Thank you for coming out, and we'll start out with a roll call from the clerk.
Supervisor Boone. Supervisor Flores. Supervisor Zigg and I are. Supervisor Bains. Supervisor Stevens.
If we could all stand, and we'll have Richard Lothman from St. James Jerusalem, a possible church, latest in invocation.
Let us pray. Good, and gracious God. We thank you for the freedom to meet in the spirit of wisdom, charity, and justice.
You have provided us with a vision of your kingdom, to which we strive to achieve.
Is it this meeting we pray, guiding the discussions to increase our safety as we travel our roads and streets, and provide for the health of young people struggling to discover the gifts you have provided them?
Open the ears of our hearts, to listen to each other from each other's perspectives, allowing us to have a bit more humility around the divisiveness of where we can and cannot compromise, where we are alike and where we are dissimilar.
Renew the ties of mutual regard that form our civic life, enable us, and especially our county commissioners, to work to eliminate poverty, prejudice, and oppression, so that peace may prevail with righteousness and justice with order.
And that men and women from different cultures and with different talents may find with one another the fulfillment of their humanity through your holy grace.
Amen.
We could have supervisor Baines Lee is in the pledge please.
All right, and we're going to come on down here and do presentations, but before I want to congratulate again the
live-out girls, the twelve-and-other softball team, if you watched the news, they were all over it.
They lost that first. That was the first tough game one to eleven, but then they went on and lost the Japan zero to one, which is an incredible game.
It was a great game. So it could have gone either way zero to one. So great group of girls, first time in history, any teams ever made it that far,
instead of county history, so we're very proud of them, and then of course we voted last meaning to do something a little special form.
So I, Jeff, I, so you, with the group of girls, it's very neat. So congratulations those young ladies. We'll get them to the meeting in the next meeting when we do the presentation.
We'll Sarah Everhart Reas and Health and Human Services staff. Please join the board up front to receive a proclamation by recognizing August 26 as National Breastfeeding Awareness Month.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends exclusively breastfeeding for the first six months of life and continued breastfeeding for children up to two years of age or older.
Breastfeeding helps prevent child malnutrition ensures food security for infants and young children decreases the risk of asthma, diabetes, obesity, heart disease and breast cancer.
The tri-counties breastfeeding alliance, a collaborative of local breastfeeding professionals and advocates, have succeeded in increasing the awareness of the importance of breast milk and breastfeeding.
The tri-counties breastfeeding alliance, along with local partnering agencies, have been able to provide high quality educational opportunities for health professionals over the past several years.
The 2016 for National Breastfeeding Month is rise, resilience, interdependence, self-determination, empowerment, celebrating the strength of breast milk as one of the first foods.
All parents with young children should have access to skilled breastfeeding counseling and support from their health facilities, workplace and communities.
The Center County Board of Supervisors do here by a proclaim August 26 as breastfeeding awareness month in Center County and the board shows their support and appreciation to those efforts.
The Center County Board of Supervisors.
Will Zachary Hamill and the Office of Emergency Management staff please join the Board of Front to receive a proclamation recognizing August 26 as National Emergency Management Awareness Month.
Center County is vulnerable to a range of hazards including flood.
Completing, wildfires, and severe weather events, which pose significant threats to life, property, and our unique agricultural environment.
Local emergency managers in Sutter County, along with those in every sector and at every level, dedicated countless hours to developing and maintaining preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation programs to protect the residents of rural communities that define our county.
Emergency managers in Sutter County and across the nation are charged with coordinating efforts across a wide spectrum of stakeholders, including levy districts, public health, tribal governments, agricultural operations, and emergency services to ensure effective disaster response and recovery.
The mission areas of prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery align with the core capabilities identified in the national preparedness school.
Emergency managers, including those serving Sutter County, demonstrate commitment, compassion, and professionalism during emergencies, such as flooding along the feather and Sacramento rivers, wildfires, and the Sutterbeats and public health crises.
The efforts of our nation's emergency managers have helped millions of community members across the United States recover, rebuild, and become more resilient in the face of adversity.
The Sutter County Board of Supervisors do hereby proclaim the month of August, 2026, as national emergency management awareness month, and urge community members to express their sincere appreciation for emergency managers in every sector who work diligently to prepare, protect, and serve our cities, counties, states, tribes, territories, regions, and organizations against all hazards and risks.
Would you like to say something?
Hello, everyone.
Thank you to the Board for this recognition.
Emergency management is a whole community effort, and this proclamation is a reflection of a shared commitment to mitigation preparedness response and recovery.
So thank you to our fellow county departments and other organizations for ongoing coordination and partnerships.
And thank you to our residents for staying engaged. Sign up for emergency alerts at bepreparedSitter.org.
And we are hosting a preparedness fair on September 26th at East Nicholas High School at the gymnasium from 10 to 1.
So please stop by. Thank you.
Thank you.
Now we're going to move on to our public
conference.
Thank you.
Now we're going to move on to our public commentary.
Members of the public will be allowed to address the board and items of interest to the
public that are within the subject manager restriction of the board of supervisors, state law provides a
discussion or action may be taken on any item not appearing on the posted agenda.
Any public comment?
Yes, Mr Chairman.
We have four public comments.
The first public speaker is Lister Vantes followed by Dale Wittmore.
Hello, Lister Vantes district five.
I'm here.
I couldn't be here two weeks ago when the measure G was talked about, but I would like to just say that
measure G is a general sales tax and it is not a good thing for taxpayers.
General sales taxes go directly into the general fund and can be used for any purpose including pay increases
and pensions.
This is not a special tax.
Special taxes can only be used for specific purposes such as road repair, fire, homelessness, police,
sheriff, district attorney.
Exactly why they are telling you they need this measure.
General taxes come with no guarantee that they will spend one dime on what they promised, no guarantees
period.
They put this on the ballot so you can decide and because they have to.
You can tell them you can't afford it by voting no on measure G.
Sutter County is spending taxpayer funds to educate you on why they need this tax.
Sutter County admits they have not been maintaining the roads.
Sales taxes are regressive taxes affecting the fixed income households the most.
Sutter County spends over 80% of their general fund revenue on salaries and benefits.
Inflation has reduced your consumer purchasing power already.
Measure G is a forever tax.
There is no expiration or sunset.
Reason I brought this is I'm sure you all remember Kmart, right?
So this is the blue light that they had at Kmart and which we now owe that albatross.
We own it in the center of town.
I know it's for sale.
We're not doing anything about marketing it.
If we are, please let me know.
But taxation is theft and I wish that you guys would sit down.
We have a lot of very intelligent people around here that there is some thinking outside the box.
We would love to have a conversation with you.
Why we have to go to this.
It seems like a never ending cycle.
And you're going to lose.
I'm just telling you that right now.
I don't know how much has been spent on the surveys on everything else.
But we are actively working against the general sales tax.
Please don't tell us that a special tax won't work.
It hasn't been tried.
Okay.
If people knew where their money was going with strict oversight to the sheriff, to the roads, to whatever.
You would see a different outcome.
The general sales tax is not the answer.
Please.
It's too late now.
It's on the ballot.
It's going to fail.
Big.
Thank you, Liz.
The next public speaker is Dale Whitmore, followed by Tony Farley.
Hello.
Thank you, Board of Supervisors.
The topic is the Shanghai Bend Rapids Road, which has been closed for four years now.
And it's at the end of Shanghai Bend Road where road currently ends.
And you take a right there.
And it's about a half mile to the Shanghai Bend Rapids.
Now, that road was opened for decades.
And then it was closed in 2022.
One and a half years ago, the state of California transferred 142 acres to Sutter County.
So it is now Sutter County that owns the floodplain and the road that goes to the Shanghai Bend Rapids.
The Shanghai Bend Rapids is the best fish in location in Sutter County.
It needs to be reopened.
I've turned it on a couple of letters here.
One of the challenges here is that places like Johnson's Baton Tackle could do better.
To better business if some of their customers would be able to get to the end of Shanghai Bend Rapids Road.
So they can get easy access to the rapids.
And I want to walk a half mile in this heat or in the cold or whenever it is.
Just reduces the recreation of the people here.
And as well as out of town tourists.
Could easily take care of.
Myself and other sportsmen would like to find solutions to the perceived problems with reopening the gate.
Now, like I said, the gate was open for decades before 2022.
And from about 2000.
Five to about 2014, I was a wildlife biologist who was managing the road.
And I had to go down there once or twice a year and pick up somebody's file a sheet rock or trash or whatever it was that they dumped down there.
But the public hundreds of people, thousands of people got to go in there and use the property.
And I would like to offer that there are several sportsmen that we're like to get together.
With the board of supervisors and talk about how we can get that road reopened.
So that we can get access to that property.
I mean, we have the feather river parkway north of the 10th street bridge open.
People can get in there.
Why can't we get to that half mile a road there at the end of Shanghai Bend Road?
Hey, I know we can do this working together.
Thank you very much.
Most of you are probably already got my phone number.
I left it on the card.
Thank you.
Yeah, we appreciate you.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Our next public speaker is Tony Farley, followed by Ellison Watkins.
Tony Farley, north of Sicily.
