[3:21] Good morning, Supervisor Blazer and Supervisor Fear. I'm Melissa Shaw, Deputy Director of Public Health and Health and Human Services. Today, I bring forward for your consideration a memorandum of understanding for $220,000 between Health and Human Services and the Salvation Army. The Housing Disability and Advocacy Program has one time targeted strategic investment funding, which can be utilized to support maintenance and repairs for local shelter facilities.

[3:50] The Salvation Army's Depot Family Crisis and Counseling Center provides services to many

[3:56] of Health and Human Services rapid rehousing participants.

[4:00] These services are vital to help individuals and families experiencing homelessness obtain

[4:06] and retain housing.

[4:08] In addition to interim or transitional housing, these services include assistance with barrier

[4:14] removal and linkages to care.

[4:16] For example, last year, 100% of health and human services, rapid rehousing, housing support program participants who utilized the depot, exited to permanent housing.

[4:29] In order for health and human services, rapid rehousing programs to operate effectively, it's imperative that the depot is able to operate at capacity.

[4:38] The depot is in need of roof repairs, and the Salvation Army has obtained bids verifying that this funding is sufficient to complete the necessary repairs.

[4:46] fares. Fixing the areas of the roof will enable the depot to continue providing interim

[4:52] housing to some of the county's most vulnerable residents and help them work towards achieving

[4:56] self-sufficiency. Due to the age of the facility, mold remediation is needed. The Salvation

[5:03] Army will apply this funding to expunge the mold and the areas needed. And lastly, the Salvation

[5:10] Army will be able to fix the centralized HVAC system for temperature control during extreme

[5:16] heat and cold. Overall, the agreement between Health and Human Services

[5:20] and the Salvation Army will help the depot maintain capacity as some rooms currently

[5:26] require extensive repairs as a result of the roof leaking last winter.

[5:31] In conclusion, we ask the committee to consider the memorandum of understanding for $220,000

[5:37] between the Salvation Army and Health and Human Services to assist with necessary maintenance

[5:43] and repairs at the depot and we're happy to answer any questions you may have.

[5:49] One question, what was the total amount of funds that needed to be spent?

[5:53] The total amount of funds for the housing disability and advocacy program targeted strategic investment was around $340,000.

[6:02] Okay, so you still have a little more that you need to get somebody to apply for?

[6:08] It was an allocation that we received and some of the remaining allocation went to 14 forward repairs that were needed as well as training opportunities for health and human services rapid rehousing staff and our community based partners.

[6:25] Okay, well that was sort of my question. I was wondering if 14 forward was getting a little money also.

[6:30] Yes.

[6:32] Does the men's housing, what is that?

[6:38] The mission?

[6:39] The mission.

[6:40] Do they fall under your review or not?

[6:43] They don't.

[6:44] Not right now.

[6:46] I think that was my only question.

[6:49] If Kaya or Julius want to say anything,

[6:51] otherwise, any other public comment?

[6:54] Then I motion that we move this forward to the consent calendar.

[6:59] I agree.

[7:00] Can

[7:04] I get to use this now?

[7:06] Thank you.

[7:44] I am amazing at it.

[12:22] Mike's on now.

[12:24] Okay.

[12:24] Nine o'clock.

[12:26] Please take your seats.

[12:34] Tuesday, July 25, 2023.

[12:38] Welcome to the U of the County Board of Supervisors meeting.

[12:42] As the courtesy others,

[12:44] please turn off cell phones or other electronic devices.

[12:48] and let's stop the meeting out there, please.

[12:52] Thank you.

[12:54] May I disrupt the meeting? If you're attending via Zoom,

[12:58] please have your microphones muted at times.

[13:00] You're not speaking. All items on the agenda,

[13:02] other than correspondence and board and staff member reports

[13:05] are considered items for which the board may take action.

[13:09] The public will be given an opportunity to comment on action items

[13:12] on the agenda when the item is heard and comments shall be limited

[13:15] to three minutes per individual or group.

[13:19] Are we used to have two times specific items?

[13:22] One is 10 o'clock ordinance in public hearings

[13:26] and that will be concerning the Hamilton Smart door road

[13:31] and 11 o'clock special presentations

[13:33] of which we have, I think, six.

[13:37] So there'll be no comment, public comments

[13:40] at the presentations.

[13:41] So, all right, if you could go ahead and do the Zoom, please.

[13:46] Thank you.

[13:46] In-person meeting.

[13:48] The board meeting will be open to in-person attendance to remain in compliance with the state's public health guidelines.

[13:54] And Kalosha COVID-19 regulations, masks are allowed for individuals who choose to wear them.

[14:00] Zoom meeting.

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[14:31] All right, pledge of relations Gary would you

[15:00] Supervisor Vazquez. Here. Supervisor Blazer. Here. Supervisor Führer. Yes. Supervisor Bradford. Here. Supervisor Messick. Here. I'll present. All right. Consent agenda. All matters listed under consent agenda are considered to be routine and can be enacted in one motion. Make a motion to approve the consent agenda. All second. All right. Any questions on the public on the consent items? All right. Back to the board for a vote. All those in favor say aye.

[15:34] Okay. All right. Item number 335 is next. I think no, no public communication. Sorry

[15:43] about that. Any person may speak about any subject of concern provided it is within

[15:49] the jurisdiction of the Board of Supervisors and is not already on today's agenda. The total

[15:54] amount of time allotted for receiving such public communication shall be limited to a total

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[16:18] Please note, no board action can be taken on comments made under this heading.

[16:23] And through the chair, we have one request to speak card and no hands raised on Zoom.

[16:27] All right Tony Farley nice

[16:39] pants. I like those. Thank you. Well, thank you. Still works. Come on

[16:46] Yeah, I'm going for it from some sort of kind of stuff. You see here. Thank everybody sir. I think

[16:52] kind of a state or Kevin

[16:54] Thank best lawyer every good lawyer

[16:57] Council. Thank you. I'm Andy Veskitt as reserve

[17:01] in a four-ranked four-person veteran.

[17:06] Thank John Miskitz, District five.

[17:08] Thank Gary Baffler.

[17:11] He's a big five guy, I like him.

[17:14] Thanks, sir.

[17:15] A four-ranked red polo shirt.

[17:17] I like those county shirts, the T-shirt polo shirts

[17:19] and the dress shirts.

[17:21] They gave black.

[17:22] Thank you.

[17:23] Damn Don Blazer, friends.

[17:25] You're from two.

[17:26] And thank the board.

[17:39] Thank you.

[17:41] Thank you.

[17:43] Thank you.

[17:46] Any comments from the public that haven't submitted a card?

[17:52] All right.

[17:53] County departments.

[17:54] 373.

[17:55] County administrator approve updated.

[17:57] You have a county strategic plan framework including updated mission vision pillars and long-term goals, operating values in 2023 to 2026 milestones, deliverables and priorities.

[18:11] That's a mouthful, thank you.

[18:15] Yes, good morning, Chair, members of the board, Kevin Mellon, you have a county administrator.

[18:20] Let me see if I can do this correctly.

[18:23] I

[18:30] have

[18:43] the privilege to present to you an update to the county's strategic plan so why should the county have a strategic plan?

[19:03] Well, it's trying to get us all on the same page here, so we have a shared sense of purpose.

[19:09] We have a common vision, you know, for the future of our county, so that we can focus our resources.

[19:16] Make sure we have alignment there, and it's an opportunity for us to all work together to achieve that common vision for the future of our county.

[19:25] So, the update of our strategic plan, some of the goals through this process were really

[19:33] to assess the state of our organization and looking for opportunities where we can make

[19:39] impactful changes in organization for the future of our county.

[19:46] And we also had the opportunity to engage with stakeholders through the process to make

[19:53] make sure that this was a shared vision, not just a vision of our organization, but a vision for

[19:59] all those that help further the county.

[20:05] And so the process included, and I'll get into all of this, but not only are long-term

[20:15] goals to achieve that vision, but getting down to more tactical mid-term and short-term goals

[20:20] as well.

[20:20] And then with any good plan, making sure that we have accountability for the outcomes of the plan and which requires monitoring and reporting and a continual evaluation.

[20:36] All right, so before we got into the meat of updating the plan, we took a look at, you know, our internal and external environment that kind of impacts, you know, where the county can head.

[20:50] in the future, we gathered stakeholder input from our neighboring cities, neighboring county,

[20:59] the special districts that serve the county, non-profits that work with us to serve the

[21:07] county, business leaders within the county.

[21:10] So we tried to have a broad range of input as we proceeded with an update to the county

[21:19] strategic plan. And then with all of that information, we created some groups to help digest

[21:28] that information and formulate an update to the plan. So there was a core planning group

[21:34] which had about ten department heads that dedicated a considerable amount of time to putting

[21:44] together the plan that I'm about to present.

[21:47] The Board, form an ad hoc committee with Supervisor Bradford and Vazquez, and I really appreciate

[21:52] their time and focus as we worked through the update of the strategic plan.

[21:57] We had a consensus group of roughly 30 leaders within the county.

[22:01] So the remainder of the department heads and other managers that we've bounced ideas off

[22:09] of and drafts of the plan as we updated it.

[22:12] And then, as the draft plan was put together, we had department heads take that draft and then have conversations with the staff and their departments to gather input as well.

[22:26] All right, so the strategic plan that I'm about to present, we're trying to lay out who we are, what our purpose is essentially as an organization, where we're going, making sure we have a clear direction or where we want to head.

[22:39] and then how we operate and so what are our values as an organization as we try to achieve

[22:46] that vision.

[22:48] And so this graphic before it's symbolic but really it looks like a little bit of the

[22:56] graphic.

