Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting

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[0:00] Susan Nash,

[0:00] Tom Paulek

[0:00] Adam Brutocao,

[0:00] Jim Lytle (Joe Blum & Bob Love)

[0:00] Susan Nash,

[0:00] Rosa Beltran

[33:42] 10400 : RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY HOUSING CORP.: Approval of Section 8 Project-Based Voucher Program PBV Housing Assistance Payments Contract Between the Housing Authority of the County of Riverside and Riverside Community Housing Corp., and approval of Master Lease for Desert Rose Apartments Located in the Unincorporated Community of Ripley, between the Housing Authority of the County of Riverside and the Riverside Community Housing Corp.; District 4, [$0]; CEQA Exempt

[34:37] 10342 : RIVERSIDE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM-MEDICAL CENTER: Ratification and Approval of a Multi-year License Agreement with Optum360 LLC for Licenses for Six (6) Optum360 LLC Products Effective July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2024; 5 years, District: All. [Total Cost $245,000; Annual Cost $49,000; up to $4,900 in additional compensation – 100% Hospital Enterprise Fund]

[40:03] 10560 : ASSESSOR-COUNTY CLERK-RECORDER: Continue Public Hearing on Amendments to County of Riverside Ordinance Nos. 729, 735, 831, and 891 to August 27, 2019, All Districts. [$0] (Clerk to Set for Public Hearing on August 27, 2019)

[40:52] 10561 : TRANSPORTATION AND LAND MANAGEMENT AGENCY/ TRANSPORTATION: Public Hearing and Adoption of Ordinance No. 673.4, an ordinance of the County of Riverside amending Ordinance No. 673 to update fees, definitions, and exemptions under the Coachella Valley Transportation Uniform Mitigation Fee Program, California Environmental Quality Act Exempt. District 4 and 5. [$0]

[42:46] 10610 : SUPERVISOR HEWITT AND SUPERVISOR PEREZ: Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) mandate by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). [$0] (Continued to August 27, 2019)

[59:01] 10320 : ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (EDA) / WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT DIVISION: Ratification and Approval of the Veterans' Employment-Related Assistance Program (VEAP) Grant Award Under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA); All Districts. [$488,635 – 100% State General Funds]; CEQA Exempt

[1:01:55] 10490 : EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT: Adopt Resolution No. 2019-180 to Approve the Riverside County Emergency Operation Plan and Direct the Emergency Management Department to submit it to the Governor's Office of Emergency Services (CalOES). All Districts [$0]

[1:10:31] 8285 : DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES & DEPARTMENT OF PROBATION: Approve and Execute the Every Student Succeeds Act Transportation Plan to Ensure School Stability for Students in Foster Care Agreement by and among the County of Riverside on behalf of its Department of Public Social Services and its Probation Department, and the Riverside County Local Education Agencies effective through June 30, 2022. All Districts; [Total Costs $600,000; Annual Cost $200,000 - 30.2% Federal, 1.1% State, 43.7% Realignment; 25% General Fund]

[1:14:49] 10095 : RIVERSIDE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM - BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: Ratify and Approve an Increase to the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) Contract Aggregate and Ratify and Approve the Behavioral Health Agreements with Special Service for Groups, Inc. and Vision y Compromiso, Inc., All Districts. [FY18/19 MHSA PEI Aggregate $5,015,556 and FY19/20 through FY21/22 MHSA PEI Aggregate $5,461,295 Annually; Up to $546,130 in Additional Compensation per Fiscal Year; $21,399,441 Total for 4 Years; 100% State Funding]

[1:17:27] 10563 : SHERIFF-CORONER-PA: Approve the purchase of One (1) H145 Helicopter and approve the Purchase Agreement with Airbus Helicopters, Inc, for a total purchase cost of $12,528,093. [Districts All]; [Total Cost: $12,528,093; up to $375,843 in additional compensation]; 100% General Fund financed over 10 years

[1:31:07] 10543 : TRANSPORTATION AND LAND MANAGEMENT AGENCY/TRANSPORTATION: Approval of the Cooperative Agreement between the Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, the County of Riverside and Ranchos Property for Winchester Hills – Line C, Stage 2 and Winchester Hills Line C Detention Basin (Tract No. 34677); Approval of the Cooperative Agreement between the Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, the County of Riverside and Ranchos Property for Winchester Hills - Line C, Stage 3 and Winchester Hills – Line C, Stage 4 (Tract No. 34677); Approval of the Cooperative Agreement between the Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, the County of Riverside and Winchester Meadows LLC for Winchester Hills - Line C, Stage 3 (Tract No. 36417), Project Nos. 4-0-00580 and 4-0-00585, District 3. [$0] (Companion Item to MT #9983)

[1:39:07] 10236 : TRANSPORTATION AND LAND MANAGEMENT AGENCY: Approve Board Policy F-3, Good Neighbor Policy for Logistics and Warehouse Uses, establishing general policies for the development of logistics and warehouse projects within the unincorporated area of Riverside County. CEQA Exempt. All Districts. [$0]

[1:53:00] 10396 : HOUSING AUTHORITY: Approval of Section 8 Project-Based Voucher Program PBV Housing Assistance Payments Contract Between the Housing Authority of the County of Riverside and Riverside Community Housing Corp., and approval of Master Lease for Desert Rose Apartments Located in the Unincorporated Community of Ripley, between the Housing Authority of the County of Riverside and the Riverside Community Housing Corp. ; District 4, [$0]; CEQA Exempt

[2:04:12] 10452 : ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (EDA); Public Hearing for and Adoption of Resolution No. 2019-174, Approving the Issuance by the California Municipal Finance Authority of Revenue Anticipation Notes for the Benefit of River Springs Charter School, All Districts [$0] (Vote on Separately)

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[1:55] Support Services works with over 82,000 families in Riverside and surrounding counties as well as other states. Our role is to establish parentage and ensure that both parents are helping support their children, both through court order financial and medical support. We are committed to providing excellent services to the children and families that we serve. I think this event is important to the community because studies show that consistent, reliable child support plays a vital role in the stability of California families and for children.

[2:24] Child support is not an advocate for one parent or the other, and our goal is to ensure

[2:29] children receive support to help them live, learn, and grow.

[2:33] Our fatherhood engagement event was developed to ensure that fathers stay engaged in the process.

[2:39] We want them to understand our child support process, ask questions, and gain the necessary

[2:44] tools if needed to assist with co-parenting and other available resources.

[2:48] We hope to change the way fathers see our program, one father at a time, one person at a time.

[2:55] The biggest problem or challenge we have is ensuring that our county residents are aware of the services we offer and the importance of this program to sustaining families.

[3:04] At today's events, we have different services available, such as co-parenting workshops, as well as workshops on how to deal with teens.

[3:12] We also have a variety of county and community resource services here that include women,

[3:18] infant and children program, IEHP, the Department of Public Social Services, and workforce development.

[3:26] We even have staff mark, a staffing agency here, that is ready to perform on-site job interviews

[3:31] and other various community fatherhood coalition resources.

[3:35] We have experienced a tremendous amount of support from the community.

[3:38] I think our community and various sponsors can continue doing what they

[3:41] have been doing, supporting and participating through donations and sharing our

[3:46] information when we have community events like this. We hope they continue to

[3:50] spread the word about child support services because that is how we can help

[3:53] those here in Riverside County. When we hold these events, they are designed for

[3:58] the parents and we are here to help, so take the opportunity to come out and see

[4:01] the case workers, to see our county partners and the family law facilitators that

[4:06] on site. We want them to learn as much as they can about the Child Support Program.

[4:12] My name is Nicole Lindemperd and I'm the Assistant Director here at Riverside County Child Support

[4:16] Services. I want to thank each one of you for being a part of our event today. A date with dad.

[6:03] Good morning everybody. Welcome to the Board of Supervisors meetings. We'll sign in with the

[6:11] call to order, you could put that up on our screens.

[6:23] I have four of the five in attendance supervisors.

[6:27] He would is unable to attend today, and so he will not be joining us.

[6:33] Pledge of Allegiance, oh excuse me, the invocation this morning will be led by Brent.

[6:37] He's a volunteer chaplain with the Sheriff's Department's Brent here, Brent's over there.

[6:41] Come on up.

[6:42] And then I would ask that our pledge of allegiance this morning be led by former Riverside County Supervisor John Tavilloni, who is in the audience if he would lead us in the pledge afterward.

[6:54] Thank you. Please rise for the indication.

[7:02] Would you please bow your heads with me.

[7:05] Father God, we just want to first and foremost thank you for the stay.

[7:08] Thank you, Lord, that we're able to be here and to just have this day, Lord.

[7:13] Lord and Lord I looking over the agenda looks like there's a lot of things going to be brought before the board Lord and

[7:19] I would ask that you would give this board of supervisors the wisdom and discernment they need to make the decisions are going to make Lord.

[7:28] And I'd ask for those that are going to bring their bring those petitions Lord Father God that you would give them clarity.

[7:36] As they bring them Lord but also I'd ask that you would give a lot of them to give their respect to this board that they deserve because

[7:43] because of the place of authority that they are in,

[7:46] and also the board would give respect

[7:48] to the people that are bringing their petitions.

[7:51] And Lord, we just thank you for that.

[7:52] And again, we thank you for this day

[7:54] in your son's name, amen.

[7:56] Amen.

[7:58] Please join us in public store for a great nation plan.

[8:01] I'd like to do a visit to the flag

[8:03] of the United States of America

[8:06] and to the republic for which it stands,

[8:09] one nation under God,

[8:19] Okay, clear to the board, update.

[8:22] Good morning.

[8:25] The update, additions are none.

[8:27] Deletions none.

[8:29] Corrections, item 3.5, should be under Section 8.

[8:33] The Community Facilities Legislative Body Meeting.

[8:38] So that would become 8.1.

[8:40] Notations continue item 3.44 to August the 27th, 2019.

[8:47] Item 11.3 is taken off calendar.

[8:50] Continue public hearing items 19.1 and 19.3 to August the 27th, 2019.

[8:58] Item 19.2 requires a separate vote.

[9:02] And I'll need to read the ordinance title on items 3.30 and 3.37.

[9:07] and we have speakers for 322 and 341, thank you.

[9:18] 322 and 341.

[9:21] Okay, excellent.

[9:28] Okay, this morning we have a special adjournment in memory of a former County Supervisor Case

[9:35] in Cereals.

[9:37] Okay, was a third district supervisor and Supervisor Washington is going to take the lead this morning

[9:44] in recognizing K and some of our guests here this morning as well.

[9:49] Supervisor Washington.

[9:50] Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I appreciate you allowing me this honor to recognize the service of one of Riverside County's larger than life icons, K-Centers Saros.

[10:08] Case Center, Sarah's was a remarkable visionary and leader for the County of Riverside.

[10:15] She was known as a woman of first, the first woman on the Riverside County Planning Commission,

[10:21] and later on the Board of Supervisors.

[10:24] But that is just the beginning of her legacy.

[10:27] She was an intelligent and tough, but fair individual who humbly served her community for

[10:35] for 24 years.

[10:38] In the past week, I've seen such an outpouring of love and condolences from those who knew and

[10:45] loved her.

[10:46] We have some folks here today who would like to pay tribute to Case and Asceros because

[10:53] they're close relationship with her and they would like to share a little bit about their

[10:57] experiences with former supervisor Case and Asceros.

[11:01] If they don't mind, I would like to call them up to address both the board and the audience here.

[11:11] And I'd like to start with Supervisor John Tevalani.

[11:21] And my plan, my plan, John, is to also bring up Larry Parrish and Phil Bailey, I haven't seen Phil yet, is Phil here.

[11:36] And any of the family members that would like to speak, I think that would be appropriate.

[11:40] I thought it would be appropriate, Mr. Chair and Supervisor, and members of the board and Council and

[11:50] the distinguished county, to bring up my sidekick, Larry Perishu.

[11:57] We always act as a comedy act when we were working up there.

[12:01] Let me just say this about, okay, I think you said the best word chuck larger than life.

[12:09] When three of us were brand new supervise, myself, the late Roy Wilson and Tom Mullin sworn

[12:19] in on July, January 3, 1985, we came here, the only one with a real local government experience

[12:29] was Roy Wilson, and I was one year on the City Council in Riverside, but virtually no

[12:38] other government experience.

[12:41] And I will say that I think to a person, all three of us looked up greatly to Case

[12:47] Sinceros.

