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The agenda today. Yes. So, Chair Koneg, again, members of the board, on the regular agenda. There's a revision to item number 13. Attachment B, page a 87. Remove the words any of, which now reads the cannabis licensing official may set a larger cannabis cultivation area in CA zone districts subject to the following criteria.

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On item 14, attachment B, age 169, and attachment D, age 225, section F5, change the wording to read, supporting equipment, such as equipment shelters may be required to replace the underground, if required by the director, section G, point 1, change wording to read, all towers shall be designed.

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to be the shortest height, technically feasible.

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That concludes the corrections to today's agenda.

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Are there any board members that would wish

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to remove something from the consent agenda

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I have both, sorry.

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I'll just make a comment one, one, one, one, and so.

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Supervisor Cadet will take comment on the consent agenda

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after public comment if you don't mind item six.

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All right, thank you.

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Well, I pursued to item five public comment, any person may address the board, speakers must not exceed two minutes in length, and individuals may speak only once during public comment.

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All public comments must be directed to an item listed on today's consent agenda, closed session agenda, yet to be heard on regular agenda or a topic not on the agenda, which is within the jurisdiction of the board.

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Or numbers will not take actions or respond immediately to any public communication presented regarding topics not on the agenda, but may choose to follow up later either individually or at subsequent or to supervisors agenda.

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But it's good morning.

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It's Sanctus County, California.

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It is May 10th, 2020.

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It's nice to have the civilization obliteration assistance.

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I contact, but I want to hold my breath on that.

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So, I'm one of the interesting documents.

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It's called Your City Government.

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This one was made by a city council member in Santa Cruz.

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It just goes into a fair amount of detail that our people that were publicly elected

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are city council members and also our supervisors are all under the control of the city

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and county managers so much so that if they deviate from what they're doing they can be charged

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with a misdemeanor, remove from our office or put in prison for six months.

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Just some interesting information.

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How about some humor?

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You know, a little girl comes to her mom and says, you know, Mom, our politicians

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made.

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She said, well, sweetie, when a circus clown and a serial killer meet and fall in love, you

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can make up the rest.

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So we've got a bunch of stuff going on with the World Economic Forum.

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Stuff that's been planned since 1992,

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where 179 countries came into this agreement with this agenda,

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21 agenda, 2030 and agenda, 2050.

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It's an attempt to power grab.

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So that's 41 seconds, it's good.

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So I love to be proved wrong.

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I brought up a subject with a very close friend

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where 50 other people that were knowledgeable

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didn't dispute what I was saying.

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Treatings do not supersede the U.S. Constitution, and there's a lot of information about that.

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So unfortunately, most of our political leaders are captured.

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You know, I get that out of 14 seconds.

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You know, where are there the most Zionist IBM Nazis on the planet?

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I would say Washington, DC.

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You know, I'd say that Israel is a close second.

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Thank you, man.

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I would say Silicon Valley.

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Good morning. My name is Shalakabonis and I love Santa Cruz and I have the privilege of

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being chair of the Santa Cruz County Mental Health Advisory Board.

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I want to thank the supervisors for their service and cap it. He attends every meeting. He

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provides valuable leadership and insights very awesome. I want to thank Cassandra Salimi for

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all her work for supporting our community and wish her well as she becomes a director of behavioral health

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out the county. I want to support agenda item number 37 currently we don't have and we really need

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a youth crisis stabilization residential program. Youth currently are sent away from their families,

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loved ones, community and friends. We need to keep them here so that they can recover from behavior

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health needs. Please accept the grant for $7.5 million towards this residential stabilization

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program for youth. And finally, we submitted a letter and correspondence. We need a 24 hour

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seven mobile crisis response in Santa Cruz County, the edition of which would complement

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current resources. Mental health advisory board strongly recommends that the board of supervisors

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consider the criminal justice council report of 2021. Another past grand jury recommendations

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to take action to create a 24 hour seven non-lawn enforcement crisis response,

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with the component, the federal rollout of 988.

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Thank you very much, and again, thank you for your service.

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I love Santa Cruz.

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Thank you, Shawak.

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Good morning, gentlemen.

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Thank you for your service to our beloved community.

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I'm Jeffrey R.L., I'm a member of the Mental Health Advisory Board

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for District 5.

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The mental health of our community is fundamental

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to the decisions we make in this room.

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This letter has to do with the correspondence.

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it's why on the agenda, the letter of recommendation that can help reduce suffering and save lives.

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This letter of recommendation has to do with the taking meaningful action.

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The criminal justice council report 2021 that Shalak just mentioned, which says, among

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the jurisdictions that don't already have dedicated unit with sworn officers responding

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behavioral slash mental health calls, 100% are supportive of the creation of independent agency

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that would respond to these calls.

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The mental health advisory board of Santa Cruz County strongly recommends that Santa Cruz

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County Board of Supervisors consideration of the criminal justice council report and

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pass recommendations, including Santa Cruz County Grand jury reports, take meaningful

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action to create a 24 by 7 non-law enforcement crisis response service that provides, but

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not limited to mental health crisis-related crisis response, conflict resolution, welfare checks,

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suicide threats, and more.

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The Federal Legislation, HR-1319, American Recovery Plan Act passed in 2021, California AB-118,

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and the pending California AB 98, recommended.

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Blue funding for the 24-7 non-law enforcement response. The mental health advisory board strongly

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recommends that you take action on this. Again, thank you for your service. Thank you, Mr.

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Good morning. Good morning. You just pull the mic down. I'll close your mouth here.

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My name is Stacey Smith. I'm here to advocate for creating a cohoops type program in

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and I'm grateful to be speaking to you during mental health awareness month.

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On Sunday, on a Sunday at 3.30 a.m. on October 16th, 2016, our son was shot to death by

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Santa Cruz law enforcement while he was in the midst of the mental health crisis. Individuals

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and families throughout our county would greatly benefit from the scope of services, just mentioned

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by Jeffrey, that the Kahoot model provides.

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Pressure can be taken off our first responders.

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Lives can be saved.

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Many communities throughout the state and country

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have or are developing this well proven best practices model

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for early intervention and crisis response.

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What is needed now is the will and commitment

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for allocating the funding to make these services available

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in our community.

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The time has come and the resources are available.

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The new 90-day call line becomes live in nine weeks on July 16th.

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It's critical that we have a 24-7 non-law enforcement that we have mobile teams

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of trained crisis interventionists available for our community members.

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I urge you to open your hearts and minds and please allocate funding

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and begin working with those who have the knowledge

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and plans to make this program happen for Santa Cruz County individuals, families, which will promote safety for all.

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I believe it is very likely that Sean would be alive today if a good high program had existed in our community in 2016.

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When he suffered a mental health crisis and neither he nor our family were able to get the help.

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We so desperately needed it.

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When we needed it, thank you for your service,

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start community.

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Thank you, Ms. Smith.

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Good morning. My name is Alexander Robertson.

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I'd like to start off with a prayer.

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Father God gave us strength and guidance and discernment.

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Let our walls come down so that we may receive your message clearly.

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I'm a Santa Cruz County resident of 34 years in a father of four.

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This is our home, much like most of us.

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I care deeply about its future.

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I show of hands how many of you have taken the oath of office to be in a position where you are now.

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Good, both of you.

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In that oath was a pledge to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the California Constitution,

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also to represent with the people to the best of your ability.

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In assuming a leadership role you are the guardians of the constituents who have elected you.

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The last two years have awakened us, and we are now paying attention more than ever.

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We are examining those we have elected to serve us and protect our natural rights and shine in the Constitution.

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As a whole, this Board of Supervisors has allowed trespass upon the rights of we the people.

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We have seen zero pushback from our elected leaders, no questioning, no curiosity, and a lot of just following orders.

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Just following orders is not going to be acceptable any longer.

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With the people who hold our elective representatives accountable, we expect independent

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study, scientific data and open debate of information and regards to decisions that

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are made that affect us all.

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I'll tell you, I have done the Freedom of Information Act request for this information from the

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county and from the Health Officer and the Eleanor and the responses, we have no data,

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we have no independent study and we're just following orders. The good news is that today is a new day.

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We have the opportunity to correct our course and safeguard our future. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Robertson.

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Well, I can't say it much better than Mr. Robertson did. My name's Alyssa DeQaug. Also,

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a resident of Santa Cruz County. Mother of three, I also work in the mental health field.

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And to me that's the most important thing and I've just seen over the last two years suicides and overdoses and just more handling of the last two years.

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And I honestly hold you guys as co-centers to that. So I've according to California law, you're required to be bonded as Alex said to hold public office and in case you cause any harm while executing your duties.

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This is a notice of my intent to file a claim against your bond.

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If you do not resign in the next seven days, the paperwork I'm giving you will have all

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the details.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Chair.

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Nice coach.

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You have anyway.

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Very Richard Arnold.

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I know that this county has been really stocied and you can tell by locks on every door.

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is basically a fortress that people can't get information as the person mentioned before.

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You've signed the UN United Nations agenda at 21 packet that was also signed by Sam Far.

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It was Bruce McPherson and Sam Far that had a future's conference in Monterey in which both

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Iranian and the times and afters, labeled the meeting basically a fascist, not like operation.

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They were taking brochures out of people's hands.

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They had the Delphi technique by breaking up the meeting and having so-called leaderships

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from various tables.

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This is developed by Tabastoq in the Rand Corporation.

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This is an intelligence operation to convert and change the self-government to a Soviet.

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That's what Ambegg is.

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Why is in community TV representing the 13 cities and pre-counties called Ambegg?

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Calcog.

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There's not a square inch in the state of California that is covered by a cog, the Council

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of Government, which is no more than a Soviet.

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And we don't know which one of you are supposed to be.

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You don't come back and report from those meetings either.

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This is the most unrepresentative government, the most strong pro-communist government.

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We got two plaques out there on the courthouse steps dedicated to Hudelacy, Chinese Communist

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by four different spy rings.

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Leon Panetta gave him military and policy information. You won't even take that now. It's outrageous. You're the enemy of the people and the sooner they find out, the better. You need to be replaced, no income, what's happening in the schools and in the city councils is under Panetta machine.

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Thank you, Mr. Arnold.

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Good morning, Chair Connick.

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Board members.

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My name is Matt Machado, and Deputy C.A.

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and Director of Community Development Infrastructure.

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This morning, I'd like to thank you for your proclamation.

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This is declaring the week of May 15th through May 21st as Public Works Week in Santa Cruz County.

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This is also a national event.

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And this year's poster is here.

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And the theme this year is ready and resilient.

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It does portray our Public Works professionals as heroes.

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Public Works professionals are always ready to serve their communities and resilience is

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ever in their abilities to pick themselves up when encountering challenges.

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And we have plenty of challenges here in our county.

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So I greatly appreciate your proclamation and awareness this week.

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I'd like to end by thanking our Public Works staff for their caring, their compassion and

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perseverance to do all the good work that they do. Thank you. Thank you, Director Mishado and to all our public works here us.

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All right, so you know on else here in the chambers is there anyone on zoom would like to comment.

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Yes, we do have speakers online as a reminder, it's star nine to raise your hand and star six to mute or unmute yourself.

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And BBM at cruzio.com, your microphone is available.

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Good morning. Can you hear me? Okay.

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Yes. Thank you. I'm Nancy Macy. I live in Boulder Creek where our children grew up as avid visitors and volunteers at the Boulder Creek Library.

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I was honored to be among the many participants who shared ideas and vision brought the library into being.

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Julie Mackie's ceramic art was recognized universally as remarkable, creative and beautifully

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realized. She was among those artists chosen to provide lasting creations to grace the

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new Boulder Creek Library. I shared vision of the community that was intimately involved in

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this design. Her six faces originally among those sketched over weeks of watching people,

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walking, talking, running errands, enjoying the stroll and downtown Boulder Creek.

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Julie loved people, honored humanity, married color, shapes, and cultures. She presented the young woman proud to wear her hand woven beetles as they address, not hiding that she was from Guatemala, not seeking to blend in.

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Black man confident in his work smiling with his cigar, symbolizing that he celebrated life, a young girl adorned in pictures, dress for a party or her picture day at school.

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A happy man with a large mustache eyes sprinkled from his smile, an elderly man, perhaps

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Shinto, expressing wisdom and thought, a smiling grandma in her blue cap.

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Julie's art was created as a display for the library and has been removed after being put

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there in February, being restored to its place.

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It would still be there, had the building been constructed well and not needed renovations.

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It is wonderful, however, having a library back, remodeled with fresh and new spaces.

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Please, return to Lizard, a rendering of the various faces and cultures of those living

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in our Mount Community, a unified work of art made just for that place, the Boulder Creek Community Library.

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Thank you for the opportunity to speak.

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Thank you, Ms. Messy.

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Jen Herrera, your microphone is available.

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Good morning.

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Can you hear me okay?

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Yes.

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Great.

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Thank you.

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My name is Good morning.

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Cherconig and board.

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My name is Jen Herrera.

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I'm one of the assistant directors at HSA.

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I'm here to thank you for this for the county's

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Proclamation celebrating National Nurses Week, which is officially

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from May 6th through 12.

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This year's theme is Nurses Make a Difference.

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As a fellow nurse, specializing in public health today,

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I am representing the Nurse Leadership Team at the Health Services Agency in particular,

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our directors of Nursing and a Sutton-Negiate Butterers in Rotoplank, and I do want to

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do a special shout out to our amazing nurses at Health Services Agency. Human Services Department

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are awesome volunteer medical reserve corps and our well-path partners. So as a nurse, I remember when

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was a nursing school. My professor shared a survey, a patient survey with us, asking the patients,

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what is their top quality that they want in a nurse. And at the time, as a nursing student,

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we all expected, oh, patients want us to be compassionate. But actually, the number one quality

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was competence. Patients want to competent nurse. And what I found over my career as a nurse is

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competence and compassion go hand-in-hand. And when I think about this past year, all the nurses

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in our community have done an amazing job providing direct care, competent and compassionate care

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in our vaccine clinics, home visits, hospitals, doing quality assurance and administration and

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working even at the policy level. And through that work, they really had made a difference.

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Also during nurses, we could also great time to celebrate that we are one part of an amazing health

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chair team, also want to appreciate all of the multidisciplinary team members, like social

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workers, health educators, our own patients that we partner with to do this work.

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So I'm closing thank you so much for this recognition, thank you to our colleagues who

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support nursing care.

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And thank you to all the nurses in Santa Cruz County.

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Thank you, Ms. Rara and all of the competent and compassionate nurses working for the county.

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Elden Charles, your microphone is available.

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Good morning.

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Am I being heard?

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Yes.

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Hello.

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My name is Ellen Charles.

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I used to be a resident of Santa Cruz County.

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I moved a few years ago.

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I do have children that live in that county.

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At least the key.

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I want to be a resident of spoke earlier.

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And I have children that attend school in that county.

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In 1998, I moved from the Caribbean very small island to the US and served in a military for 11 years and as far as, you know, countries go, I thought that the United States was the greatest country at that time.

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I'm starting to second guess those feelings because of what I've seen occur in this place over

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the last two years. This COVID mania and the response of otherwise irrational people has made

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very concerned for the future of my children. I reached out to the Board of Supervisors to express.

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Mike concerns in an email with some demands of some things that I wanted to see with some other parents,

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the mask and other children and so on. Got no response. Followed up that no response. So it seems like the

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only thing that is understood is force and litigious action. So this is a notice that you have

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seven days, all of you, including the health

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Zah over the Gil, New York to design,

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or I'm going to be taking action and finding a claim

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against your bond.

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Let's see how it goes from the end.

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I'm going to be finding a civil lawsuit, as well.

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Good day.

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Thank you, Mr. Charles.

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Do you want your microphone available?

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Thank you, Sheila Delaney.

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I live in Bonnie Dune, former resident of the

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I'm a Boulder Creek Library was designed through a community process nearly 40 years ago.

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Part of the design included works by local artists.

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The feature of our library has always been the six faces that welcome you

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from over the fireplace in the main room.

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The faces were created from composite images of people observed in downtown Boulder Creek

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and made into ceramic masks by Julie Mackie, the artist.

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The masks are members of our community.

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They should remain.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Ms. Doye.

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Evening story?

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Your microphone is available.

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Good morning.

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I hope you all can hear me.

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Good morning, chair, and supervisors.

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I'm Helen Young's story from the Community Action Board

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of Santa Cruz County.

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As you know, cab is the county's designated community action agency tasked with eliminating poverty and creating social change through advocacy and essential services since 1965.

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We're also part of the national network of over a thousand community action agencies across the country who are celebrating community action months this month in May.

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Community Action Month is a time for us to reflect on our mission, our partnerships, our values of equity and inclusion, and the difference we make in the community.

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In 2021, this included serving over 10,000 low-income people, including providing rent assistance to nearly 2,000 people to avoid evictions, food assistance to over 1,000,

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job readiness support and placement assistance to over 500 youth and adults, COVID information

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to over 1300 people, including Indigenous language speakers, and impacting over 100 immigrants

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in their families with immigration legal, education, and advocacy services.

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And we sincerely thank the county for its partnership and its funding support in helping

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have this kind of impact in the community. To celebrate and raise awareness of community

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action month, campus co-sponsoring events, highlighting housing issues, immigrant voices and

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experiences, and claimant resilience in May, have also posted highlight of its work on social media

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on impact Wednesdays weekly during this month. For more information, we encourage everyone to follow

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have on social media, check out our website at cabing.org.

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Thank you so much.

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Thank you, Ms. Story.

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A person, your microphone is available.

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Hi, thank you.

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I am Dalyla Epperson, and I'm a constitutionalist,

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and anybody who has looked, even scanned the Constitution

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can see that the mandates that have been occurring

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for the past few years are unlawful.

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There are no laws for mandates, mask mandates, vaccination mandates, that's why these progressive policies, this legislation like SB 866 is trying to get pushed through so hard, especially this year.

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When we all know that there's a red white and blue wave coming your way.

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I love the other speakers who spoke to the bonds, which you guys are under, I really am looking forward to that because none of the incumbents, none of our representatives stepped forward and said no, the mandates are not right.

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So I want to let you know and I'm actually talking to the people who are listening not the board because I don't believe the board represents us or is listening to the people anymore.

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I want to let you know that I am running also for Congress District 19 and I am a constitutionalist.

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And I love what you guys have been saying against the mandates, against 871, and against AB 2223,

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which I wasn't Sacramento to oppose that.

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So God bless you.

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And I hope to hear from everybody soon.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Ms. Everston.

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Joe, your microphone is available.

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Good morning.

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I'm Joseph Kuchera, a former member of your board.

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I was the board's representative to the Library of JPA when the Boulder Creek Library was designed by the community and also selected the local artwork to be permanently integrated into the building.

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One of the artists selected was Julie Mackie who created six ceramic sculptures of local Boulder Creek residents that have been installed since 1984 and then reinstalled this February as part of the recent renovation.

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I'm here today representing the Mackie family and local community to inform you of the

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unilateral and precipitous actions of the newly hired Santa Cruz Library's director

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to censor and remove the Mackie sculptures just four days before the library's grand reopening.

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A solely on her representation of a supposed anonymous comment by library staff that the sculptures

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We're cultural appropriation, racial stereotyping, and offensive.

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Therefore I urge you to take action to have the Mackie sculptures reinstalled in their

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home of 37 years for the following reasons.

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The censorship is a slippery slope.

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Your district's libraries and other public facilities may be next to suffer the acts of

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an accountable censorship.

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The county is exposed to liability for damages incurred by this censorship without any

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due process or public awareness and lastly to investigate the unprofessional conduct of

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the library director's actions, done in the shadows to unilaterally censor and remove artwork

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from public places.

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Thank you for this opportunity to address you.

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Thank you, Mr. Konshara.

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Call in user 3, your microphone is available.

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The scenic Santa Cruz is by the gate.

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Ocean and I'm going to read something called cell tower is on the ocean floor.

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This is by our third first member of cell phones.

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The author of the book, the invisible rainbow.

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history of electricity and life. It starts out. One blue sky above us, one ocean

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lapping all our shores, one earth, so green and round. Who could ask for more?

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2018 on

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governments, research laboratories, and commercial and military interests

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were collaborating on plans to create smart ocean

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or water things, they did not come

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as hanging by a threat. If the rate and population decline continues, there will be almost no fish

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mountain

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that is also the

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soon production has been burning, but more than one percent.

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There are no further speakers.

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And then we'll move on to item six, action on the consent agenda.

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Any member of the board, which to speak to any member on any item on the consent agenda?

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I'll be very brief.

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Thank you just on three quick items on item 28, just to welcome to Samantha Hartfaren, an outstanding

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local community member who's going to be joining us on the Women's Commission, appreciate

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her willingness to serve.

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On item 37, I was up as was brought up by the speaker on the Chaffa Grant, an enormous

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need, an enormous opportunity for this county to start investing in the exactly this.

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So appreciation for those that South the Grant and appreciation for the board for moving

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that item forward. And the last is on item 48, something an area green valley that I share with

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supervisor Capit, an area that both supervisor Capit and I have prioritized for pedestrian safety over

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last few years, including using some of our measure D and other funding in order to improve

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some of the walkways down there. It's used by disadvantaged community members, used by

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farm workers from as a transport and recreational standpoint, and to have public works apply for

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and successfully obtain a competitive grant to improve pedestrian access in that area for that community

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is really outstanding and appreciation for the CAO's office for their willingness to help

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on the local match that's required as part of this,

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but this is a improving pedestrian safety

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in the South County,

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we'll throughout the county as obviously a priority,

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but to have this access point and green value

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moving forward is visually wonderful,

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so thank you, Mr. Chair.

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Thank you, sir, please provide your friend.

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Supervisor Capit.

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Yeah, thank you.

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Well, I would have 30, I'd like to welcome

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Caesar de Santos as an appointed

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to the Latino Affairs Commission.

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And also on 9.31, I recognize the great work of the Aztecs.

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I use the soccer academy that is helping a lot of the youths in the South

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County.

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The last layup was already mentioned in 37, the grant for $7.6 million for the

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health facility on Freedom Boulevard.

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Watch and we're just going to be a great project and I'm looking forward to saying the work begins.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Supervisor Capit.

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Do you recognize the clarity?

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Sure.

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Thank you, Mr. Chair.

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On item number 29, I want to thank the chair for joining me and for staff for their work and putting the

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applying for the putting task as to work incubator to get some exciting opportunity for us to build on some of the work we've already done and figure out a way to meet the needs of community and generate more resources for the county as institution.

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Item number 31. I want to also thank the Santa Cruz Community Foundation for their support

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of the Aztec Azacra program, such a tremendous program, and it's a great partnership.

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Item number 36, which is providing and creating an evaluation of integrated behavior health services

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and their effectiveness. I just want to add additional direction that whatever the

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evaluation is that it should come back to the board so that we can see the evaluation for ourselves and set policy accordingly.

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And finally, I'd remember 39. I want to thank the Health Services Agency for applying for additional funds for Medicaid assisted treatment.

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that is just critical in addressing the crises that we're seeing on our streets every day.

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And I want to appreciate the efforts to grow and expand the program that this important program

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will provide in our community.

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Thank you, Supervisor Kennedy.

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Thank you, Mr. Chair.

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I wanted to address a couple of issues.

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I don't know, 27, the traffic demand management issue.

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This is a good step toward providing additional incentives for billish to do small and medium

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of size housing projects along transit corridors.

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I look forward to seeing the next iteration of the Sustainable Santa Cruz County planned

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and have a deeper discussion about the TDM measures included in the draft plan.

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And while always told, one who would dress what some of our speakers did on items 367, the behavioral health investments, thank you for the staff for both of these items for consideration.

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They, they really do represent a better critical effort for, to provide behavioral health services and track our outcomes to a higher degree better addressing behavioral health.

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and this county is a critical component to addressing homelessness in our community.

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And I'd like to...

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A question, I don't know if it could be answered right now, but I'd like more information about the nexus between these two items and our overall housing for health strategic plan.

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Specifically, could somebody say some more about the outreach than how they outreach will work for us to reach our participation goals. I think that's going to be important.

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I don't know that it could be answered right now, but would like to take a deeper dive into that.

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In the same vein, item 39, as the behavioral health basis, I'd like this important issue to address one of the most difficult challenges we're facing in Santa Cruz County and really statewide.

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I'm very supportive of doing what we can to expand our treatment options for those folks who are struggling with opioid and other addictions.

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Again, this is a major contributing factor on our homeless problem here, and especially throughout

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the state.

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And it's really co-occurring with the mental health issues that we're facing as well.

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On item 41, the Encampment Management item, I want to acknowledge the county's role in trying

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to address better sheltering options for people experiencing homelessness in our community.

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There are real public health and safety issues that risks that are posed by the bench

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lands and in-campment just outside the county center here, as well as environmental damage

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next to the critical natural resource of the Center and the River.

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I want to thank the City and County staff who have been working on resolving in

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the campus along the River, and still there's a lot of work to do as we all know.

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One question that I do have on that as well as the resources the grant is expected to

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help at least 65 individuals and I just wonder how do you arrive at that number and

453
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is it based on an average cost per person for assistance?

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It's a very costly item that we're going to have to address if we want to

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on some of that. Yes, I'm sure going to get we do have staff available to respond to the questions

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if you'd like to do that right now or I think that's okay with chair. I'm just like

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funding me. Yes. Yeah. The first one on three to the behavioral health investments. You know the

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the next is the overall housing for health strategic plan. Is there anybody to answer some questions

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on that question. Yeah, we have Dr. Ratner, Robert Ratner, if you could elevate him so that he can respond.

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He's on line. Great.

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He's been promoted.

462
00:40:27,740 --> 00:40:30,400
Good morning. Supervisors and supervisor McPherson.

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Thank you for your question. I'm Dr. Robert Ratner. I'm the Director of the Housing Health Division

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and the Human Services Department of the County. And I think your first question was around how the

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health related interventions fitting with our overall approach to addressing homelessness

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and accounting. And our strategic framework really outlines a couple of things that are related

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to what's before the board today. One is that we identify health as a major and health challenges

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as a major contributor to housing stability and challenges that people have getting back into housing.

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So substance use and health issues can really interfere with people's ability to

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to manage the tasks that are required to get into and keep housing.

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So, pain your bills, be in a good neighbor, managing utilities, keeping your room safe and clean.

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Those are all things that require people to have the kind of health support to be successful.

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So, from our perspective and housing for health,

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kind of housing plus the health care services are really critical.

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And the behavioral health supports are outlined in some of the measures today.

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our part of that process. For example, some of the crisis intervention resources when someone has a crisis,

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and they may need to temporary relocate from housing, if there's a facility they can go to and get more

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stability and make so much more likely that they would be able to keep the housing in the absence of those

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kinds of facilities and people are struggling. We see people who lose their housing as a result of

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I'm unable to pay rent or behavioral issues that can interfere with their tendency.

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I think your second question was related to the cost of the interventions, and I think

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it is surprising to a lot of members of the public how expensive some of the housing-related

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interventions are for folks experiencing homelessness in California, and that's really a

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byproduct of how expensive it is to live in our communities, so the fair market rent for

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studio apartment in Santa Cruz County, which is ahead of established standard is over $2,000

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00:42:31,220 --> 00:42:36,540
a month. So when you're trying to help people get back into housing with temporary sensitivities

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or ongoing sensitivities, just eight months of rental support in the studio, it could be up to $16,000.

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And then that cost of services is also something that I think a lot of people are not aware of,

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I appreciate that you're raising it, but to have integrated in field based services where we're paying staff reasonable wages so they can afford to live in our community and as well be really effective and supported in their work with folks who are struggling with behavioral issues we need to pay people adequately.

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So I think that overall cost and the proposal reflects that doing this work requires deep ongoing investments to really make changes.

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One thing I would say is that we're partnering with the Behavioral Health Department,

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we're going to human services department,

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and they're healing the streets grant as well as with the Central California Alliance for Health,

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on their Medicare reform.

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So I think with our Enchiment, Resolution, Proposal,

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I'm hoping we can direct more of them many towards some of those housing-related costs.