[22:57] Can I hide this down here at all or does this always stay up?

[23:01] Okay.

[23:01] All right.

[23:02] Good to know Natalie.

[23:03] So but anyway, he says the graphic, you'll see the mission and the values is kind of the foundation

[23:08] You know, that back to our purpose and how we're going to operate, and then, and I'll get into it in a minute, but our long-term goals, we've organized them into four pillars, which really support the, in this graphic here, the vision, the, you know, the roof that kind of completes this, this graphic.

[23:31] So, for me, I'm a visual person, so it kind of helped me, you know, when you think of a plan and we talk through, you know, purpose direction and value, this kind of symbolizes it, you know, with the purpose being the foundation and the direction being the pillars and so on.

[23:48] So, anyways, the mission, that foundation, you know, who we serve, what we do, how we do it, why we do it.

[23:58] So, we distilled the mission down to a single statement here, which I'll read, serving

[24:09] our community by providing responsive, reliable services that grow unique and thriving places

[24:15] to live, work and play.

[24:18] So, that's the purpose of our organization to make sure we're serving our community and making

[24:24] making sure it's thriving and it's a place not only to live, but it's also a place where you can work and a place that you can enjoy and play.

[24:36] So, the vision and the long-term goals are, our organization as we serve the community, what do we want the county to strive to be in the future?

[24:50] And what are those long-term goals that we can focus on in order to achieve that future vision?

[25:00] And that was distilled down as far as a future state of our county.

[25:06] This vision, and I'll read it here, with its agricultural roots, diverse communities,

[25:12] and yes to Ubiculture, Ubic County is sought after as a place to live, work and play.

[25:19] So, how do we get to this future state?

[25:23] That's the question of the day, and we do that by having some clear goals and

[25:31] working towards those long-term goals that will achieve this future state of a county.

[25:38] So, those long-term goals I mentioned before, we've distilled them down into four pillars, and

[25:44] and we've organized them under county services,

[25:47] communication, engagement and outreach,

[25:50] growth and development, and then county governance,

[25:53] operations, and culture.

[25:56] So under county services,

[26:00] we've put together a long-term goal to deliver convenient,

[26:05] responsive, safe, and reliable services

[26:07] with a personal yes to you, but experience

[26:09] for all communities we serve.

[26:12] And for each one of these pillars, we obviously need to tie, and I mentioned before, we have short, mid, and long-term.

[26:20] This is our long-term goal, and I'll get into later on in my presentation what we plan to do to achieve this long-term goal in the short-term and in the mid-term.

[26:31] And for the next pillar, which was communication engagement and outreach, to build a strong sense of community and a shared vision for the county among stakeholders.

[26:40] and to position quality of life within Yubi County as unique mix of urban and rural communities

[26:47] enhanced by opportunities for outdoor adventure.

[26:53] And then under growth and development we have two long term goals here as well.

[26:59] One is growth focused and the other is resource preservation focused.

[27:06] So the growth one to pursue responsible housing and economic development

[27:11] that meets the needs and expectations of a growing community supported by infrastructure that

[27:15] connects individuals to different parts of the county and to each other. And the final one,

[27:22] it looks like I'm going to have to look at my notes so that I don't miss that one, to protect and

[27:27] promote both the rural lifestyle and the agricultural roots of the county while providing access to its

[27:33] natural beauty.

[27:36] And then the fourth pillar under county governance operations and culture,

[27:41] to operate efficiently in a fiscally responsible manner and within a culture of

[27:46] collaboration, empowerment, and accountability. So that kind of outlines those

[27:52] four pillars outline how we're going to work to achieve that vision that I

[27:58] mentioned before.

[28:01] So as we operate as an organization and this is something

[28:07] that we didn't have in the previous strategic plan, but we thought it pardoned the pun, it had value, and that was setting as an organization a list of operating values that we can get behind and ensure that we have clarity as an organization on how we're going to operate and work together on those long term goals.

[28:36] and so we've created eight operating values.

[28:46] I'm not gonna read all of the text here,

[28:47] but the first one is commitment talking about accountability.

[28:54] Yes to you, but mindset where we're a service,

[28:57] we value being a service-oriented organization,

[29:02] collaboration, we like to work with one another,

[29:06] our stewardship ensuring we're upholding the public's trust as we operate, workforce development ensuring that we're developing our most valuable asset in the organization, our employees, inclusion, making sure that all voices in our organization are heard and are able to contribute to the success of our organization.

[29:36] trust and transparency, making sure that we are open, honest and accessible to the public, and adaptability that we are being innovative and flexible to changes.

[29:52] is all right. So that I the first few slides.

[30:00] Talk through or kind of our foundational, you know, our purpose, our direction, and our values as an organization. And next, I want to talk about, well, how do we achieve those, those long term goals? And I had, it's kind of funny. I had a former county administrator, I can't make claim. This is quite a few years back. It was early in my career. And him and I were discussing a tough topic. And he said, Kevin, don't worry.

[30:29] worry about it, how do you eat an elephant?

[30:33] And I was like, what do you mean, how do you eat an elephant?

[30:35] He's like, you take one bite at a time.

[30:38] That's how you tackle these large issues.

[30:41] And that is saying, and I'm sure he stole it from somebody,

[30:44] kind of stuck with me.

[30:46] And but it is, whenever you have something large to overcome,

[30:52] you break it down into small bite sized pieces and tackle it.

[30:56] And so for our strategic plan to achieve

[30:59] We believe that those long-term goals and the vision, we want to get down and focus on what we'd like to achieve in the next three years.

[31:09] And then what do we want to focus on in this current fiscal year in order to work towards the next three years?

[31:18] And through that process, then we can monitor our successes in those different areas and see if any adjustments are needed.

[31:28] so that we continue to focus each year and then looking out three years and then looking all the way to the future as well.

[31:36] So this focus, I probably talked through this slide just now.

[31:44] So this focus helps us make sure that we're on target this year and then focusing out three years on hitting those milestones.

[31:59] So we broke down some milestones for each of those four pillar areas on areas where we want to focus over the next three years.

[32:11] And so we have a couple of focuses in the county services department area, improve public perception of safety, improve community health and access to services and increase access and convenience of county services.

[32:27] And then, under the pillar of communication outreach and engagement, embracing the yes

[32:34] to you, but mindset throughout our county organization, and then opening lines of meaningful

[32:41] communication with the communities we serve.

[32:45] And then, this is on the marketing side of things, but identify what makes UB County unique

[32:50] and promote that effectively.

[32:52] On growth and development, focus on attracting businesses large and small, and focus on diversity

[33:03] by our housing stock to meet the needs of our growing communities, that continue to focus

[33:09] on the infrastructure to facilitate that development and connection between our communities, revitalization

[33:16] of our existing communities, and then protecting and promoting our natural resources.

[33:24] And then under county governance operations and culture, as an organization evaluating and

[33:31] identifying productive partnerships with our partners, both public partners and

[33:41] some profit partners to ensure we're maximizing our efforts there to serve the community and

[33:50] to build and sustain a dynamic workforce, ensure that those values that I described earlier

[33:59] in the presentation are shared within the workforce.

[34:04] And then as far as the sustainability of our organization, look for opportunities to make

[34:11] make sure we've diversified our revenue sources that allow us to provide services to the community.

[34:21] So, getting down all the way to this current fiscal year, we've put together a top 12 priorities list.

[34:32] And these help provide focus for the organization for the current fiscal year.

[34:38] In these priority areas, feed into the milestones we'd like to hit by 2026, and those milestones

[34:47] obviously feed into our long-term goals to support the vision and the strategic plan.

[34:54] So under safety, increasing visibility of law enforcement along our primary commercial

[35:00] corridor assessing and developing a plan to improve behavioral health services, ensuring

[35:08] that we're connecting with the public through law enforcement schools and probation to ensure

[35:16] the public is aware of the services available, that we're focused on automation of our services

[35:26] is to the public both online and in-person and through that automation reducing manual

[35:33] staff processes, that we are training in developing our workforce around that, yes,

[35:42] to UBA mindset, and that as an organization we're evaluating our committee and commission

[35:49] structures to ensure relevance and making sure they're meaningful and impactful to the

[35:55] organization, continued focus in our partnership with the Water Agency and

[36:01] Oliver's Public Utility District in the city of Wheatland to secure grant funds

[36:05] for the South County Sewer Infrastructure Project and we continue our focus

[36:13] on finding grants to improve sidewalks, lighting and drainage in our existing

[36:17] community. It looks like I got a little smile from, yep, all right. And this is one that

[36:27] has been a comment topic and we need to start a process with other stakeholders to improve

[36:36] and secure safe recreational access through public lands to the rivers in Yuba County. We want

[36:46] And to establish a workforce development committee to focus on developing the future of our organization there.

[36:58] And under organizational culture, as I mentioned before, making sure that those values in the strategic plan are shared with our workforce that get everybody on the same page there.

[37:10] and lastly, but not least, is evaluating our sales tax revenue and identify areas where

[37:20] we can proactively seek out businesses that would help us diversify our tax base.

[37:30] So those 12 priorities will help the organization with focus this fiscal year.

[37:36] One of the very first opportunities for this focus will be with the board at the budget workshops on August 8th and 9th.

[37:45] And the plan will be for the board to have an opportunity as you evaluate department budgets and we look for opportunities to further these priorities.

[37:59] All right, so some keys to success through this planning exercise.

[38:03] I said, it really helps, now that I'm looking at this slide, we have focus up there a few times.

[38:11] But it's very important.

[38:13] I mean, that's one of the overarching goals of this whole plan is to, as an organization,

[38:18] making sure we have focus.

[38:20] Focus for the board is you're making decisions.

