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[2:24] Ladies and gentlemen, if you would please take your seats. I call the court, call the order to
[2:30] to the mayor of County Board of Supervisors for November 21st, 2017.
[2:36] I will note from the record that all supervisors are present along with the clerk of the board.
[2:46] The County Minister of Officer and the County Council.
[2:53] The supervisor of the military would you leave us in the pledge today in a moment of silence for our emergency and military personnel.
[3:36] Is we seated?
[3:42] Clerk of the board, do we have any introductions today?
[3:45] Yes, Chair.
[3:45] I supervise your can, has one.
[3:46] Thank you.
[3:52] Good morning.
[3:52] Thank you.
[3:54] We have gotten into a wonderful habit here of receiving money for the debt-wallifier victims
[4:02] through the Mariposa Community Foundation.
[4:05] And today we are really pleased to welcome representatives from AT&T Corporation, Julie
[4:11] Tone and Eric Johnson, who have come to tell us a little bit about what they're doing.
[4:17] and to present a check to the good people of the county here.
[4:22] So Julie, Eric, we also have Maryland Saunders here,
[4:27] the President of the Community Foundation.
[4:31] Thank you.
[4:31] Welcome.
[4:32] Thank you.
[4:33] Thank you, Supervisors, and Chair.
[4:35] Thank you for having us here today.
[4:37] My name is Julie Tone.
[4:38] I'm Director of External Affairs for AT&T California.
[4:41] And I'm honored to be here today to present a $10,000 check to the Mariposa Community Foundation.
[4:46] In July, the debt-wilder fire impacted 63 homes and more than 60 structures, and burn more than
[4:53] 80-1000 acres in Mariposa County.
[4:56] To keep our customers and our emergency responders connected, AT&T deployed a mobile cell
[5:02] site called a satellite light truck or sat-cult, and to support wireless communications in
[5:09] the affected areas.
[5:10] Today, AT&T is proud to announce, again, that we're making a $10,000 contribution to the
[5:16] Mariposa Community Foundation to help residents who are impacted by the debt wilder
[5:21] fire here in Mariposa.
[5:23] We hope that supporting Mariposa Community Foundation will help be affected families to begin
[5:28] the rebuild their homes and lives.
[5:31] And AT&T will continue to serve the California communities that are impacted by the fires.
[5:36] And I do want to say that I'm honored to be here today and spent quite a bit of considerable
[5:42] amount of time myself personally here during that particular fire in making sure that we're
[5:47] able to get our mobile satellite trek to the designated first responders area and then
[5:54] working with the folks in your community to help in some of the areas that were deemed for
[5:58] residents to come for additional support.
[6:02] So thank you again for allowing us to be here today and congratulations and I wish you all
[6:06] Happy Thanksgiving.
[6:07] Thank you.
[6:07] Thank you very much.
[6:08] It's important to recognize that Julie has been the face of AT&T for a number of years
[6:15] now and especially for the rural counties and has been ever present at the rural county
[6:25] gatherings to make, because you know we're the final mile of all the communications that
[6:31] We struggle to keep up with for our economies and for our students and our students, our citizens, and our students too.
[6:40] And so we really do appreciate Julie the availability that we've had to you to get right to the important issues and appreciate a lot.
[6:50] Thank you.
[6:50] Thank you so much.
[6:52] So with that said, Marilyn, on behalf of AT&T.
[6:57] Maryland has this process down. She's got the smile. She's got the smile. If she was just in a parade, she'd have that wave down too.
[7:05] Julie and AT&T. On behalf of the residents of Mariposa County, who all of them and even more so, those who were impacted by the debt wire fire.
[7:17] We thank you for the $10,000 donation. It will go directly to those impacted by the fire.
[7:23] Thank you.
[7:26] All right.
[7:29] Yeah.
[7:30] It works well with having the board.
[7:32] Right.
[7:33] Why does it?
[7:34] Absolutely.
[7:34] If the board was, please join us for a photo opportunity.
[8:30] Can't
[8:33] thank you all. Thank you for that presentation. Thank you very much. Thank you.
[8:37] Supervisor Kim. The next item is approval of consent agenda. The consent agenda
[8:44] consisted of items that generally use non-controversial and routine by the department if the board
[8:50] wishes to discuss an item, it will be removed from the consent agenda and move to the end of
[8:55] the time to agenda or at the chair's discretion, maybe taking in conjunction with another item
[9:00] scheduled by the respected department. Otherwise, it can send agenda items are generally approved
[9:05] in one single motion. This is a appropriate time for the public to advise the chair of any
[9:10] comments to the consent agenda or to request that the board consider removing an item from the
[9:15] consent agenda. Also for everyone's information, the following consent agenda items 1914 and 18 are a four-fist vote required for passage.
[9:26] And with that, I will open up for public comment. Is there any public comment on the consent agenda today?
[9:32] See, now I will bring it back to the board. Supervisor Jones?
[9:37] Yes, I would just like to make a comment on CA-11.
[9:58] Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a question on CA-13.
[10:03] All right, answer by the count.
[10:07] Comment on two, please.
[10:10] All right, so by the count, please, comment on C-A-2.
[10:14] I would have, it's probably a common question, so it's good to do it out here.
[10:18] I couldn't, like the C-A-L and I were on different schedules yesterday and never crossed past.
[10:25] So, down in what, the C-A-2 is the drought emergency declaration.
[10:30] I was wondering when we're done with that. These are mounting up. They are, and I actually have an answer this time.
[10:39] So that's sweet. December 5th. So we've added to the agenda with working with OES.
[10:47] We've been able to figure out that we don't need continuing local emergencies while we're in the recovery process.
[10:55] some do for certain services but some do not.
[10:58] So things like fires and floods really as soon as there's not an emergency anymore and we
[11:05] have secured the CDA funds we can let the local emergency go and we continue with our recovery.
[11:12] So December 5th you'll see on the agenda all but two of these local emergencies will be ended and we
[11:20] we'll be down to the landslides on Highway 140 and the true mortality is continuing local emergencies.
[11:27] It's always fun for me to point out the folks in other counties that we've got emergencies
[11:31] for drought, flood, fire, rock slides, and the obvious question is when the locusts come.
[11:40] I think that's great.
[11:45] Thank you.
[11:51] Thank you very much.
[11:53] You know, I would just like to underline the importance of what kind of job Cara does for the
[12:01] Arts Council and in bringing this forward.
[12:05] Because I don't think a lot of people know of all the different projects and everything that the
[12:11] our council does, she does a great job and she is able to bring in a lot of money through
[12:19] grants.
[12:20] So thank you and keep up a good work.
[12:23] Thank you, and supervisor, small com, C-A-13.
[12:29] Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I apologize, Mike.
[12:31] I didn't have a chance to connect with you beforehand, but as close as you are to the workload
[12:39] in your department.
[12:40] And I was hoping that you could give us a sense of what you are seeing in terms of increased
[12:47] workload or other, I don't know, other information that you have regarding what's happening
[12:59] as far as recovery from the debt-wilder fire in the context of folks trying to rebuild
[13:08] or relocate or whatever they're doing to bring their lives back together,
[13:15] at least from the building department perspective.
[13:18] Good morning.
[13:18] I'm like Kim's low building official.
[13:21] Good question.
[13:22] Supervisor Smokham.
[13:24] At the moment, we continue to assist all forms of forms of people that want to come in and rebuild the property.
[13:32] Mobile home and stick built.
[13:34] of the process, well, that's fairly quickly, county-wise, the insurance companies take some
[13:42] time.