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They will help people get back into housing,

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and we can use some of those other sources for some of the services cost.

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And I don't know if that answers your question, but not be to clarify.

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Yeah, I think it does, just the complexity and the costly nature of trying to resolve

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the homeless problem here and throughout the state and throughout the nation is just unbelievable

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and some of the eyes of many and myself included.

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But I think that the fact that we do have a strategic plan and we're trying to get there

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quickly as we can to address the homeless situation in our county. I do thank you for your

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explanation. It's a tough problem to resolve at very quickly and it's going to be very costly

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and I think that gives a better explanation of just how we're moving on it and how costly it really

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is and Santa Cruz County in particular. So thank you Mr. Redner. Thank you.

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I'll just make a couple brief comments on item 27.

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I want to thank Supervisor McSirif Pearson and the planning department for discussing potential additional amendments for the transportation demand managed.

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The program is sustainability update. The environmental impact report, the draft that has come out identified vehicle miles traveled is the most significant potential impact of the sustainability update and hopefully these improvements to the transportation and management program, adding additional incentives and creating a funding program for Metro will help to address that. So afford to the next draft on that.

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I'm 29. I also want to thank supervisor Kennedy for bringing this to my attention and I think this application for putting assets to work the incubator program.

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We really help us leverage our county real estate assets to build the housing that is so desperately needed in our community as Dr. Rattner was just saying and I think we're well positioned to receive to be accepted into the program.

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Thanks to the long-range facilities plan that we prepared with Gensler and approved last year.

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00:45:54,800 --> 00:46:00,160
Also, I'm certainly, I agree with item 37 that this 7.6 million for construction of the children's crisis

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civilization program at the Freedom Health Campus is going to be a huge win for our community.

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I'm aware that they recently did this in Monterey and it's working incredibly well.

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00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:14,020
The challenge is that they still don't have enough room and hopefully also the support of an adult crisis

518
00:46:14,020 --> 00:46:17,480
Center at Harbor Vet Building. Well, I help to address the issues.

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00:46:19,890 --> 00:46:22,350
Well, on item 41, I want to thank

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the Human Services Department and Housing for Health Division for quickly applying for

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00:46:27,690 --> 00:46:33,050
the state resources, and it's fantastic that we've received 2.37 million dollars for a

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campaign cleanup. Hopefully working with the City of Santa Cruz, we can be good partners on this,

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00:46:38,390 --> 00:46:44,950
and leveraging all the funds for various parts of addressing homelessness and campaign cleanup as

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Dr. Rattner, just explained.

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Also item 43, approving $350,000 for new modular building

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for the sobering center.

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This is much needed resource in our community.

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And it'll be good to get that back.

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And finally, on item 51, proving road closure

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for the pleasure point street fair on June 25th,

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it's just a great to see more in-person events coming back

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and hope to see you all at the street fair on June 25th.

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00:47:11,670 --> 00:47:12,310
Thank you.

534
00:47:12,310 --> 00:47:15,370
Are there, is there a motion on the consent agenda?

535
00:47:16,090 --> 00:47:19,530
We'll remove we approve the extended agenda.

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00:47:19,830 --> 00:47:24,870
We'll also look at, and that's as amended, correct?

537
00:47:25,010 --> 00:47:25,890
Correct, yes.

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00:47:26,890 --> 00:47:28,730
A motion by supervisor McShererson.

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00:47:28,750 --> 00:47:30,930
There's definitely consent agenda with amendments

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proposed by supervisor punerty and seconded by supervisor

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capa, any further discussion?

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Seeing none, we'll call that, please.

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Supervisor Friend.

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00:47:40,790 --> 00:47:41,630
Aye.

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Coonerty?

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00:47:43,430 --> 00:47:43,630
Aye.

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00:47:44,250 --> 00:47:44,570
Rapid?

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00:47:45,490 --> 00:47:45,830
Aye.

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00:47:46,330 --> 00:47:46,830
McPherson?

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Aye.

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00:47:48,050 --> 00:47:48,470
Coonerty?

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00:47:48,790 --> 00:47:49,010
Aye.

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That item passes unanimously.

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00:47:51,590 --> 00:47:51,710
Right.

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The consent agenda of being passed with amendments will proceed to item 7, presentation

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by Brian Largay, the Land Trust Director of Conservation.

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On plans for community harvest trails at Watsonville's Blue Farm,

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as outlined in memorandum with the County Minister of Officer.

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Mr. Largay?

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00:48:07,570 --> 00:48:12,990
Thank you very much, Chair Connick, and thank you Board of Supervisors for allowing me to speak with you today.

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I just do whatever mark that I am so grateful for your service seeing the consent agenda

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reminds me what critical matters you're addressing, and I'm grateful for your leadership, so thank you.

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I'm here today to speak about the Land Trust of Santa Cruz County and some of our programs,

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And I have a slide presentation and I'll just say next slide is we make our way through it if that sounds good.

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Thank you.

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Next slide.

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The Land Trust of Santa Cruz County was established in 1978.

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We're a nonprofit organization serving all of Santa Cruz County.

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And our mission is to protect care for and connect people with the places that make this area special.

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And Santa Cruz County is a spectacular area.

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that we are so blessed to live here.

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We'll be talking today about the Watsonville slew farms

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down in the Placro Valley,

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which is the top left picture here.

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Bottom left is from the Glenwood Preserve,

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where in Scotts Valley we manage endangered species

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habitat, cattle grazing and recreational trails.

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00:49:23,890 --> 00:49:26,590
The bottom center images of the Santa Cruz Sand Hills,

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which we manage for groundwater recharge

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in dangerous species habitat and sustainable fire management projects.

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And the bottom right is our burn, milion forest in Coralitos where we manage watershed protection,

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sustainable timber harvest and recreational trails.

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Next slide, please.

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Our toolkit is that we protect and manage land and by protect that means we engage in real estate

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transactions and put in conferences such as conservation easements on land that prevent further

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development. We're involved in about 16,000 acres around Santa Cruz County and a couple

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may bring counties. And we also accomplish what we do through partnerships. We collaborate extensively

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with agencies at the state federal and local level regional level as well as other non-profits

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and businesses in the area.

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Next slide.

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Recently, some of our work has included the highway 17 tunnel construction of that.

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Just got underway a couple weeks ago.

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We're building trails at San Vicente Redwoods, which should open this fall up in Bonnie

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Dune.

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Our trails at Glenwood are full of recreational visitors.

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We have about 100,000 people a year hiking on those trails.

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The wildflowers are still blooming.

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if you need some exercise up there, and we're a fundraising champion for the rail trail trying

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to get that built as soon as possible, and we're launching a new initiative down a long

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highway 101 to connect the Santa Cruz Mountains with the rest of the state of California

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with a wildlife crossing over highway 101. Next slide.

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So today I'm here to introduce a new project to you at the Watsonville SLU farm.

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We're calling the Project Community Harvest and this is an invitation to the community to

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harvest and joy healthy food together while learning about agriculture and nature thriving

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side by side. And this is gets at one of our key themes where we try to make land, manage land,

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protect land to achieve multiple benefits, and in this case, it's vibrant habitat and healthy

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food next to each other next slide.

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So this property is located up Highway 1 between the City of Watsonville and Monterey Bay.

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It's quite close to the Pocro Valley school.

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Here in the slide, it's encompassed in a white line in circling where you can see are

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farm fields and then some wetlands lining through the middle of the property next up.

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This property produces vegetables and berries on 240 acres.

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The Parkrow Valley farmland is astonishingly productive this week.

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00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:40,540
On property produces 90,000 servings of vegetables and berries a day, that's thinking a little bit.

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The value of that produces $3 million a year. It supports about 100 jobs.

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It also has extensive habitat areas. It's 248 acres of wetlands and grasslands, 200 species of birds have been observed there.

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listed that is special status for odds and turtles, secure on the property, and one of the

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00:53:00,860 --> 00:53:09,380
exciting things is that this property does both together. It's not one or the other. Next slide,

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please.

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The project was the result of an extensive partnership involving 11 different agencies

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and organizations shown here in 2011, it received a Presidential Award for Coastal Partnerships,

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And we're grateful to our all of our partners, we collaborate with them still to get the work done there.

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Next slide.

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The Community Harvest Project is the result of extensive outreach to the community.

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We had about 24 different tours of the property, several webinars.

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We posted flyers and notices in all the local grocery stores and beauty salons.

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that neighborhood churches around the project area, we reached out to Pocro Valley High School

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and surrounding areas. And we are focused on food because what we discovered is a great

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interest in the farm production there and access to healthy food. About 90% of Pocro Valley

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High School families suffer from food insecurity. And with the upcoming construction of the

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down to this property. It's about a half mile from the city. Next slide, please.

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So the goals

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are to provide public access to healthy food at Watsonville, Slu Farm to predict the

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vibrant agricultural operations there and the natural resources and involve the community

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00:54:48,650 --> 00:54:57,270
in planning. Next slide, please. Here's a close-up of the Lee Road entrance. That's Lee Road

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in the foreground, and you can see a finger of the slew surrounded by these are woodshifts

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we laid down to suppress weeds.

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This photo is taken about a year ago, and the idea is to have a gateway at this entrance

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that will provide consumer harvest facilities and demonstration of sustainable agriculture

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in action.

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Next slide.

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It was by community harvest we need food.

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There will be harvest areas where people can pick produce.

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It will be free.

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We anticipate partnerships and subsidies from our least revenue to pay for the production.

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There will be technical areas in restaurants to enjoy the food.

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Stations to wash and prep produce.

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We're currently collaborating with Esperanza community farms.

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of a prominent local nonprofit that produces CSA community supported agriculture boxes for

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00:55:54,410 --> 00:55:59,690
limited resource families in the area. They operate land on site and this is an example

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of their recent harvest. I will also have a farm stand where growers who operate on our

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00:56:05,270 --> 00:56:09,250
property could sell their produce if they so choose. Next slide.

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We're also looking at demonstrating

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thriving nature side by side with agriculture, including the trails, boardwalks and

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00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:22,860
forms and remodel of our barn, which we just started looking at recently.

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Next slide, please.

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The current status of the project is that we're still in the design phase.

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We haven't yet submitted to the county.

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The property is zone commercial agriculture.

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The regulatory compliance approach, with regard to that zoning.

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It will be considered that consumer harvest is a principle permitted use.

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And the goal is to establish a concept design

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up the next couple of months and submit

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for regulatory review this summer.

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Next slide, please.

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The timeline is that we hope to go into construction next year

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in 2023, open to the public in 2024.

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We anticipate operating costs of about $100,000 a year.

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The land trust secures about $300,000 a year

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from the least revenue of the agricultural operations on the property.

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And so achieving that operating cost is that should be within our means.

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We hope to add boardwalks and extra wildlife engagement,

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the viewing platforms and whatnot in 2025,

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and then perhaps at the barn remodel if we go there in 2028.

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Next slide.

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So our next steps are to finalize the concept design, launch county review, continue to advocate and support and so far as we can by securing funding for the Leerode Trail, which is this connection between the city of Watsonville and goes right by the property.

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We hope the bridge part of the Lero Trail may eventually be supported that would connect the property and property high school all the way to downtown, which was be fantastic.

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And we're doing a lot of grant writing.

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We actually have a tour in just two weeks with the state parks.

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There you've we've made the next round for a $3 million grant for funding, which we're optimistic about.

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Next slide, please.

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So, excuse me, that's it. Yes, your questions and comments that you have, we're open to suggestions.

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I'd love to get insight into how to do this better, but we're also happy to answer questions.

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Thank you, Director Lager. Are there questions or comments from members of the board?

685
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Yes, I appreciate the opportunity, and I appreciate the board's willingness to have this presentation.

686
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:58,360
I'd ask the land trust to daylight this because, I mean, let me first say that if you haven't

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00:58:58,360 --> 00:59:03,360
been to the property, it is one of the most stunning properties in all Santa Cruz County in

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an absolute hidden gem in South County to be able to open it up for access for the South County

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community, both with its heritage on the agricultural side but to have nature within walking distance

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to have that extent of open space and unspoiled open space. This will quickly become a real

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treasure in South County, especially given the lack of accessible parks and open spaces throughout

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00:59:29,780 --> 00:59:30,860
the South County area.

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I think that this is going to feel an enormous need and also present a life lab and learning

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opportunity for members of the community.

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I had the privilege of touring at last year with Mr. Blasioz as well and members of my staff.

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We are fully supportive of the application as it comes forward to the county.

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And I know that Mr. Plastios has also been working on this all the way since measure you

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of 20 years ago.

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Mr. Plastios.

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01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:03,060
Imagine you have a few words you'd like to say as well. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr.

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01:00:03,180 --> 01:00:06,000
Laura Gay. This is a very, very exciting project.

702
01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:07,960
Thank you, Supervisor Friend.

703
01:00:09,040 --> 01:00:12,140
Yes. Thank you, Jack Honig, members of the board. Just want to give a little bit

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of history on this project. This project is a famous type property. Of course, if you go back,

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01:00:20,080 --> 01:00:25,940
it was actually slated for development in the 1994 Watsonville General Plan.

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01:00:25,940 --> 01:00:29,980
And there were, it was proposed for housing and other other things.

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And there was a big, lots of fighting over that.

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The fighting was resolved in 2002

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with the passage of measure you and other negotiations regarding

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01:00:40,920 --> 01:00:43,220
the establishment of part of high school.

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So at that time, the city of Watsonville,

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the County of Santa Cruz and the Coastal Commission entered

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into a historic agreement to set aside this property

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01:00:54,980 --> 01:00:58,420
from development to protect it from development as open space.

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So that is 2002, and the promise was made at that time to the city and the county that

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the land would be made available to the public for open space and for recreation and other

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01:01:11,520 --> 01:01:11,860
things.

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So this is a great moment for us and we really appreciate it.

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Thank you to the land trust and we really want to be supportive because I know the community

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01:01:20,100 --> 01:01:24,680
needs open space and in the whole county, but especially in South County, there's a

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of open space, the lack of trails, the lack of recreation areas, and so the ability to see this

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01:01:30,260 --> 01:01:33,920
and stunning and beautiful property that has been preserved for future generations.

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But to take advantage of it for hiking and learning about environmental issues is all

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01:01:40,380 --> 01:01:44,120
very, very important. And so we really support it. And thank you for the interest. And we are here

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01:01:44,120 --> 01:01:53,360
to support you in any way to make this happen. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you,

726
01:01:53,360 --> 01:02:01,720
I want to thank you, Brian, for your presentation, and thank Carlos Policios and Supervisor

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01:02:01,720 --> 01:02:05,380
Friend for all the work they've done.

728
01:02:06,580 --> 01:02:13,460
It's exciting to see more open space and the public able to go in there and use it for South

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01:02:13,460 --> 01:02:14,100
County.

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01:02:15,160 --> 01:02:16,860
It's just a wonderful project.

731
01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:18,280
Thank you.

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01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:19,780
Thank you, Supervisor Capit.

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Supervisor McPherson.

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01:02:21,560 --> 01:02:25,760
I just want to acknowledge, and I agree with everything that's

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01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:29,600
who provides just friend and capit of said, I just want to say

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to the Land Trust of Santa Cruz County.

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Thank heavens you got here 44 years ago.

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Because what you have done the past 44 years is amazing,

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not the least of which recently was just the

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01:02:40,580 --> 01:02:42,940
participate in very heavily in the wildlife crossing

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01:02:42,940 --> 01:02:46,420
in the Highway 17 at the Laurel Curve.

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What you have done throughout this county is

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It makes it better for everyone and every segment of this county.

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01:02:53,720 --> 01:03:02,200
So thank you for everything you've done in the past and as you can see in your presentation at the public and see these things take time.

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01:03:02,820 --> 01:03:08,520
And you have years of 20,000 to 25 and 28,000, but that's what's needed to get these things done.

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It takes time, but you've had you've had tremendous success in the past and have a great vision for the future.

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01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:18,100
So I really thanks the Land Trust of Santa Cruz County. Thank you.

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01:03:19,380 --> 01:03:41,780
And I just want to add my voice to the sport of the land trust and Mr. Lorgay is specifically in their ability to work with communities and make sure that their good neighbors in building these projects all the projects that the land trust and Mr. Lorgay have been involved with in my district.

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01:03:41,780 --> 01:03:49,620
a fantastic job of reaching out and hearing concerns, building, addressing them, building them into the

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01:03:49,620 --> 01:03:56,480
park process and making sure that we keep accessibility and preservation of our environment at the

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01:03:56,480 --> 01:04:02,840
forefront. And so this is just another example that I want to just take a moment to appreciate that particular

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01:04:02,840 --> 01:04:10,320
skill, which is often not recognized but incredibly important on projects like this. Thank you,

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01:04:10,320 --> 01:04:15,300
provider community. I'll just have that I had one opportunity to go off to the

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01:04:15,300 --> 01:04:20,540
Sloofarm property. It is truly breathtaking. And yet I had no idea that it was as large

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01:04:20,540 --> 01:04:25,540
as it is. So looking forward to it being open to the general public and to being explore

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01:04:25,540 --> 01:04:31,700
not all 480 acres because I know a lot of that is slew at least more of it. So thank you very much.

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01:04:32,880 --> 01:04:37,680
I'll open it to members of the public. If anyone here in the chambers would wish to address this on

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01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:39,820
I see none.

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01:04:40,120 --> 01:04:42,020
Is there anyone on Zoom who wishes to.

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01:04:42,220 --> 01:04:44,140
Because we do have one speaker.

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Call a user three.

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01:05:14,640 --> 01:05:15,580
Your microphone is available.

763
01:05:22,160 --> 01:05:24,380
Thank you for the presentation.

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01:05:25,540 --> 01:05:28,800
Having lived in the county for 40 years.

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01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:31,100
And 20 of those years.

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Being a public school teacher.

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01:05:34,560 --> 01:05:36,060
And Watsonville.

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01:05:36,680 --> 01:05:38,580
Farming is very.

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Near to my heart.

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01:05:40,660 --> 01:05:49,320
especially organic farming and ecological farming and make a brief statement and I have

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01:05:49,320 --> 01:06:01,180
a we had a group of teachers and community members parents called farm without farm because

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01:06:01,180 --> 01:06:03,340
we advocated for

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01:06:15,880 --> 01:06:21,880
lives are not used and there's organic and ecological farming. I would have

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01:06:21,880 --> 01:06:27,220
to take my children in from the playground and

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01:06:54,230 --> 01:06:54,850
in the house

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to the

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public.

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Speaker for this item. Thank you. Then I'll return to the board and this is an informational item only.

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01:07:37,280 --> 01:07:42,380
So if there's enough for their comments, so one more, thank you, Dr. Largé, for the presentation today.

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01:07:43,840 --> 01:07:49,500
Right. Well, thank you very much. It's an honor to present before you. And thank you for all the kind words.

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01:07:50,040 --> 01:07:55,880
In case it wasn't clear that the farm in question, the Watsonville sleigh farm is an organic farm image.

782
01:07:55,880 --> 01:08:00,600
As long as people stay away from the tractors, it should be quite safe for visitors.

783
01:08:01,620 --> 01:08:02,120
Thank you.

784
01:08:02,340 --> 01:08:02,540
Fantastic.

785
01:08:02,680 --> 01:08:04,740
Thank you very much.

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01:08:05,580 --> 01:08:10,360
Flenoppercy to item eight, a presentation on the county's online budget platform.

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To accept in file the 2022 2023 county proposed budget to be considered during budget hearings.

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Except the tentative budget hearing schedule schedule June 21, 2022 as the date of the budget hearings will begin.

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Schedule a public hearing on June 28th, 2022 to consider amendments to the county's unified

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01:08:29,140 --> 01:08:33,200
fees schedule and take related actions as outlined in a memorandum of the county administrative

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01:08:33,200 --> 01:08:38,640
officer. The first presentation, we have our county budget director, Marcus Pimentel, and Sven's

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01:08:38,640 --> 01:08:44,730
Stafford. I believe your microphone is off there, Mr. Pimentel.

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01:08:46,230 --> 01:08:48,090
But you're the first presenter.

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01:08:50,170 --> 01:08:50,650
Thank you, Min.

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01:08:52,860 --> 01:09:00,400
a good morning, Chair Cohen, a good Board of Supervisors, annually, my Air.

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I am proud to present to you today our new online budget for the county's hand

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01:09:07,680 --> 01:09:09,580
careers proposed 2223.

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But before I jump into that, today's presentation is about navigating through the budget itself.

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included in the board packet are more details about the proposed budget that will be

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01:09:23,280 --> 01:09:30,760
conducted in deep and spirited budget hearings in later in June. So today we just want to

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01:09:30,760 --> 01:09:36,080
navigate you and orientate the public about our online budget. Before jumping into that, I am here

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01:09:36,080 --> 01:09:42,820
with our Principal Administrative Analyst, a send staffer who really led this project and did a

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01:09:42,820 --> 01:09:48,780
beautiful job and envisioning how we can integrate the county's budget with our strategic plan to

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01:09:48,780 --> 01:09:54,920
align our decision-making and what we fund to how we get it done. This project wouldn't have

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01:09:54,920 --> 01:10:00,400
been as successful as it already is, also without the partnership of many county players,

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01:10:00,800 --> 01:10:07,520
county council, many members of our CO team, but in particular our ISD department, Tammy Weigold,

807
01:10:07,520 --> 01:10:13,960
who's here today is our ISD director, and two of their staff, Tom Milkelnian, and John

808
01:10:14,740 --> 01:10:20,580
Young were instrumental in designing this, custom designing this to fit our needs, and when

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01:10:20,580 --> 01:10:25,740
we envision what an online budget could be, we far surpassed that already in your one of

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01:10:25,740 --> 01:10:31,460
this first versions, so we're really excited about that. The goal of this project was to unite

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01:10:31,460 --> 01:10:36,000
our budget policy, how we fund things to our strategic plan, but it's also to build trust,

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01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:41,200
confidence and accountability into the budget process, being able to see within a department's budget,

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01:10:42,120 --> 01:10:46,440
they're emerging issues, their links to their strategic plan, their commitments to the operational

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01:10:46,440 --> 01:10:52,960
objectives, and they're just simplified the counties budget process, moving from a proposed document

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01:10:53,680 --> 01:11:00,900
to a supplemental document, to a concluding document, to a adopted document that really does

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01:11:00,900 --> 01:11:09,100
It does ingest us into having a process that's clear and articulate in one space you can see the whole decision process.

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01:11:09,860 --> 01:11:15,960
So this year we do have a small print of version. We have a budget and brief that is meant to be a transitional document.

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01:11:15,960 --> 01:11:26,760
It's a download a PDF, 318 pages that offers the ability to see the key components of the budget in a printable downloadable form with that.

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I want to jump over to our website.

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01:11:28,540 --> 01:11:34,580
Thank you, and this is our proposed 2223 budget website.

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It lives within this strategic plan that's Vision Santa Cruz County,

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and within the budget

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01:11:46,510 --> 01:11:49,770
website it begins with, how do I use this website?

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01:11:50,030 --> 01:11:55,850
So we thought we'd put prominently right below the header, the header, some navigation tips,

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01:11:55,930 --> 01:12:03,190
including an instructional video on key elements to better understand and move quickly around

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01:12:03,190 --> 01:12:09,050
website and get the key content our community needs. We also have navigation tips. We have reference

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01:12:09,050 --> 01:12:17,270
manuals. We have glossaries. Government is fearful of a lot of large words and often complicated

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01:12:18,410 --> 01:12:25,250
information. So we have a very in-depth glossary to help orientate any of our users to that.

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I want to move over into our economic outlook and financial summary section of the website.

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01:12:29,450 --> 01:12:36,790
But that's grouped into some main components and this is a great starting spot for anybody in our community.

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We've offered a more robust economic outlook for that recaps our national economy, our state economy and what's going on here locally.

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We've been able to, we've referred to our data-share Santa Cruz content that's also rich out there in the communities.

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01:12:53,350 --> 01:12:58,550
we're trying to bring in all these data sources and resources into one site and allow them to be

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01:12:58,550 --> 01:13:03,930
interconnected. Within this section is also our financial summary. This is specific to the county

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01:13:03,930 --> 01:13:10,090
Santa Cruz. This is about our proposed budget and it offers the users a glimpse of our forecast for

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01:13:10,090 --> 01:13:16,730
the coming year. Some major highlights of our funding status by funds and more resources about our

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01:13:16,730 --> 01:13:22,970
spending trends or revenue trends is just a meant to be a really nice convinced way to get

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01:13:22,970 --> 01:13:27,390
a quick summary of what's going on in our budget. There's also much more information in

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01:13:27,390 --> 01:13:32,730
there about a personnel. You can see our line out in detail of our proposed budget and a

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01:13:32,730 --> 01:13:37,030
very interactive desk that we're scheduled where you can click a particular debt issue and

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01:13:37,030 --> 01:13:42,730
understand how long it is and when it when it would be paid off. There's also a wonderful

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01:13:42,730 --> 01:13:48,470
section we're very excited about in what the county does. So within the section there's five different options,

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01:13:49,130 --> 01:13:55,770
and one of them is your tax dollars at work. Thank you, Sven. So we begin with the section,

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illustrating a narrative of when we drill down late into 2021 and really looked at our funding structure.

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01:14:04,810 --> 01:14:10,250
We noticed a trend in that our particular county is very unique in the sense that we're systematically

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01:14:10,250 --> 01:14:14,050
underfunded as compared to our county peers and peers across the state.

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01:14:14,870 --> 01:14:19,750
What this chart illustrates is, in the top left quadrant of Santa Clara County, they receive

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01:14:19,750 --> 01:14:25,810
the highest per capita sales tax and property tax in the state and serve the lowest population

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01:14:25,810 --> 01:14:26,490
in the state.

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01:14:26,530 --> 01:14:31,130
They serve about 4% of the county population contrast that with the Santa Cruz County, we serve

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01:14:31,130 --> 01:14:37,850
half of our population, 50% and that are much reduced rate when we look at our peers, we're

852
01:14:38,670 --> 01:14:44,710
10th of our funding on property tax with our peers and about half of our property tax

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01:14:44,710 --> 01:14:49,170
ourselves tax with our peers. So we're just systematically underfunded. It's a nature of

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01:14:49,170 --> 01:14:56,010
how property taxes were allocated in the 1970 property and many of the changes that have

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01:14:56,010 --> 01:14:59,830
and over the last five decades, there's also a tool.

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01:15:00,430 --> 01:15:06,510
And how to seek property tax, we've often thought about, or talked about how few dollars we get out of

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01:15:06,510 --> 01:15:13,290
a property tax, we get about 13% of every property tax to all pay. And what we now have is a ability to feel deeper into that.

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01:15:13,550 --> 01:15:19,510
And for one example, you can look in this chart and you see of every thousand dollars in property tax, five hundred sixty eight,

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01:15:19,510 --> 01:15:25,290
those to our local county schools, which is fantastic. Now you have the ability to drill into that and see those allegations within those schools,

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01:15:25,290 --> 01:15:27,990
to see how it's spread throughout the county by schools.

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01:15:28,490 --> 01:15:30,430
Those just weren't trying to offer more rich content

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01:15:30,430 --> 01:15:31,550
wherever we can.

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And this for a very first online website with that.

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I want to turn it over to Sven, who will talk a little bit

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01:15:41,160 --> 01:15:42,340
about county services.

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And then I'll come back with some concluding comments,

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and we'll be available for questions.

868
01:15:49,380 --> 01:15:49,820
Thank you, Monica.

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01:15:50,080 --> 01:15:50,980
This is Good Morning, Board.

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01:15:52,280 --> 01:16:04,620
As Marcus said, we provide some educational tools, some narratives for how to start thinking about how we spend a billion dollars every year at the county.

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01:16:05,840 --> 01:16:12,040
One of the nice features in this website is our new county services page.

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01:16:12,040 --> 01:16:20,940
Again, in partnership with ISD and specifically our GIS team, we are able to build this county services page.

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01:16:21,380 --> 01:16:31,500
So you can users can search for their address, if they use our current location.