[12:49] As you say, a woman that's larger than life, I like to say today what's missing too much

[12:55] are we don't have enough gentlemen politicians in case case she was a gentle woman politician and

[13:04] leader and public servant who who gave her all for this county not just her district but the

[13:10] entire county she sure as heck taught me a lot um allowed me to come in her office at any point in

[13:17] time and ask her thoughts on issues uh learn from her but a real gracious lady who loved

[13:25] what she did and extremely intelligent. She definitely did all her research. You could

[13:32] tell that she had read the entire agenda when we got to the board meeting and was prepared.

[13:42] Sparked a lot of questions, excuse me, asked a lot of questions that sparked questions

[13:46] from the rest of us on the dias. And that's how you learn. And from the day she left, I only

[13:54] I got the opportunity to work with her for two years, so 1997.

[13:58] But from the day she left, I cherish the opportunity to work with her and

[14:02] I just can't say enough about, and her husband,

[14:08] Blair, thank you.

[14:09] That's what happens when you get old, you know.

[14:12] Around for me.

[14:13] Mm-hm.

[14:15] He's something for you.

[14:19] Husband Blair was her partner in crime, always there with her.

[14:23] And for that, we appreciate that we know how important that is.

[14:26] So thank you for the opportunity to be here today and share about Kay, a wonderful lady, and she would be missed early.

[14:33] Thank you, Supervisor.

[14:34] Good morning.

[14:35] Thank you for inviting me.

[14:40] Any time I get an opportunity to say something about Kay, Sarah, if I'm going to take it.

[14:45] She was a member of the Board of Supervisors that hired me in 1992.

[14:50] too, which always created a soft spot in my heart. She was an outstanding member of that

[14:57] board and was a...

[15:00] One of the hardest working, thorough people that have ever held that job. She could not be second

[15:10] the gas that is you couldn't catch her not knowing what she's talking about. And I don't

[15:15] mean to imply the others could, if you get it.

[15:23] But she was a beautiful woman in every sense.

[15:27] And I think she often, often it was said that she was a real model, role model for women.

[15:34] I think that's true, but I think what can be easily missed is that she was a real role model

[15:40] for men who were not accustomed to seeing women in that capacity in that, in the depth

[15:48] of that capacity and the size of the opportunity that she's taken.

[15:51] So I am privileged to have worked with her, have known her, and

[15:56] where there's been a long, difficult time lately and now she's free.

[16:03] And she will be very much missed.

[16:08] And that's something that is just a product of her character and

[16:13] her beauty.

[16:15] So thank you for letting me speak.

[16:18] Thank you, Mr. Perry, it's a pleasure to have a long time.

[16:22] I don't see Phil Bailey here this morning, but I want to thank those two gentlemen for coming up and sharing their memories in the life and the legacy of case in the Sarah's.

[16:35] She was a remarkable woman who helped shape and define Rootside County we see today.

[16:41] She would be greatly and sorely missed but never forgotten.

[16:45] and more on a personal note for me as the third district supervisor which was the district

[16:52] she served in, she left some pretty big shoes to try to fill, but she personified a public

[17:03] servant and I will always strive to try to emulate the way she conducted herself as a county

[17:11] supervisor. And we, I would ask that the board, along with other memorials that we adjourned

[17:19] today in the memory of case minister. Thank you, Mr. supervisor.

[17:24] Thank you, supervisor Washington. Well, let's go ahead and vote on memorial for case

[17:30] ministerials. Let's do that now.

[17:40] All right, that is approved on a 4-0 vote.

[17:44] That takes us to our next item, polling items of interest to the board and the public, any item that the board members, staff, or members of the public, any items that are being pulled will not be voted on, so I will take up any items one through 15 to be pulled. Supervisor Spiegel.

[18:03] 3.43, 3.43,

[18:11] I'll be 0.3.36,

[18:16] the public has pulled 3.22, 3.41, and 11.1.

[18:26] I'd like to pull item 10.1, 10.1. Supervisor Perez.

[18:33] Yes. Yes, Mr. Chair, members, I'd like to pull item 2.21.

[18:42] Okay.

[18:43] I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Mr. Chair.

[18:48] 3.21.

[18:49] 3.21.

[18:52] 3.29 and 3.31.

[19:00] Okay, and we have a reading of the ordinances on 3.30 and 3.37, I believe.

[19:07] Just go ahead and read those and then we'll prove them in the motion.

[19:10] 3.30, introduction of ordinance number 784.11, amending Riverside County Ornette's number 784, creating the Riverside County Children and Family's First Commission.

[19:25] And item 3.37, building and safety, introduction of Ornette's number 457, 0.104, amending ordinance number 457 in its entirety, and adopting the 2016 California Building Standards Code as amended.

[19:41] updating the sub-standard building abatement process and reducing the building permit fees, thank you.

[19:49] Okay, so once again, we will be pulling 3.22, 3.41, 11.1 is requested by the public.

[19:59] Is there any other requests I forgot to ask, Madam Clerk?

[20:03] Okay, 3.36, Supervisor Washington had pulled 10.1, Supervisor Perez, 3.21, 3.29, 3.31.

[20:12] and supervisor Spiegel 3.4, 3, all other items, one through 5, sections, one through 15 will be included in the motion or approval.

[20:24] And, Mr. Chairman, I just want to mention again, asked for 11.1, I'm sorry, I had a 10.1.

[20:33] I had a 10.1, sorry if I didn't call that.

[20:37] Please vote.

[20:42] Okay, and that passes for zero.

[20:48] Now it takes us to public comments, any members of the audience, so wish to speak.

[20:53] Yes, sir.

[20:54] We have Lisa Rivera, followed by Rosa Beltran, followed by Susan Nash.

[21:05] Good morning.

[21:06] Good morning.

[21:06] And we do three minutes, so.

[21:08] Okay.

[21:10] Good morning, my name is Lisa Rivera.

[21:14] I live in Temecla, California.

[21:16] I provide home care for two people, my mom and my daughter.

[21:21] I am also on the bargaining team and been providing home care for 10 years.

[21:27] This is the first time in two years that we see movement.

[21:35] And appreciate Riverside County for moving forward in good faith for Riverside County home care providers when it comes to healthcare and wages.

[21:43] But under the county's current proposal for the health care it will only cover a small number of home care providers.

[21:52] We are asking the county to invest the $0.60 to cover more providers.

[21:59] I would also like to add that like my husband, who is a Navy veteran,

[22:05] And IHS providers and recipients are also made of veterans and

[22:10] that makes a big impact on support for our troops.

[22:15] Thank you for your time.

[22:17] Thank you.

[22:26] Good morning, my name is Rosavettran.

[22:28] I care for my mom and my dad.

[22:31] I am a home care provider and I am part of the bargaining team.

[22:36] I am glad that we are seeing some movement in bargaining,

[22:39] which has not happened in over two years.

[22:43] I'm looking forward to a good contract.

[22:46] Thank you very much.

[22:48] So are we.

[22:49] Thank you.

[23:01] Good morning, my name is Susan Nash.

[23:03] I live in Idle Wild.

[23:05] I'm a volunteer at the Idle Wild Nature Center.

[23:08] I'm here again to talk about the MAST Idle Wild Emergency Vacuation Plan.

[23:14] I've renewed my public records request because after telling me that they would give me

[23:20] a copy of the Idol Wild Emergency Evacuation Plan, Supervisor Washington at a board meeting,

[23:29] and Director Bruce Barton on the telephone several times.

[23:34] When I got my written response, it said, there is no document titled in quotes the Idol Wild

[23:41] Emergency Evacuation Plan.

[23:44] So I thought the plan didn't exist.

[23:46] last week I got here, I mean I listened to the board meeting and it turns out that the

[23:54] name of it is the mast. I hadn't got the exact words right. Of course, that's a complete

[24:00] violation of the public records code to play word games like that with a document. I've

[24:07] renewed my request. It shouldn't take you long to do it because I first submitted it two

[24:13] months ago is very important that we have this plan because there are many things that need to be

[24:20] improved in it. We need to have advanced notice of when there's a fire potential just like we have

[24:28] advanced notice of a flood or a rainstorm or the roads going out so that we can prepare for that. We need

[24:41] things like sirens and amber alerts, we need online access to what the fire danger is.

[24:51] Right now, when you go on all the fire agencies, all the emergency management departments, everything,

[25:00] there is nothing.

[25:01] Sometimes there's an icon but it doesn't go anywhere.

[25:04] So nobody can get on the internet saying, I'd like to go up to Idlewild today, or should

[25:10] that I leave my children at home by themselves today to find out what the fire danger is.

[25:17] This is critical, we can't find that out, we can find out anything else.

[25:23] I believe that visitors should not be invited up to idle wild when there's a fire danger.

[25:30] It seems that we care more about tourist dollars than we do care about the lives of the people who live and work and

[25:37] and visit Iter Wilde.

[25:39] Thank you very much.

[25:40] Thank you.

[25:44] Okay, very good.

[25:46] Okay, our next item is Board Member Reports.

[25:50] Colleagues, do you have any items to report on?

[25:53] Supervisor Speaker?

[25:55] Is that you?

[25:57] That was me.

[25:58] I'll be there in a minute.

[25:59] Okay, Supervisor Washington.

[26:02] Thank you.

[26:05] Mr. Chair and colleagues, I'd like to report on my.

[26:11] travel to Sacramento last week to take part in the executive committee, which is a smaller subset of the State Association of Counties.

[26:23] And there are number of items that we discussed, but I wanted to highlight a couple of those items that came up for discussion because they are issues that Riverside County has been discussing and

[26:38] I'm working on their crucial to the well-being of our county as well as other counties.

[26:46] The first item that I want to briefly address is AB 1054, which takes additional steps of enforcing safety standards on utilities, and assessing when and how costs arising from utility-caused wildfires can be passed on.

[27:08] to rate pairs.

[27:10] I don't think there's anyone in California that is not familiar with what occurred last year in paradise.

[27:18] And the involvement of PG&E as it relates to fire risk associated with transmission lines and poles.

[27:28] and that issue has to be addressed.

[27:35] AB 1054 also provides tools for utilities to manage liabilities including options for debt management and more substantial catastrophic wildfire fun.

[27:48] The bill accomplishes all of this while protecting the rights of victims balancing the impacts on rate payers and

[27:57] and holding utilities accountable.

[27:59] The next item that I would like to discuss is California's Medicaid program,

[28:09] which operates under federal waivers, which allow the state to deviate from federal requirements,

[28:15] or requirements, so that we can meet the needs of our population.

[28:21] Two of our Medicaid waivers will be expiring in 2020, and

[28:26] And if that is allowed to occur, that will have a great impact on the ability of counties

[28:32] to provide health services to their constituents and residents.

[28:37] I will keep going to Sacramento representing the Board of Supervisors and I will continue

[28:43] to bring those items back home for discussion here.

[28:48] But I wanted my colleagues to be aware of what was discussed in my previous trip to Sacramento

[28:53] I will represent in the board with CESA.

[28:56] Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

[28:57] Thank you.

[28:58] Anyone else requesting to speak?

[29:02] Supervisor Spiegel.

[29:04] I had several different meetings that I've attended this past couple of weeks.

[29:10] That I wanted to share on real quick.

[29:11] The first one was the Metro Lake workshop.

[29:13] Those of you who are familiar with Metro Lake.

[29:17] It is our major public transit system

[29:21] partnering with some of our best lines, RTA, and some line.

[29:26] And the Metro Lane workshop was talking about how we can reach out and

[29:30] encourage people to get out of their cars and take mass transit.

[29:36] That is something that's a necessity.

[29:39] But I know that we here in Southern California enjoy our cars.

[29:42] And it's very hard to give those up even if it's just for a few hours during the day.

[29:47] But this is what we're working on.

[29:49] The second one is Skagg, and I mentioned this before with the rena numbers, which are the regional housing needs assessment.

[29:57] There is going to be some public hearings.

[30:00] Anybody is interested in attending those. There are none directly in Riverside County. I did make note that we should have a public hearing location in every county that is part of the Skag. For the next round, but this time, there was none set up. We do have our Skag office that you can certainly do the webcast, and that would be on August 20th from one to three. And the Skag office is at on 10th Street. I certainly give you more information if anybody is interested.