[13:43] And that's, I've spent a lot of time talking to insurance companies.
[13:46] At this point in time, we are receiving applications for mobile home installations.
[13:51] We have received and I have processed a couple of stick-built home applications.
[13:57] Unfortunately, the stick-built home applications have been with our local contractors.
[14:01] It's been with the bigger ones from out of the area,
[14:03] Western homes and particular number of people seem to be going
[14:07] in that direction, but they, but we've
[14:10] have approved a couple of sets of plans and anticipating more.
[14:15] We are in a position to be expedient and cost-wise.
[14:20] We are very cost-effective in our permitting process.
[14:24] So I think people that need to come to us providing
[14:27] for construction permits.
[14:30] We can serve some economically and very quickly.
[14:34] So I'm pleased with that.
[14:35] We encourage everybody to come in.
[14:37] We encourage everybody's questions.
[14:39] And we're happy to help them anyway we can.
[14:43] Thank you, Mike.
[14:45] You mentioned that there are two houses that for which permits
[14:51] have been, construction permits have been requested.
[14:54] Do you have a sense of how many mobile homes?
[14:57] So what's the ratio of...
[15:02] Thank you.
[15:02] Thank you.
[15:02] I believe right at the moment, don't hold me too.
[15:05] I think I have a proof of three mobile homes.
[15:09] If I had to guess the percentage of mobile homes to stick built would probably be 2-1,
[15:17] maybe 3-1.
[15:18] A number of those that were damaged were mobile homes.
[15:22] That would be replaced with mobile homes.
[15:25] I do hear that maybe even on a stick built home or 2 might be replaced with a mobile home.
[15:29] I haven't verified that yet, but the mobile homes are fairly quick and easy, especially if
[15:34] you're going to use one and just get one up here and pop it up.
[15:38] Thank you, Mike.
[15:39] And I know you and your staff are working.
[15:41] I think with the planning department to permit the, I guess, temporary donation of the mobile homes.
[15:49] I guess there are v's that were provided by Plash of Wank, so I assume those are moving forward
[15:58] with a few of any hitches.
[16:03] On the recreation of vehicles that may be placed by permit and lieu of getting a permit for a house,
[16:13] which we do parallel that, there's no issues with taking in a number of permits on the recreation
[16:18] It'll be hickle side.
[16:20] The only minor glitch that has come up is that some folks have a hard time grasping the
[16:27] resolution and its intent of having a self-contained recreational vehicle being permitted
[16:33] and they want something more than that, perhaps a mini home or something like that, that
[16:39] the state doesn't recognize we just follow the state of California rules, but we've
[16:48] probably want to keep us easy as things you can get on your property and do it almost as
[16:52] painlessly if it's okay with planning and environmental health. We're good with it.
[16:57] Well, thank you very much for keeping that as smooth and painless as possible for the folks
[17:04] that are trying to recover. And thank you also to the folks who have been so actively engaged
[17:11] in making those RVDs available for use by our citizens. But thanks for keeping it all under
[17:18] You're welcome. Any other questions?
[17:22] Thank you, Mike. Any other questions or comments from the board?
[17:27] Yes.
[17:30] If I can just know a possible correction to C.A. 10, which is the
[17:36] agricultural commissioner item, I would like to request that we increase the
[17:49] five, six, one, four, two, one line, two hundred dollars.
[17:52] It looks like that one was a mid-its of a general fund contingency number would be
[17:56] one, nineteen, one, forty, eight, rather than three, four, eight.
[18:02] Yes, noted.
[18:14] Okay.
[18:15] The question is your comments.
[18:17] So you know, I look for actions.
[18:18] Supervisor Jones.
[18:21] I would move the consent agenda as presented except for the correction on C-A-10,
[18:27] changing that to 119148.
[18:35] Thank you.
[18:36] Thank you.
[18:37] Second, the motion.
[18:38] We moved the seconded that we approved the consent agenda with the correction on
[18:43] C.A. 10 to 119148.
[18:47] Any questions or comments before we proceed to vote?
[18:50] All those in favor say aye.
[18:52] Opposite motion carries five votes.
[18:55] Thank you very much.
[18:55] We've been on to board presentations from human services, social services, providing the
[19:04] month of November 2017 as National Family Care Deerver and in-home health care providers
[19:11] month.
[19:17] Welcome, Bouchy.
[19:19] Good morning.
[19:23] Good morning.
[19:25] So, this is an important recognition of providers as they help us to keep our seniors and our
[19:33] independent adults in their homes by providing support and help to them. That in turn
[19:40] then keeps these folks in our county so they don't have to leave. We have a very limited
[19:46] amount of assisted living facilities here in the county and so this keeps our residents here.
[19:53] So it's important that we recognize the caregivers and in-home care providers that help them stay here.
[20:00] Thank you very much.
[20:02] Thank you.
[20:03] Any questions or comments from the Board?
[20:06] I would like to thank you for bringing this forward.
[20:12] As you said, key that we recognize the strains that we placed on those caregivers,
[20:20] I was at the event that I think human services worked with our director of community services
[20:27] on regarding elder abuse and care, and the comments that were made by some of the caregivers
[20:34] about the level of screen that develops over time were, they really touched me.
[20:46] And I think one of the important messages, I guess I would communicate coming out of that,
[20:54] And I assume that it's one that you communicate on a regular basis is that caregivers
[21:01] should be reaching out to other agencies for assistance when they're feeling overwhelmed
[21:09] or maxed out so that they don't expose themselves to unnecessary liability.
[21:17] And the same goes for family members who take on that role.
[21:21] It's important, it's critical to the folks who receive the care, but it is important that we as a board and our departments and other agencies ensure that the support that is needed by those caregivers is readily available because they play such an important role in our community.
[21:45] So thank you once again for bringing it forward.
[21:50] Thank you very much, Chair.
[21:52] And thank you so much for bringing this forward.
[21:55] And I think that the people that do this do a great service to the community and to the people.
[22:02] They have to have a special place in their heart to be able to do this.
[22:07] And I think almost more so families need relief.
[22:12] And I think these people help give the remaining family that period of time they need a break once in a while.
[22:23] So they do a great service to the community and thank you again so much and thank the people for doing this job.
[22:30] Thank you.
[22:31] And being home health giver for my father and now my mother, I know the strains and stresses that can be put on you by being in that position, but it is something that we do would love to, and those folks who are out there being caregivers and home health caregivers, they do a wonderful job and we're just blessed to have them.
[23:01] So thank you for bringing this forward today.
[23:05] Any other questions or comments?
[23:06] I will open for a public comment.
[23:07] Is there any public comment on this item?
[23:16] Terry Perisand, Mayor of Jose County Community Services Director.
[23:20] And yes, it is a vital and instrumental tool for individuals dependent adults and
[23:29] our seniors to be able to age in place.
[23:32] And without that, they would be placed a lot of them out of county.
[23:39] So it's great, and I wholeheartedly support this recognition.
[23:43] It is a 24-7 job for many families and respite.
[23:47] Should be part of that, and we work in collaboration with Area 12 to get that referral out,
[23:53] and also human services to get those referrals out for families that are in need.
[23:57] Because by the time they come to us, the need is so great that we can't move fast enough.
[24:05] So, wholeheartedly, support this proclamation.
[24:08] Thank you.
[24:09] Thank you, Terry.
[24:11] Superb writer Smolka.
[24:13] A question I should have asked for a sheet, but I'll ask you since you happen to be at the
[24:18] mic.