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01:16:33,080 --> 01:16:37,140
Now, really, what do you mind, type in in 701 Ocean Street?

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01:16:37,140 --> 01:16:37,860
So we

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01:16:45,220 --> 01:16:53,580
can use our current location, and it will bring up a link to the supervisor, which

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01:16:53,580 --> 01:16:59,020
will be supervisor coonerty, and also a link to the jurisdiction that provides municipal

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01:16:59,020 --> 01:16:59,700
services.

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01:17:00,000 --> 01:17:07,760
So in this case, it would be the city of Santa Cruz, and so we provide that information,

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01:17:07,760 --> 01:17:15,800
And there are other links and access to services that are provided on that view.

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01:17:17,120 --> 01:17:21,980
And so there are just a lot of different things that people can look up and find out about

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01:17:21,980 --> 01:17:25,280
how services are provided where they live.

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01:17:27,740 --> 01:17:34,460
And so the other piece that we've tried to do is we provide a narrative, but if people want

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01:17:34,460 --> 01:17:42,400
find out, you know, the specific things that they care about, they can find that within the

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01:17:42,400 --> 01:17:48,540
department budgets and I'll just provide a brief example of how we've done this by looking at

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01:17:49,220 --> 01:17:53,220
our newly combined community development and infrastructure department.

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01:17:55,760 --> 01:17:56,840
And so as Mark has said,

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01:17:56,980 --> 01:18:06,220
one of the things we were really trying to do with this new website was link the budgets and

889
01:18:06,220 --> 01:18:12,640
strategic and operational plans, which really means connecting the budget to the county's major

890
01:18:12,640 --> 01:18:19,120
work and connecting the budget to the impact that we're trying to have in people's lives to

891
01:18:19,120 --> 01:18:25,380
make them better. And so for each department, we've provided a mission statement department.

892
01:18:26,060 --> 01:18:34,140
In this case, we've provided a overview for the new department and org chart. It has, you know,

893
01:18:34,140 --> 01:18:40,020
general information about the total expenses revenues, general fund contribution and staffing.

894
01:18:41,380 --> 01:18:49,640
And then it provides a basic sort of organizational chart of how the department is organized.

895
01:18:50,120 --> 01:18:56,020
So we can see we have transportation, and I'm going to focus a little on community planning.

896
01:18:56,540 --> 01:18:57,960
I apologize for that.

897
01:18:57,960 --> 01:19:05,360
So within our Permit Center, you can see we have expenses of $7.8 million, funded staffing

898
01:19:05,360 --> 01:19:13,560
of $47.5 staff, and then operational plan objectives related to the creation of a

899
01:19:13,560 --> 01:19:24,580
permit dashboard, the creation of a green lining pilot, and then the creation of the unified

900
01:19:24,580 --> 01:19:34,220
objectives designed to improve people's experience in the planning permit center. You can see,

901
01:19:34,240 --> 01:19:38,960
if you click into the service, it provides a brief overview of what it does and some of the

902
01:19:38,960 --> 01:19:46,400
emerging issues around the creation of the permit center staff support to improve services.

903
01:19:47,140 --> 01:19:53,880
And then again, I'll link to the planning dashboard that was created and presented to the board

904
01:19:53,880 --> 01:19:55,040
in January,

905
01:19:57,180 --> 01:20:04,320
you can also put into these objectives and see their progress, their length

906
01:20:04,320 --> 01:20:06,420
from the operational plan site.

907
01:20:07,780 --> 01:20:13,100
And so as you flip through the different services, the objectives come in and out, and

908
01:20:13,100 --> 01:20:21,080
you get in different views of each service for those that want to dive even deeper, their

909
01:20:21,080 --> 01:20:23,700
options up here in budget dashboards,

910
01:20:23,980 --> 01:20:26,540
detailed budget details, and personnel details,

911
01:20:27,520 --> 01:20:28,820
and the budget dashboards.

912
01:20:29,160 --> 01:20:34,720
You can see that we've provided a view of expenses by service.

913
01:20:34,900 --> 01:20:37,880
So again, if we wanted to look at within community planning,

914
01:20:38,060 --> 01:20:41,160
which is about 7.8% of the total department,

915
01:20:42,240 --> 01:20:46,840
we can see that here, the permit center is about 47%

916
01:20:46,840 --> 01:20:54,020
of that department of that services or that division's expenditures, so it gives you a little

917
01:20:54,020 --> 01:21:01,180
bit of a view into how that money is allocated. You can also see those views over time by switching

918
01:21:01,180 --> 01:21:09,460
to a bar graph or to a line graph or if you want to see it in our transparency portal, you can

919
01:21:09,460 --> 01:21:15,440
create all these use or all the way down to the object code

920
01:21:15,440 --> 01:21:21,660
of our budget for folks who are a little more traditional

921
01:21:21,660 --> 01:21:23,600
and want just the numbers.

922
01:21:24,000 --> 01:21:26,260
We do provide that as well in the budget detail.

923
01:21:27,640 --> 01:21:31,000
Here again, you can sort by division.

924
01:21:31,340 --> 01:21:33,380
So if we wanted to look at community planning

925
01:21:33,380 --> 01:21:37,280
and then just the Permit Center, we can do that.

926
01:21:37,280 --> 01:21:47,180
We can see the expenditures in a traditional three-year layout with actuals, the current year budget, and the proposed budget, and then also the changes.

927
01:21:47,700 --> 01:22:04,700
And so you can see that there are expenditures, revenues, the fund contributions, and then at the bottom the description of changes, where we talk about staffing changes, changes to contract changes to fees, et cetera.

928
01:22:04,700 --> 01:22:05,020
And

929
01:22:07,610 --> 01:22:13,670
we also provide personnel details for each department and here again you can see

930
01:22:15,310 --> 01:22:22,910
staffing and so if we click just into the Permit Center, we can see that 47.5 proposed

931
01:22:22,910 --> 01:22:29,970
funds funded staffing and you can see exactly what those classifications are and so what

932
01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:37,880
People are doing what staff are actually providing the service. So that's a brief, it's a brief tour. I would

933
01:22:37,880 --> 01:22:45,880
encourage folks to use the help pages. There's also an option to email us at budget that Santa

934
01:22:45,880 --> 01:22:51,980
Cruz County.us for folks that want to provide additional feedback and help us make the site better.

935
01:22:51,980 --> 01:23:09,640
We're really open to that as Marcus said, this is our first attempt at doing a really, you know, a really developed online budget. And so, you know, we hope to, we hope to be able to build office and improve as we go forward. And I'll turn it back to Marcus. Thank you.

936
01:23:13,340 --> 01:23:16,800
I'll conclude with, I showed before,

937
01:23:17,060 --> 01:23:21,400
our prior versions of the budget are downloadable PDF of our budget and brief.

938
01:23:22,180 --> 01:23:25,260
This website is now interactive across all devices,

939
01:23:25,300 --> 01:23:27,780
I'll platform so you can view it on your mobile phone.

940
01:23:28,520 --> 01:23:32,000
It navigates very seamlessly, easily would drop down menus.

941
01:23:32,560 --> 01:23:33,040
That's been mentioned.

942
01:23:33,200 --> 01:23:38,000
There's a contact us on the website or any mobile device or any device

943
01:23:38,000 --> 01:23:42,040
of all, and you can engage your information, your name, and that comes to us to a routing

944
01:23:42,040 --> 01:23:42,440
treat.

945
01:23:42,820 --> 01:23:46,960
So we're pretty more ways to interact with the public and really understand the questions

946
01:23:46,960 --> 01:23:48,080
that they have.

947
01:23:48,420 --> 01:23:54,080
We plan some to do some community outreach in the summer and fall and prep for next

948
01:23:54,080 --> 01:23:56,960
year's proposed 2324 budget.

949
01:23:57,120 --> 01:24:01,120
And so we can consider the revisions and updates we might do to the website based on community

950
01:24:01,120 --> 01:24:01,680
feedback.

951
01:24:02,300 --> 01:24:14,080
And I want to come back to a couple of points, it was nice not having to think about printing documents that are stored in storage lockers and cabinets all throughout the county.

952
01:24:14,260 --> 01:24:22,500
I don't know how many years go back in different departments at different offices, but if we stack up every county budget that is on the county property right now somewhere, probably pretty high.

953
01:24:22,500 --> 01:24:27,600
So we're pretty excited about not being a no longer producing that level of content.

954
01:24:27,780 --> 01:24:30,980
That's really not very used from a historical perspective.

955
01:24:31,520 --> 01:24:34,600
We're producing our environmental impact, which we're really excited about.

956
01:24:34,680 --> 01:24:40,520
And we're creating a dynamic tool that we hope can really go beyond the power users that have used a budget in the

957
01:24:40,520 --> 01:24:43,680
class and be able to make this community communication device.

958
01:24:44,120 --> 01:24:46,660
And I want to come back to you thanking Carl Sposius or CAO.

959
01:24:47,260 --> 01:24:52,480
We've really had a division in push to say we can do better and we should do better.

960
01:24:52,480 --> 01:24:55,420
And we start thinking about how we link this to our strategic plan.

961
01:24:55,700 --> 01:25:00,660
Think of the board, yourselves, for your support and feedback through this process.

962
01:25:01,000 --> 01:25:05,480
I think a lot of county staff who we had focus groups, your board, yourselves, your board

963
01:25:05,480 --> 01:25:11,640
analysts who gave us a lot of feedback from December to our launch on April 29th, and we

964
01:25:11,640 --> 01:25:15,720
are literally making changes that we've before based on that feedback, and it was really

965
01:25:15,720 --> 01:25:16,540
appreciate that.

966
01:25:16,780 --> 01:25:21,880
And I want to come back to thinking our ASD team, they were phenomenal in the work that

967
01:25:21,880 --> 01:25:24,780
they've done in the creativity spending leading the project.

968
01:25:25,140 --> 01:25:27,780
We had a lot of staff in the CEO's office, Eric Friedwick,

969
01:25:27,780 --> 01:25:30,320
who's here with us today, we've had a capital project

970
01:25:30,320 --> 01:25:33,700
element of this, and we've built a really strong platform

971
01:25:33,700 --> 01:25:36,280
that we're seeing a lot of possibilities in the future

972
01:25:36,280 --> 01:25:37,700
of using this new platform.

973
01:25:38,080 --> 01:25:39,520
And I think it opened up for their partnership.

974
01:25:39,720 --> 01:25:41,460
They were a really great company to work with,

975
01:25:41,500 --> 01:25:43,620
and provided us a really rich diverse content

976
01:25:43,620 --> 01:25:45,580
that we can now play around with,

977
01:25:45,580 --> 01:25:47,460
and really do some wonderful data analysis.

978
01:25:48,260 --> 01:25:50,740
So with that, I conclude my comments and I go back

979
01:25:50,740 --> 01:25:54,540
to our recommended actions. Again, this is not a budget hearing. This is setting in place

980
01:25:55,860 --> 01:26:02,680
the, to accept and file the 2223 budget, to accept the budget hearing schedule for June 21,

981
01:26:02,880 --> 01:26:08,800
through 23rd, and our last day on June 28th, the set of June 21st, budget hearings of the

982
01:26:08,800 --> 01:26:13,720
first day of our budget hearings and set June 28, 2022, as a date of all of our public hearing.

983
01:26:13,740 --> 01:26:17,520
I mean, I mean, five feet schedule and directed for the clerk of the board to publish all

984
01:26:17,520 --> 01:26:22,660
official notices. So with that, it concludes every report. Thank you very much, Marcus.

985
01:26:22,900 --> 01:26:26,460
And spend other questions or comments from members of the board.

986
01:26:27,100 --> 01:26:32,520
Mr. Chair, I'll just briefly say it's really great to see this come full circle from

987
01:26:33,460 --> 01:26:35,980
some years back. Supervisor Coonerty.

988
01:26:36,580 --> 01:26:38,740
Had me sit in a small.

989
01:26:38,920 --> 01:26:43,960
Prius at the time we drove all around the state when we were going county the county before we hired

990
01:26:43,960 --> 01:26:49,260
CL, Plastios, to look at the ways that other counties were doing various things,

991
01:26:49,300 --> 01:26:53,700
the way that the CIOs interacted, the way that they provided transparent information

992
01:26:53,700 --> 01:26:54,260
to community.

993
01:26:54,440 --> 01:26:59,420
We learned a lot of best practices, which I know the Supervisor community continues

994
01:26:59,420 --> 01:27:02,320
actually with the work that he does now.

995
01:27:02,880 --> 01:27:08,060
And this type of idea was one that was brought back at the time from that, but it was

996
01:27:08,060 --> 01:27:13,700
not as extensive or clear or transparent as what you have accomplished here.

997
01:27:13,700 --> 01:27:18,900
This is a really remarkable tool for the community to learn about the budget.

998
01:27:19,180 --> 01:27:24,520
I mean, county budgets, government budgets, although always available to the community,

999
01:27:24,700 --> 01:27:26,800
always seem opaque to the community.

1000
01:27:27,260 --> 01:27:32,300
And this really takes away that opaqueness and provides clarity and transparency and

1001
01:27:32,300 --> 01:27:38,120
the ability to drill down in a way that we've never been able to provide in this community before.

1002
01:27:38,300 --> 01:27:41,500
And no other city or no other county within our region is doing it.

1003
01:27:41,500 --> 01:27:46,480
So it's a great, it's a testament to the innovation of the leadership here in the county,

1004
01:27:46,900 --> 01:27:51,160
but most importantly, it's a legacy moving forward and an expectation of transparency and

1005
01:27:51,160 --> 01:27:55,520
availability of information in particular about the most important thing we do, which is the budget.

1006
01:27:55,940 --> 01:27:58,560
And I appreciate that this is an iterative process.

1007
01:27:58,740 --> 01:28:01,560
I know that there will be that the feedback from the community.

1008
01:28:01,840 --> 01:28:05,600
Now that this is out and from the county staff will make it continue to evolve.

1009
01:28:05,800 --> 01:28:09,940
I know that as we continue to drill down and show that we things a little discover that need to be modified.

1010
01:28:09,940 --> 01:28:16,360
which is having this opportunity as a significant shift in appreciation to Mr. Prometell and also Mr.

1011
01:28:16,440 --> 01:28:18,520
Stafford on your work on this project.

1012
01:28:18,840 --> 01:28:20,400
Thank you, Supervisor Friend.

1013
01:28:21,860 --> 01:28:22,820
Supervisor Kennedy?

1014
01:28:23,540 --> 01:28:23,660
Sure.

1015
01:28:24,960 --> 01:28:25,980
I tacko.

1016
01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:27,180
Supervisor Friend's comments.

1017
01:28:27,940 --> 01:28:34,320
You know, I think when we towards what we've heard were the best operating counties around California.

1018
01:28:34,320 --> 01:28:40,180
And we saw that there were some areas that our county was accelerating in, but there

1019
01:28:40,180 --> 01:28:47,280
were a bunch of areas and transparency and setting about comes strategic plans online

1020
01:28:47,280 --> 01:28:50,300
documents was an area that we were pretty far behind.

1021
01:28:50,700 --> 01:28:53,980
And I want to commend the staff for developing this.

1022
01:28:54,200 --> 01:28:58,800
This is actually, as far exceeds, any expectation I have in the fact that you were able

1023
01:28:58,800 --> 01:29:05,420
to do it in-house with the existing talent we have in the county is really great.

1024
01:29:05,660 --> 01:29:09,660
I think it is a great communication tool, it's great for transparency.

1025
01:29:10,800 --> 01:29:17,800
My one question was, within the county, how are we planning to deploy this so that your

1026
01:29:17,800 --> 01:29:26,240
average line level staff, your mid managers and managers are using this tool as a way to focus

1027
01:29:26,240 --> 01:29:31,980
on, you know, when we have a lot of competing needs and demands on people's times, how are they

1028
01:29:31,980 --> 01:29:40,440
focusing on using this tool as a way to set those needs and priority and expectations within their

1029
01:29:40,440 --> 01:29:40,960
departments?

1030
01:29:46,820 --> 01:29:49,660
We'll question something we've been given a lot of thought to.

1031
01:29:49,680 --> 01:29:55,500
One thing I didn't mention, this is we're phase two of a three-prong project here, we've done

1032
01:29:55,500 --> 01:29:59,660
a sprint project where we went live with capital projects, we've now gone live with our online

1033
01:29:59,660 --> 01:29:59,860
budget.

1034
01:29:59,860 --> 01:29:59,960
Good.

1035
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:28,080
And in the fall, we started our last component that was actually integrating this whole system into an operational budget. So what we're going to see next is giving our departments more tools. We've started with a, let's let's satisfy the public demand and then come into the fall with providing those resources for the for our county operations. So what we expect is in the development of next year's budget staff will have more capability and a lot more efficiency in the development of next year's budget cycle.

1036
01:30:29,240 --> 01:30:33,460
And once we're live with the fully integrated system, there'll be a lot more.

1037
01:30:33,580 --> 01:30:35,660
I mentioned that we're opportunity. There's a lot of opportunity.

1038
01:30:36,000 --> 01:30:40,500
We've already started sketching out the vision plan of many different ways we can use this system.

1039
01:30:40,780 --> 01:30:44,080
Not only website, but the power behind it. So we're really excited about that.

1040
01:30:44,920 --> 01:30:50,520
So it allows us to still be in the iterative process to try to listen and see what the needs are from that operational perspective.

1041
01:30:50,980 --> 01:30:55,160
And try to really understand how we can use this to better seek the supos needs.

1042
01:30:57,670 --> 01:30:58,690
Great. Thank you.

1043
01:30:58,690 --> 01:31:03,290
I look forward to hearing about, thank you, Supervisor Kennedy, Supervisor Capit,

1044
01:31:06,460 --> 01:31:08,060
that you're on me, it's Supervisor Capit.

1045
01:31:12,630 --> 01:31:13,150
There we go.

1046
01:31:13,530 --> 01:31:15,650
Thank you very much for the report.

1047
01:31:16,850 --> 01:31:22,950
I guess what I like about it, it's clear, it's reasonable, it's concise and it's transparent.

1048
01:31:25,630 --> 01:31:34,650
And I look forward, actually, to say how it works and what we get together on the end of June.

1049
01:31:35,490 --> 01:31:40,970
And we looked at the budget and hopefully we're able to balance our business.

1050
01:31:41,870 --> 01:31:41,910
Okay.

1051
01:31:41,910 --> 01:31:43,630
Thank you.

1052
01:31:43,630 --> 01:31:44,850
Thank you, surprise captain.

1053
01:31:45,750 --> 01:31:45,830
Yeah.

1054
01:31:45,990 --> 01:31:50,770
I'll reiterate the comments and thank you as supervisors, friend and community for taking

1055
01:31:50,770 --> 01:31:55,330
the state to the state trail and finding out how we can improve our budget processes.

1056
01:31:55,730 --> 01:31:58,630
But at that time, I think we saw that we were doing a pretty good job.

1057
01:32:00,210 --> 01:32:03,690
When they were making that tour a couple of several years ago,

1058
01:32:03,690 --> 01:32:07,250
I want to thank the CEO and the Ms. Pintel,

1059
01:32:07,770 --> 01:32:10,690
Alfred, Alfred, Alfred, Alfred, and Alfred look.

1060
01:32:11,870 --> 01:32:15,190
You know, but just to get down to some of the things we face,

1061
01:32:15,850 --> 01:32:20,230
like no other county in essence, in the past two years, of course,

1062
01:32:20,670 --> 01:32:23,870
it's COVID's been with us all, but the season you fire.

1063
01:32:24,630 --> 01:32:28,870
And this will allow us transparency to see how we can react to this.

1064
01:32:29,530 --> 01:32:33,330
And we need to go into this budget session, realizing that we

1065
01:32:33,330 --> 01:32:37,850
We'd like to have more from some other agencies if we could.

1066
01:32:37,970 --> 01:32:43,350
We have a great many COVID expenses that we may not be in reimburse for.

1067
01:32:43,710 --> 01:32:50,770
The road challenges going day back to 2016, 17, and the recent fires that we've had.

1068
01:32:51,090 --> 01:32:52,630
And both of these are really disappointing.

1069
01:32:53,770 --> 01:32:57,270
And collectively, they represent about $20 to $25 million.

1070
01:32:58,370 --> 01:33:02,470
And we need, we're trying to see how a budget can work.

1071
01:33:03,070 --> 01:33:05,230
It's not, they can't fix that without the money.

1072
01:33:05,930 --> 01:33:06,970
Those, those issues.

1073
01:33:07,590 --> 01:33:14,730
And it's also worth noting that our, as was stated, our kind of receives a very low share of property and sales tax revenues comparatively.

1074
01:33:16,110 --> 01:33:21,250
And as Senator Claire County has 4% of its population in the unincorporated area.

1075
01:33:21,330 --> 01:33:24,430
We have about half of our population in the unincorporated area.

1076
01:33:24,430 --> 01:33:33,430
And that's a structural challenge to not to those who presented the budget to us, but what we can do with what we have.

1077
01:33:35,150 --> 01:33:38,190
And it requires a great deal of thoughtful planning in a request.

1078
01:33:38,650 --> 01:33:44,750
And I think this really points what we're doing to make that transparent to the general public.

1079
01:33:46,190 --> 01:33:52,050
And we're planning requests because of some of those limitations of what's coming in.

1080
01:33:52,050 --> 01:34:03,350
And what we have is a population to serve in this county, and so we're going to go for some more locally generated tax revenues that are needed.

1081
01:34:04,410 --> 01:34:14,530
The proposed transit occupancy tax increase that will still put us at at or below those of many other counties throughout the state and the single use cup fee.

1082
01:34:15,090 --> 01:34:26,210
We, one thing that is a concern to our reserves that we did as such a tremendous job in getting up to 10% are now down about the 7% level.

1083
01:34:26,970 --> 01:34:32,550
And that's a concern if we should have another disaster of how we can accommodate something immediately.

1084
01:34:32,550 --> 01:34:45,410
So I'm with all that said, we face challenges that are just part of our budget, that we have, that we have, that we have with the sales act, the revenues we get.

1085
01:34:46,230 --> 01:34:55,410
And I just think this is going to help us a lot and letting the public know what we're doing with the limited resources we have and the declining resources we have.

1086
01:34:55,410 --> 01:34:57,990
some instances, this is a great presentation

1087
01:34:57,990 --> 01:35:00,030
and I think the public will be very appreciative

1088
01:35:00,030 --> 01:35:04,730
of their ability to wine through the budget process

1089
01:35:04,730 --> 01:35:06,470
as we go into it at the end of June.

1090
01:35:06,750 --> 01:35:08,110
So thank you very much.

1091
01:35:09,110 --> 01:35:10,290
Thank you, Supervisor McPherson.

1092
01:35:11,370 --> 01:35:13,830
I'll just add, yes, there's a really fantastic win.

1093
01:35:14,570 --> 01:35:16,790
Both in terms of transparency and efficiency,

1094
01:35:17,610 --> 01:35:21,030
we don't have to continue building a tower of budget books

1095
01:35:21,030 --> 01:35:23,710
to the moon and hopefully it'll be a lot easier

1096
01:35:23,710 --> 01:35:25,670
to prepare the budget going forward.

1097
01:35:25,790 --> 01:35:27,690
And certainly, that's easier for my office

1098
01:35:27,690 --> 01:35:29,050
to feel the questions about the budget.

1099
01:35:29,630 --> 01:35:31,710
And it's really a pleasure to explore this talk.

1100
01:35:31,990 --> 01:35:34,910
So thank you to you both in the whole project team.

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Are there questions from members or sorry,

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01:35:38,130 --> 01:35:39,670
comments from members of the public?

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01:35:40,350 --> 01:35:41,710
I think none here in chambers.

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01:35:41,870 --> 01:35:44,230
Is there anyone on Zoom who would like to comment on this item?

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01:35:44,530 --> 01:35:45,490
We do have one speaker.

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01:35:56,840 --> 01:35:57,800
A morning cover Alice.

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01:35:58,020 --> 01:35:59,060
Your microphone is available.

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01:35:59,060 --> 01:35:59,140
I'll

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01:36:10,150 --> 01:36:13,070
apologize to you because that was an error.

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01:36:14,290 --> 01:36:15,150
Thank you Monica.

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01:36:16,770 --> 01:36:16,870
All right.

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01:36:17,050 --> 01:36:19,930
Well, if there are no other numbers of the publicers to come on, I'll have

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turned into the board for action.

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01:36:24,270 --> 01:36:25,310
Move the recommended actions.

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01:36:25,870 --> 01:36:26,150
Second.

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01:36:27,570 --> 01:36:28,930
Motion by supervisor.

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01:36:29,070 --> 01:36:31,790
Second by supervisor friend for to adopt the

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recommended actions.

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01:36:32,590 --> 01:36:33,850
Any further discussion?

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01:36:34,690 --> 01:36:35,290
Seeing none.

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01:36:35,450 --> 01:36:36,070
Clerk will call.

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01:36:36,250 --> 01:36:36,610
Please.

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01:36:37,570 --> 01:36:39,170
Your supervisor friend.

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01:36:39,530 --> 01:36:40,270
All right.

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01:36:40,270 --> 01:36:41,110
Comedаний.

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TAPPED.

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01:36:43,490 --> 01:36:44,630
Make person.

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And Cooneq.

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That I'm possez unanimously.

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Thank you.

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01:36:50,110 --> 01:36:54,390
That the pose of budget being accepted, and attempted it to choose,

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01:36:54,390 --> 01:36:54,770
budget hearing.

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01:36:54,930 --> 01:37:04,210
The angel for June 21st, 23rd and June 28th, we will now proceed to item nine, which is a public

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hearing to consider resolution confirming a proposed fiscal year 2022, 2023 benefit

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01:37:09,970 --> 01:37:16,470
assessment rate and service charge reports for county service areas, number 53, number 53N,

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and number 53S for mosquito abatement and disease control as outlined in the memorandum of the

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01:37:21,310 --> 01:37:28,450
agricultural commissioner. And for a presentation, we have Amanda Pulse and and Wanda Dalga.

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Members of the Board is a pleasure to be here, and today with me, it's our Assistant Viktor Kondromanager,

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and she's going to be introducing to the site.

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01:37:45,530 --> 01:37:49,110
Good morning. I'm Amanda Paulson, the assistant manager

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for the mosquito and back to control division of the agricultural commissioner's office.

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01:37:53,670 --> 01:38:02,070
The county service area, CSA-53, was established in 1993 and then expanded in 2004 and 2005 for

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south and north county, respectively, to provide mosquito control and public health services to

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Santa Cruz County.

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These services are funded by a benefits assessment and rates are adjusted each year to account

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for inflation.

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01:38:16,710 --> 01:38:22,710
On April 12, 2022, the board set today may 10th as the public hearing date on the proposed

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benefit assessment and rate reports that will provide operational funding for mosquito

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01:38:27,310 --> 01:38:29,450
federal government control in 2023.

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01:38:30,490 --> 01:38:35,490
The CSA rates presented have previously been approved by the board in our outlined in the

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rates attachment, and either remain at the same level as in 2021 and 22, or have rates

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01:38:41,690 --> 01:38:46,910
in a consumer price index increase of 3% as approved in previous elections.

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01:38:48,150 --> 01:38:52,650
These rates have been posted in the local newspaper, and have made available to the public

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at the Clerk of the Board and Mosquito Impact Control website prior to today's hearing.

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If approved, rate reports will be forwarded to the auditor controller by August 10th

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to be included in the 2223 property tax assessment role. We recommend that the board

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open the public hearing to hear objections or protests to the proposed three assessment rate reports

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for CSA-53, which include the North and the South in the original.

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Then please close the public hearing and consider adoption of resolution, confirming the benefit assessment rate reports for the fiscal year 2022 to 2023.

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01:39:31,650 --> 01:39:32,630
Thank you for your support.

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01:39:34,010 --> 01:39:34,930
Thank you.

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01:39:35,690 --> 01:39:37,090
Officially open the public hearing.

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01:39:38,550 --> 01:39:41,150
Are there any comments or questions from members of the board?

