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For 1st, 2026, we're going to call to order the Monterey County Board of Supervisors, letting the record show that Supervisors ask you a lejo and church are present. Supervisors, low pez, will be arriving soon. And Supervisor Daniels is absent today. Are there any additions or corrections for our closed session agenda this morning? No additions or corrections.

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All right, we have items number one, A through C on closed session calendar.

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Is there any public comment on the closed session calendar today?

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Seeing none, we'll close public comment and move on to public comment.

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We'll move on to will we'll recess the report for the closed session.

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Recess into closed session for these agenda items.

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We'll be back here at 10 30.

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Thank you.

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All right, welcome, everyone.

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Thank you for joining us today.

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It is September 1st, 2026, where we convening the Monterey County Board on our public agenda

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items, letting the records show that all supervisors are present with the exception of

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Kate Daniels, who will be absent today.

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I'd like to welcome and announce our Spanish interpretation services that are available.

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We have Diego Salis with us remotely.

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Diego, are you able to make announcements?

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Yes, Adam.

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I'm very good today, As a todos, my name is Diego Celes,

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and I'm going to do this in Spanish

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for today's session.

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If you are planning to do a public comment

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and need to serve in terms of

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the audience,

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and it's obviously much stronger

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to hear that.

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I'm going to do a foundation

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for the integration

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for the safety of the international community.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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So, right, next we'll be having the pledge of allegiance if we could have everyone placed

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All right.

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Are there any additions or corrections for our agenda this morning?

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There are for item number two and four under ceremonial resolutions.

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Both received a revised ceremonial resolution.

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For item number 16.1 under appointments, a revised warp report was received.

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And lastly, for the adjournment memory, it should be Octavia, Reiscellenus, and not Octavia

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Donna Reisselinis.

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Great. Thank you.

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For those questions.

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We're going to start with ceremony resolutions.

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We do have a couple items before we get to public comment.

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We'll get to public comment on that item.

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Okay, so we have ceremony resolutions to begin with.

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We're going to start with items number two through.

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Is there any public comment on our ceremony resolutions this morning?

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Okay. We have a motion for approval from Alejo, a second from Lopez. I didn't see any public comment. All in favor.

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All right. Passes unanimously and we'll start with our presentations.

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All right. Good morning, everyone.

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It is always our honor and these chambers of the Monterey County Board of Supervisors take a moment to honor some unsung heroes in our community.

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Today, it is our honor to especially recognize National Rehabilitation Awareness Week and to honor the outstanding health professionals of Natividad Medical Centers outpatient therapy services for their exemplary service to our community.

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I think this is the first time we will be doing this type of recognition for rehabilitation awareness weekend for the outpatient therapy service.

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And then we want to call up Blair Limone and all our team to receive this and we can have

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some special guest say a few words and just a bit as well.

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So come on up, everyone rehabilitation is something many of us don't think about until we,

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a family member, or someone we love suddenly faces a debilitating medical condition.

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We often think about the emergency room or a hospital stay, but recovery doesn't end when someone

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discharged. For many patients that is when another difficult journey begins from the hospital,

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sometimes to rehabilitation facility and eventually back home where the hard work will

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rebuild their lives continues. That is where rehabilitation professionals become so important.

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They help people regain some of the most basic functions that many of us take for granted each and

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every day.

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Standin' up.

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Open up, walking, moving an arm or leg, maintaining balance, communicating or becoming independent again.

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But rehabilitation is more than just physical recovery. It is about restoring confidence, dignity, independence, and hope.

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And that work requires tremendous patience, compassion, encouragement, and understanding.

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This recognition today is particularly personal for me, because my mother and my stepfather, Hosecol Arruyas are here with us today.

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Jose has been more than 30 years of his as a dedicated classified school employee with the Gonzalez Unified School District, including many years as a bus driver.

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Over those decades, thousands of children depended on him to get safely to school, to get back home, sporting events and field trips, and he was so committed that he never even missed a day of work.

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But last October, Jose suffered a stroke.

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He was hospitalized for weeks, and when he finally was able to return home, one of the first

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things he wanted to do was to begin his therapy.

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He was determined to get stronger and regain as much independence as possible, and he found

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the perfect place to get those services and activities outpatient therapy services.

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So our family, when it's firsthand, the professionalism, the patients, the compassion and

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encouragement. This team provides at every visit. They didn't just help post

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them with this recovery. They gave them encouragement and they gave them hope.

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Jose wanted to be here personally today, along with my mother, Maria Luisucco

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Lucia, who is a retired county of Monterey, a registered nurse at the Alosal

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Health Clinic. They wanted to come and thank the dedicated employees who

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gave him so much on his journey. He still has a ways to go, but you are the

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people who give them hope. So we wanted to call up my mother and Jose to come

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say, a few words before we prevent the resolution.

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Let's give them around a plaza, everybody.

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because Pete's on an item here.

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Yes, he can bring, yep.

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by the seal of Palavras.

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You can serve things on boards.

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Good morning, everybody, that is here.

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I just want to say thank you for this team.

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I never had a family that had a stroke.

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Cole said my husband, he was very healthy like Louis said he worked.

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Actually Gonzales school paid him back about an year, a little bit over a year of sick

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leave that he never used to be sick.

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He will never go home and rest.

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He was very dedicated to the job he was doing.

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Cole said only problem was that he had high cholesterol and he was always with a normal.

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He didn't have no diabetes like most of us, you know, we worried about stroke because we

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have diabetes, we worry about stroke because we have high blood pressure and it was kind

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of surprising that he had this stroke because he didn't have hypertension.

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I just want to tell you about the symptoms he had so that maybe you might have a family member

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that might have this symptoms.

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I was so used to get up at six o'clock in the morning to do my his coffee and my coffee.

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You know, I was so used to having coffee from him.

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And I heard him gagging and trying to vomit in the restroom and I wonder what's wrong with him, you know.

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He was trying to vomit and he couldn't because he had nothing in his stomach and he that woke me up and I said what's wrong with you.

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He said I feel nauseated and I can't I'm feeling really weak and I said that's funny.

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You know you feeling really weak right now and I walked him back to bed and I told him you know what there's something going on with you that this is not you.

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So I laid him down in bed and said, just give me a half an hour to get dressed, you know,

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I'll go and fit my doggy because I have a little yorggy dog and let me go and take him out to

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pool because I know that going to the emergency was going to take a very long time. So give me

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enough time just laying bed and let me take the doggy and I put him back in his little home there.

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I took a set to Sonina Valley hospital and right as soon as I got to the hospital they went

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to do a lot of tests, but work, they did MRI,

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they did everything.

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Dr. Kim back and told me, you know what?

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Maria, your husband is having a stroke.

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Stroke, I said, yeah, he's having a stroke.

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And they did all kinds of tests when he came back.

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because his hand was so stiff like this.

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His leg, he couldn't move it.

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It was very sad time for me, you know, but I'm sorry because I know a lot of people have family that have strokes.

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I've seen so many now, you know.

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Anyway, from there, he was in the hospital four days in the transferring moment to rehab and activities for him to cope, to get better in other words.

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And he was there four days, they did a little bit of a...

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A physical therapy, they did some occupational therapy, they even did a speech therapy, because they

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want to make sure he speech was okay. But that was only for a few days, and they had enough time

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there, not enough time point, because there has so many other patients there. Very friendly

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nurses and doctors, but there was not enough time to take care of all of them. There was so many of them.

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But anyway, when he got discharged outside, I wanted to look for a place that I could take him there,

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If I have to take him there because he I need to him to work on on exercise and the machines and everything and

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I couldn't find a place. I mean, there was some physical that came over the house, but it wasn't not but anyway

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to make things short I found this group of

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Ladies here the staff here

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Which they can say if you were later and I and now who says doing much better look he couldn't even write his name

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He couldn't write his name

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He couldn't raise his hand up. He couldn't go all the way up. He couldn't walk. He was just so stiff, you know.

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And the doctor told me, you very lucky Maria because he had almost like a paralyzed stroke.

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You know, and I couldn't understand why, but here he is.

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I just wanted to say a few words for the staff. And you guys, you might have to need a term interpreter.

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Okay, my name is José Coba Rubias, and I want to thank you for the opportunity to

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give me the feeling that they helped me a lot, and I am very professional,

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I hope you will be able to give me the feeling that they helped me a lot,

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May I ask you a question?

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May I ask you a question?

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My name is Jose Corruluas.

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I ended up in a hospital where I was very taken care of by very professional therapies

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who helped me.

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Her name was Jennifer.

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I couldn't work, but thanks to them I was able to get back raise my hands.

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Thank you to all of them.

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So this resolution just recognizes National Rehabilitation Awareness Week

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in Monterey County and will be observed September 14th through the 20th of the

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under the same building futures, the rehabilitation,

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to recognize the transformative benefits of rehabilitation

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and celebrate the achievements of individuals who have regained strength,

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the independence, and quality of life through rehabilitative care.

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So therefore on behalf of the Board of Supervisors and all residents,

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we hereby recognize this week as National Rehabilitation Week in our county

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and commence outpatient therapy services and two-edit medical center.

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It's an entire disciplinary team for their exemplary service, compassionate care,

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not sending commitment to helping patients through Dr. Monterey County and the Central Coast

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recover, regained independence, and built brighter features.

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So with that, we want to present this to you on behalf of all our community and my mama

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and my sub-dad, of course.

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Thank you very much.

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You're getting around a pleasure, everybody.

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I guess I'm the spokesperson for today.

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I'm Andrea Rosenberg, I'm the Chief Ancillary and Support Services Officer at Natividad,

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and I have the peer pleasure of overseeing the therapy departments at Natividad.

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I quickly want to introduce the people that are up here.

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It really takes an entire team to be able to do

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all the amazing work that you got to hear about.

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So we have Blair Lee Mone.

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She is our director of Therapy Services at Natividad.

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We have Jenny, who is the Occupational Therapist,

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Rotty, who is a physical therapist.

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And Jessica, who's our supervising therapist in the department.

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So we're really appreciative of this recognition today.

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It really means a lot.

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Our team does excellent work at Natividad and it's really nice that we've got a few minutes.

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Our 15 minutes of fame to be highlighted today at the Board of Supervisors.

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So thank you so much.

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Anybody else?

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We'll take a photo.

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Can I just say one word?

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Yes.

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Just that's the word.

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You know, how we got mean was that we got this group.

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It wasn't only me.

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It was a lot of people seeing outside waiting for their husband and why they're children.

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All the ones who are waiting for their

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I started talking to all of them, and I was going to get a petition because they all were telling me how great this team was.

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It wasn't only my effort or his. It was a lot of other patients who were waiting outside.

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And I wanted to get a petition so they can sign it. You know, so we all can come in.

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But you know, I realized that it's confidentiality on the patients.

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But it wasn't only us. It was a patient sitting outside waiting for the families to the thought that this group of therapists were very excellent.

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and they really enjoyed coming to the therapist with them. Thank you.

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to have our family members and chambers.

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Thanks, Louise, for bringing your mom and family.

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All right, our next resolution

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is honoring the League of Women voters

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on their 100 years of service here in Monterey County.

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And I'm going to invite some folks

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I've done this more and time of all of her.

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And then whoever else is here representing the league

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were, yes, happy to have the crew.

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All right, I'm going to, all right.

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Thank you for being here and joining us.

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have you come stand here with me.

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So there's a lot we get excited about here,

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and a lot of good work that happens

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at the board of supervisors.

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But empowering everyone to support and get involved

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in our democracy is the center of literally everything

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that we do here at the county.

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In 1920, the United States ratified the 19th Amendment

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of the Constitution, which states that the right of citizens

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of the United States to vote shall not be denied or bridged

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by the United States or by any state on account of sacks.

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And 1920 is not that long ago, my grandmother was born into a country that didn't give her

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mom or her the right to vote. And we've come a long way since then. The League of Women

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voters was founded that same year in 1920 with the goal of helping newly in franchise women

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exercised their right to vote. And the League's Monterey County chapter has been a part of

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community since 1926. Ever since they've been busy empowering voters defending democracy,

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registering voters, staffing the polls. I think you have a couple of locations that you'll

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be for for locations fully staffed by the league volunteers. You're out to being voter education

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in the community. If you've ever used vote for a one one to figure out what's actually on your

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ballot, that's thanks to the league. Their voice on local issues has influenced critical

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community decisions, making sure that voters are educated fully about the issues and not just listening

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to the soundbites that can be so influential. But you've been out there educating and providing

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additional information on critical issues like housing and water. Your work with young people

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helps build civic engagement as a value and a responsibility that lasts for a lifetime creates a

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foundation of who we are here in Monterey County. And our democracy depends on the people who show up

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do this sometimes on glamorous work year after year after year, after decade, for a century.

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The election after election, and I want to thank the League of Women Voters for the work

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that you're doing today, that the work that those have come before us have done and celebrating

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100 years of service here in Monterey County. We've come a long way in that period of time and

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we still have a long way to go to make sure that we continue to protect the rights of all people

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in this country women and men to be able to vote in every election without barriers or other

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reasons that get in the way. So thank you so much and congratulations and I'm going to give you

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a chance to make some comments. I can't add anything actually to those very kind words and

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insightful words about the works that we do. Our mission is empowering voters and defending democracy

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And I think a current advance will show you it's an ongoing

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So, democracy needs nurturing, and it needs people who believe in it and support it. And we appreciate the people in the community who engage with us and give us the opportunity to keep our democracy working. Thank you.

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We'll take a quick picture.

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Bob, do you want to join us?

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Great, we got the parts team up here.

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And this is one of these resolutions.

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I'm really, really pleased to be about because I think

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it's really very special.

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And it's going to be to commemorate our 60th anniversary,

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not just of parts established.

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Now it's a division of public works facilities

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and parts.

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But originally it was formed as its own department, and this year is at 60th anniversary, but it's also a 60th anniversary of the first park, and that's where it looks park.

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And we, you know, moderate county was one of the counties that was rather slow when adopting parks and into into into its system.

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But it really actually was a 1944, the county moderates planning commission prepared a

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parks and recreation plan, and it was a framework for acquiring property and setting

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conversation practices and priorities and establishing public space for a regional park

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system.

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But it sat around for an entire generation, not just ignored because there was funding problems.

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And as some of you know, my father was a county supervisor in the 60s and 70s representing the North

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Army County areas as I do now.

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And when he ran for a supervisor in 1964, he saw that was lacking and he ran on a platform

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of two park system.

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And this was one of the priorities that he was very, and I think the thing he was probably

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most proud of and all the 12 years he sat on there was establishment of that.

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So those first two parts, by the way, were Royal Oaks and Toro, and then the rest of the

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part system filled in to the 60s and the 70s, so to basically what we have now. So the county found

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the money in 1966 to set up its first, its parts department, and April 1st, and then actually

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purchased a couple months later Royal Oaks Park, although the land was already previously designated,

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and the lady who sold it to the county lived in Fresno and at that time she was receiving

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offers from some strawberry growers to strip out the oak trees and put in strawberry fields but

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she really didn't want that to happen. It was being used to turkey farm at the time and I think

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well turkey's running around there. Yeah so there's still some turkeys there. Not the same type but

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some and it's she she had enough patients to wait long enough for the county to go through

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its usual deliberate process of acquiring the land and then in labor day of 1966 we're

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at a local park open and that's what we're commemorating is those two dates April and

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September.

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It's is some parks are really one of these just these I think these important

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things that all government entities really have a role in whether it's state, federal,

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or local down to city and counties because parks become something that that everybody can go

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and enjoy and it doesn't matter upon, you know, you're your wealth or, you know, usually even,

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How close you are to it? How far you are away from it as long as they're usually one within your neighborhood somewhere that should always be one

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On somebody's neighborhood, because it gives an opportunity for people to relax, to be together, for recreation.

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It's just something that improves the quality of life for everyone.

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And I'm really, really proud here on the 60th anniversary here to present this resolution to the, to honoring the Monterey County parts and Lake's division.

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and Enroylox Park. I was at that Labor Day opening September 4th. I was only age of 7,

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but I do remember it very clearly. I remember how they were playing horse shoes, and I wanted

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to play horse shoes, but they didn't have a division for age 7, but they still have some horseshoe

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pits there, and I know Brian Forrest has challenged me to a game coming up as we celebrated on

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on September 12th. So I'm really looking forward to Kim, a good

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weapon.

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So Brian, you haven't any words you'd like to say, or Randy.

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Thank you very much for your research and members of the board. The Department

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greatly appreciates this distinction of what you recognize as within. It's

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something that's granted for not only the Department, but for the public itself.

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The county has over 30,000 acres of parks and open space ranging from

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rail looks park in the north and may as a need to park down to Toro Park, Jax Peak Park, the former

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forwardward lands, San Lorenzo Park and King City, and then the beautiful recreational spaces we

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have at the lakes, Lake San Antonio, and Lake Nascimento down in the South County.

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And those are all maintained by the hardworking staff here in the parks division every single day.

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And this is a small contingent of them that is up here today because the others are all back at the

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60 years, 60 years, staff like this have maintained the parks for our public, and it was

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especially notable not only every day, but also during 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic,

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where the parks were the only places people could go for both physical and mental well

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being and relaxation during that very trying time.

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And it was a staff here that maintained it in the 60 years as a legacy left by that

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that made those difficult decisions and that initiative back then, and I've carried it forward to this generation of the board who have used the new

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Measure called measure double lay to reinvest in our park spaces making them beautiful for the next generations to come and

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Without it like handed over to the person who leads that dedicated staff on a daily basis chief of parks prime floor as

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Thank you, Director Supervisor church and some my staff

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Without you, you know, none of this would be possible from our admins to have to our field staff to our utility specialists to our parkrangers

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It's a great team. It's a lot smaller than used to be. I'm hoping it will get larger over the years

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But we're making do and with major AA funding coming in

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We're able to do a lot of great projects. We're going for playground replacements

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we're putting in disgulf course, disgulf courses, investing in our utilities and our facilities so you're going to see a lot of great things from parks over the next few years.

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I'm very glad that in 1944, the master plan that was done by the Planning Commission, it showed all of the open space that could potentially be parks.

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These were all the properties along the coast that are now state parks that are regional parks

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I'm very very glad that we are not managing every single open space area in the county

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It would be huge, but thankfully state parks and regional parks and some other parks districts stepped in and

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And acquired those properties, but September 12th we're having our 60th anniversary celebration at Royal Oak's park

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Supervisor church and I will be putting on a show with the horses

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We are having probably 15 or more food trucks, food vendors, food and beverage vendors that you all will recognize great, you know, baked potatoes and soul food and all kinds of great desserts and seafood and barbecue.

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So please come out where I'm in a disc golf tournament that starts at nine shot guns start. We're having a closest to the pin contest. Well, of course, she was volleyball. We have pickleball courts. We have tennis courts. We have basketball courts, two new soccer goals.

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We're trying to do a baseball field for this, but it just wasn't in the cards before the 12th.

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So come out. It's great. Great time for family. It's a free event, except for the food.

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You'll have to purchase that yourself. And it kicks off. And when the park opens, it eight o'clock

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and gets down when it closes at 7. So we're looking for a good week weather and hopefully a great time.

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So, thank you so much.

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No comment on the warping.

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Just check it.

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Well, we'll have to come up with a, you know, the loser has to do this or that type of thing and make sure that that's captured on on video for posterity.

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Brian is taking the challenge. I'm a little afraid he has home court advantage. He's going to be out there practicing every day.

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hooray for our parks and what was the date of that event and everyone's welcome

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September 12 from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Royal Oaks Park a big old 60th birthday and everyone

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is invited thanks

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all right moving right along this morning we have a number of appointments items number

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eight through 16.1.

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Yeah.

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Is there any public comment on our appointment this morning?

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I would just like to have a separate vote on item number eight.

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Item number eight.

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Got it.

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All right.

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Any other public comment on our appointment this morning?

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All right.

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Seeing no public comment, we'll bring it back to the board.

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We have a request for a separate.

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Do you want to comment on that?

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I just want to say no that one.

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Okay.

