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[3:53] Good morning ladies and gentlemen.
[4:23] If you would, please take your seats and I will call to order this meeting to the
[4:29] Mayor of the County Board of Supervisors for June 8th, 2021.
[4:34] I will note for the record that all Supervisors present the CAO, the Crooked Award and the County
[4:39] Council.
[4:40] Before we, before I begin the Project of Allegiance, I do ask that we have a relevant moment
[4:46] of silence for all military law enforcement and first responders, their friends and families.
[4:53] If you would, please rise.
[4:59] Ready?
[5:00] Begin.
[5:01] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.
[5:09] Thank you, please be seated.
[5:19] Madam Clerk of the Board, do we have any introductions today?
[5:38] Okay.
[5:39] I was just informed that the chamber would like to make an introduction.
[5:45] Okay.
[5:46] Please come up.
[5:48] Gary Cicela.
[5:50] Hello.
[5:51] I'm Gary Cicela with the Mayor of the County Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center.
[5:56] And today I would with great pleasure to introduce to you our brand new operations manager, Jacob
[6:03] Polly.
[6:04] Thank you.
[6:06] Thank you very much.
[6:07] Pleasure to be here.
[6:08] You can take your mask off while you're speaking.
[6:11] Okay.
[6:12] Nice to meet all you.
[6:13] Yeah.
[6:14] I'm the new operations manager for Marcos Visitor Center.
[6:16] I'm applying my doing.
[6:18] You need it.
[6:19] Jacob, you need to speak into the mic.
[6:21] Oh, me.
[6:22] I'm sorry.
[6:23] There you go.
[6:24] I'm the new operations manager for Marcos Visitor Center.
[6:27] I've before to making our visitor center prosper and do very well.
[6:32] Please come and see us.
[6:33] Thank you so much.
[6:34] I'm really impressed and I see great things happening with Jacob being at the, as the operations
[6:44] Manager for the Visitor Center.
[6:46] Just in what, how many weeks two weeks now?
[6:49] In two weeks time he's gotten the, the bathrooms of public restaurants back open.
[6:53] He's organized, incredibly organized the inside of the Visitor Center and is working on the structure of getting things back
[7:01] on track.
[7:02] I've been open the gold minus scape room and let's see what else is going on.
[7:08] The, the bathrooms.
[7:09] Yeah.
[7:10] And then so art.
[7:11] He's also extended our hours for the Visitor Center where we were opening at 815 and closing at 4.
[7:17] Now the, the, the, the, the time is 8 a.m.
[7:21] 6 p.m.
[7:23] Which is great because tourists, you know, you never know when they're coming.
[7:26] And a lot of them don't get into town until later.
[7:29] And they're looking for things to do.
[7:31] So great things there.
[7:33] And so if you haven't tried the escape room, then gold minus scape room.
[7:36] I'd like to invite you to, to try.
[7:38] So with, you know, great team building and it's a great experience.
[7:43] So thank you.
[7:44] Thank you very much.
[7:45] Welcome, Jacob.
[7:46] Glad to have you aboard.
[7:47] All right.
[7:49] Moving on to the consent agenda and the consent agenda consists of items that are generally viewed as non-controversal.
[7:56] The head of the consent agenda, it's all in routine by the department.
[7:58] If the Board wishes to discuss an item, it will be removed from the consent agenda,
[8:02] and moved to the end of the time to agenda or at the chair's discretion.
[8:06] Maybe take it in conjunction with another item scheduled by the respective department.
[8:10] Otherwise, the consent agenda items are generally proved in one single motion.
[8:13] This is the appropriate time for the public to advise the chair of any comments.
[8:17] The consent agenda or to request that the board consider removing an item from the consent agenda.
[8:23] So open up for public comment, is there any public comment on the consent agenda today?
[8:33] Not seeing any in the board chambers, is there any consent, excuse me?
[8:39] Public comment on the consent agenda on the phone line today.
[8:45] Not hearing any, I will go ahead and close public comment and ask the supervisors if they have it.
[8:53] Yes.
[8:54] I refine item.
[8:56] Okay.
[8:57] Thank you.
[8:59] The CA9 from Public Works is to accept the resignation of Stewart Cat.
[9:03] I'm hoping is the name and appoint several individuals including Stephen Boynton,
[9:08] Kerry Gibbons, Karen Duschick, and to re-appoint Rick Lina Heuser.
[9:14] Hopefully I'm not mingling anyone's name.
[9:17] However, nowhere in that title, even though it does say in the body of the item, does it refer to
[9:22] what they're being appointed to?
[9:23] Those are appointments and the resignation is being accepted for the AB939 Task Force.
[9:29] Thank you, Chair.
[9:30] Thank you very much.
[9:32] All right.
[9:33] She provides us welcome.
[9:34] Do you have any today?
[9:35] No thanks.
[9:36] Okay.
[9:37] She provides her sweetie?
[9:38] I think today.
[9:39] She provides her foresight.
[9:40] Comment on CA6.
[9:42] Okay.
[9:43] She provides a mentoring.
[9:44] I have nothing, Chair.
[9:45] Thank you.
[9:46] And I have none.
[9:47] So, she provides foresight if you would read the item and introduce it.
[9:53] Yeah.
[9:54] CA6 is a doctor resolution of recognition and congratulations to Mayab Rebella Haste for celebrating
[10:01] her 100th birthday on June 11, 2021.
[10:05] It's my pleasure to have brought this forward and I will be presenting it to her in person
[10:10] on her birthday.
[10:11] So, thank you.
[10:12] Yes.
[10:13] Thank you very much.
[10:14] Congratulations to her on her 100th birthday.
[10:17] All right.
[10:18] If there are other comments or questions from the board on regard to the consent agenda, I'll look
[10:23] for a motion please.
[10:24] Supervisor Forcise.
[10:27] I'll move the consent agenda and noted changes on CA9.
[10:34] Okay.
[10:37] Is there a second?
[10:38] Supervisor Forcum.
[10:39] Second the motion.
[10:40] All right.
[10:41] Then move the second.
[10:42] That we accept the consent agenda.
[10:44] With the addition of the A.V.
[10:46] 939 task force title to the public works item number CA9.
[10:51] All right.
[10:52] Go for the roll call vote.
[10:53] Supervisor Minutri.
[10:54] All right.
[10:55] Supervisor Forcise.
[10:56] All right.
[10:57] Supervisor Sweeney.
[10:58] Supervisor Smallcome.
[10:59] All right.
[11:00] Supervisor Loan.
[11:01] It's all right.
[11:03] That is finished up as a consent agenda and moving on to the part mental presentations.
[11:09] Dr. Sergio.
[11:11] How are you today?
[11:13] I am well yourself sir.
[11:15] Good morning sir.
[11:16] Good morning board.
[11:17] Eric Sergio.
[11:18] County Health Officer.
[11:19] I am going to try and be as brief as possible because currently we only have two active cases of county residents.
[11:26] One of which unfortunately is still hospitalized.
[11:30] Fairly stable condition but had underlying medical problems that contributed to her course of disease.
[11:37] Our vaccination rate were continually slowingly getting additional people vaccinated.
[11:45] We are at about 54 percent of our target population being vaccinated.
[11:52] This week we'll be back in the schools as well as being up in North County and at the Fairgrounds.
[11:59] And then we are one week out from the retirement of the blueprint.
[12:06] And so where's been lots of discussion about what beyond the blueprint looks like.
[12:12] And so I think I've mentioned it to the board before but as a reminder all of the sector guidance all the business guidance will be retired.
[12:20] However we can expect that there are guidance for mega events will be in place.
[12:26] And then the guidance for youth including schools or main in place because again the population that's 12 and younger.
[12:34] Cannot yet get vaccinated and so and the intent is to protect that population as much as possible.
[12:40] The other thing that we have not yet seen from the state is masking guidance or facial covering guidance for after the.
[12:49] pandemic we have heard on some of the calls with the California Department of Health, what that will look like.
[12:56] But generally speaking for the public masks will be recommended for those who are unvaccinated.
[13:04] Or if there's a high prevalence of cases in the community similar to the purple tear.
[13:11] If we look at the last year that we've had cases in in the county there would never be a there will never would have been a period that we would have been recommended to wear masks.
[13:22] But again I think mask where make sense.
[13:26] Over the last year made sense but now that we've got such great vaccine uptake it's it's okay.
[13:32] So I anticipate that will will be coming out sometimes we can we will make sure that you all get a copy of that.
[13:38] That said, the other bit of information is Cal OSHA has the emergency temporary standard that was approved by the California Occupational Safety and Health Board on Thursday of last week.
[13:54] It is now in the review period by the office of administrative law for a 10 day period and then that will go into place next week on the 15th as well.
[14:05] So looking through that again that's not a public health document it's through the Occupational Health and Safety and will be implemented by Cal OSHA.
[14:15] But in the workplace that will require that if a workplace is not fully vaccinated that mask or be continued and that mask or be continued if you are public facing.
[14:27] I will be going over that with Joe Lynch and with Dalin the CAO.
[14:33] See how we want to apply that in the workplace here in in our posted because again as employers were responsible for the safety of our employees.
[14:43] Again that's more than HR realm than in the public health realm but we want to have that conversation and make sure we roll that out so that we're in alignment with Cal OSHA and their emergency temporary standards.
[14:55] That is my brief update pending your questions.
[15:00] Thank you very much, doctor. Yeah, more to have any questions. Thank you, Speaker Rogers. Malcolm.
[15:06] I've got two. Thank you for the report. The first one is one that I ask you repeatedly and that has to do with data.
[15:15] And so you're saying 54% and what I think it was last week. My husband was asking me because of the church.
[15:25] You know, where are we at in terms of vaccinations? And I think the number that I came up with was 47 something pretty close to 48.
[15:33] And so are we still looking at the data lag data?
[15:40] So there's two things that go on. One is data lag that is our reporting from when we do our clinic and when it gets up to the state. That's actually a fairly small number at this point.
[15:51] The gap that has occurred and remains is from our initial vaccination efforts back in December in January.
[15:59] When we were when there wasn't the my turn to report into when our reporting was only going into healthy futures database that was established prior to the pandemic.
[16:11] And then going theoretically into CARES 2, which is the statewide database for immunizations.
[16:18] And we've not been able to figure out where that gap is occurring or how to fix it.
[16:25] So it's with the state will it ever get solved? No, we may end up going back and once again hand jamming data into a spreadsheet to send to the state say,
[16:37] Hey, this needs to go into your into your CARES database.
[16:42] So again, our data has more fidelity. I would vouch for that.
[16:49] And again, working with the state to fix those last that persistent gap.
[16:55] Okay, so it's somewhere on the order for 5% correct.
[17:01] It's actually yeah. So again, you think about who are early vaccinate or so are early vaccine recipients. So healthcare workers, public safety.
[17:11] That group plus people like the human residents. So that would be the population that we're that's not captured by the state at this point.
[17:21] Okay, thank you for that. And then I guess there were lighted question because it's one that I know the church is talking about and I suspect others are or will be.
[17:30] And that is when you have a mixture of folks who have been vaccinated and those who have not.
[17:40] How do you ascertain who's who for purposes of I don't know of planning your events, right?
[17:51] Right. And I think what you have to do is make the assumption.
[17:59] And the assumption is is are people honest and people if you trust the people that you're in church with that you're in a meeting with to do the right thing and say either I'm vaccinated or I'm unvaccinated not judging a person why they chose to be vaccinated or not to be vaccinated.
[18:15] And then recognizing that those who are vaccinated do have a higher likelihood of being infected and a higher likelihood of transmitting disease and then taking appropriate mitigation measures.
[18:29] So again, using the church as an example, if there were anyone in that population that wasn't vaccinated.
[18:38] So this is where it gets weird, our complicated is that you know under Calocia if you were in a workplace setting everyone would need to be masked in that setting if you have someone at least one person right.
[18:52] So but if you're in a gathering you know church gathering then it would be recommended that the unvaccinated people were a mask.
[19:02] And then the question that I would throw out is the pastor is any of the lay employees of the church present they would come to Calocia so they would have to be masked as well but the prisoners by and large would not have to if they've been vaccinated.
[19:20] So that's where it gets complicated and my sincere hope about a month ago when the state made the decisions to lay implementing mask guidance until the 15th of June that they would have sorted all this out.
[19:35] And as you can tell explain this to you they have not.
[19:41] But you know the best we can do is look at what the state guidance is both from the regulatory workplace safety part and from the public health part and make sure that we get the message out to our residents what are the requirements from the employer standpoint what are the recommendations from the public health standpoint.
[20:00] Right that would be really helpful I mean I can't imagine that United Methodist Church is the only one that's kind of struggling with again you know.
[20:10] Like I said county governments are meeting to talk about this because anyone who has a human resources function that's yeah that's you've got to look at it from an employer standpoint.
[20:19] Not so much from a public health standpoint anymore because of the prevalence of vaccination out there but Calocia or I shouldn't say Calocia but their oversight board elected to be more conservative and more.
[20:33] Protective in their actions for the employees that fall under Calocia regulations.
[20:38] Got it. So in a way it sounds like the folks who are vaccinated are kind of the least of the worry now it's really the emphasis is shifted to folks who may have underlying conditions like being immunocompromised and those who are unvaccinated and how do you protect those two categories of.
[21:00] Correct.
[21:01] And really we know that the vaccine has been effective has been demonstrated to be effective in the 65 and older population both in preventing illness and in preventing hospitalizations study just got released this morning that echoed that.
[21:16] So all of the population based studies that we've looked at vaccine effectiveness of demonstrated 90 to 95% of effectiveness for the population that's been vaccinated.
[21:28] You know we continue to follow the signals of any complications and you know just like we head with the Johnson and Johnson and blood clots and is it greater than background.
[21:39] We're having that same conversation now with the Pfizer vaccine and myocarditis or heart muscle information in males that are 16 to 18.
[21:51] And so is it greater than background.
[21:53] Maybe don't know, but that's something the CDC's looking into and and again anything that we recognize as a signal is being treated very seriously and being investigated.
[22:02] Great. You know it's that's a monumental undertaking I think but it's definitely necessary to reassure folks that the public health folks and epidemiologists know what they're doing.
[22:18] Yeah, and it's well and it's it's probably the most studied vaccine put all three vaccines are all incredibly studied in the post market environment.
[22:30] You don't see that with many medications as you're seeing now with with these vaccines is that anything it produces a signal gets looked at.
[22:38] Right. So now in terms of providing guidance from your office will that occur on or about the 15th.
[22:46] So my intent is I have two existing health officer orders one is for federal respiratory illness and one is for short term rental and lodging.
[22:56] I will rescind both of those at the retirement of the blueprint.
[23:02] My thought with and I have not yet talked to County Council though is with the FRI screening is basically reference the emergency temporary standard that will come into effect on the 15th.
[23:16] Because that still requires employers to do screening for COVID disease in their employees.
[23:22] And so that emergency temporary standard that will go into effect for Calocia will in essence replace the FRI screening health officer order.
[23:32] So there's no need you know there's never a need my mind to duplicate when one regulation does it why have a second order in place why confuse things by having two things that you have to pay attention to.
[23:45] And then again with the retirement of the the blueprint the health officer order for short term rental and lodging was linked to the tears in the blueprint.
[23:58] And so things were not seen that anymore I don't see a need what I made though do is in that recommend to.
[24:07] Logging providers to continue to maximize the time between the vacancy of that watching and the cleaning crew going in because we do know that COVID is spread both by droplets and by aerosols which hang in the air for up to three hours.
[24:23] The longer we're able to allow that room to sit the less likely it is to be a risk to the cleaning staff.
[24:29] Okay, well thank you again for staying on top of this it's a moving train.
[24:36] Thank you doctor.
[24:38] Any other questions today.
[24:39] Okay when there is I apologize there's one thing I forgot to mention is that as we are moving into the fire season.
[24:46] We want to free up nixel for emergent messages we have been on a daily basis announcing our cases through nixel.
[24:54] And we're going to we're going to step back from that and so just want to remind.
[25:00] Mariposa residents that that'll be going off we'll continue to do our case messaging on our our social media on our Facebook.
[25:10] But again, where we want to free up our nixel our ever bridge our emergency alerting system so that it will be when someone gets it don't know it's for.
[25:20] The fire at this point going forward through the rest of the fire season just hoping knocking on wood that we don't need it but I'm going to assume that we will.
[25:30] All right doctor thank you for the information.
[25:35] Good morning Mr. Healey.
[25:37] Good morning Mr. Chairman members of the board just a couple of short announcements.
[25:42] June 14th will start the.
[25:46] We'll mark the start of our day camp program as well as other summer programs including the pools and all like.
[25:54] Just wanted to give you an update that the online registration worked very well.
[25:59] Most of the programs are full entirely entirely full is the day camp.
