:27] sequa.
[1:49:27] So, I'm just going to go through a list of maps and their acreages and their locations.
[1:49:33] So, the first is 1695, which is the Miseschen property.
[1:49:37] It's Prime Aglant 154.59 acres.
[1:49:41] The next is 1696, which is also Miseschen.
[1:49:44] It's Prime Aglant as well.
[1:49:46] 29.7 acres and is surrounded by contracted lands.
[1:49:51] The next is 1698, which is non-time, but it is 128.99 acres total.
[1:49:57] It is grazing land up in the foothills, and the next is 1699, which is climb, aglan, and 16 acres,
[1:50:04] and is surrounded completely by contracted lands.
[1:50:09] 1700 is also climb 77.65 acres.
[1:50:15] 1701 is non-pime 159.5 acres of grazing land.
[1:50:21] 1702 is prime 109.26 acres, and 1703 is non-prime 1097.03 acres of grazing land, just Feast of the Bonna Deli Ranchos.
[1:50:39] Because our 1704 is Prime Aglant, 232.88 acres, and the farmland security zones, which are all Prime Aglant, all irrigated.
[1:50:49] The first is 515.82.
[1:50:52] Let's take it 157.5 acres, 141.21 acres, 111.44 acres, 29.5 acres, which is completely surrounded
[1:51:09] by contracted lands, and the last is 13,356.99 acres, which is also John Hancock or the
[1:51:19] So, with that, staff is recommending approval of the resones,
[1:51:25] resones, that are a condition of approval,
[1:51:28] and it's also for the recommended that the chairman
[1:51:31] execute contracts in accordance with this action,
[1:51:33] and I'm available for any questions.
[1:51:37] This is a public area in any comments on the public.
[1:51:46] Hello.
[1:51:47] My name is Judy White.
[1:51:49] My husband Ralph and I, along with our neighbor,
[1:51:51] Gene Gooding are trying to get our parcels into the protection of the Williamson Act.
[1:51:57] We unparselled situated near the old mining town of Hildrith, California.
[1:52:02] Our property and the surrounding areas are significant to and steep in the history of Madera County.
[1:52:08] The vast majority of the neighbors in that area have their property protected under the Williamson Act.
[1:52:14] In order to help protect this historically significant area, we too are requesting the same protection.
[1:52:21] Our property was settled by the Ruben and Carolyn Williams family in 1882.
[1:52:27] They were the first registered owners.
[1:52:29] Once gold was discovered in that area, the town of Hilbert Bound.
[1:52:33] There were numerous gold mines in the area.
[1:52:37] It is estimated that the town's population was anywhere from 600 to 3000 at any given time.
[1:52:44] There were numerous saloons, hotels, and other businesses.
[1:52:47] Like many small mining communities, it thrived as long as the gold flowed.
[1:52:53] The Williams family was prominent in mining and many of the businesses in the town.
[1:52:58] They grew vegetables on their land to feed the miners.
[1:53:01] They built a hand over school on their property so that the miners' children would have
[1:53:06] a school to be educated.
[1:53:08] The Williams family lived on this property for over 50 years.
[1:53:13] In 1936, they sold the land to the Larson family.
[1:53:16] The Larson family owned the land for an additional 81 years after that until selling it to us late last year.
[1:53:24] The Williamson Act plays a critical role in preserving range land and protects the land from development.
[1:53:31] Bringing our properties into the Williamson Act will help preserve and protect the history of this area from being forever erased,
[1:53:39] along with protecting watershed and native animal habitats.
[1:53:42] We are requesting your vote that you vote for our parcels on long-gold to come under the protection of the Williams enact.
[1:53:51] Thank you.
[1:53:52] Thank you.
[1:53:59] Anybody else want to speak?
[1:54:01] If not, we'll call the public here and bring it back to the board for the emotional proof.
[1:54:06] Second.
[1:54:10] One, two and three, right?
[1:54:11] Yes.
[1:54:13] Comfort the vote.
[1:54:14] Supervisor Rogers.
[1:54:15] Supervisor Frazier.
[1:54:17] Supervisor Wheeler.
[1:54:18] Yes.
[1:54:18] Supervisor Rodriguez.
[1:54:29] Thank you.
[1:54:33] Item 7B, County Administration Department, hearing to consider solar power purchase agreements.
[1:54:38] One discussion and consideration to adopt a resolution of proving power purchase agreements
[1:54:42] and site lease agreements with California solar one LLC for solar systems for the implementation
[1:54:47] of certain energy related improvements in county owned facilities and making certain findings
[1:54:53] pursuant to government code sections 4217.12 and 42177.13.2 discussion consideration
[1:55:01] to adopt the resolution of proving power purchase agreements with California Solar 1 LLC
[1:55:05] for Solar Systems for the implementation of certain energy related improvements to county
[1:55:10] lease facilities and making certain findings pursuant to government code sections 4217.12
[1:55:16] and 42-177.13.
[1:55:21] Good afternoon, Sean Kirkanchart from the Medare County Administrative Office.
[1:55:27] Just wanted to say this is the second phase of solar in Medare County and we had a very successful phase
[1:55:35] one and are already seeing the savings from that.
[1:55:39] And so right here jumping into it.
[1:55:43] On August 2017, the county released a request for proposal for solar systems and power purchase
[1:55:51] agreements.
[1:55:52] We're pursuing that option in order to avoid the upfront out-of-pocket cost to the county.
[1:55:59] The cost for design installation and maintenance are going to be borne by the provider.
[1:56:04] We had one bidder, that was Optary Energy, and after reviewing the county facilities, Optary
[1:56:11] came with a proposal for the five different sites, which would actually be eight different
[1:56:18] individual locations, for them at the Future Health and Social Services Office complex,
[1:56:24] and then one at the Sheriff's Office, the Dublin Plant, Medare County, Elm and Yard, and
[1:56:30] the Ocar's Choice Water Treatment.
[1:56:35] So under these purchase power agreements and lease agreements, I'll tell you, would design
[1:56:39] install and maintain the solar system.
[1:56:42] The county would purchase electricity through these agreements for the next 20 to 25 years,
[1:56:47] locking in that rate.
[1:56:49] The county would have limited risk since subterra is responsible for the performance of
[1:56:54] the solar system.
[1:56:56] And the county will have a purchase option at year 715-20 and 25.
[1:57:02] If the purchase option is not exercised, then the panels can be removed and no cost of
[1:57:06] county and before you today you have eight power purchase agreements to consider, four of them
[1:57:14] is the Public Health and Social Services Building's going in, the Sheriff's Office, the
[1:57:19] Dublin Plant, the County Almond Yard, and the Oak Chris Waste Water Treatment Plant.
[1:57:25] There's three site leases for the Dublin Plant, the Medair County Almond Yard, and the Waste
[1:57:29] Water Treatment Plant.
[1:57:30] The other five would have to be executed by the owners of those other sites for the shared
[1:57:39] office and for the land for the new complex for health and social services.
[1:57:47] So, these are, right here we have a shoot from Aterra who will be able to give more information.
[1:57:58] Thank you.
[1:57:58] Thank you, Mr. Kutpatrak.
[1:58:01] Good afternoon.
[1:58:03] Mr. Chairman, members of the Board.
[1:58:05] Staff.
[1:58:06] Ashud Jain with.
[1:58:08] Operative Energy Services.
[1:58:09] It's good to be back in front.
[1:58:10] Front of your board after, I don't know,
[1:58:12] three of, maybe five years.
[1:58:16] So, I'd like to briefly go through our presentation.
[1:58:19] And I'm not going to take a lot of time.
[1:58:23] So,
[1:58:26] we already have a copy.
[1:58:28] I'm assuming in front of you, so either some of our county projects, we've done a lot of work in surrounding counties.
[1:58:39] So in the next slide, slide six, we're showing what we did for phase one, what we call phase one, and now.
[1:58:47] And it was a 1.4 megawatt solar project at the jail, jail site and the solar panels here at the parking structure and across the road here.
[1:58:59] And also we completely renovated the library HVAC system.
[1:59:04] So good project, it's been performing as expected.
