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[17:31] Good morning, everybody. Good morning, everybody. Today is Tuesday, December 9th, and let's call this board meeting to order if I could please have a clerk call the roll.

[17:41] Supervisor Abekoga.

[17:45] Supervisor Allen Burke.

[17:47] I'm here.

[17:48] Vice President Aranas.

[17:50] Good afternoon.

[17:50] Good morning, President.

[17:51] You have a quorum.

[17:52] Thank you.

[17:53] So if you're in the chambers and requires banish of Vietnamese translation, the devices are available

[18:00] to the back of the chamber.

[18:03] The clerk couldn't in and sissue with the setup.

[18:05] Translation is also available on Zoom

[18:07] using the interpretation button.

[18:09] Additionally, as a gender reminder for our public commenters,

[18:13] staff and those of us on the dies,

[18:15] please speak clearly in that the measured pace,

[18:19] directly into the microphone to ensure accurate translation.

[18:24] Okay? All right.

[18:25] Moving to the pledge of allegiance,

[18:27] can I have, let's say, supervisor Bicolga,

[18:31] Thank you, please stand if you are able and please join me.

[18:38] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States to the America and to the Republic for which it stands.

[18:46] One nation under God, individual, liberty and justice for all.

[18:52] Thank you.

[18:53] Thank you.

[18:57] All right, next is we have our invocation.

[18:59] Today, we are in a vacation by our Reverend Ryan Frensen, the chairperson of the Human Rights Commission.

[19:06] Tomorrow we will be celebrating the Human Rights Day, which is a day of a moment to reflect on the dignity, equality, and fundamental rights that every person deserves.

[19:17] To help us begin today's meeting in the spirit, I would like to invite Reverend Dr. Brian J. Frensen of the Sen.

[19:24] Clark County Human Rights Commission,

[19:26] come up to lead us in the invocation.

[19:36] Reverend Dr. Brian Frensen has surfed as the pastor

[19:39] and head of staff at West Minister,

[19:41] Presbyterian Church in San Jose since 2012.

[19:45] So I'm a community for the last 100,

[19:48] the church which has been serving as 134 years.

[19:51] West Minister is a historic congregation

[19:53] that recently celebrated a centennial

[19:55] at this current location on D. Alameda.

[19:58] Reverend Frensen has led faith community nationwide

[20:00] from the Midwest and the East Coast and right in California, holding a masters of divinity

[20:06] degree from the San Francisco Theological Seminary, where you focus on global Christianity

[20:10] and a value of community centered living. Later, in his doctorate of Ministry of Columbia,

[20:15] Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia, setting a house story telling, a mutual respect

[20:21] to control from dialogue with the congregations. Beyond the pulpit, Reverend Friends is also

[20:25] known for his deep commitment, social justice, inclusion and compassion. He has been dedicated

[20:30] advocate for our GPTQ community, individuals and special needs, and house residents, and people living

[20:36] with physical and mental disabilities. In San Jose, he has actively supported

[20:41] Napridden Suffolk organizations, including a Shasta, Hanshet Neighborhood Association,

[20:45] the Elemida Business Association and the Rose White and Blue Parade, which he previously

[20:50] chaired. He has also served in the San Jose Police Department, LGBTQ Advice for Community

[20:54] and Work closely to locals on issues relating to equity and inclusion. And it's a

[20:59] The urgent leader with Pact and the founding member of the Slovakon Valley Faith Collaborative, Reverend

[21:03] Friends, and continues to challenge the systemic racism to promote understanding across communities.

[21:08] Since 2018, he's been dedicated member of our Sender Clark County Human Rights Commission.

[21:13] Thank you for your service.

[21:14] Well, he now serves as chair.

[21:16] Viewing this as a privilege that this up overlooked voices and minds as the human rights

[21:22] must be shaped by those with power and by those most vulnerable.

[21:26] And so Reverend, Friends' life and work reflects a simple, powerful belief when we build

[21:32] spaces, ground and accessibility empathy and hope we strengthen the community and unlock

[21:36] the potential for real transformation.

[21:38] Please join us in welcoming Reverend Brian, Friendsant, good.

[21:43] It is an honor to be here and to bring about this discussion on human rights day, which is so

[21:52] important especially today.

[21:53] On November 20th, 2018, the Senate Clare County Board of Supervisors declared itself a human rights county.

[22:02] A decision rooted in decades of advocacy by what was then the Human Relations Commission to amplify voices of marginalized communities.

[22:10] Following this declaration, the Commission rebranded itself as the Human Rights Commission to reflect its renewed mission.

[22:18] Since then, our commission has grounded itself in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.

[22:25] Working towards its enduring principles.

[22:28] In our work, we have listened to marginalized communities across the county,

[22:33] and learned that while we may be further ahead than many parts of our country, there is still much work ahead of us.

[22:40] In the spirit of human rights day, observe globally on December 10th,

[22:45] And here with a flag raising tomorrow at 1230,

[22:49] I offer this invocation.

[22:53] Spirit of all that is living,

[22:55] we give thanks that in the midst of our busy and distracted lives.

[22:59] We have moments set aside to remind us of what truly matters.

[23:04] 77 years ago in the aftermath of a war

[23:07] that revealed the pure evil that comes from unchecked power.

[23:12] The young United Nations Assembly declared that at the heart

[23:16] of all human endeavor is the truth that every person deserves dignity, rights, and respect

[23:24] as equal members of the human family.

[23:27] Today, as we face a time when governments and societies often reject this inherent dignity,

[23:33] we affirm that only by honoring the equal rights of all can we achieve true freedom.

[23:42] As the prophet Micah reminded us, through justice we find peace and peace our communities thrive.

[23:52] Grant us the strength to seek justice, help us protect and advocate for this stranger among us,

[24:01] ensuring fairness for all who dwell in our land.

[24:04] As leaders and neighbors, we confess that too often we have allowed power, comfort, or apathy

[24:11] to silence our voices for human dignity.

[24:16] For give us for the times we have created others as less than stripping them of their humanity.

[24:23] Remind us of our duty to create and just society here and now.

[24:32] Give us vision and resolve to resist complacency and to act boldly,

[24:38] knowing that the time for justice is not tomorrow, it is today.

[24:43] Together, let us treat all human beings equally.

[24:47] Together, let us strengthen our communities by caring for the most vulnerable.

[24:52] vulnerable, the unwanted, the unhoused, the uninsured, the undocumented.

[24:59] May our commitment to human rights inspire us to work side-by-side in our neighborhoods,

[25:06] cities, counties, states, and nations, and faith communities, and across the globe,

[25:14] to protect human dignity and advance justice.

[25:17] And let us never forget the first line of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

[25:24] All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

[25:31] Thank you very much.

[25:32] Thank you, Dr. President.

[25:36] All right.

[25:36] Thank you.

[25:38] Next, we're going to be announcing the Germans in Memoriam when we were few today.

[25:43] First one, but we'll start in honor, in the memory of Colonel Vue Van Locke, and Sylvain

[25:51] Izer-Yon, I believe this year is going to take place.

[25:56] Thank you.

[25:59] Just a few more more.

[25:59] I'm going to try to do this with as little crying as possible.

[26:05] Sure.

[26:07] Be difficult.

[26:09] Yeah, he was a very special man to me, and I had the privilege of calling him uncle

[26:14] and seeking his guidance for many years.

[26:19] So dear colleagues, members of the public, her and chambers today, today we join in memory

[26:26] of Colonel Wu van Love, a towering community leader in a towerless advocate for the Vietnamese

[26:32] community and human rights in Northern California.

[26:35] He spearheaded the Indo-Chinese resettlement and culture center, which now becomes has not become

[26:41] The immigrant resettlement in cultural center, our IRCC,

[26:45] and founded the Vietnamese Museum in San Jose,

[26:47] his life stands as a profound reflection of courage

[26:50] and war, dignity, and exile, and purpose and service.

[26:54] Colonel Lovon Lop devote his entire life

[26:56] to uplifting refugees, preserving Vietnamese history,

[26:59] and building an institution that will outlast generations

[27:03] and traumas of the past.

[27:05] A graduate at the Da Lat, military academy,

[27:08] he held the rank of Colonel,

[27:10] when the Vietnam War came to an end in 1975.

[27:13] In 1975, he and his family resettled in the United States,

[27:17] beginning a new chapter that would define the Vietnamese

[27:19] refugee story in Northern California.

[27:23] Upon arriving in California, he managed many programs

[27:26] at IRCC with a mission to provide cultural and social services

[27:29] to thousands of Vietnamese refugees

[27:31] rebuilding their lives after the war.

[27:34] Under his leadership, IRCC supported more than 20,000 refugees

[27:38] and immigrants with English classes, job training, housing assistance, legal services,

[27:44] citizenship support, and voter registration, and pairing generations to survive, rebuild,

[27:50] and ultimately thrive in Santa Clara County. In fact, that was how I met Blacklock.

[27:57] I came to know of Colonel Lovenlock before I met him because he was a regular and constant voice

[28:04] playing over the Vietnamese radio in our household.

[28:07] And my parents were beneficiaries of the English classes,

[28:10] the job training, the Citizenship classes, offered IRCC.

[28:15] And the early 1990s, he began

[28:16] railing community support to establish a museum

[28:19] that would tell the story of the Vietnamese diaspora,

[28:21] a place to preserve the memories of war,

[28:23] the perilous journey to freedom,

[28:25] and the resilience of a people starting over.

[28:28] He saw support from Vietnamese communities across California,

[28:30] and even national figures like former President Jimmy Carter.

[28:33] His tireless advocacy led to the creation of the Vietnamese Museum in 2007, one of the world's first

[28:39] museum's dedicated to the Vietnamese refugee experience.

[28:43] His passing is a profound loss not only for his family, but for the entire Vietnamese community

[28:47] in Santa Clara County and beyond.

[28:50] To the family, thank you for sharing him with the community all these years.

[28:54] His work shaped the lives of thousands, including wine today.

[28:58] We honor him not only for what he built, but for the hope, dignity, and resiliency

[29:01] carried in passing to all of us, made his memory continue to guide us and made future generations

[29:07] learned from the foundation he so lovingly built. And to all those who maybe watching today

[29:13] and maybe watching the replay of this video, as a second generation Vietnamese American,

[29:20] we are watching the passing and loss of our foundational institutional history of passage and war

[29:27] and survival and rebuilding, and one of my greatest fears as a second generation Vietnamese

[29:33] Americans, a direct beneficiary of the sacrifices of my elders, is that our elders pass on

[29:40] without sharing all their stories and imparting all of their knowledge and wisdom to us,

[29:45] because there's still so much more for us to learn about your journey, about your sacrifices,

[29:50] about your courage.

[29:53] I now offer some remarks in Vietnamese.

[29:57] Um, Gintra Giffy.

[30:03] Hôm nay, thay mặt cho hồi động nhiễm xác viên cùng hạn xác viên khaira, bởi sinh được phân ư và tấn nhiệm, đại tá vũ vân lọc, mục nghỉ lãnh đảo, đáng, kiến cổ, cộng đông nghỉ việc tại bắt ca li.

[30:16] Ông là biểu tưởng củ lòng, căng đảm, nhân hậu và tin thần, nhân thân phục vũ vũ, cộng đồng.

[30:24] Đại tá vũ vân lọc lần nghỉ, giúp phát triển, chung tâm, định cư và vân hóa, yên, và sây dẫn viện bảo tăng viện Nam,

[30:32] tại thành phố San Jose, cuộc đầy áng làm một hành trình đầy ý nhé, trải qua chiến tranh và hòa bình,

[30:40] lưu vong và xây dẫn, đau thương và niềm tin kinh định. Nhưng tranh hết vẫn là tình yêu,

[30:50] sau nặng với quay hương và con người. Tất nhiệp, chương vó, bị đã lạc và mang cấp bật,

[30:58] Đại ta khi chiến tranh kết thúc nằm nục ngàn chiến tranh bạy mới lòng,

[31:03] nhưng anh ông vẫn giữ khi phát của một quân nhân cho đến cuối đời.

[31:09] chiến đấu thầm lặng bằng chí thức, văn hóa và lòng kinh cường.

[31:14] Nó một ngàn chiến tranh bạy mới lòng.

[31:17] Ông còn gia đình sang định cư, tại hoa kỳ bắt đầu một chẳng đường mới.

[31:23] Ông tiếp tục kể cao chiến của người Việt đi tìm tự do,

[31:27] gặp phần thắp lại nêm hi vọng chó thay hệ tinh án.

[31:31] Tại các lý ông gây dẫn cửa quang IRCC với những trình chiến giúp người tị nặng hoa nhập vào đầy sống mới, từ lọc tình anh hậu ngay tìm việc làm.

[31:44] Đến hỗ trợ sắp lý, hướng dẫn nhập tệ và yên đi bàu.

[31:49] dưới sự, dẫn, dẫn của ông hơn hai người ngàng người đã được RCC giúp đỡ hỏi nhập được vãi cuộc sống nơi sướng người.

[32:00] Đào thậm niên, nằm ngã chính trăm chính mời ông khởi sướng, sướng, dưới án, sài dẫn, việc misi em để lưu, giữ, của những người, việc thà hơn, nhà sự kiến chỉ và tâm huyết ông đã kêu gọi được nhiều sướng ủng hộ.

[32:17] kế, kế cả từ cách linh nhà lẫn đạo hoa kì như cựu tổng thống Jimmy Carter.

[32:23] Năm 2 ngày nè bãi viện báo tàng Việt Nam chân thức ra đời ra đời trở thành biểu tưởng văn hóa và lịch sử cướng người viện tại Hải ngoại.

[32:32] Ông ra đi là một mất mắt lớn lào cho cộng đồng.

[32:37] Chúng tôi sinh gửi đến gia đình lời cá mân chân thành nhất vì đã chia sẻ ông với cộng đồng trong suốt bò năm.

[32:44] Hôm nay chúng ta tự nhiên ở đại ta vụ vinh lọc không chỉ vì những gì ông đã làm mà còn vì tình tin thần.

[32:52] Lòng nhân ai và niềm khi vọng mà ông để lại.

[32:56] Nguyện cho hình ảnh và gí sản của ông sẽ mởi bàn vận, sôi sáng,

[33:02] dẫn đường cho thế hệ, mài sau để chúng ta cùng tiếp bước xây dẫn cộng đồng.

[33:07] Với tất cả tâm lòng và trái thêm như ông đã, dầy công, vinh đáp.

[33:45] cứu cho người dễ hợp anh horde.

[33:47] Vậy có sao?

[33:48] Vậy gì đó?

[33:48] Hả khi đến đâu có thể giới hôm nay không có thể chắn gọi

[33:51] đém khí nhất, một thực hiện Rare dễn ta,

[33:53] in the end, của mình hồi em,

[33:56] ...

[33:57] Thế, hồi em, thế dẫn.

[34:00] Làm cả, mình thấy mình anh có thể giới hôm nay đăng k evento,

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[34:13] trong những vài se sortera.

[34:15] Vịt Museum, right here at the Street Park in San Jose,

[34:18] stand as a testament to his vision of preserving the Vietnamese

[34:22] history, culture, and the country, to the community.

[34:26] He wanted future generations, not just Vietnamese, but neither the non-vindemies,

[34:31] Americans to both understand and truly appreciate this heritage and the diversity

[34:36] despringkins on county and the history of the struggles of the war and how important

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[34:58] represents những việc Doctor Lam đứa here

[35:11] Khánh sagt kẹt lần đang nhìn đến lần sau.

[35:15] Dạ một bàn tị nơi ở phần bà trước khi anh đang thích mọi người,

[35:18] dũng tình thích ở phần bà.

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[35:25] Nóu sẽ mọi thứ đang là tất cả cho một đổi đ incub,

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[35:33] Bây giờ chúng ta rất là mây.

[35:35] Trời

[35:36] Em đã chục được a nhìn,

[35:39] And appreciate the sharing of Mr. Vogue and Luke, as well as sharing the Vietnamese culture

[35:52] with the rest of the community, that museum, which I familiar with, and I've gone inside,

[35:59] it allows for us to understand the journey that many of us who are immigrants take into

[36:08] And some are plagued with war and persecution and cruelty and everybody's immigration

[36:19] story is different and it's worth telling and sharing with the rest of the world to

[36:24] that your truth is known and so my my condolences to all of the Vietnamese community that

[36:31] is that lost for a leader like him.

[36:33] And I know that his legacy will live and people like supervise a young, and those of you who carry on his message and his tradition and culture.

[36:45] And so, thank you for honoring him today and for allowing us to be part of it.

[36:50] Thank you.

[36:52] Yes, viewers are Amber.

[36:53] My colleagues have all spoken beautiful, but beautifully, and I would echo their words of encouragement for preservation

[37:02] And uplifting of our, of all of our cultural identities and

[37:08] Wishing very, very sincere condolences to the family and to the community at

[37:14] Large that feels this loss.

[37:20] Thank you, President.

[37:20] Thank you, colleagues.

[37:22] At this time, men lay accompanied by a buck gung and

[37:26] Buckinget will be representing the family and community in memory of

[37:32] Bucklock.

[37:56] Good morning, board president Lee.

[37:59] Good morning.

[38:00] Supervisors, arenas, yên, Allenburg, Abbey Coga,

[38:07] and county executive Williams, ladies and gentlemen.

[38:17] Let me also invite Quynh Tran to come and stand with me.

[38:27] My name is Minh Lee, and I speak today on behalf of the family of L op vô,

[38:34] well a battle-up,

[38:36] as the community would refer to him,

[38:39] found a HRCC and the Vietnamese youth.

[38:42] He was a veteran of Refugee,

[38:44] a community builder, Hus Hurst Good in FX.

[38:47] And someone who truly embody

[38:51] what you have describe as the best values

[38:54] and ideals of Santa Clara County.

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[39:06] who has been shaped by his life's work.

[39:12] Today, we all agree with his passing,

[39:17] the family

[39:21] is extremely grateful to you

[39:23] for recognizing his service.

[39:27] But they also want me to say to you clearly,

[39:30] his story does not end with this memoriam.

[39:34] You see, for decades, the County of Santa Clara

[39:37] and the City of San Jose have worked together

[39:40] to create the Vietnam Museum.

[39:43] The city provided the house and the utilities.

[39:47] The county has provided for decades critical operational funding to help resettle

[39:54] refugees, tens of thousands of us have come here and been resettled because of you.

[40:02] You created the foundation for the Vietnam Museum.

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[42:10] Now has enormous weight.

[42:13] The meaningful step you can take to prevent the irreversible harm.

[42:19] You can urge a pause on all actions.

[42:22] You can issue a letter or a resolution from this board,

[42:26] asking the city and historyahan us to freeze all actions

[42:29] to the court that can hear the matter that would protect the museum from being erased

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[44:05] So if the county will affirm

[44:07] your commitment to protecting

[44:09] the cultural heritage

[44:11] of all members of our community.

[44:14] Especially

[44:15] cô dựng bácニł nó nhớ こc dân G Bử dỷng quan hoặc

[44:17] dân G Bử dỷng quan hoặc 意 sяж sSu gà

[44:22] bất khi anh có tương quan hsta tương

[44:23] hàn dàng ấm ngще nội

[44:25] dân G Bử dỷng quan hà nếu nó đúng

[44:27] hàn dàng ấm ngames, hàn dàng, bàes

[44:31] nó y trởave不到, và dân G Bử dỷng

[44:34] Bây giờ, nó tương npa

[44:34] chỉ bọn giải thêm hình

[44:37] có chả gì nử dàng, không biết

[44:40] Hàn dàng, và bọn giải phần

[44:45] hàn dàng, cả chẳng, ảnh quay

[44:45] Điều có thể bỏa những cái mấy thử

[44:52] dụng,

[44:52] có thể đủ những cái phía hôm nay,

[44:53] đất thử dụng, đất thử dụng, đất thử dụng, đất thử dụng, đất thử dụng, đất thử dụng, đất thử dụng.

[44:55] In the final days, Mr. Wu said something heartbreaking, breaking.

[45:00] And he said this repeatedly, please don't let them destroy the Vietnamese.

[45:06] This was not political.

[45:11] This was the plea of a man who knew he would not live long enough

[45:26] to protect the house. But he built for people.

[45:32] And almost

[45:38] 200,000 of them are residents of Santa Clara County. Your county, my county.

[45:47] When a community loses his culture home, it loses more than a building.

[45:53] It loses its story, its elders' voices, and the bridge between yesterday sacrifice and tomorrow's

[46:01] hope.

[46:03] Future generations will judge us not by our intentions, but by our courage,

[46:11] whether we stood up

[46:12] it matter or looked away when history asked something of us. On behalf of Locke's family,

[46:20] on behalf of his widow, who can all longer speak

[46:31] for herself

[46:34] on behalf of the community,

[46:37] that loved him,

[46:45] helped me protect his legacy,

[46:49] helped us protect the Vietnamese youth.

[46:53] Don't let the light that he lit for our community go out.

[47:00] Thank you.

[47:02] Thank you.

[47:21] Dear members of the Board of Supervisors, Ladies and Gentlemen,

[47:29] I thank you for the opportunity

[47:31] to be here to recognize the contributions of the late colonel of Fouvin Love, founder of

[47:40] the Museum of the Bought People and the Republic of Vietnam in short Vietnam Museum.

[47:49] Colored and Moving Love established this institution to uphold the enduring values of the

[48:00] former republic of Vietnam and to safeguard the historical truth of our community.

[48:10] With museum stands as a memorial to the hundreds of thousands who lost their lives fleeing

[48:19] and the Communist regime after April 30, 1975, and as a record of the period of the perilous

[48:30] journey undertaken by the boat people in search of freedom,

[48:39] that museum preserved relics

[48:42] and testimonies of those who suffered in radiation camps and could not escape.

[48:51] That museum remains a lasting testament that our history is never forgotten.

[49:03] That museum belongs to the community and only to the community.

[49:10] Thank you.

[49:11] Thank you very much.

[49:17] more supervisor.

[49:22] I am Dikan Nathau from the San Jose Catholic Church.

[49:29] I come here in this morning

[49:33] to gather with all the people to celebrate the life of the Let the Colour, Poufang Lam.

[49:43] Who dedicated his life to preserve the refugee and immigrant journey.

[49:48] and also the founding visionary of the museum of the book People and the Republic of Vietnam.

[50:01] A British scientist is a Bible works that highlights God's book by timing an incomprehensive plan stating.

[50:14] Time to be born and time to die.

[50:19] A time to plan, and a time

[50:25] to cue, and a time to heal, a time to tear down, and a time

[50:34] to build, a time to reap, and a time to laugh, a time to mourn, and a time to dance, a time

[50:46] scattered stone and a time to gather them, a time to embrace, and a time to

[50:54] repent from impressing, a time to search, and a time to hear, a time to keep, and a time

[51:06] to throw away a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to return and a time to speak, a time

[51:19] to love and a time to head, a time for war and a time for peace, good and low-woven

[51:30] of my friend for 45 years rest in peace.

[51:38] Thank you, Kamal.

[51:43] To the County Board of Supervisors to its executives, to the community that is here.

[51:54] I stand here in front of you as current successor of Mr. Lu Fanglob as President and Executive

[52:05] director of IACC, Vietnam Museum. I want to thank you for your support and partnership

[52:12] of IACC in the last several decades and currently.

[52:19] Every word of honor and love have been expressed. I don't think I can add more to it

[52:27] and then reflecting on the words that Mr. Wukong loved said to me and to all of us that support

[52:37] the community and IACC. He said, when the Vietnam Museum is really the soul of the Vietnamese

[52:49] American community here. So you need to work with everyone in the community, find

[52:58] wide, to make sure that the soul is preserved and lived on. So I stand here to make

[53:09] sure his words live on and to make sure that I request all of you to ensure that

[53:18] also reflected through the Viet Museum, continue to live and continue to prosper.

[53:26] Thank you.

[53:27] Thank you, come on.

[53:36] Thank you very much.

[53:38] OK, we do have a few other Germans today.

[53:41] I'm just going to announce also, believe, yes.

[53:44] There are three more actually supervised obbicoga, would you please?

[53:48] Thank you, President Lee.

[53:49] It is with a heavy heart and deep sense of loss that I ask that we adjourn today's meeting in the memory and honor of three great pillars of our district five community.

[54:04] The first one is a former Los Alzos Hills mayor, John Hartputlian, John is born in 1943

[54:12] in New York, and in 1969 he moved to the Bay Area and began his career as a software engineer

[54:19] at Hewlett-Tacard.

[54:21] He was part of the remarkable migration that transformed this valley, the legions of young

[54:26] talented engineers who had drawn to the valley of heart's delight and built it into what

[54:31] known worldwide as Silicon Valley.

[54:34] He helped develop computer products for nuclear medicine, diagnosis, using the anger gamma

[54:39] camera.

[54:41] He later worked at the Electromagnetic Systems Laboratory and retired after more than 25 years

[54:47] of developing computer-based equipment for medical, military, and private research applications.

[54:53] In 1978, John and his wife Dorothy or Duffy Price, who unfortunately cannot join us today,

[55:00] made Los Santos Hills their home. In the early 90s, John became involved in community life,

[55:05] serving on the planning commission for six years. John co-founded the citizen that

[55:10] Hills 2000 organization to protect and enrich the rural quality of life in Los Santos Hills.

[55:17] He also chaired the 60th anniversary of Los Santos Hills incorporation,

[55:22] celebrating the town's history and spirit. In 2012, John was elected to the Los

[55:27] to Social City Council serving until 2016 and his final year was as mayor.

[55:33] I had the opportunity to serve with John on a couple of regional boards and really saw

[55:38] his commitment to transparency and accessibility which were his top priorities.

[55:43] Long before live streams or a thing, John videotape council meetings and posted them

[55:49] online so residents could see their government at work.

[55:52] John believed that transparency and communication

[55:55] built trust and strengthened the relationship

[55:57] between citizens and their leaders,

[55:59] which I believe is very true.

[56:01] As such as hills, homes may be separated

[56:04] by a few roads and acre-sized lots,

[56:07] but John understood that it had a small town spirit

[56:11] because people worked hard at both neighborliness

[56:14] and staying connected.

[56:16] And making us out till hills is home for 12 years

[56:19] after it formed into a town, John knew that what holds the community together is its people.

[56:26] He became one of those glue people who sustained the community.

[56:30] His leadership was not only about good governance, it was also about the people he treated

[56:35] staff with respect and even took employees out to lunch to thank them personally for

[56:40] their years of service.

[56:41] He believed in listening and believed in fairness, as well as protecting what makes us

[56:46] to social special. His wife defy says that he consistently acted with courage, humility,

[56:52] and dedication to the public good. These are attributes we will certainly miss in

[56:58] Los Angeles Hills and in all bodies of leadership with John, with John, without John.

[57:09] But John leaves a life of legacy, of openness, respect, and community spirit that will

[57:15] to continue to inspire how we all lead.

[57:18] Our condolences to the entire heart-puting and family.

[57:21] We surely miss having Duffy here with us today,

[57:24] but thank you all for joining me in honor,

[57:26] ring a fellow public servant, and we are pleased to have

[57:30] Los Angeles Hills Vice Mayor, Rajiv Bataya,

[57:34] able to join us today to say a few words.

[57:36] Thank you.

[57:38] Thank you, Supervisor Abe Koga, for your kind words.

[57:41] Good morning, President Lee.

[57:43] wonderful supervisors, staff, county staff, dignitaries and friends.

[57:49] My name is Rajeev Bateja. I'm the Vice Mayor of Los Altos Hills.

[57:53] Thank you for the opportunity today to adjourn in memory of an outstanding member of our

[57:57] town, the late John Harputlian. John was a neighbor, a colleague and a former mayor,

[58:03] but more than that he was a true community builder.

[58:06] After moving here in 1978 with his wife, Dorothy, John poor his energy into building

[58:12] community in our town.

[58:15] He had a remarkable ability to bring people together, whether chairing the town's

[58:19] sixtieth anniversary, or simply sharing stories and laughter with friends.

[58:24] He loved playing bridge, he loved travel, but above all, he loved his community.

[58:30] I, most remember John, for his gentle humor, his tight heart, and that ever-present twinkle

[58:38] in his eye.

[58:40] John served six years on the planning commission, was elected to the town council in 2012,

[58:46] and served as mere in 2016.

[58:49] He was a strong supporter of staff and public work, public works and employees, recognizing

[58:55] their vital contributions to the communities well-being.

[58:59] One of the most wonderful things about John is how he championed transparency and accessibility.

[59:06] He really cared about connecting with people in our town.

[59:10] Under his leadership the town started video recording council meetings and he wanted that to happen

[59:16] so that every resident could be engaged and be aware of how decisions are made in our town.

[59:22] John's legacy lives on through his example to serve with integrity, with grace, and to connect

[59:29] with others, and to give of himself for others and future generations.

[59:34] He loved his community, his town, and he left our world a better place.

[59:39] Let us carry forward the spirit of community and service he embodied.

[59:44] Please join me in recognizing a distinguished public servant, the late John Harpookneum.

[59:50] Thank you.

[59:51] Thank you so much, Vice Mayor.

[59:57] If I may move on to my second.

[1:00:00] In memoriam, we also dreamed today in the honor and honor of former three-time mayor of Las Gattas, Barbara Lee, specter. Barbara passed away on November 11th at the age of 80. Barbara and her husband, I arrived in Las Gattas for 52 years and shared a passion for travel and community. Her life was defined by service to her profession, to her community, and to her family. Before entering public service, Barbara had a remarkable legal

[1:00:29] career practising civil litigation for more than 40 years after graduating magna cum laude

[1:00:36] from Santa Clara University School of Law. She brought that same dedication and sharp

[1:00:41] intellect to her work in governments. Barbara began her civic journey as the planning commissioner

[1:00:46] where she served two terms in the 1980s helping guide the growth and character of Lascadas.

[1:00:52] In 2004, she joined the Lascadas Town Council where she was elected mayor, not once, not twice,

[1:00:58] but three times in 2008, 2013 and 2016,

[1:01:02] a testament to the trust and respect she earned

[1:01:05] from her community.

[1:01:06] Barbara showed us what it means to leave with integrity

[1:01:09] and to give back selflessly.

[1:01:11] She leaves behind not only a record of public achievements,

[1:01:14] but also the memory of a life-lived with purpose and generosity.

[1:01:18] Her impact will be felt for generations,

[1:01:21] and today we honor her memory with gratitude and respect.

[1:01:24] Our deepest condolences to the entire spectra family

[1:01:27] who, unfortunately, were unable to join us today,

[1:01:30] she survived by her brother, Marvin Tassie,

[1:01:33] nephew Denise David and Katie Tassie,

[1:01:36] and Grand nephew Denise's Grace Emma and Jacob Tassie,

[1:01:39] who live in Rydian, Idaho.

[1:01:42] We are on behalf of the board.

[1:01:44] We think Barbara for extraordinary contributions

[1:01:47] to Las Gettos and Santa Clara County,

[1:01:50] and I would now like to ask current Las Gettos,

[1:01:53] Thank you very much, it's an honor to be here today and as part of a Vietnamese family,

[1:02:06] I truly appreciate the honor that was paid earlier today.

[1:02:12] On behalf of the residents and town of Los Gatos, I'd like to thank you President Lee,

[1:02:19] supervisor Margaret Abe Koga and the entire board of supervisors for honoring our former mayor

[1:02:27] and council member Barbara Spector who passed away last month. Barbara was a friend and a mentor

[1:02:36] to me and to many of us. As a strong and accomplished woman, Barbara was exemplary of the spirit

[1:02:46] of her generation. That was educated, engaged, and empathetic. Living almost all of her adult

[1:02:55] life in Los Gatos, Barbara's commitment to the town, deepened as she went on to serve four

[1:03:03] terms on the council and three terms as mayor. I can't even imagine that having just finished

[1:03:10] my first term on the council.

[1:03:14] In addition to her civic contributions,

[1:03:18] Barbara achieved remarkable success

[1:03:21] in her professional life as a trial attorney.

[1:03:25] She brought this experience to the council

[1:03:28] and to her decision-making on behalf of the town.

[1:03:34] As supervisor Abe Koga said,

[1:03:37] Barbara believed deeply that living in the town of Las Cotos was a privilege and devoted herself

[1:03:44] to preserving its unique character and spirit for future generations.

[1:03:52] As a mentor to many and personally to me, Barbara taught us to not only do the right thing,

[1:04:00] but to do it the right way.

[1:04:03] If that's the case she said, don't worry about how the vote is going to go.

[1:04:10] Don't worry about your fellow council members.

[1:04:13] Look at your residents and explain this to them.

[1:04:18] We are grateful for the board, supervisors,

[1:04:22] recognizing and honoring Barbara Specter's memory.

[1:04:26] And thank you Chris Constantine for joining me here today, our new town manager.

[1:04:35] Thank you very much.

[1:04:38] Finally, we adjourned in honor of another district five, great.

[1:04:45] The great Rose Felicetti, who was one of my mentors when I first moved into Mountain View in 1998.

[1:04:54] in 2008, Rose was one of the leaders of the community who greeted me and welcomed me with

[1:05:02] open arms, and really took me under her wing in many ways to teach me about not

[1:05:09] review about how to get involved in the community and what public service meant.

[1:05:17] And Rose's passing is being felt not only here in Santa Clara County, but also in Santa

[1:05:23] who is county where she devoted her time and energy with equal passion.

[1:05:27] That level of commitment speaks volumes about who she was.

[1:05:31] Someone who gave herself fully across communities without hesitation.

[1:05:36] Though originally from Washington State rose made her counties her home and poured herself

[1:05:41] into the work of strengthening them.

[1:05:44] From 1994 to 2004, she served as a trustee on the Mountain View Wisdom School District Board

[1:05:50] where she played a pivotal role in the 2001 merger of the Mountain View in Wismen School Districts

[1:05:56] a change that unified the broader community. She also served more than 15 years as executive

[1:06:02] director of the Santa Clara County School Board's Association, becoming known as the point

[1:06:07] person who brought people together and made things happen. Rosa's commitment to education and

[1:06:13] the government's led to her long collaboration with Ben State Senator, and my predecessor, Joe

[1:06:19] Samidian.

[1:06:21] When he needed someone to represent him in Santa Cruz County, he turned to Rose, trusting

[1:06:26] her dedication and ability to connect with people.

[1:06:29] After moving to Capitol Lot in 2010, whether it has been Neil, instead of retiring and

[1:06:35] I remember her taught soling us, she was moving, and then she got right into involvement

[1:06:40] in the Santa Cruz community, she dove right in and doubled down on improving residents'

[1:06:47] quality of life. She joined leadership Santa Cruz County, completed non-profit management

[1:06:53] coursework at Cabrio College, and in 2017 was elected trustee for area four on the Santa Cruz

[1:07:00] County Board of Education, eventually serving as its president. Rose's passion for youth and

[1:07:06] education letter to identify gaps and services for K-12 students.