[26:06] But check with if you see a program online that you you like or that interest you call parks and wreck and see if there's been a cancellation or vacancy in that particular program.
[26:21] Just want to thank.
[26:24] Dr. Sergianco and his great team and Shannon Gad.
[26:28] Her her super team and P. Judy for all her support again this year not only in guidance but financial.
[26:37] To help make the summer day camp program as successful as it is.
[26:42] We certainly could not run this program based on registration fees nor could we offer.
[26:48] The scholarships that this board this board has has annually endorsed.
[26:54] For those individuals that might have trouble paying for the fees so with that I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.
[27:06] Thank you.
[27:13] All right. Good morning chair members of the board.
[27:24] Darling Kimball County Minister of Officer.
[27:27] Just two items for you this morning.
[27:29] One is that we did finally get a decision from the California Public Utilities Commission.
[27:35] They have decided to ban all transaction of work credits.
[27:43] And in their decision they're making an assertion that transit these sort of transfers were never allowed or permitted.
[27:54] And we still have an opportunity to decide whether they will honor.
[28:01] Transactions that occurred prior to the PUC decision.
[28:07] But given that that second part about the PUC things they've never been permitted it seems unlikely.
[28:17] Any sliver of hope will pursue it but it looks like those deals probably are not going to go through.
[28:25] The other item I have for you is that we've staff decided to stop our pursuit of the property on crystal air.
[28:33] And are looking actually instead at a house on Joan Street it's 5123 Joan Street.
[28:39] Again for transitional housing and we may have more on that in the future but just so that you're aware.
[28:45] And we have started speaking with the sellers on that property.
[28:50] It's all about.
[28:53] Thank you.
[28:56] Any other departmental presentations today?
[29:02] You haven't been very busy over there Steve.
[29:10] All right then I'll go ahead and close departmental presentations and open a public comment on nine agenda items for items within the jurisdiction of the board.
[29:20] I'd like to comment on today's agenda speakers please leave your comments to five minutes.
[29:24] And if you would for the record please state your name although that is not required.
[29:28] So is there any public comment in the chambers today?
[29:41] Mr. Mayor, good morning.
[29:46] Welcome girls, morning board, morning day, Steve, David.
[29:56] Come at the doctor.
[30:00] It's amazing you used to be that when you went into the bank with the best on you got arrested and now you get arrested if you don't have it on, so Mr. Chairman, thank you in the board for this cool down.
[30:16] Yes, I would appreciate that every couple of weeks that are really nice.
[30:23] My reason for being here today is you all know we lost so many pine trees due to the beetle leaks that are etcetera.
[30:30] Now we are experiencing devastation to our oak trees with mistletoe.
[30:39] I have a letter for you board. I'll just summarize that I will pass for the public, but here.
[30:54] I'm asking you the board to initiate a program with the California University of Merced to develop a program to research and come up with an idea how to get rid of the mistletoe, because if we lose it, if we lose it,
[31:20] the oak trees like we lost the pine trees, you know what's going to look like.
[31:27] And if we can vaccinate polio, get rid of it, grow back in my days, grow to grow to grow to this virus.
[31:37] We can do with cattle as well as horses. Why can't we do it to our trees?
[31:43] There must be some way to develop a program and I'm asking you the board of supervisors to work with the university as see if you can't designate an experimental station up here in the area.
[31:58] Work with them and see if we can develop something.
[32:02] Not only would you do merit for the county, but you do the rest of the county for the state.
[32:08] With that, I thank you for your time and I hope thank you.
[32:15] Thank you for your comment.
[32:20] Is there any other public comment today on non-agent items?
[32:27] Do we have any public comments on the phone line today?
[32:35] All right, not hearing any.
[32:37] I will go ahead and close public comment on undergen items and recess the Board of Supervisors and turn it over to the county clerk for the announcement of government code 549523.
[32:51] Thank you in accordance with government code section 549523.
[32:55] It is hereby announced that the Mayor of the county board of supervisors will be sitting either simultaneously or
[33:01] Serially as the local transportation commission of Mayor of the county and that they receive no additional compensation for same.
[33:08] Thank you chair.
[33:09] Thank you chair for the Board.
[33:10] No, I will call this meeting as a local transportation committee to order.
[33:14] Is there any public comment on any items not on the agenda of the LTC but under its jurisdiction?
[33:29] Is there any public comment on the phone line today in regard to any LTC matters?
[33:36] All right, not hearing any.
[33:37] I will go ahead and close public comment and bring it back to the commission.
[33:40] And the first item is on the regular agenda and only is the adoptor installation allocating transportation development act funds for fiscal year 2020 2021.
[33:52] Turn over the executive director of the LTC Mr. Healey.
[33:56] Thank you Mr. Chairman and commissioners annually.
[34:00] We come before you to allocate funding transit development act revenues and for those listening and maybe don't have the the board documents.
[34:14] I'll just briefly read the the allocation amounts.
[34:19] The administration zero transportation planning $125,000.
[34:24] Pedestrian bike way $8,000.
[34:26] Mayor post county transit system $15,000.
[34:30] Regional transit services including contracts for yards $191,000.
[34:36] Identification of unmet needs $5,000.
[34:40] And Mayor post county streets in road $345,833.
[34:48] As I said, this is an annual application that we bring.
[34:53] Excuse me, that we bring before the.
[34:57] The transit commission and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.
[35:05] Thank you executive director or any questions of clarification.
[35:11] I'll go ahead and open up for public comment on this item.
[35:15] Is there any public comment on the adoption of a resolution or the TDA funds for fiscal year 2020 2021.
[35:25] Any on the phone line today.
[35:29] All right, I'll close public comment.
[35:30] Bring it back to the commission for questions debate or action.
[35:37] Welcome.
[35:38] There are no questions or comments.
[35:40] I will move that we adopt a resolution allocating the transportation
[35:45] Development Act funds for fiscal year 2021.
[35:48] Thank you.
[35:49] Or commissioner Sweeney.
[35:51] And I'll sign up.
[35:52] I've been moved in second and we accept the item as presented any of the questions
[35:55] comments before I call the roll call vote.
[35:58] See you in any commissioner.
[36:01] Your Commissioner.
[36:03] I miss your suicide.
[36:04] I'm sure I'm in a traffic.
[36:06] I miss your long and silent motion carries 50.
[36:08] Thank you executive director.
[36:09] Thank you, adjourn commissioner.
[36:11] With that, I will there are no other items on the LTC of general.
[36:14] I will recess the LTC meeting and reconvene the Board of supervisors.
[36:19] First under the regular agenda items is from planning the doctor resolution established
[36:25] The Maripose County Code Compliance Advisory Committee.
[36:28] approving a supplemental questionnaire for CCAC membership applications. Sarah, good morning.
[36:35] Good morning, chair and board. I'm here today to ask your approval of a resolution that will
[36:43] do two things. It will establish a new Citizens Advisory Committee for Code Compliance, and it will
[36:49] also approve a supplemental questionnaire. So when we do receive interest from members of the
[36:56] public on this, it will have information that will help the board make decisions on who will sit on
[37:02] this committee. Today's action, we're bringing this to you based on board discussions that occurred
[37:10] last November. That was at a public hearing where the board denied the Code Compliance procedure
[37:20] amendments at that meeting, the prior board directed staff to start a process to involve the
[37:27] public if we're going to move forward again. And then this current board discuss the same issue
[37:33] at a meeting in March when supervisors, Swini, brought a discussion item about increasing
[37:39] noncompliance with existing county code. So this is based on two discussions we've had with a board
[37:47] what the resolution would do is establish a nine-member advisory committee and the resolution
[37:54] establishes the purpose of the committee tasks and responsibilities for the committee membership
[38:01] considerations for appointment and then other procedural amendments that are pretty typical for an advisory
[38:07] committee like a quorum and noticing that kind of thing. Putting together this set of recommendations
[38:17] considered three different things we looked at other resolutions where advisory committees were
[38:23] established and we plagiarized from some of those. We also considered specific input to the board gave
[38:30] at those two meetings where we discussed this item. And then also I thought input from some of the
[38:37] citizens who participated in the prior Code Compliance procedure discussion and that was done on
[38:45] an informal basis but it's an attempt to engage the folks who were concerned about the prior process
[38:53] and the lack of input that citizens had for that. So those citizens are interested in a collaborative
[39:01] process and we wanted to start that even in establishing this resolution. So I will note one of the
[39:09] things that came out of those meetings I had with the there were three citizens who helped me with this
[39:14] that the requirements for noticing a CCA meeting are more than what the current round act requires and that's
[39:21] purposeful we want to make sure that we provide adequate notice. It does take a little more time up front
[39:28] but I think once we get established and we get a routine and we get a calendar of meetings if
[39:35] that CCA C things we can back off that we can we can come back to the board with a minor amendment on the
[39:42] noticing. So next steps if the board takes a section today we will notice vacancies on the committee.
[39:54] I might get your input if you have thoughts on how long we notice the vacancies.
[40:00] If there's an interest in noticing in the north side paper that Yosemite Express only is published one time
[40:06] per month the deadline for noticing what is mid month it's the 15th of the month and so if we want to
[40:14] notice in that paper we'll have to do a longer a longer vacancy notice. So we'll receive applications
[40:22] from persons who are interested and then we will schedule an item for this board to make appointments
[40:29] to that and we will present all applications to the board for consideration.
[40:35] Once the appointments are made then we would start our meetings with the CCAC and there's a
[40:40] there's quite a bit of background information and education that we intend to provide
[40:45] prior to getting into the meat of the matter. Do you have any questions? I try to answer those.
[40:53] Yeah, questions of clarification. Yes. Super edgers, sweetie.
[40:57] Thank you, sir. In reading this I didn't see anything about how the appointments we made
[41:05] is this meant to be general like not by district for example or anything just to try to
[41:11] was the intensity that we can get nine people to volunteer is that correct. So having a
[41:18] committee made up just of one person per district we discussed that with this this group of folks
[41:25] and the thought was that it might be better to have more representation not just five but nine not I mean
[41:34] there's kind of a magic number for advisory committees if you have too many sometimes it's hard to
[41:39] get people to attend or to agree if you have to few sometimes we have a trouble even having a meeting
[41:45] if we can't have a quorum. And so the thought is that the appointments would be made based on the criteria
[41:51] that are established in here and that's an interest in the subject matter. There's also a
[42:02] an item in here that members may have special knowledge it's not a requirement but we would like to
[42:07] get input from citizens we'd actually like to have members who do have some special knowledge on
[42:13] the committee if possible related to code compliance or governmental procedures county codes
[42:19] development those things that are related to code compliance procedures. So it was purposefully
[42:27] done not to be just a one appointment per district and want to get a well balanced group on this
[42:35] committee. It sounds like good plan. Sarah are you in the staff comfortable with the additional
[42:44] time frame and noticing? Yes. Okay. Any other questions or comments? Then I'll go ahead and open for
[42:52] public comment. Is there any public comment on this item today? Speaker's please remember you have five
[42:59] minutes please state your name for the record although not required and you'll need to turn on the
[43:07] microphone at the bottom right. Good morning, word. Good morning. How are you? Good. How are you? I'm very good
[43:17] and I'm very glad to be here. I'd like to point out to you that our citizens group back in November was
[43:23] hoping for this day and we're here and it wouldn't happen without the supreme efforts of Sarah once
[43:31] a year. She worked with us. She guided us and we're here today to support something that is very important
[43:38] to this whole community. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your comments.
[43:43] Good morning, board. I am so happy to be here today. I am in support of the CCAC and more than that,
[43:58] I really want to give praise to Sarah Williams. She has been incredible to work with. She's been very open.
[44:06] She's been very willing to listen and incorporate our ideas. Couldn't ask for a better department
[44:16] head to work with to turn things in a really good direction. I feel confident that the CCAC will be able
[44:24] to address community concerns and we'll move the relationship between the county and the community
[44:30] in the right direction and it's been really wonderful to work with Sarah and the team to
[44:38] design this forum where the community can be involved in the process. I just wanted to
[44:47] give Sarah the kudos and say thank you for allowing us this opportunity to form this because I know
[44:54] it was a direction from all of you to have this occur and thank you very much for listening to us.
[45:00] Thank you for your comments. Any other public comment? Good morning, Ms. Rhodes.
[45:10] Yeah, you may. Thank you. My name is Colleen Rhodes. I also want to reflect to you that you have a real public servant here in Sarah Williams. I had previously heard what a professional she is.
[45:25] Now, I see that her interest is very, very deeply and sincerely in serving the public. As you well know, as I well know, anyone who's been involved with the code compliance issues from either side, or I should say any side, because there are multiple perspectives on this.
[45:45] We all know that it's an extremely contentious arena for this county. Nevertheless, it's extremely important. You understand your duty in terms of protecting health and safety, and there is also a very, very important role for you to play in building more trust with your constituencies.
[46:09] You're really good at that. You guys handled them and make a kind of a tangential remark on something that's later on the agenda. You handled the error mark, issue brilliantly.
[46:21] I only wish that every person in this county could have heard you, your common sense, your understanding of the real world, your backbone,
[46:33] in standing up for all of us, every taxpayer, and making sure that that two and a quarter million dollars still came into this county as it appropriately should.
[46:47] But what we're doing, what you're doing here and what I've had the privilege to participate in with Sarah in designing the CCAC. I think is going to be something that this county will be so proud of.
[47:01] In the same way that I hope you're proud of your backbone in dealing with the error mark issue.
[47:08] I hope that you also see that the CCAC can be an opportunity to get a agreement among your constituents and yourselves about what Mariposa County Code can accomplish,
[47:21] and what the innovative and creative use of grants, volunteer energies, that sort of thing can do for this county.
[47:34] Just one more thing, I hope I'm not over time.
[47:38] Every time somebody in this county has a problem, a dog gets lost, a fence gets tore down, the mono wins come through.
[47:49] The neighbors, no matter what their political persuasion or their position on code enforcement come together and solve the problem.
[47:58] I think if that Mariposa spirit can be gathered and brought together here, we can come up with something from Mariposa County that is so innovative that you'll have a kind of a crown among all counties,
[48:16] in handling a difficult issue, truly brilliantly.
[48:21] What you have in Sarah Williams is a genuine public servant who operates as a professional who wants your constituencies to be involved in this process and to develop trust with this board and with the intentions of staff.
[48:40] She's able to communicate that with three very difficult women who have great ideas and who really want the right thing for this county.
[48:51] We don't all agree, not the five of you, not the three of us, not Sarah, but the kind of thoughtful, human considerations that Sarah was able to bring to this process.
[49:09] Tamed a very difficult beast and now I think the CCAC itself, if you approve it, could do the same in a bigger venue and I just want to say thank you and specifically thank you to Sarah for involving us in this process.
[49:27] Thank you for your comments.
[49:32] Is there any other public comment in the chambers today?
[49:39] All right, then we'll move on to the phone line, is there any public comment on the phone line today?
[49:50] Yeah, what we are on muted, okay.
[49:54] Well, I'm not hearing any of you go ahead and close public comment and bring it back to the board.
[50:00] Supervisor Sweeney.
[50:02] Thank you, Chair.
[50:03] I'd like to thank all the folks that got up and spoke in favor of this.
[50:06] This has been a very contentious issue, and I agree with Colleen that Sarah has seen that a fantastic job putting this committee together and coming up with a plan for this.
[50:20] And not to throw a red blanket on this, but on March 16th, we also agree that we would try to up our efforts to work on some of the more difficult cases that we've had and we had agreement from the district attorney to help with this process.
[50:35] He said he can handle between five and ten cases.
[50:39] And since that time, we have sent one case to him, which has been sent back for some code language changes.
[50:46] Mine or I understand, we'll see that next week.
[50:49] So, you know, what the upcoming fire season and some of the stuff that Chief Ward shared me recently about some of the creative electrical things we see out there in the weeds.
[50:59] I'm thinking we out of, you know, make sure we're paying attention what we said we do back in March to continue working some of these cases.
[51:08] And I guess my question is, do we need additional resources in the compliance arena in County Council to help with some of this.
[51:19] You know, while the efforts of the new committee go on, I think that will take some time and I don't think it's responsible for us to, I'm going to say lower our guard and the things that we have going now.
[51:37] Sarah Williams, I can't speak for County Council's office, but.
[51:42] I appreciate your, your support and your concern about staffing.
[51:47] What I, I would like to do is we're just getting into this process and I'd like maybe a little bit more time to see how.
[51:56] How what it works, we do have another case that's ready to go to the district attorney's office and it just takes a little bit of time to put together.
[52:05] From the file, what is needed for those cases, so.
[52:10] I, you have my commitment to come back to you if I, if I do feel like we need additional assistance and I too share concerns about all fire season, especially this year.
[52:23] Thank you.
[52:25] Thank you chair.