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Our live your tone. Excuse her is Allison Watkins
Good afternoon
Allison Watkins I'm a lifelong center county resident. I currently reside in district three
I also happen to be an employee of center county of work tier for over 12 years and spent my entire career over 25 years in public service
I'm here today to talk about my support of measure G and I know there's been a lot of talk about
Why some community members are not in favor of it being a general tax and how they would otherwise support a tax measure
If it wasn't a general tax and so I just wanted to talk about that a little bit since I have spent my entire career in public service
I don't think it is public knowledge
How some of this works behind the scenes, right?
So we talk about our public safety departments and our roads department and I want to make it really clear to the community that
Those services don't end at the walls of the public safety department, right?
So in order for a public safety department or development services department, which is where roads resides
To function they have to have computers that work and IT manages those computers
They have vehicles that are managed through our fleet division
Their buildings are maintained through facilities grounds and custodial
Their liability and their risk mitigation is handled through county council
Sorry, I need to put my glasses on so I can look at my notes
The bills are paid and the paychecks are cut through the auditor's office
Their budgets are overseen through the CAO's office, they're hiring benefits, workman's comp, ADA,
disciplinary issues with employees, union negotiations, that all happens through my office, which is HR
So public service is very important of course it is we have wonderful relationships with our public safety
I keep saying public service I'm sorry, I'm meaning public safety we have wonderful relationships with our public safety
Departments we work very closely together of course they are important, but they can't do their jobs without all of the other
Departments that support that same with roads. So I think it's really important that as a community member
I'm in favor of a general tax because of that reason
I think it's important that we are efficient and
Use the funds that we have at our disposal appropriately. I think this county does that very well we work very well together to do that
But in order to be as efficient as possible we need to be able to
Fund the support for all of these public services across the board and I don't think
The community recognizes always that that is more than just what happens within the walls of a public safety department.
So, you know, the undershare for my work for your closely together and we can't fill their vacancies without my department.
And so that budget doesn't pay for my department. So if we had a special tax and it just went there, it wouldn't help fund all of the other support services.
I think you get what I'm saying and where I'm going with this, but I'm happy to answer any other questions.
If anyone has them, including anyone from the community, I would be happy to talk to you about what my department does for this community.
Thank you very much, thank you.
We have one more public comment that was received via email from Brandon McRinnell's chair and member of the boards.
The Center County Fire Department is currently operating with two vacancies in five employees on workers compensation.
Leaving only 11 available personnel to cover approximately 70, open 24 hour shifts each month.
That equals roughly 16, 1,680 hours of staffing that must be covered monthly, creating a heavy and ongoing reliance on overtime and mandatory overtime, just to maintain minimum staffing levels.
This is not a short term inconvenience. It is a critical staffing shortage.
While firefighters understand overtime as a part of the job, there is a major difference between occasional overtime and routinely losing scheduled time off due to staffing shortages.
With 48 hour shifts already standard, additional 24 hour overtime assignments significantly reduced rest, recovery and family time.
This impacts not only firefighters, but also their families.
Plans are disrupted, home responsibility shift, and recovery time is lost.
Fatigue and burnout become real concerns and a job that require constant alertness, physical strength, and sound decision making in high risk environments.
With 1,680 hours of monthly staffing needs being absorbed by only 11 employees, we respectfully request the county explore all available short term solutions.
Including expedited hiring, limited term staffing, and qualified extra help options to reduce mandatory overtime.
Our members will continue to serve the community without hesitation.
However, 11 employees should not be expected to permanently absorb 70 additional 24 hour shifts every month.
Without relief, the risk of fatigue, injury, burnout, and turnover will continue to grow.
We are asking the board to act now before this becomes a larger operational and safety crisis.
Respectfully branded mecrenals.
President, Center County Professional Firefighters Association, IFF local 503.
Thank you, Brendan, for sending that in.
And if we could get it on the next agenda, we're going to invite them over so we can have a discussion.
All right, so we'll get it on the next meeting agenda.
Yeah, and actually I've spoken to Captain McRenn.
Well, we're going to do it in public.
Okay.
I'm tired not being able to say anything.
So we're going to invite them to the next meeting.
We're going to discuss it so we can have some dialogue going back and forth.
And let's come up with some solutions together.
Yeah, and we're working on some of his suggestions as well with Chief Long.
Thank you so much.
All right. Well, that would conclude public comment.
Thank you very much.
And then we're going to move on to the consent calendar.
The consent calendar groups together, those items, which are considered non-controversial,
for which rich prior policy direction hasn't given a staff and that require only
routine action by the board.
The chair will advise the audience that matters me adopted and total by one motion.
However, the board may add its option or upon request of a member of the public,
consider any matters separately.
Future.
Yes, sir.
We'll go proof.
Second.
We'll move motion by supervisor.
Second.
Supervisor Boun.
Hi.
Supervisor Flores.
Hi.
Supervisor Ziggamire.
Hi.
Supervisor Bains.
Hi.
Supervisor Stevens.
Motion passes.
Moving on to our first appearance item.
Presentation on setter point economic development.
All right.
Good afternoon.
And thank you for the opportunity to be here today.
I'll be providing an update on the last year of partnering with the county.
I'm Rachel Brown.
And over the past year, I've been working with the county staff on economic development priorities for setter point.
Here's the headline I want to leave you with before I say anything else.
Setter point has moved from potential to prepared.
The land use framework supports the industries we are targeting.
The internal process is in place and market the market is paying attention.
What determines whether that interest turns into buildings and jobs is our ability to advance sight readiness and deliver infrastructure.
And that is what phase two is designed to address.
I'll take about 15 minutes and then I'd welcome any questions from the board.
Let me start with three things that matter most and we'll go through each intern.
First, zoning and entitlements are ready.
The land use framework in the E1 and E2 employment zones already supports the industries we're targeting by right.
We do not need a reason.
And separately, we are actively discussing targeted refinements to the specific plan, which are improvements to an already workable framework.
Not a fix for something that's blocking us.
Second, phase one built real momentum.
We streamlined how the county handles these projects internally.
We published clear guidance for developers and we deepen our regional partnerships.
Particularly with GSEC, which is Greater Sacramento Economic Council and GoBiz, which is the state economic development department.
Third, and this is the pivot point, demand is strong, but delivery is the constraint.
We've seen more than 3.4 billion dollars of interest come through, whether we capture it depends on utility capacity and firm timelines.
Everything else I'm going to show you supports one of these three points.
This slide covers what phase one actually delivered.
On the internal side, we brought planning, building, fire, and engineering into a single unified development process for setter point.
That sounds procedural, but it matters.
It means a prospect gets one answer from the county instead of four, and it means review cycles or shorter.
We also published a setter point permitting and regulatory one sheet to single document that tells an investor exactly what the permit path looks like.
That document does a great deal of work before we ever get on a call.
On the external side, we started early conversations with Sachs who were Golden State Water and PG&E,
so long lead utility needs surface before they can stall a project rather than after.
And we raised the county's profile.
We partnered with GSEC on the Market Velocity Study, ran targeted workshops, and represented Sutter County at the World Agritec Conference this year.
As a result of the county's participation at the conference, Sutter County is now included in GSEC's Food and Ag Innovation Council.
That gives the county an ongoing voice in regional conversations about food, agriculture, innovation, and business attraction.
And helps keep Sutter County's assets visible as new to opportunities to develop.
One of the most valuable parts of that work was our workshop and conversation with Metro Air Park representatives.
Their experience reinforced that large-scale employment development is a long-term effort.
The winds visible there today are the result of decades of planning, infrastructure investment, and sustained public-private coordination.
That perspective matters for Sutter Point. The work we are doing now is laying the foundation for future development, even when the full results are not immediate.
I want to be very clear about this one because it's often the first question.
Land use is not the barrier. The sectors we're targeting advanced manufacturing, agra food processing, logistics and biotech are permitted by right and the E1 and E2 zones.
There's no discretionary land use hurdle for those uses.
Conditional use permits do exist, but the triggers are narrow and predictable.
They're tied to specific hazardous material and fuel storage thresholds.
Core industrial operations don't trip those.
Conditional use permit requirements.
So what does that mean for you two things?
Sutter Point zoning framework is ready for the target uses, which are approved by right.
I want to be careful with the word ready though.
The zoning readiness is not the same as shovel readiness.
The core land use framework is in place while the remaining path to construction runs through infrastructure, project-level permitting, and site-specific work.
And I'll come to that.
Staff time is therefore best spent on site guidance and infrastructure delivery while the targeted specific plan refinements we're discussing move forward in parallel.
That's also a genuine competitive asset when we talk to site selectors because many competing sites can't say the same.
And here's a real change in market conditions since last year.
Two employment zone properties are now actively for sale.
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.
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.
Until recently, a site selector asking what's available, we didn't have a clean answer.
Now they have two options.
Available land is what turns an inquiry into a site visit and having multiple options helps keep Sutter Point on a short list.
One point on the approval pathway, so there are no surprises later.
The specific plan EIR environmental impact report gives us a strong environmental foundation.
It did a lot of heavy lifting.
Individual projects will still need to complete a focused project level,
Sequo Review, and that's a routine part of permitting anywhere in California.
The reason I raise it is expectations when we communicate that pathway early and clearly,
developers can build it into their schedules and it becomes a non-issue.
When it comes up late, it raises surprise and it costs us credibility.
So our posture is straightforward.
We present Sutter Point as highly prepared and well structured, and we're transparent about the steps that remain.