[38:24] Focus of our financial resources, so that we're maximizing that return on investment to serve our communities.

[38:31] focus on how we structure our organization to provide those services and then focus for those that serve on all of the committees and commissions within the county to make sure that those serving there are in alignment and making sure that the decisions they're making tie back into our overall goals and vision for the county.

[38:59] So, as I mentioned before, as far as next steps, we're going to have an immediate next step

[39:06] at the board's next meeting where we'll have the budget workshops, where we can evaluate

[39:16] furthering those top 12 priorities.

[39:19] And as I mentioned before as well, really the success of this plan relies on it being relevant

[39:27] and integrated into all of our processes within the county as an organization and making sure we're monitoring and evaluating and reporting out.

[39:39] And it's a cyclical basis and the plan will be for the board to be engaged prior to each budget cycle in the future to evaluate what we've succeeded in,

[39:53] what we need to focus on and do any adjustments need to be made as far as our priorities in that

[39:59] coming fiscal year and for our three year look out as far as milestones.

[40:06] And with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions from the board but my recommendation is that

[40:12] the board approve of the strategic plan that I've presented to you. All right, any questions from the

[40:18] Mr. Blaser, the elders have a chair.

[40:25] Well, I appreciate the ever because that's a big effort to put a strategic point together.

[40:32] What have we done in the past?

[40:35] And I should have divided up here as a prop.

[40:38] In 2009, the county, and it was the first time my predecessor, Robert Bendorf, he had pulled

[40:45] together a group.

[40:46] We had a facilitator at the time, Mitch Rosenberg.

[40:49] I think the board's familiar with him.

[40:51] I think he's been helping facilitate the water agency.

[40:54] He helped the county put together its first ever strategic plan.

[40:57] So that plan had a statement of commitment,

[41:04] a vision for the future of our organization.

[41:08] And then had identified some priorities for

[41:15] the organization, but it didn't, the implementation part of that plan wasn't fully developed, and so that's kind of one of the key takeaways that I had from the previous plan is that we needed to make sure that it was relevant to how we operate as an organization and make sure it's clear to everybody within the organization, is that how we're going to achieve those long-term goals?

[41:42] Probably not as much detail as this one.

[41:44] No, not really.

[41:47] It was contained in a small panel.

[41:49] Like you said, the main important things are the implementation and

[41:54] the monitoring, make sure that you know, they keep referring back to the plan.

[41:59] Thank you. Good job.

[42:01] Thanks.

[42:02] Any further questions?

[42:05] Do the chair.

[42:06] Yes?

[42:07] Insert.

[42:15] Thank you.

[42:16] And I do the praises to the organization.

[42:18] There was, as I mentioned before,

[42:19] You had quite a few groups working on this, it was not an individual effort.

[43:11] And that the county is a whole, it's more comprehensive and inclusive, does that make sense?

[43:16] I understand the point, and that is a great thing to distinguish here that this plan

[43:23] is about focusing the 900 employees to best serve the 84,000 people that reside in the county.

[43:31] So, and on the specific side, for instance, on the implementation plan on strategic opportunities for county services improve perception of public safety, I really liked it when you had under deliverables increase visibility, but then improve perception seems a little bit, I don't know if you were looking for a word change to say the same thing, but I would, perception has the illusion that you're increasing something that is not, in fact,

[44:00] Does that make sense?

[44:01] Yes, so that, by way of background, the discussion in the groups on that was, you know,

[44:07] that there is a public perception that some of our commercial corridors are not as safe as maybe

[44:13] other commercial corridors and neighboring communities.

[44:16] We don't believe that to be the case, but increased visibility.

[44:21] And that's why I like to, I love the word visibility there.

[44:23] So as far as implementation, it's like well, then we'll increase visibility to improve that perception.

[44:29] And then under infrastructure, you listed some great stuff, obviously,

[44:34] the ones that I am particularly fond of.

[44:37] But you left out the bypass or a bridge or something that we're going to do to

[44:42] leave a traffic issues as far as infrastructure.

[44:45] Now maybe it's because the time frame for that solution is more than the 2028 milestone is.

[44:53] But it would be nice to have some fragment of improved or increased traffic diversion

[44:57] around Mary's home.

[45:00] That's a great topic of discussion. Now, in our milestones, three years out, that is addressed, but the groups didn't identify that as a priority within the top 12 for this fiscal year. But that is definitely something. Really, we're trying to figure out, back to that focus, what can we tackle this fiscal year to further these goals? And then the board

[45:30] Board can evaluate, all right, well, if we've checked those boxes on this, top 12, what's our top 12, for example, in fiscal year 2425?

[45:38] And perhaps I misunderstand, isn't it something that we're incrementally doing every year?

[45:42] Yes, so just because it's not in the top 12 priorities doesn't mean it's not a priority, it's just not a top 12.

[45:49] This is an overview, not an in-depth, we'll go through that on the budget.

[45:55] So an infrastructure, I would love to see more about that traffic diversion.

[45:59] Thank you.

[46:01] All righty.

[46:02] Gary?

[46:02] Through the chair, first, just adding to what Supervisor Fuhrer just said about that.

[46:07] Certainly mentioning traffic congestion relief around Mary'sville is very important.

[46:13] Any time we mention that, of course, we should also mention traffic relief and diversion around the city of Wheatland as well.

[46:19] So I think those two kind of go hand in hand for the future of the county.

[46:22] So, but mostly what I have is just comments and praise, so thank you to all of the staff and the stakeholders who were involved in this.

[46:32] I think this does an amazing job of capturing where we're at, where we want to be, what our present is, where our future should be.

[46:40] I love the way it's worded, I love the choice of language in here, it's great, so thank you to everyone involved.

[46:46] Well, thank you very much.

[46:50] John?

[46:50] No problem.

[46:51] That's questions.

[46:53] I don't know if I could through the chair.

[46:56] I just want to make sure.

[46:58] Supervisor Bradford's comment.

[47:00] The final product here was we had.

[47:05] We had a word document.

[47:07] It didn't have all the photos and it didn't look as nearly as nice as this.

[47:12] And in the last week.

[47:15] Russ Brown did an excellent job of taking our words, distilling them down even further, refining them, and then putting together this product that's before you today with the images and the format and layout.

[47:30] So I just wanted to thank you.

[47:33] Call him out specifically for really helping us take it to the next level.

[47:37] It's a massive change from last year, that's for sure.

[47:41] I have a question and actually not a question to us, just a statement.

[47:48] This is a strategic plan for Ubik County.

[47:52] The question is, with the population loss in California, why would we do this?

[47:57] Well, we do this because last year we were the fourth largest assessment growth in the

[48:07] state per capita of $800 million in one year, and we're at $700 million this year.

[48:17] We're expanding.

[48:18] We have freed up over 2,000 lots in Plymouth Lake, and that's why we need a much larger

[48:26] strategic plan and you've done a lot to address that and useless trivia from

[48:34] 2010 to 2020 population change of over 9,000 in New York County and this

[48:43] little little county of total of 81,575 is the 39th largest county in

[48:51] California now and that's why this strategic plan was so necessary and you did a phenomenal

[48:59] job on this and I'm looking forward to the budget meeting because that was an eye-opener

[49:06] last year and I think that we're going to do that but you know a thanks to staff because

[49:12] without those 900 people in management we wouldn't been able to accomplish this

[49:21] and we do it and they make it seamless and we sit up here and we say wow

[49:27] we've been able to do this and we haven't had problems well I can go to

[49:32] different departments and you've all had problems but you made it happen and

[49:36] And that's the attitude of UB County as it can do attitude.

[49:42] And because of that, we've got Costco coming in due to open and September.

[49:50] And Dan Peterson just did an article or helped supply an article explaining the drainage improvement in areas that had never had drainage in all the history of UB County.

[50:06] And the water agency finally actually explained sufficiently that the loan to Yuba County saved $400,000 this year.

[50:24] And those are kind of overlooked at our meetings and I'd like to make sure that we always realize that this all happened because of staff and its efficiency

[50:36] and a board that lets them run pretty much free so all right thank you very much

[50:44] for this and any comments from the public through the chair we do have one hand

[50:49] raised on zoom okay and

[50:57] they just put their hand down put their hand down okay

[51:01] all right you can't put it back up again all right I will entertain a motion through

[51:09] the chair they did never mind. I'm sorry it's back up again. And now it's back there

[51:15] out.

[51:18] You didn't cut it off cook enough.

[51:23] Who do we have the pleasure of talking to?

[51:28] For the record, can you please state your name? Yes my name is Calvin

[52:10] and so I

[52:20] was mentioned

[52:20] by stating whether or not the agenda item comes from the state

[52:41] that it

[52:48] moves to that is that

[52:50] that if the

[52:54] considered there can

[53:02] see or that

[53:06] that should be noted

[53:17] and funded

[53:22] from people

[53:23] like George Soros and others who work their way through the state or as well as through

[53:29] non-governmental organizations, nonprofits.

[53:31] So please address those two things.

[53:34] Thank you.

[53:35] All right.

[53:37] Thank you very much.

[53:38] I understand you live in the county.

[53:41] Is that correct?

[53:44] Okay.

[53:45] All right.

[53:46] Back to the board for a motion.

[53:51] I'll move to a proof.

[53:54] All right.

[53:55] We have a motion.

[53:56] I need a second.

[53:57] I'll second it.

[53:58] We have a motion in a second.

[54:00] You want a roll call?

[54:02] Yeah.

[54:02] Let's try a roll call.

[54:04] Supervisor Basque.

[54:05] Yes.

[54:06] Supervisor Blazer.

[54:07] Yes.

[54:07] Supervisor Führer.

