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Approval of the appointment of Liz Skutley to the Planning Commission as the City of Live Oak Representative (MT7912)
Approval of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Partnership HealthPlan of California for the coordination of services provided to Medi-Cal members served by both Partnership HealthPlan of California and specified Sutter County Health and Human Services programs, effective upon execution for a term of three years, and authorization for the Health and Human Services Director, or their designee, to sign the MOU and any amendments approved by Sutter County Counsel (MT7903)
Authorization to prepare Gold Resolutions for Karen Sangston, Executive Secretary I, and Janie Wolter, Medical Clerk II, on the occasion of their retirement from Sutter County (MT7914)
Approval of an Agreement with Youth for Change to provide regional Family Urgent Response System services for foster children and youth, former foster youth, and caregivers residing within Butte and Sutter Counties, in an amount not to exceed $342,220 for the period of July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027 (MT7916)
Approval of an adjustment to the FY 2026-27 Adopted Budget for Public Health (CC4103), increasing appropriations in the amount of $13,000 for the purchase of a replacement pharmaceutical-grade immunization refrigerator in an amount not to exceed $13,000 offset by the use of Medi-Cal Administrative Activities revenue funds (CC0211) (4/5 vote required) (BT-2610000321 pending) (MT7930)
Approval to accept a $15,000 donation from the Friends of Sutter County Library to fund the Zip Books program; and approval of an adjustment to the FY 2026-27 Adopted Budget - County Library (CC6201) increasing appropriations in the amount of $15,000 offset by an increase of $15,000 in revenue (4/5 vote required) (BT-2610000332 pending)(MT7931)
Authorization for the Sutter County Library to participate in the American Library Association (ALA) Libraries Transforming Communities (LTC): Accessible Small and Rural Communities Grant; approval to receive the grant award in the amount of $10,000; authorization for the Director of Library Services to sign all related grant documents and related agreement amendments; authorization for the Director of Library Services to fulfill the conditions of the grant; and approval of an adjustment to the Fiscal Year 2026-27 Adopted Budget - County Library (CC6201) increasing appropriations in the amount of $10,000 offset by a $10,000 increase in grant revenue (4/5 vote required) (BT-2610000333 pending) (MT7932)
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[9:06]
I want to welcome everyone to the meeting this afternoon. Thank you for coming out, and
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we'll start out with a roll call from the clerk.
[9:17]
Supervisor Boone?
[9:18]
Present.
[9:19]
Supervisor Flores?
[9:20]
Present.
[9:21]
Supervisor Zygmire?
[9:22]
Here.
[9:23]
Supervisor Baines?
[9:24]
Present.
[9:24]
Supervisor Stevens?
[9:25]
Here.
[9:26]
If we could all stand, and we'll have Richard Loughman from St. James, Jerusalem, Apostle
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Church, lead us in an indication.
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Let
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us pray.
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Good and gracious God, we thank you for the freedom to meet in the spirit of wisdom, charity, and justice.
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You have provided us with a vision of your kingdom to which we strive to achieve.
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Visit this meeting we pray, guiding the discussions to increase our safety as we travel our roads and streets,
[10:02]
and provide for the health of young people struggling to discover the gifts you have provided them.
[10:09]
Open the ears of our hearts to listen to each other from each other's perspectives,
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allowing us to have a bit more humility around the divisiveness of where we can and cannot compromise,
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where we are alike and where we are dissimilar.
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Renew the ties of mutual regard that form our civic life,
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enable us, and especially our county commissioners, to work to eliminate poverty,
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prejudice, and oppression so that peace may prevail with righteousness and justice
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with order, and that men and women from different cultures and with different
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talents may find with one another the fulfillment of their humanity through
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your holy grace. Amen.
[11:16]
And we're going to come on down here and do presentations, but before I want to congratulate
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again the LIVO girls, the 12 and under softball team.
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If you watched the news, they were all over it, you know, they lost at first.
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That was the first tough game, 1-11, but then they went on and lost to Japan 0-1,
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which is an incredible game.
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It was a great game.
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So it could have gone either way, zero to one.
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So great group of girls, first time in history,
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any teams ever made it that far in Sutter County history.
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So we're very proud of them.
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And then of course we voted last meeting
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to do something real special for them.
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So Jeff, I saw you with the group of girls.
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It's very neat.
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So congratulations to those young ladies.
[12:00]
We'll get them to the meeting in the next meeting
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when we do the presentation of them.
[12:07]
Will Sarah Everhart-Rios and Health and Human Services staff
[12:10]
Please join the board up front to receive a proclamation recognizing August 2026 as National
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Breastfeeding Awareness Month.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends exclusively breastfeeding
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for the first six months of life and continued breastfeeding for children up to two years of
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age or older. Breastfeeding helps prevent child malnutrition, ensures food security for infants
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and young children, decreases the risk of asthma, diabetes, obesity, heart disease,
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and breast cancer. The Tri-Counties Breastfeeding Alliance, a collaborative of local breastfeeding
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professionals and advocates, have succeeded in increasing the awareness of the importance
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of breast milk and breastfeeding. The Tri-Counties Breastfeeding Alliance, along with local
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partnering agencies, have been able to provide high-quality educational opportunities for
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health professionals over the past several years. The 2026 theme for National Breastfeeding
[13:18]
month is rise, resilience, interdependence, self-determination, empowerment, celebrating
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the strength of breast milk as one of the first foods.
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All parents with young children should have access to skilled breastfeeding counseling
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and support from their health facilities, workplace, and communities.
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The Sutter County Board of Supervisors do hereby proclaim August 2026 as Breastfeeding
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Awareness Month in Sutter County, and the Board shows their support and appreciation
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to those efforts.
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Will
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Zachary Hamill and the Office of Emergency Management staff please join the Board up front
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to receive a proclamation recognizing August 2026 as National Emergency Management Awareness
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Month.
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Sutter
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County is vulnerable to a range of hazards including flood
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Setting wildfires and severe weather events, which pose significant threats to life, property,
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and our unique agricultural environment. Local emergency managers in Sutter County, along
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with those in every sector and at every level, dedicate countless hours to developing and
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maintaining preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation programs to protect the residents
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of rural communities that define our county. Emergency managers in Sutter County and across
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the nation are charged with coordinating efforts across a wide spectrum of stakeholders including
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levy districts, public health, tribal governments, agricultural operations and emergency services
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to ensure effective disaster response and recovery. The mission areas of prevention,
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protection, mitigation, response and recovery align with the core capabilities identified
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in the National Preparedness Goal. Emergency managers including those serving Sutter County
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demonstrate commitment, compassion, and professionalism during emergencies such as flooding along
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the Feather and Sacramento Rivers, wildfires in the Sutter Buttes, and public health crises.
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The efforts of our nation's emergency managers have helped millions of community members
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across the United States recover, rebuild, and become more resilient in the face of
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adversity. The Sutter County Board of Supervisors do hear by proclaim the month of August
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2026 as National Emergency Management Awareness Month and urge community members to express
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their sincere appreciation for emergency managers in every sector who work diligently to prepare,
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protect, and serve our cities, counties, states, tribes, territories, regions,
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and organizations against all hazards and risks.
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Would you like to say something?
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Hello, everyone. Thank you to the board for this recognition. Emergency management is a whole
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community effort. And this proclamation is a reflection of a shared commitment to mitigation
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preparedness response and recovery. So thank you to our fellow county departments and other
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organizations for our ongoing coordination and partnerships. And thank you to our residents
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for staying engaged. Sign up for emergency alerts at BeeperParentsLitter.org. And we
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are hosting a preparedness fair on September 26th at East Nicholas High School at the
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gymnasium from 10 to 1. So please stop by. Thank you.
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And
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now we're going to move on to our public comment period.
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Members of the public will be allowed to address the Board on items of interest to the public
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that are within the subject manager restriction of the Board of Supervisors.
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State law provides a no discussion or action may be taken on any item not appearing on
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the posted agenda.
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Any public comment?
[18:34]
Yes, Mr. Chairman.
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We have four public comments.
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The first public speaker is Liz Cervantes, followed by Dale Whitmore.
[18:50]
Hello.
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Liz Cervantes, District 5.
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I'm here.
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I couldn't be here two weeks ago when the Measure G was talked about, but I would like
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to just say that Measure G is a general sales tax and it is not a good thing for taxpayers.
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General sales taxes go directly into the general fund and can be used for any purpose including
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pay increases and pensions.
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This is not a special tax.
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Special taxes can only be used for specific purposes such as road repair, fire, homelessness,
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justice, police, sheriff, district attorney, exactly why they are telling you they need
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this measure.
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General taxes come with no guarantee that they will spend one dime on what they promise,
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no guarantees, period.
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They put this on the ballot so you can decide, and because they have to, you can tell them
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you can't afford it by voting no on measure G.
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Sutter County is spending taxpayer funds to educate you on why they need this
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tax.
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Sutter County admits they have not been maintaining the roads.
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Sales taxes are regressive taxes affecting the fixed income households the most.
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Sutter County spends over 80% of their general fund revenue on salaries and benefits.
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Inflation has reduced your consumer purchasing power already.
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Measure G is a forever tax. There is no expiration or sunset.
[20:14]
The reason I brought this is I'm sure you all remember Kmart, right?
[20:18]
So, this is the blue light that they had at Kmart and which we now owe that Albatross.
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We own it in the center of town.
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I know it's for sale.
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We're not doing anything about marketing it.
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If we are, please let me know.
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The taxation is theft and I wish that you guys would sit down.
[20:42]
We have a lot of very intelligent people around here that there is some thinking
[20:48]
outside the box. We would love to have a conversation with you. Why we have to go to this? It seems
[20:55]
like a never-ending cycle and you're going to lose. I'm just telling you that right now.
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I don't know how much has been spent on the surveys, on everything else, but we are actively
[21:09]
working against the general sales tax. Please don't tell us that a special tax won't
[21:15]
work, it hasn't been tried. If people knew where their money was going with strict oversight,
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to the sheriff, to the roads, to whatever, you would see a different outcome. The general
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sales tax is not the answer. Please. It's too late now. It's on the ballot.
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It's going
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going to fail. Big thank
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you, Liz. Our next public speaker is Dale Whitmore, followed
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by Tony Farley.
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Oh, thank you. Supervisors.
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The shame topic is the Shanghai Bend Rapids
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Road, which has been closed for four years now. And it's at the end of Shanghai Bend
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Road where road currently ends. And you take a right there. And it's about a half mile
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to the Shanghai Bend Rapids. Now that road was open for decades and then it was
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closed in 2022. One and a half years ago the state of California
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transferred 142 acres to Sutter County. So it is now Sutter County that owns
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the floodplain and the road that goes to the Shanghai Bend Rapids. The
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Shanghai Bend Rapids is the best fishing location
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in Sutter County, and it needs to be reopened.
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I've turned into a couple letters here.
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One of the challenges here is that places like
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Johnson's Bait and Tackle could do better,
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do better business if some of their customers
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would be able to get to the end
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of Shanghai Bend Rapids Road so they can get
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easy access to the rapids.