That combination of what builds investor confidence.
Now to the demand picture, which I think will be the most encouraging part of this briefing.
Over the last 18 months, more than 10 major regional and state RFI opportunities, RFI is a request for information,
came to Sutter Point through GSEC, that is real and bound qualified interest.
Together, those opportunities represent over $3.4 billion in potential capital investment, and more than 3,400 jobs.
The sectors are exactly the ones we've positioned for.
Food and beverage processing, advanced manufacturing, including aerospace, AI and robotics and tire production,
and sustainable agritec, which aligns with the county's agricultural strengths.
I want to put that in wider frame, because this isn't a Sutter County anomaly.
We are aligning with where the regional market is already going.
GSEC's most recent analysis shows greater Sacramento leading California unemployment growth.
From 2020 to 2025, the region grew employment by 10.8%.
The state grew as a whole at 9%.
And the average across San Francisco San Jose, LA and San Diego metrics was under 7%.
And the forecast through 2030 has greater Sacramento at 5.5%.
Still ahead of the state and well ahead of those coastal metrics.
That's the market we sit inside.
Brookings has also moved the region up sharply, and its metro monitor rankings over the last several years.
And GSEC has helped land names like Bosch, Solidine, and Samsung in the region.
This is a growth market that companies are actively choosing.
Here's why that matters for us specifically.
Regional growth of that size needs somewhere to go, and the coastal metrics are constrained.
Sutterpoint is the largest employment zone opportunity in the northern part of this region.
Our job is to be aligned and ready when that growth looks north, and that alignment is what phase one built.
So the message I leave you with on this slide is a confident one.
The market has found us, our zoning matches with these companies need, our processes streamlined.
Our regional partnerships are active, and land is now becoming available.
While we continue the infrastructure work, we are already well positioned to attract this investment.
And every piece we finish makes us more competitive for it.
This is the problem we need to solve, and it's the most important slide in the deck.
On power, these RFIs routinely ask for 10 to 40 megawatts or more.
One prospect needed up to 120 megawatts and later phases, and they want it on a two to three year schedule.
On water, we're seeing requirements up to 1.7 million gallons a day, with matching wastewater capacity, and they need confirmed delivery dates, not estimates.
On timing, that's where it breaks down. We cannot yet commit to firm utility completion dates on those schedules.
I want to be precise about the conclusion. These projects are not being screened out because the zoning framework fails to support the target uses.
The central constraint is that firm utility completion, firm utility completion dates cannot yet be committed on the schedules that these projects require.
Sight-specific readiness and project-level approval still matter, but infrastructure delivery is the pivotal issue that phase two is designed to address.
It's not all long-term. There's a category of projects we can win right now.
Sutter County is immediately competitive for mid-scale projects with moderate utility footprints.
The profile is roughly 5 to 20 megawatts of power under 100,000 gallons a day of water, and a site under 50 acres.
A concrete example, in mid-scale food manufacturing operation, around $80 million of investment, needing about 0.3 megawatts, that could fit our current capacity and our right, our by-right zoning perfectly.
My recommendation is that we land one or two of these in the near term.
They validate the market, they demonstrate the county can execute, and they build the track record will want when larger prospects come back.
We do that while the long-term infrastructure work proceeds in parallel.
So here's what I'm recommending for Phase 2. First, a market absorption study, it quantifies
how quickly land will actually absorb, which tells us how to face the infrastructure instead of guessing.
Second, and this is a significant one, partnering with rural county representatives of California
on an EDA grant. These funds, these funds would help with the engineering and scheduling work across
power, sewer, water, and roads. That's what converts a general intention into a date we can put in front
of a prospect. Third, sustained engagement with PG&E, gold state water, and sex sewer to establish
firm capacity commitments. And on the market facing side, we turn those commitments into
infrastructure fact sheets for RFI responses. We prepare and promote priority sites. We begin establishing
bill-to-soup pathways with developer partners, and we keep the G-second-go business relationships
active so the deal flow continues. They note on that word prepare. I'm delivering not calling
these pad-ready sites because they aren't yet. What we're doing is packaging the priority sites,
getting the site-level information into a form, a developer can act on, and scaling up how aggressively
we promote them as each readiness milestone is met. That way, we say publicly, what we say publicly,
always matches what we can always deliver. Same logic on bill-to-soup. I want to be clear that this
is phase two work, not something we're offering today. We don't have bill-to-soup product on the ground
right now. What we can do in phase two is establish those pathways with developer partners,
so that when site readiness advances, a prospect has a route from interest to a building without
starting from zero. To bring it together, phase one did what it was meant to do. We have organizational
readiness, a land use framework that supports the target industries, and strong regional partnerships.
Background work is established and phase two builds on it by advancing site-specific readiness
and infrastructure delivery. The core challenge in front of us is a timing gap between market
demand that exists today, and infrastructure that isn't yet scheduled. I'm excited to partner
Theo and phase two. The work I just outlined and make sure that these three things are moving forward
to help set her point, go from planning to active development. The interest is already here.
The question is whether we can meet it with the date. Thank you, and I'm happy to take any questions.
Thank you very much for that, and we'll bring it back for the board for questions discussion.
I'm sorry we'll open up the public comment. Is there any other comment? Any questions on set-up point
development? We'll close the public comment. Bring it back to the board for discussion. Questions?
Yes, sir. Thank you for the presentation. I was great. Very well organized and gives us something to
shoot forward and look forward to. It's nice to see a plan like laid out like that.
One of the things I wanted to, if you could address more, because we've been running into this,
it has to do with power right all together, and I know that you were a preview to a phone call that we were on
at one point with PG&E, who directly stated, and I'm saying this in public, of a record on purpose,
but they said that they would be able to deliver the power we need for some usage that could be up to
their words are 800 megawatts. I've been questioning, how do we get those solid commitments that
you're talking about? How do we go from here to getting those commitments towards not just a promise on a phone
call, but we know for sure that they can deliver, and then some of the recent businesses, I know
supervisors, Stevens, and I have just recently visited a technology center, and their needs will be
have to be delivered within 18 to 24 months maximum. Otherwise we couldn't even attract those
businesses here, so it's kind of weird because you have this chicken and egg scenario, and 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,
so how do we approach this? I mean, you have some ideas about just curious, how do we go from
you know, and I think that's what the next, I don't know, 1690 days, I'm going to try and earnest,
is I'm already meeting with the PG&E government affairs gentleman next week for lunch, but trying to get
something in writing, it's nice to have those conversations that words are exchanged and promises are made,
but getting it in writing is really what we need to get, and so if they're not able to commit to that
in a commitment letter or some other form, we're still kind of hamstring a little bit by promising
not to a user, a business or developer, so I'm hopeful to try to be a little more persistent and
try to get them to put something in writing, and we're going to have to try different levels,
it didn't give an organization, if that person isn't the one that can commit who is.
Yeah. Well, I appreciate your effort, I know, you know, I've been actively involved them,
but on the GZEC report for Saturday County, and a few years ago Steve Smith and I went to
a visit, and we actually had site selectors looking for a site in Sutter County. So we've gone through
this, you know, this, so your presentation really hits homes, because we went and we were feeling pretty
good about our presentation or like, yeah, they really liked our site, and it's matter of fact,
we found out they chose this as the number one site, but the problem was that we weren't ready,
right? We weren't site-ready, and some of these things that you talked about was power, water, sewer,
you know, weren't ready for the site, or the site they ended up going to, I forget the city they
ended up in, but they went to a big, a different site, and we lost out. So unfortunately, you know,
we celebrated for about 10 minutes, and then we lost it, but it was a big auto zone, actually auto zone
distribution center, which would have brought, you know, millions of dollars of text dollars to
to the county in sales tax revenue, which would have been wonderful to have, and not to mention
the property tax revenue. So, but those are the kinds of things, and this is why it's so important
that we do focus on items that you're on, and I think having this like direct targeted focus that you're
working on, you know, I for once support you, and looking forward to great things ahead. Thank you.
Thank you. Any other questions? All right, but that I'll just leave it at this.
You know, if you look down our agenda, you're going to see we're talking about grants and so forth,
it's on because we know, I think the last time we spoke about I think was about 18 million for the
pipes underneath the highway, because we're going to get them pipes underneath that highway, and that's that's
key. You know, once again, auto zone, no pipes underneath the highway, we love your area, love the price,
you don't have any infrastructure. So, it's having the ability to go after those grants and work with
you, set like Dan does every year and so forth, but thank you very much for this, at least we know
we're on the same page. Perfect. Thank you. All right. With that, there's no vote required there.
We're going to move on to item number nine. Presentation of an update in planning for pioneer
community energies October 20, 27 service launch.
And I'm here today with my colleague, Lisa Rose, who is our community outreach manager.
As a quick recap, the Board of Supervisors and Pioneer began discussions about expanding pioneer
service into center county back in 2024. Together, we conducted an impact assessment study which found
the expanding service would be beneficial for both the county and pioneer and the California Public
Utility Commission of proved that expansion in 2025 for an October 2027 service launch.