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I'll have it.

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I think on 16, one we have to vote separately,

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too.

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Great.

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All right.

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So we'll look at item nine through 16.

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Happy to entertain a motion.

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Motion from Alejo second from church.

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Thank you.

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All in favor?

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Aye.

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All right.

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Passes unanimously.

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Let's go back to item number eight.

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Public entertain motion.

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This is to correct the term expiration dates for recorded

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as the North County Recreation and Park District from November 30, 2029, to January 27, 2029.

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It looks like that's a correction.

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We corrected for one other person last week, so this would be the correction here, had moved

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to approve the correction.

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Okay, I'll second that.

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So we have a motion from church.

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Just second from ask you, I'm all in favor, and one abstention, so abstention from

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I hope. Great. Thank you. All right. My item passes and we'll go on to item 16.1. And is there

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a staff presentation on this? Or would we just pass it over to you, Glenn?

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I'm going to go have a shot, Nick. Yeah. Thank you, Madam Chair. There are two names that have been

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put forward for consideration for the board. One is Mr. Jordan Cobby Arrow, the other is Mr.

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Ruby Diaz. We have a corrected staff report that was sent in there was an error in the first

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when I was, I think this really a decision for the board at this point.

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It's going to point out that the APA Mr. Diaz, who didn't get a bio from him and I know there

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were some, this is a multi-district appointment, as a reason is coming up this way because

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Bill's in from District 2 to District 4 and so that's why it needs to be a vote of the board

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onto there.

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But, Mr. Dea, from what I understand, there was, well, numerous attempts to contact Mr. Dea's

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onto this one and he, we'd be to get to contact with him. So, I'm not sure what his interest is.

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So, at that, with that, I mean, he's come to really clear. We did have this open two times for

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nominees. The first time is open nobody applied and in the second time we had to, so being

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the only one that there's really been any contact with, I would be happy to nominate Jordan

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Cove Arrow for that. Great. Thank you. I was of a motion from church a second from Lopez

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to a point Jordan Cove Arrow of the two candidates. And just to clarify North County

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recreation and park district is a special district that authorizes the Board of Supervisors

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to make appointments to their board, even though they are an independent body from the county.

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So, any other discussion on this item, and I'll open up to public comment on this item.

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Seeing none, we'll bring it back to the board. We have a motion on favor.

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Aye. Aye. Passes unanimously. Thank you.

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Okay, moving on to consent items. We have item 25 through 42. I'll start by opening up the public.

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We do have comments on item 33, so we'll welcome.

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Our public comment on item 33 now.

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Good morning, Board of Supervisors. Mike weaver, protect the process.

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This POE issue deals with some pretty, pretty strong stuff, nitrate, nitrates, arsenic, fluoride, chromium, six.

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How do we measure these?

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I read, I read the health department was nice enough to send me two packages, I read all

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through it and I have some questions and concerns, who, how often, who pays, where does the

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arsenic sledge contamination go?

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As you may remember, CalTrans was dropping sledge in the landfill for a while till they were

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caught.

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So where does it go and what penalties are there out there for non-compliance?

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It's all about mitigation monitoring and coming up with mitigation measures on this which I don't find in the package.

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It's been ignored.

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We need more oversight and responsibility from the landowner whether he rents or resides there.

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and the sledge or the toxics, the filters must get deposited somewhere and they need to get a receipt and keep a record of it, checks and balances.

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You probably know, especially North County.

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I mean, I've been to the Health Department before and somebody's brought in a check and said,

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Here you go, here's my share. I share a water system with four houses and one guy doesn't pay and damn it. I'm not paying for him and

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They'll give them a check for a quarter. Well, the fourth guy never does pay because the water doesn't get turned off

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So I mean what what penalties are gonna be out there for people are dealing with toxic that aren't

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complying with with with you know basic health

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That's my concern. It needs to go back to the drawing board and work all this out. Thank you

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Thank you. I'm just gonna I give an opportunity for a staff to respond to those questions

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Good morning, Chair members of the board. Rick and Karnishon director of environmental bureau chief

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With respects to the disposal of the

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filtrade from the point of view point of entry water systems. These are systems either very small simple systems

441
00:37:43,550 --> 00:37:46,570
It could be treated as household hazardous waste.

442
00:37:47,510 --> 00:37:51,090
There are rules and regulations regarding household hazardous waste.

443
00:37:51,230 --> 00:37:52,750
It's intended to be easy.

444
00:37:53,410 --> 00:37:57,010
If there's questions on the technical aspects of our oversight

445
00:37:57,750 --> 00:37:59,690
of local small water systems,

446
00:37:59,870 --> 00:38:02,750
I do have the supervisor here with regard to that.

447
00:38:02,810 --> 00:38:06,170
But with respects to the disposal of the field trade

448
00:38:06,170 --> 00:38:07,370
from the point of use point of entry,

449
00:38:08,110 --> 00:38:09,350
it's household hazardous waste,

450
00:38:09,770 --> 00:38:12,770
which there is a complete system with regards to that.

451
00:38:12,770 --> 00:38:19,410
with regards to protection of renters. We are at the health department. We respond to a multitude

452
00:38:19,410 --> 00:38:27,070
of issues. Also, renters issues, issues with pollution, issues regarding local small water

453
00:38:27,070 --> 00:38:31,390
systems. Thank you.

454
00:38:35,290 --> 00:38:40,710
Let's see if there's any other public comment on our consent agenda today. Not singing anyone

455
00:38:40,710 --> 00:38:42,750
chambers and there are no hands raised online.

456
00:38:42,890 --> 00:38:46,430
So we're going to close public comment and bring it back to the board and we'll go to

457
00:38:46,430 --> 00:38:46,750
church.

458
00:38:47,170 --> 00:38:52,590
I just, you know, I think Mr. Weaver raises some important points out of that there and

459
00:38:52,590 --> 00:38:57,070
appreciate we're starting connection on addressing it as it is, you know, this household

460
00:38:57,650 --> 00:39:09,290
waste. The state does allow for the, for the, for the larger systems of 15

461
00:39:10,350 --> 00:39:15,790
for dealing with a whole range of hazardous waste and the county does as well.

462
00:39:16,270 --> 00:39:26,430
This particular ordinance right here is not dealing with how this is being disposed of

463
00:39:26,430 --> 00:39:32,230
because that is already covered inside a county process and the state process onto there.

464
00:39:32,230 --> 00:39:44,210
This one, this referral, which I put forth initially was because in situations, we'll just deal with a, like a, a four parcel water system.

465
00:39:44,690 --> 00:39:56,690
If you have three houses that are built on it and say it has some contamination with something into it, it is already allowed for the three existing homes to have POU POE systems and operation.

466
00:39:56,690 --> 00:39:59,730
They're an operational, they're an operational operation but

467
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:10,840
The way the current law has been is that that that undeveloped lot, if somebody wants to build a home onto their day, then the whole system had to put in a centralized water system.

468
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:29,320
Well, you're talking about something you could cause anywhere $15,000, and the existing homes are not to the existing people living there in that water system are not usually willing to pick up that extra cost so that their neighbor can build a home.

469
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:36,200
and we have such a shortage of homes, a shortage of ADUs as well, that this gives the opportunity

470
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:44,700
to build onto there so that a new home, a new dwelling, can actually have the same rights

471
00:40:44,700 --> 00:40:52,120
to water use as the ones that are existing. So that's why it's not addressing some of the issues

472
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:59,900
Mr. Weaver raises, but they're very valid issues on safety and concerns, and I think being

473
00:40:59,900 --> 00:41:03,080
that is household waste, I think that's been addressed, but I wanted to put everything

474
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:08,660
in context of what was exactly we're addressing there. It's not setting forth the policy

475
00:41:08,660 --> 00:41:14,300
where suddenly this is we're having POE systems, and I should spell those out as point

476
00:41:14,300 --> 00:41:18,600
of use, point of entry, which is you'd be to put them in your house or outside your

477
00:41:19,540 --> 00:41:23,340
But this is just allowing a little more fairness.

478
00:41:23,780 --> 00:41:24,420
Thank you.

479
00:41:26,210 --> 00:41:26,710
Thank you.

480
00:41:26,870 --> 00:41:28,310
Any other, I'll bring it back to the board.

481
00:41:28,410 --> 00:41:34,030
Any other items to comment or comments for consent agenda this morning?

482
00:41:35,290 --> 00:41:38,030
I did to have just a couple comments on item 33.

483
00:41:38,210 --> 00:41:41,410
Specifically, I just wanted to thank staff for hearing the feedback that was provided

484
00:41:41,410 --> 00:41:43,590
at our last, the first hearing on this.

485
00:41:43,890 --> 00:41:48,070
And thank you for adding the notification to tenants who might be

486
00:41:48,070 --> 00:41:53,830
occurs who might be living in a unit with a point of use, point of entry, support of property.

487
00:41:54,630 --> 00:41:58,090
And I just think it's important that we're really clear that all of our residents,

488
00:41:58,330 --> 00:42:02,030
regardless of their ownership status, understand how their health is being protected and

489
00:42:02,030 --> 00:42:07,350
the systems that are operating within that building to keep their water safe.

490
00:42:07,850 --> 00:42:11,910
So, thank you for calling that out explicitly, but I'm happy to support that today.

491
00:42:12,490 --> 00:42:15,850
And then I have a couple questions, I might ask for a separate vote, but on item number 32,

492
00:42:15,850 --> 00:42:22,610
which is an epic IO amendment number one on some cameras that are used by environmental

493
00:42:22,610 --> 00:42:28,570
health to deter and document illegal dumping. We've had this program in place for some time

494
00:42:28,570 --> 00:42:33,850
is actually apparently been fairly successful in helping to deter some of the illegal dumping

495
00:42:33,850 --> 00:42:41,590
that happens here in the county. But as I'm paying more attention as the communities are asking

496
00:42:41,590 --> 00:42:50,290
to pay more attention to privacy, to data, to how governance, governance around how we use cameras

497
00:42:50,290 --> 00:42:58,370
in the county. I wanted to ask about setting what the expectations are with the policies

498
00:42:58,370 --> 00:43:04,270
are around how that information is retained, access and shared. So we're asking those questions.

499
00:43:04,450 --> 00:43:11,050
I've raised those questions now for the sheriffs proposed contract and as I'm reading through and

500
00:43:11,050 --> 00:43:16,150
thinking about the different spaces that we have data that exists, and as those contracts come forward.

501
00:43:16,990 --> 00:43:26,850
I think it's important that we ask the questions around policies that dictate retention periods for data,

502
00:43:27,130 --> 00:43:32,050
who has access to that data, whether images can be shared with other county departments or law enforcement,

503
00:43:32,710 --> 00:43:36,270
and what policies we have in place that are governing that use.

504
00:43:37,150 --> 00:43:42,510
So, again, if I could just ask environmental health to speak to some of those policy questions

505
00:43:42,510 --> 00:43:47,550
around data privacy and data security, as it relates to this particular contract,

506
00:43:50,340 --> 00:43:50,400
I'll

507
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:54,460
just say if we don't have clear policies, I think it's something that I'll want us to maybe

508
00:43:54,460 --> 00:43:57,660
take a pause on this and bring back those policies, but I'll go to the question.

509
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:01,920
Thank you, Chair Rick and Kronosho and Director of Environmental Health Bureau.

510
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:08,280
With regards to retention of the data that we collect from these camera system to combat,

511
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:13,280
again illegal dumping, it is stored locally within the program.

512
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:19,720
Maria Ferdine, the supervisor of the program, is her data or her data.

513
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:25,400
It's the county's data stored within our program, solid waste management services within the

514
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:26,280
Bureau of Environment and Health.

515
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:30,820
It's subject to the retention of our record retention policy, which is three years.

516
00:44:30,820 --> 00:44:38,280
With regards to sharing, we only share the data with those involved with our case.

517
00:44:39,220 --> 00:44:40,440
It may be law enforcement.

518
00:44:41,720 --> 00:44:45,700
In the case when we first instituted the program, we asked for the public cell.

519
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:47,880
We posted the video.

520
00:44:48,900 --> 00:44:51,540
Illegal dumping is horrible.

521
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,840
And it's the most convenient thing a person can do.

522
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:58,700
But so we asked for the public cell with that.

523
00:44:58,700 --> 00:44:59,980
with regards to

524
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:06,420
Sharing the images again, we'll only share it with those that who can help us. We've shared it to the extent of the public.

525
00:45:06,660 --> 00:45:15,220
Again, we posted it tried to crowdsource for information to help us with getting information on who is doing this illegal dumping.

526
00:45:16,780 --> 00:45:21,400
So it's very local. It's very local to the extent of our program within the bureau.

527
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:28,240
Subject to our records retention policy, and only we'll be shared with those involved with helping us build the case to combat illegal dumping.

528
00:45:30,220 --> 00:45:35,880
Thank you for that. And so in terms of the policies that govern that use of this data,

529
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:41,840
do we have the records retention policy that applies to all county data? Are there other

530
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:51,220
policies that have been developed that guide this, how this data is held and managed?

531
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:55,040
Only our policy with regards to the enforcement of the illegal dumping.

532
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:57,100
Okay. Great. Thank you.

533
00:45:57,100 --> 00:46:10,460
And so I guess I think you've visited answer to my questions, so as we're looking at all of these contracts, I fully support the work that's being done on the illegal dumping side of this.

534
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:26,740
But I would like to just ask that we have the data security and privacy question reviewed in more detail by County Council and IT to make sure that we're fully.

535
00:46:27,940 --> 00:46:33,840
addressing all of the data privacy and security and governance issues around this particular

536
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:41,120
contract. So I'd like to have this pulled for some further review and come back to us

537
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:45,380
at a future date. So that would be my motion on this item 32.

538
00:46:51,180 --> 00:46:52,880
There is no second. So we'll

539
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:55,600
bring it back to the board for any further discussion or action.

540
00:47:04,220 --> 00:47:06,280
So I'd ask to have item 32

541
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:13,400
So I'm held for a separate vote on for some additional information about the policies that are governing the data so that we're clear on those policies.

542
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:15,340
There was no second to that motion.

543
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:19,860
So that went back to the board and there was no motion for the entire consent agenda.

544
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:23,720
I would ask that item 32 be on a separate vote though.

545
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:37,600
So the motion from Alejo a second from church for full consent with the exception of 32.

546
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:38,820
So all in favor.

547
00:47:39,300 --> 00:47:39,860
All right.

548
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:41,420
And then moving on to 32.

549
00:47:44,660 --> 00:47:52,220
I do agree I think there needs to be a policy set forth and I will be hopeful and we have

550
00:47:52,220 --> 00:47:57,440
a discussion in a few weeks on these types of cameras that probably appropriate time

551
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:00,440
to bring up the direction that would go into it.

552
00:48:00,660 --> 00:48:05,960
That's why I'm not seconding, although I understand that I think it needs to be a discussion

553
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:06,980
on that.

554
00:48:12,900 --> 00:48:20,100
Right, so we have a motion on item 32, from Lejo a second from Lopez, I will be

555
00:48:20,100 --> 00:48:24,000
abstaining on this, or I will be voting no on this because I do feel like given the

556
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:27,640
public discourse on this item, I would like to know that we have policies in place before

557
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:33,260
we move forward and I will reiterate that I do feel very, I've been fairly involved with

558
00:48:33,260 --> 00:48:39,040
how these cameras are being used, how staff is handling the state, and I feel very confident

559
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:44,560
that it is being managed appropriately but to be consistent with the questions that I'm asking

560
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:48,900
about other camera and data used in this county. I do think it's important that we have policies

561
00:48:48,900 --> 00:48:55,060
in place before we act on those contracts. So that's why I'll be voting no on this particular.

562
00:48:55,280 --> 00:49:00,560
If I may just kind of follow up then I'm going to support it because we do own these cameras.

563
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:05,740
We know specifically what staff is looking at it and then they're a scope that's being used.

564
00:49:05,740 --> 00:49:12,780
I do agree there needs to be a bigger discussion, but I think on these cameras, it's ownership

565
00:49:12,780 --> 00:49:15,080
and the use is going in two different directions.

566
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:20,500
And I agree, we've been doing this for several years now and I don't want, by the time we

567
00:49:20,500 --> 00:49:24,180
develop some policy, I don't want that to be a reason to hold this off for many, many more

568
00:49:24,180 --> 00:49:29,480
months when there is a separate way to be able to address what we're talking about here today.

569
00:49:33,900 --> 00:49:34,240
Thank you.

570
00:49:34,240 --> 00:49:40,400
three, I would ask you, voting no, all right, thank you. Okay, we're moving on to our general

571
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:46,400
public comments. This is a time for members of the community to speak and share your thoughts

572
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:50,280
with us about items that are not on the agenda, but are within the preview of the county

573
00:49:51,460 --> 00:49:54,840
government and to just ask for shared respect. All people are providing their testimony.

574
00:49:57,100 --> 00:49:58,320
Thank you for joining us.

575
00:50:00,210 --> 00:50:10,930
Karen Cameron, concerns, cleanest resident. I've been collecting data from spray days. Our world's first notification of toxic restricted pesticides within one mile.

576
00:50:11,790 --> 00:50:18,010
McKinnon Elementary School is surrounded by fields and it's one of the schools I've been tracking, I'd just like to share with you this week.

577
00:50:18,690 --> 00:50:21,410
They've had five A.M. and six A.M.

578
00:50:21,670 --> 00:50:23,870
chlorochron, one, three D applications,

579
00:50:24,290 --> 00:50:25,910
or notifications of them anyway.

580
00:50:26,850 --> 00:50:30,030
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

581
00:50:30,430 --> 00:50:33,450
Every day, this week, right before school,

582
00:50:33,950 --> 00:50:35,890
five o'clock in the morning, six o'clock in the morning.

583
00:50:36,870 --> 00:50:38,950
Monday also had an evening methamel,

584
00:50:39,150 --> 00:50:40,050
Lannite applications.

585
00:50:41,070 --> 00:50:42,810
So that's what they're getting in a data point.

586
00:50:43,290 --> 00:50:45,330
These are toxic restricted pesticides

587
00:50:45,330 --> 00:50:52,070
band in about 50 countries. However, they are allowed by EPA and CDPR and signed off on by

588
00:50:52,070 --> 00:50:52,930
our commissioner.

589
00:50:55,110 --> 00:51:01,010
One 3D is a prop 65 carcinogen, but it's allowed in the egg industry. I don't

590
00:51:01,010 --> 00:51:08,710
understand. I don't have all the solutions. I stand troubled because I always believe that if you

591
00:51:08,710 --> 00:51:13,510
present a problem, you should try to bring a viable solution and I don't have them. I'm simply

592
00:51:13,510 --> 00:51:20,310
a person sounding the alarm. I did meet with Reservoir Farms briefly this week and intend

593
00:51:20,310 --> 00:51:25,110
to follow up. I also attended a Safe Egg Safe Schools meeting where we heard about the

594
00:51:25,110 --> 00:51:30,830
steamed pilot project that they're doing in Watsonville, which may be a viable alternative.

595
00:51:31,430 --> 00:51:38,410
I say may because I question the use of propane doesn't sound too organic to me, but it

596
00:51:38,410 --> 00:51:44,310
to be a viable trade-out solution for fumigation that we could at least look at in the future.

597
00:51:45,170 --> 00:51:51,050
For the immediate, I just call upon Juan Hidalgo to please live up to your mission statement

598
00:51:51,050 --> 00:51:56,790
and vision statement that you can read on the Commissioner's website where he talks about

599
00:51:56,790 --> 00:52:04,810
being a voice of Monterey County agriculture and a role model for the future and meeting the needs of

600
00:52:04,810 --> 00:52:07,670
public, I urge you to do so and do better, please.

601
00:52:08,490 --> 00:52:09,270
Thank you.

602
00:52:19,530 --> 00:52:20,770
Hi, Peter's Align.

603
00:52:21,630 --> 00:52:25,190
I listen carefully to last week's discussion about the sheriff's proposed expansion

604
00:52:25,190 --> 00:52:26,130
of flawed cameras.