[1:59:10] So in front of your board today is, we have brought forward,
[1:59:15] And we've been working with staff for almost 6 to 8 months and trying to size this systems
[1:59:22] and technically they've evaluated the systems.
[1:59:26] So we have eight projects total of approximately 1.9 megawatts, you know, 1936 kilowatts.
[1:59:37] I'm going to run through these preliminary layouts, so this is the HSS building, so it's
[1:59:46] for separate parcels for buildings, and we size the solar project to meet the demand,
[1:59:52] the projected demand for each one of these four buildings.
[1:59:58] And please, if you have any questions, please.
[2:00:02] The sheriff's office, we are building a solar-shaped structure again for parking, and that's been
[2:00:09] sized for the electrical electricity consumption at the building.
[2:00:18] The Ocas plant is a little interesting.
[2:00:21] Its consumption is actually more than what we could avoid with the solar project, because we couldn't find
[2:00:27] locations to install solar panels there. It was really tight. So we really want to thank
[2:00:34] public works. They really worked diligently with us on all these projects to identify
[2:00:41] the space and all the other constraints. So every layout that I'm showing you has been
[2:00:48] gone through not only that instead of office but public works office.
[2:00:56] The Dublin plant
[2:00:57] that was available space and it actually pretty much takes care of the load of the Dublin
[2:01:03] plant. In the arm and yard we have avoiding the entire electricity use at the plant.
[2:01:21] So when
[2:01:21] quickly go through the financials. So it's a total of, you know, like I mentioned, a total
[2:01:34] of 1.9 megawatts that you'll be installing in these eight sites. The HSSBC and B-Buldings
[2:01:43] are 20 year leasterms and the Sheriff's Office is a 20 year B-P-A term, not a least, B-P-A term,
[2:01:49] or at least MPPA and the other four buildings are 25 year terms.
[2:01:56] So we'll be owning the project and we'll completely maintain it.
[2:02:00] The county doesn't have to do anything.
[2:02:03] It's completely owned and operated by us.
[2:02:06] And in this spreadsheet, in the cash flow,
[2:02:09] what we are showing is actually,
[2:02:12] sorry, the first column shouldn't have any dollar signs.
[2:02:15] It's the amount of kilowatt hour generated.
[2:02:17] Okay, on the, you have the right slides there and the numbers correct in the slide.
[2:02:25] So 3.1 million kilowatt hours is going to be generated for these eight sites.
[2:02:31] Currently a paying 22 cents per kilowatt hour on an average for these eight sites.
[2:02:38] And that includes the budget, you know, our projections for the HSS buildings.
[2:02:43] And the solar unfortunately doesn't avoid the entire electricity cost.
[2:02:50] You still have to pay PG&E for some of the cost.
[2:02:53] So even though you are paying 22 cents, you're only going to benefit by 18.8 cents.
[2:03:00] So you still have to pay PG&E approximately, you know, 2.5 cents.
[2:03:04] So that's related to the fixed charges demand charges that cannot be avoided by the solar
[2:03:08] project.
[2:03:10] So, in the first year you are paying 18.8 and the PPA price is it is different for each building but on an average it works out to 16.47 cents and it is fixed for the term.
[2:03:25] So, the PPA price, the price that we are charging you for every kilowatt hour of electricity that the solar project produces is fixed.
[2:03:33] It's the same price that you'll be paying for 20 years, and as you know, PG&E's cost keeps increasing.
[2:03:40] So, as time goes by, your this project is going to deliver more and more savings to you.
[2:03:44] So, we have assumed a 5% escalation of electricity cost.
[2:03:50] So, you know, over the 25 year, over the 30 year life of the solar project, you know, your savings work out to approximately 16 million.
[2:04:04] So, I think let's see what's in the next slide,
[2:04:12] so you know, with this project you benefit
[2:04:15] by $16 million over the life of the project. You'll have a fixed cost of electricity,
[2:04:22] you know, so you're basically hedging the price of electricity, you don't have to, you
[2:04:32] And when I say that the levelized cost of energy is 15 cents per kilowatt hour for 30 years,
[2:04:40] that just the amount of what you are paying over 30 years will be, you know, it is the total
[2:04:49] project cost divided by the total kilowatt hour is generated.
[2:04:53] So essentially you are buying with this project, electricity at 15 cents a kilowatt hour for 30
[2:05:01] years and you know right now you're paying 22 so and which is going to escalate so that's
[2:05:07] how attractive this project is and there are some other benefits listed here but you know
[2:05:15] we try to work with local contractors as much as we can and we again try and do that there's
[2:05:22] substantial environmental benefits and you know it's a completely it's a system that's on
[2:05:27] operate it by us, so there's no, you don't need any staff to work on this.
[2:05:32] I think, sorry, if you're bored, proof this project today, we promised to start the design
[2:05:43] immediately and then, you know, in the next 15 months, because some of your HSS building
[2:05:51] will come online later, I think over 15 months will be able to complete entire project.
[2:05:56] But the first four buildings will be done pretty soon and then we'll wait for the HSS buildings to come on and then we'll complete those projects.
[2:06:04] But we hope to be done by March of 2019.
[2:06:08] We happy to answer any questions.
[2:06:13] The first question is, how come we haven't got the share of the office of in Oak Ridge on this?
[2:06:22] I couldn't respond to that surprise with.
[2:06:24] I did not do the evaluation and make the recommendations on the buildings.
[2:06:27] So, all of the proposed sites, via Terra, we've looked at it, and financially, they all make sense.
[2:06:35] So, right now, everything that's been proposed, we're saying, absolutely, these make sense.
[2:06:42] So, that could definitely be more sites in the future that we will be looking at, potentially.
[2:06:50] I think you looked at it,
[2:06:53] supervisor Wheeler, and I think from what I remember it was,
[2:06:58] the way the parking lot was laid out,
[2:07:00] there was not a lot of space to put shade structures.
[2:07:04] So it would have been a very small project.
[2:07:05] That's what I recollect when I looked at it.
[2:07:07] Which kind of pretty good parking lot I had front of me.
[2:07:09] You do? Good price to put.
[2:07:11] Okay.
[2:07:12] The panel crossed it all the way from one end to the banker,
[2:07:15] up to where you fall in here.
[2:07:16] I thought I looked at it, but we'll be happy to look at it again and we'll bring it back. I mean we're going to be here
[2:07:22] I mean I don't I just know why we didn't do it because we did the shift off down here and
[2:07:27] And this will be older than one down here. It's right now here, but it I think we're a look at
[2:07:32] I think we're looking at all the years and maybe do the fire station here at the same time
[2:07:36] That's ours fire station, right?
[2:07:38] So we got a big
[2:07:40] parking a lot to them in the back, so we could look at it and see. And then the second thing is on the page 13, the financial page and the cost per electric. Why on the after 25 years that the PPA five goes to zero.
[2:07:57] What? And he's going down to go 16 all that time. Then he goes to 13 after 20 and then he goes to zero after 26.
[2:08:05] So, looking at over the 30-year span, it's an average 15 cents per kilowatt hour, but we get a lot of those savings at the end of the project, it's increasing savings over time, looking at as PG&E rates are likely to increase.
[2:08:20] So right now the lock-in price initially would be the 1647, but there's some of the projects
[2:08:32] are 20 years, and then some are at the 25, and so that explains the difference once.
[2:08:40] At the end of a project, if the purchase option were exercise, then at that point the price for under that
[2:08:49] column would show a zero, such as for the last five years, for the years.
[2:08:53] Okay, 26 through 30, it said zero, but doesn't mean we're not getting any energy, it means
[2:08:58] we're not paying for it because if we exercise the purchase options on the sites where that's
[2:09:03] what we want to do, then there were paying zero under the question for power, and it's cost
[2:09:10] then would be under the solar maintenance.
[2:09:13] So you'll see that as three columns to the right would be the maintenance cost.
[2:09:17] So if purchase options exercise, right now all of these projections show with the purchase options exercise right now at the end of the PPA term, it looks like right now looking ahead that that's what will make sense.
[2:09:33] We'll really be making that determination in 20 years and in 25 years as to whether or not that's what makes sense then.