[24:19] How, if someone is a caregiver that is feeling some strain needs a little help, where is
[24:27] best place for them to go to look for information on how to on the on the resources that are available to help.
[24:36] For locally we can provide those referrals. A lot of our go to referrals are to
[24:42] area 12 because they do have funding for a respite and then Mariposa is one of the counties they do
[24:47] represent. Unfortunately it's sometimes hard to get a respite person that lives here in county that they
[24:56] a lot of times they're coming from out of county, but that is our go-to forum.
[25:03] But as a caregiver here at Marapos County, they just need to call you.
[25:06] They can call us.
[25:07] They can call him and services the 211 number for the information out there.
[25:15] Yes, great, thank you, good that you're there.
[25:19] Thank you.
[25:23] Thank you.
[25:24] Is there any other public comment on this item?
[25:25] See, none, I'll bring it back to the board for action.
[25:28] Chief Vice, welcome.
[25:30] I move that we proclaim the month of November 2017 as National Family
[25:34] Care giver and in-home care providers month.
[25:37] Thank you, supervisor Jones.
[25:40] Now, I'll second that.
[25:41] It has been moved in seconded that the item being approved as presented is
[25:47] in the end of the comments or question before we proceed to vote.
[25:50] All those of you who say hi, hi.
[25:52] May.
[25:53] The book carries five.
[25:54] How does he?
[25:55] If he would join me at the staff desk.
[25:57] Thank
[26:17] you.
[26:17] The Mariposa County Board of Supervisors proclaims the month of November 2017 as National
[26:23] Family Care Givers and in-home care providers month.
[26:27] In recognition of the dedication of family care and in-home care providers, we remind
[26:32] our community of the importance of quality caregivers.
[26:36] And that was passing unanimously today November 21, 2017.
[27:05] Moving on to the next item on the agenda that will be Department of Presentations.
[27:11] These are four items within your jurisdiction in the board amount of today's agenda.
[27:17] So I'll open up for Department of Presentations today.
[27:32] Good morning, Bernie Quinn, California.
[27:36] I just want to remind everybody that SRA Burnman is still in place.
[27:41] There was a brief moment where it was open and then it got closed again.
[27:44] So I don't know when it's going to open, probably when we get some more weather systems
[27:52] coming through.
[27:54] Thank you.
[27:57] Thank you.
[27:57] Thank you so very go put those brush bottles out.
[27:59] Thank you.
[28:05] Any other departmental presentations today?
[28:12] More than Tara?
[28:13] Good morning, Tara Schiff, Economic Development Specialist.
[28:17] I just wanted everybody to know that the Made and Mariposa Store will be open officially
[28:22] Friday, I'm Friday, Black Friday this Friday. The day after Thanksgiving, it is up and running
[28:30] now, but the official opening is Friday. We've already, from the moment we put items out,
[28:37] they were jumping off the shelf. So it should be a great made of maraposa store this year.
[28:44] We're looking forward to everyone coming out shop local by made of maraposa.
[28:49] Thank you very much.
[28:53] What a great job.
[28:54] And it's made mayor poses working so well.
[28:56] It's a really happy day.
[28:58] That we've got to go with.
[29:02] Any other departmental presentations?
[29:05] Seeing none, we'll move on to public comment on honor agenda items.
[29:09] And these are for items within the jurisdiction of board on on.
[29:12] Not on today's agenda.
[29:13] Speaker, please limit your comments to five minutes and address the chair.
[29:17] It's for any public comment today.
[29:26] Good morning, Board Dean Carlson,
[29:28] Mayor of the County Chamber of Commerce,
[29:30] and Visitor Center, Tara stole my thunder,
[29:32] and told you that the way to bear a positive Christmas
[29:34] store is opening officially on Black Friday.
[29:39] But that's not all that's happening.
[29:41] Also, the Shop Mayor of Posa for Christmas campaign
[29:44] begins at the same time.
[29:46] For every $10 you spend in Mayor of Posa County,
[29:49] you should bring your receipts to the Visitor Center,
[29:51] and we have a huge number of prizes that will be giving away
[29:55] from the drawing that'll be held every Friday in the month of December.
[29:59] So there's four drawings.
[30:00] And I know we have free, we have free propane, we have hotel room nights, we have dinners, we have all kinds of gifts and things.
[30:11] All above $25. Also I wanted to thank you this morning for approving the county sponsorship of the Christmas parade.
[30:18] This year on the Christmas parade will be held on December the 9th, and this is the 20th annual Christmas parade that has been happening.
[30:28] So we are looking forward to that, and happy Thanksgiving.
[30:33] Thank you.
[30:40] Good morning, Pete.
[30:42] Good morning, Board.
[30:42] Pete Judy District 4.
[30:45] Speaking of public comment.
[30:48] Seeing how it's Thanksgiving week,
[30:50] I want to start off by thanking supervised supervisor
[30:54] Miles Minotree for cutting edge reading glasses.
[31:02] He sets the standards for leadership in the community
[31:05] And while it's been difficult to improve on his,
[31:18] she says I can't wear them.
[31:22] And she's right because they're the wrong powers, so I'll have to grow into them.
[31:25] But I do appreciate Miles the standard which you've set for us.
[31:30] And I look forward to someday being able to use those.
[31:35] In the meantime, I want to take the opportunity last week, Miles reported out that he attended
[31:42] as well as Kevin Cannon on behalf of the Board of Supervisors, my daughter's sonning her
[31:47] softball commitment.
[31:49] Actually, it's an educational commitment to Bucknell University.
[31:54] There was a lot of folks at the school, I wanted to thank SLS, I also made over allowing
[31:59] the kids to attend that trace of Sanders who actually knew something about Bucknell.
[32:04] Well, you know, we'll see, and did this bill there.
[32:06] Her coaches, 20 Williams at the high school want that, and certainly the paper who's
[32:11] done a great job of covering kids' activities at the school, including that event.
[32:17] I would like to recognize that she is a product of this community, and, wow, she's
[32:25] worked hard at her athletic, she's worked harder, really at her academics.
[32:30] Anybody that plays sports in for the high school and there's no that they spend hours on buses and and driving to
[32:36] And for another parents drive in June for us, so she spent hours on our academics and she's an A plus student and she actually got into Williams College
[32:46] and Smith College in Massachusetts, which are high-wrecking schools, whims number one
[32:51] liberal arts college in the nation. She chills buck now because she's strived to be a D-1
[32:57] up off there, and unfortunately for Williams, I think, in Smith, or D3, so it was driving
[33:04] animal.
[33:04] But I think it is a product.
[33:06] When the universities look at kids, they really look at how they stand in their communities
[33:12] both academically and how they represent the youth of their community.
[33:18] So, I think it's a good job for representing us.
[33:22] I thank you for a board for attending that, and I also think I gave my great public works
[33:31] a couple of weeks ago, so I have to give them some credit.
[33:33] She started herself off a curve in the public works fields, and I'm making them maintain
[33:38] them, and they continue to this day.
[33:40] We have a great softball, a mayor posted softball for girls, is supported not only by the community
[33:49] members and coaches, including I believe the sheriff's wife is still coaching, but the public
[33:53] works in this community support those fields and to keep them in shape and girls get
[33:58] to not only play, but they get to become good citizens and learn how to get things done.
[34:04] I'll end by saying that my daughter has interest in politics, and she was very appreciative
[34:10] of fact that you took the time to recognize her, and she wants to be a attorney, which I
[34:15] also recognize with politicians now, they might need a lot of attorneys, so she is hopefully
[34:24] going to have a good job when she gets finished with law school.