[1:07:11] In response, she co-founded non-profit connection Santa Cruz County in 2020, an organization

[1:07:17] dedicated to connecting non-profit people, ideas and resources to strengthen collaboration

[1:07:23] and support students. She served as its executive director until her passing.

[1:07:29] As if that wasn't enough, Rose's advocacy extended beyond education and she did quite a bit

[1:07:35] education at that. She stood up for the LGBTQ plus community and mentored women through the

[1:07:41] breaking class ballot organization. She built networks for newcomers who are doers forming

[1:07:47] now from here, meant to bring together women who have moved to a new city in friendship,

[1:07:52] conversation, and civic engagement. Rose also served on the board of digital nest, an organization

[1:07:58] dedicated to providing underserved youth with the skills and resources needed to launch successful

[1:08:04] careers. Whether or not in view or capital, Rose loved to help people, and that was so evident,

[1:08:11] just by seeing her. She was a warrior for nonprofits, a champion for youth, and a mentor to

[1:08:17] countless leaders, including myself. Maybe honor her legacy by caring for the values she embodied,

[1:08:24] compassion, integrity, and selflessness. Please join me in sending love and condolences to

[1:08:30] is an entire family, friends where there are many, many, and all who had the privilege of

[1:08:35] knowing her. We are honored to have her son, Matt, who I believe, I know he carries

[1:08:43] his legacy and his commitment to public service as he works for our public health department.

[1:08:50] So welcome, Matt. Good morning. Thank you, Supervisors, and thank you especially, Supervisors,

[1:08:56] I've been Koga for the opportunity to recognize my mother's contributions to the community.

[1:09:00] She dedicated most of her life, pretty much my entire life to public service.

[1:09:05] You already mentioned her service on the not-be-wisp and board.

[1:09:09] Not only was she part of that strategic merger, she also worked on passing parcel taxes and

[1:09:13] school bonds to make sure that our schools and our students, students like me, had the resources

[1:09:18] they needed to succeed, work the took, patients, collaboration, and a deep belief in what

[1:09:24] Our community can do for its youth.

[1:09:27] But of course, her commitment didn't end there.

[1:09:29] She has started on the Senate Clara County School Board

[1:09:31] Association for Decades.

[1:09:34] She was the Executive Director, Connecting,

[1:09:36] the School Board members of other elected leaders

[1:09:38] to lobby in Sacramento to make sure the state

[1:09:41] was behind the resources our students need.

[1:09:44] In addition to working for states under Smithian,

[1:09:46] she also worked for then speaker-protem Sally Lieber.

[1:09:50] Again, taking that work to the state level

[1:09:53] to advocate for our youth.

[1:09:56] Of course, we all thought, which moved to Capitol,

[1:09:57] as she would retire.

[1:09:59] But of course, she didn't, in addition to serving

[1:10:01] on a Santa Cruz County school board,

[1:10:03] but she mentioned she also worked for a two non-profit

[1:10:06] board's digital nest, help to train that organization

[1:10:08] along with non-profit connect.

[1:10:10] She really did work until those final months

[1:10:12] to make sure that youth, either in this community,

[1:10:16] or in Santa Cruz County, had the resources they need.

[1:10:19] This recognition is personal demeanor,

[1:10:21] on Lenserson, but as a county employee,

[1:10:25] my mom's dedication young people shaped my own career.

[1:10:29] From youth substance use prevention at the Public Health Department to support youth behavioral

[1:10:34] health as a board aid, including the patient, a psychiatric hospital for youth that's opening.

[1:10:41] Supervisor Abacoga, you made youth mental health a priority when youth served on the

[1:10:45] university council and you continue that leadership as a HCHC chair.

[1:10:50] Thank you.

[1:10:50] And thank you, the entire board for honoring

[1:10:53] others, legacy, and continuing the work

[1:10:55] she believes in so deeply.

[1:10:56] Thank you.

[1:10:58] Thank you very much.

[1:11:01] Yes, Vice President Rinnist?

[1:11:03] Thank you.

[1:11:05] Matt, I just want to say my condolences to you and your family.

[1:11:11] And for being the living proof of what your mother's hard work

[1:11:17] has been over the years of public service.

[1:11:19] It's evident in you.

[1:11:20] You worked in my team, we were over at the city of San Jose and there is a level of humility in you that is evident obviously in the legacy of your mother and a true public servant.

[1:11:35] There's not very many of us that we can actually say that but in you is that legacy of service and so thank you for keeping that light alive of your mom and for continuing to give to us.

[1:11:50] she is given to you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Matt, for carrying

[1:11:57] dead legacy. All right. Moving along to our agenda now, we don't have item number five. So

[1:12:05] let's go to item number six, which is our public comment. This item is reserved for members of

[1:12:11] public addressed before on any item sites, not on today's agenda. And anybody would like to speak,

[1:12:17] on the agenda should be pressed to speak at this time. Please fill out the speaker card

[1:12:21] and return that to a clerk. We will call up to 30 names now, then the remaining names will

[1:12:26] then be called at the end of the agenda of any. In person's speakers will be called first

[1:12:30] followed by the Zoom speakers. No further requests to speak with except but after to continue

[1:12:35] to public comment. Reminder for the public on Zoom. As soon as the first speaker and chambers

[1:12:40] start speaking, no more speakers will be taken. During public comment, to respect everybody's

[1:12:45] We do not allow applause or booze to show your support. You can raise and shake your hands

[1:12:52] quietly and I just want to thank you for your cooperation keeping on meeting moving orderly.

[1:12:59] Yes, clerk, how many speakers we have today? We have 11 cards in Chambers and one hand raised on Zoom

[1:13:08] for a total of 12. 12. We've 12 speakers. We actually get two minutes each.

[1:13:13] Right, I will close the queue and I will call a batch of names for in-person speakers first.

[1:13:20] We have Alan Kamara, Danielle Mahabhar, Christina Delafuente, Hency, and Christina Acosta, please come on up.

[1:13:35] I'm approach the podium in any order.

[1:13:42] So before we start to speak, I know we have given you two minutes,

[1:13:45] but if your comments has already been stated by others,

[1:13:48] she can certainly mention that,

[1:13:50] and we certainly appreciate that as well.

[1:13:52] Take it to the meeting moving.

[1:13:53] How do you have your morning?

[1:13:54] All right, thank you.

[1:13:57] Good morning, bottle supervisors,

[1:13:59] and County Executive and the communities.

[1:14:02] My name is Alan Kumar.

[1:14:04] I'm a registered nurse at Valemedi call Center.

[1:14:07] I walk into ER and also the vice president

[1:14:10] of the registered nurse's professional association

[1:14:12] and the spirit of human rights today we are here in front of a few bottle supervisors that we have our marginalized population in custody health, our patients that you call inmates are not getting the service and the care they deserve.

[1:14:34] We're here in objection to county, cost of the leadership.

[1:14:40] They've done everything to purposefully sabotage the care that this patient are receiving.

[1:14:48] And as you all know, last week there was an unfortunate death from Elmode.

[1:14:58] We've communicated.

[1:15:00] So every county leadership will go into the chain of command, we just don't come here because we're excited to speak to you.

[1:15:07] Yes, we do act to we're excited to speak to you but not in this case.

[1:15:12] We are here pleading to all of you that you do everything in your power and I know James Williams walked out.

[1:15:19] We would have loved to James to be here because in essence, we've brought this to James Williams several times.

[1:15:27] And we met with Paul Lorenz, we're here to ask that you change the county cost of the

[1:15:36] health leadership.

[1:15:38] Nurses are exhausted.

[1:15:40] There are a bunch of retaliation all over the place every time our nurses speak out.

[1:15:45] They are some free-reels investigation.

[1:15:48] And we are second tied and we ask you all to intervene.

[1:15:52] And you will hear from our county nurses.

[1:15:54] Thank you all.

[1:15:55] Good

[1:16:04] morning supervisors, my name is Christina Zalf-Wence, I'm a registered nurse and a

[1:16:09] voter county district one in South San Jose. I'm here in solidarity with the nurses

[1:16:14] of RNPA who are courageously sounding the alarm about dangerous understanding in Santa Clara

[1:16:21] County Jails. Across California and the nation federal courts already ruled that when nurses

[1:16:27] and physicians are so understaffed in Jails that it causes dangerous delays in medical and

[1:16:32] behavioral health care, it becomes cruel and unusual punishment

[1:16:36] under the eighth amendment, not just the workplace grievance.

[1:16:40] Coleman versus Brown, a federal case against the state of California,

[1:16:45] Armstrong versus Brown, a federal case against the California

[1:16:48] Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Center

[1:16:52] Rita jail, case in Alameda County, California, the FCI,

[1:16:56] Dublin, federal case in California. All of these cases and federal

[1:16:59] All these California and federal cases formally established the same principle.

[1:17:04] When nurse and physician staffing is so low that patients cannot receive safe, timely medical, and behavioral health care,

[1:17:12] it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under the 8th Amendment.

[1:17:16] Violation of the 8th Amendment is exactly what R&PA nurses are speaking up about in the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors meeting today.

[1:17:24] County Jails, not just California State Presidents, are legally liable when understaffing

[1:17:30] prevent-safe, timely medical, and behavioral health care.

[1:17:33] The legal standard is already clear.

[1:17:35] The question is whether the county custody health will act now to restore safe, nurse,

[1:17:40] and physician staffing or wait until after irreversible harm, deaths, and federal intervention

[1:17:46] for the county custody health to correct the dangerous understaffing.

[1:17:50] Thank you.

[1:17:56] Hi, good morning, my name is Hansi.

[1:17:58] I worked at the custody at Kitsikinit.

[1:18:02] We, the nurses in Kitsikinit, are carrying the immense pressure

[1:18:06] of chronic short staffing.

[1:18:08] Conditions that are not simply not safe for vulnerable patient

[1:18:12] population that we serve.

[1:18:15] Every day, we are responsible for individuals

[1:18:17] on to be said, watch, patient actively,

[1:18:21] harming themselves or kill themselves.

[1:18:23] those attempting to over those patients in withdrawals and individual experiencing psychiatric emergencies.

[1:18:32] These situations demand immediate, focused and specialized care.

[1:18:37] Yet we are unable to meet their needs or provide the level of care they deserve

[1:18:41] because we do not have the staff.

[1:18:44] We recognize the challenges caused by federal budget cuts and the ongoing federal consent agree.

[1:18:50] These are realities we face daily in custody.

[1:18:55] However, the count is therefore to save money by cutting our staffing levels, or by assigning

[1:19:01] a nurse, or by not assigning a nurse to an entire dorm or unit in a manger.

[1:19:08] Place both patient and staff in your operating.

[1:19:12] This is not just starting issue, it is a patient safety crisis.

[1:19:16] How many more incidents in juries or deaths must occur before the urgency is acknowledged?

[1:19:24] We are pleading for your support.

[1:19:26] Please stand with us and take action to restore safe staffing so we can protect the lives

[1:19:32] and trust the dark here.

[1:19:34] Thank you.

[1:19:36] I'm going to call a few more names.

[1:19:38] Daniel Choi, Raymond Greens, Debbie Chang, Mary J.J. and Marky Henderson.

[1:19:52] Good morning, supervisors, county council. My name is Christina Acosta and I'm also a

[1:19:57] registered nurse in custody health site. Today I'm speaking for myself and for many of the nurses who

[1:20:02] cannot be here, not because they don't care, but because they fear retaliation.

[1:20:07] For doing what we are ethically obligated to do, which is advocate for our patients.

[1:20:14] And they're safety.

[1:20:17] God alone should tell us something about the culture that we are working in.

[1:20:21] We are here because the situation has reached a point where patient safety and staff safety

[1:20:26] are at risk.

[1:20:27] Every single day, chronic understaffing has become our norm and that norm is dangerous.

[1:20:31] It leads to medical errors, delayed assessments, mistreatments, preventable complications.

[1:20:35] and ultimately poor outcomes for the people that are interested to our care.

[1:20:40] For nurses, it leads to overwhelming burnout, compassion fatigue, and high turnover,

[1:20:45] problems that deepen the staffing crisis.

[1:20:49] Correctional nursing is not an ordinary job.

[1:20:52] It requires specialized skills, emotional strength, and deep compassion to care for individuals

[1:20:57] who often have no advocate outside of the jail walls.

[1:21:00] We provide care for a population that society tends to forget.

[1:21:07] Yet we show up every day because we believe in dignity, justice and healing.

[1:21:12] But we cannot do our job safely when we're a stretch beyond capacity.

[1:21:16] In a recent urgent meeting when we finally had the opportunity to raise these concerns about unsafe staffing,

[1:21:21] the response was dismissive.

[1:21:23] I was told we need to move on to more pressing issues.

[1:21:26] And that pressing issue was planning the holiday party.

[1:21:29] That moment made it clear how staffing concerns rate in actual priority, despite the fact that

[1:21:35] consequences affect the real human lives.

[1:21:37] We are not asking for anything extravagant.

[1:21:40] We are asking for safety.

[1:21:42] We're asking for enough staff to provide the quality care that our patients legally and

[1:21:46] morally deserve.

[1:21:47] We're asking for leadership that listens and acts.

[1:21:50] Making do is no longer working.

[1:21:51] It's unsafe, unsustainable, and unacceptable.

[1:21:54] Good

[1:22:03] morning, Supervisors.

[1:22:05] Good morning.

[1:22:06] My name is Danielle Mahabir.

[1:22:08] I am a registered nurse at O'Connor Hospital,

[1:22:10] and I'm here as a board member of our NPA.

[1:22:16] I can't even imagine what it would feel like

[1:22:20] to be incarcerated.

[1:22:24] For any of us that are here today speaking about liberty

[1:22:27] and justice for all, it's incredibly poignant

[1:22:31] to imagine yourself in a situation where you're behind bars.

[1:22:37] Maybe there's a lot of reasons that you're there.

[1:22:40] Your life has led you in different directions.

[1:22:43] You didn't have the support.

[1:22:46] You grew up in an environment where you weren't able to thrive

[1:22:50] like so many of us in here.

[1:22:54] And you got down that path and now you find yourself there.

[1:22:59] And at this point, you are beholden, I mean, it's beholden to the staff that are there to care for you.

[1:23:09] The issue that we're hearing is that those that are in our care are not getting the care that they need.

[1:23:16] And the nurses here that are behind me are very frustrated, they're very sad.

[1:23:21] And we were just in a meeting with the leadership of custody the other day and they had the

[1:23:29] audacity to tell us that they're making significant progress.

[1:23:34] Now, for years, there was a lot of overtime.

[1:23:37] We know this and we know the county is under immense budget pressures, but we cannot balance

[1:23:43] the budget on the backs of these poor incarcerated individuals that have no choice, but

[1:23:50] to rely on our care, and we do not want the feds to take this over.

[1:23:54] We know how that's going to wind up.

[1:23:56] We have to do better for our county nurses and our county patients.

[1:24:02] Thank you.

[1:24:08] Good morning.

[1:24:09] My name is Raymond Goons.

[1:24:11] I'm a community health worker for our nonprofit, local nonprofit,

[1:24:15] the Equation and the Executive Care of Hepatiety Patients,

[1:24:17] for those who aren't incarcerated, but I'm also formerly incarcerated and have been

[1:24:21] inside these kind of jails and have had been taken care of by our county custody health.

[1:24:28] And I am grateful for their standing up, their courageous.

[1:24:31] The courage is speaking now, and speaking now for incarcerated populations with a threat of

[1:24:35] retaliation, I'm saying, because speaking now, understaffed in our medical facilities and

[1:24:42] aggression of facilities for those who are incarcerated is anything who may and potentially

[1:24:49] for those aren't incarcerated.

[1:24:52] The only hope for us that we have when we are in jail,

[1:24:54] the only help that we do have coming for us is custody health.

[1:24:57] There are ones that we go to, and then when we're sick,

[1:25:00] the other ones that we go to, when we need to help treatment,

[1:25:02] the ones that go to, and when we need to have a smaller face,

[1:25:05] they show that we matter and care.

[1:25:07] custody health is our only light in civil lining

[1:25:10] when we are in a state of despair.

[1:25:14] California currently has three litigations,

[1:25:16] class action law suits, Coleman, Plata, and Brown, and what Steadic California has said

[1:25:22] that the shorting sources of staff was saying delivered in difference on Steadic California.

[1:25:28] And the county of San Clare does not fund and staff are question facilities.

[1:25:32] The county of San Clare would not only be delivering in different to our serious medical needs

[1:25:35] as inmates.

[1:25:36] It would be negligent to our serious medical needs, without proper staffing, you would go from

[1:25:43] having a toothache and possibly die, because staff is not probably not probably

[1:25:48] staff, you're not seeing time. Staff and time to get the care you need.

[1:25:52] Sort of staffing means we won't get medical care in a sufficient amount of time,

[1:25:56] which means that you can have potentially daily situations, but because of lack of staff,

[1:26:01] you won't be able to see medical in time. I've been on both sides. I go in now

[1:26:05] and create a link to the care for those patients that were also my neighbors for very long

[1:26:09] time. Now I ask that you fund and staff, get them saying county health. Thank you.

[1:26:21] Good morning Board of Superfaces. I hope you are all doing well. My name is Daniel and I've been working in and what cuts to the health and male peers for almost two years.

[1:26:29] I have been a resident of nurse for more than seven years.

[1:26:33] We, we are here to inform you of the many inconsistencies and policy enforcement and part of the worship skills of from the custody health services leadership team.

[1:26:43] There are only a few of us here, because many are afraid of retaliation, afraid of the

[1:26:47] intimidation tactics, and simply tired of their lives.

[1:26:51] My friends behind me will tell you more about this.

[1:26:54] Instead, I would like to share with you on who we provide medical care to you.

[1:26:58] Yes, they are in jail, but they are all humans, just like you and I.

[1:27:05] Someone calls you from minor offenses from a Friday night out after work, and they could

[1:27:09] be your loved ones, and they are your neighbors' loved ones.

[1:27:12] Whoever they are, they are humans and they deserve at least a basic level of medical care and we are failing them the county is failing them

[1:27:22] Leadership constantly implement and imposes failed policies and procedures adopted from another custody facility

[1:27:28] These previously failed policies and procedures burden our patients eighth a member right to proper medical care

[1:27:34] It creates an unsafe environment for the patients medical staff and deputies who we work with

[1:27:39] Thank you for the same board of supervisors. I hope you have great day

[1:27:51] Hello. Good morning Board of Supervisors. My name is Debbie with R&PA. This is Vanessa Harris with custody health.

[1:27:58] I'm going to be playing a video so everybody can hear from the voice from one of the nurses that are within that working custody jail.

[1:28:06] And also I'm going to have to read Vanessa's speech because she didn't make the she didn't sign up for the yellow card.

[1:28:15] So I guess I'm going to be reading it for her. But here you go. Here's one.

[1:28:23] In the testing environment, we've been seeing our own positions and corner seen numbers be erased.

[1:28:29] Meanwhile, corner seen supervisor positions are advertised and filled while our staff level positions are threatened.

[1:28:36] The same positions that directly care for our patients.

[1:28:40] This is shocking to me when I've seen the history of the GO for the last 12 years.

[1:28:45] I never thought that we would go backwards in our care of the GO population.

[1:28:49] Between myself and other RNs of the main GL, we have seen nursing cuts to the infirmary,

[1:28:56] looking, double work for support nursing, double decks for pill calls. We have had our

[1:29:02] nursing wound care positions cut, and yet have had supervisors shifts increased.

[1:29:09] Less workers for the frontline and more for administrative work.

[1:29:14] Please keep our core staffing levels at a safe level and ensure that we can care for the

[1:29:18] difficult and underserved patient population of Santa Clara County. Thank you for your time.

[1:29:28] Okay. Now this is Vanessa's. Custany Health Leadership is actively jeopardizing the safety

[1:29:33] of both staff and patients. They demand more to satisfy federal monitors while a simultaneous

[1:29:39] e-cutting staff. This is not sustainable. This is not responsible and it is not safe.

[1:29:46] When you have many custody nurses behind us today, you know there's a problem. And I wish

[1:29:51] more. Thank you.

[1:30:01] Good morning to the Board of Supervisors. My name is Marky Henderson. I've been a nurse with the county for about 14 years. I work in noxious. We have about 2,700 inmates, between two facilities and would in main gel. Our staffing on night shift has been decreased from 11 to 7 nurses at night. We are entrusted to give good, safe quality care to those patients.

[1:30:30] And we're just asking, we're pleading that you all restore and help us get safe staffing

[1:30:37] increase our numbers back to a safe level so that we're able to care for our patients in an orderly way.

[1:30:44] Thank you.

[1:30:50] Good morning.

[1:30:51] And for the record, this is Chinese red.

[1:30:54] This is an update to all elected officials.

[1:30:58] My name is Mary Ann Schlipfung, fragrance snow.

[1:31:02] I'm here to express deep gratitude to go the time and talent that you as elected officials

[1:31:09] about.

[1:31:10] I understand it and I appreciate that you are contributing to the work of our great republic.

[1:31:17] I'm also grateful for the separation of church and state, separation of state and federal

[1:31:21] that Jefferson's so desired.

[1:31:24] Why?

[1:31:24] Because my start-up 501C3 nonprofit benefited from that separation of state and federal.

[1:31:33] OSC opportunities were changed, was sheltered from the whimsical pendulum of the swings in Washington, D.C.

[1:31:41] The separation of taxation power enabled District 3, 4 and 5 to grant us our very first budget inventory grants.

[1:31:49] We'd never applied before, applied five and got three, which I thought was a failure until someone told me it was not a failure.

[1:31:58] It made it possible for us to need to serve 75 men leaving prison, homelessness and addiction.

[1:32:04] For instance, Sydney Harris.

[1:32:06] Sydney Harris served 25 years of a 26-year term, 206 years.

[1:32:12] I've never asked a single client for what reason that led them to something like that.

[1:32:20] The first night he slept as a free man after 25 consecutive years in prison was in our

[1:32:26] 30-bed home in District 4 on a brand new mattress funded by District 3, eating goodies from

[1:32:35] a industrial refrigerator, three doors, from District 5.

[1:32:40] And we are very, very grateful for that, because it's allowed us to provide the onsite

[1:32:45] case management, IDP, individual behavioral plan, everything to our clients.

[1:32:51] Thank you very much.

[1:32:54] Thank you.

[1:32:54] If you have more in your statement, you want to share you can also leave the rest of it

[1:32:57] to our click and we add to the record.

[1:32:59] Thank you very much.

[1:33:00] Thank you.

[1:33:02] last call for J.J.

[1:33:09] Okay, there's a guy for four years he's been calling in, okay?

[1:33:15] During COVID, I never did call in to San Francisco supervisors

[1:33:18] or here because I thought the government was so corrupt, you guys know my voice

[1:33:22] and you ate me and I'd never get through but I don't believe that anymore

[1:33:27] because this guy has been getting through for four years, okay?

[1:33:30] We all know he calls in sometimes it's Benz, okay?

[1:33:34] or parents or another name, and Ben, if you're listening to me, 603, 8120, that's my phone number here in San Jose,

[1:33:45] 603, 8120, not this one, this line's been disconnected.

[1:33:52] He never will appear.

[1:33:54] He calls in.

[1:33:55] He says Jeff Rosen has turned in the government against him and accusing him of things, and protecting pedophiles.

[1:34:01] I hate pedophiles.

[1:34:04] It happened to me twice as a young man.

[1:34:05] You're I'm an old man.

[1:34:06] I still remember, I want them all to die.

[1:34:09] I was preaching at Christmas at the park yesterday

[1:34:12] and I said, if you're a pedophile,

[1:34:14] or if you screw dogs and cats, like some guy

[1:34:17] and lost gatos, he posted it online.

[1:34:20] He screwed his own cat.

[1:34:22] Or if you're an abortion doctor,

[1:34:23] just blow your brains out, it'll be better for society.

[1:34:27] And it'll certainly be better for you

[1:34:28] because you're dead and your punishment in hell

[1:34:31] will be less, because your dad and he can't molest any more children, or have sex with animals,

[1:34:37] or murder babies at Planned Parenthood. That's what I tell him. And, you know, if you're

[1:34:42] per... if Jeff Rosen is protecting pedophiles, okay, he's in big trouble with God. Now we just

[1:34:48] honored a number of dead people, and we're all going to die, and why God doesn't kill exceptionally

[1:34:53] wicked people is called the mystery of an equity, okay? That's what it's called. Why doesn't God just

[1:35:00] exceptionally wicked people. And the only answer I can come to that, oh wow, where did the time goes?

[1:35:06] It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed by the fire of God's wrath.

[1:35:15] That can, who's our in-person speakers, we'll go to our speaker on Zoom.

[1:35:19] Who is parent? Please accept the unmute?

[1:35:24] Yes, a little good morning to you all.

[1:35:29] We do have a relief that probably are with human rights,

[1:35:33] particularly, when it comes to children being molested,

[1:35:40] Jeff Rosen in particular, as the previous speaker said,

[1:35:45] he's protecting, pedophiles, and he's helping to conceal

[1:35:51] this sexual abuse of children, and in this day and age,

[1:35:56] we shouldn't be accepting this, we shouldn't be tolerating it,

[1:36:01] that he would abuse his power to do this to children and you guys here, you guys know about it.

[1:36:15] And now there's a new development and that my former attorney, she's threatening to show my kids.

[1:36:23] She directed me to view a post, a social media post, that she wrote and there could be no mistake in about it

[1:36:30] she's threatening to my children if I don't be quiet about trying to protect them.

[1:36:37] And I forwarded this post to President Lee. He's seen it. I'm pretty sure he's seen it.

[1:36:43] And a lot of people on the dances have also received this link of her social media posts.

[1:36:52] And I mean, I can't believe it. And Santa Clara County that you guys would let this crazy person

[1:36:58] and sex trafficking my kids assault me, threaten to kill my kids.

[1:37:05] I mean, this person belongs in prison.

[1:37:09] I posted more information about this online at Google,

[1:37:14] D.A. Jeff Rosen, petitioned sex trafficking.

[1:37:17] You'll see a lot of this information that I'm speaking about.

[1:37:21] Please do something to protect my kids.

[1:37:23] Get them a screening.

[1:37:24] They deserve one.

[1:37:25] Thank you for your time.

[1:37:27] Thank you.

[1:37:28] That concludes public comment.

[1:37:31] Thank you, Lord.

[1:37:32] California law does prohibit the disclosure of information related to investigation of suspected

[1:37:38] child abuse and we are not authorized by law to speak to specific any particular case.

[1:37:43] California law also requires the child welfare department to immediately cross report these

[1:37:48] to law enforcement.

[1:37:49] And the public can be assured that county takes allegations of child abuse and neglect

[1:37:53] Seriously, it takes appropriate action.

[1:37:57] All right, let's move to the next item,

[1:38:00] which would be item number seven,

[1:38:02] which is approving the consent counter

[1:38:05] and changes to the Board of Survices agenda.

[1:38:09] And third, would you like to go and read the proposed changes

[1:38:11] to the consent calendar?

[1:38:13] Yes, we have a request from administration to hold item number 17

[1:38:17] to February 10th, 2026.

[1:38:20] I have number 17 is received report from the Behavioral Health Services Department relating to mental health services act funds.

[1:38:27] We have a correction to item number 38.

[1:38:30] The possible action B.E. should read as follows.

[1:38:33] Approve County sponsorship of African American Community Service Agency in the amount of $500 from the supervisorial district to allocation in the office of the clerk with a board fiscal year 2025-2026.

[1:38:46] budget to support the 45th Annual Juneteenth in the Street Festival and that concludes my list.

[1:38:55] Thank you. I want to check with my colleague to see if there's any changes.

[1:39:03] Oh, and so sorry. I don't know who went first, but I saw a supervisor, Abacoga.

[1:39:09] Thank you, Vice President Adenas. I don't have anything to pull. I was just hoping to make comments on item 53 when

[1:39:15] appropriate. Perfect. We will hear from Supervisor Elenberg and then we'll go to public comment first.

[1:39:25] Go ahead. Go ahead. Supervisor.

[1:39:28] Is that time that she's going to make a comment?

[1:39:31] I thought you wanted to wait.

[1:39:33] Oh, when have it's like you can make it.

[1:39:35] Sure, that's great.

[1:39:36] Thank you.

[1:39:38] I just wanted to item 53 recognized staff for the work and bringing together this multi-juristic

[1:39:44] effort to prepare the subregional shoreline adaptation plan. In leaner times it's more important

[1:39:51] than ever to be creative with funding programs and projects. In my experience, multiple agencies

[1:39:56] or jurisdictions jointly applying for grants can greatly impact the success rate and can lead

[1:40:02] to larger benefits for all partners. That's what we see here with close to $2.6 million being granted

[1:40:09] as a result of the county's office of sustainability and resilience,

[1:40:13] PTA Valley Water and our city partners.

[1:40:16] Flood risk reduction infrastructure can be expensive,

[1:40:19] but it's also an essential investment in our county's climate resilience efforts.

[1:40:24] With Palo Alto and Mountain View in my district,

[1:40:26] which are some of the cities most vulnerable to the impacts of sea level rise,

[1:40:31] and excited to see how this plan will progress in the coming year.

[1:40:34] Thank you very much.

[1:40:36] Thank you.

[1:40:38] Likewise, I have no changes but want to make brief comments on two items.

[1:40:43] The first is item 60 regarding the Willow Glen Studios interim housing program.

[1:40:49] Since it's launched back in May of 2021, 509 of 580 households exited the program to permanent

[1:40:59] housing.

[1:41:00] That is an impressive more than 87% success rate.

[1:41:04] 50 households are currently enrolled in the program.

[1:41:08] I've had the opportunity to visit the site in person several times and speak both with residents

[1:41:14] and with neighbors on the adjacent streets and can say with very strong confidence that

[1:41:22] Willow Glen Studios is really an excellent example of what effective homelessness prevention

[1:41:29] and stable housing support should look like an 87% success rate is no small achievement.

[1:41:38] These are children, family, friends, and neighbors from our community that have gained stability

[1:41:43] through the program.

[1:41:46] I want to encourage us to continue to invest in interim housing programs that are connected

[1:41:54] to permanent housing so that we continue to have a throughput and don't allow people to

[1:42:01] languish with no exit options other than returning to homelessness. With regard to item 70,

[1:42:09] this is an amendment regarding oversight of community services for the probation department.

[1:42:15] We don't have any issues with this specific contract which is an amendment to continue current

[1:42:22] services. But I do want to flag the general lack of information. Let's often provided

[1:42:29] in contract adjustments. For example, in this case from the information provided, I couldn't

[1:42:36] determine whether the increase was needed due to an expansion of the number of clients served,

[1:42:42] or if it's a reflection in the cost of doing business, or if there was some other reason. We currently

[1:42:49] We have no uniformity in the ways providers can seek contract amendments.

[1:42:55] And I think that, if I can maybe speak for both of us, Supervisor Abe Koga, this lack

[1:43:00] of standardization and transparency are examples of why we introduced the referral at the

[1:43:05] last meeting related to object two expenses and contract data.

[1:43:10] I do look forward to continuing that discussion when administration reports back to the board

[1:43:14] January as we move toward a system which provides greater transparency and eventually standardized

[1:43:21] performance evaluation metrics so we can clearly demonstrate to the general public that we

[1:43:27] are indeed investing our dollars in the most effective service delivery models that are available.

[1:43:34] Thank you very much and I'm prepared to move approval of the consent calendar.

[1:43:39] something at NOS?

[1:43:42] Move to the second.

[1:43:43] And I actually do have a couple of comments as well.

[1:43:47] No changes to the calendar.

[1:43:50] First is on item 37, which is a resolution from our office,

[1:43:54] and also as well.

[1:43:55] Koga won't specifically thank the youth who have

[1:43:58] been actively advocating for these two bills.

[1:44:03] It doesn't have bill 684 and also assembly bill 1243.

[1:44:08] because you're encouraged by spending extremely critical.

[1:44:10] I'll count you now as opportunity to join other jurisdictions here,

[1:44:13] including San Jose, and San Francisco in the support of these efforts

[1:44:16] to hold major polluters accountable for the climate crisis

[1:44:19] and the devastating impact on communities.

[1:44:22] These are two year bills, and they must be heard by January 16th

[1:44:25] to stay alive in a literally a process.

[1:44:27] So now it's a moment for our civil rights support.

[1:44:29] How big California can follow the example in this case

[1:44:32] with New York and Vermont by establishing a pollutant

[1:44:34] pay climate support for an act, taxpayers should not consider the majority of costs for climate

[1:44:41] related to them just as disasters.

[1:44:44] We know that those who contribute the least to emissions are often the ones who bear

[1:44:49] the greatest impacts.

[1:44:51] The legislation like this is a step toward more equitable and just approach to climate action.

[1:44:56] So thank you and I hope that my colleagues will support this in the vote.

[1:45:00] Along with item 33, which is the item on the Senate Bill 1. There's three, one on C-Lat, level, rise to adaptation.

[1:45:09] One say deep appreciation, the offices, such as sustainability and the resilience team.

[1:45:15] Lately, much of the news about environment, the kind of funding has been very, very sad and discouraging,

[1:45:22] having so many of these programs being withdrawn and pulled back.

[1:45:27] That's why I want to recognize this outstanding work of always our staff in securing a $2.6 million grant funding from the state to develop the Shrolling Adaptation Plan, which is truly a significant achievement.

[1:45:39] I can't even undoubtedly feel the impact of the global rise, and I'm especially mindful of the commuter visa and our district, which is particularly vulnerable to just low elevation.

[1:45:49] I look forward to seeing the draft plan in the coming years and appreciate the continued dedication of our staff to prepare our county for this climate change.

[1:46:01] All right, and before we move to the vote, we still need to hear anybody in the public would like to speak on the consent items.

[1:46:11] I currently have two cards and chambers and one hand raised on Zoom.

[1:46:16] That's the two minutes each two minutes.

[1:46:19] All right, our speakers in chambers are Charles Williams and Mary, and we'll be closing the queue.

[1:46:40] Good morning to the supervisors and to the county executives.

[1:46:44] My name is Chuck Williams and I live in Cupertino district five.

[1:46:48] And I'm behalf of hundreds of volunteers and hundreds of organizations who have been working on the climate superfund bills.

[1:46:57] for way over a year.

[1:47:00] I want to thank Supervisors Lee and Abicoga for the resolutions, supporting the Superfund bills that

[1:47:08] are up in Sacramento.

[1:47:10] Sacramento is a tough place to be.

[1:47:14] And so this resolution is a way of counties as Supervisors Lee, you gave most of my presentation

[1:47:22] and thank you.

[1:47:23] But the way the counties and the cities and the communities can put pressure on Sacramento

[1:47:30] to do the right thing. They get a lot of pressure from the oil business. People ask me,

[1:47:37] can the oil companies pay for this? And I said, sure, they bought Sacramento, they can buy

[1:47:42] anything. Okay. So, anyhow, I just want to thank all of you for this. This is very important.

[1:47:49] And it's one other thing I'd like to put out here because you're going to get from different people this.

[1:47:56] The Climate Superfund Act is expressly designed to not raise gas prices and to not cause job loss.