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01:39:44,240 --> 01:39:45,000
Seeing none.

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01:39:46,120 --> 01:39:50,560
We'll open it to the public or anyone here in the chambers wish to comment on this item.

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01:39:50,560 --> 01:39:55,940
seeing none. It's anyone on Zoom that was to come in. We do not have any speakers for this item.

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01:39:56,420 --> 01:39:58,500
All right. Then I'll return to the board for action.

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01:39:58,860 --> 01:40:02,300
You know, Mr. Chair, just one brief comment of appreciation. I know that we try and ever

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year to acknowledge that this we're very fortunate in our community to have those that are working

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on this issue work on this issue. It's a very small cost for each community member to really

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prevent what could be a very serious outbreak, which we've seen across the world in other situations.

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and so I just want to appreciate the staff that they do this work behind the scenes and I'll move

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the recommendations. Second, thank you. So we have a motion. I should provide a friend.

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That next second, I should supervise your make sure.

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Before the discussion. Seeing none, clerk will call vote please.

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Supervisor Friend. Hi. Coonerty.

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Capit.

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Supervisor Capit.

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Do you want to make first in? Hi.

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01:40:52,640 --> 01:40:53,540
Thank you.

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01:40:54,040 --> 01:40:55,040
That passes unanimously.

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01:40:55,840 --> 01:40:56,120
Thank you.

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01:40:56,600 --> 01:41:01,840
That resolution being adopted for the benefit assessment rate reports for service areas.

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We will now close the public hearing.

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And proceed to item 10.

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To consider adopting resolution, improving the Santa Cruz County active transportation plan,

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which identifies projects to reduce barriers to walking and biking,

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as outlined in the memorandum of the deputy CAO,

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Director of Community Development and Infrastructure for presentation on this item we have Russell

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Chen and Amelia Conlin. Welcome.

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01:41:40,210 --> 01:41:40,990
I don't think so.

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01:41:41,010 --> 01:41:43,710
Go ahead and press the gray button on the base of microphone.

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01:41:46,600 --> 01:41:48,640
Thank you.

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01:41:56,220 --> 01:41:57,160
Slide's presentation.

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01:41:58,760 --> 01:41:59,240
Good

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morning, Chair Coneg.

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The members of the board.

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My name is Russell Chen and with Community Development and Infrastructure.

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And I have here with me Amelia Conlin with the College of Action.

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And we're here to present the Santa Cruz County Active Transportation Plan.

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Next slide, please.

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This is what we'll cover.

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We'll go over the plan overview and timeline.

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Public outreach, process and findings.

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Recommendation process and overview.

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Project evaluation and plan implementation.

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Before we get into the plan,

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I'd like to acknowledge that this was a collaborative effort.

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We partnered with Planning, Health Service Agency,

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Call G-Action, Bixana Cruz County, and we also had a stakeholder committee

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that was made up of residents, local business owners, and other agencies, and they provided

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valuable input. Can you next slide, please?

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The active transportation plan,

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The vision is to create a network of biking and walking routes that connect key destinations

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within the county and are safe, comfortable, and accessible for community members of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities.

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The plan is for the unincorporated county.

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It doesn't include the cities, the cities have their own plan.

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The plan is focused on the urbanized areas of the county.

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It updates the 2011 bicycle transportation plan.

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It is also the first comprehensive plan for future pedestrian facilities.

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The plan would help to prioritize projects, especially because of limited funding.

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It would help identify most competitive projects for grant funding opportunities.

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It also includes connections to the coast rail trail, but does not address trail design.

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With that, I'll turn it over to Amelia.

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Thank you, Russell.

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Next slide.

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So I will, my name is Amelia Conland.

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I'm a planner with a college action and we were happy to partner with the county on this plan.

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And I'll talk about the project timeline and the public outreach process.

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This was about a two-year process to develop the active transportation plan and our timeline was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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We had originally planned on starting public outreach in spring of 2020.

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But that was pushed to fall 2020. And then we spent most of last year developing the draft recommendations that you see in the plan.

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We also held two temporary demonstration projects to test out some of the draft recommendations from the plan. And I'll talk a little bit more about those in a few slides.

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We developed the draft plan in fall of 2021 and release the draft plan for public comment this spring and we're here before you to present the final plan. Next slide.

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So here's an overview of the public outreach that was conducted during this planning process.

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We did again have to shift our outreach strategies due to COVID-19 away from in-person events

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and towards social media and digital outreach.

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We held three virtual public meetings and in shifting away from outreach to them person events.

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We ended up doing some in-person tabling in parks and neighborhoods trying to reach people where they were already walking and biking.

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And that ended up being an effective strategy and allowed us to reach people in different parts of the county that were not reached through our online outreach.

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We also held the two temporary demonstration events to test out some of the draft recommendations from the plan.

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We developed a project website with an interactive map where people could leave comments on the barriers to walking and biking and the types of projects that they would like to see in the future.

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and we received 342 comments through that mapping tool.

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We received 600 responses to an online survey and reached about 4,500 people through social media.

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And we had a great group of partners helping to share those social media posts and get the word out there.

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As Russell mentioned, we pulled together a stakeholder committee at the beginning of a planning process that included

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residents from around the county, local business owners, and staff of partner agencies and organizations

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and they advised us throughout the planning process.

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We also held eight neighborhoods stakeholder group meetings.

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And this was a really a way to slash out the comments that we received during the first phase of public outreach

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and make sure that we were hearing from folks from across the and incorporated county.

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And so we held small group meetings with stakeholders from Davenport

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from each of the communities in the San Lorenzo Valley from Santa Cruz Gardens,

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the investing neighborhood and the college road neighborhood outside of Watsonville.

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And that really helped to give us a clear picture about the barriers and constraints

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to walking and biking in those areas.

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And then finally we presented to the Regional Transportation Commission's Advisory

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Committees, both the Bicycle Advisory Committee and the Elderly and Disabled

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Transportation Advisory Committee as well as the Community Traffic Safety Coalition

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throughout the planning process. Next slide.

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And here's just a very high level overview of what we heard throughout all of that public outreach.

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We heard from the majority of survey responses that respondents that they would like to be walking or biking more for their daily trips to school to work and for errands.

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So there was a lot of interest shown in safe walking and biking.

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We ask people about the top barriers or the top concerns that they have about walking and biking now in the unincorporated county and the top response probably not surprisingly was missing sidewalks followed by unsafe intersections aggressive drivers and high traffic speeds.

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And when we ask people at the public meetings what types of projects they would like to see going forward.

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Separation from motor vehicle traffic was a theme that came up.

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We heard about a desire for more separated bikeways that have a barrier between people walking or people biking and moving traffic.

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Of course, we heard a lot of support for the coastal rail trail support for more sidewalks and more off street paths.

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So really a lot of interest in walking and biking and hearing that more separation is going to help people feel safe doing that.

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Next slide.

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We also hosted two temporary installations as part of the planning process and this is something new for Santa Cruz County. The goal here was to test out some of the draft recommendations from the plan on a temporary basis as a way to get feedback from the community here, whether they thought that these projects should be made permanent.

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It's also a way to test how the designs work in practice.

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So really a trial before the county moves forward with a permanent project.

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And our first project was a class one separated path on green valley road between a messy road

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and Pinto Lake Road, connecting a messy elementary and Pinto Lake City Park.

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And we heard that this stretch was really a priority, especially for the school community.

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And we heard a lot of positive feedback from the public on this project, and the county has actually moved forward and successfully applied for a clean California grant and been awarded $5 million for a two mile 10 foot wide separated paths along with bus stop improvements and landscaping and education programming at a messy elementary.

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So, this is exactly what we're hoping to see from the type of project we want to demonstrate that it works and it has community support and then move forward with grant applications.

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Excellent.

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Our next installation project was on Portola Drive.

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Between 41st Avenue and 36th Avenue and the design for this project was based on the Portola Drive streetscape study that was completed a few years back and had a lot of community input.

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For this project, we temporarily changed the roadway from two lanes in each direction to one lane in each direction with a center turn lane.

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And that allowed us to install temporary class four separated bikeways on each side of the street.

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We also added some intersection improvements.

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And the feedback on this project was much more mixed.

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We did hear some support from cyclists who liked the changes.

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But we heard a lot of frustration from community members about this lower travel times.

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going through this corridor. And so the recommendations for Portola Drive were revised as a result

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of that feedback from Class 4 separated by Quizz to Class 2 enhanced bike lanes.

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There's some more work that the county is doing to study future changes on Portola Drive and

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there will be more community process before any major changes are made on this corridor.

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Next slide. And then the final stage of the public outreach process was releasing the draft plan

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for public comment that went live on our project website at the end of February and was up

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for a month.

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We received 67 comments from the public and that resulted in 16 new or revised projects

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in our project list and 42 changes overall to plan content to text or maps within the

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point.

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Next slide.

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So I'll talk a little bit about how we developed the recommendations in this plan and

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then turn it over to Russell.

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We had a two-pronged approach here.

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Our first step to develop these recommendations was working with the consultant.

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Copenhagenized Design Company.

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And they conducted a data analysis of all county roadways based on existing by

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competitor facilities, collision data, disadvantaged communities data,

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and the number of public comments that we received around each corridor.

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And they used that data analysis to score each roadway in the county

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and then selected the top 30 top scoring streets to develop court.

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Or recommendations that impact the entire court or entire length of a street. We also added to that list all of the projects or all of the corridors that are prioritized for bike and pedestrian use in the general plan sustainability update. So making sure that all of the streets classified as active to connectors and main streets were also included on the list to have court or recommendations developed.

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And then Copenhagenized developed a typology system that

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Russell will go into in a moment and assign each of those top-scoring streets a typology

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recommendation.

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We also fleshed out that recommendations list by looking at public comments.

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So all of the public comments that we received during public outreach were reviewed and all

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of the ones that related to a specific location or that could be addressed through an infrastructure

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change were reviewed with the project team. And we really took a deep dive into all of these

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comments and had a conversation about what a possible recommendation could be to address the

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issue that was brought up in the public comment. And so that process resulted in 136 recommendations

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for new sidewalks for intersection improvements and other spot treatment recommendations throughout

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the county. And then finally we added recommendations from previous planning efforts for new

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01:53:50,060 --> 01:53:55,400
and pedestrian projects to this plan in order to give the county a comprehensive list of

1322
01:53:55,400 --> 01:54:00,880
bike and pedestrian projects going forward. And so recommendations for county roadways from

1323
01:54:00,880 --> 01:54:06,280
the Highway 9 Complete Streets Courdors Plan are in this list. Projects from the Complete Streets

1324
01:54:06,280 --> 01:54:10,900
the School of Plan, which was completed a few years back. And then the segments of the Monterey

1325
01:54:10,900 --> 01:54:15,820
Bay thanks for receiving trail in the Unincorporated County are added to the project list as well.

1326
01:54:17,100 --> 01:54:19,380
And with that, it will turn it over to Dressel.

1327
01:54:19,880 --> 01:54:20,260
Thanks, Amelia.

1328
01:54:21,600 --> 01:54:29,620
So I'm going to go over to some of the recommendations and the quarter typologies.

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01:54:30,440 --> 01:54:35,640
These recommendations and the plan address entire roadways and long stretches of roadways.

1330
01:54:36,760 --> 01:54:40,300
The picture on your left there is a long distance rule route.

1331
01:54:40,300 --> 01:54:46,960
rural roadways that are that are too narrow for other types of bike infrastructures like on

1332
01:54:46,960 --> 01:54:53,820
Yurek Canyon, Glenwood Drive and treatments may include signage striping to alert drivers to

1333
01:54:53,820 --> 01:55:00,540
watch for cyclists. And then the two pictures in the middle there are traffic calm residential

1334
01:55:00,540 --> 01:55:07,820
streets. These are low volume, low speed residential streets. Treatments may include curb extensions,

1335
01:55:10,600 --> 01:55:16,520
And then that picture to your right is a class two bike lane.

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01:55:16,760 --> 01:55:20,880
These are typically reserved for roads without large number of destinations.

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01:55:21,940 --> 01:55:28,380
These are painted lines along the shoulders with at least five feet with for cyclists.

1338
01:55:28,540 --> 01:55:29,420
Next slide please.

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01:55:32,260 --> 01:55:36,220
The two pictures on your left there are a class two enhanced bicycle lanes.

1340
01:55:36,980 --> 01:55:42,780
These are recommended for existing class two bike lanes with large number of destinations.

1341
01:55:43,640 --> 01:55:49,540
They include striped buffers, green conflict markings, and protected intersection treatments.

1342
01:55:51,020 --> 01:55:55,320
And then the picture in the middle there is a class one shared use path.

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01:55:55,940 --> 01:56:02,260
These are typically on rural roads that connect important destinations for people walking and biking.

1344
01:56:02,920 --> 01:56:06,540
They're a paved path that is completely separated from the street.

1345
01:56:08,020 --> 01:56:10,240
And then last we have on your picture on the right,

1346
01:56:10,280 --> 01:56:12,680
is a class for separated bikeway.

1347
01:56:13,160 --> 01:56:16,400
These are our medium to high volume urban streets,

1348
01:56:16,720 --> 01:56:17,900
such as Soquel Drive.

1349
01:56:19,080 --> 01:56:22,940
Is it on street bike paths that is separated from the motor vehicle,

1350
01:56:23,440 --> 01:56:24,980
by a vertical element?

1351
01:56:26,000 --> 01:56:26,940
Next slide please.

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01:56:28,440 --> 01:56:33,880
This map kind of shows an overview of all the improvements,

1353
01:56:34,380 --> 01:56:39,140
a quarter improvements, recommendations, and these are the short-term ones.

1354
01:56:40,960 --> 01:56:41,600
Next slide, please.

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01:56:43,810 --> 01:56:47,270
Sidewalking intersection recommendations, these are sidewalks and

1356
01:56:47,270 --> 01:56:49,010
spot treatment type recommendations.

1357
01:56:49,810 --> 01:56:55,630
There are a number of recommendations in this plan, so I'll just highlight a few of those.

1358
01:56:55,630 --> 01:56:59,430
We have green conflict markings for bike lanes.

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01:56:59,890 --> 01:57:03,750
These are typically at our intersections where our highest conflicts are.

1360
01:57:04,350 --> 01:57:07,710
We also have high visibility pedestrian crossings.

1361
01:57:08,370 --> 01:57:13,610
So, typical crosswalks standard crosswalks are two parallel lines.

1362
01:57:14,150 --> 01:57:19,630
And the high visibilities are the ladder and the piano-style crosswalks.

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01:57:20,190 --> 01:57:21,930
And then leading pedestrian intervals.

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01:57:22,750 --> 01:57:30,730
This is at the signalized intersection and with the signals change, this will give the pedestrians a head start.

1365
01:57:35,000 --> 01:57:44,600
And then to take advantage of some of our routine maintenance, we're already incorporating some of these recommendations as part of our resurfacing projects.

1366
01:57:50,560 --> 01:58:06,620
So, our general plan update will include a draft, vision zero policy, and then planning on the planning on the, we're also planning on the design criteria updates to support bike and pedestrian facilities.

1367
01:58:07,960 --> 01:58:16,080
And as part of our active transportation grants, we have, and we will continue to have education

1368
01:58:16,080 --> 01:58:19,880
and encouragement programs associated with infrastructure improvements.

1369
01:58:21,340 --> 01:58:26,420
And then as part of the plan recommendations, we'll be looking to develop bike parking

1370
01:58:27,320 --> 01:58:28,180
with that.

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01:58:28,260 --> 01:58:30,360
I'll turn it over to back over to Amelia.

1372
01:58:33,900 --> 01:58:34,560
Thank you.

1373
01:58:35,520 --> 01:58:38,360
So next I'll talk just a little bit about the evaluation criteria.

1374
01:58:38,360 --> 01:58:43,360
And so the next step of the planning process was to score each of the infrastructure projects,

1375
01:58:43,360 --> 01:58:47,260
included in the plan, based on the criteria that you see on this slide.

1376
01:58:48,000 --> 01:58:51,000
And I want to provide some context about the purpose of this exercise.

1377
01:58:51,460 --> 01:58:58,960
We're not trying to determine the order in which the county constructs projects or say which projects will be constructed in which one's

1378
01:58:58,960 --> 01:59:14,960
We're really trying to provide a tool here that you as decision makers and county staff can use to match these projects to the best possible print funding source and to prioritize between projects knowing that there's never enough funding to go around to construct all of these.

1379
01:59:16,360 --> 01:59:22,700
So just wanted to provide that context, and so each of the projects was scored based on

1380
01:59:22,700 --> 01:59:24,540
five criteria starting with safety.

1381
01:59:25,200 --> 01:59:29,160
This was the most heavily weighted criteria, and so we're looking at proximity to buy

1382
01:59:29,160 --> 01:59:30,700
combidestering collisions here.

1383
01:59:30,800 --> 01:59:35,060
This is something that grant-sunders look at in your grant applications.

1384
01:59:36,020 --> 01:59:38,240
And we know that this is not a perfect metric.

1385
01:59:38,680 --> 01:59:43,080
We know that there are some corridors in the Unincorporated County where people don't feel

1386
01:59:43,080 --> 01:59:59,980
safe enough to walk or bike now. And so we don't see bike in pedestrian collisions. But this is the best available data that we have to work with. And it is something that Grant funders look at. So this was this was the way that we have to use to create the safety metric. We also.

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02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:05,980
Awarded points to projects if they close a gap in the existing bicycle of pedestrian network or if they

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02:00:05,980 --> 02:00:12,140
install new infrastructure for people with disabilities. And so this was primarily new sidewalk projects

1389
02:00:12,140 --> 02:00:19,700
or new bike facility projects where there are no bike facilities now. We also awarded points to projects

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02:00:19,700 --> 02:00:26,300
that are low in cost or complexity. And the goal here was to provide the county with a list of

1391
02:00:26,300 --> 02:00:32,520
projects that may be relatively easier to install, so projects that are not the multi-million

1392
02:00:32,520 --> 02:00:38,780
dollar multi-use path, but projects that involve mainly signage and striping and may be able

1393
02:00:38,780 --> 02:00:45,420
to be constructed using local funds. We also looked at equity and awarded points to projects

1394
02:00:45,420 --> 02:00:51,380
that serve disadvantaged communities as defined by the regional transportation plan. And again,

1395
02:00:51,380 --> 02:00:53,840
this is something that grant funders look for.

1396
02:00:54,080 --> 02:00:56,160
And finally, we awarded points to projects

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02:00:56,160 --> 02:00:59,140
that were identified in community comments.

1398
02:00:59,860 --> 02:01:01,680
So if a project came up frequently

1399
02:01:01,680 --> 02:01:04,540
and had five or more comments around that location,

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02:01:04,600 --> 02:01:05,760
it received five points.

1401
02:01:06,120 --> 02:01:09,880
If a project was identified by two or more community comments,

1402
02:01:09,880 --> 02:01:11,120
it received five points.

1403
02:01:12,040 --> 02:01:12,840
Next slide.

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02:01:14,760 --> 02:01:17,100
So after we had completed that scoring exercise,

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02:01:17,940 --> 02:01:20,600
we developed a top priority project list

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02:01:20,600 --> 02:01:21,720
for each of the districts.

1407
02:01:22,400 --> 02:01:23,940
Again, this is not necessarily,

1408
02:01:24,220 --> 02:01:25,660
it's not necessarily the only projects

1409
02:01:25,660 --> 02:01:27,360
that will be constructed in these districts,

1410
02:01:27,600 --> 02:01:30,820
but this is meant as a tool for you to be able to see

1411
02:01:30,820 --> 02:01:33,320
which projects score highly using this criteria.

1412
02:01:34,880 --> 02:01:38,460
And we were aiming for a top five top priority project list,

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02:01:38,900 --> 02:01:40,520
which ended up being very tricky,

1414
02:01:41,120 --> 02:01:43,760
because many of the projects were tied for the number one

1415
02:01:43,760 --> 02:01:45,140
or the number two spot.

1416
02:01:45,820 --> 02:01:48,980
So you should see here the top eight priority project list

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02:01:48,980 --> 02:01:55,340
for District 1. I think we have 20 something projects on the District 2 list. Again, that doesn't

1418
02:01:55,340 --> 02:01:59,700
mean more projects will be constructed more quickly in District 2. It's really meant as a tool.

1419
02:02:01,100 --> 02:02:04,680
Thanks, slide. And I'll turn it back over to Russell.

1420
02:02:05,700 --> 02:02:06,260
Thanks, really.

1421
02:02:09,910 --> 02:02:16,010
So plan implementation. We have a large list of projects with limited funding, as you know.

1422
02:02:16,010 --> 02:02:27,750
So, for large projects, we'll need to leverage local funding with grant funding and then we'll also look to incorporate some of these projects as part of development.

1423
02:02:29,270 --> 02:02:36,830
And we'll also take advantage of ongoing maintenance projects as I mentioned earlier to incorporate bike and pedestrian improvements.

1424
02:02:37,890 --> 02:02:41,230
We have done this in the past and we'll continue to do this.

1425
02:02:42,030 --> 02:02:42,990
Next slide,

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02:02:45,150 --> 02:02:51,470
the recommended action is to adopt the resolution, approving the Santa Cruz County Active Transportation Plan.

1427
02:02:53,370 --> 02:02:53,770
With that?

1428
02:02:54,690 --> 02:02:55,650
Is there any questions?

1429
02:02:56,630 --> 02:02:57,310
Thank you, Mr. Chan.

1430
02:02:57,370 --> 02:02:58,210
Thank you, Ms. Conlon.

1431
02:02:58,750 --> 02:03:00,650
Questions or comments from members of the board?

1432
02:03:01,890 --> 02:03:04,510
Yeah, I really appreciate this.

1433
02:03:05,150 --> 02:03:08,870
Me and board member of the Regional Transportation Commission as well as Metro.

1434
02:03:08,870 --> 02:03:12,370
There are really essential, probably as many comments

1435
02:03:12,370 --> 02:03:15,010
if any subject I get is on transportation,

1436
02:03:15,670 --> 02:03:16,950
not only of those two agencies,

1437
02:03:17,830 --> 02:03:20,530
but throughout my visits in the county.

1438
02:03:20,810 --> 02:03:23,230
And I just want to congratulate the Public Works team

1439
02:03:23,230 --> 02:03:25,430
for this effort, and especially you, Mr. Chan,

1440
02:03:25,690 --> 02:03:27,430
and the Ecology Action and this comment.

1441
02:03:29,070 --> 02:03:31,590
And for me, as much as such a small county,

1442
02:03:31,750 --> 02:03:34,810
we really have enormous challenges with that

1443
02:03:34,810 --> 02:03:47,990
we have and so forth if our transportation systems and I it's terrific that we do have this transportation plan. We really needed it as a footprint to say which way we want to go, excuse the pun.

1444
02:03:48,610 --> 02:03:52,750
But I just really do appreciate you're getting forward moving forward.

1445
02:03:53,290 --> 02:04:03,790
You're correct there's a lot of projects at little funding we haven't heard of that dilemma before, but in the meantime, if I could just encourage every motorist as you said,

1446
02:04:03,790 --> 02:04:08,630
We could make everybody as motorists and drivers.

1447
02:04:09,050 --> 02:04:11,970
If we just toned it down and not be so aggressive in our driving,

1448
02:04:13,110 --> 02:04:15,310
and just slow it down a little, just toned it down.

1449
02:04:15,390 --> 02:04:20,110
I think we could do that in every part of our society throughout this county.

1450
02:04:20,970 --> 02:04:23,890
But this is really something we desperately need.

1451
02:04:24,070 --> 02:04:30,590
And I think it's a good, good, as I footprint again to get us started and going somewhere.

1452
02:04:30,590 --> 02:04:35,230
and they're taking a lot of time to get here and you'll talk to take a lot of time to implement this,

1453
02:04:35,650 --> 02:04:40,930
but it's desperately needed and people really wanted it in Santa Cruz County, so I appreciate all of your efforts

1454
02:04:40,930 --> 02:04:44,330
and everybody else who participated in this effort. Thank you.

1455
02:04:44,470 --> 02:04:45,630
Thank you, Supervisor McPherson.

1456
02:04:47,940 --> 02:04:48,900
Thank you for joining us.

1457
02:04:49,040 --> 02:04:54,820
I'll add on to that appreciation, but also note that, you know, our county has one of the highest incidents

1458
02:04:54,820 --> 02:04:59,600
of vehicle versus pedestrian and vehicle versus bicycle incidents in the state of California

1459
02:04:59,600 --> 02:05:03,660
depending upon the year. Sometimes we have some of the highest levels of fatality and injuries

1460
02:05:03,660 --> 02:05:10,200
associated with it and it's been that way for quite some time. Having a planning document

1461
02:05:10,200 --> 02:05:15,540
like this position ourselves for better funding, moving through the state, as was evidenced by

1462
02:05:15,540 --> 02:05:21,820
Ms. Conlon, the work that was recently done on Green Valley Road, is the first step of future improvements

1463
02:05:21,820 --> 02:05:27,380
that will erase that issue within our community from a safety standpoint. It's not just

1464
02:05:27,380 --> 02:05:33,160
affording people and alternative needs of transportation. It's also affording them as safe

1465
02:05:33,160 --> 02:05:39,000
method to do alternative methods of transportation. And I think that this document is an important

1466
02:05:40,280 --> 02:05:44,440
marker to accomplish that because ultimately we're going to need the funding for these improvements

1467
02:05:44,440 --> 02:05:48,980
throughout the county. So I just want to add that appreciation and also the recognition

1468
02:05:48,980 --> 02:05:54,420
as through a seismic person that noted that we have challenges in our community and those challenges

1469
02:05:54,420 --> 02:05:57,420
represented yearly in the switters data through

1470
02:05:57,420 --> 02:06:00,240
California Office of Traffic Safety that do show that we

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02:06:00,240 --> 02:06:05,380
have a disproportionate number of issues here that face pedestrians and

1472
02:06:05,380 --> 02:06:08,760
bicyclists and hopefully a document like this can position ourselves to

1473
02:06:08,760 --> 02:06:10,600
make those improvements moving forward.

1474
02:06:10,760 --> 02:06:11,580
Thank you.

1475
02:06:11,580 --> 02:06:13,380
Thank you, Supervisor Friend.

1476
02:06:15,160 --> 02:06:19,520
Yes, certainly we face enormous challenges in terms of safety here on our roads.

1477
02:06:20,240 --> 02:06:23,280
And we know that members of the public as you're as the plan shows

1478
02:06:23,280 --> 02:06:28,260
want to change modes, want to do more walking and biking and so it's fantastic to have this.

1479
02:06:28,260 --> 02:06:32,920
It was to project, it will help them to do that. I know as Supervisor McPherson said,

1480
02:06:33,040 --> 02:06:38,180
we do receive lots of comments about potential safety improvements on our roads,

1481
02:06:38,280 --> 02:06:43,840
whether it's more sidewalks or safer intersections. And I throughout the course of creating this

1482
02:06:43,840 --> 02:06:47,460
plan I forwarded into a lot of those over to you and it's great to see all of those represented

1483
02:06:47,460 --> 02:06:53,060
in the plan. I've had lots of opportunity to provide comments myself on this plan. Those are also

1484
02:06:53,060 --> 02:06:58,620
represented here, so it is a very comprehensive plan, and hopefully we can execute as much

1485
02:06:58,620 --> 02:07:04,640
of it as possible. And I'll just say, also with the pop-up projects, we really both

1486
02:07:04,640 --> 02:07:10,140
are incredibly valuable. I don't think we can expect everything that we conceive of on paper

1487
02:07:10,140 --> 02:07:16,160
to ultimately be successful. And I think that most importantly, we realized just how important this

1488
02:07:16,160 --> 02:07:21,380
build measure-learn process is and hopefully we can continue to do more similar projects going

1489
02:07:21,380 --> 02:07:25,160
on some of the more significant changes being reviewed here.

1490
02:07:27,240 --> 02:07:28,540
That's right.