[30:29] There is a regional conference room in the LA SGAG office on Thursday, August 15th, from 6 to 8 p.m., on August 22nd, in Irvine from 1 to 3, and Tuesday, August 27th in San Bernardino at their County Transportation Office from 6 to 8 p.m., and these are the numbers that govern a big portion of our funding, whether we meet our needs, and

[30:58] And Governor Newsom is making it very clear threats have been made in the past that if

[31:03] we don't meet our reader numbers, that they would be taken some funding away that

[31:09] has not happened, but I think this governor is a little more serious.

[31:13] His threats seem to be have a bigger bite to him.

[31:16] So this is something that we all as jurisdictions and people working within government, and

[31:21] developers need to hear this because it is mandated by state law and housing.

[31:26] and so if we want to continue to get some of our funding that it's important.

[31:32] Second, the other piece is very critical that we tend to overlook is the census and I will bring it up every meeting.

[31:38] Our census is critical for funding, so we need to have partnerships throughout the county,

[31:44] making sure that we count every person in our county so that we have the adequate funding to provide services.

[31:51] Our services are dictated by those numbers, so I do hope that anybody

[31:56] somebody who has an opportunity to participate in whatever level you can that you reach out

[32:02] and take an active role in the census.

[32:07] Then I had the opportunity on Friday to run a seminar on women in transportation.

[32:12] It was apropos that we just recognized the long efforts of one of my role models and that

[32:19] the Supervisor K since scenarios and it's nice to see our young women taking an active

[32:25] role in transportation, which is kind of still very few women involved in transportation.

[32:32] So it was very enlightening to see some young, prospering women.

[32:38] And then I also thank you, I think, on this agenda, we just appointed me to the Oval, which

[32:45] which is the Santa Ana, one water, one watershed,

[32:48] and it's the oversight committee for the SOPAO.

[32:52] So it's really an interesting,

[32:53] I went to the first meeting last week,

[32:56] and there is grant funding available.

[32:58] I think we're missing opportunities as organizations

[33:01] in the community on some of these grant fundings,

[33:04] and they're really seeking out

[33:06] for disadvantaged communities.

[33:07] So the first round, that was the meeting,

[33:11] they just announced the winners,

[33:12] and second phase is beginning, so if anybody is interested in more information on that,

[33:18] I would certainly love to have the opportunity to talk to you about that.

[33:23] And then there is, I want to end with, I received a text message this morning, and it

[33:32] really kind of embraces what I'm feeling and I'm sure many of you are feeling.

[33:38] and it's titled, I miss 9-12.

[33:42] I would never want another 9-11, but I miss the America of 9-12.

[33:49] Stores ran out of flags to sell because they were being flown everywhere.

[33:54] People were Americans before they were upper or lower class, Jewish or Christian,

[33:59] Republican or Democrat. We hug people without caring if they ate it Chick-fil-A or were

[34:08] What are more, was that what united us and what divided us?

[34:14] Thank you.

[34:15] Thank you, Supervisor Spiegel, Supervisor Perez.

[34:19] Thank you for your comments, members, and Supervisor Spiegel, especially appreciate your

[34:26] point, especially now more than ever, before I get into that discussion regarding hatred and

[34:36] And racism quite frankly, and what's going on in our society.

[34:42] Just what touch space just very quickly on the issue of homelessness.

[34:46] You talked about reading numbers and housing and lack thereof.

[34:51] And I did receive a phone call while I was away from a supervisor,

[34:57] really Thomas out of LA County who also the co-chair of the homeless task force for

[35:05] Governor Newsom, in which we will be discussing strategies moving forward within this next month.

[35:16] I understand that in August this month, then in the Central Valley they're having discussions

[35:23] taking place late August and then in September we'll be having discussions here locally. That's my

[35:30] I hope he'll end an empire.

[35:33] And obviously, want to make sure that everyone here on this diet is engaged and as well as the public.

[35:39] And then, eventually, they'll move forward enough to all where I believe to Northern California.

[35:45] And hopes of a statewide strategy when it comes to the issue of homelessness, I guess if that's the core, but housing,

[35:53] behavior of health and substance abuse and that's kind of like the triangle if you

[36:00] will of how to tackle the situation. So stay tuned and definitely will be

[36:08] providing you that information as you are providing that information from CSAC

[36:12] which I appreciate and all the other efforts that are moving forward. Now you know

[36:17] So some people might ask, you know, why do you emphasize

[36:22] Supervisor Perez, the bilateral agreements that are taking place with Mexico?

[36:28] You know, why engage with Wahaka, for example, as we just recently did,

[36:34] or Halisko or any other areas throughout Latin America, which I hope to do moving forward?

[36:40] And, you know, we didn't discuss it, but, you know, we just had,

[36:45] over the course of the last couple of weeks, mass shootings that impacted specific areas like

[36:52] Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton, but quite frankly, it impacts all of us directly or indirectly.

[37:01] And it's painful, this weekend, when I got home from a Hawkeye, as a good Catholic, I try

[37:11] to practice going to church every Sunday as a bad Catholic, I don't always go.

[37:18] What I attend, and I just thought it was necessary that this Sunday that I go to Mass and

[37:27] I did.

[37:29] And our priests, I happen to go to Mass on this Sunday in San Diego because I happen to

[37:36] stay out there before I came home.

[37:39] And what a beautiful sermon he gave when he talked about prayer and he talked about

[37:45] the need for prayer and that we should pray every day, at least in the morning.

[37:49] And when we pray in the morning that we should just pray for a good day and to keep it simple.

[37:54] And at every day we pray for a good day.

[37:57] And he did talk about the unfortunate situations that took place in Gilroy and Basel and they

[38:04] and then quite frankly, you know, it's all painful, any type of racism and any type of

[38:11] mass shooting that impacts people, but quite frankly the issue of white nationalism,

[38:16] supremacy is very real. And we need to accept the fact that it's actually happening once again.

[38:26] And we need to speak to it. And we need to counter it as much as possible.

[38:30] So, that's hate in my opinion and the fact that violence against anybody is not a good thing.

[38:39] And so we need to think about security measures here at the county level, I think it's important.

[38:46] And I know that we're discussing issues of emergencies here for our county, but I do wonder

[38:55] about do we have enough when it comes to active shooter type of situations or the issue

[39:01] of mass casualties and how we handle all that?

[39:05] Now you know what happened in El Paso and Gilroy, Gilroy where there's 60% Latino, mostly

[39:11] Mexican American and El Paso where you have 80% Latino, mostly Mexican American.

[39:17] And I think it's sad to know that that's happening, and quite frankly, hate crimes against Latinos has grown by 24 percent since 2017.

[39:32] Obviously, any type of hate crime against anybody is a bad situation.

[39:37] But I wanted to bring up these points because of what's actually occurred in Gilroy and

[39:43] And then Basel, knowing that these individuals, although we don't know specifically what their motivation was,

[39:53] but when you read their social posts or their manifestos, it suggests that it is hatred against Latinos, and it suggests it is white supremacy.

[40:05] And this has been an ongoing issue for years.

[40:08] I think it's important that we must know our past and not refer it not to repeat it, so that perhaps we can improve upon the situations that we have now.

[40:18] Violence against Mejicanos, unfortunately, has been a non-going issue since Manifest Destiny, since 1836, and with the war in Texas.

[40:29] And then eventually in 1846, 1848, with the takeover of the Southwest, the Mexican-American war.

[40:35] And that was basically a war on one end to stop slavery and the other end to keep slavery moving forward.

[40:44] And so I think it's important that we understand that this has been an ongoing struggle.

[40:52] But we're intelligent people.

[40:56] We're sophisticated enough to understand that racism still exists, like sexism,

[41:02] like classism, but we need to fight against that as much as we possibly could through policy.

[41:10] I mean, that's what our motivation here, I believe, is to do the best thing we possibly

[41:15] can as policymakers, to improve the quality of life for people.

[41:22] And so, you know, I don't necessarily agree with everything our president does, especially

[41:30] when our president sometimes says the wrong things like Mexicans are drug dealers and

[41:36] criminals and rapists, build a wall, Mexicans will pay for it. I think that that's very

[41:45] controversial as I'm saying it right here right now. People might not like what I'm saying.

[41:50] But I also think that if our president is for Rio and he's finally stating it out loud that

[41:57] that he does not condone white supremacy.

[42:00] Did I support that?

[42:01] Obviously.

[42:03] And we need to do everything we can

[42:05] to also do that in our own backyards.

[42:12] So driving it back, why do I visit Wahaka?

[42:16] Why do I have bilateral agreements

[42:19] with our neighbors down south?

[42:24] Because I appreciate diversity,

[42:26] because we appreciate diversity.

[42:29] Because we need to better understand our neighbors down south and they better understand us.

[42:35] Why not?

[42:36] What's wrong with that?

[42:40] So I have a few slides that perhaps I can show about our trip to Oaxaca.

[42:48] Now this is two years in the making and I'm not sure the slides are going to pop up but there we go.

[42:55] So this is two years in the making and we finally made it work.

[43:02] And I really want to thank Riverside County EDA and especially Heidi and Carrie for

[43:11] the good work you did and making sure we move this forward.

[43:17] We arrived in Oaxaca and we went straight to work and we signed a bilateral agreement

[43:22] And I was honored to be accompanied by a delegation of over 40 people from Riverside County.

[43:30] And as you can see there, they totally took care of us.

[43:34] It was a big deal for Wahaka.

[43:37] We were all over the press.

[43:40] And so the signing ceremony was awesome as you can see there and you see in the middle picture.

[43:46] That's what they call an President when he said, which is basically the mayor of Oaxaca,

[43:53] Osvaldo Harkeen, and he was very grateful.

[43:57] And he wants to make sure he comes out to Riverside County.

[44:00] He wants to visit Tonecula.

[44:01] He told me that specifically.

[44:03] He wants to come visit Riverside.

[44:05] He told me that specifically.

[44:06] He wants to go to Coachella Fest.

[44:10] He told me that specifically as well.

[44:13] And I said, by all means.

[44:14] That means, well, it means, and we welcome him after the sighting ceremony.

[44:21] We also had a roundtable discussion, and we had folks from Wahaka, as well as folks

[44:27] from Riverside County, speaking on different issues like renewal energy and sustainability.

[44:35] And jobs in the economy talked about exporting our agricultural goods to Wahaka, and they talked

[44:42] about exporting their mezcal out this way, which I'm sure Rob and I could have a good

[44:49] time with that era once in a while.

[44:53] It was a beautiful conversation though about an hour and a half to two hours.

[45:00] This slide right here demonstrates the next day where our President, Minister Pala, Wahaka,

[45:08] invited us an entire delegation to a lunch. And it was a lunch complete with grass-hopper

[45:14] tacos, a mole, and what they call bird ice cream, but it was actually very tasty. And it

[45:27] Those are just pictures of different areas in Oaxaca.

[45:33] Anytime you have a chance to go, by all means, go visit, that's how beautiful it is.

[45:38] There you see one of the largest churches in Mexico, which is known as Santo Domingo,

[45:45] built in the 1500s by actually slaves from the Dominican Republic, as well as slaves from

[45:53] the Sapotec Mystic origin of Oaxaca.

[46:00] Now, this was awesome here.

[46:01] We had a chance to go visit a little area

[46:05] where they make Aleorillas,

[46:06] which is wooden figures and they teach the youth

[46:10] and indigenous people how to make those wood carvings

[46:14] that you see there to the bottom, right?

[46:15] That's how they sustain themselves.

[46:17] That's how they are able to survive on a daily basis.

[46:22] But what was cool about that trip,

[46:23] I don't see that photo here, was that we actually met

[46:25] the grandmother that came on in the movie Coco, if you ever see that movie, she was actually there.

[46:33] And that was pretty cool to see her. So I took a photo, unfortunately it's not in there,

[46:38] but I'll show you that photo if you ask. I have it on my phone. This was the parade.

[46:44] This was the third day. And as you can see there, quite a bit of people from all over.

[46:50] not only Oaxaca but quite frankly Mexico and as well the United States now

[46:55] La Galagheza means Mondays on the Hill and La Galagheza takes place actually on

[47:02] a Monday two Mondays in a row but before that they have a parade and that's

[47:07] where the parade demonstrates the eight different regions of Oaxaca and the

[47:13] 16 different indigenous groups of Oaxaca, in which they come through and parade and they

[47:21] do the traditional dance and they wear the traditional clothing and they also have the traditional

[47:28] music.