[54:08] Yes.

[54:09] Supervisor Bradford.

[54:10] Yes.

[54:11] Supervisor Messick.

[54:11] Yes.

[54:12] All passes.

[54:13] All right.

[54:13] Well the measure passes and thank you very much Kevin and please thank all the people

[54:19] involved in formulating this plan.

[54:25] All right, we are time specific on two items here that are going to take up a lot of time here.

[54:35] We can go because it's, we've got 15 minutes.

[54:39] We can do the board,

[54:44] we'll do the correspondence first and then do the board comments.

[54:49] So, of course, plan this.

[54:52] We have two items for correspondence, item 356-2023.

[54:57] Received SETR, UBA Behavioral Health Advisory Boards,

[55:00] annual year-end report for fiscal year 2022-23.

[55:04] And item 381-SETR 2023, letter from Habitat for Humanity,

[55:10] UBA SETR, regarding required HSC Section 506-75.7E,

[55:17] Notification of State Funding Application Submittal for Serenity Village.

[55:23] All right, we'll go ahead and do board comments, board staff member reports, so supervisor

[55:31] Blazer is kind of early in the program, but we can get it.

[55:38] That's fine.

[55:39] I'm glad to see the temperatures taper off too bad it wasn't before each festival.

[55:45] I did that just for you.

[55:48] So the peach festival went pretty well except I think they kind of died off a little bit on Saturday due to the heat, but all in all it was really well organized and I want to thank Seth for

[56:02] keep prodding about the traffic around Mary'sville and so just need to keep that visible.

[56:11] Okay, thanks.

[56:11] All right. We have a bridge that has numerous exclamation marks on it. Seth? Superbized

[56:22] fear? Looking through my calendar because I wasn't ready. So I think that I have exciting

[56:27] stuff like the food bank tomorrow. More exciting, I believe there is a retirement party on Friday.

[56:33] And then Saturday, the koanas and sailov, I think, are doing something cool at the library.

[56:40] So if you guys want to clean up the community or if you want to get some hot dogs and the library event, I'm sure somebody can tell us about here.

[56:51] I don't remember exactly what it is. I'm just cooking hot dogs for it.

[56:54] Okay, well, thank you for your effort to provide your breath for it.

[57:00] Okay, I've got a couple items here, first related to community events.

[57:05] This Saturday is the community cleanup for District 4, and so that is at Bishop's Pumpkin Packs, so if you live in the City of Wheatland or Plumas Lake or the surrounding rural areas in District 4, you can bring your trash to Bishop's Pumpkin Farm on Saturday morning.

[57:21] I forget the exact time, but I think it's 8 to noon.

[57:25] There's the time of that event, and you can drop it off.

[57:27] Is that the first cleanup bit bishop I think it is the first one at bishops before the city has done it

[57:34] Somewhere else in the city. I think so it's the first time in bishops

[57:37] So yeah, and I do appreciate public work stepping up kind of at the last minute to make sure that all of the fourth district was able to be included

[57:44] And not just the city of Wheatland. So that's great

[57:47] Two additional things coming up or I guess three actually in the fourth district tonight at the Wheatland City Council meeting

[57:54] They'll be swearing in their new chief of police so if anyone wants to participate in that I'd encourage you to go

[58:00] It's at City Hall at 6 p.m. Also a national night out of course county-wide, but the community of Wheatland will be having an event

[58:09] At the park across the street from the police station

[58:14] On August 1st that evening and then in Plumas Lake we have our second Saturday event that's coming up August 12

[58:21] So that'll be before I get maybe before our next board meeting I'd have to look at a calendar

[58:25] But it goes for about six to ten I do pay wood park and it has a few trucks live music be your garden

[58:31] And we do it the second Saturday of every month over the summer

[58:35] Sakumofo was helping put that on also. I just returned from the National Association of Counties annual conference and

[58:42] One of the big things that happens if that conference is

[58:46] establishment of the advocacy that NACO does on behalf of counties across the

[58:51] countries with the federal government, and the way that that process happens is there's

[58:55] policy committees that supervisors sit on and in some cases, county staff, they

[59:01] present resolutions to those committees on various topics about what they think

[59:05] NACO should advocate on behalf of counties for. Those committees consider and

[59:11] Those policies approve them if approved in the committee, then they ultimately go before the board of

[59:17] NACO, and then ultimately the full membership at the conference, and they're all voted on.

[59:21] So I was able to present one.

[59:24] I sit on the Telecommunications and Technology Committee, and

[59:28] presented a resolution in support of using federal bead funding for open access broadband

[59:33] networks to advocate for that.

[59:36] That was approved by the committee, by the NACO board, and by the full body.

[59:40] And so I appreciate Ian Scott's support on that.

[59:43] He helped me draft that and was a co-sponsor of that item.

[59:48] And in addition to that, while there, I got to two or the community first village.

[59:54] So many people have probably heard of the tiny home, kind of homeless, affordable housing.

[1:00:00] It was a meeting village outside of Austin. And it was very interesting. It's about 75% privately funded by donations. And it currently has about, it's on about 50 acres has, I think, about 500 units. Residents pay between two and three, two and I'm sorry, three and $500 a month to live in one of those houses. And of course, it has supportive services. It is permanent housing, not transitional. And so it's a fairly inexpensive way to build some affordable housing.

[1:00:29] but also create community.

[1:00:31] So that's one of the things that they really believe in is that housing by itself doesn't solve homelessness,

[1:00:37] but you also need community.

[1:00:39] And then they provide opportunities for the residents to work in the community if they need to earn some extra income to help make their rent payment.

[1:00:49] So it was a very interesting environment and I'm excited to share more about that with staff and with other electives.

[1:00:58] So I guess that's enough for today.

[1:01:03] Mr. Messick.

[1:01:05] Well, I have a few things too.

[1:01:07] This one's in Don's district with the Mary'sville Drakes.

[1:01:10] Their last three games are Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

[1:01:14] So tomorrow night, Wednesday night is the color of beer night.

[1:01:18] And if we could all get down there and kind of support them in the last few games, that would be good.

[1:01:25] And the other one I wanted to pitch is dancing with the stars.

[1:01:28] First is coming up August 26th at Hardrock, it's a local fundraiser for the hospital, so if anybody wants information about that, see me.

[1:01:40] And then, each festival update, I know it's been a while, but on the first board meeting, I wanted to thank everybody for participating in the fundraisers around town.

[1:01:52] and a lot of you know the stand-down had extra pies, and we sold them, and we actually

[1:01:58] sold so many of the ordered more, and a couple of people backed out.

[1:02:02] So anybody still wants a peach pie, go to the stand-down on D-Street.

[1:02:05] They still have a few left.

[1:02:07] Why don't you just tell us a little bit about that whole story with the-

[1:02:11] So the veteran stand-down bought 1,200 pies like they normally do to sell at the peach

[1:02:19] festival it was so hot apparently they only sold about half of them and well it's a whole

[1:02:27] long story how I got involved with them but anyway I just decided to try to help

[1:02:31] them sell them and they had 600 pies a Sunday after the peach festival and we sold about

[1:02:37] 850 so it was a huge effort I'm not going to post that they have me left on Facebook

[1:02:45] book anymore because like 87 people shared my post, my phone is still shows that I have

[1:02:51] 50 or 60 messages that I can't even figure out how to get to.

[1:02:55] I had my voicemail was full, my phone just for like three days all I did was return people's

[1:03:01] calls and sell pies.

[1:03:02] So I don't think I've ever seen a response to a supervisor request for donating money.

[1:03:08] Yeah, when we delivered pies, I had a lot of people come and volunteer to help and we delivered

[1:03:13] Pies all over the place.

[1:03:15] Like I say, so many that we were actually completely ran out Sunday afternoon.

[1:03:20] And they ordered more that came in and we had pre-orders.

[1:03:25] We delivered all those last Thursday.

[1:03:28] They came in Thursday and I was at a town Friday Saturday.

[1:03:32] So they called and said they still have a few more.

[1:03:34] They're frozen.

[1:03:35] Some they froze some that they guess are going to take the stand out.

[1:03:38] And they have some of the refrigerators.

[1:03:39] So anybody wants a Stephen's farmhouse peach pie swing by the stand down

[1:03:46] about 10 and four

[1:03:47] a week

[1:03:50] Great, and

[1:03:53] There'll be an item on the agenda that you were involved in heavily with and

[1:03:57] We're going to we're going to do a recognition for mr. Pertler fishing game person out there and just so you understand

[1:04:04] And our sheriff's department is not the only person out there preventing crazy things

[1:04:13] from happening in our area.

[1:04:16] And he gave us a list of violations that he wrote in the last two years.

[1:04:24] And I think last year or this year, he's written eight pages of citations and these are

[1:04:32] different, not for fishing without a license.

[1:04:36] Although there is one for fishing without a license.

[1:04:38] Here is a guy out in the middle of 500 people

[1:04:42] with firearms then alcohol.

[1:04:46] And I think there was a 15 or 20

[1:04:50] that were violations of parole, and they were re-arrested

[1:04:54] and illegal firearms charges.

[1:04:59] and we're going to say hello to that guy next next meeting, so John was heavily involved with the...

[1:05:08] I don't think people realize what happens in certain areas in our community because they are so rural

[1:05:15] and we had gangs from Stockton and over 500 people destroying our area

[1:05:26] And that will be discussed a little earlier.

[1:05:30] But one of the things I really like to mention is that our press

[1:05:39] releases are getting much

[1:05:41] better at actually explaining to the people how we spend the money in the county.

[1:05:47] The article that the loan from Water Agency as saves 400,000 every year.