[34:28] Thank you.
[34:31] Thank you.
[34:39] Good morning, Mr. Mayor.
[34:42] Marvin Wells, your morning board, Renee, Steve, Bailey, and Mr. Chairman.
[34:50] To often, we all come up here to complain or moan and groan about something hasn't grown right,
[34:56] but I'm up here to talk about you, the board, for something was very special to my heart.
[35:03] Before I forget it, I also want to thank Greg for supporting all of the VA people last week.
[35:11] myself. Thank you for that. Steve, I know you did a lot of work with the MID. You know
[35:20] my background goes back in 1970s dealing with the MID. It was very difficult and I
[35:27] convened you and I think Kevin you did a lot of work on it. I don't know Marcel you did
[35:32] some. I don't know if you all put into it. But I know there's no possible way that you
[35:39] have really benefited by going to court as no Christian mind you could
[35:46] don't want to suit no Christian but you've had to do what you did because you
[35:50] wouldn't want to do anything for it but again I commend you it's been a long
[35:56] time coming having been in the 70s and dealing with it I had to go through the
[36:02] same thing so I commend you all so anyhow with that I'd be thanks
[36:08] Thank you. Thank you, Mark. Same to you.
[36:14] Is there any other public comment today?
[36:20] See, now we'll move on to board information.
[36:23] Supervisor Jones, would you like to start?
[36:27] Thank you very much, Chair.
[36:29] I just want to like to make a comment.
[36:31] He ought to be extremely proud of your daughter.
[36:35] Um, my hats off to you, to start from the family, and it works its way down, you did a great job.
[36:43] And good luck with it, with her future.
[36:46] And she won't need it like she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's learning.
[36:51] And, uh, also Bernie, I lit my fires when they were legal, they're still burning.
[36:56] And they will probably continue to burn for I don't know how long.
[37:00] Uh, so I hope that's, uh, okay.
[37:04] I see a nod, yes, so I take that as an approval.
[37:14] That's the end on the 15th.
[37:17] I have a teleconference with a bill chat from a C-SAC.
[37:23] Great discussion.
[37:25] I'm looking forward to meeting coming up.
[37:29] Thank you.
[37:30] I think we'll accomplish a lot.
[37:31] Down in the 16th, I had a meeting with Supervisor Can myself and the public works about the land fill in the future of it and how we're going to need to make some changes and some decisions we're going to need to be making I think Todd is doing excellent job along with Mike there so keep up the good work. It's a it's a messy job.
[38:01] So, but anyway, that will have more on that coming up.
[38:06] Same day I had a meeting with planning, building, environmental health, about a constituent
[38:10] who wanted to enlarge its service station.
[38:15] You know, it always makes me happy when constituents and want to do a project and they want to do it right.
[38:22] But I really appreciate the different department that has come together in making sure and getting everything up front.
[38:31] So the person knows exactly the steps they need to do.
[38:36] Because a gas station, when you're talking about the different entities in the science and stuff like that,
[38:45] to have to read it, it's no fun.
[38:48] That night, I went to planning meeting in Modesto, that project coming right along,
[39:00] then I was
[39:02] piloting up wood on the 17th to get ready to burn.
[39:08] So anyway, we'll have a, and that's one thing, and I think all over Mayor Posa, we're
[39:15] I have a lot of wood that people are going to be burning, working with environmental health
[39:21] and this is something that came up last night in our meeting.
[39:25] And that is, Cal Fire can lift the burn restrictions, but we still need to get our
[39:32] permit through environmental health.
[39:34] Sometimes that's a misconception that once they lift it, environmental health is out of it,
[39:41] know we still need to get a permits from environmental health.
[39:46] Last night we had a really healthy community meeting with a proposing a air curtain burner
[39:54] in really hill.
[39:56] I'd like to thank all of the department heads that came to that.
[40:03] Mike, back there, I'd like to thank you for coming over, Sarah Williams, let's see Dave Conway,
[40:17] and then all of Cal Fire, I really appreciate your support on this.
[40:23] And I think it was a good meeting in the long run.
[40:27] Lots of times, there's a lot of information, a wrong information that gets put out there.
[40:32] After you have a meeting like this,
[40:36] when the rumors and the misinformation gets answered,
[40:47] and the people are respectful,
[40:52] the conclusion I think was probably 90,
[40:56] some percent will, has agreed that we do need something like this to help speed up the burning
[41:04] process and have a cleaner air because the air can get very polluted in that base and
[41:10] there, you may have everybody's burning. So anyway, with that, I hope everybody has a happy
[41:16] Thanksgiving and don't eat too much. Thank you. Thank you.
[41:23] Thank you.
[41:29] Just wanted to respond to
[41:31] I hope that those classes weren't a result of the injury to your finger.
[41:38] Should be something you can see clearly out of working in your yard.
[41:44] But I think that's great.
[41:45] It only took 12 months for my cutting edge since the style to get Joe.
[41:51] All right.
[41:52] Last week, Wednesday, I too had a phone conversation with Bill Cheat from CSAC regarding
[42:00] our the boards up coming strategic planning retreat in December. It was a good conversation.
[42:07] I look forward to that retreat.
[42:09] Wednesday evening, the Alliance Club had its annual Thanksgiving dinner.
[42:15] And I thought I would just tell the Alliance Club here just for a second.
[42:20] As most of this community is aware, the Alliance Club has an annual one major annual fundraiser,
[42:27] the crab feed out at the fairgrounds. And last year, in February, we served over 300 dinners
[42:34] at that event. And through the proceeds, raise at that event, we were able to donate
[42:41] we the Lions Club was able to donate over $15,000 to local organizations such as scholarships,
[42:50] troops, youth baseball, eye exams, and glasses, high school grad night, youth soccer,
[42:58] youth basketball, youth football, little league, FFA, sponsor the Labor Day parade, and
[43:05] we also sponsor the tree lighting ceremony with free hot dogs, hot chocolate, popcorn, as
[43:13] well as other local charities.
[43:14] This year, as Dan mentioned, along with the parade on December 9th, is also the tree lighting
[43:20] at the Fairgrounds, and at the Fairgrounds, the courthouse, and I would encourage everybody
[43:27] to come out this year. The tree was planted by the Lions Club. I'm not sure how many years
[43:32] ago, but it is grown to such a height that we can no longer get to the top of it to decorate
[43:39] it. So we're going to be coming up with a new idea this year to decorate the Christmas tree
[43:45] and that'll be a surprise for December 9th. So thank you Lyons Club for all you do for
[43:52] Mariposa County. Thursday the 16th woke up to an inch and a half a rain and my rain gauge that
[44:01] was pretty good. I thought they'll talk to supervisor Jones who reports he had four inches up and
[44:06] really hill, so it was a good start to our rain season, I hope we get much, much more.
[44:15] On my way into town, I stopped by the Fairgrounds, introduced myself to the AmeriCorps group.
[44:22] On rainy days, I guess Brian had a range to have the group out there, helping him with some
[44:29] some chores at the Fairgrounds, and they were working hard, sanding down all the wood-top tables
[44:35] and refinishing them, but a nice group, young people, had a nice conversation with their
[44:41] leader, Mark,
[44:45] and I guess I'll take this opportunity to mention it.
[44:49] I had talked to him about possibly bringing his group, introducing him to the board.
[44:54] He said that's something that's within their instructional preview.