[47:31] And this is the actual event like Alighazza, as you can see there. The one on the bottom left

[47:39] was actually the first dance and that demonstrates the dance of the

[47:45] Aztecs before the conquest. The one to the top right is El Dancer de la

[47:55] Piña, the dance of the pineapple, which is an awesome dance. It's almost like the

[48:00] showgirls, they come forward all at once, they go back all at once, beautiful

[48:05] for dance.

[48:09] And we also had a chance to go see meatla as well. And meatla is only about

[48:14] an hour and a half away. But there's also beautiful ruins there. And the people of meatla

[48:19] also welcomed us to their town. And just to appreciate that we were there and asking

[48:28] us to please come back. And that they like to also have a silent ceremony with the county

[48:33] every side. And so ladies and gentlemen, I took a little more time and thank you for your

[48:38] indulgence, but the reason why I did that is because I think it's important that we connect the dots.

[48:44] And I just want to make sure that as we move forward as a county that we still continue to

[48:50] appreciate diversity and each other's differences and uniqueness but the same time or similarities,

[48:56] we are one county. And I appreciate that. Thank you, Mr. Chairmembers.

[49:02] Thank you, supervisor Perez. Okay, that takes us to the next item. Board Committee reports.

[49:08] Board members serve on last count, 69 different committees, commissions, and appointments,

[49:15] including the one that you just were appointed to, you bumped it up to that to 69. Do we have any

[49:20] any updates today? Not seeing or hearing any? All right. Executive office and budget reports.

[49:30] Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just want to update the board. I was having a good fortune

[49:35] of joining Supervisor Spiegel and Supervisor Hewitt almost two weeks ago in meeting with the

[49:41] CalPERS CEO, Marcy Frost. Her and her executive staff came here to Riverside to listen to our

[49:48] concerns and also share her vision of where she wants to take CalPERS and help us improve our pension position.

[49:59] I can say that it was very refreshing to hear her perspective directly.

[50:05] She reached out to us and asked for our involvement to help her maximize investment returns based upon what her organization will be investing in on our behalf.

[50:18] and I don't want to speak for the supervisor down at the end there, but I know she has willingly accepted that offer and we will be following up with the CEO and making sure that we are intimately involved to make sure that in fact CalPERS is maximizing their investor returns so that we'll hopefully improve our pension position.

[50:45] She also shared with us some of the top quality people she's been able to hire and attract

[50:52] to, again, better manage our investments of the pension system and she really has brought

[51:00] in a top level team. So I'm very encouraged by the discussion we had. I think it was a good

[51:06] Good beginning, we hope will become a very fruitful partnership with CalPERS and help us to advance our pension position in the state here so thank you.

[51:22] Okay, now we move on to our sponsored ceremonial presentations and we have Supervisor Perez, I believe,

[51:33] is taking the lead on this particular presentation involving National Health Center week.

[51:39] Sure.

[51:40] Take it away.

[51:52] Thank

[51:58] you, Mr. Chairman and members.

[52:00] We're pleased to be joined today by Dr. Matt Chang, the behavior health director, Janell

[52:07] Morris, Executive Director of Amdatory Care, and a number of practitioners from the Riverside

[52:13] University Health System.

[52:15] This week is National Health Center week, which is an important opportunity to recognize

[52:21] community health centers and to thank the staff and medical professionals who work every day

[52:27] to care for the underserved and our communities.

[52:30] Come on up, come up please.

[52:38] Thank you all for being here.

[52:46] This is what it's all about.

[52:49] And

[52:54] I'm proud to be from the community health center movement.

[52:56] And I used to work in community health centers with quite frankly.

[53:06] but he's my mentor. He actually took me in years ago. When I just graduated from college, I couldn't find a job and he decided to hire me.

[53:14] And I learned about community health centers. And I learned about the community health center movement and what it actually meant. And quite frankly, I love the work of community health centers and community health and population health.

[53:26] And making sure that we're bringing social justice closer to our communities every single day by providing that care, every single day.

[53:34] Now, the community health centers go back to 1965 and the war on poverty, where LBJA and

[53:43] quite frankly, community organizers came together and said that we also deserve high quality,

[53:50] health care, accessible, that's accessible, and affordable in our own communities.

[53:57] And so in my opinion Riverside County is part of that legacy as well and part of that

[54:01] history.

[54:02] But 12 committee health centers that run by RUHS.

[54:07] Now today we recognize our county's committee health centers which in 2018 served over 50,000

[54:12] patients and Dr. Chang and Executive Director Morris, I'd like for you to maybe say a few words,

[54:19] Dr. Chang.

[54:19] Thank you.

[54:20] More?

[54:21] Please.

[54:24] It's an honor to be here this morning to be recognized during this week.

[54:28] With our 12 community health centers, we pride ourselves on the care that we deliver.

[54:33] We offer a variety of services, but it goes without saying that without the help of public health,

[54:39] our executive team, behavioral health, our supervisors, our board members that we couldn't do what

[54:45] we do.

[54:46] We serve infants to seniors, veterans to the middle class.

[54:50] We serve anyone regardless of their ability to pay, and we're here to serve, and what an honor this morning just to stand in front of you.

[54:59] I'm also happy to report that we're actually expanding our services.

[55:02] We've actually started to integrate behavioral health into our centers.

[55:06] And yesterday, Dr. Tanya and I actually had the opportunity to experience how that's working.

[55:11] We had a mother and her teenage daughter enter the facility and had been referred from the primary care provider

[55:18] to the behavioral health provider, and they were able to receive services at one site

[55:23] with one team.

[55:25] So as we expand our services, I just asked and hope that we continue this journey forward

[55:33] in excellence and in service.

[55:35] And I would like to introduce Dr. Matt Cheng to provide some comments.

[55:41] Thank you, Janelle.

[55:44] It truly is incredibly exciting time.

[55:47] And she mentioned some of the care integration efforts and with those efforts underway we now have therapy services, substance abuse services, and psychiatry services at all of our RUHS community health centers through this care integration.

[56:01] We are doing physical health care to our behavioral health patients who desperately need it as well as behavioral health services throughout the community health centers.

[56:09] We're also have been able to extend substance abuse services to those patients who previously may now have been able to access them.

[56:15] The model for our act for ongoing transformation is our UHS Community Health Center in Corona.

[56:20] Working side by side, we've been able to consolidate four isolated sites into one integrated hub.

[56:26] We're really moving away from behavioral health sites and physical health sites to simply a seamless health clinic.

[56:32] These integrate efforts lead to better efficiencies and lower costs.

[56:36] But most importantly, it's better for the patient as we provide a one stop shop for all of their healthcare needs.

[56:41] Thank you.

[56:43] And

[56:48] closing our community health centers, I made a lot of great progress over the last

[56:52] two years.

[56:54] They have made great strides and integrated mental health and substance abuse services

[56:57] into our community health centers as you heard.

[56:59] I want to inspire us to continue moving in the direction here in the county of Riverside

[57:04] of expanding community health centers, hitting quality standards, increasing needed services,

[57:10] creating partnerships, better served veterans for instance, and having community health centers

[57:14] there's bills in every community of Riverside County.

[57:17] Thank you, the dedicated Riverside County staff

[57:19] and the community health center board members.

[57:21] Father, great work that you do every single day

[57:23] in our communities and.

[57:25] I'd like to present this proclamation to all of you.

[57:32] Okay?

[57:33] Take a photo out here.

[57:37] I don't know how you want to do this.

[57:38] I don't know what it comes out of there.

[57:40] You got the money?

[58:00] Thank you very much, all of it.

[58:02] Yes, thank you.

[58:03] You're welcome in the back.

[59:08] Okay, very good. Thank you Supervisor Press for the presentation and all the staff.

[59:14] Now we move on to the items that were pulled for discussion and there are quite a few.

[59:23] So I will start with, we move 3.5 to 8.1 so we'll take that later or unless we already

[59:31] approve that.

[59:32] I think we already approved that.

[59:33] We're good.

[59:34] So start with Supervisor Pres on, I have 3.21.

[59:38] Just requesting a brief report on that and just want to congratulate.

[59:46] Is anyone here to speak on the V program?

[59:51] Thank you.

[1:00:00] Good morning, members of the Board. Mr. Johnson is north, Leslie trainer, economic development agency. To begin on behalf of the economic development agency, we'd like to express our appreciation for the women and men of the Armed Forces. And sincerely thank you for your service. Our team at Workforce Development is really pleased and excited to receive this grant award for the Veterans Employment Related Assistance Program, which for the sake of time we've shortened to VEEP.

[1:00:30] Riverside County has approximately 126,400 veterans, which is the third largest veteran population in the state and the eighth largest concentration of veterans in the nation.

[1:00:43] While the unemployment rate in Riverside County as a whole has hovered around 4% recently, the veteran unemployment rate in the county has stayed around 7%.

[1:00:51] Seconding that there's a need for attention to this very important segment of the population.

[1:00:58] So, through the VIT program, we intend to work with a host of partners to assist veterans

[1:01:03] and their spouses.

[1:01:06] And those program features include targeted individualized employment plans, case management,

[1:01:14] workshops, job search and employment assistance, and follow-up activities to ensure successful

[1:01:20] outcomes.

[1:01:20] So, it's very much our pleasure to assist veterans and their spouses who either live or work within Riverside County through this program, and we're happy to answer any questions you have.

[1:01:33] I just wanted just to, Mr. Chair and members, just want to thank you for looking out for our veterans and for moving forward with such a program.

[1:01:41] I know that we have a program here as well through our county in which we're trying to increase the employment of veterans within

[1:01:50] the county of Riverside and there's been quite a bit more interviews and there has been some employment

[1:01:56] but I definitely want to up those numbers. I understand that out of all the

[1:02:01] individuals are veterans that are going through interviews I think it's 10% or less they're actually

[1:02:06] being hired and so obviously this type of program would be very very helpful. This type of service

[1:02:12] would be very very helpful so that our veterans we can increase those numbers quite frankly with the

[1:02:17] the kind of herbicide. So I just wanted to highlight that and thank you so much for the good work you're doing our pleasure. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, I'll entertain a motion in a second that

[1:02:28] passes for zero. That takes us to item 3.22. A member of the public. I believe it's pulled 3.22.

[1:02:37] You

[1:02:48] have Susan Ash and Tom Pollock.

[1:02:52] Okay.

[1:03:01] Good morning.

[1:03:04] Good morning.

[1:03:05] We went to sleep sitting there.

[1:03:07] My name is Tom Pollock.

[1:03:10] I'm a resident of Ida Wild Pine Cove community in our local mountains.

[1:03:15] Sunday evening, I sent the board of supervisors and Mr. Barton, the director of emergency management department.

[1:03:25] a copy of the July 28, 2019 Arizona Republic news article, which was entitled Where Will the West Next Deadly Wildfire Strike.

[1:03:42] I ask each of the supervisors and Mr. Barton to read the article in preparation for this meeting, and I assume they have done so.

[1:03:53] at least I hope so.

[1:03:56] In this article, the news agencies examined approximately 5,000 communities across 11

[1:04:04] western states.

[1:04:06] Of small communities with fewer than 15,000 households, 526 faced a wildfire potential

[1:04:18] greater than the Paradise disaster last year in which we suffered 85 fatalities.

[1:04:28] I asked the Board of Supervisors, each of the Board of Supervisors, and Mr. Barton, to note the wildfire hazard potential for

[1:04:40] paradise on a 1 to 5 scale was 3.81. While our idle wild pine cove community has a 4.81

[1:04:57] wildfire hazard potential. You might ask why is the wildfire hazard potential so high

[1:05:05] in the idle wild pine cove area.

[1:05:09] It's because these areas have not burned in 100 plus years and have excessive few loads,

[1:05:19] explosive few loads, just waiting for an ignition in windy conditions which will undoubtedly occur in the months ahead or in the fire seasons to follow.

[1:05:32] So, the board might also remember that in December 2017, SCE shut off the electricity

[1:05:42] to these communities because of high winds in an effort to avert wildfire risk.

[1:05:52] The article was very comprehensive but it also recognized that the wildfire hazard potential

[1:05:59] is only the first step in assessing human risk are

[1:06:10] greater based on several other factors.

[1:06:16] First, evacuation constraints, age, we have a lot of older folks living in the

[1:06:22] eye-to-eye pineapple community, folks with disabilities.