[52:27] Sarah, this is a great piece of work, like always, are we thorough, well thought out.
[52:33] I, I just really appreciate you.
[52:38] I appreciate the ladies that came in today and spoke to a fact that is well known here in the building and that you are a rock star and you do always have.
[52:50] Our communities best interest.
[52:53] At the forefront of your decision making.
[52:57] I, I think this thing is, is, is set to, to role, all the tires are inflated.
[53:04] If you will and it's ready to hit the road.
[53:07] I look forward to seeing the many, I assume many applicants, there was a lot of interest in this when when we had a full board room discussing going this direction.
[53:19] I hope that some of the folks that that need help out there on the horizon do to influences that that affect them negatively with regard to co-compliance will also seek to participate in this committee.
[53:40] But I just want to thank you for the work that you did.
[53:45] For meeting with the, the folks that wanted to meet with you, I know that that Sarah has a lot of work on her plate downstairs and I just want to express thank you for taking the time to meet with the folks that wanted to meet with you to get this ball rolling and get this to us.
[54:05] And I think we're, uh, we're on a good path here and thank you ladies for coming in today and sharing your kudos support and accolades to Sarah.
[54:16] I appreciate it.
[54:18] And I know she appreciates it as well, but thank you for making the time to come in and say how great she is because we all know it.
[54:25] But it's awesome to hear it.
[54:28] Thank you Sarah.
[54:29] Thank you.
[54:30] Thank you.
[54:32] There's not much to be added.
[54:34] Sarah, I've known you for good many years and your family and you've never turned down a task that needs to be done.
[54:43] And you've risen once again to, to get it done for the county and for the community.
[54:48] And thank you for bringing the good folks that came today to speak together.
[54:53] It's a difficult process and subject.
[54:59] But with education, we can and with communications with the community.
[55:05] It's going to happen.
[55:07] I remember sitting on the other side of this.
[55:09] Dias, not too many months ago when things were going to arrive.
[55:14] And I think we've turned the corner and I think we're including people, not excluding people and that's very important.
[55:21] And I heard a word of, uh, Mariposa spirit.
[55:24] You definitely are Mariposa spirit.
[55:28] Thank you.
[55:29] Supervisor, welcome.
[55:32] Yes.
[55:33] Thank you, Sarah, for pulling this together.
[55:36] And I have a couple of little net picks.
[55:43] One of which is that there is a statement in here that part of the responsibilities.
[55:52] And I can't find it right now.
[55:54] It's review and understand the state's Ralph M. Brown Act requirements.
[55:59] And I'm wondering if we might want to add comply with because I'm assuming that the CCAC will be subject to the Brown Act.
[56:07] They will be.
[56:08] Yeah.
[56:09] So can we add comply?
[56:10] So that's clear.
[56:12] And then with respect to noticing.
[56:14] And this is really a supervisor.
[56:16] He's, um, turf so I'll enter with some trepidation.
[56:20] But I do hope that there is a way that we can effectively notice in district two.
[56:28] I know that the, the, the paper up there, um, the Yosemite Express is published in frequently, but.
[56:40] Sorry.
[56:41] Yeah, once a month.
[56:43] But I don't know, is there a community Facebook page, something like that that might serve in lieu of publication in that paper.
[56:53] So that folks up there can at least keep tabs on the frequency of meetings and timing and location.
[57:02] Yes. So there's, there's, there's two parts to your issue relative to the, the noticing and one is I would like your input on the noticing for the vacancies.
[57:12] If we do put that in the north side paper, then that would come out around the first of July.
[57:21] And if we had maybe a three week period for people to respond to that, we'll be getting information out in other ways.
[57:30] And I'm sure supervisor Sweeney will get information on his website, but, but I would think that maybe a three week time period once the paper comes out would be appropriate for.
[57:42] For noticing for people within district two that would put us receiving applications until about July 21st.
[57:54] That if that's a generally a thumbs up.
[57:58] Then that that's the plan and for noticing of the meetings we do have the list in in the actual exhibit of the resolution that we'll be.
[58:11] Initially at our first meeting, we'll establish a calendar of meetings. We'll publish that and that way people will know ahead of time.
[58:18] What to expect for meeting schedule and then following that will do the planning's website page.
[58:24] The planning's Facebook page posting here at the government center publication in the Gazette willing also include the assembly express.
[58:32] Depending on how the publication date falls.
[58:36] And then other posted locations as determined by the CCCAC we have a number of locations throughout the county will send posted notices and so you'll often see notices at the post office.
[58:49] Or at community location stores that kind of thing and then of course the meeting location. So we'll we'll go.
[58:58] Go the distance to make sure we get the word out about meetings.
[59:04] We'll learn to learn to know where to look and then look there for meetings.
[59:09] Great. Okay. Thank you. And I noticed that you posted this notice that's included here in 16 different locations around the county.
[59:17] Thank you for that. So.
[59:21] Oh, and then one other net is there is a statement in there to the effect that if there are two unexcused absences then it comes before the board of supervisors and I'm hoping or I'm wondering.
[59:35] I guess and maybe this is something the CCC can discuss but I think there might be value in having a recommendation come from the CCC before it comes to the board.
[59:46] And that that is standard practice the the texture talking about is in section five and exhibit a if any members absent which is an unexcused absences they don't call in to let us know ahead of time.
[1:00:00] For two consecutive scheduled meetings in that member may be removed and it's not a shell, it's a may.
[1:00:07] And we would always discuss this with the chair and the committee members if there was a concern on their part.
[1:00:14] We rarely will bring that kind of a recommendation to the board.
[1:00:18] Great. Okay. Super. All right. Well, and then I guess I'll go back to what supervisor Sweeney was touching on.
[1:00:27] And I look to my colleagues on the board.
[1:00:31] But I do think that we do need to have a conversation about resources.
[1:00:37] I will tell you that the old mirror lodge has been a topic of conversation with some of my constituents in the mid-Pine's area.
[1:00:45] And give that coupled with the, I guess I'll call them, ever increasing concerns about wildfire risk has,
[1:00:55] you know, a lot of folks are just alarmed about the potential for fire in that old lodge.
[1:01:00] And what it might mean for the communities upslope from that.
[1:01:05] If a fired word to start there.
[1:01:08] So, you know, it is, as I've mentioned before, it's something that is very much on my mind.
[1:01:14] And I suspect everyone up here has at least one or two situations that keep them awake at night too.
[1:01:21] And so I think the real question is, we don't have a lot of resources to spare.
[1:01:26] But I think maybe we should have a discussion and direction item about what, while you're moving down the CCAC track,
[1:01:36] what can we do to shed some light on these egregious situations that I'm sure each one of us have in our,
[1:01:49] in our area.
[1:01:52] So, so perhaps that would be a good idea to schedule a discussion and direction item at a later date.
[1:01:57] I will note that with the current procedures, if we're not able to obtain compliance on a,
[1:02:05] basically a voluntary basis by the, the property owner then,
[1:02:11] and then the current procedure has us moving that forward through a legal process.
[1:02:17] And then the heavy lifting is done by my county council's office for the district attorney's office.
[1:02:23] So, we can certainly put together a file working forward those items.
[1:02:27] But then the work is going to fall on others outside of our staff.
[1:02:33] I agree a discussion and direction item.
[1:02:35] And if you can touch base with the district attorney and county council.
[1:02:39] I mean, I'm looking at other folks on the dias, but I think further discussion about the other track has some appeal,
[1:02:50] especially given, as I said, concerns about wildfire risk.
[1:02:54] And now back to the CCAC, it is, you have done a wonderful job here, inspired by my little nets.
[1:03:05] Or maybe because of, but you've done a great job, Sarah, as always.
[1:03:11] And I'm sure like everybody else on this dias, there is continued concern in the community about situations that involve junkyards and marijuana grows.
[1:03:28] And so, I think what I will say is I really do appreciate everyone who is willing to participate.
[1:03:36] And I encourage as many people to participate as possible, not only as members of the CCAC, but also as community participants who come to the meetings and express concerns about what they're seeing, what their concerns might be.
[1:03:55] So I do, this is a call for everybody in the community to step up and be part of that conversation because it is so very important to everyone in our community.
[1:04:07] And if there is anything I can do to help the work that you're doing to help the work of the CCAC, I'm available whenever, wherever, whatever, and I'm sure the same goes for my colleagues on the dias.
[1:04:23] This is one of the most important issues facing our community right now. So thank you again for all your excellent work and moving it forward.
[1:04:35] Sarah, great job.
[1:04:38] Appreciate the hard work very much.
[1:04:41] I was worried that one of those issues that was going to end up on your graph that you made the projects that you've worked on for years and it just stopped.
[1:04:52] I'm glad that we're not adding to that graph.
[1:04:56] To you and the staff, to all the citizens involved in this, this is a good work.
[1:05:02] I look forward to the great work that the CCAC is going to do and the recommendation to bring forth.
[1:05:10] And so I can move forward with responsible code enforcement or Mayor Pose County.
[1:05:16] So I'll look for a motion.
[1:05:18] I'll move the item as presented.
[1:05:23] Supervisor, uh, Sweenie.
[1:05:26] It moved in a second.
[1:05:28] We accept the item as presented.
[1:05:30] Any other questions or comments before the roll call vote?
[1:05:32] All right.
[1:05:33] Supervisor, welcome.
[1:05:34] Hi.
[1:05:35] Supervisor, Sweenie.
[1:05:36] Hi.
[1:05:37] I see the supervisor for size.
[1:05:38] Hi.
[1:05:39] Supervisor, I see the supervisor for size.
[1:05:42] Hi.
[1:05:43] Supervisor, I see the motion carries five zero.
[1:05:46] Thank you.
[1:05:47] Thank you for working with Sarah to bring this item forward.
[1:05:52] Thanks again.
[1:05:53] All right.
[1:05:54] Moving on to the next item on the agenda and then is a from administration.
[1:05:58] Then this is a public hearing.
[1:06:00] Approving facility solutions master agreement and a solar operations and maintenance agreement.
[1:06:06] With site log IQ and authorized board chair to sign the agreement.
[1:06:11] And I am calling the public hearing to order.
[1:06:16] All right.
[1:06:17] Anyone?
[1:06:18] Thank you, Chair.
[1:06:19] Thank you, members of the board.
[1:06:21] We've been working on this for several months as you know.
[1:06:24] This is our energy savings pilot project.
[1:06:27] And this would be the final action that would allow us to move forward with that project.
[1:06:32] Two agreements that we're asking for approval today.
[1:06:36] As you recall, the project I have has had a lot of cooperation from different departments.
[1:06:43] We've worked very closely with public works in my healy.
[1:06:46] We've worked.
[1:06:47] Also very closely with site logic.
[1:06:49] Jessica Ritter, who's here with us today and several of their staff as well as county council's office.
[1:06:57] To review these agreements and make sure we can bring you something we can recommend today.
[1:07:03] As you recall, the project has three basic arms to it.
[1:07:08] It would be a retrofit of lighting systems at eight locations.
[1:07:13] If you walk through our offices and even looking around this room, you see several different styles of lighting.
[1:07:23] And one of the things this project would do would retrofit those for also for LED lighting.
[1:07:34] It will be more energy efficient of course.
[1:07:37] It will another arm of the project will be each back replacement at this building.
[1:07:41] We still have the original HVAC from I believe it's 96 in this.
[1:07:46] At this site, there's also some duct work issues that will need to be worked out.
[1:07:51] We're going to get everything rebalanced and move forward that way and I keep saying we.
[1:07:58] I'm not going to be doing a whole lot of any of that.
[1:08:01] But I appreciate, you know, our folks at public works that will be involved and and our friends with site logic and their subcontractors.
[1:08:08] And in the final component here is a solar component at six different sites and I want to show a few pictures here on the screen of what those sites are.
[1:08:22] So the first site you can see here is the county gel facility with solar installed going for basically creating shaded parking at the county jail.
[1:08:40] Here's the county government center again shaded parking.
[1:08:48] Next to the county museum in the the rest stop area.
[1:08:53] That structure obviously will need to be tall enough for the buses and it will be.
[1:09:00] And in each case the solar will help to offset obviously the cost of electricity in the adjacent building.
[1:09:06] So in this case, we'll be able to help the county history museum with their electric.
[1:09:11] It is an our facility, obviously they use that.
[1:09:15] I'm going to have them there.
[1:09:17] Public works. Again, the shade structure provides some protection for some of our equipment at public works.
[1:09:26] And here are the solid ways that the landfill this will be a rooftop mount.
[1:09:32] And finally the recreation office again rooftop mounted solar at that site.
[1:09:44] The solar also comes with maintenance agreement for 10 years and the ability to.
[1:09:53] As for additional services such as cleaning is needed from site logic and they would provide that service.
[1:10:01] The total cost for the the lighting retrofit the solar and each back replacement is 3,636,399 dollars.
[1:10:13] For that the board is aware we've secured an energy conservation assistance act loan for roughly 2.8 million.
[1:10:23] A little bit more than that. That's a 20 year loan at 1%.
[1:10:27] The remaining funds on this project we had hoped would come from the PUC credits.
[1:10:37] They'll have to come from the American Recovery Act funds that we receive.
[1:10:48] And then just to be clear on time frame the lighting project the HVAC and the solar installation will all need to be completed within 12 months.
[1:11:00] I think it will likely be faster than that but all of the work will be done in the next year.
[1:11:06] So that's a brief overview.
[1:11:09] And again we've got Jessica here we've got Mike Helie with us and we're happy to answer any questions that you have between us.
[1:11:18] Thank you. Jessica did you want to make a comment?
[1:11:24] Mr. Chairman members of the board, thank you so much.
[1:11:28] It's exciting to be here.
[1:11:30] There's three out of the five of you are very familiar with this project but we have two new faces on the board.
[1:11:36] So I'm glad that talent was able to give you kind of an update of what we're doing here.
[1:11:40] This project is really moving the county forward in the right direction of energy conservation and energy generation.
[1:11:47] You're the mother of counties.
[1:11:49] Your community is going to be able to see what you guys are doing as far as energy conservation energy generation.
[1:11:54] And it's going to set an example for your entire community.
[1:11:58] So I'm grateful that the county has given us the opportunity thus far to develop this project.
[1:12:03] Also on the line with us today is our Director of Project Development, Dr. Eddie Jordan.
[1:12:07] So we are both available to answer any questions that you may have.
[1:12:13] Okay thank you Jessica.
[1:12:16] Mike did you want to make a statement?
[1:12:19] Or add something?
[1:12:22] Thank you Mr. Chairman. Members of the board. Just a couple of comments.
[1:12:26] I just want to one of the first things that when I arrived here that I noticed was the helicopter pad on the roof every time the air conditioner started.
[1:12:39] So we started looking at air conditioning prices and the modifications and the like and they were well in six, 700,000 dollars range just for this facility alone.
[1:12:50] Not even touching a light bulb or a transition to more energy-efficient lighting and systems.
[1:13:00] And that was roughly four years ago.
[1:13:03] Down and I had a few conversations and started out in a journey that brought us to where we are today and it can't be prouder than where we are.
[1:13:13] I think what we're about to do is is monumental for this county.
[1:13:18] It's very easy to just sit there and go with the status quo and continue to eat energy pricing crisis quarter after quarter.
[1:13:28] We used to say year after year, but quarter after quarter.
[1:13:31] Or to take an initiative of giant step and move forward and I wholeheartedly encourage you to do that for two reasons.
[1:13:39] Number one, it's right thing to do long term short term.
[1:13:43] It's the right thing to do.
[1:13:45] But more importantly also right is to help me help you by signing energy, PG&E bills and checks that are much smaller than what they are today.
[1:13:57] We are a tremendous consumer of energy in large part due to some of the, and you can call them human practices.
[1:14:06] You can call them human, human desires in the workplace, whatever.
[1:14:11] But what they are is a result of faulty systems.
[1:14:15] When you have two desks sitting side by side, one with a heater under it and another with a fan under it.
[1:14:22] It doesn't take long before you know that you've got a problem with your mechanical systems.
[1:14:28] When the custodians come through at night and the thermostats are set at 65 because the recovery time in the morning is ridiculously long.
[1:14:39] And I'm leaving an uncomfortable period for employees. You know you have mechanical problems.
[1:14:44] This addresses those problems and not only not for the short term but for the long term.
[1:14:50] And we'll need follow up a number of different policies as to who controls the thermostat and I suspect it will be down or down.
[1:15:00] Now, but we are on an energy conservation, energy savings and money savings mission in this regard.
[1:15:11] And I appreciate your, and look forward to hopefully you embracing this program.
[1:15:18] Thank you for the opportunity to talk.
[1:15:20] Thank you, Mike. All right. Any questions from the board before I open for public comment?
[1:15:25] All right. Not seen any. I'll go ahead and open for public comment on the side of is there any public comment today?