[1:05:57] And the president's first veto was to destroy the fiduciary relationship you have with

[1:06:06] government-managed portfolios.

[1:06:12] They don't have to go for the highest return.

[1:06:17] They just have to be woke.

[1:06:20] And as we've seen from Selendra, the government can waste lots of your money.

[1:06:28] And that's what our president just vetoed a bill that required me to be responsible for managing our funds.

[1:06:37] So on that note, I'm going to actually ask that we take a five-minute break,

[1:06:41] because I think we're going to run long.

[1:06:44] But we'll be seeing back here about two minutes to ten.

[1:06:48] Thank you very much. We'll be recessed for a few minutes.

[1:08:23] And so, so, sort of, our most valuable resources are, I mean, I was a hard peep.

[1:08:32] And then, when people would be listed on the bar, it's not necessarily, it's not necessarily.

[1:08:38] Yeah.

[1:08:39] And now, I just tried to do a series of this, and I didn't realize that that's a question.

[1:08:46] He's not biased, he's not tearing up any of that.

[1:08:51] He's not fighting for it.

[1:08:53] This is my point.

[1:08:54] How do we do this?

[1:08:58] It's back and forth.

[1:09:00] Why have I been biased?

[1:09:04] We talk about it as we go.

[1:09:09] We talk about the question or service.

[1:09:23] We don't want to be divided, we don't want to be paid for 800 servings, 800 servings.

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[1:11:54] Wow, we can't sit in the county council's chair.

[1:12:20] Okay, we're going to come back, come back to order. It's time.

[1:12:27] It's time specific. I forgot. I can't go past that, so we're going to...

[1:12:41] I have to bribe them. What's up with that? You didn't have to bribe them.

[1:12:51] 10 a.m.

[1:13:00] time specific 10 ten o'clock ordinances we have county development and services

[1:13:12] public hearing hold public hearing and adopt a resolution approving gating Hamilton

[1:13:18] Hamilton Road in the Goldfields pursuant to California Vehicle Code Section 21101.4.

[1:13:28] I guess, Mike, you'll be handling that.

[1:13:31] Okay, all right, thank you very much and you're on.

[1:13:36] Thank you, Mr. Chair and fellow board members, Mike Lee, can you develop it?

[1:13:41] So, Hamilton Road traverses the Yuba Goldfields on the south side of the Yuba River

[1:13:45] between Timbeck-2 Road in near Park's Bar over to Hammond's Marksville Road east of Mary'sville.

[1:13:55] It is Hammond Road that's not a county maintenance.

[1:14:02] Okay.

[1:14:03] The answer.

[1:14:05] Hammond Road is not a county maintained road but it is a-

[1:14:08] Is your mic on?

[1:14:12] Okay.

[1:14:13] All right.

[1:14:14] I can get closer a little closer to him.

[1:14:15] Thank you.

[1:14:16] So it's not a county maintained road, but it is a public right away as affirmed by the Spirited Court in 1999.

[1:14:25] So unfortunately in recent years, scoff laws have frequented the gold fields out there.

[1:14:36] There's illegal trespass in areas, lots of illegal littering,

[1:14:41] Licit drugs, guns, so, you know, it's been ongoing and continual and getting worse.

[1:14:52] A lot of them are for out of town and a lot of the public who likes to eat.

[1:15:00] We've utilized the access to the rivers, no longer feel safe doing so because of the conditions out there.

[1:15:07] In general, California vehicle code does not allow the gating of public roads.

[1:15:13] However, under certain circumstances it is allowed and vehicle code section 21101.4 states that the local authority may by ordinance or resolution temporary close to through traffic.

[1:15:28] a highway and jurisdiction when all the following conditions are met and after a public hearing are found to exist.

[1:15:37] And those, I'll briefly state what those are.

[1:15:41] Local authority finds and determines based on recommendation of sheriff's and CHP that the following concerns exist along the portion of the highway recommended for closure, serious and continual criminal activity and illegal dumping, which I've already stated is definitely a big problem out there.

[1:15:58] Mike, can I open the public hearing?

[1:16:00] You may.

[1:16:03] Hopefully I don't have to regurgitate all that again.

[1:16:06] No, I don't think so.

[1:16:07] The highway is not designated as a through highway,

[1:16:11] vehicular pedestrian traffic on the highway contributes

[1:16:14] to the concern described in paragraph one,

[1:16:17] and the closure will not substantially adversely affect traffic

[1:16:20] flow, safety on the adjacent streets

[1:16:22] or on the surrounding neighborhoods.

[1:16:24] So those conditions are met in this instance.

[1:16:31] We have conferred with CHP as well as sheriff, and fishing game, or fish and wildlife, excuse me, I'm from the old time, old school, back when it was fishing game.

[1:16:44] And all are in support of the proposed closure.

[1:16:49] The code section allows for, it's an 18-month, what they call an 18-month temporary closure that there is the ability to come back with a public hearing to the board and extend that for eight, I believe, 18-month periods in the future, if so desired.

[1:17:08] At a time, there's no limit to how long we can keep it close though.

[1:17:13] Well, so we can come back to your board eight times in the future, and each of those times would be another 18 months.

[1:17:21] So there is an end date, ultimately a few, but that would be many years down the road.

[1:17:31] So with that, let's say, I think I've covered everything, and so with that we're with the staff's

[1:17:38] I'm recommending that the 18-month closure of Hamilton Road be approved by your board after the public hearing.

[1:17:48] Okay, would it be possible to tell what led up to this item?

[1:17:57] What event happened that brought this all to a head?

[1:18:01] I think it's been a continual ongoing issue, as like I mentioned previously,

[1:18:05] There's the ongoing illegal activities and the law enforcement is struggling to keep up.

[1:18:13] There's a limited resource as we all know.

[1:18:16] And so it's hard to continually monitor and enforce the illegal activities.

[1:18:21] And so we're looking at this as a remedy for that.

[1:18:26] Okay, do we have any public comment on this item?

[1:18:30] Through the chair, we have three request to speak cards.

[1:18:35] The first for the record, Sandra Calvert submitted a video for the record, which the board has not had a chance to view as it was just submitted to the clerk of the board's office.

[1:18:46] Okay.

[1:18:47] The second, Mark Henwood.

[1:18:52] Okay.

[1:18:53] Okay.

[1:18:54] Third.

[1:18:55] Jeannie Pittman.

[1:19:00] Has anybody going to speak?

[1:19:06] I thought so.

[1:19:14] Age where I need these sometimes and sometimes I don't, so forget it.

[1:19:18] We're all there.

[1:19:20] Just need your name.

[1:19:22] Jeannie Pittman.

[1:19:26] Mr. Beth.

[1:19:31] Ending microphone.

[1:19:33] Yes, we did.

[1:19:34] Okay.

[1:19:35] You want to switch podiums in that way we'll avoid that, but get

[1:19:44] close to it.

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

[1:19:47] Thank you.

[1:19:50] So the resolution put forth on the agenda is speaking in the present terms that may happen

[1:19:58] or will happen.

[1:20:00] When, in fact, it has been gated for over a month.

[1:20:04] And I'm wondering under what public agency or whose authority did this, the gates go up?

[1:20:17] I'm not forward or against it.

[1:20:19] I just want it done right.

[1:20:19] I live five minutes up the road.

[1:20:22] Okay, I think it was because of the action that was taken by some rowdy people that we

[1:20:31] had a concern for public safety.

[1:20:34] So we acted on that immediate problem and are going through the legal.

[1:20:42] If I consider the trial, I'll let the county council to do that.

[1:20:46] There

[1:20:49] we go, now the green lights back on.

[1:20:51] It was, I think, to directly address the question.

[1:20:54] It was not an action of the county to put up, erect the gates.

[1:20:59] The action item is what's before the board today.

[1:21:02] Councillor Neill, I'm not sure if you want to provide any additional clarity on that.

[1:21:05] Yes, the county was not responsible for putting in the gate, but once the gate was put in,

[1:21:12] it was requested that the county take action, that's what's happening today.

[1:21:15] Thank you.

[1:21:17] Through the chair, so if this resolution is adopted, will the 18 months then be retro-backed in one month or will the 18 months be effective today?

[1:21:30] For the purposes of the legal requirements, the county's taking action today, the 18 months would start after the board takes action.

[1:21:38] Thank you.

[1:21:40] Through the strategic plan, I love and Mr. Messick and I have spoke about this before that there is potential.

[1:21:47] and it's been brought forward to improve and secure a safe and recreational area through public lands to the rivers in New

[1:21:56] of the County. That's spectacular. I really, really do hope this is part of that program because it is a very good

[1:22:06] asset for New of the County. It's beyond criminal, the videos that I've seen.

[1:22:14] I'm not going to tell anybody or even

[1:22:16] and suggest how they do their job.

[1:22:18] But when we have 500 people do when terrorist type activities.

[1:22:26] That's why we're doing it the legal way

[1:22:29] and we will do our best to make those waterways safe legally.

[1:22:35] We can't do the same things they can.

[1:22:38] Sure.

[1:22:39] And I don't want to see Yuba County kick the can down the road.

[1:22:46] We won't.

[1:22:48] to another area within New York County.

[1:22:52] One more thing, and this may be more of a housekeeping and education on my part, but

[1:22:57] I did notice that the resolution that is on today's agenda, July 25th agenda, also

[1:23:04] has now shown up on the July 11th agenda, still dated though July 25th,

[1:23:16] and the resolution

[1:23:17] was not originally posted in any way on the July 11th agenda.

[1:23:23] Any counsel?

[1:23:25] You

[1:23:31] could break that thing.

[1:23:32] You should have been in an old way up.