[1:06:31] And the other thing that I thought was particularly important, defects in the alerting system, it's apparent to me that we need subtype of stationary alerting system, so the community may warn of a fast approaching wildfire from the north, from the Pine Cove vicinity.

[1:06:52] Tom, you're going to need to wrap it up your time.

[1:06:54] I appreciate that a little bit of extra time, I think what we're hoping for is for the board of supervisors to set the bar for the next evacuation of idle wild, which will surely come should be no loss of life.

[1:07:15] And we're not doing the necessary preparations to assure no loss of life.

[1:07:20] And I appreciate your time and thank you for your consideration.

[1:07:24] Thank you.

[1:07:25] Isn't

[1:07:36] that again?

[1:07:38] There are three areas of the evacuation route.

[1:07:42] We've been asking lots of questions and we haven't gotten answers or we've gotten contradictory answers.

[1:07:50] One is the zone evacuation.

[1:07:53] We were told we should evacuate in an early manner in zones and I said, well what if?

[1:08:00] like an usher going down a crowded theater and going aisle by aisle, so the roads don't get all clogged up.

[1:08:10] When I asked what if it's a very fast fire, they said, well, you should make that decision by yourself and

[1:08:20] not wait for an evacuation order and get out of town as fast as you can, however you can.

[1:08:27] And I said, well, won't the roads be clogged up?

[1:08:30] No response.

[1:08:32] How are they going to deal with that?

[1:08:33] We don't know.

[1:08:35] It's unclear what roads are going to actually be open.

[1:08:39] 243 is actually still part of the evacuation plan.

[1:08:43] Are they going to be able to open that up?

[1:08:45] Which direction should we go?

[1:08:48] They're going to be staging us, I'm told,

[1:08:51] along the road for an unknown amount of time

[1:08:55] on the sides of the road, on the sides of 243 and the sides of 74 going down to Himmett.

[1:09:02] It's really unclear what we're supposed to do and how long a wait we're supposed to prepare for.

[1:09:09] Shelter in place was mentioned as an option.

[1:09:12] We were told earlier that even though shelter in place is an option, in some situations,

[1:09:19] It was impossible in idle wild, because there are no buildings or open fields where people could actually shelter in place if a wildfire was raging through town.

[1:09:33] So we need to know, is there a shelter in place if so, where is it so that we can go there?

[1:09:40] And the last one is very controversial.

[1:09:44] deal, what's going to happen with all these alert systems and

[1:09:49] communication to the community about what's going on in the fire,

[1:09:54] if the electricity is turned off, we know that turning off the

[1:09:59] electricity is not going to necessarily prevent a fire.

[1:10:03] There still could be a fire with the electricity off,

[1:10:07] and how much warning are we going to get so that we can people who

[1:10:11] You have respirators or stuff can make plans for it last time, it just went off.

[1:10:17] And how are you going to communicate with the people if a fire starts especially at night during that electric blackout?

[1:10:26] I hope very much that the community and the county and all the fire agencies can get together very, very soon.

[1:10:39] Sorry, thank you very much, Susan.

[1:10:41] Thank you.

[1:10:42] Any other public speakers, no other public speakers on this item, excuse me, thank you.

[1:10:50] Okay, do you have a motion to approve 3.22, please cast your votes.

[1:11:01] That passes for zero.

[1:11:03] That takes us to item 3.29, Supervisor Perez.

[1:11:08] Thank you, Mr. Chair.

[1:11:10] Members, I just thought this issue was important as well when it comes to our students who are

[1:11:14] our foster care, why just give an opportunity for people to speak on it, anyone from probation or DPSS, I can speak to this.

[1:11:41] Good morning, Sarah Mack, Department of Public Social Services, Supervisors, Mr. Johnson, Ms. North.

[1:11:50] So the item before us today is a agreement that we are requesting the board to approve,

[1:11:57] to allow for cost sharing when foster children are placed in either their school of origin.

[1:12:06] However, when the courts or other entities place the children in another location, but

[1:12:12] want the children to remain in their school of origin to keep that consistency.

[1:12:16] It provides a mechanism between probation, DPSS, and schools to be able to transport that child to remain in that school of origin.

[1:12:27] Well, thank you. I appreciate the collaboration between all of you. I think this is very, very important, and I'd also appreciate that this is going to be helpful to all our districts, which is great. And so, so, so thank you for that.

[1:12:43] Supervisor Spiegel.

[1:12:44] So, I just have a couple of words you walked into, I don't even know what, it tells you

[1:12:52] that we were drinking from a fire hose and Sarah, you certainly have warmed it up.

[1:12:57] It's getting cooler for you, I hope.

[1:13:00] But I do want to make a comment to you, Mark.

[1:13:03] I have been so impressed with your involvement outside the box of what probation, chief probation

[1:13:10] officers normally do in other counties.

[1:13:12] And I'm finding that out and you're so outside the box and it's very enlightening to see that and the partnerships that you're making throughout.

[1:13:20] It's so sad that I'm finally seeing all this and you're leaving.

[1:13:24] So I do hope that in your efforts to replace yourself that you can find someone who is definitely thinks outside the box because we are truly benefiting from your efforts and I hope your legacy will continue on.

[1:13:35] I think you just changed his mind, I think he's going to stay.

[1:13:40] Well, you know, it's always nice to, excuse me, board a Mark Hague Chief Probation Officer.

[1:13:44] It's always nice to receive compliments like that, and thank you, Supervisor Speagle, for those kind words, but it has not changed my mind.

[1:13:53] I'm going to take a little more than that.

[1:13:56] You know, on this particular item, I'd just like to recognize Sarah and her team.

[1:14:00] They're the ones who really did the heavy lifting on this agreement and this work.

[1:14:04] You can see from the numbers in here that for the probation departments it's a very small number.

[1:14:11] One of the big challenges we have with the youth that we place in foster care as many of them end up being place long distances from home.

[1:14:19] Just because we lack the services and the resources here locally in our county close to home.

[1:14:25] And so it's a challenge that we continue to work on.

[1:14:30] And we have had in the continuum of care reform, we've had a significant amount of success in placing our youth with other family members as opposed to in group homes like we've historically done.

[1:14:44] And so for this particular item, it'll benefit those kids who are with other family members but not in that school district of origin, so thank you.

[1:14:54] And Sarah, that I know, and I didn't want to discount your service at all, because as you know, as you know, I've worked

[1:15:00] I worked with you on some of those ones that are placed outside the state, and I do appreciate the efforts that you put in because I certainly wouldn't want to have to put to do the job that you're requested to do and everybody in your ear. But thank you for your efforts. Okay. Item 3.29 goes to the past. That passes for zero. Thank you very much. It takes this item to 3.31, supervisor Perez. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Members, just wanted to brief report as well.

[1:15:29] from RUHS Behavioral Health on this item that I think is also very important to highlight.

[1:15:46] Good morning, Mr. Chair, Board of Supervisors, Mr. Johnson, Ms. North,

[1:15:52] Matt Chang, Behavioral Health, and thank you for the opportunity here.

[1:15:56] The item in front of you involves our MHSA plan.

[1:16:01] This is a plan which is developed with stakeholder input.

[1:16:05] And the specific piece is the PEI plan.

[1:16:07] So this is the prevention and early intervention plan.

[1:16:10] This includes services such as mental health outreach, awareness, and

[1:16:15] stigma reduction, as well as providing services for underserved cultural populations.

[1:16:21] There are a couple of new folks that we're working with today, and

[1:16:24] so recognizing the importance of these programs.

[1:16:26] We're expanding the promotores program, as well as the strengthening intergenerational

[1:16:32] intercultural ties and immigrant families.

[1:16:34] So those two specific programs, we're looking to expand, and that's what you have before you today.

[1:16:41] We do believe that these PEI types of programs are essential for the mental health and well-being of the community, sir.

[1:16:49] Sure.

[1:16:50] Well, thank you, Dr. Chang, for your efforts, as well as your team.

[1:16:54] I think this is part of the new strategy, the new vision moving forward.

[1:16:59] I love the fact that you have strategy sessions with folks in our communities to discuss what's the best way to provide these type of services and our own communities and one way quite frankly is by community input, but the other way as well as by having these targeted services through nonprofits, grassroots organizations like, quite frankly, be starting to comprovisal who's been involved in promotora programs for decades and appreciate their

[1:17:29] efforts. And also one is to say thank you for recognizing the fact that we can't do it all as accounting, but we can work with other organizations and which they can be our arm and ensure that they could provide those services that perhaps we can get to, but they can, especially the issue of cultural competence, I think that's critical. And so, thank you for your good work.

[1:17:55] Okay, and that item 3.31 passes on a 4-0 vote and takes us to 3.36.

[1:18:03] That's the purchase. So the helicopter I've asked that item be pulled, asked for county staff to update us on the cost, the changes, and I'd like to have a discussion on the financing.

[1:18:17] Do you have anybody from the executive office or sheriff?

[1:18:21] Well, I'm going to ask the sheriff's department to come forward and give us an update on the cost portion of the helicopter.

[1:18:30] So I see Will back there.

[1:18:31] So come on forward, Will.

[1:18:38] Will, that's the wrong way.

[1:18:58] I'm on the hot seat.

[1:19:01] So, good morning, Supervisor, CEO, County Council.

[1:19:08] Will Taylor, Director of Administration for the Sheriff's

[1:19:10] Supportment.

[1:19:12] The item before you for the helicopter has to do with,

[1:19:16] initially it was a quote of about 11.6 million.

[1:19:20] And then the taxes kicked it up to that additional amount.

[1:19:26] That was not included in the original quote from Airbus.

[1:19:29] Yes, and so when we came back with the purchasing agreement, that was the difference.

[1:19:38] Okay, so sales tax bumped it up.

[1:19:41] Yes, sir.

[1:19:42] 900,000 or so?

[1:19:43] Some were in that.

[1:19:44] Some were in there.

[1:19:45] Okay, all right, thank you very much.

[1:19:47] You can.

[1:19:49] The discussion I'd like to have with my colleagues, the county has, is now enjoying a slight bump

[1:19:57] over projections of the property tax revenues.

[1:20:01] We, I'm told, projected a 5% growth in property tax revenues and received a 5.8% growth in property tax revenues, which is an additional $4 million to the County General Fund.

[1:20:19] My first statement is I was disappointed that I had to learn about this $900,000 cost overrun in a comment to a reporter and not from anybody in county staff.

[1:20:32] Second, I do have some buyers' remorse over the way we agreed to purchase this originally.

[1:20:40] I recognize the majority rule, and I respect that.

[1:20:43] There have been a lot of compelling arguments as to why the Sheriff's Department needs this helicopter, and I actually agree with those needs.

[1:20:51] Executive staff is well aware of my adversity to financing when we have cash and we're setting on over two weeks.

[1:20:59] 200 million in cash, I do not agree with the need to continue to finance when we have

[1:21:07] the revenues to make the acquisition straight out, save the taxpayers of this county, some

[1:21:15] funds, and simply acquire the helicopter with the cash we have, including the surplus.

[1:21:23] I don't hate to use the word surplus because there's no such thing, but the extra revenue

[1:21:27] that we have coming in for the property taxes.

[1:21:30] So, colleagues, again, I recognize majority rules.

[1:21:35] I would just ask that you please consider an outright purchase, or perhaps a larger downpayment

[1:21:42] of $4 million or $5 million in reduce our financing costs going forward.

[1:21:47] And that's what I would ask my colleagues.

[1:21:49] Executive office, if you want to chime in with your opposition, that would be the time.

[1:21:55] I will re-characterize it, it's not opposition as much as I'm trying to share information and give what I believe is a recommendation to this board, and obviously we have a difference of opinion, and I recognize supervisor Jeffrey's distaste for financing that being said we were able to secure what I believe is a very cost effective financing mechanism.

[1:22:24] of 2.39% for a 10-year period, and just to put things in perspective, our county pool rate earns about 2.3% right now.

[1:22:36] And so from our perspective it's a better money management to finance the purchase of the helicopter.

[1:22:47] We also know that we were going to have additional cost increases coming our way.

[1:22:54] And so again, my recommendation is to protect our cash.

[1:22:57] Give us the flexibility to be able to respond to those cost increases.

[1:23:03] Specifically, we know we're going to have additional costs associated with the labor contracts in the middle of negotiating right now.

[1:23:10] And so that's why the recommendation remains from our office to finance the purchase of the helicopter.

[1:23:18] Are you good?