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having to walk a half mile in this heat or in the cold or whenever it is just
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reduces the recreation of that people here and as well as out of town tourists
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could easily take care of. Myself and other sportsmen would like to find
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solutions to the perceived problems with reopening the gate. Now like I said
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that gate was open for decades before 2022. And from about 2005 to about 2014, I was
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a wildlife biologist who was managing the road. And I had to go down there once or
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twice a year and pick up somebody's pile of sheet rock or trash or whatever it was
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that they dumped down there. But the public, hundreds of people, thousands of people
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people got to go in there and use the property. And I would like to offer that there are several
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sportsmen that would like to get together with the board of supervisors and talk about
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how we can get that road reopened so that we can get access to that property. I mean
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we have the Feather River Parkway north of the 10th Street Bridge open. People can get
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in there. Why can't we get to that half mile road there at the end of saying I've been
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the road? Hey, I know we can do this working together. Thank you very much. Most of you
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probably already got my phone number. I left it on the card. Thank you.
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Yeah, we appreciate you. Thank you. Thank you very much.
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Our next public speaker is Tony Farley, followed by Allison Watkins.
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Tony Farrelly, Northview City 28, Wilcoo Drive, Northview City.
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Thank you, Dave Flores for his service to Congressman Dan Ford, Congressman.
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Thank you, Harper Professor, Jeff Stevens, pumpkin farmhouse.
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Pumpkin farmhouse, love that.
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Thank you, Bexel Meyer, Chilliard, all the youth star Chilliard,
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Sacramento Valley Chilliard, don't forget the Chilliard Award.
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The Gaysingham Irish, the Gaysingham Irish, the Ward, all the cheerleaders, the Ward's
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for cheerleaders, okay?
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Carm Baines, Carm Baines, Carm Baines, John De Tractor style, Carm Baines, and Jeb Boon,
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Jeb Boon, and Harvard Key School Law School Professor Steve Smith, and William Bill
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president, lawyer over there, and calm down the record. Scott Hansen, calm down the record.
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And Scott Smallwood, other sheriff, and Brandon Barnes, the funny, baddest sheriff ever, and
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the real P.I. lawyer, there are five, four P.I. ladies. And don't forget, Pire Energy,
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sacramental area, energy, gena, sacramental area, go sacramental, and go Jake, there's
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Jake, never talked before to Jake.
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Don't forget, Recology, we got Recology in the house, we got Recology here, Recology
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here, we got Recology here, never forget Whitmore, the lawyer there, lawyer, also
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a fisherman guy a lawyer and he has fun don't forget don't get let's get let's
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get a war and Zachary Hamill Zach Hamill and Sarah about Rio's the hands
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over there and and forgot we're brought up in garden thank you for your
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service our
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last speaker is Allison Watkins good
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afternoon
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Allison Watkins I'm a lifelong Sutter County resident I currently reside in
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District 3. I also happen to be an employee of Senator County. I've worked here for over
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12 years and spent my entire career over 25 years in public service. I'm here today to
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talk about my support of Measure G. And I know there's been a lot of talk about why
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some community members are not in favor of it being a general tax and how they would
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otherwise support a tax measure if it wasn't a general tax. And so I just wanted to
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talk about that a little bit. Since I have spent my entire career in public service, I
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don't think it is public knowledge how some of this works behind the scenes, right? So
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we talk about our public safety departments and our roads department, and I want to make
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it really clear to the community that those services don't end at the walls of the
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public safety department, right? So in order for a public safety department or development
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Services Department, which is where Rhodes resides, to function, they have to have computers
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that work, and IT manages those computers. They have vehicles that are managed through
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our fleet division. Their buildings are maintained through facilities, grounds, and custodial.
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Their liability and their risk mitigation is handled through county council. Sorry,
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I need to put my glasses on so I can look at my notes. The bills are paid, and the
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paychecks are cut through the auditor's office, their budget servers seen through the CAO's
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office, their hiring benefits, workman's comp, ADA, disciplinary issues with employees, union
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negotiations, that all happens through my office, which is HR.
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So public service is very important.
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Of course it is.
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We have wonderful relationships with our public safety.
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I keep saying public service.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm meaning public safety.
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We have wonderful relationships with our public safety departments.
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We work very closely together.
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of course they are important but they can't do their jobs without all of the
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other departments that support that same with roads so I think it's really
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important that as a community member I'm in favor of a general tax because of
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that reason I think it's important that we are efficient and use the funds
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that we have at our disposal appropriately I think this county
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does that very well we work very well together to do that but in order to
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be as efficient as possible, we need to be able to fund the support for all of these public
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services across the board.
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And I don't think-
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The community recognizes always that that is more than just what happens within the walls
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of the public safety department. So, you know, the undershare if and I work very closely together
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and we can't fill their vacancies without my department. And so that budget doesn't pay
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for my department. So if we had a special tax and it just went there, it wouldn't
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help fund all of the other support services. So I think you get what I'm saying and
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where I'm going with this, but I'm happy to answer any other questions if anyone has
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them, including anyone from the community. I would be happy to talk to you about what
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my department does for this community. Thank you very much. Thank you.
[30:43]
We have one more
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public comment that was received via email from Brandon McRinalds, Chair and Member
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of the Boards. The Sutter County Fire Department is currently operating with two vacancies
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and five employees on workers' compensation, leaving only 11 available personnel to
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cover approximately 70 open 24-hour shifts each month. That equals roughly 16, 1,680
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hours of staffing that must be covered monthly, creating a heavy and ongoing reliance on overtime
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and mandatory overtime just to maintain minimum staffing levels. This is not a short-term
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inconvenience. It is a critical staffing shortage. While firefighters understand overtime
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is a part of the job, there is a major difference between occasional overtime and routinely losing
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scheduled time off due to staffing shortages. With 48-hour shifts already standard, additional
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24-hour overtime assignments significantly reduce rest, recovery, and family time.
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This impacts not only firefighters, but also their families. Plans are disrupted,
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home responsibilities shift, and recovery time is lost. Fatigue and burnout become
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real concerns and a job that require constant alertness, physical strength, and sound decision
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making in high-risk environments. With 1,680 hours of monthly staffing needs being absorbed
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by only 11 employees, we respectfully request the county explore all available short-term
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solutions, including expedited hiring, limited-term staffing, and qualified extra help options
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to reduce mandatory overtime. Our members will continue to serve the community without
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hesitation. However, 11 employees should not be expected to permanently absorb 70 additional 24-hour
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shifts every month. Without relief, the risk of fatigue, injury, burnout, and turnover will
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continue to grow. We are asking the Board to act now before this becomes a larger operational
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and safety crisis. Respectfully, Branded McReynolds, President, Sutter County Professional
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Firefighters Association IAFF local 5032. Thank you, Brandon, for sending that in.
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And if we could get it on the next agenda, we're going to invite them over so we can have a discussion.
[33:03]
All right, so we'll get it on the next meeting agenda.
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Yeah, and actually, I've spoken to Captain McRenor.
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Well, we're going to do it in public.
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Okay. Yeah, I'm just I'm tired of not being able to say anything.
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Yeah.
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So we're going to invite them to the next meeting.
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We're going to discuss it so we can have some dialogue going back and forth.
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and let's come up with some solutions together.
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Yeah, and we're working on some of his suggestions as well with Chief Long.
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Thank you.
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Well, thank you so much.
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All right.
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Well, that would conclude public comment.
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Thank you very much.
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And then we are going to move on to the Consent Calendar.
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The Consent Calendar groups together are those items which are considered non-controversial
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for which prior policy direction has been given to staff and that require only routine
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action by the board.
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The chair will advise the audience that matters be adopted and totaled by one motion, however
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the board may at its option or upon request of a member of the public consider any matter
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separately.
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Through the chair.
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Yes, sir.
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Move to approve.
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Second.
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We have a motion by Supervisor Bainz, second by Supervisor Flores.
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Can we get a roll call, please?
[34:04]
Supervisor Boone.
[34:05]
Aye.
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Supervisor Flores.
[34:07]
Aye.
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Supervisor Ziegemeier.
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Aye.
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Supervisor Bainz.
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Aye.
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Supervisor Stevens.
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Aye.
[34:14]
The motion passes. Moving on to our first appearance item.
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Presentation on Sutter Point Economic Development.
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All right. Good afternoon and thank you for the opportunity to be here today.
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I'll be providing an update on the last year of partnering with the county.
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I'm Rachel Brown and over the past year I've been working with the county staff on economic development priorities for Sutter Point.
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Here's the headline I want to leave you with before I say anything else.
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Sutter Point has moved from potential to prepared.
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The land use framework supports the industries we are targeting, the internal process is
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in place, and the market is paying attention.
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What determines whether that interest turns into buildings and jobs is our ability to
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advance site readiness and deliver infrastructure, and that is what Phase 2 is designed to address.
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I'll take about 15 minutes, and then I'd welcome any questions from the board.
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Let me start with three things that matter most, and then we'll go through each in
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turn.
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First, zoning and entitlements already, the land use framework in the E1 and E2 employment
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zones already supports the industries we're targeting by right.
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We do not need a rezone, and separately, we are actively discussing targeted refinements
[35:42]
to the specific plan, which are improvements to an already workable framework, not a fix
[35:47]
for something that's blocking us.
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Second, Phase 1 built real momentum.
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We streamlined how the county handles these projects internally.
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We published clear guidance for developers and we deepened our regional partnerships,
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particularly with GSEC, which is Greater Sacramento Economic Council, and GOBIS,
[36:05]
which is the State Economic Development Department.
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Third, and this is the pivot point, demand is strong, but delivery is the constraint.
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We've seen more than $3.4 billion of interest come through,
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whether we capture it depends on utility capacity and firm timelines.
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points. Everything else I'm going to show you supports one of these three points.
[36:29]
This slide covers what phase one actually delivered. On the internal side, we brought
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planning, building, fire, and engineering into a single unified development process for
[36:38]
Sutter Point. That sounds procedural, but it matters. It means a prospect gets one
[36:44]
answer from the county instead of four. And it means review cycles are shorter.
[36:49]
We also published a Sutter Point permitting and regulatory one sheet. It's a single
[36:53]
document that tells an investor exactly what the permit path looks like. That document does
[36:58]
a great deal of work before we ever get on a call. On the external side, we started early
[37:03]
conversations with Sac Sewer, Golden State Water, and PG&E, so long-lead utility needs
[37:09]
surface before they can install a project rather than after. And we raised the county's profile.
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We partnered with GSEC on the Market Velocity Study, ran targeted workshops,
[37:19]
workshops, and represented Sutter County at the World AgriTech Conference this year.
[37:25]
As a result of the county's participation at the conference, Sutter County is now included
[37:29]
in GSEC's Food and Ag Innovation Council. That gives the county an ongoing voice in
[37:33]
regional conversations about food, agriculture, innovation, and business attraction, and
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helps keep Sutter County's assets visible as new opportunities develop.