[1:23:33] It was originally scheduled to go on July 11th, but the resolution wasn't completed until July 25th.

[1:23:39] There was an initial opening of the public hearing on that date, and then it was closed because the resolution wasn't prepared.

[1:23:46] Okay, but you can understand the confusion of having an item show up after the fact.

[1:23:53] Thank you.

[1:23:54] Okay.

[1:23:54] any further questions? No. Board, I thank you for your time.

[1:23:58] Okay. Do we have any further questions from the public?

[1:24:02] We have a gentleman there. Yeah, he was number two.

[1:24:07] Do you have a card?

[1:24:11] State your name, please.

[1:24:13] Yes, my name is Mark Hanwood and my family owns the Hanwood Ranch.

[1:24:17] We are about 950 acres of property south of the Uber River

[1:24:22] and on the Hamilton Road portion of it.

[1:24:27] And I'm here to make some positive comments to you guys.

[1:24:30] So I'm thrilled that you're actually contemplating closing the road to give yourself an opportunity

[1:24:35] to try and resolve a problem that the county has.

[1:24:40] And given the current state of situation with no maintenance of the road, which impede law

[1:24:46] law enforcement's ability to access the BLM property, and with BLM's ownership of a big chunk of property in the middle of the goal fields without fencing, this will be an ongoing problem for the next eight cycles of your road closure.

[1:25:01] So I'm encouraging you guys to take a look at this resource and align it with your county strategic plan, which is to improve river access and opportunities to enjoy natural resources in the county.

[1:25:12] This is a big resource, it's been ignored completely for 20 years ever since the road was open, and now you have an opportunity in a controlled situation to actually make some improvements.

[1:25:24] And I've been speaking with Supervisor Messer about this and he has some great ideas and I'm sure once the county gets engaged in thinking through what to do with this property and this road and access, you're going to come up with some great ideas.

[1:25:38] But in the meantime, road closure is very helpful.

[1:25:41] We've been heavily impacted.

[1:25:43] We internally call it the Wild West also, by the way.

[1:25:47] Because one of our properties is located immediately across from one of the party's

[1:25:52] centrals out there, with gunfire occurring at 24 hours a day.

[1:25:56] People roaring around in their vehicles all over the place.

[1:25:59] We've had people light fires, burn up cars, dump boats in our property.

[1:26:05] trust pass on our property, do dumping, so it's time for the closure but it's also time for you to take an active management approach to the resource and see what you can do with it and I think you're going to come up with some great ideas and perhaps have a river rafting run maybe five six miles long, which will attract a huge number of people to the county, the kind of people that you want to come to the county.

[1:26:31] Okay, so name it, positive comments, hopefully adopt the ordinance and get to work on actively managing the resource.

[1:26:39] So, any questions for me?

[1:26:42] Okay, thanks for the opportunity.

[1:26:46] All right, any further questions from the public?

[1:26:49] No.

[1:26:51] Through the chair, for the lady who presented the video that we're not going to watch, can she give us an office of it so that she can have her?

[1:26:59] We can take care of that during closed session, I was informed.

[1:27:04] Okay.

[1:27:06] All right.

[1:27:07] We got rules follow and that's why I have a county council down here.

[1:27:12] Yeah, that is not a closed session item, so it won't be presented in closed session.

[1:27:17] You would be able to view it at a break.

[1:27:19] We're going to vote before that, right?

[1:27:21] We're going to vote now.

[1:27:22] Yes, we're going to.

[1:27:22] You want to take a couple minute recess to the chair and let him watch the video.

[1:27:26] What?

[1:27:27] I'm just saying I represent.

[1:27:28] I don't think that's an option.

[1:27:29] We need to do that because, you know, this road has been a sore spot with us for many, many years and I think we spent $3 million in legal fees fighting that.

[1:27:43] Yes, sir.

[1:27:44] So, hey, just to kind of echo what maybe supervisor Fira was saying is that, just to make

[1:27:50] sure that if we are not going to view the video at this time that we would allow the

[1:27:54] individual to make any public comment, should they wish to do so, I think it's what.

[1:27:58] So, Professor Fira was suggesting, and I certainly think that's appropriate personally.

[1:28:04] Got to get on the tool.

[1:28:05] Yes, if they'd like to make public comment as to what's in the video and give you a synopsis,

[1:28:11] there's no issue with that.

[1:28:13] Okay, would you like to do we have the lady here?

[1:28:17] I do not see her.

[1:28:19] She couldn't make it here today.

[1:28:21] Oh, okay.

[1:28:22] All right.

[1:28:23] Well, that's why she sent the video.

[1:28:25] She is traveling.

[1:28:26] She was provided a link.

[1:28:27] I don't know if her timing with where she's at will allow her to speak.

[1:28:32] Are there any hands raised on?

[1:28:34] No hands raised on.

[1:28:35] So she might have a conflict with timing, but.

[1:28:38] Okay. Well, she can make a public statement afterwards. I think we know which way we're going to go on this.

[1:28:47] All right. No, they're bringing no further comment from the public. We'll close public hearing and bring it back to the board.

[1:28:55] For a second.

[1:28:59] We have a motion in a second through the chair. Yes. Just make a brief comment. Yes. Okay.

[1:29:05] All right.

[1:29:05] You'd further comment?

[1:29:06] Yep.

[1:29:07] Um, you've account is gifted with a huge amount of natural resources that the public would

[1:29:14] love to use on an organized platform.

[1:29:18] There's been all kinds of conversations about additional bike trails, hiking trails, not even

[1:29:29] well beyond the use of the goldfields.

[1:29:31] So what's going on out there right now is just plainly not acceptable.

[1:29:35] and I think we're on the right track to do something about it and make all these areas,

[1:29:40] other areas within the county accessible for the public.

[1:29:46] It's pretty easy to look around the state and you'll see great examples of other counties

[1:29:51] and state that have done similar things, so it doesn't take a lot of imagination, it just

[1:29:56] takes us doing it, so thanks.

[1:30:00] Can I change that? I would like to let through the chair. It's probably a proper response, sir. Through the chair. Mr. Messick, to make the motion, I'll second my apologies. It doesn't matter to me. As long as we get it in motion in a second, so. Okay. Through the chair, I just have a quick comment on this as well. I am super passionate about availability of recreation and access along our rivers in Yuba County. I think it's a tremendous asset, both in the gold field as well as

[1:30:30] other areas, I know, the starvend and Grazy,

[1:30:34] be cherries along the Feather River,

[1:30:35] down in my beach, are also a tremendous access.

[1:30:39] And I think it's important that that's accessible

[1:30:41] to both our residents and our visitors,

[1:30:44] however, that has to be utilized in a safe and responsible way.

[1:30:48] And when we get to a situation like we have here

[1:30:51] in the Goldfields, and like is quickly happening

[1:30:54] in other areas of the county as well,

[1:30:56] or that is not being utilized in a safe and responsible way,

[1:30:59] I think our responsibility to protect the public and to protect those assets is to do exactly what we're doing today.

[1:31:06] And so I'm very supportive of it, and I'm very excited that our strategic plan has this as a focus, not only the gold fields, but

[1:31:15] other areas of the county as well, so that we can work to develop those in a way that will provide access both to those who live here.

[1:31:23] And those who may wish to visit and take advantage of those areas again in a responsible and

[1:31:28] safe manner. And so, I'm very excited to take this action today, but then move forward in the future

[1:31:36] to really improve and make sure that our community members can enjoy those areas in a safe way.

[1:31:42] So,

[1:31:44] Mr. Bessik.

[1:31:46] Well, I'll just make the comment to answer Genie's question about the closure of it.

[1:31:52] So, I went out there with Sean Pertle who's here and my hat's off to him for everything he's done out there.

[1:31:58] Several of the property owners and saw firsthand what was going on out there, they collectively with maybe a nudge decided to close the road and I agreed to put my phone number on the sign and take all the phone calls, which I've got probably 200 numbers saved on my phone.

[1:32:20] I'm taking back to people, most people really want to help.

[1:32:24] I want to have some town hall meetings for what we do.

[1:32:28] And so the answer to your question was the county did not close it, the property owners closed it.

[1:32:35] I just felt it's my district and I should be the guy to take the phone calls and answer the questions.

[1:32:41] I have a question maybe if my could answer that for me is that is my understanding that there is no river access from the park's bar bridge that is on private property.

[1:32:54] Is that correct?

[1:32:56] Under the bridge itself should all be state right away.

[1:33:00] Okay, so people would be able to access the river at that location.

[1:33:05] There are private properties along, what's the name of that road that accesses on the north side of the river?

[1:33:11] I'm not sure I can't remember the name of it, but there are, it goes into the Parks Park Quarry, that road.

[1:33:16] There are many private properties a lot between that road and the river.

[1:33:22] But if they go down that road and get into the state right of way, then they can't access the river there.

[1:33:28] Okay, I don't know about parking as a little if he could not there is to park down there, but this this is just to make sure that the public is

[1:33:37] safe

[1:33:38] that we're taking this action, so any further statements from

[1:33:45] if I could through the chair and it's just a point of clarification on the motion, right?

[1:33:49] Regardless whether it's Supervisor if you're a message, I guess you can work that out on who makes the motion, but the resolution that was in your agenda packet

[1:33:56] We just need to make sure it's clear that the findings in that resolution are part of your motion.

[1:34:03] That we had it, we held it.

[1:34:06] I'm sorry, I retracted the ball of my emotion, it has been used.

[1:34:15] So the motion, so in the resolution was attached to the staff report.

[1:34:21] We need to make sure that it's clear in the motion that there was a public hearing,

[1:34:26] that the provisions of the California Vehicle Code that are referenced in the resolution are satisfied.