[1:48:06] So if people come back screaming at you, how could you do this?

[1:48:09] OK, the oil industry, LaWabie,

[1:48:13] has been very aggressive on that, and they are absolutely wrong.

[1:48:18] So thank you all.

[1:48:21] Thank you.

[1:48:22] Please.

[1:48:27] Hello, again.

[1:48:28] After reading over 2,000 pages of academic and government

[1:48:32] research, I started a pilot home in Mountain View,

[1:48:37] six-bed, with Terrell Pena.

[1:48:39] It was successful beyond my dreams

[1:48:42] before on his and he has a deep, excuse me, can you identify which consent item you're speaking

[1:48:48] on today? This is the consent item's question, sorry.

[1:48:52] They told me I could.

[1:48:55] So we're no longer in the general public comment, so you can address the board regarding an item

[1:49:01] that is on the consent calendar, which is every item after item number 21, it starts with

[1:49:07] item 21.

[1:49:08] I think it's $49.50.57.

[1:49:16] So it's offering the office a support of housing,

[1:49:20] anything just as related, anything

[1:49:22] addiction, mental, behavioral health,

[1:49:24] but there's a bunch of those I didn't circle.

[1:49:26] And so that's where I'm at.

[1:49:29] So we started a pilot home in Mount New,

[1:49:31] tremendous as he successful.

[1:49:32] The first person we took in was sleeping

[1:49:34] on the floor of the warehouse where he worked.

[1:49:37] And we went through about 14 clients.

[1:49:39] This nobody went back to jail, 13 of them had been in prison.

[1:49:44] We then started on a five-X expansion home, 30 beds in the unincorporated area of the

[1:49:49] nuclear county district four.

[1:49:52] We chicken our first client, January of this year, have gone through about 60 people, most

[1:49:57] of them have a 1% recidivism rate.

[1:50:01] They all transitioned to permanent housing except for two.

[1:50:06] Now, I'm going to look at a third site for a dollar, one acre in Cupertino, and it's the

[1:50:14] Simon Hammond House, where in negotiations to purchase it from Cupertino Historical Society,

[1:50:22] I'll be coming here frequently to talk about E.G.S. onto from the railroad side.

[1:50:27] But I just wanted to put out there that I expect cooperation from the community.

[1:50:35] I think we're in support of this to not use that third-site for residential purposes, but to create a therapeutic farm.

[1:50:44] We want to return the land to cattle and crops, so we call it OFC cattle and crops.

[1:50:50] And to create a porter acre farm to begin with, those are my aspirations.

[1:50:54] Sharon Miller, Don Taylor, names that are probably familiar to you, visit us yesterday.

[1:51:01] They're the last of about 40 agencies we've had visit.

[1:51:05] So I think collaboration, power shifting, power building all those buzzwords, the foundations

[1:51:12] use.

[1:51:13] We don't have foundation many, but we're going to try to find that.

[1:51:17] Thank you.

[1:51:18] Just want you to be aware.

[1:51:22] All right.

[1:51:22] We will move to our Zoom speaker.

[1:51:25] Our Zoom speaker is Mani Pakele.

[1:51:30] Please accept the unmute.

[1:51:38] Good morning, Supervisors.

[1:51:40] My name is Monnevin, and I'm a high school student

[1:51:42] from County District 2 in Policy Officer

[1:51:44] for Silicon Valley Youth Planet Action.

[1:51:47] I'm here to express our strong support

[1:51:48] for the resolution on the polluter state

[1:51:50] of Superfund Act of 2025.

[1:51:53] I'm to represent dozens of others who

[1:51:54] are capable to make about this time.

[1:51:57] Today's young people had many challenges

[1:51:58] and uncertainties that await us, but one of the most fascinating is the threat of climate disasters.

[1:52:04] We have watched our whole lives as our neighbors and many times our own families have lost so much city impacts of climate change.

[1:52:11] We're in the acute catastrophic loss of lives, homes, and livelihoods of southern Californians, and wildfires of January,

[1:52:18] for the more persistent, degrading, and health harms of smoke across the fuel pollution and stress.

[1:52:23] We know that these disasters are only getting more common and severe and will continue to do so for decades.

[1:52:30] And each time one happens, someone will have to pay the steep cost of recovery.

[1:52:35] Right now with the framework of our insurance system, the strained budgets of local governments in its abandonment by the federal government,

[1:52:41] far too much is being borne by ordinary health remaining already struggling to get by.

[1:52:47] It's time for a turn that we're done back where it belongs.

[1:52:49] The fossil fuel corporations that have been knowingly and directly responsible for these challenges for decades.

[1:52:56] The fossil fuel corporations that have made hundreds of billions of profit

[1:52:59] of the exploitation of people around the world, and the mortgaging of our shared monetary future.

[1:53:05] All of our foreign billions more into political logging to deceive the public and our representatives.

[1:53:11] hundreds of change start in our country's machines about how things safety and two

[1:53:15] many ways to list and today is a vital opportunity for us to make our country's voice

[1:53:19] clear that we will secure our communities. We'll be sources we need to be

[1:53:23] resilient. Thank you to the staff who prompted this resolution and supervisors who

[1:53:28] put it forward. I would forward to being the unanimous gift. Thank you very much

[1:53:32] to your time. Thank you and that concludes our public comment.

[1:53:37] All right. Thank you. We've got emotion and we also have the second

[1:53:40] if no further comments, let's go take the vote.

[1:53:42] All right, I believe that was a motion from Supervisor Allenburg

[1:53:45] in a second by Vice President Aranis.

[1:53:49] Right, Supervisor Abhay Koga.

[1:53:52] Supervisor Yung.

[1:53:53] Yes.

[1:53:54] Supervisor Allenburg.

[1:53:55] Yes.

[1:53:55] Vice President Aranis.

[1:53:56] Yes.

[1:53:57] Presently.

[1:53:58] Aye, as well.

[1:53:58] Motion carries the five.

[1:54:00] Thank you.

[1:54:01] Moving to item number eight, which is a public hearing

[1:54:04] to consider a few schedules for the environmental health

[1:54:07] branch of public health department.

[1:54:23] Good morning.

[1:54:24] Good morning.

[1:54:25] Good morning Board of Supervisors.

[1:54:27] Dr. Sarah Redmond, Director of Public Health Department and Health

[1:54:30] Officer, and here joined by Dr. Marilyn Underwood, our Director of Environmental

[1:54:35] Health to present the feast study.

[1:54:38] Which comes about after several years delay in adopting increases during the

[1:54:43] pandemic when we know our community and businesses were struggling in particular.

[1:54:47] But this presentation today does align with both county policies, legal requirements related

[1:54:55] to our necessity to recoup costs for our services, as well as comparators across the Bay Area.

[1:55:04] I'll turn it to Dr. Underwood to add a few things before we take your questions.

[1:55:08] Thank you.

[1:55:09] Yes.

[1:55:10] Thank you very much.

[1:55:12] Good morning.

[1:55:14] Chairperson Lee and Board of Supervisors.

[1:55:16] What you have before you is a study by NBS, which is a consulting group that does fee studies

[1:55:23] not only for other environmental health organizations but other government entities, I believe

[1:55:29] they're available online as well if you have detailed questions.

[1:55:33] I'm not planning an extensive presentation but I thought I'd make a few highlights for you.

[1:55:39] Just to say that environmental health carries out both state and primarily state law, but in

[1:55:44] cases County ordinance. We do that, and we primarily are, it's a lot of labor costs, primarily,

[1:55:51] and it's certainly our intent always to be as efficient as we can as we carry out this work.

[1:55:58] To monitor our work, the fees are developed by our staff that by using the staff data, where we

[1:56:04] time account for all of our activities that they are carry out in the field, and the establishment

[1:56:10] of direct cost from those activities as well as covering our indirect costs through the establishment

[1:56:16] of an hourly rate.

[1:56:18] Those hourly rates are established by program.

[1:56:22] We're at this proposal, at this current fee rate, we're covering about 82% of our costs,

[1:56:28] so we're proposing to the before you 100% of those costs.

[1:56:34] We do not get general fund support for this program, so we're looking for that 100%

[1:56:39] coverage. We also have in appendix a B of the report some comparable county data. I will

[1:56:47] say that the report was concluded in July and one of the counties that we have comparable

[1:56:52] data for is from Contra Costa, which has since then enacted a fee increase that's already

[1:56:59] an effect. For instance, I know one of the concerns is the body art practitioner cost that

[1:57:05] We are raising a proposing to raise from 190 to 180 to 290, and this is again for each body

[1:57:13] artist that under state law must register to get to practice in our county.

[1:57:20] That cost is very comparable, I think, Sonoma County's sites, 289, and the one that is now

[1:57:27] in Contra Costa is now 280, so we're very comparable at that cost, and I think you'll

[1:57:33] that many of our other cost are very comparable to those other three counties that MBS has included in your package.

[1:57:40] Again, we work with all of these folks that pay these fees and our interest is obviously to make it.

[1:57:47] We work with them every day, our inspectors too, and we know the impacts of our economy on them.

[1:57:52] We certainly know this can impact them.

[1:57:55] We try to keep our fees down by monitoring our staff activity by being as efficient as possible.

[1:58:00] We look forward to this next year quite frankly hoping to create create some more efficiencies as we have to

[1:58:06] Our software sun settings. It will be introducing some new software that I think will allow some efficiencies as well

[1:58:12] So we're very excited about that

[1:58:15] But I know these fees are in some cases look

[1:58:19] It could be you know hard to swallow, but I will say especially the restaurant associations as well as several counties

[1:58:26] when they're doing fees studies have looked at, especially the cost of fees as a part of their

[1:58:33] expenditures for small businesses that are in the food facility business, and they found

[1:58:37] that all fees combined are less than 1% of all their expenditure costs because they have, you

[1:58:42] know, other costs that are very high including labor, utilities, and rents, et cetera.

[1:58:49] So while we are closing some increase in fees, we do think they're overall impact is small

[1:58:55] and they're overall expenditure cost.

[1:58:59] I think one more thing that's important to point out that my

[1:59:02] we're bringing this to you now, it become effective in January.

[1:59:06] All of our annual permits are rolling permits, so meaning that the only folks that

[1:59:12] will see the impact are the ones that will be invoiced in January, but that's in

[1:59:18] theory about a one-twelfth of our annual permits, whereas some of them will not see

[1:59:23] you know, obviously if they just paid their annual permit, they won't see it for about 12 months.

[1:59:29] So it is no matter what time it's adopted, there is not going to be an impact everyone all at one time.

[1:59:36] I think that's, oh, I just wanted to make sure I told you that we did do some outreach.

[1:59:41] We sent out over 17,000 postcards to every one of our annual permit holders.

[1:59:46] They should have gotten that about a month ago, making them aware of what we were proposing.

[1:59:51] We have, and I think you see that in your packets, so I've gotten some in a feedback from folks, I think 18 or so at this point and have

[2:00:00] I hope that we can address their concerns as well about the post-increases. In some cases,

[2:00:05] they were just asking for clarifications.

[2:00:09] And lastly, the solid waste fees that were going

[2:00:11] under sort of a realignment with this comprehensive study. We did do some notification of

[2:00:18] all those impacted solid waste facilities back in May and June, and we're able to answer a few

[2:00:24] the entities questions, but otherwise they just wanted clarification in most cases so that is the

[2:00:30] outreach activity that we've done as well as posting in the newspapers. That I think I'll

[2:00:36] conclude my presentation and again I think in the S is online if you have additional questions

[2:00:42] for them and I'll take entertain your questions now. Just wanted to add a couple additional pieces

[2:00:47] of context because there's some unique features to our environmental health function, which

[2:00:55] as Maryland said is largely a state mandated function that's performed by counties. Unlike

[2:01:03] most other county departments where there's a mix of different funding sources, this function,

[2:01:11] and that's also true in other counties in California. This function is essentially almost 100

[2:01:17] percent fee funded and so the ability to actually deliver the permits that are needed to legally

[2:01:24] operate depends on ensuring sufficient cost recovery so that inspectors can timely

[2:01:31] perform that work and are available to perform that work so that businesses are able to legally

[2:01:36] operate in accordance with what is almost entirely state law. There's a couple items that are

[2:01:41] additional from county ordinance such as the counties tobacco ordinance but almost entirely we're

[2:01:47] talking about applicable state laws here.

[2:01:51] The other important legal framework, and this is something that I don't think is as well

[2:01:55] understood publicly, under the California Constitution or Prop 26, we have very significant

[2:02:04] constraints in how we adopt fees that now apply to all local governments in California.

[2:02:11] And sometimes we are asked why we don't have

[2:02:15] fee structures that vary based on an entity's ability to pay.

[2:02:22] So for instance, why would it be that a small kitchen at Google

[2:02:29] would have the same permit fee as maybe a small kitchen and a small business?

[2:02:34] And the answer to that is we are obligated into the California

[2:02:37] constitution to calculate cost recovery based on the amount of work that it takes for

[2:02:44] county staff to perform that specific activity.

[2:02:49] And so in this case, you see attached to that comprehensive fee study, and that work

[2:02:53] doesn't differ based on the amount of revenue that an entity may have.

[2:03:00] It does differ potentially on the size of a kitchen or facility or the size of an operation,

[2:03:06] But not on revenue of the associated entity and we do not have the ability to create a

[2:03:13] scaled system that maintains overall cost recovery in the program the way that we used to

[2:03:18] be able to do before California voters adopted Prop 26. I want to say about 15 years ago now.

[2:03:28] And that impact and effect is something that I don't think is widely understood by the public,

[2:03:33] where in reality the biggest beneficiaries to prop 26 are actually those businesses and entities

[2:03:43] that pay fees who are the largest businesses and entities because governments can no longer

[2:03:54] occur whether it's environment a health fees or any other type of fee can no longer scale those fees based on

[2:04:03] what entities can afford and maintain overall cost recovery for programs.

[2:04:08] So I wanted to just say that because when these ballot initiatives get brought forward

[2:04:14] and the advertising happens around them, there's sold as one thing but often the effect

[2:04:19] and impact is different and it puts us in a difficult situation with these kinds of programs

[2:04:27] and services.

[2:04:28] But environmental health is a state-mandated permitting function and is a exclusively fee-based function.

[2:04:36] And so consistent with both county overall policy, but candidly in the space of environmental health

[2:04:42] longstanding approach to the environmental health function, these fees are based on in compliance

[2:04:49] with Prop 26 cost recovery.

[2:04:55] Thank you, James.

[2:04:55] Let's see if any of the public electors begin to decide them.

[2:05:02] I have no cards and chambers, and there are no hands raised on Zoom, so we have no speakers.

[2:05:09] Okay, thank you.

[2:05:13] Well, that was, I'm supposed to, just to go out and say, what about the hearing?

[2:05:17] So I guess that we opened the public hearing, and nobody wants to speak, and we can close that part.

[2:05:22] And now the public hearing is now closed.

[2:05:26] colleagues in the comments and motion,

[2:05:33] yes, we have.

[2:05:34] Thank you.

[2:05:36] So thank you for the work to update a lot of these fees.

[2:05:41] I hear that, you know, it's 1983 the last time that they were updated.

[2:05:46] So I think it's time.

[2:05:49] But we're also going to surprise people on the other end of this, right?

[2:05:55] this recipient or those who are applying for the permits

[2:05:59] are going to be taken aback.

[2:06:02] And I know that you sent 17,000 postcards one month ago.

[2:06:09] But there's fees like the solid and medical waste program.

[2:06:17] The increase is ringed from 500 to 2000 more or less.

[2:06:22] this is kind of correlated to the size of the clinic or the hospital, but then you go to the

[2:06:28] solid waste facilities and there are new and old fees and some of them started 143 and then

[2:06:34] they are bumped up to 31,368 and so that is worth noting to those folks outside of just a postcard

[2:06:47] to say, hey, your fee is going to increase exponentially.

[2:06:53] So what is the additional efforts that are being made

[2:06:55] for those kinds of fee increase?

[2:06:58] Yes, I surprise awareness.

[2:07:00] Because we knew these, we were basically

[2:07:02] to re-aligning the solid waste fees

[2:07:05] to make sure that we're assigning the service activity

[2:07:09] to those facilities.

[2:07:11] So way back in May and June, we did send letters

[2:07:14] to each one of the solid waste facilities was going to see that increase.

[2:07:18] Those are the transfer stations, the composting facilities as well as the closed landfills.

[2:07:24] So we did get four increase after we sent those letters to the different entities.

[2:07:31] City of Sunnyvale, it has both a transfer station and a closed landfill, NASA, which had a landfill.

[2:07:36] They just wanted to make sure they closed landfill.

[2:07:38] They want to make sure they include that in their federal budget going forward and another

[2:07:43] closed landfill, which city of Palo Alto.

[2:07:47] And we will have a nice discussion with them

[2:07:49] about why the cost increase.

[2:07:52] And of course, those cities also have

[2:07:54] costs that are covered by Prop 26 and fees.

[2:07:57] So they certainly understood.

[2:07:59] Then the other that we were aligning was that the solid waste

[2:08:04] trucks that we had been charging a higher fee to,

[2:08:08] those were reduced because we were basically

[2:08:10] the same well we're actually spending more time at the land, the clothes, landfills and the

[2:08:15] transfer stations and we are inspecting the trucks. So that was the first realignment of those

[2:08:20] solid waste fees that has occurred.

[2:08:24] So is it, oh sorry go ahead and say I just did want to add I think in addition we reached

[2:08:28] out to city elected leaderships in the cities that we knew would be impacted by the solid waste

[2:08:34] fee restructure because it was so substantial and in assuming my new role I had the

[2:08:40] team for one of the transfer station visits that's being impacted and it was very clear that they

[2:08:45] had been reached by more than once the outreach about these particular changes and had had multiple

[2:08:51] opportunities to engage and understand the need for them and frankly we're understanding and

[2:08:58] supportive of them moving forward. So if we hadn't updated these fees, are we indirectly subsidizing

[2:09:07] other folks for a permit?

[2:09:12] Yes.

[2:09:13] One of the reasons for the realignment and solid waste, which I should just note really affects

[2:09:19] a small number of entities.

[2:09:22] This is not the category, for instance, where we're talking about small businesses.

[2:09:26] But for the solid waste facilities, the reason for restructuring was when we did the

[2:09:32] fee study, we're obligated to actually align with the time that's spent under the legal

[2:09:36] frameworks, and so there had to be a complete overhaul, and that's, and because that's the category with the very, very significant

[2:09:44] dollar increases, as opposed to the other categories. There was that additional outreach that was done earlier. I did want to just note

[2:09:53] and it's publicly available and posted, but an off agenda was provided to the board in May talking specifically about the restructuring of the solid waste fee structure.

[2:10:05] given the changes between the transfer stations and closed landfills versus the trucks.

[2:10:14] Thank you. I appreciate that. I did see the projected revenue increases in the four categories,

[2:10:21] which is wonderful for in terms of revenue for the county.

[2:10:26] And we also have to think about the small businesses or smaller clinics in terms of how that's going

[2:10:34] impact them, because we didn't update our fees, now we're imposing higher fees, so

[2:10:44] that might not have the income or the revenue that they anticipated to cover it.

[2:10:53] So is there an opportunity for smaller businesses to have maybe a reduction or hardship waiver

[2:11:00] if they can prove they are having a hardship?

[2:11:04] So my recommendation is if the board is interested in trying to do a program that is related to smaller business entities,

[2:11:15] which really falls in two categories of these fees.

[2:11:19] Those are the food facility permits, which to be clear is the largest category of fees.

[2:11:25] It's the largest dollar impact.

[2:11:26] But the food facility permits and the body art program

[2:11:32] are the two specific categories.

[2:11:35] My recommendation would be for those.

[2:11:37] We already have a report back coming to the board in January,

[2:11:40] related to mecos and options for a program.

[2:11:46] It would require either outside funding or general fund to create

[2:11:51] some kind of program because this is a full cost recovery

[2:11:55] department, but my recommendation would be to come back as part of that report with options

[2:12:03] and additional information with respect to those two categories. I don't think that same concern

[2:12:08] candidly is applicable to the other categories of fees here, which really don't impact

[2:12:15] small businesses. Thank you. I mean, I don't know why we wouldn't just if we had an updated

[2:12:22] these fees, we were just being imposing the same fees,

[2:12:28] the lower amount of fees, so why would

[2:12:33] take general fund dollars to cover the difference at this point?

[2:12:40] It wouldn't quite yet, but over time it will, because the department is running low on its

[2:12:45] fund balance. So DEH doesn't sit within the general fund. It's like I said fee-based.

[2:12:55] And there have been some delays in actually getting this whole comprehensive fee study

[2:13:01] in front of the board. But at some point, the department would either need general fund to

[2:13:08] sustain its current level of service or would need to scale back the level of service, meaning

[2:13:15] how long it takes to process permits, which would have much more severe consequences for

[2:13:21] entities because they can't legally operate without their permit.

[2:13:25] Listen, I'm interested in figuring out for smaller businesses, and I think it's up to

[2:13:31] the board to determine what that revenue generating revenue for the business model is, but

[2:13:37] I do think that simply because we didn't update something for since 1983 people have

[2:13:44] been working into their business model, our fees, and all of a sudden we're like, hey,

[2:13:51] hi, it's now 2,000 or 5 or whatever it is, right? And while we need to do that in order

[2:13:58] to provide services and probably higher additional people and make sure that everything is

[2:14:04] running smoothly and quickly, I still think that there is an impact for small businesses

[2:14:13] And I would be mostly interested in the food facility permit.

[2:14:17] I don't know about the body, our program.

[2:14:20] I'm thinking that's tattooed.

[2:14:23] And I did just want to clarify supervisor.

[2:14:25] The 1993 was fees have certainly been changed since 1993.

[2:14:30] It's the structure of the solid waste fees.

[2:14:34] That realignment of the structure of the fees.

[2:14:37] That hasn't been looked at since 1993.

[2:14:39] If we were still operating on 93 fees, we wouldn't really have an environmental health department.

[2:14:46] So I just wanted to clarify that.

[2:14:48] Thank you, you're right.

[2:14:49] It is a solid and medical waste program.

[2:14:52] I apologize.

[2:14:52] I plan to.

[2:14:53] It's a structure.

[2:14:54] It's a structure.

[2:14:55] I applied it to the four categories instead.

[2:14:59] But yes.

[2:15:00] My suggestion would be if the Board is interested in us coming back with some further information

[2:15:06] and assessment that my recommendation would be to go ahead and adopt the fees today with the

[2:15:12] exception of the food facility. And if the Board also wants the body art, because that's the

[2:15:17] only other one that does implicate small businesses. But totally up to the Board, we would

[2:15:22] certainly be very supportive of adopting as many fees today as possible given the cost for covering

[2:15:29] nature. And we can bring those back in January with that additional information. But I do recommend

[2:15:36] that for the other fees, those move forward right away. For just the consumer protection

[2:15:42] fees, just to the board understands, it is every month, it is about $330,000 for just the

[2:15:51] in our protection division.

[2:15:54] So, you know, we are talking about real, real impacts, but I think that would be my recommendation,

[2:16:01] and we can come back with absolutely absolutely absolutely, I saw the Projector revenue for each

[2:16:06] of those categories, and they're all pretty significant.

[2:16:11] So, I'll make a motion to approve with the exception of the Food Facility Permit, waiting for,

[2:16:18] I believe you said January for some follow-up options in additional information, and I'm

[2:16:26] open to you from the board if you would like to include the Body Art Program and the moment

[2:16:31] I'm not necessarily interested in that, but I'm open to you here and from the rest of the

[2:16:36] folks.

[2:16:37] Thank you.

[2:16:38] As second-the-motion?

[2:16:40] Oh, and I don't have a difference to the body already as well.

[2:16:47] We're going to, what if we just go ahead and include it?

[2:16:50] I would recommend including it if that's acceptable.

[2:16:54] As a mother, as a mother, I protest.

[2:16:58] Now I'm kidding. Now I've nothing against tattoos.

[2:17:01] I'm open to it. I'll agree.

[2:17:04] I'll accept it.

[2:17:05] Thank you.

[2:17:06] Yeah, I'm glad that body art is included as a category of small businesses as someone who has her eyebrows tattooed on.

[2:17:16] I would say that there is a lot of services provided with body art businesses, yeah.

[2:17:25] So I'm going to, I'd like to add a couple more ask to the motion that's on table.

[2:17:28] I'm fully supportive of the fees moving forward with the exception of the food facility

[2:17:35] permits and the body art premise for that to come back in January along with the combined

[2:17:43] report with Nico's.

[2:17:44] But I'd like to also ask for additional comparative studies of the fee schedule, just because

[2:17:51] in the process of engaging with the often by the way, Dr. Redmond, thank you, Dr. Endwood.

[2:17:56] Thank you to your leadership and to your staff.

[2:17:59] This is not easy things to do.

[2:18:01] But we are in dire budgetary times.

[2:18:04] And, you know, we too have this department

[2:18:06] does have to operate on a cost recovery model

[2:18:09] that we are not in a position to assess today's right now.

[2:18:13] But I echo the concerns of this board and my colleagues

[2:18:16] in terms of the end-packed-to-small businesses.

[2:18:19] Um, also take, and I heard you loud and clear

[2:18:23] and read the report that this is a rolling fee, right?

[2:18:26] not everyone's going to feel it at the same time, but they will eventually feel it.

[2:18:31] And so through the course of just engaging with your office and learning more about this,

[2:18:36] I understand that the other counties are also doing their feast studies right now.

[2:18:45] So it kind of is a little off the mark if we are basing our feast on the feast study,

[2:18:51] of comparative fee studies where those numbers are changing probably in real time.

[2:18:57] Can you also tell me why the three counties were chosen for the comparative fee study?

[2:19:04] Oftentimes you look for comparing in similar areas, so for that.

[2:19:09] And I do know NBS does conduct some studies in other counties and I know they were looking for

[2:19:14] counties in which they didn't necessarily also do those fee analysis.

[2:19:18] I will say they did conduct counter-casters so that data if we include that will be relevant is from another NBS study

[2:19:26] And counter-casters updating their fee schedule. They have already approved and it was

[2:19:31] Yeah, oh was that the numbers that we're used for art now unfortunately this report was finalized in July

[2:19:37] And counter-casters changes have occurred since then. Yeah, I think that we can incur include that

[2:19:43] Thank you, Dr. Andrew.

[2:19:43] That was actually my next question.

[2:19:45] So additional comparative fee studies where information has changed, or additional counties

[2:19:49] may be relevant, even if it's not relevant in size, overall, but if relevant in the size

[2:19:54] in terms of the number of food permits issued and the type of work that's done in the food

[2:19:59] permit and body art area, I think that may yield more comparative fee studies.

[2:20:05] And then I think in January we bring this back because this is a rolling permit, a rolling

[2:20:14] basis, that we do have a bit of a runway in terms of engaging, right, our small businesses,

[2:20:21] letting them know that the fees are changing.

[2:20:23] I think it's also very important during these times for small businesses are struggling.

[2:20:27] We have this both the simultaneous situation of small businesses slowly recovering from

[2:20:33] pandemic, but also with the type of federal enforcement happening in our world today, a lot of

[2:20:38] our small businesses, particularly at immigrant communities, are now suffering a different

[2:20:43] catastrophe. So really, I think the margins are very slim for them, compounded by what's

[2:20:50] happening in the world today. So as much engagement as possible, I think prior to the fees going

[2:20:55] into effect should it be approved in January. And then also whatever fees are changed, being able

[2:21:02] to have that communication plan ongoing to let folks know,

[2:21:06] not just that the fees are changing,

[2:21:08] but also the rationale, our story as a county organization,

[2:21:15] and the metrics and the formulas

[2:21:16] that were used to determine these fee schedules.

[2:21:18] And I think something that should be appreciated too

[2:21:22] is that there are fees that were reduced.

[2:21:24] As Dr. I was used to earlier,

[2:21:27] that we are seeing two to the cost recovery model

[2:21:30] in that if we are charging more than what is actually being expended, those fees are being

[2:21:35] lowered.

[2:21:36] And I think that's something that gets missed, and that's a note that gets missed in

[2:21:39] the headlines often.

[2:21:41] James, you look like you're leaning in.

[2:21:42] Yeah, I just wanted to echo that there are some fees that have been lowered, and I think we

[2:21:47] can highlight when this comes back in January that many of the ones that would impact smaller

[2:21:53] entities are actually the ones that have been lowered.

[2:21:55] So just by way of example, the food service operation fee for the smaller number of employees,

[2:22:09] lower risk categories or fees that are being lowered while the larger ones are the ones that are being raised.

[2:22:14] So we can show, I think, some of that when we're coming back and just focusing on these two categories,

[2:22:19] it'll also be easier to present that information without swapping the board with information

[2:22:27] on also many different categories. We'll focus on the on these specific areas with the food

[2:22:33] facilities and body art. Yeah, I appreciate that James. Now you just also want to I'll

[2:22:39] acknowledge that in the category of fees being reduced in a time of HR1 reductions to Cal

[2:22:45] fresh unsnap programs.

[2:22:48] I really appreciate that the fees for food,

[2:22:49] banks, and charitable feeding operations were

[2:22:52] lessened.

[2:22:53] I know, again, it follows a cost recovery formula,

[2:22:56] and it wasn't influenced by politics in any way,

[2:22:59] but just that in reflection against this current landscape

[2:23:03] is, I think, what's going to be welcomed.

[2:23:06] So I do the make-up of the mission.

[2:23:08] The seconder, those were my additional request

[2:23:10] for information when it comes back in January.

[2:23:12] fully coastlining the addition of body art because it also does overlap with cosmatology and personal care industry and small business owners there.

[2:23:19] Additional comparative studies where relevant to the few schedules.

[2:23:24] And yes, thank you, James, for that recommendation to have the sign to come back with the Mecos report.

[2:23:29] I look forward to any opportunities that we have to alleviate some of the pressure to our college food industry.

[2:23:37] So I'm not sure if you, first you, you, you indicated you wanted additional counties because

[2:23:43] they haven't been updated, but you're also talking about having this study include the types

[2:23:49] of permits rather than size of the counties.

[2:23:52] So.

[2:23:52] Yeah, where it's fees also, because we're focused on food facility permits in the body art permits

[2:23:56] if there are other comparable permits issued in that area, maybe the size of the counties

[2:24:03] is not comparable to us, but the size of permits are?

[2:24:06] OK, only specific to those two items.

[2:24:10] But the comparative fee study

[2:24:12] include all the additional counties that

[2:24:15] might have updated the complete four categories.

[2:24:23] Yeah, I'm good with that.

[2:24:26] Two seconds.

[2:24:27] Yes, as well.

[2:24:29] Good.

[2:24:30] I'm being the last to, I would say yes, so first of all I just want to thank my colleague and also the kindly executive for coming up with a solution to deal with the issues dealt with impact of small businesses.

[2:24:43] So I think that's a very thoughtful way of dealing with making sure in this case with facilities and body art.

[2:24:49] Small businesses would not be as affected and find ways to adjust fee or all of the impact of a potential grant.

[2:24:58] what not find funding to help them out.

[2:25:00] But at the same time, this is a fee recovery program.

[2:25:04] So it is important for us to catch up on the analysis

[2:25:06] for future references, which only should do this in a more

[2:25:09] periodic basis, so that we don't fall behind as much

[2:25:12] to create these type of a huge percentage of increases.

[2:25:15] So suddenly, now also do want to mention,

[2:25:18] besides increases, there are actually some decreases.

[2:25:21] There's quite significant.

[2:25:22] One that really caught my eye was regarding the EIR review

[2:25:26] and hourly rate ran from $1,300 plus dollars to $222 an hour.

[2:25:33] So some of these numbers are really off.

[2:25:35] I'm just glad that we have these types of studies to make sure that we are truly costing

[2:25:41] what this should be.

[2:25:42] We should not overcharge by any stretch of imagination.

[2:25:45] I think this is one thing that we're doing to clean up this as well.

[2:25:49] So I want to make sure this will be implemented, assuming where we'll get this past today.

[2:25:54] and I just want to thank the Department of Public Health

[2:25:58] and Dr. Emmanuel Leadership to make this happen.

[2:26:03] So, we'll offer you, I just mentioned,

[2:26:05] even though I'm voting on this motion, we're getting the body art.

[2:26:07] This is not a message to my kids that they can go out and get tattoo.

[2:26:11] All right, that's all I have. Thank you.

[2:26:12] Let's talk about technical.

[2:26:13] Okay, I'm going to brag for a second here.

[2:26:15] That my brother-in-law is a nationally recognized award

[2:26:19] winning tattoo artist.

[2:26:20] He's regularly premiered in headlines or tattoo expos.

[2:26:24] So, just want to give us shout-out to our body art industry where they're cosmetic, personal care, or purely body art, thank you for your contribution to this small business community.

[2:26:34] Thank you. Let's go think about it.

[2:26:36] If I can just summarize my understanding of the motion.

[2:26:39] Briefly, as I understand it, it is to adopt the resolution as amended to exclude the food facility and body art components, which are to return in January.

[2:26:53] for further discussion, and I believe it also incorporated the additional request for information

[2:26:58] from Supervisor Jung.

[2:27:00] Is that inaccurate?

[2:27:02] Thank you.

[2:27:03] So that is a motion from Vice President Uranus seconded by Supervisor Ape Koga.

[2:27:08] Supervisor Ape Koga.

[2:27:11] Supervisor Jung.

[2:27:11] Yes.

[2:27:12] Supervisor Allenburg.

[2:27:16] Vice President Uranus.

[2:27:17] Yes.

[2:27:17] Presently.

[2:27:19] Hi.

[2:27:19] Motion carries unanimously.

[2:27:22] Thank you very much.

[2:27:23] So we move to item number nine, which is received considered nominations for board president vice president for calendar year twenty twenty six

[2:27:32] We don't have any staff report on this one and do we need public comment in this

[2:27:39] No, we do not

[2:27:40] Just to be clear on this particular item for nominations. There's no motion or second necessary either. Oh, there is it. It's just a nomination being given. That's correct. Okay, sure

[2:27:50] So as you, your life is on me.

[2:27:55] Sorry, Tony.

[2:27:56] I'm confused.

[2:27:58] So for the nomination process,

[2:28:01] your the board may nominate.

[2:28:04] Or members may nominate for the vice chair and chair role.

[2:28:09] But this is really just to identify who's been nominated.

[2:28:13] The final vote will be at the first meeting in January.

[2:28:16] At which point the role action will be taken.

[2:28:19] And there will be a motion in the second at that point.

[2:28:23] Thank you for that clarification.

[2:28:26] Let's see.

[2:28:27] I'd like to all.

[2:28:28] Yes, good.

[2:28:28] As Vice President?

[2:28:29] Well, I would be my honor to nominate you once again.

[2:28:34] President Lee as Board President for 2026.

[2:28:39] Thank you.

[2:28:40] Glad to second that nomination.

[2:28:43] Totally endorse that.

[2:28:46] Thank you.