1491
02:07:28,940 --> 02:07:29,980
To provide the capital, anything that you want.

1492
02:07:30,800 --> 02:07:50,880
Just thank you for the report. I think it's, it's great for the committee. Thank you. Thank you. All right. I'll open it for public comment. Does anyone add a public to this or comment on this item? We have no one here in the chambers, we're going to speak if anyone on Zoom. We do have one speaker.

1493
02:07:50,880 --> 02:07:51,300
and apologies

1494
02:07:56,930 --> 02:07:59,230
when they have two speakers.

1495
02:08:00,410 --> 02:08:01,790
Call in user three.

1496
02:08:02,230 --> 02:08:03,610
Your microphone is now available.

1497
02:08:15,390 --> 02:08:17,590
The friend I just asked, I don't mean

1498
02:08:17,590 --> 02:08:19,910
for a part of this, but I have a question.

1499
02:08:20,690 --> 02:08:23,090
What is eSign mean?

1500
02:08:23,750 --> 02:08:30,230
And also, we're talking about safety and walking and driving.

1501
02:08:33,580 --> 02:08:36,920
And we've read our signs, aren't not safe.

1502
02:08:37,200 --> 02:08:38,260
They're highly dangerous.

1503
02:08:38,260 --> 02:08:41,900
So they're working my way for radiation.

1504
02:08:42,540 --> 02:08:47,620
I have a painful reaction in my body every time I go by one.

1505
02:08:48,180 --> 02:08:51,310
And there are signs that could be put up about crosswalks

1506
02:08:51,840 --> 02:08:54,540
that just show a person walking across.

1507
02:08:54,880 --> 02:08:57,100
It's not like you're getting exact.

1508
02:08:58,100 --> 02:09:04,300
So my question is what part of this involves wireless.

1509
02:09:23,700 --> 02:09:27,260
I'm sorry, Teresa Roderson, your microphone is available.

1510
02:09:28,580 --> 02:09:28,940
Thank you.

1511
02:09:29,140 --> 02:09:29,420
Hi.

1512
02:09:29,520 --> 02:09:30,120
This is Teresa.

1513
02:09:30,140 --> 02:09:36,780
I just want to say that it was in a lot of meetings.

1514
02:09:37,060 --> 02:09:40,980
I would have had a year or so with Russell and Amelia.

1515
02:09:41,520 --> 02:09:45,260
I just wanted to commend them both on their leadership in this project.

1516
02:09:45,500 --> 02:09:49,780
It was very challenging to do outreach, especially during the pandemic.

1517
02:09:49,780 --> 02:09:58,200
But we found creative ways to do that and not only connected with the communities in the

1518
02:09:58,200 --> 02:10:04,840
end incorporated area, but also made some connections within our agencies.

1519
02:10:05,480 --> 02:10:10,260
We were working side by side with the road crews and that sort of thing.

1520
02:10:11,380 --> 02:10:18,480
So it was a really, you know, like you were saying earlier, it was a really educational process

1521
02:10:18,480 --> 02:10:24,560
to go through. And we hope it was the same for the community members that were engaged in it with us.

1522
02:10:24,840 --> 02:10:29,600
And just wanted to say thank you to Amelia and Russell for their leadership.

1523
02:10:31,980 --> 02:10:32,740
Thank you.

1524
02:10:34,700 --> 02:10:36,440
We have no additional speakers.

1525
02:10:36,960 --> 02:10:39,320
All right, been all our turn into the board for action.

1526
02:10:42,320 --> 02:10:43,300
Move the recommended actions.

1527
02:10:44,640 --> 02:10:46,360
Second motion by supervisor.

1528
02:10:46,540 --> 02:10:48,220
First and second by supervisor friend.

1529
02:10:48,540 --> 02:10:49,380
Any further discussion?

1530
02:10:50,740 --> 02:10:52,500
Seeing none, clerk, we'll call the police.

1531
02:10:52,780 --> 02:10:53,660
Supervisor friend.

1532
02:10:53,660 --> 02:10:55,080
All right.

1533
02:10:55,280 --> 02:10:55,840
Coonerty?

1534
02:10:55,940 --> 02:10:56,220
Aye.

1535
02:10:57,000 --> 02:10:57,560
Capit?

1536
02:10:57,820 --> 02:10:58,140
Aye.

1537
02:10:58,540 --> 02:10:59,040
McPherson?

1538
02:10:59,800 --> 02:11:00,240
And Coenic.

1539
02:11:00,600 --> 02:11:00,880
Aye.

1540
02:11:01,240 --> 02:11:01,580
Thank you.

1541
02:11:01,640 --> 02:11:02,680
That item passes unanimously.

1542
02:11:03,160 --> 02:11:03,480
Thank you.

1543
02:11:04,280 --> 02:11:06,840
The Senate Cruz County Act of Transportation Plan being approved.

1544
02:11:07,320 --> 02:11:07,860
Thank you.

1545
02:11:08,040 --> 02:11:10,220
Again, both Mr. Chan and Ms. Conlin.

1546
02:11:11,380 --> 02:11:13,200
We will proceed to item 11.

1547
02:11:15,640 --> 02:11:19,360
Item 11 is the Board of Directors of the Davenport County Sanitation District.

1548
02:11:19,360 --> 02:11:21,400
of a public hearing to consider ordinance

1549
02:11:21,400 --> 02:11:23,420
amendment title three of the district code

1550
02:11:23,420 --> 02:11:27,100
establishing 222223 water service charges

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02:11:27,100 --> 02:11:29,340
and ordinance amendment title four of

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02:11:29,340 --> 02:11:31,800
the district code establishing 222223

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02:11:31,800 --> 02:11:34,020
sewer service charges for the

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02:11:34,020 --> 02:11:35,680
damport County sanitation district

1555
02:11:35,680 --> 02:11:37,540
correct the clerk of the board to place the

1556
02:11:37,540 --> 02:11:39,860
ordinance on the May 24 2022 agenda

1557
02:11:39,860 --> 02:11:43,380
for final adoption set Tuesday June 28 2022

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02:11:43,380 --> 02:11:45,600
at 9 a.m. or thereafter as the date

1559
02:11:45,600 --> 02:11:48,040
and time for a public hearing on the

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02:11:48,040 --> 02:11:50,040
there was charge reports and take related

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02:11:50,040 --> 02:11:52,000
the actions is outlined in the memorandum

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02:11:52,000 --> 02:11:53,600
of the district engineer.

1563
02:11:54,360 --> 02:11:57,120
Officially open the public hearing and for a presentation

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02:11:57,120 --> 02:11:59,020
on the side of we have Ashley Trujillo.

1565
02:11:59,340 --> 02:12:00,260
Thank you.

1566
02:12:00,360 --> 02:12:01,500
Thank you, board.

1567
02:12:02,400 --> 02:12:03,820
So we are here today to talk.

1568
02:12:03,820 --> 02:12:05,000
We'll just check your mic, please.

1569
02:12:09,700 --> 02:12:10,400
Is that work?

1570
02:12:10,520 --> 02:12:11,860
Thanks, I'll be yes, thanks.

1571
02:12:12,520 --> 02:12:13,740
Good morning, Board of Directors.

1572
02:12:14,260 --> 02:12:16,620
This is Ashley Trujillo, senior engineer

1573
02:12:16,620 --> 02:12:19,040
for the Daubinport County Sanitation District.

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02:12:19,040 --> 02:12:25,620
Today was set as the date for the public hearing to consider the ordinance establishing charges

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02:12:25,620 --> 02:12:31,280
to the sewer service, and for the sewer service charges for the district that will be effective

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02:12:31,280 --> 02:12:37,980
as July 1, 2022. These charges have been developed by the district's revenue consultant

1577
02:12:37,980 --> 02:12:43,660
hornberger engineering and are set to be in proportion with the cost of service for each customer

1578
02:12:43,660 --> 02:12:53,020
classification. The water service charge is proposed with a 9, 4.9% increase with a 5.1%

1579
02:12:53,020 --> 02:13:00,660
individual maximum. The proposed sewarts service charges of generating $100,000 to cover the

1580
02:13:00,660 --> 02:13:07,980
district share towards approximately $2.8 million in grant-funded projects. The remaining funds

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02:13:07,980 --> 02:13:13,340
generated by the increase are necessary to meet projected operation and maintenance requirements

1582
02:13:13,340 --> 02:13:20,330
of the water system for the town of Dalton Port. With the district required to set aside capital

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02:13:20,330 --> 02:13:26,190
to move forward with the grant-funded water projects and take into account recent completed sewer projects.

1584
02:13:27,010 --> 02:13:33,250
The capital budget for the sewer system has been reduced to $14,000 for this fiscal year.

1585
02:13:33,710 --> 02:13:42,590
The reduction results in a proposed sewer service charge decrease of 3.5% overall with a 2.7%

1586
02:13:42,590 --> 02:13:50,070
individual minimum decrease. Therefore, we recommend that the board hold the public hearing

1587
02:13:50,070 --> 02:13:55,010
and upon its conclusion consider approval and concept of the ordinances amending district

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02:13:55,010 --> 02:14:06,290
co-title 3 chapter 3.08 article 3 section 3.08163033.08180 for water service charges and district

1589
02:14:06,290 --> 02:14:14,950
Code Title 4, Chapter 4.0A, Article 3, Section 4.0A, 1, 6, 0, 3, 4.0A, 1, 8, 0, 1, 8, 0, 1, 8, 0, for

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02:14:14,950 --> 02:14:18,330
a sewer service charges for the Daven Park County Sanitation District.

1591
02:14:19,550 --> 02:14:25,650
Also, Director Clerk of the Board to place the ordinances on the May 24, 2022 agenda for final

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02:14:25,650 --> 02:14:26,230
adoption.

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02:14:27,030 --> 02:14:32,210
Set Tuesday, June 28, 2022 at 9 a.m., where thereafter is the day in time for the public

1594
02:14:32,210 --> 02:14:36,310
hearing on the sewer service charge reports and direct the clerk of the board to publish

1595
02:14:36,310 --> 02:14:40,390
the notice of public hearing once a week for two weeks before the hearing and a newspaper

1596
02:14:40,390 --> 02:14:43,830
of General Circulation. I'm available up for questions.

1597
02:14:44,490 --> 02:14:47,890
Thank you, Ms. Trujillo. There are any questions or comments from members of the board.

1598
02:14:49,570 --> 02:14:55,870
The other comment I have is, as well now, that Davenport folks pay some of the highest water and

1599
02:14:55,870 --> 02:14:59,970
rates in the state, in the country, because there's just some

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02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:28,300
All district and the costs are spread among a small number of users. I want to think a moment to thank Ashley and the public work staff for doing everything they can to keep those rates low, but also ensure that we're meeting the water quality standards and the other requirements and keeping a system functional and it's always delicate balance. But I appreciate over my time on the board. The work that's got to balance those competing needs.

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02:15:29,800 --> 02:15:30,600
Thank you.

1602
02:15:30,640 --> 02:15:30,920
Thank you.

1603
02:15:31,080 --> 02:15:31,840
Supervisor Kennedy.

1604
02:15:33,000 --> 02:15:34,000
Before the comments or questions,

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02:15:34,340 --> 02:15:34,880
Seeing none.

1606
02:15:35,140 --> 02:15:36,220
Open it for public comment.

1607
02:15:36,840 --> 02:15:37,940
Is there anyone on zoom?

1608
02:15:38,060 --> 02:15:39,080
Motion to comment on this item.

1609
02:15:39,680 --> 02:15:41,480
We have no speaker's views in.

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02:15:41,760 --> 02:15:41,880
Right.

1611
02:15:41,900 --> 02:15:44,160
And I'll return it to the board for action.

1612
02:15:44,860 --> 02:15:46,000
I'll move the recommended actions.

1613
02:15:47,600 --> 02:15:47,860
Second.

1614
02:15:48,580 --> 02:15:49,340
Motion by supervisor.

1615
02:15:49,460 --> 02:15:49,740
Kennedy.

1616
02:15:49,820 --> 02:15:51,000
Second by supervisor friend.

1617
02:15:51,360 --> 02:15:52,000
Any further discussion?

1618
02:15:53,600 --> 02:15:54,100
Seeing none.

1619
02:15:54,180 --> 02:15:54,960
Clerk will call vote.

1620
02:15:55,400 --> 02:15:55,480
Please.

1621
02:15:56,020 --> 02:15:56,820
Supervisor friend.

1622
02:15:57,500 --> 02:15:57,620
Aye.

1623
02:15:57,620 --> 02:15:58,300
Good. Good.

1624
02:15:59,220 --> 02:15:59,780
Good.

1625
02:15:59,780 --> 02:15:59,940
Good.

1626
02:16:00,960 --> 02:16:02,080
Big person.

1627
02:16:02,640 --> 02:16:02,660
I.

1628
02:16:02,940 --> 02:16:03,120
And go.

1629
02:16:03,580 --> 02:16:03,800
I.

1630
02:16:04,120 --> 02:16:04,460
Thank you.

1631
02:16:04,540 --> 02:16:04,920
That's.

1632
02:16:04,920 --> 02:16:06,380
Thank you.

1633
02:16:06,380 --> 02:16:08,340
Those ordinances being adopted in concept.

1634
02:16:09,360 --> 02:16:12,880
The ordinance will be placed on the Jennifer final adoption on May 24th.

1635
02:16:13,120 --> 02:16:18,540
And the rate changes replaced on our June 28 agenda for public hearing.

1636
02:16:18,780 --> 02:16:20,680
Officially close the public hearing on that item.

1637
02:16:21,460 --> 02:16:25,260
And we will proceed to item 12.

1638
02:16:26,940 --> 02:16:31,640
As the Board of Directors of the Freedom Counties Sanitation District, public hearing to consider

1639
02:16:31,640 --> 02:16:37,100
ordinance amending Title 3 of the district code establishing 2022-23 sewer service charges

1640
02:16:37,100 --> 02:16:41,020
for the Freedom Counties Sanitation District, direct the clerk of the board to place the

1641
02:16:41,020 --> 02:16:47,000
ordinance on the May 24th, 2022-age, end of the final adoption set Tuesday, June 28, 2022-9am

1642
02:16:47,000 --> 02:16:51,420
or their actor is the date and time for a public hearing on the service charge reports and

1643
02:16:51,420 --> 02:16:53,840
take related actions as outlined in the

1644
02:16:53,840 --> 02:16:55,160
Miranda of the district engineer.

1645
02:16:55,980 --> 02:16:57,740
And for a report on this item, we have once again,

1646
02:16:57,900 --> 02:16:58,480
Ashley for you.

1647
02:16:58,920 --> 02:17:00,000
Thank you very much.

1648
02:17:00,460 --> 02:17:01,860
And I will officially open the public hearing.

1649
02:17:03,660 --> 02:17:07,420
On March 8, 2020, the board said today is the date

1650
02:17:07,420 --> 02:17:10,060
for the public hearing to consider the ordinance

1651
02:17:10,060 --> 02:17:12,760
establishing charges to the sewer service charges

1652
02:17:12,760 --> 02:17:14,920
for the Freedom County's sanitation district.

1653
02:17:15,260 --> 02:17:18,800
It will be effective as of July 1, 2020, too.

1654
02:17:18,800 --> 02:17:26,840
The proposed service charges reflect an overall increase of 7.4% with a 9.4% individual maximum.

1655
02:17:27,520 --> 02:17:32,560
These increases are necessary to adequately find the district's treatment, maintenance,

1656
02:17:33,180 --> 02:17:38,680
and operational costs as well as fund capital improvements for the district's aging sewer system.

1657
02:17:39,740 --> 02:17:43,420
We therefore recommend that the board hold the public hearing and apply its conclusion

1658
02:17:43,420 --> 02:17:47,780
consider approval and concept of the ordinance and many district code title 3,

1659
02:17:48,100 --> 02:17:55,660
adopted 3.0 a article 3 section 3.0 a establishing the 2020-2223 sewer service charges for

1660
02:17:55,660 --> 02:18:00,820
the Freedom County Sanitation of District. Direct the clerk of the board to place the ordinance

1661
02:18:00,820 --> 02:18:08,740
on the May 24th, 2020 agenda for final adoption. Set Tuesday, July 28, 2022 at 9 a.m. or

1662
02:18:08,740 --> 02:18:13,300
after as the date and time for a public hearing on the sewer on the service

1663
02:18:13,300 --> 02:18:16,960
tribes reports and direct the click of the board to publish the notice of

1664
02:18:16,960 --> 02:18:20,300
public hearing once a week for two weeks before the hearing in a newspaper

1665
02:18:20,300 --> 02:18:23,500
of general circulation available for questions.

1666
02:18:23,640 --> 02:18:27,400
Thank you, Mr. Io. Any comments or questions for members of the board?

1667
02:18:28,900 --> 02:18:32,280
Seeing none, are there any members of the public wishing to comment on this item?

1668
02:18:33,080 --> 02:18:34,860
I think we have no speakers for this item.

1669
02:18:35,580 --> 02:18:36,980
Right, then I'll return to the board for action.

1670
02:18:39,020 --> 02:18:42,080
I will for approval.

1671
02:18:42,740 --> 02:18:44,960
Second, motion my supervisor cap.

1672
02:18:45,260 --> 02:18:46,940
Second, my supervisor friend.

1673
02:18:47,160 --> 02:18:47,820
Any further discussion?

1674
02:18:48,740 --> 02:18:49,300
Seeing none.

1675
02:18:49,380 --> 02:18:50,600
Clerk roll call out please.

1676
02:18:50,940 --> 02:18:52,160
Supervisor friend.

1677
02:18:52,500 --> 02:18:52,560
Aye.

1678
02:18:53,100 --> 02:18:53,540
Coonerty.

1679
02:18:54,980 --> 02:18:55,660
Capit.

1680
02:18:55,900 --> 02:18:56,120
Aye.

1681
02:18:56,800 --> 02:18:57,260
McPherson.

1682
02:18:58,200 --> 02:18:58,780
Enconic.

1683
02:18:59,440 --> 02:18:59,500
I.

1684
02:18:59,800 --> 02:19:00,800
Sidenpasses unanimously.

1685
02:19:01,280 --> 02:19:01,560
Thank you.

1686
02:19:01,600 --> 02:19:03,260
That ordinance being adopted in concept.

1687
02:19:03,260 --> 02:19:11,260
or turn to our final hearing on May 24th and the rate charges will return for public hearing on June 28th.

1688
02:19:12,340 --> 02:19:13,760
Now, thank you, Mr. Hill.

1689
02:19:14,680 --> 02:19:17,520
We'll now proceed to item 13.

1690
02:19:17,760 --> 02:19:22,020
A public hearing, if you consider, I'm sorry, I will close the public hearing for item 12.

1691
02:19:22,720 --> 02:19:31,100
We'll move to item 13, public hearing to consider in concept ordinances of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Cruz Mending Chapter 7.128

1692
02:19:31,100 --> 02:20:00,120
And 13.10 of the Santa Cruz County Code for proposed modifications to setbacks for commercial cannabis cultivation in the commercial agricultural zone district and technical amendments and make findings of exemption from the California environmental quality act schedule the ordinance is for second reading and final adoption on May 24 2022 and take related actions as recommended by the planning commission and as outlined in the memorandum of the county administrative officer and for officers to open the public hearing.

1693
02:20:00,120 --> 02:20:05,100
If we report on this item, we have our canvas licensing officer, Sam, we're 40.

1694
02:20:05,960 --> 02:20:06,260
Thank you.

1695
02:20:06,520 --> 02:20:07,340
Supervisor Coneck.

1696
02:20:07,540 --> 02:20:09,400
Could I have the presentation?

1697
02:20:16,530 --> 02:20:19,030
Mr. or just double check that your microphone is on.

1698
02:20:36,160 --> 02:20:36,980
This is.

1699
02:20:37,440 --> 02:20:38,040
Yeah, 13.

1700
02:20:53,810 --> 02:20:53,890
Yeah.

1701
02:20:53,890 --> 02:20:54,310
One moment.

1702
02:20:54,490 --> 02:20:54,570
Sam.

1703
02:20:54,690 --> 02:20:56,070
I just need to share it via zoom.

1704
02:20:56,730 --> 02:20:57,450
One moment.

1705
02:21:07,830 --> 02:21:08,750
Good morning board members.

1706
02:21:09,130 --> 02:21:14,010
I'm here today to present ordinance amendments as recommended by this board and the planning commission.

1707
02:21:14,010 --> 02:21:18,950
for context, the board has not been unanimous with regard to these amendments.

1708
02:21:22,100 --> 02:21:25,200
I just want to give a quick review of how we got here.

1709
02:21:25,520 --> 02:21:30,340
At the August 24th meeting, a board member identified an elevated community concerns surrounding

1710
02:21:30,340 --> 02:21:34,520
cannabis cultivation in the CA zone adjacent to residential uses.

1711
02:21:35,000 --> 02:21:40,640
The board directed staff to evaluate those concerns at a future meeting on October 19th,

1712
02:21:40,740 --> 02:21:45,560
staff presented an analysis of those concerns in a variety of options for the board

1713
02:21:45,560 --> 02:21:47,100
to consider moving forward.

1714
02:21:49,600 --> 02:21:53,700
On October 19th, the board motion that was

1715
02:21:53,700 --> 02:21:58,380
past stated revised setbacks in the CA to align with the original code approved.

1716
02:21:58,760 --> 02:22:03,440
This includes a 400-foot setback from residences to outdoor grow areas,

1717
02:22:03,840 --> 02:22:07,700
which is twice the setback of then allowed in other agricultural operations.

1718
02:22:08,480 --> 02:22:11,700
The original code also allowed for setbacks down to 100 feet,

1719
02:22:11,880 --> 02:22:16,840
subject to a level five use permit as a load as allowed in all other zone districts.

1720
02:22:16,840 --> 02:22:25,960
and to further define setbacks for indoor cultivation to be 100 feet from residences to cultivation area and 50 feet from nursery operations to residences.

1721
02:22:29,120 --> 02:22:29,960
Staff presented the code.

1722
02:22:30,000 --> 02:22:34,800
Modifications to the Planning Commission at their February 9th hearing, at which time the Planning Commission

1723
02:22:34,800 --> 02:22:41,700
recommended the board approve the proposed amendments and the determination. For clarity, the

1724
02:22:41,700 --> 02:22:47,940
CEQA determination the Planning Commission reviewed was only applicable to Chapter 1310 modifications,

1725
02:22:48,460 --> 02:22:53,780
and the CEQA determination presented for the board has been revised for county council to address

1726
02:22:53,780 --> 02:22:57,420
changes to both chapters 13, 10 and 7.128.

1727
02:22:59,830 --> 02:23:04,330
The proposed setback modifications will line the CA zone with all other zone districts

1728
02:23:04,330 --> 02:23:10,970
for outdoor cultivation by increasing setbacks to 400 feet from adjacent residential structures.

1729
02:23:11,770 --> 02:23:15,610
This was the originally approved setback until it was modified in June 2020.

1730
02:23:16,270 --> 02:23:19,430
Setbacks for indoor cultivation are proposed to remain the same.

1731
02:23:19,430 --> 02:23:26,530
setbacks for nursery operations are proposed to decrease to 50 feet. This is due to the nature of

1732
02:23:26,530 --> 02:23:31,490
nurseries being similar to other commercial agricultural nurseries. The plants that these nurseries

1733
02:23:31,490 --> 02:23:35,710
cannot flower, or there should not be any odor associated with these operations.

1734
02:23:39,410 --> 02:23:44,090
Additional modifications to code are all minor in nature. They include clarifying some

1735
02:23:44,090 --> 02:23:48,930
language to meet the original intention of code, removing some redundancy in paperwork,

1736
02:23:48,930 --> 02:23:54,590
shifting the responsibility to county staff and allowing the CLO to designate responsibility

1737
02:23:54,590 --> 02:23:58,870
to staff and formalizing the security plan approval process.

1738
02:24:01,120 --> 02:24:04,600
Lastly, I'd like to answer any questions the board may have on the proposed ordinance

1739
02:24:04,600 --> 02:24:07,080
modifications and say thank you for your time today.

1740
02:24:08,500 --> 02:24:08,900
Thank you, Arthur.

1741
02:24:08,980 --> 02:24:12,260
So before the questions or comments from members of the board,

1742
02:24:14,820 --> 02:24:15,940
Mr. Chair, I don't have any

1743
02:24:15,940 --> 02:24:16,220
questions.

1744
02:24:16,340 --> 02:24:17,980
I do have some brief comments.

1745
02:24:18,860 --> 02:24:19,880
I don't have any questions.

1746
02:24:20,500 --> 02:24:22,140
I do have some brief comments.

1747
02:24:22,140 --> 02:24:28,720
this process has gone over the last few years and it really only impacts two districts within

1748
02:24:28,720 --> 02:24:36,060
the county. In fact, the board over time functionally wrote out some zones that would have impacted

1749
02:24:36,060 --> 02:24:41,560
other districts, but yet here we are with all the impacts occurring within two districts. Those are

1750
02:24:41,560 --> 02:24:48,740
the two districts are arguing for greater setbacks in lack of conflict with residential areas,

1751
02:24:48,740 --> 02:24:52,320
but haven't been able to find a board majority and support.

1752
02:24:52,680 --> 02:24:57,820
I mean, just a bit of this in perspective, a large part of this discussion over the last few

1753
02:24:57,820 --> 02:25:03,940
years has been based on what ended up becoming a false premise of a sense of economic

1754
02:25:03,940 --> 02:25:08,620
windfall and economic development and generation of possibilities associated with an industry

1755
02:25:08,620 --> 02:25:14,080
that's in total freefall and economic collapse right now, none of the tax numbers that were

1756
02:25:14,080 --> 02:25:20,500
estimated from the CLO's office or the CAO's office over the last few years have come to fruition.

1757
02:25:21,060 --> 02:25:25,520
Many of the cultivators are seeking to not renew their licenses because of a difficult market.

1758
02:25:25,800 --> 02:25:34,100
But yet, the way that this board is responding is saying the way that we're going to deal with that is by expanding the possibility into a market

1759
02:25:34,100 --> 02:25:42,160
that isn't even possible to do it in areas that can create conflict as opposed to limiting it in areas that they would never be able to fill any way in areas

1760
02:25:42,160 --> 02:25:47,880
that wouldn't create conflict. It doesn't make any policy sense. It doesn't make any reasonable

1761
02:25:47,880 --> 02:25:51,380
sense. And there isn't a board member here that would actually vote to put this next to their

1762
02:25:51,380 --> 02:25:56,780
house, but yet they're doing exactly that right now. And just to give a sense, I'm sort of

1763
02:25:56,780 --> 02:26:00,620
what these set set backs are. I mean, just to put into perspective, I mean, most of these are

1764
02:26:00,620 --> 02:26:06,000
smaller, right now I'm coaching my son's apt-ass little leg team, one of the coaches on a team.

1765
02:26:06,600 --> 02:26:11,640
And now the team all fields are actually larger than the set back proposals that we're having here.

1766
02:26:12,160 --> 02:26:16,980
where somebody is going to be literally living with a bedroom window, 100 feet in some situations

1767
02:26:16,980 --> 02:26:22,400
or 50 feet if it's a nursery, such as a pitching mound, a distance. I mean, these are exceptionally

1768
02:26:22,400 --> 02:26:27,260
small setbacks that are being proposed and we're celebrating them as though that there's some

1769
02:26:27,260 --> 02:26:32,160
sort of expansion, but they're not really an expansion that has any true meaning for any of my constituents

1770
02:26:32,160 --> 02:26:38,020
or supervisor capots constituents. I still think that since a lot of this was sold on a bill of goods

1771
02:26:38,020 --> 02:26:40,260
on economic development that didn't have been reality.

1772
02:26:40,380 --> 02:26:42,960
And I've heard my colleagues on the board bring it up.

1773
02:26:43,120 --> 02:26:45,380
I'm going to, I'm going to, it was a key emphasis point

1774
02:26:45,380 --> 02:26:48,380
of you at the last meeting, because the numbers were provided

1775
02:26:48,380 --> 02:26:51,300
by the kind of a licensing officer about the quote

1776
02:26:51,300 --> 02:26:53,280
unquote theoretical tax that would be lost.