[37:44]
One of the most valuable parts of that work was our workshop and conversation with
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Metro Air Park representatives. Their experience reinforced that large-scale employment development
[37:52]
is a long-term effort. The winds visible there today are the result of decades of planning,
[37:59]
infrastructure investment, and sustained public-private coordination. That perspective
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matters for SutterPoint. The work we are doing now is laying the foundation for future
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development, even when the full results are not immediate.
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I want to be very clear about this one because it's often the first question.
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Land use is not the barrier. The sectors we're targeting, advanced manufacturing,
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agri-food processing, logistics, and biotech are permitted by right in the E1 and E2 zones.
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There's no discretionary land use hurdle for those uses.
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Conditional use permits do exist, but the triggers are narrow and predictable.
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They're tied to specific hazardous material and fuel storage thresholds.
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Core industrial operations don't trip those conditional use permit requirements.
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So what does that mean for you? Two things.
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SutterPoint's zoning framework is ready for the target uses, which are approved by right.
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I want to be careful with the word ready, though.
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Zoning readiness is not the same as shovel readiness.
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The core land use framework is in place while the remaining path to construction runs through infrastructure,
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infrastructure, project-level permitting, and site-specific work.
[39:10]
And I'll come to that.
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Staff time is therefore best spent on site guidance and infrastructure delivery,
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while the targeted specific plan refinements we're discussing move forward in parallel.
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That's also a genuine competitive asset when we talk to site selectors,
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because many competing sites can't say the same.
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And here's a real change in market conditions since last year.
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Two employment zone properties are now actively for sale.
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That gives prospective employers more than one location to evaluate and gives the county a clearer answer when site selectors ask what land is available.
[39:44]
The pattern matters more than either individual listing. This is employment zone land, so it proves a direct concrete example of the by right story on this slide.
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Until recently, a site selector asking what's available, we didn't have a clean answer.
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Now they have two options.
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Available land is what turns an inquiry into a site visit,
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and having multiple option helps keep SutterPoint on a short list.
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One point on the approval pathway, so there are no surprises later,
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the specific plan EIR Environmental Impact Report
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gives us a strong environmental foundation.
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It did a lot of heavy lifting.
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Individual projects will still need to complete a focused project level
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SQL review, and that's a routine part of permitting anywhere in California.
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The reason I raise it is expectations.
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When we communicate that pathway early and clearly,
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developers can build it into their schedules and it becomes a non-issue.
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When it comes up late, it reads as surprise and it costs us credibility.
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So our posture is straightforward.
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We present SutterPoint as highly prepared and well structured,
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and we're transparent about the steps that remain.
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That combination of what builds investor confidence.
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Now to the demand picture, which I think will be the most encouraging part of this briefing.
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Over the last 18 months, more than 10 major regional and state RFI opportunities, RFIs
[41:11]
are requests for information, came to SutterPoint through GSEC, that is real inbound qualified
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interest.
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Together those opportunities represent over $3.4 billion in potential capital investment
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and more than 3400 jobs.
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The sectors are exactly the ones we've positioned for, food and beverage processing, advanced
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manufacturing including aerospace, AI and robotics, entire production, and sustainable
[41:36]
agritech which aligns with the county's agricultural strengths.
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I want to put that in wider frame because this isn't a Sutter County anomaly.
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We are aligning with where the regional market is already going.
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GSEC's most recent analysis shows greater Sacramento leading California in employment
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growth.
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From 2020 to 2025, the region grew employment by 10.8%.
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The state grew as a whole at 9%, and the average across San Francisco, San Jose, L.A. and San Diego Metres was under 7%.
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And the forecast through 2030 has greater Sacramento at 5.5%, still ahead of the state and well ahead of those coastal metros.
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That's the market we sit inside.
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Brookings has also moved the region up sharply in its metro monitor rankings over the last
[42:25]
several years.
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And GSEC has helped land names like Bosch, Solidaim, and Samsung in the region.
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This is a growth market that companies are actively choosing.
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Here's why that matters for us specifically.
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Regional growth of that size needs somewhere to go, and the coastal metros are constrained.
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Sutter Point is the largest employment zone opportunity in the northern part of
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this region.
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Our job is to be aligned and ready when that growth looks north, and that alignment is what phase one built.
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So the message I'd leave you with on this slide is a confident one.
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The market has found us. Our zoning matches with these companies need. Our processes streamlined.
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Our regional partnerships are active, and land is now becoming available.
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While we continue the infrastructure work, we are already well positioned to attract this investment,
[43:11]
and every piece we finish makes us more competitive for it.
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This is the problem we need to solve, and it's the most important slide in the deck.
[43:21]
On power, these RFIs routinely ask for 10 to 40 megawatts or more.
[43:26]
One prospect needed up to 120 megawatts in later phases, and they want it on a two to three-year schedule.
[43:33]
On water, we're seeing requirements up to 1.7 million gallons a day with matching wastewater capacity,
[43:39]
and they need confirmed delivery dates, not estimates.
[43:43]
On timing, that's where it breaks down.
[43:44]
We cannot yet commit to firm utility completion dates on those schedules.
[43:49]
I want to be precise about the conclusion.
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These projects are not being screened out because the zoning framework fails to support the target uses.
[43:56]
The central constraint is that firm utility completion dates cannot yet be committed on the schedules that these projects require.
[44:05]
Site-specific readiness and project-level approval still matter, but infrastructure delivery is the pivotal issue that Phase 2 is designed to address.
[44:13]
It's
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not all long-term. There's a category of projects we can win right now.
[44:22]
Sutter County is immediately competitive for mid-scale projects with moderate utility footprints.
[44:27]
The profile is roughly 5 to 20 megawatts of power, under 100,000 gallons a day of water, and a site under 50 acres.
[44:35]
A concrete example, a mid-scale food manufacturing operation, around $80 million of investment, needing about 0.3 megawatts.
[44:44]
That could fit our current capacity and our right, our by right zoning perfectly.
[44:49]
My recommendation is that we land one or two of these in the near term.
[44:52]
They validate the market, they demonstrate the county can execute
[44:55]
and they build the track record we'll want when larger prospects come back.
[45:00]
We do that while the long-term infrastructure work proceeds in parallel.
[45:06]
So here's what I'm recommending for phase two. First, a market absorption study. It quantifies
[45:12]
how quickly land will actually absorb, which tells us how to phase the infrastructure instead of
[45:16]
guessing. Second, and this is a significant one, partnering with rural county representatives
[45:21]
of California on an EDA grant. These funds would help with the engineering and scheduling work
[45:30]
across power, sewer, water, and roads. That's what converts a general intention into a
[45:36]
date we can put in front of a prospect. Third, sustained engagement with PG&E, Golden State
[45:42]
Water, and Sac Sewer to establish firm capacity commitments. And on the market-facing side,
[45:48]
we turn those commitments into infrastructure fact sheets for RFI responses. We prepare
[45:53]
and promote priority sites. We begin establishing build-a-suit pathways with developer
[45:58]
partners, and we keep the GSAC and GO-Biz relationships active so the deal flow continues.
[46:05]
A note on that word, prepare.
[46:07]
I'm deliberately not calling these pad-ready sites because they aren't yet.
[46:11]
What we're doing is packaging the priority sites, getting the site-level information
[46:15]
into a form a developer can act on, and scaling up how aggressively we promote them
[46:20]
as each readiness milestone is met.
[46:22]
That way, we say publicly, what we say publicly always matches what we can always deliver.
[46:29]
Same logic on Build to Suit. I want to be clear that this is Phase 2 work, not something we're offering today.
[46:34]
We don't have Build to Suit product on the ground right now.
[46:37]
What we can do in Phase 2 is establish those pathways with developer partners so that when site readiness advances,
[46:44]
a prospect has a route from interest to a building without starting from zero.
[46:49]
To
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bring it together, Phase 1 did what it was meant to do.
[46:55]
We have organizational readiness, a land-use framework that supports the target industries
[46:59]
and strong regional partnerships.
[47:02]
Background work is established, and Phase 2 builds on it by advancing site-specific readiness
[47:07]
and infrastructure delivery.
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The core challenge in front of us is a timing gap between market demand that exists
[47:13]
today and infrastructure that isn't yet scheduled.
[47:16]
I'm excited to partner with you on Phase 2, the work I just outlined, and make sure that
[47:21]
these three things are moving forward to help Sutter Point go from planning to active development.
[47:27]
The interest is already here. The question is whether we can meet it with a date.
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Thank you, and I'm happy to take any questions.
[47:36]
Thank you very much for that, and we'll bring it back for the board for questions, discussion.
[47:42]
I'm sorry, we'll open up the public comment. Is there any public comment? Any questions
[47:45]
on set of point development? All right, we'll close public comment. Bring back to the board
[47:52]
for discussion questions. Yes, sir.
[47:54]
So thank you for the presentation. That was great. Very well organized and gives us something
[47:59]
to shoot for and look forward to. And it's nice to see a plan like laid out like that.
[48:05]
One of the things, though, I wanted to, if you could address more, because we've
[48:08]
been running into this. It has to do with power, right? All together. And I know that
[48:12]
you were privy to a phone call that we were on at one point with PG&E, who directly stated
[48:17]
and I'm saying this in public record on purpose, but they said that they would be able to
[48:22]
deliver the power we need for some usage that could be up to their words or 800 megawatts.
[48:31]
So I've been questioning, like, how do we get those solid commitments that you're
[48:35]
talking about, that, you know, how do we go from here to getting those commitments where
[48:39]
it's not just a promise on a phone call, but we know for sure that they can deliver.
[48:45]
And then some of the recent businesses, I know Supervisor Stevens and I have just recently
[48:50]
visited a technology center and, you know, their needs will be, have to be delivered
[48:56]
within 18 to 24 months maximum. Otherwise, we couldn't even attract those businesses
[49:01]
here.
[49:01]
So it's kind of it's kind of weird because you have this chicken and egg scenario and you know
[49:06]
We're told if you bring a user you can have the power and we're told if you have the power we can get the user
[49:13]
So how do we approach this? Just I mean you have some ideas. I'm just curious. How do we go from you know?
[49:20]
And I think that's what the next I don't know 60 90 days
[49:23]
I'm going to try and earnest is I'm already meeting with our
[49:27]
the PG&E government affairs gentleman next week for lunch,
[49:30]
but trying to get something in writing,
[49:32]
it's nice to have those conversations
[49:33]
that words are exchanged and promises are made,
[49:37]
but getting it in writing is really where we need to get.
[49:40]
And so if they're not able to commit to that
[49:42]
in a commitment letter or some other form,
[49:44]
we're still kind of hamstrung a little bit
[49:46]
by promising that to a user, a business or developer.
[49:50]
So I'm hopeful to try to be a little more persistent
[49:52]
and try to get them to put something in writing.
[49:55]
And we're going to have to try different levels at any given organization if that person
[49:59]
isn't the one that can commit who is.
[50:02]
Well, I appreciate your effort.
[50:03]
I know, you know, I've been actively involved.
[50:05]
I'm the GSEC rep for Sutter County.
[50:09]
And a few years ago, Steve Smith and I went to a visit and we actually had site selectors
[50:16]
looking for a site in Sutter County.