[1:15:33] Is there any public comment on the phone line today?
[1:15:37] Not seen or hearing any. I'll go ahead and bring it back to the board for any questions comments or action.
[1:15:44] Yes. Supervisor Forsyth.
[1:15:47] Well, I know I'm in favor of this, a user of solar system that we've put in that has saved me the PG&E bills every month.
[1:15:57] And it is an investment. And when we look at a loan at 1% it's just no way you can say no.
[1:16:06] And so it's a good investment for the future. It's a good investment for today.
[1:16:11] Just as like said today in tomorrow. And so I'm totally in favor. So thank you for bringing this forward.
[1:16:21] Supervisor's welcome.
[1:16:23] I was sort of waiting for supervisor Swiny to jump in because he's a retired engineer.
[1:16:29] And what I was wondering about was what in my former companies we used to call engineering change orders and control of ECOs.
[1:16:40] And the reason that I'm bringing this up is that my recollection from one of the first conversations that we had about our HVAC system and our difficulties in moving the project forward was that contractors who came in looked for the documentation that didn't exist.
[1:17:07] And looked at the system and said something akin but in engineering speak about bubblegum and bailing wire.
[1:17:17] And they walked away from it because of the unknowns. And so my question is really twofold. One has to do with how what is your level of confidence that your folks have really taken a very close look.
[1:17:36] Because there is language in here that says if there are surprises then we're going to have to deal with them. And then that leads to the second question which has to do with change orders.
[1:17:48] Great questions.
[1:17:50] On project of this size it's normal to have those kind of feelings and you're absolutely correct.
[1:17:55] Fortunately the county has chosen a very capable company.
[1:17:59] This HVAC situation here is somewhat easy to us actually and when you consider the types and sizes of retrofit projects and kind of disaster scenarios that we come across all of the time.
[1:18:12] We did take into consideration any unknowns or any possibilities.
[1:18:17] That's why we've included a $218,000 owner controlled contingency on this project.
[1:18:23] We factor that in. The hope is that we won't have to use a single penny of it but it's there if we need it.
[1:18:32] Okay and then the change orders.
[1:18:34] Right. So if there is an event of a change order, of course we discuss that with the county. The first step is always going to be can we reduce scope somewhere to help make up for that cost.
[1:18:44] If there's a way we can do that that's what we'll do first.
[1:18:47] If there isn't a way or if the county doesn't desire to reduce scope, we will issue a change order. That's where your contingency comes in.
[1:18:54] Okay. All right. Great. And then I guess.
[1:18:58] Because it's on everybody's mind all the time, especially this time of year.
[1:19:03] What? How did you factor in wildfire risk?
[1:19:08] That's a great question. I think Dr. Eddie Jordan is on the line.
[1:19:11] I believe you'd be the best to answer that question. Eddie, can you hear us?
[1:19:16] Yeah, hear you.
[1:19:18] Do you hear me? Yes.
[1:19:20] Hope. Hope.
[1:19:22] So we did we in the schedule of self project schedule. We did account for each type of timeline and delay that would be caused by wildfire.
[1:19:32] So we have an extra three or four weeks in there in case there's a wildfire.
[1:19:37] We have to abandon the construction for some of the work for a period of time.
[1:19:41] And then we can accelerate thereafter to get back on schedule.
[1:19:46] Okay. Great. Thanks. And you know about our evacuation.
[1:19:52] Now that Dr. Sergianco has released the emergency alert system for wildfire, you'll be on the list right?
[1:20:02] Definitely.
[1:20:04] Okay. All right. Well, this is tremendously exciting.
[1:20:09] I am very grateful that you have chosen to be a partner with the county.
[1:20:14] And I at least will be very interested in hearing as this project moves forward.
[1:20:22] How we are hearing to your schedule and what the benefits to the community of Maraposa, what they can look forward to.
[1:20:35] Absolutely. And if I can just say to the supervisors, it has been an honor and a pleasure to work with all of you.
[1:20:43] But it's really been an honor and a pleasure to work with county administration.
[1:20:47] And our public work structure here, Mike Healey.
[1:20:51] Absolutely a dream. Everybody has wonderful attitudes.
[1:20:55] Anytime we request any information, they get it to us immediately.
[1:20:58] And I can't tell you how beneficial that is to us to be able to develop these projects quickly and move through construction quickly too.
[1:21:04] So thank you.
[1:21:07] Thank you.
[1:21:10] It's a pleasure.
[1:21:12] Thank you, Chair.
[1:21:13] And thank you, Jessica, for, as Mike said, this has been a journey of many years to get here today.
[1:21:20] And I just want to thank you for sticking with us.
[1:21:23] Always being here to answer questions and present everything.
[1:21:27] Have your engineers on the phone for backup questions.
[1:21:32] It's just been great working with you as well.
[1:21:35] I just want to say thank you.
[1:21:42] And if that completes the discussion, I'll move this item as presented.
[1:21:47] Thank you.
[1:21:48] To revise our administrative advisor force.
[1:21:50] And I'll second motion.
[1:21:52] I've been moved in second.
[1:21:53] We accept the item as presented.
[1:21:55] Any other questions or comments before I call the roll call vote?
[1:21:58] All right.
[1:21:59] Thank you for coming in today.
[1:22:11] Mike, now on your engineers on the phone.
[1:22:14] Thank you all.
[1:22:15] It's been a very nice process.
[1:22:18] And we'll look forward to it being completed.
[1:22:21] You bet.
[1:22:22] All right.
[1:22:23] The next item is Dr. Resolution.
[1:22:27] This is from County Council.
[1:22:29] Dr. Resolution adopted.
[1:22:31] Dr. Resolution adopting finding and making determination.
[1:22:34] Perceive it to Maryville's County Code section 3.36.090.
[1:22:38] That no good cause exists to wave penalties for late payment of transcendent occupancy tax.
[1:22:45] Mr. Daylin.
[1:22:46] Thank you, Mr. Chair.
[1:22:48] On May 4th of this year, the board heard the request of our mark.
[1:22:52] We sent many hospitality LLC to wave penalties for late payment of its TOT.
[1:22:58] This proposed resolution memorializes the board's action and answer to close the hearing on May 4th
[1:23:03] and I recommend adoption.
[1:23:06] Thank you.
[1:23:07] Mr. Daylin.
[1:23:08] Questions from the board?
[1:23:10] Before I open for a public comment.
[1:23:12] See, now I'll go ahead and open for public comments.
[1:23:15] It's a very public comment in the chambers today.
[1:23:20] It's a very public comment on the phone line today.
[1:23:24] All right.
[1:23:25] Here you go.
[1:23:26] I'll go ahead and bring it back to the board for discussion and or action.
[1:23:30] See, Vice.
[1:23:31] Welcome.
[1:23:32] I don't know if there's no questions or comments.
[1:23:35] I would move that we adopt a resolution adopting.
[1:23:40] I'm sorry.
[1:23:43] Dr. Razzaluzina adopting, finding and making determination,
[1:23:47] pursuant to mere a post-accounting code section 3.636.090 that no good cause exists
[1:23:53] to wave penalties for late payment of transient occupancy tasks.
[1:23:57] We provide a fourth zone.
[1:23:59] And a second of motion.
[1:24:00] I've been moved in the second.
[1:24:01] We accept the item as presented.
[1:24:03] Any other questions or comments before the roll call vote?
[1:24:05] So you'd know what reason I'm in my trade?
[1:24:08] I.
[1:24:08] I.
[1:24:09] Thank you very much, and thank you County Council for bringing this forward.
[1:24:18] The next item is from the Treasury Tax Collector County Clerk, except Aromark's payment for
[1:24:23] delinquent transit occupancy taxes in the amount of $2,284,234,000, and $444,000, Keith,
[1:24:31] good morning.
[1:24:32] Good morning, Board.
[1:24:33] Yes, I said on May 4th that the termination was made to
[1:24:39] not wave the penalties for Aromark shortly after that, I prepared a bill all the way through
[1:24:44] the month of May 2021, and I submitted it to them and they paid it just about a week or two later,
[1:24:50] and so they did exercise the four years that was discussed, where we could go back four years
[1:24:58] and audit, and so they reduced it by $77,860, but I'm recommending that we accept the payment that
[1:25:05] they made.
[1:25:06] Thank you.
[1:25:07] Any questions from the Board before I call for public comment?
[1:25:12] All right.
[1:25:13] Public comment is open.
[1:25:14] Is there any public comment on this item today in the chambers?
[1:25:19] Is there any public comment on the phone line today?
[1:25:24] Not hearing any.
[1:25:25] I'll bring it back to the Board.
[1:25:26] Thank you, Keith, for bringing this forward.
[1:25:28] Thank you for working with them to go shading.
[1:25:31] It is appreciated.
[1:25:32] Thank you.
[1:25:33] Anybody want to move the item?
[1:25:37] Surprise the four sites?
[1:25:40] Yeah.
[1:25:41] I would move to accept the item as presented.
[1:25:43] All right.
[1:25:44] Surprise the three.
[1:25:45] And I'll second it.
[1:25:46] I've been moved in second to accept the item as presented.
[1:25:49] Any other questions or comments before the roll call vote?
[1:25:52] All right.
[1:25:53] Surprise the ministry.
[1:25:54] All right.
[1:25:55] Surprise the four sites?
[1:25:56] Aye.
[1:25:57] Surprise the three.
[1:25:58] Aye.
[1:25:59] Surprise the four sites?
[1:26:00] Aye.
[1:26:01] All right.
[1:26:02] Next item is from Health and Human Services, a point-boundary hundle.
[1:26:05] As local mental health director pursuant to welfare and institution code section 5607.
[1:26:16] Clerk of the Board.
[1:26:18] Did we decide to change that last part of the sevens to subject to state approval?
[1:26:25] Yes.
[1:26:27] Given County Council's direction or advice on that matter,
[1:26:32] they're going to be changing it from effective immediately to subject to approval by the state.
[1:26:37] Okay.
[1:26:38] Thank you.
[1:26:39] Yes.
[1:26:40] That's correct.
[1:26:41] Thank you.
[1:26:42] All right.
[1:26:43] Just wanted to clarify that.
[1:26:44] Good morning, Shannon.
[1:26:45] Morning.
[1:26:46] How are you?
[1:26:47] I am.
[1:26:48] Okay.
[1:26:49] Shannon, Director.
[1:26:50] Health and Human Services.
[1:26:51] So you took my first sentence.
[1:26:53] So, good moving on.
[1:26:54] It's a requirement of the state for each county to have a local mental health director.
[1:26:59] The qualifications of which are outlined in the California Code of Regulations.
[1:27:03] Title IX, Section 620, to be exact.
[1:27:06] And those qualifications include persons who are physicians, licensed social worker, licensed psychologists, nurse, administrator,
[1:27:13] with a master's degree or someone with equivalent experience on a year to year basis.
[1:27:19] In the welfare and institutions code, it's required that the behavioral health board review and recommend the local mental health director.
[1:27:26] And it is ultimately a department of health care services decision as to who serves in that role.
[1:27:33] Currently, Dr. Sergienko is our acting local mental health director.
[1:27:38] But I don't know if you've noticed he has a lot of other things on his plate.
[1:27:43] Dr. Sergienko and the acting role, Shavankothari, was our local mental health director in Maraposa.
[1:27:50] She was recommended by the behavioral health board by this board and then confirmed by the state based upon her experience overseeing human services.
[1:28:00] So she was not a licensed clinical social worker.
[1:28:02] She had a master's degree in social work and then several years of experience.
[1:28:07] So we bring before this board, the recommendation of approving or recommending to the state,
[1:28:14] the appointment of Balji Hundel as our local mental health director.
[1:28:17] She's currently serving as the division director of health services for us and her background is very similar to Shavankothari.
[1:28:25] So we have every confidence the state will approve this.
[1:28:30] So yeah, pending any questions, yes.
[1:28:33] Thank you.
[1:28:34] Any questions before public comment?
[1:28:37] All right.
[1:28:38] Thank you all.
[1:28:39] Open up for public comment now.
[1:28:40] Is there any public comment on this item in the chambers?
[1:28:46] Good morning, Mr. Judy.
[1:28:52] I've been so long.
[1:28:53] I forgot how to push a button.
[1:28:55] Good morning, Chair and Board.
[1:28:58] I just want to take a couple quick comments.
[1:29:01] Thank Shannon and her crew.
[1:29:03] They've had a lot of leadership transition here.
[1:29:06] During the last, well, you've been here six months, ten months, whatever.
[1:29:11] A lot of leadership transition.
[1:29:14] I want to thank them for the continued service that they provide to the probation department and assisting
[1:29:20] probation officers to develop case plans that get people back in the law-biting arena
[1:29:26] and productive members of Mariposa County.
[1:29:29] But gee, about gee is a great addition to her leadership team.
[1:29:33] She works well with Ryan and my office as well as her people supporting her officer.
[1:29:40] So we couldn't do it without them and I wanted to take the opportunity to say thank you
[1:29:45] to the be able to help board who made the recommendation.
[1:29:48] Thank you.
[1:29:49] Thank you for your comments.
[1:29:53] Any other public comment in the chambers today?
[1:29:56] And I will ask on the phone.
[1:29:58] Is there any public comment on it?
[1:30:00] On the phone line today. Now, hearing any, I think, Shannon, do you want to add? Okay. Then, questions, comments, or action today.
[1:30:13] Thank you very much. It's welcome.
[1:30:15] Thank you, Chair. And thanks for bringing this item forward. I want to thank the members of the behavioral health board for engaging in the conversation about this appointment.
[1:30:29] And I also wanted to thank Balshi for attending the behavioral health board meetings.
[1:30:34] She has added a good deal of solid information for the members to consider as the board.
[1:30:44] That board moves forward to consider how the county utilizes resources to serve folks who need assistance in the
[1:30:58] behavioral health and substance use disorder areas. So, thank you to Balshi and the members of the, the other board.
[1:31:08] Thank you.
[1:31:10] It's a great welcome.
[1:31:12] Okay. So, there are no other questions or comments. I will move that we appoint Balshi Tundall as Local Mental Health Director,
[1:31:21] a percent to welfare and institutions code section 5607 subject to approval by the State of California.
[1:31:30] Thank you. There's a second. Please provide your screening.
[1:31:33] And I'll second it.
[1:31:34] I have been moved in second and we accept the item with the correction.
[1:31:38] Any other questions or comments before the roll call vote.
[1:31:41] Let's see any.
[1:31:43] Welcome.
[1:31:44] Hi.
[1:31:45] As you guys are sweetie.
[1:31:47] Hi.
[1:31:48] As you guys are four size.
[1:31:49] Hi.
[1:31:51] As you guys are ministry.
[1:31:54] I supervise along with the most carries 5, 0. Thank you very much. Congratulations, values, I think.
[1:32:00] All right. Thank you.
[1:32:02] All right. The next last item and last item for this morning's agenda is from Administration.
[1:32:08] Dr. Resolution of Proving Participation in the Institute for Local Government's Beacon Program.
[1:32:14] Thank you, Chair. Members of the board. We may not be really familiar with the Institute for Local Government.
[1:32:21] It's a third party training and education affiliate of three organizations.
[1:32:27] The California State Association of Counties, the League of Cities, and the Special Districts Association.
[1:32:35] They've been doing training and education and really pushing best practices for good governance for about 65 years.
[1:32:42] In full disclosure, I serve on the board of directors for the Institute of Local Government.
[1:32:47] I'm representing the California Association of Counties, Executives.
[1:32:53] We've been invited by ILG to participate in a program called The Beacon Program.
[1:33:01] The Beacon Program focuses on those best practices, training and education related specifically to energy savings,
[1:33:11] technical assistance connected to collecting, reporting and tracking sustainable practices,
[1:33:18] energy savings, greenhouse gas reductions, different funding opportunities that might move some of these efforts forward
[1:33:26] and then a network of folks who are trying to do innovative creative things that may inspire some ideas on our side.
[1:33:36] Each year there's an awards ceremony for those who are engaging in innovative energy savings, pilot programs, for example.
[1:33:49] And so we were invited to participate in this program in part because of, I'm sure my participation on that board, but also because reviewing the county,
[1:33:59] we see that we have significant recycling resources.
[1:34:04] We have home energy assistance programs and weatherization programs through our health and human services.
[1:34:09] And then of course our energy services pilot project that was reviewed earlier today.
[1:34:14] All put us in this category of California jurisdictions working to be more efficient and effective with our resources.
[1:34:23] There's no cost associated with the Beacon Program, but again, it does give us some access to a broader scope of people and potentially some technical assistance and recognition for what we're doing.
[1:34:35] But given that staff is asking for approval this time to participate in the program.
[1:34:41] Happy to answer any questions.
[1:34:43] Thank you down.
[1:34:44] Any questions for the board?
[1:34:46] Should we go out of your suite?