[2:09:40] But right now, looking at it, it would make sense to execute this purchase options 20, 25 years from now, dropping the price of energy because with purchase of panels and then the cost shifts under the maintenance cost.
[2:09:54] Okay, so the purchase price, if we decided to do any of those years, 15 or whatever was, is it a set price right now, what that price will be, or the total price across all eight projects would come out to about 16.46.
[2:10:10] in cents? No, no, no. What would be the purchase?
[2:10:14] 271, 221,000 dollars for the buyout price for all the projects in year 20 and 25.
[2:10:22] Sachs, for five of them, right?
[2:10:24] Okay, seven of you, what would buyout price be?
[2:10:28] Yes, seven. The price is about 15, 20 and 25.
[2:10:32] Right. So it would definitely be significantly more, and those are all in the contracts.
[2:10:40] for the 25 years said at 200,000,000 we said.
[2:10:45] So for this, it shows the purchase executed at the end of the PPAs because that's actually the cheapest buyout,
[2:10:52] waiting the longest length of time.
[2:10:54] So if we wait until the end of the PPA contracts, then the ones that are ending at year 20,
[2:11:01] those would be purchased at that time for 46,500.
[2:11:05] And then for the ones ending in 2025, the purchase price would be 174,000, 175,000.
[2:11:15] And then the total spent in buyout, if we wait till the end of the PPA term, which is the most beneficial for the county,
[2:11:21] to wait for the end of the these contracts that are proposed, buying it at the end of it.
[2:11:26] And then that has the least cost for the county for purchase.
[2:11:30] If we purchase them early, which is certainly an option.
[2:11:32] I mean, no prices are set in the contract.
[2:11:34] Yes, they are.
[2:11:35] And if we do execute those early, we'll need to look at this really at the year 7 and each
[2:11:42] of those option years for purchase to see whether or not it makes sense to buy it then
[2:11:47] or to wait longer.
[2:11:48] Right now, looking at it, it looks like the best option is to wait to the end of those
[2:11:53] PPA contracts because it will be the least costly for the county to purchase them at that
[2:11:57] time.
[2:11:59] And we'll have the most savings.
[2:12:01] So we decide to purchase here 2025, how efficient will this project be?
[2:12:09] So there's a degradation rate that's built into the project.
[2:12:13] If you see in your cash flow, it's the roll last row.
[2:12:16] It says half a percent.
[2:12:18] So after 20 years, when the panels are guaranteed to produce at least,
[2:12:25] to degrade no more than 15 percent at the end of 25 years.
[2:12:29] So they'll be generating at 85%.
[2:12:32] Yeah.
[2:12:34] Yeah.
[2:12:34] The actual projected electricity generation.
[2:12:39] And then soon the column was done.
[2:12:41] Right.
[2:12:42] Yeah, second column right after year.
[2:12:43] That will show the expected amount of energy generation each year.
[2:12:47] Of course, it's number depends on weather and other factors over time.
[2:12:52] I would say that it's likely that by the end of the 30 years,
[2:12:55] the projected energy generation would actually be higher than this.
[2:13:00] I understand that these are conservative projection estimates because at some point during
[2:13:05] the lifespan, the 30-year lifespan of the panels, it actually platos in the degradation,
[2:13:11] it's my understanding of the technology, but so this shows at a minimum, this is really
[2:13:17] what we should expect, and that for some reason these systems are not producing what are projected
[2:13:25] And those, that information it was provided by Altera,
[2:13:30] there are actually assurances in the contracts,
[2:13:33] and the power purchase agreements that say,
[2:13:35] if it's not producing at least to a certain percent of this amount
[2:13:39] that we're projecting, then there's what the shortfall rate,
[2:13:42] which basically means that the county receives money
[2:13:46] to help offset our additional costs for using PG&E for the rest of the energy we need.
[2:13:51] So that shortfall rate actually helps offset the risk of the county if for some reason it didn't need
[2:14:00] these housing rates in projections.
[2:14:03] Supervisor Mudder?
[2:14:05] Yeah, just a few specific questions on that.
[2:14:08] You already gave us the production reduction coefficient.
[2:14:11] This point five percent every year.
[2:14:16] And for these monochristolic faces.
[2:14:20] Yeah, these are monoposolines.
[2:14:23] And can you tell me the brand of the panel?
[2:14:27] We haven't decided, but probably going to be LG.
[2:14:31] So, LG is of Eskoreen.
[2:14:34] Yeah, it's a very good panel on the market.
[2:14:36] That is one of the best panels.
[2:14:38] I like the Sun power, but that's the Cadillac.
[2:14:41] Sun power is the Cadillac.
[2:14:44] And it's also a competitive.
[2:14:49] Sure, I don't know if they're able to buy fouls from them. They'll jack up their face.
[2:14:55] Yeah, exactly. They'll require their installers and stall them.
[2:14:57] Right, they have a big one.
[2:15:00] And a lower coefficient of reduction, but the, you guys are going to be maintaining the panels, which is very important to the production of the panels. So you'll clean them and keep that all well done. I see you shaking your head, yes.
[2:15:19] In the production of the panels, the most important factors, there's two important factors
[2:15:26] in design, that's true southerly positioned,
[2:15:33] and then, of course, the pitch, and seven and
[2:15:36] twelve pitch in our regions, the most optimal pitch that you can collect evenly, without having
[2:15:43] a tracking panel that adjusts to the Sun,
[2:15:47] you can collect all the state structure that actually
[2:15:49] gets seven degrees in the office.
[2:15:52] You take all that in consideration
[2:15:54] when you're designing the system,
[2:15:57] so you get the very best production out of it.
[2:15:59] Because it's important to you to get the best production.
[2:16:03] I'm only asking, I know that answer to all of these questions,
[2:16:07] but I'm only asking because I want people to understand
[2:16:11] that if these don't produce,
[2:16:13] You're the one that's really hurt by it.
[2:16:15] Right, and it's the same situation
[2:16:16] if and on your current solar project,
[2:16:18] we have a guarantee in place,
[2:16:20] the guaranteeing 95% of the production.
[2:16:22] And we have, by the way, we maintain these projects
[2:16:24] through the one at the jail and this,
[2:16:26] we can clean them, we do everything.
[2:16:29] I suppose that Roger is, if you ever
[2:16:31] decide to go into the solar industry,
[2:16:33] you know?
[2:16:34] Thank you.
[2:16:35] I'll have to be a year after I leave office, so.
[2:16:37] I'll wait for you, right?
[2:16:40] Yeah, what's the serial number
[2:16:42] for the each pet, I'm just, so I just want to look like on the MD10A
[2:16:49] Dublin plan. So, right now, a lot of our special districts, you know, if we
[2:16:55] had a tank there, which we don't, that'll be the next thing, right?
[2:16:57] Robin, is that we have a grip space for that. So, good. But, so the way that we've
[2:17:04] operated a lot of these, when they do have, we pump during the night times to avoid
[2:17:10] the peak day rates. There's no peak rates here. There's no spikes during different times.
[2:17:20] Can we still pump a night when there's demand on water systems when we don't have tanks to do that?
[2:17:29] All that is, you know, you still would like to do all those conservation things.
[2:17:35] is still going to be pumping at night if you can. That lowers your cost of electricity.
[2:17:42] So, so you definitely want to be continuing all that. You are paying us a set rate
[2:17:46] for every kilowatt hour we generate, but PG&E is still going to charge you based on your load profile.
[2:17:54] So, if you suddenly shift all your pumping during the hours of afternoon, you are going to be paying them more.
[2:18:03] So, you're still PG&E is still charging you, and when we say that you're paying 22 cents right now,
[2:18:15] that 22 cents can jump up if you start consuming all your electricity in the daytime.
[2:18:21] So, I would like to point out that of course, as Asash you said, there are still going to be some costs from PG&E.
[2:18:32] It's, especially with P.K. usage when it is needed during the day at any site.
[2:18:36] There's always going to be times where the energy use is going to spike during certain hours and during certain days of the hottest days of the year.
[2:18:43] and that can't be completely avoided without really over-sizing the solar system, and then
[2:18:50] that just encourages a much greater cost and eats into the savings.