[1:34:36] And that the gating of Hamilton Road would be authorized for an 18 month duration.

[1:34:46] So let me try it right there.

[1:34:49] I'll make a, I think I got to hear, I'll make a motion that we gate Hamilton Road

[1:34:56] for 18 months with the vehicle based on the findings of the vehicle code 21101.4.

[1:35:07] Does that satisfy you?

[1:35:13] All right, we have a motion in a second.

[1:35:16] For the comments from the public, I'll need a roll call vote.

[1:35:21] Supervisor Vazquez.

[1:35:22] Yes.

[1:35:23] Supervisor Blazer.

[1:35:24] Yes.

[1:35:25] Supervisor Führer.

[1:35:26] Yes.

[1:35:27] Supervisor Bradford.

[1:35:28] Yes.

[1:35:28] Supervisor Messick.

[1:35:29] Yes.

[1:35:30] Motion passes.

[1:35:31] Okay, thank you.

[1:35:33] All right, our next item's time specific at 11 o'clock, and we

[1:35:43] want to go into closed session.

[1:35:45] All right, let me talk to Mr. Pertles here for a second.

[1:35:50] Okay, so are we taking another five minute recess then?

[1:35:53] No, why not?

[1:35:55] Okay.

[1:35:56] You know, we've got a lot of time.

[1:57:17] Testing, still on,

[1:57:42] he's on, and then to get him off, normally you,

[1:57:53] so see, it's on. And let's say he finishes talking, so he goes ahead,

[1:58:01] it wasn't, you know. Look at see,

[1:58:13] I'm gonna turn it off.

[1:58:17] Didn't go off again.

[2:13:27] We'll be about five more minutes, closed session, we'll finish.

[2:24:58] Now, special presentations,

[2:25:57] special presentations, the first one being.

[2:26:02] Is this, to

[2:26:17] this name, but we did a deputy courtesy.

[2:26:24] Is our deputy here? There he is. What

[2:26:32] did they do this?

[2:26:35] Because there's so many of us that have kids. This scares the heck out of us.

[2:26:42] Let's see. The Board of Supervisors, certificate of recognition,

[2:26:46] Resignate recognition, how do I pronounce your name?

[2:26:52] Chicago.

[2:26:52] Okay.

[2:26:53] That's the word.

[2:26:58] Deputy Michael Chicago key.

[2:27:01] Junior for your heroic actions regarding a one-year-old infant was having trouble breathing.

[2:27:09] A June 22nd,

[2:27:14] which brings honor to yourself, your profession, your department, and you be county.

[2:27:20] We want to know that it's a board and as a county we support you 100% and thank you very much for saving his life.

[2:27:49] All right, we're going to have the floor down by the flag if that's okay here.

[2:27:55] We

[2:28:42] have a recognition office of Assemblyman Gallagher.

[2:28:49] Present a Proclamation of Public Works Director Dan Peterson for his years of service.

[2:28:55] Do we have anybody from Gallagher's office here?

[2:28:59] Through the chair, there is a video for officer Tarkutiki.

[2:31:34] Thank

[2:31:48] you, Mr. Chair and Board. And I'm Julia Cordy. I'm with the Office of Assembly Member James Gallagher. And I'm here this morning on behalf of the Assembly Member and Senator Roger Nilo. It is an honor to be here. It's been a privilege to work with Dan for a number of years as he's worked very diligently not only in Yuba County, but prior in Sutter County. Not only to, I would say, improve and expand

[2:32:17] and infrastructure, but to do so with public safety and community safety in mind.

[2:32:22] It's been an honor to be the point of contact for letters of support, for

[2:32:27] grant applications for Yuba County for community safety, school, access,

[2:32:33] safety grants that he and his department have applied for.

[2:32:37] So, it's very bittersweet for your retirement because it's been a pleasure to work with you all these years.

[2:32:43] but we wish you the best of luck and a very happy retirement.

[2:33:14] Read all the whereas and what for us here last year.

[2:33:21] You

[2:33:26] should have to let him go.

[2:33:29] County of you with board of the Supervisor's Proclamation,

[2:33:33] honoring Public Works Director Daniel Peterson,

[2:33:37] whereas Daniel Peterson was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska,

[2:33:41] where he graduated from Creighton Preventory School,

[2:33:44] earning a national merit scholarship, Daniel Settles in the Ubisoft area in 1980 and

[2:33:51] continues to make his home in Ubisoft. Daniel graduated with Bachelor of Science

[2:33:56] degree in mechanical engineering from California State University, Sacramento in

[2:34:01] 1983. A Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from California State

[2:34:06] University, Chico in 1993, and a Master of Arts degree in public administration

[2:34:13] from Walden University in 2017, sleep-much did.

[2:34:19] Whereas during Daniel's career he made significant contributions to the California Department

[2:34:24] of Transportation and at Sutter County, Daniel entered service with the U of the County

[2:34:29] Public Works Department in 2014 as a principal engineer becoming Deputy Director of Public

[2:34:43] and Director of Public Works in 2020.

[2:34:47] And whereas Daniel's commitment to the Public Works Department has been paramount over the years,

[2:34:52] Daniel is recognized subject matter expert in implementing the National Polluting Discharge

[2:34:59] Elimination System and the National Flood Insurance Program.

[2:35:04] Serving his county's floodplain coordinator, additional Daniel has act as a grant writer and

[2:35:09] administrative for public works successfully, completing $77 million, $681,444 in grant programs from 2015 to 2023.

[2:35:23] I think you set the mark real high, and it intends to apply for another $32 million in grants prior to a retirement from county services in July.

[2:35:33] And whereas Daniel has served on the Development Review Committee for five years, in such

[2:35:40] time making significant contributions to the economic welfare of the citizens of UB

[2:35:45] County, facilitating the responsible but steady development of many projects as development

[2:35:54] review committee board member and later as chair.

[2:35:57] And whereas Daniel and his wife, Betsy, have eight children and have been further blessed with nine grandchildren to date.

[2:36:09] In his retirement, Daniel intends to assist his wife with her accounting and tax preparation practice while finding time to resurrect the powerlifting team as well as opening a consultant company providing grant writing services.

[2:36:26] Lofty-Golzair.

[2:36:28] Now, therefore, it would be a per claim.

[2:36:30] The U.K. Board of Supervisors recognizes, commends,

[2:36:33] Public Works Director Daniel Peterson for his nearly 40 years

[2:36:38] of dedicated service to the citizens of U.K.

[2:36:41] and the Community Development Service Agency,

[2:36:44] and wishes him a happy and well-earned retirement.

[2:36:49] Good.

[2:36:50] All

[2:36:56] right, I know the flag.

[2:36:59] That

[2:38:24] says proclamation and he reads county of U of board of supervisor proclamation honoring

[2:38:31] chief probation officer Jim Arnold. Whereas Jim Arnold was born in Roseville and raised

[2:38:38] in U of the city were he graduated from U of the city high school. Jim attended U of college

[2:38:44] transferring after three semesters to California State University Sacramento where he played football

[2:38:50] and receives his bachelor of science degree

[2:38:52] in criminal justice in 1993.

[2:38:57] During Jim's career with the county view

[2:38:59] of Approbation Department, he made significant contributions

[2:39:02] in pursuit of public service.

[2:39:05] Beginning his work for the probation department in 1993,

[2:39:09] Jim became deputy superintendent of institutions

[2:39:12] in April 2001, later being promoted to chief probation officer.

[2:39:17] Whereas, Jim was instrumental in developing the Maxine Singer Youth Guidance Center,

[2:39:24] which I think there's one in the United States.

[2:39:28] The team center and a new juvenile hall facility whose dedication coincides with his retirement.

[2:39:36] Through Jim's leadership, probation expanded his level of service to the community

[2:39:42] and during a changing criminal justice reform environment,

[2:39:46] brought by by SB 678, Navy 109,

[2:39:49] whose passes coincided with drastic reshaping

[2:39:52] of law enforcement in California

[2:39:54] during this simultaneous and prolonged budget crisis.

[2:39:59] Jim also orchestrated the relocation

[2:40:01] of U.K.

[2:40:02] victim witness to the City of Mary's

[2:40:04] will enabling expansion of services

[2:40:07] the better serve our community

[2:40:08] while collaborating with local service providers to allow our population direct access to critical services.

[2:40:16] And whereas during his tenure, Jim has served on a variety of committees in part of organizations in pursuit of public service.

[2:40:25] Serving as regional chair of the Chief Probation Officers of California, chair of the county's community corrections partnership,

[2:40:34] chair of the first five U of a commission and served as student attendance review board

[2:40:40] Friday night live children's council and the juvenile justice commission and whereas

[2:40:47] of Jim's accomplishments he's most proud of the transformation of the probation department

[2:40:53] during his tenure have expanded the level of service provided to the people of U of

[2:40:59] County. Jim's greatest priority has been the safety and welfare of the staff,

[2:41:05] translating into the promotion of physical and emotional health, culminating in

[2:41:11] the creation of a wellness program and fostering a culture of positive

[2:41:15] interactions between probation and the community, and whereas Jim and his wife,

[2:41:21] Melissa, to whom he has been married over 33 years, wow.

[2:41:27] I have two children, Mackenzie and Logan.

[2:41:31] In his retirement, Jim intends to spend time with his family as well enjoying his

[2:41:36] hobbies, fishing and hunting.

[2:41:38] Now therefore, be it for claim the Ubic County Board of Supervisors, recognizes and commends

[2:41:46] Chief Probation Officer Jim Arnold for his 30 years of dedicated service to the citizens

[2:41:51] of Ubic County and wishes him a happy, well-earned retirement.