[1:34:47] Thank you.
[1:34:48] So just out of curiosity, what kind of time commitment are you talking about?
[1:34:52] For this program specifically?
[1:34:55] There's no mandatory time commitment.
[1:34:58] It's as desired as wanted when we're looking for technical assistance.
[1:35:04] This is a place we could go if we're looking for recognition or grants.
[1:35:09] This is a place we could go, but there's no mandatory thing we have to show up for.
[1:35:17] So it would be a win-win?
[1:35:20] Well, I think it's free resources is the way I'm looking at it.
[1:35:24] Well, to win for us.
[1:35:25] I think that's a good thing.
[1:35:27] All right.
[1:35:28] I'll open for public comment.
[1:35:29] Is there any public comment on this item today?
[1:35:31] Mr. Healey.
[1:35:34] Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
[1:35:35] Members of the board.
[1:35:36] I want to thank and congratulate down for bringing this forward as a founding member of the American Public Work Association Center for Sustainability.
[1:35:46] I'll tell you that access to experts, access to the data that's developing in microseconds through programs that have been proven that you can't always find.
[1:36:01] But just having that access in the be able to call those individuals that are working on that data is immeasurable to bring long-term sustainable solutions to counties whether regardless of size but certainly on the smaller end.
[1:36:15] And again, I simply want to congratulate him for building this partnership and look forward to seeing the benefits going forward.
[1:36:24] Thank you.
[1:36:26] Is there any other public comment today?
[1:36:30] Is there any public comment on the phone line today?
[1:36:39] Not hearing any. I'll go ahead and close public comment.
[1:36:42] Bring it back to the board for action.
[1:36:44] Let's see.
[1:36:49] This may be more sort of food for thought.
[1:36:52] It may proceed to you, but when I think even before I was thinking about running for office, so it's I'm going to take us back to 2012, 2013.
[1:37:04] The PG&E and the Sierra Business Council funded a study that provided baseline greenhouse gas emissions data for the county as a county government entity.
[1:37:19] And then there was a follow on study. I think also funded by PG&E and SBC that had to do with energy and sustainability. I don't remember the name of that.
[1:37:34] But I'm wondering if in this context, I know there were a couple other counties that were beneficiaries of that funding and I'm wondering if other counties have moved forward.
[1:37:47] And what if anything we've done with our energy sustainability, whatever plan?
[1:37:53] And I apologize. I'm not being flipped by just don't remember the name of it, but I know there was a second plan that was considered by the board probably 2014.
[1:38:03] You, right. That was before before your time.
[1:38:07] Before my time. So I'm not sure we can find out and get that information to you.
[1:38:12] I'm just wondering, before they disintegrated into the dustbin of Mariposa County plans, if there's anything of value in either one of those documents that we might use to leverage the information that's available through the beacon program.
[1:38:36] We can certainly follow up on that. And one of the things we forgot to mention with the energy savings program or project is that one of the things that we will get from that project is also a dashboard that will give us real time electronic or electric usage information real time insofar as we can get it from PG&E.
[1:39:02] So that will automatically upload into a dashboard and I assume be housed in facilities and they'll be able to see in real time.
[1:39:08] So, as we can get that information and we have more live information, maybe there's something there we can do.
[1:39:15] But I'll have to follow up on that.
[1:39:17] Okay. Great. Thank you.
[1:39:19] Thank you.
[1:39:20] Thank you.
[1:39:21] Thank you, Chair. This is this is great, Dalin.
[1:39:25] I think any time that we can belong to a collaborative group, you know, RCRC, CSAC, this group here obviously saw something either in you or our great county and extended this invitation.
[1:39:41] And I think it's great to not only to be able to share, you know, some of the best practices that we've had recognized by the state,
[1:39:51] but certainly to capitalize on what's going on beyond our county is great.
[1:39:59] It says somebody down there said a win-win.
[1:40:01] So, thanks for bringing this to us.
[1:40:04] I think it's a great, great idea to pursue.
[1:40:10] And with that, I could move the invitation and move that we accept it.
[1:40:18] We're not the resolution accepting.
[1:40:21] Thank you.
[1:40:22] Supervisor Forsyte.
[1:40:23] And I'll second the motion.
[1:40:24] I've been moved in second.
[1:40:25] Do we accept the item as presented?
[1:40:27] Any other questions to comments before the roll call.
[1:40:30] See, none.
[1:40:31] Supervisor Midbury.
[1:40:32] Hi.
[1:40:33] Supervisor Forsyte.
[1:40:34] Hi.
[1:40:35] Supervisor Swiny.
[1:40:36] Hi.
[1:40:37] Supervisor Long.
[1:40:38] Excuse me.
[1:40:39] Supervisor Smokeham.
[1:40:40] Sorry.
[1:40:41] Supervisor Long is I.
[1:40:42] Motion carries 5-0.
[1:40:43] So, I'm going to ask the board.
[1:40:44] We might as well do board information this morning.
[1:40:46] But would you like a 5-minute break?
[1:40:48] Okay.
[1:40:49] We're going to take a 5-minute recess and we'll come back and do board information.
[1:41:14] All right.
[1:41:37] Good morning ladies and gentlemen.
[1:41:39] I'm reconvening this board meeting for June 8th, 2020.
[1:41:43] I'll call you back to order.
[1:41:47] We will go into more information before adjournment this morning.
[1:41:53] So, anybody want to start or volunteer or do we have any supervisor Swiny?
[1:42:00] Thank you Mr. Chairman.
[1:42:03] Yesterday I participated in the PG&E event at a Bryceburg.
[1:42:08] And at first I was a bit skeptical of the whole arrangement, but it's from a financial perspective.
[1:42:15] But when they talked about what the cost would be to replace those lines out there versus the cost of this remote grip facility was pretty impressive.
[1:42:24] They have put in a standalone facility that has solar, battery, and backup generator to provide service for 5 customers out there.
[1:42:35] It looked well done, highly reliable, and they were talking about further opportunities.
[1:42:40] And I might note this was the first one for PG&E in the state.
[1:42:44] So we have the first one of these facilities in all state.
[1:42:49] Just a couple of items tomorrow.
[1:42:52] The swift meeting will be taking place.
[1:42:54] It seems like those are coming around more and more often.
[1:42:57] Saturday, myself, and supervisor.
[1:43:00] Fourth site will be meeting with the Democratic Club for a little question answer I guess.
[1:43:06] Thank you.
[1:43:07] Thank you.
[1:43:08] Supervisor Smokin.
[1:43:11] Sure.
[1:43:12] Thank you.
[1:43:13] So, I will hit the high points, I think.
[1:43:21] We supervisor Smokin.
[1:43:24] And I continue to have conversations about broadband availability.
[1:43:31] And we had a meeting with our technical services director, Anthony Dioce.
[1:43:39] And we've reached out at least initially to one person in the business community to pursue that conversation.
[1:43:49] Had a lot of conversations recently about early childhood.
[1:43:54] And the first 5 commission and the background of the commission and the relationship between the commission and the county.
[1:44:03] And what if any adjustments we may need to make.
[1:44:08] I did want to mention that we the board appointed supervisor long and me to an organization, a multi-county organization,
[1:44:22] really concerned with forest health and fire risk reduction.
[1:44:29] And that entity has not met in well over a year.
[1:44:34] And there's some question about whether it will continue to exist, but I did get an email this morning.
[1:44:40] I think.
[1:44:42] Five counties have approved the resolution of proving participation in that, including Maraposa.
[1:44:49] The sixth county is Eldorado County.
[1:44:53] I just got an email this morning from the supervisor for district.
[1:45:00] I'm sorry, supervisor for District 4 in El Dorado County, Lori Parlin, who tells me that she's talked to their
[1:45:07] CAO and they will be moving forward with a resolution to approve their participation in this group.
[1:45:16] So where it seemed like it might not go anywhere at all, there is at least a little bit of a sign of life, and I will keep this board advised.
[1:45:28] Actually, because of the importance that the state is attaching to regional collaboration in this arena,
[1:45:37] I attended the Sierra Nevada Conservancy Board meeting, I think that was last week, last week, and once again, this whole concept of how we collaborate,
[1:45:50] right regionally to address wildfire risk and forest health is, it's a common theme, and it is one that I hope that we can figure out how to move forward on locally because there will be funding that will be tied to that.
[1:46:14] I've had a couple meetings regarding the mid pines community plan, and there is, I think I've mentioned that probably not.
[1:46:22] Since we haven't been doing word information, there is some potential for investment and a resort in the mid pines area, and I just want to thanks staff for the time they put into supporting those conversations, which will be ongoing.
[1:46:40] What I'm meeting with the school district supervisor Forsyth will report on that, there are several items that we are continuing to make some progress on, and one of those is a desire, I think on the part of everybody in the room,
[1:46:58] that these meetings to reach out to the major employers in Maraposa County to discuss potential for career technical education opportunities.
[1:47:10] We've connected with the park and have set up a meeting for next Monday, and I've reached out to Yosemite Conservancy as well as California Teachers Association.
[1:47:24] And as our CAO mentioned, there are career technical education opportunities that might lead to employment here at the county itself, so our county will be part of that conversation as well.
[1:47:43] We owe it to our kids to do whatever we can to help them make career choices and to move forward on whatever path.
[1:47:58] They're able to based on the skills that they develop as their own high school and beyond.
[1:48:05] I think I'll end it there.
[1:48:10] Thank you.
[1:48:11] It's a bit of a matter of time.
[1:48:12] Did you have something to share with us today?
[1:48:14] Sure.
[1:48:15] Sure I do.
[1:48:18] Let's see.
[1:48:19] So I was gone when you all had the active shooter training here in this building, so I joined the public works training.
[1:48:31] They had out there at the public works yard.
[1:48:34] That was good stuff.
[1:48:38] A lot of food for thought.
[1:48:40] A lot of good information and appreciate Rhonda setting that up.
[1:48:47] That was probably really good for all of us to go through that.
[1:48:52] Then I had a meeting with a group of Mariposa County contractors, association members, to discuss their or actually not to discuss with more of a listening session.
[1:49:06] For me, for the future of our building department, given Mike Kinselo's departure here at the end of the month.
[1:49:15] So listen to their input and I believe that email was shared with you all as I reported out.
[1:49:30] I attended the board of directors for the Chamber of Commerce meeting.
[1:49:35] And Carrie brought Jacob in this morning and introduced him to the board, the director there for the or operations manager.
[1:49:44] I'm not real sure what his title is for the visitor center.
[1:49:48] So that piece is in place and as we heard, he's doing great things and is often running with the visitor center.
[1:49:57] Saturday I was up in Wilwona for the property owners association meeting.
[1:50:04] And I was a farewell as that will be the last meeting of that group before Eric Scott.
[1:50:13] And Barks on his retirement to Colorado.
[1:50:16] So we had a farewell for Eric up there.
[1:50:21] And let's see else is in here.
[1:50:26] That's about it.
[1:50:28] Okay.
[1:50:29] For the highlights.
[1:50:30] Thank you, Chair.
[1:50:31] Thank you.
[1:50:32] Supervisor Forsyth.
[1:50:33] Thank you, Chair.
[1:50:35] As a supervisor.
[1:50:37] Small come said that she and down in an eye met about two weeks ago at the district.
[1:50:44] And I really that there's two layers on that have been created this year and I think they've both been very successful and that's one with the school district and the one with MPUD.
[1:50:54] Getting that communication out there is tremendous.
[1:50:58] We did discuss one of the items was surplus property that the district has and that they will be going through the 711 committee.
[1:51:06] What they call their 711 committee to surplus it.
[1:51:09] They did that about five years ago and they checked because they thought they could go off of that list.
[1:51:15] That has expired last month.
[1:51:18] So they have to redo the 711 what they call 711 committee.
[1:51:23] I don't quite know what the 711 means.
[1:51:26] But they will probably be reviewing that list and and so hopefully they will have a pathway for us for a long term.
[1:51:37] A solution to the spring Hill property for county fires so that looks like it's going to happen but it may take a little bit of time.
[1:51:45] The other item was the.
[1:51:49] County off of education and how the county does.
[1:51:54] We as the county pay the district to represent as far as the county office of Ed and I know that contract has been.
[1:52:04] Looked at and down and Jeff are going or we'll be working at looking at renewing that in the near future.
[1:52:12] We talked about the employment opportunities and then MPUD.
[1:52:16] I'm surprised you're long and I attended the meeting last Tuesday and here again.
[1:52:23] The openness and building those relationships with those good folks I think is working and paying dividends.
[1:52:30] I think in the future developments.
[1:52:34] They're going to be helping us as much as they can and even the left go.
[1:52:40] Procedure.
[1:52:41] They're on board with meetings that have a I've attended of met with several department heads and met with Miranda down at the museum.
[1:52:50] Supervisor Long and I presented a read that the ceremony for the Memorial Day for veterans it was well attended it was somewhat on the.
[1:53:00] Well quiet side because they wanted to keep the numbers down but they were still a good 50 to 75 folks are upcoming events for me is one that I'm looking forward to is may.
[1:53:13] The case birthday for her hundredth.
[1:53:16] At the you in wing they're allowing folks to come in and we have to be tested and all those good things but what it tremendous the.
[1:53:21] That'll be.
[1:53:23] Surveys the swinging eye at the democratic deal Saturday and then Thursday of this week.
[1:53:31] The National Park elementary school I will be attending the graduation.
[1:53:38] Thank you.
[1:53:41] I to attend to that impudiment meeting as survivors or four sites noted.
[1:53:46] I have to say that we waited way too long to do liaison.
[1:53:53] I'm glad I brought it forward I'm glad we got it done but we should have done this year's ago.
[1:53:59] I have to remember that we have to make sure that they know what we're what our expectations are and what their expectations are so this is a good thing yeah we had a little.
[1:54:17] But we're through it and we all have a better understanding of each other and that's what's really important and I really again.
[1:54:27] What impudity to be a part of the planning for the maricals of town planning area working hand at hand so I appreciate them.
[1:54:37] I appreciate the.
[1:54:40] The issues that they have to deal with to of course we have our own utility issues but they have there's a much larger scale.
[1:54:50] Last week again the multi agency committee meeting still available to I know things are.
[1:55:00] It's going down in regard to COVID but but this.
[1:55:06] Ability for whatever natural disaster fire flood.
[1:55:11] COVID is an absolutely wonderful tool to have to share information between the county surrounding New 70 National Park and I hope we keep it going in whatever form necessary.
[1:55:24] I mean it with a constituent regard to some issues with their his property and purchasing property and assessing values and such.
[1:55:34] And then the maricals of the county business association meeting the first one live in a very long time at the beginning.
[1:55:42] Very good meeting it was nice to see people again.
[1:55:47] It's it's really different to be meeting in person again it's really nice.
[1:55:53] It tended to a ribbon cutting at the butterfly barn they are in.
[1:55:59] Asked by the chamber of commerce to be there it is a craft small craft store behind Casa Oaks there at fifth and Charles Street.
[1:56:09] And in evening I missed in I missed the chamber meeting because I attended the American Indian Council meeting and the reason I really wanted to attend was to share the information that the clerk of the board is created in regard to redistricting.
[1:56:23] So I took information to the American Indian Council folks and handed that information out and explained the process a little bit too.
[1:56:30] So hopefully they will be participating in our redistricting effort also.
[1:56:35] I just yesterday they gender review my meeting with the CAO.
[1:56:40] Just get updated and also Director of HHSA Shannon Gadd coming up we have a laugh com meeting will be meeting.
[1:56:51] Surveillance and entry in myself and Sarah Williams will be meeting with the the proponent of the Brown Bear project on North 49.
[1:57:01] There's an airport advisory committee meeting and also multi agency committee meeting so.
[1:57:08] Supervisor manager would you do the AC meeting again.
[1:57:12] No.
[1:57:14] Coming up coming up tomorrow we have an airport advisory committee meeting and a multi agency meeting at the same time.
[1:57:25] Well I I know but I can't.
[1:57:31] Okay thank you I appreciate that.
[1:57:34] And then on the 10th we have the quarterly meeting of the safety committee and on the 14th I in home supported services meeting along with the agenda review and my meeting went down and then that's what I have.
[1:57:48] Anything else board members.
[1:57:51] Okay I'm going ahead and adjourned for lunch we will be back at two o'clock for a public hearing from the clerk of the board to review existing district boundaries review state redistricting criteria and receive public input and proposals regarding county supervisors district.
[1:58:12] I haven't done yet so I won't adjourned.
[1:58:16] I'm not in recess.
[1:58:23] Oh.
[1:58:31] Yeah.
[1:58:46] Thank you.
[1:59:16] Thank you.
[1:59:46] Thank you.
[2:00:30] Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I'm going to reconven us board of supervisors meeting for June 8, 2021. And we'll move into the first item from the clerk of the board of supervisors is to a public hearing.