[2:18:54] The financially, it makes the most sense for the county, for us to try to produce, over
[2:19:01] all the, you know, for most of the energy that we're going to be using and just really offset
[2:19:06] those costs as much as possible without producing more energy than we're going to be needing
[2:19:10] the rest of the time.
[2:19:11] So it's kind of a give-and-take and a balance there.
[2:19:16] So although there will still be some costs,
[2:19:19] if the system is producing a lot of energy during the day,
[2:19:24] then my understanding is that the devil plant could actually run more during that day to use the energy being produced.
[2:19:32] That it can be matched to a certain extent.
[2:19:34] So we're not producing energy that then's not being used for that particular site.
[2:19:39] So then, of course, if the plant is needed beyond what's produced by the system, then it's
[2:19:45] most efficient to really run it at night.
[2:19:47] And so this kind of really depends on the energy level produced in when, and then matching
[2:19:52] it up to try to use the energy being produced most efficiently.
[2:19:57] And we work with staff to coordinate those times that really help to dial that in, see
[2:20:05] a month coming up.
[2:20:06] Yes.
[2:20:08] The advantage that we have at Dublin is we have the newest, well with the newest equipment
[2:20:13] with a variable drive, frequency drive, and the whole system is all connected.
[2:20:21] So even using Dublin wisely, now that it has solar and it's the most energy efficient,
[2:20:29] we're able to save a lot of energy on other PG&E build within this talk.
[2:20:36] So we can capitalize on that savings and it's shared by the whole district.
[2:20:43] So it's kind of hard to show all the savings budget?
[2:20:47] Yeah, and I don't want to assume anything, so I need to ask these questions of staff to make sure we've studied our rate schedules and make sure that they're optimum.
[2:21:00] And also, are we charged on demand charges?
[2:21:03] I mean, I've got a large well that I get a demand charge on whether I use it or not, and it'll be a significant amount of the monthly bill.
[2:21:15] So that's two questions for you.
[2:21:16] There are peak usage charges which really come down to the most amount of energy used during the particular time frame, so each month.
[2:21:26] And so that does account for a high portion of the current bills.
[2:21:31] Of course the peak usage, the way the rates are charged by offsetting it with the solar,
[2:21:39] as that's being that energy is approved during the day.
[2:21:42] It's really going to lower the energy profile for the use of the grid from looking like a spike to a much lower...
[2:21:50] So that lower your demand charge?
[2:21:52] Well significant. Yeah, that was that's an important factor in and actually saving money in this whole thing
[2:21:59] This is that's for most of them
[2:22:01] Because they can be happy
[2:22:05] I do want to say one thing on record that when I made the joke about
[2:22:10] To support the Rogers to contact me. You wants to
[2:22:13] To follow an industry. He was a complete joke and I was not
[2:22:18] Oh, now he takes it back
[2:22:22] I don't know how many girls are looking at me and it's here.
[2:22:28] I would like to joke.
[2:22:29] We know that.
[2:22:31] Thank you.
[2:22:33] This is a public hearing.
[2:22:36] So does anybody from the public have any questions?
[2:22:40] No, from some power.
[2:22:42] So we'll close it.
[2:22:43] Bring it back.
[2:22:43] Move to approve.
[2:22:45] Item 1 and 2.
[2:22:51] Half of the vote.
[2:22:51] Supervisor Wheeler.
[2:22:53] Supervisor Frater.
[2:22:54] Supervisor Rogers.
[2:22:55] Yes. Supervisor Rodriguez?
[2:22:57] Yes.
[2:22:57] Well passes for all one apps.
[2:22:59] Thanks.
[2:22:59] Thank you.
[2:23:00] Thank you.
[2:23:00] Thank you very much.
[2:23:01] Sure.
[2:23:01] Those work in protocentre.
[2:23:03] People will receive and money right now.
[2:23:06] Thank you.
[2:23:09] 7C Board of Directors Special District County Service Auriety 3 Park Sale Public Works Department Administration Division.
[2:23:16] Hearing to consider adoption of a resolution setting water and sewer service fees for the County Service Auriety 3 Park Sale.
[2:23:26] Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and members of the Board.
[2:23:29] Again, I'm at the OK at your Public Works Director.
[2:23:31] With me here is Mr. Muhammad Al-Katami,
[2:23:34] our Public Works Special District Manager.
[2:23:37] And also, our consultant, Mr. Eric Heldesen,
[2:23:41] with Bartel Wells and Associates.
[2:23:45] On November 15, 2016, your board directed staff
[2:23:49] to complete a rate study for all water and wastewater districts.
[2:23:53] And we approved a contract with virtual wells to conduct those studies.
[2:23:58] Today, we are coming to you for a protest hearing for your approval.
[2:24:04] With this, I'll hand it to Muhammad to give you a brief history of CSA3, Parks Parts Day.
[2:24:13] And then we're here to also take all your questions.
[2:24:16] Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of the Board.
[2:24:19] So just to go back in time a little bit to discuss why we're here and why we're doing these rate studies.
[2:24:24] Obviously the districts are in dire needs of these increases.
[2:24:30] We're doing the rate increases in faces and different phases.
[2:24:35] Our top priority is to complete the studies for the districts with the most county debt.
[2:24:39] And second, to complete the districts that need to increase the most and that are behind on the debt as well.
[2:24:52] We took a two step approach for these studies.
[2:24:54] One is to get that paid for as soon as possible.
[2:25:01] And to make these districts self-sustainable with a rate that is appropriate for the district.
[2:25:09] The last sewer and water rating increase for a parchedail was set on October 11, 2005.
[2:25:15] Since the last rating increase, the district has accumulated approximately $350,000 in county-funded
[2:25:22] debt.
[2:25:23] With approval of this rate increased, this debt will be paid back within approximately
[2:25:27] three calendar years in addition to bringing the rates to a level which is adequate to
[2:25:33] cover the operation and maintenance of this district.
[2:25:35] So with that, I'll turn it over to Mr. Helgeson.
[2:25:40] Thanks for having me here again to present the study on a part-scale.
[2:25:48] I also want to thank Aman Muhammad and Andrea for working so hard
[2:25:52] and being so responsive to help us really lay the solid financial foundation
[2:25:58] for these districts, for them to be able to provide
[2:26:03] and the high level of service for the future.
[2:26:07] Part still, as I was mentioned, does have a significant amount of debt to the general fund,
[2:26:16] and some to the City of Madera as well for the sewer service.
[2:26:21] Our main priority with this study was to bring the district to be financially sufficient,
[2:26:27] Meaning that rates pay for operations and capital projects, as well as payback there, the debt
[2:26:38] vote by the district.
[2:26:41] I do have a piece of paper sheet for the dot cam,
[2:26:59] and our objective is for the debt to be
[2:27:07] partial year in fiscal year 1718.
[2:27:29] And so this is a chart which shows the cash flow of water and sewer service.
[2:27:37] And what it shows is each column is the total expense in each year.
[2:27:43] In the first two fiscal years, part of the expense is funded via a loan from the county.
[2:27:55] That's the yellow portion of the column.
[2:27:58] And then, as the rates go into effect, which should be midway through fiscal year 1718,
[2:28:05] the blue portion of the columns represents the part of the expenses,
[2:28:09] is repaying the debt back to the county.
[2:28:13] So you can see the rates bring the revenues,
[2:28:16] which is the green line to be sufficient to pay expenses
[2:28:20] and debt service.
[2:28:22] And then at the end of the five-year plan,
[2:28:27] the district will start to build reserves
[2:28:29] to a prudent level to be able to pay for any sort of unforeseen
[2:28:36] maintenance issue that occurs.
[2:28:41] So below that are the proposed rates, proposed
[2:28:57] rates for
[2:28:59] water would go from 27.05 to 45.45 and the proposed rates for sewer would go from
[2:29:09] $10.9 to $27.95 in the first year.
[2:29:15] The sewer service is a collection system which feeds into the city of Madera.
[2:29:20] And so that's for maintaining the district's portion,
[2:29:25] the district's sewer collection system feeding to the city.