[2:28:48] Thank you, and I'll go ahead and actually make a nomination for my vice president, so

[2:28:54] our rent is for another year if you would so choose.

[2:28:57] I love it, I will second that again, personally.

[2:29:00] Thank you.

[2:29:02] Are you ready?

[2:29:03] Okay, so this is not the vote today, as mentioned by our county council, there's just

[2:29:09] the nomination, and then as we explained to the public, this board actually has a bit of a tradition

[2:29:17] that we are actually serving as a two-year, but then if they are one-year increments, they are

[2:29:22] one-year increments, so we have to do this every year, and I just only want to say thank you

[2:29:26] for the nomination and I look forward to another good year ahead, but very difficult challenges

[2:29:32] ahead.

[2:29:32] We have gone through a very difficult year this year, and certainly the challenges keep coming.

[2:29:37] I just want to say thank you so much for my colleagues and staff for all the amazing work you have done so far

[2:29:42] and looking forward to it right here being this the last board meeting for the year of 2025.

[2:29:50] All right.

[2:29:51] Let's see.

[2:29:52] So moving on item number 10, which is receiving report from a mechanical executive.

[2:29:58] Good morning few updates.

[2:30:00] From me today, first, the quick local election update. Last week, the register our voters certified the official results of the November 4th special election, which the board received on consent today. We had voter turnout of just under 52%, with 553,000 ballots cast, including 57 and a quarter percent yes vote for measure A. But as the board knows, we're not quite done.

[2:30:26] There will be a special run-off election on December 30th and wanted to share that early

[2:30:33] voting for that election began yesterday at Registrar Voters offices.

[2:30:38] Vote by mail ballots will be arriving in mailbox this week.

[2:30:42] They were actually issued yesterday and may arrive for some folks as soon as today.

[2:30:48] My gratitude to our entire ROV team for their terrific work in this past election and for

[2:30:54] that are continued work, including through the upcoming holidays, but a reminder to folks to

[2:30:59] go ahead and vote in the December 30th election.

[2:31:04] Also calendar based, a quick property tax update, just a reminder to folks that your first

[2:31:11] installment payment for our property tax owners here in Santa Clara County is due to

[2:31:17] tomorrow, December 10th. I'm pleased to share that as of yesterday, over 70% of the collection

[2:31:25] due to tomorrow has already been paid. A huge thank you to our Detac team for their work during

[2:31:31] this very busy time of the year for them. Just reminder to folks, even though you make your

[2:31:36] check out to the County of Santa Clara, actually most of that property tax money goes to support

[2:31:41] school districts and community colleges, here in the county, the county itself only

[2:31:47] retains about 16 to 17 percent of that property tax dollar on average that is our

[2:31:54] largest source of local funding for the county's operations. So obviously a big deal

[2:31:59] over 500,000 property tax bills were sent out earlier this year. So please make sure you pay

[2:32:07] time, otherwise, pursuant to state law, there's significant interest that occurs.

[2:32:15] And actually on that note, James, this is a really important note that the fact is due

[2:32:22] to moral, if you are only one day late, only one day late, the penalty is 10%.

[2:32:29] That's right.

[2:32:30] Immediately.

[2:32:31] 10%.

[2:32:32] Yeah, so I just want to make sure that says no, because if many people come in and asking

[2:32:36] And that's still come on just a day late, you know, I can find a place or whatever the reason is.

[2:32:42] But yeah, this is something that's very hard and fast.

[2:32:46] So I just want to remind people, this is not one that you want to be late on.

[2:32:48] But we make it very convenient to pay.

[2:32:51] You know, I myself paid yesterday through each check online.

[2:33:00] And in advance of the deadline.

[2:33:03] But you can pay online, there's no fee, pay by each act actually, I think a majority of taxpayers

[2:33:09] now use that.

[2:33:10] You can obviously go to the Detac offices, but we try to make it convenient for folks to

[2:33:17] provide their payments.

[2:33:19] Like I said, it is actually the critical funding source for schools, but also for all local

[2:33:24] governments in our county.

[2:33:27] I wanted to share some great news that today Santa Clara Valley Medical Center has been

[2:33:33] once again named a 26 high-performing hospital for maternity care, which is the highest

[2:33:39] award hospital can earn as part of U.S. News and World Reports annual study on the best

[2:33:44] hospitals for maternity care. It's the fifth consecutive year that VMC has received this

[2:33:51] and major credit to our exceptional nurses and doctors,

[2:33:55] lactation specialists and health system leadership

[2:33:58] and all other staff across SCVH

[2:34:01] who contribute to care for our families and our very

[2:34:04] newest Santa Clara County residents.

[2:34:08] And finally, we're going to hear later today

[2:34:11] part of our monthly legislative report,

[2:34:14] but just wanted to share for the board and public awareness

[2:34:17] we are gearing up for activity related to our second prong of our efforts to deal with the

[2:34:25] fiscal impacts associated with each R1 that includes state-related advocacy to help mitigate

[2:34:33] these serious federal impacts. Despite the passage of measure A, we still face an extremely

[2:34:39] daunting road in front of us here locally, including over $470 million deficit for the upcoming

[2:34:46] fiscal year and another 500 million on top of that the year after this is after accounting

[2:34:52] for the incredible support that we got from our community with the passage of measure

[2:34:57] ray.

[2:34:58] A piece of that strategy is our state-related advocacy for our public hospital systems but also

[2:35:04] to help ensure we can keep every family possible on rolled in medical and related programs.

[2:35:12] And so you will see between now since this is our last board meeting of the calendar year

[2:35:15] I wanted to share. You will see on our federal funding website that we continue to make updated

[2:35:20] and available. We're putting together additional written materials. We will be connecting

[2:35:25] with each board office individually with packets of that information as well, working in partnership

[2:35:32] with allies, including the California Association of Public Hospitals and the California

[2:35:37] Welfare Directors Association and others on a multi-part strategy that is aimed at helping

[2:35:43] work with the state to ensure maintenance of enrollment, putting things in place to deal with

[2:35:51] the next set of HR1 related reductions, and ensuring that the backbone of healthcare

[2:35:58] for all Californians, which is the 6% of hospitals that are public, that operate more

[2:36:04] than 50% of the trauma and burn centers in California, receive appropriate consideration

[2:36:11] from both the legislature and the governor's office.

[2:36:14] So more to come on that and more work happening underway in that regard as well and that concludes

[2:36:20] my report this morning.

[2:36:24] Thank you, James.

[2:36:26] As you mentioned earlier, you said that about 16-17 percent of the property tax comes to

[2:36:32] the county.

[2:36:33] What a lot of people I should don't even know is when it comes to sales tax, right now we have

[2:36:38] Even though it's not an implemented yet, most people don't know this, out of the 9.9 and whatever

[2:36:46] percent that we get, only one eighth of one percent comes to the county.

[2:36:53] That's right, today.

[2:36:54] Just one eighth of one percent comes to the county.

[2:36:57] The most of it, most of it, more than 7 percent of it goes to the state of California.

[2:37:02] That's right.

[2:37:02] And I just just one fact that I just want to illustrate to people why it is something that

[2:37:07] county has been collecting so little all these years, and we'll measure a passing that

[2:37:11] amount, and so one day the one percent will go up to a three quarter of our percent.

[2:37:16] That's absolutely correct, and it is complicated, sometimes for folks.

[2:37:21] I will say on the property tax front, one really interesting thing, if you would like,

[2:37:25] and it's accessible online, as we show for each individual pair, the specific breakdown

[2:37:32] on in their tax rate area, on property tax of how much goes to each local government entity for

[2:37:37] those who are interested.

[2:37:40] So we don't collect sales tax, so we don't have the same mechanism there, but you're right

[2:37:45] on both fronts, and of course income tax doesn't come to the county at all.

[2:37:50] So, you know, these are interesting fiscal interrelationships between state and local government,

[2:37:57] between different local governments, and of course we've talked for many, many months

[2:38:01] now about the fiscal relationship between the county and the federal government, which has

[2:38:07] been so front and center given everything that's going on.

[2:38:11] Thank you, James, in this comparison, because every county is different, even that

[2:38:15] three-quarter percent, we only take one-half of what Alameda is already collecting for

[2:38:20] years, because 1.5 percent of their sales tax goes in there.

[2:38:23] That's correct as well.

[2:38:24] So that's just all three of these points of folks who's concerned about the sales tax issues.

[2:38:29] Okay.

[2:38:30] Yes, good afternoon.

[2:38:32] You look very ready.

[2:38:35] At the December 8th, 2025, close session by unanimous vote with all members present,

[2:38:39] the board authorized county to file litigation in one matter.

[2:38:42] The name of the action and the parties as well as the substance of the litigation shall

[2:38:47] be disclosed once filed any person upon inquiry.

[2:38:51] That concludes my report.

[2:38:52] All right.

[2:38:53] Thank you.

[2:38:58] All right.

[2:38:58] Homeless Health Care Program, VHP.

[2:39:13] Good morning.

[2:39:14] Almost afternoon.

[2:39:15] Good morning.

[2:39:18] My name is Kristi.

[2:39:19] I'm a assistant nurse manager with VHHP, and I'm here with Selenho, Director of Primary

[2:39:24] Care, and Sarah G1G, Medical Director at VHHP.

[2:39:28] Today in your board packet, we have a response to supervise awareness, supervise awareness

[2:39:32] requests to solve county utilization trends, which indicated that patient encounters have already

[2:39:37] the calendar year of 2024.

[2:39:40] We also have included our quarterly update on quality metrics

[2:39:44] with data expanded and aligned with the Latina Health Assessment.

[2:39:48] While we actively monitor over 15 indicators of quality,

[2:39:51] we continue to focus on three key metrics that we believe

[2:39:54] have the most significant impact on our patient population.

[2:39:58] And those include colorectal screening,

[2:40:00] people go in a 1C monitoring and depression screening.

[2:40:03] And with that, we are happy to answer any questions you all may have.

[2:40:07] Thank you.

[2:40:09] Yeah, let's see any public who likes to be on the side of them.

[2:40:16] I have no cars in Chambers, right number 12 and we have no hands raised on them.

[2:40:21] Okay, I'll go and close the public speaking portion.

[2:40:25] Oh, so that's you.

[2:40:27] Thank you.

[2:40:28] Thank you.

[2:40:28] Thank you for the report and I just every month.

[2:40:32] It's always hardening to hear and learn more about the work that we are doing to serve our most vulnerable population.

[2:40:37] I did really appreciate that the data richness of these reports of our monthly reports keep on evolving.

[2:40:46] And I do have some questions that I, so just specifically, I would love to know more

[2:40:53] or what findings or what conclusions have been gleaned from.

[2:40:58] Just some of the metrics here that, so in some places, Asian API data is included in some places

[2:41:05] it's not. I would just say that moving forward as we continue to provide demographic data,

[2:41:11] where possible to provide equal weight to all of the data that we have. And so I really

[2:41:17] would like to know your conclusions if you have them today regarding the just a suicide rate

[2:41:22] amongst the Asian population, and specifically Vietnamese since that seems to be the dominant

[2:41:26] language of our VAHP clients.

[2:41:28] I

[2:41:57] think he's supervised very young, so I think, you know, as we know that there is, you

[2:42:04] know, just we're seeing an increasing burden of mental health disorders among all ages

[2:42:09] and all groups, and, you know, one of the goals of monitoring our QI work is to ensure that

[2:42:18] we are screening, we're consistent in screening the folks that we serve and that there

[2:42:27] not inequities among, you know, while we serve a traditionally marginalized population,

[2:42:33] we want to remain vigilant to evaluate for inequities in the work that we do in serving

[2:42:39] that population.

[2:42:40] And so, you know, when we look at the depression screening by language, we actually do see

[2:42:44] that there is a large percentage of patients who have, whose primary language is Vietnamese,

[2:42:54] who were actually screened and then, I'm just sorry, I'm just looking to, this is the one

[2:43:02] server for it, right? And referred for treatment. So, in fact, we see that those who are

[2:43:09] Vietnamese speaking, we're most likely to be referred for treatment if they screen positive.

[2:43:14] Thank you for that. And I know that AAPI data, it's like the ongoing challenge for as long as I've

[2:43:22] at this county, which is not really that long-negrant timeline, things that at least a decade,

[2:43:26] that we continue to be challenged as a county organization, but government institutions across

[2:43:32] all levels have challenges with this aggregate API data, right? Southeast Asian, East Asian,

[2:43:39] Pacific Islander, data. Have you experienced any challenges in being able to collect and

[2:43:52] able to kind of break down that category, what you're seeing here is some of the top Asian groups

[2:44:00] that have the screening. We can certainly include that. I think that is very important.

[2:44:06] They're at a much smaller number, but we can include that as so that you can see the totality

[2:44:11] of that dataset for the Asian category.

[2:44:14] Yeah, I think that would be really helpful and I appreciate that. I just want to also say that

[2:44:22] of data disaggregation and trying to be strived towards that goal, right?

[2:44:26] And so just because we haven't made reach that goal,

[2:44:30] it doesn't mean that we are not trying or doing our best efforts.

[2:44:33] But I do have to say that, you know, as long as we keep presenting files

[2:44:37] to the public and to our board that have an equal representation of information,

[2:44:42] we have not yet lived up to our county's values of inclusion equity.

[2:44:45] And this applies to our disability community as well,

[2:44:48] who has voiced frustration over the last year,

[2:44:50] In terms of being left out of different conversations, especially with all the different federal impacts, directly impact, you know, all the federal impacts that are going to directly disappear.

[2:45:00] This is important or disability community that runs across all demographics, ethnicities.

[2:45:06] I would greatly appreciate that. I know Celine for my work with you that this is something that is a value, not just for you, but for our organization.

[2:45:16] Just a future reports and preparing data demographic data, just giving equal rate, equal treatment to all the demographic

[2:45:23] demographic and ethnicities that we are capturing to fully understand how we are addressing this.

[2:45:29] And what I've learned here too is that what different ethnicities in different communities

[2:45:32] behave your health mental health conversations happen in different spaces and in different ways.

[2:45:37] And where we have made gains, it's going to be really be seen in demonstrate in the data that

[2:45:41] we're able to collect.

[2:45:42] I look forward to seeing more of that.

[2:45:44] Thank you so much.

[2:45:45] Thank you for highlighting that.

[2:45:46] And we'll definitely include that in our next report.

[2:45:48] Thank you.

[2:45:48] I appreciate that.

[2:45:52] Yes.

[2:45:53] Vice President.

[2:45:53] Thank you. Thank you for the follow-up information on some of the data that I had requested.

[2:46:04] The Valley Homeless Healthcare Program, if you could just help me break it down a little bit.

[2:46:09] This is where you go out into the community.

[2:46:12] And typically for those who are unhoused or maybe where you meet them, out in the camps or wherever it is.

[2:46:21] This is typically what you do.

[2:46:24] These are the folks that you're interacting with.

[2:46:27] And thank you for that.

[2:46:29] Our valiant homeless health care program has fixed clinic sites that serve as specifically our homeless population.

[2:46:37] And then one of our biggest areas of focus is really going out to meet the patients

[2:46:43] where they're at, whether it's in the encampments, the shelters, the safe parking lots.

[2:46:49] And so we have our, I think you had the alluded to,

[2:46:52] we have our backpack medicine team with providers

[2:46:55] that go out to these different areas

[2:46:56] and provide pretty much primary care

[2:46:58] what you would get within a fixed clinic site.

[2:47:02] Thank you.

[2:47:02] And so while I agree with my colleague

[2:47:05] who is asking for additional demographic information,

[2:47:10] we have to really stick to the data, right?

[2:47:12] So the data typically says, for the unhoused,

[2:47:15] the Latinos are the most dominant number in terms of that's the higher percentage, right?

[2:47:22] It's not something that I'm proud of, it's not something that I don't want to be number

[2:47:29] one, or the population that I belong to, or the ethnic group that I belong to.

[2:47:34] But that's the reason why I focus mainly on Latinos, because those are the ones that in

[2:47:39] data, especially in our ash department, is reflecting that's who's out there. So that is

[2:47:47] who you are focusing on. Yeah, I think there is really great information in here that tells

[2:47:54] us that I think Pacific Islanders and Black African Americans had a really high rate of poorly

[2:48:03] controlled diabetes. And so that tells us that these subgroups also need some additional

[2:48:08] support, but these folks are the folks that you're meeting out in the community, right?

[2:48:13] And so these are the folks that our data is telling us, telling us, this is where who

[2:48:18] you have to go to, not us telling you who you need to go to.

[2:48:23] So I just want to be clear that we're following data and we're following data based on who

[2:48:28] is unhoused and who is in our streets.

[2:48:31] And so I want to make sure that we don't sway from that and that we stay on track on

[2:48:38] who is out there and this is the reason why this data looks like this.

[2:48:46] Thank you for giving us some additional information on the depression screenings, the uncontrolled

[2:48:54] diabetes and I wonder what additional strategies you will have for those folks that you

[2:49:02] such as the Pacific Islanders or for the Black community which had 36% for Pacific Islanders,

[2:49:13] 32% for the Black community, and then 28% for Latinos which had uncontrolled diabetes.

[2:49:23] And those are typically folks who are 18 and over, you're not testing any kiddos because that's a different track.

[2:49:31] So, what is it specifically that you may do differently, a shift in terms of how you serve

[2:49:39] those folks in order to get closer to maybe to a pharmacy or connected with the primary

[2:49:46] care physician?

[2:49:47] What is it that is happening for those people?

[2:49:53] Thank you for that question, Vice President.

[2:49:56] So, you know, I think we recognize that each individual, you know, we see in our work the intersection

[2:50:03] of vulnerabilities from both race and language and multiple, you know, some of the criminal justice

[2:50:09] involved. Many barriers that individuals and many vulnerabilities that individuals have

[2:50:15] that affect their care. And so we really are program structures itself to be able to meet the

[2:50:24] barriers that on the individual level that they have to being able to access health care,

[2:50:31] medications, things like that. So, when we are taking care of anyone, we are really looking

[2:50:36] at what do they need? Do we need to connect them with our pharmacists who are able to

[2:50:41] actually more actively case-managed them and proactively reach out to them? Do we need

[2:50:45] to pick out their medications and deliver it to them? Do we need to be able to do in clinic

[2:50:51] testing because they're not going to be able to go to the lab? And so, we've really found

[2:50:56] a lot of ways to provide the additional support to allow them to receive the care.

[2:51:05] In addition to that, we know that there are specific populations where even accessing

[2:51:11] care is a challenge and so that's where outreach occurs really come in to go into the community

[2:51:16] to connect with individuals. And especially as we see with our Latino community right now,

[2:51:22] where there's increasing fear about accessing care.

[2:51:27] And so to build those relationships

[2:51:29] so folks can actually come to the clinic to receive care

[2:51:34] to even get that diagnosis of diabetes.

[2:51:38] So we have a variable and individually tailored

[2:51:44] way to approach each patient while also keeping in mind

[2:51:50] sort of the larger vulnerabilities they have because of the context in which because of their circumstances.

[2:52:00] If there is anything specific that we can learn from the other groups that have maybe higher rate of screenings or higher completion rates,

[2:52:09] And there are other groups who have those higher completion rates and higher rate of screenings.

[2:52:20] Is there anything that maybe speaking to those populations or that something is happening differently for those folks that maybe we could pick up for the rest of the other ethnic groups?

[2:52:41] Truthfully, I think it's challenging to pick it up over just looking at it by an

[2:52:45] group, because there's so many things, again, there's so many variables where we can't

[2:52:49] some folks who have now are now in permanent supportive housing, some folks

[2:52:53] me, and again, you know, I think we talk a lot about just geographic variables, so

[2:52:59] like there are access to care, and so I would be hesitant to attribute higher rates,

[2:53:12] What would you say, it causes a higher increase in completion, or because

[2:53:25] what I was hoping to hear is maybe because somebody speaks their language.

[2:53:31] For example,

[2:53:34] Asian patients are the highest rate of screenings, which is 74% followed by American Indian Pacific Honor and then Hispanic Latino.

[2:53:42] And so I thought maybe there's more language-specific available

[2:53:48] physicians and nurses that connect with folks and so that it makes it easier for folks

[2:53:54] to complete those screenings and so these are the kinds of things that I was hoping to learn

[2:53:59] but if there's something that is working for another group that could apply for the others

[2:54:04] or maybe the language capacity isn't there then we should increase that.

[2:54:09] And we do have, and we, I think, you know, for the folks for our services in South County.

[2:54:17] We have Spanish speaking providers and staff who, who staff those clinics.

[2:54:25] And for, and then we have Vietnamese speaking providers who go out when we do outreach in areas where there's

[2:54:34] large Vietnamese speaking populations and unchaltered Vietnamese speaking populations.

[2:54:40] So that's absolutely a factor and that is something that we are also working to do

[2:54:45] to improve outcomes among that population, because we know just from other data that improves

[2:54:51] outcomes.

[2:54:52] I appreciate it.

[2:54:53] And so then I'll turn to James, because I know from the LHA, one of the recommendations

[2:54:58] public health made is to have a comprehensive model, that integrative model in South County that could

[2:55:09] allow for some of this to happen all under one roof for our community. When do we approximate

[2:55:17] for that to take place, to be more concrete? Yeah, I'm not in a position to provide a specific

[2:55:25] timeline, but I think we can talk about that further under the LHAI, this later on today's agenda,

[2:55:31] when we'll have some leadership from the respective departments here to present and talk about

[2:55:38] timelines. Yeah. There's permanent, you know, in very place-based and ethnic-based

[2:55:47] integrated services that I think really work for communities. And so when the Latinos continue to

[2:55:57] overrepresent in homelessness, in public health, you know, just everywhere. I think that it is only fair to think about what is working or maybe what is not working for those communities and how we need to shift. And so these are the reason why I continue to ask more questions. And I really appreciate that you continue to bring that to me so that I can also understand what to ask for.

[2:56:28] So, and to learn about, you know what, I was really surprised to see Pacific Islanders having such a high rate of out-of-control diabetes, and so that also is concerning, and I think, or, and the black community that is ahead of Latinos in that respect.

[2:56:51] And so, if Latinos actually got that under control a little bit better, what worked for them

[2:56:58] that we could apply for Pacific Islanders that seemed to be leading in this area that could

[2:57:03] then also maybe apply for the Black community.

[2:57:07] So, you know, these are the questions I don't approximate that you'll have the answers right

[2:57:12] away, but if you can think about some of those recommendations that you'd like to see that

[2:57:18] work or that have worked, that you think that, you know, you've seen in other counties that

[2:57:23] actually, the communities have been responsive to whatever strategies I think for me it's

[2:57:29] really important to see. And so I'd love to hear from you as you continue to come forward and

[2:57:35] come back to us. And I want to make sure that we hear the issues that plague our community

[2:57:43] Because, and those who are most vulnerable and I absolutely want to make sure that those who are in the depression screenings and that have higher tendencies to have a plan or commit suicide,

[2:57:58] we need to make sure that we care for those folks, including, and thank you for including the Vietnamese community,

[2:58:05] supervise the young because we want to make sure that we provide whatever is culturally and

[2:58:12] what is strategically and what is most effective for communities out there, especially as it

[2:58:18] relates to suicide and so I look forward to also hearing that information. So I don't think that

[2:58:27] there's a motion on the floor so I'll make a motion and they'll ask you to return with some of those

[2:58:32] additional information that we've already discussed.

[2:58:36] Thank you.

[2:58:39] And just to clarify, supervisor,

[2:58:41] does the motion include recommended action?

[2:58:45] It sure does include recommended action

[2:58:47] and includes some of the additional strategies

[2:58:51] or effective strategies that could be responsive

[2:58:54] to the Pacific Islander Black community

[2:58:56] as it pertains to uncontrolled diabetes.

[2:58:59] And of course, what Supervisor Yang mentioned regarding

[2:59:04] the Vietnamese community and the rates of suicide, or if you could say that.

[2:59:09] Yeah, if I can make clear that my request is for all of our ethnicities and demographic data,

[2:59:17] following the data, my request is in no way asking you to go seek out new data or create new data.

[2:59:23] But with the existing data you have based on the engagement that your operation conducts.

[2:59:29] to disaggregate AAPI data and also to give all communities equal weight in terms of presenting to the board for all the questions that we're discussed here today.

[2:59:40] I recognize that different communities show up differently that there is greater disability,

[2:59:47] amongst certain communities versus others.

[2:59:49] So I don't think that the data asking for additional data or disaggregation of data conflicts with that but gives us greater clarity.

[2:59:56] But, you know, the discussion is just prompting some more questions, some more questions.

[3:00:04] Second, I'll second that motion with clarity that do we have clarity on the data that's being asked that for the data that you have, please give it equal weight and treatment, the African American community, our AAPI community, disaggregated, and also our disability community, just knowing full well that there's a greater disability, the disability is also disabled in our unhoused population.

[3:00:27] And so second, and I also have an additional question regarding the colon cancer screenings.

[3:00:34] So when it comes to a language amongst the Asian demographic, it seems that it is Vietnamese.

[3:00:39] The majority is Vietnamese based on the 65% of those speaking Vietnamese as a primary language.

[3:00:47] And I just, I really would like to understand, so this is what the data should be able to tell us.

[3:00:56] group causes, understand how different communities are being affected differently and to

[3:01:00] supervisor.

[3:01:01] Awareness is point.

[3:01:02] What's working for one community, maybe working for another.

[3:01:05] Why is the Vietnamese population showing up in the data this way in other communities?

[3:01:11] I mean, I don't want to assume as they're like a high homeless Asian population, a high

[3:01:15] justice involved population, or they just more attentive to their health in being screened.

[3:01:21] What has been the lessons learned or gleaned?

[3:01:26] I'll just provide an example, the reason why I'm asking this question, during COVID-19,

[3:01:31] we saw at one point upwards of 9% vaccination rates amongst Asian America's AAPI population.

[3:01:39] Once we disaggregated that, we saw that that was an exact opposite for Pacific Islanders

[3:01:44] that they did not fall into that 90% trial of vaccination rates.

[3:01:49] So until it was disaggregated, we weren't able to see that Pacific Islanders were really on

[3:01:55] extreme end of lack of vaccination, lack of access to resources and lack of, and also extremely

[3:02:01] high rates of COVID, that was the inverse of other Asian demographics. That's one. And see, I

[3:02:05] remember, I was a staff at that time, and presently, as a supervisor, you had reached out to me

[3:02:11] as, as line staff, to get my sense of, like, why were the numbers showing up that they were?

[3:02:18] And, and, you know, it's um, and that's when we had the disaggregation conversation,

[3:02:21] But then we also, you know, Elsa is rooted in refugee immigrant history when you have a population that has been granted pathways to citizenship and part of that pathway is to be vaccinated upon arrival.

[3:02:34] There's a different relationship with vaccinations and it is with other like the black community where vaccination has been used as a weapon against their health and well being.

[3:02:44] So I think the, I just want to make clear that this aggregation of data, giving full weight to equal weight

[3:02:52] to all demographic data that is existing in your control based on the natural engagements that you have in community, is not,

[3:02:59] it's not conflicting with our values.

[3:03:02] All right. Thank you.

[3:03:06] Yes, Vice President.

[3:03:07] Thank you. And thank you for that clarity.

[3:03:10] Also, I don't think it's fair to say that there's one group that is more tentative to their health than the other group.

[3:03:16] That's what I was trying to say.

[3:03:18] That's what you said.

[3:03:19] That's a stereotype.

[3:03:20] So I was listening to different stereotypes that may come up when looking at Asian data.

[3:03:25] And so I should have framed it in that way.

[3:03:26] But those are stereotypes that really are attached to the model minority,

[3:03:30] which actually results in more deaths and more complications for people.

[3:03:34] So let me just clarify.

[3:03:36] I agree with you.

[3:03:36] That's unfair to say.

[3:03:38] It's been said about AAPI's for a long time

[3:03:41] to weaponize as against other can we use the color

[3:03:43] and I agree with that.

[3:03:45] And I agree with your immigration story.

[3:03:48] There's different pathways.

[3:03:51] And as we are seeing with HR1 and how immigrants

[3:03:54] are being kept out of healthcare systems

[3:03:57] because of their immigration status.

[3:04:01] And so those, I think, for me fundamentally,

[3:04:04] is what is at the root of it.

[3:04:06] But it's also the way that we provide the services, whether there's enough doctors who speak Spanish,

[3:04:12] who look like the population and the research shows us that we need to improve that,

[3:04:17] because in this county, we just don't have enough Latinos serving the Latino community,

[3:04:24] that just speaks to them anyways.

[3:04:26] And so I want to make sure we, I wanted to clarify that not only for myself, but for our communities

[3:04:32] so that we don't continue to have a pervasive stereotypes.

[3:04:38] Thank

[3:04:41] you.

[3:04:42] We have a motion with a second if we don't have any more comments.

[3:04:46] We'll have to collect to take a vote.

[3:04:50] All right, and this is a motion from Vice President Aranis

[3:04:52] and seconded by Supervisor Yon.

[3:04:55] Supervisor Abekoga.

[3:04:57] Supervisor Yon?

[3:04:58] Yes.

[3:04:59] Supervisor Alumber?

[3:05:00] Yes.

[3:05:00] Vice President Aranis?

[3:05:01] Yes.

[3:05:02] President Lee.

[3:05:03] I as well.

[3:05:04] Motion passes with five.

[3:05:07] Item 13 is about the resolution adopted on policies to 3.75 regarding the living use of county

[3:05:16] property.

[3:05:18] I believe this is, yeah, do we have staff to present on this item?

[3:05:24] Now, I'm going to just say a few words to tee up the item presently and then I'm going to

[3:05:30] I handed over to Chief Assistant County Council,

[3:05:33] Kavita Narayan, who's going to make a brief presentation.

[3:05:39] And then, of course, we'll be available for any questions.

[3:05:45] The policies that we're proposing for adoption today

[3:05:49] build on the foundation of the board's well-established

[3:05:55] and long-standing leadership in non-cooperation policy

[3:06:00] at the local governmental level.

[3:06:02] As we did in drafting board policy 3.5,

[3:06:07] for now almost 15 years ago, and as we've done

[3:06:11] in guiding the board and the county in terms of its actions

[3:06:16] through the first and now second Trump administration,

[3:06:20] we've really been careful to ensure

[3:06:22] that we are on solid legal ground.

[3:06:25] But we're also crafting these policies to ensure that we're making full use of our constitutional right under the Tenth Amendment to preserve our autonomy to exercise our discretion and to control our own resources as a county.

[3:06:45] And these policies also say are really grounded in the here and now they're designed to reflect

[3:06:53] learnings from what we've seen happen in other jurisdictions that have seen federal mobilizations

[3:07:03] and mass deportation campaigns visit them at home.

[3:07:09] So with that, I'll hand it over to Kavita, who's joined by Deputy County Council's Bill

[3:07:18] I'll try to keep it brief and then turn it to the board for any questions that you may have along with public comment.

[3:07:25] The board's October 21st referral that we're now bringing back a response to requested that we come back to you with a policy restricting the use of county property for civil immigration enforcement activity.

[3:07:37] And I just want to highlight the opening line of Supervisor Ernest's referral, reflected

[3:07:41] something that just as Tony said has been a value of this county for going on 15 years

[3:07:47] now, which is that we can best protect public safety through strong relationships of trust

[3:07:53] and collaboration between residents and local government, not through the conscription of county

[3:07:58] staff or county resources to do the federal government's work of immigration enforcement.

[3:08:02] That's something that's underlight the board policies for a very long time.

[3:08:05] So we brought back two proposed board policies in response to this referral.

[3:08:10] The first one is board policy 3.75 that really gets to the heart of what this referral was about.

[3:08:17] As Tony said, the county already has the strongest policies in the nation around prohibiting

[3:08:22] lending county resources, whether that staff time, whether that's client records or

[3:08:28] interiors of county facilities or anything else for purposes of civil immigration enforcement.

[3:08:33] and we've sued successfully, I might add several times to defend those types of policies.

[3:08:38] Our existing policies really focus on individual level enforcement.

[3:08:44] Now, that's where immigration agents may be coming into a county facility to try to arrest a specific person

[3:08:50] or ask for their records or so on.

[3:08:52] And our policies provide parameters around not assisting without a judicial warrant, a court order, or some other appropriate safeguard.

[3:09:00] We already don't give access to non-public areas of county facilities for these purposes.

[3:09:06] And we did find one way to strengthen our existing policies about the interiors of county facilities

[3:09:12] that I'll highlight for the board, which is to make very clear that county employees cannot

[3:09:17] give consent for federal officials to access non-public areas of facilities for civil immigration

[3:09:23] enforcement unless they have a valid judicial warrant or court order, and that any employee

[3:09:29] who may be reporting to give consent, that can't be deemed consent by the county.

[3:09:35] And then the remainder of the policy really focuses on the mass enforcement activities

[3:09:39] that the referral was responding to based on lessons learned from observing what's happened

[3:09:43] in Chicago and Los Angeles and Portland and in other communities across the country.

[3:09:48] And it requires that for any county owned and controlled parking lots, vacant land, or other

[3:09:53] properties of that type, they cannot be used for civil immigration enforcement purposes,

[3:09:57] including as a staging area, a processing location, or an operation space.

[3:10:03] We've also included the same rule around employees not having authority to consent to those uses.

[3:10:08] And there's a provision that requires the county executive to ensure that their properties have clear signage

[3:10:13] demarcating these uses.

[3:10:15] And then second, very, very briefly, the other policy is Board Policy 3.76, which we've titled access to county services.

[3:10:22] And this is picking up again on that overarching policy point I started with about the importance of community members

[3:10:27] being able to trust in county government and the welcoming nature of county services.

[3:10:32] And the board over the years has made many policies, statements, and given guidance, concerning

[3:10:37] the issue of access to services that staff shouldn't be asking about immigration status or

[3:10:42] limiting access to services unless it's mandated by law, which it is in some instances

[3:10:47] like public benefits eligibility.

[3:10:49] So what this policy is aiming to do is to consolidate, gather all of these principles into one

[3:10:55] place, make them accessible to staff in a board policy, which takes the form, of course,

[3:11:00] a binding direction to staff.

[3:11:03] And then, in closing, I'll just say a sentence about what other Bay Area jurisdictions

[3:11:07] are doing so that the board has that additional context, which is updated as of today in real

[3:11:12] time.

[3:11:13] The first is that San Mateo County introduced an ordinance on November 18th that had its second

[3:11:19] reading last week addressing some of these same issues.

[3:11:22] Now, of course, because an ordinance doesn't take effect until 30 days after the second

[3:11:26] reading, that will become effective in the new year.

[3:11:29] In San Jose, the Council has directed staff to do similar activities around limiting uses

[3:11:35] of city owned properties that hasn't come forward yet, but we've seen.

[3:11:39] And then in San Francisco, an ordinance, again, along the same lines was introduced today,

[3:11:43] and that still needs to have its two readings plus the 30 days to take effect.

[3:11:47] So I'll pause there.

[3:11:48] I think you could be there.

[3:11:52] Let's see.