At the time that seemed like it was really far into the future, but today it's just 14 months away,
and we are really excited to share with you today and update on some of the new things that are happening
up pioneer, including services and programs, and also to talk about what the next 14 months
looks like as we prepare for this launch. How pioneer works? We are a not-for-profit community-owned
electricity provider. We are headquartered in Rockland, California. We purchase the power on the open
market, and then PG&E delivers that power through its lines and polls to our shared customers who
receive just one bill. We currently serve El Dorado County, Placer County, and the cities of
Grass Valley, and Nevada City. In October 2027, the county will join pioneer and 15 other jurisdictions
as we grow our territory, and we are really excited to welcome Center County and to our community
and to become part of your community. We are also really excited about the benefits that we can offer the
county. For example, since 2018, when we launched through 2025, we saved our customers $145 million in saving.
But in order to come into the county, we want businesses and residents to be excited that we're
coming as well. So we know that during the next 14 months, we need to reach out and talk to people,
we need to communicate and educate your constituents, so there are no surprises and they know exactly
what to expect. So I now would like to turn the floor over to my colleague Lisa, who will explain
what some of the things we have planned for 2020, or as we lead up to the service launch in
2027, and also the answer to any questions you might have.
So one of the things that we've discussed is how pioneer really strives to be a part of the community,
and so this slide really highlights our community partnerships and local reinvestment in some fun and
exciting ways. And so you'll see, even today, we were at feeding the hills in Rosville today,
helping and volunteering at the Food Bank. And we've strived to help with different STEM and science
education programs, helping out at the senior centers. So we really support local events, local programs,
and we also work to create local power purchase agreements in the areas that we serve.
I think I've been here before and told you a little bit about our power purchase agreements, and we're always
welcome and willing to discuss any power purchase agreement opportunities in this area. And
one of the power purchase agreements that we're working on and finalizing is in Klusa County for 15-year
power purchase agreement, solar and battery storage. But we've also been working and have worked
with Elder Auto Irrigation District on a 10-year, $37 million high-drow PPA. We also work with different
biomass projects in Grass Valley and also Georgetown.
So as Gina mentioned, we're excited to talk about some of our programs that we offer. We offer an AC2
reprobate program where residential customers can get up to $75 back when they tune up their AC unit.
And that goes for our commercial customers as well. There's a $150 repaid available. We also offer
a power shift rewards program, which gives each resident a $25 gift card just for signing up,
and then you earn more rewards when you're conserving energy when the grid is stressed. We have our grid
Gen 0 up front and its solar and battery at your home at no cost up front. So a no credit check.
So it's a great win-win for our customers. We also have a community advisory committee
that really looks at new programs. And so we would welcome having someone on our committee
and getting your input because every community is different and they have local needs and we want to
hear from you. And here's a couple other programs that we offer. I mean, Sutter County has many
AG programs and so we offer an hourly flex pricing program where our customers can reduce their
energy usage. And if they do that over a 12-month period, they receive rewards from that. And
our Board of Directors has approved two programs that our member agencies can participate in. It's the
clean fleet revenue program where you can generate rec credits for your EV vehicles and infrastructure.
And then we also have our solar recs program where if we have a solar race, you can generate rec credits
from that and receive a quarterly check. So those are two exciting programs that our Board has approved
and given early access for our member agencies to participate in. So as Gina mentioned, I'd like to provide
more information in an overview of what you can expect from Pioneer over the next 14 months.
During this time we'll be implementing a very extensive public education campaign and it's really to
educate customers about Pioneer and take the mystery out of the process. Our goal is to make the
information clear and concise and we also want to offer that in Punjabi and Spanish to those residents
that would appreciate that communication. And it's all about collaboration and information sharing
right now. We're new and people are going to want to know who is Pioneer, who, what are they doing?
What are they offering? And we really want to take any misperceptions and educate our customers. Our
call center is available now and throughout the launch and at any time to provide support and accurate
information and to clear up any misperceptions that folks may have. We're prepared to address any
questions and misinformation if you're out in the community and you're hearing things. We want to know
so that we can work to address it. We have an FAQ that we will provide Steven and Jamie on to provide you
and they're just commonly asked questions you might get out in the community and we really want to strive to provide
That for you to give you more information. We also want to work with staff on a web page that talks about Pioneer and also has those FAQs on it. And so we have that content and other expansion communities are using that as well. And we're always available and willing to work with county staff on any questions and helping with this rollout plan. And we just want to say we're very excited to be a part of the Southern community.
Pioneer has developed a phased approach to our community outreach and education program.
The first phase was a research phase and was completed in June. We joined the local chambers. We were researching community groups looking at your community organizations mapping and media monitoring.
We've moved in to phase 2 in July, through December, where we're developing paid media plans,
reserving ad spaces, briefing our Pioneer board, really approving our budget and briefing new member agencies and working on the messaging and materials development.
The next phase phase 3 will be from January through June. You'll start seeing our early ads that save Pioneer is coming.
And we'll be offering town halls, webinars, direct mail, social media, very, very robust ad campaign website updates and more.
We'll be presenting to your civic organizations as well and participating in community events.
Phase 4 is our final countdown July to September. Really a lot more ad campaign and town halls and more presentations.
If you think there's an organization that we need to get in front of and present to, we would welcome that feedback at any time.
And throughout these phases, we welcome your feedback and any ideas that you may have for us.
And then we will play our ads will change from Pioneers coming to Pioneers here and we'll be working on the post enrollment, the regulatory notices, direct mail pieces and more.
So just wanted to let you know, we very much welcome your feedback on that.
So to summarize, communications and community outreach play a key role for a successful partnership.
You have a voice in the process and we want your feedback. Again, we'll be ramping up a very extensive ad campaign and outreach program with paid media, direct mail town halls and an onsite presence at community events.
We want to be at the community events that you think we should be at. So please give us your feedback on that.
It does take a variety of communications vehicles to target the community and your community as unique, but we're here to be a resource in a community partner through this and we just wanted to thank you for your time today.
Thank you.
All right, we are going to open up for public comment.
Mr. Chairman, we have one public comment from Tony Farley.
All right.
and PG&E delivers the energy through its lines and pulse.
I like that, for this rock on the sock area,
I like that sock mode, air key, helping you to get a city out.
We need more soccer mill, you can city, we need more to add.
I like that.
Thank you, Tony.
Is there any other public comment?
No public comment, we'll close public comment.
Perry, bring it back for the board of discussion.
And yes, sir.
It's a chair.
Yes, thank you very much for the presentation.
Definitely appreciate all the information you provided.
Now, recently we heard, when you first came up,
we were looking somewhere around a 20% break on our energy.
And then after you started moving across several counties,
I think PG&E jumped in and decided
to charge a little more for the line maintenance
that they're usage, if you will.
So with that being said, what are we looking at,
probably, as a discount or break on our PG&E for our area?
So I don't have a crystal ball, but what I can tell you
is saving customers money is our number one priority.
And earlier this year, our board of directors in January
approved for the third consecutive year,
a rate discount of 16%, which for this year
meant that on the generation portion of the bill,
which is the part of the bill that Pioneer can control,
we are an average of 10% less than PG&E.
Thank you.
Appreciate that.
Do that, sir.
I was just wondering if you may have some cloud with PG&E
to get the poles and utilities down into the south
southern county area, so we can develop down there.
We do not actually have any influence over there in infrastructure.
I got a few, first question, what's the possibility
for the future working with Ube County Water
and purchasing power from their grid?
So I will tell you, we prioritize working with local power providers,
but I think that always has to be a partnership.
And if they have power available,
we would prioritize it.
And I am sorry, although I can't speak for our procurement team,
I am certain they would try to procure it.
I don't know what capacity they have, though.
All right.
Thank you.
All right, with that being said, if there's no other,
but thank you very much for a presentation.
Thank you.
I'm moving on to our sheriff.
Can you hear me go?
Presentation on the Sutter County Sheriff's Office 2025 Annual Report.
Now you're good.
OK, good afternoon, board members.
Other county employees, members of our community.
Sutter County Sheriff Brandon Barnes.
I brought some notes, but I'm just going to throw those over here
and just kind of work off the cuff.
Each year, we produce an annual report that really represents who we are
as an organization.
And each year, we come before the board and we present that to you.
And this year is no different.
So what we're doing is the annual report for calendar year 2025.
Of course, this is available through our web page at SutterShareff.org.
So if there's community members that want to go and look at this
in greater detail, you can certainly do that.
I'm not going to go over every bit of information on every slide
for the interest of time, but I'm going to highlight a lot
of the good work that we've been doing.
Before I get started, though, I want to just kind of get all the
thank yous out of the way.
And so I generally start by thanking members of the community.
And I'm going to start.
I don't see Steve, but you know, the CEO's office is such a great partner.
And, you know, as Sheriff, we have a complex business, but Steve is always good about
listening as his bill.
So I want to make sure that I'm acknowledging them.
I saw that Allison left.
And I wish she hadn't, because I think she kind of stole a lot of my thunder, really
by pointing out that we can't operate without the collaborative effort of
everybody in the county.
And that includes all of the departments.
And she's exactly right in what she said.
I mean, we've got to keep vehicles on the road.
We've got to keep our computers running.
You know, we've got Neil's Department that gets contracts in place and
helps us with each back in the jail and Veronica's office.
They handles a lot of our recruiting, hiring personnel matters.
Again, you know, finding homes for people that are displaced in our community through
Sarah Shop.
And so it's very circular in how we work.
And we can't do it without a very collaborative approach.