605
00:52:26,850 --> 00:52:31,710
Roughly 50 speakers oppose the technology and supervisor ask you reported receiving about

606
00:52:31,710 --> 00:52:33,550
400 comments, most in opposition.

607
00:52:34,370 --> 00:52:39,450
Those voices deserve to be heard, but our county has 430,000 residents.

608
00:52:40,250 --> 00:52:44,690
Public policy should not be determined by who organizes the most speakers, or sends

609
00:52:44,690 --> 00:52:51,070
the most emails. Your responsibility is to weigh public concerns against evidence, experience,

610
00:52:51,530 --> 00:52:56,370
and the broader public good. I share legitimate concerns about privacy, accountability,

611
00:52:56,570 --> 00:53:01,630
and misuse. But those concerns should not come from assumptions about how the technology

612
00:53:01,630 --> 00:53:12,510
is actually being used or unjustified criticism of law enforcement. Selena says use

613
00:53:12,510 --> 00:53:14,830
and their searches are tracked and audited.

614
00:53:15,350 --> 00:53:17,270
Search is must relate to legitimate investigations.

615
00:53:18,090 --> 00:53:22,410
The cameras capture license plates and vehicle characteristics, not faces.

616
00:53:22,930 --> 00:53:24,430
There is no facial recognition.

617
00:53:25,090 --> 00:53:27,830
They take still images, not continuous video.

618
00:53:28,470 --> 00:53:30,690
A flock alert is only one piece of evidence.

619
00:53:31,230 --> 00:53:33,210
It identifies a vehicle at a location.

620
00:53:33,650 --> 00:53:37,690
It does not identify the driver, and by itself does not justify an arrest.

621
00:53:37,690 --> 00:53:43,330
Salinas Police report that this technology has assisted homicide and other serious criminal

622
00:53:43,330 --> 00:53:49,050
investigations. The Department also operates under SP54 and does not use the system for immigration

623
00:53:49,050 --> 00:53:54,790
enforcement. What I would like to see is greater public transparency, regular reporting on how

624
00:53:54,790 --> 00:54:00,850
flock is used, its safeguards, violations of any and measurable results. Accountability and public

625
00:54:00,850 --> 00:54:07,070
safety are not competing values. We can insist on both. And finally, Benjamin Franklin's

626
00:54:07,070 --> 00:54:12,510
Liberty and Security Quotation is in accurately taken out of its historical context and should

627
00:54:12,510 --> 00:54:17,390
not substitute for a careful evaluation of the actual policy before you.

628
00:54:17,710 --> 00:54:18,410
Thank you.

629
00:54:27,900 --> 00:54:31,320
Madam Chair, Members of the Board, my name is Mark Delpiro.

630
00:54:31,980 --> 00:54:34,140
I'm here on behalf of the Aglantress this morning.

631
00:54:35,180 --> 00:54:39,760
This morning, you all received a press release at your respective chairs.

632
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:40,800
Nice to see you, Nick.

633
00:54:41,820 --> 00:54:59,840
First of all, I wanted to thank Supervisor Lopez because he wrote a letter along with Congressman Penetta and as a result, the Eggman Trust is pleased, announced that the Department of War in the U.S. Army National Guard.

634
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:06,300
Ordered us $2.5 million to train veterans as to how to be 21st century companies.

635
00:55:08,720 --> 00:55:14,400
That's about as simple as I can put it, the press release that you have in hand

636
00:55:15,540 --> 00:55:20,800
lays out a large amount of the details of what's going on. We own a number of ranches in

637
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:25,300
feed down in South Monterey County that we've acquired over the course of the last decade.

638
00:55:25,300 --> 00:55:31,280
And that money has come from the repy program.

639
00:55:31,540 --> 00:55:34,540
It's called Read Readiness and Environmental Protection.

640
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:35,800
Integration.

641
00:55:36,940 --> 00:55:40,560
It's a mechanism by which conservation organizations,

642
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:43,440
like the England Trust here in Monterey County,

643
00:55:43,620 --> 00:55:46,780
work with federal government in order to secure the purchase

644
00:55:46,780 --> 00:55:51,600
and permanent ownership and preservation of lands,

645
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:57,620
approximately military reservations. And so this pilot project will go on for the next three years.

646
00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:07,020
We have about 20 veterans or guys that are quickly transitioning out of military service that are ready to be brought on board.

647
00:56:08,580 --> 00:56:11,720
And they will be transitioning through that program.

648
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:18,660
Some of them will be in a six months training program. Some of them will be there for up to three years.

649
00:56:18,660 --> 00:56:25,940
Supervisor Church and I have had this conversation a couple times about what's going on and we've been

650
00:56:27,740 --> 00:56:33,960
Been in contact with the county veterans affairs officer, so he's aware as well as Sam was the best for county

651
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:38,320
If you have any questions, you're welcome to get it. Get a hold of this. Thank you very much

652
00:56:39,380 --> 00:56:40,980
Welcome back, Supervisor

653
00:56:50,660 --> 00:56:55,120
Mark, I'm just gonna have you come back to the microphone and I give in your your significance in this county

654
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:56,500
I'm gonna allow an additional minute

655
00:56:56,500 --> 00:57:02,080
Thank you so much. I wanted to make a point of introducing you to somebody that a couple of

656
00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:06,360
you already know, Camille Poulson, who is our director of finance for the Agalent Trust, is here

657
00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:12,480
with me. This morning, she makes sure that everything in the office runs correctly in spite of

658
00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:17,500
me. And so I wanted to take the opportunity to make sure that everybody in the board who hasn't

659
00:57:17,500 --> 00:57:22,620
met her in the past has the opportunity to do that. Thanks so much for your time. Thank you.

660
00:57:22,620 --> 00:57:25,040
And thank you for your service to the county as well.

661
00:57:25,820 --> 00:57:27,260
Right, any other public comment?

662
00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:29,320
No one else in Chambers will go online.

663
00:57:29,460 --> 00:57:32,360
We have a hand raised phone number ending in 705.

664
00:57:42,700 --> 00:57:44,640
Supervisors, a Lorna Mossett here.

665
00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:47,260
You know, I'm Martin Palo Alto, and I attended

666
00:57:47,260 --> 00:57:51,420
a city council meeting where about 100 residents

667
00:57:51,420 --> 00:57:54,540
showed up about the flock and cameras.

668
00:57:54,940 --> 00:58:00,380
And I learned a lot, and there's been a lot of mistakes

669
00:58:00,380 --> 00:58:06,660
at the Flaw cameras make and the identification, and people have been working up in the middle

670
00:58:06,660 --> 00:58:14,900
of the night by literally, you know, hot teams, terrorizing them, and this identification.

671
00:58:15,900 --> 00:58:24,160
And I just think, you know, it's very important that we have some kind of, I guess, surveillance

672
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:36,460
on the violence, but it does take away our freedom and our personal privacy, and we are

673
00:58:36,460 --> 00:58:41,560
going to have to pay one way or the other. So I think we have to make a decision, and my

674
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:49,380
decision is, I'd rather live in a free world where I'm not, you know, surveilled all 247,

675
00:58:49,380 --> 00:58:55,460
which is what this country is coming to than in the fall camera.

676
00:58:55,980 --> 00:58:58,480
So thanks very carefully about what you're doing.

677
00:58:58,840 --> 00:58:59,820
Thank you.

678
00:59:02,180 --> 00:59:02,680
Thank you.

679
00:59:02,780 --> 00:59:04,640
Seeing no additional handphrase, we'll close public comment

680
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:08,280
and bring it back to the board for our two scheduled items this morning.

681
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:10,620
Three, four, handful scheduled items this morning.

682
00:59:10,940 --> 00:59:13,480
We'll start with item number 19, receiving a presentation

683
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:15,600
and to consider approval of revisions to the county

684
00:59:15,600 --> 00:59:17,860
and hand infrastructure financing district policy.

685
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:20,500
And we'll just do a time check.

686
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:23,160
We have a couple items that are scheduled for 30 minutes.

687
00:59:23,340 --> 00:59:28,160
It is already 11 30, so we'll try to manage the rest of the morning.

688
00:59:46,210 --> 00:59:46,370
Morning.

689
00:59:46,690 --> 00:59:54,550
Chair Route SQ, board, Chief Assistant CAO, Chulos, Richard Vaughn, economic development manager

690
00:59:54,550 --> 00:59:59,950
for the county and presenting to you a revised in-

691
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:02,320
Hence infrastructure for financing district policy.

692
01:00:08,120 --> 01:00:11,680
So, wanted to give you a quick background on this, just to

693
01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:31,680
refresh your memory. So, we have received several interested parties, cities regarding EIFDs in the past. And we actually do have one EIFD that has been approved. This was back in, I believe, 2021 between the county and the city of Gonzalez.

694
01:00:31,680 --> 01:00:45,000
And so with that economic development was directed to come together with the CAO Office and HCD and pull together an EIFD policy.

695
01:00:46,960 --> 01:00:55,120
So we worked very closely with our admin office, our budget director, housing community development and presented this to the board.

696
01:00:55,120 --> 01:01:01,360
This was back in October of 2023 and the board moved forward with adopting that policy

697
01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:05,800
Since then, we've received feedback from several city partners

698
01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:12,560
Regarding some of the language within the policy and so that is what we brought to you today

699
01:01:16,930 --> 01:01:20,210
So quick outline of R E I F D policy so

700
01:01:21,190 --> 01:01:28,030
The way that the county receives these these proposals is we consider proposals from city seeking financial partnership

701
01:01:28,030 --> 01:01:34,770
through the Joint City County EIFD. This is particularly interested in supporting projects that

702
01:01:34,770 --> 01:01:39,950
provide for jobs, housing balance, therefore will prioritize commercial industrial developments

703
01:01:39,950 --> 01:01:46,270
that promote creation of above minimum wage jobs within our region. And so some of the components

704
01:01:46,270 --> 01:01:53,410
of the EIFD that was previously approved is a contribution to tax increment term of the county

705
01:01:53,410 --> 01:02:06,490
participation in the EIFD required elements for city proposals, county analysis of the proposal from the city and then any miscellaneous provisions that we've added in.

706
01:02:06,950 --> 01:02:19,990
And so with that, some of the revisions that we're bringing before you today that we've heard from our city partners is a request for an elongated term of an EIFD.

707
01:02:19,990 --> 01:02:26,090
So we originally approved or this board originally approved a 25-year term and so we've

708
01:02:26,090 --> 01:02:31,850
heard from our city partners that that's a bit too short for them to be able to move

709
01:02:31,850 --> 01:02:37,410
forward with a large project of this nature and so they're requesting an increase from

710
01:02:37,410 --> 01:02:46,230
25 to 30 years, which is not too drastic, that's it, within regards to 2A of the agreement

711
01:02:46,230 --> 01:02:53,490
or of the policy, moving on to 2C, and at any time if you have any questions, feel free to let me know.

712
01:02:54,410 --> 01:03:02,650
2C, we are moving forward, or we are proposing the extension of a two-year commencement for a project.

713
01:03:03,270 --> 01:03:15,530
So we've heard from our city partners that that's a bit too quick for them, working with developers, working with all the partners to pull together a project of the size of the scope that seven years would be more amenable.

714
01:03:15,530 --> 01:03:34,110
So we're proposing an extension from two to seven years for the actual commencement of a project and then proposing an extension of from one year post that to a ten year span for the actual implementation of an EIFD.

715
01:03:34,110 --> 01:03:39,250
So if by year 10, project has not started construction,

716
01:03:39,970 --> 01:03:42,150
it would authorize the county to be able to

717
01:03:43,370 --> 01:03:47,230
and the agreement with the city partner for an EIFD.

718
01:03:51,310 --> 01:03:54,190
Under our required elements for city proposal section,

719
01:03:54,870 --> 01:03:58,230
three A, I, I, number four.

720
01:03:58,950 --> 01:04:05,330
This is just clarifying what affordable housing

721
01:04:05,330 --> 01:04:11,330
mix is essentially. So we've heard from our city partners that this language was a little too vague.

722
01:04:11,830 --> 01:04:18,110
And so we went in there, worked with our HCD partners with Craig and Melanie, and pulled together

723
01:04:18,110 --> 01:04:25,950
what the actual percentages are and language that pulls together what affordable housing

724
01:04:27,450 --> 01:04:34,150
specifically is in order for the county and the city to work in unison. And so within that language,

725
01:04:34,150 --> 01:04:40,090
we've also added a clause that the county may also consider a 20% set aside of district revenues

726
01:04:40,090 --> 01:04:42,290
to be limited for affordable housing users.

727
01:04:47,850 --> 01:04:53,810
Under the next section, county analysis of city proposal, we received feedback that this

728
01:04:53,810 --> 01:04:58,830
language was a bit too vague and didn't quite understand some of it.

729
01:04:58,910 --> 01:04:59,970
So we went back to the drawing.

730
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:19,440
Board and re-work this. And so essentially what the county has come up with in conjunction with our city partners is that we've revised it to read that should the county lack any required in-house expertise to perform portions of the evaluation of the proposal we receive from our city partner.

731
01:05:20,180 --> 01:05:25,200
Or if the county possesses the next three expertise, but we don't have adequate staff to review.

732
01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:37,540
At that time, we would then engage a third party to assist with the review of a proposal for an EIFD from a city partner, and we would then require the city to cover those costs.

733
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:59,860
And under the last section, our miscellaneous provisions, just tidying up affordable housing specifically and ensuring that we added in that allocation for an alternative set aside of 20% of district revenues to be limited for affordable housing uses.

734
01:05:59,860 --> 01:06:04,060
and refers back to the original revision that we made.

735
01:06:07,130 --> 01:06:09,510
And with that, do we have any questions from the board?

736
01:06:11,170 --> 01:06:12,170
Very minor changes.

737
01:06:12,890 --> 01:06:13,030
Thank you.

738
01:06:13,210 --> 01:06:14,330
Any questions from the board?

739
01:06:15,950 --> 01:06:18,170
Do you have a couple questions I'm going to ask and then we'll open up to public comment.

740
01:06:19,250 --> 01:06:25,570
So I appreciate the review of the policy and I just, I don't know we have an economic

741
01:06:25,570 --> 01:06:31,810
development committee and then did this go, has this been a review, did they have a chance

742
01:06:31,810 --> 01:06:34,090
to weigh in on it was only feedback that they provided.

743
01:06:35,450 --> 01:06:40,190
So with regards to these recent updates, this was not presented to the Economic Development

744
01:06:40,190 --> 01:06:40,630
Committee.

745
01:06:41,110 --> 01:06:41,570
Okay.

746
01:06:41,570 --> 01:06:46,250
This was done at the board level, so we anticipate that it would be brought back to the board

747
01:06:46,250 --> 01:06:47,150
for these revisions.

748
01:06:47,410 --> 01:06:47,690
Okay.

749
01:06:47,890 --> 01:06:48,090
Okay.

750
01:06:48,090 --> 01:06:48,690
Thank you.

751
01:06:49,250 --> 01:06:54,770
And then in terms of the financial impact another policy itself doesn't have a financial impact

752
01:06:54,770 --> 01:07:01,290
on the county, but what we're effectively talking about is sharing of county, future

753
01:07:01,290 --> 01:07:11,170
county property tax revenue. And so when we approve a FID where there's an argument that

754
01:07:11,170 --> 01:07:15,330
you will generate additional property tax revenue because it supports the additional growth

755
01:07:15,330 --> 01:07:22,450
that we are cities need, but at a sort of a higher cost to the county. So do we have any sense

756
01:07:22,450 --> 01:07:28,810
of what that, that the fiscal impact of changing the policy might be, we expect that it will generate

757
01:07:28,810 --> 01:07:36,870
more requests or make it easier for our cities to work with us on these requests. Is there any financial

758
01:07:36,870 --> 01:07:44,370
analysis that's been done or can you comment on that? So to my knowledge financial analysis would be

759
01:07:44,370 --> 01:07:56,010
completed on a per project basis and I defer back to Assistant Chief CAO, Chilose on that.

760
01:07:56,010 --> 01:07:58,270
I know you've worked on the first EIFD here in the county.

761
01:07:58,930 --> 01:08:01,910
Richard's right, Madam Chair, the Gonzales EIFD,

762
01:08:01,910 --> 01:08:03,910
when we did that, we had a financial analysis.

763
01:08:04,610 --> 01:08:07,290
It's really need to do them on a project by project basis

764
01:08:07,290 --> 01:08:10,590
because the details are going to be different for each one.

765
01:08:11,050 --> 01:08:11,650
Right, right.

766
01:08:11,950 --> 01:08:14,850
Okay, and so by having a policy just simply by having the policy

767
01:08:14,850 --> 01:08:18,030
doesn't mean that we're required, we still have that financial analysis

768
01:08:18,030 --> 01:08:19,430
on a project by project basis.

769
01:08:19,590 --> 01:08:19,910
Correct.

770
01:08:20,370 --> 01:08:21,630
Okay, great, thank you.

771
01:08:21,630 --> 01:08:29,430
And then there was Antique was on page or slide five where it talks about maybe not slide

772
01:08:29,430 --> 01:08:29,630
five.

773
01:08:29,750 --> 01:08:38,450
I'm not sure which slide it was, after 10 years that we proceed with a dissolution of

774
01:08:38,450 --> 01:08:47,670
the FID, when we say proceed to begin dissolution, is that a mandatory dissolution

775
01:08:47,670 --> 01:08:51,870
proceedings would be mandatory at year 10.

776
01:08:53,630 --> 01:08:58,090
Not that it's an optional thing to dissolve at that point.

777
01:08:58,330 --> 01:09:00,850
How long does the solution here at proceedings take?

778
01:09:01,650 --> 01:09:03,030
We've not had to perform one.

779
01:09:03,490 --> 01:09:06,530
We only have one EIFD currently on the books,

780
01:09:07,110 --> 01:09:11,110
but we would definitely want to reach out to a third party consultant.

781
01:09:11,370 --> 01:09:13,150
So once an EIFD is established,

782
01:09:14,070 --> 01:09:15,290
then it has its own separate board,

783
01:09:15,290 --> 01:09:22,270
It's on separate governing body so we would just keep in contact with that separate governing

784
01:09:22,270 --> 01:09:26,950
body to ensure that things are moving forward and if by year 10 we would then want to

785
01:09:26,950 --> 01:09:31,750
bring something back to the board to get your approval to then move forward with dissolution

786
01:09:31,750 --> 01:09:34,350
if there has been nothing that has transpired.

787
01:09:34,890 --> 01:09:39,250
Okay and I assume that the costs for the consultant who would help us with that would also

788
01:09:39,250 --> 01:09:44,530
be shared by the parties in the same way that the initial setup was shared.

789
01:09:44,530 --> 01:09:52,890
I believe that's how we've drafted the language in here as so that anything relating to an EIFD would be shared.

790
01:09:53,310 --> 01:09:59,970
Okay, great. And then I appreciate in the policy that it's requiring a service floor where the housing produced can count towards the county's reign.

791
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:14,600
I think that's a really interesting way to proceed and to make sure that where we're wanting to have affordable housing built is in communities where we have infrastructure and resources and transit and schools and shopping and doctors.

792
01:10:15,060 --> 01:10:27,820
That makes a lot of sense to me. But there was something in it where it referenced that we could consider a revenue set aside instead of the actual affordable unit production.

793
01:10:27,820 --> 01:10:38,780
And I know that within our county inclusionary housing ordinance, we have a dollar amount that's set for what that buy-out would look like and it's very, very low.

794
01:10:39,880 --> 01:10:52,240
So I guess the question is, if, when you talk about the revenue set aside option, would that be indexed to the actual cost of building units or would it be based on the county's inclusionary housing ordinance?

795
01:10:52,820 --> 01:10:56,120
I would need to defer back to HDD on that one.

796
01:10:56,520 --> 01:10:59,400
We can definitely get you some more information on that.

797
01:11:00,240 --> 01:11:03,000
To my knowledge, this all of this would come before the board.

798
01:11:03,400 --> 01:11:04,240
So it would be negotiated.