[44:58] I know you're handling that.
[45:00] It might be nice if there's a rainy Tuesday. Those folks could come by and say, hey, nice group of kids, working hard over there. And that was neat.
[45:12] So then Friday, the 17th, I was down in Merced attending another CSAT class.
[45:18] Class was title leading with emotional intelligence. Again, I enjoy going to those CSAT classes and one more.
[45:29] And I've completed that curriculum, so that's exciting.
[45:35] I've been talked about the Saturday Burn Confusion.
[45:38] I was really glad I looked at my Facebook business before I actually lit my pile
[45:44] and saw that the Burn Band was put back in place.
[45:49] Yesterday I met with some constituents and discussed issues
[45:53] and their respective neighborhoods caught up on a bunch of reading and paperwork
[45:58] and that was my week, so I have. Thank you.
[46:02] Thank you, Supervisor Mentor Tray.
[46:06] I was out feeding the cattle and horses this morning before it came into the board meeting.
[46:12] And I noticed that the field area is really jumping out of the ground.
[46:15] It's great to see that this hat grass comes up of course as it starts stabilizing the soil,
[46:20] particularly out in the debt water fire area.
[46:24] I want to give a shout out to the public works through the road crew, they were out there Friday afternoon, cleaning up after the storm, and there was a big slide of the burn material across the Aki Giltrode, blocked up three separate culverts left to pick.
[46:43] I was really interesting looking at, yeah, he goes to life like a black bathtub, bringing all the way down the creek where this water had flowed.
[46:52] So, you know, committing the road crews for being out there, getting those clean up and getting the culverts to walk back out.
[46:59] So, it's obvious that as we get more rain, particularly in these areas where the shemies was completely burned off, we're going to have some sliding issues.
[47:08] Not necessarily with soil, but certainly the burn material flows very easily.
[47:16] Looking outside and watching, I'm painting the courthouse and another shout out to public works
[47:20] for all that work getting that ready.
[47:22] Courthouse is looking a lot better with a new paint.
[47:27] And getting rid of that lead paint finally after all these years, it won't be an issue into
[47:32] the future.
[47:33] So, thank you for doing that.
[47:35] Also, let folks know that are asking for a target shooting ban ordinance during fire
[47:46] season.
[47:47] I have been working on it, the Council has been working on it diligently, gathering all
[47:52] the information to bring back to the board, so that we have all the information and
[47:56] can look at all options in regard to target shooting banning target shooting on public
[48:01] land.
[48:01] So that is being discussed.
[48:04] It has been worked on, but we want to get it right.
[48:07] So it takes a little bit of time, and we are getting there.
[48:12] I also had a telephone conference with Bill Chieett from C-SAC, in regard
[48:18] to the strategic planning retreat.
[48:21] It's great to talk to Bill.
[48:25] He's really knows his stuff, and it's great to have him as our facilitator
[48:31] for that planning retreat that's coming up.
[48:36] They also did the Miracles Accounting Update,
[48:38] which is all on the Miracles Accounting website.
[48:40] That's www.miraclesaccounting.org.
[48:45] On the 16th, the Travel to Sonora
[48:47] for a Central Sierra Economic Development District Meeting.
[48:51] We had an extent of agenda.
[48:53] This is mother load job training
[48:55] has taken on these, the Seds as the sponsoring group.
[49:02] It's really growing and expanding rapidly.
[49:05] We're looking at more grant funding opportunities for the district.
[49:10] We're working on bringing Amador County back into the district.
[49:16] So there are some really good things coming out of the said.
[49:20] We did write a letter of support there.
[49:23] the Sierra Northern Railroad that travels from Oakdale to, well, all the way up to Sonora.
[49:33] We did send a letter support for that project, there are a flight for a grant.
[49:38] Right now, a lot of our logs are going over to the mills over in 12 am counting, and it'll
[49:43] be a lot more efficient if they could ship the lumber out by railroad, but the railroad
[49:47] isn't the road bit is in such a poor condition they can pull five cars at 10 miles an
[49:52] which is not, it's, the trucks move so much faster. So with this grant, if they get the grant,
[50:00] they'll be able to move the lumber out a lot faster, more efficiently, and hopefully with the
[50:06] tree mortality issue, we can get more trees moved out, and you know, turn it in the lumber,
[50:11] which of course, sequester's at carbon in the lumber, in your house, and it's a good way to store
[50:19] So, anyway, we're supporting that.
[50:22] A lot of other good things were, of course, in Calabers County,
[50:27] they opened up a one-stop place where you had mother-lo-job training,
[50:33] sick and severe economic development districts.
[50:36] They're Chamber of Commerce.
[50:37] All of these different agencies were together on economic development.
[50:40] They've got them in one building there on Highway 49,
[50:43] and Main Street in Santa Dress.
[50:47] They're working on doing that also in
[50:53] Tual Me County, Mariposa County.
[50:55] Also, so we're looking at that,
[50:57] you know, also what could work great in Mariposa County
[50:59] would be having the made Mariposa store
[51:02] in that building also.
[51:04] So we're looking at a place where you have one stop shot
[51:07] for employers and businesses to get information and help.
[51:11] And that's, it's really moving forward
[51:14] and it's great to be working on that committee.
[51:19] Did the agenda review yesterday had a meeting with Chuvankatari, and a fire survivor
[51:27] from over on Live Oak Road, trying to get her set up with some type of proper living accommodations,
[51:36] also had a meeting with public works in regard to the dead man, Great Branch on White
[51:40] rock road, hopefully within a week or two, we're going to have that bridge project finished.
[51:46] So in a couple of years, then we can replace it with a new bridge.
[51:50] So that's kind of how it works sometimes.
[51:54] This afternoon, myself and Supervisor Gones and the CAO, we'll be having a meeting at the Ag
[52:02] part with the personnel down there.
[52:05] Coming up on the 2nd to the 24th, I will be up north, north of Port Bragg, on the coast
[52:12] for a few days celebrating Thanksgiving.
[52:14] We have so many things to be thankful for.
[52:17] And then when I get back, basically he'll be heading up to Sacramento for the C-SAC conference,
[52:23] which I will represent Mariposa County as your director.
[52:27] And coming up on December 1st,
[52:30] We will have the Kathy Valley schoolhouse tree lighting there at the old and at the K Hall
[52:37] They're at the Kathy Valley Park at 330 so that's my report for this afternoon
[52:43] They're this morning supervisor small come.
[52:48] Thank you, Mr. Chair
[52:51] Let's see the AmeriCorps project
[52:54] I've been continuing to spend time on the coordination
[52:59] The mayor posted a facelift project is pretty much complete.
[53:02] I drove by there this morning on my way into the office,
[53:07] and the Visitor Center Garden is set up so that it looks nice,
[53:15] and hopefully no weeds will appear.
[53:19] We'll be keeping an eye on that.
[53:21] And there's a master gardeners that will be working on designing some plant planting for that area that will probably not occur until the fall of next year, but the grounds are ready to go.
[53:40] And I want to thank public works for their support in terms of providing equipment and picking up some of the debris and keeping things moving.
[53:49] and also the Board of Supervisors for approving public work support.
[53:55] The Fairgrounds, yes.
[53:56] They washed, sanded, varnished 60 tables in two days and Brian advised that they have another 50 left.
[54:07] He's hoping they'll be at least a couple more rainy days.
[54:10] They've been working on BLM land, including working on trails.
[54:14] And excuse me, today I think they're out doing archaeological site restoration and let's see, next Monday, I believe they will start working on private land.