[50:19]
So we've gone through this, you know, this, so your presentation really hits
[50:22]
homes because we went and we were feeling pretty good about our presentation or like
[50:26]
yeah they really liked our site and as a matter of fact we found out they chose us
[50:30]
as the number one site but the problem was that we weren't ready right we weren't
[50:35]
site ready and some of these things that you talked about was power water sewer
[50:38]
you know weren't ready for the site or the site they ended up going to I
[50:42]
forget the city they ended up in but they went to a big a different site
[50:46]
and we lost out so unfortunately you know we celebrated for about 10 minutes
[50:51]
and then we lost it. But it was a big auto zone, actually, auto zone distribution center,
[50:58]
which would have brought, you know, millions of dollars of tax dollars to the county in
[51:03]
sales tax revenue, which would have been wonderful to have, and not to mention the property
[51:07]
tax revenue. So, but those are the kinds of things, and this is why it's so important
[51:11]
that we do focus on the items that you're on. And I think having this, like, direct
[51:16]
targeted focus that you're working on, you know, I for one support you and looking
[51:20]
forward to great things ahead. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions? All right,
[51:26]
that I'll just leave it at this. You know, if you look down our agenda, you're going to see
[51:30]
we're talking about grants and so forth, can it hit some because we know I think the last time we
[51:35]
spoke about, I think it was about 18 million for the pipes underneath the highway because we
[51:40]
got to get them pipes underneath that highway. And that's that's key. You know, once again,
[51:46]
and auto zone, no pipes underneath the highway.
[51:48]
We love your area, love the price,
[51:50]
just don't have any infrastructure.
[51:53]
So it's having the ability to go after those grants
[51:57]
and working with GSAC like Dan does every year
[52:00]
and so forth, but thank you very much for this.
[52:04]
At least we know we're all on the same page.
[52:06]
Perfect, thank you.
[52:10]
All right, with that, there's no vote required there.
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We're gonna move on to item number nine.
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Presentation of an update in planning
[52:19]
for Pioneer Community Energy's October 2027 service launch.
[52:42]
I'm here today with my colleague Lisa Rose, who is our community outreach manager.
[52:47]
As a quick recap, the Board of Supervisors and Pioneer began discussions about expanding
[52:53]
Pioneer service into Sutter County back in 2024.
[52:57]
Together we conducted an impact assessment study which found that expanding service
[53:03]
service would be beneficial for both the county and pioneer, and the California Public Utility
[53:09]
Commissions have proved that expansion in 2025 for an October 2027 service launch.
[53:19]
At the time that seemed like it was really far into the future, but today it's just
[53:25]
14 months away, and we are really excited to share with you today and update on some
[53:32]
of the new things that are happening at Pioneer, including services and programs, and also to
[53:37]
talk about what the next 14 months looks like as we prepare for this launch.
[53:46]
How Pioneer works, we are a not-for-profit community-owned electricity provider.
[53:52]
We are headquartered in Rockland, California.
[53:55]
We purchase the power on the open market, and then PG&E delivers that power through
[54:02]
its lines and polls to our shared customers who received just one bill.
[54:11]
We currently serve El Dorado County, Placer County, and the cities of Grass Valley and
[54:17]
Nevada City.
[54:18]
In October 2027, the county will join Pioneer and 15 other jurisdictions as we grow our
[54:26]
territory and we are really excited to welcome Sutter County into our community
[54:32]
and to become part of your community.
[54:34]
We are also really excited about the benefits that we can offer the county.
[54:39]
For example, since 2018 when we launched through 2025, we've saved our customers $145 million
[54:48]
in savings.
[54:51]
But in order to come into the county, we want businesses and residents to be excited
[54:58]
that we're coming as well.
[54:59]
So we know that during the next 14 months, we need to reach out and talk to people.
[55:04]
We need to communicate and educate your constituents so there are no surprises and they know exactly
[55:10]
what to expect.
[55:12]
So I now would like to turn the floor over to my colleague, Lisa, who will explain what
[55:18]
some of the things we have planned are for 2020 or as we lead up to the service
[55:23]
launch in 2027.
[55:25]
And also to answer any questions you might have.
[55:37]
So, one of the things that we've discussed is how Pioneer really strives to be a part
[55:41]
of the community, and so this slide really highlights our community partnerships and
[55:46]
local reinvestment in some fun and exciting ways, and so you'll see even today we were
[55:53]
at Feeding the Foothills in Roseville today helping and volunteering at the Food Bank,
[55:59]
and we've strived to help with different STEM and science education programs, helping
[56:04]
out at the senior centers. So we really support local events, local programs, and we also work
[56:11]
to create local power purchase agreements in the areas that we serve. I think I've been
[56:16]
here before and told you a little bit about our power purchase agreements, and we're
[56:20]
always welcome and willing to discuss any power purchase agreement opportunities in
[56:26]
this area. And one of the power purchase agreements that we're working on and finalizing
[56:32]
is in Calusa County for a 15-year power purchase agreement, solar and battery storage. But we've
[56:38]
also been working and have worked with Elder Auto Irrigation District on a 10-year, 37 million-dollar
[56:45]
hydro PPA. We also work with different biomass projects in Grass Valley and also Georgetown.
[56:55]
So as Gina mentioned, we're excited to talk about some of our programs that we offer.
[56:59]
We offer an AC tune-up rebate program where residential customers can get up to $75 back
[57:06]
when they tune up their AC unit, and that goes for our commercial customers as well.
[57:11]
There's a $150 rebate available.
[57:13]
We also offer a Power Shift Rewards program, which gives each resident a $25 gift card
[57:19]
just for signing up, and then you earn more rewards when you're conserving energy
[57:24]
when the grid is stressed.
[57:25]
We have our grid gen zero up front and it's solar and battery at your home at no cost up front.
[57:33]
So a no credit check. So it's a great win-win for our customers.
[57:37]
We also have a community advisory committee that really looks at new programs.
[57:43]
And so we would welcome having someone on our committee and getting your input because every community is different
[57:53]
and they have local needs and we want to hear from you.
[57:58]
And here's a couple other programs that we offer.
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I mean, Sutter County has many ag programs
[58:02]
and so we offer an hourly flex pricing program
[58:06]
where ag customers can reduce their energy usage
[58:10]
and if they do that over a 12 month period
[58:14]
they receive rewards from that.
[58:16]
And our board of directors has approved two programs
[58:19]
that our member agencies can participate in.
[58:22]
It's the Clean Fleet Revenue Program
[58:23]
program where you can generate REC credits for your EV vehicles and infrastructure, and
[58:30]
then we also have our solar RECs program where if we have solar arrays, you can generate
[58:35]
REC credits from that and receive a quarterly check.
[58:38]
So those are two exciting programs that our board has approved and given early access
[58:43]
for our member agencies to participate in.
[58:47]
So as Gina mentioned, I'd like to provide more information and an overview of what
[58:51]
you can expect from Pioneer over the next 14 months, during this time we'll be implementing
[58:56]
a very extensive public education campaign. And it's really to educate customers about
[59:03]
Pioneer and take the mystery out of the process. Our goal is to make the information clear
[59:07]
and concise. And we also want to offer that in Punjabi and Spanish to those residents
[59:13]
that would appreciate that communication. And it's all about collaboration and information
[59:19]
sharing right now we're new and people are going to want to know who is
[59:23]
pioneer who what are they doing what are they offering and we really want to
[59:27]
take any misperceptions and educate our customers our call center is available
[59:32]
now and throughout the launch and at any time to provide support and accurate
[59:37]
information and to clear up any misperceptions that folks may have we're
[59:42]
prepared to address any questions and misinformation if you're out in the
[59:45]
community and you're hearing things.
[59:47]
We want to know so that we can work to address it.
[59:50]
We have an FAQ that we will provide
[59:52]
Steven and Jamie on to provide you.
[59:55]
And they're just commonly asked questions
[59:57]
you might get out in the community
[59:58]
and we really want to strive to provide.
[1:00:02]
We also want to work with staff on a web page that talks about Pioneer and also has those
[1:00:07]
FAQs on it. And so we have that content and other expansion communities are using that
[1:00:12]
as well. And we're always available and willing to work with county staff on any questions
[1:00:19]
and helping with this rollout plan. And we just want to say we're very excited to be
[1:00:24]
a part of the Sutter community.
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Pioneer has developed a phased approach
[1:00:33]
to our community outreach and education program.
[1:00:38]
The first phase was a research phase
[1:00:40]
and was completed in June.
[1:00:42]
We joined the local chambers.
[1:00:43]
We were researching community groups,
[1:00:46]
looking at your community organizations,
[1:00:49]
mapping and media monitoring.
[1:00:52]
We've moved into phase two in July through December,
[1:00:55]
where we're developing paid media plans,
[1:00:57]
reserving ad spaces, briefing our pioneer board,
[1:01:00]
really approving our budget and briefing new member agencies and working on the messaging
[1:01:07]
and materials development.
[1:01:09]
The next phase, phase three, will be from January through June.
[1:01:13]
You'll start seeing our early ads that Safe High Near is coming and we'll be offering
[1:01:18]
town halls, webinars, direct mail, social media, very, very robust ad campaign, website
[1:01:25]
site updates and more. We'll be presenting to your civic organizations as well and participating
[1:01:31]
in community events. Phase four is our final countdown, July to September. Really a lot
[1:01:37]
more ad campaign and town halls and more presentations. If you think there's an organization
[1:01:43]
that we need to get in front of and present to, we would welcome that feedback at any
[1:01:48]
time. And throughout these phases, we welcome your feedback and any ideas that you
[1:01:54]
may have for us. And then we will play our ads will change from pioneers coming to pioneers
[1:02:00]
here and we'll be working on the post-enrollment, the regulatory notices, the direct mail pieces
[1:02:08]
and more. So just wanted to let you know we very much welcome your feedback on that.
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So to summarize communications and community outreach, play a key role for a successful
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partnership. You have a voice in the process and we want your feedback. Again, we'll be
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ramping up a very extensive ad campaign and outreach program with paid media, direct mail
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town halls and an onsite presence at community events. We want to be at the community events
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that you think we should be at, so please give us your feedback on that. It does take
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a variety of communications vehicles to target the community and your community
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is unique but we're here to be a resource and a community partner through this and we
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just wanted to thank you for your time today. Thank you.
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Thank you. All right, we are going to open up for public comment. Mr. Chairman, we have
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one public comment from Tony Farley. All right.
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I'll play it for all again.
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Yeah, our energy is very similar to SMUD, huh, Gia?
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Very similar to SMUD.
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Gina?
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SMUD serves Sacramento County,
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and we are similar, but a little bit different.
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SMUD actually owns its lines and poles
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and buys the energy.
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For Pioneer, we just buy the energy
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and then PG&E delivers the energy
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through its lines and poles.
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I like that.
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Rockland's soccer area, I like that.
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Soccer mill with Eric E. helping give City out.
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We need more soccer mill.
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City, we need more of that.
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I like that.
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Thank you, Tony.
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Is there any other public comment?
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No public comment.
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We'll close the public comment period.