[3:11:54] Should I open up to the public first?

[3:11:56] No, ask to see if any public was speak.

[3:12:01] If anybody likes to speak on the side of me.

[3:12:04] Yes, we have two cards for speakers and chambers.

[3:12:08] If three hands raised on Zoom, it seems to be holding.

[3:12:14] So we have five total speakers.

[3:12:16] This two minutes each week.

[3:12:17] All right, and we all close the queue.

[3:12:19] Our in-person speakers are Cecilia Chavez and narrowly campus.

[3:12:41] Hello, my name is narrowly campus.

[3:12:43] So it's like on Valley Deepa.

[3:12:45] I'm here to speak about the urgent need to protect our community members

[3:12:50] from eye activity occurring on county property,

[3:12:54] specifically in the Elmwood jail.

[3:12:57] For months, we have been raising the alarm

[3:12:59] that eyes has been entering the jail

[3:13:01] and taking people directly from county custody.

[3:13:04] As of this week we were told that 39 individuals have been taking from the jail.

[3:13:10] We have met with the sheriff and the county council and we have also reached out to your

[3:13:15] offices to request a meeting so we can work together on meaningful solutions.

[3:13:21] Our goal is clear to ensure that people in county custody are not funneled into ICE detention.

[3:13:28] We believe that the proposed ICE Free Zone policy offers a real opportunity to create

[3:13:33] that protection. This policy can stop ICE from using our county jail as a location to

[3:13:39] detain our loved ones and it can set a strong standard for safety and due process in

[3:13:44] our community. We are hopeful that this board will adapt the ICE Reson policy.

[3:13:49] Thank you.

[3:14:00] Good morning. My name is Cecilia Chavez. I'm with Silicon Valley Deep and I echo everything

[3:14:04] my colleague just said, we do want to take a closer look at the 3.75 policy regarding

[3:14:12] the use of parking lots, because that is what has been used to encounter individuals being released

[3:14:21] from, we said, 39 people, that's very alarming, that I say what are use, county facilities

[3:14:30] and county time to, to take our family members away. So with that, just want to yield the rest

[3:14:38] of our time. Thank you.

[3:14:41] Thank you. We'll move to our Zoom speakers now. Our first speaker is Akami.

[3:15:00] Many partners across our county including county leadership. So, I'm here just to express my appreciation for the leadership of the county on these policies, just to provide an ares for moving this forward and to urge all of you to vote in support. This is the kind of leadership that can be has come to count on and depend on your both leadership and doing everything within your power.

[3:15:29] to protect our community from the threats

[3:15:33] from the federal government.

[3:15:35] And I also support the speakers who have come before,

[3:15:40] I think that this gives an opportunity

[3:15:42] to move the conversation forward in a new direction

[3:15:45] in terms of the concerns with the cooperation coming

[3:15:49] from the interests.

[3:15:52] So thank you very much for your support

[3:15:53] and your strong non-collar operation

[3:15:55] with federal immigration enforcement.

[3:15:59] Thank you, our next speaker is Kimberly Wu.

[3:16:08] I am Kimberly Wu, and I say this community organizer for Siren, who is also part of

[3:16:13] iPad.

[3:16:14] Who is directly over to Santa Clara County to pass and adopt the strong policy that excludes

[3:16:19] federal and immigration board activities on our county top of this.

[3:16:23] Thank you, Supervisor Orenner, for championing this proposal to the research and writing

[3:16:28] language and for the board for consideration.

[3:16:29] I also echo the sediments of our fellow community partners to prohibit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement on our property and our side-time.

[3:16:41] On the federal administration of the business of power to constitute the horrible anti-immigrant agenda,

[3:16:46] when our parents or children, when our neighbors disappear on their way to walk outside the legally-of-out court hearings,

[3:16:53] And when federal agents don't attend our day area home, when our television is done, we must do everything we can to protect all our communities.

[3:17:01] This policy by our courageous local lecturers is a power step in the lowly right and just to act.

[3:17:08] Our tax-funded public property belongs to the people who live here, not to the agents terrorizing them.

[3:17:14] And we believe our tax dollars should strengthen schools, hospitals, and safe neighborhoods, not terror family part.

[3:17:20] We hope that the board is supervisor about yes to board the protect and assert that this

[3:17:26] is our place and our city of South, our county assets must not be recognized against

[3:17:31] a very communities that is officer.

[3:17:33] Thank you.

[3:17:35] Thank you.

[3:17:36] Our next speaker is Andrew Bigelow.

[3:17:45] This is Andrew Bigelow.

[3:17:46] Organized to be still accountability.

[3:17:48] But I want to echo the previous comments from Mother 2 copies of Debug.

[3:17:55] We really want to emphasize the vulnerability of loved ones that we work with that are being picked up through the county jail from ICE.

[3:18:06] I think that the measure of success of a policy like this depends on how it's able to protect the most vulnerable.

[3:18:14] and those going from a cell and county in Elwood directly to an ice event in the parking lot.

[3:18:23] I would say some of the most susceptible folks will within our county.

[3:18:28] So we encourage this policy and we really encourage more community dialogue and more participation on how to make sure that this does also protect the loved ones at the county jail.

[3:18:42] along with everyone else in the county.

[3:18:45] Thank you so much.

[3:18:47] Thank you and that concludes public comment.

[3:18:50] Thank you.

[3:18:51] Those are public speaking portion.

[3:18:53] I believe that doesn't.

[3:18:54] Thank you so much.

[3:18:56] And first and foremost,

[3:18:58] I just want to thank our speakers for coming in

[3:19:01] sharing your thoughts and your concerns.

[3:19:04] And I will make sure to follow up on some of those

[3:19:07] points that you've all made.

[3:19:12] And first and foremost, I want to thank our county council for the work that you've done behind the scenes to get this to us as soon as you could.

[3:19:23] And I know that there's other folks who are working at the same speed of time as you are in some really proud of what you have moved forward to protect our immigrant community.

[3:19:37] in this county, not only this particular resolution, but also all of the lawsuits that have been done in order to legally have an umbrella protection for our community, and so I'm really just proud of that.

[3:19:57] And I know that Kavita, you've led on this, and I'm just really grateful for just the care that you've put, for connecting all of the current county policy board policies together so that it is comprehensive that it's not just this one thing that says, you know, where it's, you know, no ice on our property, but really that it follows a lot of the, the belief of

[3:20:27] previous board, that thought to make sure that there was no cooperation with us in previous

[3:20:37] to me sitting on the board. So I know that it doesn't come from me. It comes from some

[3:20:43] of the members here who were here before me and they are work. And so this is just an aggregate.

[3:20:52] I think reflection of a lot of different work during different times and so I appreciate

[3:20:57] you putting this all together and making sure that it's so comprehensive and that it's

[3:21:04] really airtight and I would love to see how we could create a template out of this and with

[3:21:11] your approval share it with our counties as we are having a convening later this week around

[3:21:19] immigration with our, not this week, next week. Soon we'll have a convene with our, with our local counties and I think this is something that they would really benefit from, especially for those counties that don't have a lot of resources and are able to have, you know, the type of force that we have within our county council and so I'm just really proud.

[3:21:45] I can't stop smiling in terms of how comprehensive this is because it, like I said, it begins with you know, and I really love that you started with a non cooperation policy, but you reflected what is the actual use of county facilities and you anticipated with maybe not everybody is going to

[3:22:06] not every county employees going to believe in the same way that maybe the board believes or

[3:22:12] or I don't know, I want to say the majority of the folks in our community may believe is that

[3:22:17] we have no responsibility to the federal government's eyes department to facilitate their work

[3:22:27] for them for so many different reasons. But for me I think it's just morally, but now here you've

[3:22:34] connected our laws and our local rules, especially our policies and our ordinances to ensure

[3:22:44] that our county employees are following what not only this board believes in, but what

[3:22:51] previous boards have already established, and that it is clear that it is not a opinion

[3:22:59] or that they choose to either comply or not comply that they're going to follow the law,

[3:23:06] including our policy at board policies.

[3:23:11] I'm really just, I'm grateful for that.

[3:23:15] Yesterday, I don't know if you all listened to our portion of our meeting,

[3:23:22] but we had somebody that we recognized,

[3:23:24] and it was Sally Agostina Arbundati's who is in the South County.

[3:23:30] And I didn't know this aspect of her, but she shared, for the first time with me,

[3:23:38] and with our public that Sally isn't really her first name.

[3:23:43] And she was, she was spanked every day at school by her teacher

[3:23:50] to ensure that Sally's stock, and I felt so terrible to have her name reflected on a commendation.

[3:24:05] And I think now she identifies as Sally, regardless of the difficulty in acquiring that name.

[3:24:14] And to me, these kinds of ordinances and these kinds of policies undo a lot of the practices that maybe some people take on in their role as a teacher, as a county employee, as a whoever it is.

[3:24:30] And whatever practice they have is not reflective of the county's policies, and so I know that if our county employees behave against what we already have set up that it's not reflective of us and they are not speaking for us and you've made that very clear in your policies.

[3:24:54] And so I shared the peace with Sally's name, because that's a practice that people took on as a response to immigrants, especially Mexican Americans, and so that kind of attitude hasn't died.

[3:25:14] it's still pervasive in our everyday lives and it just seems like next

[3:25:21] in Americans we have to fight an immigrants in general we have to fight for our

[3:25:26] place in this in this county in the city it regardless of whether we serve as

[3:25:33] public servants like myself or the army or any brand to the government and so I

[3:25:39] appreciate when the rules actually reflect what we believe in and

[3:25:45] regardless of whether you believe it or not, you will do it as an

[3:25:49] employee.

[3:25:52] So thank you. Thank you for all of that. It means a great deal to me.

[3:25:57] I wanted to ask about something that one of our speakers talked about

[3:26:02] and that is with the jails and having ice agents come into the

[3:26:08] facility and pick-up folks.

[3:26:11] Now, we are not facilitating by providing any staging area,

[3:26:17] the parking lot in front of the jail isn't a public use

[3:26:22] for them to set up and organize, but it is a parking space,

[3:26:28] and so they're allowed to park there.

[3:26:30] Just like anybody else in our community, it's public,

[3:26:35] it's open space.

[3:26:36] And the receiving portion of the jail, I believe, is also open space and open to our community

[3:26:46] and anybody is able to have access to that.

[3:26:50] And so I believe under that umbrella, but I'm sure you have a lot of legalese to apply

[3:26:56] to that concept that allows for ICE agents to come in to our jails.

[3:27:01] without our consent, without our agreement, whether we believe in it or not, it isn't something

[3:27:08] that we can actually interfere in, because it is public space.

[3:27:14] And there is no other exit from what I understand for those who are formally incarcerated

[3:27:22] to review exactly why we're not able to comply in a different way.

[3:27:32] I know I'm always looking at you because you're up here.

[3:27:35] Sorry, committee.

[3:27:37] You're leading this.

[3:27:38] No, not at all.

[3:27:39] Your exactly right supervisor.

[3:27:42] We've extensively researched that question in light of some of the actions that have occurred

[3:27:46] this year about the public lobbies and other public spaces in the county jails.

[3:27:51] and are the board's existing policies provide the strongest possible protection consistent

[3:27:56] with the law. For these public spaces, where individuals, whoever they may be, whether

[3:28:03] they're the male carrier, whether their families, whether their service providers coming

[3:28:07] into public lobbies of the jail, we can't impose limitations that are unique to ice

[3:28:12] that don't exist for others. So the only option would be to close the lobby to all public

[3:28:16] use is entirely, which is not a good policy that would be helpful to incarcerated people

[3:28:21] or their re-entry.

[3:28:23] So you're in short, you're exactly right.

[3:28:29] Words I don't necessarily want to hear in this case, but it sounds like there is no work around.

[3:28:37] You've done the research, you've tried to figure out what is going on.

[3:28:41] Now, the other question is, how does, and I don't know if you know this, but I think

[3:28:47] the question may be for the share of, as a follow-up, but do you know how, if you've

[3:28:53] done some research in this, do you know how the ICE agents are finding out who's getting

[3:28:58] released and who has, who's not documented?

[3:29:04] I don't know definitively, but I can tell you my strong belief about it, strong suspicion about

[3:29:09] But there are, first of all, date law enforcement databases that the county doesn't control,

[3:29:16] where that information can be available to federal law enforcement agents, which I

[3:29:20] are.

[3:29:22] Second, there are some publicly available sources of release information that the county provides,

[3:29:28] so that family members and service providers can access that information.

[3:29:32] There is absolutely no special access that's given to IZagians if they call up, they will

[3:29:37] the same information the public gets no more and there's no facilitation of those pickups but they

[3:29:43] they can access the same information the rest of the public can.

[3:29:47] Thank you. I appreciate that. I wish there was a different kind of an answer and

[3:29:55] unfortunately, they are also doing some research and they're also changing their...

[3:30:00] Graduates, as we know, and we've seen publicly they change their strategies as the community responds differently.

[3:30:07] But going back to this resolution and what is included in, I think it's 3.76 or no 3.

[3:30:17] Excuse me. 2.75.

[3:30:22] I know for me it's really important that we have these kinds of rules because it allows

[3:30:28] for the trust to return to our community if we've lost some and so I want to thank you

[3:30:35] for making sure that that we're very clear about what we're doing the signage is going to

[3:30:40] also be clear about what folks can actually do and not do and for me this is also about

[3:30:50] safety about public safety, about ensuring that we continue to uphold what we value in this

[3:30:58] county. And so I just want to thank all of your team both of you for your work. I'm sure you did

[3:31:04] a lot of research behind the scenes. And so I thank you for for doing this. I'm really proud

[3:31:09] that we're one of the first counties that's going to get this done. It's a race to the finish line.

[3:31:14] We'll see, but either way, to me, what matters most is that we've got it done and that our values

[3:31:22] are in alignment with our policies and as a policy meeting, I think there's nothing more

[3:31:28] rewarding to know that our values are aligned this way, so thank you so much for the work that you're

[3:31:34] doing.

[3:31:35] Thank you, Supervisor.

[3:31:36] I'll just say I would really like to credit my two colleagues, Bill and Hannah, who are with

[3:31:40] me and two others who aren't here, but who are really the powerhouses behind putting these documents

[3:31:43] together. Thank you, Bill and Hannah, and for those other two that are not here. And so with

[3:31:48] that, I will make a motion to approve our adopt our board policy resolution.

[3:31:57] Happy to second that motion. I just want to give my appreciation to the staff as well. Hannah,

[3:32:01] I was able to catch your presentation on these very issues at the CSAT conference. It was a

[3:32:13] and some of the comments may date, there is a sense of wanting more information from our county

[3:32:19] on these policies.

[3:32:20] There's a lot of, I would say, it's not consistent across the Bay Area region, and especially

[3:32:27] at CSAC, a lot of the conversations from our neighboring counties like, oh, how do you get

[3:32:32] past certain legal barriers that they've been experiencing?

[3:32:36] And that's to put all their business out here now in this public forum, because they were

[3:32:40] sharing some very specific legal issues, but I hope that we can share as much as possible and

[3:32:46] thought partnership, as much as possible with our neighboring counties, who are reflecting

[3:32:50] and sharing the same values on immigration policy and what federal cooperation can and should

[3:32:55] not look like.

[3:32:57] Yes, supervisor, that point and the points of supervisor Rennes was making are well taken and

[3:33:03] we've really leaned in to coalition building throughout the course of this Trump administration

[3:33:10] And most of our lawsuits, in fact, almost every one of the now-9 lawsuits that we filed

[3:33:18] against the Trump administration for various actions are coalition lawsuits.

[3:33:22] Many of them have several dozen jurisdictions involved.

[3:33:27] And we believe there is a real power in working in coalition.

[3:33:31] That extends beyond just the lawsuits to policy making.

[3:33:35] And we're certainly available and already in communication with jurisdictions and they will certainly be made aware of these policies, which are public.

[3:33:51] And I think we share the board's desire that they be looked to as a template or as a source of authority and thinking through some of these issues.

[3:34:02] Yeah, thank you so much.

[3:34:03] Thank you to Gaveeta, it's a bill to Hannah, to your extended team members who are not here today.

[3:34:11] The day that we get to consistency across the, at least the nine barrier regional counties,

[3:34:17] being able to have consistency across the board in ice reasons, non-correct cooperation policies.

[3:34:24] It gives such a huge sense of relief to our American communities, being able to know that from county to county,

[3:34:29] the laws don't change just because you pass the block. And that's just to say I really appreciate

[3:34:33] your work. Thank you again, Hannah, for that great presentation at CSAC and thank you for

[3:34:40] your work. And thank you, supervisor, and it's for your leadership on this. It's been quite a

[3:34:44] talking point, both at CSAC and also in the immigration networks.

[3:34:49] Wow. I just want to say

[3:34:52] a second, my comment from my colleagues here, really huge cool those of thank you to our

[3:34:57] Council's office, Kavida, and on their team putting this together.

[3:35:01] Ultimately, this work is not just this county, right?

[3:35:05] This is something that many other counties and local jurisdictions might not have the legal resources

[3:35:11] to do these hard work, these heavy lifting.

[3:35:14] And I think this is something that jurisdictions outside,

[3:35:17] our county, and hopefully even the jurisdiction outside the state,

[3:35:21] might be able to use these research to continue this important work to protect

[3:35:25] of communities every day during these difficult times.

[3:35:28] So, thank you so much for the hard work, but for the deal, let's take a vote.

[3:35:31] Oh, I'm sorry.

[3:35:32] I'm sorry.

[3:35:33] I'm sorry.

[3:35:34] I'm sorry.

[3:35:34] Just remember to something that somebody that we honor yesterday as well, which is Judge

[3:35:40] Yu, and I've held this quote for a really long time, and she has said, talk to them

[3:35:47] and really believes in it, demonstrative of it, but she has said, you know, Cornell West has

[3:35:54] ever forget that Justice, a lot of this what Justice is in public, I, and so I just really

[3:36:01] love that for all of us and in that way and have her be quoted in this work as well.

[3:36:08] Thank you.

[3:36:11] All right, and for the record that was a motion from Vice President

[3:36:15] Aranas and second in Vice Supervisor Yume.

[3:36:18] Supervisor Abhay Koga.

[3:36:20] Supervisor Yume.

[3:36:21] Yes.

[3:36:22] Supervisor Alonberg.

[3:36:23] Yes.

[3:36:23] Vice President Aranas.

[3:36:25] Yes.

[3:36:25] President Lee.

[3:36:26] I as well.

[3:36:27] Motion carries unanimously.

[3:36:29] Okay, I think we are now coming to the point where people becomes angry.

[3:36:34] So let's come back, House Bill, how about 140?

[3:36:37] Would that work, Ruby?

[3:36:38] For a while, break?

[3:36:39] Yes?

[3:36:40] Okay, good.

[3:36:40] So let's go to the recess now.

[3:36:42] Come back 140.

[3:36:44] And we'll start on item 14.

[3:36:49] Direct on the LHA.

[3:36:51] Thank you very much.

[3:36:51] 40 minutes.

[3:36:53] 40 minutes.

[3:36:54] 40 minutes.

[3:36:55] 45 minutes.

[4:25:29] And it was 1.40 and we're going to reconvene, let's take the roll.

[4:25:37] Supervisor Abbey Collet, abstain, supervisor Yuen, abstain, supervisor Ellen Burke, I'm here. Vice-president Arranna, sir.

[4:25:48] President Lee.

[4:25:49] Here as well. Good afternoon.

[4:25:50] You have a quorum.

[4:25:51] Okay, let's get rolling. Item number 14.

[4:25:55] As a report on the Latino Health Assessment recommendations.

[4:26:01] Now, before we begin, if you are on the chamber and require the ASL interpretation, this

[4:26:05] is available on the left-hand side of the chambers, which is my right, a view of the screen

[4:26:10] set up by the end of the dies, seats a reserve near the screen.

[4:26:15] Okay.

[4:26:16] Good afternoon.

[4:26:17] Good afternoon.

[4:26:18] My name is Analylia Garcia, I am the Chief Equity Officer, and also the director for

[4:26:23] the Division of Equity and Social Justice, I am very happy to be here with all of you

[4:26:28] today. I'm very excited to actually be joined by my esteemed colleagues, executives and senior

[4:26:35] leaders from across the organization, specifically departments that are integrating the Latino

[4:26:40] health assessment recommendations into their work. This afternoon, we will bring to you, we

[4:26:47] are bringing to you the first quarterly report for the Latino health assessment, which actually

[4:26:52] Highlights work that has already been completed.

[4:26:56] It is an opportunity for us to describe that work.

[4:27:00] It also includes an action plan,

[4:27:02] which is organized by domains and includes strategies

[4:27:06] that is also organized by departments

[4:27:07] and it includes a brief timeline.

[4:27:10] Now, we presented this report at CSFC on November 20th,

[4:27:15] and with the timing of the holidays,

[4:27:17] we were not able to provide additional information

[4:27:20] for this particular meeting, but we do plan on providing any additional information in future reports and also open to answering any questions here as well.

[4:27:29] And with that, I'll turn over to Dr. Redmond.

[4:27:32] Thank you, Sarah Redmond, Public Health Department, and I'll just make two additions to Dr. Garcia's opening remarks.

[4:27:38] First to add that the only portion that did become available just in that timeline between CSFC and our submission of these papers for today is a report from the Latino Health Summit.

[4:27:50] held in September, which was wildly successful in terms of its opportunity to bring community

[4:27:56] leaders together to understand the findings of the report to deeply into them and to move

[4:28:02] forward in concert with dedication towards action. So you'll see that addition at the, as an

[4:28:08] tandem to this report. And then one additional piece, I think, is important to highlight today,

[4:28:13] which is that after the original submission of the Latino Health Assessment in May,

[4:28:18] we received incredibly important feedback from our disability community members and leaders

[4:28:22] that there was a death of data, highlighting the intersectionality between people with disabilities

[4:28:28] and Latinos. And so since that time, we've been working to make a couple of strides to do better

[4:28:35] to make sure that that information is gathered and that more importantly, the actions we take as

[4:28:40] a response are meaningfully inclusive of people with disabilities. You'll see, for example, in here,

[4:28:45] the summit, roundtable discussions from that Latino health summit.

[4:28:50] There was a supplemental data brief shared at that time that prioritized or highlighted

[4:28:57] findings about Latinos with disabilities or families with people with disabilities.

[4:29:01] We continue to refine that brief that was put together in time for the summit and there

[4:29:05] should be, it is published on our website now but will be revised with additional recommendations.

[4:29:10] And then the ongoing work to share the findings of the summit having incorporated those

[4:29:14] as well as the recommendations to make sure that our community members of disabilities are incorporated into the planning,

[4:29:21] and that every action that comes out of Latino Health Assessment takes into account with the experience of disability, where relevant.

[4:29:29] With that, I will turn it back to the Board. We'd be very happy to answer your questions. Thank you.

[4:29:35] All right. Before we ask questions from the Board, let's see if there are any public like to speak on this item.

[4:29:51] I have one speaker in Chambers.

[4:30:00] And no speakers on Zoom. All right, there's two minutes.

[4:30:04] Oh, I do have one speaker on Zoom. Okay, two minutes. Come on in. All right.

[4:30:09] Our speaker in chambers is Mayor Maria Dane.

[4:30:16] Hello, good afternoon, supervisors and county staff. I'm Maria Dane, executive director of parents helping parents.

[4:30:22] We support families raising children with disabilities, thousands of whom are Latinos.

[4:30:26] We are heartened here from Dr. Redmond that in response to feedback, public health is working

[4:30:33] to update the disability data-free for advising it to be an addendum to the LHA.

[4:30:38] That public health has updated the universal LHA work plan using turnily by all departments

[4:30:42] to track their work and to add inclusion of people with disabilities everywhere relevant.

[4:30:47] This will expand to include updates for all future publications to the external version

[4:30:52] of the work plan so that the public has visibility.

[4:30:55] and that public health also plans to add recommended actions to the revised version of the

[4:31:01] agenda. So we are encouraged by this planning for intersectionality for community members

[4:31:06] who are both Latino and have a disability is complex. We are hopeful at the ways in which

[4:31:12] public health and DFCS are approaching planning for intersectionality and are eager to partner

[4:31:18] with the county to assist other departments as they move forward with their own implementation

[4:31:23] We are grateful to county staff to supervise our rainous team, to county supervisors and your team who heard the feedback from the Latino disability community.

[4:31:36] We are also grateful to partners who have been part of this effort.

[4:31:40] So we are encouraged that through these changes, our systems can be modified to be responsive in achieving health equity for all Latinos, including those with disabilities.

[4:31:49] When we plan ahead of time for intersectionality, we can save taxpayer money by having

[4:31:54] one set of services that works for everybody instead of two separate lines.

[4:31:59] Thank you very much.

[4:32:01] Thank you, and our Zoom speaker is Sherry Burns.

[4:32:10] Thank you.

[4:32:10] Good afternoon, President Lee.

[4:32:12] Members of the Board of Supervisors and Santa Clara County residents.

[4:32:15] My name is Sherry Burns.

[4:32:17] I'm an Executive Director of Silicon Valley Independent Living Center.

[4:32:20] A social services agency that provides independent living services, supports, and advocacy for

[4:32:26] people of disabilities living in Santa Clara County.

[4:32:30] I concur with the written comments submitted by my colleague Maria Jane with Parent

[4:32:35] Helping Parents.

[4:32:37] We greatly appreciate Dr. Redmond's positive response to our request to provide the board

[4:32:42] and public with updated data that attended to the Latino Health Assessment that more accurately

[4:32:48] reflects the number of Latino families living with disability in Santa Clara County.

[4:32:54] The LHA was a tremendous undertaking and provides a wonderful opportunity for our county to address the gaps in health services and wellness needs of our Latino residents.

[4:33:05] However, it is essential that any planning, health planning moving forward includes the estimated 16,000 Latino youth with disabilities

[4:33:14] and 138,000 Latino adults with disabilities living in Santa Clara County.

[4:33:21] We asked the Board to reaffirm its commitment to issue clear directives requiring all county

[4:33:27] departments to include disability specific data analysis and actions in their LHA related

[4:33:33] work and require that future development reports explicitly address the needs of our Latino

[4:33:40] residents with disabilities including children, adults and their caregivers. Thank you very much.

[4:33:49] And that concludes our speakers.

[4:33:53] Thank you. Vice President.

[4:33:56] Thank you. I'm going to start with what the speaker just ended with and asked that our team

[4:34:07] continues to include the disability community into the Latino Health Assessment and wanted

[4:34:15] to ask specifically about the addendum that the speaker noted, Maria, parents help in parents.

[4:34:25] What is the timeline around that?

[4:34:28] Sure.

[4:34:29] Thank you, Supervisor.

[4:34:31] The original version of that addendum was published in time for the Health Summit in September

[4:34:37] and is available on our website.

[4:34:38] So there is a first version currently available to the public.

[4:34:42] But we have received feedback on ways that which that first version can be further improved.

[4:34:47] So my hope is within the coming weeks, we will have a second version, and then we have added the recommendations to that second version and have reached out to community leaders for their input on those recommendations.

[4:35:00] So as soon as we hear back that we have correctly understood the feedback from the community and those recommendations are in line, we can add that and get the full updated version published to our website.

[4:35:11] So I appreciate the input from the community and and I'm hopeful that by January we'll see that fall at end and published.

[4:35:19] Lovely.

[4:35:20] Thank you so much.

[4:35:21] And I apologize to the disability community, especially our children who rely on adults like ourselves

[4:35:31] and predictors of the safety net services to ensure that we always speak about them.

[4:35:36] And that we keep them in mind when we develop policy.

[4:35:41] And so that is a huge oversight on our part, on my part.

[4:35:47] And I know I've talked about my son and his learning issues

[4:35:53] that could have taken him on a different track.

[4:35:57] I've spoken very openly about that.

[4:36:01] And it's partly the reason why I'm in public service

[4:36:04] and why I wasn't elected as a school board member.

[4:36:09] And so it really, I'm just, forgive us, forgive us for this oversight.

[4:36:18] It wasn't meant to exclude anyone in particular, especially those who were impacted with

[4:36:26] a specific disability, whether it's a learning on learning, a physical, I just disabled

[4:36:32] community and so I want to make sure that we include that and then we also understand

[4:36:38] so that when you come to us next that you also review that a

[4:36:42] dendom with us and with the board so that we can understand how they are impacted

[4:36:49] differently right and I know that in our in our event that we had two months ago

[4:36:57] So we actually talked about dismantling some of the historical inequities and one of those inequities is in the school system, right?

[4:37:10] And it's creating a school to prison pipeline that we all know about.

[4:37:15] And for many of those kiddos who get fed into that pipeline, it's because they have some kind of learning difference that doesn't love for them to sit,

[4:37:25] or to focus, or to learn, or those kiddos who have so many adverse childhood experiences

[4:37:32] at such an early age that stress doesn't allow them to think and to focus.

[4:37:41] And then to develop in a way that other children are able to develop and reach their full potential.

[4:37:49] And so it's up to us to continue to think about them.

[4:37:51] So this is just my way of trying to make things right for our community, but also integrate

[4:37:59] the conversation in the way that I think really makes sense because this is what we've

[4:38:04] been talking about.

[4:38:05] It's one in the same.

[4:38:05] We are talking about the school of the prison pipeline and my ultimate goal is to disrupt

[4:38:11] that especially for those who are more predominantly overrepresented in those pipelines,

[4:38:17] which is a black and brown communities, and I know for many of our boys it begins with schools

[4:38:24] and it begins with a receiving the right kind of support so that they can learn and be fruitful

[4:38:32] and just reach the full potential. So I'll leave that alone, but it'll never be just a side

[4:38:39] conversation or a conversation that we have as an afterthought. I want us to continue to always have

[4:38:45] that at the center of the conversations that we have,

[4:38:49] because it just impacts the different aspects of what we're

[4:38:55] trying to do, of their lives and what we're trying

[4:38:59] to do within our systems to create equity around that.

[4:39:05] All right.

[4:39:07] I have a couple of questions regarding some of the information.

[4:39:13] And thank you so much for continuing

[4:39:15] to bring in back this cross-interred departmental effort, which I think is the way that we should

[4:39:25] deliver services and I know at one point the county had a whole framework around being

[4:39:32] able to deliver services across the departments because I think that's when we get the most

[4:39:38] from all of our safety net services and so thank you so much for leading in this effort and

[4:39:44] continuing to do that, I know it takes additional time and conversations, and so I just want

[4:39:51] to say thank you for doing that.

[4:39:56] So I know that the federal cuts that we're all experiencing will impact most of our under-resourced

[4:40:06] communities and those who have different documentation.

[4:40:13] And so what I'm wondering about is, how are we going to prepare for some of those impacts

[4:40:22] within the work that we're doing because as we're moving forward and trying to figure

[4:40:26] in action plan, we can't think of just the data that we collected before all of the laws

[4:40:35] The rules are in some of the social impacts that are being created right now because of the administration.

[4:40:43] How are you taking that into account as we move forward?

[4:40:51] Thank you for that question.

[4:40:52] I'll start with an answer on behalf of public health and see if my colleagues have anything to add.

[4:40:56] I think just the point needs to be reiterated that the data used in the Latino health assessment were almost all gathered before the latest federal administration changed.

[4:41:07] which we know has dramatically changed the health and wellness landscape across the county,

[4:41:13] but especially in disproportionately for Latino community members.

[4:41:16] So I think that recognition doesn't get missed in any of the implementation planning that follows.

[4:41:22] For the work that is following to the public health department, I see intersections for example,

[4:41:27] as we plan for our community health worker or Prometauras working group that is currently working on an in-depth proposal to understand

[4:41:35] what we would need to have a true comprehensive community health worker program for Latino residents

[4:41:41] and which we expect to bring back in the spring.

[4:41:44] We are already learning that both the agencies that provide that work and that work in a culturally appropriate way for Latino communities are being impacted.

[4:41:54] Our ability to certainly expand but even sustain the current level of work is being impacted

[4:42:00] And the places in which our Latino community members feel safe accessing services as being impacted.

[4:42:07] So I think what we are finding is we are in real time incorporating the views of the community into building

[4:42:14] the implementation, building the work that is coming out of Latino health assessment.

[4:42:20] So even though the data themselves didn't incorporate the full extent of the current environment,

[4:42:26] the planning for how it will respond to it does in every way in which we move forward.

[4:42:31] And that's just one example, I don't know if my colleagues have additional examples as well.

[4:42:38] I could just add something on this point.

[4:42:40] We know that there's a whole multitude of federal-related impacts,

[4:42:46] but one of the most significant of course is in the space of healthcare.

[4:42:49] And it's being compounded by state-related impacts,

[4:42:52] to, including to our state-only medical program, which provides access to care to about 74,000

[4:43:01] individuals in our community, and the combination of those state and federal changes together

[4:43:10] will undoubtedly significantly exacerbate the disparities that we have seen on the health

[4:43:18] And there are, of course, a multitude of ways in which we're trying to respond as an organization,

[4:43:24] one of which is to mitigate the access to care challenges that are posed by trying to ensure

[4:43:33] that our doors, at least, are remaining open and welcome to all.

[4:43:37] But a second piece of it is state-related advocacy around maintaining robust access to care.

[4:43:44] And I know we have later on the agenda our monthly legislative report, but I just want to highlight

[4:43:50] two facets of this that I find deeply concerning and troubling, which is that so far the response

[4:43:58] at the state level on access to care has been to focus on cost cutting and not on the placement

[4:44:08] of equity considerations at the forefront.

[4:44:12] And in the state looking at the state-only program, as well as changes to medical, the focus

[4:44:19] has really been on reducing scope and access to services.

[4:44:24] This of course is major implications across California.

[4:44:27] It's actually even worse.

[4:44:29] Obviously our job is to focus on taking care of the residents here in Santa Clara County,

[4:44:34] But just to put it in the context, far worse in those parts of the state that don't have a public delivery system,

[4:44:42] like we do that will maintain open doors for everyone.

[4:44:47] And where a loss of insurance coverage means a complete loss of access to primary, chronic care, et cetera, all together.

[4:45:00] In ways that we know have devastating outcomes on individuals and their families.

[4:45:10] There was conversation last year with respect to the state-only program about creating basically a narrow product.

[4:45:18] They call a skinny product, right, where you cleave off elements of coverage.

[4:45:24] And that's very concerning because in the long run, if you actually, if for folks who have chronic health conditions take, for example, you know, diabetes, for instance, if these are individuals don't actually have access to both primary care as well as medicine that they need right pharmaceuticals and ongoing healthcare.

[4:45:51] Even if they get emergency care, when things are bad, the health outcomes even with that care are so much worse.

[4:46:01] Not to mention far less cost-effective.

[4:46:05] And the other really concerning piece when you think about this from a state level is that county's statutory obligations with respect to indigent care are only applicable.

[4:46:19] if you read well for an institution's code 17,000, only apply to folks who have who are

[4:46:29] either citizens or who have permanent residents and long-term status. And so there's a gap

[4:46:38] that the state only program fills. That's very critical.