[54:30] The Marapos County RCD and NRCS folks have been working on pulling together a list of projects.
[54:36] on Yakigolch, Hunter's Valley, Bear Valley, Mount Bullion, and the 140 corridor, so they will be very busy.
[54:44] Unfortunately, one of the team members had an appendicitis attack over the weekend, and so she was down, yes, no, Sunday, having surgery, so she's okay, but obviously a bit worse for the experience.
[55:04] we have seven people going out to Kathy's Valley for Thanksgiving and then a couple others that will either be at our house or in lush meadows for Thanksgiving day and let's see so they've done a lot of good
[55:24] They're enthusiastic, they're very appreciative of folks in our community who have been
[55:31] very welcoming and expressed appreciation for the work that they're doing here.
[55:37] On tree mortality, we had the the Maraposa County Tree Mortality Disaster mitigation committee
[55:44] meeting last week and we had a very good conversation.
[55:49] And we are fairly concerned about making sure that Maraposa is positioned to successfully
[55:58] compete for some of the $220 million that will be available through Cal Fire.
[56:05] The guidelines are not out yet, but we know that there will be an emphasis on large landscape
[56:10] projects.
[56:12] So we've identified three potential projects that we will coordinate among the different partner
[56:19] agencies who are part of the committee to identify resources, define the scope of the projects and be ready to satisfy the requirements contained in the guidelines so that again we can compete successfully for some of that money.
[56:40] that one of the key issues on the 200 million of the 220 million relates to the satisfying
[56:49] the requirements that there be no, that it either be zero or, or there be a reduction
[57:00] in greenhouse gas emissions is a result of the projects that's a requirement that the
[57:05] B has imposed California Air Resources Board, and so we will be working on trying to figure
[57:12] out how we can satisfy that with respect to these three projects that we've identified.
[57:20] Let's see, I also participated in the regulations working group conversation last Friday.
[57:27] The, it appears that a problem that was identified by our public works department, where folks
[57:35] are, fellas are coming in and leaving trees by the side of the road, and thereby creating
[57:41] issues with damaging culverts and also anticipating issues when we have to plow snow, it appears
[57:53] that other counties are concerned about that same issue.
[57:57] We appear to have resulted at least initially here locally, but it is spreading northward
[58:05] to all of the county also asked for information in connection with that, and so I'll be coming
[58:12] back to the public works department to better define the issue and hopefully develop a consensus
[58:21] to what other counties are seeing so that we are prepared should we run into the same problem here again.
[58:30] Let's see, also I participated in the Bioenergy Working Group, a lot of conversation about a fuel availability study.
[58:37] The key issue is obviously the cost of removing dead trees and other vegetative material off of public and private lands.
[58:49] But the key questions relate to the continued viability of the large scale biomass facilities,
[58:59] especially given the increasing targets of material that they need to remove from high hazard zones.
[59:07] And it also, that competition for body biomass will affect eventually the smaller scale facilities.
[59:17] Smaller, there has been significant progress with respect to the operating environment for small scale facilities that PG&E is currently negotiating three power purchase agreements with three separate small scale biomass facilities.
[59:34] the price is incredibly high. It's I think it's over 19 cents I want to say
[59:43] 19.9 cents per kilowatt hour which is it's a very high price and I'm
[59:49] not sure it's sustainable especially over the long term I think it could work
[59:54] to the detriment of the small scale biomass industry but certainly it
[1:00:00] Would be a windfall in terms of profitability for a Maraposa biomass project here in our county, and these other three organizations that are currently negotiating with PG&E, and in the insurance subgroup, there's been a lot of communication after the our last teleconference.
[1:00:22] It appears that there is interest on the part of at least a couple major carriers in talking
[1:00:30] with us about how they might better assess risk.
[1:00:33] So that is real progress.
[1:00:36] Let's see, after the board meeting on Tuesday, night or afternoon, I attended the Elport
[1:00:44] Health Planning Advisory Committee meeting, that is the last meeting of this year.
[1:00:49] We won't meet again until February.
[1:00:51] But, and it was a long meeting, but we covered a number of issues, including trash removal,
[1:01:00] which I will be coming back to public works department again, because there is some, we
[1:01:06] need to clarify what the part service is responsible for versus what the county may be responsible
[1:01:13] for or may offer in terms of service.
[1:01:16] We talked about Foresta Road that is squarely in the hands of our Public Works Department, working with Caltrans.
[1:01:24] And we also talked about dispersed camping.
[1:01:26] There has been some progress.
[1:01:28] But the primary areas of focus right now are the areas across the road from Yosemite View Lodge and Incline Road.
[1:01:39] Also, Spencer, I'm talking about a memorandum of understanding between your submitting
[1:01:45] national park in the county.
[1:01:47] The committee is more or less signed off on it, and no, I will be looking for to
[1:01:52] county staff for some updates and review of the proposed demo you before we send it
[1:01:59] off to the park service for their review, and we also talked about as we often, as I often
[1:02:07] I'm sure other supervisors do as well, we talked about removal of vegetative material in
[1:02:15] order to reduce fire risk and I want to thank the FireSafe Council for their willingness
[1:02:19] to coordinate with the all-portell community on a chipping program, they're going to
[1:02:24] come out to the February meeting and set up some plans as to how we can ensure that taking
[1:02:34] Any equipment out there is a good use of the fire safe councils funds, but also to ensure
[1:02:43] that as much material is removed as is possible because folks in Elportel just like every
[1:02:48] other community here in Mariposa County are very concerned about the fire risk.
[1:02:55] Also wanted to let everyone know that I did speak with the project manager on the Ferguson
[1:03:02] slide project, you may recall the last update.
[1:03:06] CalTrans had installed a fair amount of measuring instrumentation and they collected a good deal
[1:03:15] of data and then provided that not only to their internal of geotechnical engineers and
[1:03:21] geologists but also they had contracted with an external expert on geology and construction
[1:03:30] of rock sheds and bridges in that type of terrain, and the expert has concluded that the
[1:03:41] rock shed concept is viable in that location. So, Caltrans is moving forward with several,
[1:03:50] I think, at this point, outside engineering firms to develop prototype anchors that are
[1:03:57] necessary to connect the rock shed or fix the rock shed to the slope, to the material
[1:04:05] contained in the slope. I understand they'll need quite a few of those anchors and they'll
[1:04:10] go about 100 feet into the hillside. So that's a bit of an engineering challenge. But the
[1:04:18] difficult challenge for CalTrans is, is assuring themselves that they have sufficient mitigation
[1:04:27] measures in place that they can be confident that workers who are engaged in the construction
[1:04:34] of the Rockshed can be safe.
[1:04:37] So they've been conducting an internal value analysis now for some months and that is now,
[1:04:46] That conversation is now going up through the Caltrans Management Hierarchy, and we expect
[1:04:53] that in the next couple months we'll have some sense of whether they will move forward
[1:04:59] and is so win.
[1:05:02] So hopefully I'll be providing an update on that again in the next month or two with hopefully
[1:05:09] some positive news. In any case, the construction is unlikely to occur until probably late
[1:05:18] next year or early the following year.
[1:05:22] Let's see. I also want to mention, on last Tuesday afternoon, the board met with an outside
[1:05:29] consultant in Sarah Williams, a planning department director, to talk about our GP, General
[1:05:36] implementation strategy we have a hundred and ninety implementation measures as part of the general plan and
[1:05:43] the question is what can we do to support the primary objectives that we have here in the county
[1:05:53] and also make progress on those implementation measures. It was a good conversation, but I just want to bring this up because
[1:06:01] I think it's important that anyone in the public who has any interest in the health of our
[1:06:07] county be involved in that conversation.