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Bring it back for the board for discussion.
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And yes, sir.
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Yes, thank you very much for the presentation.
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Definitely appreciate all the information you provided.
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Now, recently, we heard when you first came up, we were looking somewhere around a 20%
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break on our energy.
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And then after you started moving across several counties, I think PG&E jumped in and decided
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to charge a little more for the line maintenance, their usage, if you will.
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So, with that being said, what are we looking at probably as a discount or break on
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PG&E for our area.
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So I don't have a crystal ball, but what I can tell you is saving customers' money
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is our number one priority.
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And earlier this year, our board of directors in January approved for the third consecutive
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year a rate discount of 16%, which for this year meant that on the generation portion
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of the bill, which is the part of the bill that Pioneer can control, we are an
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average of 10% less than PG&E.
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Thank you. Appreciate that.
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Do that, Chair.
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Yes, sir.
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I was just wondering if you may have some clout with PG&E
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to get the poles and utilities down
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into the South Sutter County area
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so we can develop down there.
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We do not actually have any influence
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over their infrastructure.
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I got a few.
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First question, what's a possibility for the future working with Yuba County water and purchasing
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power from their grid?
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So I will tell you, we prioritize working with local power providers, but I think that
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always has to be a partnership, and if they have power available, we would prioritize
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it and I am sorry although I can't speak for our procurement team I am certain
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they would try to procure it I don't know what capacity they have though all
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right thank you all right with that being said if there's no other thank you
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very much for a presentation thank you moving on to our sheriff can
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you hear
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me Scott presentation on the Sutter County Sheriff's Office 2025 annual
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report? No you're good. Okay good afternoon board members, other county
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employees, members of our community. Sutter County Sheriff Brandon Barnes I
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brought some notes but I'm just gonna throw those over here and just kind of
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work off the cuff. You know each year we produce an annual report that really
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represents who we are as an organization and each year we come before
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the board and we present that to you and this year is no different so what
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we're doing is the annual report for calendar year 2025.
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Of course, this is available through our web page
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at SutterSheriff.org.
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So if there's community members that want to go
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and look at this in greater detail,
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you can certainly do that.
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I'm not going to go over every bit of information
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on every slide for the interest of time,
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but I'm going to highlight a lot of the good work
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that we've been doing.
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Before I get started though,
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I want to just kind of get all the thank yous
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out of the way.
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And so I generally start by thanking members
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of the community and I'm going to start,
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I don't see Steve, but you know the CAO's office is such a great partner and you know as sheriff
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We have a complex business, but Steve is always good about listening as is bill
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So I want to make sure that I'm acknowledging them
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I saw that Allison left and I wish she hadn't because I think she kind of stole a lot of my thunder
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Really by pointing out that we can't operate without the collaborative effort of everybody in the county
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And that includes all of the departments and she's exactly right in what she said
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I mean we've got to keep vehicles on the road, we've got to keep our computers running,
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you know we've got Nils department that gets contracts in place and helps us with HVAC in the jail
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and Veronica's office that handles a lot of our recruiting, hiring, personnel matters,
[1:08:11]
and again, you know finding, you know, homes for people that are displaced in our community
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through Sarah's shop and so it's very circular in how we work and we can't do it without
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a very collaborative approach and so I'm just very thankful of all the relationships
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So I want to acknowledge all the other department heads and say thank you to all of you because
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without you the Sheriff's Department would not be what it is and we recognize that.
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So thank you very much.
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That's what I want to thank our board.
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You guys are highlighted in this report.
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I always pride myself on having a good relationship with all of you.
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It was mentioned earlier about Measure G and General Fund tax dollars and where
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those goes and trusting people.
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You know, I just want to state for the community that every time that I've had an issue, a budgetary
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matter or something that I needed for my staff or my office, and I've brought that before
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this board and previous boards, I have never been denied.
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They have always been a big supporter of public safety, and I don't have any reason to believe
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that's going to change, and so I want to thank all of you for your contributions
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to my office and my staff.
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Next, I want to thank my employees.
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So everybody at the Sheriff's Department, I'm a bit of a history buff and so to quote
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Teddy Roosevelt, the credit really belongs to the man and the woman in the arena.
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They're the ones that are out doing the work.
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They're the boots on the ground.
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They're the ones walking our jail.
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They're the one handling 911 calls, taking care of civil processes and just so many
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other things that we do in the Sheriff's Department.
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And so, you know, I know right now that at least one of our associations got a contract
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resolved. The other one is coming up, I think, a little later this week. And, you know, in
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some cases, there is much as 20 percent behind market, which is tough. I mean, imagine having
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a fifth-year paycheck that should be there that's just not there, right? That's a tough
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thing to do.
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But what you'll see in this is that we still show up every day, and we do the
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best possible work that we can do, and we do it with pride. And I'll highlight
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like this for you as we go through,
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because a lot of the things you see
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have to do with the stuff that we do out in the community,
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a lot of the events, right?
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Those are really what make up the identity
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of the Sheriff's Office, that's who we are.
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But because of some of the budget cuts this year,
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I told staff, we're gonna cut back on coffee with a cop,
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and we're gonna cut back on this,
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and we're not gonna do that,
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because there's sometimes overtime involved
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with some of that stuff.
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Almost universally, everybody said,
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Sheriff, we're gonna do those things,
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and we'll volunteer our time.
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We will find ways to make those things happen.
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So, as an example, we just did National Night Out
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and I had told Steve, our CAO, I said,
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I don't think we're gonna do National Night Out this year.
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We just can't afford to.
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What you saw on National Night Out
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was the staff really stepping up.
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Salaried staff, lieutenants, captains
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that don't make overtime, volunteered their time
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to come out and make sure that National Night
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happened for our community.
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And so I'm very proud of that.
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I'm very proud of what you'll see in this report
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and we hope to carry that moving forward.
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So with that, I will get into the meat and potatoes of the report here.
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We always start out with who we are, our values, our mission, our motto, and that's described
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there.
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I will tell you that this year's report I'm especially proud of.
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I think it has a very good look to it from the cover that highlights the diversity of
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our department, one of our new patrol vehicles, and it's just really who we are, and I'm
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very proud of that.
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Table of contents.
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Again, protecting every corner.
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Each of you have a district, and we cover every square inch of that, including areas
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of Yuba City because of the services that we provide throughout the county.
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And so we really wanted to highlight that and make sure that the community knew that
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we're in all of these spaces, all of these areas providing service.
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Command staff.
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And then we go into a couple of pages.
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Just to memorialize my time as the President of the California State Sheriff's Association,
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I certainly didn't want to make this about me, but I thought it was unique
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enough that since Roy Whitaker, we have not had a president of the State Sheriffs Association.
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So that's, you know, I'm not very proud of it. So I got to do a lot of very cool things
[1:12:14]
during that year, including our first annual barbecue cookoff. We just finished our second
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annual, and I want to acknowledge two of our supervisors that actually donated to
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this event. We had this down at Travis Air Force Base, where the sheriffs had
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a competition, but then we fed about 400 of our servicemen and women on that
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particular day, and they ate really well. So not only was it a win for public safety,
[1:12:37]
but it was a win for our military. And Supervisor Ziggermeyer, Supervisor Baines both contributed
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monetarily to that with donations to make that happen. So thank you to both you gentlemen.
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Leadership Sherman Block. We continue to invest in our staff, everything from Sherman
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Block Command College, which you'll see there with Captain Piazza. We also highlighted
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the police world games down there. Two of our officers went to the world games.
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times. We brought back a total of 15 gold medals in trap shooting, 20 overall medals,
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and they were gearing up again. They wanted to go to the next ones, but they're in Australia,
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and so I think they kind of decided against that. They're going to wait until it gets
[1:13:13]
back, at least in somewhere in the United States, hopefully, but I was going to ask
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if I could go to Australia with them, but I didn't know how that would go over.
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Go find me.
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Right? Yeah, go find me. You know, the other thing, too, is the FBI National
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Academy, Lieutenant Man was able to attend that this past year. It's a unique opportunity.
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It's 10 weeks at Quantico, Virginia. And I will tell you that in my time, generally
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within a department, you can look up and down the halls and say there's one, maybe two
[1:13:41]
people that have went through this very esteemed academy. We happen to have three in our
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department that are all graduates of the FBI National Academy, with Lieutenant Man being
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the latest. And I will tell you the wait period is about five, six years sometimes,
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times, which is why you only have one or two usually, but very proud of that accomplishment.
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We recognized our employees of the year.
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Additionally, we celebrated 175 years of being a sheriff's department.
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We were one of the original 27 counties back in 1850 when California became a state.
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So to more memorialize that, we had a separate patch, a belt buckle and a badge that just
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honored the 175 years that we had as a sheriff's office.
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I couldn't imagine what it was like to go to East Nicholas on horseback.
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I'm glad I don't have to find out.
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Just our partnerships with so many great agencies around.
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That picture you see at the bottom is unique because that is actually the briefing for the Seek Parade,
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the morning of the parade.
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And, you know, anywhere from 60 to 80 people all present that day to help us out.
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So that's just one of the ways that we collaborate with all of our partners throughout the region,
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not just, you know, Yuba Sutter County, but even further north and down to Sacramento.
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We continue to sponsor people through the Academy and that's been a good program for
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us and really, you know, investing in people that are from our local...
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Local community hoping that they will stay here and continue to be employed at Sutter County
[1:15:04]
and be part of the community moving forward. We had some promotions, some new hires. We documented
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all of those. A little bit on the budget, just a snapshot, operating budget, grant legislative
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payments. There is a mistake on this page. I'm just going to own it since my name is
[1:15:20]
on it. But at the bottom you see the total budget of just over 60 million. That is
[1:15:24]
not correct. That was an add-on that we missed in editing. You'll see just above
[1:15:28]
that almost $12 million in grants and legislative payments. That number should be part of the
[1:15:33]
overall $48 million. So disregard that last thing there. And we'll put a little disclaimer
[1:15:38]
in there for the community so they're aware of that.
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Some statistics covering dispatch, our civil department as well. What you'll see is,
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you know, almost 15,911 calls throughout the course of the year. And again, we're
[1:15:53]
down four positions in dispatch right now, many of the same challenges that were
[1:15:56]
expressed by the fire department. So we're working to overcome those through a variety
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of strategies. And then you'll see just an overview of the types of calls that we take
[1:16:06]
and the types of services that we have, live scans, all the different services we provide
[1:16:10]
at the Sheriff's Office.
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Highlighting our good folks in corrections, courts, you'll
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see them highlighted there as well.
[1:16:20]
And then some of our different units and divisions
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throughout the Sheriff's Department. This is our operations, of course, our
[1:16:25]
team, search and rescue, boat patrol, our support services, dispatch records, evidence,
[1:16:32]
our civil division.
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Social media 2025 stats, Sierra is here. I want to acknowledge her and
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just talk about what a great job she's done. If you look at the statistics there, I mean,
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they're really overwhelming and you'll see down there just over 23,000 followers on
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our social media page. I will tell you that number is now over 25,000. It's gone
[1:16:53]
up since this has gone to print. Profile visits. Almost 300,000 people are visiting our pages
[1:16:59]
and getting information from the Sheriff's Department. It's pretty strong. It's comparable
[1:17:02]
to some big counties, quite frankly. At the bottom there, you'll see that picture of Sierra.