[2:00:46] To review existing district boundaries, review state redistricting criteria and receive public input and proposals regarding county supervisor districts.
[2:00:57] Thank you, Chair. Good morning or afternoon. I guess, Renee LaRouche, clerk of the board.
[2:01:02] This isn't actually part of the redistricting hearing, but I do want to wish a happy birthday to Sarah Williams because today is her birthday.
[2:01:15] And I'm sure she will pay me back for that at some point.
[2:01:21] As you noted, this is the first public hearing of five that the board has scheduled for the redistricting process.
[2:01:29] And for those who are listening, if you have missed this one, if you want to speak and you're not here, it's fine.
[2:01:36] This process is going to be running through the end of November. The next in person live hearing we will be having is Saturday July 17 at 10 a.m.
[2:01:45] I just want to get that out there first. The presentation that you're going to receive today is going to be in two parts.
[2:01:52] I'm going to be presenting the portion and hit the legal marks that are necessary for the redistricting process.
[2:01:58] And then I'll be turning it over to our stellar planning staff to do what they do best.
[2:02:04] So as I noted, this is the first hearing out of five.
[2:02:08] Under the constitution, we are obligated every 10 years to look at the populations within each district.
[2:02:16] And do what's actually known as re-apportionment. We call it redistricting.
[2:02:21] The reason that we do that is because it goes to the equal representation clauses of those constitutions.
[2:02:28] The rest of the process is triggered automatically and it's most of it is under the elections code.
[2:02:33] And so this year there's some differences in that process.
[2:02:37] Mainly that it has to be more public engagement.
[2:02:40] And so that's what I want to go over real quickly just to have in the record.
[2:02:46] A lot of the public engagement is online.
[2:02:49] We do have a county website at www.meriposeaccounty.org forward slash redistricting.
[2:02:56] You can see all of this. You can download the current supervisorial map, the districts.
[2:03:02] So that you can play with it at home and draw lines or whatever you want to do.
[2:03:06] And then you can also follow along in our processes here with the public engagement log.
[2:03:12] So under the elections code we have an obligation to get out information to as many corners of the district as we can.
[2:03:21] And that includes providing information through good government and civil rights civil and civic engagement and community groups or organizations that are active in the county.
[2:03:30] We've already begun that. That's on the list and hopefully you've looked at that.
[2:03:34] We've done a good job of already starting but we're doing more and so this is going to be my request for the board members.
[2:03:40] Think about the groups in your districts and if there is one that we need to encompass any group.
[2:03:49] I know that the law says a civic engagement or a good government.
[2:03:53] I think knowing Mariposa in its constituency, the further we can distribute this the better.
[2:03:59] So church groups, any kind of group.
[2:04:02] Let me know give me a contact person and we'll distribute it to those people and then ask them to distribute it even further.
[2:04:08] As I want everybody to be sick of hearing about redistricting by the time we get to November that is actually my goal.
[2:04:17] So so far, some of the stuff that we have done is the website is up.
[2:04:22] We've had infographics published on Facebook.
[2:04:25] We have radio spots going. We've got four spots on krYZ that are running and we'll be running through the end of November.
[2:04:32] We have sent worksheets to Farm Bureau, Mariposa Rotary to the Lions Club, the Chamber of Commerce, Mariposa County Democratic Central Committee, Mariposa County Republic and Central Committee.
[2:04:44] Since this was written, the sport item both supervisors long and for a site have distributed to some other organizations which will be on the next public hearing it will be on that log.
[2:04:55] But thank you to you both and that's exactly what I need from all of you.
[2:04:59] And as any of that stuff is greatly appreciated.
[2:05:02] Notice of public hearing has been published and we have run the first display add in the Gazette and we'll be publishing something in the foot heal express that would it's.
[2:05:14] Okay, go semini express. Okay, we will be publishing something in that as well to get that out there.
[2:05:19] And so that supervisors we need that's going to be the challenge for you to help me with that district and I also have constituents who are willing to help too.
[2:05:28] And along those lines I do want to do a shout out to Colleen Rhodes because when we first started formulating this she provided a lot of input on the infographics and other things she was willing to be that sounding board.
[2:05:40] So thank you Colleen I know you're back there but I can't turn away from the mic.
[2:05:45] And so with that that's all we think with everything that we've done I think we could legitimately say we have met the marks that the elections code requires.
[2:05:55] However we're not going to stop there we're going to keep plowing on with this.
[2:05:59] I like to say I really do want everyone to be sick of all of this by the time we're done with it.
[2:06:04] And so the rest of this most of this planning is going to go over however I do want to just issue a little caveat here to manage expectations.
[2:06:13] By law we cannot produce a draft map yet.
[2:06:17] We have two marks that we need to hit for that.
[2:06:20] The first is a public hearing which of course this is.
[2:06:24] However the second mark is that there has to have a past at least three weeks from the time the block level census data has been released.
[2:06:33] That has not been released yet.
[2:06:35] So until that has released and until we have a passage of three weeks we cannot produce a draft map on our end.
[2:06:42] The public however is more than invited to do so and to go ahead and submit to us.
[2:06:48] And so again before I hand it over to planning I just want to remind everyone again.
[2:06:52] If you have public input there's going to be multiple occasions and you also don't have to wait for a public hearing.
[2:06:59] You can send emails you can we have the community of interest worksheet online there are multiple ways.
[2:07:06] We will make sure the board gets it at the next public hearing it will be in that packet.
[2:07:10] So with that I'm going to turn this over to planning.
[2:07:14] Thank you really.
[2:07:16] Sarah.
[2:07:17] Good afternoon.
[2:07:18] I'm here today with senior GIS specialist Ben Ogrin who's going to give us the majority of the presentation but I just wanted to talk a little bit before I hand it over to Ben about this.
[2:07:32] We do this every ten years and planning is typically involved with the assistance and the mapping portion.
[2:07:42] We are going to look at current boundaries of the supervisorial districts today those were established back in 2011 after a similar process but not an exact same process.
[2:07:57] What we will be looking at in this current effort are what are called communities of interest and that's where we want to be hearing from the public.
[2:08:08] How about what do they consider to be communities of interest that should be represented by the same supervisor.
[2:08:17] And the definition for communities of interest is broad but it and we want to hear it may be a subdivision it may be a town it may be it may be something else it's an area that where people share the same interests and they should be represented.
[2:08:38] Ultimately what Ben will be doing likely is to he's got districts on the current map he's going to be showing as well as census designated places that's something that the census identifies that closely.
[2:08:52] A parallel our communities but are not the same it's are existing general plan town planning areas or planning study areas.
[2:09:00] Those are also boundaries that we'll be looking at in the future as well as maybe perhaps major subdivisions and then what we hear from the public.
[2:09:10] So once we get the census data which is not scheduled to be received until the end of September then we'll really be able to look at how our current boundaries are represented relative to our objective which is equal 20% population in each of the five supervisory districts.
[2:09:30] And we'll be able to look at populations within areas that people are you know we're going to tell us mate we may need to change the boundaries of the supervisor district so we'll start being able to adjust boundaries and see how that affects our 50% or 20% representation.
[2:09:49] So that information is contained within blocks and you'll see that as we get further into this process.
[2:09:59] With that I'm going to let Ben show you what he's come up with for for mapping and for our public engagement.
[2:10:12] Can you hear me? Yes.
[2:10:15] Welcome. Thank you board.
[2:10:17] If you could turn that mic toward you.
[2:10:23] Is this better?
[2:10:24] Much better.
[2:10:25] Thank you.
[2:10:26] I'm Ben Ogren, Senior GIS specialist.
[2:10:28] It's nice to be here today in front of all of you.
[2:10:31] So I want to just share what some of the role at GIS is going to play in this process and what we've created thus far.
[2:10:40] So this is a Mariposa County redistricting dashboard that I put together.
[2:10:47] This is what it will look like when you first launch it. This is publicly available.
[2:10:51] We'll make links accessible to folks.
[2:10:56] This is just kind of was put together this in the last week or so.
[2:11:00] So it's pretty new.
[2:11:01] But here of course we look at a map of Mariposa County and we see the five district boundaries.
[2:11:07] Color coded. We have some dashed lines that represent those census designated places that are mentioned.
[2:11:14] So you can click on one and get it a little pop up and then read about what's district that falls into.
[2:11:22] But they do play a big role in determining these districts.
[2:11:30] So this is the mid-pine census designated place and you can clearly see that's like the border of district four and district one.
[2:11:38] So they do consider those.
[2:11:41] And that's where the census blocks will actually be the boundaries match a census block boundary.
[2:11:47] Where are our parcels don't match those all the time.
[2:11:50] And other political features don't match those all the time.
[2:11:54] A lot of times these are geographical features like a river or a highway or some ridge or something.
[2:12:02] And this is actually just rotated.
[2:12:05] So that's pretty straightforward.
[2:12:08] You can zoom in and navigate it around just like you would a regular Google map.
[2:12:13] You can change the base map to something like an aerial or any of these other ones.
[2:12:21] There's a bunch of other layers as well.
[2:12:24] So I have some turned off.
[2:12:26] And so towns and communities you can toggle on and off.
[2:12:29] And those are just going to be like a little pushpins for the little various areas we have.
[2:12:35] Most of them are captured as a census designated place but you'll see that for us then.
[2:12:39] You'll see that for us then. You'll see that for us.
[2:12:41] Don't count as census designated places.
[2:12:45] And there's township section arranged layers so if you're into that you can kind of figure out which township section arranged in area is in.
[2:12:58] You can return home to go to the beginning.
[2:13:00] So that's the map part and this might be come this might evolve in the near future.
[2:13:06] You might add some more layers that are appropriate.
[2:13:09] But on the right here so we had this survey that went out the community of interest survey and so this is the results of these survey.
[2:13:17] People were offered the opportunity to leave their name in email and most did but we kind of left that off of this view because everybody can see it and so you could look it up then.
[2:13:31] So the questions were a little open ended and so the responses were quite varied between them.
[2:13:39] But we had about eight responses which I don't know what I didn't know what to expect but that seems a little low but.
[2:13:49] It's probably better than if we got 500 responses that would be weird.
[2:13:53] So it's just will figure out maybe that more people will begin to do this in the future.
[2:13:59] I don't know if I want to read some of these or.
[2:14:03] So one of the questions.
[2:14:05] What is the rationale for your community of interest to be used in this district and those one of these responses that was most thorough.
[2:14:13] Most issues before the board.
[2:14:15] I assume BS is board of supervisors.
[2:14:19] Most.
[2:14:21] Most issues before the board of supervisors are.
[2:14:24] And should be of universal common interest all of Mariposa district five is distinctly different from district one two and three and should remain that way.
[2:14:34] What do you like or dislike about your current district lines they are okay our neighborhood is one that bumps around every 10 years we've been in five and three we prefer five.
[2:14:46] There's another one about.
[2:14:50] The nature of the bond or common interest of your community and we are primarily a tourist driven there are many vacation rentals in the area.
[2:15:00] District issues need to be at the forefront of the decision. I found this comment to understand. Is there anything else you'd like us to consider? Our district and this person was from district 5. Our district could benefit from the relaxing of home-based businesses open to the public. These could include restaurants, workshops, fruit and vegetable stands, riding, stables, etc. Any businesses that benefit locals as well as tourists?
[2:15:27] So there's some good content in there. Some people, you know, I have no opinion. Nothing is needed to be changed at this time. Pretty, pretty variable answers, but some of them have provided some pretty good feedback.
[2:15:45] So it's interesting to look at and that surveys still open, so folks can take it if they haven't yet.
[2:15:51] In fact, on the lower tab of this dashboard, this is the survey. So if you came to this dashboard, you would have access to this survey.
[2:16:03] And this is exactly what it looked like when it was sent out through other means.
[2:16:08] And the actual worksheet is this lower part where people fill in the questions, and those are the answers that I just was showing you.
[2:16:16] We have some future ideas for a potential drawing of an boundary, so the public could come in and pretend they wanted to this area of district 1 seemed weird.
[2:16:34] So this person could go like this.
[2:16:44] And this is a live demo, so cross your fingers.
[2:16:52] Now just hit submit. And if you notice there's one weird, like, brownish color rate in this map.
[2:16:59] Well, that's I drew that. And actually I'm drawing it in the same spot. So this might not look as cool, but if I hit submit.
[2:17:07] In a second now that drawing that area, I just drew a show up on this map.
[2:17:13] So it kind of feeds it in real time. So we're working out a way that will allow the public to maybe actually draw areas themselves.
[2:17:23] And whatever the value of that is, I think it will just be interesting to see if there's overlapping areas that folks all considered to be kind of a weird area.
[2:17:35] We might get 50 different opinions, but if like 45 of them are really similar opinions, it would just be interesting to see that.
[2:17:43] And this should appear in a second.
[2:17:46] So there's that. And there's also a web map. So this is a dashboard and I have a link to a web map that looks like this.
[2:17:55] When you open it, it gives you full instructions on how to use this web map, plus another link to that cumulative interest survey down here at the bottom.
[2:18:04] The difference between the two is this has more advanced drawing tool. So it is probably a little unintuitive for some folks to use this
[2:18:15] This tiny little window here to draw. It's not that convenient. So we have another option as this web map.
[2:18:26] And this is basically like the other web maps that I've created. There's a legend list of layers.
[2:18:33] But you can also do look up my address or my district. So if you say we live at 5100, Boolean, it's going to tell me that I am under supervisor for sites district.
[2:18:55] So if you really didn't know it just should if you lived in, this is a way you could look that up.
[2:19:01] And then here is where you would. Let me turn on my read district boundaries for the public I call that.
[2:19:13] And you can edit and draw another one all yourself.
[2:19:19] So I'm curious to see if it'll get used. It's just an option for folks to use it if they want to.
[2:19:27] So that's pretty much what we have going on so far and tell we get that census data. There's very little we can actually do as far as like potential ideas.
[2:19:37] It's unfortunate that it got delayed so long. It's going to be some pretty pressure as soon as that comes out to start digging into it.
[2:19:47] But yeah looking forward to the process.
[2:19:51] There are a couple of there's one other bit that I'd like to emphasize while we're looking at the map and that relates to the rules that the state has established for us as we
[2:20:04] redistricted or amend the boundaries between supervisorial districts.
[2:20:10] Those rules there's five of them are on your packet page 311.
[2:20:18] And this is information that came from the first, the May 11th, 2021 memo that Renee prepared for you on the overview.
[2:20:30] So the criterion in the order of priority for us as we move forward is that the final district boundaries shall be geographically contiguous.
[2:20:44] Number one.
[2:20:46] Number two the geographic integrity of any local neighborhood or local community of interest shall be respected in a manner that minimizes its division.
[2:20:57] And that's why we want to hear.
[2:21:00] At this point in time what people's feelings are relative to their communities of interest.
[2:21:06] It's defined there as a population that shares common social or economic interest.
[2:21:11] It should be included within a single supervisorial district for purposes of its effective and fair representation.
[2:21:18] A community of interest do not include relationships with political parties in comments or political candidates.
[2:21:24] So that's criteria to the third is that we need to maintain the geographic integrity of census designated places.
[2:21:33] We have that shown on this map that Ben has displayed.
[2:21:39] That needs to be done in a way that minimizes their division.
[2:21:44] Number four, the district boundaries need to be easily identifiable and understood by residents.
[2:21:51] And that would mean that those boundaries are natural and artificial barriers that could be a street or it could be a river.
[2:22:02] A ridge is a little bit more difficult but it needs to be something that's recognizable on the ground in the field.
[2:22:08] And then number five, those boundaries need to be geographically compact.
[2:22:13] Where practical me obviously were quite spread out.
[2:22:21] That would be it.
[2:22:22] I think that's it for our presentation.
[2:22:24] If you have questions or would like to see additional things displayed on Ben's map let us know.
[2:22:30] Yeah, thank you Sarah.
[2:22:31] Thank you all for your presentation today.
[2:22:34] I had a couple of questions of clarification.
[2:22:36] I want to just clarify something real fast.
[2:22:39] We also understand it.
[2:22:41] I love Ben's work.
[2:22:43] I'm the nerd and we all know it.
[2:22:45] But not everybody out there is and we also understand that.
[2:22:48] So we do have paper forms that same community of interest worksheet.
[2:22:52] You can get it.
[2:22:53] You can either download it from the we districting website.
[2:22:56] We have them here if you want to come in and pick one up.
[2:22:59] We can send you one.
[2:23:00] We just need you to call us and let us know.
[2:23:02] We'll get it out one way or the other.
[2:23:04] There are alternatives for everybody of every level of what technological ability.
[2:23:10] Thank you.
[2:23:11] Yeah.
[2:23:12] Thank you very much for the couple of questions of clarification.