[1:06:11] So there will be another conversation along these same lines before the planning commission
[1:06:17] in December, another one in January with the Board of Supervisors, and then a third one
[1:06:26] February, I think it's scheduled for Valentine's Day, February 14th of next year, that will
[1:06:34] involve the Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors, and hopefully a good number
[1:06:38] of folks from the public. So once again, I encourage you to, if you were at all interested,
[1:06:44] in any aspect of how this county may move forward, that you tap into that. And I also talked to
[1:06:52] of CSAC and I want to wish everyone happy Thanksgiving and the other thing that I wanted to mention
[1:07:00] is that Heritage House will be holding its annual fundraiser on November 30th at Charles Street
[1:07:09] and for the sake of the many the relatively large number of hungry and homeless folks we have
[1:07:17] in Maraposa County. I encourage you if it all possible to attend that fundraiser. That's it for me.
[1:07:25] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you chair. Last Wednesday was the RCRC executive committee meeting
[1:07:36] and fortunately we here don't participate with our auditors of our auditor. The firms that we
[1:07:46] to come in necessarily to audit our, our, our, our auditors work.
[1:07:52] Like, you've heard much about Golden State finance authority recently.
[1:07:58] That's the organization that brought the 163,000 for the debt-waller victims.
[1:08:04] Well, that organization is a subsidiary of our CRC.
[1:08:08] It makes real money and funds most of our CRC's activities.
[1:08:12] Well, the executive committee in that regard has to sit with the auditors and participate in the audit.
[1:08:23] So it was quite the delightful long day last.
[1:08:29] My head hurt when it was done and only exceeded by the four and a half hour drive back from Sacramento that day.
[1:08:37] So, that was over a half hour?
[1:08:40] Yes.
[1:08:41] Yes.
[1:08:42] It was an hour and a half from the top of Modesto to the bottom of Modesto.
[1:08:46] But that's another story and it's over.
[1:08:53] The Golden State Finance sort of used somewhat challenge.
[1:08:56] We sat a million dollars aside in our budget at the beginning of the year, which is a sort of a new thing.
[1:09:00] They used to invest in multi-family housing and low-income mortgages and things like that.
[1:09:08] We set a million aside for disasters, frankly.
[1:09:13] And as you know, in our 163 was the only money that had come out of that.
[1:09:19] And as you know, we had done Calvary, Lake County, and then Maraposa on our trying to do
[1:09:24] Trinity at the 2,500 level, and then of course we had 5,300 homes or more over in
[1:09:32] Napa, Sonoma, and so that's sort of blew that formula out of the water because that
[1:09:40] 5,500 homes would be well over $13 million, so it's just one of those things where
[1:09:47] we're going to try to help them more on a gross basis than maybe the individual
[1:09:54] homes of that last, you know, just spat if terrible fires.
[1:10:01] Thursday morning, first, the unmet needs council, which is a conglomeration of the
[1:10:08] Methodist Church and the charities that it represents the rotary has come together with, again,
[1:10:15] Debt Waller Relief Money, the real estate group in town is tapped into substantial money
[1:10:21] like 40 grand or so from the national real estate or state real estate foundation, and then of
[1:10:29] course the human services and a community foundation all meet together to make sure that hopefully
[1:10:36] no one's who has real needs is falling through the cracks and then to make sure that we're
[1:10:43] making the most of all of our monies in a coordinated fashion, actually committed to buying
[1:10:50] as many as 20 I believe mobile homes and that might be RVs that can be used by folks
[1:11:03] frankly when you can it first it was like well what are we going to do with these
[1:11:07] in three or four years and and I say you know if if for $5,000 we can get
[1:11:12] someone a house while they build a house for three years throw it away you know
[1:11:18] that's a deal. And so a lot of folks are really stepping up as far as making these things
[1:11:26] available and different organizations with some new ones and some used ones and it's
[1:11:33] it's in any of us we've talked many times a lot of these folks have no hope of building
[1:11:37] and so we're trying to get them in a warm shelter. Also that day is suppose Jones mentioned
[1:11:46] landfill update? I mean, that is a constantly evolving business that I must say public
[1:11:53] works staff that we have right now, even though he's not paying attention, as we speak,
[1:12:00] will really give us a lot of confidence on the management of the landfill now and the management
[1:12:10] into the future, how we invest our money, how we evolve that thing is a big, big deal for
[1:12:15] this county and I do appreciate the staff that you hired and the management that you're given
[1:12:22] them.
[1:12:23] I think they're serving us well and it will be back before this board on a regular basis.
[1:12:29] Thursday night the community foundation and its normal business gave out five grants like
[1:12:39] does every year, not five, but normally we're fussing with $7,8,9, 10,000 dollars, and they gave
[1:12:47] two to the Chamber of Commerce for helping their growth and their advertisement of Mariposa
[1:12:58] with some signage and things, two to the Fire Safe Council, and one of those in particular
[1:13:04] is we've had numerous smoke alarm initiatives. It amazes me how many homes we clearly still have
[1:13:14] without smoke alarms in the fire safe council has a new initiative on that. We are able to help
[1:13:19] them with that. And one to the public radio station KPRX here to increase their reach of their signal
[1:13:28] So that's good stuff too.
[1:13:31] Friday I was supposed to talk to the our facilitator for our strategic planning, but it was
[1:13:40] the day or last week when all my phone lines chose to go down at my house and that was
[1:13:46] the day Sierra Tellcame spent three and a half hours there trying to fix my phone lines
[1:13:51] at the house.
[1:13:52] Bill and I will also catch up at the CSAT conference next week, and I'll just jump to that.
[1:13:59] It's pretty darn exciting to see, you know, we always say little mayor post-Akhani, we're
[1:14:04] going to probably quit saying that because mayor post-Akhani is assumed a much bigger role
[1:14:09] in these statewide organizations over the last three, four years, and I'm really excited
[1:14:14] about it.
[1:14:15] I believe Supervisor Minitray is going to be recognized for his graduation from what's
[1:14:23] it called, my Supervisor's Institute, which is no small undertaking and our board clerk
[1:14:32] Renee will be recognized as, I believe, Vice President this year of the statewide board
[1:14:39] Association, again a long-standing organization that's very much, very well reviewed as far as their value and their expertise to the boards of supervisors and I believe.
[1:15:00] We may also be recognized for some more accomplishment that we will talk about after.
[1:15:09] So it's, uh, mayor poses taking a, uh, gallon to, oh my goodness, but that's excellent.
[1:15:18] So we'll, we'll, um, we'll be busy and the be very proud, frankly, uh, from, from us just
[1:15:26] increasingly showing up at and being a part of C-SAC-TOS being a integral part and benefiting
[1:15:35] greatly from what C-SAC, RCRC and other state organizations on their subsidiaries have to offer.
[1:15:42] It's just great for Mayor Poseca County and it gets us, I have long said there's been millions
[1:15:50] of dollars flying right over this county because we, one, we didn't know about them too.
[1:15:55] we didn't take the time to go after them.
[1:15:57] Three, it was too much work, we were too busy.
[1:16:00] We have staff now that and elected that are absolutely
[1:16:05] ingrained, and I look at that peat, and Mike, and Doug,
[1:16:10] and most obviously human services who are totally connected.