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She's actually so good at what she's doing now. She's actually training other people
[1:17:11]
on how to do this. We're very proud of her and the work that she's put in and
[1:17:15]
the asset. But I will tell you just the number of eyes that are touching down
[1:17:19]
on Sutter County because of her and the work that she's doing are just phenomenal.
[1:17:22]
Not to mention, I think she probably took like 90% of the photos that are in this annual
[1:17:27]
report as well.
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So congratulations to her and thank you for all the work that you do.
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We appreciate you.
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Our K-9 team, always very popular.
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Everybody loves the puppies.
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You'll see on the far right there, Bailey, she's actually in our corrections unit.
[1:17:41]
She's helping keep contraband and things like that out of the jail.
[1:17:45]
Our search and rescue team, which has got some of our sworn staff but also primarily
[1:17:49]
made up of volunteers, so we appreciate them. Shoot with the Sheriff, always one of our
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more popular events, and this is one of those events that my staff was like, yeah, we're
[1:17:57]
not going to allow you to cancel that. It's too important to the community, and so we'll
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be hosting that again sometime around the first Friday or second Friday of October.
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Is that the ninth, I believe? Yeah, the ninth. So that's coming up here pretty soon,
[1:18:11]
so look for advertising on that, and those usually fill it pretty quick, so
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If you're interested, please reach out.
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Improvements.
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We always want to be good stewards with the money that we get,
[1:18:20]
the things that are approved by the Board.
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We've got some projects that have been going on.
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You'll see the jail floors there before and after.
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The after is also a kind of a non-slip resistant material,
[1:18:32]
so that's good.
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The men's locker room before and after,
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just a tremendous improvement there.
[1:18:37]
We recognize we're never going to build
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a new Sheriff's Department in my lifetime as Sheriff,
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But we've got to take care of the things that we have and so where we can make these
[1:18:45]
upgrades and improve, we do everything we can to help facilitate that.
[1:18:50]
The bottom one there, gel lighting, you'll see the before and after just by changing out
[1:18:54]
light fixtures and doing things like that.
[1:18:56]
Improve the overall safety of the facility.
[1:19:00]
Blue envelope program, something kind of special to my heart.
[1:19:05]
One of the things we wanted to do, this really originated out of identifying people
[1:19:09]
that have autistic needs, but it's more than just that.
[1:19:11]
it's people with other special needs as well.
[1:19:15]
And so through a lot of these things,
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these blue envelopes which have personal contact information,
[1:19:20]
lanyards, seatbelt covers, buttons, keychains,
[1:19:23]
wristbands, stickers, it allows our officers
[1:19:26]
to identify somebody who might have a special needs.
[1:19:29]
Some people have sensory issues like light
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can kind of trigger them, right?
[1:19:33]
And so we just always want to make sure
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we're being sensitive to that.
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It's personal to me because my grandson is autistic.
[1:19:39]
And so I was very proud to be able to put that into place this last year.
[1:19:44]
Below you'll see some work from the Eagle Scouts.
[1:19:46]
They did a lot of upgrades for us at the range, so we're very appreciative of them.
[1:19:50]
They built us some benches and some gun racks and different things for us out of the range.
[1:19:55]
National Night Out, which we just discussed.
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One of our big events every year that we just get to celebrate coming out as a community
[1:20:00]
and keeping everybody safe.
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Some great photos.
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Some of the work that we did, a charity basketball game up in the city of Live Oak to raise money
[1:20:12]
for sober grad night.
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So very proud to be able to sponsor that and help out there.
[1:20:19]
And again, just more things with our community involvement.
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We always end the year with shop with a cop in December.
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Such a great turnout.
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I want to kind of acknowledge not only the POA and the DSA, but Deputy Burke.
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He's one of our detectives and he kind of took this on last year and made it
[1:20:34]
bigger and better.
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We were able to serve dinner at the sheriff's department.
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We had a reindeer.
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We had all kinds of good stuff going on.
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And then we got them bussed over to Walmart for the actual shopping.
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So much bigger this year in 2025.
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And I'm sure they'll improve upon that again this year.
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Always a fun night.
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And we help a lot of kids and put a lot of smiles on people's faces.
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And then again just some more of the stuff that we've done in the community.
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We always want to make sure we're moving forward.
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I mean one of my big things is never to sit still right we've always got to be accomplishing
[1:21:08]
something which can be challenging at times with you know reducing budgets and things
[1:21:12]
like that but just on the horizon obviously you know Sutter Point was mentioned earlier
[1:21:17]
and how we're working with them to make sure we have a good plan in place for public
[1:21:21]
safety and they actually paid for the first deputy that went through the academy and
[1:21:28]
we'll have a deputy working down there and so we want to acknowledge them and we've
[1:21:32]
We've got more of that to come in the future, so they've been good partners in that respect.
[1:21:36]
Some dispatch upgrades, and then jail, again, with our HVAC project, that'll be a multi-year
[1:21:41]
project that we're working on.
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And then that bottom picture there is just on the other side of our visiting glass.
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We've had some very creative people that have been incarcerated in our jail, and
[1:21:51]
they've made good use of their time.
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That's actually some paintings from people that were incarcerated and the work that
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they've done.
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And so you'll see this kind of throughout the jail.
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As a way to show improvements but also kind of lift spirits and make sure that we're focused
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on mental health and those types of things.
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So a lot of good work going on in the jail right now and we're very proud of the work
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they're doing and some of our contact information on the end.
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So that'll conclude the formal presentation but again I'll just say I couldn't be more
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proud to represent the Sheriff's Office and a group of men and women that give
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so much back to this community as you can see through a lot of the pictures.
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And again, you know, we cut almost $4 million from our budget this year, which was no easy task.
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We have roughly 23 vacant positions that are not out providing essential services to the community.
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But despite that, you know, they just tighten their boots up a little bit more and they get to work.
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And I couldn't be more proud of that.
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And, you know, I think all of you, I hope, will see that in them and continue to support them as best you can.
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So with that, I'll be happy to answer any questions for the board.
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All right. Well, first of all, we'll open up the public comment period.
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No public comment. We'll close that and bring it back to the board for discussion.
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I'll do the chair.
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I just want to thank you for the great presentation.
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You do a good one every year and seems to get better and better every year.
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So things are going really well and I appreciate all the work that you do
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and the department does for the county and keeping us safe.
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And just overall, I just want to say thank you.
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Appreciate it. Thank you, Supervisor.
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No, I just want to say the same thing. Absolutely. Thank you very much. I know over, gosh, it
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seems like it's a few times how much stuff you've been doing jointly with our fellow
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surrounding agencies. And thank you guys for the awesome work you did last week. It was
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all over the news and catching all those predators. That was a great, great job
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to all those involved in all the, you know, taking care of that. Well, thank you
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very much.
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Thank you, sir.
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All
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right, with that we'll move on to Steve approval of the Board of Supervisors response
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to the fiscal year 2025-26 Sutter County grand jury final report.
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Thank you honorable chair and supervisors.
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So the grand jury report each year we receive a report typically in June that we have we
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meaning the county the board has 90 days to respond to and there's various
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recommendations. This year's report had just a couple recommendations in our
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ag department and each year they go through the jail per law had no
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recommended changes there so that was or updates so we're really proud of
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that and thanks to the Sheriff's Office for running a tight ship there.
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We also received some very positive comments about health and human services and the work
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that is going on there.
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So that was great as well.
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There were no recommended changes or findings there.
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And then within the Agricultural Commissioner's Office, there was just two findings and
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two recommendations. And as you'll see in the report in the recommended response, the
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first grand jury recommendation was that that agricultural department create a clear standard
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for assessing pesticide fines and also recommends the department include a procedure for how
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they choose the final dollar amount on every new NOPA document and this should be completed
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by January 31st, 2027, and that's a notice of proposed action.
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So in the response, we state the first part of the recommendation has been implemented
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and under the penalty section of every notice of proposed action issued by the Sutter
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County Agricultural Commissioner Sealer, there's a clear statement of the facts
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that supports the classification in fine amount per 3CCR section 6130D. I'm sure you're all
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familiar with that section. 3CCR section 6130D states that when determining the fine amount
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within the fine range, the commissioner shall use relevant facts including severity of actual
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or potential effects in the respondent's compliance history and include those relevant
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facts in the Notice of Proposed Action. However, the second part of the recommendation will
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not be implemented because it is not warranted. That is language we have to use by law, so
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it's not that we disregard the intent or the recommendation of the grand jury.
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And the reason here, pesticide laws and regulations do not require this. Each instance
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of a pesticide violation is unique, and many factors come into play when establishing final
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fine dollar amounts, including severity of actual or potential effects and the respondents'
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compliance history.
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So however, working closely with Lisa Herbert, our agricultural commissioner, she wanted to
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note that on June 12th, the Department of Pesticide Regulations noticed a proposed
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regulatory action to change enforcement response. In summary, the proposed action will revise
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appropriate enforcement responses to be taken by the county agricultural commissioner each
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time a violation occurs to improve effectiveness and clarity of the regulations.
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The other recommendation from the grand jury was that the department leaders follow
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existing office policies and written duty statements when assigning work, which should
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be completed by October 31, 2026. And that recommendation has been implemented.
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There was in the report some findings that duties were assigned, but not always by supervisors.
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However, we didn't have specific examples. They didn't have specific examples to offer,
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so it's hard to state, you know, what should be changed on that. However, the Agricultural
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department management team reviewed the county and department procedures and
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functions by staff member and organization chart job descriptions and
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consulted with HR has found that existing procedures are being followed and
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are communicated appropriately with staff. So that's all pretty short response
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this year. I want to thank the grand jury, the grand jurors. It's 19 people if
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you're lucky to get that many and that they stay on throughout the year and it is a, it's
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a quite a dedication of time throughout the year that they put forward and do good things
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for the county and the cities and the schools. They make recommendations on all kinds of
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things, not just to Sutter County. So appreciate their time and dedication to the community.
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Thank you, Steve. With that, we're going to open up public comment. No public
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comment and bring it back for the board for discussion. Dan?
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Sorry, Supervisor Baines was up first. Oh, Supervisor Baines?
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Okay, I just wanted to thank you, Steve, for that report and I just want to, as usual,
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thank the grand jury for all the hard work they put into volunteering.
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It takes a lot of effort to be on a grand jury and to go through all of that
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and have the findings and follow-up and go to all the different meetings.
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I really appreciate their service.
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Supervisor Baines.
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We'll be approved.
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All right, well, I just want to echo what Supervisor Flores said.
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I encourage others to apply for the grand jury.
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It's a great thing to have. We're lucky to have those 819.
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So please apply for that.
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All right, so we got a motion and we got a second by Supervisor Stevens.
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Can we get a roll call please?
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Supervisor Boone.
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Aye.
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Supervisor Flores.
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Aye.