[1:23:20] Okay, what's the wishes of my colleagues?

[1:23:27] You're there, go ahead.

[1:23:28] Just talk.

[1:23:29] So I just talk.

[1:23:30] Just talk.

[1:23:33] We're all friends up here.

[1:23:34] Yeah.

[1:23:37] I think the last vote was 5-0.

[1:23:40] It was.

[1:23:41] Okay. And County Council, on this vote, passage would be achieved with the simple majority, is that correct?

[1:23:54] That's right.

[1:23:54] Yes.

[1:23:55] Okay.

[1:23:58] I couldn't help but think how, on occasions, my wife will say to me, I can get this credit card that offers zero.

[1:24:11] percent for 18 months and if we use that for the purchase and pay it off in the 18

[1:24:21] months there's no cost, finance cost. Even though we have the cash to pay for it and I've

[1:24:32] never had a good argument against what she proposes to do. I see this as kind of similar

[1:24:40] in that our executive officer is advising us that because we're able to get a very significantly

[1:24:50] low finance rate that having the cash on hand to continue to serve as maybe a backstop

[1:25:02] for some unforeseen costs, that that would be a better approach in my mind than to just

[1:25:09] spending all the cash now, but I didn't know that the chairman would introduce the idea

[1:25:15] or concept of maybe making a larger down payment.

[1:25:19] And I don't know that our executive officer has had the opportunity to evaluate it from

[1:25:26] that perspective.

[1:25:27] So I'm certainly open to discussion, but I still think it makes sense just as we vote at

[1:25:33] last time. And I am a little disappointed that I put my name on it because I was asked

[1:25:42] to do that to expedite the process and seems like now we've lost that time that we would

[1:25:47] have gained from expediting the process because we didn't take into account sales tax.

[1:25:59] And I know when I go to buy a new car, I always ask what drive off the lot price is going to be.

[1:26:07] I don't want to negotiate on a price and then find out they're going to add another $2,000,000 to get the car off the lot.

[1:26:16] So I'm a little disappointed with that and I don't mind saying that.

[1:26:20] But I'm still supportive of the purchase, and I'm supportive of the need for this particular helicopter because I think it serves the Sheriff's Department and the county's needs.

[1:26:34] And so I will continue to support the same approach that I did the last time on June 25th when this was on our agenda.

[1:26:44] Thank you, Supervisor Washington.

[1:26:46] I agree the reasons for the purchase are compelling, which has led to a 5-0 vote initially.

[1:26:54] I just see when we have an extra, again, extra, four million in an unanticipated revenue coming in.

[1:27:02] Sheriff's Department having between six and 11 million left over at the end of their budget and

[1:27:10] the ability to actually not carry debt to future budget years when we know the budget is going

[1:27:15] to get worse, just for my sense, it makes sense. So, my point, Supervisor Perez.

[1:27:23] Thank you, Mr. Chair and members. The points are well taken. It's where we're stuck between

[1:27:29] the Rock and the Hard Place. I think over the other day we know it's needed. And obviously,

[1:27:35] We just heard from folks from Ottawa about their concerns and obviously other areas in which we need to make sure that we have all the resources necessary, all the tools necessary for us to a good job. So that's not the issue here.

[1:27:50] And I can appreciate your point, Mr. Chairman, regarding rather than having a price tag into the future where taxpayer dollars will go towards the financing of this helicopter.

[1:28:04] I am concerned, though, with the point that we do need, maybe perhaps,

[1:28:09] those extra dollars that we may have for labor negotiations.

[1:28:13] And so, I would prefer that we do everything possible to move this forward even

[1:28:19] that means that we need to finance that extra million dollars, whatever that may be,

[1:28:24] so that we could continue to work and negotiate with our labor contracts.

[1:28:29] So, that's where I would end that.

[1:28:31] Thank you.

[1:28:32] Executive Officer George, could you, the 12.5 that includes the interest charges?

[1:28:38] No, the 12.5 is the purchase price plus the sales tax, I think that's what Will said.

[1:28:45] And then the financing of 10 years would add a million half dollars roughly.

[1:28:53] So it would take the total cost of $14 million.

[1:28:55] So roughly 1.4 million a year for 10 years.

[1:29:01] Okay, so it would be a $14 million purchase, not a $12.5, okay.

[1:29:06] Financial cost, that's a cost, yeah, that's a bad idea, yeah.

[1:29:09] But I mean, for Riverside County taxpayers, it's a $14 million purchase, not $12.5, as on the agenda.

[1:29:17] So, all right, I'll entertain a motion.

[1:29:19] Oh, sorry, it's a pleasure to speak, my apologies.

[1:29:22] I think that it's a surprise for Washington to identify some of my comments, but I do want to see,

[1:29:27] It's a compromise of possibly using the sales tax as the additional down payment so that we go back to the amount that we voted on.

[1:29:36] The last meeting that excluded the sales tax so we could pay a little bit larger amount on the down payment to cover the sales back which is what a million, whatever it is.

[1:29:47] Do you understand what I'm saying?

[1:29:48] Sales tax is 900,000.

[1:29:50] Okay, so we pay that plus the original down payment so that we don't finance the sales tax.

[1:29:55] we just make that payment as we voted on last meeting.

[1:30:00] Is

[1:30:03] that a question, or are you? That's my motion. How's that? Okay, you're making a motion, so please restate the motion.

[1:30:14] So they don't know the exact numbers. Please bear with me or George help me. 900,000? Yeah, the sales tax is 900,000. And we all is nodding to said, yes. So he's confirmed that is the right amount. So that we continue as last meeting we voted, but the additional 900,000 that we didn't include in our last motion be as additional

[1:30:35] in the down payment so the financing is continuous, we already had voted on.

[1:30:42] Okay.

[1:30:43] Clear?

[1:30:45] There is my-

[1:30:46] Thank you, thank you.

[1:30:48] Our down payment is going to be whatever we originally were going to have with an additional 900,000 to cover the sales tax.

[1:30:54] So we're not financing the sales tax.

[1:30:56] Were we making a down payment last time?

[1:30:58] There's always-

[1:30:59] Right, there's always, yeah, a little bit more when you down payment.

[1:31:02] Okay,

[1:31:05] so we have a motion for whatever the initial agreed upon down payment was, plus 900,000.

[1:31:15] And do we have a second?

[1:31:19] It has a second.

[1:31:21] Okay, please cast your votes.

[1:31:28] Okay, that passes 3-1.

[1:31:31] All right, hopefully we won't be back for another price increase.

[1:31:37] Okay.

[1:31:38] Okay, now it takes us to item 3.41, which I don't know if we have a public speaker on that.

[1:31:49] I believe we do.

[1:31:51] Yeah.

[1:31:56] Adam Brutot will be followed by Jim Leidle.

[1:32:03] Good morning.

[1:32:04] Good morning, Mr. Chair, members of the board, Ms. North and Mr. Johnson.

[1:32:10] My name is Adam Brutico.

[1:32:12] On behalf of Watermark Holmes, I'd like to request a two-week

[1:32:15] continuance to allow Watermark to study the proposed agreements, which were just released on Friday.

[1:32:27] Okay, requesting a two week continuance.

[1:32:32] Our other speaker, Jim Leidle, he's been given time by Joe Bloom and Bob Love for a total of nine minutes.

[1:32:44] Don't worry supervisors, I promise I won't take nine minutes, but they're both in the audience and in favor.

[1:32:50] Good morning, Supervisors. Mr. Johnson, County Council. On behalf of the 3.41, as well as 11.1, because they're both tied together, if you have any questions for us, which we are the 3, 4, 6, 7, 7, 7, and the other tracks who wish this to go forward, I did not intend to speak upon this item because it was a consent item.

[1:33:16] This project has been going on for over three years in the final mapping stage.

[1:33:22] The tentative mapping stage has been going on since 2002.

[1:33:27] County Riverside County Flight Control, County Transportation.

[1:33:32] They've done a magnificent job working with us over the years to make sure that everything is done for

[1:33:40] the health and safety of the future residents, as well as all of the individuals including

[1:33:48] Watermark homes.

[1:33:50] If Stuart McKibben was here, I would have him speak about this as for a couple of years,

[1:33:57] which worked to get Watermark to the table.

[1:34:01] All of these items for the lion sea storm drain, all of the co-op agreements, all of the flood

[1:34:08] control plans have been worked on for years to say that they don't know what these agreements are,

[1:34:18] is really preposterous. Not to mention that the 34677 tract is not only taking what we call

[1:34:27] reach one, reach two, and reach three. That's the entire length and putting it all upon our property

[1:34:35] and doing a lean in lieu in order to get this cooperator agreement approved so that we can then move on to record our final map, which we have been working on with county transportation, county survey, county flood control for over three years.

[1:34:52] When we talk about affordable housing, when we talk about getting housing to the public, time is what is taking us so long.

[1:35:00] And this kind of housing is in the small lot detached, $300,000 housing.

[1:35:07] And you can imagine the money that it's taken to go through this process for over three years.

[1:35:12] And the burden just in these flood control improvements that's put upon this property.

[1:35:19] Where the watermark has an issue with is their frontage due to an agreement with the previous

[1:35:27] is developer Griff and Holmes that used to own the watermark property.

[1:35:31] They wanted us, Mr. Levin, myself, to bear the burden of over $700,000 of improvements

[1:35:37] along their frontage.

[1:35:39] And we find that to be of no nexus, no benefit, they're concerned about their conditions

[1:35:47] of approval.

[1:35:48] Their conditions of approval do not change with the flood control cooperative agreement.

[1:35:54] Again, I would just like to say thank you to the supervisors, thank you to county transportation staff, thank you to county survey, and thank you to county flood control who has worked on this with us and vetted this project for years.

[1:36:11] I pray now that you would approve these items as is recommended by staff, and I thank you for your time, and I'm here to answer any question should you have them.

[1:36:21] Any questions I'd like to for some of the staff to come up

[1:36:29] Okay,

[1:36:42] I guess my main question is

[1:36:46] You know, you have somebody asking for an extension of two weeks to continue it

[1:36:50] What would that two weeks benefit it sounds like the other party saying it's going to actually hurt them

[1:36:56] Is there something in this agreement that changed in the conversation or I don't know if you've got it inside on this

[1:37:04] Yes, I do. Good morning, Chair, members of the board, Mr. Johnson, Mrs. North, Jason Eule, General Manager, Chief Engineer of the Riverside County Float Control and Water Conservation District.

[1:37:16] The item that's before you today, and I want to make a point that this should be item 3.41 and 111, their companion items related, so we should take them both together, is for the approval of three cooperative agreements related to track 36417 and track 34677.

[1:37:32] And those cooperative agreements basically provide the developer guidance on how they can implement and achieve compliance with their conditions of approval for storm drain infrastructure.

[1:37:43] And so in this particular case, these two tracks are actually conditioned both to build what we call Winchester Hills line C.

[1:37:52] So they need a regional backbone for an adequate outlet, for either of them to develop that storm drain has to be in place.

[1:37:58] The Watermark Track 30989 is also required to build that facility for an adequate outlet.

[1:38:06] Now, the point I would make today is that these agreements are specific to the conditions of approval for each of those tracks.

[1:38:15] And so all this agreement does, as it says, for you to comply with your conditions of approval, you need to do A, B, and C.

[1:38:21] It does not require the developers to coordinate in any way, but it also does not prohibit that.

[1:38:29] And so from staff's perspective, we see this agreement is being specific to the track and

[1:38:36] not having a relationship to the other tracks.

[1:38:38] The developers can choose to go forward on their own if they wish or work together on a cooperative arrangement to share funding.

[1:38:45] And so the staff position would be to move this forward because each of these agreements are specific to the individual tracks.

[1:38:52] And we will continue to work with the Watermark development on their agreement 30989.

[1:38:57] So thank you Jason, Supervisor Washington's in your district, what do you want to do?

[1:39:06] I spoke previously to Jason so I could have a better understanding of this item 3.41 and 11.1 and I'm going to go ahead and make the motion to adopt staff's recommendation.

[1:39:19] Okay.

[1:39:24] I'll second that.

[1:39:29] And that passes 4-0, and that includes 11.1 as well.

[1:39:35] That's correct, yes. Okay. That takes us to 3.43, which is T.L.A.'s proposal, good

[1:39:43] neighbor policy for logistics and warehouse uses, uses 1

[1:39:52] per ass. And just to note that

[1:39:55] But Supervisor Hewitt has asked that this item be continued for final action at the next regular meeting so that he may participate in further discussions, but we need to have a discussion today.