[2:29:30] This is a survey of some regional survey for to put the water rates in context, it shows
[2:29:42] some of the special districts as well as
[2:29:52] some of the neighboring cities.
[2:29:54] and the proposed rates are putting the...
[2:30:00] The district kind of in the middle of the inspection when it comes to water rates.
[2:30:06] And again, the water rates have not been increased in quite a long time. This is basically 12 years.
[2:30:14] So this is basically bringing it back into keeping up with inflation and paying being able to pay for the current cost of running a water system.
[2:30:25] And finally, the just to show a breakdown of what the customers' bill would be.
[2:30:40] Obviously, don't use these very often.
[2:30:46] This is just a breakdown of the total rate.
[2:30:51] And at the bottom, I included the current city portion of their sewer bill as well.
[2:30:56] to show the total monthly amount that the customer will now be paying for water and sewer
[2:31:02] service.
[2:31:04] So, that concludes the summary of the district and open for any questions.
[2:31:13] What would happen to you questions?
[2:31:14] I just got one little, okay, not the just district have meters on the house, no, no, no,
[2:31:24] no, they don't.
[2:31:25] there's a woman called me a week and I was not on this this one she said they have meters
[2:31:30] you haven't made a reading them are you going to start reading some of those up there
[2:31:33] or they just if they're not being read they won't be read again
[2:31:36] there there are new self do developments that are done by self health those have
[2:31:43] meters but unfortunately until everybody has meters we can't charge a meter
[2:31:48] grade so so once that's done we'll look into using a meter grade
[2:31:52] answer so I can give that to her. Thank you. Then you'll pay according to use it. Yeah, correct.
[2:32:00] You get a question from the board. It's not well. Take it out to the public. It's still a public hearing.
[2:32:08] Call the public hearing. Bring me back to the board for action.
[2:32:11] Move to OSU, your district. I'm going to make motion. Make a motion to approve the chairman.
[2:32:19] I think we have to hear from the clerk of the board to hear any protests that we receive in the
[2:32:24] number.
[2:32:28] I don't have the poll numbers but there are no protests
[2:32:30] who received. No. No.
[2:32:35] Okay, I move the views. I send them. I send
[2:32:39] corrected. We received one process letter. Okay.
[2:32:53] All for the vote. Supervisor Wheeler.
[2:32:55] Supervisor Rogers. Supervisor Rodriguez. Supervisor Fraser. Supervisor
[2:33:01] Rodriguez?
[2:33:03] Yes.
[2:33:05] Well, passes for 0-1-Apson.
[2:33:10] Thank you.
[2:33:12] A.A.
[2:33:13] Board of Supervisors Department, discussion and consideration to adopt a resolution appointing
[2:33:17] visit Yosemite Madera County as the officially ason of Yosemite Madera County Film Commission
[2:33:22] for calendar year 2018.
[2:33:25] I think we should take another break.
[2:33:29] Great job.
[2:33:31] Good.
[2:33:32] Kenny twice as the vineyard.
[2:33:36] Thank you for having me.
[2:33:39] My name is Ron Nassauce Berry with Visit you.
[2:33:41] We are your tourism bureau.
[2:33:44] We are requesting to look at and take over the Fibb Commission as well.
[2:33:51] So it's really funny, I actually spent 20 minutes this morning looking for a windbreaker that I had when I worked at the Pines Resort when we did the Great Outdoors, the Bass Lake Chamber was also the Bass Lake Film Commission and I have a windbreaker from 86 or yes, I'm my photo with him, I was a lot younger.
[2:34:12] but so I've been involved with the film commission before the film commission was started in
[2:34:21] 82 part of the Bass Lake Chamber. We wanted to get films up there. We're doing a lot
[2:34:26] of films in California and so Bass Lake and the local area was a great place in
[2:34:30] Madera County. It was a great place to film. Then it looks like from the records I can find
[2:34:36] about.
[2:34:38] Sometimes, after that, the Southern Yosemite Visitors Bureau took over, and then in 1998
[2:34:46] it looks like that the Bureau then hired on with Dave Woolen as the film commissioner,
[2:34:53] and then he's been running that ever since.
[2:34:55] I think that we split off with Dave Woolen about 2008, and then the county kind of
[2:35:07] What we're asking for is just a year to basically look at the film commission.
[2:35:13] I have not run one before, so I work for one long time ago, but I have not run one
[2:35:20] for a long time.
[2:35:21] We need to build a new website because the website is down.
[2:35:25] It's gone.
[2:35:25] We need to get a new brochure.
[2:35:29] I've talked to the California Film Commission, asking them, and this is the purpose for
[2:35:34] resolution as well, to recognize us as the official, you know, as the official film
[2:35:39] commission.
[2:35:40] We have to have one of those a madera county, I think we all know the value of that.
[2:35:45] I believe it's going to be a lot of work to do it right.
[2:35:48] So this year we're going to do some back-in work, we're going to look at a locator services,
[2:35:53] maybe find out what what production companies are looking for as hard as photos, as far
[2:35:59] as website.
[2:36:00] It's a little different world than having a thousand photos on a website, now, you know, they can go on Google and kind of drill down if they want.
[2:36:09] So we want to really make it nice and up to date and then come back to you at the end of next year and say, okay, this is what we found out.
[2:36:16] This is what we think is going to take to run the film commission.
[2:36:20] And this is maybe a couple people that have said that they might contract with us.
[2:36:26] I do feel even though I know we are stretched to the max with our employees and myself
[2:36:32] But I do feel it's a good place to have as part of the visitor's spirit as part of tourism and
[2:36:38] Economic development for midter County. So that's what we're asking and if you have any questions
[2:36:45] I just as time first move on and get back where we were before and it is so important
[2:36:53] You know, we should get to a report, I mean, it brings in millions of dollars to our county and so we, I think this is a great move and I want to thank you
[2:37:02] and your team. You got some say, Lenny?
[2:37:07] You would say it then, but anyway, thank you so much so.
[2:37:11] Thank you.
[2:37:12] It's a positive move.
[2:37:14] I think it's a good move. Everything I've seen come out of your office has always been top-notch and have all the confidence in you
[2:37:23] in the world. I just as a there's a guy here at Mokoi that actually lives in district one that has
[2:37:32] a production company. He just filmed and did a documentary on something to do on the
[2:37:41] and sinking myths of the Titanic and shot a lot of it in
[2:37:46] Madera County and no one had nothing from the film
[2:37:51] commission knew about that, but it was on stars.
[2:37:56] He brought Ed Asner here and I got to have lunch with Ed Asner.
[2:38:02] Ed Asner was the captain of the Titanic in the movie.
[2:38:06] So, he has a lot of connections to LA, so his name is Ryan Katzenberg.
[2:38:12] Maybe a good...
[2:38:14] I'll get to the...
[2:38:16] KAT, ZE, in BACA, I think.
[2:38:22] Yeah, you could shoot me as contact.
[2:38:24] Yeah, I think.
[2:38:24] But yeah, I think it's good to start working with him and seeing where we can take it, because we've got great places to shoot.
[2:38:34] think we would like to utilize those. You know, we all loved that pretty outdoors was shot here,
[2:38:43] but we need to we want to have another feature film or something. So we can show you
[2:38:48] what-how we're progressing, you know- Oh, we've all already had the impact right.
[2:38:54] Yeah everybody would have known that documentary, then filmed if we would have been.
[2:38:58] We had one film right, you know lightning kind strike six six six six six six six six six six six six six six
[2:39:10] I think there's a lot of the core organization that we can't help you, so I think you had the unique set of information.
[2:39:28] of pardon me, I'm sorry, I gotta start over.
[2:39:32] You're the right organization.
[2:39:34] You have this with your location, your knowledge of the county.
[2:39:39] You have a unique set of information that you can impart to
[2:39:42] a filmist, too, so we'd be looking for the opportunity to film here.
[2:39:47] We have a number of people, like as Brett said,
[2:39:51] that do that here in this county.
[2:39:54] we have one organization that filmed the documentary tapped out, and about water, and they
[2:40:01] live up in Ocarst.