And so I'm just very thankful about the relationships that we've built.
So I want to acknowledge all the other department heads and say thank you to all of you
because without you, the Sheriff's Department would not be what it is.
And we recognize that.
So thank you very much.
That's the one to think our board.
You guys are highlighted in this report.
I always pride myself on having a good relationship with all of you.
It was mentioned earlier about, you know, measure G in general fund tax dollars and
where those goes and interesting people.
You know, I just want to stay for the community that every time that I've had an issue,
a budgetary matter or something that I needed for my staff or my office, and I brought that
before this board and previous boards, I have never been denied.
They have always been a big supporter of public safety and I don't have any reason to believe that's
going to change.
And so I want to thank all of you for your contributions to my office and my staff.
I just want to thank my employees, every buddy at the Sheriff's Department, I'm a bit of
a history book and so to quote Teddy Roosevelt, the credit really belongs to the man and
the woman in the arena, they're the ones that are out doing the work, they're the boots on
the ground, they're the ones walking our jail, they're the one handling 911 calls, taking care
of civil processes and just so many other things that we do in the Sheriff's Department.
And so, you know, I know right now that at least one of our associations got a contract resolved
the other one is coming up, I think a little later this week, and in some cases there is much
as 20% behind market, which is tough, I mean, imagine having a 50 year paycheck that should
be there that's just not there, right?
That's a tough thing to do, but what you'll see in this is that we still show up every day and
we do the best possible work that we can do and we do it with pride.
And I'll highlight this for you as we go through because a lot of the things you see have
to do with the stuff that we do out in the community, a lot of the events, right?
Those are really what make up the identity of the Sheriff's Office, that's who we are.
But because of some of the budget cuts this year, I told myself, we're going to cut back on
coffee with a cop and we're going to cut back on this and we're not going to do that.
Because there's sometimes overtime involved with some of that stuff, almost universally everybody
said, Sheriff, we're going to do those things and we'll volunteer our time.
We will find ways to make those things happen.
So as an example, we just did national night out and I had told Steve, RCA, I said, I don't
think we're going to do national night out this year.
We just can't afford to.
What you saw in national night out was the staff really stepping up, salary staff, lieutenants,
captains that don't make overtime, volunteer their time to come out and make sure that national
night happen for our community.
And so I'm very proud of that.
I'm very proud of what you'll see in this report and we hope to carry that moving forward.
So with that, we'll get into the meeting potatoes of the report here.
We always start out with who we are, our values, our mission, our motto and that's described there.
I will tell you that this year's report, I'm especially proud of, I think it has a very good
look to it from the cover that highlights the diversity of our department, one of our new
patrol vehicles and it's just really who we are and I'm very proud of that.
Table of contents.
Again, protecting every corner, each of you have a district and we cover every square
inch of that, including areas of UBCID because of the services that we provide throughout
the county.
And so we really wanted to highlight that and make sure that the community knew that we're
in all of these spaces, all of these areas providing service.
Advanced staff.
Then we go into a couple of pages just to memorialize my time as the President of California State
Sheriff's Association.
I certainly didn't want to make this about me, but I thought it was unique enough that since
we're at Whitaker, we have not had a President of the State Sheriff's Association.
So that's an, you know, an honor and very proud of it.
So I got to do a lot of very cool things during that year, including our first annual barbecue
cook-off.
We just finished our second annual and I want to acknowledge two of our supervisors that actually
donated to this event.
We had this down at Travis Air Force Base, where the sheriffs had a competition, but then
we fed about 400 of our service men and women on that particular day and they ate really well.
So not only was it a win for public safety, but it was a win for a military, and supervisors
of Zigg and Myers, Supervisor Bains, both contributed monetarily to that with donations to make
that happen.
So thank you to both of you, gentlemen.
Leadership.
Sherman Block.
We continue investing our staff, everything from Sherman Block, command college, which you'll
see there with Captain Piazza.
We also highlighted the police world games down there, two of our officers went to the world
games.
We brought back a total of 15 gold medals in trafficking, 20 overall medals, and they
were gearing up again.
They wanted to go to the next ones, but they're in Australia, and so I think they kind of decided
against that.
They're going to wait till it gets back at least in somewhere in the United States, hopefully,
but I was going to ask if I could go to Australia with them, but I didn't know how that go over.
Right?
Yeah.
Go for me.
You know, the other thing too is the FBI National Academy, Lieutenant Man, was able to attend
that this past year.
It's a unique opportunity.
It's 10 weeks at Quantico, Virginia, and I will tell you that in my time, generally within
a department, you can look up and down the halls and say there's one.
Maybe two people that have went through this very esteemed academy.
We happen to have three in our department that are all graduates of the FBI National Academy,
with Lieutenant Man, being the latest, and I will tell you the way period is about five, six
years, sometimes, which is why you only have one or two usually.
But very proud of that accomplishment.
We recognized our employees of the year.
Additionally, we celebrated 175 years of being a sheriff's department.
We were one of the original 27 counties back in 1851, California, became a state.
So to more memorialize that, we had a separate patch, a belt buckle, and a badge that just
honor the 175 years that we had as a sheriff's office.
I couldn't imagine what it was like to go to use Nicholas on horseback.
I'm glad I don't have to find out.
Just our partnerships with so many great agencies around that picture.
You see at the bottom as unique, because that is actually the briefing for the Seek Parade on the
morning of the parade, and anywhere from 60 to 80 people, all present that day to help us out.
So that's just one of the ways that we collaborate with all of our partners throughout the region,
not just you, but you, but even further north and down to Sacramento.
We continue to sponsor people through the Academy.
That's been a good program for us, and really, you know, investing in people that are from our local.
Local community, hoping that they will stay here and continue to be employed at Sutter County and be part of the community moving forward.
We had some promotions, some new hires. We documented all of those.
A little bit on the budget, just a snapshot, operating budget, grant legislative payments.
There is a mistake on this page. I'm just going to own it since my name is on it.
But at the bottom, you see the total budget of just over 60 million. That is not correct. That was an add-on that we missed in editing.
You'll see just above that almost $12 million in grants and legislative payments.
That number should be part of the overall 48 million.
So just regard that last thing there. And we'll put a little disclaimer in there for the community.
So there are aware of that.
Some statistics covering dispatch, our civil department as well.
What you'll see is almost 15,000 911 calls throughout the course of the year.
And again, we're down four positions in dispatch right now.
Many of the same challenges that we're expressed by the fire department.
So we're working to overcome those sort of variety of strategies.
And then you'll see just an overview of the types of calls that we take and the types of services that we have.
Life scans, all the different services we provided to sheriff's office.
Hi, lighting our good folks and corrections.
Courts, you'll see them highlighted there as well.
And then some of our different units and divisions throughout the sheriff's department.
This is our operations, of course our tactical teams, search and rescue, boat patrol.
Our support services, dispatch records, evidence, our civil division.
Social media, 2025 stats here is here.
I want to acknowledge her and just talk about what a great job she's done.
If you look at the statistics there, I mean, they're really overwhelming.
You'll see down there just over 23,000 followers on our social media page.
I will tell you that number is now over 25,000.
It's gone up since this has gone to print and profile visits.
You know, almost 300,000 people are visiting our pages and getting information from the sheriff's department.
It's pretty strong.
It's comparable to some big counties quite frankly.
And at the bottom there, you'll see that picture of Sierra.
She's actually so good at what she's doing now.
She's actually training other people on how to do this.
And so we're very proud of her and the work that she's put in and the asset.
But I will tell you just the number of eyes that are touching down on Saturday County because of her and the work that she's doing or just phenomenal.
Not to mention, I think she probably took like 90% of the photos that are in this annual report as well.
So congratulations to her.
And thank you for all the work that you do.
We appreciate you.
Okay, 19, always very popular.
Everybody loves the puppies.
You'll see on the far right there, Bailey.
She's actually in our corrections unit.
She's helping keep a contraband and things like that out of the jail.
Our search and rescue team, which is got some of our, our sworn staff, but also primarily made up of volunteers.
So we appreciate them.
She with the sheriff, always one of our more popular events.
And this is one of those events that my staff was like, yeah, we're not going to allow you to cancel that.
It's too important to the community.
And so we'll be hosting that again sometime around the first Friday or second Friday of October.
Is it the ninth I believe?
Yeah, the ninth.
So that's coming up here pretty soon.
So look for advertising on that and those usually feel it pretty quick.
So if you're interested, please reach out.
Improvements.
We always want to be good stewards with the money that we get.
The things that are approved by the board.
We've got some projects that have been going on.
You'll see the jail floors there before and after.
The after is also a kind of a non-slip resistant material.
So that's good.
The men's locker room before and after just a tremendous improvement there.
We recognize that we're never going to build a new sheriff's department in my lifetime as sheriff.
But we've got to take care of the things that we have.
And so where we can make these upgrades and improve.
We do everything we can to help facilitate that.
The bottom one there, jail lighting, you'll see the before and after.
Just by changing our light fixtures and doing things like that.
I mean, improve the overall safety of the facility.
Blue envelope program.
Something kind of special to my heart.
One of the things we wanted to do, this really originated out of, you know, identifying people that have autistic needs.
But it's more than just that.
It's people with, you know, other special needs as well.