1777
02:26:53,620 --> 02:26:57,620
Should we do the restrictions that were from personal line

1778
02:26:57,620 --> 02:27:01,720
that would only allow for 800 parcels

1779
02:27:01,720 --> 02:27:04,040
to be grown as opposed to 1,400 parcels?

1780
02:27:04,360 --> 02:27:05,760
You know, those numbers are even coming anywhere

1781
02:27:05,760 --> 02:27:06,460
in your reality.

1782
02:27:06,460 --> 02:27:11,700
and so why in the world when we're basing it off of that is a concept that we continue to expand and

1783
02:27:11,700 --> 02:27:16,880
create these conflicts of residential zone districts. It's just been a disappointing process all together.

1784
02:27:17,700 --> 02:27:21,720
It continues to be disappointing and I hope that the board would still consider the opportunity to

1785
02:27:21,720 --> 02:27:28,600
move back to what we discussed which is to provide greater protection specifically against residential

1786
02:27:28,600 --> 02:27:34,680
zone parcels. By the way, this still puts nearly all of the growing in my district. It still puts

1787
02:27:34,680 --> 02:27:39,800
generally in a small portion and supervisor cap is district, it wouldn't extend it into any other district.

1788
02:27:40,740 --> 02:27:47,620
As you know, there are absolutely no sites within supervisor Kennedy district, and there are at least as of now as one site and supervisor McPherson's district.

1789
02:27:48,360 --> 02:27:54,120
So you think that there would be some sort of understanding or deference to those that are representing the area and the things that we believe to be issues,

1790
02:27:54,280 --> 02:28:01,540
still allowing the entire industry to occur within our district, but instead trying to find a balance between that and the residential areas.

1791
02:28:02,600 --> 02:28:16,560
So, I'm not going to be supportive of, I mean, just like I was last time with what's being proposed today, I'd welcome the thoughts of my colleagues on this in regards to whether there's a way to continue to make this better, the planning commission was was equally divided on a three two with the exact same concerns.

1792
02:28:17,200 --> 02:28:21,140
And so that's, I do have a appreciation for all the work that Mr.

1793
02:28:21,180 --> 02:28:24,560
Authority has done over the last few years in Mr. Reno in particular.

1794
02:28:24,900 --> 02:28:29,540
I mean, it's an evolving and difficult industry with a lot of challenges associated with it.

1795
02:28:29,600 --> 02:28:33,540
I just think that county staff that we need to challenge ourselves that when we make

1796
02:28:33,540 --> 02:28:37,480
fact-based statements that help influence public policy.

1797
02:28:37,720 --> 02:28:40,500
When those statements don't end up bearing fruit over time,

1798
02:28:40,580 --> 02:28:43,500
you need to come back and actually acknowledge the board in the community that they're wrong.

1799
02:28:43,500 --> 02:28:47,520
because policy makers make decisions based on these estimates and this information.

1800
02:28:48,440 --> 02:28:50,660
So we have an equal responsibility to come back and say,

1801
02:28:50,660 --> 02:28:54,120
look, you passed all these ordinances based on a promise that didn't end up being true.

1802
02:28:54,160 --> 02:28:56,620
Should the board consider maybe revisions as a result of it?

1803
02:28:56,620 --> 02:28:59,480
I've never seen that happen. Still waiting for it to happen.

1804
02:28:59,540 --> 02:29:03,400
And I think that that's part of what's let us down the path of where we are today.

1805
02:29:04,200 --> 02:29:05,040
Take a Mr. Chair.

1806
02:29:05,940 --> 02:29:06,880
Thank you, Supervisor Friend.

1807
02:29:10,320 --> 02:29:11,160
Any other comments?

1808
02:29:11,380 --> 02:29:12,220
Members of the board?

1809
02:29:13,660 --> 02:29:14,340
Supervisor Cabot.

1810
02:29:14,340 --> 02:29:29,900
Thank you. I will repeat, I agree with Supervisor Friend, this directly affects residents

1811
02:29:29,900 --> 02:29:39,800
and people in District 4, which is my district, and also Supervisor Friend's district.

1812
02:29:39,800 --> 02:29:47,820
I guess what I'm getting out here is I almost always say I can't remember going contrary to

1813
02:29:48,500 --> 02:29:56,720
something that is very personal to somebody some other supervisor's district.

1814
02:29:57,620 --> 02:29:59,980
I figure they know they're ready to better this.

1815
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:20,620
I do, so I usually go along with the recommendation. In this case, district four, and the supervisor, friends, district are we have to deal with the green majority of most of all of the, you know, kind of kind of a setbacks.

1816
02:30:20,620 --> 02:30:32,920
So, I found it difficult to understand why three out of the five would actually support this change.

1817
02:30:34,140 --> 02:30:50,100
But anyway, if one of the other supervisors, reconsider and vote along with myself and voting no on this, but it's kind of like the game, right?

1818
02:30:50,100 --> 02:30:50,760
Thank

1819
02:30:53,930 --> 02:30:54,810
you, Supervisor Caba.

1820
02:30:58,090 --> 02:30:59,710
All right, seeing no further questions or comments.

1821
02:30:59,990 --> 02:31:02,210
Do any members of the public question to speak to this item?

1822
02:31:03,510 --> 02:31:05,090
We do have one speaker, Vism.

1823
02:31:13,400 --> 02:31:15,380
Vicky Shepherd, your microphone is available.

1824
02:31:18,550 --> 02:31:19,370
Thank you.

1825
02:31:19,650 --> 02:31:22,170
Supervisors, I want to give a special thanks to

1826
02:31:22,170 --> 02:31:25,910
Supervisor Friend and Supervisor Caba for again,

1827
02:31:26,470 --> 02:31:28,430
challenging the other three supervisors to

1828
02:31:29,070 --> 02:31:32,010
consider how this would feel if it was in your backyard.

1829
02:31:32,010 --> 02:31:39,530
And I am so, so disappointed with the way that vote came down if the last Board of Supervisors

1830
02:31:39,530 --> 02:31:40,050
meeting.

1831
02:31:40,450 --> 02:31:46,030
As I am directly affected to the one-ten Chris neighborhood, I spoke with others across

1832
02:31:46,030 --> 02:31:52,710
the county in South County that are terrified about the fact that these setbacks are now even

1833
02:31:52,710 --> 02:32:02,510
smaller to cultivation projects than you would even have at a cannabis shop in downtown

1834
02:32:02,510 --> 02:32:08,230
Sacramento and downtown Santa Cruz. Now the Plan for Commission vote is that these proposed

1835
02:32:08,230 --> 02:32:14,190
changes are exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act Sequo, but is our understanding

1836
02:32:14,190 --> 02:32:22,490
of Sequo that the county has responsibility to provide evidence to support its claim that these

1837
02:32:22,490 --> 02:32:29,510
changes are exempt from sequela. And this has not been provided. Common sense would dictate

1838
02:32:29,510 --> 02:32:35,370
that reducing the setbacks from what was previously proposed for indoor green houses in

1839
02:32:35,370 --> 02:32:42,450
our industries would more likely negatively impact neighborhoods and the ambient environment

1840
02:32:42,450 --> 02:32:50,050
as it will always. And we had so many neighbors show up. So many people from the county show up

1841
02:32:50,050 --> 02:33:05,210
asking you to take this into consideration, and what my perspective in many others was that this was a pre-ordained decision by the other three county members and I am extremely disappointed.

1842
02:33:09,920 --> 02:33:10,820
Thank you, Mr. Shepherd.

1843
02:33:11,900 --> 02:33:12,260
Thank you.

1844
02:33:13,920 --> 02:33:16,560
I have no further speakers for this item.

1845
02:33:17,180 --> 02:33:19,740
All right, then I'll return to the board for action.

1846
02:33:22,320 --> 02:33:25,140
With Cheryl, I'll make the recommended action.

1847
02:33:25,900 --> 02:33:28,060
I'll just let me just preference because it's a great

1848
02:33:28,060 --> 02:33:32,860
friend asked for input and I'll miss these dialogues

1849
02:33:32,860 --> 02:33:37,040
that we have had over this issue for all these years.

1850
02:33:37,360 --> 02:33:39,880
I'm sympathetic and I understand the frustration.

1851
02:33:41,680 --> 02:33:45,220
I think the big difference is that this is an area that's

1852
02:33:45,220 --> 02:33:50,120
on commercial agriculture, which means that it's the place where commercial

1853
02:33:50,120 --> 02:33:52,260
agriculture will occur in our county.

1854
02:33:53,040 --> 02:33:59,680
My district has a place that's known for college and education use,

1855
02:33:59,720 --> 02:34:01,240
and it has big impacts.

1856
02:34:02,320 --> 02:34:06,000
And sometimes the board has been supportive of trying to mitigate

1857
02:34:06,000 --> 02:34:08,480
some of those impacts and sometimes they haven't.

1858
02:34:08,480 --> 02:34:20,140
And we also are the place where almost all the county services, the jail, as well as all the services are provided and I would.

1859
02:34:21,380 --> 02:34:29,520
I have neighbors every day asking me to move those services out of the city and into the unincorporated areas of the county.

1860
02:34:30,520 --> 02:34:35,760
So each of us has specific impacts that are felt in our district that are different than other districts.

1861
02:34:35,760 --> 02:34:51,740
We have to try to make the best policy a point out again that in these greenhouses, you can have hemp with no, no, essentially regulations or setbacks that have the same odor impacts that would have.

1862
02:34:52,020 --> 02:35:01,260
You could have flowers being grown using pesticides. You could have all kinds of commercial iguses if you treat cannabis as a crop.

1863
02:35:01,260 --> 02:35:24,640
This is the most regulated crop that we allow in our community and we're trying to find a balance between allowing it to be an industry, but while also creating setbacks and impacts because of the

1864
02:35:24,640 --> 02:35:32,160
industrial hemp where there will be virtually no will be no county regulation or subbacks

1865
02:35:32,160 --> 02:35:39,660
and say you could have similar impacts, more impacts if we don't create a way for the cannabis

1866
02:35:39,660 --> 02:35:44,560
growers to operate this county. So I'll move the recommended action.

1867
02:35:47,980 --> 02:35:48,860
Motion by supervisor

1868
02:35:48,860 --> 02:35:53,400
Kennedy, second by supervisor McPherson, any further discussion? Supervisor Caput.

1869
02:35:53,400 --> 02:36:12,260
Yeah, one, if county council can explain one more time why this is the ordinance does not require a four fifths vote rather than just simple majority.

1870
02:36:16,090 --> 02:36:24,990
Because the law allows for for this ordinance to be adopted by three fifths, a zoning ordinance doesn't have to be adopted by four fifths.

1871
02:36:27,200 --> 02:36:28,040
for

1872
02:36:31,200 --> 02:36:31,800
the discussion.

1873
02:36:32,560 --> 02:36:33,860
Mr. Chair, I appreciate it.

1874
02:36:33,860 --> 02:36:34,420
I appreciate it.

1875
02:36:34,420 --> 02:36:34,500
I appreciate it.

1876
02:36:34,640 --> 02:36:40,040
I think that maybe then this border of future boards should consider on future updates that

1877
02:36:40,040 --> 02:36:47,100
we, since these, it appears as though people feel that this is already related and non-impactful

1878
02:36:47,100 --> 02:36:52,300
industry that we expand this into maybe timber production zones or other zones are within

1879
02:36:52,300 --> 02:36:56,560
third and fifth district so that we can at least share that responsibility across the county

1880
02:36:56,560 --> 02:36:58,440
and give more opportunities for the Canada

1881
02:36:58,440 --> 02:37:00,200
to send a street to be throughout the county.

1882
02:37:01,400 --> 02:37:04,860
Because historically we've moved it into one specific area

1883
02:37:04,860 --> 02:37:09,700
for maybe that would actually be an interesting discussion

1884
02:37:09,700 --> 02:37:12,780
for this board to have is ways that it can move

1885
02:37:12,780 --> 02:37:15,080
into other agricultural andcillary zone districts.

1886
02:37:15,380 --> 02:37:18,200
As you know, those are agricultural and zone districts

1887
02:37:18,200 --> 02:37:21,360
that the board specifically precluded and perhaps

1888
02:37:22,160 --> 02:37:24,920
moving forward that would be a discussion

1889
02:37:24,920 --> 02:37:29,080
to have, I appreciate Supervisor Corneree's comments and that'll be voting now on the item.

1890
02:37:30,590 --> 02:37:36,660
Thank you, supervisor friend. Seeing you for the discussion, clerk will call the police.

1891
02:37:37,080 --> 02:37:39,260
Supervisor friend? No.

1892
02:37:39,960 --> 02:37:41,520
Coonerty? Aye.

1893
02:37:42,640 --> 02:37:43,320
Capit?

1894
02:37:43,580 --> 02:37:44,160
No.

1895
02:37:44,700 --> 02:37:45,300
McPherson?

1896
02:37:46,580 --> 02:37:46,640
Aye.

1897
02:37:46,640 --> 02:37:46,960
Coning?

1898
02:37:47,460 --> 02:37:47,660
Aye.

1899
02:37:48,540 --> 02:37:50,360
That item passes three to two.

1900
02:37:54,390 --> 02:37:55,090
Thank you.

1901
02:37:55,650 --> 02:38:00,770
That ordinance being approved in concept or turned our May 24th meeting for final adoption.

1902
02:38:01,730 --> 02:38:02,850
No close public hearing.

1903
02:38:05,480 --> 02:38:30,880
Right. We have remaining on our regular agenda today, a 130 item. So we'll now move into closed session. Take a 10 minute break and convenient closed session at 1150 and we'll see you back here for open session at 130. And there are no reportable items from closed session. Okay. Thank you very much.

1904
02:38:30,880 --> 02:38:32,000
Thank you.

1905
02:38:42,780 --> 02:38:52,300
We'll now resume the regular meeting of the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors with our schedule the item and I'm 14 before we do that though.

1906
02:38:52,540 --> 02:38:55,320
Clerk, we please call the roll to make sure we have a room present.

1907
02:38:55,660 --> 02:38:57,380
Absolutely. Supervisor, friend.

1908
02:38:57,720 --> 02:38:57,780
Here.

1909
02:38:58,680 --> 02:38:59,180
Coonerty.

1910
02:39:00,880 --> 02:39:01,380
Capit.

1911
02:39:01,580 --> 02:39:01,800
Here.

1912
02:39:02,240 --> 02:39:02,700
McPherson.

1913
02:39:03,660 --> 02:39:04,080
Enconic.

1914
02:39:04,660 --> 02:39:04,800
Here.

1915
02:39:05,180 --> 02:39:05,580
Thank you, Chair.

1916
02:39:05,640 --> 02:39:06,060
You have a call.

1917
02:39:06,820 --> 02:39:07,260
Thank you.

1918
02:39:07,260 --> 02:39:37,240
So we will proceed with item 14, a public hearing to consider in concept accordance to the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Cruz repealing Santa Cruz County Code section 13, 1066313, 10664 and a pending section 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 10, 13, 13, 13, 10, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 14, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 14, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 13, 14, 13, 13, 13, 14, 13, 13, 14.

1919
02:39:37,240 --> 02:39:40,200
So regarding wireless communication facilities,

1920
02:39:40,680 --> 02:39:42,320
a dock resolution of Fermi Amendments

1921
02:39:42,320 --> 02:39:45,040
are exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act,

1922
02:39:45,280 --> 02:39:48,000
skimdly ordinance for final adoption on May 24th, 2022,

1923
02:39:48,200 --> 02:39:49,440
and peak relay of actions is outlined

1924
02:39:49,440 --> 02:39:51,660
in the memorandum of the inform director of planning.

1925
02:39:52,260 --> 02:39:53,380
And for a report on a side of them,

1926
02:39:53,440 --> 02:39:55,740
we have David Carlson, Senior Resource Planner.

1927
02:39:56,740 --> 02:39:57,960
Thank you, Chair Coneck.

1928
02:39:58,600 --> 02:40:01,320
The side and would overhaul the county's wireless facilities

1929
02:40:01,320 --> 02:40:05,880
regulations by repealing and replacing the existing wireless

1930
02:40:05,880 --> 02:40:19,600
regulations on December 7th, the Board conducted a study session on the proposed ordinance and on March 9th of 2022, the Planning Commission held the public hearing on the proposed ordinance and recommended approval by the Board of Supervisors.

1931
02:40:24,190 --> 02:40:26,010
Could you bring up the slides, please?

1932
02:40:40,290 --> 02:40:40,730
Thank you.

1933
02:40:44,750 --> 02:40:54,270
Okay, so I'll start with some background information on regulation of wireless communication facilities and then explain why our local regulations need to be updated.

1934
02:40:54,270 --> 02:40:59,170
I'll also include some images later in the presentation demonstrating some of the changes.

1935
02:41:02,810 --> 02:41:08,410
The Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 was intended to promote competition and reduce

1936
02:41:08,410 --> 02:41:14,350
regulation and encourage the rapid deployment of new telecommunications technologies.

1937
02:41:14,910 --> 02:41:19,430
The Federal Law preserves local zoning authority over placement, construction and

1938
02:41:19,430 --> 02:41:23,730
modification of wireless facilities, but with certain limitations.

1939
02:41:23,730 --> 02:41:30,490
The county can't discriminate among providers or effectively prohibit personal wireless service.

1940
02:41:30,970 --> 02:41:39,150
The county must act on permit applications within certain timelines and may not regulate based on the environmental effects of radio frequency emissions.

1941
02:41:40,150 --> 02:41:51,250
Therefore, our local zoning authority can address issues such as citing, design, and operational impacts of wireless facilities, including designating zone districts where they are allowed.

1942
02:41:51,250 --> 02:42:04,510
height limits, screening, and camouflaging standards, and address some physical impacts of placement and operation of wireless facilities, such as vegetation modification, grading, lighting, and noise.

1943
02:42:08,150 --> 02:42:20,270
The county's existing wireless ordinances over 20 years old, and over that time various additional federal and state regulations and legal rulings have been issued to keep up with technology and streamline the local permit process.

1944
02:42:20,270 --> 02:42:39,830
The first two limitations on local zoning authority that the county can't discriminate among providers and can't prohibit wireless service have been interpreted by the FCC and the federal courts to mean that the county must allow our wireless service provider to substantially reduce the significant gap in service, even if service is available in the same area by a different provider.

1945
02:42:39,830 --> 02:42:54,210
However, the county retains the ability to require the gap, be reduced in the least intrusive manner and that has typically been determined through extensive alternative analysis and on certain applications by applying certain aesthetic requirements.

1946
02:42:55,150 --> 02:43:06,310
Regarding permit processing timelines, the FCC has mandated shot clocks, which are very aggressive timelines for communities to act on certain types of wireless facility applications.

1947
02:43:06,310 --> 02:43:23,010
And technical logical advances in experience with wireless facility installations have led to new definitions and requirements in federal and state law for small wireless facilities, modifications to existing facilities and installations in the public right away

1948
02:43:27,390 --> 02:43:36,510
comparing the existing and proposed new ordinance is detailed in the crosswalk document attached to the board memo and some of the major changes are highlighted on this slide.

1949
02:43:36,510 --> 02:43:48,010
Currently, co-location is only encouraged in the existing ordinance and in the new ordinance it would be required unless there is no existing facility that would provide substantially similar coverage.

1950
02:43:48,990 --> 02:44:00,090
The list of prohibited zone districts would remain the same, but there would be some additional exceptions listed including small self facilities, co-locations and modifications of existing facilities.

1951
02:44:00,090 --> 02:44:06,050
exceptions to prohibited zone districts would be considered based on an alternative analysis

1952
02:44:06,050 --> 02:44:10,730
that documents a substantial reduction of a significant gap in the least intrusive manner.

1953
02:44:11,470 --> 02:44:17,250
The new ordinance includes height standards with a requirement to minimize height and allow us

1954
02:44:17,250 --> 02:44:21,110
for exceptions to height based on the same exception criteria.

1955
02:44:22,110 --> 02:44:27,410
Whereas the existing ordinance requires processing all new wireless facilities permits at the

1956
02:44:28,430 --> 02:44:34,150
The new ordinance proposes different permit types based on the type of facility.

1957
02:44:35,150 --> 02:44:41,850
Basically, a discretionary permit, including standard public noticing, would continue to be required for new, non-correlated,

1958
02:44:42,690 --> 02:44:44,230
co-located wireless facilities.

1959
02:44:44,930 --> 02:44:50,430
But other common types of facilities would be processes building permits or encroachment permits.

1960
02:44:50,430 --> 02:44:58,230
And the new ordinance includes new sections addressing facilities in the public right away and modifications of existing facilities.

1961
02:45:01,580 --> 02:45:07,700
The difference short clock timelines reflect the nature of certain types of wireless facilities,

1962
02:45:08,320 --> 02:45:14,840
collocation of wireless facilities and eligible modifications of existing wireless facilities.

1963
02:45:15,420 --> 02:45:20,180
For example, have the shortest timeline for the county to act on the application of 60 days.

1964
02:45:21,080 --> 02:45:30,100
By definition, these types of facilities can generally be constructed with minimal to no visual or operational impacts subject to certain criteria.

1965
02:45:30,100 --> 02:45:39,220
The key criteria and the proposed ordinance for co-located facilities is not defeating any concealment elements of the existing wireless facility.

1966
02:45:40,160 --> 02:45:53,120
Or adding concealment elements to the to the co-location that would render the facility completely nonvisible or architecturally integrated with the building or surrounding environment using screening or camouflaging techniques.

1967
02:45:54,220 --> 02:45:58,240
So essentially the facility looks like a normal part of the building or surrounding environment.

1968
02:45:59,020 --> 02:46:04,640
Additionally, the new ordinance would allow ministerial processing of new wireless facilities

1969
02:46:04,640 --> 02:46:09,380
on existing commercial, industrial, or public facilities, including schools.

1970
02:46:10,080 --> 02:46:14,640
The key criteria for these types of wireless communication facilities is either complete

1971
02:46:14,640 --> 02:46:19,540
concealment, so if the facility is not visible at all, or are potentially integrated

1972
02:46:19,540 --> 02:46:21,560
by previously described.

1973
02:46:24,730 --> 02:46:29,530
And by the way, this image is of the Wilson-Tire facility,

1974
02:46:30,250 --> 02:46:32,850
a structure in downtown SoCal, and there's a couple of

1975
02:46:32,850 --> 02:46:34,770
wire facilities on the roof of this building.

1976
02:46:35,230 --> 02:46:39,530
The antennas appear to be to look like stove pipes,

1977
02:46:40,590 --> 02:46:44,710
and then the equipment enclosure looks like a normal,

1978
02:46:45,410 --> 02:46:47,210
maybe air conditioning unit,

1979
02:46:47,710 --> 02:46:50,110
enclosure that you would see on the top of a commercial building.

1980
02:46:51,390 --> 02:47:04,970
And then this is an image of a public storage facility on Portola Drive and there is an existing wireless facility on the roof of this building behind that parapet in the back.

1981
02:47:05,670 --> 02:47:07,510
So that would be completely concealed.

1982
02:47:18,420 --> 02:47:25,160
It's also becoming increasingly common to construct small wireless facilities on existing infrastructure in the public right away.

1983
02:47:25,160 --> 02:47:29,380
And the new ordinance includes a section specifically addressing these types of applications.

1984
02:47:30,340 --> 02:47:38,660
They would generally be processed as ministerial encroachment permits by the community development infrastructure department.

1985
02:47:39,060 --> 02:47:48,860
Provided they meet the definition of a small wireless facility or represent modifications of an existing wireless facility that qualify as an eligible facilities request.

1986
02:47:48,860 --> 02:47:52,440
and that they need a specific criteria and the ordinance.

1987
02:47:53,060 --> 02:47:57,980
Request for other types of wireless facilities in the public right away would not be processed

1988
02:47:57,980 --> 02:48:03,320
as encroachment permits only, but would first require discretionary conditionally use permit

1989
02:48:03,320 --> 02:48:09,900
processed by the community development and infrastructure department prior to obtaining

1990
02:48:09,900 --> 02:48:15,980
an encroachment permit. The new ordinance includes objective criteria for review of wireless

1991
02:48:15,980 --> 02:48:24,220
facilities in the public right away. They're qualified for an encroachment permit. Only to minimize impacts of these facilities in the right away.

1992
02:48:24,700 --> 02:48:31,840
The criteria include a list of prohibited locations, specific criteria for wood utility poles and metal street light poles.

1993
02:48:31,840 --> 02:48:41,200
Uh, dimensional criteria, including height and volume of antennas and equipment are the same as the definition and federal law of a small wireless facility.

1994
02:48:42,280 --> 02:48:57,760
Additional criteria for wood facility poles include elements designed to minimize the visual clutter on the pole, including shrouding the antenna, concealing the cabling and equipment enclosures flush mounted and no wider than the pole.

1995
02:48:57,760 --> 02:49:10,860
And from metal poles, the criteria is meant to achieve the same goal to minimize clutter, but they have an advantage that they are hollow and can house the wireless equipment internally or

1996
02:49:10,860 --> 02:49:13,040
or separate ground-mounted equipment boxes.

1997
02:49:19,060 --> 02:49:29,540
And here's a couple of images of wireless facilities on would utility poles in the right away. The image on the left is actually a simulation.

1998
02:49:29,540 --> 02:49:39,720
And then you can see the wireless equipment and you're the bottom of the pool below the transmission lines and you can see the antenna on the top of the pool above the transmission lines.

1999
02:49:40,360 --> 02:49:48,760
And then on the right, you can see the antenna below the transmission lines and below the street light.

2000
02:49:48,760 --> 02:49:54,460
They're on the side of the pole and then you can see the equipment, you know, the bottom of the pole.

2001
02:50:01,460 --> 02:50:17,200
And then here's an example from the manufacturer's brochure of a metal street light pole that is designed to house all the equipment internally to the pole with the antenna above the light standards.

2002
02:50:18,400 --> 02:50:39,920
And there's an image on ocean street with the county building in the background and the Starbucks on the corner and that is a wireless antenna on top of that street light pole in the median and the equipment cabinet is in the background to the left and to that tree on the side of the road.

2003
02:50:47,060 --> 02:51:01,080
The new ordinance includes a section specifically addressing modifications of existing wireless facilities to fully and accurately reflect the provisions of federal law, the spectrum act of 2012 that apply to these types of projects.

2004
02:51:01,820 --> 02:51:10,460
These installations are called eligible facilities requests, which is defined as a modification that doesn't represent a substantial change to the tower base station.

2005
02:51:10,460 --> 02:51:27,080
There's detail criteria in the ordinance defining a substantial change and again the key criteria is that the proposed modification must be limited and dimension and must not defeat the existing concealment elements of the existing tower or base station.

2006
02:51:27,700 --> 02:51:32,820
These would be processed as ministerial building permits for encroachment permits depending on their location.

2007
02:51:32,820 --> 02:51:40,680
And in this image, there is an existing facility in this tower on top of the Ben Lomond Fire Station.

2008
02:51:40,980 --> 02:51:51,960
And so that eligible facilities request here that is within that same enclosure, meaning it does not defeat the existing concealment elements would be processed as a building permit only.

2009
02:51:54,860 --> 02:52:04,140
And I'll show a couple of other examples of eligible facilities request that can include additional equipment or modifications of equipment on a tower,

2010
02:52:04,140 --> 02:52:10,400
such as this as long as it meets certain dimensional criteria in terms of height and width.

2011
02:52:13,980 --> 02:52:21,480
And then I wanted to show, finally, a couple of images of this is a monopole tree tower

2012
02:52:21,480 --> 02:52:29,960
and aptoss and this would be a, you know, this was originally a new wireless facilities and so that would be processed.

2013
02:52:30,000 --> 02:52:39,220
There's a discretionary permit, but also an eligible facility is request on this current installation. Could potentially be processes to build in permit.