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Supervisor Ziggermeyer.
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Aye.
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Supervisor Baines.
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Aye.
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Supervisor Stevens.
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Aye.
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Motion passes, moving on to item number 12.
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Approval of an agreement with California Counties Foundation for the period of August 11, 2026
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through August 10, 2029 in an amount not to exceed $225,000 to provide strategic grant
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consulting services and authorization for the chair to execute the agreement and
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any future amendments.
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Jamie Ying, Deputy County Administrator. Good afternoon, Honorable Chair and Board members.
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Before you use an agreement to receive strategic grant consulting services, the agreement term is for a period of three years.
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The annual compensation is $50,000 with optional al-Aqar grant writing services available as needed for a total annual amount, not to exceed $75,000.
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The CSAC grant initiative or CGI connects California counties with federal, state, and foundation
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grant opportunities that can support critical community priorities.
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Through its partnership with the Ferguson group, who is also our federal lobbyist, CGI provides
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counties with access to experience grant professionals who understand the unique funding, landscape
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needs, and challenges of California county government.
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So joining us remotely today is Kristy Moore with the Perkinson Group and Veronica Smith
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with CSAC.
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They will provide a brief overview of the services available through CGI, share their experience
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working with other counties, and assist in answering any questions your board may have
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regarding the services provided.
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Can
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you guys hear me?
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We can hear you.
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Yeah, we can hear you loud.
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Okay.
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But I'm not on video.
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I have to be on video.
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I don't need to be on the giant screen in the room if you don't need me to.
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Christy, I don't think we have that option. I'm sorry.
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Okay. No, that's perfectly fine. I think Veronica Smith is online as well.
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I do have some slides that I can present if that's available.
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If not, I can just speak off the cuff and not use slides.
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Up to you, Chair.
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We're fine. I don't think we have access to the slides anyway, so you can just...
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Okay. Okay, perfect.
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Correct. So, yes, as the TFG is the grant provider for the CSEC grants initiative. The
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CSEC grants initiative has been partnering with California counties for about four to
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five years now, giving over one of the largest obstacles that has faced local governments
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who are pursuing grant funding, and that is the federal freeze of last year. We
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We are now happy to see that that has lifted and that the federal grant programs are now
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open, coming out quite regularly with awards and notices of funding availability opening
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up and being announced almost daily at this point.
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The package before you is what we consider a Tier 1 level of service for the county,
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which is where we work with you to understand your projects, your needs and your priorities.
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We match those to relevant grant programs.
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It's important to note when we look at the matching, we actually look at the federal grants, state grants, and any state or any private and foundation grants that might be available for your projects as well.
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We put them together in a comprehensive strategic funding plan.
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That strategic funding plan guides us through the entire process.
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It is organic.
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It is ever-changing as your priorities change, as new projects come up.
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is new grant programs come out, and as priorities for those grant programs change, we're constantly
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updating that strategic funding plan to make sure that your projects are matched with the
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correct programs. The most viable programs, and most importantly, are ready to receive those funds.
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So, we work to get in advance to get a project ready for the program before the grant notice
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of funding availability opens. That allows us to gather your partnership, gather any data
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or information that will strengthen the grant program or the grant application to make it
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more competitive. And most importantly, allow your staff and you as a board to understand
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what the post-award implications would be if you did accept those grants, that grant
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funding to either the state or federal level. There's generally not as much reporting
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involved in private funding and foundation funding, but we look at that as well. So
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we kind of get through the entire grant cycle. If you think of it in three different
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major chunks of time, which is the pre-award and project vetting and project prioritization,
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the grant writing itself where we're applying for the grants and supporting those grant applications
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once they're submitted, and then the post-award side, which is a bit of a waiting game as
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we wait for the grants to be announced and awarded, but we're there to support you
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so that you're ready to receive those funds when they come out.
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We are happy to report that we have been working with almost 10 different counties
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in California at this point, many of those on a multi-year strategic plan where we are
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looking to help match them. The return on investment is almost crazy in some cases into
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the 4,000 and 5,000 percent return on investment, where we help communities like Imperial secure
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almost $24 million in just 18 to 20 months. Inyo County is over $4 million and just
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shy of two years of participating in CGI. And Ventura County as well as Sacramento County
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have both received awards through our support as well. So we're very proud to be able to
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kind of debunk the grant world and the grant space for counties and help bring those federal
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and state and private dollars down to California counties. So I'm going to stop there and
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open it up for questions. Unless Veronica, you want to say anything?
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She might be having
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trouble coming off me, too. Any questions?
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Well, let me open up for public comment first and see if there's any public comment first.
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Is there any public comment? No public comment. We'll bring it back to the board for some
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questions, some discussion.
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To the chair, if I may.
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Yes.
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So, quick. I think, as Christy mentioned, this has been part of this as being strategic
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so that when we receive a notice of funding availability at NOFA, we're not scrambling
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saying, oh, what could we do with this, that we develop a strategic funding plan and they
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know what grants are out there when they typically come out and then we plan ahead and then
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we have the best chance moving forward because we've prepared ahead of time to put together
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the best grant application possible.
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Yes.
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Through the chair.
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So there's no doubt, you know, we need support on grants.
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We've talked about this for a long time, so there's no doubt about that.
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I just have a question on, like, reading through the staff report on little, I guess, an understanding,
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Christie, of what are the exact measure bowls or, like, deliverables that will come from
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the grant?
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You mentioned 4,000 percent return and 5,000 percent.
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I don't want the person to guarantee it, but I'd just like to know what are the exact
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measureables from this because you're asking for a three-year commitment and then $225,000
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and this isn't really for writing the grants, right?
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This is just for alignment or can you just explain it a little better?
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Sure.
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Okay.
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Sure.
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So the contracts and the packages through CGI are actually on an annual basis.
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That allows us to get to know the county, get to know the different departments and
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the priorities and then go through the entire grant cycle.
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It's important to note that most of the time, the entire grant cycle or the project cycle
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can take almost anywhere between 12 to 18 months.
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And that's from project idea to finding the correct program or the best program, developing
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that application, applying, waiting, and then going under agreement.
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On the short end, you'd have to have a grant, a project that's ready and a grant
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that opens tomorrow, closes in two months, and that's kind of on the shorter end, but
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it can take anywhere from 12 to 18 months to kind of get from that project idea all
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the way to delivering the project.
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So we're through that entire cycle and supporting the project at every level.
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Multi-year grant programs are usually where we see that return on investment.
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So, those numbers I cited are for counties that have utilized the CGI services for multiple
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years.
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The first year is really built, is really spent with the focus on building the strategic
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funding plan.
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We go in, we meet with every department who has an interest in grants.
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Even if they don't think they have an interest in grants or might have anything that they
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think is worth pursuing funding for, we meet with them.
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And we've put that into a plan that we then start to match with the programs, too.
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And then work with county staff, as well as you, to start to prioritize those projects
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to say which these are the ones that are the most important to us.
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We do a funding meter, so to speak, where we say these are the ones that are most
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likely to receive funding.
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And we start to scope out or calendar the approach to apply for the applications themselves.
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Year two is where we start to see much more application development or much more submission of grants come to play,
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because you kind of put your work in, identify the projects, match them with the programs,
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and now you're ready to write. And then three year three is generally almost all about grant writing,
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because everything starts to line up at that point.
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The option that you guys have chosen is multi-year with the addition of grant writing with the budget included that allows you to utilize the grant writing services.
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If you want to utilize our services to write the grants, then you have that option so you can quickly move into it.
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We have found that that helps accelerate a lot of county into the grant writing phase
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because they don't have to come back and look for another grant writer or ask for permission
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or get budget authority to do that.
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So I believe there's $75,000 over the course of the three years that's reserved for
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grant writing that will only, excuse me, only really be topped into when you're ready
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to write a grant.
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That way you're not paying us to write a grant when we're not actually writing
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your grant.
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Yes, Supervisor. Yes, Christy, this is Supervisor Stevens.
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A couple questions. One, is this, to my understanding, this is a partnership with CSAC, is that correct,
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or you worked through them? Yes, yes. So the contract in Veronica texted
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me, she's not able to unmute, so I'll just kind of fill in, or looks like she can
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unmute now. Veronica, did you want to explain her?
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I'm sure. Apologies for the technical difficulties. Good afternoon, Chair and Board. To that question,
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this is a partnership between the CSAC Foundation and the Ferguson Group. This has been the
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partnership for the past four years since the inception of the program.
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Okay. And one of my questions would be, so you, I heard in discussions, I think you said
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you had like 13 counties involved with it or how well is it attended?
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Yes. So over the course of launch, we've had 13 counties that have engaged with us.
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Right now, we are still in contract with seven counties for services.
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Okay. And what was the reasoning for the other counties to withdraw?
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Well, not all counties entered into premium packages.
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So there's been some instances where we wrote one-off grants as opposed to doing a host of services.
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In the case of two counties, one did not have the budget to allocate going forward.
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and so that was their reason for not renewing for a third year. And in our initial, one of our
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initial counties, slow, they just did not have the technical, they did not have the funding
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resources as well. They were tier four counties, which was a significantly higher investment
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than tier one. And so because of budget and fiscal constraints, they did not opt to move
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forward. But those were the only two that did not continue services. But in the other
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cases, the case was they were one-off grant writing services as opposed to annual contracts.
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Thank you.
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The Chair, I got it. So to follow up on Steve's question, Veronica, like what are
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the minimum like performance requirements for this because it sounds like year one we're
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going to get a report saying hey these are the grants we should go after so really there
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won't be any funding of grants and then year two we go after the grants and then we pay
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for the grants in addition to the $50,000 to get the grants done, right?
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But I'm just saying like-
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Oh no, not exactly.
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So the way that it works and just to you know go back to your point in the previous
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question raised about what are the deliverables and what are the accounting the accountability
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metrics. Just to be clear, you will get reports on a monthly basis as it relates to the work
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that is occurring. So it's not that you're waiting until year two to go after a grant.
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You have that option on year one up front. So what this does, what this having this structure
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it enables us to build out some of the infrastructure from a county perspective to position us to
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be able to do some of the follow-up items in year two and three.
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So, it may be helpful. We were prepared to be able to share screen, but there is a suite of deliverables that your county will get, as well as routine meetings with your team, and we're open to doing routine meeting, whether it's quarterly report outs to the board, we're open to do that as well.
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But there is a series of things that happen upon launch of the program, and there's routines
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that – things that happen monthly in terms of the actual deliveries of the suite of services
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that you'll be getting on a monthly basis.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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I guess I'm a little bit – still questioning like how will – at the end of the first
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year we know that this was successful.
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Like how do we – how do we measure that?
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Got it.
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I'll let Christy jump back in.
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I see her hand raised.
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Okay. I couldn't unmute earlier. Sorry about that. So to clarify, all of our CGI clients
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that have entered into strategic plan development have applied for a grant in the first year.
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So I think there was a question in their supervisor on having to wait until the second
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year to apply for grants. We haven't had that experience. We launched with Del Norte
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County, for example, last year, so they are just finishing up their year one, have applied
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for three grants, and we're currently writing their fourth grant, going into year two.