[4:46:44] We will of course continue to do whatever we

[4:46:49] can locally to maintain access, but I want to emphasize that point because we have residents

[4:46:57] also who move.

[4:46:58] When you're talking about, for example, our agriculture community.

[4:47:03] They're not just located in only Santa Clara County, and the fact that today we have

[4:47:11] families and individuals who are actually able to be on a medical product that has statewide

[4:47:17] coverage means you have statewide access to care and continuity of care and pharmaceutical

[4:47:22] care and chronic disease coverage and care and to that extent a solution that's just

[4:47:33] Santa Clara County delivery specific is insufficient to ensure that those families actually maintain

[4:47:41] access to care and coverage. So one of the pieces of advocacy that I believe is very important

[4:47:48] and critical is that the state not only be doing whatever it can to maintain folks coverage

[4:47:54] on medical itself, but that the scope of that coverage, the design of that coverage continue

[4:48:01] to be one that has an appropriate full spectrum of services that addresses some of these most critical

[4:48:09] health care needs in the community.

[4:48:12] And I would add that we're in the early stages,

[4:48:15] but we will be bringing back to the board recommendations

[4:48:19] on how we, in a redesigned manner, expand access

[4:48:26] to our county's own indigenous care programs that really

[4:48:31] have shrunk significantly because we've been so successful

[4:48:36] in reducing the number of uninsured

[4:48:38] In Santa Clara County it's Paul Remind me it's like 2.0 something percent now and it used

[4:48:45] to be 21 percent before the Affordable Care Act just to put that magnitude and perspective.

[4:48:53] And of course we we fear that it'll return even with our best efforts it'll certainly

[4:48:59] rise from the current 2 percent range and so we're going to have to redesign those programs

[4:49:07] to try to maintain access to primary preventative, full service care.

[4:49:15] But that's not a substitute for what's happening at the state level because, like I said,

[4:49:21] by necessity, though, that's not a program that has statewide scope and cover.

[4:49:34] We're going to see the impacts of that by further shortening the lives of the people that

[4:49:41] we've already know live two years less than their counterparts in the end, I think that's

[4:49:47] what we'll continue to see.

[4:49:52] And so I know we don't have the answer to all the answers now, but I know that through some

[4:49:58] of the advocacy I hope that we can have some level of impact and maybe some organization

[4:50:02] and through out the counties to figure how do we respond to some of the cuts and maybe through

[4:50:13] that level of unity there could be a greater voice that the state can hear and the governor

[4:50:19] can hear. As we know, we have more power in numbers. So please count me in in that effort.

[4:50:28] But we're going back to this piece that I'm asking about is because I want us to make sure

[4:50:38] that we are bringing everyone together and that this work is being done so in such an integrated

[4:50:47] way that is hard to separate, right, and that that's the way that we carry out the work

[4:50:53] from here on.

[4:50:54] And it's not just for health assessment, but it's also could be true also, let's say, for

[4:50:59] the disability community that we bring them into each of the priorities that we have

[4:51:06] as board members, and that we always keep them because they're integrated.

[4:51:11] They're so integrated.

[4:51:11] It is hard for us not to have a conversation about that community, as we take on further

[4:51:18] priorities.

[4:51:18] I just think that sometimes in bureaucracy we are meant to specialize in some task and because

[4:51:31] the task requires efficiency, it is sometimes done in a vacuum, right, and is done without

[4:51:39] any coordination from others.

[4:51:42] But I think the world is reminding us that we all need to work with one another and so thank

[4:51:47] you for doing that.

[4:51:48] But I'm going to move on to something that I think has also been prevalent in this year in

[4:51:56] terms of violence, and this is, you know, we have certain areas that we focused on in our

[4:52:04] event.

[4:52:05] And one of them was violence prevention, and of course through the leadership of supervisor

[4:52:16] to help the assessment also feeds into and the cost of gun violence also feeds into and

[4:52:22] and thank you to Supervisor Lee who had a gun by back event this weekend that had 300 plus

[4:52:30] guns that were returned, which means those are 300 less guns that are out there.

[4:52:36] The reason I bring guns up in the violence is because there has been some recent violence

[4:52:42] public involved violence that I think could create a swing in the pendulum in terms of how

[4:52:54] we are going to treat and deal with our youth and hold our youth accountable and later on

[4:52:59] in this meeting will have a discussion about child welfare and some of the reform work that

[4:53:06] is happening there, the corrective action plan that we're working on and there's a lot of really

[4:53:10] great work within that there's also a study that takes a look at the children who have had

[4:53:20] a child welfare case or a referral and then the kids who are in probation and the majority

[4:53:28] of them from the two referrals to cases however you know I can't say that I know the exact

[4:53:37] for that, but let's say a case is the majority of our kids, which is about 70% of our kids,

[4:53:45] and I know it's not a very specific quote, but later on I'll get that number to you,

[4:53:53] but I think this is a really good opportunity for us to continue to integrate the work that child welfare

[4:53:59] and DFCS is doing in terms of finding that connection between violence that's produced either by

[4:54:06] their youth or by our community and some of the systems that we're in charge of.

[4:54:11] And so if we see that there's a higher number, at least six plus six cases, six referrals on a child on a youth by the time they hit our enter the juvenile justice system.

[4:54:27] That means that's a lot of trauma that's a lot of abuse.

[4:54:31] And that requires us to do something differently.

[4:54:36] And by the time they're a little older, referrals may not be, they might not be calls for child abuse anymore.

[4:54:45] As kids get a little older, there's less calls on our children or on our youth or teenagers.

[4:54:54] And so that might also be the reason why there's less kids in the system because some of the most impactful programs are those that are duly involved.

[4:55:03] use that's do we'll involve one that has a case from DFCS and then also a case

[4:55:09] or involvement in probation and we have seen how wonderful that has been in

[4:55:16] terms of response for our youth and so the reason I ask you to take a look at

[4:55:22] this and to look at what the what the research has been or this study that has

[4:55:27] been is because I think it'll really speak to what is how we can reroute or

[4:55:33] disrupt that pipeline for our youth in a very meaningful way because we have access to those

[4:55:41] children within the DSCS system. And so if we already have access to them, we know that the likelihood

[4:55:49] that they're going to come back, return, maybe not under voluntary, but whatever scaffold or

[4:55:57] a higher level of involvement that they will be in in our program,

[4:56:05] we know that those two things

[4:56:07] are connected. And I think that this group is also responsible for the kind of narrative

[4:56:17] that we create around our youth and the systems that are producing them, right? Because I think

[4:56:24] It's also our responsibility, I think it's our failure

[4:56:29] to provide the services for those children.

[4:56:32] Children shouldn't have up to six cases.

[4:56:37] And then move on into probation

[4:56:39] to the juvenile justice system.

[4:56:40] That is also a red flag for us.

[4:56:43] It's a red flag saying your systems are not working.

[4:56:46] You need to shift something.

[4:56:48] And so I also ask you to incorporate that.

[4:56:51] And so I'll make a motion to approve the report and then also ask you to look at the study

[4:57:02] that is in item,

[4:57:08] the study from the DFCS volunteer, I think it's a voluntary services study

[4:57:12] and I can tell you more, guys, I'm going to get off track if I try to look for it right

[4:57:20] But I know Wendy is somewhere in the building, so she can also attach that item 15.

[4:57:28] Thank you.

[4:57:29] The following item.

[4:57:33] How hard was that?

[4:57:37] The other reason that I want us to continue to have these conversations is because we know that there are things that are happening to our children and to our families

[4:57:48] that are within our systems that we can have some level of oversight or at least shift or be

[4:57:54] responsive a little bit differently.

[4:57:58] And, you know, earlier in, earlier in the item we've talked

[4:58:03] about the Valley Homeless Program and unfortunately, you know, you know, this you can tell

[4:58:11] me about it, but I don't know how long this trend has been, but Latinos have been predominantly

[4:58:17] overrepresented in the unhoused community, correct, and one of the concerns about that is that

[4:58:27] being unhoused, and then having all of these other adverse childhood experiences, is adding

[4:58:34] to the level of trauma and violence that those kiddos are then exposed to, and maybe the

[4:58:44] And I don't know, but I think there could be another study that could tell us, and this is what I'm also going to ask in that next item is to look at the involvement or the number of referrals that have been produced in DFCS and the child welfare system and the kind of crimes that are youth are involved in, right?

[4:59:03] And so this is something else that I really want you all to really keep an eye on because I will be asking for that.

[4:59:09] But because I think there is ways that we can disrupt that, and there is interventions that

[4:59:15] we can produce as a system, it's our responsibility to do that, especially if we haven't

[4:59:20] connected those dots before, it's time for us to begin to connect those dots now.

[4:59:26] The other dot that I wanted to connect is concerning the unhoused community because there's

[4:59:33] a lot of families, especially I hear that quite a bit in South County, where there

[4:59:39] and a lot of options for our children and our families to go to safely be in, except for maybe

[4:59:48] in their cars, right?

[4:59:50] And then, of course, we had Valley Water who did a sweep and removed quite a number of families

[4:59:58] and could include children and...

[5:00:00] You know, it's our responsibility also not to have children living outside in that way, especially when we are in the Silicon Valley, where we have so much richness.

[5:00:17] And so one of the things that I was thinking about is around homelessness,

[5:00:25] I wonder if we could figure out how to

[5:00:29] continue to reimagine solutions for Latinos and we've had this bit of a conversation but I'm

[5:00:37] hoping that we can apply it to this this body of work here and one of the things that we did

[5:00:45] at the City of San Jose for Section 8 is that landlords were discriminating against Section 8 voucher.

[5:00:54] Now I don't know if in the county we already have an ordinance that prohibits the the

[5:00:59] discrimination, but that could be something that we could utilize to hold landlords more

[5:01:05] responsible for that discrimination.

[5:01:10] And figure out, maybe this is something that

[5:01:13] that can continue to help families. You're looking at me, Tony, because I think you might

[5:01:17] have a response, no? Are you going to answer that question whether we have that?

[5:01:22] Yeah, it is a part of state law, and is something that's being considered as part of a

[5:01:27] protection ordinance as well.

[5:01:29] Wonderful.

[5:01:30] Well, you know what?

[5:01:30] You bring up a really great point.

[5:01:34] And, you know, this is part of,

[5:01:35] I think, having additional solutions within our toolbox.

[5:01:43] And in our, you know, health assessment action plan,

[5:01:47] we already have the housing and homelessness domain.

[5:01:51] And so, I think for me,

[5:01:54] I want us to continue to think about ways that we can mitigate or create more access to housing for all of our families.

[5:02:07] We're talking about Latinos here, but children, no matter what their ethnicity should not be living outside,

[5:02:16] and should be protected in the way that they deserve.

[5:02:19] And so what I'm hoping is that we could also talk about, and part of my motion is to bring maybe a draft tenant protection ordinance that could directly address some of the issues that we know renters have been dealing with, and I know that that letting us are primarily renters in this valley, the working class that my parents grew up,

[5:02:47] I was familiar with, we're able to purchase homes and create stability and generational wealth

[5:02:54] that I took advantage of but not, you know, the work in class of today is just not

[5:02:59] able to do that. And so what I'm hoping is that in the next quarterly update that we have

[5:03:06] for the Latino Health Assessment that you could bring some options forward so that we can

[5:03:12] so that the board can have and consider as part of the solutions?

[5:03:18] Yes, absolutely.

[5:03:19] And just to clarify, Supervisor Erinnis, do you want that draft ordinance come directly to the board?

[5:03:25] Yes, I'm sorry.

[5:03:27] That's what I said.

[5:03:27] I apologize.

[5:03:28] If I said it incorrectly, or if I said something different.

[5:03:32] Yes, that's exactly what I said.

[5:03:34] And so I'm hoping that that as part of this discussion.

[5:03:38] And if there's something else that I'm not thinking about that, you know, that you all have,

[5:03:45] you are the experts in your field.

[5:03:48] And so if there's something else in addition to what I've asked for regarding housing,

[5:03:57] please let me know now.

[5:04:00] And I'm happy to explore it.

[5:04:03] Do you have the solutions to homelessness is what I guess I'm asking you?

[5:04:08] Thank you, Vice President, I mean, I think, you know, when we bring the new updated community

[5:04:14] plant and homelessness, we will, you know, we're in the process of doing a lot of outreach

[5:04:20] and we shared the housing brief with the working groups, our continuum of care partners,

[5:04:25] our developer partners, we shared it widely and are also incorporating learnings from that,

[5:04:33] federal context that we're in in that plan and I think that plan will have some, you know,

[5:04:39] build on the success that we've had, but also bring some new opportunities as well.

[5:04:44] And there has been a lot of success. I know it, I'm making it like, it's, it's very

[5:04:49] dreary out there, right? But you have had a lot of success. There's a lot of success under Measure A,

[5:04:55] you know, this board and those who've served before us have done a little, a lot of really great

[5:05:00] work so I don't want to take away from all those efforts and the efforts that are taking place

[5:05:05] right now.

[5:05:07] I just want us to continue to take a look at what options there are and continue to connect

[5:05:13] the dots with other work that is happening within the different departments or within, you

[5:05:19] know, just the different municipalities and so anyways it's a lesson that I've learned to

[5:05:26] I always emulate those who are doing work as you don't have to replicate it.

[5:05:33] That really I think is it for me in terms of questions and comments and so that is my

[5:05:39] motion hopefully I can get a second on that.

[5:05:42] Very glad to second the motion.

[5:05:44] Yes, my own.

[5:05:46] Thank you.

[5:05:47] Supervisor Ernest for your leadership on this and for your comments today.

[5:05:52] I'll also extend appreciation to Dr. Redmond and the team for providing an update on the steps

[5:05:59] that public health is taking to be sure that the LHA acknowledges and continues to be inclusive

[5:06:05] of the Latino community members who have disabilities.

[5:06:09] And I'm looking forward to future seeing and hearing substantive updates in future public

[5:06:17] facing reports back.

[5:06:19] When I also think the public speaker Sherry Burns and Maria Dane

[5:06:23] for just continued fearless advocacy and guidance

[5:06:28] and ongoing education, I know that I benefit from it.

[5:06:34] And I think generally, one of the best effects of advocacy

[5:06:39] is teaching us and making sure with all of the things

[5:06:44] that are in front of us, that we don't unintentionally leave anybody behind.

[5:06:51] So, very grateful for that inclusion as well.

[5:06:54] Today's report was largely focused on strategies regarding the house system, which is absolutely critical.

[5:07:02] I'm interested to know at what point in this process you envision the board seeing some kind of update on

[5:07:10] place-based interventions for communities that are outlined in the assessment, and I'm thinking

[5:07:18] in particular of the Cadillac Winchester district,

[5:07:24] in my district, which like too many Latino

[5:07:26] communities across the county is certainly a need of new and ongoing community-based resources

[5:07:33] I'll continue to include them in the conversation.

[5:07:36] I realize this is not a time that we are talking about,

[5:07:41] necessarily talking about expansions and identifications of new funding,

[5:07:46] but just give me a sense of where the place-based strategies fall in this work.

[5:07:52] Supervisor, thank you for that question.

[5:07:54] In terms of the report backs and the components being led by Public Health,

[5:07:59] one thing that is happening right now is what we're pulling the

[5:08:02] closing the loop conversations back into the communities that either

[5:08:06] bubbled up through the data as to Cadillac Winchester, Parts of East

[5:08:11] San Jose, South County, as having particular need, and with communities

[5:08:18] individuals who gave data or input directly into the report.

[5:08:21] And so we have sessions scheduled, one for North County, one for East

[5:08:26] San Jose, and a particular effort to ensure that Cadillac Winchester

[5:08:30] is included and invited to make sure they hear back direct presentation of the report and have an opportunity to say.

[5:08:38] Here's what I think you got right. Here's what may have been missed. Here's where I see a role for a unique need here coming out of these recommendations.

[5:08:46] And we did hold one of these meetings already in South County as well.

[5:08:50] As for the specific action items already referred by the board,

[5:08:55] we need to individual place-based investments.

[5:08:59] Again, I think those falling to public health right now focus

[5:09:03] on the community health worker investigation.

[5:09:05] And so ensuring the kind of like Winchester is represented

[5:09:08] as a beneficiary of whatever system we're able to propose

[5:09:12] to that process is a particular focus in our case.

[5:09:15] Great. Thank you so much.

[5:09:17] just to note that this is a neighborhood like so many others that is very challenged by

[5:09:23] transportation options. So expecting them to come to an East San Jose gathering, maybe a little

[5:09:32] bit unrealistic, but certainly my team would be happy to work with you on doing something that

[5:09:38] the community can actually access.

[5:09:40] Thank you.

[5:09:42] I think that could just add to Dr. Rodman's response.

[5:09:45] In terms of a timeline, I believe that in our next update,

[5:09:49] we'll be able to provide you with lessons from those conversations

[5:09:52] as a bird we are going back to the communities.

[5:09:55] And also in the next six months,

[5:09:57] imagine an update as well in the community health worker.

[5:10:00] That's really helpful.

[5:10:01] Thank you.

[5:10:02] So Vice President has a follow up with that question.

[5:10:04] I was wondering if I could add to this because I think it would be wonderful

[5:10:08] Well, if in the action plan we could find jurisdiction allow for us as policymakers and each

[5:10:16] one, it's board member to recognize and nature of your cities and the schools, kind

[5:10:20] of have a guide like an action plan recommendations that could provide opportunities for

[5:10:26] partnership between the county and your respective areas and not forgetting that, of course,

[5:10:31] you know, I'm focused on South County.

[5:10:33] everybody's focus on their own perspective, that's why we're voted in, right. So I'm happy to include

[5:10:39] that in the motion if you're okay with that. That's a wonderful suggestion. Thank you. Perfect.

[5:10:45] And so then I'll add to direct the administration to prepare the Latino Health Assessment Action

[5:10:50] Plan project list by jurisdiction to allow policymakers in each city and school district to have a

[5:10:56] guide from the recommendations.

[5:11:01] That's it.

[5:11:02] Okay.

[5:11:02] Just a second?

[5:11:03] Of course?

[5:11:03] Yes.

[5:11:04] All right.

[5:11:05] Thank you very much.

[5:11:06] That's all I have.

[5:11:06] It's really appreciated this report.

[5:11:08] Great.

[5:11:09] Thank you.

[5:11:10] I'll see you in more light.

[5:11:11] First, I want to thank staff for this huge body of work has been a lot of amazing inputs

[5:11:17] working to where we are right now.

[5:11:19] So it's only.

[5:11:20] The work is not done.

[5:11:21] We've only just begun in some ways.

[5:11:24] by having the recommendation, we need to execute those.

[5:11:26] So, someone say, thank you so much for the good work, looking forward to these improvement

[5:11:31] to be implemented to really serve our community, especially during these challenging times, both

[5:11:35] and budget and the immigration climate.

[5:11:38] So, thank you.

[5:11:39] All right, but for what you do, let's have a talk about.

[5:11:41] Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. President.

[5:11:43] I do have an additional item for direction, I apologize, the very last one, this is to direct

[5:11:50] administration to make for the counties we have a neighborhood services and education and our

[5:11:56] internal CSFC committee meeting so there's a presentation that's supposed to include the

[5:12:04] cost of gun violence and so I'm hoping that they can actually do that presentation at the

[5:12:10] NSC CSFC joint meeting with us with a focus on action plan implementation and so have that

[5:12:18] be available and presented to the San Jose City Council and provide offers of comparable

[5:12:23] presentation to other cities where the Santa Clara counties like the communities heavily

[5:12:27] represented, including all the different areas that we already know.

[5:12:33] That's it.

[5:12:34] Okay.

[5:12:34] The second.

[5:12:35] All right.

[5:12:36] Let's take the vote.

[5:12:38] Thank you.

[5:12:38] Supervisor Abiculga?

[5:12:39] I.

[5:12:40] Supervisor Young?

[5:12:41] Yes.

[5:12:42] Supervisor Ellenberg?

[5:12:43] Yes.

[5:12:44] Vice President Aranas?

[5:12:45] Yes.

[5:12:45] President Lee.

[5:12:46] I as well.

[5:12:47] Motion case.

[5:12:48] Thank you.

[5:12:49] Moving to item 15 report from DFCS on update regarding child welfare reform efforts.

[5:13:11] The second place in the musical chair.

[5:13:22] You have to amend the go ahead.

[5:13:25] All right.

[5:13:25] Good afternoon.

[5:13:26] Supervisors.

[5:13:26] Wendy.

[5:13:26] Can air out share with department of family and children services.

[5:13:30] I will be doing the presentation today.

[5:13:32] But joining me will be Heidi Emberling.

[5:13:35] Sarah Duffy.

[5:13:36] And I also have a presentation partners here.

[5:13:37] should let me be needed for the discussion and questions afterwards.

[5:13:42] So today we are bringing back an update on a variety of things from Department of

[5:13:46] Family and Children Services. We will have an update on our corrective action plan with the

[5:13:51] California State Department of Social Services. Next slide please. The child welfare community

[5:13:56] roundtable, our community social worker pilot program, the board referral on evaluations of

[5:14:02] our voluntary services and understanding of the referrals related to our duly involved

[5:14:07] to youth, understanding resources for youth who qualify for acute services or programs and

[5:14:13] how this links to youth in community who might not be involved in child welfare system

[5:14:17] who may be homeless or run away, and then finally the child care needs for our current

[5:14:21] and former foster youth.

[5:14:24] Next slide.

[5:14:25] So first and update on our progress on our corrective action plan.

[5:14:28] As a reminder to the Board, California Department of Social Services provided DSCS with

[5:14:33] recommendations requiring immediate action after an on-site review of policies and procedures

[5:14:39] in cases that can February of 2024, and report detailing all of the areas of improvement.

[5:14:46] In response, DFCS created a corrective action plan to address those eight recommendations,

[5:14:51] and it has reported out progress and efforts monthly to the children and seniors,

[5:14:55] children, seniors, and families committee. There are 75 action items.

[5:15:00] And the following graph is an update as of November. You will see that we are more than half way there, with 55% or 41 of our items completed and signed off by Department of Social Services, and one under review since this date has been signed off.

[5:15:16] Nearly all other items about 37% are in process, and there's a few that are left to start that build on others. Next slide.

[5:15:23] The efforts that we share out are in three different pillars of understanding.

[5:15:29] The first is our primary responsibility safeguarding children, supporting and developing

[5:15:33] our workforce because we can't do this work without our workforce, and then finally our

[5:15:38] key partnerships to support the work with children and families.

[5:15:41] Highlights that we present, highlight since we last presented to all of you include the following.

[5:15:46] Under safeguarding children, we've been both tracking our mandated compliance and evaluating

[5:15:50] our quality work with families. We've continued to build out our CQI tools to ensure that we

[5:15:56] have quality assessments. During this review period we've launched our tool for our child and family

[5:16:02] team meetings. We have a coach observing the engagement of social workers with parents because

[5:16:07] we know assessments are only as good as how you engage with parents. We also launched our

[5:16:13] quality assessment tool on our risk assessments. I'm pleased to report as well that we also

[5:16:18] continue to track our data. And for three consecutive months, DSES has exceeded the 90% required

[5:16:25] rate for SDM completion and decision making. So at the hotline, our tool rate in completion

[5:16:31] is 99.9% for SDM safety, 98.7% and for SDM risk, 97.4. So please respond that we are,

[5:16:41] please report that we're in line with where we should be. In our work with staff, we've partnered

[5:16:46] with the California Department of Social Services,

[5:16:48] for our child, fatality, and nerve fatality

[5:16:50] e-learning training.

[5:16:51] This is going to be an off the shelf

[5:16:53] so that we can continue to do refreshers

[5:16:55] and training for staff.

[5:16:56] We did that in partnership with the California Department

[5:16:59] of Social Services.

[5:17:00] We've also been working on our supervision improvement tool

[5:17:03] and that has been tested by managers

[5:17:05] and supervisors in October and November

[5:17:07] to be of a consistent way to document the work

[5:17:10] that's happening with our teams.

[5:17:11] In addition, DSCS management and exact team have continued meetings with teams to deepen our

[5:17:17] engagement to deepen the ways we are listening and hearing and improving our communication.

[5:17:22] And we continue to acknowledge that the work must be done in partnership.

[5:17:26] So during this time, we've stayed adhered and tethered to our partnerships with behavioral

[5:17:30] health services on our build out of our highest level placements in short term residential

[5:17:36] treatment programs, as well as we've partnered with CDSS around all of our policies and

[5:17:40] procedures, especially around new referrals from hotline all the way through the system.

[5:17:45] And then we've had regular meetings with labor to make sure we're mindful of any impacts

[5:17:49] on staff.

[5:17:50] And then our key partners that we've stated the table with are Spark, our Health and Hospital

[5:17:55] Systems, the Child Advocacy Center, the Child Abuse Prevention Council, JJC, Law Enforcement

[5:18:01] and Court, because we cannot do this work without them.

[5:18:04] Next slide.

[5:18:06] In November of 2024, at the request of Supervisor Uranus and former Supervisor Chavez, the board requested options to establish a child welfare roundtable that brings together stakeholders for improved partnerships.

[5:18:19] These options were presented back in February 2025 to the children and seniors.

[5:18:23] I'm pleased to report to date that actually 25, this slide is 22, but we're at 25 today.

[5:18:30] Stay callers have accepted membership and have agreed to meetings, future agenda items, and to do this in partnership to improve relations and services.

[5:18:39] I'm also happy to report that this membership includes our court partners.

[5:18:43] Our placement partners, including the Katva, our CBOs, the Juvenile Justice Commission, the Child

[5:18:49] Disease Prevention Council, both of which have some responsibilities within child welfare.

[5:18:54] And most importantly, those who have lived experience, our parents, our youth, and our caregivers.

[5:18:59] DFCS looks forward to this collaboration and feels like we're steadily on our way in the right direction.

[5:19:04] Next slide.

[5:19:06] Also in November of 2024, also at the request of Supervisor, Dynas, and former Supervisor Chavez,

[5:19:11] So we were asked to report back on options for a pilot to station social workers in schools

[5:19:16] and consider hospitals in areas of highest referrals.

[5:19:19] This idea originally generated from a child abuse hotline social worker.

[5:19:25] Since our last report out, I'm happy to say we've partnered with Labor.

[5:19:28] We've stationed two experienced by-lingual hotline social workers in respective districts.

[5:19:34] The first one launched in October with a social worker down in Giora unified school district.

[5:19:39] Officially, that social worker started on site at Christopher High School on December 1st,

[5:19:44] and then we had a social worker who began at Franklin McKinley School District, also launched in October

[5:19:49] and on site as of last Friday, December 5th.

[5:19:53] School districts can connect with the social worker for hotline referrals either in person or by phone.

[5:19:58] Next step is a small committee in partnership with the schools and the hotline social workers and our data

[5:20:03] to take at ways that we will evaluate this to determine what will constitute success and what are the next steps.

[5:20:10] Next slide. Also included in the packet to the board,

[5:20:14] at the request of Supervisor Lee, is the child welfare case flow process that we developed.

[5:20:19] DFCS has added numbers of children and families served in program areas in 2025.

[5:20:24] I'm happy to report this done in useful tools, so thank you, Supervisor Lee, for that in educating others.

[5:20:30] All right. Now let's move to the evaluation of voluntary services. A review at the request

[5:20:35] as supervisor Aranis and former supervisor Chavez to report back on families who've been

[5:20:40] referred to voluntary services within child welfare and the effectiveness of engaging

[5:20:44] with those families. This case review consisted of 109 families involving children births

[5:20:50] to age 5 with a closed case between April of 2023 and April of 2024. There were interviews

[5:20:57] with the social workers and supervisors in both emergency response and voluntary services and

[5:21:03] then data for review for this families engage both their history and if they had any subsequent

[5:21:08] referrals. It's worth noting that this data was worked for a family in 2023 and early 2024 and since

[5:21:15] this state DSDS has taken several steps to improve both the effectiveness of our services,

[5:21:20] our policies and procedures, and who best can benefit from voluntary services.

[5:21:25] findings. Families who had high engagement rates reduced the likelihood of any future involvement

[5:21:32] with child welfare. And the longer a family was engaged in services, so closer to six months,

[5:21:37] the less likely to need court intervention. And then a family with low engagement typically

[5:21:42] resulted in court intervention. Next steps for us. I'm happy to report that all of the next steps

[5:21:48] we've noted we have moved forward on these strengthening feedback loops from data tracking from ER

[5:21:53] prevention, voluntary and court services, making sure we're using data, and making sure

[5:21:58] we're using coaching, expanding services availability, specifically there were items lifted

[5:22:03] around Spanish speaking services, internet partner violence resources, and any families

[5:22:08] with urgent needs, we've addressed and short-up some of those items.

[5:22:12] Use of case staffings and coaching to support decision making, we've put that in place, and

[5:22:18] enhanced structure and evaluation of engagements, so we are now ensuring and evaluation

[5:22:22] of engagement when a contract is signed with a parent for voluntary services at 30 days and

[5:22:27] at 3 months out of very minimum.

[5:22:29] And the evaluation of safety and risk for those families benefiting from voluntary services

[5:22:33] has also been put in place.

[5:22:36] Next slide.

[5:22:38] The next referral is to report back on the referrals related to our duly involved youth.

[5:22:42] This also came from 2024 in February.

[5:22:45] As a reminder, Arduly involved youth team is a team supporting youth and families for whom

[5:22:52] youth has both active child welfare and active juvenile justice and concerns could be served

[5:22:57] by either system, so there's an intentional decision for one lead agency and a judge

[5:23:02] mate that final decision.

[5:23:04] This request also came from Supervisor Reynis and Supervisor former Supervisor Chavez and the

[5:23:14] welfare practice on juvenile justice youth and any practice or policy change needed.

[5:23:19] This evaluation focused on youth ages 13 to 17 who touched both the juvenile justice

[5:23:24] system and the child welfare systems.

[5:23:26] The review included child welfare histories, youth and parent needs, risk factors experienced

[5:23:32] by youth and youth with different system profiles.

[5:23:35] Youth were categorized into four different categories.

[5:23:38] Youth who were juvenile probation only, youth who were child welfare only, youth who

[5:23:43] of foot-holded both child welfare and probation, and then those youth and families who were served by the

[5:23:48] Julie involved team. A couple of things to note, for the child welfare only youth, those were assessed

[5:23:54] with lower needs than other groups of youth, which makes sense because those are youth's needs.

[5:23:59] For intellectual criminal background was a factor in this group, not in other groups, and in addition,

[5:24:04] there was a lower level of child welfare referrals in cases for that group. For the families of the

[5:24:09] why youth, these parents were assessed as needing some tailored parenting support, and these

[5:24:14] youth had the highest needs, both for mental health and behavioral health, which makes sense

[5:24:19] because those are parents dealing with some unprecedented challenges and those youth are highest

[5:24:23] needs youth. And then youth in the probation only had the highest youth behavioral needs

[5:24:29] and youth in all groups had both significant family problems, lack of parental sops, lack of

[5:24:39] This study really illustrated the need for the right levels of intervention that support youth and families and that those needs will vary.

[5:24:47] It confirmed that varying programs and meeting different needs is vital and that providing those interventions at different times in those tiered levels for the right level of support puts us in the right direction.

[5:24:58] DFCS information have agreed that we will use this information in the coming months for discussion at a couple of our multi system collaborative meetings focused on adolescent well being and safety.

[5:25:10] Specifically, we will bring these results to the interagency leadership team and to the schools collaborative as well as to JJC to support any tangible next steps for partnership for DFCS and JPD along with behavioral health and our other partner agencies.

[5:25:24] Next slide.

[5:25:26] At the February 2025 Board of Supervisors,

[5:25:29] Meeting Supervisors Awareness requested information to better understand

[5:25:32] these acute services and programs for youth involved in DIY and child welfare.

[5:25:38] Compare to those that might be homeless or runaway status outside of the child welfare system.

[5:25:44] So the following slide above illustrate some of those differences.

[5:25:47] Those youth who are identified as dependency youth are youth who've been removed from their home

[5:25:52] due to parental care or abuse or neglect under welfare and institutions code 300.

[5:25:58] This will include our duely-wide DIY youth as well, as well as youth who qualify under

[5:26:03] 600 and are removed from their homes. Each of these youth will receive an assessment,

[5:26:09] under child welfare and behavioral health. It's the Cannes, child SLF adolescent and needs assessment

[5:26:14] and happy to report our ACLs are changing so that will change for a provision as well so we'll

[5:26:19] of one common assessment across all of our teens soon to be coming.

[5:26:23] And then each of these youth will be supported with the least restrictive setting.

[5:26:27] So after their assessment for their behavior health needs, we need to make sure we're placing

[5:26:31] that use in the least restrictive setting.

[5:26:33] Family, non-relative family members, a resource family approved placement.

[5:26:38] And if a youth needs higher needs, they're supported with immediate support.

[5:26:42] And our county, those are referred to as immediate stabilization services or placement stabilization

[5:26:48] services until we get wrap around services in place, and then if needed if that youth is under

[5:26:54] regional center, they could be placed under regional center, and then if they need a higher level

[5:26:59] of care, that's where we've talked about our qualified assessment and placement into our intensive

[5:27:03] treatment, intensive treatment, foster care plus home, or now our STRTP placements. Now to answer

[5:27:10] the question about what it looks like for supports for those youth who are not dependent,

[5:27:14] who are not under that court jurisdiction,

[5:27:17] who might be homeless, or on runaway,

[5:27:19] these youth do not necessarily qualify

[5:27:21] or for dependency,

[5:27:23] because they may not have enough sufficient information

[5:27:25] indicates abuse or neglect is going on,

[5:27:27] but there are some family problems.

[5:27:29] For youth who do not meet this level of intervention,

[5:27:32] DFCS partners with behavioral health,

[5:27:34] to ensure the youth is connected

[5:27:35] with the necessary supports they qualify

[5:27:37] and their family qualifies for.

[5:27:39] And then we also partner with Bill Wilson Center

[5:27:42] for their shelter support system program.

[5:27:44] This is temporary care for youth who are ages 12 to 17 for youth who are unwilling to live with

[5:27:50] our family, need a safe space and a break from their family, or just encountering some family problems.

[5:27:56] The primary goal for these families is to stabilize and reunite and connect with resources, including emergency

[5:28:02] net food or other supports.

[5:28:04] There's also an evaluation for homeless exploitation.

[5:28:08] Oftentimes we may see that some of our homeless youth, there's an intersection for sexual abuse.

[5:28:12] And we connect that youth with our commercial sexual exploitation transformation team in partnership with DSCS and with behavioral health.

[5:28:20] Those you do not need to be in the child welfare system to qualify for all of those services.

[5:28:26] Any time there are concerns for these youth, we continue to reassess in partnership with the Wilson Center.

[5:28:32] Should parental child abuse become an issue, then they would then be assessed by child welfare and could potentially have an intersection with the child welfare system.

[5:28:41] And finally, from the May 2025 board meeting from Supervisor Ellen Berg, the board requested information on the successes and challenges for parenting and childcare needs for our current and former foster youth.