[2:42:22] I would be a little disappointed if I didn't say anything in myself, but I want to thank the board, I want to thank the pass boards that I've been able to work with.

[2:42:35] with current leadership, past leadership that had the pleasure of working with all the departments, all the employees of UB County that I've had the pleasure and honor to work with.

[2:42:49] It's been an absolute honor to serve UB County citizens and to work for UB County, the greatest honor I have is being able to serve UB County probation department employees.

[2:43:01] And as you guys can see in the back room and sitting down,

[2:43:06] you be kind of probation is the best department in the state of California because there are employees.

[2:43:12] You guys are criminal justice experts and impact lives, that's being felt every day.

[2:43:18] And it's been an absolute honor serving with you guys, and I am blessed every day waking up to go to work to see you guys.

[2:43:27] So thank you, it's been a pleasure.

[2:43:29] I

[2:43:32] also want to thank you for the only tri-county juvenile hall anywhere in the United States.

[2:43:43] Thank you.

[2:43:44] Our

[2:44:43] individual we stole but I think we're elder out of county, do we steal you?

[2:44:48] County view of Board of Supervisors,

[2:44:53] County view of Board of Supervisors Proclamation honoring

[2:44:57] County Council, Michael Schick.

[2:45:03] Where is Michael Chicago, he was born in Tamaqua and raised in Bieber, Meadows, both townships

[2:45:12] in northeast Pennsylvania, far from home. Michael graduated cum laude with a degree in economics

[2:45:21] from King College and attended Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, graduating in 1987

[2:45:29] part of settling to his current residents in Chico, California.

[2:45:35] Whereas Michael practiced law locally in the Sacramento area legal community since 1996,

[2:45:42] serving in three Sacramento law firms between 1996 and 2003.

[2:45:47] He later joined El Dorado County Council's office where he worked for 15 years,

[2:45:52] including three years is acting assistant chief administrative officer, whereas colleagues express their gratitude for a fair and ethical application of the law.

[2:46:04] Is steadfast sense of humor and is infectious laugh.

[2:46:08] And whereas Michael began his tenure with the county is county council in April 2019,

[2:46:14] where he along with his administrative service officer began the process of rebuilding the high functioning and

[2:46:21] and responsive county council office that exists today

[2:46:24] with a competence grace and quick wooded humor

[2:46:28] that defines his dynamic personality.

[2:46:31] Where do you hide the cape?

[2:46:34] Whereas Michael's excellent representation

[2:46:36] of county departments has previous work

[2:46:38] in both private practice and public sectors

[2:46:41] well as his further distinguishing characteristics

[2:46:44] of exceptional work ethic, cooperative spirit,

[2:46:48] but generosity and kindness have made him an asset to you of county, and he will be sorely missed, and whereas Michael and his wife, Gloria, Gloria Mass, who has a storied career as an attorney in her own right, are blessed to have two daughters.

[2:47:04] Harris, Marisa, a veterinarian pursuing her residency in cardiology at the University

[2:47:11] of Minnesota, and Alexa, a recent graduate of Chico State who will pursue a legal career

[2:47:18] in the footsteps of her parents.

[2:47:20] Now therefore, we'll be proclaimed the U of the County Board of Supervisors, recognized

[2:47:26] and commends county council, Michael Chagazi, for his four years of dedicated service to

[2:47:32] the citizens and leadership of Yuba County and wishes them a happy and well-earned retirement.

[2:47:44] I want to say a couple of words, you're a lawyer, of course.

[2:47:49] Yeah, lawyer to loss for words, mark the day.

[2:47:52] I'll keep it shorter than Jim, just to show off.

[2:47:57] Thank you for this.

[2:47:59] I see people come up here with 20 years of service, 15 years of service, 30 years of service.

[2:48:04] And I leave knowing that even with only four years we have helped and we've been through

[2:48:12] some tough times, we had that unique COVID experience that none of us will forget.

[2:48:18] But the one thing that I loved about Ubik County and I will always love about Ubik County

[2:48:25] to a person through all of that we worked together just circled the wagons and we made

[2:48:41] I think it would be fair to say in 58 counties, you'll be counting, hold through that the best because of the people.

[2:48:50] I echo Jim's sentiment, sorry, you guys are fabulous.

[2:48:55] Thank you for the opportunity to serve here.

[2:48:57] Thank you for letting me finish my county council career in this county because it doesn't get better.

[2:49:02] Thank you, Mike.

[2:49:03] As proud of my, as I am of my legal career, my daughters are the angels of my heart and I am so proud of them.

[2:49:12] They just fantastic and I can't wait to spend more time with them.

[2:49:16] Thank you for your time.

[2:50:32] It's been a long time and it's been fun.

[2:50:36] Okay.

[2:50:39] Well, my part has been fun.

[2:50:41] All right.

[2:50:41] Good.

[2:50:41] All right, County Viewer Board of Supervisors, Proclamation, honoring County Public Information

[2:50:47] Officer Russ Brown, whereas Russ has served as the spokesperson for UB County use field.

[2:50:55] For over 16 years advocating for the County and legislative affairs and leading it in

[2:51:00] the age of social media, whereas he started his professional career as a journalist before

[2:51:06] moving into retail and then diving back into media and communications.

[2:51:10] And whereas the spearheaded public information for emergencies including the Orville Dam spillway incident cascade fire COVID-19 and has lent his experience to neighboring counties during their times of need including a campfire and viewed county and the Santa Barbara mudslides and whereas rush Russ has built up the county's tech capabilities for photography and video production to podcasting and drone.

[2:51:40] footage and whereas he worked on an impactful anti tobacco campaign for the state of California including an iconic TV commercial show showcasing Debbie Austin who smoked a cigarette through the through the snowman or throat.

[2:51:58] Wow, whereas his father's career as a journalist instilled Russ's own love for the written word and whereas while he takes pride.

[2:52:06] Pride and providing excellent public service through story telling is most

[2:52:11] prized role is that of happy to his three grandchildren, though not so silently

[2:52:16] correcting grammar as close second.

[2:52:21] You will be sorely missed by all staff

[2:52:23] of Ube County. Now therefore be it proclaim the Ube County Board of

[2:52:28] Supervisors. Hereby commends for us brown for his years of service and his

[2:52:32] dedicated career with Ube County and congratulates him on a well-earned

[2:52:37] retirement with this wife, Jamie.

[2:52:47] Up here and then there, come on, let's go ahead, yeah, I'm sorry.

[2:52:54] I don't like talking in front of crowds, which is interesting.

[2:52:57] But just quickly, and the county has been wonderful to me for the last 16-plus years, and one

[2:53:05] of the milestones was, of course, the 2017, evacuating everybody, and just working for a county

[2:53:11] You see people leading as fast as they can while county employees are rushing in as fast as they can to this building.

[2:53:18] It was an honor to be a part of that and there were many iterations of that throughout the years of just watching people step up telling the story of the county.

[2:53:26] So I appreciate being a part of that, looking forward to seeing so many more time.

[2:53:31] My kids, Dan and Stephanie, we're watching right now somewhere out there and the grandkids and my wife Jamie's here and I appreciate that.

[2:53:38] So anyway, thank you very much for the good years.

[2:53:40] If

[2:54:27] I could through the chair, I'm not, I'm putting Dan on the spot, but I know we, we didn't give an opportunity to speak yet.

[2:54:34] You have some final words of wisdom for the audience, Dan?

[2:54:39] I'm sorry, Dan.

[2:54:41] You know, this individual just helped the public so much in the last couple of issues of the appeal

[2:54:49] Democrat when he described the changes to be made in West Linda in all of her for drainage.

[2:54:57] Everybody's been yelling and screaming about no drainage and this man made it happen.

[2:55:05] Well, I was in a perfect environment to help make things happen.

[2:55:11] But it all starts from the top and works its way down.

[2:55:14] County administrators, the board of supervisors.

[2:55:18] And in the words of former supervisor Randy Fletcher, what can we do?

[2:55:22] I took that to heart.

[2:55:23] This has been an unprecedented time in the past 10 years.

[2:55:28] A lot of money is available out there in grants.

[2:55:31] And we have a perfect union with the Yuba Water Agency that provides local cost shares,

[2:55:36] which has enabled us to be extremely competitive.

[2:55:39] And everybody I think knows, goes without saying that the entire public works department

[2:55:45] has a passion for serving the people of our county.

[2:55:49] And my particular passion is making sure that kids don't have to walk to school down the middle of the street

[2:55:53] You done a rainy day, so we're making the difference there.

[2:55:56] Thank you.

[2:55:57] Thank you.

[2:56:34] Now, I think that's it with the special presentations.

[2:56:38] We've done the correspondence and board the staff member reports.

[2:56:42] I think we're going to, we've got to go close if you want.

[2:56:50] Okay, we'll do a recess 15 minutes to congratulate these individuals and

[2:56:57] and say hello and help yourself to some refreshment.

[3:24:48] Closed session, two items to do.

[3:24:53] Closed session.

[3:42:30] Okay, we're done, the lady.

[3:42:41] All the fund is gone,

[3:42:47] adjourned with that. Food

[3:42:52] bar.

[3:42:56] Not a big beer drinker, but if anybody wants to go dollar beer,

[3:43:05] they plan out at our ballpark today, right? That's tonight, tomorrow. Okay. Yeah, you know, it's, I'd go by the team of beer, but if I could tomorrow. All right, we need to report out. No reportable action, Mr. Chair. This meeting is adjourned.

[3:43:34] All right, thank you very much for the entertainment.

[3:43:54] I

[3:44:06] think that meeting went well.

[3:44:08] Oh,

[3:44:53] reporting stuff.

BOS Meeting 7/25/2023

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