[1:40:08] So.

[1:40:08] Great. Thank you. Good morning, Mr. Chairman, members of the board.

[1:40:11] I'm Perez with the Transportation Management Agency.

[1:40:14] I do have a brief presentation to put up here in just a minute.

[1:40:17] So, by way of background as the board is aware, Riverside County has seen a tremendous

[1:40:23] amount of growth in the logistics sector over the last 10 years or so.

[1:40:28] For a lot of different reasons, shift in to e-commerce if you will, our location or

[1:40:35] strategic location along corridors between the ports and the rest of the country.

[1:40:41] And certainly, the logistics industry has contributed to job growth in our county, has been one

[1:40:47] the growing sectors. At the same time, we recognize a staff and I think the board has as well

[1:40:53] on past projects that logistics, especially the large scale logistics uses can pose some unique

[1:41:01] challenges to neighbors, especially in close proximity to residential. So what we are proposing

[1:41:07] before you, I'm happy to introduce it and we can have more discussion at the board next week as well,

[1:41:13] is a policy that would essentially formalize

[1:41:18] and institutionalize, if you will,

[1:41:20] many of the best management practices

[1:41:23] that in some cases we have been applying

[1:41:25] on a case-by-case basis to individual projects.

[1:41:28] And the whole goal is to really design

[1:41:31] and operate these facilities in a way

[1:41:33] that there can be less than their impacts

[1:41:36] on surround the communities and the environment.

[1:41:39] So what the policy seeks to do is to establish

[1:41:41] best management practices, and particularly focusing on sensitive receptors,

[1:41:46] so those would be residential schools, parks, those type of uses.

[1:41:51] It is not just a standalone policy, but it does work in conjunction with our

[1:41:55] land use ordinance ordinance 348 and secret review of projects that continues to

[1:42:01] happen in addition to, as they do with any development project, to see what is

[1:42:06] needed as far as improvements in mitigation.

[1:42:09] But it does provide development and operational criteria that can supplement the mitigation

[1:42:15] measures that come out of this equal process.

[1:42:18] General applicability, what we are recommending is that would apply to logistics and warehouse

[1:42:24] projects over 250,000 square foot in size for any wind building.

[1:42:28] I should point out that this is meant to be general guidance and as we know, each development

[1:42:32] is different and each development is cited on a specific site that has its own unique issues

[1:42:38] and challenges, so this is meant to be a guideline that the Planning Commission or the board, whoever the authority is ultimately, can look at and make a determination based on the site-specific conditions if it would be appropriate to deviate on any one specific project and why.

[1:42:58] So some of the things included in the policy, I won't go into item by item, but I'm certainly happy to answer any questions but just highlighting a few of them.

[1:43:06] As I mentioned, it does focus on the sensitive receptors, schools, primarily residential that

[1:43:13] may be in close proximity.

[1:43:16] You see the other sensitive uses there.

[1:43:18] It does call for and some of these things that are already part of our SQL analysis that

[1:43:23] we do appropriate or quality studies, health risk assessments, there within a certain distance,

[1:43:30] noise impact analysis, construction traffic control so that we can help route trucks during

[1:43:36] in construction when the grading activity is happening

[1:43:39] in a way that lessens impacts to the neighbors around them.

[1:43:43] During the construction phase itself,

[1:43:45] it does call for, that we use the latest available technology

[1:43:50] that CARB is available currently, 2010 engines

[1:43:53] to minimize their quality emissions.

[1:43:56] It calls for a limit on the amount of grading

[1:44:01] that can be done any one day,

[1:44:02] Again, to limit dust from the site, truck idling restrictions as well, so that the trucks

[1:44:09] are not idling when they're not being used and issuing emissions.

[1:44:15] Sighting and design, we are recommending a 300 foot setback from loading dogs to sensitive

[1:44:22] receptors of the property line, for example, of residential uses.

[1:44:26] We are recommending landscape screening.

[1:44:30] What you see in the policy is 50 foot apart and 50% larger box trees, 36 inch box trees.

[1:44:39] It's been brought to our attention and appropriately so the 50 feet may be too far to provide adequate

[1:44:47] screening.

[1:44:48] So we would certainly support if the board would like to reduce that further and say no further

[1:44:53] than 20 or 25 feet apart. That may be more appropriate here for what we're trying to achieve.

[1:45:00] And that we also provide electrical connections so that trucks, particularly refrigerator trucks,

[1:45:06] are not idling to run their electrical equipment. Operations, again, CARP 2010 engines, that truck

[1:45:16] routes be established for each use so that they can get to the freeways as directly as possible

[1:45:22] and avoid cutting through residential neighborhoods, signage recommendations as well. And that we're

[1:45:28] We're also stressing that the applicants all work together to reach out to the communities

[1:45:34] around them and really see how they can be good neighbors and integrate themselves into

[1:45:37] the community.

[1:45:39] And look for opportunities to make other enhancements to the communities around them.

[1:45:43] And as part of that, we have recommended on some specific projects as well and we will

[1:45:49] move forward when appropriate that there be a supplemental financial contribution to further

[1:45:55] offset any or quality impacts.

[1:45:58] So that's kind of the high level look, our recommendation as you see it before you is that we move forward with adopting the policy with whatever changes the more we want to may want to see done understanding that you're going to want to have further discussion at your next port meeting when Supervisor Hewitt is in attendance some available for questions.

[1:46:18] Very good.

[1:46:20] You and I have been discussing this for a year, so I'll open up to my colleagues if they want to discuss any items.

[1:46:25] It's super easy to be able to.

[1:46:28] What does the analysis to come up with the 300 foot setback?

[1:46:33] So the 300 foot setback supervisor that was based on, it's more of, if you will, a rule of thumb that we want it to come up with something that was significant distance.

[1:46:43] And so, you know, imagine a football field, right?

[1:46:46] It's 300 feet, so that there would be adequate separation.

[1:46:52] And I believe we used 300 feet for other land-used types of items.

[1:46:57] But it is somewhat of a number that staff just felt was an appropriate number.

[1:47:04] We're trying to create some separation, but not go too far,

[1:47:08] where we're cutting into the usable property of the site adversely.

[1:47:16] So if you will, we viewed it as a good rule of thumb kind of equating it to a football field

[1:47:21] that it would provide some separation for some level of noise and other impacts.

[1:47:26] Okay, so how do we get the 250,000 square feet?

[1:47:30] The 250,000 square feet, we've had past the board direction, I believe, on uses of a certain

[1:47:42] size that the board has asked in the past that we, even if they're fast track that they

[1:47:51] go before the planning commission, so the public gets an opportunity to comment on them

[1:47:54] and the threshold that was used for that is 250,000 square feet.

[1:47:57] And we see that as a good dividing point.

[1:48:00] Again, it's somewhat of a number that we have to settle on something.

[1:48:05] Good dividing point between the smaller scale industrial buildings that are not logistic

[1:48:10] uses, but normally what we are seeing in the larger scale warehouse on logistics,

[1:48:16] those buildings range from 300,000 square feet to a million or more.

[1:48:21] So 250 seems to be a good dividing point what we see in the market and

[1:48:26] between small-scale industrial and larger logistics uses.

[1:48:31] So in my district, we don't really have the opportunity for this, but do we have maps

[1:48:37] we're in the county and the other districts where we're looking at this being a challenge

[1:48:44] with a need for the good neighbor policy?

[1:48:47] Well, we have seen it applied where we have had most of the activity is along the industrial

[1:48:53] quarter, if you will, along the 215 corridor, particularly the Mead Valley area, that's

[1:49:00] where there's been some specific plans that were approved a number of years ago, calling

[1:49:04] for some larger scale uses out there. So that has been primarily the growth area.

[1:49:12] We have had a few scattered facilities other than that. We had one in the out-and-as-fifth

[1:49:20] And I mean, Cherry Valley a couple of years ago that was considered and approved by the board and we implemented similar types of measures on that one potentially again there is a fair amount of industrial property out there throughout the county where folks would have an opportunity to apply for a land use case on that or seek a general plan amendment but where we have predominantly seen the activity has been around the two 15 core or in the meat valley.

[1:49:50] already.

[1:49:52] Okay. And that was, that was my question was because I do know that it was,

[1:49:57] it was, it was supervisor Hewitt, and that was why I pulled it is to get an idea of where

[1:50:01] it's at. And if it's, if his district has that potential, he certainly needs to be a part

[1:50:04] of the conversation. So, I do want to move that we continue this to the next meeting on

[1:50:12] the 27th. Correct. Yeah. Next regular meeting. Yeah. So I, I can

[1:50:20] I concur with continuing it for the benefit of Supervisor Hewitt's participation.

[1:50:25] It is an issue that is dramatically impacting the first district as mentioned along the 215 corridor.

[1:50:32] We probably have in the works conceptually to submitting plans.

[1:50:39] I would guess between 30 and 40 warehouses on the maps, they're all pretty much not all, but

[1:50:47] there are pretty much a result of previous decades of setting aside those areas for industrial corridors.

[1:50:55] There was a desire to see some of that change to retail and as we all know retail is losing its grip

[1:51:03] because of the online order and so the warehouses are getting more and more prominent and the

[1:51:10] just a few points before we vote real quick. The distance issue I believe it was AQMD is coming out

[1:51:17] with their proposal some year with a thousand foot distance my understanding I think the

[1:51:27] city of Riverside may have a thousand but I'm not even sure of that. I was willing to

[1:51:32] compromise at 500 but we're at 300 which is a football field so imagine setting in your

[1:51:39] backyard and joining your friends and your pool and whatever and listening to diesel tractor

[1:51:44] your trailer rigs back up all night in your backyard.

[1:51:47] So that's my concern there.

[1:51:49] Landscaping I do agree that 50 foot is too much.

[1:51:52] The first district standard is about 25 feet for screening.

[1:51:56] There was another component in here and I was looking for it.

[1:51:59] I didn't find it that we need to be careful of about which way the facilities are orientated.

[1:52:05] There was a mention about not having them orientated towards corridors related to transportation.

[1:52:16] My concern is I would prefer that they actually face the transportation corridors and not face the residential homes that are typically found behind them.

[1:52:26] So we're going to be dealing with this right away probably starting tomorrow.

[1:52:31] I think there's a million square footer going to the planning commission and I'm sure it's going to be appealed to the board.

[1:52:37] And it's not even something that normally would come to the board because it's all pre-approved through the previous

[1:52:44] Land use. I think it's a plot plan that's been appealed if I'm not mistaken. I believe

[1:52:49] They were approved under a master specific plan and in the case before the planning commission

[1:52:55] I believe is a plot plan tomorrow. Yeah, so a million square foot plot plan for a warehouse can go through

[1:53:03] relatively quick, but if you want to do a 3,000 square foot business, you have a multiple years to get through the process.

[1:53:09] So our process favors warehouses and discourages others in certain zones.

[1:53:15] So I'm looking forward to our future discussion on this and I'll support the motion.

[1:53:22] And that passes 4-0 to continue to the next regular meeting.

[1:53:27] And that takes us to item 10.1, Supervisor Washington, if my notes are correct.

[1:53:43] Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

[1:53:46] The reason I pulled 10.1 was to give the Housing Authority an opportunity to come up and brief the board on some changes to this program.

[1:54:02] And better my understanding of the Desert Rose Project.

[1:54:08] And so my question, if you want to come up and at least brief the board, I appreciate it.

[1:54:13] Mr. Thank you, Mr. Chair, on board supervisors.

[1:54:17] So Desert Rose apartments is a property that was originally a migrant housing project that was run by the state for a number of years.

[1:54:24] and then around the late 2000s, the housing authority at the request of the state took ownership of the property and rehabbed the property specifically for farm workers.

[1:54:38] During that time, as many are aware, the Palo Verre, the number of the growers in that community, they sold their water rights to metropolitan water district in turn leaving a number of the fields fallow in that area.

[1:54:51] And so in turn, the need for farm worker housing in the area started to dry up.

[1:54:57] At that point in time, we started at the housing authority running into occupancy challenges.

[1:55:02] So, and then, two or three years ago, we approached the state, which was providing the restriction that it would only be for farm workers to allow us to open it up to the general population.

[1:55:14] And even with that, we've run into occupancy challenges.