2014
02:52:43,520 --> 02:52:51,720
And then here's another image of a monopole disguises as a tree at the Positimpo Exit Offifyway 17.

2015
02:52:52,360 --> 02:52:59,400
I don't know if you can notice it, but there is a tree in there that has antennas on it, or the fake tree in there that has antennas on it.

2016
02:53:03,460 --> 02:53:15,680
And so, overall, the budget changes in the new ordinance generally consist of clarifying language, removal of repetition, and overhaul of the overall structure, meant to facilitate more efficient administration of the ordinance.

2017
02:53:16,480 --> 02:53:25,480
There's new provisions for ministerial encroachment permits that will provide more efficient process to comply with the shortcut clock timelines in federal law.

2018
02:53:25,480 --> 02:53:38,540
Certainly there remains many discretionary aspects of some of these types of applications and an effort was made in the new ordinance to provide language that will also facilitate more efficient processing of discretionary applications for wireless facilities.

2019
02:53:39,280 --> 02:53:43,600
In addition, because the existing ordinance supplies both inside and outside the coastal zone.

2020
02:53:44,240 --> 02:53:50,700
Staffers recommending repealing and replacing two identical versions of the ordinance, one inside and one outside the coastal zone.

2021
02:53:50,700 --> 02:53:58,740
And so in this way, the existing ordinance will remain in effect inside the coastal zone until certification of the new ordinance by the coastal commission.

2022
02:54:00,100 --> 02:54:20,420
And so staff is recommending that the Board of Supervisors conduct the public hearing to consider the proposed amendments to the Santa Cruz County code and local coastal program that modify regulations related to wireless communication facilities adopt the attached resolution finding the proposed amendments are consistent with the general plan and local coastal program.

2023
02:54:20,420 --> 02:54:25,320
an exempt from further environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act

2024
02:54:25,320 --> 02:54:30,160
and direct staff to file the CEQA notice of the exemption and submit the local coastal

2025
02:54:30,160 --> 02:54:34,300
program amendments to the California Coastal Commission for Certification.

2026
02:54:35,820 --> 02:54:42,060
Approve in concept and ordinance repealings and occurs county code sections 1310 660 through

2027
02:54:42,060 --> 02:54:48,120
1616, adding sections 1316, 0-664,

2028
02:54:48,560 --> 02:54:50,960
a Mending section 1310.312,

2029
02:54:52,200 --> 02:54:55,760
3233, 32342, 352,

2030
02:54:55,960 --> 02:54:57,140
372,

2031
02:54:57,140 --> 02:54:57,800
372,

2032
02:54:58,080 --> 02:55:02,060
regarding wireless communications facilities outside the Coastal Zone,

2033
02:55:02,520 --> 02:55:04,380
approving concept in order to

2034
02:55:04,380 --> 02:55:07,940
accomplishing the same thing regarding wireless communication facilities,

2035
02:55:08,080 --> 02:55:09,840
inside the Coastal Zone,

2036
02:55:09,840 --> 02:55:29,020
Schedule both ordinances for second reading and final adoption on May 24, 2022, and direct staff to implement the amendments outside the Coastal Zone 30 days after adoption and inside the Coastal Zone upon final certification by the California Coastal Commission, and that concludes my presentation.

2037
02:55:29,780 --> 02:55:51,960
Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Carlson. Officially open the public hearing. And are there questions from members of the board for Mr. Carlson? Supervisor Fred. Thanks, Mr. Chair. I just have more of a comments and questions of appreciation from Mr. Carlson for all of his work that he's done throughout this process, the community outreach, the work with Coastal Commission, etc. leading up to today.

2038
02:55:51,960 --> 02:55:57,920
There's really no question in my mind, especially given the amount of outreach diversity

2039
02:55:57,920 --> 02:56:02,780
from the community requesting these modifications over the course of the years, or just improvements

2040
02:56:03,460 --> 02:56:09,540
to sell coverage in general, but this is really one of the most important investments that

2041
02:56:09,540 --> 02:56:21,940
we can make toward both equity, safety, and environmental issues in our community on the

2042
02:56:21,940 --> 02:56:27,320
of my district and some of the other districts that are disadvantaged, young residents, local residents

2043
02:56:27,320 --> 02:56:33,080
of color disproportionately use and rely on wireless communications for their entire Internet

2044
02:56:33,080 --> 02:56:41,280
of access. It is to disadvantage those communities by having poor access just continues to propagate

2045
02:56:41,280 --> 02:56:46,540
the inequities that we have an ability here to solve and we also saw highlighted during the pandemic,

2046
02:56:46,540 --> 02:56:53,120
the essential need on it. On the safety side, there's no question of the tragedy that we had at

2047
02:56:53,120 --> 02:56:59,920
out class high school, many people attempting to call 911 that we're unable to. In fact, 80% of

2048
02:56:59,920 --> 02:57:06,700
calls are a local 911 center come in from cell phones and not landlines. The many rural areas where

2049
02:57:06,700 --> 02:57:11,080
there's car accidents, accidents involving pedestrians or bikes, there's an inability to call

2050
02:57:11,080 --> 02:57:16,360
for help. As you know, every second counts in situations like that in the tragic fires that occurred

2051
02:57:16,360 --> 02:57:32,040
and the Supervisor McPherson and Supervisor Coonerty's districts, we were pushing out alerts to people on phones that they weren't getting as a result of having inadequate cell coverage and people were also trying to call other loved ones that were unable to because of lack of coverage, so from a safety standpoint, there's no question.

2052
02:57:32,800 --> 02:57:45,260
And even on the environmental side, as we've seen an increase in people working from home and not having to commute, this provides an opportunity on the economic and environmental side to really do to help improve those things.

2053
02:57:45,260 --> 02:57:48,100
I mean, you would think based on the coverage

2054
02:57:48,100 --> 02:57:50,420
compared to the coverage and capacity we have in our county

2055
02:57:50,420 --> 02:57:52,320
that we're living in an exceptionally rural area

2056
02:57:52,320 --> 02:57:55,440
and we're not, we're right in the shadow of the Silicon Valley

2057
02:57:55,440 --> 02:57:57,280
and one of the greatest economic engine generators

2058
02:57:57,280 --> 02:58:00,180
in the history of time, yet we have coverage

2059
02:58:00,180 --> 02:58:04,760
and make you think that we are somewhat completely different

2060
02:58:04,760 --> 02:58:05,200
than that.

2061
02:58:05,580 --> 02:58:08,140
So I do support these changes, I think,

2062
02:58:08,300 --> 02:58:10,360
to the absolutely important for the reasons

2063
02:58:10,360 --> 02:58:12,900
that I outlined and I'd like to see our continued investment

2064
02:58:13,600 --> 02:58:19,500
inequity, recognize that many people are relying on these for both a life safety, economic

2065
02:58:19,500 --> 02:58:25,100
component. And for just their access, the outside world be the internet and we're not doing enough

2066
02:58:25,100 --> 02:58:29,380
so far and I think today will be the first day and starting to change that and ensuring that they

2067
02:58:29,380 --> 02:58:32,900
have that access. Thanks Mr. Chair. Thank you, Supervisor Friend.

2068
02:58:36,700 --> 02:58:43,660
I totally agree with Survisor Friend. There's two words, safety and equity. Now, we just really

2069
02:58:44,700 --> 02:58:50,200
experience that and we're able to respond, we did as well as we could, we did very well

2070
02:58:50,200 --> 02:58:55,340
with what we had. But I think as Mr. Carlson said, this has been a long time in the making,

2071
02:58:55,360 --> 02:59:03,480
this hasn't been updated to this extent in 20 years, and Lord knows how much our capabilities have

2072
02:59:03,480 --> 02:59:09,460
increased in that period of time. I'd just say it's about time. I look forward, and I think

2073
02:59:09,460 --> 02:59:14,620
the course commissioner staff or submitting its comments, but and I'm I look forward to working

2074
02:59:14,620 --> 02:59:20,760
out the differences that we have with them, but I'm this can't come soon enough under the circumstances,

2075
02:59:21,220 --> 02:59:28,600
and we we have another fire fire season, Sharon's in the face right now and we we can't do this

2076
02:59:28,600 --> 02:59:34,960
fast enough for the safety and the equity in our community. So thank you for putting so much time

2077
02:59:34,960 --> 02:59:41,220
this and great presentation, it's much needed, it has been for a long time and it's about time.

2078
02:59:42,660 --> 02:59:47,800
Thank you supervisor McPherson. Yeah, I'm glad I got a question. Okay.

2079
02:59:49,660 --> 02:59:53,940
Thank you. With the status quo of the way it is right now,

2080
02:59:54,800 --> 02:59:59,980
The change would be making it faster and easier.

2081
03:00:00,000 --> 03:00:12,420
We're in more streamlined right to put in the facilities. So what I'm getting at is technically today with the way we're doing it.

2082
03:00:12,640 --> 03:00:17,780
We still can put in salt hours if we did it to a certain area.

2083
03:00:19,060 --> 03:00:26,140
But what is this big rush to the future right now as we go forward?

2084
03:00:26,140 --> 03:00:40,280
Is it because we want to streamline it, make it easier and have less input from the public or is it because we have some other agenda, can you answer that?

2085
03:00:42,440 --> 03:00:56,680
I think that the main answer to your question and one of the main drivers here is the FCC's rulings over time and legal rulings over time that have sort of outrun our ordinance

2086
03:00:56,680 --> 03:01:06,020
and we need to keep up with the new shot clocks, the FCC orders on small cell facilities

2087
03:01:06,020 --> 03:01:12,240
and eligible facilities requests. Those are all putting strict timelines on the county

2088
03:01:12,240 --> 03:01:17,800
to act on some of these applications. And so we're trying to facilitate that in the updated

2089
03:01:17,800 --> 03:01:24,740
work that's okay, that's going to affect the short parts. We'll affect the time limit

2090
03:01:24,740 --> 03:01:29,460
that the public would have for input, just like corrects though.

2091
03:01:30,580 --> 03:01:36,500
For an application that requires a public hearing, there would be no change in the opportunity

2092
03:01:36,500 --> 03:01:41,160
for the public to have input in those situations. There would be standard public noticing

2093
03:01:41,500 --> 03:01:45,740
and public hearings to take that input into consideration.

2094
03:01:45,740 --> 03:01:54,500
the deadline for the public, but would be a shorter time, a time line.

2095
03:01:54,580 --> 03:01:57,740
No, there would be no shorter timelines applicable to the public.

2096
03:01:57,860 --> 03:02:01,380
The shorter timelines are applicable to the county to act.

2097
03:02:02,340 --> 03:02:07,740
And what we have, the way that we've been trying to work around with that,

2098
03:02:07,740 --> 03:02:13,720
currently is by working with providers to what's called toll of the

2099
03:02:13,720 --> 03:02:19,540
shock clocks and come to an agreement with the applicant to actually

2100
03:02:19,540 --> 03:02:27,780
allow us to go through the public hearing process, but that is not required by

2101
03:02:27,780 --> 03:02:35,120
federal law. It's something that we have implemented in order to work around

2102
03:02:35,120 --> 03:02:39,860
existing short clocks in our existing ordinance, but we're proposing to fix that in the

2103
03:02:39,860 --> 03:02:43,080
with the in part with the updated ordinance.

2104
03:02:44,340 --> 03:02:44,440
Good.

2105
03:02:45,400 --> 03:02:58,520
When I hear the words, equity and all that, those words, how is that affecting, I guess, a real

2106
03:02:58,520 --> 03:03:07,180
quick question would be, and then the safety concern, and after a high school, do they have

2107
03:03:07,180 --> 03:03:17,220
a shelter facility that are right now, and they had one before the Orblance took place

2108
03:03:17,220 --> 03:03:18,220
a year ago?

2109
03:03:19,460 --> 03:03:27,140
They dance like question, they know they don't, and there's one proposed kind of a highway

2110
03:03:27,140 --> 03:03:32,300
one that would help address this issue moving forward for next year. But of course, it's taken

2111
03:03:32,300 --> 03:03:37,060
a long time to get through the permitting process because of our blanks, the permitting process,

2112
03:03:37,440 --> 03:03:45,520
but no, there's no tower there. And in fact, there's no ability. I mean, functionally there was no

2113
03:03:45,520 --> 03:03:52,460
ability for many of the students to be able to call 911 as a result of that. And as you may recollect

2114
03:03:52,460 --> 03:04:21,300
Surveillance or capital, the last hearing we had on this, there was a parent that had called in, just talk about their inability to get a hold of their own kids at aptile size result of the inability to text or call them during this incident. And that's because of this lack of service and then this ordinance, while it doesn't actually create new cell phone capabilities, it provides the framework by which the carriers can can increase throughout the community.

2115
03:04:21,300 --> 03:04:24,080
so we can anticipate that it'll do that as a result.

2116
03:04:24,900 --> 03:04:26,800
And that's why that's why we heard from the sheriff last time

2117
03:04:26,800 --> 03:04:28,540
advocating for the ordinance and the parents

2118
03:04:28,540 --> 03:04:31,380
who had testified at the same time from a safety perspective.

2119
03:04:32,160 --> 03:04:32,180
Right.

2120
03:04:32,680 --> 03:04:38,040
The safety perspective, I find it hard to comprehend the fact

2121
03:04:39,220 --> 03:04:44,580
that they couldn't call 911 for about 12 times before.

2122
03:04:44,860 --> 03:04:46,580
That doesn't make any sense to be able.

2123
03:04:46,840 --> 03:04:48,260
It's from a wireless line.

2124
03:04:48,260 --> 03:04:51,100
There's very limited coverage and capacity.

2125
03:04:51,560 --> 03:04:58,860
So it's very easy to overwhelm the capacity that's there with so many people having wireless devices.

2126
03:04:59,160 --> 03:05:03,460
It's very easy to overwhelm and slow down the system and call as a result.

2127
03:05:04,020 --> 03:05:09,860
But by the way, you know, even our own reverse 911s are done to cell phones, a larger text of that way.

2128
03:05:10,560 --> 03:05:13,080
And if you don't receive it, you don't receive it as a super cosmic person.

2129
03:05:13,080 --> 03:05:17,080
who was our country knows, that's what happened during the fires. Even some of the PG&E

2130
03:05:17,880 --> 03:05:22,200
Blackouts in advance of them happening, this is how a lot of notices are sent out and without the

2131
03:05:22,960 --> 03:05:27,640
coverage people aren't getting it. But, yeah, I mean, look, I know that I've seen, I know you drive

2132
03:05:27,640 --> 03:05:32,040
down freedom, you're well aware of the large gaps and coverage and different parts of freedom.

2133
03:05:32,620 --> 03:05:35,920
There are some sections that have some distributed antenna systems around there, but the area

2134
03:05:35,920 --> 03:05:39,020
right on, F.S. High and up into that hillside does not have coverage.

2135
03:05:40,160 --> 03:05:46,100
Okay, and then I guess super-wise or my first, you can answer this.

2136
03:05:46,820 --> 03:05:55,520
When the fires took place, the lighting fires, how many self towers actually burn down along

2137
03:05:55,520 --> 03:05:56,500
with fire?

2138
03:05:57,380 --> 03:05:58,740
Do we have any idea?

2139
03:05:59,000 --> 03:06:06,140
Because self towers will burn down also where the poles only go about for the communications.

2140
03:06:08,300 --> 03:06:12,060
I'm sure I don't have the answer to that.

2141
03:06:14,420 --> 03:06:16,960
I don't have the answer to that.

2142
03:06:21,940 --> 03:06:22,820
It's over by the cabinet.

2143
03:06:23,200 --> 03:06:24,680
I don't think I heard it.

2144
03:06:24,680 --> 03:06:26,180
Do attempt to answer to that answer?

2145
03:06:26,240 --> 03:06:29,020
I don't have, I don't know.

2146
03:06:29,160 --> 03:06:30,280
I don't know that we have that.

2147
03:06:30,440 --> 03:06:31,700
He's self-thouurs up there at all.

2148
03:06:32,100 --> 03:06:34,600
So I'm just, I don't know how to answer them.

2149
03:06:34,920 --> 03:06:38,340
Yes, I'd rather have the attempt to answer the nature of your question.

2150
03:06:38,340 --> 03:06:43,380
And I think we probably, I don't know the exact if any cell towers were destroyed or in the

2151
03:06:43,380 --> 03:06:48,680
fire, but I think the issue, the Supervisor McPherson was raising of many of his constituents

2152
03:06:48,680 --> 03:06:55,640
not receiving reverse 911 notifications were being unable to text out or call out during

2153
03:06:55,640 --> 03:07:02,080
the emergency was really in relation to the current conditions, the current level of service

2154
03:07:02,780 --> 03:07:07,320
in the Santa Cruz Mountains, rather than any specific cell towers being destroyed.

2155
03:07:07,320 --> 03:07:10,340
But I think it's just that there's not very many of them out there today.

2156
03:07:16,350 --> 03:07:24,570
I guess I agree from the third district, thousands and thousands of telephone poles burned.

2157
03:07:25,630 --> 03:07:29,070
And so there was no landline coverage and now most of my residents.

2158
03:07:30,000 --> 03:07:37,000
The changes in state laws can't get landlines. So unless they have adequate access to cell phones, they

2159
03:07:37,000 --> 03:07:44,260
essentially have no communications ability to call emergency services or to be notified of emergencies.

2160
03:07:46,260 --> 03:07:51,360
Okay. The other would be under the status quo that we have.

2161
03:07:51,360 --> 03:07:59,000
We were able to put individual cell towers in those areas so before.

2162
03:07:59,840 --> 03:08:07,340
So what I'm getting at is the rush to the future here is a shorter shot

2163
03:08:07,340 --> 03:08:14,160
clocks and less restrictions and more streamlining to put in cell towers.

2164
03:08:14,160 --> 03:08:22,940
So, I mean, we had years of, under the status quo, putting in salt hours in certain areas.

2165
03:08:24,020 --> 03:08:29,180
So, the big changes are rushed to do this, right?

2166
03:08:29,960 --> 03:08:33,760
Well, no, I think we can, I think we can still have the rush.

2167
03:08:34,440 --> 03:08:37,260
Well, the conventional toll phone polls are so forth.

2168
03:08:37,360 --> 03:08:38,620
They're not part of the future.

2169
03:08:38,880 --> 03:08:41,200
We're not going to go back to the future on that one.

2170
03:08:41,200 --> 03:08:56,400
I mean, this is we're going to have to live with the communications network that we're going to have it in the future and this is going to provide it to more people more quickly and it's I just think it's about time we do it as I stated before.

2171
03:08:56,400 --> 03:09:07,400
Yeah, but my point is we're able to do it in this short-shadow scroll that we have now, but we're getting salt hours and those areas.

2172
03:09:08,360 --> 03:09:18,940
I would say supervisor Capit, it's not so much a rush to the future is keeping up with what has been happening at the federal level and in the courts.

2173
03:09:19,800 --> 03:09:27,220
And that's what we're trying to do with these updated regulations is bring them up to date.

2174
03:09:27,740 --> 03:09:37,940
Yeah, I guess what I'm going to get is two, and it's all the money that is on the side of Verizon and that team mobile and all that.

2175
03:09:38,940 --> 03:09:44,960
You know, the little red dots on the map. They're all competing and they have a lot of money.

2176
03:09:44,960 --> 03:09:51,960
And I'm getting out there a part of this rush also, they're going to benefit from it.

2177
03:09:52,200 --> 03:09:57,980
And then you have the public, you have certain people that do have concerns with it.

2178
03:09:59,940 --> 03:10:07,820
And when you have all the money on one side, then you have individual people on the other side.

2179
03:10:07,820 --> 03:10:22,400
you, it's like PG&A, and what is that movie that brought to me, but you know, it's trying

2180
03:10:22,400 --> 03:10:32,580
to stand up and say that there is a problem in a certain area, whatever, and that's what makes

2181
03:10:32,580 --> 03:10:42,460
a little Larry on. When I see a big change coming, money selling us one thing and the other side

2182
03:10:42,460 --> 03:10:46,200
saying, well, what about, you know, what about the voice of this?

2183
03:10:49,580 --> 03:10:56,190
Thank you, Supervisor Capit. Any further questions or comments from members of the board? Seeing

2184
03:10:56,190 --> 03:11:00,770
none, I'll open it for public comment. So everyone here in the board chambers, there was

2185
03:11:00,770 --> 03:11:02,790
just to address this on this item. Please approach the podium.

2186
03:11:02,790 --> 03:11:03,330
My

2187
03:11:11,680 --> 03:11:17,680
name is James doing Whitman, wow, two years ago to 16 years ago, this room would be full.

2188
03:11:19,180 --> 03:11:29,000
Let's see, on today's information page 241, 14D, 13.10.664.

2189
03:11:29,900 --> 03:11:35,780
This number 14, I believe, has only 157 pages, I, it's a lot of stuff to print up tonight.

2190
03:11:35,780 --> 03:11:45,120
So, this has to do with the indemnification of individuals, members in this community that are making these policy decisions.

2191
03:11:48,000 --> 03:11:58,660
You know, I guess we have a lot of things to thank Mr. Clinton for, besides his 1996 signing end of what is at the FCC 702.

2192
03:11:58,660 --> 03:12:08,640
So, the military's greatest silent weapons to control their enemies since before 1959 or frequencies.

2193
03:12:09,780 --> 03:12:13,140
The first through fourth generation, that's only 35 different frequencies.

2194
03:12:13,160 --> 03:12:18,420
That's generally zero-hurt through six-hurt, very useful military weapons.

2195
03:12:18,820 --> 03:12:22,600
What people call the fifth generation, it's over 3000 frequencies.

2196
03:12:22,920 --> 03:12:25,400
So it should go 1, 2, 3, 4, 2, and 97.

2197
03:12:25,400 --> 03:12:30,400
And that's overlapped from two gigahertz to over 300 gigahertz.

2198
03:12:33,260 --> 03:12:37,680
You know, you can do your own research by the 1994, the Rwandan genocide.

2199
03:12:38,320 --> 03:12:39,460
That was done through frequencies.

2200
03:12:39,900 --> 03:12:42,820
There's a lot of information out about that.

2201
03:12:43,120 --> 03:12:46,700
And I moved into this county, 1993.

2202
03:12:47,620 --> 03:12:49,560
I never had good cell phone service there.

2203
03:12:49,760 --> 03:12:51,520
That's probably one of the reasons why I'm so healthy.

2204
03:12:52,340 --> 03:12:53,240
But, or that's questionable.

2205
03:12:53,240 --> 03:13:00,240
anyway, so we used a landline. Landlines are virtually disappearing. You can't find a payphone anywhere.

2206
03:13:00,900 --> 03:13:05,920
So you guys are really practicing a Hygeli and Dialect. You're creating a problem in making solutions

2207
03:13:07,860 --> 03:13:12,740
where I actually wrote down some pretty unpleasant notes here that I'm just not going to say,

2208
03:13:13,800 --> 03:13:18,800
but I wish this isn't the end of this, it's just at the beginning. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Weapon.

2209
03:13:20,400 --> 03:13:22,860
I think you know when else you're in the chambers, we'll take it to Zoom.

2210
03:13:23,020 --> 03:13:24,980
Is anyone on Zoom who we're just coming on the side of?

2211
03:13:25,500 --> 03:13:27,640
Yes, we do have five speakers on Zoom.

2212
03:13:30,780 --> 03:13:31,700
You're real Strauss.

2213
03:13:31,960 --> 03:13:33,020
Your microphone is available.

2214
03:13:33,840 --> 03:13:34,760
Thank you. Good afternoon.

2215
03:13:35,200 --> 03:13:36,580
My name is Mark McKinney and clear.

2216
03:13:38,000 --> 03:13:38,760
Thank you.

2217
03:13:38,880 --> 03:13:39,920
My name is Ariel Bowes.

2218
03:13:40,000 --> 03:13:42,420
I'm an attorney with Green Fire Law and Berkeley, California.

2219
03:13:43,240 --> 03:13:47,320
And I am represent number of residents in Honour Corporate Sanctuary County.

2220
03:13:47,320 --> 03:14:00,600
And I want to start by pointing out that I believe a statement Mr. Carlson made regarding no change to the zones that are subject to the various restrictions and policies of this new ordinance is incorrect.

2221
03:14:00,600 --> 03:14:13,720
The new ordinance moves the world as a denture on a row of agricultural zones in 1310-6604 from restricted zones.

2222
03:14:13,960 --> 03:14:19,220
In terms of those zones or no longer subject to discretionary zoning process,

2223
03:14:21,020 --> 03:14:29,240
I also want to point out that the primary motivation for these changes is our changes in federal law

2224
03:14:29,240 --> 03:14:36,840
applied to the public right of way and to small cells. However, the changes that you're proposing

2225
03:14:37,400 --> 03:14:43,310
are also being applied to macro cells that under the ordinance be 75 feet tall,

2226
03:14:44,260 --> 03:14:50,020
generally built on private property, and the visual impacts of those are very significant.

2227
03:14:50,920 --> 03:14:55,180
And it's very important that you have public input because of my experience representing clients

2228
03:14:55,180 --> 03:14:59,980
to pass the county through this process, to the public input process, to the size of

2229
03:15:00,000 --> 03:15:08,780
Dematically improved. And the federal shot clock, in which is also imposed by the state, is 150 days, which is a

2230
03:15:08,780 --> 03:15:13,780
reasonable amount of time to get through with the public process. So I think it's very important that the

2231
03:15:13,780 --> 03:15:20,200
needful changes and irrelevant changes not be pushed through alongside changes that really are not

2232
03:15:20,200 --> 03:15:25,200
in the benefit of the public. And particularly those are changes to the macro cells on private property

2233
03:15:25,200 --> 03:15:29,600
And particularly, it changes to eliminate the world with the potential and royal cultural zones

2234
03:15:29,600 --> 03:15:33,260
from restricted zones that would subject them to discretionary process.

2235
03:15:34,180 --> 03:15:37,240
I also want to point out the weakening of the comparison analysis with Mr. Carlson,

2236
03:15:37,240 --> 03:15:41,380
very correctly pointed out to something that the county can demand and in the past has the

2237
03:15:41,380 --> 03:15:46,620
mandate, and the change has been from conclusively demonstrating requiring the applicants

2238
03:15:46,620 --> 03:15:47,880
to increase the demonstrate.

2239
03:15:48,360 --> 03:15:52,020
I think this was drafts will only having a substantial evidence.

2240
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Matthew Kaufman, your microphone is available?

2241
03:16:03,330 --> 03:16:04,090
Yes.

2242
03:16:05,610 --> 03:16:12,050
Yeah, I want to address the 15, 10, 6, 60, D exemption section.

2243
03:16:13,790 --> 03:16:18,110
It currently has proposed its intended survey.

2244
03:16:18,110 --> 03:16:22,770
It exempts those intended for personal, non-commercial uses, such as short-way radio.

2245
03:16:23,650 --> 03:16:28,970
This is a substantial reduction in the extent exemptions, language that currently exists.

2246
03:16:30,230 --> 03:16:32,710
And there's a couple of things that concern me particularly.

2247
03:16:32,910 --> 03:16:40,850
One is the exemption only applies for the first part of this for occupants on the site where facilities are located.

2248
03:16:41,310 --> 03:16:46,770
So that would prevent things like a business owner from putting a ham radio or business antenna on their facility.

2249
03:16:46,770 --> 03:16:53,170
It prevents remotely controlled amateur radio stations, and it also prevents repeater stations,

2250
03:16:53,170 --> 03:16:59,350
which might be located for use in emergencies, for instance, that might be located on a business

2251
03:16:59,350 --> 03:17:05,050
building, or might be located on private property, which is not where the repeater licensing

2252
03:17:05,050 --> 03:17:05,510
lives.

2253
03:17:06,930 --> 03:17:12,050
The other part is that the end of this, as wireless communications facilities on,

2254
03:17:12,050 --> 03:17:18,570
on property, used solely for public or quasi-public use, for example. It's not clear to me whether that

2255
03:17:18,570 --> 03:17:25,270
used solely is meant to modify property or meant to modify the facilities. If it only

2256
03:17:25,270 --> 03:17:31,670
modifies property then that's again a substantial reduction. I think given that these ordinances only

2257
03:17:31,670 --> 03:17:36,090
get passed every 20 years, we have this opportunity to fix more than just the FCC requirements.