799
01:11:04,480 --> 01:11:07,540
It would all be negotiated and then brought to the board for your approval.

800
01:11:07,980 --> 01:11:10,100
So you wouldn't be seeing that on the back end.

801
01:11:10,100 --> 01:11:13,880
You would see this upfront as to what that 20% set aside would be.

802
01:11:13,900 --> 01:11:17,340
If we were entertaining that and then you would have the option to approve or not.

803
01:11:17,400 --> 01:11:18,640
Okay. Got it.

804
01:11:18,640 --> 01:11:26,080
And I think that on that section you talked about the miscellaneous other categories, I would

805
01:11:26,080 --> 01:11:35,320
just want to make sure that we're prioritizing the actual production of those units that are

806
01:11:35,320 --> 01:11:43,640
affordable for the community as opposed to the buyout amount that doesn't actually create housing

807
01:11:43,640 --> 01:11:47,640
that we need and isn't sufficient to actually build that housing.

808
01:11:47,640 --> 01:11:51,840
that wouldn't support the reign of goal, so I think it's tied into that, but I just want

809
01:11:51,840 --> 01:11:57,260
to be very explicit in that expectation that I have, as proposals come forward to us, please.

810
01:11:58,080 --> 01:12:03,080
I just got one more question popped up since surprise your ask you was beginning that's on the

811
01:12:03,080 --> 01:12:08,480
aspect where the talks about share and I know and part of where it moved from may, you know,

812
01:12:08,500 --> 01:12:13,240
seek reimbursement to share, which is a lot more clear. When we speak of share, we're talking about

813
01:12:13,240 --> 01:12:20,340
50, 50, or is it going to vary on the situations, but I'm just clarification on that.

814
01:12:20,580 --> 01:12:25,960
I think it would be project by project basis, so if the county has the expertise and

815
01:12:25,960 --> 01:12:32,140
more able to review, then there would be no additional cost that we would bear, but if we don't

816
01:12:32,140 --> 01:12:36,620
have expertise within the county to be able to review some portion of an EIFD proposal,

817
01:12:37,500 --> 01:12:41,160
we would most likely need to go out to request a third party to assist.

818
01:12:41,160 --> 01:12:45,040
So, each one's going to be different on the degree of sharing and it's a cost. Okay, thanks.

819
01:12:49,630 --> 01:12:54,970
I know Richard's probably knows what I want to ask for right now. Obviously, we decided

820
01:12:54,970 --> 01:13:01,830
to recommend committee yesterday and it would be good because we do have a panel of experts on that committee.

821
01:13:02,170 --> 01:13:05,790
To be able to at least know what EIFDs are, right?

822
01:13:06,070 --> 01:13:10,670
What are the origin, how do they work, how do they benefit the city, how do they benefit the county,

823
01:13:10,670 --> 01:13:14,750
How did it affect the goals of affordable housing and housing overall?

824
01:13:15,270 --> 01:13:19,150
So anyways, I would ask that even though this didn't come to that committee first,

825
01:13:19,170 --> 01:13:22,090
at least to bring this to an economic development to talk about it,

826
01:13:22,290 --> 01:13:27,430
because it's relevant because there still has to be cities wanting to come to the county

827
01:13:27,430 --> 01:13:30,890
to partner and not EIFD.

828
01:13:31,250 --> 01:13:34,850
I know city salinas has interests and perhaps there's others coming forward.

829
01:13:34,910 --> 01:13:35,710
So it's a timely topic.

830
01:13:36,610 --> 01:13:40,070
So process wise, I want to make sure that the economic development

831
01:13:40,070 --> 01:13:43,830
make committee, start just looking and understanding how these work.

832
01:13:44,530 --> 01:13:50,690
Obviously, I have these came after redevelopment agencies one away.

833
01:13:52,530 --> 01:13:57,150
This particular option was authored by Senator Jim Beladisanozay.

834
01:13:57,470 --> 01:14:00,330
I authored a different bill with the impartantial with the League of Cities.

835
01:14:00,850 --> 01:14:03,750
And those were called the CREA's, the community revitalization and investment authorities.

836
01:14:03,830 --> 01:14:09,770
For while there was interest in C-side wanting to create a CREA under my legislation.

837
01:14:09,770 --> 01:14:20,570
But both of them had options to use tax increment and then put percentage aside for affordable housing goals, and I think that's both of these options have that in there

838
01:14:20,570 --> 01:14:31,670
So these are important push redevelopment law tools to help communities just advantage areas by the areas to be able to to use tax increment for a good public use.

839
01:14:32,330 --> 01:14:38,090
Anyway, so I just want to say, I know there is community interest, the biggest city

840
01:14:38,090 --> 01:14:42,070
in the Monterey Bay is looking at this right now, so thanks for making these revisions

841
01:14:42,070 --> 01:14:48,130
that can make this work better and have these EIFDs realize within our county and they

842
01:14:48,130 --> 01:14:52,010
can benefit our partners, cities, and then of course our county as well.

843
01:14:52,410 --> 01:14:54,530
So that was one of my requests, moving forward.

844
01:14:54,710 --> 01:14:55,250
Thank you.

845
01:14:57,060 --> 01:14:58,380
All right, let's open it up to public comment.

846
01:14:58,500 --> 01:14:59,920
Is there any public comment on this item?

847
01:15:01,140 --> 01:15:05,800
I think no one in chambers and no hands on line will close to the comment, bring it back to the board for action.

848
01:15:07,140 --> 01:15:07,420
Second.

849
01:15:07,860 --> 01:15:14,200
We have a motion from Lopez a second from Alejo, and if we could just by nature of the discussion,

850
01:15:14,440 --> 01:15:18,820
have the comments that were made today considered by staff as a new forward.

851
01:15:25,420 --> 01:15:30,300
I think just for clarity, I heard a lot of pieces that weren't going to go into the policy.

852
01:15:30,300 --> 01:15:35,040
So can I just want to be clear on the direction we're giving staff at this point.

853
01:15:35,300 --> 01:15:41,060
What I'm comfortable with is the policy put forward because we've put a lot of work into this out of the example through Gonzales.

854
01:15:42,180 --> 01:15:45,820
So yeah, I just I didn't hear a lot of concurrence on different things.

855
01:15:45,960 --> 01:15:47,600
I don't want that to be as soon as direction.

856
01:15:47,760 --> 01:15:48,820
I think it's my fear.

857
01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:54,140
The two that stuck out to me was having the item be added to us.

858
01:15:54,140 --> 01:16:12,920
I could just do that as chair of the committee meeting and that as items come back that the goal would be to have the production of affordable housing over the set of side funding as that those options are considered.

859
01:16:13,540 --> 01:16:15,360
But you don't have to include that.

860
01:16:15,400 --> 01:16:20,720
Okay, so I'm good with what we're already hearing that it's going to go back to committee and we get this point.

861
01:16:20,720 --> 01:16:24,940
here because I could do that as a chair of the committee and that request that

862
01:16:24,940 --> 01:16:26,760
start to bring that to a future meeting.

863
01:16:27,980 --> 01:16:31,620
All in favor? All right. Passes unanimously. Thank you.

864
01:16:32,400 --> 01:16:35,580
All right, we'll go next to item number 20, which is a receipt of presentation on the

865
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result of the 2026 homeless point in time count. And we have Roxanne Wilson and

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Katrina McKenzie here to present.

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Okay, there you go. Good morning, honorable chair and members of the board members of a public.

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My name is Roxanne Wilson and I have the county's homeless services director.

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With me is Mrs. Katrina McKenzie, who is the executive director of the Coalition of Homeless Services

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Providers, which serves as the Monterey and San Benito County's Continuum of Care Lead Agency.

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Good morning everybody, thank you for having us.

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So why do we do this point in time count?

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We do it because as a continuum of care or COC, we are required to do so by HUD or the

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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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The data collected during these point in time counts helps us determine the level of federal

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and local funding that COC is received.

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and accurate counts enable better allocation of resources to meet the needs of the people experiencing homelessness.

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The counts provide crucial information for policy makers,

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to help us make informed decisions about homeless prevention and intervention strategies,

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accurate and up to date.

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Data helps us raise awareness about homelessness issues among the public, the state stakeholders, fostering support,

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and necessary actions for policies.

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So by conducting regular pit counts,

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COCs can track changes in homelessness over time,

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allowing for better trend analysis and adjustments

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to strategies as needed.

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So we conducted the sheltered point and time count

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on January 31st, so at midnight,

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service providers administered a snapshot

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snapshot of the housing inventory account or hick. So this counts the number of beds in

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01:19:06,380 --> 01:19:13,300
unit in specific programs and the point in time sheltered count counts the people occupying

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01:19:13,300 --> 01:19:20,120
those beds or units at that time. This activity is conducted every year as the unsheltered

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01:19:20,120 --> 01:19:27,180
point in time count is only done every other year. Can I just recognize that there is a mistake inside

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of the slide. So it says the 29th was the sheltered count in the 30th was the unsheltered,

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so Katrina just corrected that. Thank you, Roxanne.

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All right. So the federal definitions

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01:19:42,350 --> 01:19:47,790
of homelessness for the point in time counts is basically those that are living in supervised

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01:19:47,790 --> 01:19:55,730
publicly or privately operated sheltered or designated to provide temporary living arrangements

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or a primary night time resident that is

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A public or private place not designed for human habitation.

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The 206 point in time count revealed that there are 273 individuals who are experiencing homelessness

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01:20:14,110 --> 01:20:21,790
in Monterey County on any given night. This shows a 15% decrease from 2024 for overall homelessness

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and a 23% reduction in unsheltered homelessness. And again, as Katrina had mentioned,

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that the point in time count, it does look at those two different populations, those who are

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living in temporary living facilities that's funded by the public or private sector and also

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01:20:39,090 --> 01:20:43,370
those who are living in places not meant for human habitation, including cars abandoned buildings,

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01:20:43,930 --> 01:20:48,490
bus trains, I mean, I'm sorry, I'm repeating herpes, which he said, but tens and permitted structure

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sorry.

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This slide breaks down the point in time count by jurisdiction and shows where we've seen

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changes since 2024, the most significant reduction occurred in

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01:20:59,700 --> 01:21:02,620
unincorporated areas of Monterey County, where the total

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count dropped from 443 people in 2024 to just 123 and

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2,026, 72% reduction.

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That reduction reflects a substantial amount of targeted and

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intentional work in our unincorporated communities and along

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with major and a long major encampment areas, including

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Those that were serviced by the Enchantment Resolution Funding Grants that the county had received and the launch of the county's Interdepartmental Enchantment Response Team.

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We also saw notable decreases in several incorporated communities, c-side declined by 38% in Pacific Grove declined by 37%.

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So it adds unchelted count fell from 45 people to eight, although it's overall total.

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Now includes people staying in shelter, again, a result of the Encampment Resolution Grant

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that we received in partnership with the city.

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At the same time, the data reminds us that progress has not been uniform across every jurisdiction.

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Sillina continues to represent the largest concentration of homelessness in the county with

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1,249 people counted this year.

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and monitoring Marina in King City have all experiences,

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increase it, have all experienced increases in their overall accounts,

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01:22:14,880 --> 01:22:18,460
although there may be some explanations to those increases.

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For example, the former Pueblo Del Mar program in the city of Marina was non-operational

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01:22:23,960 --> 01:22:26,900
when the 2024 point in time count was conducted.

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01:22:27,540 --> 01:22:31,080
However, the in fall, the project reopened as hope housing,

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01:22:31,380 --> 01:22:34,980
so in 2026 you will see increase in their sheltered numbers.

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I'm going to pause many people like reading this one.

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There have also have been significant decreases among all subpopulations that's mandated

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for the COC to count and monitor, which includes people experiencing chronic homelessness,

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veterans, families with minors and an incorporate and accompanied individuals under the age

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of 25 years old.

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Again, these declines could be attributed to substantial resources that has been made available

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to these populations over the past two years, and I'll expand on what some of those changes to the

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system are in a future slide.

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Thank you, Roxanne.

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So, our respondents report that homeless populations continue to age, while nearly one

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and three individuals now age 55 or older, which is an increase from 2024, adults between

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the ages of 35 and 64 remain a large, the largest group representing nearly two thirds or 65%

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of individual counties. Counting, men continue to comprise of the majority of the population

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01:23:48,700 --> 01:23:56,340
at 70% compared to 66% in 2024. It's important to note that had revised its demographics,

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reporting standards in 2026. So there is, we can't really compare gender or sexual orientation

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data due to those changes.

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We see here that local homelessness increased with 89% reporting that they were residents

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01:24:20,470 --> 01:24:30,510
of Monterey County when they became homeless, which is up 81% in 2024. Long-term homelessness

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This continues, sorry, long-term homelessness declined with individuals experiencing homelessness

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01:24:37,410 --> 01:24:44,210
for one or more years decreasing from 78% to 67%.

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01:24:44,210 --> 01:24:51,670
Our first time homelessness increase was substantially, with 60% reporting this is the first

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01:24:51,670 --> 01:24:55,830
episode of homelessness compared to 23% in 2024.

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01:24:56,670 --> 01:24:59,970
The homeless population continues to age with 30%

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Now, age 55 or older compared to 24 percent in 2024. So, the bottom line here is more people are becoming

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01:25:10,400 --> 01:25:18,120
homeless and are local residents. Fewer people are remaining homeless for extended periods of time

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01:25:18,120 --> 01:25:24,360
and more people are entering homelessness for the first time. Our population continues stage.

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Okay? The survey indicates here that there's encouraging progress in reducing justice system

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01:25:37,160 --> 01:25:42,320
involvement among individuals experiencing homelessness. Compared to 2024, the percentage

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01:25:42,320 --> 01:25:52,100
reported reporting incarceration within the past year declined from 26 percent to 19 percent.

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While those on probation and parole at the start of their current episode of homelessness decrease from 20% to 10% so that's a 50% reduction.

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But at the same time, sleeping location shifted significantly.

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The proportion of individuals sleeping outdoors increased from 45% to 69% while fewer reported staying in shelters, tents, motels or hotel programs.

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This change likely reflects a combination of reduced temporary shelter resources and increase

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in unchaltered homelessness, reinforcing the need for expanded outreach shelter capacity and

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permanent housing opportunities.

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Survey respondents have the opportunity to self-report health conditions that may affect

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their housing stability or ability to gain or maintain employment.

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This slide really underscores how closely homelessness and health are connected.

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We continue to see a very high rate of people with behavioral health or physical health

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conditions, including substance use disorder, depression, PTSD, physical disabilities

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and chronic health conditions.

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Most notably 65% of the respondents reported at least one disabling condition up from 52%

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last year or the last count.

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This slide shows a meaningful increase in access to government benefits in 2026, 74% of the

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respondents reported receiving some form of government assistance compared to 60% in 2024.

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The barriers for those who are not receiving assistance has also changed.

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In 2026, immigration related concerns were the most frequently reported reason for not receiving

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benefits, whereas in 2024, immigration concerns were the least frequently reported barrier.

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Another important finding is that 17% of the respondents were not receiving, who were

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not receiving government assistance, said that their benefits had been cut off.

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For people experiencing homelessness, maintaining benefits can be especially difficult, because

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so many systems depend on consistent communication.

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A person may not have a reliable mailing address, may lose access to an email account because of two factor authentication, or may have a phone number that changes several times throughout a year.

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This is an area where a system has a real opportunity to improve by building processes that recognize those realities and make it easier for people to maintain their benefits and stay connected to services.

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So,

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in conclusion, the homelessness response system which extends far beyond just the county's efforts is becoming more coordinated across systems rather than relying on individual programs to operate on their own.

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We are seeing strengthening strengthened partnerships across jurisdictions connecting people to housing and building more intentional pathways between homeless services healthcare education and the justice system.

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We have also been much more deliberate about how we approach encampments, pairing outreach and

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resolution efforts with realistic service and shelter options whenever possible.

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At the same time, projects like light fighter village, who is the veteran population,

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01:29:17,150 --> 01:29:22,610
whole housing for those with a behavioral health condition, and expanded reentry coordination

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or increasing the number of pathways people can use to stabilize.

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The overall direction is toward a system that is easier to navigate, more response to individual needs and a system that meets people where they are.

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Although the system looks completely different than it did 10 years ago, we still have substantial gaps.

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We don't have enough affordable housing options.

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We don't have housing choice vouchers available at this time.

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And as mentioned several times throughout this presentation, the senior population is growing and we simply don't have the resources

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to handle their varying needs.

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But what we do have is a whole network of partners.

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Members from school districts, the sheriff's office, public defenders, and so much more who are doing what they can to help and that is promising.

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And while the 2026 point-and-time count shows meaningful progress, several federal and state policies changes could put these gains at risk.

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At the federal level, HUD continues to shift priorities, potentially reducing resources that.

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Potentially reducing resources that currently keep vulnerable households permanently house,

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01:30:33,290 --> 01:30:40,810
proposed changes to protect proposed changes to perirated rents for mixed immigration status

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house, sorry, mixed immigration status households could also increase housing costs for

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01:30:47,150 --> 01:30:54,230
affected families. In addition, HR-1 expands work requirements and benefit resortification

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01:30:54,230 --> 01:30:59,290
requirements, creating additional barriers for people experiencing homelessness to maintain health

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01:30:59,290 --> 01:31:02,530
care, food assistance, and other critical supports.

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At the state level, there's continued uncertainty around our half-finding that present a significant

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01:31:11,530 --> 01:31:12,270
concern.

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Happers one of our most flexible resources and allows us to respond to needs and gaps, specific

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to our local community.

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01:31:19,850 --> 01:31:26,370
There's pressures that come at a time when our pit data shows an aging population

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with increasingly complex health and behavioral health needs require greater coordination

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01:31:32,250 --> 01:31:38,170
across housing, health care, behavioral health and aging services.

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The takeaway for us locally is that progress we've made is real, but it's not guaranteed.

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01:31:45,250 --> 01:31:56,770
Our priority must be to protect those gains by building, sorry, building resilience, coordinated

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01:31:56,770 --> 01:32:02,310
system, and could adapt to the changing federal policies, uncertain funding, and evolving

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community needs.

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01:32:05,470 --> 01:32:09,570
As mentioned before, we still have a lot of work to do and working we are.

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On September 16, my office will be hosting a community engagement meeting to gain input about

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01:32:14,210 --> 01:32:19,950
proposed reconfiguration of the Sheriff's Center to better serve families and to better serve people being discharged from

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the Tivotad hospital who are experiencing homelessness and need to save place to recover and I too plan on bringing that

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proposal to the board by October. The city of Salinas and the county partnered on the grant submission to serve people

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01:32:32,430 --> 01:32:39,370
experiencing homelessness along the Davis Road corridor between Blanco and Buranda and we do expect to hear back

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01:32:39,370 --> 01:32:44,590
the state this month on whether or not we've been funded. Of course, two home keys have opened.

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01:32:45,070 --> 01:32:50,490
Those home keys opened after the point in time count was conducted and all of the folks

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01:32:50,490 --> 01:32:57,190
that are moving in are housed. They are no longer considered homeless. The board has given me

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direction to identify a safe parking option in North County and we do hope to have a proposal to

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the board in the upcoming months. And of course, BHSA is ramping up Calam's transitional rent is

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already in effect. And I think it's really important to note that the bulk of our accomplishments

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are made possible because of the huge investments by the state of California and how they

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had invested into our county and we have so many people within this county including the board

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01:33:24,210 --> 01:33:31,330
who is willing to take those steps towards a better community. The state has had a very clear vision

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and has made resources available to communities who align with it. Over half of the counties in

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California who conducted and released a point in time count this year, have saw reductions,

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which includes Fresno Madera, San Francisco, San Joaquin, Alameda, Ventura, Kern,

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Orange, and of course Monterey County.

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That concludes our presentation and we are available for any questions.

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Thank you so much.

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01:33:57,510 --> 01:33:57,590
Great.

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Thank you.

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Bring it to the board for questions?

1045
01:34:01,330 --> 01:34:05,890
First of all, Roxanne and the Katrina thank you very much for the heroic work you do.