And so through a lot of these things, these blue envelopes, which have personal contact information,
land your seat belt covers, buttons, key chains, wristbands, stickers.
It allows our officers to identify somebody who might have a special needs.
Some people have sensory issues, like, you know, light can kind of trigger them, right?
We just always want to make sure we're being sensitive to that.
It's personal to me because my grandson is autistic.
And so it's very proud to be able to put that into place this last year.
Below, you'll see some work from the Eagle Scouts.
They did a lot of upgrades for us at the range, so we're very appreciative of them.
They built us some some benches and some gun racks and different things for us out of the range.
National night out, which we just discussed, one of our big events every year that we just get to celebrate coming out as a community
and keeping everybody safe.
Great photos.
Some of the work that we did, charity basketball game up in the city of live oak,
to raise money for silver granite.
So we're very proud to be able to sponsor that and help out there.
And again, just more things with our community involvement.
We always in the year, we shop with a cop in December.
Such a great turnout.
I want to kind of acknowledge not only the POA and the DSA, but Deputy Verk.
He's one of our detectives, and he kind of took this on last year and made it bigger and better.
We were able to serve dinner at the Sheriff's Department.
We had a rain deer.
We had all kinds of good stuff going on.
And then we got them bused over to Walmart for the actual shopping.
So much bigger this year in 2025.
And I'm sure they'll improve upon that again this year.
Always a fun night.
And we help a lot of kids and put a lot of smiles on people's faces.
And then again, just some more of the stuff that we've done in the community.
We always want to make sure we're moving forward.
I mean, one of my big things is never to sit still, right?
We've always got to be accomplishing something which can be challenging at times with, you know,
reducing budgets and things like that.
But just on the horizon, obviously, you know,
the point was mentioned earlier and how we're working with them to make sure we have a good plan
in place for public safety.
And they actually paid for the first deputy that went through the academy.
And we'll have a deputy working down there.
And so we want to acknowledge them.
And we've got more of that to come in the future.
So they've been good partners in that respect.
Some dispatch upgrades and then jail again with our HVAC project.
That'll be a multi-year project that we're working on.
And then that bottom picture there is just on the other side of our visiting glass.
We've had some, some very creative people that have been incarcerated in our jail.
And they've made good use for their time.
That's actually some paintings from people that were incarcerated.
And the work that they've done.
And so you'll see this kind of throughout the jail.
As a way to, you know, show improvements but also kind of live spirits and make sure that we're focused on,
you know, mental health and those types of things.
So a lot of good work going on in the jail right now.
And we're very proud of the work they're doing.
And some of our contact information on the end.
So that'll conclude the formal presentation.
But again, I'll just say, you know, I couldn't be more proud to represent the sheriff's office and a group of men and women that give so much back to this community.
As you can see through a lot of the pictures.
And again, you know, we could almost $4 million from our budget this year,
which was no easy task.
We have roughly 23 vacant positions that are not out providing essential services to the community.
But despite that, you know, they just tied their boots up a little bit more and they get to work.
And I couldn't be more proud of that.
And, you know, I think all of you, I hope we'll see that in them and continue to support them as best you can.
So with that, I'll be happy to answer any questions for the board.
All right. Well, for so we'll open up the public comment period.
Now, if I have a comment, we'll close that.
Bring it back to the board for discussion.
Do the chair.
I just want to thank you for the great presentation.
You do a good one every year and seems to get better and better every year.
So things are going really well and appreciate all the work that you do.
And the department does for the county and keeping us safe.
And just over all of this one as I thank you.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Super best.
Nope.
I just want to say the same thing.
Absolutely.
Thank you very much.
I know over gosh.
It seems like it's a few times how much stuff you've been doing jointly with our fellow surrounding agencies.
Thank you guys for the awesome work you did last week.
It was all over the news and in catching all those predators.
That was a great, great job to all those involved in all the, you know, to care that.
Well, thank you very much.
Thank you, sir.
All right.
But that will move on to Steve.
Approval of the Board of Supervisors response to the fiscal year 2025-26.
Set our county grand jury final report.
Thank you, honorable chair and supervisors.
So the grand jury report each year.
We receive a report typically in June.
That we have we, meaning the county the board has 90 days to respond to.
And there's various recommendations.
This year's report had just a couple recommendations in our act department.
And each year they go through the jail per law.
I had no recommended changes there.
So that was our update.
So we're really proud of that.
And thanks to the sheriff's office running running a tight ship there.
We also received some very positive comments about health and human services.
And the work that is going on there.
So that was great as well.
There were no recommended changes or findings there.
And then within the agricultural commissioners office,
there was just two findings and two recommendations.
And as you'll see in the report in the recommended response,
the first grand jury recommendation was that that agricultural department
create a clear standard for assessing pesticide fines.
And also recommends the department, including a procedure for how they choose
the final dollar amount on every new.
Nopa document and this should be completed by January 31st,
2027.
And that's a notice of proposed action.
So in the response, the first we state the first part of the recommendation has been implemented.
And under the penalty section of every notice of proposed action,
issued by the Southern County Agricultural Commissioner.
There's a clear statement of the facts that supports the classification and
fine amount per 3 CCR section, 6130D.
I'm sure you're all familiar with that section.
3 CCR section, 6130D states that when determining the fine amount within the fine range,
the commissioner shall use relevant facts, including severity of actual or potential effects
in the respondents compliance history.
And include those relevant facts in the notice of proposed action.
However, the second part of the recommendation will not be implemented because it is not warranted.
That is language we have to use by law.
So it's not that we disregard the intent or the recommendation of the grand jury.
And the reason here pesticide laws and regulations do not require this.
Each instance of pesticide violation is unique.
And many factors come into play when establishing final fine dollar amounts,
including severity of actual or potential effects and the respondents compliance history.
So however working closely with Lisa Herbert, our agricultural commissioner,
she wanted to note that on June 12, the Department of pesticide regulations,
noticed a proposed regulatory action to change enforcement response.
In summary, the proposed action will revise appropriate enforcement responses to be taken
by the county, agricultural commissioner, each time a violation occurs to improve effectiveness
and clarity of the regulations.
The other recommendation from the grand jury was that the Department leaders follow existing office policies
and written duty statements when assigning work, which should be completed by October 31st,
2026.
And that recommendation has been implemented.
There was in the report some findings that duties were assigned, but not always by supervisors.
However, we didn't have specific examples.
They didn't have specific examples to offer.
To state, you know, what should be changed on that.
However, the agricultural department management team reviewed the county and department procedures
and functions by staff member and organization chart, job descriptions and consulted with HR,
has found that existing procedures are being followed and are communicated appropriately with staff.
So that's all pretty short response this year.
I want to thank the grand jury, the grand jurors.
It's 19 people.
If you're lucky to get that many.
And that they stay on throughout the year and it is a.
It's a quite a dedication of time throughout the year that they put forward and do good things for the county and the cities and the schools.
They make recommendations on all kinds of things, not just to set our county.
So appreciate their time and dedication to the community.
Thank you, Steve.
And that we're going to open up the comment.
No public comment.
Bring back for the board for discussion.
Dan.
Sorry.
The supervisor bans was up for supervisor bans.
Okay.
I just wanted to thank you Steve for that report.
And I just want to thank the grand jury for all the hard work they put into.
While Ontario takes a lot of effort to be on a grand jury and to go through all of that.
And have the findings and follow up and go to all the different meetings.
I really appreciate their service.
You see what guys, bans.
We'll do it.
All right.
Well, I just want to.
I want to echo.
The supervisor floor said I encourage others to apply for the grand jury.
It's a great thing to have.
We're lucky to have those eight nineteen.
So please apply for that.
All right.
So we got a motion and we got a second by supervisor.
Stevens.
Can we get a roll call please.
Supervisor.
I.
Supervisor.
Hi.
Supervisor Zigmire, supervisor Baines, supervisor Stevens, motion passes, moving on to item number 12.
Approval of an agreement with California County's foundation for the period of August 11,
26 through August 10, 29, in an amount not to exceed $225,000 to provide strategic grant consulting
services and authorization for the chair to execute the agreement and any future amendments.
Jamie Young, Deputy County Administrator, good afternoon Honorable Chair and Board Members.
Before a year's an agreement to receive strategic grant consulting services, the agreement
term is for a period of three years. The annual compensation is $50,000 with optional
LK grant writing services available as needed for a total annual amount not to exceed $75,000.
If you see that grant initiative or a CGI connects California counties with federal
state and foundation grant opportunities that can support critical community priorities.
Through its partnership with the Ferguson group who is also our federal lobbyist,
CGI provides counties with access to experience grant professionals who understand the unique
funding, landscape, needs, and challenges of California County government.
So joining us remotely, today is Christie Moore with the Ferguson group and Veronica Smith with CSAC.
They will provide a prep overview of the services available through CGI, share their experience working
with other counties and decision-incering any questions your board may have regarding the services provided.
Can you guys hear me?
We can hear you. Yeah, we can hear you log. Okay, but I'm not on video.
I don't have to be on video. I don't need to be on the giant screen in the room.
I don't think we have that option. I'm sorry.
Okay, no, that's perfectly fine. I think Veronica Smith is online as well.
I do have some slides that I can present if that's available. If not, I can just speak off the cuff
and not use slides to up to you, Chair.
We're fine. I don't think we have access to this slides anyway, so you can just...