[5:28:53] In partnership with Bill Wilson Center, two listening sessions were held in August and September of this year, yielding the following insights from our young parents.

[5:29:01] perspectives of these young parents show that they value quality child care and their choice

[5:29:07] for the programs that they want for their children. They want things like cameras and background

[5:29:12] checks for those caring for their children. They also value the foster care transitional housing

[5:29:17] program, housing and child care subsidies, and voucher systems that approve supportive to them.

[5:29:23] They wanted to improve the long wait list and the complex processes having more time

[5:29:27] as well as having more time with their case workers to understanding their unique

[5:29:31] parent needs. I would note that the DFCS has been increasing communication

[5:29:35] for available child care and we've been in partnership with the SSA Children and

[5:29:39] Families Chief Officers so that we can make sure we're partnering around resources

[5:29:43] and that evaluation. And then I'm also happy to report that we have shifted resources

[5:29:47] within Department of Family and Children Services, having specialized units that work

[5:29:51] with our non-minor dependence, including parents' young parents. So that we'll

[5:29:56] we have social workers that want to do that support with young parents and kids.

[5:30:02] Next slide. The final two slides are just a couple reminders. The first is a gentle reminder on our 24-7

[5:30:08] child abuse in neglect hotline and then next slide. The next one is our continued call to action to community

[5:30:15] to increase those willing to step forward to help care for children. We as we work to ensure there are enough

[5:30:21] caregivers for children who have been removed from their parents so that they can stay in community in their

[5:30:26] schools close to their parents to actively be able to be unified and a call to action

[5:30:31] to support that with our community.

[5:30:35] And with that, I will invite some of my partners from probation and we're happy to support

[5:30:38] any questions from the board.

[5:30:43] Okay, thank you.

[5:30:45] Let's see.

[5:30:45] Do everybody public like to speak on this item?

[5:30:48] Ronda?

[5:30:50] I do have one speaker on Zoom and no speaker card.

[5:30:55] Two minutes.

[5:30:56] All right.

[5:30:56] Our speaker on Zoom is parent, parent, we've asked you to mute.

[5:31:10] Yes, hello.

[5:31:11] Thank you so much for the presentation.

[5:31:14] I mean, I don't see any improvements.

[5:31:17] The corrective plan either is not being implemented or I'm not sure what's going on.

[5:31:25] I mean, my kids are being sexually molested.

[5:31:27] My son is already confirmed to me that my ex-wife was a lot of somebody

[5:31:31] beginning at the age of 13 that was on the state, sexual bathing with the children

[5:31:37] and sexual contact between two of the children and all the personalities have changed

[5:31:43] because of this and I reported this directly to Wendy Kinear Roush. I reported it to the

[5:31:54] Changsana and I can't even get a screening for my kids. They've never gone one and they need

[5:32:01] And I mean, the first thing involved in the sex trafficking of my kids is now she's

[5:32:10] starting to kill my kids.

[5:32:12] If I don't be quiet about the sexual abuse and then she'll take their skins and make shoes

[5:32:20] out of them.

[5:32:20] I'm not kidding.

[5:32:21] I mean, this was a social media post that I was directed to you.

[5:32:25] I forwarded this social media post when they can air rouse, hoping that she could do something about it, but still nothing, and she's already, I know that she's seen the picture, but the injuries that this attorney has caused me, the great bodily harm, so she, I don't understand why she wouldn't take this seriously, that she's starting to kill my kids now, I mean, it's just, it's really a disgrace, it's a disgrace for the entire community, it's a disgrace for the,

[5:32:55] The FCS that is in the garage would behave and such an egregious man and we need to replace it.

[5:33:08] I thank you so much for your time.

[5:33:17] And that concludes our speakers.

[5:33:20] First, I just want to say, California does prohibit the disclosure information linked to investigation

[5:33:24] suspected child abuse, and we're not authorized by a lot of speakers for the sake of these cases.

[5:33:29] It requires a child welfare department to merely cross report to law enforcement.

[5:33:33] and the public can be assured that it takes all the occasions of child abuse and neglect

[5:33:37] seriously and certainly takes appropriate action. Thank you.

[5:33:42] I believe, as far as Ellen Burke first, yes.

[5:33:46] Thank you. The amount of work that has been done in this department over the last year is simply

[5:33:55] tremendous. Thank you so much. Thank you for this report, for the transparency,

[5:34:03] And for the real effort to just level up in every way,

[5:34:10] what we are doing for our children,

[5:34:13] I'm grateful for that and supervisor, Aranas,

[5:34:18] very grateful to you for getting to a place

[5:34:22] where we had no choice,

[5:34:28] but to make big changes.

[5:34:30] So much appreciation all around, of course,

[5:34:34] I want to just make a quick comment on the child care report on the child care section.

[5:34:40] I did have opportunities both with my own team and with Sarah and Wendy to go through

[5:34:46] the whole report, you've answered a lot of my questions and thank you very much for that.

[5:34:52] Specific to the child care section, I want to extend my appreciation to our partners at

[5:34:58] the Bill Wilson Center and to the young parenting youth who shared their experiences and

[5:35:03] perspectives with us around their child care needs.

[5:35:08] I was pleased to read that along with foster care transition-age programs and housing programs

[5:35:13] that subsidized child care is among the key government programs that young parents perceive

[5:35:19] as being effective when that navigation is successful.

[5:35:24] But I was struck by the list of obstacles that young parents are still facing when they are

[5:35:30] attempting to access that subsidized care, including but not limited to very long wait lists,

[5:35:38] the unavailability of vouchers for undocumented caregivers, and just the inequitable

[5:35:44] subsidy allocations that don't account for travel time or work schedules.

[5:35:52] Substitized care obviously is meant to meet the care needs of families with the fewest resources

[5:35:58] and yet these gaps which we all understand could impact a child's safety as well as their ability to learn and a parent's peace of mind and their ability to work.

[5:36:12] Should be big enough flags that we all agree on the urgency of breaking down these barriers.

[5:36:19] It's my understanding that the, there you are, Heidi, I thought maybe you were at the

[5:36:24] Brents, too.

[5:36:25] Great.

[5:36:26] It's my understanding that the county is working on a child care blueprint to determine

[5:36:31] how to best use our limited resources to support the child care needs of our priority populations,

[5:36:38] which I'm searching includes young parents from the foster care backgrounds.

[5:36:44] happy for any of you Sarah Wendy, Heidi. Could one of you share an update on the status of that work and when we can expect to see the blueprint?

[5:36:55] Yes, absolutely. Thank you for that question. Yes, the child care blueprint work is underway.

[5:37:02] We are looking to interview families that are touched by county resources including the foster youths, the who are now parents

[5:37:13] and also including children with disabilities, families who have children with disabilities,

[5:37:20] families facing housing insecurity, low-income families, families of agricultural workers,

[5:37:28] different families who are touched by county resources who might need specialty child care

[5:37:34] options or different pathways to child care that meet their specific needs. And we are also

[5:37:43] Putting together a childcare blueprint advisory group of early childhood experts who can come together and think together about meeting the needs of these particular populations that are touched by county services and that work will all get started in January.

[5:37:59] Will the advisory committee include foster parents or parents who have lived experience as well as the policy and education experts?

[5:38:09] Absolutely. And will we provide child care while people participate in the advisory meetings?

[5:38:17] Absolutely. Yes. And I think the focus groups as well, we want to partner with community-based

[5:38:25] organizations to help pull those focus groups together and utilize their expertise as partners as well.

[5:38:32] Great. Thank you. I have so many thoughts swirling, but thinking about

[5:38:37] But the grants that we were able to make with the $15 million in ARPA funding to providers

[5:38:46] to open or reopen or expand, and the fact that the need was so much higher and we left

[5:38:54] so many dozens if not more than 100, definitely more than 100 applicants disappointed because

[5:39:03] the funding didn't go farther, but it does show us that there is a business model out there

[5:39:10] that there are childcare providers who are standing by and are ready to and want to do

[5:39:18] more work if we can help them make their facilities expand their facilities to be able to

[5:39:27] welcome additional children. And while I love and God Bless New Mexico for creating

[5:39:35] universal childcare,

[5:39:40] I don't want to dim that light here, but I feel like before we're

[5:39:43] ready to think about that, we need to get very clear and solid on making sure what I would

[5:39:51] to see is all families, all eligible families with children zero to three have access to affordable

[5:40:00] high quality child care that meets the needs of the parent schedules. And this is not to say

[5:40:06] that fours and fives and even school children don't need that care too, but we know there's a

[5:40:13] particular challenge around the zero to five providers

[5:40:18] because as they lose, they're older charges

[5:40:22] to universal TK and pre-K, the business model

[5:40:26] for the younger children is suffering even more.

[5:40:29] So we have to be moving on multiple fronts

[5:40:32] to make sure that everyone who's eligible for a voucher

[5:40:36] has one and isn't waiting

[5:40:38] and that every family who has a voucher actually has a place

[5:40:43] for their child to use it, and this, I know I've said it so many times, but if we can

[5:40:54] get to a place where we are providing something close, something in the suburban neighborhood

[5:41:00] of universal childcare, we will alleviate poverty, we will prevent homelessness, we will

[5:41:07] economic security, we will reduce reliance on all of the deep and social services.

[5:41:14] Again, I know the economic climate that we're in, but I'm absolutely not willing to say,

[5:41:20] well, we wait on child care because we have bigger issues.

[5:41:24] This is the big issue. Whatever we delay here will come pound.

[5:41:30] So you have all heard that speech from me before.

[5:41:33] that was maybe more for the public, but we can't stop talking about it because it will disappear

[5:41:40] and we need to see results and that's what I'm seeing from this work. It will be important to me

[5:41:47] as well with that blueprint for child care to see an action plan. I know we've created lots of

[5:41:54] plans and the state has a master plan that nothing seems to happen with. Let's make sure that we

[5:42:01] have actionable goals once the advisory committee has met and decides where to focus.

[5:42:13] If I could add, is there a motion?

[5:42:15] No, I'm the first person to speak.

[5:42:18] I shall make a motion to receive the report and direct the Office of Children and Families Policy

[5:42:25] and the Valley Health Foundation to the report to the full board in March.

[5:42:30] And I'd like the presentation to include this is building on the ARPA grants.

[5:42:36] What I'd like to know is the final status of the child care facility grants that we were able to issue.

[5:42:44] Any lessons that were learned from those.

[5:42:47] Any information we have related to the remaining need because it's possible that we can find external funders to help us once we have made the case that this is impactful and effective.

[5:42:59] And to that end, I would like the presentation to include recommendations for strategic and cost-effective child care investments.

[5:43:11] Second, thank you very much.

[5:43:13] And if that's all clear, I will stop there again just with gratitude and really just pride, proud of all the view of the work that you are doing.

[5:43:23] Thank you.

[5:43:28] Thank you, thank you for such a comprehensive report, this was very very helpful and I

[5:43:39] also want to thank President Lee and Supervisor Elimber for requesting the reports back

[5:43:45] on the case flow and the child care piece that you obviously made a motion about to one

[5:43:54] And the both reports just were needed in terms of resources and to the case flow documents

[5:44:08] just would really helpful.

[5:44:10] Really, really helpful.

[5:44:11] It means such a complex system.

[5:44:15] You know, this four pages of just graphics and showing us and connecting the dots in a way

[5:44:21] that I think was really helpful.

[5:44:23] So thank you so much for spending that time in doing those things and thank you, my colleagues

[5:44:28] for asking for those, because sometimes, well, if we don't ask, we don't get right, but it

[5:44:34] really clearly delineated the flow, there's so many really great things that I want to

[5:44:41] thank you for because it is, there's just really good information, it's also heavy on the

[5:44:53] for our youth and it shows us where our kiddos are.

[5:45:02] In terms of need. And what they're putting up with, right, at such a really young age, there's the report on the voluntary services.

[5:45:16] And I'm going to add to the motion, but before I add to the motion, because I want to talk a little bit about the report on the voluntary services.

[5:45:24] and I just want to highlight some of what we found there.

[5:45:30] Not only, because I just, I want to put this out there so that our community understands

[5:45:35] what our children are going through.

[5:45:37] And so when they ask for our children to be more accountable, someone is also asked the question

[5:45:43] about how are we being accountable to them, right?

[5:45:46] Because we are, we're failing our children by not changing our systems and this is what we're

[5:45:51] is changing our systems so I'm really proud of the work that you were all doing.

[5:45:56] And if there was a failure of there's a gap, you're rising to the occasion and you're addressing

[5:46:01] those in a way that really makes me proud and makes our, you know, gives me hope that we're getting it.

[5:46:07] We are getting it right. Are we getting everything? Absolutely not because the systems are really complex.

[5:46:13] And those inequities have, you know, it takes time to dismantle some of those things.

[5:46:18] But what it shows is that there were many parents who were on a voluntary basis for many

[5:46:28] months going on without ever engaging in any voluntary program.

[5:46:35] And there wasn't a process to escalate further for safety plans for those children.

[5:46:44] You know, I have to also recognize that some of the kids were left in our homes, where they shouldn't have been left.

[5:46:51] And the impact to those children always haunts me, because I think those are children that are going to continue to come back into our system.

[5:47:00] And I'm going to talk about those in just a minute.

[5:47:05] There's also the rapport on the duly involved youth, which shows that about half of our kiddos entering the provision,

[5:47:14] not just one, but multiple previous child welfare referrals.

[5:47:18] And this I want to highlight colleagues.

[5:47:21] This is 88% of the duly involved youth program had six or more prior referrals with 41%

[5:47:33] having six to 10 prior referrals and 47% having 11 or more referrals.

[5:47:41] And so these are our children that are having 11 or more referrals throughout their lives

[5:47:47] another in a probation system and it just it really breaks my heart to know that this is what

[5:47:57] this is trauma on top of trauma and abuse and as we very well know severe abuse creates

[5:48:07] the kind of tendencies in people to commit crimes that are greater and that are more severe

[5:48:15] And so we have to also take into account what our systems are inadvertently producing or allowing.

[5:48:23] And so for me, one of the questions will be about what do we do for our duality involved youth.

[5:48:30] There's also really some great information about how you're fixing and have you fixed,

[5:48:37] and addressed the safety plans and have you have measures now to really make sure that

[5:48:44] folks, social workers are completing their safety plans, right?

[5:48:48] And the completion rate is really proud, a really proud data point, and the only question I have about that is,

[5:48:59] you know, every third or 30 days after the safety plan is completed,

[5:49:06] who in the system triggers or does,

[5:49:10] The system is there a little red fly that comes up. This is like, hey, it's 30 days because if you're a social worker

[5:49:15] You have I don't multiple cases and life is hard and then you have life outside of that

[5:49:21] How do how do we how do they keep tracked is it does the system?

[5:49:26] Ding ding like it's 30 days or like a little alarm what happens? How does it so that's a great question?

[5:49:34] And I want to make sure whatever we're putting in place. We have ways to sustain it because it's a system

[5:49:38] It shouldn't be dependent upon persons, and so we are putting trackers, reminders, all of those things in place, so it's not a person driven.

[5:49:45] Process, it is a process driven process with the necessary reminders.

[5:49:49] Oh, you're talking my language, Wendy. I love it. Okay, thank you. Thank you so much for making sure that this really important work gets done in a way that doesn't rely on, on a, on somebody's good work.

[5:50:08] ethic, right? But it's embedded in what we do. Okay, so I'm going to move into, lastly,

[5:50:20] you know, there's something to be said about those children that didn't get removed and

[5:50:24] that were kept in homes and I wonder if there's an opportunity for us to figure out who those

[5:50:36] children are and maybe red flag them when they come into the system once again so that we

[5:50:44] can very much prioritize them in a way that I think I would deem necessary. We missed you

[5:50:53] last time we didn't take you out of a home that was deemed I should have been deemed at risk

[5:50:58] or unsafe and so is there an opportunity for us to address them and correct that?

[5:51:07] Good question and can understand and appreciate the worries around that I will tell you that any family that comes back to our attention from the hotline all the way through considering what that history looks like if and when they ever touched our system whether it was an evaluate out referral

[5:51:22] but there were services provided what the outcome of that was is all taken in a consideration in the next

[5:51:29] intervention or support with that family, so this was also we slowed down and really took

[5:51:34] our time on the policies around history with families, as well as our policies around

[5:51:40] should anything come up for a family, we're already involved in, so a new allegation regarding

[5:51:45] either an open referral or an open case, and so we've really been very mindful and intentional

[5:51:49] in working with CDSS around that, so I can assure you, any family that comes back to our attention,

[5:51:55] And we absolutely have considered history whatever that history looks like.

[5:51:59] Thank you.

[5:52:00] Listen, I want all of our children prioritized, but I think that there is something to be said about the kids that we failed in past.

[5:52:07] Because that is a failure on our part.

[5:52:10] In the systems part, and I think it takes great courage to recognize when you have failed,

[5:52:17] and so that you have to have some corrective measure like the one that we are taking right now under corrective action plan.

[5:52:23] And so I'm hoping that we can do something more than just, not just, excuse me, then you've answered the way that you showed because we should prioritize everyone, right?

[5:52:35] Everybody, everyone is a priority.

[5:52:38] Except for those kids, we failed them.

[5:52:40] And so I think that there is a different kind of response or our responsibility for those children.

[5:52:47] And I'd love to hear what you have in terms of thoughts.

[5:52:52] It doesn't have to be now, but something to somehow

[5:52:57] correct the wrongs of the past.

[5:53:03] OK, so I'm going to begin with my setting up my motion.

[5:53:09] And so I think there's the voluntary services report,

[5:53:17] and then the duality involved use report.

[5:53:19] I don't know if you were here, but I talked about both of these reports during the Latino

[5:53:25] Health Assessment.

[5:53:26] I think that there needs to be a level of integration there because it's one in the same,

[5:53:33] right?

[5:53:33] This is one in the same community.

[5:53:35] And so I'd like to make sure that both of the reports are being brought to the commissions

[5:53:40] and the round tables that support our kids and that we get their feedback from those

[5:53:47] from those from the round table and the commissions.

[5:53:51] And then that feedback come back to CSFC so that we could listen to some of those recommendations

[5:54:00] and hopefully bring them back to the board so that we can hear what they have to say about this.

[5:54:06] On part six of the evaluation of voluntary services.

[5:54:09] I'd like to see this item.

[5:54:11] I'm sorry to interrupt.

[5:54:12] I just wanted to note that there's a motion on the floor.

[5:54:14] I should provide our alamburgs, so just to keep the records straight, maybe check with her on.

[5:54:18] Yeah, I'm not finished, but how do you want me to do it?

[5:54:22] Do you want me to do it after each point?

[5:54:23] Do you want to hear the whole thing?

[5:54:25] And then you tell me, yeah, you're an A.

[5:54:28] Let's do each.

[5:54:29] Okay.

[5:54:30] Do you want me to repeat this last one?

[5:54:32] Yes, last one.

[5:54:33] So there were two reports for one of the voluntary services.

[5:54:37] And then the duly involved youth report.

[5:54:40] And so I want to make sure that those reports are heard by the commissions in the round table and the round table that they were creating that they created and they've had a couple of meetings so that we can hear their feedback bring it back to CSFC and then bring it back to the board when ever the next report is absolutely okay perfect.

[5:55:00] All right. And then the next one is part six, the evaluation of voluntary services. I like to see this item referred to the child abuse prevention counsel and the child welfare community roundtable.

[5:55:13] Also, like to have their feedback, include suggestions on how to continue studying these kids and these programs as well as feedback on the steps that DFCS is taking to improve the effectiveness of the program.

[5:55:24] to do a thorough review of availability of appropriate bilingual speakers at every step of the child welfare process.

[5:55:33] And then lastly, I'd like that report to go to the CSFC to include feedback from line staff through surveys and feedback from bargaining units.

[5:55:43] I think that's fine, but I would just like to get feedback on what the expectations are from staff on this

[5:55:54] advisory committee, how are we laying out expectations for the depth of their work, the time of their

[5:56:02] commitment?

[5:56:04] I don't want to just make sure we have a match.

[5:56:07] So I'll hop in here just because I was looking at this prior to when Wendy started, especially

[5:56:14] around the research and evaluation piece and for the voluntary family maintenance and probation,

[5:56:20] those took some time to complete because we were looking at like a year's worth of data, for example.

[5:56:26] So I think if we could have some flexibility on the design of it and the duration to make sure

[5:56:34] that we're looking at data for a period of time.

[5:56:37] That is really going to allow us to understand findings.

[5:56:41] We can certainly do kind of mid-period reports,

[5:56:43] but the reason for the length of time,

[5:56:45] I think, was because we were looking at,

[5:56:47] like, a year's worth of data.

[5:56:49] Oh, then.

[5:56:50] I'm talking about the reports you already produced.

[5:56:53] Oh, oh.

[5:56:53] Yes.

[5:56:54] You've already done the work here.

[5:56:56] Just that these go to the advisory committee.

[5:56:58] I thought we were trying to talk about stations.

[5:57:00] Yeah.

[5:57:01] I just broke it down.

[5:57:03] It's the same direction. I just broke it down so that we could get the suggestions. We can get the

[5:57:09] review of the community. I think additional research requires more.

[5:57:14] No, no additional. The reports that you already have, the evaluation of voluntary services,

[5:57:20] and then the dueling involved youth report. Those are already done.

[5:57:24] And so I had already mentioned I would like for these to go to the commissions and to the round table.

[5:57:30] So I just expanded that by saying I want to know about the availability of a proper bilingual speakers at every stage of the child welfare process.

[5:57:40] So that's that's the that's additional look there.

[5:57:45] But I also would like feedback on suggestions on how to continue to study these kids and these programs.

[5:57:52] from you all and feedback on steps that you all are taken to improve the effectiveness of

[5:58:00] programs. So basically showing them what you're doing, give us your thoughts, give us some feedback,

[5:58:06] and then share that feedback with us. That sounds appropriate and easy to accommodate. I think the

[5:58:11] further research is the more time consuming piece. My understanding as well was that this was to

[5:58:17] essentially creating some agendas for these groups. The only thing that you can do is just identify

[5:58:23] if there is bilingual speakers through each of the steps.

[5:58:30] And it really had a lot to do with

[5:58:31] some of the voluntary programs or the families in the voluntary services. Some of them stayed

[5:58:38] a little bit longer, right? The longer they stayed, I think the more commitment they achieved

[5:58:47] And it could be for so many different reasons, but I want to know if it was language or through the child welfare system, did they get this Spanish speaker who was, you know, the emergency investigator?

[5:58:59] I think that's what it is, correct me if I'm wrong.

[5:59:04] But I just want to know, did they get someone who looks like them or who actually speaks their language?

[5:59:10] And that usually, I think you started with this, I think it was here that started with this

[5:59:16] windy, that it has to do with relationships.

[5:59:21] And then the last piece of that was just to get feedback from LineScaf and from stakeholders.

[5:59:27] You already heard this one, but I just just repeat it.

[5:59:31] And then part 7 is the referrals related to dual involved deals.

[5:59:35] I'd like to see that the report represented to the same two two groups, the juvenile justice commission that we both sit at,

[5:59:45] Susan, and then report their feedback, get their feedback and have them come back to CSFC and return to board if there's any additional action.

[5:59:57] And then I'd also like to see if

[6:00:00] We can solicit thoughts from the three boards on steps to substantially increase.

[6:00:06] The support for children who enter a probation system with multiple previous referrals to child

[6:00:11] whervers, welfare, such as expanding, DIY or creating new programs to support these kids

[6:00:17] in collaboration between probation, DFCS and behavioral health.

[6:00:21] And really all that means is that the courts determine who can be involved in DIY, right?

[6:00:28] wondering if there's an alternative to that. Can we create something that substitutes that?

[6:00:34] Because I don't know that we need the courts to help us determine. We already know who these

[6:00:39] kiddos are, who been in DFCS and who are now in probation. And we could help determine

[6:00:45] or help offer a program that is a DIY. And then provide these kiddos with behavioral health

[6:00:53] And child welfare contracted services that exceed the services that are currently available in

[6:00:59] probation.

[6:01:00] So basically, kind of do our own DIY program because currently in DIY is determined by the

[6:01:06] courts since I'm sorry, I mean, supervisor.

[6:01:10] So what I just wanted, I want to have a kind of a defecto DIY because it's program because

[6:01:17] it is so successful.

[6:01:20] And so right now, only the courts can determine that.

[6:01:22] if they have an open case on child welfare and then a case in probation, that's how you qualify.

[6:01:29] But a lot of our teens have previous referrals up to 11 referrals.

[6:01:36] They may not have any currently active child welfare referrals, but yet they're in probation.

[6:01:42] Then we know they have a long history up to more than 11 referrals from child welfare.

[6:01:48] But because they don't currently have an active one, they're not actively being abused, it precludes them from participating in the DIY program.

[6:01:57] So I'm wondering, can we do something? Can we explore an alternative so that we don't leave it to the courts to determine that and an active child abuse case that you're now eligible?

[6:02:13] I don't want to commit us to creating more programs which may also create liability and may further bring children into the system.

[6:02:30] There will be, I said that incorrectly, where we're increasing the touch beyond what may be recommended by subject matter experts, but I would be open to having a report back that explores options with regard to expanding the DUI.

[6:02:54] would want to understand, how much does this cost, what does the liability, what does it mean

[6:02:59] are there pros and cons for doing that? I assume you're talking about something entirely voluntary.

[6:03:06] Well, it would be voluntary. If they're in probation, I'm sure potentially a probation officer could

[6:03:12] make it a condition for probation to participate in certain programs, right? But I think we're kind of

[6:03:19] a fact of rationing up their department, which could be positive, it could also be challenging.

[6:03:29] I don't know the answer to that.

[6:03:32] I only know that when we're in the JCC, that DIY is sold to us as such a successful program,

[6:03:42] like the kids really have an opportunity to turn themselves around because they have all this programming

[6:03:47] offered to them. And so in that spirit I was hoping that we could explore that and I could

[6:03:52] leave it as an exploration with current resources that are within our system already. I don't know

[6:04:00] that I'm not asking for additional budgetary investments or commitments. I'm asking with what we currently

[6:04:08] have, could we offer something that substitutes somewhat the DIY progress supplements?

[6:04:17] It does the same function in terms of supporting our youth and the

[6:04:22] availability of doing that.

[6:04:24] And all of that to the experts information and you all.

[6:04:29] I would offer that when we come to the JGC with the information from this report,

[6:04:36] we actually fold in some of the earlier findings

[6:04:38] from the DIY evaluation around what was successful

[6:04:42] and under what context and that would be provided

[6:04:45] I think really good information for the discussion there.

[6:04:48] And that's after that.

[6:04:50] Yeah.

[6:04:51] We won't.

[6:04:52] We will explore the conversation.

[6:04:56] You'll bring the presentation to TCC.

[6:04:58] Love it.

[6:04:59] OK.

[6:05:03] Yes, thank you.

[6:05:04] Hi, I just wanted to follow this line of conversation.

[6:05:08] and I'm sorry Greta, turning to you. I didn't mean to put you on the spot, but in children,

[6:05:13] seniors and families can you? We have these really real best conversations of course as

[6:05:17] committees were supposed to you. And Greta has really kept the committee up to date in terms of how

[6:05:22] to rethink, you know, the right amount of touches on a family for a child, right? How in times

[6:05:29] does a youth and our system of care have to repeat their stories, how in terms of like resources,

[6:05:35] is consolidating them so it's more holistic and wrapped around the way we originally intended.

[6:05:41] So just because not everyone gets to be part of the CCC committee meeting, I'd really

[6:05:47] would love for you to share kind of the strategic planning around how do we do more with,

[6:05:54] I hate the term do more or less, but do more with better, right?

[6:05:59] As we head to these budgetary times, I think just the way this conversation is going in terms

[6:06:03] of how we really serve, and I'm excited and eager for

[6:06:08] supplemental supports, wherever our staff and our partners

[6:06:14] feel that there's needed some of our best policy items

[6:06:16] has come out of those type of discussions.

[6:06:18] So, I turn to you if you can share, just to help with our,

[6:06:23] share some of the conversations that CCCC.

[6:06:26] Thank you so much, Regent.

[6:06:27] Yeah, we've been, as we've had to, in this area,

[6:06:30] and so many others, start to review.

[6:06:35] We were expanding our resources

[6:06:37] in anticipation of really challenging budget reductions.

[6:06:41] We tried to take a look across all the contracted services

[6:06:44] and programs and ways that we are serving youth to say,

[6:06:50] let's make sure we aren't asking a child or a family

[6:06:55] to participate in about 15 different programs

[6:06:58] where we're having, you know, 1% of about 20 different folks' time spent on that family,

[6:07:06] but no one's time really focused on holistically understanding and meeting the needs of that individual child.

[6:07:12] And so we've been trying to take a look at maybe fewer but deeper service interventions and really trying to take that lens,

[6:07:22] Including making sure that we don't have functionally duplicative services being funded for the same population where we then realize we don't have the resources necessary to provide a deeper level of service to a particular child.

[6:07:39] So that's included for DFCS going through every single one of their contracts and really thinking about opportunities to consolidate and focus folks efforts in a more coordinated way.

[6:07:50] same for other programs across the social services agency and then where we have a lot of

[6:07:56] deep interdepartmental work serving our highest need youth particularly that would be true for

[6:08:01] probation behavioral health and DFCS really trying to look at those programs and interventions

[6:08:08] that are serving youth to make sure that we really are putting together a smaller but higher quality

[6:08:17] set of services through the upcoming service reductions as an opportunity to actually really

[6:08:24] orient the way we serve not around anything other than the specific child in the specific family

[6:08:30] really centering them and their experience to the maximum extent possible as we're thinking about

[6:08:35] how our services and programs are structured.

[6:08:41] Thank you so much for that great end. That's the type of

[6:08:43] I'm framing that I think would be beneficial not just for the work that we do in this very critical area

[6:08:47] but just other streams of services as well.

[6:08:52] Having the privilege of being able to receive this presentation on a monthly basis, I also want to echo their appreciation, my appreciation for the work that y'all have done.

[6:09:01] Our staff has really undertaken and just really taken with great, in a very thoughtful approach and a very community-centered manner.

[6:09:12] So I've also heard feedback from our community stakeholders

[6:09:15] of how this relationship continues to blossom in flourish.

[6:09:18] When do I know that you took on this role,

[6:09:21] your current position fairly recently,

[6:09:23] but you've been with our agency for a very long time.

[6:09:25] So I just want to acknowledge and appreciate your efforts

[6:09:28] in this area.

[6:09:30] Let's see.

[6:09:32] I just want to highlight also a T.I.C.

[6:09:33] Medial here.

[6:09:34] I want to give you your Q-dos.

[6:09:37] So at the last year to see meeting in November,

[6:09:39] supervisor Anis and I, we see a report from our probation

[6:09:41] department about the juvenile justice data book.

[6:09:43] I highly encourage my colleagues to take a look at it.

[6:09:45] It's a very, very data rich, right?

[6:09:49] And just like all things at the county, we continue to be a work in progress.

[6:09:52] And I really look forward to.

[6:09:53] There was a lengthy discussion about the stories that the data can be telling us, right?

[6:09:59] And how to make those connections and analysis.

[6:10:02] And I'm happy to hear during the discussion then in subsequent conversations.

[6:10:06] So that's a direction that we're progressing into better understand what we have before us.

[6:10:10] So I just want to acknowledge that.

[6:10:13] And also just give you some examples of what I mean by that

[6:10:16] is that much to what the conversation day has alluded to

[6:10:19] is that our data shows that diversion programs are working

[6:10:25] yet at the same time we have youth with multiple referrals

[6:10:28] and juvenile hall.

[6:10:30] The two things are not mutually exclusive,

[6:10:31] but really trying to understand what the relationship

[6:10:33] between those are.

[6:10:34] So that's one of the stories that I'm trying to refer

[6:10:37] reference with my comments coming out of the data books I look forward to seeing for their

[6:10:43] analysis from there. And what that just want to say I appreciate the leadership of this

[6:10:48] board. Greta, thank you for that recap of this strategy that we're trying to approach. I think

[6:10:53] the less touches, less system, but more deeper engagement, more profound outcomes as what we're

[6:10:59] I'm hoping for. Thank you.

[6:11:02] The last point of vice president?

[6:11:05] Yes, thank you.

[6:11:07] So I mentioned I think in the last item,

[6:11:11] I don't know that I mentioned it in this item,

[6:11:13] but it's been having on my mind

[6:11:18] that we have kids who have committed some pretty severe crimes

[6:11:24] publicly and so that typically

[6:11:28] creates a response from the mayor, from the Chief of Police, from folks in the community

[6:11:34] for accountability, I've heard that over and over again accountability and I know what

[6:11:38] that means. That means they want more children, more of our youth incarcerated, that's what

[6:11:46] it means, right? They're not being let go rather easily and so now it's time to really tighten

[6:11:56] that up. And so the reason I'm pushing a lot of these things is not only to disrupt the school

[6:12:05] to prison pipeline, but it's also so that we can proactively think about how our systems

[6:12:12] one, if they're failing, if there's gaps in the services, if it takes a big person to say,

[6:12:19] hey, we're not getting it quite right and we're going to get it right and we're going to shift.

[6:12:24] And so that's part of the work that we're doing under child welfare system.

[6:12:28] And so for me, the other motivator here and what, actually, I think I did mention it,

[6:12:37] the fear that the pendulum is going to swing once again around youth and incarceration, right?

[6:12:46] especially with the administration in terms of how they speak about specifically about next

[6:12:53] again, the Mexican community and as we know it's mostly Mexican or Latinos that are predominantly

[6:13:00] overrepresented in the child welfare system and probation and our jails, adult probation

[6:13:06] we're all there.

[6:13:09] And so for me I want to proactively look at what our systems can do now, how can we

[6:13:16] shift so that we can also create partnerships with those folks who may create a narrative

[6:13:22] because their voice is in the news almost every day that we are actually proactively looking

[6:13:29] at these solutions that we have something alternative to what was offered before or because the

[6:13:38] duly involved use program to me has been laid out as successful I think I want to replicate it

[6:13:45] So that we can say, we have something to offer.

[6:13:48] This is a, if you will, a consequence,

[6:13:52] but also a rehabilitative opportunity for our youth

[6:13:55] to be involved in these programs.

[6:13:58] How can we say, you have had 11 child abuse referrals,

[6:14:06] but you need to be accountable, right?

[6:14:08] You need to be accountable and you need to be incarcerated.

[6:14:11] And so for me, there is a desperate need to find alternatives, and if we don't find them in our systems now, people are going to create them for us.

[6:14:22] And they're going to go to their intergovernmental relations, folks, and their legislative advocates.

[6:14:29] And they're going to come down harder as we have seen with the last in our last election.

[6:14:36] Oh, gosh, I can't remember. Is it Prop 36? Yeah, I was going to say 35. No, it's 36, right?

[6:14:43] And that already has impact in our community. And in aggregate, we are trying to undo so much that has been done before.