[1:16:15] And this county can be proud of them.
[1:16:18] And I'm not just blowing smoke here.
[1:16:20] They're doing a great job, and bring in real money to this county.
[1:16:23] So, I'm happy to debate anybody if they have a differing opinion on that.
[1:16:31] Yesterday, met with rotary staff who are planning for a major major veterans' recognition
[1:16:38] at the Fairgrounds on March 29 next year, that apparently is Vietnam veterans' day, but
[1:16:45] they want to expand that into a county-wide veterans' recognition.
[1:16:50] It'll be coming before the board here for our endorsement not that they need our insurance or anything, but they want to rent our buses from the senior center to be able to drive up to Greeley Hill, Colterville and bring folks to the event.
[1:17:06] So, really trying to be a first class event, they have a retired general coming to speak and a couple others and it'll be a big feed and a nice big party.
[1:17:15] So March 29th of next year.
[1:17:19] And then I really appreciate the playing director and county council meeting with me and some of the owners in the parking district.
[1:17:28] It's obviously we'll get more challenging before it gets settled.
[1:17:32] But when a 30 year agreement ends and then floats and you've got to do a new one and the laws under which you did the original window and exist anymore and all the original owners.
[1:17:43] but a few are gone. Don't own anymore. It's one of the more challenging things. It's not
[1:17:52] as challenging as MID, but it's going on a bit. So I look forward to completing that
[1:18:01] before this current term is done. Thank you, Chair.
[1:18:04] Okay. Thank you.
[1:18:09] The next item on the agenda is close session board supervisors close session public employee performance evaluation position of employee and a review county administrative officer is ready to public comment on this item.
[1:18:27] morning board, P-Duty, two-provision officer.
[1:18:32] My youngest daughter, 16.
[1:18:34] I just went through a process of looking for a used car.
[1:18:39] Anybody that's looked for used cars,
[1:18:41] realizes that there's books, publications,
[1:18:43] Kelly Food Book, and I think it's a range of
[1:18:46] how much something is worth
[1:18:47] because when you're looking for a vehicle,
[1:18:50] they come in different conditions.
[1:18:52] And why not?
[1:18:53] So, I found one.
[1:18:54] You know, she wanted a Mustang, despite what I've tried to tell her for, well, we won't go into the Ford thing.
[1:19:04] But I found one that was in really good shape, and it was on the high end of what that, you know, those price ranges should be.
[1:19:11] And talking to the guys, you know, you had all the records on it and he says, take it for two days, take it for a test drive, you know, or test drive, take it two days, you know, drive around.
[1:19:21] I'm so convinced that you'll pay the high price.
[1:19:25] So we did, it was a good, you know, everything he said about it was true.
[1:19:29] I still think, you know, it's a range here.
[1:19:31] I can get it for a lower price, right?
[1:19:33] Go back to the guy, and he goes, Pete, I get, you know,
[1:19:39] what you're getting at here.
[1:19:41] But he goes, you get what you pay for sometimes.
[1:19:43] And if you don't buy it, somebody else will.
[1:19:46] And he was right.
[1:19:48] So we bought the vehicle.
[1:19:49] Now, that being said, what's that have to do with her, say, oh, he's low mileage,
[1:20:02] he's
[1:20:03] pretty good shade,
[1:20:06] but more to the point is that we've taken it for a test drive.
[1:20:11] And my fear is that when I look at the salary range that you've set for the sale, 130 to 150,
[1:20:18] That's $2,210 lower than the compensation study that we did in this county for almost four years ago.
[1:20:32] At that time, the 152 number was in the mid-range of what an independent study said the position was worth.
[1:20:41] And my fear is, much like my stupidity, and going in low-trained, low-ball, this guy was
[1:20:48] giving me a fairly decent price for the vehicle I was looking at, is that somebody else
[1:20:55] will come along and pay the price that should be paid for that vehicle,
[1:21:04] but to my point
[1:21:06] is that we, I think we've been lucky in finding a CAO, low mileage or otherwise, in providing
[1:21:16] leadership to this county and that while you're wrecking, you know, I know today probably
[1:21:21] not talking, sorry I don't know, being pointed by the superior court, I'm not pretty
[1:21:27] to your annual discussions with folks, but I am here to advocate that we have something
[1:21:34] value and we need to pay the price for that leadership and whatnot. So I'm taking the opportunity
[1:21:43] to remind the board that four years ago, three years ago, that salary was recommended to be
[1:21:50] at 152 something and I don't even know what the current CEO is making but I know it's not 152
[1:21:56] because your high range is 150 and so I would urge you to recognize the leadership he's done but
[1:22:04] also keep in mind that, in order to keep something of value, sometimes you've got to pay the price and you get what you pay for.
[1:22:11] So thank you.
[1:22:13] Thank you.
[1:22:15] No.
[1:22:21] I just want to clarify, remind the board that there will be no discussion of salary in close
[1:22:26] section.
[1:22:28] Thank you.
[1:22:30] That's persona to law.
[1:22:32] Thank you.
[1:22:33] Is there any other public comment on item?
[1:22:39] We will take up this matter in conjunction with the close session that's coming up for the
[1:22:45] IHSS so they can be concurrent.
[1:22:49] So with that, we will move on to the clerk of the board to read in the announcement.
[1:22:55] Thank you, Chair.
[1:22:56] In accordance with Government Code Section 504952.3, it is here by announced that the Maraposa County
[1:23:01] Board of Supervisors will be sitting either simultaneously or seriously as the in-home
[1:23:06] supportive services, IHSS, Public Authority Board of Marcos Accounting, and that they received
[1:23:10] no additional compensation for same.
[1:23:13] Thank you.
[1:23:16] Is there any public comment within the jurisdiction of the in-home health support services
[1:23:20] public authority and not on today's agenda?
[1:23:23] Speaker, please let me hear time to five minutes, and please address the chair.
[1:23:28] Is there any public comment?
[1:23:33] I think you've really pinched your finger in those glasses, didn't you?
[1:23:36] That's what you did.
[1:23:39] Seeing that, I will bring it back to the IHSS Public Authority.
[1:23:43] And there are no regular agenda items with that.
[1:23:46] We have an IHSS close session, human resources, risk management,
[1:23:51] close session conference with county labor negotiator,
[1:23:54] name of employee organization, United Domestic Workers of America,
[1:23:58] for in-home supportive services providers.
[1:24:01] The name of County Desert being a representative of Shaleen Bennett.
[1:24:04] Is there any public comment on this item?
[1:24:09] Seeing none, we will move into closed session.
[1:24:43] Good day, folks.
[1:24:43] This is March, along the chairman of the in-home health supportive services.
[1:24:49] Public authority reporting out on the closed session.
[1:24:53] that was just held in regard to the Conference with County Labor Negotiator, the name of
[1:25:01] Employment Organization, the United Domestic Workers of America.
[1:25:04] You need to have you for the in-home support of services providers, the name of county
[1:25:09] designated representative, Shelley and Bennett.
[1:25:13] For that matter, information was received and direction was given, seeing that there is no other
[1:25:20] on the In-Home Health Supportive Services Public Authority agenda.
[1:25:24] I will adjourn that meeting and reconvene the Board of Supervisors and report out on the
[1:25:30] closed section with public employee-performs evaluation position of employee and a review
[1:25:36] county administrative officer with that matter, information was received and directional
[1:25:41] given.
[1:25:44] Seeing that there are no other items on the agenda today, I will close in Memorial
[1:25:50] this meeting in Memoriam.