Okay. Okay, perfect. So yes, as the TFT is the Grant Provider for the C-Secret Grants Initiative.
The C-Secret Grants Initiative has been partnering with California counties for about four to
five years now, giving over one of the largest obstacles that has faced local governments who are pursuing
grant funding and that is the federal freeze of last year. We are now happy to see that that has
lifted and that the federal grant programs are now open, coming out quite regularly with awards
and notices of funding availability opening up and being announced almost daily at this point.
The package before you is what we consider a tier one level of service for the county, which is where we
work with you to understand your projects, your needs and your priorities. We match those to
relevant grant programs. 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 information grants that might be available
for your projects as well. We put them together in a comprehensive strategic funding plan. That's
strategic funding plan. It guides us through the entire process. It is organic. It is ever changing.
As your priorities change, new projects come up, new grant programs come out, and as priorities
for those grant programs change, we're constantly updating that strategic funding plan to make sure
that your projects are matched with the correct programs, the most viable programs and most importantly,
are ready to receive those funds. So we work to get in advance, to get a project ready for the
program before the grant notice of funding availability opens. That allows us to get out of your
partnership. Gather any data or information that will strengthen the grant program or the
grant application to make it more competitive. And most importantly, allow your staff and you as a
four to understand what the post award implications would be if you did accept those grant that grant
funding either the state or federal level. There's generally not as much reporting involved in private funding
and foundation funding, but we look at that as well. So we can get through the entire grant cycle
if you think of it in three different major chunks of time, which is the pre-award and
project vetting and project prioritization, the grant writing itself or applying for the grants
and supporting those grant applications once they're submitted, and then the poster award side,
which is a bit of a waiting game as we wait for the grants to be announced and awarded,
but they're there to support to use so that you're ready to receive those funds when they come out.
We are happy to report that we have been working with almost 10 different counties in California at this
point. Many of those on a multi-year strategic plan. We are looking to help match them. The return on
investment is almost crazy in some cases into the 4,000 and 5,000 percent return on investment,
where we've helped communities like Imperial secure almost $24 million and just 18 to 20 months.
Inyo County is over $4 million and just shy of two years of participating in CGI
and Ventura County as well as Sacramento County, have both received awards to our support as well.
So we're very proud to be able to kind of debunk the grant world and the grant space for counties
and help bring those federal and state and private dollars down to California counties.
So I'm going to stop there and open it up for questions and let's run a key. You want to say anything?
Do you want me to have trouble coming off mute too? Any questions?
Well, let me open up a comment. Check first and see if there's any public comment. First is there any public
comment? No public comment. We'll bring it back to the board for some questions and discussion.
The chair, if I may. Yes. Well, quick. I think as Christy mentioned this,
but part of this is being strategic so that when we receive a notice of funding availability and
know we're not scrambling saying, oh, what could we do with this? That we develop a strategic funding plan
and they know what grants are out there when they typically come out and then we plan ahead and then we have
the best chance moving forward because we've prepared ahead of time to put together the best grant
application possible. Yes. Do the chair. Yeah. So there's no doubt we need support on grants. We talked
about this for a long time. So there's no doubt about that. I just have a question on like reading through
the staff report on little, I guess, an understanding, Christy of what are exact, the exact
measureables or like deliverables that will come from the grant. You mentioned 4,000 percent return
and if we can guarantee 4,000 percent return, I'll sign this right now with the person guaranteeing it.
But I'd just like to know like what are the exact measurements from this because you're asking for a
three-year commitment and then 225,000 and this isn't really for writing the grants, right? This is just
for alignment or can you just explain it a little better? Sure. Sure. So the contracts and the package is through
CGA are actually on an annual basis. That allows us to get to know the county, get to know the different
departments and the priorities and then go through the entire grant cycle. It's important to know
the most of the time, the entire grant cycle or the project cycle can take almost anywhere between
12 to 18 months. And that's from project idea to finding the correct program or the best program,
developing that application, applying, waiting and then going into agreement. On the short ends,
you'd have to have a grant, a project that's ready and a grant that opens tomorrow, closes in two months
and that's kind of on the shorter end. But it can take anywhere from 12 to 18 months to kind of get
from that project idea all the way to delivering the project. So we're through that entire cycle
and supporting the project at every, at every level. Multi-year grant programs are usually
where we see that return on investment. So those numbers I cited are for counties that have utilized
these CGA services for multiple years. The first year is really built, is really spent with the
focus on building the strategic funding plan. We go in, we meet with every department who has an
interesting grant, even if they don't think they have an interesting grants or might have anything that
they think is worth pursuing funding for. We meet with them. And we put that into a plan that we then
start to match with the programs too. And then work with county staff as well as you to start to prioritize
those projects to say, which these are the ones that are the most important to us. We do a funding
meter, so to speak, where we say these are the ones that are most likely to receive funding and we start
to scope out or calendar the approach to apply for the applications themselves. Year two is where we start to see
much more application development or much more submission of grants come to play because you kind of
put your work in, identify the projects, match them with the programs and now you're ready to grant
or to write. And then three years three is generally almost all about grant writing because everything
starts to line up at that point. 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,
if you want to utilize our services to write the grants, then you have that option so you can quickly
move into it. We have found that that helps accelerate a lot of county into the grant writing phase because
they don't have to come back and look for another grant writer or ask for permission or get budget authority
to do that. So I believe there's $75,000 over the course of the three years that's reserved for grant writing
that will only excuse me, only really be topped into when you're ready to write a grant. That way you're
not paying us a write a grant when we're not actually writing your grant. Thank you, Chair. Yes, Supervisor.
Yes, Krissie. This is Supervisor Stevens. A couple of questions. One is this to my understanding,
this is a partnership with CSAC, is that correct or you work through them? Yes, yes. The contract in
Veronica texted me, she's not able to unmute. So it's kind of fell in. Or it looks like she can unmute now.
Veronica, do you want to explain her? I'm sure. There you are. Apologies for the technical difficulties.
I'm good afternoon, Chair, and board to that question. This is a partnership between the CSAC
Foundation and the Ferguson group. This has been the partnership for the past four years since the
inception of the program. Okay, and one of my questions would be, so I've heard in the discussions.
I think you said you had like 13 counties involved with it or how well is it attended?
Yes, so over the course of launch, we've had 13 counties that have engaged with us. Right now,
we are still in contract with seven counties for services. Okay, and what was the reason for the
other counties to withdraw? Well, not all counties entered into premium packages. So there's been
some instances where we wrote one off grants as opposed to doing a host of services.
In the case of two counties, one was did not have the budget to allocate going forward. And so that was
their reason for not renewing for a third year. And in our initial one of our initial counties slow,
they just did not have the technical, they did not have the funding resources as well. They were
tier four counties, which was significantly higher investment than tier one. And so
because of budget and fiscal constraints, they did not opt to move forward. But those were the only two
that did not continue services, but in the other cases, the case was they were one off grant writing services
as opposed to annual contracts. Okay, thank you. The chair, I got it. So to follow up on Sue,
Stephen question out. Veronica, what are the minimum performance requirements for this? Because it
sounds like year one, we're going to get a report saying, hey, these are the grants we should go after.
So really there won't be any funding of grants. And then year two, we go after the grants. And then we pay
for the grants in addition to the $50,000 to get the grants done, right? But I'm not exactly.
So the way that it works, and just to, you know, go back to your point in the previous question,
raise about what are the deliverables? And what are the accounting, the accountability metrics,
just to be clear, you will get reports on a monthly basis as it relates to the work that is occurring.
So it's not that you're waiting until year two to go after a grant. You have that option on year one
upfront. So what this does, what this having this structure enables us to build out some of the infrastructure
from a county perspective to position us to be able to do some of the follow-up items in year two and three.
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, you report out to the board. We're open to do that as well.
But there is a series of things that happen upon launch of the program, and there's routines that things that happen monthly in terms of the actual deliveries of the suite of services that you'll be getting on a month's basis.
Okay, yeah, I guess I'm a little bit still question, questioning like how will at the end of the first year we know that this was successful. How do we, how do we measure that?
Got it. I'll let Chris be Joe Beckham, I see her hand raised.
Yes, your hand's raised at there, sir.
Okay, I couldn't unmute earlier, sorry about that.
So, to clarify all of our CGI clients that have entered into the strategic plan development, have applied for a great in the first year.
So, I think there was a question in their supervisor on having to wait until the second year to apply for grants. We haven't had that experience.
We launched with Del Nort County for example last year, so they are just finishing up there for a year one.
Have applied for three grants and we're currently writing their fourth grant going into year two.
So there is the potential to write grants in the first year, so I just wanted to make sure that that was understood.
We're just doing it in a much more proactive as opposed to reactive nature.
In terms of looking to see if at the end of the year,
or any point in the process, if you're quote unquote successful,
we look at that as we evaluate how many projects that have been surfaced by county departments and by the board.
Look at the rate of matching those projects to programs.
Looking to see how many are advancing in terms of prioritization and are starting to get ready for those grants and have identified the perfect match of programs to go after.
So those are all metrics that we establish and look at as as Veronica said on a monthly basis and review with you.
It can be different until in terms of how we report back to the Board of Supervisors,
but we work with you to establish what you guys want to know and at what cadence and in what sort of delivery mechanism makes the most sense to you guys.