[2:40:02] Oh, yeah.
[2:40:02] The ALS.
[2:40:03] Yeah.
[2:40:04] That was great.
[2:40:04] Great people.
[2:40:06] We're working with the now.
[2:40:08] That went national.
[2:40:10] That was big with PBS, so.
[2:40:12] So this is outside with Ray Gailler, which we helped to start.
[2:40:16] And they do a fantastic job.
[2:40:18] In fact, they've filmed a number of projects and utilized the region for that resource.
[2:40:24] So, yeah, we have our own up in Cummings and we have some real, uh, some real hitters here, so I think you guys are the right organization to head this up.
[2:40:34] Thank you.
[2:40:35] Just off to the public, can you comment for the public?
[2:40:39] That will bring it back.
[2:40:41] Move to approve.
[2:40:42] Say it.
[2:40:45] Help for the votes.
[2:40:45] Supervisor Rogers?
[2:40:46] Yes.
[2:40:47] Supervisor Wheeler.
[2:40:48] Yes.
[2:40:48] Supervisor Frazier?
[2:40:50] Supervisor Rodriguez?
[2:40:50] Yes.
[2:40:51] We'll pass this for all one absent.
[2:40:52] Thank you.
[2:40:54] Thank you.
[2:40:54] You're wrong.
[2:40:56] 8B Accounting Administration Department vehicle lease program pilot.
[2:41:00] One discussion and consideration to adopt the resolution authorizing the purchasing
[2:41:04] agent to execute an interlocal agreement with reach an eight education service center
[2:41:08] Pittsburgh Texas for the cooperative acquisition of vehicles for a vehicle leasing program.
[2:41:13] Two discussion and consideration to adopt the resolution of proving master equity lease
[2:41:17] agreement and related documents with the enterprise FM trust for the acquisition of
[2:41:21] be close to a vehicle list program and authorizing the chairman or as does it need to execute.
[2:41:29] Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and members of the Board of Joel Begate County Administrative
[2:41:32] Office.
[2:41:33] With me today, and the table is Steve Van Flueff from Summit Garage and Ms. Loris later from
[2:41:37] Enterprise Fleet Management.
[2:41:40] The recommendations before you today is a combination of several months of analysis that
[2:41:45] county staff and cooperation with Enterprise has done on our fleet program, county vehicles.
[2:41:51] We have a brief presentation today to show you the results of that analysis and walk you through to recommendations, and we'll start with Steve.
[2:42:02] Good afternoon, Supervisor Steve.
[2:42:04] I'm off the loose central garage, Supervisor.
[2:42:07] Central garage services and maintains sheriff vehicles and light duty vehicles, cars and pickup trucks.
[2:42:14] Currently, 290 plus, give me a take a few.
[2:42:17] We have 63 sheriffs, a 227 county vehicles of which 169 are from non-subvenant departments.
[2:42:25] 9 subvenant vehicles are charged a mileage rate that covers the cost of maintenance fuel
[2:42:30] and depreciation, depreciation is charged on a per mile basis and depending on the vehicle
[2:42:37] but typically it's depreciate of 130,000 miles.
[2:42:42] Vehicles are replaced currently on a mileage target, typically about 130,000 miles, for
[2:42:48] on sheriff vehicles that may take over 14 years before their place of mileage is reached.
[2:42:53] The average age of the county fleet is currently about 15 years, which creates several challenges
[2:42:58] for the county.
[2:43:00] When I came over 10 years ago, we had vehicles over 30 years old.
[2:43:05] And currently, when we were finished with our current round of replacements that we're doing
[2:43:09] now, the oldest vehicle of fleet should be about 15 years, or every change has been dropping
[2:43:15] even with the downturn when we only replaced like I think four cars one year.
[2:43:24] So just to highlight some of the major challenges with an older average age of the fleet,
[2:43:30] you have older cars in your system and that requires more resources to maintain.
[2:43:34] Primarily because the typical warranty is 5 years or 60,000 which ever comes first.
[2:43:39] So if you're averaging 15, you've got 10 years of the vehicle outside of warranty.
[2:43:43] So anything significant breaks in the power train, that's a significant cost.
[2:43:48] with an older fleet too, or paying a mileage penalty.
[2:43:52] So an average 15-year-old car today is five miles per gallon,
[2:43:56] left efficient than the current mid-sized vehicle today.
[2:44:00] So equating that to the number of cars we have, non-share of,
[2:44:04] that would amount to be 115,000,
[2:44:07] based on the price of fuel that we paid today at 275.
[2:44:12] It also creates a huge burden on the replacement fund,
[2:44:15] even though the county, pace of appreciation,
[2:44:17] has a replacement fund, our mileage rate
[2:44:20] hasn't quite kept up with inflation and vehicle prices.
[2:44:26] So just show you graphically, the blue line
[2:44:29] is what a Chevy Malibu cost, in 15 years ago,
[2:44:32] I want a Chevy Malibu cost today.
[2:44:34] And what's presented there is the percentage increase
[2:44:36] in the government price for a mid-size American car.
[2:44:41] Our mileage rate is during that time, although it has increased,
[2:44:44] It is another lower curve, so that gap between the two lines is essentially depreciation charges that
[2:44:51] didn't go into the replacement fund, so we keep chasing and we keep keeping the vehicle
[2:44:54] longer.
[2:44:55] can only do one, two things, render car longer.
[2:45:00] Or, you replace it with a smaller vehicle, which, which has happened, so the central garage evaluates, which placements and what makes sense, but that can be true for a hundred percent of the cars.
[2:45:10] When you need an impolite, when you need a full size, you'll need a full size, and we need to make sure we collect, you know, we collect enough funds.
[2:45:18] So, what's proposed today is to think outside the box and see how we can achieve those things without significant investment, without increasing mileage rates significantly higher.
[2:45:27] So, the enterprise vehicle lease program is an opportunity for us to look at that model to
[2:45:34] both decrease the average age of our fleet and get some of those replacements there and be
[2:45:40] also more nimble.
[2:45:42] One of the challenges with a current model is that if we spend the money in the car, we have
[2:45:47] to keep it almost always 10 years or more.
[2:45:51] What happens if the program contracts, then you're still stuck with that car, you're rotating
[2:45:55] into a different program that may not necessarily need it because you have to keep the car.
[2:46:01] With a vehicle, it's an average term of about five years that's the typical for a government
[2:46:05] agencies, we're more nimble, and based on our current projections,
[2:46:11] we feel that we can achieve
[2:46:12] the same mileage rate we've done old program by using the fleet program.
[2:46:17] So when we did our models for the mid-sized car, where our mileage rate needs to go to keep
[2:46:22] with inflation is about 50 cents a mile.
[2:46:25] With this program for the same car,
[2:46:28] we're about 0.011 higher under this model.
[2:46:33] But the benefits of it, we're going to,
[2:46:35] we're going to probably be going to offset our fuel costs.
[2:46:39] And of course, eventually our repair costs would go down.
[2:46:43] I'm going to turn over to Laura to go over to Fleet
[2:46:46] Program for Medical Price.
[2:46:48] Hi, I'm Laura.
[2:46:49] Thank you for having me today.
[2:46:51] So as Joel and Steve book mentioned, we were working together to come up with a plan, and Steve and his team had done a really good job of decreasing the age of the fleet, but there's still some work that can be done, and that's kind of where we're going to come in and help.
[2:47:03] And so like Joel had mentioned some of the main advantages of a program with us is as you reduce the age of the fleet, you'll see improved fuel efficiency, which Joel had mentioned today.
[2:47:14] You're about five miles per gallon under what national averages are, and then again, as the fleet continues to decrease an age, you'll increase that number, which we'll inherently decrease your growth field spend.
[2:47:25] You'll also see a reduction in overall maintenance expenses, as well as improved safety.
[2:47:30] Of course, newer vehicles have better and better safety features.
[2:47:33] So as you reduce the age of the fleet, you'll have safer vehicles, which helps with risk and liability and exposure.
[2:47:40] You still get to leverage the government discounts that you have, and the nice thing is that through
[2:47:44] enterprise, you can leverage those through all manufacturers, so we're not tied to one manufacturer.