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The great collaboration you both do on behalf of our county and our residents and our most vulnerable,

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01:34:11,910 --> 01:34:16,170
very much appreciate and having your expertise, not only yours, but all our partners.

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01:34:16,550 --> 01:34:22,230
It really makes a difference and it's helped facilitate building trust with their cities,

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01:34:23,190 --> 01:34:27,710
more collaboration among the non-profits and our housing authority, as well as,

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01:34:27,710 --> 01:34:31,830
the things that you just mentioned have been a result of what we learned,

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01:34:32,330 --> 01:34:37,810
makes things happen, which is partnerships and collaboration, so I commend both of you,

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01:34:37,950 --> 01:34:41,490
but I also know that these are very difficult times. As you're talking about, there's

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a lot of new restrictions on the federal funding. In fact, our next round of funding, our

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no full, is to type up in litigation. We already, we had our panel ranking review, projects

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01:34:52,190 --> 01:34:59,970
services to be granted in August, and because of litigation against those who are there.

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01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:07,040
Really restrictive conditions by that administration now. We're kind of, remember, waiting to see what the federal

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01:35:07,040 --> 01:35:14,520
judge would do on the state side. Yes, the state was very proactive, but then we got to a point where one year

1058
01:35:14,520 --> 01:35:21,420
didn't provide any funding. In fact, in last year, the governor had zero dollars for half-round seven,

1059
01:35:22,040 --> 01:35:29,320
and it was a legislator put in 500 million dollars that hit that issue carried on to this year.

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We're again counties, Monterey County was one of those who advocated to restore not the 500 million but get us back to a billion dollars.

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01:35:37,320 --> 01:35:39,240
We didn't get a billion but we got 900 million.

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01:35:39,800 --> 01:35:43,160
But in the governor's January budget this year, ad is made revised.

1063
01:35:43,220 --> 01:35:46,400
It was zero dollars for hap homelessness funding.

1064
01:35:46,700 --> 01:35:57,320
It took counties and nonprofits and teams of care advocating to get us back closer to what the state was doing there for several rounds.

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01:36:00,480 --> 01:36:08,160
So, I just wanted to point out, this count is critical because this is used in the formula

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about how federal dollars and state dollars are designated to counties, right?

1067
01:36:14,280 --> 01:36:18,620
And it's sometimes to the big cities, to the COCs as well, a continuum of cares.

1068
01:36:19,360 --> 01:36:23,640
And this is an issue that we've been fighting because counties like ours after doing this

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01:36:23,640 --> 01:36:26,200
point in time count every two years.

1070
01:36:27,740 --> 01:36:29,660
If you have an increase in homelessness funding,

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01:36:30,580 --> 01:36:32,280
then based on the formula, you're going to get more

1072
01:36:32,280 --> 01:36:34,700
because your pit count went up.

1073
01:36:34,780 --> 01:36:38,560
But if you're counting like ours, where we decrease 15%,

1074
01:36:38,560 --> 01:36:40,640
it's like we're going to get 15% less funding

1075
01:36:40,640 --> 01:36:42,020
because our numbers dropped.

1076
01:36:42,220 --> 01:36:43,420
And we've been trying to correct that.

1077
01:36:43,420 --> 01:36:45,100
We brought it to the legislature's attention,

1078
01:36:45,640 --> 01:36:46,700
just having made ground.

1079
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But for us, there's good news here.

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01:36:49,000 --> 01:36:51,500
But the flip side, the bad news is,

1081
01:36:51,500 --> 01:36:58,300
We're likely going to get less money, because now this pit is used in the formula that will

1082
01:36:58,300 --> 01:37:03,340
result in us getting less money, not rewarding us for doing what the state and the federal

1083
01:37:03,340 --> 01:37:05,360
government wants us to do.

1084
01:37:06,060 --> 01:37:11,080
I wanted to go, just going to two points, one, one thing that wasn't highlighted here

1085
01:37:11,080 --> 01:37:17,020
out of the last four point and ten counts, Monterey County has had three reductions out of

1086
01:37:17,020 --> 01:37:17,720
four.

1087
01:37:18,400 --> 01:37:20,340
And I think that's important for the community practice.

1088
01:37:20,600 --> 01:37:22,240
We're not just looking at it two years.

1089
01:37:22,380 --> 01:37:23,460
That's what we're looking at how we did

1090
01:37:23,460 --> 01:37:25,040
compared to all the previous counts.

1091
01:37:25,380 --> 01:37:28,100
And back going to pre-COVID,

1092
01:37:28,420 --> 01:37:31,700
we had dropped just under 15%, 14.6.

1093
01:37:32,020 --> 01:37:36,080
During COVID, in 2022, we dropped 15.5.

1094
01:37:36,500 --> 01:37:38,700
What we had an uptick was two years ago, 2024.

1095
01:37:39,380 --> 01:37:40,680
That was 19% increase.

1096
01:37:41,220 --> 01:37:42,900
And now we dropped back down 15%.

1097
01:37:42,900 --> 01:37:46,560
So I want the community to know we've had drops,

1098
01:37:46,560 --> 01:37:49,080
consistent drops, three out of four different counts.

1099
01:37:50,000 --> 01:37:55,260
But this came up here during public comment, maybe two, three meetings ago, which is this chart

1100
01:37:55,260 --> 01:38:00,600
on jurisdictions and glad we look at the unincorporated county, we look at the county overall

1101
01:38:00,600 --> 01:38:06,460
but we also look at how the 12 cities within Monterey County are doing in this count.

1102
01:38:08,100 --> 01:38:10,800
And so there's the number that don't tell the whole story, the new says, oh, silliness

1103
01:38:10,800 --> 01:38:18,600
It's went up 3%, but within the 3% numbers, when they were looking at homeless

1104
01:38:18,600 --> 01:38:23,920
this numbers, we're looking at comparing the numbers of homeless in previous years compared

1105
01:38:23,920 --> 01:38:26,080
to this current count.

1106
01:38:26,900 --> 01:38:33,840
And in your chart here, it breaks down the number of unsheltered and sheltered, right?

1107
01:38:33,840 --> 01:38:37,660
So that 3% includes individuals in both categories.

1108
01:38:37,660 --> 01:38:48,080
So, just under on sheltered from 2024 to 26, these are on sheltered people not in any type of program or service.

1109
01:38:48,800 --> 01:38:55,880
More than likely out on the street or even in a car, the increase was 18 individuals in Salinas.

1110
01:38:56,160 --> 01:38:59,660
That's in the city of 160,000 people on sheltered.

1111
01:39:00,820 --> 01:39:05,120
It takes here 949, 2 years ago, now it's 967, that's 18 individuals.

1112
01:39:05,820 --> 01:39:10,100
But we also had an increase of sheltered people in sheltered homeless.

1113
01:39:10,600 --> 01:39:13,400
Those were people actually in a program and some kind of service.

1114
01:39:13,860 --> 01:39:16,860
That increased from 267 to 282.

1115
01:39:16,980 --> 01:39:18,540
So that was 15 individuals.

1116
01:39:19,240 --> 01:39:22,480
But yet when you look at the 3% or you're looking at both, right?

1117
01:39:23,020 --> 01:39:26,640
So I just want there's a distinction there of sheltered versus on sheltered.

1118
01:39:26,660 --> 01:39:29,080
The sheltered are people who are considered homeless,

1119
01:39:29,280 --> 01:39:32,400
but they are in some kind of program getting services in this count.

1120
01:39:33,920 --> 01:39:37,060
Because if you just look at percentages, you look at

1121
01:39:37,060 --> 01:39:41,880
San City went from two overall, the last count to four,

1122
01:39:42,360 --> 01:39:44,160
that would technically be like a 200% increase.

1123
01:39:44,380 --> 01:39:46,520
We have a start here because it's such a small number.

1124
01:39:47,080 --> 01:39:49,300
It's not fair to say, so you went from two to four,

1125
01:39:49,480 --> 01:39:50,620
you got a 200% increase.

1126
01:39:51,080 --> 01:39:53,040
Then it's always went from one to six.

1127
01:39:53,600 --> 01:39:55,160
And it's a start of there too, but that would be

1128
01:39:55,160 --> 01:39:56,720
otherwise a 600% increase, right?

1129
01:39:57,200 --> 01:39:58,420
So it's not such a small number.

1130
01:39:58,540 --> 01:39:59,980
It's not fair to think character, right?

1131
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:06,280
That kind of increased for that community. But anyways, I wanted to go into that because we had some comments made

1132
01:40:06,280 --> 01:40:12,020
here that over generalized without really looking into the details of how these numbers are divided. And

1133
01:40:12,020 --> 01:40:18,840
what they mean. Yes, we always said, we had an overall reduction in the county. We had 18 more individuals living

1134
01:40:18,840 --> 01:40:25,320
out in the streets or in cars and salinas. But there's much more work to do. But overall, we are making progress,

1135
01:40:25,320 --> 01:40:32,640
But it's never enough, because our mission is to try to get everyone into services and everyone out of homelessness if possible.

1136
01:40:33,220 --> 01:40:37,120
So anyways, I just wanted to make a little light until those numbers.

1137
01:40:37,440 --> 01:40:37,940
Thank you.

1138
01:40:38,000 --> 01:40:38,960
Thank you.

1139
01:40:43,170 --> 01:40:43,230
Sure.

1140
01:40:44,510 --> 01:40:45,330
I really don't have any questions.

1141
01:40:45,510 --> 01:40:49,870
I just want to really, really thank you in your team for all the great work that done.

1142
01:40:49,990 --> 01:40:55,950
We don't work together last four years and a lot of issues out in Bahron,

1143
01:40:55,950 --> 01:41:04,890
around Salinas, a lot of places, unfortunately, and I, you know, truly pleased to see that,

1144
01:41:04,890 --> 01:41:08,930
you know, there's this progress going forth. I know we're working on a safe parking program,

1145
01:41:09,050 --> 01:41:14,050
which has been really difficult to do, and I'm really optimistic. Oh, it's going to happen out of

1146
01:41:14,050 --> 01:41:21,070
this. This is one of these things that are just real challenges. Challenges are the communities,

1147
01:41:21,070 --> 01:41:26,470
challenges with government and I know we have the right people doing it and you guys are doing

1148
01:41:26,470 --> 01:41:33,010
a great job. We had the old village that set up an up in Watsonville and had some challenges

1149
01:41:33,010 --> 01:41:40,630
with that. That was without side art control and that's been a big success and we can see the

1150
01:41:40,630 --> 01:41:46,770
impact that had in the part of community right there. So I believe we're heading to right direction.

1151
01:41:46,770 --> 01:41:58,490
I think there's a model here for a lot of the cities to follow through and assist with as we're doing here with the city of Selenus, so I'm just looking forward to the future and hopefully the numbers continue to go down.

1152
01:41:59,230 --> 01:42:00,430
Thank you.

1153
01:42:01,050 --> 01:42:12,630
I too only have appreciation and just want to point out as a supervisor of the little bit of a dive on the numbers that in South County this year, we also have the two new shelters open up and it's part of that.

1154
01:42:12,630 --> 01:42:17,650
likely saw shift of folks out of unincorporated into those cities.

1155
01:42:18,210 --> 01:42:20,930
So some of those numbers are playing into the figures that we're seeing with the opening

1156
01:42:20,930 --> 01:42:25,290
of San Dental and I always get it wrong and I know that was the reason for the naming

1157
01:42:25,290 --> 01:42:29,090
but Casa de Esperanza or whatever we ended up naming the one in King City.

1158
01:42:31,890 --> 01:42:37,950
But with that acknowledgment, just to continue to appreciation, I think seeing the numbers move

1159
01:42:37,950 --> 01:42:40,910
in the right direction is something the community's been looking for and I know anytime

1160
01:42:40,910 --> 01:42:44,770
When you see the data, we hear folks push back and say they're unwilling to trust those numbers,

1161
01:42:45,330 --> 01:42:48,910
but I trust them, because I've seen the work, I've seen the new locations open, I've seen

1162
01:42:48,910 --> 01:42:53,110
people move in, and I've seen the live changed. And at the end of the day, that's the real goal.

1163
01:42:53,390 --> 01:42:55,910
So thank you for the work that helps illuminate that.

1164
01:43:01,310 --> 01:43:06,870
I don't have any questions, but I do just want to highlight a couple of the points that you're

1165
01:43:06,870 --> 01:43:09,810
making on slide 16, which is the where do we go from here.

1166
01:43:12,010 --> 01:43:18,690
I'm improving our hospitals as charges and making sure that we have folks who are both being

1167
01:43:18,690 --> 01:43:23,030
discharged from hospital as well as from our county jail with those warm hand-offs.

1168
01:43:23,150 --> 01:43:29,590
I know it's hard, that's like really challenging work to do, but one of the just talking

1169
01:43:29,590 --> 01:43:35,730
to our folks at Intividad and realizing that with the ECM program in place that they've been

1170
01:43:35,730 --> 01:43:41,330
to make some pretty significant improvements and even separate from behavioral health services act,

1171
01:43:41,670 --> 01:43:47,450
but folks who are coming through the emergency room for serious mental illness, inputs into

1172
01:43:47,450 --> 01:43:54,170
the mental health unit and then finding more stability for people who are experiencing that cycle,

1173
01:43:55,190 --> 01:44:01,110
with an ultimate reduction in the number of people coming through the emergency room needing mental

1174
01:44:01,110 --> 01:44:05,970
health, serious and immediate mental health treatment, so I'll just encourage us to think about

1175
01:44:05,970 --> 01:44:09,910
both the hospital discharge side as well as our jail discharge side and using those

1176
01:44:10,930 --> 01:44:14,850
UCM programs, I continue to use them as effectively as possible.

1177
01:44:16,770 --> 01:44:20,930
And then I did, I guess the question I have is, I know I'd raise a number of issues with the

1178
01:44:20,930 --> 01:44:27,830
behavioral health services act and the intentions of those dollars to be used to help move folks

1179
01:44:27,830 --> 01:44:34,090
out from homelessness who are homeless population that is experiencing serious mental illness

1180
01:44:34,090 --> 01:44:39,130
into housing. And if I can put you on the spot and just ask how that conversation as we

1181
01:44:39,130 --> 01:44:43,330
look at implementation of VHSA, how those ongoing conversations are going.

1182
01:44:44,210 --> 01:44:48,770
I haven't had a chance to check in with the Director of Behavioral Health or the Director of the

1183
01:44:48,770 --> 01:44:56,630
Health Services Department, but I certainly can do so. I have, I have, I'm aware of organizations

1184
01:44:56,630 --> 01:44:59,970
that are partnering with them, but I can certainly look into that and get back to

1185
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:07,000
Okay. And I think I asked the question, primarily, you know, we now have, you know, from the BHSA, being a real health service

1186
01:45:07,000 --> 01:45:14,820
exact, this movement of money where we experienced an acute loss of funds for prevention and early intervention.

1187
01:45:15,420 --> 01:45:26,140
But those dollars moved into housing support or individuals who are unhoused. And so I think it's really important that we're maximizing the utilization of those dollars.

1188
01:45:26,140 --> 01:45:32,380
And as we, where we go from here, I think that's going to have to be a critical part of all conversations moving forward.

1189
01:45:35,000 --> 01:45:45,260
And then on the fifth one, slow down the pipeline of people into homelessness, it's really disheartening to see that that average age of our on house residences increasing.

1190
01:45:45,860 --> 01:45:50,060
And I think that there's a number of reasons for that.

1191
01:45:50,060 --> 01:45:55,060
But when I'm looking at the sort of canaries in the coal mine and those individuals in

1192
01:45:55,060 --> 01:45:59,800
Monterey County who are living very much pay-tech to pay-tech on the edge is when I look

1193
01:45:59,800 --> 01:46:04,540
at our student homelessness rates and there's a new report that just came out Monterey County

1194
01:46:04,540 --> 01:46:08,880
student homelessness rates continue to be exponentially statistically dramatically

1195
01:46:08,880 --> 01:46:14,520
significantly higher than what you see anywhere else on the coast of California.

1196
01:46:15,220 --> 01:46:22,360
our rates of student homelessness, you know, our students who are, it's a different level

1197
01:46:22,360 --> 01:46:29,320
of category or level of measurement from our head point in time, homeless rates. But when

1198
01:46:29,320 --> 01:46:33,220
you're talking about multiple families, each living in a home with one family, per bedroom,

1199
01:46:33,780 --> 01:46:44,500
families who are living in garage, technically those kids are sheltered, but it's not, it's families

1200
01:46:44,500 --> 01:46:51,140
incredible resilience in the way that families hold it together, but also those are folks who are

1201
01:46:51,140 --> 01:46:57,640
one breath away from finding themselves in a motel in a car which leads me to the last point

1202
01:46:57,640 --> 01:47:02,720
about serving individuals who are living in their vehicles. We're already seeing in Monterey County,

1203
01:47:02,720 --> 01:47:08,740
I think Flenis Elementary School District, the last time I checked had over 100 students living

1204
01:47:08,740 --> 01:47:16,800
in vehicles and in PUSC on the modern peninsula and C-side runs a safe parking program with

1205
01:47:16,800 --> 01:47:19,120
25 families who live in their vehicle.

1206
01:47:20,100 --> 01:47:28,560
And I think those kids and K-12 students who are living in vehicles do fall into our

1207
01:47:28,560 --> 01:47:34,600
had category of homelessness, but I think it's important to acknowledge and recognize

1208
01:47:34,600 --> 01:47:38,180
that is not just those that we see or hear about,

1209
01:47:38,480 --> 01:47:42,480
but there are statistically huge numbers of those kids

1210
01:47:42,480 --> 01:47:45,240
on those families who don't have the stable housing

1211
01:47:45,240 --> 01:47:50,280
that they need to be learning and growing safely and successfully.

1212
01:47:51,700 --> 01:47:56,220
And so on the parking, serving individuals living in their cars,

1213
01:47:56,520 --> 01:47:58,860
I just want to acknowledge that the county continues

1214
01:47:58,860 --> 01:48:02,600
to have our safe parking program that there's a number

1215
01:48:02,600 --> 01:48:08,960
of churches who participate on the Peninsla in safe parking for folks and that Monterey Peninsla

1216
01:48:08,960 --> 01:48:13,180
unified even as a school district with the support of the city of seaside is operating

1217
01:48:13,180 --> 01:48:18,640
as safe parking program. We really can't do that on our own as a county. We need the cities

1218
01:48:18,640 --> 01:48:25,620
to participate. We've got some resources, we've got some models, but I just feel so strongly that

1219
01:48:25,620 --> 01:48:32,000
having catching folks before they fall farther into homelessness and those families especially

1220
01:48:32,000 --> 01:48:39,640
And those older individuals who, for whatever reason, need the security of a vehicle, that

1221
01:48:39,640 --> 01:48:44,400
that's an area that I would love to see us continue to lean farther into and to ask our partners

1222
01:48:44,400 --> 01:48:48,800
to lean farther into as well. So those are my comments. I'm also going to have to public comment.

1223
01:48:48,860 --> 01:48:56,040
Is there anyone in chambers for public comment today? No. All right. Is there anyone on line?

1224
01:48:56,040 --> 01:49:01,020
We have one for number ending in 4, 3, 6. We'll welcome your public comment. Thank you for joining us today.

1225
01:49:03,680 --> 01:49:06,340
This is the phone number ending in 436.

1226
01:49:09,270 --> 01:49:09,530
Hello.

1227
01:49:10,190 --> 01:49:11,790
This is Ellen Lee's young calling.

1228
01:49:12,970 --> 01:49:18,710
So I've looked at the leadership group on West White YouTube channel.

1229
01:49:19,370 --> 01:49:25,710
And I know that supervisor Leo has been present at those meetings as has rock sound,

1230
01:49:25,970 --> 01:49:29,490
Wilson, however, when individuals that I've mentioned,

1231
01:49:29,490 --> 01:49:37,590
my coosted is still a shelter's homeless person after 22 years and my view that's unacceptable.