[6:14:53] And also fend off those folks who who continue to have this very, you know,

[6:15:00] And I'll be all and find a scapegoat. And unfortunately, our brown and black children are going to be that scapegoat. So, if I insist on some of these programs, it's because this, this is the pendulum is going to swing. And if we have to offer services and I really doubt that these kids have been offered services 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 11 times.

[6:15:26] because from the voluntary study that you showed us, most of them were involved.

[6:15:35] The parents were involved, and if the parents were involved, that means the kids were involved,

[6:15:39] and nobody was benefiting from those opportunities.

[6:15:42] And so if we have to repeatedly go to whatever it is that we have to do,

[6:15:48] to make some of the things that we have created in terms of gaps, then that's what we have to do.

[6:15:55] because it is on us. We create a part of this problem.

[6:16:01] And so anyways, I am not the expert in terms of juvenile justice

[6:16:05] and what the solutions are.

[6:16:08] We need, I did talk to Chief Pritchard and tomato Caballero

[6:16:12] and they talked to me about some of the best practices

[6:16:15] and some of the studies that they have.

[6:16:17] I'm looking forward to learning more about this.

[6:16:20] But my ask here is that we take what we're doing right now and also apply it to what we are going to see on the horizon soon.

[6:16:30] There's going to be an election coming in June. And when there's election coming,

[6:16:35] when there's on an election coming, those folks who are involved in the law enforcement side of it,

[6:16:41] these are their speaking points. So whatever it is that we have to do, we have to do it.

[6:16:48] We have to figure out that piece out.

[6:16:50] I'm not asking for us to reinvent the wheel.

[6:16:52] I'm just asking for us to read just what we are doing so that it is effective and efficient

[6:16:58] and it serves our children.

[6:17:01] That's all anyways.

[6:17:02] It just needed to make sure I said that.

[6:17:07] Thank you.

[6:17:09] First of all, I just wanted to say thank you for your team.

[6:17:13] As I can figure out the various boxes, some other places are just the reason why I asked.

[6:17:18] based on the dumb question like hey can we put this on float charts and I'm so glad that you did put that together and then that

[6:17:25] Not only you put the float chart together to illustrate also put on them of cases each and that also really shows the impact of which one has the most impact

[6:17:33] Which one is less and how far you've gone and which one works?

[6:17:37] I think that that to me was very helpful and I hope it was also helpful for your team

[6:17:41] That's really music to my ears and hopefully we'll continue to help this chart with the numbers and whatnot

[6:17:47] And as we've been talking about, there are so many different programs, and oftentimes some

[6:17:54] of these are overlapping, like, you know, incredible saying, certainly, we don't want to have

[6:17:59] different, too many different agencies doing things that are too overlapping, and then, oh,

[6:18:03] it's not my job, it's theirs, there's a lot of finger pointing, from the kiss perspective, they

[6:18:08] just want somebody to go to, right, that single point of contact in many ways, so I think that

[6:18:14] to me is really the most important.

[6:18:16] That's make it real easy for the kids when they were abused

[6:18:19] when they're hurt, that they know where to go to,

[6:18:22] to get that trusted safe space or safe person to.

[6:18:27] So I think these are the programs.

[6:18:29] I think we really need to make sure that that connection is there.

[6:18:38] In some ways, being a parent, I felt like we're doing

[6:18:40] some of these classes.

[6:18:42] Look, that's all we are, right?

[6:18:44] We are the single point of contact for all of these

[6:18:46] different things that kids go through. But with these kids, they don't have that parent that

[6:18:51] they could rely on. And we're trying to solve that need. I think in some ways, we should not

[6:18:58] make it more difficult than in itself. No, you go to this person. No, you go to that program

[6:19:02] and I think that's in some ways also kind of, we lose sight of these kids from time to time.

[6:19:10] and I think that's where those gaps that Vice President so let's keep talking about.

[6:19:16] So I just want to say thank you for the amazing work you guys are doing,

[6:19:20] but certainly it has a lot more that we need to continue doing to improve the work and outcome.

[6:19:27] And you know programs that work, let's duplicate it, let's do more.

[6:19:31] And think that it's not seem to work that well, let's find out why maybe we need to shift the whole program

[6:19:35] together. So we've offered it to you, let's go ahead and take the vote. Thank you very much again.

[6:19:45] Thank you, on motion of supervisor Ellen Burke, seconded by supervisor Aranas, supervisor Abacoda.

[6:19:54] I supervisor Young? Yes.

[6:19:56] Supervisor Ellen Burke? Yes.

[6:19:58] Vice President Aranas? Yes.

[6:20:00] Presidentally.

[6:20:01] I as well.

[6:20:02] Motion carries.

[6:20:04] Thank you very much.

[6:20:07] Okay, moving on to item 16, which is the monthly legislative report from the Office of Mechanic Executive.

[6:20:30] Thank you for your patience, I saw you waiting for a while.

[6:20:35] Thank you, good afternoon, President Lee, Vice President Arinas, Honorable Members of the Board

[6:20:40] of Supervisors, David Compos, Deputy County Executive, and I actually have a couple of folks

[6:20:46] that are here with me, and I want to give them an opportunity to introduce themselves.

[6:20:51] And what we are about to do today is to begin the first monthly report on legislative affairs and matters for the county at the state and federal level, which we hope to do on a monthly basis.

[6:21:11] And so let me turn it over to other folks that are here.

[6:21:25] And I would note that we have a couple of folks in the audience in case some questions come up.

[6:21:32] But let me begin by saying that what we're about to do is simply do a presentation on the work of the ITR team.

[6:21:39] And we have previously done this presentation at the FCOC committee and are now happy to do that before the entire board.

[6:21:48] And I want to begin to, by simply noting that what we're about to talk about really engages the entirety of the county operation.

[6:21:58] And we once again want to thank all of the department heads, all of the folks that have been involved in the process of getting us to this point.

[6:22:06] But as you know, this work is ongoing and the role that IGR plays is to make sure that

[6:22:16] the interests of the county, at both the state and federal level are represented.

[6:22:22] And the mandate that we have received not only from this board for from our county administration,

[6:22:27] from our county executive, is to make sure that we are, as engaged and as proactive as we can be,

[6:22:34] as the largest county in Northern California and the six largest county in the state, and our

[6:22:41] advocacy at both the state and federal level has reflected that. And IGR is the conduit for

[6:22:48] ensuring that that happens. And as we say, when we engage the county personnel that our ability

[6:22:57] to be involved and engaged is really dependent on the ability of all parts of the county operation

[6:23:02] to be engaged and that's not only departments, but also this Board of Supervisors and we welcome the

[6:23:09] enhancing engagement from the Board. What you're about to hear today is a first of all a brief

[6:23:18] update on where we are at the state level as well as a brief update on what's happening at the federal

[6:23:25] level and then to give you a recap of where we are in terms of our processes based on the actions

[6:23:32] that have been taken by this board of supervisors and again, we are grateful that the board

[6:23:37] has not only engaged, but also has engaged in a very timely way it has moved quickly to

[6:23:44] give us the guidance we need to be effective in this role. So with that framework, let me now

[6:23:50] turn it over to Monica so that she can give you a brief overview on where we are with this state

[6:23:57] legislature, and I don't need to tell you that it is a time of change in Sacramento, and

[6:24:05] that reflects the strategy that we're pursuing.

[6:24:08] So Monica.

[6:24:11] Thank you, David.

[6:24:12] The State Legislature is currently in their interim recess, and they are scheduled

[6:24:16] to return to Sacramento on January 5th.

[6:24:20] In November, the State Senate did experience a leadership change as David alluded to, Senator

[6:24:25] Monique Limone now serves as the President Pro Tem of the State Senate, and she represents Santa Barbara County.

[6:24:33] And if you upcoming deadlines that we'd like to put on your radar now, in the second year of a two-year cycle, January is typically a very busy time of year,

[6:24:42] where two-year bills must pass their house of origin, and that deadline will be January 31st, related to budget.

[6:24:50] something we're all eagerly awaiting the governor must release his January budget and while we

[6:24:58] think that this is a good benchmark we are concerned that the LAO has already said that we're

[6:25:06] looking at an $18 billion budget deficit at the state and we'll see what happens since the

[6:25:15] all of the administrative guidelines for the healthcare changes have not been fully released by

[6:25:20] the federal government. Related to bills really quickly, this year's bill introduction,

[6:25:25] deadline is February 20, so we do have a little bit of time there. I'll turn it back to David.

[6:25:31] If we go to the next slide, and this really provides a very broad summary of some of the actions

[6:25:39] that have been taken by the county so far, and specifically with the leadership of the Board of

[6:25:44] providers, which in November, November 4th to be exact, approved the legislative platform

[6:25:53] for ITR and for the County of Santa Clara, going back to this February 20th deadline

[6:25:59] by which bills have to be introduced, that in many respects guides, a lot of the work that

[6:26:05] we are doing and just to provide to some brief highlights of all that's up there, all the

[6:26:12] from pieces of the platform, it's clear that the number one priority for the county must be

[6:26:20] and will be budget given the amount of the cuts that we have faced at the federal level.

[6:26:28] As you can see in the attachment A of what was presented to the board, we are really guiding

[6:26:36] a lot of the work that we do around trying to find additional sources of funding for the

[6:26:42] county, you know from prior conversations with our county executive as we're thinking about

[6:26:48] our strategy for dealing what is up to more than a billion dollars eventually in annual cuts

[6:26:56] that a big part of this strategy for addressing that gap is the state stepping in and taking action.

[6:27:04] So, our budget goals will really drive a lot of what we do.

[6:27:10] We note that last week, as you know, we hosted C-SAC here in Santa Clara County, and proud

[6:27:19] to have the new President of C-SAC, a very supervisor, Allenburg, and one of the things

[6:27:29] that we are grateful besides the fact that C-SAC highlighted the very important role

[6:27:36] that we play is that it gave us an opportunity to check in with our county partners throughout

[6:27:41] the state on what their priorities are. And for many counties like Santa Clara, the impacts

[6:27:47] of HR1 is a top priority, but there are other priorities as well. And so we understand that to

[6:27:54] to move our agenda forward that we need to collaborate with other counties and we are committed

[6:28:01] in doing that precisely. A couple of other items that we would note as part of the platform

[6:28:06] that was approved by the Board. We know that housing issues and specifically the housing element,

[6:28:13] Rina, those are issues of priority for the Board of Supervisors and as we have noted in committee

[6:28:19] when we have discussed this item, we are taking a strategy that looks not only at the short

[6:28:27] term, but also mid-term and long-term with the understanding that with the current administration

[6:28:32] it is unlikely that we're going to see some of the changes that we want to see on the

[6:28:38] housing front.

[6:28:39] In our strategy looks at what we can do regionally, working with A-Bag and some of the other

[6:28:44] regional partners, and also what we can do at the statewide level through legislation.

[6:28:51] But we understand that the complexity of the issue is such that it really requires more

[6:28:56] of a long-term strategy, and so we're working with that, and we are happy to continue to

[6:29:03] keep the board of price of that strategy, including doing whatever we need to do in terms

[6:29:09] giving updates individually to supervastuals, but also in committee.

[6:29:15] Another item that has been highlighted as a priority from our departments is the medical

[6:29:21] examiner.

[6:29:23] We have been meeting with Dr. Jordan with County Council and talking about the need to

[6:29:30] make changes that allow them to access medical records and we're working with that and trying

[6:29:35] to see what options are.

[6:29:37] And one of the things that we have to decide between now and February 20th is, what makes sense to pursue as a piece of legislation, what should be pursued as a regulatory change or what requires a different strategy to make the change that is needed as out one in the platform.

[6:29:56] We also note on guaranteed in-

[6:30:00] Income that there is an effort that the effort continues, supporters of SB 33 by Supervisor Senator Cortesi continue to be interested in that piece of legislation.

[6:30:13] And we are monitoring what the next steps are, steps are with respect to that issue.

[6:30:19] We also know that there is an interesting continuing to try to limit premiums that bill

[6:30:26] bond companies are allowed to keep and it appears that Senator Ashby has a bill related

[6:30:33] to this matter and is going to try to move the bill in 2026.

[6:30:40] So we are continuing to monitor that piece of legislation.

[6:30:43] And we have a number of other items that are listed in the file that was submitted to

[6:30:48] board and we, as we're having conversations with members of our delegation, as we're having conversations in Sacramento,

[6:30:57] we will continue to keep the board a price of where we are with respect to the strategy and each of those items.

[6:31:06] So that's where we are with the state and before we take questions, we want to just finalize the

[6:31:14] the federal piece and then come back to questions if that's okay that's okay with the chair

[6:31:19] so I'll turn it back to Monica on the federal piece.

[6:31:23] Thanks David really quickly the Congress ended its longest federal shutdown when a continuing

[6:31:28] resolution was passed on November 12th extending funding for nine of the 12 appropriations

[6:31:35] bills through January 30th, 2026 this did include the delay of the disproportionate share

[6:31:42] hospital funding cuts, and the extension of the Medicare Telehealth

[6:31:47] Flexibilities.

[6:31:48] Three appropriations bills were signed, which includes funding for

[6:31:52] SNAP and WIC through September 30th, 2026.

[6:31:55] So even if a federal shutdown happens after January 30th,

[6:32:01] those programs are still funded.

[6:32:03] Congress must pass the remaining appropriations bills or a

[6:32:08] CR to a burden of other federal

[6:32:11] or partial federal to shut down when this ER expires on January 30th.

[6:32:17] RGR still tracking several community project funding and congressional district spending requests,

[6:32:23] also known as earmarks that were submitted to our congressional delegation and included in the

[6:32:29] mark-up of spending bills such as the Commerce Justice and Science included $150,000 by representative

[6:32:38] of Rob Conna to support safe program in the transportation housing and urban development bill.

[6:32:45] There's a little over $3 million requested by representative Conna for 10.

[6:32:51] Kirk, $850,000 requested by law of grain for the development of the agricultural resource

[6:32:59] center and $250,000 by Repneta for improvement to Marshall Colbhark.

[6:33:04] these bills must pass, it is important to note that last year there were also inclusions

[6:33:12] of our earmarks in the bills, but none of the bills passed last year, so that's why they

[6:33:18] weren't funded. They chose to do a continuing resolution instead. So in order for these to be funded,

[6:33:26] those spending bills must be signed by the President. With that, I'll turn it back to David.

[6:33:31] So, that concludes our just brief overview of where we are legislatively at the state and federal levels,

[6:33:38] where we are relative to the approvals and guidance that we have received from this Board of Supervisors.

[6:33:44] And as I noted, you know, we are right now in the process of trying to figure out how we effectuate the directive from the Board by way of legislation,

[6:33:54] changes through regulations or any other action in Sacramento and in Washington DC, with of course

[6:34:00] the budget be the primary and most important focus of our work. So with that we're happy to

[6:34:05] take questions. And again, thank you for the opportunity to present to you today.

[6:34:10] Thank you. Do we need to take public commons on this? Yeah, Ron, anybody like to speak?

[6:34:18] I currently have no public comment. Okay, then we don't have to.

[6:34:23] And then the portion, let's see, a bunch of lights here.

[6:34:27] I saw, I think, as far as I remember, so you came first.

[6:34:30] Okay, thank you very much for the report and for the leadership that Santa Clara County is taking.

[6:34:39] On the, something that James said during your county executive report about the thoroughly uncreative way in which folks are trying to deal with the health care cuts.

[6:34:52] by simply cutting programs, that will be the default unless we provide and I literally mean

[6:35:01] we this county provides an alternate, an alternate map. None of the counties with whom I'm engaging

[6:35:09] are thinking about this in an organized or strategic way. Certainly there's panicking and there's

[6:35:17] and there's concerns, but I think the lane is wide open for us to pitch a pretty detailed

[6:35:26] and clear road map, and in order to do that, I'm sure we have no shortage of excellent

[6:35:34] ideas, but as with everything, communication is going to be so key, and your team David

[6:35:44] has stepped up so dramatically in the last year or so

[6:35:48] around starting to own the narrative,

[6:35:52] certainly in Sacramento, if not fully here,

[6:35:59] as much as we would like, and part of that

[6:36:03] was due to our great improvement in things that seem really

[6:36:08] simple, like one page's of information.

[6:36:12] We did it all year in Sacramento.

[6:36:13] we did it for HR1 and those are winning strategies. So I really strongly encourage us to

[6:36:23] think visually as well as strategically and come up with proposals that will be easy for legislators

[6:36:30] to understand easy for folks in the governor's administration to understand and whether or not

[6:36:39] they acknowledge gratitude, I think there will be much appreciation for clear paths forward

[6:36:46] that might be adopted.

[6:36:49] I know the county executive wanted to jump in first.

[6:36:52] We wholeheartedly agree.

[6:36:55] We are pivoting a lot of our communication infrastructure to really emphasize and focus on

[6:37:00] this as the second prong of the three prong strategy that the county's pursuing related to

[6:37:05] HR1 impacts, and there's actually three specific subcomponents to the state strategy, which

[6:37:11] we have already begun laying out, including when Assembly Member Bonta held special hearing

[6:37:19] related to HR1 impacts here at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center just a few weeks ago.

[6:37:25] But we are working to prepare one major materials, and as I said earlier in the meeting,

[6:37:31] will be working with each board office on strategies regarding engagement.

[6:37:36] But those three categories, one includes strategies related to addressing the new work

[6:37:45] rule requirements and helping to help maintain medical coverage for affected families and

[6:37:51] individuals.

[6:37:53] These are strategies that some of which are direct support that the initiatives that the

[6:38:00] state itself needs to undertake, given its control of the relevant data systems and investments

[6:38:06] that we urge the legislature to make early on in the session to support that.

[6:38:11] A second subcomponent is support for county social service agencies who have the responsibility

[6:38:16] to actually administer the enrollment functions.

[6:38:19] Those are strategies that we're very confident should get the support of all 58 counties in

[6:38:26] California.

[6:38:26] A second set of strategies involves public hospital health care delivery specifically.

[6:38:32] Here we're working in close partnership with the California Association of Public

[6:38:35] Hospitals and we have some components that include both regulatory pieces, related to

[6:38:41] the administration of the medical program itself, including base rate and other

[6:38:46] adjustments that would help support public hospital systems and indeed in certain

[6:38:51] areas help bring parity in support for public hospitals to that that's already being received

[6:38:57] by private hospitals in California and a second sub component being a more legislative

[6:39:03] focus strategy associated with direct fiscal support for the six percent of hospital

[6:39:09] systems in California that are public.

[6:39:11] And then a third category of legislative strategies here involves revisiting some of the state

[6:39:17] County fiscal relationships associated with Indigent Care, piggybacking off of comments

[6:39:23] I shared earlier on the, you know, health assessment item, the reality that the percentage

[6:39:29] of folks who are uninsured is going to rise as a direct consequence of these federal and

[6:39:35] related actions, and that some unwinding candidly of some of the shift in state funding for

[6:39:43] counties associated with indigent care is going to be a necessary component of that.

[6:39:48] And that's also a strategy that in some way shape or form should have support from across

[6:39:52] California's counties.

[6:39:54] So we have a three-part legislative strategy, some of which are specifically capital-all legislative

[6:40:02] in the sense that they're targeted to the legislature and some of which are more focused

[6:40:07] on state administrative agencies we are working on written materials associated with all three

[6:40:14] of those components and we will of course be working with each board office but also coalitions

[6:40:22] and identified some promising partnerships but we'll need to really build out those coalitions

[6:40:29] further in order to get the broadband support that we need but I could not agree more supervisor

[6:40:34] that this is yet another example of where our county is going to have to lean forward,

[6:40:41] lead the way, and in doing so not only will we have direct benefit for this Santa Clara county

[6:40:50] residents that depend on our systems, but hopefully we'll be able to help carry many others

[6:40:58] with us to the direct benefit of many millions of Californians.

[6:41:07] So James, just follow up on that is if more people loses insurance as we are expected, our patient load is not going to go down.

[6:41:17] If anything, you probably would even go up, if they could not go to the other hospitals and clinics, losing insurance.

[6:41:26] And as being the safety net, we take everybody.

[6:41:29] So, what that means is that I'll reimbursement for go down for that patient, go up, is that a fear assessment?

[6:41:37] Yeah, there's a multitude of impacts.

[6:41:39] So, one is reimbursement goes down, patients continue to show up, but they show up in much more problematic ways.

[6:41:49] Much more expensive, much more serious, with far worse health outcomes.

[6:41:55] And so part of the message is, the state should not be penny-wise and pound foolish.

[6:42:03] And doing everything that we can collectively as a state of California to help maintain coverage

[6:42:09] is actually very cost effective for the health and well-being of Californians.

[6:42:13] It's more cost-effective for the health and well-being of California's healthcare system, both public and private.

[6:42:19] It literally saves lives, which is of course the most important feature, most important thing.

[6:42:24] But it also is cost effective in the long run.

[6:42:31] And one of the things that concerns me about the state's administration's current perspective

[6:42:39] on the state-only medical program in particular is you have a population that did not previously

[6:42:45] have access to comprehensive healthcare.

[6:42:49] And you're going to see initial year costs in the first few years of an expansion that

[6:42:56] greater than the long-term costs as people actually get chronic conditions evaluated, assessed

[6:43:01] and treated.

[6:43:03] And so it would be very penny-wise and pot-full-ish to fail to continue those investments,

[6:43:08] but also to make the appropriate investments in the data systems and a smoothing of eligibility

[6:43:14] processes that would help ensure people can retain coverage and ensure that we can maximize

[6:43:21] as the dry down of federal resources into California collectively for the delivery of that

[6:43:27] care.

[6:43:28] Yeah.

[6:43:29] I've got three lights.

[6:43:30] Who was first?

[6:43:31] Anybody recognize?

[6:43:34] Take a quick question.

[6:43:36] I'm sorry if you don't want to go ahead.

[6:43:37] Thank you.

[6:43:39] Thank you Mr. Compass for the presentation on the legislative priorities.

[6:43:44] And I appreciate that this will be a monthly report.

[6:43:46] I think we all have a lot of interest in what's happening at our levels of government.

[6:43:51] As you know, I've had a lot of conversations about the county's housing element in our ability to meet the rena numbers.

[6:43:59] I appreciate that that's on your matrix given the importance of the housing element.

[6:44:04] And frankly, it's relationship to our ability to build affordable housing.

[6:44:11] I would like to request that a report on the status of the housing element and all related legislative proposals come back to

[6:44:19] that, on a quarterly basis, as we're getting close to the midpoint of this cycle, I think

[6:44:26] it's important for us to see where we are and also to continue to work on the legislative

[6:44:33] fixes that we need to make it, frankly, easier for counties to meet our numbers and recognizing

[6:44:46] the differences between counties and cities in some areas.

[6:44:51] I understand that the planning department,

[6:44:54] IGR and Ledger Affairs team are going to be working

[6:44:58] with A-Bag, which I think on the...

[6:45:00] Methodology, which is great. I would like to assist in any way I can with the strategy, which may include

[6:45:10] longer-term legislative fixes. In particular, I was just reading an op-ed by Senator Becker from

[6:45:19] September, where he talks about the need for rena reform. And so, I hope that perhaps we could, if

[6:45:27] we haven't already here. We could maybe just I just saw the other day, but maybe try and see if we can have a conversation with the Senator about what he's thinking and then also share what our challenges as a county are.

[6:45:43] Thank you.

[6:45:44] If I made through the chair,

[6:45:47] Supervisor, we're happy to do that. We're happy to go to Hullit on a quarterly basis.

[6:45:53] We're working closely with our planning department with Sylvia Gallegos and her team on this issue.

[6:46:01] And quite frankly, I think that it's fair to say that right now we're trying to gather as much information as we can

[6:46:08] in terms of where other jurisdictions are on this issue.

[6:46:14] The complexity of this issue is such that I think it's fair to say that, as much as we have a lot to say, we're not going to be able to do anything on our own.

[6:46:28] And so we're trying to understand not only statewide and Sacramento and Los Angeles and other parts of the state, but also regionally where some of the other players are.

[6:46:39] And of course, you know, as you know, because of the history that you have of your regional

[6:46:45] work, counties are important players, but you also have cities, sitting time that you

[6:46:50] have something that involves counties, it necessarily has implications for cities.

[6:46:56] So we have to be very careful in the approach.

[6:46:59] And we want to include all members of our delegation, but Senator Becker in particular is

[6:47:05] key player, not only is he a member of our delegation, but also leads the Bay Area Caucus, which

[6:47:14] has at least 27 members, so whatever we do on something like this, the chair of that caucus

[6:47:21] will have a lot to say. And the one thing that I would note, and we're reading conversations

[6:47:26] with each office, is that we will need the help of those offices like yourself, Supervisor

[6:47:33] to run us in others, that are members of regional bodies because you have say in what happens

[6:47:39] in those regional bodies and have some insight in terms of how those bodies work.

[6:47:45] So we look forward to working closely with you, happy to come back to committee on a poorly

[6:47:50] basis.

[6:47:50] But I think you will be hearing from us more often because of the roles that each of you play.

[6:47:57] Thank you. And I know there's also a timing issue with the two-year cycle. And 2027 is our next year.

[6:48:05] We'll be the second year. So again, I'm thinking long-term strategies. So looking at the next, you know, 27 is the next session.

[6:48:14] And if not next year, we keep at it. I agree with you. We need to work in coordination with the cities.

[6:48:21] because there's implications on one to the other.

[6:48:25] I look at CSAC and very appreciative that we have

[6:48:28] an insight track to the president,

[6:48:31] but I think there's a lot of commonality

[6:48:33] with other counties.

[6:48:35] I'm sure they share similar concerns on these issues,

[6:48:38] but I would just like to make sure that we are active

[6:48:43] and taking a sort of role in this area.

[6:48:46] Thank you.

[6:48:49] Great.

[6:48:50] Thank you so much for your work.

[6:48:53] Monica, I mean, Elaine, sorry, it's been a long day.

[6:49:03] Right, Helen, David, and I really appreciate that the IGR presentations will not be

[6:49:10] going to the full war because so much of what we're going to be discussing is our search

[6:49:13] strategies and advocacy around budget, and that's going to be something that's going to

[6:49:17] In fact, everybody in the county and so it really does deserve the full board audience for

[6:49:23] that.

[6:49:24] So thank you for being here.

[6:49:25] I guess season, this will transition out of FGOC now.

[6:49:29] Here, I know.

[6:49:30] I'll say that.

[6:49:31] But we get to be here.

[6:49:33] And then I wanted to thank the team at our last, I think, one of our CSF meetings.

[6:49:40] I asked about a letter of applicant support for AB 1261, it has since been signed to law, and so

[6:49:48] that is providing legal representation for minors, both unaccompanied and unaccompanied and

[6:49:54] immigration legal percentage proceedings. So the reading, the fact sheet about AB 1261,

[6:50:02] it says that the responsibility of providing that representation will fall on county public

[6:50:05] defender's office. So I just want to put that on your radar in terms of finding out is this

[6:50:10] another funded mandate where there be investments in resources and what do we need to do to make sure

[6:50:16] that this really good law is going to be able to be fully implemented. And also if there's

[6:50:23] any room for advocacy to expand the law for universal legal representation for not just minors,

[6:50:28] but also adults and immigration legal proceedings. I know that LA County thinks the David's invitation

[6:50:36] and relationships with our LA County partners,

[6:50:39] they did come to the convening hosted by Supervisor Arana

[6:50:43] and myself to say that that was something

[6:50:45] they were able to figure out for their county.

[6:50:47] So really interesting knowing what that to look like here

[6:50:50] in partnership with the state.

[6:50:53] I also want to give a shout out.

[6:50:55] Had with through their Notho yesterday,

[6:50:58] and I want to give a shout out to IGR for the advocacy

[6:51:01] that you all were doing, the press conferences,

[6:51:04] the releases, the advocacy at the state and federal level, and then also to Tony for just

[6:51:09] slam dunking in with that lawsuit. I know this is not the end that DOJ indicated that

[6:51:16] they'll be back, and that the judge did describe the proceedings as just intentional chaos, something

[6:51:25] like that, that you're getting me the play by play Tony, and I just really want to appreciate that

[6:51:30] So much of this has been hand in hand, IGR, County Council, the policy of this board.

[6:51:35] So, when it end with that, just my appreciation in that this fight continues on, and then

[6:51:40] to end with a yay season as our new C-SAC president.

[6:51:44] Thank you for taking, yes.

[6:51:46] Thank you for taking on this role, Ben, such a timely, just so timely, too, when we really

[6:51:52] need this leadership, and county of Santa Clara is leading the pack in a lot of ways, and

[6:51:57] to have our very own be the C-Sec present to help drive this advocacy.

[6:52:02] Thank you.

[6:52:13] Thank you.

[6:52:13] That yeah.

[6:52:14] I thought that was for me.

[6:52:16] Thank you.

[6:52:17] All right.

[6:52:18] Vice President.

[6:52:19] Okay.

[6:52:21] I'll begin with with Cudos as well.

[6:52:25] Supervisor Ellen Burke.

[6:52:28] For representing our county and for thinking about how our county can lead.

[6:52:34] Not only in our area of bed across the state, you've already started your leadership with us.

[6:52:45] Okay, so this report is super helpful, and I know that there's a lot of work that happens behind the scenes.

[6:52:59] Because we don't get to know about it, sometimes the bills, the two-year bills, like we have

[6:53:04] seen and all we have to do is just kind of wait, and then hopefully, hopefully, advocate

[6:53:14] in some way and please let me know if there's anything, I know that the caregiver bill, if

[6:53:19] there's anything that we can do to help move it along, I think that's continues to be really

[6:53:24] important and thank you so much for for your your leadership and your creativity and

[6:53:31] solving for some of the issues that we see. I'm also very interested in the regional housing

[6:53:38] needs allocation and it is something that I'm really concerned about because my district will

[6:53:46] has the greatest capacity for development,

[6:53:53] and if we, we will not get based on the formula

[6:53:57] that was already been used, and we were very much undervalued in terms of what was given

[6:54:05] to us as credits, and in previous development, and if we apply the same formula, we know

[6:54:12] we're not going to get much.

[6:54:14] And this is going to bring, for my community,

[6:54:18] in my own backyard, everybody has to do their part.

[6:54:22] Certainly, it doesn't exclude my district.

[6:54:25] We've got to do our part in bringing,

[6:54:26] housing that there's nothing I'm out of posing that piece,

[6:54:30] but to not get any significant credit to me

[6:54:34] is just devastating.

[6:54:37] And what is going to happen is that my district

[6:54:41] is going to continue to be targeted and the rule areas for potentially making up what we

[6:54:49] we can't make up in Pleasant Hills golf course.

[6:54:53] And so in the end, I think my district is going to continue to see that impact in development.

[6:55:01] We see a lot of builder's remedies primarily in my district.

[6:55:07] And I'm just really concerned, and so, you know, I don't want to be repetitive, but I do want to stress that when there's these kinds of issues that we know are impacting one district primarily over maybe the others.

[6:55:23] That when those directors come up with some of the policy that could become legislation that we work together.

[6:55:34] And I'm still, I know that you have a report back to us to figure that piece out, because I think this is where we marry the policy makers, Mary, the experts in the field, and maybe Mary is not the right word.

[6:55:48] This is what we're showing.

[6:55:50] Force is between the directors who are the experts in their fields and then assess policy makers, so that we can really develop a,

[6:56:03] a legislative recommendation that not only the experts in the field can conceptually develop,

[6:56:14] but that we as policymakers and also representatives of our community can tell you that maybe

[6:56:21] you'll inadvertently create some issues because we know our community or because simply

[6:56:27] because we've been working in certain areas and, you know, some of the board members are there experts in their respective areas.

[6:56:37] So I ask you once again for that part and, and then also to continue to keep me involved, I did,

[6:56:46] to get advantage of, again, of CSAC to talk to Velia about this issue she's ready to go.

[6:56:52] And so I'd love to see what the next steps could be and we can talk offline because I know this meeting has been going on for quite some time and we can do that offline.

[6:57:03] The other piece I wanted to talk about is trying to figure out what we can do for to streamline the process.

[6:57:16] The streamlining the process for a one-plan health care model, I'm hoping that I can also be part of that conversation.

[6:57:26] I'm really interested in that area.

[6:57:31] I know that there may be other supervisors that are interested as well,

[6:57:37] But I don't want to paint myself into a corner in terms of only youth or child welfare or I mean these are all areas that are really important to all of us and so I think that this is something that I'm really interested in and so hopefully we can just have these conversations offline.

[6:57:55] I think that's it for my comments, I think that there's already 20, I've said before in

[6:58:05] a level of admiration for you and your team, I saw everybody at CSAC, where you should

[6:58:10] be interacting with everybody throughout the state and developing those relationships

[6:58:14] because as we've said, and I think this is a theme from some of the previous items, sometimes

[6:58:20] It's always, sometimes it's about the relationship, right?

[6:58:24] And then you try to figure out what can actually happen.

[6:58:27] And we're not always going to agree.

[6:58:29] We're not always going to be on the same side.

[6:58:30] But we certainly can figure out how close we can get.

[6:58:34] And so we count on you for those relationships

[6:58:37] that you hold and you hold space for at the state level.

[6:58:42] And so if there's anything you may ever need in terms of support,

[6:58:47] please let me know, because it's, as I have a load,

[6:58:50] to carry, and I know politics sometimes can make those loads a little even heavier.

[6:58:59] So, congratulations on where you are right now, and let's continue to figure out how do we move forward together.

[6:59:07] Thank you.

[6:59:11] We'll just say this would be the last comment for the last meeting of the last.

[6:59:17] Great.

[6:59:18] Oh, what?

[6:59:20] No, you're done.

[6:59:21] We're done.

[6:59:24] So I'll keep it very short.

[6:59:25] Well, I just want to say thank you so much for the great work for your amazing team David

[6:59:29] this year.

[6:59:29] We certainly see a lot more engagement from this office since you come on board and we've done

[6:59:35] an amazing work, especially with the fact that we're about CSAC present here as well.

[6:59:40] We certainly would be a very influential county to do so much of a hard work ahead.

[6:59:46] As we know, we see a lot of hard work ahead, and I'm looking at Tony,

[6:59:50] and she knows what I'm talking about, but we'll keep up the fight,

[6:59:56] and to say deeply appreciative of how to get work.

[6:59:59] Thank you.

[7:00:00] Thank you. All right. There's no vote on this one, right? The board does not need to vote now. Okay. All right. We don't see report anything like that. So next is moving to the most exciting part, this we are going to adjourn today's meeting. As I mentioned, this will be a last board meeting for our county that you see all five of us here.

[7:00:24] On the next point meeting we'll be scheduled in a new year on Tuesday, January 13th at 9.30,

[7:00:30] same place. However, of course, we still have many committee meetings that we still

[7:00:34] be meeting before we can y'all are going. But as I was, I think as a clerk,

[7:00:38] secure staff and administration for your hard work. And for those who don't see us in the

[7:00:42] board meeting, you'll be next year. See you next year. Thank you.

Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting

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