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So there is the potential to write grants in the first year, so I just wanted to make
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sure that that was understood.
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We're just doing it in a much more proactive as opposed to reactive nature.
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In terms of looking to see if, at the end of the year, or any point in the process,
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if you're, quote, unquote, successful.
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We look at that to say we evaluate how many projects that have been surfaced by county
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departments and by the board.
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Look at the rate of matching those projects to programs.
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Looking to see how many are advancing in terms of prioritization and are starting to
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get ready for those grants and have identified the perfect match of programs to go after.
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So those are all metrics that we establish and look at, as Veronica said, on a monthly
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basis and review with you.
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Each county is different in terms of how we report back to the Board of Supervisors, but
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we work with you to establish what you guys want to know and at what cadence and in what
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sort of delivery mechanism makes the most sense to you guys.
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Yes.
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Okay.
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I guess I'll go through the chair and just add one question.
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So we've had a contract with the Ferguson Group for a long time, so how does this relate
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to that contract?
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I mean, is there a discount for these services because we've had this contract or it doesn't
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relate at all?
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Because I know we've spoken directly, Christie, for having you identify grants for us in
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the past.
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So I'm just curious.
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It's a little confusing for that answer.
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Sure.
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Yeah.
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Sure.
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The connection to the TFG advocacy side and the grant services side and CSAC are a little
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bit different.
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The program that we have designed is specifically for CSAC.
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And so the products in the strategic plans and the packages of services are ones that
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the TFG grants division has worked with CSAC to best fit the needs of California counties.
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Where you would be able to have that synergy between TFG's grant services that you would
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get through CSAC and the services that you get through TFG's representation at the federal
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level is when you're looking at any sort of advocacy support for federal grants.
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So, if you do decide to pursue for a politically active grant program, then you would be able
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to work with your TFG advocate to advance that and support that.
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Or a lot of times, regardless of whether or not TFG is the grant service provider or
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and the federal advocacy provider, we'll do that in coordination with our account
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or with our clients, federal advocates and state advocates as well.
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And in some cases, we identify the holes.
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So we'll identify that this is a great project, this is a huge priority for the county.
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There isn't a program that fits magically for it or fits perfectly for it.
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So we'll advise you to advise your advocacy teams in either the state or federal levels
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to go change.
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Those parameters are changed, that program, to make it easier for the county to find
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those dollars and have them be more accessible to you.
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So you get a little bit of both worlds, but with a much more
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expansive and robust grant services through CISAC.
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Thank you. Thank you for that. I appreciate it.
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Do the chair. I'd like to, I don't want to
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vote no on this, but I'd like to make a motion to table it for further research.
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And I don't know how you guys feel about this, but I'd like to see
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their presentation that we couldn't see on the slideshow. I think there's been
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really good information here like I said before it's important that we go after
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grants so I don't I don't want to vote no but I want to do for the research
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personally so I second the motion okay no I couldn't agree I just want to say
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Christie thank you very much for answering my phone calls last week and
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picking your brain on this I really appreciate it I couldn't agree more
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can we get a list of those counties you're currently working with so we
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can do our due diligence for those in the public that are watching this
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meeting right now, counties can spend anywhere between $0 to hundreds of thousands of dollars
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applying for grants that could get you nowhere. And that is grants in general. We've been
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harping on our CAO, you know, hey, you don't want kudos to our current staff members that
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continue to write grants, you know, we've, our library, museum, sheriff's department,
[1:51:13]
so forth, and roads. We've received a lot of grants, but like I said, there's
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lot of other grants out there and we've said hey we need someone we need to get
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someone on retainer that we can you know every one of us have different
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districts and different people looking at us me particularly I reached out to
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Christie last week to talk about a grant but I do agree with Supervisor
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Flores I'd like to do a little more due diligence and talk with other
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counties so we can get that list and we got a motion and a second motion in
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a second can we get a roll call please Supervisor Boone hi Supervisor
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Mr. Flores.
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Aye.
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Supervisor Zygmire.
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Aye.
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Supervisor Baines.
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Aye.
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Supervisor Stevens.
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Aye.
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Thank you.
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All right.
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Moving up to follow-up announcements.
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Thank you.
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Supervisors, just one moment.
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Okay.
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So as mentioned earlier, on the 26th of September at the East Neck High School gym from 10
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to one, there will be a preparedness fair put on by our Office of Emergency Management.
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And this month, on the 26th, the Yuba Sutter Economic Development Corporation and the Chamber
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of Commerce and the Downtown Business Association are putting together an economic development
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and visioning session that people are invited to attend, anyone in the public, it will be
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at the Vets Hall at 5.30 p.m. on August 26. And there's four different sites that an urban
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design firm called Perkins Eastman has been working with the city and county on.
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That
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of the old courthouse area and then two areas that the city separately has been working
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on close to Pluma Street and another area north of town for a possible athletic center.
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So we'd love to have people attend and have feedback on those.
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There will be four areas after a presentation where people can go and give their ideas
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and feedback and someone there kind of facilitating discussion of each of those.
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So, look forward to some economic development discussions there.
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And then, coming up, and I'll mention this at future meetings, we have our second annual
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bounty of Sutter County event where we honor local businesses.
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October 2nd, we're nailing down the details, so just put a pin on that for now.
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I also wanted to mention, let's see, we have, oh.
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So, for the bounty of Sutter County, you can nominate businesses until August 31st as
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you go to Sutter County's Facebook page and you'll see where to do that.
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Also from August 8th through the 30th, DD's discounts in U of the City is collecting
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donations, 100% of which will be used for the Sutter County Children and Families
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Commission to purchase brand-new books for local youth in need. So if anyone
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would like to participate and donate visit the store this month at 700 West
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On-Stock Frontage Road, Yuba City. Thank you. Thank you. All right we'll go to
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District Reports to start out over here in the heart of Yuba City. Thank
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you. Yes in the heart of Sutter County I have only one announcement and that
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is the annual bruise blues and barbecue festival will happen at the fairgrounds in the second
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district on August 29th. I guess we'll have another meeting prior to that, but August 29th,
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that's a great event put on by the early risers Kiwanis. They raise thousands of dollars that
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they give away for scholarship funds for for youth. So I would like to invite everybody to
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attend. It's a lot of fun. Thank you. I
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think I've got is I'd like to wish all the students
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returning back to school, the great year, all the teachers to have a great year, and the parents.
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I hope the school year is a good one for all. Supervisor Boone.
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Okay. All right. Yeah, a couple of things I want to bring to our attention.
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Of course, the live Oakland League girl softball just came home recently after attending the World Series.
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they didn't fare quite as far as we'd like to have gone. They dealt with the very first
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game was one of the number one teams, the number one seeded team, which they didn't fare so well,
[1:56:08]
but the second team in Japan, real close game 1-0, really proud of them. They made it back,
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you know, we're really proud of those girls, you know, first team in Sutter County to make it
[1:56:21]
to the World Series and the Little League. Secondly, I wanted to bring up, as many of
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you know, I had a back surgery here recently and have been going through a couple of complications.
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But in between that time, Steve, Neil, and I were able to get together to meet with
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the Department of Fish and Wildlife to come up with a decision regarding the Sanders
[1:56:46]
Sander's Road bridge and turned out that worked out pretty good. We came up with a solution
[1:56:53]
and everybody's happy and we're going to get started on that soon. Thank you. And that
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was a big, big thing that's been six years into making and just turns out one meeting
[1:57:03]
and we got it figured out. So I'm really stoked about that, really happy. Next I
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I want to also mention that on Township Road and Broadway as well, they've been striped
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with new reflectors.
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Place looks great.
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Thank you, Neal.
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And then the drainage ditches on Larkin are currently under construction, so we're cleaning
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those out.
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And then last but not least, I want to bring up another big event or a big progress
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that happened in Live Oak. The Live Oak Elementary School and Ensignal Schools has been named
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the Avid National Demonstration Schools, joining an elite group of campuses across the country.
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And actually, we won two positions out of the top 15 in the nation. So kudos to Live
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and I'd like to get a couple of plaques to the principles of Luther and
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Ensignal and that's Parveen Baines at Luther and Michelle Smith at Ensignal
[1:58:12]
for their outstanding work and helping these children learn how to study better
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and because of this recognition other schools are going to be coming to
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Live Oak to see how they put this whole program on so Live Oak's in Live
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Live Oaks on the map. Live Oaks coming at you. So I know Yuba City is the heart of Sutter
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County, but Live Oaks right behind you, buddy. Don't look over your shoulder. We're coming.
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Thank you.
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Supervisor Fainz-Nethan Report. All right. So this next week we have the Yuba Sutter
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stand-down event coming up. It's going to be August 20th, 21st, 22nd. You get a
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chance to go walk it, check it out. It's a really awesome event. It helps out only
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local veterans I mean from every from places to stay dental health education
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vision haircuts everything it's really awesome so you get a chance to check
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that out on high school sports are starting up this weekend volleyball starts
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up this weekend youth football starts up this weekend football doesn't start
[1:59:22]
up until August 28th like our Sutter Huskies fly to Texas take on bishop
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up in Texas to start the season.
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But so get out and watch some football.
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Girls' flag football starts up, I believe.
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Next week, I believe.
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So a lot of great flag football there for the ladies.
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Sutter fills a team.
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Yuba City and River Valley.
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So get a chance.
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Go check it out.
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And whether or not, we'll get a motion.
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Move for approval.
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Second.
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Second.
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Roll call, please.
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Supervisor Boone?
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Aye.
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Supervisor
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Supervisor Flores, Supervisor Ziegemeier, Supervisor Baines, Supervisor Stevens.
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Motion passes. Meeting adjourned, thank you, have a great day.
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I'm sorry, we have closed session. Two closed session items.
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We have two closed sessions. The first closed session is conference with legal council,
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workers' compensation claim, Tahari v. the County of Sutter, pursuant to government code section 54956.95.
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In the second closed session is conference with labor negotiators Linda Durer and Veronica
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Baumgartner, employee organizations, PSA and management pursuant to government code section
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54957.6.
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Okay,
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we're coming out of closed session with directions to staff on both items.
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And I forgot to console sympathy letters and like to put those out there again.
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Forest Carrera, son of Chris Carrera and Care Carrera.
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I went to school with Chris at our high school.
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His son passed away in six days old.
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You know, just they saw that as incredible loss.
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And also one for the family of Leon Dove.
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So can I get a roll call please to add those to the letters?
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Or a motion?
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Well, we'll add them to the motion.
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So, we have to re-vote.
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Okay.
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Move for approval.
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Okay.
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Roll call, please.
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Supervisor Boone.
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Aye.
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Supervisor Baines.
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Aye.
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Supervisor Ziegenmeyer.
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Aye.
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Supervisor Stevens.
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Aye.
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Supervisor Flores.
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Motion passes.
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Thank you.
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Have a good evening.
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I have one more, too.
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Oh, wait.
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We can come back right in.
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All right.
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You want to do it?
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Hold on.
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We've got an addition.
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All right.
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Thank you.