1232
01:49:38,630 --> 01:49:45,710
Personally, I think with the extra support from Robert Revis,

1233
01:49:46,210 --> 01:49:52,770
for listening to my concerns about my subsidies you had, my rental portion decreased

1234
01:49:52,770 --> 01:49:58,170
which gives me more discretionary spending capacity.

1235
01:49:59,110 --> 01:49:59,970
And I'm less important.

1236
01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:11,600
I'm sorry that I'll lose my substitute today, which contributes to lessening my homeless anxiety.

1237
01:50:13,060 --> 01:50:21,020
The Salinas rental registries, the stabilization initiative, was not supported by Supervisor Olaio.

1238
01:50:21,740 --> 01:50:27,620
And it is a crucial component to combat and eliminating homelessness.

1239
01:50:27,620 --> 01:50:35,160
He needs to be more of an authentic advocate for the homeless issue in my view.

1240
01:50:36,840 --> 01:50:47,120
Also, there are many more people than 18 homeless people without shelter just in my immediate neighborhood.

1241
01:50:47,120 --> 01:51:04,640
and that alone lead alone the entire county so I think those numbers are you know if you're a person like me that it takes the bus and walks around to get places and not just in your car going to your home.

1242
01:51:05,640 --> 01:51:12,260
You will know more there are more homeless people than what your thing there are.

1243
01:51:13,920 --> 01:51:15,020
Thank you.

1244
01:51:15,400 --> 01:51:16,220
Thank you.

1245
01:51:16,220 --> 01:51:17,780
All right, I'm seeing no additional hands raised.

1246
01:51:17,800 --> 01:51:21,320
So we'll close public comment and bring it back to the board.

1247
01:51:22,280 --> 01:51:24,700
And this is receiving the presentation today.

1248
01:51:25,160 --> 01:51:27,260
And I didn't hear any direction in the comments

1249
01:51:27,260 --> 01:51:28,100
that were made.

1250
01:51:28,420 --> 01:51:31,840
Is there any direction that we'd like to offer?

1251
01:51:32,380 --> 01:51:32,860
Sign in.

1252
01:51:33,560 --> 01:51:40,320
Do you know that we have the annual summit coming up?

1253
01:51:40,320 --> 01:51:42,300
Can you make an announcement about the annual summit?

1254
01:51:44,720 --> 01:51:45,780
Yes, thank you.

1255
01:51:45,780 --> 01:51:52,840
So, we are hosting a annual, well, it's not really annual, every other year, annual, by annual.

1256
01:51:53,980 --> 01:52:01,260
Summit on Homelessness in April of 2027, it's going to be at the Old Stymix Center.

1257
01:52:01,840 --> 01:52:11,760
And we are really excited to partner, continue to partner with the county of Monterey and Monterey County Office of Education to put on this summit.

1258
01:52:11,760 --> 01:52:19,800
we are offering 12 learning sessions, we're going to incorporate some work groups training for

1259
01:52:19,800 --> 01:52:26,140
service provider network and really informing our community on what homelessness looks like in

1260
01:52:26,140 --> 01:52:32,780
our continuum of care, what resources are out there and training opportunities for our service

1261
01:52:32,780 --> 01:52:37,040
provider network to continue the growth in addressing homelessness.

1262
01:52:38,000 --> 01:52:38,700
Great, thank you.

1263
01:52:38,700 --> 01:52:41,600
I'm in the lead warm formation about that on the Coalition website.

1264
01:52:42,100 --> 01:52:47,020
Yes. So please do look into that and that is part of our implementation of the lead me home plan.

1265
01:52:47,420 --> 01:52:51,340
I thought that we continue to I think try to work in alignment as a community on.

1266
01:52:51,480 --> 01:52:52,940
So thank you again for all the work.

1267
01:52:53,440 --> 01:52:58,560
Everyone's invited and we've had we've been sold out because there is limited space the last couple times we've done this.

1268
01:52:59,100 --> 01:53:00,780
So please RZP early.

1269
01:53:01,320 --> 01:53:01,580
Yes.

1270
01:53:01,880 --> 01:53:02,480
Right. All right.

1271
01:53:02,600 --> 01:53:03,640
With that, we'll close this item.

1272
01:53:03,640 --> 01:53:09,280
Thank you again for the work, and we will move on to item number 21, which has known

1273
01:53:09,280 --> 01:53:09,800
and referrals.

1274
01:53:10,120 --> 01:53:11,980
So we'll skip that and move on to item 22.

1275
01:53:13,400 --> 01:53:16,640
Thank you, Chair, Susan Lich, can I counsel?

1276
01:53:17,800 --> 01:53:25,100
This is a referral from Supervisor Church requesting the Board establish a policy governing district

1277
01:53:25,100 --> 01:53:34,020
specific appointments to county boards, commissions, and committees specifically asking that

1278
01:53:34,020 --> 01:53:41,180
the policy state that a supervisor shall not appoint a resident of another superfizorial

1279
01:53:41,180 --> 01:53:49,500
district to a district specific position without the prior consent of the supervisor representing

1280
01:53:49,500 --> 01:54:00,840
the proposed appointees district of residents, and as far as what needs to happen today,

1281
01:54:02,040 --> 01:54:07,340
the board needs to either decide to move forward and direct county council to come

1282
01:54:07,340 --> 01:54:18,940
with such a policy or direct or another direction similar or to drop the

1283
01:54:18,940 --> 01:54:23,760
reporal. Those are the choices. Thank you. Well, go through for Elmaker.

1284
01:54:23,920 --> 01:54:33,400
Surprise a church. He gets pretty self explanatory on to it, so I really let's

1285
01:54:33,400 --> 01:54:35,420
I kind of rest at that, this was questions.

1286
01:54:39,990 --> 01:54:41,530
Yeah, I know kids not here.

1287
01:54:41,750 --> 01:54:45,890
And I'm hoping we could get to solution that might address

1288
01:54:45,890 --> 01:54:48,090
super-result churches, concerns, but also address

1289
01:54:48,090 --> 01:54:49,790
the concerns I'm about to say.

1290
01:54:51,750 --> 01:54:54,310
On appointments, it's been my practice

1291
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on my 10 years on this board,

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till he's given, well, one to recruit,

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if you see my social media and out in the...

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Community, I'm always trying to recruit people for vacancies. And I've always, in my ten years, I

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always gain priority to district one residents. If they are qualified, right? You've got to, you

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all have to review each individual on a case by case basis. But second, I've always given an opportunity

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to others who are willing to serve, because my thinking has always been, well, I'd rather have, if I can't

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find somebody to fill the vacancy. I'd rather have somebody who's willing to serve and put in

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the time to be able to do so rather than just leaving it vacant. And our county historically

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has always struggled to fill in vacancies. And that's why the chair has now posted on the agenda

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what vacancies are available. But we've also done try to do different things to make it easier

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for people to apply and to serve on these committees,

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because they are volunteer.

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And for a while there, people had to take time off work,

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or travel, spend time traveling, spending money on gas,

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just to a 10 meeting.

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So it's historically been a struggle.

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In my district in particular,

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I've always historically my 10 years

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that I had a struggle trying to find people

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for certain types of committees.

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My historical advisor committee,

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I had a one vacancy, I tried to find people

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having been able to fill it in years when it comes to fishing and wildlife.

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I know fishing wildlife or you have more interests in some of the unaccorporated areas and the

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city of Salinas and which all my district lies in and it just historically try to

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fortify people but luckily I've been able to find people who are willing to serve

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whereas expertise were willing to put in the time and they haven't always been

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from my district. I've always been honest about that.

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Sometimes there's challenges with committees, right, and it's not the point, sometimes it's

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hard-keeping people there because some committees, like behavioral health, they're very

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long meetings.

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I support the church, so we're asking I have served on there.

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They're like sometimes two or three hour meetings and an evening after work, and they go

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pretty long.

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And sometimes they move to Greenfield, to geographic areas that make it also challenging to

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01:57:12,380 --> 01:57:13,940
attend for some of the members.

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The Commission on the Status of Women has been a challenge.

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I've recruited many.

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I think part of more than any other Commission, I recruited the women to serve.

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They go on there and see another resigning, and I've even addressed it with staff with

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01:57:28,560 --> 01:57:29,400
the CAO.

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I got something going on in some of these committees where I think we need to find ways to

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retain commissioners once they're appointed.

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Recently, in 2023, our neighboring county, Santa Cruz county, they struggle to find people

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01:57:43,260 --> 01:57:50,200
fill in vacancy, they have no restrictions on by district, they in fact modify their policy

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to allow people who are employed in Santa Cruz County to be able to serve on the commission.

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01:57:56,460 --> 01:58:00,960
So they don't have to just live there. If they work in the county, the Board of Supervisors

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are set three years ago, they are also eligible to serve on a commission that is vacant.

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And these are all challenges I'm raising but that's why I specifically pushed our county to support the modernization of the Brown Act so that these advisory committees and these commissioners could participate via zoom and that bill actually was vetoed by the governor repeatedly I think was on the third time in last year where Governor Newsom finally this was going to allow it for advisory committees and that that has been

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Again, change here, because now parents, seniors, working folks, they're able to be able to participate in volunteer, much more easy by being able to join the Zoom versus traveling across the county to do so.

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So, the last point I wanted to make the concern I have on this is because historically, our appointments have always been our sole discretion. We get a point who we want, hasn't been an issue on the board for the last 10 years.

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This would be the first time that we would put restrictions on one supervisor being able to

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not be able to appoint a willing volunteer, unless that supervisor agrees to that.

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And for me, I just think that's problematic because I think our supervisor,

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the world districts are not fiefdoms, we don't own the people and I'm hoping that we

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perhaps there's another way where if we have a willing person to, from one superzer just

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going to serve in another, not to say, you can't serve unless the supervisor there agrees,

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perhaps if there's a way to provide notice to the supervisor to inform the supervisor that

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this is happening, I think there's other ways, because I know I've recruited people and

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usually the cleric sends that application to the district that they live in, and so as I hope if that.

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I'll say to my district and there are wanting to apply to be one of my commissioners. I always try to tell them in their put that you're applying for a D1 district. That doesn't always happen.

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And so there's been some of my recruits that have actually been appointed to the status of commission to the status of one by supervisor church.

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So I've helped recruit some people that got appointed in other people's districts, but even on my effort, I try to tell them.

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Please indicate that you're wanting to serve in a D1 vacancy, commission vacancy.

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02:00:36,960 --> 02:00:40,000
Anyways, I don't know if that addresses your concerns, but I'm sure that you're

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sure, but I'm trying to find ways I want to be respectful to you and to other supervisors,

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02:00:45,920 --> 02:00:52,580
but I don't know if notice would be suffice or if it's just going to be a blank,

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02:00:52,580 --> 02:01:00,620
straight black and white rule or on a stutter supervisor agrees then I won't be able to point that in and then that that

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Vacant that vacancy sits

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Empty for another period of time. I think currently I only have six vacancies

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02:01:09,980 --> 02:01:15,160
on commissions. I try to get down to zero. I was hoping to the point where I could get zero got all of mine

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02:01:15,160 --> 02:01:23,180
on field, but unfortunately, a few long-time commissioners decided to do something else

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02:01:23,180 --> 02:01:28,180
recently, so another two, three vacancies open, but it's been my goal to fill every single

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one from my district, and if not a willing person who lives in the county who's willing to serve

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02:01:34,880 --> 02:01:36,220
in those roles.

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02:01:41,670 --> 02:01:41,690
Sure.

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02:01:42,050 --> 02:01:43,650
Well, you know, it's obviously up.

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02:01:43,790 --> 02:01:47,230
Let me see if Supervisor LePas had a comment first, and then we'll come back around.

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02:01:51,120 --> 02:01:54,440
Anyway, this is a preliminary analysis report.

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So it's not the first meeting.

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02:01:55,880 --> 02:01:58,060
It's the second time it's coming back and we're going to give direction today.

1373
02:01:58,740 --> 02:01:58,900
Okay.

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02:02:00,560 --> 02:02:03,200
So we, you know, we, we, we obviously are elected in districts.

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We have, we have a responsibility to our constituency.

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02:02:06,260 --> 02:02:09,940
So our districts and, and it representing them.

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02:02:11,700 --> 02:02:15,360
And, and that's, you know, that is, that is a priority.

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02:02:15,360 --> 02:02:24,620
Nobody can speak for any of our districts as eloquently as the one the supervisor that's

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02:02:24,620 --> 02:02:28,480
been elected by the people in that district and that's that's why we're districts and

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02:02:28,480 --> 02:02:38,700
out at large partially in this county. Nothing in this referral limits anybody from being

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02:02:38,700 --> 02:02:45,280
selected outside. I know years and years past there's been issues on appointments outside

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02:02:45,280 --> 02:02:53,480
districts that have come up. When I came in office here, there were quite a few vacancies within

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02:02:53,480 --> 02:03:00,020
my district for appointments. I've been really aggressive on trying to fill those with. You

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02:03:00,020 --> 02:03:04,580
never had 100% full. I think this was always somebody that resigned, but we're pretty full,

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02:03:06,520 --> 02:03:11,520
and filling those spots. Which is good, but there's always something to be filled. What

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02:03:11,520 --> 02:03:20,880
to avoid here is a situation where a supervisor will go to my case where we make go to make

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02:03:20,880 --> 02:03:24,960
an appointment and we find out that the individuals already have been appointed from another

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02:03:24,960 --> 02:03:28,280
district and had no idea about it.

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02:03:31,240 --> 02:03:35,420
Don't get any response on how to deal with it with that

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02:03:35,420 --> 02:03:41,520
district, so if I had to go to the CIO and the clerk of the board and point out, yes, this

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02:03:41,520 --> 02:03:50,320
is a person who's applied in my district, then it's potential problem here, it just really

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02:03:50,320 --> 02:03:53,000
has to be resolved because

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02:03:55,720 --> 02:04:00,000
it shouldn't come to any kind of conflict when we have people that

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02:04:00,000 --> 02:04:05,760
are willing to serve and a super thorough district that they reside in is really where the

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chance.

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02:04:09,230 --> 02:04:15,850
Thanks. I'm going to comment briefly. And this was a really interesting, I'll just say

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02:04:15,850 --> 02:04:24,850
like I had a long conversation with my team about this referral and how it has played out in

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02:04:24,850 --> 02:04:33,630
the past. And we do have district appointments and it hasn't been an issue in the past 10 years

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where someone has blocked a district appointment,

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but it has been an issue prior to that.

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02:04:39,530 --> 02:04:42,110
There are situations where the board has chosen not

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02:04:42,110 --> 02:04:45,710
to support a district presented appointment.

1403
02:04:46,430 --> 02:04:49,250
It happened when I was a staffer for a supervisor per occur.

1404
02:04:49,910 --> 02:04:52,630
And I think that that either we say that you

1405
02:04:52,630 --> 02:04:54,350
have district appointment process.

1406
02:04:54,470 --> 02:04:55,450
We have policies that we follow.

1407
02:04:55,610 --> 02:04:57,410
And I think one of the questions I've been asking us to do

1408
02:04:57,410 --> 02:04:59,830
is to look at those policies, to update those policies.

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Please.

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To have quick guidance on those policies. And this referral fits right into that bigger question of how are we making appointments.

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02:05:09,020 --> 02:05:18,220
When it is a full board request for an appointment, I think it is important that we have policies that guide that so that it doesn't become a territorial or provincial type of situation.

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02:05:18,220 --> 02:05:25,760
And I just want to really appreciate the reasons why supervisor church is bringing this forward.

1413
02:05:26,680 --> 02:05:36,740
There are very specific concerns that I think are trying to be addressed and that district specific appointments should generally come from the district that they represent.

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02:05:39,380 --> 02:05:44,940
And I guess the one, so I do think it's a relevant conversation to have.

1415
02:05:45,480 --> 02:05:52,060
I generally agree that the proposed solution makes sense to me.

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02:05:52,520 --> 02:05:58,700
And at the same time, I'm just trying to think through the reality of, we have district boundaries,

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02:05:59,300 --> 02:06:02,740
they're imperfect, proxies for what our communities look like.

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02:06:02,740 --> 02:06:09,660
Sometimes we have someone who maybe lives in one address and works in another part of the community.

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02:06:11,120 --> 02:06:18,780
We've always looked at the going back to the bylaws for each one of the appointments to let that guide us and how we bring people forward.

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02:06:18,920 --> 02:06:20,160
Do they qualify? Do they not qualify?

1421
02:06:22,560 --> 02:06:32,020
So I think those were some of the questions that I bounced around as we spent, you know, dove into the actual request and the proposed solution.

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02:06:32,020 --> 02:06:39,360
And I think it could make sense to say, you know, if you're going to appoint someone outside

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02:06:39,360 --> 02:06:47,640
of your district, that there is a consultation that occurs with the, you know, the other

1424
02:06:47,640 --> 02:06:48,160
district.

1425
02:06:48,840 --> 02:06:53,180
I think that that seems like a fair request to make.

1426
02:06:54,680 --> 02:07:01,940
And I think the other piece of it that I've raised in all of my other comments is really thinking

1427
02:07:01,940 --> 02:07:09,600
about how we as a county are making sure that vacancies are known about by the community.

1428
02:07:11,320 --> 02:07:13,120
And the county serves all of our cities.

1429
02:07:14,100 --> 02:07:22,560
We don't have any uniform way by which vacancies are shared in a broad manner.

1430
02:07:23,240 --> 02:07:28,020
We have the Matty list on the Clerk of the Board's webpage, but that's not shared broadly.

1431
02:07:28,020 --> 02:07:33,140
So, oftentimes we'll have vacancies, they'll be an appointment, someone will hear about it in

1432
02:07:33,140 --> 02:07:38,300
some other way, but that the bigger issue for me and all of this is that we're making

1433
02:07:38,300 --> 02:07:43,800
sure that the community truly does understand the residents in each district understand that

1434
02:07:43,800 --> 02:07:50,400
they have an opportunity to serve and that the wide range of individuals who might be interested,

1435
02:07:50,820 --> 02:07:55,620
I know they're out there, I talk to them every day and I'm oftentimes referring people to city

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02:07:55,620 --> 02:08:02,840
opportunities or county opportunities that they would have never known about, so I'm not providing

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02:08:02,840 --> 02:08:07,320
closure action in this, but I do think it's a relevant question, and I think that the proposed

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02:08:07,320 --> 02:08:09,840
solution is one that could make sense.

1439
02:08:12,340 --> 02:08:14,240
Do you want to comment, surprise, let me say a little bit

1440
02:08:14,240 --> 02:08:18,500
about that. I think I've heard three different opinions of your concurrence, notification,

1441
02:08:19,780 --> 02:08:23,280
and like approval, right? So there's like three different potentials I've heard three,

1442
02:08:23,280 --> 02:08:24,600
three opinions, three different levels.

1443
02:08:25,160 --> 02:08:27,560
And just want to acknowledge that I understand all the above.

1444
02:08:28,040 --> 02:08:32,920
I've never been in the middle of one of those issues myself

1445
02:08:32,920 --> 02:08:36,220
with an individual being contested in any way.

1446
02:08:37,020 --> 02:08:40,320
But at the same time I've had certain districts.

1447
02:08:40,380 --> 02:08:42,180
I think I appoint more than anybody else

1448
02:08:42,180 --> 02:08:43,400
because there's so many special districts.

1449
02:08:44,300 --> 02:08:46,820
And all those tiny cemetery districts, water districts,

1450
02:08:47,040 --> 02:08:48,000
memorial districts.

1451
02:08:49,300 --> 02:08:52,180
So given that, I know in the past, like in the instance,

1452
02:08:52,180 --> 02:08:53,860
It's a mission game.

1453
02:08:54,320 --> 02:08:56,360
I've had an abundance of folks like nine folks apply

1454
02:08:56,360 --> 02:08:58,080
for a few seats in Supervisor Lejos,

1455
02:08:58,260 --> 02:08:59,780
had vacancies, so I've sent them a couple,

1456
02:09:00,280 --> 02:09:01,260
and he's appointed some of those,

1457
02:09:01,340 --> 02:09:03,500
so I can see the concurrence piece there.