[2:47:48] We're going to look every year to ensure that we're showing you the lowest total cost of ownership vehicle,
[2:47:54] and then help when it comes to right typing the vehicle, like Joel had mentioned,
[2:47:57] what maybe was the right vehicle 10 years ago, may not be today.
[2:48:02] So that's kind of where the vehicle recommendations come in, and then we're always going to look at again total cost of ownership.
[2:48:07] So, not just the acquisition price, but what's the anticipated maintenance, what's the anticipated
[2:48:12] mileage as far as miles per gallon, as well as the resale at the end, and then that's where
[2:48:17] the recommendations come from. You will have us at your access for the disposal of the vehicles,
[2:48:23] so when it does come time to dispose of the vehicle and a price will do that for you, which will
[2:48:28] help increase the end value, which the county gets to keep the proceeds of, and then lastly,
[2:48:33] and one of the biggest things is our dedicated local account representation.
[2:48:39] So working with Steve and Joel, you know, we've come up with a plan for the original pilot program.
[2:48:44] And then the goal is that for the next round we'll come back to get approval
[2:48:49] and then at that point in time we'll be working together to ensure that we're making good recommendations that you're a year
[2:48:54] and continue to turn the business of the county by.
[2:48:58] So, in conclusion, just to wrap things up, so there's two recommendations for your board
[2:49:05] to consider today, it's not up to resolutions.
[2:49:08] The first solution is to approve an interlocal acquisition agreement.
[2:49:13] What this really is a competitively bid consortium, or enterprises a winning bidder, so it allows
[2:49:20] us to participate here and meet our competitive bid requirements being of an agency.
[2:49:25] The second one is to adopt a solution to approve all the necessary equity
[2:49:28] lease and maintenance agreements.
[2:49:31] We need to approve it once, and when we need to replace a car, there would be an
[2:49:35] adendum highlighting the numbers for, say, for each car.
[2:49:39] Those cars, what we're proposing for the pilot project is 13 vehicles, and these are 13
[2:49:45] vehicles that would have been in the replacement schedule for the next round.
[2:49:49] Anyway, so we're proposing to replace the next round through a lease program.
[2:49:53] Staff will then use that period to analyze and validate what our projections are, whether we
[2:50:00] can really keep their mileage rates at or about the same, and while still reaping the
[2:50:05] valid benefits of turning over cars faster and keeping the flage younger.
[2:50:11] And then we'll return to your board with more recommendations if we're going to implement it
[2:50:16] on a bigger scale.
[2:50:18] So those are two of them in the next day and we're all three of us here for any questions you may have.
[2:50:30] Yeah, we're.
[2:50:33] So I do, I think this is a great program just going through it and where we can save the money.
[2:50:42] I think really the decision point more comes down to keeping our fleet younger.
[2:50:48] Steve, you guys do a great job, sometimes with things like chicken, who are, and some duct tape, keeping some of these together and keeping them road worthy, but beyond just the dollar savings, when we have our county staff out in these vehicles, we want to make sure that they are safe, we want to make sure that they are able to get home.
[2:51:17] I think that's really the important part here I know and working with the deputy sheriffs.
[2:51:26] You know, even just bringing down that miles on their cars of when we get rid of them.
[2:51:34] That was a big deal to them because over a certain number of miles when you're at 85 miles an hour driving in your steering column is shaking.
[2:51:44] And there's nothing, your shop you can do about some of those things.
[2:51:49] That just kind of what happens over the life of a car.
[2:51:53] So I think that's important to make sure that we're keeping our employees safe.
[2:51:59] One of the questions I had, like on some of these programs, you know, there's a number
[2:52:04] of miles per year that you can use of the car, you know, in our county where it's a lot
[2:52:14] rural driving a lot of, you know, coming from the Valley Floor up to the mountains we've
[2:52:22] shown on the vehicle miles traveled in rural areas are going to be much more. So I just want
[2:52:27] to make sure that we're not hindered or limited in what we can do and we're just worried about
[2:52:33] oh I can't drive up to, you know, to help that family up in the mountains or out in the
[2:52:44] the if there is anything like that or what yeah I don't think that's going to be the issue.
[2:52:52] The issue is getting enough mileage per year because the county as diverse as it is, the
[2:52:58] departments have a need for vehicles for the personnel and they don't always utilize those
[2:53:03] the number of miles in the past so we really need or evaluate not only the need for newer
[2:53:13] have with a pull program that's more aggressive for just the occasional news.
[2:53:19] So sometimes we have two large of a fleet and that's probably because we have to hang on
[2:53:23] to them for 10 years right or get the full use out of them and they're just in there and maybe
[2:53:27] there's not a use from at the time is that a little bit of that plus with the downturn with the
[2:53:32] economic downturn we put off replacing cars for about three years and so we have kept them longer
[2:53:38] And so this is a way that pilot program to evaluate not only our size of our fleet, but the age of our fleet, the usage and the dollar safe.
[2:53:47] In terms of growing our fleet, if we need to in certain times and shrinking it, it is that fairly simple to do with this program.
[2:53:56] Yeah, so to touch to on the mileage piece, the type of lease that we're talking about is an open end equity lease.
[2:54:02] So there's no mileage limitations, it's heard what you think about what you think of like a personal least or something, it's very different than that.
[2:54:10] So to Steve's point, what we've done is we've targeted what you're averaging today, and we're basing everything off of that.
[2:54:17] If you go lower mileage, then essentially that's just going to mean that one maybe you hold the vehicle longer or two, maybe it's just worth more at the point in time that you sell it.
[2:54:24] that's got a lower dominant reading and then as far as the fleet growing or shrinking in overall
[2:54:31] size there's a lot of flexibility there. So the target is is that the counties at a break
[2:54:35] even at 12 months if not sooner in many cases with the acquisition cost you can get you'll have
[2:54:42] flexibility as soon as 12 months are again sooner. So there's lots of options for if you need to
[2:54:48] come down in overall size or if you need to expand there's no issues there. And we can still
[2:54:53] be the headguard of our work trucks if we need to.
[2:54:56] Yes, you were right.
[2:54:57] Yes, again.
[2:54:58] So to, that's right, the program provides a lot of flexibility.
[2:55:02] So I think the equity assumptions right now is based on 50,000 at year five.
[2:55:06] So 10,000 a year on average are non-shared vehicles, average 9,163 per month.
[2:55:13] Now somewhere higher, somewhere lower.
[2:55:14] But as Laura had said, part of the service they provide is when they see these vehicles and
[2:55:20] accumulating those smiles is they're going to initiate a conversation saying you'll get more
[2:55:25] equity if you sell it now at your three.
[2:55:28] Here's the deal you'll provide us with financial decision points and whether to cut out
[2:55:34] of a part of the new program.
[2:55:38] Supervisor Wheeler?
[2:55:39] Yeah, thank you.
[2:55:41] It's a great idea.
[2:55:42] I think too.
[2:55:43] What do we have to go out to a competitive bid with this?
[2:55:46] I mean, nothing.
[2:55:49] You lower, right?
[2:55:50] Laura. Laura, okay. I wrote down Laura. Laura. Laura. I mean, I'm not, you know, I think you're doing a great job, but I just want to make sure when we have to go out to petting big for this and not.
[2:56:03] Supervisor, the first resolution you're proving is participating into that interlocal agreement.
[2:56:08] That actually is a, it's like a separate entity that does a competitive bid for these types of programs.
[2:56:14] So we make sure that whoever we sign with goes to enter a competitive and they're to best deal.
[2:56:22] It's similar to what we use for higher trucks.
[2:56:26] There's an interlocal agency where governments, whether it's California, Texas, that participate,
[2:56:33] gets the advantage of competitively, competitively big contract without having to redo the competitive big process.
[2:56:41] That's the first resolution, that's recommended for today.
[2:56:45] We got that done, I'm sure.
[2:56:47] I know it's also as in Texas.
[2:56:50] Is there any sales tax on rural cars or at least cars?
[2:56:54] Yes, on the leases in the state of California pay a monthly use tax.
[2:56:58] So it's based on the tax rate in County, Medira.