[2:23:18] Isn't another consideration that you have to take into account percentage balance between the districts.
[2:23:26] Absolutely.
[2:23:27] It needs to be as close to 20% in each district as possible.
[2:23:32] And again we won't have that information.
[2:23:35] We won't be able to to consider that information until we get the census figures.
[2:23:41] Okay.
[2:23:42] That is September.
[2:23:43] All right.
[2:23:44] Thank you.
[2:23:45] And then are the precinct lines.
[2:23:48] Also on your map.
[2:23:50] No.
[2:23:51] Use your microphone please.
[2:23:57] Thank you.
[2:23:58] They're not on precinct lines are not on the map right now.
[2:24:01] But they can be.
[2:24:03] I would request it for sure.
[2:24:05] Yeah.
[2:24:09] I just want to add to that that the precinct lines will also if there are major adjustments to this.
[2:24:14] That's the second step of the process.
[2:24:16] It won't be for us.
[2:24:17] But elections will come in and they will adjust the precinct lines as well.
[2:24:20] So those may not be.
[2:24:22] The precinct lines going forward if there's a considerable adjustment to this map.
[2:24:26] Okay.
[2:24:27] Thank you.
[2:24:28] Thank you chair.
[2:24:31] Ben going back to your map there that you were changing and drawing on.
[2:24:41] So is there going to be an individual map for each person that comes on there?
[2:24:46] Will it be just like five kids scribbling on the same picture?
[2:24:50] So that's a really good question.
[2:24:52] And that's the one one heard live yet to like conquer.
[2:24:57] Okay.
[2:24:58] But I do want to make it that way.
[2:25:00] So each user has their own experience.
[2:25:02] They're not influenced by what they see from other folks.
[2:25:05] But it'll all compile into this master layer.
[2:25:09] So folks like me or other people will see all those layers or polyions people drew.
[2:25:15] But each time someone comes to the map,
[2:25:17] ideally it's going to be blank.
[2:25:20] Okay.
[2:25:21] And they'll be able to draw as far as the new idea of layers goes.
[2:25:26] Okay.
[2:25:27] That won't be showing any other work.
[2:25:30] And you'll be able to capture all those.
[2:25:32] Yeah.
[2:25:33] It's just setting up a filter.
[2:25:35] I have to figure out that it will just hide everything that's been done.
[2:25:39] But we're this close.
[2:25:42] Yeah.
[2:25:43] No.
[2:25:44] It's awesome.
[2:25:46] I'm certainly not a nerd.
[2:25:48] So my hats off to you.
[2:25:50] I'm trying to put all this stuff together.
[2:25:53] I would I too was going to ask about the the criteria.
[2:25:58] As to population.
[2:26:00] And maybe just for public knowledge.
[2:26:04] There's a certain percentage between the.
[2:26:07] Most populated of the five and the least populated of the five.
[2:26:13] 10 is that 10%.
[2:26:15] Oh, no.
[2:26:16] No, not that much.
[2:26:17] In fact, I was looking back to the file when when we did this 10 years ago.
[2:26:21] And the number that was used 10 years ago was 3% less or minus 3%.
[2:26:26] So it needs to be pretty close.
[2:26:28] Okay.
[2:26:29] Very good.
[2:26:30] Thank you, chair.
[2:26:31] Yeah.
[2:26:32] You're welcome.
[2:26:33] She's right.
[2:26:34] Just waiting.
[2:26:35] And once we get the census data.
[2:26:38] We'll be able to overlay the population date on the maps.
[2:26:41] So somebody goes in there and swiss those lines around.
[2:26:43] You can see what the impact is to the balance.
[2:26:47] Yeah, that's the plan is to figure out some way that.
[2:26:51] It will tell you what the population is of whatever area you drew and give you like a.
[2:26:58] You know, is that 20% or not of the county.
[2:27:01] And so.
[2:27:03] It's hard to kind of develop it until we get it.
[2:27:06] And so.
[2:27:08] But once we do what we'll try to make as many tools as we can.
[2:27:13] For all.
[2:27:15] Ability levels to engage with.
[2:27:18] So how if we didn't do this, how else would we determine.
[2:27:23] You know, the changes in the population.
[2:27:25] I mean, I don't know what the census data looks like.
[2:27:28] But just curious how that might work.
[2:27:33] So there will be very little blocks.
[2:27:36] This whole county will be.
[2:27:38] But divided up into hundreds of little.
[2:27:41] Census blocks and each one will have a population total on it.
[2:27:45] And so there's.
[2:27:48] There's options to how you can do that.
[2:27:51] You can make a man.
[2:27:52] You could print out a map that would show the numbers and so folks could like work over a map.
[2:27:57] Showing population numbers and just do it manually like that.
[2:28:01] Or we can have a more automated.
[2:28:04] Flashy way to do it too.
[2:28:07] They're probably will be both.
[2:28:12] Super glad you're smoking.
[2:28:15] Thank you chair.
[2:28:17] I may have missed it been when you were.
[2:28:20] Sorry.
[2:28:23] Okay.
[2:28:25] To Sarah or to me or to both.
[2:28:27] And if the last one, I'm your only impressed.
[2:28:32] So I may have missed it when you were going through, but.
[2:28:37] I'm wondering when someone goes in and draws.
[2:28:42] Revised map I guess or recommendation.
[2:28:46] Is there a field in which they say the reason that I think that this ought not to be in district one or district five or whatever.
[2:28:55] And it's because.
[2:28:58] You know, it's where all of my buddies and I hang out right or something so that it plays to the the reason I want this moved is because there is in fact.
[2:29:11] I've identified why I think it's appropriate.
[2:29:15] So I can add more fields into this little window here, but right now there's a comments field where I say please provide some information about the boundary you drew.
[2:29:24] And I can maybe add more instructions there, but I understand not everyone's going to be able to digitize these polygons very well.
[2:29:33] And so if you just put a little box on the map that kind of puts the focus in that area and then leave it up to your instructions about what you're trying to.
[2:29:43] Represent with that polygon and so that was my hope is that people you know won't spend forever learning how to digitize a little polygon.
[2:29:53] But just get close and then in the comments section you can go into more detail about what you're trying to.
[2:30:00] Is that what you're kind of wondering?
[2:30:03] Yeah, no, that is what I'm after. And I'm wondering, I was just considering whether to go to my next question, which is examples.
[2:30:10] And what I'm thinking about and I'm not remembering it very well, I was hoping Keith Williams would be here.
[2:30:16] But when the county went through it before, I remember sitting in the audience here, and there were conversations about, well, if you draw it there,
[2:30:28] it will split a road, right? And everybody on both sides of the road is part of a community sort of argument.
[2:30:38] So to the extent that we might either have examples from our past experience that people could leverage off of, or maybe examples that other jurisdictions have come up with,
[2:30:53] not to lead anybody in a certain direction, but to give people a sense of what would be the most valuable input.
[2:31:03] Yeah, I think that's a great idea, and I can work with Sarah and get some good language in there that helps people kind of understand what we're looking for from this.
[2:31:14] And not like I said, I can add more things. I just wanted to make it short and easy, but yeah.
[2:31:24] Okay, and then, because I got an email over the weekend, do we have the, I know we don't have the census data, but do we have response rates by different areas of the county, or is that something we could get from the census bureau?
[2:31:43] I think some of that data is available as far as like our county statistics go. I think you can look up 20, 20 census data by the county. It doesn't, just doesn't go below that.
[2:31:56] For response rate.
[2:31:58] I'm not sure about that, but there are some like early numbers and statistics about our population as a whole.
[2:32:06] I'm not sure about the response rate, though.
[2:32:10] Yeah, I just ahead's up. This was somebody in Elportel saying 220 people in Elportel.
[2:32:17] It's totally not possible. There are lots more people here.
[2:32:22] And so I'm thinking that, because the map will be redrawn based on what I understand is a fairly low response rate, at least historically, it might be good for people to know that we're not operating, we're not operating off a full set of data here.
[2:32:42] We're operating off of what, who actually responded and where they're located sort of thing.
[2:32:49] So I don't know how doable that is, but at some point I will be following up with you because I need to respond to this email.
[2:32:55] And I'm sure that's the case for every census though. I mean, we had a tricky year this last year, but you can only work with the data that you get.
[2:33:05] Yeah, I think last time it sort of flew under the radar a little bit, but this time it may be more interesting to folks.
[2:33:14] So if we can get that data out, I think that might not be a bad idea. And then speaking of that, the distribution of information.
[2:33:21] I'm thinking mid-Pine's Elportel, Yosemite West, all that sort of stuff.
[2:33:25] So are you folks planning? Yosemite West is not yours, but it's planning or public works.
[2:33:33] But are you planning to do or have you already done a distribution to the different planning advisory committees?
[2:33:39] Or do you want supervisors to connect with chairs and so on?
[2:33:46] Yes, no, I am actually planning on sending that out to everyone.
[2:33:50] We were hitting the, I don't want to call them the bigger ones, but the ones that actually met the legislative marks first.
[2:33:56] And so we were actually talking about it in the office today about getting that list from planning as a matter of fact, and sending out those emails.
[2:34:03] OK, but you'll handle, for example, we've got the Yosemite West District Advisory Committee.
[2:34:08] Yes, any of the county committees and commissions, we will be doing it the other ones that I may not know about in your district that we need to worry about and get the information from you.
[2:34:18] OK, all right, so other groups of folks that might not be on your radar is what we're looking for.
[2:34:26] OK, great, thank you, it's a great presentation.
[2:34:31] And great maps, so nice to have the GIS capability.
[2:34:37] All right, any other questions of clarification before I open for public comment?
[2:34:43] All right, then I will go ahead and open for public comment.
[2:34:47] If you would please, you have five minutes to talk.
[2:34:51] I will use the timer.
[2:34:54] Please introduce yourself at the beginning, if you would, please, for the record.
[2:34:59] Welcome back, Barbara.
[2:35:02] There, Barbara Cone.
[2:35:05] And I, you know, we don't know, of course, until we get the sense of state of what's going to happen.
[2:35:11] I can anticipate given the short-term rentals that probably district four will have a drop in population in there for need to expand.
[2:35:20] I live in lush meadows, so I just asked the board to keep in consideration that currently lush meadows is divided between district four and district five.
[2:35:28] 90% or so is district five, small percentage district four.
[2:35:32] And then there are two neighborhood areas just across triangle from us, the monivist and vista logo, who view themselves as cohesive with lush meadows, they're part of next door lush meadows.
[2:35:45] When you say where do you live, they say lush meadows, but they are in district one.
[2:35:50] So when you're looking at that population adjustment based on how large district four might need to go to consider either taking all of that as one area and incorporating it or backing out of that and then with the census designated place town involved.
[2:36:09] District four currently does not have the mobile home park and the condos in it yet those are part of a census designated place of town, but they're split between district four and district three.
[2:36:20] So when district four has to adjust those are just some things I just thought I would give input on for consideration.
[2:36:27] And as far as the low response rate that you brought up I know that district two there was a lot of movement to refuse to participate so district two will not have an accurate number so their number will probably drop considerably which will not reflect the actual population.
[2:36:45] So that's tough when people don't participate but yeah so I just wanted to give that input thank you.
[2:36:52] Thank you for your comments.
[2:36:55] Is there any other public comment today?
[2:37:06] Any in the chambers?
[2:37:10] All right then I will go ahead and open on the phone line.
[2:37:15] We have a public comment on the phone line today.
[2:37:28] One more time do have any public comment on the phone line today in regard to redistricting.
[2:37:37] Well I hear no response or I'll go ahead and close public comment.
[2:37:43] I want to thank everybody for coming in today and participating.
[2:37:47] I want to thank staff for doing such a great job that they have done.
[2:37:51] Did you have anything you wanted to add Renee before I close the public hearing?
[2:37:56] Oh you have something miles.
[2:37:57] All right go ahead.
[2:37:59] Go ahead Renee.
[2:38:00] No I just wanted to reinforce that the next public hearing will be on Saturday July 17th at 10 a.m. here in the chambers.
[2:38:08] Like I say we will be taking in your public input regardless of the manner that you want to give it to us.
[2:38:14] You can send us a nap can and we will take that.
[2:38:17] But for those who want to be.
[2:38:23] For those who want to attend the hearing the next one again is Saturday July 17th at 10 a.m.
[2:38:29] Thank you chair.
[2:38:30] And I apologize for my entry please go ahead.
[2:38:34] Hey then so one more time.
[2:38:37] How to folks navigate their way to your dashboard.
[2:38:48] So the direct route to get there is going to be www.mariposacounty.org forward slash C O I and that's for communities of interest.
[2:38:57] So C O I or they can just go to the redistricting web page and they can.
[2:39:02] There's a link off of that page as well.
[2:39:06] Thank you.
[2:39:08] Any other comments from the supervisor for our close the public hearing.
[2:39:13] All right thank you all very much for participating today and we look forward to seeing you at future public hearings in regard to redistricting in Mariposacounty.
[2:39:22] So I will close the public hearing.
[2:39:24] The next item on the agenda is from the board of supervisors and as for receiver presentation from Pacific gas and electric representatives regarding the community wildfire safety program and public safety power shut off program and that's Nathan Alonzo.
[2:39:39] The PG&E government relations representative.
[2:39:44] So we'll just take a couple of minutes here to get set up.
[2:39:49] Mr. Alonzo whenever you're ready and please speak into that microphone if you would please check one two very good.
[2:40:19] All right.
[2:40:40] Perfect.
[2:40:42] All good afternoon Mr. Chairman members of the board. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to come before you and give a quick update on our community wildfire safety program and the work that we're doing here in Mariposacounty.
[2:40:56] I know that during the summer in the early fall we we stay in constant communication with each other.
[2:41:02] Hopefully we do throughout most of the year.
[2:41:05] A quick moment for safety as we start all PG&E presentations and meetings with.
[2:41:11] Well, we are hopefully in the wind down of COVID-19 we would remind everybody to go to the public health website here in Mariposacounty to look at vaccination availability and then also to follow public safety health guidelines with handwashing face covering.
[2:41:30] And social distancing.
[2:41:34] Now, going into wildfire risk across the PG&E service territory.
[2:41:40] So as always our most important responsibilities health and safety of our customers and communities.
[2:41:48] California as we all know continues to experience an increase in wildfire risk and an ever increasing length in the wildfire season.
[2:41:59] On this slide we're sharing one of the tools that we use when assessing wildfire risk in this community, which is the fire threat map of California.
[2:42:09] And as we can see the county is in a high fire threat district.
[2:42:15] The map was developed by the CPUC and coordination with Cal Fire and the US Forest Service and space on input from electric utilities and communications infrastructure providers and local public safety agencies.
[2:42:28] So this helps us plan for potential wildfire and focus our prevention efforts.
[2:42:34] So as you see on the map nearly one third of the electric lines that provide for our customers are now in high fire threat areas.
[2:42:43] On this slide you can see the high fire threat map here in the county.
[2:42:48] And then folks can look at the high fire threat map areas throughout the state here at cpuc.gov for slash fire threat maps.
[2:43:01] And the thing that I should have started off with is that kind of like an ace Supreme Court oral argument just feel free to jump in at any time to ask your questions and we can get a good dialogue going.
[2:43:12] So we're also continuing to evolve the CWSP which is the community wildfire safety program in order to strengthen and improve the electric system for the safety of customers and for the community here.
[2:43:23] The focus of CWSP now includes supporting customers and communities before during and after a PSPS or a public safety power shut off event.
[2:43:35] By providing more resources and working year round and on stop to improve the program.
[2:43:40] We're focused on listening to customers learning from better data and technology and improving and providing more resources and ever before for events like these.
[2:43:50] So currently we're meeting and exceeding state vegetation safety standards with our enhanced vegetation management program to manage trees and other vegetation located in your power lines that would cause a wildfire or power outage.
[2:44:04] Recently sent some of the EVM information for 2021 to a county staff so that information is also available to all of you if you'd like it.
[2:44:14] So we are also continuing to build a safer and more resilient system by hardening lines and installing sectionalizing devices that help to reduce the size of a PSPS events.
[2:44:25] Yesterday we had an event in Bryce Berg that showed our new remote grid technology and we will be having more information to share with you on that soon.
[2:44:35] Testing and using new tools and technologies to pinpoint how to best prevent and respond to the risk of wildfires.
[2:44:41] We all rely on the grid so we want to work with our customers and solutions that minimize the risk of our infrastructure during times of high fire threat like the one that we find ourselves in now.
[2:44:53] So what's new in 2021? So this year we're building improving on.
[2:45:00] Progress that we made in 2020 and continuing to reduce wildfire risk through, hardening the electrical grid through our system hardening work on 180 electric circuit miles, addressing vegetation on 1,800 high risk electric circuit miles that pose a higher potential for wildfire risk through our enhanced vegetation management program, and tracking weather conditions and monitoring for wildfires, by installing an additional 300 weather stations.