1458
02:09:05,680 --> 02:09:08,500
And I think it's a really interesting question

1459
02:09:08,500 --> 02:09:10,220
and I look forward to hearing

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02:09:10,220 --> 02:09:12,180
if we have any public input on this.

1461
02:09:12,860 --> 02:09:14,720
I doubt we do, given the time we're sitting next,

1462
02:09:15,140 --> 02:09:17,820
and I have to chambers, but I'm not out there.

1463
02:09:18,220 --> 02:09:20,080
And just want to acknowledge with three opinions

1464
02:09:21,520 --> 02:09:32,380
understanding that there should be some level it's a question of what level and maybe this is one we do wait for supervisor Daniels to join in on the conversation just given that as well.

1465
02:09:33,120 --> 02:09:46,860
But given my history with it, I agree there needs to be some level it's a question of what is the appropriate level and then which bodies are we talking about as well just knowing that all those different potential places that it could be an impact.

1466
02:09:46,860 --> 02:09:55,380
down the line and I agree with that piece because I largely often feel that I'm the bedroom community for so many others, right?

1467
02:09:55,560 --> 02:09:59,980
I know everybody who lives in my district works in someone else's, I feel that in the morning.

1468
02:10:00,000 --> 02:10:15,240
On the freeway at folks headed north, and I wouldn't want to block those folks who might be useful and insightful from helping others, but I do not resist into the idea of a concurrence. I guess it's where I am.

1469
02:10:15,640 --> 02:10:21,060
But yeah, just sitting there kind of with that. A lot of different pieces, I just want to acknowledge I heard three different opinions there.

1470
02:10:21,060 --> 02:10:26,660
I do think it probably, you know, it's an item since its board policy really needs all

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02:10:26,660 --> 02:10:34,520
supervisors engaged. And I'm probably, you know, they really should come back when there's

1472
02:10:34,520 --> 02:10:42,520
five supervisors. And that could be the direction from the board today, if I'm made to come back

1473
02:10:42,520 --> 02:10:48,380
at a future date that we're all five supervisors over here. Yeah, it can count on, and obviously

1474
02:10:48,380 --> 02:10:54,340
all of us all five, even if it's a district specific appointment, we all ends up being voted upon

1475
02:10:54,340 --> 02:11:00,420
all by all five of us, that all gets agendized, even if it's a district specific. But one thing

1476
02:11:00,420 --> 02:11:05,480
that's unique here in Salinas is that there's four supervisors and a lot of residents when we do

1477
02:11:05,480 --> 02:11:11,000
recruitment for commissioners, they don't know what supervisor district is because they could be here

1478
02:11:12,180 --> 02:11:16,260
and you're on this side, but then you cross into Old Town, I mean just on Main Street,

1479
02:11:16,260 --> 02:11:20,780
then you're my district versus Wendy's you get to the rail station side

1480
02:11:20,780 --> 02:11:25,340
then you're in Glen's district and not all these residents know where the

1481
02:11:25,340 --> 02:11:30,320
lines are. I recently had two recent college grads. They were really great

1482
02:11:30,320 --> 02:11:35,020
resumes. They're not in my district. I had a parks position open. They reached out

1483
02:11:35,020 --> 02:11:39,640
to me. You wanted to serve as a parks commissioner. That was made vacant when

1484
02:11:39,640 --> 02:11:44,960
former council, Salinas council member, Sergio Sanchez passed away. And so they're

1485
02:11:44,960 --> 02:11:50,960
They want to serve, they provide the resume, they look very strong, qualified candidates and that's what you want.

1486
02:11:52,600 --> 02:11:54,960
These young people born and raised here, they go get their education.

1487
02:11:55,200 --> 02:11:56,880
They're coming back, they want to serve.

1488
02:11:58,240 --> 02:12:01,380
I want to be able to appoint them if they're willing to do that.

1489
02:12:01,760 --> 02:12:06,520
But I get prior to an appointment coming to being placed on an agenda.

1490
02:12:07,040 --> 02:12:10,720
I have no problem like reach out to supervisor, church users,

1491
02:12:10,720 --> 02:12:13,080
to raise your low-paces as a strike and form them a,

1492
02:12:13,960 --> 02:12:17,160
given some kind of notice to the district knowing

1493
02:12:17,160 --> 02:12:19,580
that these applicants have come to our office,

1494
02:12:20,060 --> 02:12:23,840
asking to be appointed, asking to be D1 commissioners.

1495
02:12:24,300 --> 02:12:26,780
I hope there's a way that that might be able to address

1496
02:12:26,780 --> 02:12:28,480
supervisor church's concerns,

1497
02:12:28,660 --> 02:12:30,980
because ultimately they are going to come to all of us

1498
02:12:30,980 --> 02:12:37,220
for us to be able to vote on the actual appointment itself.

1499
02:12:37,220 --> 02:12:39,040
I'm going to open it up to public comment.

1500
02:12:39,440 --> 02:12:43,620
I don't see any hands raised or anyone in chambers approaching, so we will close public comment.

1501
02:12:44,080 --> 02:12:45,820
Bring it back to the board so we don't miss that.

1502
02:12:46,360 --> 02:12:50,100
You know, one thought that comes to mind is potentially, since it ultimately comes to the full board,

1503
02:12:50,480 --> 02:12:54,380
is somewhere in the application to show that if it is someone being appointed from out of district

1504
02:12:54,380 --> 02:12:58,960
that there's concurrence from the primary district.

1505
02:12:59,260 --> 02:13:04,260
And if there isn't, the full board would then have a ability to know that that's the case in the voting

1506
02:13:04,260 --> 02:13:09,320
And that may be as a great area and how we've been forward, but when additional thought.

1507
02:13:10,500 --> 02:13:17,140
And the only other thing I would add, I could do it separately for all is just, I'll do it separately for just for the Board of Consider.

1508
02:13:17,240 --> 02:13:22,020
If we want to allow people who work within our county to be able to serve on commissions, I'll be a different discussion.

1509
02:13:22,540 --> 02:13:28,260
But certainly want to be able to provide more opportunities for people who are invested in our county, whether they live here or they work here.

1510
02:13:28,260 --> 02:13:35,980
And perhaps that's another way to address trying to fill some of these vacancies and give more opportunities to people who have a stake within our county.

1511
02:13:36,400 --> 02:13:43,360
And I think we do have within many of the board commissions, if you look at their bylaws, it does state that it addresses that issue specifically already.

1512
02:13:44,140 --> 02:13:51,280
So I don't know if there's an across and overarching policy in place, but we've looked into the bylaws on specific appointments and.

1513
02:13:51,280 --> 02:13:56,080
There's President, maybe you just expand it and I'll follow every for all, but yeah, I need to commission.

1514
02:13:56,560 --> 02:14:04,740
Just to, you know, on the larger issue, and I don't have a question if it may be forward just on committees, special districts.

1515
02:14:05,660 --> 02:14:18,340
And, you know, we got a new policy now when, when a special district spill over into a different sort of presural districts, is that, you know, there is a whole process is really uneven and is somewhat broken.

1516
02:14:18,840 --> 02:14:21,960
I mean, I hear from my staff all the time,

1517
02:14:25,780 --> 02:14:27,440
there's, I don't know, I mean, I know

1518
02:14:27,440 --> 02:14:29,400
Supervisor Lope had mentioned all the, you know,

1519
02:14:29,540 --> 02:14:31,820
the Special District Commission, she has,

1520
02:14:31,840 --> 02:14:33,640
committee she has, and we're all, you know,

1521
02:14:33,760 --> 02:14:36,940
we're all pointing to so many others and it's hard to get

1522
02:14:36,940 --> 02:14:38,380
a, and up to date list on this.

1523
02:14:40,100 --> 02:14:42,820
Clerk of the Board is totally overworked and

1524
02:14:42,820 --> 02:14:45,000
and then has this kind of do on top of them.

1525
02:14:45,080 --> 02:14:46,280
And this, you know, honestly,

1526
02:14:46,280 --> 02:14:53,440
They're really this important role I think is we've all discussed for people to go and engage in government and

1527
02:14:53,440 --> 02:14:59,220
the special districts actually it's a financial fiduciary with real power and a lot of you know the planning commission.

1528
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:06,740
It has real power, a lot of others, it's advisory, but it's a way for people to be engaged in government and give advice.

1529
02:15:07,420 --> 02:15:11,720
So many times you make appointments, I never hear what happens with this committee.

1530
02:15:12,000 --> 02:15:14,640
I mean, there should be reporting back on a regular basis.

1531
02:15:15,820 --> 02:15:19,640
I'm not talking about talking about the policy here.

1532
02:15:19,780 --> 02:15:28,460
The committees I'm trying to look at the big picture here, that it's...

1533
02:15:29,280 --> 02:15:35,880
There's a lot of things that are broken in this process that needs to be spoofed out on one of them as this honestly is that they're really there really should be one

1534
02:15:36,720 --> 02:15:40,820
I mean a county is big as we with 5,000 employees that we don't have one

1535
02:15:41,700 --> 02:15:44,460
full staff person totally dedicated to

1536
02:15:45,440 --> 02:15:45,880
who

1537
02:15:46,540 --> 02:15:53,100
People and the public who want to be engaged and making sure that those convenience are operating properly and I believe it is currently written in

1538
02:15:53,100 --> 02:15:56,740
to report back to us every year, and we hardly ever get in that for many of them.

1539
02:15:56,900 --> 02:15:59,540
I mean, and that needs to be kind of pushed along.

1540
02:16:01,080 --> 02:16:07,550
So, you know, I'd like to see a bigger, you know, besides just this here, which I think

1541
02:16:07,550 --> 02:16:11,310
we need to have a lot of supervisors, I'd like to see this whole thing open up into a bigger

1542
02:16:11,310 --> 02:16:14,770
issue to make this much more efficient, because it's, it really is broken.

1543
02:16:15,830 --> 02:16:16,410
Thank you.

1544
02:16:16,550 --> 02:16:20,930
So, I think we do have the request to have supervisors and jannels included in the discussion.

1545
02:16:20,930 --> 02:16:27,050
And I have a board referral that's been pending for quite some time in regards to looking

1546
02:16:27,750 --> 02:16:33,330
at our policies and processes around commission appointments.

1547
02:16:34,930 --> 02:16:36,110
We do have a policy.

1548
02:16:36,570 --> 02:16:39,350
One of Jane's first referrals, I'll use the new referral system.

1549
02:16:39,710 --> 02:16:43,310
Jane Parker was to create an end-of-report requirement for all of our boards and commissions.

1550
02:16:44,170 --> 02:16:48,390
There was a point in time years ago when financial challenges were forcing the county to

1551
02:16:48,390 --> 02:16:53,170
look at how we provided staff support to all the boards and commissions, and so as a first step

1552
02:16:53,170 --> 02:16:57,190
in that was asking all the boards and commissions to file an annual report with this body,

1553
02:16:57,210 --> 02:17:01,830
with the board of supervisors, so that we knew the commissions that were effective, we knew what

1554
02:17:01,830 --> 02:17:07,350
they were up to, and they had an opportunity to demonstrate that they were functioning as intended,

1555
02:17:08,250 --> 02:17:13,090
so that we knew that it was appropriate to continue making those investments into the staffing

1556
02:17:13,090 --> 02:17:18,250
support. We're not getting those annual reports, which I think would be really helpful in the

1557
02:17:20,670 --> 02:17:27,130
We don't have committees and commissions just for the sake of having more meetings or for allowing people to sit in meetings.

1558
02:17:27,670 --> 02:17:35,790
They really are there in most cases based on their bylaws to be advising the Board of Supervisors on issues that they have some specific tasking to do so.

1559
02:17:36,150 --> 02:17:42,890
If we're not receiving the reports back or the updates of the advice, it is a question, a bigger question.

1560
02:17:42,890 --> 02:17:48,270
what are we really asking residents of the community to do when they sit and volunteer their

1561
02:17:48,270 --> 02:17:53,830
time on a committee. So I think that really is more to this and I appreciate this coming forward

1562
02:17:53,830 --> 02:17:59,390
and I think if we could maybe have it direct staff to come back when Kate deignals this

1563
02:17:59,390 --> 02:18:04,730
presence so we can have the broader conversation. If as part of that we could discuss this item

1564
02:18:05,370 --> 02:18:10,590
we could also get an update on the maybe just even a copy of the inner report policy that's in place

1565
02:18:10,590 --> 02:18:11,910
for arts and commissions.

1566
02:18:12,590 --> 02:18:16,290
Respectfully, you're expanding what's agendized.

1567
02:18:17,190 --> 02:18:20,430
What's agendized is only this, but I think.

1568
02:18:20,430 --> 02:18:22,690
But what we're asking is, it could come

1569
02:18:22,690 --> 02:18:26,810
at least two separate different items at the same time.

1570
02:18:27,130 --> 02:18:30,370
I think you could direct CAO to come back

1571
02:18:30,370 --> 02:18:33,390
with a larger discussion on committees.

1572
02:18:33,430 --> 02:18:34,830
A larger discussion on committees.

1573
02:18:35,290 --> 02:18:36,250
On a second item, okay.

1574
02:18:36,250 --> 02:18:39,050
Yeah, given that a different item on the law or the agenda.

1575
02:18:39,050 --> 02:18:39,310
Yeah.

1576
02:18:41,710 --> 02:18:43,830
All right. And I think through our acting studio,

1577
02:18:43,890 --> 02:18:46,770
Newtula, so we didn't get to chance to introduce you this morning.

1578
02:18:47,130 --> 02:18:51,970
Everyone knows who you are, but we've talked about a lot of different parts of our boards

1579
02:18:51,970 --> 02:18:56,890
and commissions today within the context of the Surfer All. And I think even, you know,

1580
02:18:56,890 --> 02:19:01,870
supervisor Church's comments, we're clear that this is a broader issue around the policies

1581
02:19:01,870 --> 02:19:07,770
that govern our commissions. So. So you want this brought back as a broader discussion, essentially.

1582
02:19:07,770 --> 02:19:12,550
two items. In addition to the item that we're talking about to every

1583
02:19:12,550 --> 02:19:17,070
thing. Or if it can be a single item, so we talked about it in the context of a

1584
02:19:17,070 --> 02:19:19,490
single item, but however we bring it back, we'd like to have the broader

1585
02:19:19,490 --> 02:19:20,610
quantized discussion.

1586
02:19:22,710 --> 02:19:26,990
Okay, all right, cool. No for the action is either, so we

1587
02:19:26,990 --> 02:19:31,370
will move on to our county administrative office or comments. Okay, thank you

1588
02:19:31,370 --> 02:19:34,610
Madam Chair, just a couple of things. I wanted to give the board a very brief kind of

1589
02:19:34,610 --> 02:19:41,350
level overview of the fire situation. Our EOC has been activated at level two for about

1590
02:19:41,350 --> 02:19:46,690
the last week and a half and that basically means staff from seven in the morning till

1591
02:19:46,690 --> 02:19:51,150
seven at night. It's not a 24-7 operation at this point because it's not really warranted.

1592
02:19:51,430 --> 02:19:57,170
But we have a number of disaster service workers from many different county departments who are

1593
02:19:57,170 --> 02:19:59,890
working at the EOC in one capacity or another.

1594
02:20:00,180 --> 02:20:08,200
Which we really appreciate. The Department of Emergency Management is doing a really good job of coordinating the effort on this along with our law and fire partners.

1595
02:20:09,240 --> 02:20:16,360
Both the fires, the timber fire and the plastic fire are both at about as of this morning at about 25,000 acres each.

1596
02:20:16,680 --> 02:20:23,300
The difference there is the timber fires at about 25 percent containment. The plastic fires at about 1 percent containment.

1597
02:20:23,300 --> 02:20:28,340
And the reason for the differences, the area of the Plasket Fire and Southern on the South

1598
02:20:28,340 --> 02:20:33,000
Coast hasn't burned in years, and there's a lot of material there to be burned.

1599
02:20:33,380 --> 02:20:37,880
The timber fire is burning in areas where there's been historically every five or six years

1600
02:20:37,880 --> 02:20:41,380
of pretty significant fires, so the fuel load is different in that area.

1601
02:20:42,420 --> 02:20:49,820
CalTrans is working to evaluate slopes to ability along the northern closure of highway one, and

1602
02:20:49,820 --> 02:20:54,420
trees to be removed, boulders, and that sort of thing that need to be dealt with, we're

1603
02:20:54,420 --> 02:20:59,780
hoping that by Thursday, the northern part of Highway 1 can be reopened. And we've been in

1604
02:20:59,780 --> 02:21:06,880
very frequent contact with the District 5. The businesses affected down there in Big Sur,

1605
02:21:07,320 --> 02:21:12,760
the residents, and had very frequent meetings with them. There was a very well-attended community

1606
02:21:12,760 --> 02:21:18,620
meeting in Kishawa on Saturday afternoon, a couple hundred residents were there in that area just

1607
02:21:18,620 --> 02:21:24,400
get a briefing from the Forest Service about potential issues that might come up out there in

1608
02:21:24,400 --> 02:21:29,580
terms of the fire. And there's another meeting tomorrow night in Policolorado to bring

1609
02:21:29,580 --> 02:21:34,400
the residents down in that area up to date. So that's kind of the quick update on the fire

1610
02:21:34,400 --> 02:21:40,340
I'm going to share fires. And the department that we wanted to highlight today as we do every

1611
02:21:40,340 --> 02:21:46,560
every board meeting is emergency communications, which is the 911 dispatch department. It's got

1612
02:21:46,560 --> 02:21:55,880
A 74, FTE's 56 dispatchers within that 74, 28 agencies are serviced at through the 911 Dispatch Center.

1613
02:21:56,420 --> 02:22:07,840
And really the volume of traffic in that department is pretty astounding, 592,000 phone calls were answered and managed last year.

1614
02:22:08,340 --> 02:22:14,680
Of those, about 200,000 were 911 calls of which almost 90% were answered within 15 seconds,

1615
02:22:14,680 --> 02:22:18,660
which is an improvement of performance from previous year.

1616
02:22:20,560 --> 02:22:26,420
Training staff is always an ongoing work in progress with that department, and we're happy

1617
02:22:26,420 --> 02:22:30,680
to announce that four dispatcher trainees completed their training program, which is about

1618
02:22:30,680 --> 02:22:36,240
a 12-month program, and we're promoted to dispatcher twos within the department, which is

1619
02:22:36,240 --> 02:22:36,480
great.

1620
02:22:36,740 --> 02:22:40,600
Filling those positions is always an important function.

1621
02:22:41,820 --> 02:22:49,320
Then the last, the Department continues to explore using emerging technology, such as AI to assist

1622
02:22:49,320 --> 02:22:54,560
with call handling and to exploit the call traffic that is coming through the Department.

1623
02:22:54,740 --> 02:22:58,920
So that's just a quick overview of some of the accomplishments of our very hard-working

1624
02:22:58,920 --> 02:23:03,950
emergency communications staff that concludes our comments.

1625
02:23:04,310 --> 02:23:05,070
Thank you.

1626
02:23:05,270 --> 02:23:06,070
Board comments.

1627
02:23:10,030 --> 02:23:10,430
The reservoir.

1628
02:23:10,790 --> 02:23:11,590
Lejo comments?

1629
02:23:14,330 --> 02:23:21,810
First of all, next Monday is Labor Day, so I want to just thank all of our 6,000 employees

1630
02:23:21,810 --> 02:23:26,710
and thank them for their dedicated work serving the people and businesses of Monterey County.

1631
02:23:27,510 --> 02:23:28,590
So hats off to everyone.

1632
02:23:29,510 --> 02:23:35,870
I also wanted to just say that we had a really great re-opening of Cluster Park in Eselenus.