[2:57:00] It's built monthly with the lease payment.
[2:57:01] We should get that in Texas, don't get it.
[2:57:04] That's right.
[2:57:04] We get to tax taxes, don't get it.
[2:57:07] Yeah, it's based on the County of Medira's tax rate.
[2:57:10] So it's not going to Texas.
[2:57:11] It's just that's where the cooperative is.
[2:57:13] It's based, but yeah, it's great.
[2:57:15] It's $100.
[2:57:18] To get over our people already.
[2:57:22] I'm shocked that California has attacked the Texas doesn't.
[2:57:25] Yeah, I'm shocked.
[2:57:28] Okay.
[2:57:30] I think you got to put the public.
[2:57:34] So come on, put the public.
[2:57:35] Put the back of the board.
[2:57:37] Move to move forward on it.
[2:57:39] I want it to.
[2:57:40] Second.
[2:57:43] Call for the votes.
[2:57:44] Supervisor Wheeler.
[2:57:44] Supervisor Frazier, Supervisor Rogers, Supervisor Rodriguez, so passes for 0-1-Apson.
[2:57:54] Thank you.
[2:57:56] You go home here from Jackson's.
[2:57:57] What's up? I did.
[2:57:59] Your office is in there, okay.
[2:58:03] Item 8C County Administration Department, Miss Management and Legal Services Division.
[2:58:08] Introduction of an ordinance and many chapter 2.18.060, and chapter 2.18.200 of title 2 of the
[2:58:16] Medare County Code pertaining to purchasing agent authority and informal bidding procedures.
[2:58:22] Good afternoon, Jeremy County Administrative Office.
[2:58:25] This item for you seeks to amend two specific county code sections dealing with the authority
[2:58:32] of the purchasing agent.
[2:58:33] The first one is affects what we commonly refer to as purchasing age agreements or PA agreements.
[2:58:41] The second has to do with informal bidding procedures on specific public projects.
[2:58:50] So with respect to PA agreements, there's, as your board knows, there's two types of contracts that we utilize here.
[2:58:56] There's the board agreements that come before your board and approve weekly, you see those on the consent calendar primarily.
[2:59:05] There is a second type of agreement that does not come before the board that is let through the purchasing agent office with review from County Council, the Auditor Controller and CAO.
[2:59:21] And these are agreements that are limited to $10,000.
[2:59:25] So that $10,000 authority mirrors the level of authority in government code section 25502.
[2:59:38] When this ordinance was adopted in 1992, both the county ordinance and the statute had a $10,000 limit.
[2:59:47] In the period times since, the statutory limit has increased to $50,000, while the county
[2:59:53] limit has remained at $10,000.
[2:59:57] So the proposed amendment.
[3:00:00] Would set the level at $50,000, equivalent to the statutory limit, as well as include some automatic increase language, so that when that level increases, so-to does the county ordinance.
[3:00:15] It would still maintain the same level of review, it would still go through the county council, see a other controller.
[3:00:24] If you are items coming before your board and will allow for departments to take advantage of a streamlined
[3:00:33] expeditious process to get some of these contract service contracts is in place quickly.
[3:00:41] The second proposed amendment has to do with informal bidding requirements, it's similar in
[3:00:47] that this second code section contemplates particular public projects that are below a statutory
[3:01:00] limit.
[3:01:00] So the limit that the county ordinance provides for us $75,000 and again that is a limit
[3:01:08] that used to be found in the public contract code on which the ordinance is based.
[3:01:14] So in that time, the statutory level has also increased to $175,000, while the county says
[3:01:22] remain $75,000, so the second proposed amendment would, again, set that county limit
[3:01:30] equal to the statutory limit of $175,000, and also included that automatic escalator
[3:01:36] language to capture any future increases.
[3:01:40] And with that, I'm available for a question.
[3:01:42] I know what you're recommended, 75,000.
[3:01:44] We're currently a 75,000, we're recommending 175,000
[3:01:48] to set an equal in the statutory limit.
[3:01:52] Sounds good.
[3:01:53] Thank you, we do.
[3:01:54] Let's put traffic.
[3:02:00] Can you get off to the public?
[3:02:02] We're going to back.
[3:02:04] We'll put through.
[3:02:05] Second.
[3:02:07] So kind of counsel to clarify today was the introduction.
[3:02:10] And it will be heard again on December 19th.
[3:02:13] Okay.
[3:02:14] Thank you.
[3:02:14] All right.
[3:02:16] Okay.
[3:02:20] But the motion is still proper for the introduction.
[3:02:24] Okay.
[3:02:26] It's a move to approve the introduction of the ordinance, and then it will come back and
[3:02:31] wait for the first reading.
[3:02:32] Yeah, that language.
[3:02:33] It's not a public hearing.
[3:02:36] It's a public item because we're out here on regular agenda, but it's not the type that
[3:02:42] needs a notice public hearing in the newspaper as we did earlier, but I think the motion
[3:02:50] I'm sorry, and the mover was Supervisor Rogers, Supervisor Weiler, Supervisor Frazier, Supervisor Red Regas, both passes for O, one absent.
[3:03:09] Number nine pending legislation discussed supporter of post legislation presented by supervisors and staff.
[3:03:15] I'm not aware of anything.
[3:03:18] We have a letter under supervisors and staff reports.
[3:03:23] I just got one.
[3:03:24] I went to this year.
[3:03:25] It tells their longevity award at the International Saturday night.
[3:03:32] And I think we got people just as equal or better than they did.
[3:03:35] And it was really nice seeing that today, the war, you know, 20 to 30 years like that.
[3:03:41] It's just amazing.
[3:03:43] So I think our organization has stepped up to the plate now.
[3:03:56] No, I can't think of anything.
[3:03:59] I know I had something on my mind, but my mind just went away.
[3:04:03] Oh, yeah.
[3:04:04] So I've got tomorrow.
[3:04:07] The, um, stomaching river Conservancy.
[3:04:09] I think less is going to read a letter.
[3:04:12] Have we got in the, uh, the river west?
[3:04:15] So I was forming, I'm just going to say Max is my alternate, I think we should just stepped in and go to that meeting.
[3:04:23] I don't really know.
[3:04:24] I'm getting a little sick.
[3:04:27] You got too close to me.
[3:04:31] That's going to be a rough one.
[3:04:33] The parkway.
[3:04:35] So I think we'll go to the 5B with one with some immediate timelines that
[3:04:44] Then goes into alternative one, which is the street where you come in on the street.
[3:04:50] Five of you will be coming off of Polynes, which I think is.
[3:04:54] It's nice that not having to be the medera guy, and I can just do it without having to worry about all the people that are upset and just say, right?
[3:05:04] It isn't really what I think is the best, but let's up.
[3:05:09] It should have been done a long time ago.
[3:05:12] Good afternoon, Board.
[3:05:14] I'd love to develop a Chief of Staff to Supervisor Fasier.
[3:05:17] Before you should have a draft letter to Brian Kelly, the Secretary of the California State Transportation Agency.
[3:05:24] I don't know if I think that's okay.
[3:05:26] The Saluteen Joint Powers Authority is asking for a direction from your board for a letter of support,
[3:05:33] for grant applications seeking funding under the transit and intercity rail capital program from proof passenger rail service.
[3:05:40] The use of the grant will go towards better access to Sacramento, funding to enable two daily
[3:05:46] round trips to Sacramento, and the goal is to be able to get you to Sacramento in time
[3:05:50] for early morning meetings, so we'll leave early, but you can probably, you know, avoid actually
[3:05:56] driving the sack.
[3:05:58] We're frequency of service, direct connection to the Bay Area, and lastly, but it's
[3:06:02] not least, is the relocation of the Medira Antraxation.
[3:06:05] So they're asking for a letter of support, their grant application is due to mid-genuity.
[3:06:11] So I'm looking for your extra from your board.
[3:06:17] Thank you very much.
[3:06:23] Thank you very much.
[3:06:24] Thank you very much.
[3:06:24] Thank you very much.
[3:06:26] Close your eyes.
[3:37:14] Chairman, there are no reportable actions from closed session.