[1:55:18] where the property has sat large, like at least half vacant, as of this morning it has 41 out of 76 units are currently occupied.

[1:55:29] It doesn't, it's just coincidentally correlates to the 41 project based vouchers we're talking about today.

[1:55:35] But over the years, the rents that were being charged wasn't being able to cover the operating expenses of the property.

[1:55:47] And supervisor Perez, we took a tour about the property about four months ago or so.

[1:55:54] And the property was not in up to the standard of the housing authority or of the sport.

[1:55:59] And the supervisor tasked us with like what do we need to bring this property up to stuff.

[1:56:04] And so since that time, we've brought on a third-party property management company to take on the operations of the property.

[1:56:12] as well as we are working with third-party service providers to look at restarting the child care center in that location, bringing in job training programs out there, as well as continue to serve the farm workers in that area through the Office of MigraNet and bringing that community center up the snuff.

[1:56:34] All of those additional expenses cost additional revenue.

[1:56:39] In order to do that, what we're recommending today is that we project based about Section 8 vouchers.

[1:56:46] And this allows the property in turn to receive the higher income directly from HUD and

[1:56:52] still serve extremely low individuals.

[1:56:55] So we're serving the people that are out there today, the majority of whom have incomes around $12,000.

[1:57:01] and allowing them basically they receive the services going forward because I think we all know housing is housing first but it's housing with the need for a full wraparound services.

[1:57:13] So we are looking at bringing in our family self-sufficiency program.

[1:57:17] So allow people if they get into the project, we work with them to get an increased their income and employment.

[1:57:23] So they're long-term successful property.

[1:57:26] I'm not sure of that.

[1:57:26] That fully answers your question, or if you have other questions, if you want to.

[1:57:29] It does, and I have to defer to Supervisor Perez, I applaud the effort to support a population that is in need.

[1:57:43] Obviously, the need has shifted because the reduced population of farm workers, which was a good use, but no longer is that.

[1:57:56] And so the only question I guess I have, I don't have any complaints or concerns about the housing authority providing some form of

[1:58:07] wraparound services and if we can get HUD to support some of the costs of that housing.

[1:58:14] I guess my question would just be, is that the best location, or is there a better location for providing those services,

[1:58:24] is maybe closer to the Coachella Valley, but I would have to defer to Supervisor Perez if he thinks this is the best location and use, or if there's a better location and use.

[1:58:39] So I like to think I could walk and chew gum at the same time, so this may not be the perfect location, but is the location we have that we own today.

[1:58:46] So we're going to help here, but we're also looking at complimentary projects for full wrap round services in Cathedral City.

[1:58:54] and Riverside, Rupert Valley, and other parts of the county as well.

[1:58:58] This is just one specific effort, and this is an asset that's currently owned by the Housing Authority today.

[1:59:03] So it's something that we can't ignore while we're doing other things.

[1:59:06] This is an area of need for those people out there.

[1:59:09] And so we're going to look at, we're going to do them today.

[1:59:11] And then tomorrow we're going to be meeting on helping folks in other parts of the county.

[1:59:15] Okay, okay, I like that plan.

[1:59:19] One thing just caught my ear that you just talked about because I see there's a tendency

[1:59:27] to do this here at the county.

[1:59:30] We talk about two parts of the county, East County and West County.

[1:59:35] West County has about 80% of the population.

[1:59:38] When we talk about West County, we talk about river, we rarely go south of Paris.

[1:59:47] So 40% of the county's population is in the southwestern part of Riverside County.

[1:59:56] and sewer as a Washington, that there's not on the agenda today, but

[2:00:00] There is a budding projects in the southwest, the county that we'd like to talk to you more about later date because there are things that are coming down in that area, not that.

[2:00:12] The full geographic, like someone asked me where it was the need for housing in the county. I said, like, well, one project in every district. And so I think we need to push push in all of our areas because you're exactly right. The in terms of we want to encourage people and be developing housing and high growth areas.

[2:00:29] in a couple of meetings, we're going to be placed a motion before you to rehab an apartment complex, specifically in the city of Temecula.

[2:00:39] So we are looking at how we can do this, not just in the fourth district and east to west, middle, where we're looking to do it everywhere.

[2:00:48] Thank you, and I'll go ahead and make the motion to approve staff's recommendation.

[2:00:54] Let's see what we can do.

[2:00:57] I think we've come a long way on this issue, quite frankly, I mean, you know, when I went out there and took a look,

[2:01:07] the area was not up to par, and you all know that, we all know that it needed a lot of work.

[2:01:16] And that's part of the reason why we don't need to have people wanting to rent, because it looked pretty bad.

[2:01:25] And so, you know, from gathering information from the locals and having community meetings,

[2:01:34] part of the request was, you know, to upgrade the area, you know, make it so that it looks

[2:01:41] like at least like other areas and maybe see a vibe or a cellar or to make their, wherever,

[2:01:48] But it just looked like a second-class citizen area.

[2:01:55] That's what it looked like.

[2:01:56] But my hope is that obviously with these efforts,

[2:01:59] it's going to get a lot better.

[2:02:01] And so some of these services and after school programs are a result

[2:02:07] of the community input.

[2:02:09] Not only from their specifically Ripley or,

[2:02:14] but also just overall, I mean, the community applies.

[2:02:16] the Palavetta Valley are very much wanting to support ongoing efforts in that, in that

[2:02:22] specific little region. Because even though the city of life may be struggling, they know

[2:02:28] that Ripley is struggling even more and mess up very struggling even more. So they're

[2:02:34] supportive of this as well. The only thing that I would add, and obviously having the management,

[2:02:40] I think it's going to do wonders. It's going to be much more helpful. But does that forget

[2:02:44] that park that we own as well. You know, it's right next door and that part needs work. At least some manicuring.

[2:02:53] Let's get some landscaping done in there. Some of those trees need some trimming or maybe we just get rid of some of those trees.

[2:03:02] They're just seen there. They look terrible quite frankly, but I know we're going to get there and I know you're working on it.

[2:03:10] been working on it, and I appreciate your points that you made today.

[2:03:15] And so obviously I support this, and thank you for bringing that up.

[2:03:19] Supervisor Washington, for your concerns that you have as well.

[2:03:23] Okay, thank you very much, votes have been counted, cast it passes for zero.

[2:03:30] That takes us to item, let's see, flood control items.

[2:03:35] I think those were all taken care of, we have two, we have one off calendar.

[2:03:42] It takes us to item 19.2, 19.1 was continued to the 27th, 19.3 was continued to the 27th, leaving 19.2 for

[2:03:55] anyone who have any questions, otherwise we'll just, let's-

[2:04:00] I can't answer any questions if you'd like a report.

[2:04:01] Any questions?

[2:04:02] I'll move approval.

[2:04:03] Great to see you, Rob.

[2:04:05] Thank you.

[2:04:06] Pleasure.

[2:04:06] All right.

[2:04:07] And that passes the

[2:04:13] opening and closing of the public hearing?

[2:04:15] Yes.

[2:04:16] Thank you.

[2:04:18] What'd she say?

[2:04:19] Please opening and closing the public hearing.

[2:04:20] You know, I opened and closed the public hearing

[2:04:22] in case you didn't hear that.

[2:04:25] Before I get to some trouble, do we have anybody requesting to speak?

[2:04:29] No.

[2:04:30] Okay.

[2:04:30] Okay, got by on that one.

[2:04:34] Thank you, that passed for zero.

[2:04:38] You know, you could do real good to the whole meeting and screw it up towards the end.

[2:04:43] All right, that takes us to memorial adjournments.

[2:04:49] Do we have any memorial adjournments?

[2:04:52] So we've registered speakable.

[2:04:56] As soon as I find it, it's up here.

[2:05:00] Oh, come on.

[2:05:04] Yes, we've had many within our district, but I'm going to.

[2:05:09] I mentioned and please include Lyle Paul Norland in the Memorial German and Mr. Norland passed away at the age of 88 on July 6th.

[2:05:22] He was married to his bride for 66 years.

[2:05:27] They had just celebrated their 66th anniversary.

[2:05:30] And Mr. Norland served honorably in the United States Air Force and he did a 30 year career providing products to military commissioners.

[2:05:39] commissionaries and post exchanges around the world.

[2:05:43] And I thought that was an interesting background.

[2:05:47] He had four sons and they actively involved in their communities.

[2:05:54] We have Mark with Mary Delaine in Corona.

[2:05:57] They're very active in the Corona community.

[2:06:00] Eric and Sonia and San Jose, David and Lauren and Riverside

[2:06:03] and Kevin and Shelly Temecula.

[2:06:05] Mr. Noan has seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, and I take pride in anybody who not only serves the military, but also serves once they've become a civilian, so with that I'd like to include Mr. Norland and our memorials.

[2:06:20] Okay.

[2:06:22] I have two Mr. Chairman, Supervisor Washington.

[2:06:27] I'd like to recognize and honor the passing Teresa Lynn Barnett, a loving and beloved mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, aunt, teacher, and friend.

[2:06:38] She passed away on July 6th after a courageous battle with cancer.

[2:06:43] Teresa was born on June 13th, 1960, and grew up in the San Jacinto Valley.

[2:06:51] She married Rick Barnett who preceded her in death in 1993.

[2:06:56] She was a well-regarded teacher in the San Jacinto Unified School District.

[2:07:00] For nearly 30 years, she loved her students, and never met a student she couldn't reach.

[2:07:07] She has survived her children, Keith and Lauren, her mother-in-law, five grandchildren, eight siblings, many nieces and nephews.

[2:07:19] Additionally, I'd like to recognize someone that I did not know personally or nor did he live in Riverside County.

[2:07:31] But I felt a kinship at the passing of Lieutenant Charles Z. Walker.

[2:07:42] He was a 33 year old Navy F-A-18 Super Hornet Jet Pilot who was killed in a crash in Death Valley on Wednesday, July 31st.

[2:07:55] Barker was commissioned on December 15th, 2008, following his graduation from Embry Riddell,

[2:08:02] Aeronautical University in Dayton,

[2:08:06] in Florida, where he was a member of the Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps.

[2:08:11] He was a top gun pilot and he trained at the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center in Fallon, Nevada.

[2:08:20] In early 2018 he reported to the Vigilantes, the tenant walker was described as an incredible

[2:08:27] naval aviator, husband and son.

[2:08:31] He was an integral part of the Vigilante family and his absence will be keenly felt by

[2:08:37] all of those who knew him.

[2:08:41] Okay, Mr. Chairman.

[2:08:42] All right.

[2:08:43] Any others?

[2:08:44] Okay.

[2:08:45] Close session announcement.

[2:08:47] I'm sorry.

[2:08:48] Sorry.

[2:08:49] I

[2:08:52] figure right around December, I'm going to get the hang of this, passes 4-0 council.

[2:08:59] We will now head into closed session as indicated in the agenda.

[2:09:02] There may be a reportable action and if there is, we will come back out and report.

[2:09:06] Thank you.

[2:09:07] Okay.

[2:09:08] We'll meet for closed session at 11.45, it's about 10 minutes.

[2:09:13] Thank you.

[2:10:21] All right.

[2:10:22] This is a report out on closed session on agenda item B1 regarding a settlement agreement

[2:10:26] between the Riverside County Regional Park and Open Space District and Stephen Carter,

[2:10:31] Wesley Carter, and Barbara Carter. Earlier today, the Board of Supervisors sitting as the Board

[2:10:35] of Directors for the Riverside County Regional Park and Open Space District on a 40 vote authorized

[2:10:40] settlement and approved the settlement terms and closed session under agenda item B1.

[2:10:44] Further, authorize the chairman of the Board of Directors to sign the lease termination and settlement

[2:10:48] agreement. As the agreement has already been signed by the CARTERS and providing the support out of

[2:10:53] closed session, pursuant to government code section 54957.1. Under the terms of the settlement,

[2:10:59] Stephen Carter, the caretaker, agrees to termination of the lease agreement with the district for

[2:11:03] caretaker op-compancy of district owned housing and further agrees to execute any documents

[2:11:07] necessary for such termination and to release the district from any and all past claims, present

[2:11:12] and future claims. Additionally, under the terms of the settlement, the district will pay $19,000

[2:11:17] within 30 days of approval of the settlement agreement and a release. Each party is to bear their

[2:11:21] own attorney's fees and costs. This concludes the report out of closed session. Thank you.