I guess we'll do the chair just an add one question.
So we've had a contract with the Ferguson group for a long time.
How does this relate to that contract?
I mean is there a discount for these services because we've had this contract or it doesn't relate at all.
Because I know we've spoken directly for having you identified grants for us in the past.
So I'm just curious.
It's a little confusing for that.
Sir.
The connection to the TFG advocacy side and the grant services side and CSAC are a little bit different.
The program that we have designed is specifically for CSAC.
And so the products in the strategic plans and the packages of services are ones that the TFT grants division has work with CSAC.
It's a best fit the needs of California counties.
Where you would be able to have that synergy between TFT's grant services through that you would get through CSAC.
And this services that you get through TFT's representation at the federal level is when you're looking at any sort of advocacy support for federal grants.
So if you do it decide to pursue for a politically active grant program, then you would be able to work with your TFT advocate to advance that and support that.
Or a lot of times regardless of whether or not TFT is the grant service provider or in the federal advocacy provider will do that in coordination with our count or with our clients federal advocates and state advocates as well.
And in some cases where identify the holes.
So we'll identify that this is a great project.
This is a huge priority for the county.
There isn't a program that fits magically for it or fits perfectly for it.
So we'll advise you to advise your advocacy teams that this state or federal levels to go change those parameters or change that program to make it easier.
For the county to find those dollars and have them be more accessible to you.
So you get a little bit of both worlds.
But with a much more expansive and robust, great services through CSAC.
Thank you.
Thank you for that appreciate it.
Do the chair.
I'd like to I don't want to vote no on this, but I'd like to make a net motion to table it for further research and I don't know how you guys feel about this.
I'd like to see their presentation that we couldn't see on the slideshow.
I think there's some been really good information here.
Like I said before, it's important that we go after grants.
So I don't I don't want to vote no, but I want to do for the research personally.
So I think the motion.
Okay.
No, I couldn't agree.
I just want to say, Christy, thank you very much for answering my phone calls last week and picking your brand on this.
I really appreciate it.
I couldn't agree more.
Can we get a list of those counties you're currently working with so we can do our due diligence.
For those in the public that are watching this meeting right now.
Counties can spend anywhere between zero dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars applying for grants.
That could get you nowhere.
And that is grants in general.
We've been harping on our CAO, you know, hey, you know,
want kudos to our current staff members.
It can do you to write grants, you know, we've our library museum sheriff's department so forth and roads.
We've received a lot of grants.
Like I said, there's a lot of other grants out there.
And we've said, hey, we need someone.
We need to get someone on retainer that we can, you know,
every one of us have different districts and different people looking at us me particularly.
I reached out to Christy last week to talk about a grant.
But I do agree with supervisor floors.
I'd like to do a little more due diligence and talk with other counties so we can get that list.
And we got a motion.
And a second motion.
Second, can we get a roll call please.
Supervisor Boone.
Hi.
Supervisor Flores.
Hi.
Supervisor Ziggumyer.
Hi.
Supervisor Bains.
Hi.
Supervisor Stephen.
Hi.
Thank you.
All right.
Moving up to follow up announcements.
Thank you.
Supervisors.
She asked one moment.
Okay.
So as mentioned earlier.
On the 26th of.
September at the east neck high school gym from 10 to one.
There will be a preparedness fair put on by our.
Office of emergency management.
And this month on the 26th.
The U.B. Center Economic Development Corporation and the Chamber of Commerce and the downtown business.
Invited to attend the any anyone in the public.
It will be at the vet's hall at 530 p.m.
On August 26th.
And there's four different sites that an urban design firm called Perkins Eastman has been working with the city and county on that includes 850 gray where that came out was.
Some of the old courthouse area.
And then two areas that the city separately has been working on.
Close to plume a street and another area north of town for a possible athletic center.
So we'd love to have people attend and have feedback on those.
There will be four areas after presentation where people can go and give their ideas and feedback.
And someone there kind of facilitating discussion of each of those.
So look forward to some economic development discussions there.
And then coming up and I'll mention this a future meetings.
We have our second annual bounty of Sutter County event where we honor local businesses.
October 2nd.
We're nailing down the details.
So just put a panel on that for now.
I also wanted to mention.
Let's see.
We have.
Oh, for the bounty of Sutter County.
You can nominate businesses until August 31st.
So you go to Sutter County's Facebook page and you'll see where to do that.
Also from August 8th through the 30th.
Deities discounts and you the city is collecting donations 100% of which will be used for the.
Sutter County children and families commission to purchase brand new books for local youth in need.
So if anyone would like to participate and donate visit the store this month.
At 700 West on stop for a new road.
You, the city.
Thank you.
All right.
We'll go to district reports to start out over here.
The heart of the city.
Thank you.
Yes.
In the heart of Sutter County.
I have only one announcement.
And that is the annual bruised blues and barbecue festival happen.
At the fairgrounds in the second district.
On August 29th.
I guess we have another meeting prior to that.
But August 29th.
That's a great event put on by the early risers.
Coaness.
They raise thousands of dollars that they give away for scholarship funds for for youth.
So I would like to invite everybody to attend.
It's a lot of fun.
Thank you.
I think I've got as I'd like to wish all the students returning back to school.
The great year.
All the teachers to have a great year.
And the parents.
I hope school year is a good one for all.
As you've been.
Okay.
All right.
Yeah.
A couple of things.
I want to bring to our attention.
Of course.
A live of little league girl.
Softball.
Just just just recently.
Just came home recently.
After attending the World Series.
They didn't fair quite as far as we'd like to have gone.
They dealt with a very first game.
It was one of the number one teams.
Number one seated team.
Which they didn't fair so well.
But the second team in Japan.
Real close game.
One zero.
Really proud of them.
They made it back.
You know.
We're really proud of those girls.
You know.
First person.
First team.
It's under county.
To make it to the World Series.
A little league.
Secondly.
I wanted to bring up.
As many of you know.
I had a back surgery here recently and I've been going through a couple of complications.
But in between that time.
Steve, Neil and I were.
Were able to get together to meet with Department of Fish and Wildlife.
To come up with a decision regarding the Sanders Road Bridge.
And turned out that worked out pretty good.
We came up with a solution.
And everybody's happy.
And we're going to get started on that soon.
Thank you.
That was a big big thing.
That's been six years in the making.
And just turns out one meeting.
And we got it figured out.
So I'm really stoked about that.
Really happy.
Next I have.
I want to also mention that on Township Road and Broadway.
As well.
They've been striped with new reflectors.
Placeless.
Great.
Thank you.
Neil.
And then.
We're currently under construction.
So we're cleaning those out.
And then.
Last but not least.
I want to bring up another big event.
A big progress that happened in live oak.
The live oak elementary school and incidental schools has been named.
The avid national demonstration schools.
Joining a lead group of campuses across the country.
And actually, we want two positions out of the top 15 in the nation.
So kudos to live oak.
And I'd like to get a.
A couple of plaques to the principles of.
Of.
Of Lutheran.
And that's.
Of.
that are standing down event coming up.
So it would be August 20th, 21st, 22nd.
You get a chance, go walk it, check it out.
It's really awesome event.
Helps out only local veterans.
I mean, from places to stay, dental, health, education,
vision, haircuts, everything.
It's really awesome.
So you get a chance, go check that out.
High school sports are starting up this weekend.
Volleyball starts up this weekend.
Youth football starts up this weekend.
Football doesn't start up until August 28th.
Like our set of Husky's flight of Texas take on Bishop in Texas to start this season.
But so get out and watch some football.
Girls flag football starts up, I believe.
Next week I believe, so a lot of great flag football there for the ladies.
Setterfield's a team.
You have a city in River Valley.
So get a chance, go check it out.
And other than that, we'll get a motion.
Move for approval.
Second.
All right, roll call, please.
Supervisor Benham.
Hi.
Supervisor Flores.
Hi.
Supervisor Ziggumyer.
Hi.
Supervisor Bains.
Hi.
Supervisor Stevens.
Bishop passes.
Meeting adjourned.
Thank you.
Have a great day.
We'll see you soon.
Mr. Flores. Supervisor Ziggumyer. Supervisor Bains. Supervisor Stevens.
Motion passes. Meeting adjourned. Thank you. Have a great day. We have closed session. Two closed session items.
We have two closed sessions. The first closed session is conference with legal counsel, workers compensation claim to
Hari versus the county of Sutter, pursuant to government code section 54956.95.
The second closed session is conference with legal negotiators, Linda Durur and Veronica Bungarner,
employee organization, ESA and management.
pursuant to government code section 54957.6.
The second closed session is conference with legal negotiators.
career and care career. I went to school with Chris at our high school,
his son passed away in six days old. You know, just the, I saw that as a
incredible loss. And, um, and also one for the family of Leon Dov. So can I get a
roll call please to add those to the letters? Our motion. Well, we'll add them to
the motion. So we have to revoke. Okay. Move for approval.
I got a roll call please. Supervisor Pooned. Supervisor Pains.
All right. Supervisor Zika Meyer. Hi. Supervisor Stevens. All right. Supervisor
Flores. Oh, she passes. Thank you. Have a good evening. I have one more to you.
All right. Wait, we can come back right in. All right. All right.
Are you sure? You want to do it? All right. Hold on. We. We've got a vision. All right. Thank you.