[2:45:29] And 135 additional high-definition cameras throughout our service territory.
[2:45:34] We are also working to reduce PSPS impact by installing over 275 additional distribution-sexualizing devices and transmissions which is to limit the number of customers impacted by each event,
[2:45:48] by separating the electric grid into smaller sections.
[2:45:51] We are also continuing to improve our weather modeling and refining our forecasting through 5 day forecast data.
[2:45:58] And we are keeping the power on and areas impacted by PSPS event by preparing 10 substations with temporary generation and constructing 5 additional microgrids to power key community resources.
[2:46:11] So we are supporting customers also and communities by providing more resources before during and after the PSPS events by sending customer notifications and 16 different languages and providing new address alerts which allow customers and non-customers to sign up to receive PSPS alerts without any address that they choose.
[2:46:33] We are providing approximately 5,000 batteries to all low-income medical baseline customers and high-fire threat areas who are interested.
[2:46:42] And we are targeting additional ADA accessible community resource centers or CRCs which can be open during PSPS events to serve impacted communities and customers.
[2:46:53] And then we are providing meal replacement options for customers in 46 counties and we're expanding our partnership with community-based organizations to better support customers with access and functional needs during and after PSPS events.
[2:47:08] So before you move on to the next slide, I am interested in how you, I guess, how you know where the batteries need to be distributed and then what is your strategy for meal replacement options.
[2:47:31] Do you coordinate for example with area 12 and or our own HHSA organization?
[2:47:39] So what I am familiar with as far as the meal replacement program goes all address that when first is that we work closely with the Merced County Food Bank that works here in Mariposa as well.
[2:47:50] To provide meal replacement and emergency food aid during an after a PSPS event.
[2:47:56] And then when it comes to the claim and reimbursement for lost food, there is a form and a link in process to the PG&E website where customers can go and detail out what they've lost in the refrigerator and send in the claim as well.
[2:48:16] And then just to make sure I understand on the meal replacement side, you're what you're doing is you're supporting existing distribution channels.
[2:48:25] So HHSA has a contract with Alliance which provides food for folks in our community who on an ongoing basis but more particularly during evacuations and so on.
[2:48:41] So you would partner with them to ensure that the food is available and distributed.
[2:48:48] We would partner with an existing organization. Yes, that's correct.
[2:48:53] Okay, and then on the batteries, is that something where PG&E is partnering with.
[2:49:02] Or Sheriff and and our public health department.
[2:49:07] On that, I anticipate that yes, our public safety specialists are working together with county OES and with other public safety partners to be able to determine where and how many are needed in specific areas.
[2:49:21] Okay, so again, you, you have the batteries available. You'd look to us to identify who is most in need.
[2:49:28] It's ideal that we partner with with our public safety organizations and our local government because you know best where situations and people meet those resources.
[2:49:40] Okay, great. Thank you. Absolutely.
[2:49:46] Now in looking at what's going on here in the county, we're working on improving off of our 2020 efforts on this slide.
[2:49:57] We're providing an overview of local wildfire safety and customer support efforts including some system hardening and hands of education management community resource centers, weather stations, high definition cameras and what is also available here at the link at the top is our quarterly updates on our wildfire safety efforts here within the county.
[2:50:21] So we have a little bit of work to do as far as a system hardening when it comes to the line miles when it comes to the enhanced vegetation management efforts here within the county.
[2:50:32] And we are currently working as far as community resource centers go on identifying additional sites.
[2:50:39] Right now, the two sites that we have identified are Golden Naigers and new Christian life fellowship in Boochek and I know that in the past we have set up and put out an outdoor site out in Elportel but we're looking at identifying a permanent site.
[2:51:01] So that that work will continue in the cooperation will continue. So Supervisor Schmalka will we will be chatting more on that. I'm sure.
[2:51:10] So any questions on the 2021 plan here in the county?
[2:51:16] All right.
[2:51:20] So I don't think that I have to go into too much on what a public safety power shut off is but.
[2:51:27] High winds can cause tree branches into breeze to contact energized electric lines.
[2:51:34] And that can cause damage to our equipment and have the potential for causing a wildfire as a result we may need to turn off power during severe weather conditions for public safety.
[2:51:44] I want to emphasize that these events are always weather driven and are only called when extreme weather and wildfire risk are present because electricity can travel several miles from the generation source to get to your home or infrastructure.
[2:51:55] You may be impacted by a public safety power shut off if the electric infrastructure that serves use affected by high winds and severe weather.
[2:52:03] It's one of the weather is miles away from your specific location but we're working to mitigate that with sectionalizing devices.
[2:52:10] And I think was at the beginning of the year we had a front row seat as to what a high wind event can do to infrastructure and can do here locally.
[2:52:24] So what conditions can lead to a PSPS event and how are we looking at that now.
[2:52:29] So as each weather situation is unique we carefully analyze the following factors low humidity levels which are generally 30% below which we're in now.
[2:52:38] A forecast of high winds particularly sustained winds above 20 miles per hour and wind gusts above 30 to 40 miles an hour which we've seen which we saw at the beginning of the year.
[2:52:49] Conditions of dry material on the ground and low moisture content levels of vegetation.
[2:52:54] A red flag warning declared by the National Weather Service and real-time ground observations from our Wildfire Safety Operations Center and from our crews working across the service territory.
[2:53:05] This year our decision making process is evolving to also account for the presence of trees tall enough to strike power lines when determining if a PSPS event is necessary.
[2:53:18] Every wildfire season is different and the ongoing drought the conditions and our commitment to safety will determine the number of times we will need to shut off power.
[2:53:27] This set of criteria is a first step which may lead to further analysis from our meteorology team to determine if a PSPS event is necessary.
[2:53:37] Nathan I'm sorry I have another question.
[2:53:41] So the last line there the decision making process is evolving for the presence of trees tall enough to strike power lines.
[2:53:50] I don't get the relationship to the PSPS event because I thought and correct me if I'm wrong but this is a conversation that I've had with your representatives and a couple more than a couple of my constituents.
[2:54:04] I thought under CPUC code you were required to remove trees that were essentially within striking distance of power lines.
[2:54:17] So is this new trees?
[2:54:22] This is new this is part of what's called a new over strike criteria that a federal judge recently suggested that PG&E consider but instead of it being a mandate PG&E is proactively doing this in order to mitigate and reduce wildfire risk from falling trees over PG&E infrastructure power lines.
[2:54:46] So how is that different from the public safety code that existed previously?
[2:54:54] I will look into that and get back to you specifically.
[2:54:58] On how that differentiates but there is new over strike criteria that we're implementing in order to further reduce the possibility of an ignition caused by a tree falling on a power line.
[2:55:12] Okay, yeah, I would appreciate that and maybe that's something you want to send to the clerk of the board because I'm guessing my colleagues would also be interested in understanding.
[2:55:20] Absolutely.
[2:55:21] I'll talk for their team internally about getting you that information.
[2:55:24] Okay, great. Thank you.
[2:55:27] So maybe we're going to get a little more information in this but the what you may have heard about the additional criteria that we've developed in our PSPS program to keep our customers and community safe so to help prevent major wildfires.
[2:55:52] The federal court has issued an order recommending that PG&E adopt this additional criteria in which we may turn off powered during severe weather in areas where there are large amounts of trees tall enough district power lines.
[2:56:04] We plan on moving forward this recommendation for the safety of our customers and communities.
[2:56:09] So more than 90% of the 5.4 million customers that we serve do not live in these areas that are a focus of our PSPS program and are less likely to be impacted by these additional criteria.
[2:56:26] The additional county data that we will have is that we have county level a county level review of event frequency size duration and potentially newly impacted customers based on these new criteria that we can get to you.
[2:56:41] This information is based on the review of 10 years of historical weather data future events will depend on the actual weather that we experience at that time.
[2:56:50] We plan on providing local information regarding the location of over strike trees as we closer to fire season.
[2:56:56] So as far as the CPUC goes will the CPUC provide oversight over the over this new criteria and that was a question that a lot of folks have had.
[2:57:05] Or answer to that is that the CPUC has indicated that they intend to provide oversight and direction for the implementation of this new criteria.
[2:57:12] But expect us to make the decision on the right criteria to operate our system safely.
[2:57:16] But we will get you that additional information.
[2:57:20] Okay, thank you.
[2:57:21] Absolutely.
[2:57:23] So in identifying potential impacts for this additional criteria here in the county.
[2:57:29] After last year's wildfire season and the drier than average winter and spring that we just experienced we developed the additional criteria for the program to keep our customers and communities safe.
[2:57:41] Compared to last year under similar weather conditions customers who live in areas of the high-swipe fire conditions may experience more events.
[2:57:55] But because of the sectionalizing criteria or the sectionalizing technology and some of the other infrastructure that we're putting in place we hope that the PSPS events will be smaller in scope and smaller in duration than they were.
[2:58:11] In what you saw in 2019.
[2:58:14] So and how will customers here in Mariposa be notified?
[2:58:18] So we are going to do our best to share what we know about the weather and our equipment as soon as we can.
[2:58:24] So you can expect to receive notifications two days before shutting off power when we are in PSPS quote unquote watch mode.
[2:58:32] One day before turning off power still in watch mode.
[2:58:35] Just before deenergizing power lines when we are now in warning mode.
[2:58:39] And once a day during an actual shut off event and then the customers will be notified once we have resourced power.
[2:58:46] We'll provide these updates to our customers through automated calls, text and emails.
[2:58:51] We encourage you to review the contact information that you have on file and to encourage your constituents to do the same at pgene.com forward slash address alerts.
[2:59:02] This year we have also launched this address alert technology.
[2:59:07] Those who are not a pgene account holder can also receive the PSPS notifications at any address.
[2:59:13] So you can look at doing that for a loved one or encourage others to do those.
[2:59:17] Do that for others that they may be helping out as well.
[2:59:21] And then for our medical baseline customers pgene has the door knock policy that you all may have heard of so we are continuing to do that as well.
[2:59:35] So this year we're doing more to help customers and communities before during an after and event by partnering with community based organizations.
[2:59:41] Expanding language offerings increasing meal replacement options as we talked about with local community groups.
[2:59:48] Collaborating with disability disaster access remote resources programs providing batteries through our portable battery program and providing generated rebates to our customers.
[3:00:00] So, we are currently partnering with 14 community-based organizations here in Mariposa County.
[3:00:10] Additionally, we're conducting outreach and hoping to partner with one additional organization that we're currently working with and we'll be able to provide additional information on that later.
[3:00:19] And from this board, we welcome any additional suggestions and additional organizations that you feel that we should partner with.
[3:00:27] So, that gets me to the end of the formal presentation, but I'd love to answer any questions in general about.
[3:00:34] CWSP, our PSPS program, your experiences that you've had over the course of the last year, and any feedback that you think I should take back on how we can improve with our relationship with you and the work that we're doing here with your constituents throughout the county.
[3:00:52] Okay, thank you, Alanta, for the presentation. I will go ahead and open up for public comment. Do we have any public comment today on this item in the chambers?
[3:01:05] Do we have any public comment on the full line today?
[3:01:08] All right, not hearing any or seen any. I'll go ahead and bring it back to the board for final comments.
[3:01:27] I have a question regarding your generator rebate program. What are you offering your customers there?
[3:01:36] And how do they qualify?
[3:01:38] I will get the board, the flyer and the comprehensive information for you to be able to look at it yourself and get it out to your constituents as well.
[3:01:49] I'll follow up with the flyer with that information.
[3:01:53] Because I know a lot of folks are interested in that, just in case, just the end case.
[3:01:58] What's always better to be prepared than not?
[3:02:00] Yes, I agree. Thank you.
[3:02:04] Anything, supervisor, welcome.
[3:02:08] Yeah, thank you for the presentation, Nathan. I appreciate the information. I am wondering about outreach to our tribal community and also to our bilingual community.
[3:02:22] Do you have a program for that or do you just need a contact?
[3:02:30] So for our tribal community, PG&E has what we call a tribal liaison made up of two individuals who stay in regular contact with every tribal community within our service territory.
[3:02:42] It is headed up by Reno Franklin from our internal team and so he stays in contact with all of our tribe.
[3:02:52] And then on the question of accessibility based on the language diversity that we have throughout the service territory.
[3:02:59] So right now we provide materials and we provide notifications like I said in 16 different languages.
[3:03:06] Customers can identify their language and their notification preference on our website.
[3:03:12] So we do our best to be as accommodating as possible to folks who have different language preferences.
[3:03:19] Yeah, I noticed that I appreciate that.
[3:03:21] I would ask that you, do you have some of the material in Spanish?
[3:03:30] We do. Yeah, I'd like to get my hands on that.
[3:03:35] But thank you. It's a great presentation.
[3:03:41] All right. No other comments from the board.
[3:03:44] Nathan, thank you very much for keeping us in the loop.
[3:03:48] You've done a great job of keeping us. We're always receiving information from you. It's really appreciated.
[3:03:54] I hope that it's not too many emails that too many times don't know.
[3:03:59] Better get the information than not.
[3:04:03] So we are always available to you and please always feel free to email me.
[3:04:08] The number that is on my signature line and every email is my cell phone.
[3:04:12] And you know, as a 28 year old, I don't sleep a lot anyway.
[3:04:15] So you feel free to text me or call me anytime.
[3:04:18] Okay. We'll get you a sheet of care. Thank you.
[3:04:21] Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.
[3:04:23] All right. The next item on the agenda for this afternoon is
[3:04:28] And only item is a close session from the Board of Supervisors.
[3:04:33] Public employee for formative evaluation position of employee and review
[3:04:38] Clerk of the board. Is there any public comment on this item?
[3:04:45] Any public comment on the phone line today?
[3:04:50] Not hearing any? We will go ahead.
[3:04:54] Yes. Pete, we can hear you go ahead.
[3:05:00] Thank you very much, Pete. Thank you for the comment.
[3:05:11] Any other public comment today?
[3:05:16] Then I will go ahead and close public comment and we will move into
[3:05:20] Close session and I will report out after the close session is completed.
[3:05:25] So we are now moving into close session.
[3:05:31] Ladies and gentlemen, we are moved out of close session in the regular session.
[3:05:46] And I will report forward that close session.
[3:05:50] Public employee for formative evaluation position of employee and review of
[3:05:54] Clerk of the board.
[3:05:55] The regard of that matter information was received.
[3:05:59] I do have a notice that I need to read into the record.
[3:06:04] Mariposa County Board of Supervisors, notice and call of special meeting.
[3:06:08] Government code section 54956.
[3:06:11] Please take notice that the chairperson, the Mariposa County Board of Supervisors,
[3:06:16] acting pursuant to the authority of government code.
[3:06:19] Chapter 54956 hereby calls the special meeting.
[3:06:23] The Mariposa County Board of Supervisors to take place on Wednesday,
[3:06:28] June 9th, 2021 at 3 p.m.
[3:06:32] The meeting will convene in the Board of Supervisors chamber located at 5100
[3:06:37] William Street, Mariposa California.
[3:06:40] The special meeting is for the purpose of discussing and transacting the following
[3:06:46] business.
[3:06:47] A, call to order and roll call.
[3:06:49] B, pledge of allegiance.
[3:06:51] C, close session.
[3:06:53] C1 is from County Council.
[3:06:55] Close session.
[3:06:56] Public employee discipline, dismissal release.
[3:06:59] Government code section 54954.5.
[3:07:03] And number D adjournment.
[3:07:06] Pursuit to government code.
[3:07:08] Section 54954.3.
[3:07:11] Members of the public will have the opportunity to directly address
[3:07:15] the board concerning the above mentioned business only to the extent required by law.
[3:07:20] This notice is to be delivered to each member of the Board of Supervisors and to each local newspaper
[3:07:25] of General Circulation and Radio or Television Station.
[3:07:30] Request the notice in writing.
[3:07:33] The notice shall be delivered personally or by other means.
[3:07:36] And shall be received at least 24 hours before the time of the meeting.
[3:07:40] The meeting is specified in this, so notice.
[3:07:43] Signed, Marshall Long, Chair, Mariposa County Board of Supervisors.
[3:07:47] Data and posted June 8th, 2021.
[3:07:54] So the last item.
[3:07:56] The agenda is the suggested memorials.
[3:07:59] And in memoriam of those who have passed recently.
[3:08:03] In memoriam for Linda Westfall.
[3:08:05] Gerald Preston.
[3:08:06] And fill up time.
[3:08:09] This meeting is adjourned.
[3:08:39] Thank you.
[3:09:09] Thank you.
[3:09:39] Thank you.
[3:10:09] Thank you.
[3:10:39] Thank you.
[3:11:09] Thank you.
[3:11:39] Thank you.
[3:12:09] Thank you.
[3:12:39] Thank you.