2258
03:17:36,090 --> 03:18:00,810
So I would I would put that in there. I would also like to see that exempt facilities like amateur radio and public safety antennas are actually eliminated from all permitting requirements when collocated on other structures and deer to me is that we have an opportunity here, but are not taking it to put in language that allows us to expedite disaster rebuild and in kinder placement.

2259
03:18:01,350 --> 03:18:08,810
Right now I'm trying to do a disaster rebuild of a tower and it's very slow and the county's part of that.

2260
03:18:10,150 --> 03:18:10,790
Thank you.

2261
03:18:10,790 --> 03:18:11,870
Thank you, Mr. Koppin.

2262
03:18:14,620 --> 03:18:16,880
Call in, user five, your microphone is available.

2263
03:18:26,350 --> 03:18:34,070
Maryland, Arizona, and what we need is a reliable safe landline.

2264
03:18:34,650 --> 03:18:41,070
This is a depth technology of microwave radiation from beginning to end.

2265
03:18:41,670 --> 03:18:46,110
The key problem, I see, is the dictatorship of the corporate state.

2266
03:18:46,630 --> 03:18:55,930
Big oil, big pharma, big telecom, including Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, space-sax and more.

2267
03:18:55,930 --> 03:19:01,810
They were right the laws, it paid policies, and polluted the planet.

2268
03:19:02,330 --> 03:19:05,910
You didn't include any of the pollution in your report, did you?

2269
03:19:06,750 --> 03:19:13,930
The result was marriage ever when corporations get in bed with government.

2270
03:19:33,100 --> 03:19:39,400
For here, dead birds and start to go hundreds of thousands, if not millions of birds died

2271
03:19:39,400 --> 03:19:44,260
during 2020 US Air Force 5G exercise.

2272
03:19:44,260 --> 03:19:49,360
you have received over the years

2273
03:20:01,580 --> 03:20:05,520
who have sent international health, compelling evidence for

2274
03:20:05,520 --> 03:20:12,240
eight distinct times of great harm caused by a electromagnetic field exposure and the mechanism

2275
03:20:12,240 --> 03:20:21,260
that causes a Martin Paul P.A. L.L. at WSU.edu. This is a document from 19th

2276
03:20:29,620 --> 03:20:29,780
century.

2277
03:20:29,800 --> 03:20:30,660
Thank you, Ms. Harris.

2278
03:20:30,660 --> 03:20:38,220
time to letter and I will just clarify that as expected in this item we don't as a county

2279
03:20:38,220 --> 03:20:43,040
have jurisdiction to regulate environmental health impacts or other health impacts for miles

2280
03:20:43,040 --> 03:20:47,760
communications. So if you have an issue with anyone that does have an issue with those elements

2281
03:20:47,760 --> 03:20:54,920
of this should really talk to their state representatives or federal representatives. Thank you.

2282
03:20:56,990 --> 03:21:02,270
Cooler ending in one, one, nine, two, your microphone is now available.

2283
03:21:07,950 --> 03:21:12,990
Hi, this is Gail, and I just want to say that any law that is on constitutional,

2284
03:21:13,710 --> 03:21:16,190
such as threatening the lives and health and safety of people,

2285
03:21:16,390 --> 03:21:18,950
is people have a duty to resist that law.

2286
03:21:20,090 --> 03:21:26,830
So, I have a manual here from Rome Laboratory Air Force Base in New York,

2287
03:21:26,830 --> 03:21:34,430
1994, and it's titled Radio Frequency Microwave Radiation Biological Effects and Safety Standards review.

2288
03:21:35,690 --> 03:21:45,650
One of the title of Pathological Reports, so the investigators claim that the central nervous system is highly sensitive to radio frequency and microwave radiation.

2289
03:21:45,650 --> 03:21:53,410
The NIOSH technical report summarized the results of the pathological study published by A.A.

2290
03:21:53,710 --> 03:21:56,970
Ledivet and Z.V. Gordon in the 1960.

2291
03:21:58,530 --> 03:22:03,650
The researchers reported that several CNFs related disorders were discovered among 525

2292
03:22:03,650 --> 03:22:06,970
workers exposed to RF microwave radiation.

2293
03:22:07,990 --> 03:22:11,370
The symptoms were listed as high-potentions, slower than normal heart rates,

2294
03:22:11,370 --> 03:22:15,890
an increase in the instrument content of the blood, and increase in the activity of the thyroid

2295
03:22:15,890 --> 03:22:21,430
gland, disruption of the indecrinal and indecrine hormonal process, alterations in the sensitivity

2296
03:22:21,430 --> 03:22:27,410
to smell, headaches, irritability, and increased fatigue. Other researchers have acknowledged

2297
03:22:27,410 --> 03:22:29,590
is similar biological sex.

2298
03:22:31,060 --> 03:22:38,520
EMF field show alterations in the electrical activity of the cerebral cortex and disruption of the activities of neurons.

2299
03:22:39,300 --> 03:22:47,060
Just skipping around here, exposure to microwave radiation has been observed to cause a disruption in the behavior of animals.

2300
03:22:48,180 --> 03:22:54,140
Research is indicate that behavior may be the most sensitive biological component of microwave radiation.

2301
03:22:54,140 --> 03:22:57,540
This is an equal opportunity, destroyer of health.

2302
03:22:58,080 --> 03:23:02,900
Even if you believe this is safe, these effects are still happening to you.

2303
03:23:03,520 --> 03:23:08,300
Cadillac in humans is another subject, exposure to microwave radiation is known to cause

2304
03:23:08,300 --> 03:23:10,180
Cadillac in July.

2305
03:23:17,860 --> 03:23:21,740
And they get in 7, 6, 1, 7, your microphone is now available.

2306
03:23:25,130 --> 03:23:26,270
This is one of the different Thomas.

2307
03:23:26,590 --> 03:23:31,930
I'm so glad that you're so up on FCC regulations that when they tell you to go to Germany

2308
03:23:31,930 --> 03:23:36,550
and dying it in one of the other with Auschwitz that you're going to be so happy to do that.

2309
03:23:37,390 --> 03:23:42,210
Because somebody tells you to do something does not mean it's right. Last in the FC it has been

2310
03:23:42,210 --> 03:23:49,170
legally court case saying that the FCC, there are no safety limits. The safety limits that they said

2311
03:23:49,170 --> 03:23:56,350
they had, they're not proven. There are no safety limits. If you really care about those foods at high school

2312
03:23:56,350 --> 03:24:00,510
or the black people or anybody, you'll take away their cell phones and put in land lines.

2313
03:24:00,510 --> 03:24:07,270
My colleagues are unsafe, you know it, and you are eating to the dance hall of humankind.

2314
03:24:07,330 --> 03:24:12,310
Those kids at an apples high school, how many of them are on any depresence and AVD drugs?

2315
03:24:12,570 --> 03:24:17,650
Because they can't tell the wireless and they don't even know which wrong with them.

2316
03:24:18,170 --> 03:24:25,850
Senator Supervisor Kevin has a lot of great points, and this bit about the wireless being more important, wrong.

2317
03:24:25,850 --> 03:24:34,830
If you look at the history of safety, the fires, the earthquakes, the problems we've had across the nation, it has been good old land lives, which are more dependable.

2318
03:24:36,910 --> 03:24:42,870
There's so many problems here. There's so many things you said, which are just so sad, you should be demanding land lines.

2319
03:24:43,870 --> 03:24:48,650
Good copper land lines are more dependable, more reliable, and they don't hurt people.

2320
03:24:49,870 --> 03:24:50,170
Good God.

2321
03:24:51,290 --> 03:24:51,550
Thank you.

2322
03:24:51,550 --> 03:24:52,330
And

2323
03:24:59,080 --> 03:25:02,140
seven, eight, eight, seven, your microphone is now available.

2324
03:25:08,440 --> 03:25:08,480
Hello.

2325
03:25:08,660 --> 03:25:09,780
This is Andrea Baron.

2326
03:25:09,920 --> 03:25:10,680
Can you hear me?

2327
03:25:11,340 --> 03:25:11,680
Yes.

2328
03:25:12,280 --> 03:25:12,580
Yes.

2329
03:25:12,580 --> 03:25:13,560
Thank you so much.

2330
03:25:14,080 --> 03:25:16,900
So I've lived in Santa Cruz County 46 years.

2331
03:25:17,200 --> 03:25:20,960
I'm talking to you on a plugged in, a copper land line.

2332
03:25:21,480 --> 03:25:22,880
I could speak auto afternoon.

2333
03:25:23,200 --> 03:25:24,940
I want to address the health issues.

2334
03:25:25,320 --> 03:25:27,000
I know what you've been talking about.

2335
03:25:27,200 --> 03:25:29,320
I listened to Mr. Carl from the presentation.

2336
03:25:29,320 --> 03:25:36,400
and everything, and in present law about it being concealed,

2337
03:25:37,600 --> 03:25:40,340
architecturally integrated, et cetera, et cetera,

2338
03:25:40,340 --> 03:25:43,420
disguised as a treat as their conditioners.

2339
03:25:43,700 --> 03:25:47,120
I want to address the health issues, and I could speak to you all afternoon.

2340
03:25:48,540 --> 03:25:50,300
This is not hearing about the health issues,

2341
03:25:50,680 --> 03:25:52,940
that you'll have to go to your state legislators.

2342
03:25:52,960 --> 03:25:55,300
You know what? I need to talk.

2343
03:25:55,300 --> 03:26:02,790
I am in Jackson District and I've lived here 46 years and was a court reporter, my entire life.

2344
03:26:04,180 --> 03:26:11,960
You folks, please educate yourself about the health issues. I know you're going forward

2345
03:26:11,960 --> 03:26:20,920
looking at all the, this is not deputy, safety, or environmental issues that Mr. Friend has said

2346
03:26:20,920 --> 03:26:22,580
involved in coverage.

2347
03:26:24,160 --> 03:26:32,280
So, in September 2019, a few months ago, we have heard about COVID, the International EMS conference

2348
03:26:32,780 --> 03:26:39,440
was replaced in Scotts Valley in Santa Cruz County, and it was chosen by doctors all

2349
03:26:39,440 --> 03:26:44,960
of the world that came here to Santa Cruz, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of presenters,

2350
03:26:44,960 --> 03:26:55,200
doctors, physicists, microbiologists, people, but treat people with EMF sensitivity, and many

2351
03:26:55,200 --> 03:27:00,760
doctors came from, and I was there for four days from eight in the morning until 10

2352
03:27:00,760 --> 03:27:07,720
at night listening to not only the presenters, but doctors came from all over the world

2353
03:27:07,720 --> 03:27:10,860
to understand when their patients are in

2354
03:27:15,400 --> 03:27:18,720
Brett Wolham, your microphone is available.

2355
03:27:20,260 --> 03:27:20,740
Thank you.

2356
03:27:20,740 --> 03:27:22,120
Are there a connery?

2357
03:27:22,120 --> 03:27:22,540
Yes.

2358
03:27:23,280 --> 03:27:23,340
Great.

2359
03:27:24,760 --> 03:27:26,560
I just wanted to, I guess, balance out.

2360
03:27:26,780 --> 03:27:27,660
We have going on here.

2361
03:27:27,660 --> 03:27:29,800
I'm not here to complain about health impacts of wireless.

2362
03:27:30,040 --> 03:27:34,280
I think there's a significant utility for wireless services in our society.

2363
03:27:35,060 --> 03:27:37,320
And thanks to the supervisors for considering this issue.

2364
03:27:37,800 --> 03:27:43,800
Anything you can do to make broadband service inside of a service, you know, more reliable and readily available is great.

2365
03:27:43,800 --> 03:27:49,280
One concern I did have was definition number 28, the actual definition for wireless communication

2366
03:27:49,280 --> 03:27:50,020
facility.

2367
03:27:51,080 --> 03:27:55,920
I would like clarification from the supervisors as to whether or not the county intends

2368
03:27:55,920 --> 03:28:01,000
to have other types of systems that are non-cellular fall under this.

2369
03:28:01,120 --> 03:28:05,440
That is, you know, ham radio systems as was brought up earlier, business repeater systems,

2370
03:28:05,560 --> 03:28:10,160
other technologies, or is this ordinance specific to cellular?

2371
03:28:10,160 --> 03:28:14,200
whether it be macro, tower, or small cell, or other.

2372
03:28:14,880 --> 03:28:19,800
I would hope it would be the latter, and this wouldn't apply to Ham Radio, and other community-based services like that.

2373
03:28:20,220 --> 03:28:24,960
But that is not clear at this point in the way that the ordinance is written.

2374
03:28:25,980 --> 03:28:28,840
Something else I'd like to add is that I don't necessarily agree with the broad discriminatory

2375
03:28:28,840 --> 03:28:33,840
nature of the ordinance. I think that it would be great to have to lean more on

2376
03:28:33,840 --> 03:28:37,760
and management permits and administrative permits and definitions allowing

2377
03:28:37,760 --> 03:28:41,320
the carriers to come and do the work without having to go through long

2378
03:28:41,320 --> 03:28:43,620
sets of periods of discretionary review.

2379
03:28:45,100 --> 03:28:49,160
As a business and as a telecom company, if I go into a community,

2380
03:28:49,480 --> 03:28:51,040
I want to know what the rules are.

2381
03:28:51,600 --> 03:28:55,300
And we also invest in that community and not have discretionary permitting it

2382
03:28:55,300 --> 03:28:58,600
in my way because that can really drag out and increase the cost.

2383
03:28:58,760 --> 03:29:00,640
I don't think it's all process and increase the cost.

2384
03:29:00,640 --> 03:29:03,220
that make it community not viable for new technologies.

2385
03:29:04,580 --> 03:29:05,360
That's all I'm asking out.

2386
03:29:05,360 --> 03:29:06,620
Thank you so much.

2387
03:29:07,080 --> 03:29:08,120
Thank you, Mr. Willem.

2388
03:29:14,120 --> 03:29:15,040
David, we're Kowski.

2389
03:29:15,380 --> 03:29:16,840
Your microphone is available.

2390
03:29:17,840 --> 03:29:18,540
Thank you.

2391
03:29:18,740 --> 03:29:19,500
You can hear me okay?

2392
03:29:20,000 --> 03:29:20,260
Yes.

2393
03:29:20,540 --> 03:29:21,380
Thank you.

2394
03:29:22,120 --> 03:29:26,160
So I'd like to thank the supervisors for their work on this topic.

2395
03:29:26,700 --> 03:29:29,680
And also to staff for the time that they've put into this.

2396
03:29:29,680 --> 03:29:30,960
I know it's a complex topic.

2397
03:29:30,960 --> 03:29:35,280
And I know that there are many moving parts in this.

2398
03:29:35,700 --> 03:29:39,780
I wanted to talk about the social aspects of this.

2399
03:29:40,000 --> 03:29:41,880
I'm a resident of District 2.

2400
03:29:42,760 --> 03:29:46,800
And speaking specifically about the social economics on this topic,

2401
03:29:47,720 --> 03:29:52,860
wireless is by far the choice technology for people in 2022.

2402
03:29:54,600 --> 03:29:59,960
Nationwide we have over 60% of the population has moved to wireless technology.

2403
03:30:00,000 --> 03:30:07,220
Allege, they've given up their landlines. In speaking nationally, again, approximately 82 percent of

2404
03:30:07,220 --> 03:30:12,000
renters are wireless only, meaning they do not have landlines. People who live in poverty,

2405
03:30:12,000 --> 03:30:17,220
7 out of 10 people who live in poverty are likely to be wireless only. And for some of the supervisors

2406
03:30:17,220 --> 03:30:23,480
in this district that have high Hispanic populations, I would remind you that 77 percent of Hispanics

2407
03:30:23,480 --> 03:30:30,100
wireless only. People under the age of 34 who are just starting out the careers over 86 percent

2408
03:30:30,100 --> 03:30:35,720
of them or wireless only. And as supervisor friend pointed out, 80 percent of calls to 911 come

2409
03:30:35,720 --> 03:30:41,500
from wireless phones. When we put this in the aggregate, we have to remind ourselves that by failing

2410
03:30:41,500 --> 03:30:47,720
to build these networks, we are putting portions of the population who rely on this technology at risk.

2411
03:30:48,860 --> 03:30:53,900
landlines were a technology that were a hundred years ago viable. Currently in today's

2412
03:30:53,900 --> 03:30:58,660
world, they are not viable. And I don't think that it's reasonable to expect people

2413
03:30:58,660 --> 03:31:03,160
who are in, for example, transitional housing circumstances to constantly relocate their

2414
03:31:03,160 --> 03:31:08,900
landlines to let's be thoughtful about what we're doing here today. And I'll yield the balance

2415
03:31:08,900 --> 03:31:12,480
of my time back. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Wackoski.

2416
03:31:15,700 --> 03:31:17,380
We have no further speakers for this item.

2417
03:31:17,380 --> 03:31:18,340
Thank you.

2418
03:31:18,480 --> 03:31:19,700
Then I'll return to the board for action.

2419
03:31:20,180 --> 03:31:20,700
I'm so sorry.

2420
03:31:20,820 --> 03:31:21,360
One more person.

2421
03:31:21,600 --> 03:31:22,720
Just put their hand up.

2422
03:31:22,860 --> 03:31:23,620
All right.

2423
03:31:28,500 --> 03:31:29,820
Michael Centron.

2424
03:31:30,260 --> 03:31:30,760
You're there.

2425
03:31:30,940 --> 03:31:32,300
Is there anything to hear me?

2426
03:31:32,520 --> 03:31:32,840
Yes.

2427
03:31:33,360 --> 03:31:33,600
Excellent.

2428
03:31:33,940 --> 03:31:34,180
Hi.

2429
03:31:34,220 --> 03:31:35,340
My name is Michael Centron.

2430
03:31:35,460 --> 03:31:39,520
I'm the Permanent Manager for Crown Castles small wireless facilities in Northern California.

2431
03:31:40,260 --> 03:31:43,800
Crown Castles and Nations largest telecommunication infrastructure provider.

2432
03:31:43,800 --> 03:31:50,640
owning over 40,000 cellular towers, 80,000 route miles of fiber off the cable, and 60,000 small wireless

2433
03:31:50,640 --> 03:31:52,980
facilities built on the contract field.

2434
03:31:54,000 --> 03:31:55,520
That's reliable connectivity.

2435
03:31:55,860 --> 03:31:58,580
Everywhere in all the time is essential to modern day life.

2436
03:31:58,860 --> 03:32:02,660
I applaud the county for its efforts to update modernized wireless code.

2437
03:32:03,020 --> 03:32:07,380
To find the right balance in its code to allow for the deployment of these services to the community.

2438
03:32:08,700 --> 03:32:12,580
I'll have our additional reviews needed on this newly proposed code and designed guidelines.

2439
03:32:12,580 --> 03:32:17,480
I'm here today to ask the board to delay the adoption of this code and these design guidelines.

2440
03:32:17,840 --> 03:32:26,640
As currently written, these guidelines would violate state and federal law, as well as the state utility pole standards that govern the placement of the Court amount utility poles general order of 95.

2441
03:32:27,340 --> 03:32:39,420
For example, section 13.10.662C4B4 needs to be changed to be in compliance with GO95 rule 94E as the minimum distance from the center line to the maximum.

2442
03:32:40,260 --> 03:32:51,980
An additional item in non-compliance with state law section 13.10.662C4C7 and C4B, which prohibit

2443
03:32:51,980 --> 03:32:52,940
co-invance.

2444
03:32:53,500 --> 03:32:58,360
Crown Cows will comply with the applicable existing county noise ordinances that are not

2445
03:32:58,360 --> 03:33:00,960
more restrictive than required of any other entity.

2446
03:33:01,740 --> 03:33:06,600
Co-invance cannot be outright prohibited if this is left in place it appears to be discriminatory

2447
03:33:06,600 --> 03:33:08,240
against wireless communication facilities,

2448
03:33:08,820 --> 03:33:11,160
as other utility providers utilize cooling fans

2449
03:33:11,160 --> 03:33:14,560
for their equipment, a violation of BUC 7901.1.

2450
03:33:14,860 --> 03:33:16,920
This section must be deleted to allow

2451
03:33:16,920 --> 03:33:18,460
for the best and most recent technology

2452
03:33:18,460 --> 03:33:19,840
to be deployed in your communities

2453
03:33:19,840 --> 03:33:21,880
as the most recent generation of radios

2454
03:33:21,880 --> 03:33:23,460
and equipment have cooling fans.

2455
03:33:24,420 --> 03:33:26,160
This is a non-exhaust list of items

2456
03:33:26,160 --> 03:33:27,400
that are conflict with law

2457
03:33:27,400 --> 03:33:29,280
that we provided and glory to look at.

2458
03:33:30,580 --> 03:33:33,680
And we ask you that you delay the adoption of this code

2459
03:33:33,680 --> 03:33:36,140
and these guidelines to allow for further input discussion

2460
03:33:36,140 --> 03:33:38,820
to allow for thank you, Mr. Centron.

2461
03:33:39,500 --> 03:33:39,500
We

2462
03:33:42,900 --> 03:33:45,260
have no additional speakers, Chair.

2463
03:33:45,620 --> 03:33:46,300
All right, thank you all.

2464
03:33:46,360 --> 03:33:48,200
We're turning to the board for action then.

2465
03:33:48,620 --> 03:33:50,440
Before I entertain a motion,

2466
03:33:50,600 --> 03:33:53,160
I did a couple of questions came up or I thought

2467
03:33:53,160 --> 03:33:55,540
Valley comments during public comment.

2468
03:33:55,820 --> 03:33:56,940
The first was from Mr. Kaufman.

2469
03:33:57,940 --> 03:33:59,480
And it was that could buy Mr. Will.

2470
03:33:59,500 --> 03:34:02,780
Am I believe about how this ordinance would potentially

2471
03:34:02,780 --> 03:34:06,220
restrict camera use or other amateur radio.

2472
03:34:07,360 --> 03:34:09,460
But wondering if Mr. Carlson, you can respond to that.

2473
03:34:09,460 --> 03:34:13,940
if you see that this ordinance would restrict that or if there's opportunities to prove that.

2474
03:34:14,120 --> 03:34:20,580
Yes, this ordinance is intended to narrowly apply to personal wireless services such as that provided by

2475
03:34:20,580 --> 03:34:29,300
Crown Castle Verizon, AT&T, etc. And it's narrowly focused on that. And that exception is also narrowly

2476
03:34:29,300 --> 03:34:40,220
focused on that. And so those other types of facilities are not regulated by this ordinance.

2477
03:34:40,940 --> 03:34:46,340
Okay, thank you. And then the other point brought by Mr. Sintron about actual violations

2478
03:34:46,340 --> 03:34:55,140
that utility pole standards are allowing for cooling fans. I understand what he's saying,

2479
03:34:55,140 --> 03:35:04,160
And those standards are the criteria for qualifying for a ministerial building permit or

2480
03:35:04,160 --> 03:35:05,020
encroachment permit.

2481
03:35:05,440 --> 03:35:09,920
It's not a prohibition on those types of facilities that he mentioned.

2482
03:35:10,060 --> 03:35:15,180
It just means that if you are proposing a facility that does not conform to those criteria

2483
03:35:15,180 --> 03:35:20,540
into the category of needing a conditional use permit and then a encroachment permit

2484
03:35:20,540 --> 03:35:22,540
or building permit wants you to do that process.

2485
03:35:22,540 --> 03:35:28,760
So we're not, it's not a prohibition, it's just a categorization of different types of facilities

2486
03:35:28,760 --> 03:35:30,760
based on their criteria.

2487
03:35:31,660 --> 03:35:31,760
Got it.

2488
03:35:31,760 --> 03:35:33,640
So they're still allowed to have a higher level of review.

2489
03:35:34,520 --> 03:35:34,680
All right.

2490
03:35:34,920 --> 03:35:36,100
Thank you.

2491
03:35:36,580 --> 03:35:36,740
All right.

2492
03:35:37,340 --> 03:35:38,500
All in a kind of motion.

2493
03:35:38,700 --> 03:35:39,540
Supervisor Cabot.

2494
03:35:40,220 --> 03:35:48,740
You've got, let me, one more question, actually it's going back a few years, but whatever

2495
03:35:48,740 --> 03:36:00,040
What happened to the observation towers that a Ranger would be in the tower 24 hours a day,

2496
03:36:00,500 --> 03:36:07,000
and if they saw a fire break out somewhere in the forest, that they were able to use radio,

2497
03:36:07,000 --> 03:36:11,960
transistor radio, and I'd like to public that way.

2498
03:36:11,960 --> 03:36:17,680
I mean, what, what do we totally don't have that anymore at all?

2499
03:36:19,140 --> 03:36:22,780
We don't, nobody else can even, maybe else an answer to that.

2500
03:36:25,520 --> 03:36:40,540
Supervisor Capit, I have a, it's sort of unrelated, but I have spoken with Cal Fire about that kind of a solution about early warning for fires, and I think it's simply that it become cost prohibitive to man look out towers with folks at this time.

2501
03:36:40,980 --> 03:36:45,520
So that was the answer I have from Cal Fire about why we're no longer using people and look out.

2502
03:36:45,520 --> 03:36:51,540
hours, but we do have a number of cameras positioned throughout the county that fulfill very much

2503
03:36:51,540 --> 03:36:56,940
the same purpose. We have four in our county today, three more being installed, including one

2504
03:36:56,940 --> 03:37:02,160
at the Watsonville Airport, with a good view of the mountains that have provided early detection

2505
03:37:02,160 --> 03:37:15,500
of wildfires, and there's additional, I think it gets up to about 20 cameras when you consider

2506
03:37:15,500 --> 03:37:24,020
process we have now, when it worked in the past to prevent what maybe some people had a problem

2507
03:37:24,020 --> 03:37:29,980
with in the past and I think it's a current process as it's good as the proposal.

2508
03:37:30,000 --> 03:37:36,260
All right, Mr. Chair, I'll move the recommended actions.

2509
03:37:38,890 --> 03:37:44,150
Motion by supervisor friends, second by supervisor, make sure to send any further discussion.

2510
03:37:45,670 --> 03:37:47,350
Seeing none, clerk, roll call, please.

2511
03:37:47,970 --> 03:37:49,150
Supervisor friend.

2512
03:37:51,060 --> 03:37:51,580
Coonerty.

2513
03:37:52,100 --> 03:37:52,300
Aye.

2514
03:37:52,880 --> 03:37:53,500
Appet.

2515
03:37:53,940 --> 03:37:54,260
No.

2516
03:37:55,020 --> 03:37:55,340
Experson.

2517
03:37:55,840 --> 03:37:56,080
Aye.

2518
03:37:56,300 --> 03:37:56,800
And friend.

2519
03:37:58,440 --> 03:37:59,940
I'm so sorry. And codeic.

2520
03:38:00,640 --> 03:38:01,100
Aye.

2521
03:38:01,100 --> 03:38:03,360
This item passes 41.

2522
03:38:04,440 --> 03:38:05,100
Thank you.

2523
03:38:06,220 --> 03:38:08,220
Those ordinances being approved in concept.

2524
03:38:08,380 --> 03:38:12,400
They'll return to our May 24th agenda for final adoption.

2525
03:38:13,020 --> 03:38:15,620
That concludes our regular agenda today.

2526
03:38:16,140 --> 03:38:19,860
Next meeting of this anchor's County Board of Supervisors will be 9 a.m.

2527
03:38:20,160 --> 03:38:22,480
On May 24th.

2528
03:38:22,480 --> 03:38:23,060
Thank you all.

2529
03:38:23,220 --> 03:38:24,300
Meeting adjourned.

2530
03:38:24,480 --> 03:38:24,920
Thank you.

2531
03:38:25,200 --> 03:38:25,760
See you all.

2532
03:38:26,060 --> 03:38:26,320
Bye.