1633
02:23:35,870 --> 02:23:41,970
It was a $10 million investment, $6.9 million or $6.9 million of that came from state funding,

1634
02:23:41,970 --> 02:23:48,690
the rest, prided by the city of Salinas, and the community was very pleased, seen all the great

1635
02:23:48,690 --> 02:23:54,710
renovations and added amenities and activities from the enhanced baseball fields to the soccer,

1636
02:23:54,950 --> 02:24:02,790
I mean the skate park, refurbished basketball courts, and many other things that the community

1637
02:24:02,790 --> 02:24:04,230
really asked for at their park.

1638
02:24:04,850 --> 02:24:06,190
But that's not the first one.

1639
02:24:06,270 --> 02:24:09,390
There was also a state investment in renovating the head

1640
02:24:09,390 --> 02:24:10,590
bronze community center.

1641
02:24:11,010 --> 02:24:14,050
Not too long ago, that was another $80, $10,000 project.

1642
02:24:14,790 --> 02:24:16,690
Any salinas, the community, please,

1643
02:24:16,850 --> 02:24:17,390
with that.

1644
02:24:18,130 --> 02:24:20,870
And today, I'm very pleased to report that,

1645
02:24:21,030 --> 02:24:23,190
because the legislature, they're on the last minutes

1646
02:24:23,190 --> 02:24:27,650
of the legislative session, they approved a assembly budget bill,

1647
02:24:27,890 --> 02:24:32,570
AB, 1, 1, 3, that had several projects throughout the county.

1648
02:24:33,910 --> 02:24:40,010
included, as member requests, I think those one on the seaside, there's a several

1649
02:24:40,010 --> 02:24:45,370
insolent salinas, but the biggest one for me was an allocation for a total of $2.7

1650
02:24:45,370 --> 02:24:51,830
million for the salinas regional soccer complex. I want to just give a special shout out

1651
02:24:51,830 --> 02:24:56,330
to Assembly Speaker Rivas and Senator John Laird for including those significant

1652
02:24:56,330 --> 02:24:59,970
and allocations to advance the work.

1653
02:25:00,050 --> 02:25:07,690
To add the eight new fields out at the Soccer Complex, I think the community is going to be very excited to hear this news.

1654
02:25:09,250 --> 02:25:11,950
You know, it's breaking as we speak.

1655
02:25:12,850 --> 02:25:18,530
Last thing I want to mention, I know Kate's not here, but we do have indie car coming this weekend to Laguna Saka.

1656
02:25:18,930 --> 02:25:28,250
It is the Monterey Grand Prix. It's the season finale. So it's going to be televised on the news. There's tens of thousands of fans coming in at the end of this week.

1657
02:25:28,250 --> 02:25:33,870
So I want to just say how exciting it is to have these events at our world-renowned race track

1658
02:25:33,870 --> 02:25:35,250
at Laguna Saco raceway.

1659
02:25:35,610 --> 02:25:36,450
Thank you very much.

1660
02:25:39,220 --> 02:25:41,400
I did remember two brief points.

1661
02:25:41,480 --> 02:25:46,580
One is that tomorrow morning, trust for public lands, is going to be holding a session with

1662
02:25:46,580 --> 02:25:53,520
Seattle and RAA, our California Natural Resources Administrative folks are going to be in

1663
02:25:53,520 --> 02:25:54,160
town tomorrow.

1664
02:25:54,440 --> 02:26:00,400
We're going to start with a tour at AAM in Edinson Park, here in Salinas, and then the

1665
02:26:00,400 --> 02:26:05,820
and Gonzalo's at the Janice and Dennis Kapara Community Center at 8am.

1666
02:26:06,740 --> 02:26:09,240
So, at 10am, I just want to invite everybody out.

1667
02:26:09,300 --> 02:26:14,620
This is an opportunity for us to truly inform the next administration on how we're going

1668
02:26:14,620 --> 02:26:19,500
to be focusing on making sure parks are accessible to all, given the theme of the day, but

1669
02:26:19,500 --> 02:26:24,940
just wanted everybody to know that that is on for tomorrow and invite folks to join us

1670
02:26:24,940 --> 02:26:31,020
for that and a blank on my second one.

1671
02:26:31,020 --> 02:26:34,020
That's how it works sometimes. I'll just go with one. Thank you madam chair.

1672
02:26:34,160 --> 02:26:35,020
How's with age?

1673
02:26:37,340 --> 02:26:42,720
So I'll just, I'm going to briefly, you know, go back here to the 60th anniversary of the parks.

1674
02:26:42,960 --> 02:26:47,220
I'm going to Ben Werelox Park out there on September 12th from about nine to seven.

1675
02:26:47,320 --> 02:26:51,120
I think is the time and there's going to be a whole range of events.

1676
02:26:51,120 --> 02:26:54,680
I think it's going to start with a disc golf. And as I say, there's going to be some soccer.

1677
02:26:54,680 --> 02:27:04,440
is going to be some kind of tosses, going to be a 10 or 15 food truck there, and there's

1678
02:27:04,440 --> 02:27:10,060
apparently going to be a horseshoe match taken by Stan, which I'm feeling a little less

1679
02:27:10,060 --> 02:27:17,460
bravado than it earlier because I realized Mr. Forest has real home court advantage because

1680
02:27:17,460 --> 02:27:23,520
he's going to be able to practice every day there, and so keeping my fingers crossed and

1681
02:27:23,520 --> 02:27:26,260
what's going to be the bad on that.

1682
02:27:27,020 --> 02:27:28,600
Other things I just wanted to bring up

1683
02:27:28,600 --> 02:27:31,740
is I've had the four years have been on the board.

1684
02:27:31,980 --> 02:27:33,100
I've only missed one meeting.

1685
02:27:33,340 --> 02:27:37,920
It's been when I was actually hospitalized from an accident.

1686
02:27:38,480 --> 02:27:41,720
But there is a slight chance I'm not going to make the 15th

1687
02:27:41,720 --> 02:27:44,480
because even the supervisors, and it's probably

1688
02:27:44,480 --> 02:27:46,140
to know we do get call for jury duty.

1689
02:27:46,320 --> 02:27:48,940
And while I do think it's unlikely I'll be on a jury duty.

1690
02:27:49,340 --> 02:27:52,320
I do have to be there day before, potentially.

1691
02:27:53,540 --> 02:28:01,380
if they're going to be seated and see what happens out of that. So we'll close with that.

1692
02:28:02,800 --> 02:28:06,700
I did remember the other one and that is simply to say that AB 2728, which is our

1693
02:28:06,700 --> 02:28:11,580
bill, fixing the diminimacy issue is on the governor's desk now. So hopefully in the next few days

1694
02:28:11,580 --> 02:28:16,180
we'll get good news if that's been signed and is moved through and salt a major issue for us.

1695
02:28:16,640 --> 02:28:18,380
It's known as Chris's law.

1696
02:28:21,420 --> 02:28:27,740
Thank you all, I had a lot of fun this weekend out celebrating some of our youth athletic leagues.

1697
02:28:27,740 --> 02:28:32,340
I grew up playing youth soccer and loved it and being on the field with all of them,

1698
02:28:32,540 --> 02:28:37,080
bringing youth soccer and association as kiddos, as they kicked off their season,

1699
02:28:37,840 --> 02:28:43,580
was like the most joy I've felt in a while, so I really appreciate being able to support and

1700
02:28:43,580 --> 02:28:48,080
be a co-sponsor of that program this year. And then later in the afternoon, the Gill basketball,

1701
02:28:48,080 --> 02:28:54,660
Academy celebrated its 18th anniversary with really just felt like a family barbecue because

1702
02:28:54,660 --> 02:29:01,220
those kids who participate in that program really do become family is the story I heard over

1703
02:29:01,220 --> 02:29:05,300
and over again. But those are just two of the many groups across the district that are welcoming

1704
02:29:05,300 --> 02:29:13,320
kids into movement, including cheer and marching band, Uries spending many days standing in

1705
02:29:13,320 --> 02:29:15,640
stadium now, cheering for the cheerleaders.

1706
02:29:17,160 --> 02:29:18,800
So I didn't really realize that's what we did as parents

1707
02:29:18,800 --> 02:29:20,000
but that's what we're doing.

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02:29:20,500 --> 02:29:22,320
So really grateful for all the coaches and volunteers

1709
02:29:22,320 --> 02:29:24,520
and families who keep the teams running in affordable

1710
02:29:24,520 --> 02:29:25,960
for kids.

1711
02:29:27,680 --> 02:29:32,740
Also, the Monterey Airport kicked off their new East Terminal

1712
02:29:32,740 --> 02:29:33,960
with a Dusty Shoes tour.

1713
02:29:34,560 --> 02:29:37,060
It's really going to be a beautiful, beautiful building

1714
02:29:37,060 --> 02:29:38,740
when it's time to expand the number of terminals

1715
02:29:38,740 --> 02:29:41,540
that we have, expanded long-term parking.

1716
02:29:41,540 --> 02:29:46,160
So, the stay tuned for announcements and when you get a chance to get over to see that new

1717
02:29:46,160 --> 02:29:48,900
East Terminal, it is, it's going to be gorgeous.

1718
02:29:50,180 --> 02:29:55,840
Also, I wanted to, this, on Sunday, I think it was, I got to celebrate, I'll leave on,

1719
02:29:55,940 --> 02:29:59,980
the Vietnamese parent's day, and it was a beautiful, joyful solace.

1720
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:05,120
All celebration with dancing, music, families,

1721
02:30:07,460 --> 02:30:23,900
and recognizing just the value and the significance that we all have parents, who raised us and who loved us, and so being able to reflect on what your parents mean to you and all the gifts that they instilled into you.

1722
02:30:23,900 --> 02:30:29,560
A couple upcoming things, there is an East Garrison historic arts district, master plan being

1723
02:30:29,560 --> 02:30:30,020
developed.

1724
02:30:30,840 --> 02:30:34,100
And so I'm putting a call out to everyone, not just those who live in East Garrison,

1725
02:30:34,340 --> 02:30:37,120
but there is a community survey that's posted online.

1726
02:30:37,220 --> 02:30:41,200
We've got it up on all of our socials, or can provide you with a direct link if you

1727
02:30:41,200 --> 02:30:44,800
reach out to the office, but we do need thoughts and feedback from everyone.

1728
02:30:44,800 --> 02:30:49,900
This is part of the redevelopment of the East Garrison historic arts district, developing

1729
02:30:49,900 --> 02:30:53,880
that master plan will really determine what type of redevelopment continues to happen.

1730
02:30:53,880 --> 02:30:59,820
And with those properties at the county was a deeded after the closure of Ford Ord.

1731
02:31:00,240 --> 02:31:04,500
So please, if you can take five minutes and fill out that community survey, we would really appreciate it.

1732
02:31:04,960 --> 02:31:09,600
Also related to East Garrison, our community services district meeting is September 9th at 6 p.m.

1733
02:31:09,740 --> 02:31:15,700
This is where we review the annual property tax update and get announcements about the fee changes for mellow ruse.

1734
02:31:16,220 --> 02:31:23,660
So it's a deep interest to our East Garrison residents and taxpayers and I'm really thankful to staff that we're not able to have this annual meeting.

1735
02:31:23,660 --> 02:31:27,560
where the property tax update is presented publicly to the residents.

1736
02:31:28,840 --> 02:31:30,880
Later this week, I'll be at the Monterey County Fair.

1737
02:31:31,040 --> 02:31:35,420
I'm excited to table at the Senior Invertorance Resource Connect Fair on Thursday.

1738
02:31:36,100 --> 02:31:39,940
And then there's an open studio arts tour coming up in September,

1739
02:31:40,380 --> 02:31:42,760
12th and 13th and 19th and 20th.

1740
02:31:43,060 --> 02:31:45,820
So, I'm looking forward to seeing you out and about at all of those activities.

1741
02:31:46,580 --> 02:31:50,540
We do have an adrenaline memory, but we'll do close out from Council first.

1742
02:31:50,540 --> 02:31:52,880
No reportable action, Chair.

1743
02:31:53,320 --> 02:31:56,340
I'm going to pass the floor to Supervisor Alayha for our adjournment

1744
02:31:56,340 --> 02:31:56,760
in memory.

1745
02:31:57,160 --> 02:31:57,440
Thank you.

1746
02:31:57,720 --> 02:32:00,360
No way for a clerk to put the image up on the screens.

1747
02:32:01,320 --> 02:32:03,700
And I believe maybe Supervisor Lopes would like to say something

1748
02:32:03,700 --> 02:32:05,400
or just as well.

1749
02:32:06,100 --> 02:32:06,380
All right.

1750
02:32:07,480 --> 02:32:10,240
Your colleagues, I asked that we adjourn today's meeting

1751
02:32:10,240 --> 02:32:13,760
in memory of Octavia, Reyes, Selenas, affectionately known

1752
02:32:14,340 --> 02:32:16,100
throughout her family as Mama Chief.

1753
02:32:16,720 --> 02:32:19,280
She was a beloved grandmother to my chief of staff,

1754
02:32:19,280 --> 02:32:22,720
Linda Gonzalez and loving mother to former Monterey County

1755
02:32:22,720 --> 02:32:25,660
CPU Riser Simone Salinas who was a primary care

1756
02:32:25,660 --> 02:32:28,100
taker for these last several years.

1757
02:32:28,460 --> 02:32:31,220
She sadly passed away on August 26th at the age of

1758
02:32:31,220 --> 02:32:34,360
95 surrounded by her family and loved ones.

1759
02:32:34,960 --> 02:32:37,840
Octavia was born in Serritos San Luis Potosí Mejico

1760
02:32:37,840 --> 02:32:40,520
to Andrea Corona and Julio Reyes.

1761
02:32:40,880 --> 02:32:43,560
It was there that she met and married the love of her life

1762
02:32:43,560 --> 02:32:44,620
Juliana Salinas.

1763
02:32:45,320 --> 02:32:47,680
Together they immigrated to the United States in search of

1764
02:32:47,680 --> 02:32:51,720
opportunities and a better life for their family. They first settled in West

1765
02:32:51,720 --> 02:32:55,900
Lakotex's on the borderlands of the Rio Grande Valley and spent many years

1766
02:32:55,900 --> 02:33:00,300
doing difficult work harvesting crops throughout the state. But in 1965 they

1767
02:33:00,300 --> 02:33:04,760
made their way to California and eventually settled here in Selenus. Octavia

1768
02:33:04,760 --> 02:33:09,140
story is a story of so many immigrant and former families who helped build the

1769
02:33:09,140 --> 02:33:15,260
Selenus Valley and our country. She worked hard, sacrificed, persevered, and endured

1770
02:33:15,260 --> 02:33:19,620
challenges so that her children and the generations who followed could have the

1771
02:33:19,620 --> 02:33:24,080
opportunities she herself never had. And today we especially recognize her

1772
02:33:24,080 --> 02:33:28,480
role as a grandmother and matriarch. Grandmother's Holy special place in our

1773
02:33:28,480 --> 02:33:32,140
families. They are often the keepers of our traditions, our stories, our

1774
02:33:32,140 --> 02:33:36,680
recipes, and our family history. They teaches where we came from and remind us of

1775
02:33:36,680 --> 02:33:41,060
the values that hold a family together. Their lessons and love continue long

1776
02:33:41,060 --> 02:33:42,420
after the Argonne.

1777
02:33:42,640 --> 02:33:45,340
For Octavia's family, that person was Mama Chief.

1778
02:33:45,820 --> 02:33:48,360
The name was given to her out of both tremendous affection

1779
02:33:48,360 --> 02:33:50,820
and deep respect, and she was the heart

1780
02:33:50,820 --> 02:33:53,560
of the family that now extends across multiple generations.

1781
02:33:54,480 --> 02:33:56,620
Octavia expressed her love through the simple,

1782
02:33:56,640 --> 02:33:59,460
but meaningful things that make the house a home.

1783
02:33:59,900 --> 02:34:03,260
Cooking, knitting, caring for her garden and birds.

1784
02:34:04,040 --> 02:34:06,500
Making Thamades for her family, teaching her grandchildren

1785
02:34:06,500 --> 02:34:09,600
to crochet, and tending to her beautiful roses.

1786
02:34:09,600 --> 02:34:15,340
those memories are now part of her legacy. Octavia is derived by her children, Celestina,

1787
02:34:15,660 --> 02:34:22,600
Chalo, Maria, Juana, Lina, Simon, Francisco Gabriel, and Luis, as well as Numerous

1788
02:34:22,600 --> 02:34:28,740
grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren. She was preceding a death by her

1789
02:34:28,740 --> 02:34:35,640
husband of 52 years Juliana and her sons Andres Camilo, Amitario, and Jose. From a young woman

1790
02:34:35,640 --> 02:34:38,320
and some we've put to see to a former current Texas,

1791
02:34:38,820 --> 02:34:40,560
to a beloved matriarch of a large family

1792
02:34:40,560 --> 02:34:41,800
here in the Selina's Valley,

1793
02:34:42,220 --> 02:34:44,840
Mama Chief Livedy Remarkable American immigrant story.

1794
02:34:45,440 --> 02:34:48,380
Her greatest legacy can be seen in the generation she leaves behind,

1795
02:34:49,020 --> 02:34:51,040
a family that is here today because of her courage,

1796
02:34:51,480 --> 02:34:54,280
her sacrifices, her hard work, and above all her love.

1797
02:34:55,000 --> 02:34:56,340
On behalf of the County of Monterey,

1798
02:34:56,680 --> 02:34:59,960
I extend our deepest condolences to admire Selina's

1799
02:35:12,660 --> 02:35:14,340
Thank you,

1800
02:35:18,880 --> 02:35:29,800
Madam Chair. I do just want to join in sending my condolences to the family, but

1801
02:35:29,800 --> 02:35:37,440
at the same time, we all know that she was the foundation upon which a family who is made,

1802
02:35:37,580 --> 02:35:43,180
salinas such an incredible place to live and invested so much other time has built their legacy.

1803
02:35:43,600 --> 02:35:48,720
That foundation that Mama Chief laid for them is truly one of those that most of us will never

1804
02:35:48,720 --> 02:35:56,120
understand and many folks remember that when Simone retired from this board and was asked why he said

1805
02:35:56,120 --> 02:35:58,180
It was clearly to take care of Mama Chief.

1806
02:35:58,420 --> 02:35:59,480
That was his wife.

1807
02:35:59,860 --> 02:36:01,360
And I can tell you that she was a fighter.

1808
02:36:01,880 --> 02:36:03,540
Many times, in the last few years,

1809
02:36:03,920 --> 02:36:05,220
in Simone and I would talk and say,

1810
02:36:05,220 --> 02:36:07,380
hey, she's sick, and we kind of laugh and say,

1811
02:36:07,500 --> 02:36:08,900
hey, this isn't it, right?

1812
02:36:08,900 --> 02:36:10,660
She was always fighting back.

1813
02:36:11,160 --> 02:36:13,580
And he would tell me, yeah, she was really sick.

1814
02:36:13,740 --> 02:36:14,640
And I'd wake up in the morning,

1815
02:36:14,660 --> 02:36:15,960
nope, she was in the garden,

1816
02:36:16,080 --> 02:36:18,080
tending to her roses, taking care of her flowers.

1817
02:36:18,120 --> 02:36:19,400
And I knew she was back at it.

1818
02:36:19,420 --> 02:36:21,200
Next thing, it was at Berkeley, I was on the grill.

1819
02:36:21,560 --> 02:36:23,720
And you could smell him, you knew she was back.

1820
02:36:23,720 --> 02:36:31,980
And so her legacy, her life, her tending of the garden, the roses in the end, there's really the family that she left behind.

1821
02:36:32,300 --> 02:36:36,060
These incredible people that have brought so much beauty to a community that we all love.

1822
02:36:36,460 --> 02:36:47,000
And so as we all join them in mourning her loss, we also celebrate her legacy and everything that she has helped create here in the Selena's Valley and beyond through her story.

1823
02:36:47,000 --> 02:36:53,860
And our hearts go out to the entire Gonzales and Salinas family today and as they continue to mourn her passing.

1824
02:36:54,280 --> 02:36:55,040
Thank you Madam Chair.

1825
02:36:58,600 --> 02:36:59,080
You're adjourned.